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Here is a thought experiment :

Say the pool operator is also the owner of Bank A (which has nothing to do with BTC). Now, a competitor of Bank A, Bank B, just announced that they will support BTC. The pool operator can now decide to "destroy" bitcoin and therefore cause severe financial loss for Bank B, leading to bankruptcy. If putting Bank B out of business results in gains (in USD), for the pool operator, that are greater than what he just lost in bitcoins, then it might be worth it.

Of course, this is very hypothetical, but it's not hard to come up with similar situations where Bank A is "State A" and Bank B is "State B".
...except you're wrong. Bitcoin participants have developed a solution to the 51% problem, without any regulation, without any government stepping in and telling anyone to do anything.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate

Your post is a poorly argued attempt to inject politics into a technical discussion. It reads like the top comment at /r/politics, not HN.
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With bottle, you don't need the ProfileSchema nor the ProfileController, hello world is literally 5 lines.

I know that everything is a tradeoff, bottle.py has A LOT of limitation, but to me it is the lean'est python framework. Heavy framework (WAY more features) would be django and pyramid, and midle of the road cherrypy. I'm not sure where Pecan fits in that picture.
The world changes, but at the end of the day, unwanted, unsolicited contact is the same whether it's via e-mail, text message, phone call, fax, carrier pigeon, etc. The fact that technology makes it easier for companies like Facebook and Google to do stupid things like spam your contact list doesn't mean that courts should change unrelated rules as a result.
I just read this a few days ago and it's pretty interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)

If this kind of thing is interesting to you I'd get ahold of the short story and read it through.
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its just a more performant runtime environment, why is that migrating away from php ?
OK I'll rephrase; for most people the internet isn't a thing where you view static html documents anymore. Therefore people want to use "something" to access these things (for example new software) and currently this thing is a browser.

Therefore in terms of the expectation of a majority of its users, it's not accurate to define a browser as something for looking at static html documents.

Not to say there couldn't be a different something for this - java applets, flash etc have all tried and failed to remove this from the browsers functionality to a delegated function - but at the moment there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative.
I experience something similar. When I have a beard I can't look at myself in the mirror because I think I look like a bum, but everyone (both men and women) are more friendly and pay better attention when I have a beard.
i think what is implied there is a potential plan to make tons of money by destroying bitcoin in favor of an alternative coin you've heavily invested in.
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Yep. Who wants to make bad ports easier? Their goal is to keep their users hooked, and people are cheap (or stupid if you prefer) and approach value from the wrong direction, money spent instead of value gained.
I just think adobe didn't really work to optimize flash for this processor in particular. Flash is a complex piece of software, and it's not properly made.
Say hypothetically you have a restraining order against you, and a company sends a piece of mail to your ex with your address as the return address and worded to look like it was from you. According to what you're saying, you'd be in the wrong because you didn't go through every company you've ever dealt with to tell them not to do that?

Because this is exactly what social media sites experiment with every day, they spoof their users or make it very confusing as to who exactly is sending correspondence and with email it's extremely easy to make it look like it came from the user when in fact they had no knowledge of this practice.

What are your thoughts on spammers spoofing you? Plenty phishing attempts happen this way, a spammer gets a hold of a mutual acquaintance's contact list, and sends email to one pretending to be another, without shades of grey you're saying that the spoofed individual should not be given some slack?
Same old self-help bullshit.
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Hey, HN,

I'm one of the owners of a small (3-person) LLC, which we formed last April using Legal Zoom. Everything was pretty easy and we're up and running, but I was wondering if there is a service that could advise us about matters related to the organization of the business.

Thanks.
If you want to quibble over the wording describing the exact combination of features the FSF is willing to allow some users the freedom to choose to have served by products with GPL-licensed software from anyone but the copyright owner, but where they would deny that freedom to other users, you are missing the point of the objection.
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I haven't consciously used G+ in a long time, yet people still occasionally get emails about me "adding them back". It's a very strange system and since I have no idea wtf it does or how it works, it can't really be said I'm doing that. I just read emails and use docs, and occasionally chat with a handful of people.
TBH, I stopped reading it because I really do not like the font used on the website.
I'm sure you could, but bear in mind that several OS X Server services are built on top of the system Apache and its configuration file structure, so you probably don't want to replace it with a package manager-built version if you rely on any of these services.

On the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard to build and install a version of the SSL module compatible with the system Apache linked against a newer OpenSSL version, however, and I wouldn't expect this to break Apple's services, at least not until you install an update that either breaks binary module compatability or clobbers your tweaked module configuration.

