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Hey jyu,

Benentt (Buttercoin's CTO / co-founder) has been talking to our approach and plan wrt the open source trade execution engine on reddit, I'll add his latest thread below as it does a nice job of adding context to the conversation.

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By Rev. C. Bennett Hoffman Buttercoin CTO
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The project started off as a bit of announce-first development in response to the MtGox issues during the run-up in price last April. We had a lot of really enthusiastic people all trying to figure out what it was we were actually trying to do. Many people wanted to build a completely distributed exchange, others wanted to go other directions. That's the beauty of open projects, even if it can be a bit overwhelming.

Cedric and I already had an interview with Y Combinator scheduled to pitch a different bitcoin idea. A few of us decided to focus on building something we could use to launch a real platform and pitch that instead. We started from scratch and kept it closed to focus on that, always with the intention of opening it back up once it was at least somewhat usable.

It's taken way to long to get there. Why are we waiting for launch? Mostly because we're too busy. There's still a good amount of code specific to our deployment mixed into the stuff that's actually usable by anyone else. I'm embarrassed to admit we even have a couple of test passwords and API keys floating around in the repos.
In short, we're humans of limited capacity. If I were to do it again, I'd go about things differently, but if we can put up a technically solid trading platform that helps make bitcoin (and other digital currencies) more widely adopted, then I'll have no regrets.
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Hope this helps add context to where we are and why. If you have more questions, please ask, we'll do our best to answer quickly.
>(see the many court cases in which courts end up ruling that companies are not allowed to engage in purely philanthropic duties when there is a rigid fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits; see eBay vs. Craigslist).

I saw both the Delaware version and the California version of eBay vs. Craigslist. Neither had anything to do with philanthropy. They involved a poison pill strategy. At the risk of standing in the way of a good rant, I think you'll need a better example.
That's not what parent is saying. Parent is claiming that the only thing preventing us from welcoming our new XAML overlord is that it's made by Microsoft and not an "open source" project made by "some hippie group of developers". That's hogwash.
Hi danbruc, yes, that's correct, we've rebuilt the engine using Scala.
It might be "hardly reasonable" to you, but most people _are_ completely ignorant about the state of electronic gaming. The article itself clearly says that complains about this have became common enough that EC needs to take action. So it happens and is common. That is a fact, not an assumption. The only question is whether to allow it, or try to find a solution.

Personally I would like games with in app purchases to be in the "paid" category with a price "0" (or "0+"). Maybe even include how much the average player pays for it. I don't much care whether this is achieved through regulations, or done by companies themselves.
Are We Ready for Home College?
They're missing the possibility that the drive might decide to simulate being an USB hub at some point. It can then be both a USB storage drive and a simulated keyboard, and use the second to install something from the first.
You are the one here acting like a troll. You come off as argumentative to the point of combative. You nitpick and swear, all in a highly unpleasant tone. If you really are done, great, the discussion will be better off.
> do not quit out of professional principle without a backup plan.

Quite!

It's an interesting thing to read through after reading the other HN article "We have luxurious jobs but we are not ware of it" [0].

> Thanks for reaffirming my commitment to not read up about an author/user/submitter other than in regards to the opinion/assertion made at hand...

Oh dear, down the rabbit hole I go...

As far as I can tell, it seems to be about IT not supporting MongoDB and him not wanting to use *SQL.

> I will key=value a BLOB in your row. Good luck reporting that. I am NOT dealing with tables. It's 20 the fuck 14.

Hmm.

[0] http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/27/we-have-luxurious-jobs...
Games with ads are free but designed for profit. Is that misleading too?
I wonder what sort of armored car it was. An APC, some kind of secure transport...?
Not sure what you're trying to say, do you believe collected data is currently shunted to a bin while the next sequencing run is started or something?
I can't see this as a good idea. The vehicle will have a longer lifespan than iOS support resulting in an obsolete unsupported bit of car.
I know Apple does that, the Play store also indicates that an app has in-app purchases. But why not say it clearly in the 'purchasing button'?
I'm not talking about checking every screw of the truck. I'm saying that an unmaintained truck with lots of valuables in it is suspicious, and you should tust it for what it is.

I'll get negative poins again just because people don't like to be told what they should have known:

Bitcoins smell like a Ponzi scheme and, until they have proven themselves opposite, you should remain very wary of the money you put in. Do you invest in penny stocks? Nope. Why? Because they smell bad, even if their promoters make it look like they've quadrupled their value in just 4 months!

An online safe with millions of valuables? Shouldn't you wait for the proof it's good? Or do you assume it's a good safe as is? Is it really wise to assume something is safe? Oh I see negative HN points will rain on me. Not wise from me to put people in front of their responsibilities.

