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> a) They will play nicely together.

depends

> b) There will be consistencies between the libraries.

depends

> c) Magic things like the Amdin interface will work.

true

the workflow for this particular project seemed to go like this...

* get requirement from client
* search google for plugins/modules/etc
* choose some
* try to get them to work
* use them or fork them or find others

which to me seems a pretty roundabout way of getting something accomplished if you already know what needs to be done. it doesn't feel like programming, it feels to me like assembling things and testing/hoping there are no issues. I'd rather be programming.
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My rent, my car bills, and my groceries aren't a tiny blip in my finances. So far, none of them have a fixed bitcoin price.

I mean, I suppose I could do the hip thing and live in a homeless hackspace, but I don't think that would be considered normal. Also, it's bit cold for that outside the Valley.
From what I can see: easier control over tracked/untracked status of files; no stage (might be considered a disadvantage, though I'll wager a good interactive commit feature would render a stage unnecessary), automatically commit everything by default, much simpler concept of what a branch is and isn't; no fetch at all, just merge.

I like this experiment quite a lot. It's clearly very incomplete and lacking of features, but I feel that it gets the basic concepts more right than Git does. For example, the idea that merging from a local branch or merging from a remote branch is the same, is very nice and simple. Sure, it's not like 'git pull' vs 'git merge' is a lot more work, but still, I'd like to not be bothered by the difference.

There's a whole bunch of edge cases still missing here, I fear, but I really like where this is heading. Would use.
A nice project: Git is a wonderful version control system, but the git cli (the porcelain) definitely has some annoyances. I think submodules, for example, are completely broken at the CLI level.

I don't think this project necessarily goes far enough though; the biggest change I saw was getting rid of the staging area. Whether or not that's a good idea, I was hoping for crazier ideas!

For example, how about something that is more aware of github, where my github branches auto-update, and works nicely with forks, pull-requests and issues. The git-review integration for gerrit is interesting along those lines: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/git-review
I don't see the point of the deflation "criticism". Bitcoins are effectively infinitely divisible, and if deflation raged long and hard enough to get to the limits of BTC precision, the protocol could simply be modified to add more precision.
Apple did say "December". They dident say you would GET it in December, but it would be available to PURCHASE in December... Same with iPhones these days... order online, 3-4 weeks before you get it...
I use both Vim and Sublime and feel that supporting the developer by paying him, to ensure constant updates isn't really an issue.

It may not be an IDE, but it certainly is powerful enough not to matter and a lot more user friendly than Vim
this reads like a movie/music executive complaining about about the open internet

or maybe bemoaning the discovery of nuclear physics

it's also strange for me to read since stross is one of my favorit authors/thinkers
Hah. This makes me think of a quote I remember: Git is an excellent library for building a DVCS. ;)
Maybe 'library' would be a better word than 'dependency'? I would just prefer to add them when I need them than remove them when I don't, although with Python frameworks this might not be much of an issue.
Strip searched? What are they afraid she is hiding another housekeeper under her dress?
It's targeted as a work machine, which isn't really subject to seasonal Thanksgiving/Xmas buying, not much at least. I'm guessing the demographic of people dropping $3-6K on shiny Xeon-shaped garbage cans as Christmas gifts is pretty small.

That said, I suspect they wanted to release this one earlier but hit some speed bumps.
Inside the quiet zone, you can’t use a cell phone, can’t use microwave oven.
I think you'll find radiation to be an interesting additional challenge to add to the mix. That and the relative lack of local oxygen. I get what you're saying though, its a heck of a lot more rational to design and airdrop an algae plant on Mars than to expect oil wells to produce on Mars.
Your visualisation reminds me of what could be possible for a meteorologist with a setup provided by WSI:

http://www.wsi.com/products-media.htm

With their tools for meteorologists you can layer up all the data layers from the GRIB, radar, observations, pollen etc. as well as the forecast data to 'see' and explore the weather in quite astounding ways. Think of what you have here but in lots more resolution with untold extra layers of data - it is a fun way to understand the world that we should all be seeing and doing by now instead of just getting a screenful of dumb icons.

