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I usually look at where I am and be grateful, regardless of a great disappointment. The optimized approach here is the find what will change your mindset the most and since working may motivate you for a bit, it won't really change your mindset.

A break is good and probably optimable since alcohol and friends will change the scene and definitely change your mindset (as long as you don't bring it up).

Regardless, we always fear of being back where we started - disappointment. Sometimes it's like a date with someone promising that went wrong. There's tons of things you could have done, but she or he didn't want to go on - it doesn't make it your fault, nor the other person's. Sometimes it's just not meant to be, perhaps for the better.
maybe not the cheapest, but a rock/native plant lawn is probably one of the easiest, something like this: http://img2-2.timeinc.net/toh/0708_watersmart/watersmart.jpg .
Yeah. WIP that wasn't quite news-ready. :D
All the examples of "see Bitcoin isn't hard, here is $0.0005 worth" completely gloss over this point.
I'd like to see a non-minimalistic CMS in assembly language. That would be cool.
AWS has among the highest bandwidth costs you're going to run into, if we're talking co-location, dedicated, or self-hosting. Their bandwidth costs are the sole reason I won't go anywhere near AWS yet, I consider their prices outrageously high.

10tb = roughly $1,000 per month

They're between 5 and 50 times more expensive on bandwidth than the options in dedicated / colo / self hosting.
That fact that he wasn't too concerned about having accidentally reset all the computers in the building suggests that he may not have had an appropriate temperament/attitude for a sysadmin managing critical systems.
Hey @runesoerensen! We are going to be at the Creativity Museum in SF during the month of October, so tell him to keep his eye out and come by to play with the bots while we are there!

-June

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Virtually no "ideas" are worth more than the price of the dinner you discuss them over. Wireframes strike me as much closer to professional services, which have market rates. If they're napkin levels of quality/fidelity then the market rate approaches the price of the napkin.
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The comments are all great. And I appreciate them. But I suppose I'm most curious about the last question: what would you have a personal assistant do, if you had one?
It's probably not detecting the right certificate (or from the right issuer?), yeah. I don't think iOS has an API to see if a proxy is enabled.
Using Paypal at the moment, as te_chris said PX pay is decent but requires a merchant account which is expensive and slow to setup. As far as I am aware their aren't any other decent solutions. Kiwipay could be good but at the moment it isn't really suitable for anything more than casual payments.
Actually most of the websites today are better solved by a battery of cheap boxes.

You simply put a load balancer (Nginx/ELB/HAProxy etc) in front of a fleet of smaller web/application servers that dynamically scale depending on traffic. That way it is cost effective, far more reliable, easier to scale and you can tolerate DC outages better.
Actually, you can't create your own ISP. In most US cities, the phone corporation and cable corporation are given a monopoly/duopoly over the "last mile" to your home. It's illegal for someone else to lay down cables and start a competing ISP business.

That's the real problem with network neutrality. If the big ISPs want to stop supporting network neutrality, saying "we own the cables", then the law that gives them a monopoly should also be repealed.

The "free market" can't handle the problem when the government gives someone an explicit monopoly. If the ISPs were a legitimate free market business, it would be fine.
And as mentioned in the opening to my post above, there was a huge roleplaying community on some shards (servers), who would use the static NPC towns as bases for huge roleplaying communities. One of the most notable features of UO, and one that few other games have ever replicated (I'll come back to this...) was that you could drop anything onto the floor. So people would set up player markets in these towns, placing tables and laying out their wares. Players would roleplay guards, and then deal with any thefts, and sometimes players from another faction would raid and make off with a trader's daughter (another player on an alt character).

In the PvP areas you could effectively run a toll bridge by laying out a road block, and fight those who tried to just push past.

A major difference with later MMOs was that (originally) when you died, your possessions stayed on your corpse. You would have to wander off as a ghost to get resurrected, then somehow get back to your body to get your kit back - a tall order in the middle of a dungeon!

Without any form of global chat, the best you could manage was party / guild chat, but often this wasn't enough to get the help you needed. It became commonplace amongst the community to build a metagame community - you might not be in the same guild in game, but you were friends in the forum or in real life, or perhaps you met eachother in game and wanted a means to stay in touch. This posed a problem - no player-to-player system was really in place, and generally minor roleplaying was common - exchanging email addresses felt wrong and out of character. Thus the "pigeon number" was born - ICQ was the staple communication tool. When gAIM, the open source AOL/ICQ messenger (and others), renamed to pidgin, I can't help but think this was deliberate.... ;)

The huge downside to these interesting mechanics and heavy freedom was the opportunity to grief. Kill someone, loot their stuff, ransom it back. Let monsters kill someone, loot their stuff, ransom it back. Tell a ghost you'll only resurrect at their corpse and... you get the idea ;) I always was a big fan of some of the griefer stories, even if I didn't agree with their ethics - Belan being a prime example http://www.askcorran.com/belan/episodes.html

Ultima Online was classless - you developed skills through their use. This also lead to some of us who roleplayed beggars trying to build the ultimate in useless characters - every single skill point up to the cap spent on skills that offered in total no benefit in terms of gameplay mechanic. Begging in UO was a real artform, and there was so much fun to be had roleplaying a widow and seeing what people would offer you.

