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> How is money also programmable money? Does he mean USD, USD as claimed by paypal, USD as claimed by venmo?

Yes to all of those. Computers have been absolutely intertwined with finance and money for decades, so much so that it's become almost invisible to people. But just because it's so invisible you don't notice it doesn't mean that major economies haven't already been using "programmable money".

> machine to machine payments that can withstand any one buisness failing.

Business fail all the time, including business involved in payment processing with existing national currencies. That hasn't stopped machine-to-machine payments.

On the other hand Bitcoin has suffered payment stops in its history, which Patrick mentions in the linked tweetstorm.
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I'm disappointed by the lack of shoutout to 'developers'.
According to the manual [1] the format requires that field names match [a-zA-Z%][a-zA-Z0-9_]* but it allows any characters in the value other than an unescaped newline. For example, the command

echo "\"country\",population\nÖsterreich,8.58" | csv2rec --strict | rec2csv

works as expected. Somewhat worryingly, the format specification does not say anything about \0. I'd rather see use of \0 explicitly prohibited.

I have found one place where the field name rule may not be enforced properly. It appears that csv2rec will use a noncompliant column name from a CSV file header as a key even in strict mode; however, rec2csv or relset will not accept the output it generates as input. I.e.,

echo "Österreich_population\n8.58" | csv2rec --strict | rec2csv

blows up on rec2csv rather than on csv2rec (which is what I think should happen).

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/recutils.html#Th...
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Winged heavier-than-air machines can exist without propulsion, but they won't be aircraft that can fly. The blockchain is analogous to wings on an aircraft. It's a means to an end, not an end to itself. Bitcoin (the currency) is the propulsion, that when combined with the blockchain, allows distributed consensus (flight) to occur.
I wasn't saying there was; only that there is more than one way to approach the problem, and language like "should" infers that there is some absolute way.
As for IntelliJ, there is a plugin for Go (https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin), it's in active development and pre-release builds are published regularly. Any feedback and contributions are welcome.
That generalization is no longer a paradox; it's just a situation. The paradox is about choice theory and you have eliminated any element of choice.

People who choose (or act, if you don't care for free will) to take only one box are always leaving money on the table, full stop. The point of the game is to maximize winnings.

The alternative approach is that people who have chosen one box have always received more money than those who chose both. Explanations about how or why are distractions and are inconsequential; the paradox is about these two -- both generally considered to be valid -- approaches yielding such different results.

In my opinion, the resolution of the paradox is that's an impossible situation. Either someone is lying about the mechanisms (in which case take one box like everyone else because it's a magic trick of some kind) or not (in which case the "predictor" can be wrong and the boxes are already set, so take both boxes to eliminate the risk of receiving nothing and to maximize your winnings).
Monte Carlo simulations are approximations, not complete knowledge of all things. This is, for obvious reasons, why these 'paradoxes' are bullshit. There's not enough energy in the universe to observe all black things. That's the real paradox here.
> Did I miss something?

Yeah. The Halloween Documents[1], mainly.

1. http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/
This looks ontopic, but this is a English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

Nevertheless, I like it. Autotranslation "Geysers of Triton" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...

Do you have an English version? With a little of luck it will be more popular here. (At least translate the title of the submission.)
Netflix Open Source Software Center
http://opensource.com/business/15/3/interview-semmy-purewal-netflix
This is awesome. Could do with something similar for allocating bluetooth UUIDs.
Gold's value was always decorative.
> No it didn't, it was replaced with a slightly different history, or history remained the same, depending on which side and which client you happened to be running at the time.

This is precisely what he just said. A valid blockchain being replaced by fiat (heh) is certainly a destruction of transaction history, whether that happened to everyone using Bitcoin or just a subset of people using Bitcoin.
I am greek. In the real estate business. I have no debt or loans, always living well within my means. For last year, I payed 90% of my true income in taxes. I am, basically, being murdered. 'Nough said.

