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If you refer a developer and we hire this person we'll gift you the new MacBook (worth about $1299) - - or $1000 in cash. You are welcome to refer yourself.
"Unwarranted positivity" has also been the root cause of many of our industry's greatest successes.

The costs of negativity and discouragement are difficult to judge because they usually take the form of opportunity costs which aren't directly visible.
'If only the king knew!'
I've always admired Woz but it's lines like this that make me love him.
It's really only applicable to folks giving pretty large amounts to their families. He and his wife can gift each kid (as well as any number of other individuals, it seems) $28k/year tax-free. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States

> There are two levels of exemption from the gift tax. First, gifts of up to the annual exclusion ($14,000 per recipient as of June 2013) incur no tax or filing requirement. By splitting their gifts, married couples can give up to twice this amount tax-free. Note that each giver and recipient pair has their own unique annual exclusion; a giver can give to any number of recipients and the exclusion is not affected by other gifts that recipient may have received from others.[7]

> Second, gifts in excess of the annual exclusion may still be tax-free up to the lifetime estate basic exclusion amount ($5,340,000 in 2014), although for estates over that amount such gifts might increase estate taxes. Taxpayers that expect to have a taxable estate may sometimes prefer to pay gift taxes as they occur, rather than saving them up as part of the estate.

> Furthermore, transfers (whether by bequest, gift, or inheritance) in excess of $1 million may be subject to a generation-skipping transfer tax if certain other criteria are met.
Imagine Bob is someone like the Unabomber[1] or the Mardis Gras bomber.

LEO can inspect documents received by targets to see if they actually came from the same printer or some other printer. This provides a small amount of information.

When they raid Bob's house they seize the printers and compare output. That provides a small amount of information.

While it's easy enough to subvert it is another thing that people need to remember.

[1] like the unabomber, but uses technology.
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I find Bitcoin fascinating so I'm not knocking it, but about this one:

> "..Bitcoin's disaster recovery plan is a) get a cabal of people together in IRC, b) shut down the entire payment network, c) sort things."

So say somebody finds a bug in the implementation that lets you do bad things like transfer everyone's balance to an attacker's account...what's the back up plan? Is there an equivalent with US dollars where such a thing could happen that has a back up plan?

Putting myself in the shoes of Bitcoin's developers, I can't feel all but terrified that a simple buffer overflow or something similar could wipe out an entire currency. Or is there something I'm not understanding?
Once the attacker hijacks the plaintext HTTP connection, she can pretty much do whatever she wants with the user. Of course, that's provided we're talking about a casual user, who isn't going to pay much attention to the HTTPS indicators.

Thus, the first leg of the traffic, between the victim and the MITM attacker is forever unencrypted. The second leg, between the attacker and the servers can be encrypted; it's not going to impact the attacker's capabilities in any way.

The attacker doesn't need to create their own fake login page, etc, because she can simply proxy all traffic from and to Amazon's servers.
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Bitcoin itself is a scam, so it's no surprise that all the key organizations around it are founds to be scams - the Bitcoin Foundation, Mt. Gox - even hardware manufacturers like Butterfly Labs.

The scam actually ended in December 2013, when the original scammers unloaded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of their worthless hyped hashes for $1100 each. Everything has been gravy since then - they made over $100 million in the last year as well. The bitcoin is worth under $260, and headed to zero.

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have been around long enough to know a fraud when they see one, and Munger correctly termed Bitcoins "rat poison". It's not a digital currency - it's a Ponzi scheme that will kill any chance of an actual digital currency from being developed in the subsequent years after its inevitable demise. I was saying so here when it was worth over $460. If the bagholders had listened instead of downvoted, they would have saved a lot of money. You still have time to get out before it plunges to zero. The idea these worthless hashes can retain a $3 billion market cap is risible.

I know why a commodity like gold has value, or why oil has value. Gold has been used as a currency, or to back currencies for thousands of years. Gold backed the US dollar until 1971. In fact, the 10,000 tons of gold the US still holds in Fort Knox and elsewhere still backs the dollar, albeit indirectly (for what other reason are they paying the expenses to store it?)

Why does Bitcoin have value? It doesn't, nor did Pets.com, subprime real estate, Dutch tulip bulbs, or other bubbles supported by hype.