And finally, these mechanics that few other MMOs have ever implemented? Ultima Online inspired two UK students to build their own version, which became Runescape. Runescape inspired Wurm Online. And one of the Wurm developers, was Notch of Minecraft fame. For all UO's faults, it is truly an important piece of gaming history
> Professional auditing and security testing should be necessary for any piece of software from which it's possible to drain large sums of money, regardless of who's running the software or holding the money. In fact, I'd argue anything less constitutes an ethical breach on the part of the lead engineer(s).

Would you include web browsers, OSs, system libraries and such in that definition? All those can steal users money if compromised. If so, who do you suggest be responsible for that in an open source project?
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I don't think that's the case. The scale of the problem would be proportional to the amount of production being state sponsored.
Huh, I've misattributed that quote in my head for quite a while then. Thanks for straightening me out.
Will anyone who signed up for pin be moving to stripe?
Are you trying to say it's OK because Unix behaves analogously?

It is definitely a problem with Unix also.
If the story stop you from watching a movie, it probably wasn't worth watching to being with :)
Interesting.

On the plus side, it's a tiny fast CMS that can likely be used on minimal-ish hardware.

On the down side, A) it's x86 assembler while most really minimal hardware these days is ARM-based, and B) it generates all of its HTML on the fly so there's a chance that decently-done caching with generation of static content will beat it, particularly in situations where MiniMagAsm is working through an entire directory structure to generate navigation.

I think it's an interesting concept that might actually find some use in the real world if it was ARM assembler, but right now it's an ultralightweight solution that will run primarily on hardware that is unlikely to really need that light weight.

It might be interesting to compare its performance to Blosxsom or its other-language derivatives, particularly with those in static generation mode instead of CGI mode.
I read an article about the trapped Chilean miners a week or two ago, and it occurred to me while reading it that it would have made no difference at all if it were written decades ago about an event I had never heard of; I still would have been engaged and deeply enjoyed its storytelling. I wish other publications would figure out a way to be more like the New Yorker, rather than the other way around.
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Has anyone tried http://swipehq.com? Their website looks good and the cost looks ok too.
Is there some point to posting this Wikipedia entry?
Is there new info or insight into the event?
Do you think this is interesting? If so, why?

Please, before posting links to Wikipedia entries, give it some context!
What would be an example of a traditional rate with other merchants in Australia?
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It's still pretty obviously a horrible idea to have the two keys right next to each other with confirmations that are even remotely similar.
One might wonder if that workstation showed the online and offline status of all the computers.
Really? What type of terms would you need/agree to to allow for the resale of a digital or physical item? If you want more than the original sale price of the item then you are charging way too little for the original sale.
I love that all the traffic is running through a single HAProxy box - a software load balancer (vs a hardware LB like F5).

And they've moved SSL termination to it.

That's a great quality product, and easy to setup.

Edit: I work I'm software that supports MySQL,PG and SqlServer. SqlServerr seems to be the most stable and consistent in performance - they're hard to kill! One of my few liked MS products :D
i feel like this would make an amazing movie. it has everything, manly men, fast cars, technology, huge machinery, massive risks for massive rewards, officials ineffectually trying to stop the heroes, drama, pathos, a dude with a funny accent who curses in a not-quite-correct manner...

on the other hand, very few giant robots destroying exquisite cartoon cities
The issue form most new stories is that even when the truth comes out, the great majority of people will never hear the actual facts. One issue is because news stations move on from caring about the story quickly. Or, the bigger issue in my opinion, is that people won't believe the new, correct facts since the old ones will have been engrained in their head. Solving both these issues would be really helpful for society, but are obviously damn hard to solve since we haven't really gotten anywhere in this space.
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It's not blanket illegal. EPB can perfectly legally build out FTTx infrastructure in some cases, but not others.
But typing "rm -rf /" is significantly harder to do accidentally than typing F7 instead of F6.
In fairness, it was a different world back then. There were so few people administering computer networks that you could generally assume someone who was doing so had been thoroughly trained; and the thing about highly trained people is that they tend to view things like failsafes and safeties as pointless time-wasters.