I don't use Homebrew, so I couldn't tell you if it's capable of building modules for the system Apache, but building the SSL module "by hand" for system Apache with Homebrew OpenSSL should be straightforward enough.
Yeah... Our brains are funny that way... :-P
In Denmark we also have a Pirate Party - which I might have voted on, if there were ANY change they would get enough votes to actually make a difference...

I'm 100% certain that the right name change could have multiplied their votes by magnitudes!
They have so many good points and so little credibility with such a name...
My supposed hack is using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.sweetlygeek... to calculate the best time to wake up.
>They didn't use force, as far as I am aware

Then you're not very aware.

During the Gilded Age there were hundreds of strikes a large minority of which ended with the murder of the organizers and arrest of the leadership, an incomplete list thanks to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strikes#1850.E2.80.9318...
This website is blocked in UAE, from where I'm at.
Thank you--those are three things I suppose I could get better at. :)
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This is like asking why a counterfeiter would undermine trust in the U.S. $100 dollar bill in order to get a big short-term gain.

I know there is a big spirit of brotherhood about doing what's best for BTC, but if your prototcol is to survive the real world, you have to anticipate people more interested in their short-term gains than global harmony. Particularly if the protocol will involve money. Particularly if the protocol is trying to be money.
A kid programming an iPhone app could be programming at a high level and doing neat stuff, but you clearly indicated that he is doing plain vanilla programming, so I'm going with the Algebra level. That's not to say your son isn't advanced (making any kind of working app is far above the level of most 11 y/os), just that the actual math probably isn't complicated, it's the concentration and attention to detail and creativity and being able to work with APIs that he's really getting ahead in. I'll concede the point that certain projects require math skills in certain areas, and CompSci PhDs need to understand some obscure parts of the math world (lvl 20 if Calculus rates a 10), but making an icon move around a screen is more like writing a recipe on how to bake a cake than it is mathematics.
Population bias? It sounds like you currently have a sizeable population of anonymous users that evidently have found value in the site because they keep coming back. They are easy to convert now, but may have written the site off had you shown them the overlay on their first visit. Once you exhaust that population, you may get fwer conversions than before and fewer people using the site. How are you distinguishing the anonymous users that leave in disgust and vow never to come back? Are you sure you want to alienate such users up-front? I strongly prefer StackExchange's approach to Quora's.
People do that today.

I know of a few companies which tried to pay for 24 hour support for prod servers, email for QA servers and no support for dev servers, and RedHat insisted on making them pay for anything running RedHat, all or nothing... Companies switched to CentOS and SL, and bought contract for one RedHat server.
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The obvious goal of this project is to be able to browse torrent sites even if your country blocks those... The "No more censorship" headline seems to give people the impression that this is some kind of privacy tool which (as stated in the FAQ) is not the intention.
Right. I figured the part where it represents something like a 1 in 8 million stake in the mined bitcoin answered most of the question.
I think it's a bit unfair to characterise SteamOS as a promotional campaign for Steam based on name alone. Would you say the same for iOS and the iP\w* device ecosystem?

It seems fairly clear to me that these boxes will stand or fall on their own merits.

[Edit: typo]
So in the UK you are not allowed to enter museums if you are homeless???
There's no intellectual dishonesty here, just a semantic mismatch. You're using the negative definition of freedom, which is the lack of explicit restrictions on behavior; the logic you expose only holds under that particular school of thought.

The GPL is instead defined on the tradition of positive liberty, which defines freedom as the number of options freely available to each person to choose. There's a very real risk of those being reduced by permissive licenses, as you can no longer ignore network effects, as negative freedom (being defined over individual atomic actions) does.

History shows us that if you allow open source code to be relicensed as proprietary, the competitive advantage of companies building and selling products with enhanced features tend to displace the original project, which gets abandoned. This happened to Unix, to Mac OS X, and is now happening to Android. If this continues for an extended time, the whole ecosystem evolves and the old software becomes unusable, greatly reducing the total options that users can effectively perform - not by an legal or coercive restriction, but because of pragmatic impossibility. There are permissive projects where this doesn't happen (at least for a while) because of the economic incentives of remaining close to the free+open project, but the risk is always there.

What good is the permission to run the original, abandoned version of a software project if all the available hardware has been locked and is uncapable of running it, and it's impossible to modify it to support the modern functions that are available in the proprietary platform and required for any productive usage? Those are very real threaths, and the GPL was designed to combat them (as a reaction to the first time they happened on a large scale). Avoiding this "reduced total available options" scenario is what GPL projects call freedom, not "reducing the number of restrictions" definition that you use. Not a problem of rhetoric, but of chosen vocabulary.
Most of the European developers that _I_ know are using apple hardware. Anecdotes are fun!
I agree with you.

