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My spidey sense. Plus he bought in at $950 for $25k. Either he's rich or a gambler.
The real question is whether you want to invest the time needed to create a fallback for those users. Websites that use the new CSS things as a primary thing (like this presentation) won't work, but sites where the newfangled CSS things are used just as embellishment - dropdowns, sliding menus, spinners, you name it - will remain functional, just not as pretty.

tl;dr graceful degradation / enhancement.
The End of #seligman experiment (Matt of Woot.com's new venture)
"We aren't going to "run out of energy" as some people postulate."

Why?
Short summary. Matt of woot.com has started mediocre.com.

He did an experiment where he sent out amazon gift cards and told people (who were contacts of his or signed up iirc) to either buy him something or keep the money. This is what happened.

(I got two $20 gift cards, used one to buy him something, and kept the other.)
Giving coins for USD is their primary use case. Monitoring transactions should be the only control they have in place if they must cut corners.

As a coinbase customer and someone who manages a team and large complex distributed systems, this is an oversight I would not expect from an industry leader and makes me nervous to continue doing transactions with coinbase.

How can we be made comfortable that this won't happen again? $50 isn't the root cause fix and could have cost the OP $15,000 due to the delay. What if those BTC was going to be used to make a purchase? He is left holding the bag, leaving a sour taste.
ODesk to Merge with Elance
Someone thought of something called "proof of storage" instead of "proof of work".

Not sure if it would work, though. But the "waste" would be in data storage instead of power usage.
I'm not a heavy app user - stock apps and one or 2 others I only. With this in mind, there was very little wrong with my ios7 experience. Sure, it wasn't as fast as I wanted, but it wasn't a particular concern. I wonder if this is a higher tolerance from me, or a difference in how our devices were working.
People that see the world in only black and white believe those that are "bad" deserve legal punishment and extra-legal abuse.
So you think lower marijuana revenues would exacerbate drug violence and help consolidate cartel power? Because you said the impact of marijuana legalization on Mexico makes it politically untenable, and I don't see the case for that when I look at the relative size of those revenues and make some arrogant guesses as to how they are distributed.

The 5% figure is a ballpark estimate for marijuana, not drugs in general.
Am I the only one shocked to see Grails beat Spring? I mean, I think it's awesome, but part of me wonders if something went awry in the Spring code. I know a last minute (breaking) change kept Grails out of Round 7, so perhaps whatever that was made a big impact.
SGI crashed and burned because they stopped making beautiful MIPS boxes and tried to make ugly Windows PCs.

When the company imploded, the CEO who made that decision went to work for Microsoft. I'm not even kidding...
lets ban audio
How much time did it cost you to read crackdown vs crack down?

I admit this stuff irks me as well, but it's small stuff.
Damn man, really? You're very lucky then.

I have tons of stories to tell, but instead I propose you check this: http://thedailywtf.com/
Kyle, this is going to sound very random, but I found out from a Facebook posting by your mom of the Wired article about Coinpunk[1] the other day that your mom and I grew up just down the block from each other. So I have to be glad to see someone with roots (the generation before) in my hometown posting here on Hacker News.

That said, I wonder if it isn't possible for people on both sides of the issues around Bitcoin to lose perspective once in a while. Just three weeks ago, you wrote here on HN[2]

The congressional hearings were very upbeat about Bitcoin. Once the word got out that there wasn't any intention to ban it, a lot more people got interested.

And China.

The China part isn't working out quite so well now. The United States part of Bitcoin regulation will, I suspect as someone trained in the law, depend a lot on what trade-offs are perceived in different patterns of regulating Bitcoin by the most influential interest groups in Congress who care about Bitcoin. I wouldn't predict today that Bitcoin will never face an unfavorable regulatory environment in the United States, despite the hearings three weeks or so ago.

