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>There is no way any institution trading any type of instrument, asset, commodity, security etc should ever do this. And I doubt they do this.

Your doubts don't make it any less true. Most such institutions allow you to deposit funds with them first so your purchases come from your deposits. Coinbase has opted not to allow deposits, reportedly to sidestep certain regulatory requirements. So, they use ACH. Coinbase is not an exchange or trading platform, BTW.

>Again this is based on the most likely false premise that they do buy the goods before the payment is cleared. This is simply insane.

Not sure how else you think they can allow buyers to lock in a price before the funds clear.

Think about it: if Coinbase is allowing the buyer to lock in the current market price, then using ACH to capture the buyer's money, then by definition there is risk to Coinbase, no matter how they work it out behind the scenes.

What they have tried to do is minimize their risk by verifying the customer's identity and having them link a bank account. For instant buys, they require a credit card as a backup method in the event that the ACH ultimately fails.

But, there is still risk to Coinbase, obviously.

Listen, anyone who hangs out a shingle on the Net is wide open for fraud, whether it's e-commerce, bitcoin trading, payment procesing, or otherwise. That's just part of the risk. Coinbase has calculated that it's an acceptable risk for now, which is partly mitigated by their verification process and daily buy limits. But, I would bet that part of this $25M raise will go to tackling the regulatory issues that will allow them to keep deposits on account.

>What we need to find out is, in case of a delay on large order where the price of BTC went up did they honor the original quoted rate or the current rate?

This is not a great mystery. The answer is yes. I am a customer and speak from experience. Your buy price is locked in, which can work for or against you.

You don't have any experience with Coinbase, but you're making these declarations about what they may or may not do, and acting as if we need you to dig into this great mystery to determine what's really going on.

It never ceases to amaze me how many universal experts hang out on this one lil' old site.
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Thing about Reddit is that it is the lowest common denominator. The number of people on the internet that have an account on reddit is dizzying. There is no opinion originating in real life that doesn't make it there, so you see the same bottom feeding shit that you see all over the place. It may be heightened because real life is easier to moderate. You see people who have all the terrible opinions real people do and the same unwillingness to learn.

The number of people who browse and contribute to Reddit while on the toilet I would wager is quite high, it is a toilet magazine.
It would be nice to let us know what's on the roadmap. I like the product, but I feel a bit blind on what you're going to add next.
I don't follow r/Askhistorians but is it really the case that factually incorrect comments are heavily upvoted with no dissenting one in sight ? I am not suggesting it's rare but I would like to see some examples as in subreddits I follow it's rarely the case (at least on things I am able judge myself).
Some additional context: this video is from SCHAFT Inc., one of the robotics companies Google recently purchased.
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> You need to conform to basic human psychology for wide adoption.

I don't think inflation is a part of basic human psychology.
Yes, those 'barriers' are gone because female firefighters, soldiers, etc. are subject to lesser physical requirements than the men are. Hope you're not too fat for her to carry you out of the burning building.
Almost certainly; that's the same processor as used in one model of the mbed, all you have to do is find the JTAG/SWD on the board. The default firmware may be code-protected, but there are ways round that.
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It was designed by a noted architect for a copper baron. It doesn't matter how old it was, the fact that a famous architect designed it means it's got history associated with it, therefore it's historic.

There's no need to get ageist with your buildings. Yes, Europe has old buildings. That doesn't detract from the fact that buildings in North America, even if they're fewer than 100 years old, can be considered "historic".
You probably need the `--harmony-generators` or `--harmony` flag.
I'd get an appointment just to know a bit of the story there.
This is a very important question. I routinely build gaming PCs for friends and relatives and all this stuff is pretty hard to come by for less than 1000$. Especially this huge GTX 780 which is pretty high end.
Some other arguments that show that XP wasn't as new as the book argues to be:

- I doubt Lisp, Smalltalk, Forth, time sharing Basic and similar tools were invented for the waterfall model, and all were available in the '70s.

- Weinberger advocated egoless programming in 1971.

Also, looking back at the 1960-1975 timeframe, nobody would have accepted XP as a methodology. I can see the discussion "what do you mean by 'if it turns out we need more memory we simply move to a larger computer'? Ordering one will take months, it will cost us thousands of dollars a month, and we will have to build a new computer room. And no, it is not acceptable if that accounting program you are writing turns out to be a glorified checkbook because that is what you can cram into the machine."

Also, it wasn't as easy to get a MVP because there were so few libraries to build on. IBM would happily license you their 'database' software or their time sharing software, but you better be sure that you needed it, because you paid for it by the month. But it just wasn't possible to work on the idea "don't worry about the 3D graphics. We'll eventually pick a library, but that can wait."

