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> It would be lovely if it would fall through Ireland, since the Irish have consistently been the most vocal proponent of surrendering EU privacy protections to American business and government interests.

I can't agree with you more on this issue. Sadly, this point is often overlooked - even by the Irish public. A bit of insight shows that Ireland, with its recent history of colonial sufferings, has yet again 'prostituted' [1] itself to imperialism through unbelievable tax loopholes for US tech giants.

One could expand further and argue that the Irish political class also willingly enslaved the people to financial 'colonialism' when they nationalized private bank debt.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnmwuRpfKr8
I suspect you might not.
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Classical Market making is probably the safest way to profit from bitcoin as the spread is so damn high. Good luck finding a hedging instrument though.
I don't know anything about the implementation, but I would assume that the idea is to avoid having the service provider be a single point where complete failure can occur. Perhaps this new system offloads that risk to the customer.

But then I get confused, what service is the service provider providing if the customer still needs to carry around half of 'the data'?
This is a good thing in this case, but adding red-tape to intentionally alter incentives is merely one useful tool in regulating markets, not a panacea, and can easily be used, intentionally or not, to work against those aims e.g. of course you're allowed to to use any supplier, just fill in these forms in triplicate or use our preselected choice.
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Splitting it in two does not mean splitting it in half.
RIPA was strongly opposed by the IT and communications community during its 'consultation' period, but was passed largely intact. It was so intrusive a proposal that even people like me who often say 'I'll write and complain' actually did write a letter.

Predictions of its misuse have been borne out, particularly as the authorized users of communication data were never enumerated or restricted. So we have the situation today where local Councils use RIPA to obtain communication data regarding individual citizens' activities.
I guess the problem is the same as with real wallets: you need two!

One for convenient, day-to-day use: you do not worry too much if this gets lost or stolen.

And another to keep your millions. You can bury it, put it in a safe, or keep it in a secure storage in a safe. Not for daily use.

Whenever you need funds, or you want to put away some savings, you open the safe, access your wallet and make a transfer. After that, you put the big wallet in the safe again.

Do not keep you millions in the open, do not walk around with them, do not trust them to somebody else (online wallets), do not handle them carelessly, do not throw them to the trash!

One thing that does not get mentioned very often in this context is: you can make as many copies of your wallet as you want to! You can even encrypt your wallet-copies with whatever mechanism you want to. Send your wallet encryption-key to your aunt, in case you happen to lose it. You will be able to decrypt any of the dozen copies of your wallet that you are keeping in different places.

Encrypting your wallet gives you extra security that it won't be stolen, and having multiple copies ensures that you will not lose it.

Bitcoin can be a lot of things, that is what makes it so special. But with choice comes responsibility!
I want to laugh but you're absolutely right. Military and pornography applications are the driving forces behind any successful technology.
Isn't this as good as the ruby Random generator? What is the rational for generating the hash from the tweet? I assume this is a "fun" implementation.
That's a minor thing. Computers exist to do work; what matters is the result and information.
Why bother when you can just download anything you want after you cross customs.
I don't think so for two reasons:

1. Bitcoins already underwent several corrections (last one only a few days ago). These small "crashes" later resulted in longer, more stable phases. These substantial downturns flush out most bubble activity. (Bubbles usually go up until they burst. Bitcoin is generally all over the place. Very un-bubble like. When a bubble crashes, it's pretty much done for. When Bitcoin crashes, it's two weeks of wild swings and then soften on a new baseline.)

2. Bitcoin is an erratically growing commodity / currency. If Bitcoin succeeds long-term, then it's hopelessly undervalued currently (just because of the limited supply). If not, it's not worth anything. Basically it has a high risk associated with it and no safety net or more traditional baseline measure you could work with. This inevitably results in erratic price swings no matter what you do. For instance, the current price is mostly due to China getting into the game. There are still many other countries that are not even on the playing field. No financial instrument could prepare you if the demand rises because another big interest wave comes (like India) and the price needs to find a new equilibrium a magnitude higher.

Considering that Bitcoin got a value increase of 24543% in the past 2 Years, it's course corrections are outright tame.
As a buyer, paypal is horrible too.

