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> just as they optimize for typescript code

It's compiler itself that is in the Octane (though compiler itself is written in TypeScript). This particular benchmark pressures GC a lot and GC shares the top spot with a load from dictionary stub.

TypeScript is on the different side of the scale compared to asm.js: it produces mostly what a normal human would write. This means normal prototypical inheritance, normal JS objects and so on. There is nothing really special about that. Though of course TypeScript compiler itself have performance profile atypical for a web application or game, it is a compiler after all.

The hottest JavaScript function in this benchmark (if you skip GC and dictionary load) is Scanner.innerScan with 1% ticks. If you look at it you will see a typical scanner function most of compilers have. Any human would write it the same way, actually and the fact that it was written in TypeScript is irrelevant (compiler just stripped type annotations when it was compiling it).

If you sum all this things together you will see why it is incorrect to say "X optimizes for Y" here.
Could someone explain how is the blockchain going to maintain integrity and the transfer lag is taken into account "when" bitcoin is globally used everywhere and thousands if not millions of transactions are happening every single second?
HAHAHA that's what everyone said when it hit $20.

(Not that it might not be a good time to sell, but please sell for other reasons that snorkel's advice.)
It has been well known that MtGox takes weeks to months, possibly longer, to process USD withdraws, for far longer than 5 weeks.

This won't be useful now, but always check bitcointalk.org before dealing with an exchange.

Coinbase is a better one to use, if you can use it. I would also recommend CampBX. This is biased towards an American perspective.
You have to click one link on the front page to a short summary of what Jolla is.

One link.

One.

Of, you can just scroll down.

That's it.
After waiting almost 3 months for my money (3 separate transfers), I asked them to revert the transfer and they quickly re-credited my account.

Their support will answer, except that they won't tell you how long it will take to get your money or how far you are in the queue.

Since then I've found a local exchange (anx.hk) in Hong Kong that is Government registered and actually pays out quickly (got my money in 3 days after testing a sale of a btc). They accept International accounts in USD as well apparently.

If I were you, I'd just try it: ask MtGox to revert your waiting transfers, buy some btc, transfer them to the new exchange and try to cash out.

(PS: Not affiliated in any way to them, just a user).
National currencies, gold, silver and other commodities used to hedge against USD, EUR, banks etc.

Our whole global economy and lifestyle enjoyed by billions of people needs computers and electricity, otherwise we go back to middle ages.

People want one money - most liquid, most used one. Gold does not fly, USD is politically controlled and restricted. Bitcoin weights zero and unrestricted by design.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/54121516413/the-universe-wants...
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Being first is actually kinda important. Obviously (as others have noted) first to mine Gold / find oil at a spot, first to find diamonds somewhere, but more importantly:

First to invent something (Automobile, Computer, Smartphone, postit, ...). In line with Henry Ford being first means doing something or inventing something, i.e. believing in something even though most others thought it was a futile or stupid attempt. When cars were invented, most people thought they were stupid and useless. Carl Benz and Henry Ford believed in cars, nevertheless.

They were so smart to be among the first to believe in an idea. Same goes for the early bitcoin miners. Now you may say that the car needed to be invented, but even in early mining days, the algorithms had to be ported to the GPU, and then people build huge rigs and spend all their time coding and building the mining system even though bitcoin was still worthless. Of course, some people just installed the client and generated a couple hundred of coins, but even these, they were early believers, much like an early employee at a startup, who is willing to work for sub-par payment because the likes the idea.

I really don't see the difference.
I'm assuming Bitcoins can be bought in fractional denominations?
Bitcoin worshippers will tell you, "no it does not matter, why would you not spend bitcoins, it's better than fiat", blah blah blah...

Yet if you look at /r/BitCoin, there are dozens of "OMG!! I spent all my bitcoins on Pizza instead of holding on to them, look at this gif of me being sad"

So to answer your question, it's just insanity.

I miss the days before this month when BitCoin prices were stable for a couple of months. Spending it was actually pretty cool.
That still brings me back to "I know what a dollar is worth." The wealth will obviously not be evenly spread so figuring out how much each person might have doesn't really help us much, especially not until all bitcoins are mined. What I (and everyone who wants some part of it) want to know is "What does a bitcoin buy me" and right now literally the only benchmark of that for me is the currency which I currently buy things in.

