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>If things do work out(and I hope they do), hence forth you shall always keep the vast majority of your coins in an offline wallet. :)

Or, as any financial adviser worth talking to will tell you, don't keep all your eggs in one basket. Diversify[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTsNEUZx8v8
Great link!

One thing that always bothered me about The Federation was how they treated certain worlds and members.

Recall the TNG episode Journey's End where the Enterprise is sent to remove what amounted to some 'Space Native Americans' from a planet the Federation had given to Cardassians in a treaty. The inhabitants in question were members of the Federation (with all the rights that was supposed to confer) but they were (going to be) forced off the planet. The only way they could stay on their planet was to give in to the treaty and make themselves inhabitants of what was then a Cardassian planet (and arguably Cardassian property).

Then there is the TNG movie Insurrection. Where a group of settlers who are not Federation citizens were going to be transported off of their planet against their will. But Picard decides that they deserve to stay on the planet so the Enterprise destroys the Federation/alien ships that were sent to do the relocation (among other things and aliens).

So why is it the Federation wont fight for actual Federation members, but they will fight for some random civilization because of 'reasons'?

Ok I'm done with my Star Trek rant and feel like a terrible nerd now. Thank you for letting me vent and for the link. Nerd gland expressed.

Edit: For a laugh Google the Red Letter Media Harry Plinket review of Insurrection which goes deeper into this.
It is obviously a case of untrained, newbie customer rep who would've thought 'Getting access" meant requesting Username and Password.
Will Servo take advantage of GPU compute, too?
Happy Valentine's Day, via Node.js
I still cut my hair with a Flowbee! First thing I thought of after reading this section.
Nope. In kaz, the police are corrupt, and will shake you down for a bribe, but arresting people is way too much effort. I'm far more scared of US law enforcement than I am Kazakh.
Yep, not on Spotify either. Want some De La Soul on my playlists.
In-App Purchase aka "the thing that ruined the gaming industry".
please correct me if i m wrong, but is the only way to work around this is to unpack the extension and use the developer mode?

Or did i just miss something easy - like turning a flag on somewhere? There are a few critical extensions, like youtube center (and a couple i've written myself) that aren't on the store.
Foolishness. People will give you all kinds of excuses as to why they'd do something as stupid as that, but the reality is that there's no reason to keep massive amounts of BTC in an online wallet. The only reason that comes close to being realistic is trading and even then you'd only need to keep the amount you trade.
I'm not well versed in Star Trek, but it seems to me there is at least one limited resource: jobs as captains of star ship Enterprise, for instance.

Another resource that will probably always be limited: attractive mates. I think that is a good example to think about when you think about Utopia. Of course plastic surgery will be free, too, as well as psychotherapy, so perhaps we all can be perfect mates, too.
Reminds me of an old quote by George E. P. Box - "All models are wrong, but some are useful"
What is the point of anything? What is the point of life. There is no point, the point is that people have fun working on things they tickle their intellect. People are motivated by things that are hard, beautiful. People are motivated by things that haven't been done before. People are not motivated by the usefulness of a thing.

Plan 9 is a research operating system, it's a platform to do fundamental operating system research. It is not a product, and its development is not shaped by commercial interest.

That being said, Coraid hardware runs Plan 9, it's embedded, you don't see it. They also make all their development on Plan 9.
Give HN: There Are No Rules (book on entrepreneurship)
> Getting their music out there increases their visibility

If everyone did it though, they'd be back where they started in terms of visibility, and short the money they were earning through album sales.
Innovation is to make something better than the current state... Anybody who does that, are more creative and daring than most!

If you actually help people and make them happy - then you've got a something to proud of, in my opinion! :)
why not use liquid?: https://github.com/tonyheupel/liquid.js
Generally speaking in floating points you have 'finite' accuracy. The best way to think of floating points (for mortals), is to picture a 16 significant digit number. You can only have 16 non-zero digits. Then a power that ranges from 1020 to -1020.

Which means that when you have a value over ~1.6x10^16 you no longer have values below the decimal point, and each 'step' you take will be larger then an entire 2pi step of the trig cycle.

Its nice to think of floating points have infinite accuracy, and often times nobody really thinks about what goes on inside of floating point numbers, but in reality its a mess, a pure mess.
Trackpads on non-MacBooks generally suck, I've never used one that is really usable. On the other hand, even a MacBook running windows via bootcamp has a nice trackpad experience, so it must be more than just the driver's fault.
I consider this post part of a nascent trend to de-bullshit the startup and technology scene. For years the narrative has been "we in the tech industry are standard bearers leading society into a bright new tomorrow." The recent protests around the Google buses, as well as John Oliver's takedown [1] of the tech industry seem to be striking a chord with the public, and there's a lesson to be drawn: we tech folks are not as important as we think we are.

