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I personally don't really want "full screen", just a more windows like "maximize" that hides all the distracting clutter in the background. On my windows machines I'll maximize an app window in each monitor and it provides a relatively clean work environment.

It seems to me that all this madness would be solved if you could do a Windows style maximize on an app window and the menu bar and dock auto hid I think all would be right in the world. Instead we keep getting this overwrought mess.
Looks cool but I wish it had beefier hardware specs.
And ubuntu and kde 4
OK. I took expectation to have a specific mathematical meaning here (average including 0s).
Sorry for confusion.

In any case, I still don't agree with your point.

If everyone knows what's going to happen in the future, there's no insurance industry beyond pre-payment stamp collecting.
I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing.
What I'm hoping is that a bunch of other crypto-currencies will become more popular in the wake of Bitcoin news. Ideally this will give us a nice market for trading different crypto-currencies. Also, as a result, we'll see more and more businesses that accept these currencies. I just hope we don't end up with one worldwide currency. Where would be the fun in that?
First, it's you, not me who is talking big. I suggested (to another guy) fixed amounts to bet while you bet your unborn children.

Second, who said Bitcoin must get some official stamp of approval from any government? People will use Bitcoin wether governments want it or not. And government will have to milk bitcoin economy, not USD economy.

Third, Bitcoin is valuable precisely because there's "no escrow to trust money for 5 years". You can split your BTC private key in 10 parts via SSSS 6-of-10 and give to your trusted friends. They individually can't steal from you and if 6 of them are still around in 5 years, you get your money. Bitcoin makes some things possible which are not possible otherwise.

Forth, I'm serious about formal bet and confident in what I say. My identity is public and I publish all my thoughts on subject frequently and honestly here: http://blog.oleganza.com

If you are so certain that Bitcoin goes nowhere in 5 years, give me your conditions.
(n.b. I'm no expert about the specifics of US healthcare law, my comments here are generalised)

You don't need the insurers to drop coverage, deny insurance based upon health status, or do any form of discrimination. The system still breaks if the consumers, the healthcare insurance buyers, know more.

If there are two healthcare plans on the market, one that covers the lurgy, and one that doesn't, then buyers with knowledge of their own health prospects will flock to the one that covers them best. The lurgy-covering plan will have to raise prices to remain viable.

And so those with the lurgy genes get penalised despite the insurers being completely regulated and without them breaking any of the rules that you have listed.
Not a lawyer.

If you give the borrower a loan priced in BTC, you can attempt to compel them to repay the loan in a BTC-equivalent amount of their local currency. "Legal for all debts, public and private", and all that.
I can understand TLDs like .web and .app, they seem to have legitimate uses.

But I agree that the ones on the current list look terrible. Does the world really need .holdings and .ventures? Of course not, it's just some company wanting to sell overpriced perks. And .equipment is plain ridiculous. What's next, .lawnmower and .leafblower?
And I think that was a strategically terrible move. They're trying to come from behind and they launched with a non-intuitive interface that makes the phone unusable in a demo.

You put a Z10 in a user's hands without the tutorial enabled and they're just helpless.
I couldn't get NFS to work. Really wish i could happily live with Linux on a MBPr. But the h/w complexity is proving very hard to support. Might be time to give it another whirl soon.

Also they keyboard layout is fucking stupid. It really upsets me when i'm coding. Going from a standard UK keyboard to an Apple abomination of a UK keyboard is highly mentally disturbing for my small brain.
I had a similar problem once. Cleared it up by writing a letter with the entire situation, the letter started with:

To: My State's Attorney General
Address....

CC: Company affecting my credit
Address...

CC: Collection company
Address...

Then made three copies and sent the letter's out. AG's office sent me a case number after just two weeks. The Company reporting the bad debt within two months, denying any wrong doing while immediately "fixing" the "misunderstanding". It was an interesting learning experience.

For 75K, perhaps I should have gotten a lawyer.
Since then they've shied away from selecting "controversial" figures. Hence why bin Laden didn't get it in 2001, for example.
The Emancipated Employee has arrived
I was referring to "efforts to separate a type from its implementations", not String specifically, and thinking of containers & co.

Although, for example, even java has CharSequence which only gives you access to codepoints in a char sequence, you can inherit from that and create your own.
Reference to previous work is not some perfunctory requirement to satisfy for academic due process. It is critical for the advancement of knowledge. Also, its pretty much entirely the definition of "well-researched". Work that is done completely independent of the established base of knowledge in a field can be valuable but someone has to do the work of integrating it and contrasting it with what was already known or else how can you weed out the cranks without many people spending many hours working through their enormous stacks of drivel?