HN has new rules against gratuituous negativity. I warned some people here from this scam over a year ago when it was over $460 (now <$260). I don't know if people can be warned off hype here in the future, but if so, you can always listen to old hands who have seen it all before like Munger and Buffett, who see this "rat poison" for what it is - valueless hashes, destined to be priced at their true worth - $0. Of course, as Keynes said, markets can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent.
Considering how toxic PC people are to debates (ironically exactly because the gratuitus negativity they bring) that is more than a defence mechanism that any healthy community needs to develop to protect itself.

Political correctness should be considered the same as writing a negative comment.
But then if people only care about the benefits to them, then they'll be overtaken by "lizards" who exploit them but never get voted out because no one thinks voting passes a CBA. Populations who vote "despite" its wastefulness systematically win against those who don't.

Arguably, the only reason any population isn't overrun by lizards is because it's people are mostly "wasteful" in this sense.

One intermediate solution is to force everyone to vote so that it's no longer costly. This is arguably what is accomplished when people promote voting out of civic duty, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916#
> How would you feel if you went to a doctor and he acted humorously and dismissively of your complaint (and it looks serious)?

If casino security was paying Wozniak to answer questions, then they'd have a right to be miffed if he didn't.
What benefit would that bring? Sure we will be more inclusive to the people who don't understand that steelmanning comes from the (opposite) strawmanning, which comes from strawmen, which have been called so for centuries.

Is a person who gets offended by that really the kind of person you want on HN?
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Picking up on the IMDb reference.
IMDb is a database of movie metadata for all movies. important points are:

a) they provide a unique id for each movie

b) movie metadata does not exist digitally otherwise, thus imdb managed to become _the_ place for metadata about movies.

c) movies have a well defined set of metadata values they all share

now what does that mean for software?

a) gitreview currently uses the name of a software package as id but that is not unique. even less unique than title/year for movies. I recommend to switch to numbers right away. I.e. if http://gitreview.com/packages/nginx/ is not nginx(http://nginx.org/) nothing should be.

b) there are many online repositories of software with various levels of metadata. and the software itself is also available online from the authors most of the time. what does gitreview add to make it _the_ place for metadata about software?

c) there is no well defined or commonly agreed metadata set for software, what information is gitreview collecting exactly? currently i see name, description, link and some tags. Why are you not using something like DOAP(https://github.com/edumbill/doap/wiki)?
Very interesting, especially the water usage.

However, I'm curious to know what the electrical cost is. I know LEDs have to help with efficiency, but is it still enough?
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Biggest losses came from Bitcoin prices dropping. As to non-investment expenses, it was largely staffing. Bitcoin2014 was a money loser as well, if I recall.
Academic writing is dense. When you shorten the page limit, you force authors to make it denser, to explain less and rely more on the readers' previous knowledge. As a writer, I'm often surprised how easy it is fill pages and pages, and as a reader, I'd rather read clear expository prose than wizardly hand-waving.
Would be interesting to see Patrick's answer to the above, particularly the first point... I pinged the tweetstorm to a friend of mine who's knowledgeable about Bitcoin and he seemed to feel Patrick was, erm, not particularly believable on this topic.

For example, on the first point:

this is akin to saying the bit torrent foundation closed down bit torrent! waah!

it's impossible

once they released the reference implementation, it was out of their hands

this is the beauty of open sourced and decentralised technology, once it's out there it's difficult to control

the analogy would be Linus going batshit mad and deciding to include binary blob drivers provided by the NSA in the kernel mainline, fine - nobody will use it, business continues as usual using a fork before that and he becomes irrelevant
Programnming should be more than coding (Leslie Lamport at Stanford)
You might get fewer downvotes if you define "PC" and offer some examples so we understand your perspective. Most people who rail against "being PC" are walking pits of gratuitous negativity, so people are probably assuming you're one of them.
Not just as documentation, it would prevent another developer from accidentally modifying it.
I'm afraid I don't. I think it ultimately comes down to what you want to do with it.

Personally, I'd recommend the Uno: it is a great basic Arduino platform which can handle most projects which utilize a micro controller. Once you've prototyped your project with the Uno and identified if you need more IO pins, or more speed, or a smaller unit, then you can look into replacing the Uno with one of the more specialized versions, and use the Uno to prototype your next project.
Literally the first link on the front page.
I don't know about yandie, but I work at Amazon and I have seen emails about this. It's not planned for rolling out to production until September.
Did you read the article? It answers your question. Take a look at the section that begins with this:

The problem is called a paradox because two analyses that both sound intuitively logical give conflicting answers to the question of what choice maximizes the player's payout. The first analysis argues that, regardless of what prediction the Predictor has made, taking both boxes yields more money.

