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Totally agree, as a Bitcoin fan who also sees Dogecoin as a positive sign.

Some Bitcoin boosters believe "there can be only one" winning digital currency, and hope/predict it will be Bitcoin.

I instead expect many to be tried, most to fail, but a wide variety to survive and live in strange, ever-changing symbiosis. They're just so easy to bootstrap, now, and the possibility/exploration space is so large. Bitcoin might always hold a special position, as the first, most-capitalized, hard-money option (and as Klabnik notes, gateway)... but many of its assumptions may not fit other niches. All sorts of subcommunities, including pranksters, can assign moneyness/value to whatever they'd like easier than ever before.

I'd especially expect regional movements and cross-cutting projects to mint new tokens as a tool of common-purpose and incentive-coordination: something straddling the worlds of equity and currency.

Crazy times ahead. Dogecoin may eventually seem obvious and mundane in retrospect.
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Couple weeks ago these photos from a Hong Kong based mining facility floated up, pretty crazy setup.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=346134.msg3709913#ms...
I predict a moderately successful app that scrolls random 6502 assembly code in your field of vision as you scan your surroundings.
"... my osx n2n client."

v1 or v2?
Why is it "on Linux?" Isn't it the same interface on other Unix systems (OS X, BSD, illumos)?
not that. the caste system has nothing to do with it AT ALL. my cook was a higher caste than my family was. Caste system is yet another concept people from the west who've watched a couple of documentaries about India like to throw around. You dont understand it - it doesnt work the way it used to. Being from a "lower caste" is actually a damn boon in todays India. IF you want to get into a decent engineering college atleast.
Cryptocurrency arbitrage bots are indeed a thing. They help keep exchange values aligned.
Comparing this page to the Feynman Lectures from earlier in the week, it's really amazing how far latex typography has come in the last few years. Now we all use MathJax.
I wasn't being a smart-ass at all. I said "you have to balance trade-offs", you said "no, you don't have to, here's a non-trade-off solution", and I said "no, you've just changed the trade-off". Many people seem to think that moving things into configuration is a "free" solution, and I am very non-sarcastically saying that no, it is not. My solution is to be aware that there is no "solution", and you have to balance trade-offs (which is what I said to start!).
I can't really explain to you why HFT on a meme-backed currency is funny to me, I guess we just have a different sense of humor. It just seems incredibly absurd.
There's an order? I thought you were supposed to take a shotgun approach.
because that's living in big cities unfortunately. Taking Bombay as an example - where in some areas the cost per square foot of an apartment is easily as high as 1600 USD (100000 INR) - even a shanty is a luxury for many. Also you have to realize - a village in india != a village in the developed world. Likely his shanty has tv, water for a few hours a day that fill up an overhead tank and has a doctor nearby - all or some of which may not be true in his village.
Dogecoin's value lies in its absurdity. The absurdity makes it fun, people play with things that are fun, and people playing with things makes them grow. Unfortunately, Dogecoin is quickly attracting folks treating Dogecoin as something to "pump" using traditional multi-level-marketing-type propaganda. So there's an emerging culture clash within the quickly evolving Dogecoin community.
I still dont see your point? I'm the first person to accept that you cannot generalize india - but that does not exclude the reality that if people could find better paying / more meaningful income - they'd go do that rather than be servants - thats all im discussing here - the sample size is irrelevant.
Why can't you download for WP7? http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/launchkey/ebc247...
I would downvote this comment for trolling if I had the permission.
Market! Market determines the wage.

>> minimum salary you ought to pay in the USA

Yes, but it was an Indian diplomat, and the comment is made wrt indian society, where there is no prevailing minimum wage. There are other issues such as visa status of the maid as au-pair.

>> ok,I wont even bother answer that. When you find yourself in a dire situation , remember that comment you've made.