Particularly when they conveniently decide to suspend the ability to immediately xfer payment out of a verified bank account, leaving you with a 3-5 day electronic check or signing up for "bill me later" as your only options for making a payment when your balance is 0. I'm sure it's all about fraud detection, and nothing to do with selling more people on "bill me later".

"has no safeguards or way to charge back when I could just use fiat, have safety and feel better knowing the money I just spent won't be worth 10% more tomorrow."

Indeed. This is what keeps me out of cryptocurrency. In spite of how crappy paypal is (or can be) for buyers.
The headline attached to this submission is sensationalist and misleading. GCHQ did not force CertiVox to shut down PrivateSky. CertiVox decided to close PrivateSky after they were served with a notice issued under section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which required that they hand over the key(s) required to decrypt one (or more) of their customer's data.

The underlying legislation can be found here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/contents

The relevant section is 49 but sections 53 (Failure to comply with a notice) and 54 (Tipping off) are also of particular interest.
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In a case of "Just because you're paranoid Don't mean they're not after you" Harold Wilson, who was paranoid about lots of things but particularly being bugged by MI5, was in No 10 at a time when there were bugs in cabinet room and PM's study - whether the bugs were actually used or not isn't known:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theori...

Edit: If anyone is interested in this stuff, I can strongly recommend Dominic Sandbrook's histories of the UK in the 60s and 70s:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominic-Sandbrook/e/B001HCWSSW/ref=n...
WTF to revolt about? You don't like it - don't buy it. Someone else wants it - let them have it, its not your "right" to force everyone to your opinion.
I don't think gathering is a part. As long as you can easily fake it, it will not lead to "open society".
Standard economic theory says yes. Robert Shiller, for example, has noted that one factor that led to the housing bubble in the US is that it's quite hard to short housing.

So yes, in general, an increase in the ability to short a commodity will, ceteris paribus, result in an reduction in its propensity to form bubbles. On the other hand, bitcoins are a bit weird. The obvious uses for bitcoins are basically illegal drugs and evading currency controls, both of which open bitcoin up to significant legal and regulatory risks.
A warrant could imply that they are unable to attack the provider

This is the institution which allowed U-boats to sink British ships so not to even hint that the ENIGMA cipher was cracked. I'm sure they're utterly incompetent at keeping secrets, and anyone on the internet can deduce their most critical SIGINT capabilities simply by observing how they deal with civil warrants in minor cases.
What I have written so far is based on my direct experience. Here are some other cases:

You absolutely need to run program X, which only runs on English version of Windows. (Developers of program X do not know nor care about internationalization). Therefore you run English version of Internet Explorer.

Older versions of Internet Explorer only sends language(en) without sending locale(en-US). You speak English, live in England (or India), and don't want to get US page.

You are bilingual (remember, lots of people outside US are bilingual), for example live in India and speak English and "mother tongue" very well. You prefer English for computer user interface, but prefer content in local languages.
It would be a trade-off. It would be more immersible for you, but less for everyone else, as your only only human appearance (your face) would be obscured.

Longer term solution: Your presented face would be computer animated.
The major news here is that Bitcoin is corrupting itself by affiliating with major corporate interest. Silicon Valley thinks they own Bitcoin - they will be proven wrong. a fork is becoming more and more likely. Gavin is not treating his responsibilities well and should find himself a well paid job if he wants to make money. there is something wrong with incentives here. Bitcoin is global, not a US owned network.
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I run a small, but successful, web development shop. We have recently been approached by a potential client to build a web application for them. Its a reasonably sized project that will take a few months. There are no great technical challenges in this project.

The app will be entering into a very competitive marketplace, with a slightly different spin. However, the founder has almost no experience of web development and what it takes to get an app off the ground.

Given what I have seen so far, I don't think that he understands what it takes to make this thing successful. I don't know, maybe he gets lucky or something, but lets just say its unlikely. Its going to take a LOT more money in marketing than he believes and I get the impression that he thinks that people will just come to the website and use it. He is throwing out numbers that he thinks are attainable and, having started a few web apps myself, I know that he is being unrealistic.

I'm not sure that in all good conscience I can take on a project that is going to cost him a lot of money and not be successful.

I honestly don't have the time to get more involved, and start giving him advice on all the different aspects from a business point of view. Technically, though, I can get the job done to an awesome standard. But not on the business side.

