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"And if it decreases crime, disease, teen pregnancy, and the dropout rate, that's just icing on the cake."

You have zero idea if that is truly the case or not.
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Honest question, what do people "need" Bitcoin for that cash or other payment systems can't do? The only unique advantages I see are those that are illegal in many jurisdictions and those that are related to speculation. The number of people who need currency for illegal activities plus those who speculate in currencies is finite and not a significant portion of the population, so I'm just not seeing how regular people are going to derive any use from Bitcoin that couldn't be achieved by other means.
Back in 2010 I did mine 160 BTC in 3 days just with my average CPU, however at some point I stopped caring, because 3 years ago there weren't much blabling about bitcoin and everyone that I told at that time did't care. Months later I had to format hard disk because ArchLinux did a great job breaking the whole system in a update, in the moment I just didn't remember that there were a BitCoin wallet in my system. Now about 2 years later I am hopping to recovery the wallet using a recovery program, but I already know that there is almost no chance. Today I just can't stop thinking about what happened.

Damn ArchLinux, I really hope you die in hell. At the moment around USD160000 lost. Anyway I am still sticking with you, in sickness and in health, in poverty or in wealth. Because you know, despite what you have done, you will be always by my side.
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That slide was a bit confusing for my underslept mind. Is that meant as an example of calling methods which work over the result of defining main (in this case static and void)?
definitely Foucaults Pendulum. it's like the DaVinci Code but for medieval history buffs plus the plot is wickedly clever
George McGovern lost to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election in part due to his "demogrant" proposal to give $1,000, $5,600 in 2013 dollars, to every US citizen.

In my memory, the political ads against it were only exceeded in impact with the ones about his proposed gutting of our military (had toy soldiers, ships, etc. on maps with a hand sweeping away the percentage he proposed to cut; this did not do well in a period when Cold War was very hot).
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Thank you - will get stuck into that paper.

So it seems ridiculously unfair that 50% of bitcoins now exist and it will taper off for another 130 years. I think the idea of a digital currency is here to stay. Bitcoins as a specific implementation seems so off kilter due to that one fact alone that I really don't see how to start it "fairly". it may not be possible (it's not "fair" that the queen has all the money - but that's now a stable equilibrium)
His point IS bullshit - if there is one to be gleaned at all. Its a classic cautionary tale in myopic argumentation - He's doing OK, so everyone else should be too, and if they aren't they aren't trying hard enough. Externality-free projection.
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Thanks for NOT giving him the "hang in there" speech and some real alternatives to get him back on his feet. You're awesome, man.
ok. question is not about ui/mobile/web anything. it's how will you break chicken and egg. what's the creative marketing scheme to get that done? usually it involves cracking one side first vs. the other. in the used / deep discount space that typically means supply where supply siders are also users on the demand side. in b2c it means demand first.

i know local commerce like no one's business.
It removes the top 1M globally-ranked websites. So here it's removing wikipedia, imdb, etc, and leaving only more specialist sites.

www.adamwest.com isn't removed because it's ranked 3,400,000th or so, using alexa as a reference (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/adamwest.com)
Looks very nice! Neatly executed. Here are a couple of quick observations/suggestions. I am not a UX designer so most of these are from my personal perspective.

- When I click on PS3/XBox 360/Wii, the page scrolls down and that's fine. However, it would be great to put a "Top" button somewhere to take the user back or ideally, make the "item" band containing Tablets, PS3, XBox 360... stick to the top.

- That brings me to my second point: This type of design is not scalable unless you are planning on supporting only Tablets, PS3s... See what I am saying?

- When I first visit your site, I would love to see you auto-detect my location instead of waiting for me to select one. See here for an example: http://html5demos.com/geo

- Too much space is wasted for each item cell. You can easily have two categories next to each other if the space permits. Think of making it resposive, for instance.

- What is the intuition behind the purchase/selling mechanism? Are you designing around some auction schemes? When I want to sell something, it does not ask me for a price. When I want to buy something, it is asking me for a price. So this seems closer to an auction mechanism than any other regular kind of a purchase. Why not explore mechanisms where you can let the seller specify a minimum amount he is willing to accept? This way you can eliminate spammy customers who are trying to purchase an iPad for $1 :)

That's all for now. Keep up the great work!
So you like working for less-than-market rates and have no life other than work? Want to work for me?

I suspect the answer is a flat, "No." Unless I was running a successful media company like PA there's nothing in it for you. What about it being PA makes it okay then?

Unfortunately I'm not surprised by the job posting. In non-unionized media companies the labor relations are generally very poor. A friend of mine used to work in such a post-production audio studio as a junior engineer. They paid him practically nothing and waited as long as they could to pay his invoices. In return he lived to work for them and never received credit for anything.