So, yes, I think your most responsible advice I fully agree with: When friends and family ask if they should buy Bitcoin, I immediately warn them that getting into Bitcoin solely on price increase speculation is akin to gambling or stock investing and should be treated as such. That's about where I am with Bitcoin. It has some interesting ideas behind it, and I'm glad that creative people are exploring those ideas and seeing what Bitcoin might be good for in today's and tomorrow's economy. But you are correct that Bitcoin is not a sure-fire way to get rich soon.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/coinpunk/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6808450
>> It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal

Oh? Did that also cause some kind of downtime in your customer service operations, considering you sure took your sweet time in getting back to him? Funny how the front page of Hacker News makes things run a bit smoother, huh?
If you're allowed any scientific process regardless of engineering challenge and economics, thermally crack the crude down to hydrogen and pure carbon coke deposits, sequester the carbon for carbon credits, and pipe the H2 into fuel cells for near 100% efficiency.
No one has mentioned cellphone camera/microphone. I assume it's feasible to do the same remote operation with those?
Your original claim was that because of economic laws ($500/barrel argument) we will never run out of petrol. (ergo, will be able to find a way to violate laws of physics, because we want to).

If you now want to change your argument and discuss why and how is this technology going to solve our energy problems, I am all ears.
Maybe you're right about the timescale, maybe you're not. Don't lose sight of the fact that you are merely a biological computer, and a terribly inefficient one at that.

Whatever nature can build, we can build better given enough time and resources. We have more building blocks available to us, and we have intelligence. Nature merely had lots of time.
> When I was living in Silicon Valley, I did a lot of networking. I wanted to meet as many important people as possible.

Desperately looking for contacts isn't networking. Good networkers let their network grow naturally over many years effortlessly. When they need someone they know whom to call - at eye level.
And laws against theft don't prevent all theft so theft should be legal.

I will never, in my life, understand why so many Libertarians take the argument that if some criminal might engage in a crime, then everyone should be allowed to do that same thing. It's the stupidest argument possible, yet you all parrot it unquestioningly. It blows my mind.
I'd argue they are not making technology available to everyone. Rather they are making cheap appliances. Single experience apps designed for a specific purpose with limited flexibility. It is like having a toaster and a blender. Oh you want to grind coffee? Well buy a coffee grinder! Instead of making general purpose tools accessible, we are providing accessible single purpose tools. There is a very large difference.
Giving $600MM away with no hope of earning a return is not an industry. Full stop.
Why would open source hardware not be vulnerable to this sort of attack?
Two things to consider:

1. home built PC market is probably larger than the entire Mac market. I don't have any figures to back this up but based on Windows' market share and my experience, 20% of PC's I've seen over the years are home built.

2. Those "home built" PCs are also built and sold by PC shops as complete computers, not necessarily home builders. My father ran a business that built OEM white box PCs for 15 years. He sold over 200,000 units.

There is going to be some overlap. Particularly as most of the killer apps are entirely cross platform.
Lisp In the Real World
It sounds like they gave him $35k worth of bitcoins at their current price, which is more bitcoins than he would have received had the transaction went through at the earlier date. Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding though.
As highlighted in the thread and in PG's reply, the default response to criticism of Coinbase is to nuke the conversation

As PG wrote:

> Strictly speaking I should have killed the post entirely

That's not why he said that. He explains further down thread:

HN is a news site, not a customer support forum for companies funded by YC, and in fact the site guidelines explicitly ask that it not be used that way
Using Twitter’s Lead-Gen Card to Recruit Beta Testers
(That's a marine engine though. Larger engines are more efficient.)
And in the WordPress core developers' defense, it has been getting steadily better as time goes on. It's still a long way from perfect, of course, but they're working on it.
Oracle is not the villain. Oracle is irrelevant.

MySQL has new name: MariaDB https://mariadb.org/ It's developed by many of the original authors of MySQL.
That's because the switch probably makes it look to the mac as if there's no microphone at all.
Imagine I told you ...

I'd prefer to stick with hard data and historical precedents, please.
> A guy hiting his wife is sexist.

