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No! It's the companies who buys and USE this crap, even when they are configuring the devices and see that they cannot protect them, that needs to be held accountable.

It's like buying a bus with broken brakes, and still use it as public transportation. Nothing wrong with buying the bus.
Most software devs don't have the Hacker Mindset (TM) at all. If you use "sw devs" and "sw hackers" interchangeably, that's the source of your confusion.
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As a non Bitcoin user it does seem very strange that /r/bitcoin would take a position not to allow discussion over a particular issue relevant to the community. And not just any issue but the biggest issue that is critical to its future direction.
In my IKEA (in Edinburgh), there's a shortcut from the front entrance meaning that to get to the warehouse, you only need to go through Cooking & Eating, Home Decoration and Home Organisation to get to the warehouse, skipping almost the entirety of the store. You may want to check your local store's map on the IKEA website.
Would this work via ssh as well?
> Nothing on Earth is safe and uncrackable, given enough time and compute power.

Interestingly enough, sometimes time and computer power are not enough [1] (ignore the Bitcoin reference, it applies to any truly random 256-bit password and an invulnerable algorithm (so the only possible attack is brute-force).

[1] http://miguelmoreno.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fYFBsqp.j...
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It should be clear if they're serious by the second meeting, and in many cases, the first. The throwaway comment "Spend 88 percent of your time building your business and 12 percent of your time raising money" sounded right. If an investor doesn't understand that, they're broadcasting that they'll damage your business and don't belong on a board. Thankfully, interviews are two-sided :)
That's surprising to me because it's entirely possible to commercialize ffmpeg derivatives using LGPL while still complying with that license.

In MediaCoder's case, the nastiness ensued because the author didn't distribute the source code with the ffmpeg binaries that he included with his software.

LGPL v3 even relaxes that particular clause at issue by adding:

"If distribution of object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place satisfies the requirement to distribute the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code."

Meanwhile, the ffmpeg authors bull-headedly refused to mention to the MC developer what term he was violating, and other ffmpeg mailing list users were equally as puzzled as the MC developer.

I might add that the MC developer submitted patches with contributions to ffmpeg, all of which were refused without cause by the ffmpeg team.

This kind of treatment seems pretty tight-wad, wouldn't you say so?
Well, fresh water would hurt a lot more than salt water ;)
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Pretty efficient one.
My last job for 6 years was fixing hydraulics and electrical systems under water, among other things. I am now 51, and at that time, my presbyopia, or farsightedness increased. I wear +1.50 reading glasses topside. Just old age, and the len's inability to accommodate as much as when you are younger. I could open my eyes, maskless in fresh or salt water. And it is not chlorine that burns your eyes in most cases. If you think you smell chlorine, you're mistaken; chlorine is odorless. It is the byproducts of free chlorine that eat abundant organic matter that creates chloramines that you are smelling. A sure indicator they did not maintain a minimum level of free chlorine to begin with.
In any case, I was able to improve my work underwater over those six years. If you discount feeling with my hands, what augmented my ability was not pupil dilation or lens accommodation, but the brain's processing. It has been proven if you concentrate while reading without your reading glasses, you can train your years of reading to recognize the letter shapes in their new blurry appearance. Not magic here, hard work. What I would be interested in is did she change it from merely horizontal and vertical lines? I can easily see the brain also augmenting their ability to accommodate their lens and pupil dilation to make their ability even more impressive. This would explain how the European children may have 'thought' they saw clearer, but it was the brain clarifying their perception and not any lens or pupil dilation in their short study.
Not if

original_number_of_photons * original_energy_per_photon >= final_number_of_photons * final_energy_per_photon

The quote explicitly says that there's a lot of the original photons and a few of the resulting photons, so the increase of energy per photon would be compensated, right?
You are wrong about the CSS. What was happening was: the brigades of pro-fork users would downvote anyone who disagreed with them.

Reddit hides posts that score -5 or lower. So, the moderators changed the CSS to show all posts (even < -5 posts) as an anti-censorship tool. The reddit.com administrators are aware of this.

As for sorting by Controversial - same concept. The pro-fork brigades would force popular posts to the bottom, now the moderators use the built-in Reddit sort tool to make those appear higher up, in threads where vote manipulation happens.

Because reddit lets anyone create an account in about 3 seconds, it is easy to game and control what gets seen and what does not. Hacker news does the right thing by not giving everyone a downvote button on the first day.
I found Mastering "Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos to be a good introduction.
> Their license is DRACONIAN, and they are nasty about enforcing it.

The license is not draconian in the usual sense of the word. The requirements of the LGPL are modest (frankly they require you to grant end users just about the minimum rights that users should always get for any library that was used in a program, IMO), and the license is well known and well understood.