It seems that the likes of WSI are quite happy to serve the market for dumb icons rather than make their deluxe weather tools available to all on an app. Imagine if everyone could be an amateur forecaster and submit useful observation data from their phone to get fed back into the 'model'.

The meteorologists are keeping the best tools from us thinking we would not be interested, your site encourages me to think otherwise.
Yes, popular one liners make for great headlines. Die in a fire! That doesn't sound juvinile at all.

These harsh words for something that you don't even HAVE to use or even be a part of.

There's a group of people with an idea, lots of people with great intentions, building a technology that you don't have to pay for. This is called Open source software, you want all of that to die in a fire?
Think of it as a holiday surprise.
>> most illegally grown marijuana uses large amounts of stolen electricity

Source? Reasoning?
You need someone to explain to you why deflation is a bad thing?

Well, since you asked: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+deflation+bad%3F
"About two-thirds of the world's tuna comes from the Pacific, but bluefin tuna accounts for only about 1% of this."

Yes I know, but the above is the more important point, sorry I should have quoted it. The amount of tuna fished from the Pacific (67%)! is way too much to be sustainable.

For more sources on Albacore and Yellowtail see here:
http://www.scidev.net/global/policy/news/pacific-fisheries-m...

"The International Union for Conservation of Nature has put yellowfin and albacore tuna in the "near threatened" category..."
Gmail made top-quoting unnecessary with the conversation view. You can just click and see the entire conversation above the message you're reading. I'm not sure why they default to putting new text at the top and then display it underneath!
Freezer? I've heard of HDDs that wouldn't spin up, were put in a freezer for 2 days and then spun up. They key is to copy the data off QUICKLY as it dies the moment warms up. So you can't go around doing a "grep -r -i bitcoin /" ...
So, you got yourself a load balancer
"He was probably busy in the 90s slamming this new emerging technology/platform called the web"

http://www.amazon.com/Web-Architects-Handbook-Stross/dp/0201...

Title: The Web Architect's Handbook. Author: Charles Stross. Pub. date: 1996.

Mr Stross mentions elsewhere that he's been on the Internet since 1991:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/how_i_go...
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Science fiction story just popped into my head:

The story starts with people terraforming a planet and turning it into a giant algae-growing factory, for the purpose of creating oil from it. Whole plots with interesting characters occur. Then, suddenly, towards the end, those people abandon the whole project to go fight a war in their own galaxy. Then, the story ends with the shocking twist ... somehow you find out the abandoned algae factory is Earth. :)
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I'd like to see the price change for a more renewable foodstuff. IIRC the US is pretty famous for having enormous amounts of corn - how did the store price for that change over time?

Or perhaps even more relevant to the US (due to an apparent lack of availability thereof): fresh produce / vegetables.
This guy doesn't seem to get what bitcoin is or it's purpose. As far as I'm concerned, bitcoin will just be another alternative currency forever. It will likely never replace fiat, and that's fine. It's awesome for international trade, fast transfer, low-fee, and a safe way to store your money (if you're okay with the value of btc fluctuating wildly; if it ever settles then it will be "safe").

I disagree with all of his points. His carbon footprint/malware/Gresham's law points can all be countered with "incentive to mine leaves as the reward goes down, difficulty goes up, and total remaining coins decreases" which means less people will mine. For hideous markets and tax evasion, yeah, you can do both of those with fiat too. It's not a concept exclusive to bitcoins.
Doesn't work for Bitcoin Wallet on Android :-(

I lost some Bitcoins on an old phone that used Bitcoin Wallet (https://github.com/schildbach/bitcoin-wallet) by doing "Settings > Reset".

I tried using this app to find them by dumping the /data partition, but no luck. Apparently it uses a different wallet format:

The wallet file format is not compatible to wallet.dat (Satoshi client). Rather, it uses a custom protobuf format
which should be compatible between clients using bitcoinj.