A business is just that: a business. Not a humanitarian aid mission dispatched from your benevolent head into a world made unbearable by its lack of smartphone apps and productivity software. It's an organization that is focused on delivering a product that people will pay for. I'm thrilled for the author that he found something he can profitably produce, and I commend him on his exit from the messiah complex echo chamber that's plaguing our industry.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/11/john-oliver-kills-at-crunch...
You're an awesome person. Thank you for your concern.

The last thread helped me come to peace with the situation. Thanks to the community's commentary, the obvious was made clear: There's no scenario in which it's ever helpful to become emotional about bad luck. It's over and done with, and there's nothing that can change it. Getting upset will only make life worse. Instead, why not choose to be content with all that hasn't been lost?

It took awhile for me to let go of what-if's and past mistakes. But what ultimately changed my perspective was reflecting that I live in a life of luxury and comfort compared to most people on the planet. That's when I realized that most of my feelings until now have been rooted in selfishness. What percentage of people have had the opportunity to even make any investments whatsoever? It was silly not to have realized how lucky I've been.

It took some soul searching, but...

If Gox turns out to close, I will lose some coins. Oh well. It's just some money, and at least I'll have served as an example of what not to do.
As someone who has worked in the mobile pc support industry, what HN users would call "common sense" isn't really that common. I don't think developers and power users truly understand how common the huge gap is between them and non-technical users. I've given sessions on things as simple as mouse movement and basic GUI file management with drag and drop is a challenge.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely do not support "walled gardens" that are now becoming common and I don't think they are the solution to this problem. Power should always be left in the hands of the user, the solution is education. This is of course a social issue and one of gigantic scale. There are so many strong political hurdles to overcome that I'm not surprised that the industry has taken the approach it currently has.
The conversation between the OCaml creators and the community is a lot more focussed. Back in 2005 when we were developing the Xen toolstack using OCaml [1], I subscribed Xensource to the Caml Consortium [2]. This let us meet with the main team once a year, and air our concerns in a structured way. This is so much easier to handle than a firehose of e-mails. Nowadays I still attend the annual Consortium meeting, but more in a capacity of reporting on our activities at OCaml Labs and there are still a healthy set of industrial users who like this mode of interaction.

[1] http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-icfp-xen.pdf
[2] http://caml.inria.fr/consortium/
I didn't know you could host a static website on DropBox.

Anyone knows how much traffic can handle such a site?
I loaded up De La Soul's artist page on Spotify. The only stuff that's on there is where it's on a compilation or soundtrack album.

There is a nice link to buy tickets to their concert at Shephard's Bush Empire in London in May. Now very tempted.
Not sure if everyone is reading the entire article. Here are two relevant points.

> we’re enforcing the following changes starting in Chrome 33 Beta and stable channels for Windows

> Users can only install extensions hosted in the Chrome Web store, except for installs via enterprise policy or developer mode

This only affects Windows. Users who want to install extensions can still do so but the process has been made a little bit more explicit (i.e. do it via developer mode).

It sounds like this step was done to protect naive users who are not aware they are downloading malicious extensions.

Please point out if I am wrong in my assumptions.
You might be right, I might be wrong. We'll never know. I tried to find good numbers, but estimates seem to be made up; e.g. between 1 and 10 billion ARM CPUs each year. I couldn't find good data.

Either way, even if MIPS doesn't dominate anymore, it's still a huge market (probably more chips than x86), and will continue to be in the future (even though it might be shrinking).
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If there is some day in the future where wars/battles are fought because the people involved were doing what they love which is LARPing... I'd be a very happy and amused person.

That is a beautiful, beautiful thought and plot device for a Sci-Fi book. Thank you for placing that into my mind.
You're dead wrong. U.S. TV ad revenue is shrinking fast > 3% year on year and totals only $67 Billion USD for the entire industry. Also, you're looking at the wrong attribute as a proxy for relevance. The quality of the eyeballs (monetization worth, net worth) and sustained interest are far better on the web and in mobile games. Only a few rare people that don't have computers or smartphones are UHWNIs. So I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader to figure out what kind of customers watch TV.
We're doing a similar game teaching times table:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netforza.t...
This is my latest collection of notes from the talks of Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Truly inspirational stuff. I highly recommend listening to them (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html).

You can also download it free from LeanPub at: https://leanpub.com/there_are_no_rules

I'm also donating 100% of any royalties from LeanPub to the EFF which you can see on that page. Let's give them a good Valentine's Day.
If you understood how customer service business runs, you'd know that this is most definitely a systematic failure. I'm shocked how many people on HN seem to think that customer service reps act on their own volition.

