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I disagree somwhat- We're slowly moving into a new economy where the distinction between buyers and sellers is blurring: Instead of everyone making their purchases from a few megacorp sellers, the future will be one where any person may have a small shop or sell a small product with a small unit price (maybe even your mom someday.)

In that type of environment, it is helpful to have a payment system that is more "seller-friendly" than what we have now, since the sellers no longer have economies of scale to offset sale-side costs. Cryptocurrencies hold the promise fill the role of these "seller-friendly" currencies, since they allow anyone to accept payments without intermediaries and by merely tacking some minimal logic to their software stack of choice... though I agree they still have a long way to go to achieving this.
Children born with ambiguous genitalia were often operated on to form one gender or the other. While this wasn't for a biological reason, the rationale was justified by social science. There are issues that arise from children not identifying with 99% of the population, and physicians and parents sought to avoid that. It turns out that it might be at least as problematic to choose "incorrectly" for your child.
Difficulty of integration is not the main thing holding back Bitcoin adoption.

The main thing holding Bitcoin from being adopted more broadly today is that many consumers who are aware of it don't think it will be adopted more broadly!

Even in the HN community (which has a high concentration of early adopters of new technology), there are a lot of folks who don't think it will be adopted more broadly, as evidenced by the comments on this thread.
>Their missiles don't have the range to hit launch sites that are far inland in North America or Eurasia.

This is just wrong. We're talking about ballistic missiles here, not cruise missiles. There isn't a spot on the face of the earth that can't be nuked by a sub from a safe distance.

>Even if they did the missiles would be vulnerable to anti defence.

Also mostly wrong. Only a handful of countries have any defense at all against an IRBM, those defenses only cover a tiny portion of their respective territory, and are both unreliable and relatively easily defeated.

>Additionally they are slow moving, which is very undesirable in first strikes.

Why? If I launch a missile hundreds of miles from enemy ships they're not going to find me. The only thing I have to worry about is a nuclear response, which is a hazard for any platform conducting a first strike.

>However they can get really close to major population centers near the oceans and kill millions.

If by "close" you mean 4000 miles. I guess it's a relative term.

>Area denial can make them much less effective if combined with proper air defence to take down the missiles.

Air defense that wasn't specifically designed to take down ballistic missiles won't have any effect at all.

You're confusing ballistic missiles with cruise missiles. The former are an order of magnitude more difficult to deal with from a planning perspective.
YES! We're actively working on trying to get adapters built for React, Angular, Ember, Backbone, etc. but we're a super tiny team.

Would you be interested in contributing? You could really help make a big difference.
The MacBook Pro 13 has an option to get 512+16GB. It's a bit heavier, but not that much.

The Asus Zenbook UX303LN has 12GB (it's better), but only 256GB of SSD.

I don't mind the price, I need a powerful tool.
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You purchase a prepaid debit card with cash.
> I hope the MB supports 16GB and Dell does not solder the RAM to the motherboard.

On 13", all the RAMs are soldered on the boards.
GitLab CEO here, for us it is certainly the case that most revenue comes from the on-premises installs. Maybe that is why GitHub is 'serious about the enterprise' [1]. It certainly is why we offer GitLab.com for free (including private repos and git-annex support, optionally you can pay for email support) [2].

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608907/application-develop...
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

(edited to make this more about our experience)
The demo is a little confusing because it loads two iframes and seen to be faking it, but yes it works and no, it is not faking it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4374976/gun/web/tabs.htm...
Biologists now think that the idea of two sexes is simplistic? This was high school biology more than a decade ago.

Reality is never as neat as our models of it are. The question is what we do about it. This reads to me like a call to arms for handling the exceptional cases better. I could get behind that.

There's no need to throw out the male/female binary for most situations, though. Exceptions can be handled as exceptions, as long as you know they exist.

"[...] all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful." ~ George E. P. Box
The last time I heard from GNOME was about javascript binding. I think the choosing of programming language in this age is more to do with marketing. Piggyback is the right way.
> GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans.

Whoa, didn't expect that at all. Super interesting. Do you have a source for that?
Actually, the game is pretty much up when the sub is detected. Destroying is the easy part.
Is this a PG Commander fork? The UI is nearly identical: http://i.imgur.com/QHeo54Z.png
Of course there are security implications with central services like an enterprise-grade proxy. And anyone using such a solution must do the best to keep it secure. It is all a question of probability and of costs. I bet, most vendors of such solutions will do their best to protect them and their customers. So a network security solution that might have a exploitable hole in a period of time is better than none.

