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> If what you are reading is relevant to what you are doing

Or relevant to what you are thinking. I think you really start to pick up knowledge about history, for instance, when you start connecting things you are reading with what you already know.
Xamarin and Qt are very different.

Xamarin provides a managed runtime environment (Mono) and a way to call native iOS and Android APIs from that environment. Xamarin Forms builds on top of those things to provide a cross-platform UI toolkit that uses the native controls on each platform.

Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that draws its own controls using each platform's low-level graphics facilities. As such, the controls in a Qt-based application aren't fully native to each platform. Qt tries to mimic the native controls, but the emulation isn't completely faithful. A particular problem is accessibility for users with disabilities, e.g. blind users who need to use a screen reader. Last time I checked (several months ago), Qt didn't implement the accessibility APIs for iOS or Android at all.

Because of the non-native nature of Qt, I would strongly recommend avoiding it in favor of something like Xamarin or RubyMotion.
It will be interesting to see if anyone releases an open-source port of the MS runtime to ARM... Xamarin could wind up left with only their proprietary cross-platform UI toolkit!
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>Unfortunately, the built-in IDE for Unity is MonoDevelop, which has all the problems Xamarin does, You don't have to use Mono though, you can use any editor.

In fact, Visual Studio has first-class support for Unity now, since MS bought the company that made UnityVS and released it as a free VS extension.

I really don't think I could recommend using Unity for a non-game app, though, at least in most cases. It would be a subpar experience for both the developer and the user.
Write a disassembler at least once. It's much easier than you think it is (even with X86) --- it's essentially a file format parser --- and very illuminating.
I love your perspectives here. Very reasonable. I voted for that guy too, but I lost a ton of respect for him (never had full respect anyway) when he refused to recognize the absolutely clear fact that Ed Snowden is a whistleblower and not a traitor.

Anyway, the real answer to electoral issues is Score voting (see http://rangevoting.org/ ).

Also, since you're interested in economic democracy, have you seen the in-progress stuff at Snowdrift.coop ?
But it also means that a virus that intercepts your PIN and your ID card can log in an hour later and vote for someone different. You then would have no way of knowing.
Man, even at 20nm, the die size must be a bear. Especially the L3$... I know TSMC has a ~600mm^2 max (for remotely reasonable yields), even on the highly mature 28nm process. Thus, I doubt this would be a viable chip for deployment today, rather a proof of concept. Need more details to be sure though.
The picture is gone, so it's difficult to say what was in it. Some people file retaliatory complaints to get people taken offline. The attacked guy seems like kind of a jerk, but at the same time, the suspended user seemed perfectly willing to user their followers to mob people with insults and threats.
> The costs of negativity and discouragement are difficult to judge because they usually take the form of opportunity costs which aren't directly visible.

That has nothing to do with anything I have said. You have unfairly added an assumption to my comment and asserted I said something I did not. Saying that going too far on one side of an activity is bad does not imply that the other side is better. You have basically said because I don't think running 50 miles a day is healthy that I am advocating sloth.

> "Unwarranted positivity" has also been the root cause of many of our industry's greatest successes.

Our industries greatest successes have come from a place of optimism but been realistic in their thinking. Most programmers have suffered from people, including themselves, giving estimates that were "Unwarranted positivity".
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In some way this reflects a general trend in modern society where we give up human agency to the arbitrary rules of computer systems. See e.g. http://www.oualline.com/practical.programmer/bully.html
Apple has a long history of settling class action lawsuits for defective products.
Are you serious? Because if so, 1) that's hilarious, and 2) I'll gladly respond to your revised reply as absent the term 'buttcoin' you raise some legitimate points I'd be happy to converse over.
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This is one of the great economics canards of the 20th century. The gold standard was dropped because western nations accumulated too much war debt during the Great War (world war I) and weren't able to inflate it away under a gold standard. That's not the fault of the gold standard but of the war and the governments that refused to acknowledge their insolvency. The 19th century saw perhaps the greatest rise of living standards in history and it was all achieved on a gold standard, which greatly facilitated world trade. As Keynes wrote, in The Economic Consequences of the Peace:

"The various currencies, which were all maintained on a stable basis in relation to gold and to one another, facilitated the easy flow of capital and of trade to an extent the full value of which we only realize now, when we are deprived of its advantages. Over this great area there was an almost absolute security of property and of person."
The difference is, the people whose behavior would be controlled have no say in changing those economic assumptions.