Oh we as a humanity are already in that dire situation. The pseudo intellectuals at NYTimes, don't want anyone to work. This cute worldview is only held by affluent people in USA. Even Germany does not have a minimum wage and it is reflected in their unemployment rates. In USA it just means hiring illegal aliens.
Of course. DOGE has only been in existence for about a month, and only got on multiple exchanges within the last 48 hours.

But really, I think a serious answer is missing the entire point. Which is that doing serious things to something that's so absurd is, in and of itself, kind of absurd.
Yes, the source is available. It's built with php and javascript. It has an MVC architecture, but I didn't use any frameworks. It should be pretty simple to pick up if you're familiar with the concepts of MVC or you've worked with backbone in the past...
Absolutely, this is a hot topic on the subreddit right now. See threads like http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1tey1w/guys_we_nee...
So this is my project that i've been working on for about 18 months. It's totally going to fail but im ok with that. The biggest issue I have right now is why its failing, I have no idea! If you could please tell me what you didnt like about the project that would be helpful.

Thanks!
So judgement. Much sourpuss. Very nitpick. Wow.
Smart watches like the pebble can be amazingly useful in certain circumstances. For example, if you're very busy and using some sort of messaging system to stay in touch with a team then a smart watch is indespensible. You can keep up with the message flow without digging out and unlocking a phone. It easily replaces radios without many of radio's downsides and with many unique advantages (archived messages that can serve as a reference later).

I don't know how useful they are in the general case though. But they do lower the friction of keeping up with a textual conversation without being in front of a computer.
What does "OOP" mean to Alan Kay?
Storage: your settings
Location: Geo-fencing capabilities if you want to lock to specific geographical coordinates.
Your applications information - ???
Bluetooth settings - For device factor if you want to restrict authentication when in Bluetooth range or a paired device.
System tools - test access to protected storage - Private keys and information that identify your device need to be protected as best they can be.
Your accounts - read Google service configuration - I don't know, is this just some kind of regular permission?
it's a mistake to throw left-wing types concerned with the impacts of casual, everyday racism adding up to systemic obstacles (etc. etc.) in the same bag as prudish types wanting to shield their kids from swear words and sex.

they're very opposed groups, even if from the perspective of the South Park watcher they may seem allies. the former is almost always opposed to the war on drugs to go along with its righteous dismissal of low-brow racist jokes.
Same here. In highschool, I really struggled with classical mechanics. A lot of things didn't click, because they were taught to us before we were taught calculus, and a lot of what I was seeing in class simply didn't make much sense. I understood the words and I could do the math, but never actually felt like I had a grip on it.

Fast forward to my freshman year and poof! mechanics suddely isn't a mess of because-i-said-so formulae that sort of make some physical sense. It's an elegant, well-thought system that can help you understand the world.

I had a further moment of revelation later on, when I seriously studied philosophy. It doesn't look like much now, but when put into their historical context, the discoveries made by Galilei and Newton are amazing leaps in human thought.
The DOGE phenomenon is pretty interesting. Aside from lightening things up a bit, it does point to the ridiculousness of fiat currencies in general. Essentially we're fighting and clawing over numbers, abstractions if you will.

At the least dogecoin brings a bit of levity to the idea of currency. Currency is simply information and in the void of a better solution, a necessary instrument.

If dogecoin is some sort of absurdist art project, it certainly seems to be working.
No, bank websites are bank websites.

And bank websites are operated by banks.

And banks are regulated by governments.
Just ordered it on amazon! Ready to be enlightened.
You sound quite offended, that was not my intention.

If you consider it wise judgment to pay money to spend a few hours to learn a less flexible, leakier abstraction rather than just spending the few hours, and gaining a lifetime skill, learning the high powered, free tool available, that is where we differ.

I don't laugh at people who don't know something, quite the contrary, there is little I love more than helping someone grow in knowledge. I laugh at a worldview that celebrates ignorance as if it were a virtue.

