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Guns producing more recoil than an aircraft's powertrain is nothing new. In WW2 fighters would be slowed when firing larger calibre weapons, noticeably impacting airspeed, especially with repeated firing.

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/can-gun-recoil-rea...
I'm sad to see this become practice. Playing around the javascript console is one of the "WOAH" moments I had when I was first learning to code.

I remember using the Facebook "Like Bomb" during an all nighter at the library. It was a javascript snippet that would like everything on the page and annoy all your friends. Back then, I didn't consider myself a coder, and didn't think for a second I'd be doing this 4 years later.

I also remember being on gTalk with a friend and he was really annoyed by a paywall he couldn't get around. It was nothing more than a popup modal, so I sent him back a couple lines of javascript that got him through the paywall. I felt like a wizard.

The JS console is like peeling back a layer of the web and seeing a whole new world. Web pages stop being this thing you consume, and starts being something you manipulate and break. Anyone with experience will be able to get around this, but its sad that a lot of people might just shrug it off and not have those same experiences.
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This overcomes one of the big issues today - how can you charge for what others give away for free? Amazing that they got everyone on board, and that there are no regulatory hurdles. It takes real Chutzpah by the founders to think they could off something so audacious. Bravo!
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it's about as original and convincing as saying that "liberalism is a 'coherent political philosophy' only if you are a poor inner-city black kid whose parents are on welfare".

They make for witty-sounding quips, but both are ad-hominems[0] that do little to actually address and argue against the tenets of either philosophy.

[0] (In before someone points out that this is not a true ad-hominem because it attacks a stereotype (and a straw man at that) rather than a specific individual).
Agreed. Though this looks bad:

https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/441547758827474946
What do you recommend for individual users with 3-5 desktops/laptops and 2 iOS devices?

Note for the unclued: rdl is the author of the linked article.
> Nationalist and libertarian are not orthogonal in practice. Try talking to any self professed libertarian about free movement of labor.

Okay, I give up: What are you expecting to find upon doing that? Most libertarians I know are in favor of free movement of labor and open immigration in general. The current Libertarian Party Platform includes this bit:

"Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries. Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders."

(source: http://www.lp.org/platform )
Speaking as a sometimes paranoid libertarian with a reasonable amount of Bitcoin, myself, I can say the two things preventing me from cashing out of any portion of it is the likelihood I would be identified and the fact that any sales of it I have to pay taxes on. I purchased a house this year that I could have afforded several times over in Bitcoin, but instead took out a loan just like anyone else.
He zoned out of the world around him and distracted himself with either the project he was working on prior, or just a stream of consciousness around his get-out-of-too-many-words tool of counting
The reporter is a woman. FYI
Pipelight is awesome, I recommend using it to anyone reading this. It just works.
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Or to Don Draper put it on Mad Men: "You've already tried your plan, and you're number four."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y4b-DEkIps

In other words: when you run a failing business, the only thing you know for certain is that keeping on doing what you've been doing will fail. Will a particular new plan work? Who knows. But you need to be open to doing something.
I'd heard about the app being very gesture-centric, but having to do a pinch to navigate up the hierarchy is a bit tedious; means you can't operate one-handed.
It's the same in local government. I know a firebrand Tea party fellow who not only works for the city of San Francisco as a legal administrator, he's a member of the AFSCME (white-collar public sector union) and brags about clocking out on the dot of 5pm. I think the attitude is that other people are getting this great deal, so why shouldn't he?

Mind you, I'm not exactly consistent either. I'm quite liberal but I far prefer working in the private sector or even freelance and have never joined a union. Perhaps our political views are an expression of frustration with the negative aspects of our life choices.
Is anybody aware why they're limiting this to paid plans?

I'd be on one if there was a benefit besides private repos, which have no use to me.
> Because a cornerstone of the currency is anonymity.

Pseudonymity, maybe. It's definitely not anonymous, by it's nature and function of the blockchain.
Oh cool, I'll just send you all my data in the url params.
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I agree it's odd that the order isn't consistent, but I don't get the joke which ever way it is, what am I missing?
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This fact is probably what killed iAd adoption in the first place. When iAd was released in 2010, Android was barely anything and iPhone was growing rapidly vs. Windows Phone and Blackberry.

But since then, with the growth of Android, and especially Android free-with-ads apps, the idea that you would have a mobile ad platform that was only on iOS just seems silly. Especially when Apple wants only big customers (they had a $1M minimum buy-in IIRC), and wants "fancy" ads with embedded mini sites, while at the same time not providing the tracking data advertisers wanted. Not surprised the advertisers said no thanks.
Yeah it's a strained analogy, but aren't they all?

