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Yes, agreed, with a clarification--

If the people chose to adopt a digital currency, that choice should be something that's also revisited periodically. Either directly (i.e. a citizens' initiative to change its inflationary/deflationary policy) or by way of our elected officials (i.e. "Vote for me, my stand on digital currency is X!"), it should be possible for the people to decide a new course of action every so often.

After a few years of living in a digital currency-enabled world, we'd have a sense of whether we wanted to keep the policy the same, change it, roll it back entirely, whatever. If it's something we could vote on, then great, democratic principles intact.
> 8 GHz

Is that the overclocked speed? I could only find a maximum of 3.5 GHz in the specs...
I use Unity3D to develop for multiple platforms and can't recommend it enough -- it is a 3D game engine so it may be too heavy for some applications, but it can do anything you want it to. Everything is written in C#/.net on your end, Unity cross-compiles to other platforms.

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.
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Having run Cloud66 for the past year, I can say that actually managing infrastructure and dealing with security management such things would have been prohibitively expensive. Cloud66 has taken care of things like heartbleed and package updates (and alerts for rails updates). It's been a good experience in that I learned that I really do want a managed hosting environment - since I can see what they've done, but don't actually have to do it myself.

I would also love to hear a cost benefit analysis a year into managing your own servers.
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The issue, it seems, turns on whether either or both of "ravens" and "non-black things" are infinite. If neither is, then both black ravens and non-black non-ravens provide some evidence for the two equivalent propositions, with evidence defined as any information which makes a conclusion more strongly supported than it would be without that information.

That ravens are not infinite seems to be a well supported proposition. That non-black things are not infinite is intuitively trickier.

(Of course, this all assumes ravens aren't defined by blackness, in which case evidence isn't even an issue.)
I don't find your millions of pageviews impressive
> I gotta think there would be some advantage to designing a CPU architecture explicitly around optimizing garbage collection at least.

That's what we all thought in those days but Pat Solvobarro killed it by using the MMU on a Sun Machine to implement a write barrier.

I don't know how great that is these days (since you get a fault and a cache miss) but the principle was that the conventional hardware could get better faster than the specialized hardware could, and so general would overwhelm any local advantages of the specific.
Thanks for the correction, interesting.
That someone doesn't like Unices.
From the outside looking in his innocence and over reaching generosity made me skeptical. Especially considering he just signed on. Why does he bear the burden of righting the ship? It feels very coup like.
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The democratic recourse is that you stop using it. You can opt-in and opt-out; there is no institution coercing you into using it.

Why should we expect that 99/100 people have anything insightful to say about currency? Even the person who is college-educated and took maybe 1 or 2 economics classes is way out of depth talking about it. There are maybe a "handful" of people who could give a meaningful evaluation of bitcoin or some alternative currency... similarly the requirement that someone be code-literate and have algorithmic "chops" to change bitcoin is good -- you don't want a person who doesn't even know what a distributed system is trying to make changes to something they don't understand because they read an article on huffington post about it and decided it was "problematic" because it didn't fall quite in line with something they believed rather strongly but without good reason to be true.
I have more than a year of experience building applications for Android, iOS and Windows with Xamarin. Overall, I much prefer my experience with Xamarin than the alternatives. Keep in mind that I did have prior experience with C#, .NET, and Visual Studio.

As far as "recommendations on developing for multiple mobile platforms", I'd be happy to answer slightly more specific questions.

> As far as I understand it, if you are big and have the resources, your best bet is still to develop separate native apps for each platform.

If you have different teams for each platform, it makes sense to go native and duplicate the effort. As soon as you want to share code or resources (including employees) between more than one platform, Xamarin starts making sense. If you have a small mobile development team (1-2 people), you'll probably need to either pick a single platform, or go with Xamarin. If you plan to have a Windows app, Xamarin makes sense. If the business is already using Microsoft technologies (Windows, .NET, C#, Visual Studio, TFS, or even Typescript), then Xamarin makes a lot of sense.

However, Xamarin is not a silver bullet. It does comes with some trade-offs (in addition to those mentionned in the article).

- You still need a Mac (either as your main machine, or on the network).

- Compile time is a bit slower.

- You don't get access to the latest Android SDK on day one (you do with iOS, though).

- You can't use any existing iOS/Android libraries out of the box. Someone (which could be you) need to manually "bind" the Java/Objective-C library interface to C# first.

