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> Having confirmed that it was complete amateur hour over at MtGox, how can a critical thinking person make the huge leap that only bureaucratically controlled government currencies are viable.

Can’t speak for the author (who’s actively commenting here) but I believe the idea (common in Transaction Cost economy) is that whether Mt.Gox were amateur was hard to determine without knowing how to operate for yourself the kind of service that they provided; not necessarily at their scale, but well enough to go without them. This means that most folks who were interested in their service were presumably not able to sort them from the other: lots of assumption there, but imagine shill-ridden forums, cross-accusation of cluelessness, the FBI presumably involved, them being in Japan…

This is not a new problem, far from it: I would recommend Avner Greif’s ‘Magrihbi traders’ and the reappraising discussions by its author. A casual reader could leap the century of nepotism-based boating, and the local fairs in Europe to conclude that the invention of currency, concomitant with the Nation-State, were both a way to empower trade. A less casual reader (like me) would love to send Greif, (the now late) Coase & Oliver E. Williamson to Japan and on-line to investigate what went wrong.

Once you have a State, why an inflating bureaucracy is also a classic result of transaction cost theory and an issue in organisational incentive — but I don't think that part is mysterious to you.
Charlie, if you know everything better, why don't you just go out and do it?

Nobody is preventing you from coming up with awesome-inflationary-proof-of-stake-charlie-coin. NOBODY. The source to the variety of coins (there's more than a hundred) and the variety of non proof-of-work based ones, is all online, on github mostly.

You're just sitting on your blog bemoaning and insulting the community, and you do jack fucking squat.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Git push or shut up.

You don't want to do that? Well that's grand then, you're just sitting there on the sidelines with no investment either way and spouting your bullshit theories but no willingness to put your money where your big potty mouth is. that's rich Charlie, really grand.
That reminds me of the futurist joke: In the future a {plane|factory|boat} will have only a dog and a human in it. The human is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to make sure the human doesn't touch the controls.
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Would be interested to see a source for this figure. I might have thought the estimate to be somewhat higher.
Right after reading this thread, I fired up Software Update, and OSX Update 10.9.2 is available for me.

Links to here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6114 but nothing's on the page.

Edit: big update. 460M (I think), and took about 10 minutes on an Air.
This kind of reminds me of the Diablo 1 duping scheme, well at least my layman understanding of the duping flaw.
For the punctuation-based text color, it would be great if the software was able to keep track of, or at least attempt to keep track of, what character was speaking and assign a specific color to that characters' text.

For speed reading something like a novel, this would help the brain quickly associate a color with a character and avoid the need to catch the text that makes it clear who is speaking.
Quite. Both counts.
Obviously and SQL injection for SEO purposes.
I am quite sure the options the military is exploring and now using to keep that from happening to their drones would be applied here.

Ships could be instructed to accept orders under very strict rules, perhaps even ignoring orders while operating in certain regions. Given full ability to understand their surroundings they could avoid collisions with anything that would seriously damage their hulls and ignore most smaller vessels that are acting in obvious means to try an intercept them. Plus with no crew on board you do not need to provide easy access to anything, just seal it.

I am more interested in driver less big rigs and trains. I figure that planes and ships are more heavily protected by union organizations.
There's a Yakov Smirnoff joke in here somewhere. "In [Ukraine], government taps phones of companies. In America, companies tap phones for government!"

Unfortunately, these jokes were usually presented the other way around - with Soviet Union as the butt of jokes. Times change...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal
They have the email (confirmed email) in their DB. they can easily calculate the hash on the fly.
In my honest opinion, they should just re-apply afterwards. It's impossible for investors to see if those red flags will or will not disappear during development. They are quite explicit that the pitch is paramount and why it so.
Is this NFC for Apple?
To confirm, review the cached page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
I guess you could use a new email address that automatically forwards what it receives to multiple emails.
Not the chicken paper?

http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
I think what's interesting is that this code is open source, in code if not development model, but it failed the law that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Until there was an inkling of trouble, at least, and then it was quite shallow indeed. So I wonder if white hats will now look at opensource.apple.com more routinely, because I'm sure black hats are there already.
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>but like with the recent housing crisis it's important to distinguish between people who we wish had known better, and people who actually did have a moral or professional responsibility to know better.

The problem I have with this comparison is the mortgage defaults and the subprime mortgage crisis were largely caused by personal greed. People thought that they deserve a house (and an expensive/big one at that) no matter if they could afford it or not. There was very little if any personal responsibility or financial planning.
How is buying and holding for long durations any different from destroying coins, at least until those coins are sold?

