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I don't believe you people!

Say Goldman Sachs decides to enter BTC. What % of BTC in circulation do you think the biggest investment bank can buy? Let's settle for a 5%.

Then Agentina decides to dump the USD and go with BTC. Suddenly GS wants to make the 5% share jump to 6% without spending money, because that's what they do! The broker starts dumping (selling) massive amounts of BTC to the market. Everyone goes crazy and starts selling too, because the price is diving. At the same time and without notice GS starts buying, while everyone else is selling/dumping. Now the Argentian government is way poorer, because they used BTC to buy services when BTC was trading for 450 USD but now they have to sell, and because of GS, BTC is trading to 150 USD.

Having to rely in a foreign currency as the USD/EUR, essentially gives you the ability to get many more short-term loans, because it adds value to your 'products' but gives away control. You can't control your currency anymore so you can't make policy decisions based on your needs. See Greece for example. If Greece didn't had the EUR, it could never have gone in that debt. Additionally if it has the Drachma (old GR currency) it would have been able to devalue and boost exports. Now Greece depends on Brussels and the only thing it can do is cut expenses which leads in vicious cycle of poverty.

What you're describing, though is even worst. Having to rely on a currency that is controlled by whom has the biggest %, in a totally anonymous scope, is madness in the purest form and a recipe for disaster. Worst than anything you've ever seen because it will be instant and without notice.

Imagine what would have happened to the UK in 1992 (Black Wednesday), is the Bank of England wasn't able to exit the ERM. GBP would have ultimately fail in one week time.
Culturally there is actually a great similarity between Scotland and much of England. One of the weaknesses of the No campaign in my view is that they've failed to draw on the massive similarities between Scotland the the industrial north of England.

The differences between London and Scotland are significant, but the same differences exist between London and much of the North of England.
Just curious — does X.509 support multiple signatures, so both SHA-1 and SHA-2-based sigs could be included, one for legacy user-agents and one for modern ones?
Not for long.

As a continental European, I'd be quite surprised if the UK voted to stay in the EU in the 2017 referendum. There is just so much hatred for the EU coming out of the UK that by now, its leaving almost seems a forgone conclusion.
Nitpick: in most H-bomb designs most of the energy from the secondary comes from the fission of the uranium tamper by the fast neutrons from the fusion step.
It's probably easier to use Subsonic for that, it's build for dealing with local files.

[0] http://www.subsonic.org/
Some of the pictures made this look completely surreal - like some kind of mystical garden inside a Mad Max movie.

Very cool stuff. Would love to see more of your work.
Ah, very good point. Never really considered that. We'll definitely discuss how we can make that more clear. Thanks!
I'm wondering too. AFAIK the culture of entertainment/fashion channels, celeb journalism and tabloids are much more rampant than US than any other nation, which is confusing too, since I haven't seen anyone pick up those magazines when waiting in line for grocery checkouts :/ Something is not right
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Say what you mean. Anyone offended by profanity will be just as offended by quasi-censored versions of same.

The American press baffles me with their inability to quote people swearing. You say something as simple and direct as "My service provider treats me like shit" and the New York Times bends over backwards to avoid dropping the four letter word at the end.
Markdown support!
Ok, to move this forward, let's move past the who has read what part, which doesn't seem to be helping. Anyhow, my point is relatively subtle, I think, and getting lost in communication somehow. I get what the article is saying, but I'm not sure that everyone here is getting what I'm saying.

Let me try to elaborate. My points are:

1. The article does indeed criticize the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 split, but not for the same reasons that I am.

2. I would prefer that the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 split not be used as a prior at all. (Yes, I get that Bayesian priors don't matter that much if you have enough data to update them. The article, on my reading, does not offer a way to get the needed observations, so I think the priors dominate.)

3. Yes, later, the article dismisses the even split as naive but does not go far enough when suggesting a better way. You see, the "better way" still boils down to the naive assumption of counting bins: this is to say that if we have more bins, then we should have a higher expected probability. In my opinion, the "better way" is still falling into a conceptual trap: this is not a combinatorics problem. For combinatorics problems to work they have to rely on real, countable things, not arbitrary notions of how you slice and dice a problem. Yes, I get that as you add more variables to the DAG, you can certainly say that there are more possible paths through the graph. But we cannot assume that just adding more nodes in the DAG will change reality. You see, the DAG is a mental construct. We should not assume that adding more mental bins (an arbitrary way of slicing reality) will affect the distribution.