But it's warped because I can't buy things in bitcoin. Not much, anyway. So I don't know what to think about $1,000 = 1 BTC.
So in your one, specific, performance-limited situation, Python 3's implementation of unicode doesn't work for you. Mostly because you are trying to optimize based on implementation details.

I don't see how this equates to a general purpose language failing at strings, especially when the language isn't particularly focused on performance and optimization. And if memory usage is of concern, I would certainly think anything like Python and Ruby would be out of the running?
Rather than ranking on traffic, and getting rid of some really great results just because they are too popular, we ( http://www.plexisearch.com ) use indicators from Natural Language Processing to rank pages.

A How To should rank better for "Make a cake" than a sales page or a review page.

A Review should rank better for "Best SUV" than a Table Of Contents page.

Just because you are the Underdog doesn't mean you should win. You should have a fair fight, but a good result is a good result.

I hate much of the stuff in Wikipedia. But there are some pages that were amazingly well written.

I hate eHow, but there was a brief time when they had experts in the fields they were writing about writing really great content. Those posts should do well.

Later we may let you turn off Right or Left Leaning articles. We may expose the feature we have that returns only easy to read results, a feature designed for ESL, and Youth searches.

But we will never release a blanket no more top million sites.
Actually, the new multi-monitor support is great! Besides fixing the silliness (blanked second screen), this one can support screens of different DPI but similar apparent size.
Magic Mouse has become way too sensitive, struggle to perform a click without a scroll now.

It's become clear that Apple no longer tests this device properly during development. Guessing the team is too busy with rMBPs
Waaaa! People aren't giving me enough free stuff! Waaaa!
Academics hate Bitcoin for 51% attack and lack of formal proofs. Theoretically it's not cool invention. Practically, it can change the whole world and be viable economically for a very long time.
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I'd rather not know. It's more fun this way - almost like a Banksy of cryptography.
I think Tyranny is harsh.

For a long time the loyalty programs have been a profit center rather than a cost center since the airlines sell them to credit card companies and other vendors.
On the web, when one thing just works, albeit slowly; and another thing requires installation but runs quickly; the thing that just works is likely to win.

Unless java gets upgraded to a first class browser component, JavaScript will tend to win. As a product designer, every step I take my user through loses users. Installing java is a big, scary step that I can almost always avoid.

The insurmountable issue is that it requires users to do installation work.
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You haven't read in detail how Bitcoin works and why no one has pulled this off when the hashrate was smaller, but amount of money still big.

Malicious miner has little to gain, a lot to invest and it's easy for the rest of the network to censor him.

Edit: "haven't read" instead of "have read".
Yes, divisible down to .00000001 (a Satoshi).
Most exchanges will ask you to buy at least $1 worth of bitcoins so that pushes your figure to about 0.001 BTC as a minimum purchase. However, you can certainly use them with up to 8 decimal places.
力 power, 口 mouth, 氵 (水) water. Technically there's no radical for the right-half of 油, but it's closest to 田 field.
You aren't intended to hold dollars themselves as a very-long-term store of value. But most people don't do that anyway. They put them in (for small values) a bank or (for larger values) investments where the capital is used to create more wealth.

If I had 1/1000th of the country's wealth in dollars under my mattress or gold buried in my yard or bitcoins in the cloud, and then go into suspended animation for 50 years, there is no reason I should still expect to have 1/1000th of the country's then-increased wealth. My capital wasn't doing anything to grow the economy.

You can argue "but wouldn't it be great if you could take that 50-year nap and have more money?" Yes, it would. You have also described an excellent reason for someone to start a pyramid scheme, but not for everyone else to want to get in on it.
We ( http://www.plexisearch.com ) expose our secrets. We'll show you what page flags are changing the rankings. We don't share quite everything, mostly because some features are beta and we don't want to look too stupid when we get something wrong... But about 90% of the indicators we used to determine the rankings are exposed.

The formula changes based on the type of search, and the type of results we found, but the indicators are all exposed.
Yes. You can buy as little as 0.00000001 BTC aka "satoshi"
>Our whole global economy and lifestyle enjoyed by billions of people needs computers and electricity, otherwise we go back to middle ages.

Well, "whole" is a strong word here. I would try using bitcoin in Cuba. Or Russia. Or some parts of Montana. Good luck getting a wireless signal.

