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> write a very simple UNIX-based operating system in C++ (does anyone else smell a contradiction?)

I'm going to use this as an opportunity to champion C++ for systems programming despite the fact that it wasn't really your argument. I feel obligated to do this because I agreed with you for a long time on this but have changed my mind over the past year or two.

The argument against C++ as a systems programming language has always been that it gives you too much freedom to hide complexity, but I've written systems code in both C and C++ professionally and it's been my experience that the extra burden of having to write every damn thing over again in C (or use a relatively poorly tested container library, as compared to something like the STL) is not worth the "obvious performance characteristics."

I'd further contend that in non-trivial software all perf characteristics are non-trivial, so even though a + b might be doing all kinds of crazy things in C++, you're much more likely to run into problems invoking store_value() which might interact with a number of underlying libraries and system calls. At the end of the day you're hopelessly screwed without profiling and the utility perf works just as well on C++ programs as it does on C programs.

Finally, the majority of code in my experience is either slow path or at least not the bottleneck anyway. You can almost always optimize a systems program by making smarter system calls (or hardware invocations), while optimizing CPU is rarely worth it. Even if you're CPU bound, it's likely that it's in doing something like SSL, wherein you're almost definitely wrong to try to jump into a project like OpenSSL with micro-optimizations. With that in mind, why not allow yourself to move faster by creating a std::vector? When you use the proper conventions, it's generally as fast anyway.

Just because people can (and have, a lot) misused C++ and created way too much complexity with it doesn't mean that it's not the preferred language in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing. (And yes, it's much harder to learn how C++ works in a meaningful way to avoid these pitfalls, but if it's your job, learn it anyway).
My cost of living is quite a bit less than I can afford. I am not sure what you mean.
I am sure lots of people said. I'll never give up rising my horse for this weirs automobile. While I agree with you a lot and I love driving. You have to think that while we will continue to enjoy driving. Think of the next generation of children who grow up in a world where they never have to start learning to drive in first place. Where they don't appreciate it the same way. And instead they go to some random driving course for a fun day of driving. Like some people go to a stables or ranch to ride horses occasionally
JK Rowling is foxed by textual analysis

Was she? The way I recall was that she was first outed on twitter and only then did the textual analysis people come out and claim that they could prove the book was written by Rowling. I'm not aware of any textual analysis that pointed the finger at Rowling prior to the twitter reveal.

Tuning an algorithm to give you the right answer when you already know the answer isn't that impressive
"Admits that bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme in his own article." - you wish...
Did you really design this from scratch? It looks very similar to Svbtle a year and a half ago...

"Developed" from scratch might be more appropriate, no?
It won't look like an accident when it's the only one that happened in the last year.
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it's possible that diane sues that guy for sexual harrasment? he already confessed...
Are there "text mixing" services you can use to anonymize your writing? Seems like analysis like this could prove to be dangerous for free speech in the future. Perhaps just round-trip babble fishing a few times.
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Exactly true. But even government-issued currencies are not suitable stores of value over longer time-periods due to their inflationary nature; that's why we have retirement funds etc, the game being trying to out-do inflation.

Bitcoins are inherently deflationary in nature, making them theoretically a superior store of value over longer term (e.g. retirement) than any fiat currency.
Because then his system would crash.

His bitcoins are currently something like gold backing USD at the moment. If he sells his bitcoins now, the entire market will going to fail, because people will loose faith.

He could just sell 100 bitcoins from time to time and still earn a lot of money from it.
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Can you quantify why rail is inefficient for moving people? It seems to work well in Europe, for instance. The criticism of high-speed rail in China didn't last long.
Yes, that's precisely what happens. You'll be given a safe berth, with cars stopping or avoiding you by at least the distance you could conceivably fall over.