Any ideas on how to find such coins?
Al Jazeera wants you to move to St. Louis.

As someone living in New York, my most common response to these sorts of article is:

1: Okay, but I can't just pick up and go to some artist's utopia. I have a job and (hopefully) a career to think about. I made the decision to move to New York years ago and now for better or worse I'm here, and working in a job that is not super common elsewhere.

2: Okay, New York Sucks (Big Cities Suck), so where should we go? Portland, OR where there are no jobs? Austin, same? St. Louis, apparently?

3 (Bonus/most confusing): If you work in tech, are just starting out in your career, where is the intersection of a city with robust tech scene to provide you jobs, and yet low rent and thriving art scene?
His main point is along the lines of "OMG <insert_bad_actors> can/may use <technologyXYZ>"

Bitcooin like any tool from the invention of fire to tools like a hammer to "the web" can be used for good or bad, you think someone who writes sci-fi and programs would understand this.
> Well most illegally grown marijuana uses large amounts of stolen electricity

Really? I am under the impression that stolen electricity is one of the easiest ways that illegal grow operations are discovered.
The problem is that today's supposedly heavily regulated markets just aren't. Markets are regulated for the little guy, but not for the Goldman Sachs of this world.

The '08 financial crisis as clearly shown that most regulatory hurdles established in the late XX century have been lifted, and that for big sharks financial markets are an all you can eat buffet. Worse, we learned nothing. Everything is as it was. It is a matter of time before the same events unfold in an even sadder rerun.
That's the best reason anyone has given so far, but say you only need the URL router, nothing is forcing you to use the views layer. Admittedly when you strip out that much stuff then a micro-framework probably is a better choice. For me however I know Django well, and don't see much to be gained by learning a micro-framework.
I'm incredibly surprised there's no Retina Display to go with this.

Buy our $5000 desktop computer, it looks best on somebody else's display.
With respect (and I totally agree with you), IAP not existing in the past isn't quite the same as expecting App Devs to implement a feature that turns off the IAP user interface. That's why I said that this wouldn't be implemented...
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Bitcoin halves the latency and error rate of drug transactions over the Internet. Instead of mailing cash to someone and waiting for them to mail you drugs back, the cash transfer is instantaneous.

For in-person transactions, Bitcoin doesn't seem to have a large advantage over the traditional briefcase full of cash.
This isn't a question of "my style" -- zsombor's notation is objectively better. It achieves the same results with fewer tokens and less intellectual overhead.

The difference between "functional" and "procedural" style here is nothing more than monadic bind operator vs do-notation, but what you have above or in the initial response is nothing like that.

Also I'm not sure "arrows" -- http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Arrow -- means what you think it means in the context of functional programming? It's not sugar for `function(){}`...
> I believe there is a plugin for working with the App engine.

You believe it, I tried it, and it failed, the non-rel project isn't even under active development anymore. And if appengine had not introduced cloudsql as an option, django would be useless on that platform.(IMO)

> And also Django is modular enough that you only need to use the parts you require.

As I said before, without the django orm, there's not much useful stuff left in django that will work without it. There's better request routing options than regex based IMO. There's better form libs and validation libs. There are certainly better performing template engines, what is left of django that's a better choice over something else?
> nothing stopping him creating his own inflationary currency.

He has already proposed that, just not very seriously. You can see it in tweets ( https://twitter.com/cstross ) like:

Like I’ve been saying, if you want a safe shelter for value, buy CharlieTurds™. Better still, buy CharlieTurd™ futures. Smelly but reliable!

I would link but twitter is a walled garden these days.

Shades of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit His point is that a particular person's poo also has limited supply and has more inherent utility than bitcoins.
A lot of people want a more physically certain level of data destruction than such a command provides. If I saw that a drive wrote 3-5 passed of junk data before zeroing the disk then I would trust it but such firmware level info is rare to impossible up find.
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Usually I agree with Charlie Stross, but I think he's building his case on a few false assumptions.

