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My advice would be: try to do something small and with value. Don't try to start out the next big thing from the start. Try to start out the next useful thing, no matter how small.

Also, keep this $5,000 for yourself. If you can't create something of value without the money (more true as you can code), it is not $5,000 that will make it work.
A not-insignificant group of existing payment processors / ecommerce platforms are now supporting Bitcoin. Shopify, Balanced (sort of), Stripe, and now Square. Am I missing any?
What about innovation and quality? Let's assume that digital technologies finally make entertainment essentially free. Who will make the good movies? Do we have lower quality entertainment since it started becoming increasingly cheaper? It would be interesting to see studies on that.

Now suppose an analogous situation occurs with food, energy etc. Does this mean we will eventually end up eating pizza every day?
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worth noting: https://github.com/kenkeiter/skeuocard
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I'm not being an ass, I'm saying this is exactly the tax treatment that was expected, to bail now means you didn't see this coming. Did you honestly think the IRS was going to declare Bitcoin a legal tender currency on par with the USD in regards to special tax treatment? Who didn't know Bitcoin was going to be subject to capital gains tax? Everyone who groks taxes knew, and not just knew, but expected it. The IRS clarification was not in any way surprising. Something isn't a currency just because you want it to be, things don't avoid tax laws just because people wish they did.

No one could have seriously thought the government would treat crypto-currencies like real currencies. The same people who all think cryto is going to displace fiat are all up in arms about crypto not being treated like fiat; it's a joke.
That's lovely for you, but not terribly relevant to anything I've stated.

An appeal to personal experience does not constitute a refutation of the assertion that a technology cannot possess sensibilities. Nor does it provide evidence that the majority of the present Bitcoin community shares such beliefs -- asserting otherwise constitutes a fallacy of improper generalization.

It's quite possible that the views most frequently articulated on Bitcoin Talk, etc. are those of a vocal minority.
Maybe not transformative if you are talking about just replacing the cost of what is used now, but if energy is extremely cheap we will actually use more of it.

For example: Tired of landfills? Recycle everything! Tired of plowing your driveway, heat it! Tired of polluted air? Break water down into pure air for your house! etc
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Complementing cheap energy is efficient use thereof. A smartphone today can practically be run off solar energy, where such computing power used to darn near require its own major power plant. "3D printed buildings" will construct architecture with much less energy than current building techniques, which in turn are made with much less energy than past all-human-powered construction. There's a baseline of how much energy we each need (lifting building elements into place, caloric food needs, BTUs for thermal comfort in a given enclosed space), with a baseline of what energy is available (1KW/hr per m^2, plus whatever stored energy is available in wood & fossil & nuclear fuels); while there are upper and lower limits, we can use what's available to more efficiently transition one to the other.
I wonder why so many people always assume that increased productivity means fewer workers instead of more goods.
Maybe check your spam folder. The email was flagged as spam for the confirmation.
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On the other hand most of the people commenting here are on the clock.
John “Chris” Inglis just revealed to the world that the NSA was–is?–intercepting every single email, text message, and phone-location signal in real time for the entire country of Iraq. Obviously, the fact that the NSA has this capability, and used it, is Top Secret. What authority did Chris Inglis have to disclose this?

This capability in Iraq had already been publicly disclosed. It's detailed in Bob Woodward's 2011 book, "Obama's Wars". Search for "RTRG" in the excerpt.† It isn't clear who disclosed the program to Woodward, but I think it's pretty clear they wanted the capability to counter the (very real) IED threat in Iraq. It actually sounds pretty reasonable and not so Orwellian in that context.

† http://books.simonandschuster.com/Obamas-Wars/Bob-Woodward/9...
I don't even get as far as being able to verify myself. When I follow their instructions to upload my public key, I get "Whoa: Error: Unknown public key version: 3". Which doesn't really help me know what's actually wrong.
Umm... April fools?
I was pretty confident I knew that openstack was the fastest growing open source project. They didn't show up in the answers, so maybe the criteria was such that it was cut out?
> Over the past decade millions of consumers have become prosumers, producing and sharing music, videos, news, and knowledge at near-zero marginal cost and nearly for free, shrinking revenues in the music, newspaper and book-publishing industries.

No, these things aren't produced for "free". They're replicated for "free". Huge difference.

The first cancer vaccine will "cost" trillions of spent research dollars. The second one? Probably a few cents, if that.

Let's not, especially on this site, forget about how important investors are.
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Depends on the kind of libertarian. Some libertarians would scope that down. Much of the court system can be privatized as arbitration panels and insurance adjustment show. Security can be privatized as well, so local police don't necessarily have to be government funded. National defense is the only area where anarcho-capitalism doesn't quite bridge the gap.