Personally that's already how I cross the street, and my confidence in human drivers isn't anywhere near so great.
Most people aren't willing to put a day and a price on their predictions. I will look forward to another post in two days of you either celebrating cause you spotted something, or explaining why your prediction didn't pan out.
I don't think that is necessarily true.. The cost of insurance is based on the average expected payout per customer... I don't think the average payout will increase, as being a human driver won't suddenly become MORE dangerous, at worst it will stay the same.
How, given that they can't form a majority?
Gold can be a currency, called a commodity currency, not a fiat currency.
There are many Text Spinners online that do the trick for many cheating students and spammers.
For the opposite: http://macwright.org/2013/07/07/d3-for-html.html
As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, if computer driven cars become ubiquitous, insurance rates on person driven cars will become prohibitively high or the act of driving a car on public roads will be banned outright.

As someone who enjoys nothing more than riding my motorcycle on mountain road trips, I can't help but dread that. The privacy and liberty implications make me uneasy as well, in much the same way as the NSA's overreach.
On the other hand there's plenty of research indicating the relative efficiency of command economies over free market economies. Do you have any evidence to back up your claims?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147596784...

http://ideas.repec.org/h/izm/prcdng/200805.html
That would be a good idea. That way, everytime someones enters their key, the app can answer that it is not there, check its presence in the database, then get the money :p

It will never get the entire list anyway...
NK isn't actually socialist just as azure isn't actually blue and the USA isn't actually capitalist.

There are no "actually socialist" nations because socialism "doesn't work" in reality. In reality, socialism's endgame is North Korea.
I've worked with Ryan several times now and referred him to friends who have all informed me afterwards that they intend to work with him again when they have an opportunity.

Ryan has:

1. a slow, thoughtful approach to UI/UX design for your product. he wants to genuinely understand your needs first

2. meticulous attention to detail (unreasonably so, which is good because it lets me be lazier)

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4. makes working with him easy/low time cost by writing to your codebase and committing to your django/rails project directly in a fork, rather than forcing you to take html/css/js and adapt it back into your templating system

If you're looking for a front end guy who will think about your product from the perspective of another founder rather than a contractor trying to squeeze you for a week of pay, you need to at least start a conversation with him.

Happy to provide more details on my experience working with him as well, just drop me an email.
You might be looking for something like http://www.commandlinefu.com/
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The following graph shows the estimated volume of transactions:

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume?...

You see immediately from the graph that the growth in number of transactions is relatively slow, considering all the media attention, and certainly far, far slower than the increase in the exchange rate.

Note that this graph is not the same as the number of "legitimate transactions" mentioned in the OP. But it's at least consistent with the point of view suggested in the post.
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I would say OpenWRT wins in this category. It's not based on open sourced Linksys firmware anymore, it's a embedded distribution designed from scratch for modularity and portability. It really is a awesome piece of engineering which is fun to use and well documented in detail. If you want to extend the features of the router and add things like openvpn, ntp server, traffic shaping, asterisk pbx, tftp server or whatever comes to mind, openwrt most probably has it packaged and ready to use.
Convulse = disrupt, right?
They were also hacking email accounts on people's computers I believe.
Will do. BTC-e has already crashed down from $930 to $750 in the last 1.5 hours and volume is spiking there too. (it tends to be cheaper to buy BTC because of greater risk)
Texas licenses software engineers, as do some Canadian provinces, and IIRC (from my SE ethics course) some other US states are implementing similar programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professio...
Wow this was quite a nice read :) like a 'shorter' novel.
Yes, I've been thinking this for a long time. How should it crash if everybody is just waiting to join. As soon as it goes below a certain margin (say $600) people will flock to it, and it will go up again. At some point it will probably stay level for a couple of months, just like it did at $70. This time maybe at $400 - $600 somewhere. Actually, we may just be seeing that just this moment.
Other than price, can anyone give me a rundown of any benefits to this approach over an Airport Extreme? Other than ideological benefits. Do they perform better, or are there things I can't do with the Apple device? I'm not sure I want to deal with headaches here. Thanks.
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I find that the article is conflating the interests of the general public with those of a private company. A lot of money investment goes into research by a University. It is not clear to me why they shouldn't attempt to monetize it. At the extreme, yes, this may turn out to become patent trolling. Surely, there is a middle path where the university gets compensated for the amount of investment that goes in.
I suspect most people here will be in the Keynesian camp; folks heavily invested in Bitcoin probably aren't (specifically, most folks who tend to be heavily free-market/hardline capitalist tend to favor Austrian economics), but I would be surprised if that's the majority position. Other than a small bump in the 1970s, we've more or less been operating on Keynesian economic policy since FDR.

