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I notice that your site uses JavaScript. Did you know that Brendan Eich invented JavaScript? For consistency, you should not only remove JS from your site but also boycott every other site that uses it, including this one.
The skills required to make smooth website animations and the skills required to develop Ethereum don't overlap at all.
You may also want to check out http://nxtcrypto.org which is also working on turing complete functionality. They're working on a decentralized exchange at the moment, testable at http://nxtra.org/nxt-client

They do not have the marketing skills of ethereum tho..
You are correct about that, but to most people, the stereotypes about silicon valley apply to everyone in working tech, even people like me working on legacy enterprise software in MN. For the non-tech people I know, their impression of the tech industry as a whole, and thus my job, are tied to stereotypes about silicon valley.
Mine went off the scale on reading the title. But what about similar findings regarding testosterone and traders (and other activities involving risk taking) that have been found? What if they'd found a similar correlation between caffeine and labour output?

Made me realize my bullshit meter definitely includes a heuristic along the lines of "any mental association with the bodybuilder supplement industry adds a large multiplier to the bullshit level".

My bullshit meter is clearly flawed.
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Meet Larry Ellison, the software supremo with an ego to match his income (1997)
You are completely right, I've had the same feeling many times in the past for a vast array of technologies.

In this case thought, the authors are making clear that it's for advanced technical audience[1]. They are just trying to get developers, but mainly communities that will run their blockchain (their version of bitcoin), which comes with a language that makes easy to implement all the beautiful things we're talking about when the discussion revolves around the bitcoin protocol (as opposed to the currency).

[1] https://code.ethereum.org/
What evidence can you present that cable companies are becoming less powerful or relevant? All I see is cable companies consistently increasing their power vs. content providers. The latest example being the Netflix/Comcast deal with Netflix paying Comcast. But there are others: Comcast bidding for Time Warner Cable, Verizon FIOS household numbers stalling (they're still a player but not taking much share). They're also becoming more vertically integrated - so buying more content companies themselves.

My take is that until there is another viable internet pipe to the home - wireless or fiber optic - the cable companies will continue to be relevant and powerful. Controlling the last mile to the consumer is just too powerful, especially when you look at how difficult and costly it is to do a new network at scale.
Yahoo reportedly plans to steal Google’s thunder with it’s own YouTube rival
Has B.Eich done anything do expose his views in the workplace? I don't think so. It's unfair to push your political/societal ideas on others in the company and demand they conform to them. I am saying that as a note to some employees demanding B.Eich to resign, because of the donation he made.

It's getting a bit ridiculous how some people are getting publicly bashed, because of their views. There is clear separation between the person with his views and the company with its vision.
I don't see where nvidia acts as if Wayland devs have any obligations here. All he said was that their driver would not work after this change. The only thing this obligates Wayland devs to do is not change this if they want nvidia to support wayland.
Would it even save the govermnent much money? Sure, if I print in a thinner font on my laser printer, the ink will last longer. But if I'm printing thousands of the same document, the print company will charge me exactly the same price regardless of what font I use, of whether I use big blocks of colour, or any other consideration of how much ink I use.

I suspect that when printing at scale, the cost of ink varying by font matters little or nothing. It's certainly less important than other considerations in choosing a font: ease of reading, what tone it sets, etc.
Any new cryptocurrency that uses an existing algorithm (SHA256 or scrypt) needs to be merge-mined to prevent it from being immediately attacked. An alternative is for new cryptocurrencies to use new algorithms that existing pools don't support.
Can someone explain in short what is it and what it does? It 'looks' exciting, but in excitement I cannot understand its full purpose.
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I think I _sort_ of got it. Still confused over what "ether" is paying for: computing cycles? Bandwidth? Trust?
That's exactly what I got from the "what" link.
The model doesn't seem precise - there is no light diffraction. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_diffraction_formu...
Why? It's a pretty straightforward analysis, and well powered (more than 2500 people sampled). It is not about creatine supplementation, but rather creatine measured in children's urine correlated to their later income etc.
Years ago I worked on Python optimizations for the string type. I tried speeding up .upper() and .lower() by replacing things like:

if (isupper(c))
s[i] = _tolower(c);

with:

s[i] = _tolower(c);

My mental model, which was still influenced by the microcomputer era, did not match the hardware. Benchmarks quickly identified that my "faster" implementation was actually noticeable slower. That's when I first started to understand cache lines.
Come on guys, there's a video right on the front page. It's only a couple of minutes. It explains very well what Ethereum is. I almost always prefer that the site be self-explanatory in just a few seconds as well, but if you're not very familiar with Bitcoin, it would be a wall of text to explain what this product is. In this case, I think a video was definitely the way to go.