EDIT: Btw, I don't think we're as far apart as it may seem. I co-created Freicoin afterall. But in this case I'm not sure there's a notable difference until the coins re-enter circulation.
> human behavior is irrational in predictable ways.

My favorite example of this is the ultimatum game [1]. The game has two players. The first player proposes a split of a "pot" of money. The second player can accept that split and take their share, or reject the split leaving both players with NOTHING.

The "rational" action for the first player to take is to suggest a split where he keeps the largest amount of the pot possible. The "rational" action for the second player is to then accept that split, because something is better than nothing.

As you can imagine, real-world runs of this game have proven that nobody acts "rationally" (splits of less than 20%, when proposed, are often rejected). Homo economicus [2] doesn't have emotions or empathy. It doesn't value extrinsic things like "justice" or "fairness". Homo sapiens does.

In other words, while people might act rationally, the economic definition of "rational" and the common definition of "rational" are often two entirely different things.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus
Huh? You can video chat with the extension. All versions of Hangouts are basically the same, your Grandma wouldn't be able to tell the difference nor would she care.
...and it's fixed. http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/25/osx-update-ssl-facetime-...
The article does not seem to touch upon the possibility that the crystal was of extra-terrestrial origin.
Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix
I am developing a programming language called Egont. It means "the negation of ego".
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Having had detached retinas that were caught early and tacked back in place by a laser I too have a heavy dose of floaters from blood leaking and clotting. It's more like drifting and jerking, variably transparent clouds than what people usually think of with point or wiggler floaters. What annoys me the most with this problem is their motion into and out of my foveal region in response to eyeball rotations and the resulting variation of tranparency. This especially bugs me while reading. Well, driving is worse but that's another topic.

What I immediately noticed with the Spritz demo was that since I wasn't moving my eyes there was no particular change in transparency in the foveal region once the little beasts settled into place. I found this a much improved situation which indicates that it is not the partial occlusion itself that bothers me but rather the constant changes in it due to moving my eyes about the page.

In brief, I like what this method does for my problem.
FireWire™ vs. i.LINK™ vs. IEEE-1394
Viruses don't exist out of the blue: they often use common and well-known envelope to carry genetic information. These are easy to isolate: that's the reason why they are classified and described as entemo-viruses, retro-viruses, etc. That's also why it took a while to find HIV.

The Wikepedia you link you probably want to look at is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction
(Source: MD girlfriend).
I just search a bit about Jack Hills. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hills The last modified was last December. The actual paper http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo20... was received last July but published on Fed 23, 2014. So it took a while to confirm and accept by the reviewers using the new technique.

And Jack Hills seems to have caught a lot of attention as early as 2006. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Zircon/ and in this article, 4.4B crystal was mentioned. So the actual paper we are reading today is really about using the new technique to confirm the age of the crystal.

"Among the first important discoveries, says Watson, came out in 2001."

Just think about an art from 10, 50, 100, 1000, 5000 and 10,000 years ago. Then think about this 4.4B years ago. It isn't mind-blown; it's scary to think about time. It takes millions of years for rocks to crush into each other and make a planet. What is it like to see things from 4.4B ago? Then think about the galaxy out there. People, the universe is an awesome and scary place.

Here is another article with an image explaining the idea of 4.4B with a personal phone interview from the primary investigator.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/gem-found-on-austr...
>I wonder when precisely they realized that >700,000btc were missing.

Once they stole the 700,001st bitcoin?
I just tried it on my Galaxy S4. It doesn't work if you mix SMS and a hangout. You have to do each individually.

Edit: By individually I mean grouped. SMS bulk deleting works, as does hangouts, but you cannot mix them.
Didn't he have a job, for many years, at Yahoo, before starting WhatsApp? Didn't his co-founder also exit Yahoo with what most Americans would consider a crapload of cash? (an amount one would think of when one thinks of winning a lottery)?

I appreciate that he started WhatsApp from scratch but this picture that is being painted of him as some sort of homeless street person is rather warped, don't you think?

As if a former Yahoo technical engineer with a similarly qualified best buddy who has a crapload of cash, both of whom live in Silicon Valley, and have (I assume) plenty of other buddies in the industry, is somehow "starting from scratch from nothing".

The vast, vast majority of Americans should be so lucky to have the "nothing" that they had. Not to mention the rest of the earth's population.