A man can hit a woman (whether or not he is married to her) for reasons other than her gender. So, no, I'd say this is an invalid statement (unlike your other examples, which seem to be more valid.)
I've had huuuuge problems with defer_javascript before using specific libraries. If it works it is an amazing help, but I'd carefully bug-test after you implement if you use that filter!
An open question... How long will selling computers based on increasing processing power make sense for anything but a very-niche audience?

My thinking is that at some point, it should be transparent where the computations take place. So rather than sell us 12 cores, it would be more efficient for Apple to sell us "5 years of access to 12 cores", or whatever the expected lifetime is, and we wouldn't know where the processing power comes from.

Right now accessing remote computing power takes a little bit of thought (AWS) but if anyone can make it easy enough for Grandma, it's Apple.

They may always be cases of having this power local (a place with bad internet access?) but that seems like a niche.
If there's one book I would encourage people to read on this subject: http://www.withouthotair.com/ .. written by a Cambridge Theoretical Physicist. Free download.

It simply puts real numbers against various different ways of getting our energy, and in terms of EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested).
If the price had gone up would you be ok with them refunding the dollars instead of honoring the original price of the "clearly botched transaction"?
Funny how whenever a company gets enough bad publicity to actually hurt their bottom line, suddenly their customer service runs a bit smoother.
My first purchase with Coinbase took 7 full business days (not far off from what you waited). Other than that my experience with Coinbase has been 100% positive...extremely fast and reliable service.
OT, but if you upvote an article, it gets saved into your "saved stories". You can find the link on your profile if you click your username in the URH corner.

Your "saved stories" URL would be https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=Kiro
If you want a tablet, just buy Google’s Nexus 7 already
Advanced code completion filtering
> Cars, ships, and trains may be electrified, but I don't think planes will ever be electrified.

Since we've already flown electric planes that statement is, in a weird way, actually true. They've already been "electrified."
Correct, fixed!
Coinbase is not for trading though. He should have purchased on an exchange then.
Some hardening guides suggest having the camera and microphone removed by an apple tech. I'm considering having this done on my next laptop - I just don't use them that often.
The World's Newest Island, Niijima
you can't bypass all meters. the one in your home is not the only one that the utility has.
There are also practical engineering problems with making a "rolling coke/charcoal oven" reliable enough to last 250K miles with about the same maint as a gasoline car. There are certain economic balances that have to be achieved, if the maint cost is going to be X times a gas car maint and lifespan will be Y times shorter that has certain capital cost requirements which probably are not possible to meet.

Also this is something of an enviro-slur but renewable ideas are typically horribly polluting but the small scale types handwave past it. A gasoline engine can output exhaust cleaner in some ways than its input air, especially WRT hydrocarbons in smoggy areas, but a coke/charcoal oven is just beyond filthy polluting, which scales pretty well to one dude and his one car but is a non-starter for 100M American cars. The interstate would be unimaginable.
> This is marked change of course coming from white house

Is it really? The White House has already disagreed with one of the major changes proposed by this panel (which overall, I still think they are pretty limited, and don't go far enough) - separating NSA from the US Cyber Command.

I also care less about what the White House/Obama promises to change (not our first rodeo with this, is it?), and more about what Congress is going to change and what's going to make explicitly illegal.
Coinbase updated their comment after seeing the backlash.
Thanks for your interest! If you order today (Dec 18), they will ship in February.
Astute observation. We're already there.

Most people I know, including myself, are quite happy on a 6-7 year old unit.

Bar developers, graphic artists (2d,3d), video, mega-data there's sod all use for a 12 core Xeon. Don't start spewing gaming either as the Xbox one doesn't have a 12 core Xeon in it!
Don't believe the hype. This is a gimmick.

I can buy a similar mattress from one of those big bad chain stores, who supposedly marks up things up a lot, for $191 plus it is 6" thick.

http://www.sleepys.com/en/Bayside-Liberty-6-Inch-Futon-Mattr...