On another note, this looks like an awesome project. I wonder what implications this could have in net neutrality.
No, Bitcoin and its successors are made to handle this exact scenario from the beginning. It's common on every coin. There would be no cryptocoins left today if they weren't made to survive this. Don't call me mate.

Why do you think coins like Bitcoin require you to wait an extremely long time for "confirmations"? Why is an arbitrary number of "confirmations" chosen as "probably good enough"? This is exactly why. Forks can happen constantly. These coins are eventually-consistent by design.
"What's wrong with more options?"
Linux distro/desktop/display protocol forks come to mind...

This feels(IMHO) like more noise coming on the line for registrar profit goodness, marginal benefit to registrants & a flood of bad choices(one-offs/deliberate mimicks/etc) for the rest of the unwary netizens.
Note the phrase might as well. The example was a stab at how you can't make such assumptions.
Maybe this will help [1]. I didn't understand the site either but I kind of stumbled on to 'blockchain for contracts' (no idea whether that's right or wrong).

In any case it seems like there are a lot of people in Ethereum meetup groups around the world [2], so this isn't a new thing.

[1] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa...

[2] http://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=Ethere...
Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system (http://projectoberon.com/) includes a complete CPU (in Verilog), compiler, and OS. I haven't studied it, though.

For a slightly more common architecture (although hopefully we are entering an FPGA-enabled golden age), try Harris & Harris's "Digital design and computer architecture". It covers the MIPS designs (using both SystemVerilog and VHDL simultaneously) in H&P's "Computer organization and design", but in a more compact and systematic way (omitting H&P's broad but shallow coverage of advanced topics).
In defense of TV (a feature proposal)
I agree. I'm not being consistent in my views. I'm going to continue to use JavaScript, but I don't the Eich should be running Mozilla. Humans are complicated.
DuckDuckGo tracks you
Google's deception is well known - search for "test", hover the mouse over the first result and you see the speedtest link, but if you right-click on that link, you can see on the status bar at the bottom (is that why the status bar not visible by default?) that the link to speedtest is channeled through Google first, so they know what you click, but pretend that they don't. Google being an ad company pretending to be a tech giant, no surprise here.

Now, to DuckDuckGo, or "we don't track you"... Unlike Google, they show you the target link when you hover and when you right-click, but they dynamically modify your link to channel your click through their system, just like Google does, only with a more sophisticated deception technique. If your internet connection is slow, or if if you switch it off, you can see that false link right there in address bar. It can also be seen sometimes when you don;t move the mouse and hit the back button on your mouse while staying on that link.

Bing does not seem to be doing any of these, or at least I didn't notice. Perhaps WireShark can be of use.
I learnt more reading the first few comments on here than what I got from the site. Like someone else said, I thought it was a programming language for doing decentralised things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sys...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Browserify is simply amazing. Thank you so much.
One thing I've noticed a lot of with many of the arguments regarding this particular incident is blatant contradiction and hypocrisy. While these aren't unusual, they're particularly bad in this case.

This article, for instance, states the following: "Indeed, any right withheld from any group of people must be rallied against."

Yet the author makes that very claim in an article that basically suggests that people should not have the right to oppose homosexuality or gay marriage, and should not have the right merely to express such beliefs. He should be rallying against his own article and his own stance, in fact.

I'm not suggesting that he or anyone else should be denied the right to hold or to express contradictory or hypocritical viewpoints, of course. But the use of such arguments does make it hard to take one seriously, regardless of what the issue at hand is, and regardless of the position being expressed.
The link you provide doesn't support your assertion. 5 votes for a bitcoin story that had three comments, none of which say they didn't understand the website.

Edit: and the new link you just added has 4 votes and no comments.
The problem with generic abstractions for doing anything is that it's hard to tell how well they will work for doing specific things. Okay, so maybe you could build something like DNS on it. Does it actually work well for that in practice? How do you know? Similarly for any other application that they briefly mentioned.

You only need one "killer app" to prove an abstraction, but you do need one, and it should be front and center.
Is this a joke, or what? (and: "its own YouTube rival")
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Can you explain what you mean by "merge-mined" ?

Further, just using a new algorithm only protects you briefly, right ? Can't the pools implement new algorithms as they see fit ?
Yes. The computing resources required to run the network (bandwidth, computation, storage)
It's true I may not be the intended audience, but I am a programmer who is more than capable of understanding what they are doing. That is, there are people who could have clearly explained what they are doing to me in the same number of words they've used.

