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> As far as I can see from a completely outsider perspective, the Maemo / Meego / Jolla team have always been severely under-resourced

Compared with Tizen, FirefoxOS, or Ubuntu Touch, Jolla probably has a bigger and more experienced team.

Tizen has been career Siberia at Samsung, despite all the noise about how Samsung "wants to not depend on Android." Samsung even more wants all the money Android makes for them and are timid about pissing off Google. Samsung and Intel don't communicate well. Until Samsung finally killed their Symbian products (IIRC) about a year ago, more people were working on Symbian at Samsung than on Tizen. Why does Intel need a handset Linux of their own? Answer: they don't, and one day the CEO will notice.

Ubuntu Touch, like many initiatives at Ubuntu, seems tentative. The way Canonical tried to crowdfund a device makes it seem like they have no launch partners.

Firefox OS has a solid team behind it, but they are also dogmatic about it being a Web operating system. They would turn up their noses at having Android compatibility. What if the sweet spot for Web operating systems is Chromebooks? It was tried on handsets once already and failed.
Custom-made virus would probably cost millions for an uncertain result (delivering a virus into your bloodstream would require some work). A drug-addicted thug with a lead pipe would probably not even get the cost into four figures. I think your priorities are misplaced. Unless you are protected on a presidential level, if somebody decides to assassinate you the simplest plan would probably be the most effective one.
...fluctuate wildly for the foreseeable future like the
value of gold has done and is doing.

The value of gold as measured how? Do you mean the price of gold in USD? Isn't that more indicative of the price of USD, and/or the price of cash vs. commodities?
Can't one just simply check the nature of the transaction to see if it has any conditionals? It isn't hard to imagine those features being added to blockchain related web services, such as blockchain.info.
You're missing the point. We all have to buy food today, but we have a choice on whether we use bitcoins or dollars to pay for it. If you believe that bitcoin will get more valuable with time, due to Bitcoin's deflationary design, it's always the rational choice to spend dollars rather than bitcoin.
1) Conversely, why would I want to keep my wealth denominated in a currency that loses 2% value every year?

Because you have no choice. Currencies are imposed by a ruling power (in our case the government) by force. When you choose your currency is usually in form of asset. But you can not pay your taxes in gold. Consequently you can not live in the USA without USD and in Europe without EUR.

2) Supposing 90% annual deflation forever, as this article does, is disingenuous. Bitcoin is currently a 5 year old technology, and of course it will have periods of significant volatility. In the long run, bitcoin will stabilize, and deflation will be on the rate of global economic growth, currently estimated at around 2%

That’s speculation, might be correct. No one knows.

3) In the long run, people could keep their wealth denominated in bitcoin, and spend dollars. There you have the best of both worlds: your wealth storage is deflationary, and your spending currency is inflationary.

As that’s exactly how it should be. Currencies are inflationary to induce consumer spending more today.

edit: 4) Perhaps most significantly, remember that bitcoins and dollars are exchangeable at any point in time. Any dollar you spend on goods/services is a dollar you could have spent on bitcoin. Have bitcoin enthusiasts completely stopped spending dollars on goods/services?

Did they ever do that? Bitcoin enthusiasts never used bitcoin for buying services. BTC buys you anonymity where is required that’s a revolutionary quality for a currency to have. But other than that, bitcoin has nothing to offer compared to fiat currency for daily transactions. Changing money from BTC to USD (and vice-versa) is not enough straight forward, as of today, to allow the majority of the population to use it. If I give you 10 BTC today, you need days to turn them to USD, while if I give you EUR, you needs hours probably maybe minutes.
I think of it as owning shares of stock in a DAC (Distributed Autonomous Corporation). At some point, those shares of stock might become worthwhile as a day-to-day currency.

As is, though, I think it's already more stable than local currencies for some parts of the world (though perhaps still not more so than the dollar).
I think those words were there, but according to TC's update, Microsoft have "slightly edited the letter" -- my guess is they removed all the defaults. It still says "click the text in green to customize your perfect letter" even though there's no green text anymore. It looks like they removed some options as well, since "knit" isn't even available as one of the options.
This would be better if the site was served over HTTPS. At the moment anyone could MITM the Javascript to steal the file's contents.
And fundies have a problem that I can watch porn. The question is, why should I care about their, Toyota's or copyright holders' problems? As a software developer, I ask as a copyright holder myself.
I think about this from George Santayana's perspective: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I feel like we need our past recorded (good, bad, AND ugly). It keeps us civil and humble.
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What freedoms were lost, exactly?
> What's your opinion on inflation as an economic driver?

My opinion is that inflation does not drive economic growth.

> Are they right and both deflation and inflation can supply economic growth?

Neither one supplies economic growth.

> does that mean another factor is the main proponent for growth?

Increased productive capacity is the source of economic growth. Not the supply of currency.