A devil's advocate would argue that the XP book just was a good summary article with great marketing that due to pure luck appeared at just the right time.
Nah, that's pretty standard if not a little low. Without any change in experience, you could probably get up to $120-$130k with a little shopping around.
That's all fine and well, but it reveals an underlying system of anti-democratic behavior by our security services. This is certainly not the first or last instance they have used counterterrorism as a justification to go after activists.
Yes exactly - I got a little extreme on the 140 character cut off, but that is the idea. Everyone wants to hire great people, but the only surefire way to find them is to have worked with them in the past. I want to crowdsource this information to find out who the A Players really are. (Hint: they didn't all go to Harvard, integrate by parts, or explain why manhole covers are round.)
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2% per annum clip is nonsense dogma. As close to 0 as possible is probably ideal.
Over the past 7 or 8 years I've seen multiple companies tried to do this. On paper, the concept makes sense.
Congratulations, you've been convinced to loathe yourself because of other people's insecurities.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. See this post [0], to which the person from the picture responds [1].

Reddit does seem to have a problem with people who want to make fun of others posting, and unfortunately the content does get upvoted. I can't stand the people on reddit that take secret photos of others and post them. But don't write reddit off because of this juvenile behaviour. Read my responses to rfnslyr to see why I feel reddit has a lot to offer. As an example, from the post I shared links to, I learnt something about the Sikh faith that I would not have otherwise, although I do wish that the post was never initially made.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/109cnf/im_not_sure_wh...

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/109cnf/im_not_sure_wh...
Sometimes sexual harassment is just harassment.

Many male dominated institutions (the army) are hotbeds of sexual harassment that has nothing to do with desire on anybody's part. It's just an effective way to rattle somebody.

The primary sexism is that any male victim to speak out will be ostracized or further harassed. Thus the bad behavior continues until a woman, empowered to speak out by her gender, becomes a target.
Replace a bunch of $0.80 parts with $0.30 parts in any consumer device, and the difference on your profit margin tends to be quite noticeable.
With React, you get to choose the parts of your code that integrate tightly which each other. Choice is good.

And if you don't like html in js, you could always embed ClojureScript in ClojureScript :-):

https://github.com/holmsand/cloact
It's slightly possible to do the level without shooting the civilians yourself (your terrorist buddies can kill them for you), but you do have to kill the Russian airport police who show up to stop you. If you refuse to shoot them, the battle just continues forever until you open fire.
They were peaceful dissidents imprisoned by him for complaining about him. Releasing them is good, but there is still all of that stuff they were protesting about...
I proposed a way of tying the difficulty level to the quantity theory of money a while ago on economics and alt currency forums of bitcoin talk.

I think if you're going to be successful, you'll have to find a different set of early adopters. Bitcoin is as much ideological as anything, and while some people don't want to see another alt currency because of their level of investment, others just generally don't believe there's anything wrong with the system today.

Anyways, i'd love to actually develop the idea... but I didn't want to spend time on "just another altcoin" unless I had faith it might get some adoption.
That must be why asm.js v0.1 already introduced non-standard language extensions (imul) and has a roadmap full of more. Which browsers does the asm.js of today run on? And which browsers will the asm.js of the future run on?
I came here to say this. A founding CEO should never have the highest salary in the company. Value your own equity more!
I agree; the narratives surrounding Bitcoin examine small facets and magnify their importance. It is like the "blind men and the elephant" parable.
Definitely a fair point...I considered making light of that in the post, but I couldn't do it concisely.
For me, the following lines also stood out:

"I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."

Presumably to would be possible to introduce a bug into every CPU manufactured, that even the manufacturer is unaware of.
Context matters. It doesn't need to be a pissing match and "hardly worth worrying about" is a crappy attitude.
That is the computer the article is talking about. They are selling old IBM Thinkpads with coreboot and Linux installed.
can you perhaps tell us if everyone - even those with smaller amounts - will be receiving the same consideration? ie should we also be stomping our feet or is it just a matter of patience before you address smaller mistakes?
I'll second this.

The general rule I recommend for people new to reddit: When you sign up, you'll be automatically subscribed to a few default subreddits. Never, ever, ever read the comments on any of those posts. Unfollow the ones that might not be relevant to you (e.g. /r/gaming, /r/funny, /r/news, whatever), and then look for alternatives to the rest.

If you find the concept of Ask Reddit interesting, look at /r/TrueAskReddit for a moderated community of people answering real questions with real answers.