There is no uniform customer service business or uniform training. Having worked in companies with support departments, there is a wide variance. Some are tightly scripted, others are given almost free reign and simply told to resolve issues quickly. edit: of course, password through email is big no-no.
As far as I can tell, Obama has been basically ignoring the economy as much as he can get away with. Especially the parts of it he directly controls, like who's on the Fed's Board of Governors (where it took him a year to get around to even nominating anyone for the two positions that were empty at the start of his first term). As a result, during the most critical part of the recession the FOMC was made up of 5 regional bank presidents and 5 appointed governors, instead of the 7 appointed governors it should have had, and therefore Fed policy was much more strongly biased towards the bank presidents than it should have been.

The rest of your analysis is about right, though.

> No other party matters

And both of the incumbent parties write legislation to make sure it stays that way...
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Is your attitude toward bragging about income culturally typical for Dutch people?
Don't take my comment out of context: the video refers to the context of an interrogation, questioning, stop by the police. Not a riot. The policeman follows the presentation by the lawyer regarding the 5th amendment, where it applies, and how it used, where do Miranda warning apply, etc., in line with HN link conversation. This is not a topic of riots - which is quite a different story to the OP.
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Works with Firefox. Not sure why Chrome doesn't resize the video.
Mysterious Energy Ribbon at Solar System's Edge a 'Cosmic Roadmap'
If it helps anything, I came to the same conclusion and didn't realize the author was a female until your post brought it to focus.
I too live in airstrip one, the most heavily surveilled non-constitutional democracy on the planet! Great, innit?! Remember to hate the bulgmanians. We have always hated the bulgmanians.
I totally agree with you.

but....

If we are ever going to see great alternatives to lawns develop, I wouldn't be surprised if it is going to be in part done by good-quality landscaping firms. Team up with a permaculturist and start making a bigger difference.
I of course meant in the social context - if I didn't think software was interesting I wouldn't be involved with it. But I have to say that this is an article about the social effect of explaining what you do to people - so many times, young developers come to the scene wanting to be rock stars, whereas that's just simply not going to happen in software. If you want to be a rock star, learn to play the guitar and rock ass.. but if you want people to understand why your job as a developer is so cool, you have to be prepared to explain it to them. If a person doesn't have the humility to describe your task in a way that people will understand - they've got a ways to go as a developer.

Saying "I make a logistics/analysis/solver system for mowing lawn - i.e. I'm a gardener" is not so easy when all you want is praise for doing something cool .. right .. coz mowing lawns isn't cool. Well it sure is, if you're using software to do it ... better.
Cities are generally expensive because they are desirable places to live; that there are jobs available is only part of that.
Well, as far as kernel is concerned strings aren't a problem.
Outside VFS they don't exist. Inside VFS everything is chopped into usually short pathname components which are hashed for dcache consumption. On x86_64 hashing is not byte-by-byte anymore.

Fixing pathetic macro system and type system (if that qualifies at all) would get rid of many many bugs.
that's not really what he's saying. he's saying that adding structure for speed also tends to add structure for breaking.

practical, modern crypto (in my limited understanding) seems to be increasingly about choosing the right "place" to do your maths - somewhere that's got just enough structure to do the encryption, without enough for the known attacks to be implemented.

but that has two issues. one, people push the boundary for speed. two, because you're close to the edge you are arguably more vulnerable to new (incremental) advances.

it makes you wonder whether all this new-fangled crypto based on clever maths is such a good idea. maybe the old school block ciphers that simply throw enough non-commuting, non-linear operations at the problem to make it "too hard" are smarter than they look. but of course, they tend to be symmetric only (and i am not sure the distinction above is real; you can try to formalise why old block cipher systems are hard, and if you do so you come up with things like aes, and then again you open the door to worrying about algebraic attacks...)
I believe this is essentially the perfect bug report and resolution. If only every reported issue was like this.
There is probably a good technical reason as to why there is a 3 ton limit, i.e. the road (or bridge this road crosses) can't support >3 tons and will probably collapse under the weight of a heavier vehicle. There are also good safety reasons such as not wanting 25ton 18 wheelers using the road past your local primary school as a rat run. That's where your analogy fails.
> I will ask members of the Ubuntu community to help to implement this decision efficiently, bringing systemd into both Debian and Ubuntu safely and expeditiously.

Well, this was a pleasant surprise.

I honestly thought that Ubuntu would continue to use Upstart regardless of what Debian decided. It'd have been a monumental amount of work to take on, but on the other hand, there's already been a lot of NIH-syndrome in Ubuntu-land for a while (Upstart, Mir, Unity, etc.)

Ubuntu's been slowly moving in the direction of becoming a "silo", spearate from other Linux distributions for a while now (a direction I dislike). If Ubuntu had decided to double-down on Upstart against the tide, that would have been the final nail in the coffin for them (in my books - they'd still find success for at least a while no matter what they did).