Take a simple example.

Three people live on an island after a plane crash.

They fish, build huts, make tools. To facilitate exchange, they use paper money from the game Monopoly happened to survive among the wreckage.

One day a new box of Monopoly washes ashore, including a fresh supply of Monopoly money.

Their money supply has doubled.

Will they experience any economic growth? Clearly not.

The next day a power saw and generator wash ashore. They have new tools and increased productive capacity.

Will they experience any economic growth? Clearly they will.
tl;dr It will fail because it will fail.
Yes. Downloading an album or movie without paying for it is illegal. This isn't in dispute.

I think it is in substantial dispute. Can you cite a case of someone in the US being successfully prosecuted for downloading? Note that this precludes bittorrent, gnutella, etc situations where downloading means simultaneously uploading.

Outside of the US there are plenty of countries where it has been made explicit in the law that downloading is OK. Some even going so far as to include the uploading portion of torrenting, etc as legal too.

Canada: http://archive.is/W0mdI

Netherlands: http://torrentfreak.com/dutch-parliament-downloading-movies-...

Spain: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/21/spanish-pirate-site-owners-...
Not true. If the amount of money in circulation was fixed, the fluctuating demand for it would cause its value (i.e. what goods/services it will purchase) will fluctuate with it.
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I really wanted to love the Common Crawl corpus. I needed an excuse to play with EC2, I had a project idea that would benefit an open source project (Mozilla's pdf.js), and I had an AWS gift card with $100 of value on it. But when I actually got to work, I found the choice of Hadoop sequence files containing JSON documents for the crawl metadata absolutely maddening and slammed headfirst into an undocumented gotcha that ultimately killed the project: the documents in the corpus are truncated at ~512 kilobytes.

It looks like they've fixed the first problem by switching to gzipped WARC files, but I can't find any information about whether or not they're still truncating documents in the archive. I guess I'll have to give it another look and see...
Volatile by what measurement? Hopefully you don't mean volatile with regard to the exchange rate with fiat currencies. Because that says more about the currencies than it does about gold and silver.
Complexity can signify a complex problem on a simple domain, or a simple problem in a complex domain. You simplify one place, you're just pushing the complexity somewhere else.
I had a similar experience with the Vertex 2, and switched to Intel 320 and subsequently Samsung 840 Pro. Intel and Samsung drives have done a great job, while I had 3 Vertex 2 failures.
Bitcoin isn't a bubble as much as it's a hyped up pump and dump scheme.

Oh wait.
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Your DNA is never actually fully sequenced, because that is currently too cost prohibitive

Q> Does anyone know the actual/current pricepoint for this?
The article failed to terrify me. Yes, genetic testing is coming, and yes, very soon genetic information will be as easily accessible as any other information about the person. The governments already have large DNA databases, and those will expand. There's no "portal" that 23&me is luring us through - there's the future towards which we move inevitably, and since the technology exists, it will be used. Out of all possible usages of this technology, the one 23&me presents seems to be pretty benign. I'd rather be afraid of the government of which I have very little control and which knows or can know pretty much everything about me than of the company that can be shut down by any FDA bureaucrat.
I think the idea was that the presence of ads indicates the advertisers had influence on content, which isn't true for a lot of websites which run ads.
Your argument only holds if your time discounting factor is greater than the rate of deflation. In the case of Bitcoin this is clearly not the case since prices can double overnight, unless you're arguing that you're so adverse to waiting that you'd rather purchase something today than tomorrow at half price.
But that is only one person whose phone is rendered unusable and not many as you insinuate. Same thing happened with PS4 launch when people reported issues, but statistic turned out to be <1%. This app is exactly for the non-technical people to stop messing around. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/android-roms-the-easy...
No, not really. From my anecdotal experience, which does include many a project exceeding the amounts you cited, it usually goes like this (paraphrased):

Agency's army of spineless sales people [1] spends a lot of time ass licking many people, one of them happens to love his anus tickled in that manner, then he dumps a bag of money to them, they spend 90% of that money pumping ads, and 10% on development of what's supposed to masquerade as a 'marketing campaign'. Anus-tickle-lover still gets a nice spreadsheet at the end of the month ('Yay, profits!') and they all live happily ever after.

Well, not all. In-house developers crook their spine to the will of their masters and get an occassional team-building event paid for, and outsourced developers get eaten alive in the witch's cabin.

[1] It helps if you're a handsome woman. A fact, sir. No citation needed. Desired even.
>> the long-term value of which has traditionally ended at $0

> More importantly, though, volatility isn't even related to ending value

Yeah, come heat death of the universe, ending value of all currencies will look pretty similar.
> The argument goes that if people know that prices will fall, they will indefinitely delay all economic activity.

