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>The main problem is that it is deflationary

This is not a critical problem (or even a problem at all, depending on whom you ask). This has been argued again and again, and what is always comes down to is that, according to the Keynesians, an inflationary currency is preferable for encouraging economic growth, but the reality is that A) economics is not hard science and B) as long as the inflation/deflation rate isn't extreme, both inflationary and deflationary goods make fine exchange mechanisms.

>supply of the coins need to gradually increase to support the flow of spending.

Why? If adoption increases, the value goes up, and people spend fewer bitcoins for the same thing. Bitcoin is especially good at this because it has a lot of base units.

>They will sell their BT for currency rather buy depreciating goods with them.

This is incorrect. You're arguing the extreme of the effects of deflation. People will buy goods with deflationary assets, because sometimes the expected value of owning a good is higher than the expected value of keeping an equivalent value of the deflationary asset.

The equivalent (and equally incorrect) ad extremum argument against inflation is "With inflationary currencies, no one will bother working, because they know the payoff of their labor will be worth less by the time they get it."
Non-destructive editing isn't about knowing or not knowing what you want.

If you're a professional coder, shouldn't you know exactly what you want to accomplish without needing to experiment? Why not then write the final version of your code all at once? Why use revision control?
True, if you go hopping all over main memory, we'll go at main memory speed just like everybody else.

Luckily there is a noticeable performance improvement between an i3 and an i7 precisely because normal app code doesn't go hopping long chains across main memory. This is the code we speed up.

An order of magnitude improvement is saying that - hand waving - you can have a hot monster at 10x OoO SS performance or a cool little chip equiv to the OoO SS but low power.

However, the faster you crunch the bits between main memory stalls, the more dominating those stalls become. Its diminishing returns. And hot is not good.

So we talk more about sweet spots like 3x performance and 3x less power, and temper them appropriately.

The numbers are based on sim and experienced estimates. Mill is faster because we can time x86 code and we can sim Mill code and we can compare them.

Am typing on a phone, apologises if brief.
I agree, you are always as slow as your critical path of executions. General purpose code, I imagine, often has very long critical path that no amount of parallelism will improve.

What I want to know is just how silent the pipelines of this design would be under multi-threaded general purpose code.
dropping the buffer makes it perform substantially slower - there are some benchmarks listed elsewhere on this thread
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Just in case you or anyone else is interested, OP is using Monocle, an open source link sharing platform.

https://github.com/maccman/monocle
> Doesn't the us have the Monroe doctrine?

Not really. The particular concern about limiting future expansion of European colonialism at its center (inasfar as the part of it that might justify US action is concerned) hasn't really been a concern really since the early 20th Century, though the name was dusted off by some (misleadingly) in the Cold War for applications of the Kennedy Doctrine within the Western Hemisphere, and the doctrine was explicitly described as being dead by Secretary of State John Kerry last year.

> It allows for the invasion of foreign country's when the us feels threatened right?

Not as actually articulated by Monroe (in fact, if the country was in Europe, its specifically negated some justifications for involvement).
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It might be worth noting that publishing sites like Leanpub and Softcover have integrated e-commerce features, so they solve the payments and distribution problems as well.
You then assume your own conclusion when you ignore pipelining. If instructions are executed in sequence indian-file then necessarily none will be faster than any other.

The traditional rule-of-thumb is that programs have an ILP of two. The Execution talk (millcomputing.com/docs/execution) explains how the Mill turns that into an ILP of six. Then for the 80% or so of code that is in loops, pipelining has unbounded ILP - there will be a talk on pipelines upcoming.
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Victim of Cold War 2.0?
> One summer [...paid] over twice the minimum.

Ok, so from the chart, on minimum wage you'd work 10 hours per credit, at twice the minimum wage you'd work 5 hours. For 2013 you'd work 60 hours at minimum wage or 30 hours at twice the minimum wage.

I'd say there's quite a difference between 5 and 30 hours either way?
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Bitcoin does have the capability of "2 of 3" authorizations which can mitigate some of the upfront risk. The idea being that a payment only completes after 2 parties approve it, the 3rd being an independent 3rd party in this case (who could be configured to auto-approve if a complaint isn't filed in x days).
You should know what you want to do, of course, but you are not usually the client unless you're a hobbyist (or a fine-art type, who is essentially a hobbyist who takes money in applause). Non-destructive editing is not optional. (A photographic file might typically have several tens of layers, and that's at the low end of the scale. Hundreds is not uncommon.)
I'm not sure how this is relevant to HN.
> Shipping address, name, and email are necessary even if you use bitcoin. Billing address is usually the same as shipping address. That leaves the CC number, in which case the equivalent is your bitcoin address.