To mine bitcoin and make a reasonable profit, you really need dedicated mining hardware. This means that stolen electricity is not really an issue, as even very large botnets wouldn't be able to keep up with a few $1000 of custom hardware.

Similarly, while Bitcoin's future carbon footprint is something to be concerned about, I think it's too early to draw a line of exponential growth and conclude the world is doomed. There are a large number of potential bottlenecks when it comes to computing hardware.

I'd also question how useful Bitcoin is for avoiding taxes, when the exchange rate is so volatile. There are far safer ways to avoid paying taxes, many of them legal.

In my view, the most interesting part of Bitcoin is not its value, or its potential anonymity, but that it's an open protocol for distributing wealth, in the same way that TCP/IP is an open protocol for distributing data. There has already been some interesting experiments around micro-payments with Bitcoin that would never have gotten off the ground without it.
there is optimistic and there is stupid.

send any new coins to a new address, sure you may remember the password but hedge against that possibility with another wallet, please. for my sake, for my sanity, do it for me.
I don't think it makes sense to choose your logging framework based on performance. Logging does IO, so it's relatively slow compared to everything else you do -- but operationally it's invaluable. I'd take the performance overhead any day.

If you have to ask how much logging costs, you probably can't afford it.
If a person were to feel that this made him or her more productive on important work, $70 is hardly anything. Certainly, if you felt that Emacs and Sublime were very similar, just go with the free one, but if you prefer Sublime, $70 isn't much at all.

$70 for something that will last you a few years or so isn't much at all for any job or hobby. I have a camera built into my phone, but I still buy dedicated cameras because I get additional use and pleasure out of them. If I didn't, I'd just go with the one that comes with my phone.
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You need a fair amount of hydrogen gas to run a hydrocracker, which is basically what this is. Industrially you get the hydrogen from natgas. Yeah yeah you can get methane from the output of a hydrocracker and hydrogen from methan but depending on the process its net overall hydrogen negative (think about it, how are you going to split a long chain hydrocarbon that has two H ends into two little ones thus a net of 4 H ends without a continuous input of hydrogen?)

So yeah you're mostly right but never going to get away from maybe 5% to 10% capacity driving steam turbines to electrolyze water and run the (insecure, of course) SCADA and hotel load for the humans running the plant etc.

A likely plant would look like two nuke generating plants backing each other up and 18 nukes cooking algae into diesel, roughly.
To clarify - the hard part is not the destruction of data you know about, it's the identification of data on devices you don't know about, or forget.

Computers with hard disks are obvious, but also consider mobile phones, tablets, games devices (that increasingly ask for sensitive information), PVRs, and so on.

There may be a point, if we haven't already reached it, where I can't dispose of a toaster without worrying about how to wipe its memory.
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That's an incredibly bad job at blurring the sample. It's both visible through the blur.. and on the text view on the right.

http://st.drweb.com/static/news/20131216-trojan.skimer.18/1g...
If you set up your VPS with a hierarchical deterministic wallet[1] or a passphrase-protected private key[2], your hosting provider will be unable to determine your private key.

[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...

[2]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0038.mediawi...
Oh, it's just ghastly that they can't gouge customers in times of public emergency.
I'm pretty sure that's the case in Germany too.
Also a fairly regular HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
I've been using it since the first beta build. Never had an issue.

It's so much faster as well, even though Sublime 2 was quick. The new plugin system I can't live without either, so many nice plugins.
and you need to pay for a new $70 license to be able to use it.

