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>> "It sounds like if an API change breaks your app, then your app is broken and should simply get pulled for that."

A simple solution but a terrible one for users. Imagine apps on your device regularly breaking and having to wait several weeks for developers to update them. If they update them at all. Apple would also have to monitor user reports, test supposedly broken apps, then make a decision to pull them. And if they got the decision wrong they would be killed for it in the press.
Thanks for reading the article. I mentioned Classic briefly at the end. I did not dwell on it because it is simply repeating the same process as XT went through.

When we were preparing for XT, we also went and talked to the Chinese miners. They told us that the original 20mb limit Gavin proposed was too high, but that they could accept 8mb. So we compromised and went with 8 + a growth function. Then after XT was launched they changed their mind and said any growth after 8 at all was totally unacceptable. Now they're telling the Classic guys that 2 is the most they could handle. Did the Chinese internet border really get 4x worse in the span of 3 months? I doubt it.

Western miners aren't much better. One told me quite clearly they'd start voting for BIP101 back in November (though: voting in such a way that it wouldn't actually activate!). But they didn't. When I followed up, they again said it was on their todo list and they'd start really soon. But they didn't.

The miners have proven over and over again that what they say they will accept and what they actually do accept is not aligned. So right now I'm seeing some excitement (maybe more like desperate hope) that Bitcoin Classic will solve anything. Maybe now the "Scaling Bitcoin" conferences have come and gone and Core's reputation is much worse, they'll have better luck, but even then the best case scenario is that Bitcoin gets a 2mb limit. That isn't nearly enough and big backlogs will still occur.

More to the point, even in the best case scenario, the community will essentially accept that Bitcoin is controlled by the Chinese government and grows or shrinks at their whim.
Holacracy implies no organization. It is a freeform, organic, shapeless philosophy with possibly no direction.

The migration project has taken 27 months with 300 staff, about 8100 man-months, with apparently little to show for progress. Lots of people in a project with no tangible features, like a blob.

I would say Conway's law fits perfectly.
In my entirely unqualified opinion, that's a very well done redesign; it looks the same, only better.
I think it has to do with the difficulty of refueling one quickly (and safely), high pressure gas fittings are just asking for trouble.

Also, I was recently a passenger in one while my car was being serviced; it seems they must store a rather high volume tank /somewhere/ (the trunk space suffers).
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But you can at least try. You can make slow progress. You can get out, have a look around and continue slowly if needed. An automatic car will just go "no sensor reading, not moving amigo". Bird shat on your lidar sensor? Sorry, have to call assistance to get it professionally cleaned, otherwise the car is not moving. One of the lighbulbs burnt out? Sorry, the car is legally not fit for driving so you are not going anywhere, or alternatively the only destination you can enter is an approved garage.

I personally think this is going to be a huge problem with self-driving cars. They can't go anywhere if any of their sensors are faulty. And they need to have hundreds of them to work in all conditions. Ideally, you would want to have sensors in every wheel to tell you the pressure, sensors that tell you if there is ice on the road, sensors in literally every part of the suspension to monitor if you haven't suffered a broken coil or damaged bearing that could cause an accident - and those things break. Even such a simple thing as pressure monitors in modern cars are notorious for breaking down. Anyone who has driven a 5-10 year old car will know that there always is something broken. In cause of automatic cars pretty much every problem is a breaking problem that immobilizes the vehicle completely, and I think people will get tired of that pretty quickly.
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I wrote a little bit about this two years ago: https://sny.no/2014/04/dbts

There’s not necessarily an antagonism between distributed and centralised in this case. You can still have a centralised frontend such as Github Issues, backed by a versioned and distributed backend using i.e. git.
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"Code contributed prior to March 1 will be governed by the CC BY-SA license >>> as it has always been <<<." (emphasis mine)

sky isn't falling. attribution was always there, or so it seems according to that part of the post (I'm like, in the overall 10%, and never noticed) .

if anything, requiring a link is a simplification over CC attribution style.

am I missing something?
>What are people's thoughts on this proposal?

Have fun competing in the global financial business with massive institutions from other countries.
Well, if you language works on js interpreter designed for js only, its hard to create very different language, so we fix what we can, hover small it is. For now tools like emscripten are incredibly unpractical and come with high cost that eats most of potential benefits.
When we will have webassembly and ability to ignore js entirely, we will probably see explosion of significantly different languages being used. On the backend there is more and more functional ones, and formal verification is slowly getting traction, so probably this will propagate to frontend too.
It works for the HR executives in charge. They can reduce headcount without bad PR, with the ostensible rationale that they are cutting the ones who don't have the passion and loyalty for the company.
F.lux is great but the root of the problem is the type of backlight that monitors use. A hardware company ought to come out that produces a decent monitor with multiple backlight bulbs.