When you hear about, or say, "greeks don't pay their taxes", you should also get informed about how much that taxation really is. That's extremely difficult, even for someone living here. To give the slightest of many examples, you may read that income from real estate is taxed with 33%. That's true, but it glosses over ~30 more "small" taxes on real estate, and many other general laws that affect it. ..You read "I don't pay my taxes of 33%", my what-really-happened, extremely simple, just did a division, calculation, is 90%. ..Have a good day. Cause I'm having bad years.
This would lead to potential ID collisions as the VID space isn't very big. So just use a well-known debugging ID and have your driver detect your device using other USB descriptor fields.
The world is overpopulated, the fault to the Rich
http://opensource.com/business/15/3/interview-semmy-purewal-...
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Oil and water companies.
Is not that I don't like smart cars, the problem is that they allow a transfer of control from who's supposed to be the owner to institutions and hackers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jstaBeXgAs

Lets say that by a surreal act of good software engineering, you get rid of the hackers problem, what are the odds of getting rid of corruptible institutions?
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insanely cool! but isn't this more like live code replay vs interactive development? I mean it looks like it's just running through code at constant speed. doesn't look like any development process i've ever seen unless it really is done by a robot
If you're interested in the M7 the Hot Chips conference talk was pretty interesting. It starts at the 33 minute mark in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4f62FJGVcE

If you're interested in CPU architecture the Hot Chips talks are generally worthwhile. They're available for free a few months after the conference.
Now that we are at it, if you have experience / recommendations on developing for multiple mobile platforms please share it here.

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.

Right?
Seems windows 10 is making secure boot mandatory. This means my problem is Microsoft is still playing the "embrace/extend/extinguish" game as usual, and the Halloween Documents are still totally relevant.

Please show me a compliant UEFI firmware that allows for custom keys. I'm genuinely curious.
> Blockchain enables value-transfer, what is that in plain english? Money.

A digitally-signed email enables value-transfer too. Depending on your risk profile you could even go for an authenticated TLS connection that just does a RESTful style POST to enable value-transfer.

Value-transfer is not unique to a blockchain, or to Bitcoin's blockchain in particular, any more so than bubble sort is the only possible implementation of a sorting algorithm.

CS majors know to avoid bubble sort because it is so inefficient, yet many refuse to apply the same lesson to POW-based systems like Bitcoin.
To address your earlier point that woz wasn't harming anybody, insinuating to casino security that you're passing counterfeit money is essentially saying "I am doing you harm." We generally frown upon people saying that, even when there's no real harm to accompany the statement.
If you wanted an x86-based SoC, there's no way Intel would make it.

Intel has made several x86 SoCs, and there's also a few others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_x86_manufacturers

This one in particular is interesting since it contains most of a standard PC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86

However the current market for x86 SoCs is in industrial/embedded where performance is not a main concern, so these are not particularly fast.
I found the story really interesting. It's tough because you don't always recognize which opportunities lead you to great things, and which are dead ends. Only in hindsight can you see it.

Though for this guy, I'm not sure it would have made much difference. He turned down a great offer arrogantly without even considering it, then proceeded to go on a drinking binge and blame others for his problems. This isn't really the mentality and behavior of successful people.

You’re never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka
USB PIDs aren't like NIC MAC addresses, two identical items (keyboards, webcams, etc.) are supposed to have the same PID in order for the OS to recognize them as being the same and to apply the same driver to them. The VID is just a namespacing convention.
Interesting read, and I found a summary for those who stopped reading because the article was a little too long: http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/04/serafim-todorov-beatin...

From the article I understand the promoters were impressed by his performance and offered him a professional contract, but he simply said no without a reason so they went to Mayweather instead. So shouldn't he actually be blaming his troubles on refusing their offer instead of beating Mayweather?
Step 1: get Estonian e-citizenship by giving them your fingerprint to keep in their centralized database

Step 2: NSA, GCHQ, Russia and China steal the whole fingerprint database, which includes your fingerprint

Step 3: Now your iPhone/Android phone that uses fingerprint reader is vulnerable to hacking
Woz wouldn't come out neutral here though, he'd come out $7500 in the hole.

He wins $7500 but gives it all to his daughter, so now he's at $0.

But he's still paying (say) $3750 in income taxes on his daughter's behalf (since she's not old enough to even play Keno) and letting her keep the whole $7500 (nice guy!) Now he's $3750 in the hole already.

But then he has to pay the gift tax (again, on the whole $7500, since that's what he gave her!), so let's say again that's another $3750. Now he's $7500 in the hole. Taxes aren't ultimately exactly 50% so it probably wouldn't be that bad, but it makes for simple calculations; and either way, he's guaranteed to be net negative.

If instead he gifted only the after-tax proceeds to his daughter (which would be more reasonable), he would only be "down" $1875 after the gift tax, and even then he could just take that out of her gift, which would mean that she would only get $1875 in total (assuming 50% tax), and he would net $0.