Here is an example. Francis tells Greg there are three marbles in a jar (green, red, blue) but does not reveal the distribution, so Greg cannot rightly assume a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 distribution. But let's say Greg does anyway. Next, Francis tells Greg, "Sorry, I was oversimplifying before; really there are 4 types of marbles in a jar (forest green, lime green, red, blue)." What should Greg do? Update the prior to 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4? Well, that would be inconsistent, since 1/4 (forest green) + 1/4 (lime green) does not equal 1/3 (green). Should Greg suggest a 1/6 (forest), 1/6 (lime), 1/3 (red), 1/3 (blue) split? Nope. My point is this: down that road lies arbitrariness and contradictions.

Hopefully this helps explain what I'm talking about. I like the article, but I don't want people to get into the habit of assuming a distribution. I also don't like people counting up concepts that are arbitrary and turning that into a distribution.
Thank you google.

I'm a developer, but I'm not responsible for SSL cert acquisition.

The ONLY way I can get the people responsible for that to stop using SHA-1, is to tell them that user's browsers are sending a warning/error message on it.

I will eagerly await Chrome doing that.
Wow this is fun. But it has so much potential for improvements!

-Saving your setting
-Undo-ing
-Auto generate small object in perfect circle orbit around larger object, and generate sun-earth-moon system
-Export setting to other people
-Allow to numerically finetune locations and velocities
-Don't ruin the trails when dragging
-Make it run faster, especially with trails enabled
-etc... :)

EDIT: Gee, when will Hacker News finally support newlines properly?
> Maybe make it so they loop back

That's be a toroidal spacetime surface, wouldn't it? Would gravitational influence also have to "loop around" the borders?

If not, you might get some very interesting effects if a mass is near the edge of the map.
Then help me make sense of why Paypal is partnering with Coinbase (straight question).
4. Gold backed? We're past the 70's, man, there are no gold backed currencies in heavy use now. l3rn 2 fiat. Joking aside, more technically, the value of all currencies are in the faith of its' users that it holds value. (Yes, the circular reasoning is the point.)

"no country who will support it" is a feature. Many users of Bitcoin are deeply mistrustful of the government's ability to manage money, and making it distributed literally puts all the power into the hands of the people.
Twitter was open to the protocol idea once, when they were even allowing Twitter clones to be built using their API. Chances are they simply ran the numbers and saw that that route was not big enough to fulfill their lofty ambitions.

The only way the social network protocol can be realised is if you have a lucky band of developers for whom everything just clicks into place without funding, like Craigslist. Unfortunately that's really hard to achieve in today's internet landscape where anyone with a large hosting bill gets an offer they can't refuse from a VC.
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Well, the phrasing implies that Mozilla is being unethical, which is incredibly unfair. There's a huge difference between saying that "X is more in keeping with our ideals than Y" vs. saying that "X is more ethical than Y", particularly when the specific points of contention have little or nothing to do with things that most people even think of as having a moral or ethical dimension.

I mean, it's typical for FSF communications, in the sense that it uses very, very broad terms ("free", "ethical", etc.) to mean very specific things as a way of confusing the reader (how can anyone hate freedom?!?). It's also a rhetorical ploy to emphasize their own certainty as to the correctness of their ideals. It doesn't make it any less cynical of them though (not that they're aware that they're being cynical), and it doesn't make it any less of a way to passive-aggressively throw unfair shade on people or organizations who don't share 100% of their beliefs with equal fervor.
If your field of expertise allows, I would recommend considering Australia & New Zealand.

Australia is not too immigrant friendly lately, but New Zealand will most likely give you a permanent residence if you have a well paying job, and you don't have a criminal record.
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The federalist experiment in the U.S. ended in 1865. While technically state and local powers have control over certain domains, it is nothing like what the OP argues for. My understanding of Swiss politics is that there is a similar situation there, albeit to a lesser degree.
I would disagree that Civil War represents the example of why weak federal system is unworkable. The question of slavery, which ultimately led to secession and the war, was arguably impossible to resolve within the unified state politically, as the sides were disagreeing on the most basic questions, such as whether half of the population of the state can be deemed subhumans and excluded from the human rights system altogether. Absent such fundamental difference weak federal system may very well be workable.
Agree people in my company have been negatively affected by chrome addons that "went bad" ie they were at one point legitimate but got sold to adware companies.

Shady shit right there.
I have a question about a phenomenon I am seeing.

say you add 3+ equal mass objects without a velocity and they all collide with each other without "missing or orbiting" one another. Sometimes the final mass will have a velocity.

It would seem like it should not have a velocity because it would be canceled out. What am I missing? Where is this energy coming from?
Yeah, some of the data comes from that site but we have a lot that actually isn't available anywhere online.

Agreed on the pricing. We're still trying to dial that in. I think a single 30 or 90 day access makes sense and then possibly a monthly subscription for real estate agents that want to provide reports to their clients.
CSUN has a good program.

Edit: That's California State University, Northridge (Los Angeles County, CA - USA).