- Application startup time might be a bit longer on iOS.
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I'll give the FDA a lot of credit for things like blocking thalidomide from the US in the 1950s and 1960s (looks like Richardson-Merrell was pushing hard for US sales after it had already caused a disaster and been banned in Germany) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide . Like all things you have to balance the harm and good.
It is a helpful context in which to view the seemingly "logical" arguments you hear all the time from politicians and moralists of all persuasion. A reminder that a good-sounding, intuitively appealing argument can have absurd or utterly fallacious conclusions.
There are applications that let you query structured text with SQL. For example, https://github.com/dinedal/textql there are others as well.
It's fun. What, do you think people do maths and logic for some kind of practical, real world benefit? What a bizarre notion! (tongue firmly planted in cheek here)
The Estonian voting system already allows you to verify your vote from a second device for a short time period.

This certainly doesn't protect against all attacks (and it's only one part of the security system) — but it _does_ help against the threat of a virus that invisibly intercepts your vote to turn it into something different. If people started reporting that their phone showed a different vote to what they thought they'd cast via their laptop, then the election would be in trouble.

The fact that it only shows you this for a short time period also gets around the problem of you being able to show to a third party how you voted (in cases of vote-buying or coercion), because under the Estonian system you can also vote as many times as you like (with only the final vote being counted). So you could use this verification to 'prove' to someone that you voted the way they wanted you to — and then log in again an hour later and vote for someone different.
I like that so much. Thanks, for bridging the gap between the online and the tangible. Feedback: find a way to market it really well, because it would be cool to see lots of people walking around with these. Also, maybe consider "couples shirts" as sometimes couples like to wear shirts that reference each other, a la the classic (?) "I'm with stupid" :) Conferences could be another big win for you -- bulk orders, and maybe you could "include" shirt urls atop another suppliers merch so everyone can be "URLing" their wares on their backs for all to look up. It would be cool to have a "shirt url" spotted-at Instagram feed, like, "post some pics of where you wearing your shirt url, <x> one gets free special edition shirt." x in superlative of your choice :) The name is really good. This whole thing made me smile so I'd say you're definitely onto something if you can make people feel good.
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People working to understand and improve the structure of logic? The whole point is that no one would attempt to learn that way, despite the fact that mechanical application of logic says that it provides information.
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Seems not really paradoxical to me, both formulations just suggest different ways about acquiring evidence. The original formulation suggest to first pick a raven from the set of all things and then verify that it is indeed black, the inverted formulation suggest to first pick a non-black thing from the set of all things and then verify that it is indeed not a raven.

Both ways work and provide evidence for the truth of the hypothesis. If there are non-black ravens and the hypothesis is therefore wrong you can find that out by first picking a raven and then realizing that it is non-black as well as first picking a non-black thing and then realizing that it is a raven.

In our world the set of ravens and the set of non-black things vastly differ in size and therefore the first way of doing it seems more intuitive but if you for example think about sets of twenty triangles and squares colored either black or white the paradox immediately disappears.
So what? A penny can buy you a house now. And there is new form of micropennies that are worth millionth of a penny which you'd use to buy groceries.
Do you think the central banking based currencies offer any democratic control? You'd be kidding yourself if you thought so. Central banking centralizes control of a currency under the influence and in the interests of the economic elite. Distributed currencies like bitcoin deny that control to a centralized authority. That alone makes it more democratic. It is important to note that it is not bitcoin itself that is revolutionary, but all the distributed currencies that follow it. It is the evolutionary modification and adoption of those currencies that is democratic, through the emergence of a competetive market of currencies all based on different ideas.
There are some details here about the way they've been using computer generated illumination: http://theconversation.com/how-we-restored-harvards-rothko-m...
> Setting the barrier to democratic participation at "learn to code..." means that that isn't really a democratic system at all.

As opposed to paying for 8 years of law school and getting elected using the money of special interests? Setting the bar at knowledge freely available to anyone is about as good as you can do.

In practice, it only takes a handful of programmers to provide value for billions and stave off corruption. See: Linux
It probably is true, but IMHO it's not "how much you remember" but how you are changed by what you read.
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I think this is the key to making a great cross-platform solution. Pretty much any mobile app that's not a toy relies on native 3rd party sdks, be it ad providers or fancy Ui compinents. Whatever platform first solves the issue of making integration of pods on iOs or AARs on Android a smooth process, will win.