No, it doesn't. It goes if people know that the future purchasing power of currency will increase, they will shift more investment to currency itself and invest less in things like real estate improvements, businesses, etc. -- and that investments in the latter have a multiplier effect and whereas money invested in the currency itself does not, such that, ceteris paribus, shifting to deflationary currency would reduce the overall level of economic activity.

It is not that people would direct defer economic activity, and even less that they would defer all such activity.

> We've seen periods of significant economic growth coupled with falling prices.

And we've seen periods of stunning economic collapse tied to deflation. But individual examples without considering other contributing factors and underlying processes and incentives aren't particularly useful.
I am well aware of "Gresham's law" that bad money drives out good.

I'm just referring to the idea of deflation in general and the fear mongering that happens around it.

I'm not talking about Bitcoin versus USD.
F.A. Hayek thoroughly demolished the Keynesian anti-deflation argument in the 30s in his critique of "The Paradox of Savings"

http://mises.org/daily/2804
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Ask HN: What are YOU Thankful for?
In the spirit of Thanksgiving I thought it would be cool social experiment to start a thread asking what all of YOU are thankful for?
Amazing comment !

I do not know the level of despair this man has been going through to, but I'm sure this kind of comment will make him feel better.

Thank you for your kindness, world really need more people like Zed and like you.
Well there are other ways in which you can crack an android phone, cyanogen was just a noob friendly way to do so...
How you "think of or use" things has no meaning. Everything that is traded, whether "currency" or "asset" has a value that changes over time. Or do you not know that people invest in currencies?
OK, you can stop spamming now.
My examples are endpoints on a spectrum. The core point is that while risks are low now, giving up one's genetic data is a one-way decision that can never be undone. It's a gamble, considering the unknown unknowns of both technology and future public policy.
I don't use Bitcoin at all.

I'm just talking about the general idea of inflation.

I'm not arguing the merits of Bitcoin.
The law doesn't pretend that signatures and fax machines are magic. Contracts written on bar napkins can be enforced.

Any time you introduce evidence, you have to establish its credibility. The first time a signing system like this is used it's likely to take the court some time to understand, but there's no legal doctrine forbidding it.

Source: I am a (not practicing anymore) lawyer.
No, asm.js is a subset of JavaScript. So it makes no sense to imagine a single file.
The multiple version problem is even worse on mobile devices. It's not uncommon to have less than 100MB total dedicated to the browser cache. Visit a few dozen non-mobile friendly websites and your entire cache is blown out.
The buyers and sellers have come to an agreement already. They prefer the price of $1000. Any large retailer attempting to manufacture an artificial peg would only create a good amount of temporary humor.
The original point of discussion was the quantity, not the price.
Or he isn't using the title THAT literarly, how about that?
Good job taking my post out of context. That post was in a sub thread about a broad general right to privacy. Not just narrow protections of electronic communications, but all sorts of tracking that doesn't qualify as a search or seizure. No such right exists. The Constitution doesn't even say the word privacy, nor did the framers write about it in the federalist papers or contemporaneous writings.

My post was about what it would take for the Supreme Court to conjure such a broad right to privacy out of thin air. What it would take is a broad social consensus that such a right should exist. My point was that the tech community is undermining the establishment of that consensus by conditioning people to see online communications as a commercial transaction that can be data mined for advertising and tracking.
The funny thing is that many of the same people you talk about were vehemently against UEFI Secure Boot on Windows 8 being on by default although it actually protects tens of millions of normal users from undetectable rootkits and bootkits because it made installing Linux slightly more difficult by needing to fiddle with the boot settings.

Now the reason being given for this removal is that it needs root(a lot of apps in the Play Store require root on Android, including ROM managers) and that it may brick a few devices, while ignoring the fact that for many who are stuck without security updates because of OEMs and carriers actually benefit from CM.
Also wonder if this news was strategically timed before Thanksgiving when most people are on vacation traveling or busy with family.
no, but I wouldn't be surprised if I saw intall Windows or Mac app inside of a Ubuntu store :)
What’s the value of an opportunity?
I am thankful for my family, and career. Although I am a previous founder turned daytime corporate American, nighttime "entrepreneur". I am still very thankful for what I have!
I've read too many cyber-punk novels, I know. :)

I'm more thinking along the lines of what may or may not be possible in 30-40 years, and even then it's an admittedly extreme example.
Everyone on HN is glad you're happy, but your single data point does fly in the face of statistically significant reliability problems with OCZ drives (ie, the only real way to evaluate storage manufacturers).
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Let's recap.

Prior to today, a community-developed fork of Google's open-source operating system could be installed by using an app from Google's own app store (which sometimes bricked the phone).

After today, a community-developed fork of Google's open-source operating system can be installed by downloading the installer from the CM website.

This somehow makes Google like 90's Microsoft?

How many operating systems or web browsers did Microsoft open-source?

How many forks of their software did Microsoft tolerate?