I'm sorry for people who lost money. Some of them will have a hard life. Losing money is never a good experience, I myself lost a quarter of my savings when the Australian dollar dropped. But do I blame the Australian gov? The EU gov? The regulators? Nope. It's my job to know when the AUD drops. Even if i can't inspect all parts of the economy. As a revenge, give me negative points.
While I agree with your general point of making car security openly auditable, I think the best short-term approach to fix this is via insurance companies. They have a direct financial loss from badly designed car locks, and probably sufficient power to issue direct pressure to the car makers as well as indirect pressure to car owners through astronomical insurance rates.
And my parents were tired of me asking for sugary cereals. And yet both they and I survived, and I probably got to eat that cereal three total times in my childhood. Not getting things is an important lesson, especially in a world that will only increase the pressure to buy things in the future (legislation won't stop his peers from telling him to buy cool shoes). And if you disagree with that statement (perfectly reasonable to do so), then it's still not really someone else's responsibility to hide him from it, you should feel free to do so.
I also heard good things about console:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
Ask HN: What is the best book that you've ever read on Product Design and UX?
I would rate 'The Simplicity' by John Maeda (though not essentially for web) followed by Mike Monteiro's 'Design is a Job' of those I've read.

Would love to hear from the community on the best Web Product Design and UX books that emphasize on minimalism.

Thanks.
And do note that in this particular case, when the shareholders voted on their demands, the NCPPR position got less than 3% of the votes - so in reality it's not like the majority wants short-term profits above everything else.
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
Sure you avoid the games, but they're clearly making tons of money. People find things that "work" -- they earn tons of money. They repeat. Other people see that it works. They copy. Suddenly the world is full of games that have artificial limitations that can be passed by waiting N hours or by paying $N.

I say we boycott applications that do this. But if it's easier to legislate, then by all means.
The entire idea of "subreddits" is community-specific curation.

There are a number of significant issues with that. Straight off the top, a few that I can think of:

• /r/news is a default subreddit. It carries rather more weight and significance on reddit than, say, /r/swoleacceptance or /r/dredmorbius. It really ought to reflect a fair assessment of what is or isn't news.

• Subreddit squatting has been known to happen, often by those with a specific axe to grind. In the worst cases, this leads to a very profound drift of a sub from what its initial charter was. /r/srs is probably one of the more significant examples (it went from a general critique sub to a pretty radical political viewpoint). Another case which came up recently is /r/xkcd, yes, the subreddit devoted to the xkcd comic. After its initial moderator went AWOL, it was picked up by a neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denying mod, who installed a number of similarly-minded sub-mods. Randall Munroe even chimed in to voice his disappointment. An alternative sub has formed, /r/xkcdcomic. Story: http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1xdwba/the_history_of_...

• There's no real mechanism to keep subreddit drift from happening. This, given the issues above, seems like it could be a long-term problem for reddit.

• In the absence of "acceptable" mainstream news coverage of the latest from The Intercept, it seems that /r/news really should have accepted the article. As Greenwald has noted, the MSM and government are clearly biased in their own coverage of this story.
I believe that it's not so much that it specifically gets hard after you've paid (although that's a neat dark pattern that I wouldn't put past some of the current crop of App game developers frankly!) but rather that after a certain point it simply gets too hard to progress without paying. So the developers draw you in with what appears to be a skill game that you can enjoy playing, and then after they've got you committed they gradually turn it into a money game by making it progressively more and more unfair.

I can't remember where the article is that I read about all this though.
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There should be 3 classifications of apps. Free, Paid, IAP. I absolutely agree that IAP apps should not be able to be marketed as 'Free'. It's quite disingenuous to do so.

It's like a store saying everyone can have a free t-shirt. But then requiring that you buy $10 of stuff from the store first. You would still call that shirt free?
Oh it is. You'll start having constant neck and back pains. Maybe a nicer chair would help. The worst thing is falling asleep in the office with those damn fluorescent lights on. I'm glad I stopped doing that.
Don't forget the newton!
Similar questions were raised when discussing InstallMonetizer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711), a company that makes drive-by installers

> I think people will be wondering if this resembles the founders' ideas when they were funded by [PG], and if this represents the kind of company you wish to be funding.
Apple will soon charge for out-of-warranty chat support
That is not misleading because the player does not need to spend money.

Which is the definition of 'free' that is used.
They missed out ls and cd.
Traditionally, this is not the case with money. The money asset is different from all other assets in this respect. This matter was settled in Scotland over 300 years ago. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2260952

The result is that even if you can prove that someone else holds a dollar bill that was stolen from you at some point, you do not necessarily have the right to get it back.

See also the Wikipedia article on the principle of "Nemo dat quod non habet" ("no one gives what he doesn't have"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_dat_quod_non_habet
Writers write, and innovators innovate
For me this article highlights the tension between long term value creation and the short term quarterly profit perspective of Wall Street.