G. H. Hardy said that his most important contribution to the study of mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan. One could easily make the mistake of thinking this contribution could have been easily replicated by someone else, but its entirely likely that never would have happened at all because Ramanujan was not aware of much of the contemporary work that he blitzed past.
The price should be based on what people are able to _cash out_. Is this the case? Are people getting $1000 money in the hand for 1BTC or is it just the "valuation" we're talking about here?
Books are not broken. They are just not suitable in some cases.

Financial system is utterly broken and breaks more and more lives every day.

1. Some people can't do international business because they can't have bank account.

2. People have their accounts frozen, taxed, "bailed-in" etc.

3. People pay huge fees for remittances.

4. People pay huge price via inflation.

5. People die in wars funded by money printed out of thin air by US.

6. People can't effectively protest against government's
actions by not paying taxes since all money is owned by monopoly of banks anyway.

Bitcoin gives so much more freedom and allows to save a lot of lives. Paper money is a modern instrument of enslavement, not just some older technology.
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Startup failed. Founder is suffering. Long live Zed Shaw.
ad.ventures is probably worth more $$$ ... but perhaps not enough to justify the ridiculous prices they'll ask for two-letter domains.
If you're mining for profit then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Most don't even make their money back on a mining machine [1]. Do it for the education and experience. Don't do it for the profit.

1. http://bitcoindifficulty.com/
This guy gets it.

The browser, html/css/js, is the most ubiquitous common runtime that has ever existed.

A lot of services have an iPhone app, an android app, and sometimes even a desktop program. But if you have a website, you get all of those platforms at once.

Sure you have to do things differently, usually more slowly, but you can do whatever you do on any device with a browser.
You'd definitely be wrong about that.
The best advice I've ever heard about networking had to be "keep asking questions". If you want to initiate a conversation, try to learn about the other person. A lot of people (myself included) think, "Oh, I'll start with a hilarious anecdote about myself" (or a joke about the venue, comment about the event, etc.). This is terrible, and it gives the other person nowhere to go - either they agree and say yes, or they disagree and you're fucked. If you open the conversation by getting the other person to talk, you can pay attention and think about what they say. At this point they're either genuinely interesting, and you keep going, or you politely find an excuse and get the hell out. Let people talk about themselves, but don't get glued to a middle manager at a carpet factory for an hour because he has a million stories about accidentally delivering the wrong pile, or whatever.
Whatever the economic effect, I have a hard time imagining the political class giving up the power that comes from being the middle men between dispersed costs and concentrated benefits.
The article is wrong. There is a fix for the power button issue.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1q9dmc/mavericks_powe...
As long as the government can back it up? Nothing.

If the government is unable to deliver the promised BTC when bearers request it, the utility of the government-printed notes is severely diminished.

The gold standard was broken when the US Dollar had sufficient fiat value that people were willing to accept it without the gold backing.
Why are there so many links towards this paywalled site? It's the only paywalled site that I see on HN, why is that?
Show HN: I built a local/fast marketplace for used gadgets, games
The First Motorized And Mobile Controlled Paper Plane
I am not such a Pythonista and I am quite busy, but I think it was here or Reddit (maybe both) I saw first mention of PythonAnywhere, a web2py-specific hosting service. They are quite cool, as is web2py (despite all the Django haters due to a longstanding "web2py uses eval in code" flamewar from years back). I highly recommend checking both out.
Funny you chose gold as an example, when Gold is down 40% this year.

If you care about USD at the end of the day, then Gold has been a _terrible_ store of value this past year. After peaking at $1,800, Gold is currently trading at ~$1250.

If BTC follows the route that Gold has followed, we'll see a lot of sad investors.
The problem with your premise is that you are taking up bitcoin and trying to fit it into today's world view where banks lend out YOUR money for relatively high interest and give you some interest if you're lucky. Now, you have to keep your money in a bank because it appears to be safe, etc. and of course all your arguments about creating liquidity in the economy are correct.

However, there is a lack of choice in this scenario. Due to the way the economy functions, I do have to put my money into a bank, I do have to look into investments because otherwise my hard earned money is worth less in the future. Let's leave the discussion about that being fair or unfair, etc. because this is a subject where people tend to have strong opinions.

Right, so coming to bitcoin. Why can't there be an entity that allows you to lend your bitcoin as a loan and you get a higher return (higher % interest than regular deflation) because you lent your money out (i.e. took some risk) ? Say deflation is 5% per year and you can give out a loan through some entity and get 10% returns ?

Isn't this what the bank does right now for you ? But do you have much of a choice in the current scenario ? Right now, you take on the risk of a bank without having a say in it. It's either that, or have your purchasing power slowly eroded over time.

I personally don't like arguing about inflation vs. deflation because I am not an economist but I can on my own think of trivial solutions that turn the problem around. Maybe these solutions are ultra complex to implement in practice, but so are the economy, currency markets, stock markets, etc.

