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ghash has been caught before abusing 0 confirmation betting with double spend. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0

Also even if another pool won twice in a row it wouldn't matter. Over the next few blocks ghash's blockchain would become longer and all bitcoin clients would accept it.
It also stops Joe Shmoe from coming in with the same drive he's been using for a few years already but has no clue is filled with all sorts of malware and viruses.
In France, back in the day, the King was served entire meals at once, which would sit there cooling off while spectators gawked from the gallery. It was one thing if you could afford to eat great cuisine, but if you could afford to let it go to waste, that showed real power. That kind of thing inspired the democracy movement.

So, in the long term, it is simply not possible for serious cuisine to grow more detached from eating than it has been.
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Would those same women have made that decision if conditions were equal across the genders? Would they have tried to remain or return to the workforce if daycare supplort and career tracks were more suitable to their needs?

Hard to say without considering alternative realities.
The meme of the CRA causing the housing bubble holds little water.

A simple example of why this idea has very little validity: the housing bubble was a global phenomenon.

As a second example: most of the questionable sub-prime lending during the housing bubble was done by private institutions not under the CRA regulation.

Some good reading on the subject:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/examining-the-big-lie-h...

Now if you want to talk about repealing Glass-Steagall or the lack of regulation of the derivatives market via the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (both mentioned in the article you link to), then I'm all ears.
Sure, you learn about how to handle the leadership of a school club, something which has nearly zero applicability anywhere else.
Always makes my day to see people still carrying the TI-hacking torch! :)

Any particular goals you want to achieve with this project?
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If you like reading charts, check out some of the detail in this article [1]. In particular, the second of the market graphs (with the red lines) that goes much further back than this story. It concurs with the flatness since 2000, but rather than predicting a downward ramp, is suggesting the timing is right for a new period of growth to commence.

[1] http://www.shirlawscoaching.com/_blog/Driving_business_perfo...
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`paul, I'm surprised by your comment, especially given that you're typically a very insightful and productive commenter on HN. Is this a reference to a similar reply `thathonkey once made to one of your comments?
> If you understand even the basics of trademark law, you know that if IKEA were to do nothing at all in this case, that they would risk losing their IKEA trademark.

What do you base this statement on? The only cases that I've heard about where a company lost their trademark were nothing like this one, at all.
Bugs exist, and are well populated (though I suspect many disgruntled users don't manage to track these things down to the code.google tracker).

The bug threads contain a predictable mix of well-reasoned, thoughtful explanations of the problem, polite requests for fixes, impolite and exasperated complaints, and developer responses ranging from 'you're wrong to want the earlier / native OS behaviour' to 'we won't fix it, for reasons'.

Snap-back bug 377191 [1] morphed into 377919 [2]. I'm pretty sure the non-intuitive 'snapback' name is an unfortunate and doubtless unintended example of making it harder for users to find, and report their preferences.

Looking at those two bug reports, there's at least another half dozen issue #'s that have been merged into these.

MS-Windows-like single-click to select the URL (rather than using the mouse as a pointer to position the cursor, as GNU/Linux users seem to be familiar with) bug reports date back a long time [3] with hints that not all the developers agree with the behaviour change (or the refusal to make it an option). Again, it's the kind of thing that people continue to identify and complain about elsewhere, for example on the Google product forums [4].

Just as with this one-time-offer-only, auto-translate pop-up bug -- I really dislike the allegedly modern behaviour of reducing configuration options inside software, while your shipped configuration annoys an ever-increasing section of your user base.

The alleged benefit of satisfying the handful of people who are easily bewildered by Settings dialogs is simply perverse.

</rant>

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377191

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337919

[3] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26140

[4] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/AZt9L9...
Hey, don't knock it. I learnt to program in GML; to the point where I built a 3D game out of Game Maker, pretty much using the UI as a glorified level editor, rather than using its proper actions. Taught me heaps :)

Nowadays, I'm a web dev, but I build games in my spare time, and have lately been doing it with Canvas/Javascript. Just like SDL it takes some of the finicky bits out of your way, but is still pretty low level somewhat.
One day in high school, perhaps in 1971, I was reading the financial section of the newspaper just before math class started.

My math teacher came in, saw that I was looking at the stock tables, and said something like: "I really like Philip Morris. I've made a lot of money in that stock over the years".

Now, check out
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MO&t=my&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

Here are the splits in just that stock since 1974:

2 * 2 * 2 * 4 * 3

That doesn't include the spinoff of PM and KRFT (I don't recall if shareholders participated in Miller spinoff). And there may have been more spinoffs that I can't even remember.