I don't really agree with any of the above, but I think it is disingenuous to claim that there aren't a lot of libertarians who fall along a spectrum including Minarchy.
Does such a consensus really exist? Who decides what the libertarian consensus is on a particular view?
Can anyone who has used this explain to me if it is worth $180? I own both textmate($50 iirc) and sublime(around $70 iirc) so spending that much seems a bit much. I know it has some nice visual features, but is it $120 worth?
What's most troublesome is statements like this, typical of the guardian:

"A new economic paradigm – the collaborative commons – has leaped onto the world stage as a powerful challenger to the capitalist market."

Whereas capitalism as a philosophy is about individual rights and private property, this "new collaborative economy" stinks of failed historical experiments.
That logic would only apply to public property, right?
Wil Wheatons response to a little girl on how to deal with being called a nerd.
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I like Inkscape fine. I use it often to make diagrams in papers. I just don't think it's good for designing PCBs.

I said I totally agree that python should be the scripting engine.
Nice, though not sure about utility...are you interested in working on a UI builder such as this : http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/dnd-demo-clipp...

I would be happy to discuss :)
it worked well for jennifer: http://jenniferdewalt.com/
Whoah, queue the next level of conspiracy theories. Now that everything the tinfoil hats were saying a decade ago is revealed as 100% real and operational, we need to go to the next level Inception-style.
No. My company provides an engineering service for vendors to find security flaws in specific pieces of software before (and sometimes after) that software ships. You should think of us as part of the development process.

If you gave us a piece of software that used BSAFE, you could reasonably expect detailed mitigation advice on not having a PKRNG exposed in your system.

No process in the market compensates us for acquiring a Ricoh printer and digging into its firmware to find how any why it's using BSAFE. It's not an especially interesting research project either.

I'm not surprised we don't know which products actually use Dual_EC, and I don't find the fact that we don't particularly telling. I'm saying something different: that I have worked with software that used BSAFE, and it used BSAFE for idiosyncratic reasons that didn't much implicate Dual_EC. I would not, for instance, be at all surprised to find an embedded device that used BSAFE for some goofy thing, but used OpenSSL as its TLS library.
This page doesn't say much, but it looks like this is the next Dreamweaver.
Seems like a tendency to name software after female names from the victorian era. Interesting.
These libertarians oppose smoking bans imposed on private establishments. They believe that second hand smoke is fine if it only affects people who voluntarily enter the establishment (similar to how they're fine with people throwing concerts even though the noise level of concerts can damage the listener's ears).
you should just post it again with the right url
Using the CONNECT engine you can read (and I think write?) data to ODBC data sources. This is essentially a very cheap IBM Federated system...it's even written by one of their original devs.
Great question! Although even 1 confirmation is relatively secure and 3 is quite acceptable, still that's 10-30 min.
They seem to be pretty serious.
> Are they ignoring the risk of a double spend and just going ahead once a transaction has propagated to the network for mining?

After a majority of the nodes have seen a transaction it becomes relatively safe to accept it as valid before 6 confirmations. You wouldn't want to do that for high value transactions, but I think it's fine up to a couple BTC (read: $1000 or less).

The Mycelium wallet implements transaction confidence:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xqh51/new_mycelium... and http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/13/the-mathematically...
Hey, Steve from Balanced here. Curious as to why you say 'sort of' for us: if it's that we're in beta, so is Stripe.

(We're hoping to get out of beta in the near-ish timeframe.)
They probably absorb the risk of double-spend, which is way harder than stolen credit cards and chargebacks.
Please remember there are other continents in this world.
Couldn't they create a challenge/response type authentication that proofs that liz has the private key for her public key?

Liz wants to authenticate. Keybase sends her a challenge, which she encrypts using her private key. Keybase uses her public key to verify that liz owns the private key for her public PGP key. Easy peasy.
MaxDB, MySQL and MariaDB are all named after Monty's children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
Why I pitched barefoot at Demo Day, and tips for being relaxed on stage
Ok - reposted cheers.
Pretty terrible situation. As an aside, the link about what happened to Zoe Quinn when she submitted her game, Depression Quest, to Steam Greenlight, is something I had not heard before. I was blown away by her deceptively simple RPG and to hear about that backlash is rage inducing.
scopebuffer's inclusion in Phobos was controversial. Many felt that its unusual design (such as lack of destructor), and ease of misuse, meant it shouldn't be there.
This is almost certainly not true given the fact that ECDRBG is chronically slow (think orders of magnitude). Any developers working on implementations which generate a reasonable amount of random data switch to HMAC very quickly.
Though that would require the implementation of those features being more advanced than the go json library's "runtime reflection".
If I hear the word Enterprise again I swear I'm going to vomit. :P Who cares what the Enterprise is doing ? You should be asking what Google is doing to attract the smartest web startups who will be tomorrow's Enterprise :)
Curious if they are going to take a lower transaction fee on Bitcoin payments as opposed to credit card purchases. They really should.
> There's no reason why any file parsing library would end up fetching remote data without being explicitly asked to do so.