> Their legal page even suggests (or should I say, demands) additional provisions above and beyond what the LGPL asks for (i.e. "There are also a few items that are not really related to LGPL compliance but are good ideas anyway"):

They explicitly say "It is not the only way to comply with the license, but we think it is the easiest."

> If they catch you violating their LGPL license, they act very antagonistically to you -- as in, they are completely unwilling to work with you by taking the hard line stance that the only way you can appease them and comply with their license is to release your source code.
> They even once had a Hall of Shame where they publicly called out offenders: https://www.reddit.com/comments/9e25a/hall_of_shame_a_list_o....

You're talking about using stuff in closed source or commercial software? Do you imagine a commercial company who you licensed a library from and then proceeded to violate that license would be friendlier than that? Never mind hall of shame, you'll be looking at demands for thousands of dollars. They could be nicer about it but if they believe closed source software is inherently harmful to its users I can understand their position, and it's not their job to give you free legal advice.

> LGPL means no static linking, so using ffmpeg in your closed source Android/iOS apps is already completely ruled out of the picture.

I've used android apps that use it by allowing you to place the ffmpeg DLL in their folder. It's more work (which is a problem with Android that should be improved on) but it's the only way I can see to make sure that end users don't get stuck with an old version. For exceedingly complex C code like video codecs, security flaws are basically guaranteed (and sadly for the moment C seems to be regarded necessary for performance - I've seen some OCaml/Haskell video codecs but nothing like the wide format support of ffmpeg), and video players are often used on untrusted files from the internet. So if you were ever to stop developing your app - or even if the play store refused updates for whatever means - it's absolutely vital to your end users' security that they be able to upgrade the version of ffmpeg that the app uses, and this kind of license is the only way to enforce that.
If he wins, the next reasonable US president will be celebrated by the rest of the world with a lot more than a pre-emptive Nobel peace prize...
Adding two 1 eV photons in a two-photon upconverter does not give you a single 2 eV photon. Some of the energy of the upconverted photons is lost as heat, so thermodynamically it's okay.
I don't know anyone who works for Facebook. I'm thousands of miles away from Facebook HQ. I keep careful tabs on who has what info about me and use many different email addresses.
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One cannot have gradations of uniqueness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZtM3_Lcy4
I'd certainly contribute a few rules for German prose.
Actually, I'm even more interested in using proselint with custom rules for theater plays (e.g., check for unneccessary repetitions, word combinations that are (acoustically) hard to understand).

As czechdeveloper has pointed out in this thread, it would also be nice to have a set of rules specifically for academic writing and/or for non-native speakers (e.g., Asian scientists seem prone to overuse "the").

I guess, a first step would be to have an extensible set of tags for the rules - both language-specifying ones (i.e., any_language, american_english, british_english, german, ...) and genre-specifying ones (any_genre, prose, poetry, academic, technical, ...).
Furthermore, an easy way to select a subset of rules by tag (e.g., british_english and academic) would be neccessary.

Would that fit within your goals for proselint?
As someone who's studied economics at the grad level, bitcoin has never made sense to me.
You can discuss it all you want. You can't promote it just as you can't promote Litecoin or any other different protocol and ledger.

Basically the only thing you see on /r/bitcoin for the last 10 months is discussion on this issue, constantly.

Yeah, people who say "Developer Joe blow is a fraud, download the superior Bitcoin classic" get their posts removed. That's moderation. (And it is moderation that actually didn't happen for many months before things got so out of control.)
I hadn't seen CLHASH yet, thank you for mentioning it. Looks even faster but only XOR universal (meaning XORed hashes are uniformly distributed, not the hashes themselves). In particular, it fails smhasher's avalanche test (because bit flips have predictable effects), and their proposed fix is more expensive than a HighwayTreeHash round.
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No, because you're not gaining anything. Lots of energy goes in (in the form of lots and lots of photons having not so much energy each) and lots comes out (in the form of many fewer photons, each with a larger amount of energy), but you don't get more total energy out than in. It's not conceptually different from, say, trickle charging a LiPO battery for a week from dollar-store AAAs, then using it for a few glorious seconds flying a drone that couldn't have even lifted the AAAs. You're still using the energy from the AAAs, and suffering losses, but you're still doing something you couldn't have done with the AAAs alone. The mechanism is different - very, very different - but the idea's the same.
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No, not stupid, just often the result of manipulative half-truths. See above comment thread for a more comprehensive reply.
> I've used android apps that use it by allowing you to place the ffmpeg DLL in their folder