Yeah I dunno either why this dude is doing a paid beta.
Battlefield 4 does a better job with real swells in the ocean allowing you to fight with boats using waves for cover.
For future note, ziploc in freezer = extremely bad unless you add a desiccant to soak up stray moisture. Get som silica in there stat! Or failing that, white rice wrapped in good tissue/cloth.
I wonder, why blur it at all? What's so useful/dangerous there?
Think you know what a Chrome machine is? Get a load of this big beast
I always found the study of logic to be very interesting. What I highly recommend reading first, however, is a layman's introduction to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem [1]. The essential idea is, much like the conclusion in this article, that axioms are chosen and theorems are proven within the systems they create. The caveat is that no system can be proven to be complete.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Gödels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475837...
>> For starters, BTC is inherently deflationary.

> For starters, tell us why this is inherently bad.

Deflation, by providing a risk free return for sitting on currency, leads to a slowdown in the real economy by reducing both output (reduced consumption) and productivity (reduced investment).
I heard this multiple times and I think this is most likely because the iPad2 does not have a retina screen.

I heard from multiple persons with an iPad 3 aka the first and therefore "weakest" iPad that uses a retina display that iOS7 does not result in a nice user experience when comparing it with the performance they had on iOS6. Talk about lots of lags and stuttering in the OS itself.
> Oh, and his point about BTC "creating" drug markets -- are you for real? Seriously? ... but those markets have existed for a very long time

You're splitting hairs between "creating" and "massively expanding".

How seriously would you take a statement like "Amazon.com is unimportant, they didn't create a market to buy books and stuff. They may make it easier, or safer, but those markets have existed for a very long time"
Hey office IT department. Spent all of your 2013 budget? About to have a 2014 budget become available to you? Look what we've got!
Converting between Cash, Bank and Plastic(Credit Cards) IS near instantaneous. It may not be free but the speediness hasn't really been in question. Also these are all instruments that store value, but are all different instruments.

Though Bitcoin is NOT yet a currency. It cannot store value, the volatility ensures that.

An example to illustrate:
Part I: Cash - Bank etc.
If I have $2000 in Cash, Credit Card has a balance of $1000 (maxed out) and $0 in my Checking/Chequing/Savings account (bank).

I can visit a branch that's 10 mins away, and deposit the all the money, total wait time would be < 5 mins. (transaction cost free)

I can immediately go to an ATM and withdraw $500. (transaction cost free - $0.30)

After that I can walk back to my home and access all the $1500, this can be:

a) $500 transferred from account to high yield savings account. (transaction cost free)

b) $500 transferred to grand parents using interac (transaction cost free - $1.00)

c) $500 transferred to credit card (transaction cost free)
- Note: (i) Credit cards can take up to 3 days to reflect the payment (ii) Credit Cards will consider the original transaction date as the payment date thus not incurring interest for the delay in reflecting the payment and (iii) some credit card issuers will let you make a transaction before the payment is reflected thus reducing the unfortunate "Check kiting"[1] nature of the delay in reflecting the transaction.

Part II: Cash - Bitcoin - Cash
Will not go into explaining this in detail, but just answer this
1) Can you take cash and transfer it to bitcoin without using the bank?
2) Will it be nearly as quick converting between instruments as traditional stores of value?
3) In a day or two when you want to make a purchase can you guarantee or even confidently assume that the value will be the same as when you deposited it? Hell can you assure yourself that the value will be the same < 1 hour from when the transaction occurs?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting
You should try the unlimited trial first, then you'll appreciate the value.
If someone's not going to like Bitcoin, at least give better reasons than crappy strawman ones like, it's being used for illicit markets (what currency isn't?), it's uses a lot of electricity (what bank doesn't?), criminals outsource mining to botnets (along with other illicit activities like pushing spam which existed before Bitcoin mining, your point?)...and then downright puerile remarks like tickling a gold fetish? Jesus christ. If he's not a "globalist shill", he definitely has next to no societal context on Bitcoin and has gotten his information from CNN and the like who equally don't understand it.
I'm petty sure I'm being pedantic, but to be clear: Electric engines (motors) are great. Highly efficient, simple, powerful, scalable both ways, and reliable. If you've got electricity available and want things to move, they're the way to go.

It's the batteries that are sub par, in many ways.