Maybe I'm confused. Why is the address, name and email necessary for BTC payments? Is it a stripe requirement?

And, as you probably know, a bitcoin address is WAY more secure than a CC#. They are nowhere near "equivalent"
>visitors will be charged a price to listen to the 128-minute, 31 song album on headphones provided by the venue. (Rigorous security checks will discourage the possibility of any illegal recording.)

Could a powered recording device be made small enough to fit in the ear canal? Searching for "In-Ear Binaural microphones" finds some fairly small devices (they require external power and storage, though)
I didn't read it at all as entirely career focused. The author is saying "if you have high ambitions, don't hang around with people who have low ambitions." He's not saying "live in a bubble."

This has less to do with the advancement of a career and more with your long term goals. The people you are around the most will be the ones who influence whether you reach your goals. Definitely have friends who are very different from you in terms of career, activities, interests. But don't have friends who want you to go out drinking every night if you have grander aspirations.
If you skip to the very end, you can see data from March 27. Not significantly low volume though. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/explorer/?r...
"The main problem is that it is deflationary, to support a global economy it needs to slightly inflationary."

Bitcoin doesn't need to "support a global economy" for it to be useful/successful.

"Right now more half of Bitcoin supply is already own by someone"

Are you saying one entity owns half of all Bitcoins? I've heard the figure of a few percent thrown around, but never half.
> In theory, the replayer could be made to rerecord a full memory trace.

Yes exactly, or if it's cheaper, create periodic compressed snapshots and replay from the previous one to recreate intermediate states. In my experience GDB's recording is very expensive and very rapidly runs into resource limits. Hopefully a snapshot-based approach would be more scalable.
Uh, did I miss something here? Sounds like Heroku was actually cheaper than the raw EC2 rate when it launched, and is now just over half a cent per hour more.
As someone who knows nothing about this stuff, can someone explain to me how soaking the CPU in sulfuric acid removes the packaging material, but does no harm to the chip inside?
It's an interesting question. I certainly hope engagement will be consistent and develop into a watering hole for Biotech entrepreneurs from all over.

One thing we have in our favor for Biotech Pulse is the baseline community of 19 early stage companies and their teams here at Harlem Biospace. We are hoping since this community already exists in the shared space that this will be a strong seed for the online community to grow from.
He'd be arrested in the UK as soon as he stepped outside of the embassy for breach of the terms of bail (and that is a criminal offence and there is absolutely no question he has committed it), even if everything else was dropped.
You're right, Seattle would be sheltered from the brunt of a tsunami caused by a subduction zone earthquake. (More so than I realized until I looked up the predicted inundation maps. I'd forgotten how large Puget Sound is!)

A large tsunami would be quite damaging lot of smaller coastal cities along the western coast, though. It's a major concern, at any rate.
It wouldn't matter at all. It's hard for me to think of any game humans play where single vs double precision would matter.
Not quite: only scheduling and binary creation is done at install time. Instruction selection and optimization is done during compilation in the usual way.
http://demo.famo.us/tweetus/ doesn't work on my Android native browser
Except there is no particular reason why Karpeles actually needs to be physically present to provide his testimony, or for the corporation's designated representative in court to be a specific individual rather than an attorney hired for that purpose.

I am not one who believes that physical custody of a witness is either necessary or sufficient to obtain truthful statements from him. I already find some of the traditional rituals of courtroom procedure to lie somewhere between useless and ridiculous, so I still stand behind my statement. I will now expand it to say that the routine practice of paying for the physical transportation and upkeep of a witness is particularly suspicious and wasteful.

If you want questions answered, ask them. You should probably be prepared to be disappointed in the answers, if you get any at all. You may find that some people are more forthcoming when a grim-faced person in a robe, with armed men ready to mete out punishment at a word, is not the one demanding answers.

We have an Internet now. Information moves a lot faster and more inexpensively by itself than it does in the custody of a human courier. Thus, the stated motive--"to appear
for questioning"--appears on its face to be bogus.
Ah, there we are. Away you go, just like the wind. Ego as frail as ever and notions as untouched as they'll ever be. Godspeed to you, you beautiful soul.
It can be seen as a disruption of the current meme that music is a commodity that can be duplicated ad-infinitum.
Too bad he "massively inconvenienced" tons of other people by stealing a shitload of money from them.
> It motivates people to work for themselves if they get to keep more of the reward, plain and simple

That's a myth. Tax has very little to do with that.
This post is a really poignant (if unintentional) example of how a lot of programmers/non-arty types have a fundamental misunderstanding about how graphic design works.

"Just do it right the first time" is such a maligned attitude when directed towards coders ("No, boss. I need to make revisions!"). Interesting that the perspective isn't being applied equally.

