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The issue is more complex than that. The DAO was created and backed by people who are also Ethereum developers, and forking the entire block chain to save what many people consider to be a badly thought out and badly executed experiment is just as dubious as some of the things that were done to save mega-banks in 2008. It's a clear case of moral hazard among other issues.

Many of the people who are backing Ethereum Classic (the non-fork) are doing so because they like the ideas of Ethereum but want it to be truly independent. If the fork succeeds many people take it as a sign that Ethereum is a "proprietary" coin rather than a more open "nobody owns it" system like Bitcoin.

I have no dog in the fight but that's how I understand it.
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Very interesting; I've tried to do this a few times, but you really need a corpus of labelled images to do this properly.
The funds can be moved through other wallets, or exchanged (or washed), and it is unlikely any exchange is going to keep a constant eye on that potential chain of addresses... also, it is his/her ETC... despite how you see the stories framed.
This won't end well for Facebook. Nobody joined or visits to view ads, no person wishes they were "more relevant". Forcing the ones who explicitly opted out to disable their ad blockers is forcing them to evaluate whether they want to visit your site at all. The only thing unique about Facebook is people collectively like it more than the alternatives right now.
No, you only need context. Context in the form of knowledge about the place, company and history that the statement is spoken in. Wikipedia will serve well for a lot of that.
Your mere presence provides value for them as you are part of the reason why your friends are on FB.
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The flaw may be assuming everything else can be equal in the real world. Obscuring the algorithm has downstream consequences that may/will reduce overall security.

For example, hiding the algorithm from whitehats may prevent/discourage them from hunting/reporting bugs.
I'm glad to hear Soylent has broadened their product category with this addition. It seems (to me at least) to be a perfect solution for a morning routine; when we usually have a cup of coffee with breakfast, why not just roll that into Soylent and "save some time" (negligible imo but still a consideration) not to mention it will hopefully improve the taste tenfold.

Ever since I've heard about Soylent I've wanted the company to do well -- I love cooking but oftentimes when I'm hungry I hate having to do prep work and cleanup because it feels like I'm procrastinating the work I actually have to do (and I can't skip eating because being hungry while working just gives sub par performance).

I can't afford Soylent consistently as a student and so have used soy milk and other [gross] concoctions in the past; but, I might have to use this news as inspiration (also taking note from u/sxates to stop by Trader Joes and give their concentrate a shot).
A smoothie? Smoothies fill some of the same niche as soylent, in aiming to be healthy, easy and quick to drink on the go.
Can be defeated by a phone charger.

http://samy.pl/keysweeper/
The vitriol in r/ethereum is an amazing sight. There are cult-like levels of declarations of support for either chain. It's astounding, considering both chains are basically the same system, and that prior to the DAO 'theft', everyone seemed to be proponents of the 'code is law' viewpoint. How quickly things change, and how little time it takes for people to switch their beliefs and villify those who still hold the old beliefs.

It's certainly fun to watch the fallout...
I've often wondered about those that commuted long ways for school. Was it because the school was better, or because there was no closer school? If it was just a better school, do you think it was more beneficial overall to have that time used on the bus when it could have been put to work on something else, or was the local school unsafe?

I was lucky enough to always live very close to my schools, so hours spent commuting to school is entirely alien to me, and barring safety issues, I'm not sure a directed extracurricular learning program wouldn't be more beneficial (and if the student or parents care enough to commute, I imagine they could work out some program from available sources). Then again, I've never been put in a situation that young where it relied that much on my own motivation.
No they'll pick on men for being virgins, for being gay, for being cucked on, for being effeminate and weak, and so on. That's how you target masculinity, because masculinity is something men have to earn via proxy traits, whereas femininity is something to be lost.

It's equally vicious, but it's not seen as equally cruel. And the idea that all trolls are male doesn't hold. Women are far more cruel to each other than men are to them. Somehow the Mean Girls of the internet never get considered.
The closest that I have come across would probably be MealSquares - which still contain a good deal of animal products (milk, eggs) - but they seem to be going for a similar goal as Soylent, but making a 'solid' final product, and using whole ingredients.
They last a good month in the fridge/freezer, and about 2 days on the counter.
http://www.mealsquares.com/nutrition-facts.html
It is trivial to use cryptography in ways that yield some sort of balance between personal privacy and the needs of the state.