Isn't it exactly the other way round?

For Bitcoin I can at least inspect and understand the economic assumptions, by looking at the source-code or having someone I trust explain it to me.

What are the economic assumptions for the USD? Who can I ask and how do I know they won't lie to me?

Also in terms of democratic recourse I find "learn to code or pay someone" a much lower barrier than "get rich enough to bribe influential politicians".
Altamira :)

EDIT: Oh! It really is Altamura!
I used to be able to remember most of what I read verbatim without any effort. These days, the harder I try to filter and remember selectively, the worse my memory gets. What started as a mild compulsion has since become very useful– taking brief notes as I go on a blank 4x6 notecard. I have stacks and stacks of them, and every book I start gets a fresh one. Annotating books in the margins can help you get into it more, but it makes going back much harder (might as well re-read the book) and pains anyone who likes to keep their pages scrupulously clean. My "system" is not very strict but mostly follows these ideas:

- Every note begins with a page number unless the same as the previous note
- Notes are separated by a /
- Underline names/places/any *thing* to look up later
- Mark very important notes with a star or border
- Copying chapter titles sometimes helps
- Copy quotes, quick references (to other works), typos
(not really necessary, but "Statute of Liberty"...), or
thoughts & tangents. Typically I just write down a few
words here and there and then write about them
elsewhere (on the computer or in my notebook)
- At the very end, include a brief summary of what I felt
like or knew about before reading, while reading, and
after reading. I only find this useful for bios,
letters, theses, and that sort of thing.

I can: re-read my notes and it will come back, skim notes to narrow down a page range for a detail that I'm looking for, scan the notecards for reference anywhere, keep my notes for library books, etc. That being said, I don't really recommend it to people. If you write slowly, large, or don't like keeping a pen/pencil on hand then it can be annoying.

Aside: I've considered automatically putting these notes into Anki after OCR (the one shown is a messy example, it seems to work though) but I think that's touching a matter apart from the top poster's intention. Rote memorization is useful, but the simple act of writing stuff down by hand has its own benefits without requiring much involvement.

Another thing to point out is that what you read is just as important. The reason I care about extracting references to other works, even if I can't read them immediately, is because it cements a topic in your mind rather than just being another cloud of words and hazy memories. Today I read Species of Spaces (Georges Perec) and on one page he references Forbidden Planet because of the large triangular doors. I made a note of it since I don't actually know what he's talking about (born in the '90s, didn't have TV, didn't see Forbidden Planet, don't blame me). Mentioning it here might actually be enough to make it stick, but I still intend to either read up on the film or, if I have the time, watch it (but not just for that scene!).

Example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28629850/Condit%2C%20Car... (side 1 of 2)
Your original statement was that Bitcoin removes that centralized control. Saying you wouldn't do it doesn't stop it from being possible.
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> you need a USB Vendor ID and Product ID to uniquely identify your device to computers.

What's the technical reason why this is part of the USB spec? Why do devices need unique identifiers, or what benefit does this provide?
Cache is repairable and bad cores can be disabled, so yield might not be too bad. I doubt Oracle is concerned about cost, though.
it's turns out people don't like to get a pay-cut on a regular basis.

this is a fact of human psychology that's a real barrier to your system, and unless it is addressed, bitcoin will continue to fail.
Except this is exactly the opposite of that: a logically sound argument that is, intuitively, utter garbage.
What does the spot price of a Bitcoin have to do with the question of whether Bitcoin can feasibly and safely be standardized to a point where there are many interoperable implementations that don't share any heritage in code?

Because that's the question you posed.
I appreciate your attempt to bridge the gap between democratic governance and the contemporary digital currency.

I am sympathetic to the idea of "let the people decide and let the best ones fall out of the mix," but the problem I see is:

Having multiple "competing" currencies defies the usefulness of currency at all. If, as a medium of exchange, I have to keep several around to do business with you (because you accept dogecoin, kanyecoin, and I'm carrying dogecoin and Frondocoin), then I don't think that's a very good situation.

And say Frondocoin wins out; for whatever reason, it takes over and 90% of people accept and carry some with them. Well, great, right? Except for the people who are growing up in the Frondocoin regime, whose economic lives are now dictated in some ways by the Frondocoin design goals.

