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Or maybe the opposite will happen, where people with a vested interest in Bitcoin/BTC will do everything they can to prevent the market from realizing that something better exists. I see people who would rather add trust to Bitcoin than switch to a more efficient system that was designed to take advantage of trust from the beginning.
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Here's a clip of just that bit: http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4538428/rand-pauls-patriot-act...
USD is a far better store of value from them then bitcoin which has lost how much of its value in the past year?
Come on, I put over four thousand words of legend!

Thanks for the kind words :-)
To clarify things: I am not supporting Google sites or suggesting it should be used instead of DodgerCMS. I just think the barrier to entry is much lower with Google sites.
Your comment is misleading. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/may/20/rand-pau...
btrfs also hasn't even reached alpha level stability yet. An unexpected powerdown often means "restore from backups" at this point.
ext4 is actually one of the fastest, if not the fastest filesystem for most common hardware and workloads and has few workloads where it does badly.

Source: most benchmarks involving Linux filesystems
As for your second point, a 2 point conversion is basically just like any goal line play which they practice many times and encounter in games often. So I would say they have maximized their ability for this play and it wouldn't change if they attempted it more.
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The first typical response you list is not at all unreasonable. What you call "deficiencies" are really just things that make Bitcoin less suitable for accomplishing certain goals. But many of them are deliberate design decisions or compromises. It could be that the goals you have in mind for Bitcoin are not the goals other people have in mind for Bitcoin.
> I don’t want to be entirely grim, despite this post’s title. This isn’t intended to be some “Bitcoin is dying”-style FUD piece.

That's EXACTLY what he was going for, and he knows it. Saying you weren't doing something you were doing is just confirmation you were doing it.
Heh, I was just about to post about mercury coulometers, I bought a number recently to play with (I had a silly idea of trying to make a watch with them)

I connected one to 500V, and you could see lots of bubbles forming in the gap between the mercury.

Krasnow has a nice video of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxj399LuX1M showing a view of them through a microscope
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It's a problem of bitcoin because even professionals whos job is to keep bitcoin secure are unable to do it. What hope is there for the casual user with 12 toolbars in their web browser?
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Hi everybody, this is my first post and I am seeking some valuable advice.

I am running Coachius - A niche social platform for coaches and mentors.

Coaching community is diversely booming and is very much underserved. In U.S alone, only life coaching is estimated to be a 6B$ sector.

I wanted to develop a platform to give coaches and people who are looking for coaching to connect at a social level, discuss and engage for sessions.

With this in mind I developed an MVP - http://test.coachius.info

What do you think about the idea and the MVP?
What do you think my next steps should involve? (keep pitching?, go live quickly? focus more on monetization?)

Thanks to all of you in advance.
Thank you. I managed to miss that when reading the first time. I'm currently learning testing with the TAP protocol [1], which might be simple enough to bring into Atom or Oxygen and also use in Jypyter languages. I know that Python and JavaScript supports it.

Just had another thought. Regular Jypyter kernel supports multiple connections. Have you tested connecting to Oxygen's Python kernel from Notebook or IPython session? I'm thinking that console + Atom is nicer environment for a coder than Notebook. Afterwards the session could then be saved as a Notebook.

Anyways, I must now find time to dig into this! I don't like to leave my editor just to look at code execute nor tests run, there is more than enough context switching in programming.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol
Counter-argument: Since the 2 point conversion is a more viable alternative than previously, 2 things will happen:

1. teams will practice 2-point conversions more.

2. teams will develop more plays for 2-point conversions.

These will probably reduce the variance of the 2-point conversion.
> That being said, I'd love if it political/corporate users had their own accounts, but I don't think that will ever happen. It's more about doing the opposite - having ordinary people post their communications with political/corporate officials to the public by default.

I love this. Thank you!
You need an account? Am I right in guessing that this then grants your server the ability to open and close my garage door?
It makes me sad that this doesn't seem to work in Firefox!
Sorry I don't buy that. An operating system's "contract" with the user is the syscall API. There's no room for argument there.

Calling a write while flushing the same data from another process (as the OP reported) or thread is perfectly legitimate set of operations. If these operations are not supposed to be running simultaneously, that has to be enforced by the OS kernel. The "right" way would be for the OS to serialize these operations internally. But even returning an error for the write might be an acceptable (though not nice) way to handle it. What's absolutely not acceptable is randomly corrupting data.
Yes it is.

That is just your opinion. Rules are clear on this:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.

As you can see, no additional caveats are listed. Therefore you, by responding to a comment which was about incorrect flagging, complained about inappropriate submissions, directly violated the rules.