I don't see any options that come close to solving this. Xamarin is not native to either iOS or Android. RoboVM (the one i work on) can cheat, as we only need to solve it for iOS, Android comes for free. React Native has no clear path for accessing 3rd party libs at all yet. Whatever they can come up with will be further complicated by the fact that the JS engine is single threaded.
I deleted my LinkedIn profile a long time ago and never looked back. I can't think of a better example of the meaningless that is only meaningful because other people say it is. I don't even think about LinkedIn unless it's mentioned here, that's how irrelevant to my life it is.
I have read a lot of books but only a few more than once. I probably only remember bits I thought were important from any particular book, but when I read several on the same subject they tend to overlap in certain parts and I find I remember those parts very well.
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For me there are two modes with a thin line of difference whilst reading any book.

In one mode, I tend to have a huge affinity towards either the author of the book or the potential content of the book. When I happen to read a book in such a mode, my grasping power works super good and whatever I read on seems to stay in memory for a longer time.

The other mode is when I come across a resource, that looks potentially interesting and I'm scanning it to pick up anything that takes me from zero to one. This is when remembering things takes a little more effort for me.
They should've hosted on IPFS!
Actually, I do want everyone to have a say in their government, even if it's as simple as voting for a politician who listens to those policy experts and makes decisions.

I'm not saying, "everything must be direct democracy."

I'm saying, "people have a right to access political power."

I've never been ok with "you're too stupid to know how this works, I'll take away your ability to decide," even though there are lots of things where I'd consider myself better-informed about stuff than the typical dumb idiot on the street.

(Yeah, even those typical dumb idiots, I want them to have a say in how society is structured too. That's how strongly I believe in democracy as a human right.)

Right now, bitcoin is totally a choice, and one very, very few people are making. If bitcoin ever spread beyond this very fringe state, to where people would be compelled to use it for whatever reason, that's where it's important that those people have a say in how it's designed and how it operates.
Re: re-reading, for me reading a few books on the same or similar subjects approximates re-reading enough for me to have felt like I've re-read after only having read.
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There's no paradox here. Imagine that in the world of things, about 1 in 100 are black and about 1 in 1,000,000 are ravens. It's true as far as it goes that observing a black raven and observing a nonblack nonraven are both consistent with (and thus evidence for) the proposition that all ravens are black, but the first observation is about 10,000 times as strong of evidence as the second. Because Bayes.
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There is something wery odd about Newcomb’s Problem. If the Predictor can predict my choice with 100% accuracy, it's not really a choice, is it? Free will does not exist in this scenario, and therefore I cannot meaningfully choose between one or both boxes. The question is nonsensical.
Interesting choice of metrics. I'll just point out this community culture difference:

- Mods on sites like PH tend to measure quality by the results of how the comments are likely to affect the post's creator. E.g. Could a comment contribute to preventing the next AirBnB from happening. No metrics that can be gamed to get around that.

- HN mods seem to be measuring quality through simple crude metrics like civility and substantiveness. Is HN really that unwilling to consider how the comments emotionally affect the creators? Trying to put this in the nicest way, the HN mods come across as autistic and emotionally detached. It's actually very easy for a regular person to understand whether a comment will be inclined to making someone want to quit working on the creation they've shared, no matter how civil or substantively it's written
This looks like spam to me. It is one of two Russian science articles submitted 5 minutes apart by two new IDs, both created two days ago:

Destroy the universe (impossible-physics.ru)
3 points by zegro 50 minutes ago | flag | 1 comment

Гейзеры Тритона (popular-astronomy.ru)
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This is beyondio's first post, but zegro has posted three Russian articles on a daily schedule.
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I think it feels scammy because it makes no consideration for past wealth. Anyone who got in early enough and picked up dozens of early coin are now reaping some benefits.

Old money now has to buy it at new rates or ignore it. Some old money decided to buy early and now have considerable impact on its future so thats something. Everyone in between is trying to figure out how having "Disney dollars" helps them. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jp22_M8wNQ&spfreload=10
HN pro tips:

1. Resist complaining about downvotes. It makes boring reading (and hence gets downvoted). This is literally one of the guidelines.

2. If you find yourself saying "Downvoted because I <position in an argument>, really?", the answer is always, no, downvoted because you expressed <position in an argument> in a non-constructive manner that nobody wanted to read. If you had expressed <opposite position> in the same way, you'd have been downvoted too. This might be that you were overly aggressive, this might be that you were insufficiently clear in making your point, this might be because both <position> and <opposite position> are dead horses, etc.