Calling Google "90's Microsoft" is like calling Obama a socialist: it shows an utter lack of perspective of what a real socialist looks like. (If you want to see a real socialist, read about Kshama Sawant who was just elected to the Seattle City Council and wants to collectivize Amazon.com and Boeing).

I wouldn't even bother responding to stuff like this, but it's getting upvoted on HN which is depressing.
> the dominance frontiers algorithm

AFAIK V8 does not use dominance frontier based algorithm for SSA construction. It just inserts phis eagerly at loops headers and on forward edges it inserts phis when merge is needed.
The same thing did not happen with the PS4 launch; there, the consumer can get a FREE replacement of the damaged goods. Here, you're SOL.

The best I can tell, this is like all of those teenagers installing Napster, Kazaa, or whatever on grandma's PC. Feds show up and "OMG, fines!? I didn't know! I'm computer dumb. I paid $10/month for all nsync!"

I love what CM is doing, but if lay persons and even "experts" are getting burnt, who is responsible? Who gets blamed? Google? Because that's the first place consumers are going to go or to distributors or manufacturers who are going to also going to defer to Google.
Blackberry has a security model that is incompatible with Android's rather liberal model, so every app has to be vetted and sold through Blackberry's app store. That will put a big wet blanket on your Android app availability.

Technologically, Blackberry did a great job.
>>> it demonstrated that the business model of hoarding and capitalizing on personal information works

Marketing companies and spammers are using this model all the time. AFAIK most of Google's income is from ads which use very little of personal information (yes, I know about targeted ads but I have a feeling marginal utility of those vs. just having ads on Google which everybody uses is not that high).
> The government could keep currency stable by simply not permitting more to be created.

That would keep one measure of money supply stable. It wouldn't keep the value of the dollar stable, though.
I'm just talking about deflation in general. Bitcoin is a new phenomenon but the 'fear of deflation' argument has been used by monetarists for decades.

Bitcoin is hardly viable as a unit of account at this point. It's a speculative investment at the moment.
just to be clear, I don't think that JS reason to be enjoyable is that it runs everywhere. I do enjoy the prototypical inheritance, I like the scope and the language in general. I don't like coffeescript but not due to a technical reason, its about personal taste, I'd rather work in JS. To each their own, the fact that we have a non-proprietary language that is available everywhere is a very good thing.

IMHO most people that do not enjoy JS is because they approach it from a mindset of an OOP programmer. People try to treat it like Java or approach it like a toy language to cook quick jQuery script then they feel frustrated. I am not saying that JS is everyones cup of tea but some people like me enjoy it.
Shorting bitcoin seems like a bad idea.

http://i.imgur.com/GOYWUMo.png
We're also using remote-controlled stealth fighter planes to bomb dissenting peoples out of existence. With pin-point accuracy through gps, gyroscopes, and million dollars worth of tech. I'd say there's more pressing priorities than using organic renewable paper to exchange information..E-ink looks like crap. I know a bunch of people who prefer to read without a backlight, and e-ink doesn't cut it either. I'm really surprised many HNers are saying they would read a book on an iPad..all I can say is good luck with their vision after 20+ books read. They might need an eye doctor.
This is trying fit a deflationary currency into a debt/consumption driven economy. Who says the best way to drive the economy is by taking on debt to consume good and services? I would argue that debt counteracts a lot of the gains set by consumption.

The falling wages argument seems irrelevant...what's the difference between wages increasing 2% to keep up with 2% inflation and decreasing wages 2% to keep up with 2% deflation. Don't confuse numbers with value.

I would argue however that the RATE of deflation is important. 90% is brutal...2% not so bad. Theoretically the rate of deflation of bitcoin's should decrease as time goes on.
There's a difference between leaving a door unlocked vs. mailing a stranger the key.
>I've been an Apple hater all my life

Isn't that a sad thing to be?

And for most people mostly stemming out of reverse hipsterism, nonetheless...
Satirical email is satirical. Settle down techcrunch.

Also, small detail, the email is gender neutral.
Patent trolls can sue the customers of the software company (as Microsoft did to Google by suing Samsung), or the trolls can seek to obtain the money which is paid to the respondent (software company) from the USA. It is more difficult to sue non-US companies for some issues other than patents.
There actually is a Java DOM API that could have been used in applets. It was never widely supported though, AFAIK.

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/java-binding.html
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How is it “hypocritical”? they tend to boot malware as well from the play store, which also violates the TOS.

This app has bricked the devices of less technical users and left them without a warranty, Google's obligations is to prevent that.
Few people understand or take an interest in patent law, and the press is no better than the populace.
Are you trying to ad-hominem the author? I don't understand the purpose of a comment like this, otherwise. Transliteration and spelling are distinct words and concepts. Frankly this is NBD to someone who is worth $NBdollars.
What about embbedding iframes?