You're right that it might not be a big priority to them, but it couldn't hurt.
This device is ONLY for audiophiles....
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its...

That was caught very quickly and due to a software bug instead of a 51% attack, which is the impression that I'm getting concerning Auroracoin's current problem.
Yes, that's the total number of web-facing computers found on Azure, of which 23,400 are Windows-based. Amazon has 22,600 Windows-based web-facing computers, which puts it in second-place for world's largest Windows hosting company.

They never directly compared the Linux-based web-facing computers.

The original article at NetCraft is slightly more clear about this: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/02/26/microsoft-neck-...
If what you care about is your cryptocurrency being "fun" and "interesting" rather than "secure" and "stable", then sure.
I've used make as the basis for a system that works out the dependencies for nightly batch processing in an ERP system and coordinates the execution of the required processes across multiple applications that make up the system.

There's some shell script to glue the pieces together, and a Python script for invoking processes within the ERP applications, but make is the secret sauce that figures out what order to run everything in.
Hm, to get this a step further:

* It must be somehow possible for authorities (state owned organizations) to re-count the votes manually.

* The voter should get back to the ledger and be able to check for whom he voted.

Yeah, looks like an optimal and bright (IMHO) future.
In simple terms:

1) Tools suck. Even today. Unmaintained tools from 2003 are still used as examples, which is a shame.
2) Having multiple vocabularies is a good thing in principle, but clashes with the "simple integration" selling speech. Have you tried to different data using different vocabs? (assuming they are using the vocabularies correctly, which is far from realistic in many cases).
3) On important selling point is the reasoning and inference part. Sadly it is not available by default in most tools I've used. In fact, there are really very few tools that deal with that and usually are a pain in the ass.
4) Despite all the academic hype regarding RDF-backed CMS, there are very few frameworks that actually work. Drupal 6 and 7 claim to use RDF but honestly, RDF doesn't add value at all

Just to make things clear, I've developed tools and being an advocate of Semantic Web for years, but I'm also a critic person. We have to acknowledge that in academia, tools reach a buggy, prototype level that make them unusable in real world environments. I know there are a few companies that do a great work building semantic web tools, but I'm afraid they are the exception to the rule.
more like just a very poor submission. poor analysis and simple errors like calling the CEO "Marissa Mayers"
Might want a name change..

> https://justgetflux.com/ios.html
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FYI: Wenger is mentioned in Brown's index and bibliography, it's similar work.
Kimono: Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds
Ok, after watching the intro video I'm thinking Etherium is kind of like a P2P automated trading platform. Which seems like it would put a lot of responsibility on coders. If your automated trading bot is losing you billions, you can just flick the off switch. If your code is running on a million strangers' computers, not so much.

It will be interesting to find out how this pans out. Possibly in the Chinese proverb sense.
> I get intuition by playing with the mathematical objects themselves, not by guessing what their interpretations might do in the wild ...

This is why string theory is in such a mess -- too much focus on the mathematical, too little on the physical. At the moment, string theory can explain anything, including any number of imaginary universes.

It's worth remembering that Einstein (in a manner of speaking) pictured his theories before turning them into mathematics, and made frequent uses of the gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) approach, in which he would imagine a physical embodiment for an idea to see how it held up.

Obviously in modern times, the mathematical form of a theory is the bottom line and cannot be dismissed. But to have significance in reality it should be partnered with a very clear physical analogue.
Well fossil fuels were plants a while back.

I guess it is a balance between having the carbon in / on the ground, or in the air in CO2 form. Encouraging people to burn biofuels will only put more of it in the air, or is there some evidence of less fossil fuels being burnt since biofuels were developed?
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There are many complex projects that use Make to build source code. Grab just about any software release tarball and there will almost certainly be a Makefile in it.

This is yet another example of the JavaScript community being completely ignorant of what came before them.
I found its wiki a clearer but longer version:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa...

In short, it is a proposal for a framework/protocol/platform/you-name-it sort of like BitCoin with more feature.
Here's a link to the newscientist article on the same discovery:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24784-turning-back-tim...

And the actual paper (the full paper is behind a paywall):
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(13)01521-3
Notice I never said "He should never be allowed to state his opinion." He's free to do so, and did. And in doing so made a public statement about his views. If you believe basic human rights should be denied to a group of individuals, I have an issue with that.
That is not just PR. That is damned amazing engineering.