I've been working my entire career for large companies. I've experienced many solutions and I cannot remember one technical problem that was caused by network security, other than "InsertYourSocialNetworkOrBinary was denied by SecurityRuleXYZ". At several companies I had to sign a paper that informed me about the security implications and my duties when using the companie's Internet/network access.
The MBP is a different class of machine. This thing is roughly the size of an 11 inch MBA.
The reason the app is there is because they care more about taking money from AdWare providers than their customers.

The only thing that will change going forward is they're going to do more due diligence on their AdWare suppliers before agreeing to the deal.
Thanks!

Honestly, I might put this up to an open-source vote.

I personally learn towards the MIT and the ZLIB license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License .

However I also know a lot of other databases are doing AGPL, I think for monetary reasons. Which :/ I might also want to consider.

But as I said, I honestly think this should be a combination of community decision.

Could people reply back with what license they'd like?
I must agree with Nodesocket in regards to pricing. I don't think users will pay for it just because it's "beautiful". You might want to focus on the more enterprise customers.

Adding to this, I don't understand your current pricing structure. The only difference the packages seem to have is storage. I get it, pay for what you don't use is a great way of making money but I don't believe customers are still falling for this. Why not simply pay for the storage you're using?
Publishing your entire transaction history for the entire world to see doesn't seem like the best way to have privacy, even if it is under a pseudonym. After all, purchasing history seems like one of the best tools to trace a pseudonym.
The earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011 was one of the most disruptive events to hit a developed country since WW2, effectively wiping out New Zealand's second biggest city. This shows the progress on a few streets, or lack thereof.
What about knowingly putting consumers at risk? Suppose you buy a new car from GM and you later find out they've installed worn-out second hand brakes (on purpose, knowingly, and for profit motivation). But you're an old lady that only used the car to drive once a week, at 15mph to a church five blocks from home, so no damage happened. You're telling me that GM couldn't be punished for anything?
Interestingly, for users who are running the Superfish software there's no need for a MitM to have the private certificate as the Superfish MitM proxy is validating any cert. I have a screenshot here: http://defaultstore.com/four.png of it validating my MitM proxy cert. To be clear, I'm in the middle of the TLS connection from Bank of America thanks to Superfish not denying the bogus cert I provided.

If you have Superfish and want to validate this behavior for yourself, you can visit https://defaultstore.com/ and watch it accept an expired cert. Given this situation the Chrome team and others should without a doubt treat the cert as revoked.

It's likely a lot of people are still running that software. I bought a Lenovo Yoga 2 11 today and it had Superfish installed by default and all my connections are MitM'd on that machine.

UPDATE: if the cert is revoked, it will likely leave a lot of people unable to browse the web. It would be nice if the revocation process in Chrome could provide users with instructions on how to remove the software.
relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076788
This is very helpful comment. Reading that this new product does not have highlight, I know that I don't need to investigate it any further for now.
I soundly reject the notion that everyone in Lenovo's chain of auditing and implementation just heard "technical jargon". No company is magically and universally nontechnical. And anyone who allowed this to pass and remains employed there is culpable.
sort of. It's not a fork, it's just the next version of PG Commander (by the same author)
Sounds cool in theory, but instead of showing me the answer, it immediately scrolls the answer away and replaces it with a pink bar saying "Click here to check out my main project. It's a more intelligent email app."

If you can't even make your toy search engine work properly (as in, actually present me with a result for "What year is it?"), then there's no way in hell I'm clicking that link.
I haven't seen the number in a while, but supposedly the Dodge Viper was one of the most lethal cars when purchased new, in that it had so much performance that its inexperienced driver would get into trouble very quickly...

That doesn't surprise me. A front-engine, rear-wheel drive car could (depending on how the handling is adjusted) have massive oversteer coming out of a corner if you lay on the accelerator. So there are plenty of opportunities to get into trouble. In the hands of a pro, this can really help getting through the corner quickly. But an amateur could easily spin out.
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Man, I finally a few years ago got completely comfortable with OSX and scripted so much stuff that I can set myself up basically anywhere in 5-10 minutes. Now I'm stuck on a MBPr and get to watch all of these amazing new PC laptops come out that are so innovative. All of the hybrids, convertibles, detachable convertibles, rotatable convertibles. I'm so envious.