>Nothing about libertarianism compels you to move to a less government-y place just so you can work a more ideologically pure job.

True, but it does compel you to work in a non-governmental job as much as possible. Or at least be honest about the situation:

"I hate working for the government and all the waste, but I applied to 100 jobs and this is that only one I could get. I'm looking to get out as soon as possible into the private sector."

I'm not fighting for ideological purity, but for ideological honesty. To me at least, it's okay to be a hypocrite or inconsistent, just so long as you are aware of the situation and can acknowledge it. Sometimes shit just happens and you end up in places, doing things you'd rather not be.

The specific thing I'm curious about are the all-too-common cases of people who do not possess the meta-cognitive awareness that they are engaged in hypocritical behavior.
Thank you, that was a very helpful tutorial in tracing the blockchain!
Ouch, that straw man must be hurting now. Can you throw in something about roads and Somalia?
>sometimes people do hypocritical things. I'm not condemning you for it.

Thank you for understanding.

>I do think it's more useful to call a thing what it is and proceed from there.

It's welfare, okay? It's all a giant welfare program. Gravy train. Uncle Sugar. Call it what you will. It's all very contradicting on paper, but it's not so bad when you're in it.

What's curious to me is the meta-cognition and self-awareness that goes on as a change-the-world startup like Google metamorphoses into Big Evil. It's usually a very gradual decline, like a glacier slide. Is it like the frog-in-water, where nobody notices? Does everybody know, and rationalize it? Or are people honest?
You've sidestepped the primary point. If anyone experienced in the field is classified as a hypocrite. Then where should the detractors legitimately come from?
It's not a "non-standard" layout, it's a non-US layout.
[insert bro-science disclaimer here] The volume of food you eat may be "normal" but the calorie density might be lower. The trick to increasing or decreasing calorie intake without feeling like you are stuffing yourself or starving is to keep the volume pretty much the same and tweak the calorie density.
Seems very odd that both a "Googler" and a VPS provider would be naive enough to think that telling someone to delete a blog post "OR ELSE" would result in anything but the pasting of the content everywhere under the sun outside of google/DO's control to spread the word on how evil they were.

I guess it could happen, but wow.. its like trying to get Beyonce derp face or whatever meme removed from the internet
What you said was not an anecdote. It was an assertion about the majority of people.
Oh great! Thanks. Upvoted.
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Not nessasarily. I've worked on math heavy programs where single calculations could take seconds to run. For the frequency they come up in actual use, this was not a problem, but our tests needed to run these calculations more than any single execution of the program would likely need to.
It's not just "capitalism"; it's hard to imagine any realistic system in which this works and doesn't leave you vulnerable to people who exploit your strategy. Even in straight-up Communism, the competitive people who were smart enough not to be fooled about party line on "equality" could get radically more than their peers. Everybody mouthed words about how that didn't happen, but it did, and everybody knows it.

Historically speaking, there is some degree of success to be had in convincing others to adopt this position, though, so that others can exploit them. Capitalism is at least being honest, unlike the systems that lie to you about how you can adopt this strategy. I often think that a great deal of what people don't like about capitalism is precisely that it is generally being honest and not telling you glittering, appealing lies.
And most of New York wants photos of athletes, musicians and movie stars. :-)

I wonder if his motivation was testing, or to generate some seed business for it?
Full Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Eventbrite. But commenting independently. My views and opinions do not reflect Eventbrite's official position(s), and "oh god please don't come after me with pitchforks".

Take a look at the Eventbite fees here - http://www.eventbrite.com/fees/

I think they're totally reasonable. I'm not going to get into specifics that would expose our finances, but I'll say that we have a lot of people behind the scenes taking care of building and maintaining the product on both the organizer and attendee facing side. On top of that we have some excellent customer service people who take care of hiccups and guide users in their time(s) of need. All those fantastic people need to be cared for (ie. paid).

If you're asking about the general perception of ticketing, I'll refer you to an article in the LA Weekly. http://bit.ly/1kAT1K0 (tldr; There are existing patterns in particular industries to deflate the perceived ticket prices, only to inflate them at checkout.)

There's a brief clip explaining Eventbrite fees here: http://bit.ly/1f28hw6

Hope this clears things up a bit.
This is a brilliant MVP. Does this strategy work?
Excellent find! Thanks!
This makes a lot of sense if you have a client or two that needs a custom ERP and you have decided that you need to build one from scratch.