I mean, look at the difference in abrasiveness of spectrum between these bulb technologies:

http://housecraft.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/spectral_res...

Tinting the color using F.lux is helpful but doesn't supplant the boon that a proper ergonomic monitor would for eye and circadian rhythm health.
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1) government encourages by all means available to them (=plenty) cheap, affordable loans to everybody, reasonable or not.

2) banks jump on the wagon, just as any other business would do having similar chance in their field

3) plenty of folks are plain math-stupid, lending as much as they can and trying even more for outright stupid reasons (ie TV, cars etc.) on top of other loans they already have, usually for housing

4) SHTF, since economy is never stable and we have cycles and whatnot

5) blame the banks, who cares about Clinton's administration allowing and pushing for this in first place. easy part.

the topic is of course more complex, ie derivative trading is/was in some cases pure evil, but that's another topic.

Btw, correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the money just lended and now it's (being) paid back, maybe even with interest?
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IMHO a reasonable use of this money should be to be spent to fix the problems that lead to this crisis.
It applies to Python, Ruby, and other languages all the same. Adding a library
relinquishes control over bugs to third parties. This is very, very costly
once a bug happens, because you can't just fix the issue and be done with it.
You need to make a patch and make it to the upstream, or you need to patch the
library and manage that.
Context: http://blog.cryptsy.com/post/137323646202/announcement
I have no idea about these issues but couldn't this scenario be handled by some sort of legal agreement where the options are transferred to the new guy for compensation? What's usually in contracts for the situation "in case you leave before everything is fully vested"?

What I'm thinking about is basically transferring the options to the new guy (so he also gets more stuff in the future once it's vested).
I recently had a need to stop and re-start f.lux (on Windows). I noticed that it was slow to start and suspected it was accessing the network. Since I had disabled automatic updates, that was strange.

Switched to process explorer and found f.lux connected to three different addresses out there on the wild internet.

Fishy, to say the least. You need permanent internet connections to do what you're ostensibly doing? Replaced it with open-source alternative "redshift".
Well, you can compare it to compressed RAW files, which are probably the closest we've come in terms of lossless compression. Then again, from a photography point of view, I do really like metadata, and I see no reason to omit them.
Let's not discount the value of shifting the emissions though. Look at the air quality in major cities and the health effects that has on the billions of urban residents.yes the majority of that might not be from cars but any electric whatsit give us the ability to move the pollution and a world where the emissions are all just moved away from the people is still a better world.
All beloved Trump:

280K	trump.ff.bz2

516K	trump.ff.gz

304K	trump.ff.xz

360K	trump.png

32K trump.jpg

Using a more complex langscape image:

175M	coast-hdr.ff

42M	coast-hdr.ff.bz2

83M	coast-hdr.ff.gz

39M	coast-hdr.ff.xz

6.5M	coast-hdr.jpg

52M	coast-hdr.png

Does not look that bad to me compared to PNG.
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> If you don't own your own home with a garage (which I think is the majority of Americans)

I'm not sure why ownership matters... Renting a home with a garage works just as well.

I'm also kind of curious why you think a majority of Americans don't have off-street parking? In suburban and rural areas it's standard to have a garage or at least a permanent parking spot. To me it seems like only in the very densest cities that people have to use street parking. And even in the city there are plenty of apartments/condos with dedicated parking.

What kind of neighborhood is representative of what you're imagining? Maybe I'm just not picturing it right.
The only low power wide network for IoT I know about is Sigfox (http://www.sigfox.com/en/) but it is not crowd owned...
>As a quick refresher

Maybe this topic isn't fit for "quick" refreshers. Some problems are more nuanced and complex.

>these guys sold CDOs that they knew weren't priced correctly, obfuscated the mispricing

What does that even mean?

>then profited on short positions against the securities.

What is the crime?
Aah, this felt like a much-needed piece. The original text was so long, it kind of made my eyes glaze over and I never found the time to do this level of detailed critique. Well done!
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Circumstances: I work in big bank for fulltime, so I'm able to freelance for 10-15 hours per week. Actualy, I would like to find some project to participate in it, get some money and experience. Later I may left my current job to become remote worker for fulltime.