EDIT: Upstart may actually not be a great example of NIH, but Mir certainly is.
* Day-trading

So on a site like btc-e.com, if you're buying & selling on little peaks & valleys you can make significant income. If you buy 400 litecoin for 14 then the price goes up 3 bucks after 5 hours, you've just made over $1,000. You can't make these plays with an offline wallet. I day trade on btc-e.com but always move my coins to an offline wallet when they grow to an uncomfortable amount. Because of my fear of hacks though, I'm only making $30 or $40 bucks. I could dump 7 or 8k into the system and daytrade making over $1,000 a day... but then I'd be taking up the risk that a hack empties my account. Some people take that risk. I'm willing to risk up to 7k on crypto, but I don't want to risk losing it to a random online-wallet hack. However, if I unexpectedly got 5k out of thin air(say H&R Block found some tax deductions never noticed before) I'd day-trade that and risk losing it to hack.

Another problem is that if you make profit on btc-e.com, you now have a bunch of USD sitting there[1] that you cannot transfer out. You don't want to withdraw that USD to your bank account because that's a slow process that takes more than 24 hrs. You're out of the game until all that bank stuff settles. I bought a bunch of litecoins on xmas-eve 2013, then on xmas-day the price suddenly doubled. I had to move my coins out of my offline wallet back to btc-e and sell. I made money, but now I had USD in btc-e that I can't get out. Afterall, I don't want to buy the coins I just sold for profit. I have to wait until the price drops. Now, if btc-e got hacked. The hackers would just buy whatever they could with my funds and withdraw the coins. I've lost.

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1. Unlike coinbase.com, btc-e.com allows you to have a fiat balance. I guess think of etrade.com, where you can transfer money out of your bank to etrade. Once those funds are confirmed, you can buy stock instantly because etrade already has your money and doesn't need to talk to your bank again.
Bringing up Section 31 is a good pull!

There are many enemies in the universe so Star Fleet is important. To name a few there are The Borg, The Makers, The Cardassians, The Romulans, And even the Klingons who are federation members.

War-like cultures would still exist even if the Federation believes they themselves have moved beyond that type of thing.
Male, female or 48 other varieties? Now Facebook offers users FIFTY different...
Works for me, both via right-click menu and expand icon in bottom right corner. (Firefox on Ubuntu).
Yeah, getting users is much more important. Fortunately, that part has already had two and half years development and a successful (especially, given the quality—it made Friendster feel fast) app, so that part of the business was well taken care of.

That's actually my favorite part about this particular company. Normally, it's a bunch of tech and business guys trying to "get traction". This business already had traction, and just needed a better app and infrastructure.

So I took four months and solved that problem for good. :)
> or are the phone companies just trying to milk us?

This one. I used to have a mobile phone plan with Skype rates for international calls. Then it was discontinued.
There was a Star Trek episode where Picard sees an alternate future where he ended up with low rank. He was desperate to get back to the interesting higher-rank jobs
The primary reason you don't find social media sharing buttons on Wikipedia is they violate the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy by loading you up with third-party tracking cookies.

The second reason is they are ugly as sin and most of the community hate them.

A distant third reason is you then have an argument about neutrality and inclusion - which sites do we include and why. Which is an argument nobody seems keen on having given reasons (1) and (2).
I actually encountered this with my registrar Enom. I reached out to them on Twitter with no response, but, in their FAQ section, sure enough the instructions were to email your domain name and password.

Needless to say, I changed that password and jumped ship. If any service requires your password as verification, it's definitely a good idea to look into other services.
Yes, Plan 9 is mouse-centric (not only acme and sam, but rio too). Give it a chance though, mouse chording and plumbing on B3 is a very powerful thing. To make an analogy, using a mouse in Unix is like having a fist, using a mouse in Plan 9 is like having fingers.

" and "" are two small scripts that allow running and searching through previous commands. Here is the manual: http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/wintext.html
In about 1.5 months I would love to show HN some actual innovation to the fashion space.

I'm getting things buttoned up (pun intended) on a startup we're developing in NYC working a full range of bleeding API's and we've done some heavy surgery on the Youtube API in order to add some pretty cool new UI features. Simply put, we are focused on content creation and curation in a simple, tumblr-esque way.

As we sit now in a closed 'alpha' stage we have a slick new html5 WYSIWG and hopefully we'll be launching with an interesting feature thats inspired by some older, commonly used html tricks using "hotspots" or "Image Mapping". Essentially we wrap up that under-used html trick and make it easy for the user to do on their own, in their browser or device. And without spoiling the fun of the surprise, we'll be using that feature to monetize content for our content creators (and we've also implemented it directly on videos).
http://flink.io/

iOS only? Not even a website equivelant? I for the life of me cannot understand this strategy. How do you tell your friends to use it? They all have to own iPhones? You don't want your service to be browseable at work or at home on your laptop? I just don't get it.
10Gen is based in NYC, so yeah they get around.
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