Telling those people, "well, just start your own, and then persuade enough people in your local economy to start using it, and then maybe it'll grow enough to let you do interstate trade..." gets us right back to the start. Now people are once again stuck using a currency they didn't ask for and have no say in the operation of.

You might say "vote with your actions, your actions will help pick the winner."

I say, "vote with your vote, you have a right to periodically refresh your government by a well-defined, accessible process."

So, I guess I just still don't see how what you're proposing is either effective as currency or as democratic governance.
Just a reminder that this subthread is litigating the value of unwarranted and insubstantial negativity.
License fees.
>Asked to sum up the tech community’s feelings about Mr. Edelson, Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, a technology incubator that invests in very young companies, said the lawyer was regarded as “a leech tarted up as a freedom fighter.”

I guess that means even leeches have their societal uses.
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Note That this is a recent case, decided 5-4 by the George W Bush Supreme Court, so it could be overturned by a future pro-consumer court.

Elections have consequences.
So when the two platforms "integrate" with each other, will users still keep the so called "end to end encryption" recently adopted (but never publicly recognized) in Whatsapp?

My guess: Nope.
I was contacted by one of these scams recently. A quick Google for key terms in the message (the "officer"'s name and the phone number) showed it to be a scam that particularly enjoyed exploiting immigrants because they are very likely to pay quickly to keep everything quiet. How they have been able to operate such a scam for years without getting arrested is beyond me.
This concept is sometimes called the Forgetting Curve and is described by an formula. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
> Trying to put this in the nicest way, the HN mods come across as autistic and emotionally detached

The nicest way? :)

Assumptions that work at one scale stop working at the next, which is one reason this stuff is hard. You're making assumptions about "regular persons" and what's "very easy" that aren't true of the HN community as a whole. We couldn't enforce those by decree even if we wanted to.
is there a way to circumstantially throttle ipfs specific traffic?

also, note the docs' command lists anchor to the wrong page: http://ipfs.io/#ipfs-config ; stead: http://ipfs.io/docs/commands/#ipfs-config ;
At staples it was purely used to track absences (when you have 20 part time staff in a store just remembering who has been off and when over a few months becomes difficult) most managers would just use it as a reminder to have a word with staff as well.

If the person had a good reason then it would be ignored, for such a simple approach it worked pretty well.
>For example, after reading a book, writing down the summery, your opinions and insights at that point would help you more than remembering every detail.

I usually type up notes "on the cloud", what's your opinion on writing up notes v.s. typing the notes?
More blaming of the Internet for something that's been in progress since the 1970s.

We shifted from progressive to regressive (e.g. sales and employment) taxes, cut taxes on the top 1%, and moved toward a financial and service economy.
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Very interesting article. I'm from Iowa and I always knew we had a lot of counties (99), but didn't realize there were states with so many more. IIRC, the rationale for making all of our counties roughly the same size is that the state founders wanted everyone to be within a one day horse ride to the county seat so that it was easy to vote.
It's not 51%. A protocol change requires the vast majority of the Bitcoin nodes to agree to new software. 51% only matters for miners and if they can double spend, but has nothing to do with protocol changes.
> Finally, the Normans invaded England in 1066, and they subdivided the land into counties, from which we get the title of “Count”.

Other way round: "county" comes from "count", which is an anglicisation of a gallicisation of the Latin "comes", literally "companion" but forming part of a number of Late Roman military titles, such as comes brittaniarum, commander of the British field army in the 4th century.
Thank you for posting the data--it makes it easier for us to follow along at home.

I've written something up where I used tenure instead of the ranks.
http://christopheraden.github.io/SickTime.html.

Here’s my concern with the original model, having slept on it: What does it actually buy you? In order to use the model, you must know the rank of sick time of the employee, relative to all other employees. In order to calculate this, you have to have the raw sick time numbers. At which point, what’s the point in making a regression with it—just work with the raw sick times to begin with!

Wouldn't sick time taken per year be a more interesting measure? Over time, wouldn't you expect that an employee of 30 years would've taken more sick time than an employee of six months? Aren't you really concerned about whether in a particular year older employees are not taking as much vacation as newer employees?
Well, if you can find someone you trust to explain Bitcoin to you, I'd imagine you can find someone you trust to explain US fiscal policy to you.

As for democratic resource, I don't see how there is any comparison possible between "learn (or pay someone) to code, and then persuade every money-holder to accept your code" and "receive your ballot in the mail, cast your vote for the politician whose money policy you like".