Inflation and deflation only really impact you when a) your wages get out of sync with cost-of-living prices, or b) you are borrowing or lending money (or just have cash sitting around that isn't being utilized in any fashion). If your wages and prices all fell to 1/10000th of what they are today, your purchasing power (in terms of hours worked per loaf of bread gained) would remain the same.

Deflation would harm your ability to (responsibly) take on debt. But, it's arguable that our current economies are so heavily debt-fueled because of our inflationary policies, as well, so it's worth keeping in mind as a variable when processing the concept that deflation = less borrowing. Deflation is scary to Keynesian economists because the Keynesian model only works when people aren't significantly saving anything beyond what they invest - that is, their money is all either spent on goods, or is loaned to other people. Holding money in an inflating economy is irrational since it is constantly losing purchasing power; thus, since it is in your best interest to spend your money as soon as you make it (either on goods and services, or by investing it somewhere that will offer a return greater than the rate of inflation), money keeps on rolling around in the economy.

The theory is that once people start socking away money in their mattresses, you get recession or depression. Deflation would encourage lending (either directly or through investment), but since it discourages borrowing, people may end up unable to find people to accept their money, and the economy grinds to a halt.
Or they considered it, and didn't care, because if they get it right, they'll always be the "guy who unmasked Satoshi".
But what happens when the average expected payout is expected to go down? Insurance companies will expect lower loss ratios from self-driven cars, so doing something as dangerous as driving your own vehicle will carry a premium. Its very similar to how your health insurance premiums are much higher if you're a smoker. You can smoke, but you're going to be charged for this unnecessary, harmful action.
The graph is log10-scale, so it's difficult to see a 50% or 100% increase in volume.

It's definitely not a 5x or 10x increase though.
being a former College Librarian I totally agree with the statement. it was so frustrating to hear the aggression and fear of Open Source. when it came to copyright librarians are the biggest defenders. I never understood why.

also these academia patents probably had public money funding then also.
My position doesn't apply to all, or even most suburbanites, nor is it entirely critical. I don't know why you're taking offense to it, especially offense that you haven't bothered to refute.

Cul de sacs are insular, and that's considered a selling point of them. I'll grant that they're not quite as extreme as gated communities, but that they exist for the purposes of insulating one from traffic otherwise associated with more frequented byways. That isn't a contrivance, it's their stated purpose. It shouldn't come as a shock that insulation from use as a thoroughfare would extend to insulation from outside contact, as that's the obvious result.
Yep, although the timer and sounds pause as long as you scroll in iOS.
> I wanted to steal Satoshi's coins. Could I invest a half billion dollars and brute force a majority-coup attack on the blockchain?

No - controlling a majority of the compute doesn't allow you to steal some unrelated users bitcoins.

You'd have to brute force their private key to do that, which is an infeasible computational challenge.

Controlling a majority of the compute would allow you to 'double spend' coins you have, but that's a different problem.
Here's an attempt to answer that question: http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/13/bitcoins-vast-overvaluation-...
I'm not sure if this is surprising to people who are familiar with how universities often take the work of graduate students and make it closed and try to profit off of it. It is a huge problem that universities are forcing software in particular to be closed source just so they can profit off of their researchers/grad students.
"The fact that the few merchants willing to accept bitcoin generally convert to dollars right away suggest an underlying lack of faith in bitcoin—or at least a problem with the volatility."

Its not a lack of faith l, it's lack off trade acceptance. If merchants accept bitcoin they need to convert back to dollars because that's what their business calls for. In other words, if they could pay their bills with bitcoin, then bitcoins would flow back and forth without an issue, removing your suggestion that this is about lack of faith.
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I don't think it is about the fuel prices. While it is true that Norway has the highest petrol prices in the world, we have among the lowest fuel cost/income ratios in the world.