Come on Apple, seriously.
Other than a few contributors, it is basically just me. But I'm hiring! (We're funded).

So TBH, I kinda have to try doing the hypemachine thing to get the word out. :( Does that make me evil?
Maybe it's accepted over time, or maybe it isn't. Maybe a lot of time makes it easier to deal with losing literally a chunk of yourself. But I don't think it does.

"It's that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves."

~Junot Diaz

When I left graduate school, I came home for three years with no one that I could have the kind of intellectual connection with I had at college. It was like I was speaking a foreign language to my family and coworkers. Of course, I could go on the internet and talk about my computer stuff, but it's not the same when you are with people you trust your understanding of your knowledge with.

It's scary, and I'm still clinging to my own sense of self, even though I don't get to know whether it's still there, every single day. But I won't be marginal.
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Hey Zach.

I've talked with a few people who previously worked on the GitHub enterprise team (both in sales and engineering). However, I suppose that I can't say it with 100% certainty. Are you aware of something different?
> Windows comes with OpenGL 1.1 (from 1996) and one has to init its context to load a third party OpenGL 4 context

To expand on this: when you create an OpenGL context on Windows, you get a context provided by your vendor's drivers, with OpenGL 1.0-1.1 functions provided by Microsoft's DLL, and all the remaining entry points must be retrieved manually, by supplying your own headers and fetching the function pointers. But if you want anything special like a core context, you have to call a special function provided by one of those pointers... which you can't get without a context.

So you have to create an OpenGL window, then use it to get a function pointer to create the window you actually want, then close the first window. This is why we use GLFW or SDL.
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I don't think I could even say something like that, with a straight face, to myself in the mirror. When you were a kid, is this who you wanted to be?
There is no difference. Because of their extraordinary concentration of power all of these leaders are a source of risk. If they screw up many will suffer both inside and outside their countries.

Greece is at a critical point. I hope Yanis is thoughtful about risks of his government's aggressive tactics and unorthodox economic views.

Some interesting questions are:

- Do the benefits outweigh risks?

- Are there better alternatives?

- Is there a human nature bias to want strong leaders despite risks?
WestCoastJustin had a few a good ones. Basically, show me more so that I know why I should go further.

I like the list, I like the box for entering a technology, but you already know what browser and OS I am using. Keep that list and box, perhaps on one side, but show me another pane with some information about potential vulnerabilities on my machine.

Start with what you know - my OS and browser - then have common but unconfirmed SW, e.g., Adode (a good bet), either MS Office or Libre/Open Office (pretty likely I have at least one), Pages, etc. (in my case, eh?). Add a third section to that right-hand pane with some user profiles, e.g., "are you a developer (vulnerabilities in brew? npm?)? an officer worker (typical office stuff)? a designer (advanced Adobe products)?"

You could go a long way with those, without having to scan my machine.

Get some cred, write a scanner, offer that too. I might use it.

(I think it was CNet that used to have a service like that for Windows - I really liked, but they dropped it before I dropped Windows, and that was a long time ago.)
Windows Vista and up did away with special OEM ISO/Disks. You can use your OEM license with any official ISO/Disk.

What you may of had issue with was your OEM license being activated too many times -- if that happens, the automatic online activation will not work. You must use the phone number to activate your license, and it will ask "how many computers is this license installed on"... of course you just give the answer "one" and it activates it with no problem.
I agree with some of your points, except that the initial absence of probable cause makes this case worthwhile.

The reason to defend constitutional rights in this context is about what the government 'could' do, not what they 'should' do. As an example, I think very few people would argue about the plausible deniability of a person found with a dead body in their trunk and yet there are cases arguing about whether or not similar 'evidence' should be considered if it was discovered due to a traffic stop without cause or an improperly served search warrant, etc. The reason is not because constitutional rights advocates want the possibly guilty to go free and not because we don't want law enforcement to be able to do their jobs, but because we don't want abuses to become the norm rather than the exception.

If the courts decide that the DNA of an individual can be tested without a warrant or even probable cause, then they could just begin testing everyone that had even passing contact with a victim, a neighborhood street, a school, an entire city.