>People want one money

I'll need a citation for this. I think instability in the Eurozone has more or less turned this idea on its head. If people wanted one money, we would have one money. The fact that major economic players either never joined the Euro or now want out indicates to me that "one money" is not a universal desire.
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Can anyone comment on how free this device will be? From what I recall, Sailfish is partially free software, but contains proprietary software as well which is a real shame.
Mega.co.nz are able to do multiple connections download using the "POST" method (kinda hacky) and requires server side code as well.
Bet they're using a Retina MBP, the GPU isn't quite powerful enough to drive the display
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is it open source ? Is it unblocked by default (root account) ?
Those people are not wrong at all. It's just that it's very hard to predict where this is going.

Those people are right in the sense that, based on history, the whole phenomenon has much in common with a speculative bubble.
As speculative bubbles, during the happening, you don't know where it's going.

Don't forget that bitcoins right now have little intrinsic value. If somebody today decides to spend them for purchases, they have very few or no options.

If it is a speculative bubble, then it's a risky game of assessing when it will explode.
Even if it's not going to be a speculative bubble, the price may still fall considerably before stabilizing.
No, it is a Mer-derived Linux with Qt as the UI toolkit. The OS is called Sailfish.

The Android app capability comes from an Android runtime. I have not tried it myself but the compatibility layer could come from Myriad's "Turbo Dalvik," which is something I heard rumored some time ago, or Jolla might have done it themselves.
What do you guys think about String in Haskell, where it is a list of char? Should it have some other default implementation, or should it have been more, um, decoupled from its implementation (don't know the correct terminology)?
At the risk of violating some internet law, the people (they were still people) of Nazi Germany convinced themselves and each other to commit mass evil, or at least to go with the flow and not rise up against it.

The people of Nazi Germany were not special, they were no different than any other group of people.

We are all our own worst danger. When we restrain our government through laws and constitutions, it's not to protect ourselves from some "other," it's to protect ourselves from ourselves.
> Until then it's paper money

What does this even mean? So is the USD, which is backed by nothing. Need more? Just print more!

Bitcoin, as stated a hundred times before, is limited in supply. Merchants left and right are now accepting Bitcoin. In fact, Gyft[1] pretty much gives you access to all online merchants.

1. http://www.gyft.com/
No I meant it in regard to being taught critical thinking.

College isn't a guarantee of being able to process things that way or the only way to acquire such habits, but it is a good indicator.
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Network effects. It's easier to perform transactions if both parties prefer the same currency. This will always put Bitcoin in a class by itself.
Not registrars. The delegation of new gTLDs into the root is the culmination of the first round of new gTLD expansion, an ICANN project that has been going on for quite some time, and has an extensive evaluation process -- see http://newgtlds.icann.org for lots of information on the process. It's likely that there will be a subsequent round at some point in the future. Meanwhile, there are a large number of new gTLDs that are being delegated into the root over the next few months. Soon, gTLDs will outnumber ccTLDs.
> In Mavericks, pushing that power button automatically puts the computer to sleep, no questions asked.

Wtf, really? That was one of the features I used to show as a sensible difference between mac and PC... that a windows pc will just shut down your computer if you mistakenly touch the power button while handling it, whilst a mac wouldn't...
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They can be divided down to 8 decimal places currently, yes.
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I think a basic income is a decent idea but 583$ a month aka 10k - 3k for heath insurance seems rather low to replace things like disability checks especially if your removing all benefits for children. It's also not goig to satisfy people on social security who are getting checks for as much as 3,000$ a month.
The "unique fundamental" is a built in pseudonomous chargeback-less, ACH-less, nearly instantaneous global transaction system that has proven extremely difficult to cheat. This fundamental alone gives BTC tremendous value.
Forget what I said above about not trusting an escrow :) With such lovely odds, I'll gladly take you on this bet. Contact John K from bitcointalk about doing the escrow and I'm in. We can even up the sum a bit :)
What if mtgox is buying bitcoins for money which doesn't have. Could that drive prices up.
For file size, see http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling... Summary: it's comparable, not bigger.
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I think its more common that developers forget the huge amount of domain-specific knowledge the users have - not about development but about the problem the software is trying to solve. Always focus user research on what the end user is trying to accomplish. Then design the simplest way to solve their problem and present it to them in some kind of prototype/mock/wireframe. Ask them to walk through it mentally with common situations, then ask them to evaluated it in their less common scenarios. Then finally you can ask if they have any suggestions. Take this new information back and repeat.