Shouldn't you know what you want to do, if you're a professional? If you don't know what you want to do, then you need git or other version control. If you know what you want to do, why do you need version control or patches?
Dogecoin is much smaller than Bitcoin. It would be vastly harder for Bitcoin to change it's monetary policy without forking the network.
Rather understandable, since I'm sure theres a good case for him going to jail in the US. I'm not sure why there's all the comments about the US being authoritarian here though -- Karpeles really screwed a lot of people over,did a bunch of shady stuff, and was grossly negligent in running his exchange. Jail time would not be unwarranted, presuming that the law allows for it.
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Where's the conflict? Plenty of chemicals/hormones/etc. in the body follow the pattern of:

too little = bad
enough = good
too much = bad

A study showing the chronic, high levels of something are bad doesn't generalize to mean that increasing levels is always (or even usually) a bad thing.
I'm not going to go through my whole freaking history to highlight the 5 times I've specifically marked where a downvote to disagree has happened on otherwise civil text.

here:

this was 15 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381397

> That's not true if most such comments get more upvotes than downvotes.

so it's not true were training people to keep unpopular opinions to themselves, because if those opinions will also be upvoted... because why? Because people don't agree with them? What?
It shocks me that the magenta is not on the physical spectrum. It means that there is no such a frequency that produce the color magenta.
It has failed the trials, for a century. Sadly, it will not die.
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Klout being acquired by Lithium Technologies for $200M
No idea how influencial harlembiospace is, but with all those "HN Clones" these days it's worth pointing out that to build an "HN Clone" one should start with being a major player in the respective industry. Compared to that, putting up a forum software is nothing.

In the early days HN felt absolutely hardcore to me. Comments were clearly part of an extended (or future) Y-Combinator application (and last time I checked, the Y-Combinator application form is still asking for your HN account) and there was absolutely no bullshit.

This was particularly clear in discussions about games - they were strictly about the technical or sociological aspects, no one would ever admit to playing (everyone's working on their starup, right?). I remember the first tentative comments from the player's perspective being scoffed at, and even today I feel a little dirty in those EVE online threads, heh.

Point is, knowing that "pg" was watching has always ensured a high quality of comments, and indirectly made HN the place to be.
I wrote GCC's reassociation pass.

LLVM and GCC use the same algorithm for reassociation (and as far as i know, there is still no good literature on tradeoffs one way or the other), so you will get the same results, modulo some small differences implementation differences.

The reassociation passes exist mainly to promote redundancy elimination, and so the factorizations they perform are tilted towards making binary operations that look the same.
Factorization and transformation into pow calls is also done, but this is just because it's easy to do :)

Note that the operations it forms may be "less than ideal" from a register pressure perspective, since it does not take this into account at the level reassociation is being performed (it assumes something will later reassociate them some other way if it wishes).
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>"First, I have a collection of unread books sitting in a folder called “eBooks” on my computer. I want to read these books, and learn from them. But instead of reading books regularly, when I sit down with my tablet I end up reading Zite, Flipboard, and Instapaper."

This is much more a problem with individual habit than publishing.

I saw someone use a perfect term for this - infosugar - the equivalent of reaching for a handful of Doritos and a swig of Mountain Dew multiple times a day instead of making a meal of a book.

Personally, I just uninstalled all those apps.

>"Second, it’s hard to know which books are good. Because most self-published books aren’t listed on a marketplace like Amazon (where user reviews abound), it’s difficult to get a good sense of whether I would enjoy a given book."

I'm sure an Amazon listing facilitates collecting reviews, but even then there's an awful lot of material on Amazon with few, if any reviews. At a glance, 25-50% of any given category or search has reviews <= 1.

I think the answer here is simply for self-publishers to make more of each book available to browse online. I'm far more likely to buy a book if I thumb through it (literally or virtually) beforehand.

In my experience, self-publishers are often terrible about this as they provide perhaps a fragment of a chapter and sometimes nothing more than a table of contents alongside a premium price.

Ideally, I think there would be at least a substantial fraction of the book online to browse. Unless you're selling the promise of "secrets" or whatever there's probably nothing to fear, cheapskates aren't going to pay regardless.

>"We need our own book club."

I like book clubs, but I really have to wonder about one which sounds like it would be a pretty damn self-referential. How do you deal with honest reviewing and priority of titles when both the reviewers and authors are part of the same reputation economy?
Doesn't Percona's MySQL "fork" already include most of the Twitter, Google and Facebook patches?
I'd probably quit my job, but I wouldn't stop working. I'd start doing work that _I_ want. I'd make cool stuff, rather than boring corporate websites. And who knows? Some of that cool stuff might even make me more money than corporate websites would.