Now imagine how much money my math teacher's heirs would have today if they continued to hold his Philip Morris stock because they had "long term thinking".

You might be right. Maybe the long term is over in tobacco stocks. But the previous half century has sure made some people a lot of money selling products that have killed millions of other people.
I really think that should be left to nginx or stud or something like that. It's the Unix way, with which I mean, it's less likely someone's going to fuck something up.
I just want to see a nice Unix-like for these calcs. Eventually it'd be cool to have a bunch of slick stuff like a VFS and such, but for now I'll be happy once there's good math support and students can start using it.
Would BitTorrent not much more sense for this? At least then people can pick which files they want instead of downloading a 50GB file.
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Learning how to clean is a pretty good lesson.
Wow, excellent catch! I apologize for the discrepancy. I must have made a mistake simplifying the game code for the blog post. I created a Gist [1] to showcase the differences.

The problem in the blog post is the `add` function. It should recurse (like `go` in the Hs2048 package). I fixed the post [2] with this line:

add (x : y : rest) = x + y : add rest

[1]: https://gist.github.com/tfausak/4401ef0b43b5c1db0570
[2]: https://github.com/tfausak/tfausak.github.io/issues/31
I have come to really dislike people who think it's a good idea to define macros such as min, max, major and minor in system headers.

* http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd75...

* http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd75...

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22240973/major-and-minor...
> More recently, a Nintendo exec couldn't understand why people would want to watch streamed games[2]

Gahh.. that link made me seriously question Nintendo's management - are they that disconnected from their customers? just thinking one inch ahead and asking yourself "what's fun about watching [insert your country's favourite sport]" would immediately answer that question whether this is something people want.
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> there are women who are aspiring for a career and this may be a problem for them

Steven Pinker wrote about this in his book 'The Blank Slate'. The problem is that women here do not have the choice, as you yourself even point out. Perhaps the large majority voluntarily choose a lifestyle which does not grind against the standard but what about those which choose a career? Equality does not mean that women act the same as men, it means that women have the same choice as men.
Pedantry is an inherent part of nerd-dom. It's often a good thing. Computers and other such things don't work on "well, you know what I meant".

However, there's a nasty subset of pedantry which basically consists of pattern-matching words without truly grasping the meaning and using that as a launching point for a "you're wrong" reply. This kind of pedantry derails conversations and wrecks communities.

That's the kind of pedantry I got above with this nonsense reply about how "in metric they would use liters". As if I didn't know that! A moment's thought would indicate, hey, maybe this guy is not a complete idiot who doesn't know anything about metric, and he probably already knows that neither ounces nor gallons are metric, so let's figure out what he actually meant instead of doing a mindless pattern-matching "you're wrong" reply. That is hostility too. Especially when you keep on going even after the guy explains it.

And of course I get the usual internet double standard, where it's perfectly OK to to write a really bad comment as long as you don't outright use upsetting words, but calling that behavior out is criticized.

I don't subscribe to this idea that "civil" is equivalent to "use nice words". To me, "civil" is about how you behave. If you curse but treat other people with respect, that's civil. If you use nothing but benign words arranged in a way that treats other people without respect, that's "not civil".
Oops. Thanks for correcting me. I assumed an overwhelming male audience and authorship that is typical of HN. Utterly my fault.
Sounds, you are correct. Knowing who Tom Ligon is, is essential. BTW Riders objections are based on an IEC wire gridded machine (fusor)that has a narrow or spiked potential well, Polywell has a broad or table top potential well as seen on a chart, a very different environment that is less likely to create brem, in addition the ratio of Proton to Boron11 envisioned is not what Rider described. And the EMC2 paper includes Brem measurements which hints at good things.
For what it's worth, I decided this might be because I've had far too much experience with disgusting sour milk that sat in the refrigerator too long, while my only experience with rotten grain or grapes is with the nicely packaged kind where it was done on purpose.
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Relatively few modernist techniques are intrinsically expensive or exclusive. Many local yogurt shops now sell "fruit bubble" toppings. New gadgets make sous-vide cheap as well, and I'd expect to see that used by food trucks before long, despite the tight counter space.
APNIC is being fairly conservative with their final /8, but the big graph doesn't show the feeding frenzy that abruptly stopped in 2011:

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/fig27h.png

Interestingly, the allocation rate has picked up again in the last month or so. I'm guessing that's related to the recent announcement about the "IANA IPv4 Recovered Address Space".
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The next step for EMC2 is likely a Proton Boron11 machine. they have previously set a record for plasma density that exceeds that of Tokamaks. EMC2 could even use WB-8 with new e-guns and fuel injectors to make P-B11 runs. Lerner at Focus is still far from an actual P-B11 reactor.
Where do you shop? My prices have gone up by about 5%. Groceries have mainly remained the same for me. The consumption tax has also been raised, do not forget. I believe Uniqlo planning to raise prices does not reflect a　failed fight against inflation.
rust-http supports SSL on the client side but does not on the server side. I am inclined to think this a good idea for the moment, as it is a high-risk area; for that matter, I do not recommend that people have rust-http servers directly facing the Internet for the moment, as there may be DoS attack vectors in it. I recommend sitting it behind a reverse proxy for the moment, such as nginx. For SSL support, I would recommend using something like nginx or stunnel. (This is a security improvement also in case of things like Heartbleed, as the server with most of the sensitive data is in an isolated process.)

Eventually rust-http (or rather, Teepee) will be capable of doing all these things itself, but for the moment—be cautious. For that matter, I don’t recommend that people write web things in Rust yet.
According to the article, the demand for cognitively demanding work peaked in 2000 and has been falling ever since, first sharply then at a slower but steady pace.
Theyre just trying to bring workable answers to trajectory fruition.
I played this months ago. It's a highly entertaining game that serves as a great introduction to text-based games (formally called Interactive Fiction).
Culture isn't that easy to fabricate without some level of sincerity throughout the organization. And even if it was, who loses if everyone is happier to belong in the organization?
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> smokers became Worse Than Hitler

Interesting comparison, given that Hitler was an ardent non-smoker and the Nazis instituted one of the first public anti-tobacco campaigns:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_G...
Unlike some of Ars' other epic history articles, this one didn't really get me too excited. It seemed pretty screenshot-heavy, thin on technical details (especially the 'why's behind version-to-version changes, the 'who's behind the original and ongoing development, etc.).

Most of the information is nice to know, but the story really remains to be told. This article is far from a Sircusa Mac OS X review (which I usually spend at least an hour reading every year).

In the end, the article reminded me more of a journal of someone's spelunking adventure rather than a personal story with an interesting slant, so I felt less inclined to power through the last few pages.
Might that fun not also rub off on TJ employees as it rubs off on customers? If my job was to put boxes on shelves, I'd rather do it in a Hawaiian shirt uniform than a plain black uniform.
@dang As far as I can tell, the text _does_ make it in with the submission (i.e. it is stored) but it is not _displayed_.

I'm reading HN on hn.premii.com (which uses the Algolia API) and I see both the submission URL and the submission text.

BTW thanks for the awesome work you're doing on HN!
The more I read about Myrvhold, the more I don't like him. Seems like a billionaire who needs to find a way to define himself.
Thanks! You're right: the text is stored (that's how I knew it existed) but doesn't show up when there's a URL. Unless, it seems, you're using a clever client.
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Focus on the part about having a more educated population. Educated persons tend to vote for candidates aligned with their best interests, spend money more wisely, and commit less crime. More educated peers and neighbors will make your life better.
Prices have only gone up 30% if you keep all your money in Euros/Dollars. Purchasing power has only gone down something like 2% over the past year (which considering the freefall of the Yen is pretty impressive).
I did a year of Rotary exchange to a Japanese high school, and can confirm that we students did in fact clean the toilets. Our school had porcelain "squat" toilets, and they were quite disgusting to scrub. Yet everyone took their turn, with a minimum of complaint. It was normal.
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DR Park may have written that 12 pager. I found its chock full of nuanced information, particular the bit about:

"In comparison, the expected D-T fusion power output would be 1.9 GW"

In Proton Boron 11 parlances thats possibly 1 to 1.6 gigs. I think thats gross power not net. The net would be a bit lower IMHO.
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> They can be incredibly valuable to me and a net negative for the communities they operate in.

That is at least as true of government as it is of companies that bend or break regulations.
Thank you nkurz, I was in a hurry and working by memory, & I agree the discussion at Talk Polywell is generally of high quality, much of it above my pay grade.
When I lived in the UK (2002-2003) I was told that its perfectly acceptable to leave your litter on the train platform against the wall as there are people who regularly come by to clear it. Is this still true?
That sounds amazing. You should make it and report back.
When I was in Japan for a few weeks, I was shocked how immaculate the whole country was.

You know what else shocked me? A flight attendant passing through the airport lobby noticed a small piece of paper litter on the floor. Without any hesitation, she picked it up and put it in her pocket.