Here's their Computer Science department website:
http://www.csun.edu/engineering-computer-science/computer-sc...
Another one built on node.js, just like shout, is "subway": https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
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Physical cash has actually quite high handling costs. It is not cheap form of money. Ask your nearest cash-handling merchant about it.
It depends how motivated your attacker is. Could someone make a lot of money if they could get SHA-1 collisions with your application?
If I'm not mistaken, MAs and certainly PhDs are put in a different pool when considered work visas. And if she goes for academic jobs, it's virtually a guarantee for visa and a quick route to green card. There's always some risk, of course, but a PhD in CS has better chance than almost anyone else :-) Good luck!
Even in a non-zero sum model, each investment needs to justify itself vs. alternatives at the time. I may have a wealth of investments that can have guaranteed positive returns, but I must choose which to invest in at any time with limited resources.

Even if I can expand available resources because of the promise of these alternatives, or through reinvestment of gains, I still must choose what to do at any time, until I have enough resources to pursue all promising avenues simultaneously.
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I work for a market-research company which does this, but it's usually for other big companies.

Are you trying to estimate the size or your total possible consumer-base, or are you trying to sample a very small subset and ask them questions?
Bitcoin is not libertarian. Libertarians obsess over bitcoin, yes, but that seems to be historical accident. There is much about bitcoin a libertarian shouldn't like (e.g. lack of privacy).
Ask yourself, do you know someone with relatives or business activities overseas? Then ask them about their experiences about doing international financial transactions of any kind.

It is expensive, time consuming, and generally painful. Consider buying something on Alibaba using bitcoin. I'd suggest that bitcoin adoption which is beholden to no particular country, opens up opportunities as a consumer, and more options for finding the right supplier overseas for business.

I've lived in the U.S., Asia and the Middle East, and to me bitcoin answers, or potentially answers, my needs.

And much as I have mixed feelings about paypal, I use it often for ebay and other vendors for convenience. Assuming their fees are not too high, I would not mind using them as an intermediary into traditional bank accounts.
> Should I reply and complain to this person? Or am I overreacting?

Yes, you're overreacting, it goes with the territory for talent in a hot space. Linkedin response rates are down due to user fatigue. But I'm also wary of messages that come across as recruiter cat-phishing.

Assuming his firm looks legit. Ask him to first forward a detailed position summary for review. You can then make an informed decision whether to dialog any further. Make him earn the conversation.
Tell HN: GoDaddy apparently loves our startup's pricing structure
GoDaddy recently updated their homepage which includes a portion which is eerily similar to our own pricing structure on POP.co. We're fairly new on the block and loosely compete against the bigger registrars with a different take on how you should get your ideas online. It's David v. Goliath over here, but we're flattered they think so highly of our work!

I'll follow up in the comments with a link to the screenshot and our site.

What are everyone's thoughts here on HN?
I think I've only heard it called that. I'm not sure I've read it. I just didn't want to pretend I was coining it. I've heard it called other similar things.
Here's the screenshot and our company url:

http://imgur.com/i5p7XTC

https://pop.co
What made your company choose to start encrypting your email? Could you share some more info on your setup?
The debate about a constitution is both short term and vital, it is the most worrying of the SNP's policies. They both want a unicameral chamber and keep bandying around terms like "Sovreign will of the Scottish people" - which has worrying populist tones and a distinct lack of accountability. Seeing what they get up to in the Scottish Parliament with a majority on the committees that are supposed to hold the Executive to account makes me worry about what sort of government an independent Scotland would be starting with - and that is very hard to change, especially to introduce checks and balances.

I don't know where the Scottish equivalent of the Bill of Rights would come from.
Interesting data point, since nearly all of my computer use is constrained to be in and around home, I use ZFS and WAFL pretty much everywhere, between the filer that I've built and the one I bought. All 'changable' data lives on them so that a system failure can be quickly recovered from. It makes a windows laptop with a small Flash drive a lot more tolerable in my experience.

If you could make it possible to use ZFS in one place that you cannot use it today, what would that place be?
Just talking about bitcoin, and not about this specific situation or their adoption: Bitcoin has some minor advantages in technology because the financial industry is slow, but that's not the major reason to adopt. The major reason is trust.

Historically, it's difficult to trust many organizations. The US federal reserve and the US dollar have the best record/reputation in modern history. Top competitors have taken devaluations in WWII and even recently (British pound in 1992, Russian ruble in 1998). That's part of why many people use the dollar. Even now, after 2008, when everyone thought the currency was screwed because money was being printed fast, we didn't see inflation. But the dollar isn't perfect. As recently as the 1970s and 1980s the US dollar experienced double digit inflation.