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>There should really be some way to punish the individuals responsible

Honest question: do reasonable really look at the The Great Recession and think that there are "individuals" wholly responsible for what happened?
It is, indeed, possible: https://youtu.be/XXs0I5kuoX4?t=2m24s

Though I don't think it would allow you to probe the unencrypted data or the key. Not at the connectors to the crystal, at least: it is still encrypted there.
As a javascript/node dev I respectfully decline your suggestion.
https://hub.docker.com/r/kylemanna/openvpn/

Knock yourself out :)
bzip2 is 5x slower at decompression.
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How does one find out about this for a particular phone? I just tried it for one model and the SoC was on the Wikipedia page, but a cursory web search couldn't tell me what kind of modem setup is in it. The SoC in question was the Snapdragon 410. I suppose a dmesg or lsusb on a (rooted?) Android device might do it.
XT was intentionally designed to split the Bitcoin transaction history into two rapidly-diverging versions - the XT and official chains - each with enough support to continue to exist for some time. This would have killed Bitcoin - and I mean actually killed it, complete with plummeting exchange rate and termination of trading and acceptance all over the place, not just caused a disgruntled ex-developer to write blog posts about how it was dead. Even supporters of larger blocks were largely unwilling to support it for this reason.

This was a deliberate design decision. Mike Hearn didn't think he was going to get widespread support, so he set the threshold for it to fork Bitcoin at 75% of the last 1000 blocks indicating support, which actually means it would activate with less than 75% support from miners due to variance and the fact that he was retesting the condition every block until it succeeded. Potentially quite a lot less, if I remember correctly, maybe even a minority.
back in the days of MS-DOS, using ansi.sys, I made a small .bat (and then converted to .com) file that would swap the Space bar ascii code for the 255 code (that provided an empy space). I renamed that small .com file also to ALT+255.com (making it look like " .com") and made it invisible.
In the end of the autexec.bat file, I type the name of the executable file (" "). you could not see that there was anything there.
My friends would go insane becase everytime they pressed space bar, the screen would indeed output a space, but it would always give an invalid directory error. It was so fun to watch.

Another prank, was a very bad one I admit.
With the help of a friend, we made a fake Quake 1 loader. While it was outputting a lot of cool techno jibberjabber to the screen, it was running on the background a deltree /y c:\. > nul

This was a bad one, but hey. It was the time of Anarchy cookbook, and floppy disk bombs, and all those crazy things :)
Cheers
So, are people actually using code on SO as is? At least I only use it to learn how to use something and then adapt it to my needs. Surely this is my code and doesn't require any attribution or whatever?
Why not just have that compression format be PNG filtering + DEFLATE? PNG filtering is extremely simple and is probably implementable in two dozen lines of code. It's nothing compared to the complexity of the entropy coder.

At that point you might as well just be a subset of PNG, which is nice for interoperability anyway.
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It's not that I want more features per se, but I want sensible ones. The way f.lux works is worse than a featureless alternative in many ways; it's like an alarm that's hardcoded to go off at sunrise every morning. Flux.s' stated purpose doesn't match up with its functionality, and there's no flexibility to get around that.
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>They were hiding the risk

Please explain how they were "hiding" the risk.

Risk is unknown ex ante. Nobody knows the value of it. It is the responsibility of those buying the risk to have an estimate and price the security accordingly, ahead of time.
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> Do most SO contributors want attribution?

The highest voted answer on the original proposal[1] authoritatively asserts that absolutely everyone wants attribution. It uses the example of O'Reilly ripping off answers for a book without providing attribution. Like you I get my fix from simply helping people out and I would be overjoyed if someone ripped off an answer of mine and put it in a book (sans attribution). However, like that highest voted answer, don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone is the same.

The obvious solution is to allow people to choose the license for their answers. That is still a bad solution because it violates this principle:

> I don't want to make it harder to use code in my code.

For that reason I don't mind having people providing an attribution code comment when they use my answers because a blanket rule-set is easier to follow than dozens of different rule-sets; especially for something as completely inconsequential as a code snippet.

[1]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271113/168017
Not to be confused with Ken Thompson.
F.lux is great but the root of the problem is the type of backlight that monitors use. A hardware company ought to come out with a monitor armed with multiple backlight bulbs.

I mean, look at the difference in abrasiveness of spectrum between these bulb technologies:

http://housecraft.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/spectral_res...

F.lux is great and helps but what we really need is an ergonomic monitor. That will truly give us healthier eyes and improved circadian rhythm.

Monitor tech is hard but this sounds like a great goal for a startup. :-)
Or the masses need to take a step forward and educate themselves. Financial education is already as poor as it gets and managing money should be learned in school instead of memorising useless data.
> how many of the movies you watched do you watch more than once

If I don't watch it more then once, why would I keep it at all, or need a media server in the first place?

All your statements contradict each other.
That's correct. Way back in the 90's I was tweaking the VGA color palette registers of my MSDOS computer to make the colors more easy on my eyes at night. I never released that small program...
At least I can set my own time zone in my flux, so couldn't you just set yours to different so it only darkens after X o'clock?
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>Yeah but is there any group/business in bitcoin that doesn't consist of keyboard warriors on reddit?