I think the creation of value comes before Return on Investment (RoI). Creating value is much harder than showing a RoI because value is somewhat intangible and is seen through people's personal values/beliefs. Also it may take time before the value you have created makes its way to the bottom line.

Arguably Apple's brand, and how stakeholders feel about it, increases Apple's ROI for its shareholders.

Do Apple's customers care about environmental issues? I'm sure they do. If Apple ignores this it will eventually hurt Apple's bottom line. Do Apple's employees care about worker safety? Again, I'm pretty sure they do and I'm pretty sure that if Apple's management doesn't pay attention it will eventually hurt the bottom line.

Personally I like the idea of a 'Triple Bottom Line'[1] which acknowledges that businesses can create negative value to parts of society when maximizing profit (negative externalities if you are an Economist).

It sounds to me like Tim Cook internalizes this world view and uses it to steer Apple's corporate decision making. I applaud this and hope that this inspires other big corporations but also the future entrepreneurs on Hacker News.

[1][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line]
I think it is a good step forward, while iOS might not be the greatest OS, I think it is pretty good and stable.

Having Apple screens/iOS inside the car is definitely better than those existing screens that look really primitive.
> only the JavaScript one is also deliberately sabotaged in order to really stand out as an abomination.

I hope this is the case, otherwise someone somewhere thought this was the best JS code to solve the problem:

for (i = _i = _ref = this.length - 1; _ref <= 1 ? _i <= 1 : _i >= 1; i = _ref <= 1 ? ++_i : --_i) {
While it's not exactly a "bug", this hack has always been a favorite of mine:

http://eclipsed.net/~gr/April1.txt

It is the wonderful tale of printing a "document" to all the printers on campus, that rewrites /show (and leaves it rewritten in the dictionary), so various fun words (such as: Congress, war, chemical, pants, graduate) end up black-box-redacted.
Looks like buttercoin is going to use MongoDB 0_o

https://github.com/buttercoin/ReactiveMongo
Building an International Team in Japan
I'm not the first or last person to say this, but the solution to "some people behave in way X, while other people behave in way Y" is generally not "we need legislation compelling everyone to behave the same way".
Hi tinbad, thanks for signing up for early access. We appreciate that your friend and girlfriend also joined. Let us know if you have ideas for how we might verify our numbers as being authentic while also protecting user privacy / security, we'll be happy to oblige.
Hopefully Dean will fill you in. I have still not received a cent from Dean. :(
The player does not need to spend money for the majority of freemium games either.
Lignite, most likely.
A one man team is very different from a 20-man team (which I still think counts as small).

Hey, I like git too. Respecting the needs of others not to spend mental load on learning something they don't want to is often important too.

Is it really worth it to spend time re-training the 15/20 engineers that don't already know git? I don't think so.
Thanks jermaink, having the ticker in the browser tab came from user testing. Please let us know if you have additional ideas on how we can make things more convenient / nicer.
Drugs dealers do work mostly with cash, but it has significant downsides - actually meeting your dealer/customers is much more dangerous and much more likely to get you caught than Silk Road ever was. Also, note that people are using less and less cash. At least where I live, this is significantly because of the untraceability of cash: shops reduce the risk of robberies by taking payments in electronic forms as much as possible, so they offer discounts and convenience - and customers respond.
I'm not the world's foremost Lisp advocate, but you're absolutely right. It's even better than HTML in the sense that you don't have the "sometimes close the tag, sometimes not close the tag" inconsistency issue.
I actually think if Apple were to rearrange the App Store so that we had 'free', 'paid', and 'free with IAP' categories it might make discovery a lot better too. The 'top grossing' chart if currently pretty much an 'IAP' chart so just remove IAP apps from the free chart and replace 'top grossing' with top grossing IAP apps.
Exactly =)
Except I have lots of friends who played to the last level of Candy Crush without buying any IAP. The game is not impossible to beat without IAP.
Could these be the coins? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z8bqb/jed_mccaleb_...
It's a daily backup, so no it doesn't keep versions. Nice try crashplan employee...
One of the reasons I left academia was that, as an Engineer I became completely disillusioned with the novelty over utility bias. Things were published because they were new and not because they were really any better than existing techniques.
From the article:

> it's still dependent on an iPad or iPhone to work.

I think this is a good thing. You can keep your car for 5 or 10 years and update some of its software every 2 years with a new phone.

Right now the touchscreen UI of a car is the first thing that looks dated.
'Need' is tricky to define in this case. Many 'freemium' games are very different experiences based on whether or not you pay via additional IAP. From what I gather, not having actually played it, Dungeon Keeper is about the most extreme example of this. It sounds like you really do need to pay in order to play the actual game, as opposed to playing something which many would describe as not really being the game.
Do I have to jailbreak it in order to drive faster than limit?