The problem is that the order of events is sometimes:

Person a: "i swear in court under penalties that person B poses a risk of harm to me and I want the court to prevent access"

Judge "person b must not contact person a at all. This is a temporary order until we get a full hearing. Serve the papers so that person b knows about this because their not here for this meeting."

Person b: "my life sucks. I need some friends to support me. I'll join this social network", clicky clicky friend request sent to everyone in person b's list

Papers served

Person b: well, fair enough, i wont contact them.

Police: arrest.

Sadly this is yet another topic being distorted by deranged MRAs.
I use a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate for it's (Cherry MX Blue) mechanical switches; it's considered an "immature" choice among mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, so you may want to research further. It's a good keyboard + the usual http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard layout.

I used to have mild carpal tunnel (completely my fault; used to read a lot of articles on the cell phone while lying down in bed!), and the keys really helped me get rid of it.

As important as the keyboard is the software to re-map keys : I use Autohotkey and make some mappings that minimize removing my hands from the "home" position (index fingers on f and j).

Disabling CapsLock and instead defining several combinations involving CapsLock is the key tip I can contribute. For example, CapsLock + {hjkl} map to arrow keys, just like in vim.

In addition, several other combinations, such as WindowsKey + s to open several mintty terminals, all placed on the "correct" place on the screen helps startup + getting to work pleasurable.
I think that if it was your money paying for a lawyer you'd see the problem more readily.

The way you described the legal process is accurate: have a trial, having findings of fact. The thing people forget is that the process of being arrested, posting bail, paying for and going through the legal system, and putting one's life on hold for a period of time, is often more punishment than the fine or sentence under consideration.

This is why prosecutorial discretion and police discretion are important. When they are abused people suffer. And, sadly the accused have no voice at that stage of the process.
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Teach yourself more about the tools you use, like frameworks, servers, OSes, editors, etc.
The invention of a new currency is a highly political act; claiming it isn't is a political statement in itself. The discussion of any disruptive technology should quickly focus on politics and ethics, or risk being abused. You can't both claim to invent technology that seriously affects society, and at the same time dismiss talk of politics as irrelevant. A technology can either be irrelevant or be political (if you ever wish to understand technology, I suggest you read some of the many discussions of the politics of the washing machine; or the fork).

What I find most fascinating about some of the less ideological BTC discussions is the belief that a neutral technology (a cryptographic algorithm) can replace social contracts. I'm not claiming it necessarily can't, I'm just saying that this belief shows not only disdain for government, but an Aspergerish rejection of social structures. It's like saying, I don't want to put people in charge because I don't trust them, and I don't want even to talk to others in order to resolve disagreement; instead, I choose to take all decision-making agency out the hands of humans and place it in the hands of an algorithm that can provably never be swayed, because that is the only thing I can trust.

Regardless, there is nothing technical about a story of a small group attaining concentrated power over a decentralized currency.
That typeface. Looks a bit like Bank Gothic. Can an American explain the cultural connotations? As a European it has very particular associations. A cross between Real American Hero Military Men With Guns and a certain child-like toy-soldier naïvité (case in point, a computerised machine for killing animals). Not trying to be incendiary, it's quite difficult to define. But people seem unashamed to use it. Is it a cliché?
And that why so many businesses are outperform by new ones...

Because they couldn't delivers a newer product and features fast enough...

Because, to support the new "object" that drive money now they had to refactor an old library, created by a dev 5 years ago, and left untouched since.
No, not at all. Like the other article linked by nodata, companies are moving from China to Vietnam because its cheaper. Seems a little greedy.
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Thanks for the concrete counterexample. I still find it dubious that the owner of Bank A would be willing to destroy a stream of income as considerable as a 51% stake in BTC just to preempt a competitor in another market. That seems too self-sacrificial to be practical.

Also, you're missing the point that Bank B's successful adoption of BTC would also benefit Bank A's owner, since that adoption would be a boon for BTC, which Bank A owner has a very large stake in.
None of that matters if you are dead.

If someone is out to kill you, go hide with relatives, some ways not too close. Don't serve them with a restraining order.
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My doormat says "GO AWAY", the old school robots.txt.

Your analogy doesn't hold. There are few spiders trying every door and window of every house. The risk profile (attack surface area) is much smaller in the physical world.

If a service publishes a port, many someone's will probe it, legitimately or not.