This is exactly why I went from being a great champion of Bitcoin in 2011 (came on board late 2010, right after Mike if I recall) to totally disengaging with the project today.

For the record, I deeply and vehemently disagreed with Mike about the direction of the project on numerous occasions (e.g., coin "redlists"), but I'd much, much rather spent my time around Mike (an all-around nice guy, by the way) than the idiots and know-nothings than presently have come to form the Bitcoin "community". Things were far, far different back in 2011-2012, before the first big price jumps led the current crown on board. Ironically, their "participation" in the project (mostly screaming, censoring, and belly-aching on Reddit) will only cause the thing their fear most: a Bitcoin bus-plunge and loss of most of their assets.

Mike, if you read this, I was only a minor player in Bitcoin core (< 5 commits) but I appreciated your work and particularly your talks about Bitcoin, as well as your work on Bitcoinj, an extremely well-led open source project. I look forward to seeing your next endeavors.
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That's almost entirely subjective. YMMV.
same, I've a "How to pretty print XML from Java?" answer which has been collecting 10 point a week or more since 2008
My 3 year old kid uses a thick winter pyjama. It solves the problem very well.

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> But right now, if a bank fails due to its bad investments, it can take the money / deposits / savings of many, many people that did not take any risks with their money.

This is not something which occurred during the GFC. We saw:

1) A significant number of pure retail banks making bad home loans, failing, and losing their depositors money. (Eg, Countrywide.)

2) A small number of pure investment banks (or in one famous case, an insurance company) getting on the wrong side of volatile markets or making exotic bets that went bad, and losing their investors money. (Eg, Lehman.)

3) A number of diversified banks which got into trouble on one side or the other, but were able to weather the storm without significant losses. (Eg, Citi.)

What we did NOT see is any large banks which got into trouble on the investment side, and lost money on the deposit side.
I'm not an economist, but I suppose that yes, in a sense it's true. An economy requires the value of money to be stable or very slowly decreasing in time. To obtain this, the amount of money in circulation must roughly match the amount of wealth. Since wealth is usually increasing, so has to be the total amount of money for its value to remain stable.
Thanks brudgers, that is a very good point, something we will think about a way to make it more clear.
Have they fixed their GPL compliance issues?

http://libertybsd.net/ubiquiti/
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/04/07/1740217/how-ubiquiti...
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/Business-Talk/Slashdot-quot-Ho...
Tell us, why does the gender matter in this debate? Sounds rather sexist to me.
That is funny and scary at the same time.

How many people had used this to deliver targeted malware?
You can already debug C# programs on OSX and Linux, I've done it myself. You can't debug ASP.NET apps yet but it's in the pipeline apparently.
25 years and going strong without being jaded here.

I'd guess if you are jaded it's either that you need to find another company, or perhaps you're in this business for the wrong reasons. Perhaps you were lured by the idea of big salaries or huge IPO payouts that haven't happened? Perhaps the exciting portrayal in movies like the Facebook, etc.

Whatever the case every career has its ups and downs, but getting jaded should not just be accepted as an inevitable fact.
Well, prediction markets do better than polls, but actual financial markets are in part prediction markets and they do pretty badly at times and sometimes there's a guy who calls a bubble long before it pops. And that guy doesn't necessarily stake a huge fortune on that prediction. So yeah, talk is cheap, and yeah, on average people are more careful with their wallets than their mouths, but on the other hand, people sometimes have interesting things to say, and asking how much money they bet on being right is less interesting to me than asking how they arrived at their conclusions. Now in some cases I will ask someone how much money he'd put on being right, but I'll do that when I think they're either wrong or fairly uninformed and yet very opinionated.
Here here for ZFS on Linux as well. My home server is built in one of these http://www.u-nas.com/product/nsc800.html with a C2550D4I motherboard and 8 4TB drives in RAIDZ2. Runs great, and I've got the drives configured for spin-down when not in use to conserve power.

It's the successor to the 20-disk system I setup while I was still at my parents house, though that's a lot noisier (but fortunately lives in the basement service room) - downside is it's all based on 1.5 and 2TB disks, upside is RAIDZ3 is really nice to have.
> Zeroing memory often means that buggy code will have consistent behavior; by definition it will not have correct behavior. And consistently incorrect behavior can be more difficult to track down.

I agree that using calloc should not be an excuse for writing sloppy initialization code. But in my experience, inconsistently incorrect behaviour (e.g. heisenbugs that tend to appear and disappear depending on the content of some random chunk of uninitialized memory that happens to be in an unfortunate state after malloc) are one of the hardest type of bugs to fix. It's the type of the bug that occasionally happens in production and typically can't be reproduced in a controlled manner in a development environment. I certainly prefer consistently incorrect behavior.