You see other workers do the same. They don't just leave it up to cleaning staff. Everybody helps out. It's a cultural thing.
I would rather that the respectable factory job is done by a robot. I don't think we should force humans to do repetitive work that can be automated just so that they can somehow justify their existence in a society that is obsessed with work. Our goal should be as little employment as necessary paired with a basic income.
With a random salt otherwise rainbow tables are still "go", as it were.
The Lisa UI looks clunky and ugly to modern eyes (akin to though not as bad as other early GUIs like Windows 1.0 and OS/2 Presentation Manager), while the original Macintosh still looks clean and well thought out.

Goes to show you why you shouldn't kick Steve Jobs off of your project.
I take "political bias" to mean "how will this affect me". Even someone with some understanding of US politics will typically not be able to immediately understand the worldwide implications of a certain leader over another. For example, take a platform of cutting taxes: How is that going to affect a random guy who lives in Australia?

I suppose some people can say "I'm a democrat and will always vote democrat", but don't I follow that kind of thinking. I think I've voted for almost every party in my country at one time or another, depending on who I feel is best suited for representation at that time.
I notice it has DawnBringer's 16-color palette. Excellent.
Elite universities can offer a hand up to those extraordinary cases of highly intelligent kids coming up from poverty. But they are MUCH less affordable for and admit far fewer kids from ordinary educational backgrounds with middle class parents. I doubt my own trajectory is repeatable without an added couple $100k in debt.
> given the way the economy is, Starbucks will likely never lack job applicants,

Marx called this the "reserve army of labor."
Startups or not, and getting a little off-topic, it will still be thrilling to see a humanoid land on the moon, perhaps even more thrilling than seeing a human doing the same thing.

And just for fun (because I like the story), according to the Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichiro_Honda, Mr. Honda had a little "startup" going in elementary school:

"Honda was not interested in traditional education, his school handed grade reports to the children, but required that it will be returned stamped with the family seal, to make sure that a parent had seen it. Soichiro created a stamp to forge his family seal out of a used rubber bicycle pedal cover. The fraud was soon discovered when Honda started to make forged stamps for other children. Honda did not realize that the stamp had to be mirror-imaged. His family name 本田 was symmetrical when written vertically, so it did not cause a problem, but some of other children's family names were not."
Another project worth mentioning is [GlassOS](http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5686&highlight...) which is an operating system for the TI-8x series calculators written in C and compiled with sdcc. It doesn't offer multitasking (or at least not background tasks, suspending and resuming might be planned, I don't know). It also supports some fairly gimmicky things like system-wide grayscale settings. It also hasn't seen any development for several months, which makes me sad.

KnightOS seems to be more focused on just providing a sane environment for user programs instead of TI's stock OS which is calculator-first and user programs are second class citizens.

I'm not sure how practical preemptive scheduling with background tasks is for these devices, they really are resource constrained. I'm sure it works fine with one background process, especially if it clocks up the cpu for that, but I don't see it scaling much beyond that. I'll have to try it out some time.

I'd be interested to see if a compatibility layer for programs written in C could be set up. SDCC's binaries tend to be reasonably performant, but significantly larger than their assembly equivalent. With 31k available to programs however, C could work for a lot of applications. I might hack on that sometime.
It was the South-West end during the daytime, the crowd seemed mostly business people. I get the feeling that Kabukicho and Golden Gai are treated as their own little walled gardens of sin :)

I was also surprised by the number and condition of the homeless. I had expected a communal minded society would look after such people.
> FCs don't operate via the carnot cycle so in theory can be 90+% efficient in electricity generation.

Sorry, this is wrong.

FCs are not heat engines, so the thermodynamic limitations of heat engines are not relevant to fuel cells. That said, thermodynamic limitations do set an upper bound on the efficiency of fuel cells. For hydrogen fuel cells, the theoretical upper bound is 83% [1]. That's for just the process of turning hydrogen into electricity, and that does not include the process for producing hydrogen in the first place. "90+%" efficiency is strictly impossible in theory or practice.

> i think the carnot efficiency maxes out somwhere 40-50% so no matter what you do (and we've been doing this for 100 years now)

It must be noted that 50% thermal efficiency is a practical upper bound for a real electrical power plant, not a theoretical one. Some combined-cycle gas turbines do exceed 50% efficiency under some operating conditions.

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/electrol.h...
This is really cool! Does it require/bundle any nonfree software?
Leonard Susskind talked about this idea and expanded on it in his talk 'Why is time a one way street'

Highly recommend the talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnKBKZvb_U
I'd love to see a screenshot. What does it look like when running?