This mattress is made in the USA using materials from the US. It has all the certifications that tuft and needle have. Excluding using organic cotton on the outside of the mattress which should only increase the cost by $10 to $20.

This one is overpriced by Sleepy's. Checkout US Mattress with an 8" for $169.99. http://www.us-mattress.com/wolf-futon-mattress-dbd.html

For a company trying to fix the mattress industry, you need to be more transparent. How much foam is used? What is the exact density and ILD of the foam? Why so secretive? You are acting like Tempur, Sealy, Serta, and Simmons.
How can software directly access microcontrollers in order to reprogram them? I thought the days of DOS/System7 were long behind us... or are we talking about kernel drivers that must be installed by root?
This isn't a failure of Bitcoin. It's a failure of the market.

Bitcoin has an approximate "intrinsic value", which in economic terms is a bit above the cost of mining. Current market price has been very far from that.

Bitcoin market right now is pretty much the definition of a bubble. Beware. In a "bubble" market, your money can disappear overnight.

But again: that's not Bitcoin's fault. It's the fault of idiots vastly and irrationally driving up market prices.

This is really a textbook lesson in why Wall Street does not represent the "real" exonomy.
I disagree with your reading of history in terms of the boom/bust cycles of the 19th century allegedly being "far, far worse" than central bank (mis)management of the money supply. As bad as the volatility of that period was, economic growth was still quite robust. And our system is now so dependent on massive levels of credit -- which could not exist without Fed backstops -- that when a panic hits there are legitimate fears of a total seizure in the economy and widespread social disorder (Hank Paulson's "tanks in the streets"). Maybe my reading of the history is flawed, but it seems to me that the panics of the 19th Century were at least faced with a bit more composure than that.

But more to the point, even the 19th century cycles were intimately tied to the credit cycle. It was just created by private banks operating on fractional reserves, as opposed to a central bank. There is no fractional reserve banking in Bitcoin. (Which, again, may be a reason it will never take off as a currency, I'm not sure.)
You seem to have missed this part: purchased at the lower price and the company pockets the difference
May I suggest a more mundane reason: The average german word length may be longer than English so you can fit less words in a tweet, although this SE answer as some anecdotal evidence to the contrary. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/2998/do-most-lang...
Couple Fined $3,500 For Negative Review Fights Back With Lawsuit
Off-topic, but since you guys have ignored: 3 emails from me, and a tweet...

I sent you an XSS vulnerability to whitehat@coinbase.com according to https://coinbase.com/whitehat almost 3 weeks ago and haven't received so much as a confirmation "thanks we are looking into it" email from you guys.
Actually, this is not as true as it used to be[1] - streaming video of the regular kind is a really big deal.

[1]http://www.tomsguide.com/us/netflix-internet-bandwidth-media...
He actually provides a reason for why Tax evasion is theft: Since taxes are the dues for living in a society which provides public goods such as roads, infrastructure, education, etc., refusing to pay taxes is stealing the usage of those goods without paying your dues.

I can see that in his argument, but I don't see an explanation for why taxes are theft in your argument. Unless somehow you completely avoid usage of public goods (which no, you don't).
That technique saves you from the bad reputation of the mixer server. However you lose the ability to lose temporal information and the amount of payments made together with yours is probably quite a lot lower than what is achieved with popular mixer server. And it does not save you from bad reputation of your mixing partner.

Someone mixes with you to pay drugs to a silk road advertised wallet -> you could get interrogated and you'd have to reveal as much info as you have on the persons you mixed that particular transaction with.

Or you mix with someone who has not kept their wallet untainted -> they can get interrogated and thus reveal who you are.

Don't get me wrong here. I don't dislike bitcoin. People just tend to give it features that it doesn't have.