If you're a gamer, look for a more narrow community. Try /r/ps4, /r/wow, /r/steam, and so on. Instead of a reckless free-for-all of foul-mouthed teenagers, you end up with thoughtful, relevant, and moderated communities. For example, this post where top-level comments are restricted to mentions of the current Steam Sale games, with threads descending from those for discussions on each game:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1t9f6n/rsteam_should_...

There are local subreddits, like /r/Vancouver, but they're hit or miss; Vancouver's is generally a circle jerk of transit-hating, car-hating twits complaining about Asians buying up all the condos, so your mileage may vary.

If you get suckered into the 'hive mind' behaviour of 'what do we hate today?' then Reddit is going to make you a worse person, and I feel as though this is the general case for a lot of people on Reddit: it's where people go to let loose about things which they only hate because everyone else hates them too and it gives them something to feel a part of.

Reddit is a microcosm of the internet as a whole: your experience with it will depend on which communities and topics you're exposed to.
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I see it less being an issue of violence, and more of an issue of conflict being the only means of resolution. It's become so pervasive, that a game where you don't fight or compete against SOMETHING is considered very weird.

As for puzzle and adventure games, have you tried Antichamber or Gone Home? Those two are among my favorite games to have come out this year.
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I've read all three of these and found them to be hugely informative.

When Packt get it right, they get it really right. Trouble is, they usually get it really fucking wrong, judging from this and every other thread about Packt on HN.
Check out JetSuite of SurfAir. I think it's $3k from SFO to SEA on JetSuite. Coast to coast may be more difficult economically.
There's been a LOT of uninteresting shit on the front page the past couple days. I consider them off-topic and flag them. Stories such as:

* How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit (this has what to do with startups or technology?)

* Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner (same here)

* Amazon issues "Choking Hazard" warning for Testable JavaScript (the Daily WTF is that way →)

* this one (oh noes a 404 somewhere on teh interwebs, let's crack jokes)

all deserve flagging for being off-topic.
"Practical Cryptography" is a good book.
They are still in prisons and are due to be released according to the amnesty law that was passed. It may take up to six months for them to get out according to the text of the law. Their sentences end in March, so it's unclear at this point whether they will even benefit from the amnesty.
All things you mentioned are considered given, for someone that is an above average programmer.

Yet in large projects, with lots of people, with many interconnected modules, clear code and concise variable naming is not enough.

That's why we have documentation that describes the general architecture and comments for the
code parts that aren't so clear cut.

Some problems have many solutions, with different levels of advantages and disadvantages. To think that all people understand or know the solutions and the choices pertaining to them, is of course naive.

To think that you, as a person, would choose the same path at different instances of time, is just entertaining. You are not the same person you were last year, or even last month.

Thus, good comments along with clear and concise code is the only way to go.
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This is more or less the sentiment I have of HN, too. Basically it boils down to an echo chamber; the community selects what it wants to hear, and silences other voices.

Granted, HN seems to have a more pretentious selection criteria - less-mature-sounding comments are discouraged. But it seems to me that HN has much less tolerance for diversity of opinion.

But I read both HN and Reddit, as well as the comments and articles in many other places, because even though I may not agree with the attitudes or opinions, they are different perspectives all the same, and I think it's a fallacy to think that some perspectives can be of lower quality than others.
pretty easily actually. The block chain gives us a pretty reasonable way to estimate the supply of currency, the velocity of it, and we can kind of estimate price. That's enough. I think if we modified the protocol a bit we could make it even more accurate too.
I think the point of the transparency is that they'd discuss a situation like this as a company.
Integrate it and distribute it with non-open-source software. So, any commercial use whatsoever.
> Tests tell you what the intended behaviours

Or, you know, the design can also. If you're into having that.
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Definitely contact me (contact info is on my website) - happy to give you more feedback and I have a small army of young beta testers in Marin. ;)
The bug I think I've spent most time on was when my Racket program would run for a while and then segfault randomly. Core dumps showed a stack overflow, but unsurprisingly, examining the racket source code didn't enlighten me. I had to git bisect through a number of commits, running them on several instances and tentatively marking them 'good' if I didn't find anything after a few hours. (One time I was too quick to mark a commit 'good'...)