But really, this is great if true, because current car OSes and interfaces are horrible, as they have always been deliberately made so.
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In a normal free program with ads, the user has no way of spending money. In a freemium, you decide whether the game is free or not for you.
Many of old console game are well-known for being next-to-impossible to beat but people have no problem with it; see those Ninja Toad game or Circus game from SNES day.

Unless the game is theorically impossible to beat, then you are a sucker for wanting to use money to substitute for your practice.

Seriously, you are the one paying money just so you can show off to your friend that you beat the same level other spends weeks to beat, and then the company offering IAP is the douche one?
>> The next time someone trots out the tired old "companies are legally obligated to maximize profits/shareholder value" to explain away crappy corporate behavior, I'm linking to this.

What he's doing IS MAXIMISING SHAREHOLDER VALUE! In the long term the sustainability projects will be important. Over 97% of shareholders rejected the proposal put forward so technically he was doing what the majority of the shareholders agreed with.
I'm more of the mindset of who would want to work 40 hours a week? I work on projects that I find interesting and I still only do about 20-30 hours a week of work. I've done the whole work yourself to death thing, 75 hour work weeks and work until dawn every night for a month. F#%k that!
Yes but he rambles a bit sometimes and somewhere between the Janet Jackson breast to Watchmen segue I missed it, sorry. I'll try to jump the comment gun less.
Disruptive Speech Recognition Technology
Nearly All the Speech recognition Problem was solved! By changing Speaker independent speech recognition problem(environment) to Speaker dependent speech recognition problem(environment).

Introduction to Disruptive Speech Recognition Technology(Patented concept)

- Extract two Features from One Spoken Word at
the Same Time(Speaker Identification Feature
and Speaker Dependent Pattern Matching feature)

- One Feature for Speaker Identification among
the Users who has the right to use an End Device

- The other Feature for Pattern Matching Word
Recognition

- DB structure with End Point Identification Number as a First Key, Speaker Identification Feature as Second Key and Pattern Matching Speech Recognition Feature as Third Key. (Google try without First and Second Key with 230B English Word)

- Realtime Security Check by imadiate speaker Identific-
ation with each word Utterance

- User Convenience by Eliminating Password Entering or Additional Scenario for User Identification

- Can change Speaker Independent speech Recognition
Environment to Speaker Dependent speech Recognition
Environment

- Enabling the use of Pattern Matching Word Recognition with Small Size Personal Speech DB(5,000-30,000 words) can make the Result "Reliable"

- All the required Unit technologies are able to be acquired easily.

(Without User Satisfaction by speech recognition technology)
- Nuance GAAP $1,651.5 million in fiscal 2012
- 4.2B$ Market Cap by Nasdaq

(With User Satisfaction by speech recognition technology)
Can you imagine the Size of the Market?
It's over, isn't it? Let's just be honest with ourselves for a moment - privacy is dead. The steps one would have to take in order to remain anonymous today are on the level of complete and utter self-ostracization. Not even hyperbolically, not even metaphorically, literally every significant thing a person does each and every day is determinable through the analysis of data that gets generated by said act.

It's too late, we can't unwind this clock. So what now? I feel like everyone's trying to unbreak the glass, unring the bell, whatever metaphor you'd like, but no one's trying to think of how to live in this world.

What does a person do, when everything there is to do leaves a trace, and the rules for what is and isn't acceptable behavior are constantly in wild flux?
Hi starfishjenga, Cedric Dahl here, co-founder and CEO of Buttercoin. We have bios which will be available in Buttercoin's About section, if you'd like to learn more about us in the meantime, here is additional info: Bennett and I both used to work at Microsoft, we left to start an analytics company, founded a hacker house (NerdTribe.com), and later made a documentary film, People in Motion: http://youtu.be/QH09YCtpKaw, before stating our current project, Buttercoin.com
A lot of people are making false assumptions about what this is about; Here's the actual EU release rather than a blog rewrite:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-187_en.htm?locale...

The actual issue is "Often consumers are not fully aware that they are spending money because their credit cards get charged by default." - so it's not an issue of people disliking paywalls in free games, it's an issue of people not realizing they're handing over real cash in games which are marked free.

The EU also has't said they want Free/IAP games to not be marked as free, but what they said is 'Games advertised as “free” should not mislead consumers about the true costs involved' (i.e IAP should be made more explicit).
> You instead work on a tree of small files.

I open all the files in the project(s) I'm working on. I currently have thousands of files open in Emacs. My Org mode wiki alone contains more than 2,000 files that remain permanently open.
As a father, thank you. Games with in-app purchases are NOT free -- the reason of the intervention is that in a lot of cases, especially children, people were charged without noticing.

These game should not be mingled with free games and parents should have an option to forbid them.
Sounds pretty defeatist.