But that's the point: we've seen that this balance doesn't exist, because if the service providers have access to the plaintext, the State will not contain itself to issuing case-by-case warrants - see Room 641A, "SSL added and removed here", etc.

The current move to encrypt everything is a reaction to the realization that the balance that was thought to exist, does not, and political participation is not sufficient because the information is kept hidden, so no informed political discourse is possible.
>'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc..

Yeah, so?

They are bad because they don't care much for revenge or they didn't punish hard someone who killed many people?

As if having him die in some electric chair will bring those people back?

If anything, that's even more Christian (in spirit) than the Old Testament "eye for an eye" US mentality.

And if anything else, this treatment helps show Brevik for what he is, a lone loony who hurt innocent people -- as opposed to some "martyred" killer in a society that itself hypocritically kills people too.

And maybe this mentality is part of the reason why those "progressive Europeans" have way less Anders Breviks, whereas in the US there's one born every minute...
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> Kazakhstan announced that a "state root certificate" would have to be installed on all computers wanting to use SSL/TLS/HTTPS out of the country

Devils advocate: Practically every country (national telecom) has its own root certificate. Here is the list:

https://mozillacaprogram.secure.force.com/CA/IncludedCACerti...

When Czech goverment started digitalization, it was very user unfriendly to install Czech CA. I think Kazakhstan is just using force it has to speedup its own application.
I have just started doing it with Starbucks coffee + 1.6. I really like it. It tastes way better than fatty creamers.
>What you're advocating for seems like a SOA (or micro-services) approach?

No, I think SOA and micro-services are technical considerations that have relatively little bearing on division of labour or organisational/project structure. You can statically link a library created by someone you don't even know, or you could have one huge dysfunctional in-house team split up a monolith into fifty different micro-services without creating any new ownership rules at all.

So I think splitting up projects in smaller subj-projects alone is not good enough if all it does is create a deeper organisational hierarchy based on exactly the same command and control principles as before. As you say, it just creates new planning issues on the next level.

We need manageable units of planning, and we need to know when things become too complex for planning and require some principle of self organisation. The difficulty is that self organising systems are not easily steered towards a single goal.

It's interesting that you quote Branson, because the most important feature of a separate company is that it is a unit of economic responsibility and ownership. It usually serves more than one customer, unlike a micro-service that is a fragment of some in-house monolith. And it sets its own goals, mostly independently.
I think the point is that privacy and security are physical as well as digital and if political engagement made one prevail, why not the other? We have more privacy protections now than we did 100 years ago due to political engagement, there is not reason to believe we cannot continue that effort into the digital realms.
My current hypothesis is that them majority of their target market (like their CEO) weren't even born in 1973 when the original movie was released. Even if they've heard of the movie, I doubt they've seen it.

From a marketing perspective, it probably has very little impact either way.
I'd bet their terms allow them to impersonate your own friends.
It seems as if what they were doing was merely a different kind of talent than painting purely by eye is. Creating and using the apparatus is its own kind of art, sort of a hybrid between photography and painting. Both arts on their own, so surely an art when done together.

Questions like this are why, I think, realism became less valued on its own in the art world, after the advent of photography. Then it became merely about how the painting looked, rather than how difficult it was to produce.
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I don't think e2e crypto circumvents any warrant, in fact it makes it very similar to a warrant for a physical thing at your house.

An analogy:

Gmail is like having a safe at your bank, if the police want something in it, they get a warrant to search your safe.
E2E Crypto is like having a safe at home, if they want something in it, they get a warrant to search your house.

So I wouldn't say it circumvents any warrants, it just changes who is served said warrant.
He also gave them blame files as pdfs. But then the court complains about them being unconnected to the VMWare software.

My takeaway is that this needs a magnitude more effort. I guess one has to manually go through the history and filter out all non-copyright changes (such as white space changes) and then come up with a measure of authorship.
The court also needs significantly more hand-holding. I don't know if it is normal that they need to be spoon-fed everything.
If an 6th grader asks their science teacher "How long does stars last?" / "How long stars last?" /"How long do stars last?" / "How old do stars get?" / "Stars, how old can they get?" / ...

In similar context they probably end up parsed to the same question assuming correct inflection, posture, etc. Spoken conversations are messy, but they also have redundancy and pseudo checksum's. Written language tends to be more formal because it's a much narrower channel and you don't get as much feedback.

PS: It's also really common for someone to ask a question when they don't have enough context to understand what question they should be asking.
Caffeine seems to be generally accepted by the nootropic community as falling into that category. There's at least as much clinical evidence of caffeine improving cognitive function as many nootropics, so it seems reasonable to me.