If you don't find this convincing, that's the point. Half the people who read this think one answer is obviously right, and the other half think the other is obviously right.
At the risk of being reprimanded by the man himself, here is the tweet storm in text:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583696870704152576
1/I follow Bitcoin like some people follow Nascar crashes. Some quick thoughts in tweetstorm format:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697092306014208
2/ It is an open secret in the Bitcoin community that merchants who adopt it see virtually no meaningful transaction volume.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697371378257920
3/ Western Union spends roughly 1/2 of revenue on local offices by both ends of the transactions. Bitcoin remittances don't solve this.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697585719746560
4/ Bitcoin presently costs on the order of $6.5k per megabyte of data added to the block chain.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697812438691841
5/ The entire market cap of Bitcoin as of 4/1/2015 is a fee paid to someone for work already done between 2009 and 4/1/2015.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583698553614143488
6/ Most advantages of Bitcoin which matter are captured by, and improved upon by, a LAMP app which simply holds account balances.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583699554563784704
7/ Bitcoin's Internet cheering squad is a spontaneously organized boiler room. This is Bitcoin's #1 engineering and marketing achievement.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583699782624911361
8/ The cheering squad improves upon techniques used to make Ross Perot and Rand Paul seem like serious contenders for the US presidency.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583700634764910592
9/ Bitcoin is not a protocol in any meaningful sense of word. It is a single C++ codebase that you have to be bug-for-bug compatible with.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583701008754147329
10/ Bitcoin's disaster recovery plan is a) get a cabal of people together in IRC, b) shut down the entire payment network, c) sort things.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583701441866371073
11/ No, seriously, the decentralized nobody-needs-to-trust-anybody payments network was shut down by an IRC channel's consensus for 8 hrs.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583702513469104128
12/ Time between Bitcoin blocks is not guaranteed (follows a Poisson distribution). Sometimes all pending transactions just stop for a while

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583702865098604544
13/ The media following Bitcoin, both enthusiast press and tech rags, are so incompetent at their jobs that it beggars belief.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583703396231716864
14/ One example of many: a single phone call or letter in Japanese would have sufficed to verify that Mt. Gox was insolvent in summer 2013.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583706966553276417
15/ A good portion of geek enthusiasm for Bitcoins comes from the fact that it is programmable money. But: Money is also programmable money.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583707625210060800
16/ This concludes my mini-rant on Bitcoin. I have a longer, more technical rant but will do it some other time.

It would have been good to put a disclaimer in there that the rant applies only to the currency aspect of Bitcoin, and not the Bitcoin Protocol.
What I don't understand is why would anyone risk taking both A & B just to gain a measly $1,000? Just take the million and be happy with it.
Yes I can count with one hand the people that consistently uses the Principle of Charity.

And the saddest part is not seeing the interlocutor full of himself and completely ignoring the fact that, by not using this principle, he makes his own argument weaker (showing that his intelligence didn't reached those heights).

The saddest part is the public false victory because depending on the peers (audience), he will likely be perceived as in a stronger position when the opposite is true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Not all traffic. Amazon has a separate SecureOnly cookie for access to their trusted pages that isn't sent over HTTP. Without that cookie not all traffic can be proxied.
Another reason is that MSVC whines about loop conditionals evaluating to constants. Or at least it used to. So while(1) would cause a warning, but not for(;;)
Why? It's his real name and his real picture. What law is he breaking?
Probably because the BBB can't really handle realtime applications - in its default form it's running Debian Linux these days.

The microcontroller can take care of the realtime interaction, while letting the ARM processor running Linux handle the higher level logic.

Of course, it's easy to debate how much your average Microcontroller project really requires a dedicated realtime processor, but that's neither here nor there.
I realize there is no one that speaks for bitcoin, but here you have someone announcing to merchants to not process transactions until the fork was resolved (the post refers to a discussion on #bitcoin-dev):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152030.0

If you're a merchant: please stop processing transactions until the chains converge.