I have no doubt people laugh at me too, probably because I believe anyone can be better than they are, anyone can improve. I have high expectations for myself and those around me. And that, for a person who chooses a worldview that celebrates ignorance, can only be met with derisive laughter and ad hominem attacks.
Only if you have an iPhone.
Burglary, drug possession, prostitution, some kinds of vandalism, providing a false ID, underage alcohol, urinating in public, driving/hunting/whatever without a license, trespass, conspiracy to commit a crime... even taking a photo of a school in some places.
I, as a potential target for Mitm, would like to be sure that what I'm accessing is your blog, and not some phishing crap.
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Yup. The lighthearted nature of both the coin and the community is drawing a lot of attention from people who haven't cared about cryptocurrency before, including myself.

It shouldn't be that surprising to anyone on Hacker News: marketing is important. Bitcoin was all "we're going to destroy fiat currency, fuck the government." Dogecoin is "hey lol isn't this silly? Have some coins." It's no wonder that people are reacting to it in a completely different way, even though they're (basically) the same thing.

> They're just so easy to bootstrap, now, and the possibility/exploration space is so large.

I saw a tweet that said "Hottest Christmas gift 2013: build your own cryptocurrency kit." Since all of this is open source, it should be really interesting to see what happens once you can basically alter a configuration file and get your own currency, wallet (online and off), exchange, HFT bot, faucet, poker site...

Not to mention the more 'serious' altcoins, like Sexcoin. I haven't investigated that coin in serious detail, but coins trying to take on a specific vertical are _very_ interesting.

And that's not even getting into things like Namecoin, which build legitimately new tech on top of the blockchain.

It's all terribly interesting.
I don't use Windows all the time but I do have some favorite programs:

Firefox
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Mame
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FLAC
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If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty. The apparently little creature might use such arguments about the effect of distance, and might appeal to such laws of sight and hearing as I, if unlearned in those things, might be unable wholly to reject. But if there were a thousand flies, all buzzing, to appearance, about the great creature; and, to a fly, declaring, each one for himself, that he was bigger than the quadruped; and all giving different and frequently contradictory reasons; and each one despising and opposing the reasons of the others—I should feel quite at my ease. I should certainly say, My little friends, the case of each one of you is destroyed by the rest. I intend to show flies in the swarm, with a few larger animals, for reasons to be given.

AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN
A BUDGET OF PARADOXES
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23100/23100-h/23100-h.htm
> If i copy all of the cookies how will the server differentiate the hijacker from the user. They both have the same cookies.

If you set the cookies to be HTTP-only then you can't get at them from malicious JS.
Indeed, vim macros are mind bogglingly powerful for such a small investment of time.
A lock to which someone unauthorized has the master key is a weak lock. A cryptosystem which the NSA has access to is a weak cryptosystem.
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Personally I think Dogecoin is hilarious. I put together a guide for anyone that is interested in playing around with it.

http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/12/19/getting-started-with-...

Regardless the intention of Dogecoin, it seems to be working as an introductory cryptocurrency for a lot of new users. Can't tell whether or not it will stick around yet, but I've heard a lot of responses from users saying it is the first cryptocurrency they've wanted to try out.
Poverty is relative, the servants who worked at my home were paid close if not more than median income India.

The daughter of both cleaner and the cook, went and graduated from a degree college. Guess what my mother who works for an Airline in India as a manager makes less 7.5 dollars per hour.

The word servant conjures a completely wrong image. The difference is not in empathy, its in understanding of economic conditions. India with its excess population, allows cheap labor, not utilizing it is idiotic.
Not actually true. People usually vote for the candidate who more closely reflects themselves, yes, but the fact that that candidate got up and got nominated already puts them a world of difference away from the "majority of the electorate".