Can I argue that it would be great if I worked hard to earn money and save it, and have it at the very least, retain it's value and purchasing power in the future? Why should the capital that I have worked hard to earn lose it's value because it somehow doesn't help the economy ? Helping the economy comes with it's own risks. Why do I not have a say in whether I have that choice or not ? What happens if my bank goes bankrupt ?
I have the exact same issue, it's driving me crazy. I'm wondering where the issue lie as my partner as the same setup (same version of macbook air/same monitor) and doesn't seem to suffer from that issue.

The biggest difference is that I updated while he did a clean install.
> This argument has never made sense to me because it's simply 1 implementation of cryptocurrency and has not even performed its function as such. I'm sure there are better possible versions. In fact, I highly suspect that a better alternative has ALREADY BEEN IMPLEMENTED!

Quality of an implementation doesn't imply success. Success also depends on other factors.

History is full of examples (e.g. Betamax).

Plus, it's very naive to assume that a Bitcoin is nothing because the only things that gives it value is the belief of people. Belief of people has value.
Plus, it's not clear how long the prices will rise, and if something's going to happen in the meanwhile (e.g. more shops accepting it).

If it's a bubble, it can't be said with certainty until the bubble bursted.
Right now you can sell you bitcoins for $979.74 on coinbase (minus 1% commission + transaction fee). So pretty close to $1,000.
I spent bitcoins on many things and intend to do so in the future. The thing is, if you need something, you'll buy it, either with USD or Bitcoin. If you buy it with USD, then that is the amount of Bitcoins you haven't bought instead. So it doesn't matter. Bitcoin in no way stops you from spending it when you really want.
Why deflationary currencies are ok
I sold some of my bitcoins when it hit $300, just enough so that I paid for my previous investments (i.e. when I bought them at $8 and $70). Now it is basically a free ride for me. If they crash to 0, I haven't won anything, but neither have I lost anything. So I'll continue to hold on to them for now.
...and home ownership subsequently hit its highest rate ever.
Yes, I find it fascinating that a large number of people appear to want to live in a deflationary world when all instances of such that I am aware of have been economic basket-cases.
I'm no expert, and I only was able to browse for a couple minutes, but here's my 2 cents. If I understand correctly, you'd like to charge money for courses about how to start a business, or do other things that people in their 20s need. This comes at the same time the entire education model is being flipped upside-down by free MOOCs. I can tell you are aiming for a higher-class niche of high-quality content, but in the end, I think this kind of thing will be unsustainable. Maybe I'm wrong, and there's some verticals that can support paid content or you can stay better than the free stuff, but it seems like a longshot. That said, the site looks great!
It will be interesting to see if customers see Jolla as a continuation of Nokia's handset business. Lots of people liked N9 and Meego, and when that product was killed it was out-selling Nokia's Windows Phone products.
Back in the 20's, and probably earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber

The American Cipher Bureau was just another government agency doing then what the NSA does today.

Note that the page describes the Bureau as spying on negotiating partners: "Its most notable known success was during the Washington Naval Conference during which it aided American negotiators considerably by providing them with the decrypted traffic of many of the Conference delegations, most notably the Japanese."

Sound familiar? I see no reason to think that they weren't doing everything else that today's NSA has been caught doing.
Most of modern economics are bullshit promoting government meddling with money supply. No wonder "economic analysis" says Bitcoin is ridiculous.

When you dismiss Bitcoin by saying it's only there while "people are still willing to buy/trade" you are missing important point. Ask yourself: why people are willing to hold it. Why people are willing to have any money at all: USD, gold, seashells. Are they stupid? Or money gives some utility to them?

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/43378777734/on-circulation-of-...
> This is a bubble, clear as day!

The problem I have is that that's what I said at $6 per bitcoin. And $40. And $120. And god knows I said it at $200.

I'm kicking myself in the ass wondering why I didn't put $100 bucks in when I thought $1 per bitcoin was a lot. Was $100 really that much to lose?
I can't answer for jblow, but in that position I would hire someone with a history of choosing to work on something they cared about rather than someone with more technical experience in a second.

People who are 'switched on'^ are astonishingly more valuable than people who come to the office and manage to passably succeed at the daily task list they're assigned.

^ <-- This is an arbitrary term I use for people who come to work and care about what they do, engage with other coworkers and generally involve themselves in doing the work because they care about the work, rather than having a 'home life' of things they care about, and not caring about work at all, other than to get money. ...it's easy to tell in person when you work with someone, but much harder from an interview or resume. A history of working at places you cared about is a good indicator in my experience, limited as it is.
The government will never stop printing money, nor would you want that. Bitcoin's are great for online use, but are traceable (more so than current money). Hence, the government does not mind us using them.