Bitcoin is an alternative currency with less trust in a central authority. It's got a bunch of other features like you've both been talking about but it's real value add is the lack of central authority (both in terms of volume of currency issued and in terms of your ability to hold your own currency without a 3rd party).

Now, maybe you don't want to use Bitcoin now because you believe a problem with the US dollar or any other local currency is a 'low probability event'. That's totally reasonable. But it's also worth remembering that humans are known to be bad at estimating risk/reward from low probability events. Historically speaking, there will be a currency crisis in the next 50 years. I can't think of any fiat currency has ever gone 50 years without some sort of currency crisis (at least of the ones we have a good historical record of). Bitcoin aims to be the first one to do that. We'll see if it ever does.
Seems slower than qwebirc. Anything it does better?
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>Looking to the future doesn't make me want to transact in BTC right now.

And that's fine. Contrary to popular belief, most core Bitcoiners are not particularly interested in "converting" non-Bitcoin users. There was a big group that bought Bitcoin as a (risky) investment in fall of last year who try to pump it up, but they don't even share many of the core values of the Bitcoin community.

I do want people to be educated about their rejection of Bitcoin (i.e., "because tulips" is just annoying). But it sounds like you are making an education call.

So that's fine. I don't think traditional fiat is at any risk of becoming obsolete in the foreseeable future. We can co-exist side-by-side.

I hope you can afford us the same respect.

PS: I do strongly disagree with "bankless people need banks". Bankless people need to not be exploited, and the kinds of banks that accept people poor/no credit are usually not ethical/moral organizations.
> Indeed. This is a sensor fusion problem I really want to work on.

Have you thought about working for Tesla? autopilot@teslamotors.com
It's difficult to imagine a situation where it's rational to offer another rational actor an exploding offer to buy a car. Jobs sometimes need to be filled quickly. But when is selling a car today so much worse than selling one tomorrow?

It sounds like the "exploding offer" another scumbag car dealer pressure tactic. Car dealers will do anything, including lying, to prevent you from negotiating efficiently.
I believe most democratic country will vote in favour of bitcoin, eg. letting people speculate with it freely and use it somewhat freely (you still have to pay tax).
> I would disagree that Civil War represents the example of why weak federal system is unworkable.

I understand why one might (or disagree that the failure of the AoC is a good illustration of the same point) -- my point was simply to illustrate that the "no need to look farther than the US" proposition does not require the current US government to be a weak federal system. Whether particularl issues that occurred under the past weak federal systems in the USA (including that of the CSA) each really illustrate problems inherent to weak federal systems or whether each is simply an example of problems that happened to a country with a weak federal system that aren't inherently related to having such a system is a whole series of other arguments.
1: Yes it is :) The whole experience was eye-opening: coins transferred internationally within tens of minutes, then used for a Newegg purchase. This is a great example of real, concrete utility that I wish more people could experience on their own, before they criticize Bitcoin...

3 & 4: None of your complaints matter to most merchants who accept Bitcoin, because they do so through processors like BitPay/Coinbase. And processors completely remove the risk of volatility: they deposit the dollar amount the merchant requested directly in their bank account.
As always, the problem is not technical, it's packaging. Technically IRC can do all that Hipchat does, but Hipchat provides a simple bundle that any team can subscribe to/buy and use for all its use cases. To replicate the same thing with IRC, you'd need bouncers for everyone with full text search capability, a shared history of everything that happened on the server(s) of the network, support for filesharing for all clients, not just the desktop ones, you'd need some serious management of presence and profile information...

Never forget the "Show HN: Dropbox" and its immediate technical rebuttal [0], see where it is now.

Oh and Hipchat seems to do screen sharing, which AFAIK is not possible with IRC.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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This is awesome. I just completed a simple first foray into attaching circuits and LEDs to one of my welding projects, and seeing a walkthrough of the steps that I also had to figure out (culminating in an impressive large-scale installation!) is fascinating. Thank you so much!

edit Btw, also amazing that you were willing to lug the battery back to camp and recharge it via solar power. So many installations out there are marred by the grating sound of a generator in the background.
Say you have:

function one() {
console.log("one");
setTimeout(one, 1000);
}

function two() {
console.log("two");
setTimeout(two, 2000);
}

one();
two();

They are executing concurrently, but never in parallel (since javascript is single threaded).

Now, how do you coordinate them if you need to? This is what CSP helps you do.
Yes. We do+have.

Quartzy YC S11.
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Man did that fool me.

I clicked on the link and started to read the story, but then had to look up an IIS error in a new tab. After my search I closed the current tab and I'm face to face with an old gmail login page. I'm sitting there like "WTF?". I refresh the page and the blog post comes back?!?!?

I finish reading the post and realized what had just happened. Kudos to the author. That really is a brilliant attack.