One of the core beliefs of this electorate, after all, is that politicians are liars.
the fact that "smart people" go along with bad social mores says more about the faults with who we denote as "smart people" than about the way we should judge people from the past.

you say "if they were smart today they wouldn't be racists", I say "they probably don't deserve as much credit as they get, if they were racist while a tiny minority of people was aware of the problem and trying to move past it".

there have always been people against slavery, against the oppression of women, against homophobia. don't dismiss their efforts and achievements in examining society just because you don't want to sully the image of technocratic heroes.
If you want another reason for enabling HTTPS, even for shitty blogs - on one of my visits to the US, I stayed at a motel that was snooping on my Wifi traffic, injecting their own ads in Google's searches and displaying their own banners in the websites I was visiting.

If you're the owner of a Wifi network, there are already available solutions for monetizing users' traffic, by injecting ads, like this one: http://rgnets.com/

So you, as the publisher of a shitty blog or website, do you really want ISPs, motels or any other third-party to mess with your own content, to inject their own scripts and frames in your HTML, to degrade the experience for your readership?

One easy way of fixing that is HTTPS. HTTPS is not just for security or privacy, it's also for digitally signing the content that's being served.
If you go back and read what people thought about money in, say, 1870, there was a time that the notion of purely paper currencies was widely held to be the same sort of absurd folly that cryptocurrencies are accused of exhibiting today. Yet, they eventually wound up conquering the global financial landscape. They got their start by being convertible into the prevailing forms of money (gold & silver), just as BTC relies on convertibility into USD now.

None of which is to say that BTC will necessarily be the next Big Thing in the world of currencies, but just that the ideas in the world of money which are widely held to be ridiculous today could very well be commonplace in 4 or 5 decades.
Neat.

Does anyone have a epub/mobi version of this book?
You would like http://suchbloge.com/
Yep. Pretty silly to write a whole article about it.
Well it's called insurance for a reason. For a healthy person under 40 or so, you're paying to insure against rare events that would be very expensive. What if you get cancer, or a serious bone fracture requiring steel implants or leg braces, or any number of other serious conditions? Insuring against rare but disastrous financial burdens is the whole point at that level.
The opportunity cost of at most a few hours? Every two to four years?
Yeah, any modern UNIX supports the same sendmsg/SCM_RIGHTS pattern. You might need to tweak the includes and supply your own CMSG_*() macros on some though.

Some older UNIX variants only supported the BSD4.3-style msg_accrights style fd passing, although those are probably nearly extinct at this point.
There is one other aspect here I find very interesting, and it has to do with the efficient market hypothesis. The fact that people are buying Dogecoin simply because it is a fun internet meme kind of flies in the face of people who still view the price of financial assets as mostly rational, value-based prices, that can be deconstructed along the lines of asset-based valuation, financial ratios, available information, et cetera.

Dogecoin kind of shits all over that. If people will buy a financial asset literally because it was a funny meme they saw on Reddit, then it kind of untangles the notion that prices really must have anything to do with reality. Someone might rightfully ask the question, "Should I invest in Dogecoin?", and at this stage of our financial markets, I really don't have a good answer for that.
> dart2js already uses type inferencing extensively to eliminate type checks where it can, but eliminating the checks for ints would require range propagation which is much trickier, and doesn't work in a lot of cases.

Couldn't you just have changed Dart to fix the semantics?

This is a big issue (no pun intended) that essentially means that dart2js is broken. I predict that, absent some solution to this issue, if Dart takes off, there will be sites that break in non-Chrome browsers when (for example) 64 bit hashing algorithms are involved due to authors only testing in Chrome and not testing the dart2js version.
'Item' and 'x' are routes on HN, so it looks like your browser is interpreting them as files instead
When we choose a diplomat for a country that makes homosexuality illegal, shouldn't we avoid selecting a homosexual diplomat? That seems like fairly basic diplomacy.
The power of dogecoin comes from the community. If it can become the "default" crypto for redditors and the like, it will see huge success. No other currency has launched with such a strong community backing.