That's a ridiculously user hostile behaviour.
trump is hitler??!? hilarious. what drivel.
> Same reason you don't buy a house by comparing its list price to similar local sales, or trending house prices

Except you should do that otherwise you could overpay and in some cases be refused finance as a result!
> small technical change to a protocol

I have no horse in this race, but isn't that understating the impact a bit?
Interesting. How big do you need the hashes to be?
You can shine red light (low-energy photons) on a photovoltaic cell and use the resulting electricity to power a blue light LED (high-energy photons), so this process does not violate any physical laws, I guess?
Same here. We recently bought a second hand Prius at an official dealer (because new is unreasonably expensive, we do care about emissions, and I think we got some warranty from the official dealer). Half a year later, the brakes need to be replaced. Turns out not to fall under the warranty, whereas we think it's unreasonable to sell a car with brakes that need to be replaced that soon. Repair at the official dealer is pretty expensive.

So my wife takes it to our old, trusty local mechanic, and their repairs are a lot cheaper. I forgot if they could also advise us on whether this was reasonable in the first place.

I think my mother also often ended up at an independent mechanic after getting disappointed by official dealers. (My dad always drove leased company cars so didn't have to worry about this stuff. I know nothing about cars (but I'm glad my wife does).)
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I don't understand why people buy baseball cards, either. But if I could send those baseball cards over the internet nearly as easily as an email, I could see it becoming a small niche currency (small as in millions of people).
Just like on OSX then?
Government is rape, essentially.
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Reports indicate it isn't, but they're still including a vulnerable version of Sparkle [1], so I wouldn't trust the auto-update at all [2].

[1] = https://sparkle-project.org/documentation/security/

[2] = https://trac.transmissionbt.com/log/tags/2.92/macosx/Sparkle...
This is why direct democracy would be a better model of government than representative democracy. However it's a threat to the existing power structure so don't expect to see it soon. We have the technology in place to effect large scale democracy, say having referendums electronically via a smartphone app.
No. The point is the rise of a demagogue and the blindness of people towards the possible negative consequences.

Nobody knows how Trump would act if he'd be president. But the circumstances of his rise are at least similar to Hitler's.
> You have no reasonable way of opting out of government rule. Governments control all the habitable land, and most of us don’t have the resources or even the legal permission to move elsewhere.

The quickest way to change the law is to board a plane. Yes it's difficult to create a whole new country, but there are 200 readymade countries to choose from.

(I'm surprised this is so controversial. I'm just saying individuals do have some direct control over the laws that they are subject to).
/r/bitcoin is also censoring mentions of Ethereum - it's main rival right now.

https://twitter.com/DiginomicsNews/status/705258811192438784
That sounds terrible. The absence of crap like that is one of the things I love about riding a motorcycle. Does the manufacturer of that motorcycle not realize that they are sacrificing one of their competitive advantages by importing that kind of complexity?

I think maybe I'm not going to sell my 1995 Nighthawk after all! Sounds like it might make more sense to just keep it running, simple and straightforward, without having to worry about all this fragile automation.
I don't mean that game devs should only release on Linux, but add the support. Otherwise it's the chicken and the egg problem all over again.

No one is using linux if they want to play games and game developers do not publish to linux because there is no gamers on the platform.
Have you guys looked at Corona Platform for building cross-platform games?
Most of them are terrible in one way (at least) or another, though.
>Tesla is doing anything they can to make sure there is no aftermarket for their vehicles.

Against that "Musk guaranteed the Model S would hold 50% of its value after three years, and he backed the assertion with his own private money."

which implies he's pretty keen on a healthy aftermarket.
The beauty in what Satoshi did was that he took several existing technologies (p2p, hashcash, public key cryptography, etc.), combined them and added only a slight twist (how the consenus is achieved).

In his white paper he only describes the twist, so you won't get a complete overview on how bitcoin works (even if you know how the stuff he's building on works).

This link has been posted to HN before and gives a pretty good overview on how bitcoin works:
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
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I've seen an app offer a link to a recommended version - one button first time you run - and you then just have to "open" it with the app (and it'll use the DLL from the "Downloads" folder). That's not seamless, but it's pretty close.

The fact that android doesn't offer any native way to have apps depend on dynamic libraries is ridiculously user hostile on its part.
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Consider Switzerland:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy :

"Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state). Citizens have more power than in a representative democracy. At the federal level, citizens can propose changes to the constitution (federal popular initiative) or ask for a referendum to be held on any law voted by the parliament.[16] Swiss citizens vote regularly on any kind of issue on every political level, such as financial approvals of a school house or the building of a new street, or the change of the policy regarding sexual work, or on constitutional changes, or on the foreign policy of Switzerland, four times a year"
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Remember how someone claimed their Toyota's brakes refused cooperating, and even though Toyota managed to prove it was the user-installed floor mat issue their sales fell through the floor and Toyota had to rekindle them with discounts, 0% financing and service guarantees?