Your last paragraph is basically just ad-hominem.

I'm ending this "discussion" here and will not be reading your inevitable further comments.
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This really shouldn't be downvoted, it's basically the only thing keeping folks from switching. Talking as someone with a super-custom Dvorak vim layout, here-- you'll run into software that just won't work without switching to US.

In practice, the combined strategy of Dvorak+QWERTY command keys, application-specific layout settings, and a rarely-used keybind to swap manually makes this manageable on a day-to-day basis, but it's definitely not ideal. Blame the dumb legacy technology driving keyboards, if you're mad.
I thought so. We had an interesting chat about it and me writing about my time in the Gulf. When I saw the date I felt a little sick to my stomach. Haha. Glad to hear I was right and the dates were not reflecting your time there.
Good point, not to mention the fact that the defense can now return 2 point conversions for a TD. INT heavy QBs could be in trouble.
Reading through your comment history; I recognize that there's no way for us to achieve mutual understanding or have a substantive debate on this issue. Thank you for responding.
While it's true that your remaining miners get more coins, kWh/coin is far higher and the power costs are most likely in normal currencies. In addition, the transaction times would become highly variable, reducing the utility (and hence value) of the cryptocurrency. Given both those points, you could cause huge instabilities in hash rate assuming you could persuade enough miners to join in.

The important point is that an attacker could use this just to wreck the cryptocurrency in question, although they may simply buy more coins at the lower price and profit from any rebound.
Nah, asyncio (including both the library and these new language features) is a huge simplification of the ecosystem for people writing network code, while people not writing asynchronous code can pretty much ignore it if they want to.

Currently there’s a large split between folks programming against Twisted, Tornado, Eventlet/Gevent, rolling their own thing, or just writing blocking code and getting crap performance. (Not to mention Stackless, etc.)

These will all continue to work going forward, but they will now be interoperable and based on a common foundation which is solidly implemented and included in the standard library. Everyone wins.
I haven't read the article, but I ride the bus a lot. Here is my subjective take: bus drivers get into a very distinct and slow pattern of their bus driving behavior. Slow to do everything, never not taking their break, never attempting to make up for lost time.

So in their daily routine, the traffic between stops is variable, but their little rituals and apathy to the travel plight of passengers is not.

They also like to take up time socializing between driver swaps, which aren't accounted for in bus schedules. Thus the largest factor is bus A may have no traffic, and bus B had a lot, but their stops at each place take the same amount of time, thus they end up clumping when traffic let's one drive between stops faster than the other, who will still be on his break at the Bart station.
So not false.
Oh, ok. I take that back then. The article I did not like but the Wikipedia article makes her seem like a demi-god.

So, thanks again. Good find.
My hope for the Bitcoin blockchain died a few months ago when I realized that all of the Bitcoin proponents on reddit were laughing at the re-design of an old Bitcoin mining website. One I used to mine on before mining became unprofitable for everybody but a few large-scale miners. "Too little, too late!" they all chanted in unison. "Mining websites are dead!" they all laughed. And then it hit me...

The fact that the fair distribution of the coin is dead means that the entire blockchain will die imho. Bitcoin's price really exploded when the mining scene was lucrative for everybody interested in the coin. It tapered off rather quickly once mining became impossible for all but the few.

Why would anybody buy into Bitcoin now that one of it's original pomises of decentralized mining has been broken?

Why would anybdoy buy into Bitcoin when it means only fattening the pockets of a few (already rich) mining syndicates?

I certainly wouldn't, and I was a massive Bitcoin proponent for most of it's life.

Many ideas that Bitcoin brought with it will live on, but the Bitcoin blockchain in it's current implementation will "die" sooner rather than later imho.

The fact that one can transfer value from point A to point B for next to nothing and without government oversight is amazing. The fact that the majority of Bitcoins that will ever exist are held by a few individuals (and always will be while mining for the layman is dead) is not.
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I agree with most of those, but what's with the first two?

How are the amounts/divisibility an issue? It divides down to tiny levels and there's enough.

Is it basically the idea that 1 bitcoin is large and we should have used a different base unit?
They sell little stickers you can put over your keys to blank them out so you don't peek. My parents told me when they learned to type in school on a typewriter in the 60s that they had typewriters that came with only unlabeled keys.
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It runs on various unixes (without wine), it ran on win32 Alpha (another meaning of the word portable) - I'll give you ugly, but its fully functioned, and arguably much easier to use than the command line openssh-client.

Well designed can refer to more than just the interface. It meets historical windows human interface guidelines too.