"I know what I'm doing when I hit F7, but the damn system makes me sit there for 30 seconds before it does what I told it to do! Piece of junk."

The result was that software in that era tended to come with a lot more sharp edges. The age of the Recycle Bin that would save you from yourself didn't arrive until administering systems became something the general public was expected to do.
And "household goods" is in quotes because?
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Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682846
It's okay! DWBI.
"With great power comes great responsibility."

Incidentally, "features" like this are why I don't trust systems that have some centralised control - IMHO giving any one individual (or organisation, in many cases these days) such power over others is not a good thing.
From my limited experience, it's a lack of the kind of systems thinking present in companies like Stack Exchange, and present on the High Scalability blog, that results in a poor architecture.

And this is compounded by people who have little ability to troubleshoot performance issues. It's quite easy to hunt down the cruddy SQL queries in a DB, or realize that you spinning rust is too slow. But when it starts to come down to things like a blocking network fabric, which has some big fat buffer between two servers, that is killing your transaction speed - many will just start to blame the devs.

Of course, the second point is compounded by the first - the less systems thinking that went into the design in the first place, the harder it is to produce accurate hypotheses about the system in order to troubleshoot.

Whilst there is a lot to be said for the "right tool for the job", if you watch an artisan crafting something, you'll realize that despite having a huge number of tools, they actually get by with relatively few. This is a generalization, but they only use the full range when doing something new, solving a particularly tricky problem, etc. "All the gear and no idea" is certainly applicable in many start ups.
It's been "Legos" for the past 40 years for me. Stuff trademarks.
It won't because "goop" is already a dependency manager for Go.
I know there's this 'dont host on github' ethic from some people, but it's undisputable that it lowers the barrier to entry for contributions.

I cant speak for anyone else but on github I will now almost always submit a pull request for a fix instead of filing bugs.

Great move for typescript~
I did this once stripe announced their beta as I had been waiting for some time. The additions of subscriptions and checkout was attractive. Along with the fact that stripe was more established.
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Everyone who holds Bitcoin has a vested interest in seeing the network gain value. Those who hold Bitcoin are incentivized to talk other people into holding it, which is very much in the spirit of network marketing.

While there aren't "multiple levels", there are certainly early adopters who bought coins for next to nothing, and those people stand to profit much more substantially than those who come later.

As for the difference between a tech stock and Bitcoin. Holding Bitcoin entitles you to nothing: no voting rights, no dividends. Bitcoin is backed purely by air.

One more aspect of Bitcoin that bears an uncanny resemblance to MLM is the "cliqueness" of the network. There are superstar early evangelists, many of whom are popular for selling the libertarian dream to people, which they buy into. Of course, many of those people have XXX,XXX BTC to their name and thusly stand to profit from their talking points taking root.
The issue wasn't whether he allowed to press it; it was just way too easy to press accidentally.

Even if I have the authority to press the big red button, I'd like it to be behind glass and far from the light switch.
The only alternative they really had would be to not align with ES6/ES7 at all. The 6/7 specs are still in total flux and there are still intricate arguments/discussions on the spec list on a regular basis about the details of modules, module loaders, imports...
eWay is $49/setup + 2.9% + 30c per transaction at the low end (http://www.eway.com.au/pricing/popular-plans), which is their closest option to Stripe. Now, trying to read their API docs is another thing entirely: they give you a PDF with a couple of examples and that's it - http://www.eway.com.au/docs/api-documentation/token-payments...

PayPal Express Checkout starts at 2.4% + 30c (across all trans). One might use PayPal for other reasons than just their fees (i.e. your user demographic) but their API is still a mess.
I remember this time sequence very well because I was living in Taiwan when the incident happened. Yes, people who lived in east Asian time zones saw news reports that appeared to be based on knowledgeable sources that the plane might have landed safely with all passengers alive. This explanation of why the Western-aligned diplomats and military officials based in east Asia didn't have complete information when they were interviewed by the press is quite interesting, and explains puzzling memories I have from that day.
c.f. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-il...

Suffice it to say that I am aware of situations created by a societal expectation of lifetime employment which make the above article look positively sane. (And I recently learned that, in some cases, what I had assumed was just an ironclad social contract actually is legally enforceable, which blows my mind.)
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UO was released early 9/97.
Or, you know, he had a perfectly good reason to think that accidentally resetting all the computers in the building at that time would not be a problem:

"Not long after I arrived in my office, I received a call from a secretary in the Agriculture Department who liked to play a computer game before her workday started. Her favorite game had a bug that regularly froze her workstation. [...] I realized that I had mistakenly hit F7 and reset all the workstations in the embassy. This realization didn’t bother me much, because no one except the Agriculture section secretary was usually on the computer system this early in the morning."