He's a nice guy for giving her the whole $7500 though.
Yes. In the same way that Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman have described our media as being or shaping the contents of the messages we send, our technologies and processes shape the way we live, act, and view the world around us.

Take military drones, for instance. People are not concerned about drones because they can be used to kill each other; we have been killing each other for millennia. What makes drones concerning is the relative ease and safety with which they allow us to kill each other. We no longer have to risk the lives of our sons and daughters to wage war in far-off lands; we can do the same from the comfort and safety of a bunker.

What does this mean? We are risking less when we wage war. Waging war is easier. This makes us much more likely to be warlike. What we previously may not have seen as a worthy cause for risking the lives of our troops may yet be seen as a worthy cause for risking our money, in the form of UAVs, robotics, ammunition, etc. On the side of the attacker, war becomes more about spending money than risking lives. That is a big difference.

Moreover, these changes have consequences for the people war is waged against as well as innocent bystanders. An occupying soldier is less likely to target and execute a civilian than a soldier piloting a drone from far away. Innocents are much easier to mistake for insurgents on a computer screen.

The psychic distance between two people is far larger when they are separated by digital rather than physical space, meaning less empathy is involved. A reduction in empathy makes it easier to risk the lives of the people you intend to ignore or protect. This is the same reason people are so mean to each other on the Internet.
There are no restrictions on 128-bit Bluetooth UUIDs. You do need to register for 16-bit UUIDs, but with SDP it's not needed.
They attacked you because they assume, incorrectly, that you were one of the PC people, because you used a PC term, not just a less common term. This isn't unreasonable and the cost of letting PC people in is high.
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Whether Bitcoin was designed as a scam, I'm not too interested. Whether Bitcoin today operates as a scam, I'm not too interested. The fraudulent nature and qualities often discussed don't interested me too much. There is a deeper issue I've raised, that I've never seen satisfactorily addressed, with Bitcoin:

It has economic assumptions baked into it (deflationary, fixed size of money pool, etc). These assumptions, like all economic assumptions built into a currency, will guide and govern people's behavior and use of it. That means that bitcoin is a human-invented system that, if it came into any widespread adoption, would play a role in suggesting or controlling people's behavior, just like any currency.

The difference is, the people whose behavior would be controlled have no say in changing those economic assumptions. The people who could potentially live in a bitcoin-infused world have no voice in how it operates. Bitcoin, in effect, takes a degree of agency from the people, and this is especially problematic if it became widespread enough that you'd be compelled to use it.

Why does that matter? Because people have a right to democratic institutions. People have a right to vote on or have a say in matters that govern their lives. Bitcoin, as it exists now, takes that away from people.

And, to bring up a couple of things people have said to be me here before, the fact that Bitcoin can be changed (i.e. by writing new code and persuading 100% of the community to adopt it) does not make it democratic. Setting the barrier to democratic participation at "learn to code, or pay someone to code, and then change everyone over all at once to your new software" means that that isn't really a democratic system at all.

And to bring up the point that currency shouldn't be democratically decided, well, no. People have a right to govern their affairs and live in a society responsive to their needs. Moving in the direction of taking some of that agency away is moving in the wrong direction.

I'm not opposed to digital currency in general, but I am opposed to one that operates in a way that I have no democratic recourse if I don't like how it runs.
"Should be more than coding" does not infer there is a specific absolute way to do a thing, rather, that if that someone is not doing more than coding they are missing a few critical aspects of the thing they are doing.

Basically what people in general get at is this: programming in the abstract context is about model or "theory" building. Programming is the implementation of this model.

Now, if one does not do anything else but code, he or she is definetly missing on supporting activities that would make it easier to a) discuss the work in a context without the team b) extend the work beyond the next few sprints c) enable the maintentance of the work. Etc.

One can take the stand that the frameworks have taken all the theory building and maintenace workload under their wings but I am highly sceptical of this view.
Hint to the developers: summary and overview in plaintext, please. I have no idea what this is beyond the title, but it looks interesting.
Yet another article written by someone who runs a not well known or successful company giving advice on how to be successful.
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"The EFSF owns 45% of the government's 315bn Euro debt."

You should go back in time, and read the "details". The debt was owned by german and french banks. What essentially happened is that those banks were bailed out with the money of all the european tax payers. (Greek, german, french, etc.)
Did you read the post I was replying to? Because I don't think your response makes much sense in the context.
But that's the thing you assume there something different about you and simulated you where in theory there might not be.

In other words if your hard coding something then hard coding pick B gets you 1,000,000 but hard coding pick AB gets you 1,000 assuming the predictor looks at your source code.