At the most extreme, the FBI could then begin to secretly collect our DNA when we go to any federal office and eventually have an entire database they can search for a match to any random DNA found at a crime scene. You might try to compare this to fingerprint databases, but those are databases of people where they was legal cause to require collection of their prints--convicted criminals and law enforcement officials are two examples. And remember that neither fingerprints nor DNA are definitive; labs make mistakes, samples are mishandled, etc.

If there was no fear that evidence could be thrown out because of how it was collected, then law enforcement would just proceed unhindered in any investigation and worry about consequences later when they got their arrest.
All of the above are a vast minority of lawsuits, and I read ambivalence as functionally equivalent to anti-tort. Again, you were ambivalent until your ox got gored.
There is at least one version on Github:

https://github.com/vrthra/qnial

Edit: there are at least two versions on Github:

https://github.com/PlanetAPL/nial

Edit2: and an emacs mode:

https://github.com/tangentstorm/nial-mode
Thank you for noticing this. :)

My original tutorial actually required the user to physically open up multiple tabs and have them be side-by-side. However it was a mess and people didn't like it. So I opted to fake it... while still depending upon the real tech underneath.

HOWEVER, it is just running on a freebie heroku box, so it is probably bound to crash/fall-over soon.
I guess that's the rub. As a customer (not a merchant) I will always trust paypal or visa over the person I am paying. If something doesn't get delivered, I get my money back.

Also Stripe is now the middleman. I'm not giving BTC to a merchant, I'm giving it to stripe to give to the merchant. That's good also, because I trust stripe more than merchant XYZ.
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> The idea that my mom will someday use Bitcoin to buy books online is about as realistic as the belief that, any minute now, youngsters will realize that the daily newspaper is better read in paper form

Your mom probably didn't push for the adoption of email yet here it is (sorry usps). The advantages of faster cheaper easier don't require much convincing, especially in the case of money/contracts/assets.

The idea that people will adopt antiquated technologies when better alternatives exist is paradoxical, which makes your analogy especially confusing. Government currency is the antiquated technology, not bitcoin.

For those remittance services you point to, they need market depth in order to operate. Sure the underground market can provide some, but merchant adoption sure isn't going to hurt.
The world's simplest reasons why you might pay something using bitcoins is simply when this is the only way, or cheapest way, or safest way to make a transaction.

Example #1: some merchants are hit really hard with fraud, such as intangible goods paid by international credit card transactions. So hard that they decided to stop selling internationally. These merchants discover that Bitcoin re-enables them to sell internationally because Bitcoin completely solves the fraud problem for them (since transactions are irreversible). In that case, as an international customer of such a merchant, paying in Bitcoin is your only option.

Example #2: some merchants offer discounts when paying in Bitcoin (because they don't incur credit card fees). So it is in your interest to pay in Bitcoin: you don't have to pay the fees from exchanging coins for fiat, and you don't have to pay the indirect credit card fees that the merchant would make you cover (via the absence of a discount).

Example #3: as Bicoin's adoption grows, more and more people end up having bitcoins in their hands, like your nephew giving you $50 worth of coins for Christmas. What's the easiest for you to use them? Setting up an account at an exchange (and incurring the associated hassles and fees when selling), or just spending them directly? Of course in this case you would want to spend them directly.

Example #4: say you are travelling out of town and paying for a meal in a restaurant that you suspect might be skimming credit cards... do you pay using a credit card or bitcoins? Using Bitcoin here would be much safer. It has all the advantages of credit cards (and more) without the inconvenience and danger of handling cash (losing it, getting robbed, no ability to "back up" cash, etc). Hardware bitcoin wallets have especially an insane opportunity to innovate in this space (wrt. security and ease of use).
I was wondering about this! Has anyone tried it?

I know in my industry (pharma) we offer "prompt pay" discounts to our customers. 2% 30 net 60 for example (payment due in 60 days, get 2% off is paid in 30).

Of course a huge corporate has a lot more leverage with regards to terms than a small contractor.
I hope tons of other computers, not just Lenovo's, that have Superfish will also be using the same certificate that's now compromised. Need more shit in the fan toward these guys.
For the web, TeamPostgreSQL[1] does most of these, like SQL autocomplete including schema object names, live editing query results, table editing, etc. It also has click-through foreign key references, look up rows that reference this one, and other smart features.

[1a] http://www.teampostgresql.com

[1b] http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com/ (demo)
If it "is just a cache" and the data is distributed among every client, where is the data at each time before it is persisted to S3?