One looks like a frictionless spherical cow, the other looks like an imperfect but still workable democratic process.
We use it for basic device recognition so we can do things like normalize keymappings on Android. See https://source.android.com/devices/input/key-layout-files.ht...
Drivers. When you plug a device into a computer, it uses the ID to determine what driver knows how to run it.
Also, if the world of things is infinite, then this doesn't hold up, right? if the number of things is infinite then observations of nonblack nonravens is not evidence of the proposition, right?
We also knew no swans are black, yet we theorized their existence (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_emblems_and_popula...)
It's only a matter of time before React is replaced by a new, "better" frontend framework with superior licensing. I love React, but for now, I think Meteor suffices.
They'd rather defend a lawsuit and pay a settlement than preemptively replace all defective products as they come in. Companies make this sort of decision all the time--trading off users for the bottom line. There's nothing evil about it (no point in doing more than what the law requires of you), but if your policy is to do what you can get away with under the law, you should expect litigation over whether you've crossed the line in any given case.
I'd say this one falls into the "sort of" category. In web security we are constantly fighting cross site request forgery (CSRF) bugs. Basically a bad actor places a GET or POST request into a page you visit which makes a request to another asset you are likely to have visited while authenticated like Facebook. This GET or POST then leads to some action on your behalf without your knowledge leading to an action of consequence such as making a wall post on your behalf. Similarly, within the context of this solution a bad actor could embed links to objects they want you to cache without your knowledge by not rendering the objects in a visible manner in the DOM. Yes, this can happen today and yes, the technique could be used to frame someone. In fact there was presumably once a court case where the defense team claimed their defendant didn't browse child porn and to provide the judge an example that it's possible to have child porn on a machine without ever knowingly visiting such content they had the judge browse the defense team website where they loaded up a bunch of images which went into his browser cache but which he didn't see because they weren't visible in the DOM. They then asked the forensics investigator to see if the judge had browsed the particular content and of course he came back that the judge did.

In the case of this solution, a bad actor could use unsuspecting visitors to a site or users of a rogue WiFi network to load up the particular bad content they want distributed.
> Significantly reduce the number of HTTP requests allowing fast page loads

I wonder how true this holds with HTTP/2.0, where resources are loaded in parallel over a single TCP connection.
This isn't true. A protocol change would require every Bitcoin user to change their software. 51% regards miner based attacks on the network such as double spends.

Miners still have to obey the rules of the Bitcoin nodes. If a miner tried to generate more coins, even if 100% of miners tried, it would fail as the several thousand active Bitcoin nodes would simply reject the blocks.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577
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About PhoneGap:

> They produce a very crappy experience that doesn't use the native OS functions, doesn't look and feel native, feels slow and has many bugs (for example they can't use the hardware back button)

Can you elaborate on what you mean here?

Sure, the apps never feel completely native but you can still invoke native features including the back button on Android, reuse the same code to make a web app and while bugs happen it isn't any worse than trying to create a cross-browser web app (which is essentially what you're writing).

Pretty much every software development choice is a trade off and PhoneGap is a good one sometimes.
we are going to be able to set bandwidth caps soon, most of the code required is in place, just need some more dev time and testing
Interesting. As a Chinese I have always wondered why lactose intolerance is so common in China but not in the west. Turns out I asked the wrong question :)
Nowadays I use spaced repetition software to capture anything interesting I see in a book (including insights that occur to me while reading), so I basically remember everything I want to. Before using SRS I might remember ~20% of a book.
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Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8985541
You can re-order commits on the spot and a lot more. See overview of app at http://gitup.co and docs: "Editing the Repository" in http://forums.gitup.co/t/using-gitup-map-view/34.
Signing a contract in a language you don't understand is not an opportunity anyone on here should recommend.

The guy was a few days before an Olympic final he rightly should have won.

After that would have been the time for dealing with offers.
Have you tried Cocos2d/Spritebuilder? If you don't ever make games for clients it wouldn't really make sense. But if so could you explain what you didn't like about it?
This is a relatively old manuscript, and I would recommend instead reading, or at least first reading:

* http://intelligence.org/files/ProblemClassDominance.pdf

* http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5577

(The original TDT manuscript occurred via pleas for 'something, anything to be published' that were satisfied by cleaning up an unfinished book draft and publishing it as-was.)