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If it was just some additional characters like ñ (which is considered a letter of its own, not an accented n) then it wouldn't be a big deal – but e and é are the same letter with different accents, which adds some subtlety that English simply doesn't have. Given a small enough number of accented characters you can punt on that, call them each a character, but English is objectively simpler since the only real distinction it has between letters is caps or not-caps. (I was just watching the Mother Of All Demos, though, and everything was in caps but they put an overline over capital letters. So even normal English lettering was too complicated for a while.)
Good question. They seem to be nowhere to be found when it's the little guy asserting copyright.
>If Microsoft had the ability to install their moles as CEOs, why don't they do the same thing to Samsung, Apple, Google, HTC, etc. etc.?

It's possible that Microsoft had the ability to "install a mole" to Nokia but not other major cell phone companies.
How does a reply from one British person who doesn't think monarchy is a good idea, to another British person who doesn't think monarchy is a good idea, possibly convey the impression that all British are pro-monarchy?
I think Sterling moved to Serbia or somewhere. Perhaps that was to throw people off the trail.
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The current stable node drivers silently throws away exceptions. Seriously, mongodb inc acknowledge it. Is this also a case of not using mongo correctly?
Corn fields, I suppose.
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Bitcoins are a currency, there's no need to convert them. It's just happening now because some people want into this environment.
I assume you're talking about one the comparison between the official poster released and his comp.... which he never claimed was ripped off.

Did you get to the part where they clearly posted his comps on facebook?
eBay, Amazon, and IRS don't need Bitcoins, they can set any exchange rate they want.

If enough goods and service providers followed suit, current speculators would have to take a hilarious loss to buy anything.
Articles like this are actually quite revealing. It's incredibly interesting to watch "experts" comment on bitcoin as they study it, now, for the first time and have to think about it. Like a lot of people my initial impression was that of scam (it lasted for three hours) then realization of the ingenious concept with the thought that "this will not survive long enough to become what it is intended for". So I kept selling most of the coins I mined all throughout 2012.
Three "bubble pops" later, I could see my "confidence"/"trust" in bitcoin shift. It really has to go through these intense run-ups and crashes to actually prove itself. If it continous to, it will appear as an extremely trustworthy long-term store of value, independent of any central agency and as difficult to slay as file sharing.
At which point more people will pile in, to protect their wealth, again, long-term. Money they could afford to lose, initially. What we might be observing could be a Kurzweilian visualization of an exponential graph similar to technological break-throughs from the Dark Ages to the Modern Age. Bitcoin's wealth transfer and processing network seems to be on a similar level (monetary internet) regarding markets, finances and currency. If it succeeds a whole lot of middle-man industries will meet their demise and capital allocation would be supercharged. The price of bitcoin just reflects that realization on a (global) level.
23andMe CEO says she 'stands behind the data'
Japan approves new state secrecy bill to combat leaks
The difference is the implicit agreement between the author and the agency, without which the former wouldn't have spent two months making those works.
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I think you mean $15 billion?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=400+tons+of+gold+in+dol...
Read the entire article. They posted his comps on their facebook page.
Ask HN: Anyone suffering from Sciatica? (And how do you manage?)
Pain worsened significantly for me - but I have pains only when sitting. This is a real problem for me, since I'm a programmer. I wonder if there is anybody like me here on HN, and how do you get by?

EDIT:

Symptoms: For some time, I had only some pain in the both buttocks when sitting. Now, I have more severe pain in the both buttocks, plus a severe pain going down only through the left leg - again, when sitting.

I feel best when laying down on my stomach.
Bitcoin Demystified: A Hacker's Perspective
Back in the old days (2005) we used to call this Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work.
I completely understand you. Loving what I do, but burning out lately...
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OK, thanks for the HNvertisement. That's actually nice, but how do we know that you won't roll over when $govt asks for logs?
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"Contains ads" by itself is a pretty bad definition of "commercial site," and will exclude a whole lot of useful, high-quality sites that run ads to pay the hosting bills.
If you're valuing everything in dollars, setting your price in dollars, and converting to and from dollars, why not just use dollars. I think this is the leap BitCoin is yet to make. When we no longer have to convert it and compare it to dollars.

It has loads of benefits over using the dollar, but a lot of those benefits are lost the second you're having it exchanged.

For instance, if I wanted to use bitcoin for contracting, my clients would have to convert their dollars into bitcoins, then I'd accept the bitcoins smoothly and easily, and then I'd have to exchange them (sell them) back for dollars to buy groceries and pay for the bus. Whereas right now, I get an Interac e-transfer and in less than 30 seconds I have money I can go to the store with, and it cost the sender only a dollar in fees. Sure, it's taxable, but the second I convert it from bit coins it's trackable anyway.