But the answer is always no.
"If the coming years bring more citizens training cameras on police officers, as well as more police administrators willing to punish misbehavior"

It is the second, and not the first, that is a change of pace here. We've been recording police officers doing terrible things for decades. We expect them to go unpunished. That's why we're surprised this go round. For now at least.
In which municipality do you need to attend 8 years of law school to vote?

Where I live (Oregon, USA), they mail us ballots every year or two, and we vote on things. You don't need to own property or have a car, you still get to vote on stuff.

For example, last year we decided to legalize cannabis in our state. I'm quite sure the millions of people who voted for that didn't spend 8 years in law school.
hey guys, if any of you are into finance, this is a little experiment I have been running. I am using a systematic approach for the selection and my theory is based upon Nassim Talib's thoughts.

I will be adding a new stock trade every M-TH, and reviewing the portfolio on Fridays.
I hope you guys enjoy, and make a ton of money off it!

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This happens to me as well. I have noticed, however, that while I can't recall facts very well from books I've read they often do change my perspective on things and that is much longer lasting. For example, reading the book "The Selfish Gene" had a profound effect on how I thought about the world, even though I can't remember much at all of its contents other than it being about how evolution selects at the level of genes.

With more technical books I find it is almost impossible for me to learn anything substantial from them unless I do the exercises, however, the exercises tend to take an enormous amount of time. So what I find myself doing is skimming most technical books and then then going more in depth on the few that seem relevant/interesting to me.
Riveting article. I was somewhat jarred by the mention of Robert Ames' assistance during the '73 crisis, but realized that I was confusing him with Aldrich Ames[1] as a CIA double agent. The two seem to have worked at the CIA at the same time, except that as per the article Robert Ames was killed in a suicide bombing three later in '76.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames
Smart People and Great Ideas Not Enough – Throwdown on Entrepreneurship
Ben Narasin, President of TriplePoint Capital lays it clean for young entrepreneurs on creating mobile companies and what it takes to succeed in a crowded entrepreneurship world.

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This question teaches us something about how formal reasoning does and doesn't work, and does and doesn't correspond to common-sense ideas like "supporting evidence" and "relevant".

Then you might ask, why do we care about how formal reasoning works? Because the alternative, common-sense reasoning, works really well up to a point, after which it fails badly.
Yes. Its literally the point of the Mono project.
I find it normal.

Whenever I re-read a book I look at it in a different light or, better yet, I have a new understanding of the book.
> 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.”

"Tarted?" Feel the homophobic side of the Force, Sam. As long as "track people as much as you can, under a EULA that gives you all the rights you can imagine" is a business model, Jay Edelson is necessary.
Linux is far from the product of a handful of programmers.
> It's also a little sad, in a way. It relegates Xamarin to maintainers of a distribution for another operating system.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. As I understand things, Mono is still keeping its runtime - JIT, garbage collector (the release notes here mention optimizations to SGen), etc. That means Mono isn't nor is it planning to be "just" a distro for Microsoft's .NET. (But it is using more and more Microsoft library and compiler code.)
I remember almost everything and here is I think why...

I have an ereader which I take to bed at night and I love reading until I pass out!

It takes me a few nights to finish a book and most of the time the next morning I practice.

Most of the books are about programming which is a topic that I'm literally in love with!
Lets say this indeed was cataclysmic.

But can you imagine a possibility of building a system where the db that each person holds is not berkeley db or whatever but just plaintext and then writing your own functions to traverse the same.

I'll admit I do not understand the bitcoin core at all because I never invested time yet to read it. But I completely understand the blockchain algorithm and can write a cryptocurrency without even caring about what bitcoin did.

All I am asking you is do you believe that such a system can be built? Or do you believe that the current developers are intelligent enough that if they couldn't do it you can't do it either?
I had a scare regarding this a few days ago. I was searching for a Bose airline adapter on DuckDuckGo and clicked the top result without looking at the URL. [1] I ended up hitting some page on www.casselsonline.com that exactly mirrored Amazon's website right down to suggested items and everything. I didn't even notice I wasn't on amazon.ca until I went to sign in and found the certificate broken.

Couldn't find a place to report URLs on DDG, so I reported them to Google.

[1] These bad results still show in the index - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bose%20airline%20adapter%20canada+...
No.. Not your body. Like electricity for domestic purposes .
The case to be made isn't that the barrier to voting is sufficiently low, but that voting substantially matters at all.

There are plenty of political scientists who think that, as a mechanism for changing power structures, voting is ineffective and poorly conceived.