Do I just lay the cards on the table, and let him make the decision?
I'm curious as to why you (and other people) call Bitcoin a "currency"?

Even on the frontpage of http://bitcoin.org/en/ it's defined as an "innovative payment network and a new kind of money" and the word currency doesn't appear anywhere.

Do you also consider a cellphone to be a "phone" in the traditional sense. Could phones browse the web, edit documents, take photos, check email, etc. 20 years ago?
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Same here. I'm sure the content is really interesting but the design is awful! Plus the logo doesn't fit at all the topic of computer security.
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last time i worked with Perl was 2007, but Mojolicious looks awesome!
Other currencies are (mostly) stable because they have a stable demand. For example, demand for USD is not increasing to tenfold over a year randomly.

Bitcoin is a very young currency / commodity and needs to find some form of equilibrium first. This will be reached once all people who potentially want to use Bitcoin do. Until then, each influx of new users will require a price correction as the supply is fixed.
Yes, it's just a fun source of entropy. You could argue that it's weighted towards "Mmmmm coffee" - although there's a variety of human languages on there.
The General Attorney said, that data retention exceeding one year and w/o clear rules about the usage violates EU laws. But the rules should stay in place until new rules can be implemented.

Which might take a while.
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Bluetooth gorilla marketing has already been tried, the problem is that you are letting unknown people/software access your attention.

Having software to map out your route through a supermarket seems stupid. The device would need to know exact items (certain items are in two places in a store) at which point why not have it message ahead to the store and them have everything bagged up ready for you? No need for giving my position away.
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Stephen Colbert took the Double for a spin a few days ago:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/43094...
I disagree. The headline is reasonable because you can be put in a position in which you're not forced to do something, but it's extremely unreasonable not to do that thing. They weren't forced to close down per se, but their other options were extremely infeasible or reprehensible.
Nobody cares about the name, the inventor, the gender, where are you from, what books you have read, how many months you spent. just show me the f* codes! At the end of the day, it's all that matters.

seriously though, it's a common problem for new PhD to start from manipulating concepts. we have all being there. in reality, great concepts emerge from practical, concrete and tangible things (in the case of programming, codes).
So... an open-source, self-hosted version of IRCCloud, with the server written in Perl?

I'm a bit too happy with IRCCloud to switch, so I'm not really in the target audience. Still, I don't run across Perl projects too often these days; nice to see some variety. :)
Bitcoin is not one entity. When someone effectively "creates money" then of course there's a strong incentive for people to build businesses around it.

Things can fork as much as it wants: Any alt-coin that becomes successful will attract people trying build businesses around it.

If you want to prevent people from making money on it, find a means for people to achieve their goals without exchanging anything that can be converted into money. Good luck trying to do that without also making it pointless and/or unusable.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Option-Trading-Volatility-Strategies...

An excellent chapter about market making in here,however you would have to adjust it quite a bit for bitcoin.
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Anyone know the ratio of speculative investing versus real goods/services transactions on bitcoin?

I ask because it would not surprise me if 90% of all transactions go to people buying/selling against other currencies, which just makes it a zero-sum speculative tool, and with immature market dynamics at that. Zero-sum because it does not pin itself to anything of external value - ie, consumers thinking the economy is going to do well, so they take a significant loan out (increasing demand for USD) to buy a house. Without a fundamental externality like that, I think bitcoin will always just be a novel gambling mechanism, and if we cannot figure out how to make it a legit market then a bad one at that.
I think most people completely missed the part of Snowden leaks that directly said that GCHQ is not any better than NSA.
This is a sexist article, because it tells a company that they should hire people just because they are women, it's also racist because it remarked that the team was white as a problem.
Which reminds me I lost about 30 BTC in total after Tradehill and CryptoXchange closed a while back. Kind of ironic that Tradehill's founder is giving security advice in this article.
If it's supposedly safe, highly profitable, and no one's doing it (spread's still crazy), something's very very wrong.
Isn't the issue because Truecrypt is using the native open dialog which basically leaks the information in the first place to the desktop environment?