I am little lost at why you would venture into this or think about being a reseller for an established brand seemingly out of the blue.

I do recall reading about some open source ERP software packages here on HN before. Here's a search: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/open source erp
This is another good analysis of why this study was flawed: http://examine.com/blog/high-protein-diets-linked-to-cancer-...
Total agreement, Newsweek is so tenuously even a magazine at this point, but in the recent past I emailed the editors of a very large newspaper that did something similarly irresponsible to someone living in an arguably more dangerous place - and heard back nothing.
"Object orientation slowly took the world by storm.."

That sentence doesn't even make sense.
It's an interesting problem to try to determine what are the limits of a language and what is a word and what is not. Corpus studies are not sufficient for that purpose as you will always end up with a large number of hapaxes. Because language is based on social consensus, the most common sense approach to the problem would be to determine 'wordiness' of a string by checking how many people consider it to be a word.

We are trying to do something like this with large-scale studies for English and Dutch. As it is very related to the problem I will allow myself to share the links:
http://vocabulary.ugent.be
http://woordentest.ugent.be
The painted false cockpit was first operationally used on Canadian CF-18 Hornets, but derived from USAF research in conjunction with an aviation artist.

So the A-10 community adopted it second-hand.
I use them for remote DC's (assia, EU, etc.) at $5 each.

Only their billing is a hot mess, mostly because they think it works and their customers are wrongly entering the CC #. For 4 months now, same problem and they have off-shore support that reads scripted answers. They just read the closest answer related to billing.
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This, of course, also describes about 80% of the population of France.
The best use of this data isn't for finding problems, but for evaluating solutions:

- Do I sleep better if I don't listen to techno music before going to bed?

- Does not exercising late in the evening help?

- How about not drinking coffee in the afternoon?

- Lowering the room temperature?

Sometimes the effects are obvious, but often they are subtle, and it's easy to delude yourself (for a while at least) that a solution is helping when in fact it isn't.
You usually pay for this sort of thing based on profit, more or less.

In this case, his basis is $0 (his cost to acquire the asset). Were he to sell all of them, his profit is essentially 100%; however, I'm not entirely sure how bitcoin gains are codified. If they're regular capital gains, then it's done around that cost basis ($0 in this case), but if they aren't, then I don't know.
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> Because the web is meant for documents first, not applications.

What year is it?
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Easy enough to just Google the article once you find it.
No matter who they wrote this article about, a family did get doxxed and they do have the last name Nakamoto. I don't see this as a confirmation from Gavin. Has he said anything about this since that tweet?
How should Gavin know if he's the real one? Gavin never met, nor has seen, nor heard Satoshi.
Can someone provide some more information? The page is basically just redirects to existing resources, and has you signup for a program. What's new here? What are they offering?
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I really don't think this is appropriate material in the comments of an article about Satoshi Nakamoto. If you want to write an article about the Author's important contribution to the history of Bitcoin which includes her home address, you might have a leg to stand on.
I understand the sound of the gun is known as "The Devils Fart" :)
Suggest HN: Please keep hnsearch.com up
The new replacement hn search (hn.algolia.com) doesn't accept basic search syntax.

Searching for "arkos" or arkos returns the same number of results with fuzzy matches.
http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/arkos

I tried other standard search syntax found on Google or SOLR, but it did not work. For example, -argos, NOT argos, etc. I tried to find search query details in their documentation, but did not find any.

Please keep hnsearch.com working in the meantime, and don't shut it down on March 15th, 2014.
>Regardless, the A-10 is an anachronism now

True

>Its chief advantage was its ruggedness and ability to properly explore the battlefield when attacking

Well, not really. While those are both big advantages it enjoys, its chief advantage and the mission is was designed for was that it carries enough ordinance to stop a Soviet tank column rolling into Germany in its tracks.

The A-10 is absolutely overkill for any modern CAS mission, and the airframes are simply 40 years old. Extending their life is only a temporary solution; they'll have to be replaced sooner or later. When they are replaced, there really isn't much of an argument for building a direct replacement instead of farming its various roles out to other platforms {hang and wait: predator, strike: f-35, CAS: Apache}
Do you happen to have any links to descriptions of the densities of various foods? I've been aware that this is a good strategy for a while, but haven't been able to find anything that systematically discusses various food types and how they rank (as opposed to individual tidbits such as, hey, carrots have very few calories but are pretty bulky, so munch away).
No idea why you're being downvoted. Parent's comment is completely false.
Presumably, if you're going to need the level of access provided by this program, you're probably building something that makes some amount of money. That would make purchasing a paid plan worthwhile, even if all your repos are public.
> their salaries are paid for by the same taxes they rail against incessantly

1) It's possible to be employed by an institution and maintain an independent opinion about its value. Many employees in the private industry are critical of their employers, smart companies encourage that. You can also be part of a herd, which is a reasonable option as well.