The real truth isn't so much a story of "the poor getting rich" but really, "the rich getting super rich".
It is terrifying, which is interesting to analyze. Why should it be? Must be something deeply ingrained in us humans.
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One could make the argument that amount of information to be exchanged in order to get a good assessment really is that small. If they mostly look at how you behave under pressure and whether or not you can still tell a consistent story (pitch your start-up), then you only need a couple of minutes. From what I've read, they judge team dynamic and character for the most part, only checking if you're able to think of a good idea because it would most likely change anyway.
This reminds me of Google's internet balloon project. The balloons navigate solely by changing their elevation and relying on the fact that the wind travels in different directions at different elevations.

http://www.google.com/loon/how/
It says "authorization required"
Not only in Berlin...
Been posted in various forms numerous times over the years.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=scale+of+the+u...

At least this is the more accurate version at the top end of the scale.
My first android game – WheelyRun
> The release notes, however, do not make mention of the SSL security bug that was squashed on iOS late last week.
Sean Parker’s AirTime relaunched as OkHello, and nobody noticed
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Freaked me out for a second because the backing image looked a lot like my living room :P
With email it all boils down to owning your email, on your own domain, with Gmail no less, speaking of which people had yahoo.com and hotmail.com accounts long before Gmail. And if you don't own the email address, it's painful to make a switch, though much less painful than switching from FB to something else.

There is a big difference between email and FB - people depend on email on a daily basis, especially for work. When 2 people exchange contacts, what do they exchange? Their phone and email of course. Do you give out your FB or Twitter handle to people?

Email is reliable, everybody has an email address and everybody with an email address can communicate with you. My father doesn't have the patience to be on FB, he can barely use a laptop or his phone, but he does use email.

My point is - these new platforms for communication will never replace email and I also believe that because of the lock in, FB and Twitter and G+ will never be so relied upon as to be irreplaceable. This lock in these bring is also their weakness.
That's about right. There are routes and packages fall within those routes numbered in order of the route they take. Routes between drivers are connected more or less. On the day of, the connection between routes can be shifted if volume dictates, so one driver gets packages originally destined for another driver's route.
Seriously. The regular and systematic murder and disposal of countless innocent intestinal flora, sometimes bordering on genocide, is considered healthy and even joke-worthy by some of us superorganisms.
I've had similar problems with just Google Voice -- it will actually drop texts very frequently. I have to ask if the other person received my message, and they often have to resend messages. It's soooooo infuriating. And they seem to have no priority in fixing it.
Uh. If I was in organized crime and I heard that Bitcoin was a great way to do money laundering, I'd make sure I knew about it. That's half the point of organizing crime to begin with.
Am I the only one who likes Google Hangouts? I especially think it's the best videoconferencing solution on the internet.
Experimenting with Postgres on heavy writes with reads
Nothings changed much today, other than the speed of the bits, we still wind up with great quantities of random crap among which is sprinkled a few specks of truth.
That was the best back-handed compliment I’ve heard since the last episode of Downtown Abbey. I'm sure csv hates you every tiny bit I love you right now. :)
At that time, I think the distinction is a little more fuzzy. The entire planet was of extraterrestrial origin.
This is not intended as a stand-alone language like Python but rather it's DSL dialect for integrating with Wolfram Alpha. You're basically using this dialect to get very specific results from the Wolfram Alpha service.
I LOST A BET- STREET DANCING
My brother was getting cocky playing basketball so I challenged him to a bet on a one on one game just to humiliate him after I beat him. But I lost. So I had to dance on a busy street corner for a half hour to whatever music he chose!
Looks like this should be updated - 10.9.2 was just released.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/25/osx-update-ssl-facetime-...
Maybe someone who has already installed this could check if the SSL bug is fixed? https://www.imperialviolet.org:1266
> For Koum, 38, the windfall would stand in stark contrast to his years as a teenager, when his family relied on food stamps after emigrating from Ukraine. The experience of living in a country where phone lines were often tapped, instilled the importance of privacy in him, said Jim Goetz, a partner with Sequoia Capital Ltd., WhatsApp’s lone venture capital investor.

He grew up on food stamps. Even if it is only during your formative years, it is most definitely a different perspective than never having to rely on food stamps in your life.
Oh, come now. Bits don't burn.