It is about getting 400+ hp at family barge prices.

(And that is okay by me. We need more people to drive electric cars so we can evolve and develop them. And Norway is a great place to do that because of the hostile climate and the even more hostile politicians and their medieval ideas of what constitutes a "road")

edit: link for reference
http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/gas-prices/20133:Norway
I don't know why it is required that it is used in legitimate purchases. No one questions the value of gold, yet not many people use it to make purchases. I suspect bitcoins value will follow the same pattern as gold, once it is stable. When the world is full of uncertainty, it's value will rise. When things are steady, it's value will fall.
Or invest it in something with tangible value...
But doesn't your non-ironic use of "cargo cult" permit unbridled use of other meme-like absurdities ad nauseam?

Like, now, I'm free to accuse you of being a secret agent of the notorious hacker group named Anonymous, infiltrating this site under an assumed pseudonym. And worst of all, I could make that claim non-ironically, if I so desired.

Do you see how ridiculous this is all becoming?
Although, Millennial Searchers seems to be the current title.
> also these academia patents probably had public money funding then also.

Yes, but does that mean that all things that made from public funding should not be monetized? Is it a requirement that a road constructed out of taxpayer money should not have a toll?
I mostly agree with your observation regarding CVs and what seeing this in one tells about the person who wrote it. Although I like to think that most proficient C++ programmers respect the differences between the two languages and prefer to call C++ what it is, and mention C separately if it needs to be mentioned.

I don't think the style of your code should change the name of the language you claim to use. If it doesn't pass through a C compiler, it's not C or "C/anything".

Now it is quite possible to use the subsets of C and C++ to write code that conforms to both language specifications and compiles with a compiler for either language. If some project deliberately does this, I don't have an issue with calling it C/C++ to hilight the fact. This however really is quite rare from what I've seen, even if I can name some projects that do make such code (the Opus audio codec is one example).

C/C++ still isn't a language though, so I would very much prefer to call it C in a case like this.

A different scenario entirely would be a project with parts clearly written in two (or more) different languages, which could happen to be C and C++...
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You can remove the log scale:

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume?...

I used the log scale to make the point that transaction volume is relatively slow-moving on a log scale. That is certainly not the case for the exchange rate!:

https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?showDataPoints=f...

Incidentally, the volume graph has a notable spike in December 2011. I've Googled and asked around a bit, but don't have a good understanding of what caused the spike.
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My advice is to just avoid DD-WRT altogether. The community is so hostile and unhelpful, the site and wiki full of conflicting information, and almost all builds for anything besides the old Linksys gear is in a real unstable state. It seems almost inevitable that DD-WRT will just result in bricking your router and having some forum asshole mock you for it.

I'm running Merlin's AsusWrt on an RT-AC66U and I've been very happy with it. I bought it earlier this year to replace my aging WRT54GL which had run with Tomato for years.

I'm also a fan of OpenWrt, but I use the x86 build on a VM host, it acts as a router/firewall to other VMs in a private bridge.
Do you agree or disagree that all software/technology produced by publicly funded universities should be free (as in freedom)?
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> The fact that the few merchants willing to accept bitcoin generally convert to dollars right away suggest an underlying lack of faith in bitcoin—or at least a problem with the volatility.

Few merchants accept gold either. Yet gold reserves in the world amount to US $8.2 trillion in value.

Edit: removed part on volatility
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I think that AMD Developer Guides & Manuals [1] are very good resources for x86_64 System Programming (better than Intel Manuals). They are better explained and focus on x86_64 arch.

[1]: http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/de...
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> You don't think all software that researchers/grad students write should be open source??

Erm...I am not going to make declarative statements one way or the other. I have worked on academic projects where the nature of the grant means that the work done goes to a private/defense source. Also, I think there is a distinction between software and research papers being open sourced and patents.