It's one of the reasons I think Dogecoin is such a good bet.
Rare doesn't mean acceptable. It happened more than a small handful of times and was deeply unfair, particularly since it tended to happen to people that were deeply in need of coverage at the time - which by itself is a rare event when compared to how many people are living healthy day-to-day lives.

Besides, while rescission was rare, annual maximums and lifetime maximums were not. Bumping up against those maximums (now illegal) was rare, but see above - they happened at the worst times, oftentimes to people who weren't expecting it.
Why dogecoin? Why not megacoin, that's also pretty absurd.
> I honestly cannot believe this is being published in the WSJ

This isn't really a surprise coming from the WSJ...

Here, this will make you lose more faith in humanity.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
"A bitcoin hash is about 1900 32-bit integer operations [1]. This is comparable to 1900 32-bit floating point operations, not one(!)."

That's the amount of work you do in a software implementation of SHA-2, running on a CPU or GPU. This abstracts the hardware complexity inside the chip, which is very relevant when we're going into ASIC's. SHA-2 is bit shifts, masks, and binary adders: it's much simpler than a floating point core.

A hardware comparison would be something like ops/(transistor * time). A recent Bitcoin press release [1] claims 500 billion SHA-2 hashes/second out of >1 billion transistors: ~500 hashes/(transistor-second). A 7990 has a peak throughput of 8.2 teraflops SP [2], out of 8.6 billion transistors: ~1,000 flops/(transistor-second). Both are on 28nm processes.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uniquify-hashfast-announce-wor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_7000_Series#Southern...
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> Megacoin , Your Global Currency. Your Modern Wallet. Global, Anonymous, Secure.

Sounds pretty serious business to me.
Try http://www.redbeanphp.com/ and http://redbeanphp.com/extra/beancan_server specifically - it's a minimal bit of php with some magic that will probably mean you won't have to get too much into the server side of things with your tutorial.
A jail cell is to hold arrestees, not to punish them.

I'm also finding it weird that in your 'punishment matching the crime' scenario, a burglar who makes off with your TV is treated worse than a pension fund raider who causes a string of suicides. Or even a more run-of-the-mill embezzler who 'only' makes off with 100k.
such sarcasm. much miss. wow.
"was begun" or "began" would be the correct usages I believe. FWIW, "came into existence" or "started" seem like they'd fit nicely there :)
I would say it's maybe possibly an issue with incorrect headers being returned to whatever browser you're using, but that's only because that's how i've screwed up projects in the past (by ending up returning "application/octet-stream" or something that doesn't get rendered inline.)
Dogecoin is a good, not a medium of exchange. Why do people buy iPhone apps? iPhone apps don't even have resale value.
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I think dogecoin is hilarious. Even more amusing is the fact that it's getting more attention than Litecoin on Google right now:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=litecoin%2C%20dogecoi...
I wrote something similar for sockets (https://github.com/spc476/ipacld) but it's Linux only, since only Linux supports passing the userid/groupid/pid of a process across Unix domain sockets (and I use that for checking credentials).
Yes, I would. It'd be more secure than the CAs we have today.

To be clear, each attacker must commit more work than every honest miner combined together.
Thank you very much. That was a good kick-off into this difficult topic.
Perhaps it should have been 'might appear to be paranoid', but I didn't mean it as an insult; rather as a description of the lengths they have to go to to protect their work. Sometimes they really are out to get you.
Oh, then they're all the same then, right?

India has more of a class problem than the US. Obviously, or this situation wouldn't have happened.

If inequality in India suddenly dropped to the same level as the US, I would be very happy for India. And I would still want the US to be less unequal.
The fact that people are buying Dogecoin simply because it is a fun internet meme kind

I think the point is that people do not buy Dogecoin because it's fun in itself but because it's the currency of fun, in other terms, their currency. "Their" meaning "a slice of the population" as a country is a slice of the population too. "Before", currencies were determined by geopolitic, now it's up to the people proximity in the wider sense. It's not happened yet but that's what the success of Dogecoin suggest.