I'd also suggest that its an open source project, and could be forked, with a new UI wrapped around the existing pretty good terminal emulation.
I love Algolia. Used it as a core part of a project I worked on. Very slick.
Fwiw a relevant general concept is that of stable vs. unstable equilibria. In a stable equilibrium, small deviations will tend to correct back to the equilibrium, while in an unstable one, small deviations get magnified and the system drifts away from it (absent active intervention). Given some assumptions, such as those implemented by this simulation, evenly spaced buses represent an unstable equilibrium, since a bus slightly early or late will cause an asymmetry in passenger load that pushes things further in the "wrong" direction.
Did not read that far in.

To be more specific, from personal anecdotes, it is far more than regional. Neighboring tribes will kill somebody and blood feud can and often does go on for decades. Guys I know, when they go to Sana'a to their village, they must drive at night, you know, because snipers.

Steve Martin's LA traffic scene has nothing on Yemenis!

(And thanks for catching the obvious, did not finish an article like that in 5 minutes.)
The result it gave me is in a country I've never set foot in.
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Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist (askamathematician.com) is pretty good, with a bias towards the Many-Worlds Interpretation†:

http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/11/q-according-to-the-...

http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/10/q-copenhagen-or-man...

http://www.askamathematician.com/2013/08/q-are-there-example...

http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/11/entanglement-omnibu...

http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/06/q-how-it-is-that-be...

† The Nature article characterises the Many-Worlds Interpretation like this:

"In the many-worlds picture, the wavefunction governs the evolution of reality so profoundly that whenever a quantum measurement is made, the Universe splits into parallel copies."

The first of the links above explains that this is a mischaracterisation.
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I think cash gifts are tax-free in the UK, with the possible exception of large sums given shortly before someone dies (which would become subject to inheritance tax).

The FAQ gives an address for Paypal donations / beer money: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...
I've been doing stuff with Docker for a while and I have run in to issues here and there, but never the PID reaping problem. In fact, I actually strive now to make the application PID 1 and only run 1 process. This is specifically so that the container will exit and the host or other scheduling logic can deal with the event.
Agreed.

I don't see the rush of elephants to fork it, or write a replacement either, just a bunch of passive complaining.
I would argue, from the coach's perspective, the quantity to be maximized is not the probability of winning but the probability of retaining their job. 2-pt conversion calls are are judged harshly when they fail, however unfairly, and it's likely in a coach's best interest to just stay conservative and avoid scrutiny, even if that means playing sub-optimally.
He's referring to what happened with FoundationDB. The announcement that they were bought by Apple was sudden and they pulled out all their downloads including open source ones. They didn't even update their webpage or give explanation why download links or github repos are gone.

The biggest issue is that FDB is not available even if you would pay. So it sucked for anyone who decided to use it in production.
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i love this its like NeoVim=vim+tmux
I didn't realize factual corrections need to be cleared by a committee that decides which languages matter.

("More mainstream" is a moving goalpost fallacy.)
Now how do we explain how buses seem to arrive and depart just before we arrive to the stop?
I remember reading the statement about beer and curry some years ago, so I knew there was a link somewhere: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#f...
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I am pretty sure that putty is portable.

I think portable here is referring to being able to run software from a USB drive without running an installer or just being able to download a file into a temporary folder and removing trace of it by deleting the folder when done. I feel a lot of the initial love for putty was the fact that it was portable (and it also helped back in the day that the download was so small, too.)

It is possible as far as I know that it doesn't meet the formal definition in some way, but since you used the term in air quotes and didn't qualify it (like 'but it stores settings in the registry' or similar), I think you may be interpreting the term differently (i.e. I don't think the term is being used to suggest that you can use the same executable across operating systems.)
Point expectation is a good way to think of it, but consider the expected points of a 2pt (or 1pt) play vs the other 50 snaps a qb takes everywhere else on the field, where the expected points are less than 1.

An integer point difference on a single play is huge.
Look for one that posts its prices publicly; that is, you should not need to register for an account to find out what you will pay.

I researched that a while back. The only one I found was name.com, which I recommend for other reasons as well.

If a registrar won't admit to all their prices without requiring a login, you're likely to find a bait-and-switch taking place, for example it is common for renewal fees to be quite a lot more than new registrations or transfers.
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There should be an option to flag email as spam, or as unwanted email, or as scam, or just a general "flag" option (for other people's mailboxes, too).
Are there not legal ramifications for automatically sharing what is presumed to be private correspondence?

For example a politician might well reply with information that is not intended for general circulation (private information etc).
Legalizing Recreational Drugs Use is not the same as Legalizing Medical Marijuana Use.