As to the game show you would gave a series of people where people who pick B get 1,000,000 and people who pick AB get 1,000 now which group looks like idiots?

Edit: Depending on the accuracy of the predictions, it's less about information traveling into the past as it is being the type of person that chooses B.
I submitted this just to give myself the opportunity to say that I am so jealous of people that can do with ~5-6 hours of sleep. It'd be impossible for me to do more than two or three days in a row with less than 8 hours of sleep.

The amount of sleep you need changes so many things in your life..
What side has limitless risk? He didn't say what he was up to.
Most people don't realize how convenient it is to build and maintain your entire codebase (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, web client, web server) all in one place (Visual Studio), mostly using C# and Typescript. Just have a Windows VM on your Mac. It truly is the best of both worlds.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb is one of the best books I have ever read. It's one of the few history of science books that I feel didn't get dragged down in details or gloss over things to be superficial.

The follow-up Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb is also good, but not as well done as the former.
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Right, it depends on being able to reliably trace the violation to a particular individual. That's hard over bittorrent, not so hard when it's a company's website or a personal blog.

>Members of the general public don't routinely pay for photos in a forum post

Just because lots of people do it doesn't make it right. Rehosting someone else's photo is a violation of their copyright, and should require that you buy a license for the photo. If it's not for sale, then you can't do it, period.
Just curious.. Why cant the mono team replaces almost whole of their codebase with the code Microsoft open sourced? Is there anything stopping them to do that? Maybe licensing issues?
simpler solution would be to add lots of noise by printing your own wellow dots in every printed page
best solution is openhardware and software, but printers are subsidezed by the ink cartridges, so it would cost a lot more than commercial ones.
Given that the full identification of a device is a VID:PID pair, and that's a 32-bit space, picking one at random is not very likely to result in a collision. Furthermore, this assumes true randomness and not "randomly pick one and then check online to see if some other device has already claimed it."

It also assumes that your project isn't close enough to some existing one that you really need to define a completely new interface instead of just using or extending that of an existing device.
> Estonia is not Russia, not even close

Estonia definitely is not Russia, but it is close to Russia.

So close that Estonian policeman Eston Kohver is on trial in Moscow; according to Estonians, he was abducted from Estonia where he was investigating cross-border crime; according to Russia he was spying in Russia. The border is not so clearly marked that outsiders could reliably prove what happened.

This resembles the case of Ukrainian female pilot Nadiya Savchenko who was arrested by Russian forces/proxies in Ukraine and is to go on trial in Moscow.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28249884
LinkedIn has one of the strongest cases.
Personally I'm really excited about Composer. So many implications...

- What does this mean for Evernote?
- Can Dropbox pull off a new product without prior traction? Mailbox seems to have generally worked out OK, but what's happened to Carousel?
- Will messaging inside of Dropbox a valuable angle on collaboration and if so, will anything happen between Dropbox and Slack?
- What will this mean for Dropbox's relationship with Microsoft?
- Who will Dropbox acquire next? They have files, mail, notes...seems like a modern Exchange.
Just for the record (may be unpopular in this thread). I think if you use 24 hr news cycle to inform yourself about people in politics you should already consider yourself highly misinformed.

Personally I think, when the dust settles, Obama will go down as one of the greatest presidents in US history.
Glad to see The Character of Physical Law on there. One of my all time favorites. The emphasis on symmetry and conservation principles was a real eye opener when I read it.
A minor point: that's not what legal tender means.

http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/leg...

The shops are free to reject the note, and possibly to lose your custom.
thanks Alex
He did say that if he had lost to Mayweather, he would have tried harder afterwards. Instead he kind of gave up after the missed opportunities.
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Depends on a lot of factors, including whether the public would like it (would they applaud the higher speeds or find it cheating?)

There already is a lot of assistance in athletics, not even limited to footwear. For example, running tracks have 9 lanes nowadays, even though only 8 people start in sprinting events. Reason? The innermost lane is softer, for middle and long distance runners; the other 8 are harder for the shorter distances.

On the other hand, it always surprises me that, in athletics, competitors wear numbers tied to their shirts with safety pins. Especially in the 100m and 200m, the one on the back of the runner must cause significant drag.
You know that Mono is cross-platform and Microsoft code only runs in Windows right?
Nice. But isn't that more of an app rather than system?
The attacker operates the http login page as a MITM. If they can mangle http traffic, they can run a full MITM.