I'm sure I'd have thought something like: "Phew! Glad I made that mistake now, rather than at 11am when everyone was half-way through their morning's work. Likely no harm done at all, and I'm going to be really careful with that command in the future. Yup, definitely dodged a bullet there..."
The Internet is a public environment, so IMHO you'd be insane to think that 1) someone's not doing exactly what you're talking about already, and 2) that you're somehow safer with AT&T and/or Verizon. The situations you're describing are the exact reasons why people use TLS.
It is. Which is why everyone in Unix who types "rm -rf " then types their next character _very carefully_ and reads the line before committing.

I'm trying to say that when you've got something dangerous without safeguards, you take care around it. Not taking care of known-dangerous things and causing severe damages as a result is an arguably good case for dismissal.
>You threw out some arbitrary numbers with no real basis. Why does it take 90% of society to harm the minority in a free market but only 70% in state?

That's not what I did. I gave you examples that with any distribution of opinions in a society, minorities would be worse off with a state. My examples, if you read them carefully, compared two situations with equal variables given. I first looked at what would happen in both societies if 90% hated a minority, then looked at what would happen if only 70% hated a minority, again, in both stateless and statists societies.

> The actual difference is that in a democratic state, you need a majority of people to harm a minority. Whereas in a free market, you need a majority of capital. If capital is evenly distributed, then they will be roughly even, but if there is massive inequality, then genocide could easily be committed in a free market with support of only 1% of society.

That is a misunderstanding of how state works. When there is a government, rich people still control it, not the voters. This is because they can buy election campaigns and control public opinion through the media they own. Then, when politicians are voted in with their help, they get the laws they wish to be passed. Suppose a billionaire wishes to commit a genocide. What do you think is going to be cheaper: directly finance the genocide or influence a public opinion and sponsor a politician who would do it for him using taxpayers money? Of course the former is the cheaper route!

You can say, "but other people would oppose genocide and another politician would try to beat the one who's evil". Well, same would happen in a free market, except with more certainty and less risk: everyone would be able to vote with their own dollars. If one businessman decides to kill 10% of the population who are redheads do you think other businesses, that redheads are customers of, are going to do nothing and allow their profits to be destroyed too? Do you honestly believe that other people, who clearly see this guy is nuts, are going to keep doing business with him knowing he goes and mass murders people using profits he gets?

I'd like to quote Leo Tolstoy once again who more than 100 years ago already understood a very simple and powerful thing: "without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions".
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Seeing Microsoft on Github feels like some weird parallel universe.
I am returning to this thread a bit late, but let me try to answer your questions:

> If money exchange is the main problem that Bitcoin solves, then why isn't the problem of money exchange attacked directly instead, i.e. through some other less volatile classical stores of value like gold or stock?

"Money exchange" is a poor way of phrasing the problem that Bitcoin solves. Satoshi called it "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash", which is a better way to think of it: currently, without Bitcoin, the only way to transfer money to a peer without relying on a third party of any sort is to hand deliver a wad of cash. Bitcoin enables that transaction to happen electronically, for free. I don't see how it would be possible to enable those features (no need for third party, free international transfer) while using classical stores of value, and as far as I know neither does/has anyone else.

> Why is money exchange a problem anyway and why couldn't a classical wire transfer solve the problem?

This is basically asking "why is the trust thing so important?" That's a pretty heavy question, but one simple answer that comes to mind is that trust is expensive, and economically inefficient. The capital involved in mimicking the behaviour of a company like Western Union is a small fraction of what they're worth by virtue of being Western Union (ie. having people trust them) and the fact that they meet regulatory requirements everywhere they operate. That brand is only valuable and those regulations are only necessary because transferring money used to be impossible without them.

Now, what Stripe is suggesting (and I happen to agree) is that there may always be trusted third parties and possibly some level of regulations involved to protect the consumer, but the level of trust and the amount of safeguards will ultimately be tempered by the enormously reduced barriers to entry (and hence vastly increased competition), potentially to the point where consumers will have almost the same variety of choice with their payment providers (ie. replacing credit card) as they currently enjoy with email. There are still a lot of technical hurdles to work out before that can become a reality, but that's the dream I'm excited about and the real value I see in Bitcoin.
It sounds like a classic Pareto distribution (as in 80-20 rule).
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