2) It might not be as much of an opposition to taxes per se, as per specifics of such taxation. Watching personal income tax rise as highly-connected corporations carve out new loopholes to keep their rates at a minimum is probably discouraging. If United States personal income tax rate dropped to 0% across all brackets, we'd return to Clinton-era budget spending, and a lot of government institutions were funded back then.
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If only it was that simple.
Ugh, it's so awful. And the mobile kicks the asides into the middle of the fucking article.
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It isn't clear to me what this is. Does anyone mind explaining?
Nice idea and product, but a bit confusing for new users. I felt like I could easily understand the overall idea of your software, but not really what it's supposed to accomplish and how.
I would argue that there is in fact a public interest in learning more about the inventor of what is "arguably the largest financial innovation of the century". Learning more about his life and others involved in bitcoin can help us understand the motivations of the individuals that led to its creation. The fact that a man who worked in classified government projects for a long period of time went on to create bitcoin is certainly interesting.

My impression from the article was that all other interviews were given very freely. There's nothing unethical about asking Satoshi's family or those he worked with in creating bitcoin about him. I don't think there's anything wrong with posting his picture either.

Granted, the article could have done with a less-revealing picture of his house. But given the prevalence of things like Google street view etc., I'm not sure you can reasonably expect to keep that stuff secret.
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It changes the dynamic of the regulatory environment from enforcing a few mega-exchanges organizations to having to enforce (possibly hundreds of) thousands of vendors selling BTC for currency and consumers buying it. It would be as difficult as enforcing drug dealing and we've seen how effective that has been.
I don't think I conflated making music and making a living from making music...

Your "second" point seems like a good thesis to me: the amount of musical recordings made is correlated with the ease of making musical recordings rather than with the ease of making a living off of them. Thanks.
"Play" implies actively taking part and therefore positively consenting to the system, as opposed to just doing the bare minimum to avoid and not run afoul of it. So yes, they have become a direct supporter and thus have lost the right to criticize it.
Resizing is our #1 issue with DO. The current quick resize adds cores and RAM just fine, but it's a one way trip.

It's not possible to shrink upsized instances like you can on Linode. On DO you can't even restore a snapshot or backup to a smaller instance size - you must rebuild from scratch.

I guess the right way to handle this is a configuration management tool, but this is a real pain since there is only local storage.
If you need in-app syncing on iOS, Dropbox -- just be aware of the security limitations. iCloud has serious issues if you're not all-Apple, and moderate issues if you are all-Apple.

SpiderOak might be a good option, although there (like AeroFS) isn't much integration with iOS apps yet. Their security model and general thinking is probably the best of the public options. (Tahoe-LAFS is interesting too, but not really ready for prime time; it's a lot more like AeroFS in design with commercial providers added on.)

I still use Google Docs/Drive to share collaboratively-edited files with some people, and iCloud for iOS device backups, so I think the answer is there isn't a single answer.
It's an interesting topic, writing it inspired me to research more and I found this: http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/bitcoin-i...

Expect more blockchain traffic analysis papers in the future.
Yes.

Again, growing up and living in the D.C. area, I think everybody in these parts has distaste for government in some way.
formal, correct, unambiguous terms

Unambiguous? I wish! The notation in most fields is way more ambiguous than code; you're expected to resolve the ambiguity by the norms of whatever research community it's for. Code isn't necessarily clear, but at least all the information is there to be decoded.

An example of trying to do better: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/boo...
> Because the web is meant for documents first, not applications.

Where have you been for the past decade? The web is the world's largest app platform, and it's not going away any time soon.
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This is why I love having a static IP.

sudo ufw allow from your.ip.addr to tcp port 22

Rest of the world doesnt know I have ssh up and if I'm ever in a hotel or something I can tunnel through my home or login to DO's panel and allow another ip
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> True, but it does compel you to work in a non-governmental job as much as possible.

Not really. Libertarians want government limited to certain essential functions (exactly which those are varies a bit between individual libertarians.)

There's nothing inconsistent about being Libertarian and working for the government in one of those essential functions.
You never get your money back out of a bank; you get somebody else's money, if there ever even was physical money involved. And you never step in the same river twice. I think that's all splitting metaphysical hairs.