I definitely think this is a model we're going to see a lot more of in the future, but Bitcoin with it's thousand dollar and rising valuation and constant fluctuations is very difficult to get behind and actively use. And with the number of people, just of the people I know, who bought in hoping to cash out, there might be quite the tumble on the way. Who knows though, it will be interesting to watch, that's for sure.
What? The peak is around 1931 or 1932 and during the rest of the depression, it goes down.

Also, the article directly says

"The Depression years had very little crime."

Honestly, though those crime dynamics were probably more to do with prohibition than anything else, which goes to show that crime really is likely to be dependent on factors that have very little to do with economic prosperity.
Yes you can. You do not necessarily need a confirmation if you are willing to take a small risk (and a vendor accepts risks much bigger than that if he's in business).
Being able to make the distinction between panspermia induced by human activity, and panspermia that occurred through some other mechanism is important. The possibility that life jumped the gap on meteorite strike debris does not make protecting against contamination any less important.

Actually, I would say that it makes it more important. If there was no possibility for non-human related panspermia, then if we found an organism on Mars that appears closely related to an earth organism, then we could write it off as contamination and ignore it. However since non-human related panspermia could conceivably happen, it would be more difficult to pin such a discovery on contamination.
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There are multiple waterproof cases for all sorts of phones (including the note) to I have a friend that takes his iPhone in the hot tub to play music.

All of these devices also have e-reader apps.

I'll just add to this that Amazon got me to buy a kindle @ a $9 price point.
Believing that copyright shouldn't exist or should be limited from it's current status but contracts should be enforced is a completely valid position.
I don't get that; runs and crashes means your confidence is improved; that bitcoins have 'proved themselves'? I would argue just the opposite. No responsible financial counselor would recommend something as volatile as bitcoins; no business can survive the busts ("Just wait a few months Mr Vendor; my money will be worth something again then I promise!")

So its used by - who? Speculators and suckers?
> 3)...

"Your document will not be uploaded. The cryptographic digest is calculated client-side."
Small Claims Courts are limited to claims of a certain amount, typically something like $500. There's no way he could get back anywhere close to the real value of his design by suing them there.

Besides, what the movie makes doesn't matter. He'd be suing the ad agency that ripped off his design, not the producers of the movie.
It looks like it's taking 20-30 seconds to generate one (250,000 turns of scrypt). You'd have to spin up 20,000+ instances to even get 1000 per second.
Seems to be entirely different photography from the comps to the finals.
I think in practice, the first time someone needed to do this, a bunch of high grade academic cryptographers would acts as expert witnesses pro-bono. From there, it would be like a hacking case - an expert explains the issue to the jury, who take a decision. Assuming it is technically sound, bitchain certification would win.

Subsequent cases would be able to use the precedent, and win with less interesting experts.
There is also an agreement between you and artists that if you want to watch a movie or listen to a music cd you also pay for it.
"immoral or unethical"? No. Narrow-minded, yes.

But really, the more interesting part for me is that it is currently nigh-impossible to actually answer the questions i posed. I have the hunch that these guys are truly the longest-held, but no google query i could come up with could deny or confirm that. Please give it a try yourself.
Using Chef Solo and learning about Docker recently. As soon as possible, I would like to read more about Ansible.
You don't seem to know much about Sweden and their relation with the US.
Depends on who is in the middle of that transaction and how long that one takes to fullfill that operation, in this case, exchanges.
Thank you for your construction. Cleaner than the one I dreamed up.
The ideas that CoffeeScript is an acceptable replacement for JS and that "the language as a whole is a pain to use" aren't compatible.
Could you please link the URL that gives these comments, or reproduce the comments here? I was curious about them and could not find them.
The computing power directed at bitcoin is already huge. You would need to persuade those miners (who also verify transactions don't forget) to switch to your new coin. If they stop mining bitcoins then they fall behind their competitors. They then have to swallow the risk of mining a new coin that has no users yet.
This would exclude SO (ads) and Wikipedia (accepts payments as donations).

Even of you refined your criteria, what do you have against sites that try to recoup costs of hosting or content? Or, are you referring to completely different sites, lumping them all under "commercial sites" label?
For bitcoin it's easy to argue that it's useful for almost zero-cost transactions, world wide, with relatively short confirmation times. Other applications are being invented: cryptographic proof-of-existence (on top of the block chain) or perhaps also distributed/anonymous DNS.