So there is room to argue about how patio11 phrased that, but it seems fair enough to say that advice from the insiders was to stop using it for a while (and given that the fork was resolved in keeping with the results of the discussion, I think it is fair to say that there really are insiders).

Saying not to use the network has pretty much all the same problems as making it unavailable (and the additional problem that it is confusing for the bad state to be available but not recommended for use).
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I like the simple nature of HN. All I'd like is a keyboard shortcut that collapses the comments, so that I can ignore one thread once I've decided I want to. If this exists, I apologize; please let me know the shortcut.
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(I agree that he probably didn't break any laws. The ID thing is awesome, really funny.)

"Laser safety officer" is a lie, and lying to federal officials is not legal.
I agree with you. Inflation is due to political maneuvers, and is not purely economical. In other words, without bad politicians, inflation wouldn't exist.
All the MITM has to do is relay the traffic to the correct secure location, passing the credentials passed via the compromised HTTP connection, and the user's entire account is compromised.

Remember: HTTPS does not ensure the identity of the client.
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Why does the US govt sell uncut sheets of bills? Are they just for fun or is there a legitimate use for them?
More then likely it has to do with the amount of times you have previously solved a ReCAPTCHA before. If I delete Google cookies from my browser I will get the harder to solve ReCAPTCHAs at first, eventually it will turn into the easier ones.

If you are logged into a Google property you might also get easier to solve ones, since they know you at least have an account and previous account activity.
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Well, not entirely, because we also had very expensive machines that ID fakes. We used this when one was suspicious but weren't sure. I dont know how it worked, but it had more sensors and a process of ID'ing bills that I still don't really understand. This is more often then not how we found 20's since usually they were too numerous to scrutinize manually.

So you could try and walk in with a great toupee but I'm gonna suck it off with my expensive vacuum anyway.
They are right, there is no way to shut it down. At the limit a single node can accept and verify transactions (it probably wouldn't mean anything, and would probably take some extra time to complete).

The network can enter a state where people that are familiar with it decide to tell people to not use it until it is fixed, and that did happen.
You can opt out of the work hours regulations, but even if you don't as a contractor you will be running your own Ltd, so unless you're liable to sue yourself, you'll be fine with 2 weeks holiday which is comparable to the US. Of course you can take more, but as a contractor you get paid per day, so it'll affect your earnings.

Avoiding tax once you're not PAYE is pretty easy, there are loads of loopholes but the government sanctioned method is to take £40k per year at under 20% and leave the rest in the company. If you have a non-working spouce, this becomes £80000. You can also contrib, I believe, £40k to a pension, double again for your spouce and set yourself up for a super early retirement.

If you're open to more risk, there are loan based trust systems that'll get you access to your money a lot quicker. They're currently totally legal but the government does make a lot of noise about shutting them down.

Point being, earnings aren't reflective of wealth in the UK and you can do well here too as sadly, the well off have a lot more opportunities to legally avoid tax.
Agreed lots of noise. But I still scan the Show HN page frequently for some signal amongst the noise. I would be worried if the noise caused good show HN's to be buried but j don't think that's the case. If anything, consolidating noise and signal in one place makes it easier to find the signal.
Your post is weaker for it. The word "fuck" was appropriate to express what you wanted to express. The word "forget" is lame and forgettable. I'm sorry to see your post neutered by some kind of sudden appearance of a PC-police on HN, using the excuse of sama's post to try and restrict your way to express your ideas (which are not showing any of the kind of "gratuitous negativity" that sama talks about in his post). For shame.
For $5000 you can definitely afford a miner. I'm a couple years out of the loop on mining technology and the current & future global hashrate, but with research you could probably get a pretty good estimate on the break even point. An uneducated guess is about a year.

Take a look at Dash (formerly known as darkcoin). It has anonymous mixing built into the protocol. So buying BTC -> dash -> BTC should be able to create anonymous coins. The bits of identity you lose (with this method or buying a miner) only identify you as possible BTC holder, but the actual coins are still untraceable/anonymous.
>To allow for innovation needs robust discussion where you freely share your wild and unorthodox thoughts in a safe environment

That may be useful, but that isn't HN. If your comment is positive about Javascript (which is actually a good language once you get to know it) or SPAs that comment is very likely to be downvoted.

If you even find a place that actually allows discussion of unortodoc views, please tell me.