I would agree. But the XML spec. authors clearly disagreed with both of us:

External Entities:

XML 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-external-ent

XML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#sec-external-e...

This is "XML speak" for an "include" statement to something like cpp, with the exception that this "include" could end up performing remote network fetches to acquire that which is being included.

So, technically, to be a proper, standards compliant XML parser, the parser has to at least submit requests to "fetch" these entities to the higher level code using the library, and let that code decide what to do about the "includes".

As to why Microsoft's implementation is the way it is, absent a Raymond Chen blog post explaining the why, we can only guess.
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This looks like a link to the sales page, here's a link to the main page as well.

http://macaw.co/
Yahoo is in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN
I'm not making a normative claim about the "true meaning" of the word "property." I don't think that "true meanings" exist. Words and phrases are just communication tools, so using common terms in non-standard ways is not a good way to communicate your ideas, and certainly not a good thing to base an argument on. I'm just demonstrating what overwhelmingly standard usage is for the term "intellectual property."
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And even if he were to write the operating system from scratch, he would still have "cheated" by not designing the hardware. I wonder how long it would take in man-years to recreate the entire chain all the way up to a simple C-like compiler. Still, fascinating work, and most of all a fascinating perspective. I for one haven't the slightest clue about how to program by directly inputting hexadecimal machine code.
This is overblown. We still need food, we still need heavy engineering, we still need nanotech. Yes, there are some simple things that can be manufactured differently to how they had been in the past, but even those are still not free. The printers are not free, their consumables are not free and they can't produce more than a small fraction of the things we currently buy.

I think this tech will be revolutionary, don't get me wrong, but I don't think everything is going to be free nor do I think capitalism is going anywhere fast (at least, not on account of 3d printers!)
Too early and not funny — but good catch, trolling will be starting soon.
Kind of on the contrary I feel like this is a great reminder of how possible doing very complicated things with much more rudimentary tools than we have available now is, and that we're really not so far from the 'ancient' ways than we like to think.

And though the product would be quite limited, if you're willing to rely on the BIOS doing this from a raw kernel implemented in itself wouldn't be that bad (and having a VM to do so faster would help, but booting off a floppy would still be possible). If anything it might make things a little simpler since you wouldn't have to even use a syscall to get memory, if you set up the pagetables to map to physical memory 1:1 you've got free reign.

And that would definitely be an interesting process to try to take this through.
Unless you have a statistical survey of the bitcoin community, all we have is the anecdotal evidence. And the anecdotal evidence, both from my personal experience, as well as _objective sampling of the celebrities of the community_ is that libertarianism is disproportionately represented compared to the populace in general.

And since the early adopters and pioneers of a community often mirror the philosophy of their founders, it is highly probable that the bitcoin community is overrepresented with libertarians.

That this seems surprising to you or you're so defensive over it seems strange. It seems pretty self evident. As if you found a community of gun owners producing crypto-guns, and were shocked to find they were NRA members too.
Well robotics will make about anything possible as time and tedium will be removed as barriers. In a society where supply is merely a result of time there won't be much to want or steal. At least if your in that first world part of the world.

Yeah there are costs involved in setting it all up, but with robotics it comes down to material access to build with. The nice thing about robotics is you can put them into inhospitable areas for about, well forever.

I fully expect there will be a generation not too far off whose primary source of work is creating things just because and not for whom. Oh sure there will be people who do and do for others, but it won't be a real requirement. Just like a small number of people get the real work done in most work environments so will society migrate too.
I believe the only limiter on a 'make -j' is how quickly make can scan directories, stat() the files, and fork() additional compiler instances.
The problem with healthcare is

1. Politics that prevent innovation, i.e. regulation.

2. Disruptive innovations, i.e. innovations that trade quality for cost have negative view by consumers relative to other industries.

Change those ,and tomorrow we can have a serious reduction in costs, and within a decade or two a huge amount of cost reducing innovation.

BTW 1 and 2 can be partially solved by targeting poor countries with disruptive innovations , letting them improve and prove their quality there, and then transfer them to the 1st world.
You should wait until Paypal accepts bitcoin to say that.
Ah okay, thought the RC version was different. Thanks!
> Very interesting. What is the function signature of the generated functions? Are you saying that the functions you generate for serialization are the same (and have the same signature) as the functions you generate for GC tracing?