Though the idea of making a pile of hard drives and setting that on fire sort of intrigues me...
> opt-in read receipts

Has this changed? When iMessage came out, read receipts were opt-out.
Ask HN: Liquidity for (ex-)employees in later stage rounds?
Hey hackers, I'd like to ask the members of this community what the general practices are for companies to provide (ex-)employees liquidity in later stage rounds (series C and beyond).
Is it normal for there to be no liquidity until an IPO or acquisition? Do companies try to give (ex-)employees liquidity in the equity rounds? If so, do they generally coordinate with investors (who may want preferred, but could settle for common if the goal is not to dilute existing shareholders?) or use something like a secondmarket.com after the round closes?

I have no idea about how companies think about this stuff, what their incentives and disincentives are in doing so, and how they generally go about doing it. For those with experience, your insights would be valuable. Thanks!
>My hunch is that they use some internal server and don't want to expose it to the world. They could copy it somewhere, but if you're not going to take contributions then why bother?

Ah. They should want to expose it to the world and take contributions.
Well, now that you mention it, I think it is totally fair to take a critical view of the way we allocate the rewards for a successful enterprise. There's no natural law at play here. We live in a system that deliberately rewards founders and financiers over the other pieces of the puzzle.
I am extremely skeptical that their business wouldn't work without people breaking leases. And I am certain they know it.
Kimono! That's it. Thanks a lot.
The first two characters of the fixed prefix are "ÿL", most likely referencing YL Ventures [0], an investor in Upstream Commerce (a real-time intelligence startup).

[0] http://www.ylventures.com/
It sounds like someone soon will being reinventing OLE (Object linking and embedding)...which scares me a lot.

Maybe call it MOLE - mobile object linking and embedding?
In theory yes (especially since it's a framework, as it's dynamically linked against), but download [0] and see the README: you'll be missing some proprietary algorithms so some things depending on them are bound to fail.

[0]: http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/Security/Security-55471...
Fair enough. Unfortunately that's not an option for everyone.
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This could also provide more information about the oceans being totally automated. They would need to map the ocean (and problems) more closely to navigate.

I just hope they can still find and pickup Tom Hanks and Wilson.
You know, I know that PG has been beaten to death over the speaking English with an accent thing, which is unfortunate, because it got away from what he was trying to say. But this is an interesting point. Culture, language, and other similar factors that could lead to poor interview performance is something that I hope we can somehow figure a way around.

Now given that, let me say that I completely understand what PG was trying to say there, and I hope that I haven't hijacked the conversation.
Apple can't be trusted to do point releases for major security bugs in a timely fashion.

OSX development can only be done on OSX.

Because Apple security procedures are now known to be so horrible, the reasonable thing is to only use Apple hardware when you absolutely must -- iOS dev.

I say this as someone who currently has only Macs except for servers; I'll probably not buy another one, and switch back to Linux. I might Linuxify the Macs I currently have, except for when I need to do iOS stuff.
The window requirement for a bedroom mainly stems from fire code - it's a second exit.
Ex-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop taking over Xbox division at Microsoft
Ok, at the risk of sounding completely naive...

I've been following this story for a while, and it seems that no one can say for sure if this is embezzlement or gross incompetence. Based on leaked memos it seems to be most people are learning towards the latter, but I'm curious if there's any evidence either way.

Based on the claimed transparency of Bitcoin, I would have expected embezzlement on this scale to have been noticed earlier, or at the very least have people be able to follow the Bitcoin trail to determine what is actually happening.

Am I wrong or just missing something?
> Mozilla on how its Servo engine will throw away the 20th-century baggage that holds back current browsers and harness the power of modern multi-core smartphones and tablets.

Then I hope they don't intend on supporting any 32-bit platform. Make a clean start on 64-bit platforms. By the time Servo is out, there should be 64-bit ARM processors cheap enough even for their low-end phones, and on a desktop it should be a nobrainer.
AKSB = Akamai

http://aksb-a.akamaihd.net/146060/aksb-a/aksb.min.js
It depends. I worked in a small convenience store in the late 80s. The bread delivery (loaf bread, donuts, hostess twinkies, and so on) would directly fill the specialized display stands for these items. Part of the job was to remove items past the sell date. Ditto for items like nuts, ice, and such.

Other items were ordered from a wholesale distributer. Those were delivered by truck to the loading dock in cardboard boxes. We moved those into the store, unpacked the boxes, and filled the shelves.

Beer and such was put into the walk-in by the driver, and we stocked the coolers as needed.

It will be a long time before the local ice distributer goes automatic (for economic reasons it makes sense to make and distribute ice very locally). But wholesale distributers? I can see a truck with a lift gate and some kind of robot to automatically unload the truck. We always had to be there to receive anyway, except it was a human with a dolly moving the boxes into the bay.