Really? Choosing a high-strength material, turning it into a sheet and bolting it to the bottom of a car is "damned amazing engineering"?
Updates and bugreports are two communications I specifically had in mind when writing my "Tell me what the fuck it is EVERY GODDAMNED TIME YOU COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE PRODUCT" above. Major peeve.
That is interesting, I wonder what patents or provisionals CastAR has in the pipeline.
>> is that the show will be based on all the misinformed stereotypes and presumptions that outsiders have about how technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship work in the bay area.

That sounds a lot like Amazon's show Betas.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-does-merg...

The actual mining is done by clients using software like cgminer; the pools just coordinate. If the software doesn't support a particular POW algorithm then it would have to be updated and tens of thousands of people would have to install the update. Also, there are pools that auto-switch between different scrypt currencies to mine the most profitable one, but mining software doesn't (currently) auto-switch algorithms.
>That's precisely the point. As a business, you can accept whatever the algorithm dictates or you can pay to override the algorithm (ie. advertising).

You're moving the goalposts. The original problem was supposedly one of filtering noise from the consumer end. Now, you're talking about advertiser options for reaching their audiences. Yes, we know they now have a choice to pay or not. That's exactly the point.

To see the difference, consider if one advertiser with a massive budget could afford to pump out, say, 100 messages a day. Is the user now having a better experience?

So, agaim, how does forcing advertisers to pay suddenly balance the posts people see?
I assume most of the people who go to that review page are the ones with bad experiences? Otherwise, who would review a power adapter?

Listen in on the phone conversations a plumber has and you'd get the impressions that no one's pipes work.
WebStorm from JetBrains has good TypeScript support. You could look into that as VS alternative.

Another question: our TypeScript compile-times are approaching 5/6 seconds whenever gulp watch triggers. Imo this is too long for a workable frontend workflow. Did you guys find a way to incrementally compile TS with gulp?
Why are there so many comments complaining this is confusing, and so few explaining what it actually does?
Interesting initiative
People are entitled to their views. But some views are not conducive to good leadership.
This has been a problem since 2007. I went through 3 chargers on my Macbook Pro back then.

Bizarre for a company that usually adhere's to high manufacturing standards.
That's an exaggeration. People who haven't traded since the fork haven't lost anything. If it's caught quickly and resolved, only some of the people who did trade since the fork lost something.

An obvious workaround would be for the major exchanges to make sure they're on the same fork and stop all trades if anything goes wrong, until it can be fixed.

Of course, the secondary effects from loss of reputation are a big problem.
I would estimate I own about 10 magsafe chargers. Some are nearly 6 years old. None have frayed and all are in regular use, including moving them about with the laptops. I'm not particularly careful with my electronics, either.

Also - who goes to leave a positive review of a charger? There's clearly some selection bias happening with the reviews.
Bear in mind the selection bias in effect.

People are generally more likely to review a product, especially one as mundane as a replacement power adapter, if they have had a negative experience with it.

One of, if not the most common, reasons for purchasing a replacement power adapter will be due to a failure of an original adapter, leading to negative experiences.
I've never had much luck with laptop power adapters over the years (had to replace every dell adapter I've ever had and a couple of aftermarket ones). Had to replace the magsafe for my late 2008 macbook once, but I bought the macbook and power adapter used, so I can't quite vouch for how well it was treated prior to me owning it. Bought a cheap aftermarket magsafe adapter and it's been running well for over a year now.
Interesting stuff. I feel like over the years I've moved from being an integrator to segmentor. I think it just comes with experience. I have a better understanding of what to expect, which "emergencies" I can ignore or postpone. How to avoid putting myself in a potentially stressful situation. I have a metric for this too. I suffer from a mild medical condition that flares up when I'm stressed. I used to suffer from it at least once a month. Now I'm down to every 6 months. I credit maturity.
While this is true for desktop mining and to some extend, gpu mining, largest and most powerful pools use ASIC boxes which are not re-programmable. Some hash algos perform better than others on gpu depending on the parallelization potential.
Wow I am sorry that you enjoy your life's work so little. Maybe you should do something about that? I couldn't imagine a life where I was not stoked to do what I do every day.
Shouldn't the takeover risk be priced into a new cryptocurrency?

If coin price > mining cost / 2, it becomes worth it to acquire 51% of mining capability so you can vote the other 49% to yourself, no?

But then again, once you have 51% control and everyone knows it, the value of those coins quickly goes to zero. As is probably happening with Auroracoin as we speak.
It may not be complicated, but it really comes out of left field. It really lacks context
I would guess that if Apple removed those stupid fold-out cable wrap points they would see a significant drop in failure rates.
My personal views outside of work have little bearing on my ability to do my job.

But then, I'm not a CEO.

CEOs have to be leaders, and their personal views, separate or not, are very relevant to their ability to lead.