Designing an interface is not a technical problem like configuring a server - it is about communication.
This behavior can seem a little... creepy. I wouldn't recommend ambushing people; sometimes you just want to get some food or use the bathroom without being bum-rushed by a random creep.

Put down the food and drink (it just looks like you're clinging to a safety blanket). Try talking to a huge group out of nowhere and find someone whose body language says they actually want to talk to you. And try not to talk about obvious things as small talk. ("The crab dip is amazing, isn't it?" "Yeah, it is!" Now where's the conversation going to go? Nowhere.)
Yep, there are two fundamental and incompatible forces behind Bitcoin. First is the currency group. Second is the speculator group. The more success the second has, the more problems the first has.
It was born on the cypherpunks mailing lists so I assume it has been vetted by the appropriate individuals.
Just great. I love this community just because of a comment like this, once in a while.
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> asm.js's compatibility with existing Javascript engines gives it the best chance of adoption.

This is the key. With asm.js the worst case is slow, not totally broken.
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Some libertarians may not be fans of a guaranteed or basic income because such a system would, they argue, disincentivize work. Murray believes that his surtax scheme would incentivize work after someone began earning over $25,000.

I'm fairly libertarian and also agree with the concept of a basic income or negative income tax, but phrases like this are very dangerous. It would only begin incentivizing work after you make 25k? And what about people like me that took 28 years to get to that point? I would have never worked as hard as I did to finish college if I didn't have the threat of perpetual poverty and possibly homelessness hanging over my head. When I was 22, a $25k income with no work attached would have been the party of a lifetime, and I would have never tried going to college, let alone struggle (albeit mostly with ADHD, not college itself) to finish.

There is a reason people get a little squeamish about proposals to just give poor people money...we all know what it does to us. You can't just go proposing something like this and throw out a magic number ($25k) and an assertion of how people will react to the incentive. You have to be much more careful and empirical than that.
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> adam smith's wealth of nations comes to mind as a sort of canonical example of such work...

You mean, the same Wealth of Nations in which Smith urges, in government affairs, particular suspicion of the proposals of the merchant class (because their interest are not aligned with the common good) and argues that the general interest is most aligned with the interest of the landholding class, not merely reflecting, but advocating the value of the even-then fading feudal economic land-tenure structure which capitalism displaced as the capitalist class became both landholders and merchants?

Defenders of capitalism may like to quote Smith, but Smith was as much of a before-the-fact critic of capitalism (while certainly seeking change away from mercantilist protectionism) as Marx was an after-the-fact critic of it, and in many cases for similar reasons.
No need to cash out, you can buy from anywhere using all4btc.com. If you'd rather order it yourself than have someone else buy then try an Amazon gift card from gyft.com instead.
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Well for a reserve currency, deflation is positive as a hedge for inflation. China have bought more gold than anyone else in the world for that reason, to mitigate holding foreign reserve currency (which they limited just last month) or debt priced in foreign currency that inflates beyond their control or liking. One would expect this is the role BitCoin would take, just like gold except a lot more convenient to move around.

It is a solution to the Triffin Dilemma, which in 2009 the Governor of The Bank of China wrote about. That same year Russia proposed a new international reserve currency backed by precious metals and a currency basket to solve the same problem. In South America there have been proposals for a petro dollar, backed by oil for the same reason.

Deflation is good for a reserve currency, in some ways it is fairer than gold because you don't have to rely on the geographical distribution of gold in the ground.
Man, Miley Cyrus just being present on this list already discredits it completely.
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Any Bitcoin exchange in the U.S. has been deemed by FINCEN as a "money transmitter", which invokes masses of onerous rules and regulations that they must abide by (including all the IDs required).

This despite the fact that FINCEN considers exchanges dealing with any other type of currency "foreign currency exchanges", which require much less regulation (such as no ID required for purchases under $1000).

In short, it's hard to buy Bitcoins because government.
Gold has survived for thousands of years as a store of wealth. It has intrinsic properties, it is one of nature's unique elements. It cannot be synthetically created.

Bitcoin's scarcity is based on a completely fictional and arbitrary hard limit of 21 million which can be changed in a trivial fork such as Litecoin.

Furthermore, given that there is no intrinsic physical difference between a Litecoin, Freicoin, Bitcoin etc. there is an argument that a P2P currency is the ultimate fiat. The printing presses have just been handed to the public rather than being held by a select few.

Bitcoin is a great electronic currency, and a real challenge to money transmitters like Western Union, but it is not a store of wealth (in my opinion).