The list of nootropics is somewhat fluid, as much of the science behind them is either recent or currently occurring.
That was what I was referring to here:
> Facebook is already full of advertising disguised as content. From sponsored posts to content from things you "like". So I'm kind of surprised they need to go out of their way to explicitly announce that they will be disguising ads. They already have the power to inject it in the middle of content invisibly.
I wonder. I've seen people on HN saying that Google is one of the biggest lobbyist, so apparently tech sector is very much present in Washington. So maybe it's not that there is no engagement, but that those who engage have different goals in mind than your average HNer?
If there's any physical representation, then it's not all the way there on the abstraction front. I meant to exclude any definition of storage format with the "that contain no implementation" qualifier, because specifying data members is necessarily specifying how you expect the storage of that information to be implemented.

As a contrasting example, Java and .NET interfaces aren't allowed to contain fields, only method and property signatures. Which really means only method signatures, since Java and .NET properties are just methods + syntactic sugar. Both languages also have ABCs, but they are distinct language constructs that don't get to enjoy the same privileges as interfaces.

That may mean that C++ abstract base classes don't quite hit it on the LSP front. It's also true that C++ is a language that predates LSP's formulation by over a decade, so we can't really expect it to be a language that's designed to take LSP into account, anyway.

Long story short, though, just because LSP is baked into your programming language doesn't mean it's moot. It just means you're working in a language that's well-designed on that front.
Slightly off-topic, but I have to ask: have you tried (or considered) hosting your own ads?
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19th century China was synonymous with opiate use, then they shot everybody. I'm not sure this is the approach America should take, but I am consistent shocked by the wide availability of hard drugs in the USA - and frankly a culture that tolerate their use.
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Why you are not testing for constant variance? https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat501/node/367
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I'm not sure that is a good analogy for the wall. Is it a different wall protecting thousands of cities or one of maybe ~10 walls (the main OS's) that is reused? Would it be that hard to build a few good walls? As you said though, there are always alternative ways to be attacked - robbed on the highway (man in the middle?) etc.
It would take an inordinate amount of time for a person to build something like ProjectSauron, but after reading the link, it uses a wide range of publicly-known techniques (windows key loggers, password filters, DNS/ICMP exfil, named pipes, etc etc). This software seems to do a good job at amalgamating a wide range of methods.
I'm a big fan of this idea. We have a lot of active Andromium users in India. We are really liking the idea of going to market after Kickstarter to India.
> Giving them nothing in return.

You're giving them a lot, even if you don't click on ads or see ads. Is it not clear that your data is valuable? You're giving them personal information. Not that people that aren't developers care.
additionally: FB forces itself into your life by adding tracking on non-FB sites. Even if I never go to FB, they can still track me, and sell my data.
I'm going to give the opposite answer as u/Practicality here and say that it's the qualia/subjective experience. What's really extraordinary, currently not understood, and certainly a major part of actual human cognition, is subjective experience itself.

Coding up a simulation that understands itself as one conceptual entity among many is not that interesting. The trick is having a subjective experience of that understanding. It seems to me that: subjective experience + sufficiently advanced conceptual understanding is what gives rise to, is the definition of, self-awareness.

See my other posts in this thread for more thoughts on this.
There is absolutely nothing dishonest about only downloading and rendering the web content you want to view.
It would be pretty easy to prove a computer didn't understand a conversation.
Pragmatic Modularity
Individual components must be designed to fail without taking down the entire system.

This is the Free Market vs. Planned Economy debate all over again.
UNIX was the best thing at the time. It had good interfaces for IPC, could run on most systems, not just big, expensive ones, and was relatively portable. And sometimes, Worse really is Better. Wirth's architecture was late, and more expensive compuatationally. Lisp was VERY expensive computationally, and was often highly unportable, being written in asm, and lispms all implementing their own version of the language: more elegant, less practical.

Unix was and is sucessful because it was good enough, and far more platform, language, and tecnique agnostic than the competition. Unix reccomends a lot, but ultimately perscribes little.
My main takeaway is that the GPL is very hard to enforce (i.e. lots of money and effort) if you do not have a copyright assignment strategy such as the FSF.
I wonder if in the future we'll have matrix-style "blobs" of knowledge that we can plug into compatible AI systems. That way it has to just be trained once on a strong system, and then other systems can take advantage of the learning by forking the state and importing it. It would definitely speed up training AI, and possibly even enable it on lower powered hardware.