Where your analogy does hold is courtesy. If one of my neighbors sees my door open, does a walk thru to check things out (I might be bleeding out in the basement), finds nothing, then I absolutely do want her/him to clue me in.

Ditto my website(s).
Is Macworld cloaking content with Google's OK?
I found this page via a Google search:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050222062346277

The content that appeared in Google's search results is cloaked, and there's a message that says I need to answer a survey question, or share the page on a social site, to view the content.

The "Answer a Question to continue reading this page" widget has a "Powered by Google" stamp on it.

Is Google allowing sites to have cloaked content if they use its widget?
Well, what do you mean by "teach yourself?" It's one thing to read up/use trivially vs becoming fully competent at speaking about it and using it. Or is it normal to be googling things every day until it sticks?
Docker lets you restrict memory and cpu consumption on a per-container basis. Configuration like endpoints are usually fed into the container via environment variables, not by changing stuff around in the Dockerfile. This way you can use the same container in multiple environments.
Seconded, I don't like Serif fonts for non-book reading.
And I'm sure if you asked editors at big publishing houses or english teachers, most would tell you to prefer "themselves." Themself is a new construction that hasn't caught on. Purveyors of "standard" English have to err on the side of conservatism.
You "by this logic..." is wrong because the post you are responding to doesn't make any argument about what is a piece of "free software", it discusses what the effects on software freedom are of the exercise of rights under particular free software licenses.

Freedom is the power to make choices rather than suffer external dictates. If a particular piece of free software exists, the existence of non-free derivatives doesn't reduce anyone's freedom, as they are free to choose the free software.
You say "a hub" but I wonder whether it would be many? How close would such an effect be to hubs we see in scale free networks? In those, preferential attachment seems to induce hubs. Airline hubs are a good example - there's more value in connecting to a well-connected hub.
> When someone has taken a restraining order out you've lost your rights to shades of grey.

Silly me. I thought proof beyond a reasonable doubt was still required. I would expect that it would only apply to knowing (or even deliberate) behavior.

Oh wait, due process was so 20th century....

You don't get to throw someone in jail for something that doesn't reach the "known or should have known" threshold in this case. Due notice and due process are still the law of the land.
I actually think these maps are pretty great for something that you asked people on a campus to sketch; they had no reason to do extraordinarily well, and many of them were probably rushing off somewhere.
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I wonder what happens when they run out of countries to move to.
> Similarly, if the woman receives a phone call with heavy breathing from the man's home phone number, it's certainly possible that he didn't do it: perhaps someone broke into his house and called her. He can certainly argue that in court.

And all he has to do to win is raise reasonable doubt. Get a friend to say "I did it as a prank, and he told me not to." No restraining order violated.
Hopefully they will bring plenty of Aussie staff with them.

Who then have children eligible to play for England in the Ashes. I think we have need of them.
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What if somebody incentives the pool operator with a rubber hose?
A counterfeiter sees far less benefit from the continuation of the USD than does someone who owns 51% of the BTC mining infrastructure.
That's trespsassing, isn't it?
Correct me if I'm wrong but this only solves the problem if the miners aren't purposefully coordinating the take over of the system. It is merely that a pool of otherwise benign miners can't be used by the pool operator to rewrite the transaction history.

This doesn't stop an organized attack of someone who has rented lets say half of amazon's cloud infrastructure for a 10 minute attack to take over the transaction history. Something that becomes more and more profitable with the reduction of bitcoin income from mining and increase of the total number and price of bitcoins.
He didn't mean as a promotional campaign, he meant to promote use of Steam, i.e. to get people to use it - which people who buy steam boxes will be doing.
There's the title link on the HN page, and when you (I) hover over that, all I see is the link, no human-relevant text. Firefox 26 and Chromium whatever on Wheezy 7.now.

The title of the article looks interesting, but there's nothing to tell me that the writer has any credibility, in the subject or in general. Also nothing to tell me whether the writer does not have credibility.

What I'm looking for is reputational clues. (medium.com) after the link is not enough for me, because there's nothing about medium that tells me anyone associated with them will be worth reading; membership is random with almost no gatekeeping (which is fine). (wired.com) or (schneier.com) is enough, the one because I know from history that they have content that I like, and schneier because it's schneier.

There's no such clue in an association with medium, and a randomly generated user name. Note that I'm also looking for future reputation: if I see a new source, will I remember it in the future?

There's just not enough to go on, for me. Whoever the writer is should at least think about making themselves more identifiable; the same for medium users in general.
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Beg to differ:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Mathematical-Universe-Ultimate-Rea...