And with 20k a year, I could afford to take that risk. Basic Income would be absolutely fantastic for starting entrepreneurs.
Somebody needs to do a redub of that zenga zenga video to whatever "site by site" is in Turkish.
Why doesn't he just invite the US officials to visit him in order to question him? Why must he be the one burdened with travel?
Eastern European sex slaves sold to Muslims.
Darktable is like Lightroom; it has the same editing limitations as Lightroom (or Adobe Camera Raw, for that matter). It's nothing at all like what non-destructive editing in Photoshop means.
I don't believe the US Gov would do more than a DCMA takedown request.

Wikileaks hasn't been taken down.

If someone did have a recording of a Classified Video/Call I guess it would be up to their discretion to leak or not to leak.
Fair point, good examples. Agree with stability issues.
Your volume is off a fair bit for us. Assuming you don't reuse them my wife and I will make 8-12 cups a day, which means 350 will last for around 35 days. Or basically a month.

Additionally the filters cost £3.99 as "add ons" at Amazon.co.uk, or £6.99 when purchased alone.

So trade-off is clear one metal filter costs the same as two packets of papers.

(Yeah, tried to persuade my wife to recycle, but she preferred the simplicity of pushing out the puck into the bin, so that was a losing battle.)
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I'm pretty sure only /skiːm/ (as in skill) is correct.
1. He borrowed money from various US Institutions.

2. He has failed to return that money. Furthermore, he claims he cannot repay the money back and requests Bankruptcy protection

The Plaintiffs are in their right to try and get their money back. You don't just borrow millions of dollars and lose it all. Actually, you're allowed to do that in the US as long as you file Bankruptcy protection and listen to court requests and make an honest effort to repay as much of the money back. Its one of the reasons why the US is good for businesses, Bankruptcy law reduces the risks businesses make in regards to losing money / paying creditors.

It is okay to fail in the US... but only if you properly document your failures and make an honest effort to repay what you owe.

However, that is not what he has done. He's hiding out in Taiwan thinking there is some government conspiracy against him. On the contrary, US Laws are relatively forgiving. Hell, he may have multiple layers of legal defenses: if he properly created a Limited-liability corporation, his personal wealth will remain uneffected. Currently, he is NOT responsible for paying back the millions upon millions of dollars that he should be responsible for.

But that is only because of Bankruptcy protection. The US Courts and US Law protects you from creditors in this situation.

The Texas Court is protecting him from creditors currently. He does NOT have to pay all the money back, so long as the courts are on his side. However, the Texas Courts are complaining because this man is utterly ridiculous and ignorant on how the US Court system works. He is biting the hand that feeds him, so to speak.

In fact, it is quite unfair that the US Law treats businesses with such leniency. Student Loans evade bankruptcy protection for example. Nevertheless, if Karpeles plays his cards right, he will not have to pay back his loans. But he has to work with the Texas court for that kind of protection. It is only fair.

And remember, this isn't the "Federal Government" giving him this protection, it is the State of Texas. The Texas Court is asking for him to enter Texas. I'm not from that state, but I imagine that Texas has more respect for people who actually put forth the effort to appear in person in court.

Anything less is rather disrespectful to the Judge.
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False. The evidence against acupuncture is overwhelming. See Steven Novella's excellent blog for analysis of some of these studies: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/tag/acupuncture...
Did the app get pulled? Right now it's just showing someone's personal homepage: http://i.imgur.com/J8x5TwY.png
> Shipping address, name, and email are necessary even if you use bitcoin

Not for digital goods (maybe email)

> That leaves the CC number, in which case the equivalent is your bitcoin address

Most bitcoin payments are done either through mobile phone scanning a QR-code, or through uri's opening bitcoin software. I've never manually typed in a bitcoin address (worst case is copy pasting the payee address)

> I haven't seen any bitcoin experience that matches that. Reading up on "experiences" people have with Overstock and Tiger Direct, it all seems very roundabout and inconvenient.

Not sure what you've been reading, but my bitcoin purchasing experiences have all been extremely straightforward. Scan QR-code, press send, done.

> And then you're hit with shit like no refunds to top it off.

Uh...no you aren't. There's no chargebacks, not no refunds. That is, to get a refund the merchant has to agree. Basically, risk moves from merchant to customer (banks usually require the merchant to prove they delivered the goods in chargeback cases)

edit:

> With bitcoin, you're going to get hit with transaction fees, exchange fees, and exchange spread. For small shops, its likely that will come out less than the CC fees, but for bigger stores its questionable.

bitpay already offer 0% fees for a flat $30/month, and things can only get cheaper (as there get more/better exchanges and less volatility)
There is a discussion from today and yesterday on llvm-dev that deals with floating point guarantees and optimizations: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/358...