Yes, they're the same. They take the actual serializer (JSON, or YAML, or the GC, etc) as a type parameter so that you can just write `#[deriving(Encodable)]` and have it be used with different serializers. Type parameters are expanded away at compile time, so this leads to zero overhead at runtime.
Good to see. Businesses that offer marketplace services should have no objection to integrating bitcoin as a payment option. It does not deteriorate the merchant or consumer experience (regardless of whether or not they use or hold bitcoin), so they have nothing to lose, and all to gain.

For Square, it's just an extra payment method that they're hoping will help their merchants (and them) tap into the very small percentage of evangelistic early adopters who have made large gains and are now willing to spend some of their coins.

Square is most probably not a supporter of the vision of bitcoin taking over e-commerce payments. Most of their business stems from partnerships with large credit card companies. This is a pure (and smart) marketing play.
This was great.

Exist sometime like this but more high level? For example, I wonder how start with python, lua or obj-c, create my own syntax and continue the development with them after a while.

I think nimrod & julia (and certainly freepascal) do this but wonder how they do that.
Actually, for most hands, honesty is helpful for arbitraging risk.

You need lying in poker, but it should be the exception. No one will buy your biggest bluffs otherwise.
I've made a library this weekend that doesn't need code generation to achieve 2x improvement[1] over the standard library.

While the OP only implemented the encoding part, I only implemented the decoding part =):

https://github.com/aybabtme/fatherhood

So I guess they overlap nicely in that.

[1]:https://github.com/aybabtme/fatherhood#performance
>The article really ignored how many tax payer dollars went into different public institutions to make the Internet a reality"

Which is why their analysis focuses on the marginal cost, which is the cost of producing the next unit (or sending the next piece of information electronically). Even if you amortize infrastructure costs over each piece of information sent, the costs are on their way to near-zero.
Great to see Dell and some other manufacturers finally pushing the envelope. One domain that's been severely lagging behind in terms of racing to the future is displays. Most displays from 10, 15 years were sure bulkier but provided much better quality and resolution. It's starting to change and I'm glad as someone with extremely poor eyesight :D
Looking at OpenStack, it does look like an aggregate of all of the organization's repositories would be definitely the fastest growing. However, we looked at individual repositories, so that's why it's not on the graph. It would be interesting see the growth of the big open source organizations (GNU vs Apache vs OpenStack etc.)
Apples OpenGL drivers are known to have sub par performance compared to those for Linux and Windows.
Notably that's a prime google web property, and I don't doubt that they made sure that it's snappy on chrome - which says more about google maps than about chrome, in all likelihood.

For comparison, on my machine maps.bing.com is about as fast in FF as in chrome (panning around is about as snappy), whereas IE11 is much faster (it's a little snappier in gmaps too).

In other words: IE on bing does notably better than IE on google; and chrome on google does noticably better than chrom on bing. It's not hugely surprising - all three browsers can be quite snappy if you profile and ensure you miss various slow paths, and of course MS + google make sure their mapping services work well in their own browser.
Well, it's not really a text editor, it's more of a WYSIWYG editor.
So "it's not true that companies who use default use default because if they use default they will measure the speed and then not use default?" Too much reading Catch 22?

In fact, the companies who use default simply use it. Period. And they use default in spite of it being slower than something else.
No. Trying to use his "How to Make Friends and Influence People" social engineering talents on the cops was his mistake. Calling them was the right thing to do.

EMTs often need cops in urban situations because douchenozzle bystanders (not just this guy) want to get involved in the situation. It's bizarre.

I really hope that, if anyone is ever injured in your presence, especially if they lose consciousness AT ALL, you'll call 911 and not Lyft. WTF.
Either they do that, or the press a button on one and then go do what they really wanted to do.
The most realistic case of something close to this scenario happening, is that virtual reality will greatly improve and people will prefer to mostly live there.

And in virtual reality ,marginal cost does go to zero.
I did not expect drivers for Beagle Bone, but I preemptively responded to "But BeagleBone is better" responses, which I've gotten every single time when discussing RasPi limitations.

> it was not possible for RPI users to interface a custom camera module with RPi

That's correct. But the RPi's camera modules (standard and noir) are very well supported (even if source is not all open), and they work very well - reasonable quality 5MP@15fps, FullHD@30FPS, 720p@60fps, with access to the encoding/decoding pipeline that allows you to e.g. insert an overlay before h264 encoding the original stream (in fact, that's the most cost effective way to add overlays to an already encoded 1080p h264 video even if you don't connect a camera).

I find that it's pretty hard to beat RPi on price, support, functionality/price, community, openness etc. in general - to the point that if the RPi is not the right solution for a project, it is unlikely that any of its competitors (low power sub $100 cpu+gpu+network on a small form factor) is.