The guilty commit seemed fairly innocent, but it prompted me to try running `(loop (thread (const null)))`, which immediately segfaulted. `(loop (thread (thunk null)))` didn't. At this point we handed off to the racket devs, and replaced our `(const null)` callbacks with `(thunk null)`. After a few days they worked out what was going on and fixed it.
A couple hundred thousand, maybe.
I haven't seen what I think is a good d3 book yet - they all are too simple (ie you don't need a chapter on how to do a simple plot)
I agree, but there are problems with dressing up a game of "tag" like Counter-Strike in the clothes of violent conflict. The other day a contractor came to my house as I was playing CS:S. He asked if I was in Baghdad. He translated the Arabic on the walls. I realized he might find this game incredibly offensive. Racially ambiguous terrorists fight whiteish police in often middle eastern locales (dust2...?). The game itself is normalizing or maybe is just an example of normalized, simplistic, xenophobic ideas. It is a game of tag and strategy that you might compare to american football in some ways, but its stylized to attract people interested in participating in this "world" of us vs. them, all conflicts are solved by violence fantasy land that has none of the nuance of real life. Is that a problem? Is it a symptom of some of the attitudes the author talks about re. insecurity and fear in "gamers"?
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Oh really? And what makes one

Senior?
Lead?
VP?
C-level?
COO?
CEO?

Master?
Advanced?
Intermediate?
Junior?

Who decides that? What makes it objective? Can you dispute it if your boss happens to be a bitter idiot who is completely detached from reality? What happens if your boss and their boss have different views? What happens if you are a perfect employee, but you were a bit of dick at the last Christmas party? And what happens if you are very nice and social and everyone likes you, but you are not really much of a programmer?

This whole thing is BS. The only model that can possibly work is the scaffolder model - you get a worker for a job. If they're shit they get sacked the net day. If they're good, you have to pay them more to keep them from running away...
I think writing it down in complete sentences is useful largely if you're a competent writer to begin with. I am, for instance, and when I write it's very similar to how I talk normally, except that the thought process is more complete than when I'm extemporaneously chatting.

What happens when I write down a planned talk is that I marshal all the ideas I have about what I want to say into a format that forces me to check what thoughts flow naturally into others, what doesn't fit anywhere naturally, and so on.

As nlawalker points out, the trick is to not worry about staying on script. The point of a talk is the talking; otherwise you could just hand out copies of your transcript and there wouldn't be any point in putting everyone in the same room for 15 minutes. And talking, rather than reciting, is about the little "mistakes" and variations and spontaneous reactions you have to what's going in the room. Someone looks a little confused and you can choose to drill down on a point even if it's not in there. People look bored and you can cut something dry and unimportant.
That's not what their FAQ says: https://threema.ch/en/faq.html (scroll down, they specifically claim to provide forward secrecy)

Do you have additional information?
Bing's video search with the SafeSearch turned off is probably the best porn search engine/browser on the internet. I'm guessing the OP was looking for porn. At least that's what I'm usually doing with it. Now why was he trying to access Bing via an HTTPS connection which lead him to this blank page? I'm guessing naughty porn.
I recall times when we in Europe perceived NSA to be working on behalf of us to protect against our common threats in China/Russia/Mideast/whatever - you know, being allies, NATO, common military operations, so on.

Seeing them as the most powerful force hostile against us in the digital world is some shift in mindset, when coming from that history.
A blinking red light would be fairly annoying for long video conferences and calls.
>They keep using the word 'free' as if it means 'open'

You're joking, right? Is this your first encounter with the FSF?
Exactly, even if it's not their own story, if they are able to talk intelligently about the subject matter and explain the problem and solution well then i've gained valuable information about the candidate.

Unfortunately i've had a couple of candidates who's response to the question was "I don't really write bugs". Those are the ones I know for sure are lying.
The internet can be a harsh place at times, but there are equally good people who will have your back, I'm glad she was able to embrace that.

"I am resilient. I've got thick skin. These are just words on a screen. I am safe and loved, strong and intelligent, and can fight back with awesome."
But isn't HN just an aggregator too? Just lacking the subsections? When you get down to it, how much specialization do you want? Surely a dedicated objective C site would suit me better, or a dedicated Python site. This generalized site called HN is no good at all. I find, unsurprisingly, that reddit isn't something that is any one thing. There is some good, some bad (well, lots) and some excellent stuff (not enough though). For the record, HN provides lots of what I want, and heaps of what I don't, but with a signal to noise magnitudes higher than reddits.
That is certainly possible, but the CEO mentioned 1 1/2 months ago that they were considering this move.

See this NY Times article from 10/31/2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/technology/bitcoin-pursues...
My view is that PG base given us a place to call attention to things that you think might be interesting to other folks. While it is nice to get some validation that others agree with you, I don't think that should be the aim of the poster.
Instead I think one should post to HN as a charitable act and not whine if you or your post doesn't get the attention you think it deserves. IMO, it is a gift to the community not a "look at me" opportunity.