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Solid material at "stackoverflow":

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com

Nit: recipient is the correct spelling for the book. Will keep eye on this.

There's a stackexchange with technical answers to most of these questions, such as:

http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/191/how-can-i-se...

For #3, an introduction is:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-...

and the improvement proposal is: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28

For #1, there are checksums now, but the more interesting question and challenge is how would a decentralized registry/DNS be designed, that has reasonable anti-incentives for squatters?

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/26

If you want a challenge and can contribute, some details are:

EIP 105 (Serenity): Binary sharding plus contract calling semantics

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53

Very technical open discussion here:

https://gitter.im/ethereum/research

I believe they also have weekly Google Hangout on Mondays.

Perhaps Github Issues itself should be available as a mechanism for people to provide feedback about Github itself.

Both editions of the book were before the invention of blockchains. Integrating it in the next edition of the book would be solid work: not just explaining a blockchain but really integrating it with existing parts of computer science.

Why? Interested in your reasons. One plausible one is that trusting an author you know can be more practical than examining every line of a massive open source code base. Could that be a reason? Others?

Very nice short video Nash did for the Abel prize http://www.abelprisen.no/artikkel/vis.html?tid=63683

With crashes, though rare in Chrome, when one does happen it usually kills all my Chrome windows instead of a single tab as is touted :/

It's not clear what parts the author modified last month, since the bulk of the article is from the past. A separate, additional article would be interesting to hear author's recent views and experiences.

For something upcoming, http://www.augur.net is an attempt at a decentralized prediction market.

Nothing to be sorry about; you made me look up 'dublicate' because it would be good to know if it was a real word. We're about sharing knowledge here.

Note: since you wrote it twice incorrectly, the word is spelled 'duplicate'. 'Dublicate' could be an interesting word since it resembles double, but it doesn't exist yet.

Yes dodgy's point is probably that this tax money sent to US govt will not result in such achievements like medicine in developing countries.

Ray Ozzie had a #1 comment here recently and I wouldn't be surprised if BillG also reads HN. He's a voracious reader and it would be interesting to see what online sites he reads daily.

Late commenting here, but smart contracts haven't been mentioned and they are better than existing contracts because they enforce themselves. Here's an article that explains well and also links to Szabo's original.

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/10468/daos-scary-part-1-self-enfo...

Sounds big. Could get the other large tech companies to look into Bitcoin more and evaluate their efforts.

At this point in time, it is probably more for Carlsen to lose than to Caruana winning. If Carlsen feels good, he will train a lot; hopefully it will be an exciting match.

His quote was "tend to be lazy". When he feels good he trains a lot. No amount of brilliant talent, that is lazy, is sufficient to be world champion in any endeavor. There's too much competition from the others who want to be champion.

#3 doesn't sound like a problem. Seems to boil down to #5 and market size being too small, instead of a fully finished product.

Why so soon? It doesn't give people much time to read, think, ponder.

What other similar "secretive" markets are there around the world?

Why didn't you join Overstock, why only Robby?

I heard it didn't gain support due to name squatters. The migration path to a decentralized solution is the challenge.

Patio11 also wrote http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation

There's also HN discussion of it if you search

Will promises still be needed with generators?

Surprised Starbucks got more points than the CIA museum https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8370849