People don't do deep research and follow-ups on automotive incidents. Best-case scenario is they have someone do it for them, like Consumer Reports. Typical-case is they see a car with a logo on TV or on top of a salvage truck and they make a mental note to avoid that manufacturer.
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> small technical change to a protocol

Given the fuss that Bitcoin Core itself makes about this change not being possible, it is surely not a trifling matter.

This is disingenuous, anyhow. The limit on how many transactions the Bitcoin network can handle is fundamental to growth, of course it would be a big issue.

> All anyone has to do is read the pro-fork subreddit, /r/btc, and see how toxic and hostile they seem. It does not seem genuine and I cannot imagine anyone spending so much time writing the same things over and over for nearly a year.

This is what happens when a group is cast out from the main community (in this case by moderation policy).
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Sure, but the title of this is "Girl figures out how to program giant computer".

"The boy down in ballistics got in a shootout" is not something our hypothetical police chief would say.

The title also implies some level of surprise that 'girl' 'figured out' this 'giant computer'.

It might seem like a nitpick, but stuff like this adds up. I used to call women 'girls' occasionally, but I stopped when I realized that I'd rarely use 'boy' if the gender was flipped.
Some people feel you should never ever say things like "more unique", "most unique" etc

Which I think is equally as misguided as trying to force "data" to be plural, and that "less than 3" is wrong
Homebrew Cask is awesome, but I still think security is an issue here because you still have to trust the upstream binaries are safe, each built and hosted by totally different people. Verifying checksums is certainly better than not checking them, but you still haven't escaped from the trust-whatever-binary-you-downloaded-from-the-internet-style of doing things. I really wish package managers like Homebrew Cask offer some level of trust by building applications from source and signing them, like Debian.
Everyone needs to follow the One True Ledger, or you can't know if Bob really sent you $100 of Bitcoins that will be accepted by Joe.

There are already competing implementations like btcd written in Go. That's not the issue.

This post is from a developer who is part of a small group in the bitcoin world, who want to change the rules of the protocol. Anyone that did not follow those rule changes would see a different ledger.

That's not something that should be done in bitcoin - changes this big should be very hard to pull off, and require consensus of all parties. Most are strongly against these changes because it does not really do much, makes the network more centralized, and mainly because there are much better options to reach the same goal (that are being worked on right now).
They are absolutely nothing like Hitler's. There was global political and economic turmoil at the time. No crisis, not even the financial troubles we are in currently compares to the state of Europe and the World at the time.

The institution of the US government is far more stable than the republic of Germany in 1936. The people were blind, but more importantly, they were desperate. The people of the US are not desperate.
20/20 (or 6/6 in metres) is awful. I didn't know that until optometrists started moving from cards at a distance (where I could choose which line I wanted to be able to read, thank you very much) to the retinal projection thingies most of them use now. The difference is, as you noted, about -0.25 for myopia in the -3 to -4 dioptre correction range, and it's huge. I'll assume that it's a better set-up than the old way for astigmatism (which was never a problem for me), but settling for "normal" vision when there's an option... I don't think so.
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usually zero padding is used; a max_input_length is set somewhere in the code and a number of zeros equal to (max_input_ length - actual_number_of_words_in_input) is appended to the array of input word_ids so that all input sentences have the same length.
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Postponing to learn SQL.

This should be done sooner rather than later.
I completely agree with this moderation. I am ashamed at the spin coinbase is putting on this making the core team sound like they have no communication skills. Shame on them.
not at all. as the other replier mentioned, circumstances were wildly different in post WWI europe (let alone Germany) than they currently are in the US. Learn some history.
That would make sense, but sadly hasn't happened. Bitcoin has become defined by Satoshi's original C++ implementation.
That is true, because /r/bitcoin is about bitcoin.

If you want to promote Ethereum, you can do so on /r/ethereum/.

I am sure promoting dog ownership over cats is frowned upon by /r/cats readers, too.
Didn't Ptacek do something similar to Zed Shaw?
Exactly, it costs more for the company (office space is expensive, especially in a larger city). I am also waiting for it.
Wow, does non-rooted Android let apps load libraries from the Downloads folder?

Seems like that could create some pretty big security issues.
By doing that you're not opting out of government rule, you're just changing governments.
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But still, the thing is that regardless of who is right there is a bias in the most comments, including yours. This is the conflict that is bad it itself
It's the aspirational ideal behind how these projects work.