In contrast his sister worked in a larger post-production effects studio where the workers were unionized. She still has a job there afaik and is quite happy. Her brother left his gig when he was up to his eyeballs in debt and couldn't handle the hours anymore.

It sucks but that's the free market for you.
If every child is eligible for his fair share of minimum income, there's a good incentive to direct productive-work energy into baby-making activities, boosting household's basic income numbers with each new addition.
"psychotic black market pyramid scheme currency"?
The problem with many of these publicly available "free" monitoring systems that deal with ping / http response time is that a lot of the time it ends up being a monitoring system for its own network.

With that being said, I like the look!
Bitcoin just doesn't support thousands of transactions per second, so that won't happen. Most likely people will be driven to use some non-Bitcoin system that is denominated in BTC (e.g. banks).
This is a fantastic idea. I've been using a version of this process to build a client-side app over the past few months and have found it to be a huge improvement over my previous approaches.

Looking forward to seeing what suggestions the author has for making my process even better. :-)
I believe the interface to bitpay works with USD, so you will see USD here whether or not you keep the bitpay funds in BTC or autoconvert to USD.
From the optimist's view, think how many people whose lives are being spent working at Walmart or McDonald's who could instead be at home developing skills they are actually interested in (which school does a poor job of teaching), such as programming or sculpture, etc.

Imagine the entrepreneurs who might feel freed to give business a chance, rather than feeling that they can't quit their day jobs?

It would be a grand experiment with potentially huge benefits (and, as always, risks).
It's clearly not as simple as that, since there is such a thing as tyranny and perversion of justice. Now, you may be the kind of person who would approve of what his government does, whatever it does, and you may even be in the majority, but that doesn't make you right. I also imagine that, like most people with such views, you have cognitive dissonance. I.e., there are some governments that you think should change their behavior, on moral grounds.
Indeed.

The trick is to predict the point at which you'll no longer be able to find a greater fool, and stop just short of it.
Show HN: Make Microdonations to Charities via Intuit Customer Data API
Hi Everyone,

I've been on Hacker News since 2008, the community demographics and philosophy has changed a lot but what has always stayed the same is the supportive and critical feedback people give to others on their startup's.

But I've also become very jaded with the startup community over the years as I see a lot of people focus on passive income, applying to startup accelerators to network and ultimately hoping to get an exit, and an emphasis on social media/advertising ecosystem. But I was really excited to see Watsi, it was like a not-so-popular kid in high school following the same fads (a la Kickstarter) except it knew who it was and tried to do something good (take money out of the pockets of overpaid yuppies and into much needed cases of people who needed medical help).

Two weeks ago, I left my old job at a e-commerce company to work full-time on a part-time project I had been working on and off for a year. It's a donation website where based off your future and current spending habits, you can decide to donate the "keep the change" or a micro-percentage of the amount to a charity of your choice. But honestly, I'm still not sure if I made the right decision.

It was cool to test out the Intuit Customer Banking API, the same API that Mint uses to analyze your spending habits; as well as Network for Good API, which is like Stripe but payment processor for charities that allows people's donations be tax deductible. But I'm not sure if the "business-side" of my project is by any means viable, if you as a user would use it and see any value.

The site is here: http://changefol.io

I would appreciate any feedback, everything in terms of business, UX and tech. Thanks everyone for reading this, and thanks in advance for your help and criticism; Happy pre-Thanksgiving!
It was figurative. Thx for the downvote tho. My point was this guy has something he can sell for recurrent revenue with profits. That's a company. It can be as simple as consulting. A job or a self generated job with upside, what's better?

Good luck to you too.
looks good, would be better if there's an introduction video in every course
Until Zerocoin gets kicking. Zerocoin is no longer to be integrated into bitcoin but released as an altcoin.
Look at the Mincome example I posted above. Teens are more likely to graduate high school. Why? Because they aren't pressured to help support their families.

This "distraction" theory is a far stretch. Teens have always had distractions. And most of them have the means to acquire those distractions. So they might buy a video game they couldn't afford before. They also don't have to try to go to school and work a full time job to support their family. Having to go to school and work is a much larger distraction.
$34,000 is foolish when you can do a pilot program for $12K per year, or even $6 K per year to simply see what happens.

There's no other way around it. You need to give people money in a more automatized world.

wages and prices may increase, but money will still be more evenly distributed than it was before. As in the person that had nothing will now be able to get something even if prices increase. That is what's important. We simply can't leave these people behind because a robot will eventually do what they can do 24 hours per day without getting tired and more accurately than any human on earth.
Or a good reason for private security.
And as long as BTC decides to change its price by 100% every two weeks, it is a far more unreliable "storage of value" than USD (which is changing its value by approximately 3% a _year_).