Imagine downloading "english teenager slang 2016 v2.0" to your home AI, so it can understand what the hell your kids are saying :)
I don't understand what that study has anything to do with this. Their conclusion was that fruit and vegetable consumption reduces risk of death and does not mention anything about the why the fruits and vegetables reduce risk OR that said benefits are not reproducible through other nutritional systems.
I think the most interesting part of the DAO story is the 'white hat hackers' situation. Prior to the fork, these people also hacked the DAO, basically stealing all the remaining ETH that the original attacker had failed to take. It was justified at the time because they claimed to be a 'robin hood group', trying to save the money of DAO victims.

However, now the fork has happened, these same hackers have vanished, or disavowed anything to do with the hacking, despite the fact that they now control millions of dollars worth of other people's money. They 'stole' from the rich but now don't want to let go of their takings. I wonder how they try to justify their action/inaction now?
As well as a few digging their heels in, they have been joined by a lot of bitcoiners.

Once the hacker or whitehats start selling, this could end up being a pretty significant transfer of wealth from BTC to ETH
I once had it explained by a teacher in highschool (in CA), that the compensation was based on both years worked and additional education they had completed. IIRC, teaching for 20+ years and taking all the education could net you $65k-$85k ~ 20 years ago. That was the upper range though.
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So - what you saw was automatically generated on your phone, and not uploaded to facebook. It's just displayed on your phone in the newsfeed view, and you can opt-in to having it posted.

This happened to a friend of mine who is an ex-FBer, and he posted on FB about it, and a number of people from the FB team who worked on the mobile app piece of it confirmed that indeed no data had left his phone without him requesting that it be posted, but that they were going to make that behavior more clear in an upcoming release.
Arrogance from a seller of a good or service alienates/pisses off their customers.

SCENE: You walk into a large retail TV/tech/stereo store. There are monitors displaying ads. NOT in a ubiquitous way; in an annoying ubiquitous way (ie. every 5 feet you walk in the store aisles, a monitor drops from the ceiling and displays an ad and you get used to counting your steps and every 5 feet you have to duck around the ad-bearing monitor).

You find a device online that disables the 'monitor drop' and bring it with you to that store.

Staff notice this and tell you "either turn off your device or leave."

What will you do? Phucking leave and never come back, that's what.

What if Best Buy was the dominant seller of TV/tech/stereos and the only place to get the Best Buy experience?

Monopolies don't last. Especially arrogant monopolies. It might take a while but if Best Buy was forcing people to view ads every time they visit the store -- and their customers started not showing up after being harassed by staff to 'stop using your monitor-drop blocker device' --

Best Buy would either

1) stop annoying their customers and find other ways to monetize

2) go out of business

The thing that people may forget here is the arrogant belief of this particular monopolist (Zuckerberg et al). That belief is "we got them locked, they can't get this experience anywhere else, we're #1"). Well that's a mistake on their part.

Can you imagine Jeff Bezos saying "effective immediately we're employing a FB ad model and stopping our users from ad-blocking -- I want more money."

Bezos is 100% opposite Zuckerberg.
- Bezos knows Amazon is the monopoly
- and yet he still he busts his bauls to make the site as non-annoying as possible; read a case study of how much attention Jeff pays to no-friction interaction for users of the Amazon site

Arrogant monopolists die. Zuckerberg needs to find a different way to monetize.

The mere fact that the dummazz thinks so little of his users that he comes up with "we'll force them to consume ads" instead of a Bezos "make users as happy as possible" shows Zuckerberg is an azz.

But then we all knew that because he stole the FB idea from someone else. NO FREAKING RESPECT. No respect extended from the guy -- so NONE GIVEN.
> it never really caught on outside the GNU project

Actually, I think GPLv3 did something even stranger, at least something I didn't expect. I've now seen numerous entities use the GPLv3 as a mechanism to deny Companies access to that software unless they purchase a copy that is under a proprietary license. This is because some company legal departments see the GPLv3 as inherently dangerous to use. So the "Open Source" entity uses the GPLv3 to get in the door, and then offers a proprietary license that the code is sold under as an alternative to the GPLv3 for corporate use.

I'm still torn on if I like this model of dual-licensing or not. It definitely gives Open Source companies an ability to earn money from Corporations that want to keep their code closed.