If they wanted to prevent this, they could implement a custom open dialog. While not TrueCrypt's issue, it is something that can be worked around. It's certainly not the issue of the desktop environment.
Slow transaction speeds leave you with inventory for way too long (the bane of market makers ) and as you have no correlated instruments you can't even hedge the inventory you have.
So we should hire people because they are women and/or not white and not because they are good at what they do?
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"or spend £500,000 building a backdoor into the system"

A nice round number... They had good motive to protect their customers and close the service. Why start talking about this kind of ridiculous development costs, that sound like it got pulled out of the air?

At least I'd be more sympathetic, if they sticked to the facts. I could even support their cause by posting and tweeting that this is terrible. Now I just feel, that cut the BS already, even they apparently were treated wrong and intimidated to shut down their business.

</rant>
Here's an example of process migration implemented in Linux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIX
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As someone who hails from Ottawa, where Shopify is headquartered, this is wonderful news. From my perspective, they have contributed more to the tech and startup community in Ottawa than anyone since Nortel. Kudos to them on their success!
>Where? They do mention it as "astrology".
//Astronomy - Rig Veda (2000 BC) refers to astronomy. Astronomy is called Jyotish.//
The site claims Jyotish as astronomy. I'm saying it is just Astrology and showed an example from the text to indicate that it is not talking astronomy. There is no problem in treating and considering the text as myth. The problem is they are claimed as science.
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That's just a matter of resolution. Canada Post never did deliver to say, the inbox on your desk, you always had to go to the mailbox to pick up your mail.

What the GP means is that Canada Post serves all areas of the country. If you try to send a package to a rural area via UPS, they'll charge you courier rates and then just mail it for you.
Maybe you should take more than a cursory look. What exactly makes you think these two things have anything whatsoever to do with postmodernism?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-inconsistent/

Paraconsistency is real branch of mathematical logic, and contrary to popular belief feminism is not a joke either.
> Other currencies are stable because they're actively managed by central banks

Until they aren't
This. Would be nice to have some stats but I suspect you're right.
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If you do take on the client, be vigilant (and contractually bound) in what you provide. Don't go down the agile route. Specify everything to the n'th degree making sure you set out exactly what you'll provide. When his budget runs out and he still isn't getting the traffic he expects, your phone will be ringing off the hook as he thinks of fixes, amendments and tweaks that he'll expect you to do for free if there isn't a bulletproof design document to refer to.
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Thank you for the clarification, Ryan. Unfortunately I can't edit that post any longer. I was confused by this line:

> Everyone who is performing well will receive a cost of living increase for their hard work.

I took that mean those not performing well (who may or may not be on their way out) do not receive the COLA raises.
Arguably it is a problem they created by the architecture they chose, in which this is a fatal flaw of design that was almost certainly something that could be anticipated.
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What did you use to make these slides?
If you forget the word "bribe" and think of it the way you would think about a waiter's tip, you'll see that it doesn't have to go into the public treasury to be a good system.

If there's a financial incentive for policemen to catch bad drivers, they will do their job better already, much in the way that restaurants where waiters earn more on tips than they do on a salary generally provide good service.
Lay the cards on the table... Eventually, it won't be good marketing if you didn't help you're client.

You can propose to create a MVP and just show screenshots of early twitter and facebook...

Say it will cost him less money and it will help him validate the idea. Show him some Analytics of some of you're apps.
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Oh Shopify. One of the many reasons I support FOSS business models for anything programmers need to touch. Offline will definitely be an improvement.
Learning to present your opinion properly is an important skill. It's tough to know what will work or not, even for the most experienced people in Silicon Valley. One time, I thought an idea was garbage and the market oversaturated, their initial launch ended up receiving a ton of press and traction.
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That doesn't appear to be the whole story. The claim to have needed to re-engineer their system to have access to keys, effectively making it a different service than it had been. And that means that a demand for keys can effectively make services where users' key are not accessible impermissible.
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This sounds like a great feature. I'm quite sure they don't have anything like this.
If you hired a contractor to remodel your kitchen, you'd expect him to give feedback on the design, materials, and construction of the kitchen, not speculate on the future resale value of the house. This guy is paying for a Web app, so take the money and deliver the app, giving him input on the design and implementation of the app. Let him worry about how to turn that Web app into a successful business.
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This is terrible advice, especially in the New Zealand context. Playing ignorant will get you into a lot more trouble than being honest, and will just fuel the fire more.