Second, we're both cherry picking sections from that article to make our point. Except I'm not trying to defending his political ideologies, just pointing out he is like every other major politician who has attempted a run for the presidency: says one thing, but in order to shore up their base, will say something else.

One isn't a libertarian if they simply say "let the states figure it out." That's the ideology of small-government focused conservatives.

A libertarian's point of view would be "Government (federal, state, city) should stay out of lives of people w.r.t (drugs, guns, bedroom).

None of what you've written suggests he has that mentality.
I didn't mean undocumented immigrants, but you make a great point that they're overpaying taxes, but are receiving only minimal services. And people look down on them as though they're a burden.

Documented workers who earn below a certain level have the entirety of their income tax deductions returned to them by the IRS. This happened during my first few years of working.

Workers who earn an exceptionally low amount, and have additional dependents or are paying college tuition, can earn additional tax credits, such as EIC or Hope.

In this way, many working households benefit from welfare and have someone working and/or going to school.
One of his proposed amendments is to disallow governments mandating products change their source code to allow entities access into the data (e.g., a backdoor for the NSA). So basically, allowing encryption, which would be huge.
Before you register a domain, research it in the trademark section at http://www.uspto.gov/

You might not be infringing a trademark just by registering it. The rules are a little too complex for me to explain in an HN comment. However it is helpful to have a totally unique trademark.
For anyone interested in what's going on in Yemen right now, I've found Twitter to be a much better source than news sites. A good starting point is @altoflacoblanco and @yemen_updates. @ionacraig is excellent too but seems to have stopped tweeting for now.

If after reading these streams you find the conflict incredibly confusing and complicated, that's a good sign! You have a better grasp on things than 99% of the Western media.
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The criticism of the play is that Marshawn Lynch nearly always is able to gain yardage with heavy contact. If you have a running back that is able to do this, and do this consistently, why would not go for the run?
The defense can recover a blocked Point after and return it for two as well. its been like that in the college game for as long as I can remember.
No need to be defensive.

I'm simply stating the following sentence is true:

Windows 10 and Edge are coupled.
How about SOAP written using OCaml with macros?

http://git.ocamlcore.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ocsoap/ocsoap....

Back when I wrote that I was trying to call the Google AdWords API -- it was entirely SOAP based, and awful (still could be for all I know).
It's like a really slow, broken, expensive, rigged version of Github.
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Note how this would all go away if the empty buses could pass the full buses. Which they usually can, since even on single-lane roads, the bus stop is out of the way of traffic.

But then there are trolleybuses. When the busses are all hooked to a single overhead cable run, as is common in places like Vancouver, the driver of one trolleybus would have to de-latch and then re-latch their "rabbit ears" (i.e. get out of the bus twice) in order to pass another trolleybus. Needless to say, this is uncommon. (Someone on HN: please, come up with a trolley pole design that can hot-pass another trolley pole pair while remaining on the line, and sell it to cities.)
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> There's not a single thing wrong with PuTTY's UX either.

Yes, there is. It garbles some characters. Ncurses-based applications sometimes look like a hot mess.
In the eyes of the majority of people, the current financial system is safe. People believe that their funds are safe (backed by things like FDIC), and that they have certain types of protection.

I'm a fan of cryptocurrency for a variety of reasons, but most of the problems that cryptocurrencies solve are not widely perceived as problems by most people.
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Their finger diagram makes the same mistake that most do: outward slanting finger columns of Q-A-Z, W-S-X, E-D-C, R-F-V, T-G-B.

http://i.imgur.com/9X0nFgv.png

The Q-A-Z finger layout requires extremely un-ergonomic compromises: a bent left wrist and/or using side-to-side finger movements rather than "curls".

A simple switch to using the columns Q-A-Shift, W-S-Z, E-D-X, etc. puts your left hand and fingers into a far more comfortable position. Neutral inward-slanted wrists and naturally curling fingers. I suppose E-S-Z might be even better.

I'm very surprised that the "standard" Q-A-Z finger placement for the left hand is still taught. There is a far more comfortable alternative available on any hardware keyboard. I'm curious if there are any other W-S-Zers who type the same way I do.
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And there being no recourse is a problem of bitcoin.
(HN meta, unrelated to the article.) What's the rough timeline for the user-assisted unflagging plan?
> Also at 17 18yoa you have not paid into the tax system, so that's irrelevant.

I don't think it's irrelevant actually. I don't know if it's the main reason for this policy, but I'd imagine you're far more likely to remain in the state if you have already lived here long enough for in state tuition. Because if you pick up your bags as soon as you're done with your education, you just drained the state some money.