Bitcoin's being used in stores is a complete possibility, but dollars will always be accepted (at least for the next several decades or longer). The current economic system is only sustainable will a currency the government can control. Although I dislike the idea that the government can "print money" unless the economy takes a pretty large pivot (which will take decades) at a gradual rate there will be major issues. If the change into cryptocurrencies is to fast we will see a MAJOR depression.

I would also speculate that the government will come out with it's own form of cryptocurrancy soon enough.
I'm from Russia. There's internet even where the toilets are from 15 century full of shit. Half of Africa pays with mobile phones and lives in dirt.

It's logically easy to prove. Which money would you choose to store permanently? Bitcoin if it's accepted everywhere in the world, or EUR if it's only accepted in 20 countries? Who knows where you'll be next year, so it's better to store money in a more liquid currency. Bitcoin can be it because there are no fees or capital controls like in EUR or USD.

In Russia, in 1990s people were using dollars no problem. Until government went in with laws forcing people to put prices in roubles and other controls on flow of capital and cash.
>all economic analyses seem to conclude that it is ridiculous.

Economics is obviously useful, but it is by no means a mature "science."
Thanks for sharing this. Do you by chance have a few bullet points you could add to the README for getting a baseline config as a working demo?

I currently run mobile apps with college sports programming on Live365 and am streaming ~ 300,000hrs per month. I'm dying to find a great replacement resource to finally do things better. This would be the best reason I could think of to finally learn node!
Almost certainly. All this has happened before, it will happen again.
Could you expand on that counterintuitive part? I'm not quite getting how that happens.
> 1 BTC is worth 1/20000000 th of the entire BTC economy.

There are only about 12 million BTC. The limit of just under 21 million will be hit in 2140.
As robots and AI replace humans a Basic Income combined with geolibertarian style'd property and resource taxes are the only sane way to have humans compete with machines in the marketplace. Otherwise we're just born landless. Slaves to the land and robot owners who came before us bequeathed with immortality and inheritance of the former economy.

Private property was necessary for a time. It ensured long term investment, but if we don't switch models soon social unrest will be the limiting factor on scientific advancement and growth.
Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin
Yeah this is much improved over the old system.

Except when hooking IBOutlets up between monitors and the little dialog disappears, which can be annoying as hell. But even with that irritation it's miles ahead of how it was previously.
Because oftentimes denying it just makes people think you did the act all the more.
It's like a lot of things that appear on HN... strange and unfamiliar words without context. Yep, a smartphone.
> The recent article on OS/2 [1] makes me wonder whether such compatibility (which, as I understand, is full and not selective) is actually good for them.

I would bet it will make Jolla a winner. Android apps will always be new and fresh, even after Microsoft stops throwing money at developers. Jolla will always have a fall-back in case some new popular app takes off.
Bitcoin will have an S curve of growth. Spending once you're at the flat top of the S curve is a different proposition than doing so while you're on the vertical. Store of value stage must come first before the currency stage.

Anyone going on about "intrinsic value" is missing the "intrinsic value" of the protocol.
My genetics are making me miserable
I just turned 25 several weeks ago, and I just became aware that I'm losing my hair (male pattern baldness)...I feel like an old man already and I still have 50+ years in this world (give or take)!

I always assumed as I got older things would start to go wrong, but at 25 I feel like this is way too early for me to be losing my hair...it's making me extremely miserable, especially the fact that no one in my family ever mentioned it to me and it's supposedly been happening over the last few years, which made me think maybe it's work/stress related, but maybe that's just me being in denial of my own genetics...my mother's father was a victim of MPB, and that's usually who you inherit it from.

Is anyone else in the same boat? How do you cope with getting older/things not going your way? This situation is making me extremely depressed and I can't seem get passed it
What happens when you press the power button is configurable in windows, and I would guess that by default it shuts down on a desktop and sleeps on a laptop.

The problem here is that Apple put the power button above the delete button and you end up sleeping your computer very often just because you miss the delete key.
Most likely case-changes need to be locale-aware, that is true. But still I think minimizing number of locale-specifics is a reasonable goal and in that light I dislike the common usage of turkish i as a example because it is such a obviously fixable (if legacy stuff wasn't concern) flaw in Unicode rather than fundamental issue.
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The NSA watches you, watch porn
Aren't all Android apps running the JVM?
But.. but... She went half naked on TV and licked a wrecking ball in her video. How artistic.
Typo on the carousel for "Get the guts to start freelancing."

It says the course strats[sic] on Mon, 1/27/2014
Except the default transaction fee of 0.0001 BTC is exponentially getting larger and larger.

The higher the price of BTC, the more expensive it is. The average transaction fees for BTCs have reached around $0.10 now, and will only rise as the BTC exchanges go up.

Regardless of how you cut it, this rampant speculation on BTC is hurting the BTC enthusiast (who wants to spend BTC), and instead favors the BTC speculator (who simply wants to cash out before BTC crashes)
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