You really need to see it as a powerful idea, not just a speculative asset
Anyway, Bitcoin could be a new way to "print" more money. I'm lack of knowledge of it. But it must be interesting to know where the Bitcoin shown in one's balance sheet. Asset? Or just another kind of fiat money? Either way, Bitcoin provides more money on market. Hmmmmm
Kind of surreal: doing a search with the first million results removed, finding a purple link at #9. =o

(I like big robots. I searched for "mech." #9 was a mech-based browser MMO I'd looked at briefly a couple weeks ago.)
I cannot. They didn't really speak about it.

However my first impressions as a developer:

It is a breath of fresh air that instead of fiddling with AndroidSDK and having to deploy an apk my first test of their toolchain was simple compilation -> scp the binary into the phone and run it in dev mode terminal (or via ssh from a desktop).

They naturally have a full fledged packaging system like apk but the point is that it's not forced upon us. My phone is now basically (just like N900 was) just a Linux running on arm platform, with fancy UI for consumer usage on top.
Howso? If it's easy to buy BTC with USD, doesnt't that imply successful liquidation of BTC?
Because you can't better yourself while working part time at McDonald's or Wal-Mart? im self taught and I was working full time while teaching myself all things computer science in my spare time. Let's not pretend that all who are working menial jobs are oppressed and would flourish if we handed them money.
Ask HN: Looking for honest feedback from the community
Hi there, So our web based start up just received 250k at a 1 mil valuation in funding from an angel investor. Up to this point my self and the three other co-founders had been putting up the development money our selves. We are extremely new to this game. We just had an idea and decided to go for it. I work in the film industry as a camera operator, one of us is an accountant, one is a lawyer, and the fourth is an ex canadian football player. So now here we are with a bank account full of money and what was, just over a year ago, only an idea.
Our site is currently up in its most basic form as that was as far as we could afford to develop it on our own dime. A very smart friend suggested we begin here, on the hacker news forums, building a game plan on how to take this to the next level.
So my question for this community is pretty broad. If you were in our position where would you begin? As a site that relies on user submitted content we are at the mercy of others to enjoy what we are offering enough to stick around and use the site.

One note I will make is that we are about to sign a deal with pugpharm to work on enhancing the user experience. If anyone has experience working with them, feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to chat with us.

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They will fail, because money that is not issued by governments is always doomed to failure.

Yes, but money issued by governments is also doomed to failure, with a failure rate modestly higher than the failure rate of governments.
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I saw you dropped this line in the comments under the article. Guess this would be a better place for it :)

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Of course not, seeing as here in the real world, many questions can't be settled until there's a negotiation between the two parties undergoing a divorce. The sole reason for the white paper is unionists demanding "answers" for things they know fine well it is impossible to answer definitively, then moaning about how said answers are "hopes and wishes".

However I'm impressed you read a 674 page document in less than a day, you win a speed reading award.
Only some times I figure, because if you want to make the first letter green, you'd want that to apply to the whole कि.
> 1. Modern JavaScript vms are sandboxed, not native plugins with unending security holes.

Right, (and I'm also in part replying to my sibling replies here) can we stop talking about "sandbox"ing as though it's something concrete and real?

Something being "sandboxed" doesn't really mean anything - or rather it does, but only in an abstract way. Everyone who uses the word "sandboxed" means something slightly different, and every time in history someone has implemented a "sandbox"ing" system, their idea of "sandboxing" is slightly different.

One person's "sandboxed" means "disables language access to the functions that could affect the system" where another person's "sandboxed" means "uses clever os features to isolate all execution into a separate container".

This is why you can endlessly debate whether x or y is or isn't "sandboxed".
News flash: A transaction requires a buyer and a seller. If you bought Bitcoin, someone else sold Bitcoin.
In a sense, it's true that the value of a currency is how much you can get for it. The problem is that you can't just peg it at a value, bitcoins supply is limited.

Imagine if every goods and service provider pegged their unit product at $1,000,000USD. The VALUE of the US dollar would drop immensely. What force could actually make them do that though? Because no one's going to pay a million bucks for a big mac, unless they have 4 billion in the bank at least. Something that can't happen to bitcoin.
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You probably know more about Gmail then you ever wanted to, right?
Because the music does not sound as good as most music to most people... unless you find the tech interesting, you are likely to not enjoy it that much.
Let java die in the browser. I'm an advocate for java as a backend language. It's one of the most mature runtimes and for speed and what is great as a server language that doesn't require manual memory management. Hadoop and co is built on top of the JVM for a reason. It's even great as an ecosystem for scala, clojure and all that, but the java GUI tools (swing and I'd even argue fx) are horrible to code with. I won't comment on android as it's a separate beast in that arena.