What bitcoin is: Awesome solution to the byzantine generals problem. It allows parties that do not trust eachother to verify that someone has exactly the amount of coins he claim to has. Basically it solves the digital equivalent of forged money. A bookkeeping service for parties that do not trust eachother.

What bitcoin is not: Anonymous in any way. Pseudonymous at maximum. Maybe safe to your spouse using techniques like that. Not a way to evade taxes, nor a way to easily facilitate any illegal fund transfers etc. It might be that way now but only because IRS has not put up an unit to analyze it yet. It is not anonymous against adversary with actual resources.
On the other end of the spectrum, the best developers a startup can hire will probably come from their network. Not from recruiters or random people submitting resumes. Early hires are incredibly important and actively seeking the first few hires through networking is certainly a worthwhile endeavor.
I'd love to drink their milkshake.

My friend and I are mid-redesign on a new service marketplace called reBaked. Our innovation is collaboration with many freelancers and paying them proportionally to what they actually deliver. There's also a negotiated minimum payment for freelancers so it's not overly risky for them.

...it's not quite ready for a Show HN, but the gist can be seen at (https://rbkd-staging.heroku.com). I'd love to get your first reaction.
A big problem with TEDx is lack of quality control.

I know one TEDx event that asked a top ten website cofounder to apply as a speaker and then rejected him.

I attended the cofounder's talk at a top university renowned for innovation, and it was awesome.

I also attended the TEDx event this cofounder was rejected from, and it was horrible.

We left after a couple hours, uninspired and none the wiser.

Here's a time and money-saving tip: Go on Quora.
Google is currently working with the city on a better solution. The city, and everyone in it, have incentive to cooperate with Google since they attract tax revenue, while attempting a solution to not bring extra congestion to the city streets. I don't believe this merits the level of hostility that I have seen.
> Likewise, unlike banks, there is no legal system in place

There may not be a well-developed specialized regulatory system in place with authority over some bitcoin firms, but in most of the places that bitcoin firms operate there is a legal system in place, and entering into a sale contract, accepting payment, and then failing to deliver the product is the kind of thing that is well within the scope of competence of most of those legal systems.
Maybe they do both, but I am certain that the flag link disappears for some people after abuse. I'm not sure what the advantage of doing both would be (though I assume hellbanned users normally still see a flag link that does nothing).
fact: people lose bitcoins, which leads to deflation directly when the "economy" (whatever that is) stops growing.
Take it EASY everyone! They made a mistake, took responsibility for the error, resolved the issue, and compensated the user for his inconvenience. Good for them!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...

Pick a country in the list on that page where the Per Capita Income is less than ~$4160/year. Most likely, in such a country, $2/hour is very likely going to put an individual at or above the median income (farther above, the lower the GDP Per Capita). $5/hr is a nice wage.

For comparison, the UN ranking of the US in this category is ~$51,000, and the median household income in the US is about $55,000 (per year).
What he meant was coinbase could have easily used some of the 35k to buy the 40 by cheaper, and keep the rest. They could have done this, and still said what they said and the net effect to the customer would be the same.

This is not good for coinbase, even if it was an accident.
I similarly hate Bitcoin's "technological breakthrough" status. It's an economic innovation, much in the same way Uber and AirBnB aren't "technological breakthroughs".

This has incorrectly led VCs to invest in the "Bitcoin as a protocol" concept. I wrote about it in my recent blog post: http://deepinsand.com/post/70415437372/vcs-are-wrong-about-b...
How is this better than, let say, jQuery Mobile? I know they are different but somewhat the same in term of achieving native-like app. I like to hear from people using both before.
Workflowy is one of the most useful and interesting products created lately. I was honored to have had dinner with the founders a while back ago, and they are an awesome team and I really wish them the best.

I've found sometimes, especially when introducing Workflowy to non-English speakers, the UI is a bit hard to learn, but once I show them the basics they figure it out pretty quick. The daily email diff is also invaluable.

My tip to you guys: lower the number of free items per month to get more users to pay!