Don't mistake the forest for the trees. When BTC learns to be less volatile, THEN we can start talking about replacing USD or EUR.

Until then, understand one thing. People want STABILITY in their currencies, at least if they are going to spend it.
I value my smartphone a lot, but I find it hard to get excited about this smart phone vs that smartphone. Android, Samsung android fork, iPhone, WinPhone, whatever. They're all good, they all roll out a faster better version every year. They all have twitter, facebook, email, maps, search, a camera, app store. etc. Oh yeah, and SMS and voice calls too.

So why should we get excited about this flavour of hand-held connected computer? What's the USP?
The attitude of Newport council - everyone, really - seems pretty nuts to me. $7 million is about 185 kilos of gold. Imagine what would happen if someone lost that in a rubbish tip!
Liked what i saw. Easily better than any iphone ad of recent times.
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Sylvester Stallone has a brother. His brother is REALLY BAD at PR
OS/2 Warp was released in 1994 just before Windows 95 and only supported Windows 3.1 applications. So it was necessary to abandon the OS to use new & upgraded applications designed for Windows 95. At the time, I found OS/2 was much better at running Windows applications as application errors didn't end up causing system instability and the dreaded GPF. I think the analogy would be more accurate if Jolla is unable to support applications designed for KitKat.
You'll encounter the downsides when you have to do some serious number-crunching or analytical queries. Or just highly dynamic views that aren't cache-able.

But that's not rails' fault, we all know that ruby itself isn't the fastest language to develop in, the "bloat" of rails just increases this a little.

As long as you have enough cheap hardware to throw at all these problems, everything should be fine, though.
It's cute that Reason is choosing to co-opt the narrative so as to define it within the narrow scope of their ideology. Whose interest is it to publish articles like "Shaming Non-Voters Has No Place In a Free Society," and this?
I think it's the other way round: It's difficult to convince people to get an education when:

- It costs money

- It's presented as a way to get a profession that could maybe make you money in the long term, and not as a way to get an education. Besides, evidence seems to be to the contrary.

- The short term financial benefits are nil, and you need money now.

But when people have survival off of their minds, I think it's be easier to convince them of taking a no-risk dive into education. I think consumerism will be there, and people will still be motivated to make more money to spend more money.

A bit like the ancient greek free men: They had their lives all set for them, and so they couldn't help but think about governance, politics, arts, rights, etc.
Especially in demand deprived economics times this is one of the best ways to boost both demand and inflation.
Nice straw man, but no - I'm not concerned about the poor who work for a living, they genuinely tend to want to improve their lives and their families lives - that's why they are willing to work 40 hours or more a week for barely more money than could be gained on welfare. I've been there.

I'm worried about the children of middle and upper-income families deciding that 'mincome' is good enough. I have yet to see any actual study or research on this that isn't 40 years old. The results were fairly positive then, but I'd like to see it replicated today. Maybe I'm worried about nothing.
It looks like they're using tidal.

http://yaxu.org/tidal/
I really liked the The Island of the Day Before. Truly fascinating. Foucault's Pendulum is good too, but like all his work, it's not an easy read. If you want something more intellectually rewarding than Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Eco is your guy.
62% of 16-24s prefer books as physical products
Weaker than S III hardware to run Android apps for 400 euro? Did I miss something?)
I buy waffles every Saturday morning with bitcoin.
"The researchers are not sure yet if the bug lives only in clean rooms or survives elsewhere..."

They think there's a possibility it only lives in clean rooms? Am I missing something, or does that seem very unlikely?
Ping pong is Serious Business at Penny Arcade. They have an intraoffice league where the top players play other companies. They are always giving each other shit (jokingly) when they don't play well.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/screenlife-part-1
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/screenlife-part-2
I took a criminology class in college and the big takeaway was the supposed statistical correlation between race and crime - which, if study correctly - actually correlates to poverty and crime.
the gain will never be negligible for a guy that had nothing at all. That's who this is for.
I think it's more likely that the poor would quit their jobs because the sorts of jobs that they do are more likely to be boring or unpleasant than middle class jobs.
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If anybody hasn't seen it, Glitchr's twitter is a fantastic example of how bizarro things can get with "140 characters".

https://twitter.com/glitchr_

Note: may freak out browsers with a flaky Unicode implementation. For instance, scrolling that stream on the iOS Twitter client can get very laggy.
Bitcoin is deflationary by design. As a store of value, this is the ideal characteristic (as your store keeps gaining value).
Seeing as he has a good idea of when it was thrown away surely that narrows down where it could be quite considerably. He just needs someone to invest some money in finding it with him for a share of the wealth. I wouldn't have given up if I were him.
And when they spend their money stupidly and don't have enough money for health care or food, we let them die on the street, right?