Java in the browser is an abomination though. As a client side language...forget it. I love it as a server runtime though.
Characterizing code for refactoring to avoid unwanted side-effects
This article rephrased: "Bitcoin doesn't fit with my limited world view so I reject it wholeheartedly".
The real question is when are they going to announce a total rewrite of the OS that will obsolete the shipping version. Usually they announce that right about the time the phone ships.
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But, it can. Sometimes it's hand is slapped, and sometimes it isn't, but the government has proven its willingness and ability to violate everything in the constitution on multiple occasions.
It doesn't remove the top 1M results, it removes the top 1M most popular websites from the index.
True! And because of that, the project would have been killed regardless. A year ago though, this was not the case.
My father's sciatica pain was when standing, not sitting, but eventually it was so severe that he had to get surgery to alleviate the pinched nerve.

Have you considered a standing desk?
When did I agree to that?
Well don't just post this here. Post on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. If you can explain to them how to improve their ad-hoc hack, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. It would almost certainly be hugely valuable to companies like IBM or Google to have better memory management on their servers. In fact, it could probably boost Linux performance on the Supercomputer list!
Just some more background - DDB is part of the Omnicom group, which is one of the world's largest advertising agency holding companies. SpikeDDB is a collaboration between spike lee and DDB (and therefore Omnicom by extension). All that being said, I don't personally know if the agency in question is SpikeDDB or not.
Data recover guys need old drives. I always wondered why anyone would want my toshiba 5gb drive--some guy on craigslist drove to my house in the middle of the night.
A client of his business fried his harddrive, with all
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I'm sorry, but this is simply not true. It's plain wrong.
I should probably read Graeber's book, though based on what I see here I might find it a bit exhausting. I hear this argument a lot in discussions about bitcoins, and I ask, but have not yet received, a good explanation.

Let me ask you if you can summarize the reasoning for why paying taxes in a currency helps a currency? It seems very obvious that the opposite is true -- if you don't have to pay taxes by working in an alternate currency, then you would obviously want to use that. Which is why tax law always requires arcane provisions to allow the taxation of barter and foreign currency transactions so that the loophole can be closed.

It seems that if the ability to pay taxes in a currency were sufficient to support a currency, then laws dictating how to handle non-local-currency transactions would be unnecessary.
> PNaCl code is compiled in such a way that the browser can do just-in-time static analysis to verify that the code cannot escape the runtime.

You can (and people do) similar things to sandbox JS, by running it in an iframe or a web worker, for example, plus some static analysis.

Also, the structure of asm.js ensures that the code inside it cannot access outside except through a small number of statically analyzable entry points. You can likewise verify no one modifies the asm.js data array by putting the entire codebase in a closure, and doing a trivial static analysis to see that it is not used.
they can sure set them, and then no one would use them. do you not understand money?

what are you, the owner of 100btc going to do:

a) buy $100usd worth of goods at ebay directly

b) cash out at a proper exchange for $100,000usd, then buy $100usb worth of goods on ebay and have $99,900usd left over? or cash out ONE btc for $1000usd, buy $100usd of goods and have $900 usd left over AND 99btc?

How do you expect any even remotely rational players do participate in this farce?
> If you're managing content (blog content?) use a CMS.

Jekyll would disagree.
Bitcoin might let you say things like "both parties signed this document on this date" but you will still need a jury to decide "Action [foo] does or does not constitute a violation of this document which they both signed on this date".
Even if they believe that, it doesn't make plagiarism and breech of contract okay.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 with Mantano Reader Premium works pretty well for me.

Mantano Reader has S-pen support for annotating pages free hand. Annotation creates a copy of the page that is separate from the document which isn't ideal (I'd prefer a layer on the document), but works. It also has multi-color text highlighting and bookmarks for some other options to move around and keep notes.

I find the size and weight of the Galaxy Note 8.0 preferable to larger tablets, much better than a dense technical books, and easier to carry around than printed journal articles. I sometimes have to zoom in to read documents with 2 or 3 column layouts, but Mantano Reader handles that pretty fluidly.

The battery life has been more than satisfactory so far. On a busy day I'll use it to take notes or brainstorm in the morning, my girlfriend will draw on it in the evening, and I can still usually get a few hours reading at night.

It's not perfect and may not be suitable for everyone, but for me it was enough to get over that chasm between technology and the traditional way.
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haha will not disagree