Or we let private charities cover the gap. But when they don't, we let them die on the street?

And if we don't let them die on the street, we find ourselves back where we started, in need of a social insurance safety net for basic necessities.
He is leaving because:

-I want to accelerate my plans for teaching

-I have goals that won't be fulfilled by working there

-I need to put away a lot of money to support myself when I’m getting paid a truly ludicrous wage ||-> indicating he is getting paid well at PA( compared to the teching job ) and was able to amass money for the low paying job when he will be teaching.

Reading is tech.
I saw something called freicoin a while ago where unused coins would be subject to inflation. (As far as I understood. I have no freicoins. )
Miley is just another singer/actress, and it appalls me to think she's even being considered. It says this country really has turned into "Idiocracy."
You are not really getting much of anywhere with 'your' money in the first place without the benefits you accrue from living in a civil society. Ensuring all citizens of health, housing, and education should be a basic tenant of a civil society and these are the things that allow everyone to prosper and for which everyone in the society should be expected to pay.

If you don't want to participate in a civil society, there are still places in this world where you can go and deal with everything on your own. Go.
A phone for messy people? Why put so much junk in the video to defocus viewer's attention?
I'm a nerd, and i love repetitive techno... so this in theory should have been for me, but that youtube link was really hard to listen too.
Non-miners follow one rule and one rule only: Follow the longest blockchain.

That is it. Miners build the block chain. The most powerful computers working together build longer-blockchains (on the average). If a blockchain fork were to happen (again, like back in March: http://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-03-11-chain-fork), the miners can simply "vote" on which blockchain they want to keep.

Non-miners have no say in the matter. The BTC protocol says to trust the longest blockchain, and that is going to stay for the rest of BTC.

Thats why I consider the miners to be the governing body of BTC. If Miners wish to build blacklists and stop stolen BTC from going through the network, they can do so. If Miners wish to change the rules of BTC, they can do so (once more than 50% of miners agree... their blockchain will ultimately grow faster than the rest of the miners, which forces the network to conform to their rules).
With the aging population in Japan and Europe this sounds not so bad.
Did someone propose that BitCoin serve as the peg for a national currency? I must have missed that part.

Deflation is bad, we know its bad and when its bad. So should you peg a national currency to a deflationary commodity like BitCoin or gold? No. Can I use gold right now as a means of exchange? Yes. Does it happen all the time in regular life? No, because that would be a pain in the ass but if it were more convenient, it might. Well that is what BitCoin is, its gold but convenient to transfer.

Stop thinking of BitCoin as a national currency or a replacement for a national currency. It is a commodity like gold which can serve as a supranational currency or store of value, your national economy can still be inflationary.
Thanks! We're actually working on that already, recording videos now, should be live next week :)
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Yes, actually it is somebody being abused by a corporation. His attempt at sugar coating it is a decent one, but is not convincing.

The clincher is how he ends his post: "There is this notion that work/life balance is some kind of sacred goal. I’m sorry, but it’s ludicrous. That’s like saying everyone would be fulfilled by getting married and having 2.5 kids. If you want to work 40 hours and never think about your job after 5pm, great! Find something that does that for you. If you want to work 80 or more hours at something you truly enjoy, in fact you don’t want to stop working ever because you love it so much, shouldn’t that be okay too? Shouldn’t we be so lucky as to have a job that we are so invested in?"

He has set up a false dichotomy and left out a whole lot of other possible options out of his little attempt at rationalizing selling oneself to a rich person for less than his efforts are worth. Dismissing an abusive employment environment with a statement about people "choosing" to work there while ignoring all the context around such "choices" is just runny icing on that crap cake.
To the extent you introduce money into the economy that was not created by productivity

I think the idea is that the money would be transferred using taxes, not printed.

So what would happen is that the basic income would become the new zero line.

How? Even if you did print the money, you'd devalue all of it, not just the new amount. If a dollar from the basic income is worth $0, then all dollars are worth $0, unless it was somehow printed in non-fungible currency.

Of course, the inflation would probably affect some prices more than others, but I don't see how could it ever turn the basic income into zero income.
I guess I'm cool with it but I really wish it was scaled with income (like every $2 earned decrease payment by $1) and paid daily M-F.

I do worry about politicians buying votes by promising more money each election. There are some fairly hard solutions, but they go against our current political tradition. I've heard a means testing for voting saying that if you take more money than you pay, you are ineligible to vote or sit on a jury.

[edit] I assume that all the other programs would be removed including student loans, unemployment, minimum wage, welfare, etc.
> So, is .Bike for motorcycles or bicycles?

Yes.
Marco has some thoughts on this posting. http://www.marco.org