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A decent starting point is any of the threads on /r/badeconomics about the gold standard:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/4y6zgn/gold_s...
> I don't really know what "battery management" means

I assume he means "power management" (i.e. ACPI on x86). You can run the system without taking control of the ACPI hardware, but this is a terrible idea. It'll affect your ability to run the CPU properly, even assuming you don't care about power usage (and large server deployments sure do!). Not to mention all the nasty bugs and problems you'll run into because the hardware wasn't designed to run for long periods of time without ACPI active.
Seriously. With a simple genetic algorithm you can do significantly better. Considering 2-grams etc. It's nice that they decided to write up what they "learned" with this simple experiment, but they didn't try very hard. Or look at the literature.
Add some fake video of a person speaking synthesized text and nobody will know what's real any more. I seem to vaguely remember a movie or something where a device like that was causing mayhem, because nobody knew about the tech.
Hi There,

I created an account here so I could let you know I've clarified some points in my post to address your concerns.
The use of a currency is as a medium of exchange, not necessarily as a store of value long-term. Yeah, you would want it reasonable stable in the short-term, but if holding cash is a bad investment, that doesn't mean that anything is wrong. It just means that hoarding cash is not a useful way to save.

Which isn't a bad thing for the economy. It is better for it if a person of means lends the money to the government or the private sector, or buys equities or other investments.
This guy is a perfect hacker of primitive technologies. I'm a big fan of his videos, all of them! I wish I could find more of those.
Strange. Since high school, I've always heard m/s^2. United States, mid Atlantic region.
…except people don't keep fiat currency underneath mattresses. They invest it, and better their economy for doing so.

So your old coin isn't competing against some ratty old dollar bill, it's competing against the real value of my index fund shares.

Which, by the way, are winning: http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fda.jpg
> Truth is, it is relatively easy to keep a machine secure. Just not if you want it to be a convenient machine.

So the people who build high assurance systems (which currently require a ton of work) are all too focused on convenience?
I thought about putting super mario on that bar.
> This is disturbing on a First Amendment level

They settled; no precedent is set. Except perhaps that if you sue a company that no longer exists, they won't pay for very good lawyers. But we probably already knew that.
My googling failed on this account on the correct grammatical term.
If you'd like to play with this yourself, it's #6 in the cryptopals challenges:

http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6

I agree with the author: it's conceptually very simple, but a little tricky to code, even in the simplest case where you're relying on simple letter frequencies. You could probably do 10 good challenges on different ways to attack this problem, and towards the end you'd be getting into somewhat serious cryptanalysis: for instance, look at what Patterson and Al Fardan did with RC4.
What about all the other alternatives like Wire and Wickr? Wickr went through crypto reviews. Wire is open source.

They don't require using phone numbers so it's not really annoying to sign up without giving away anonymity.
> seems to me like a crazy thing to try to use and depend on this thing/company

Always beware of perception bias or whatever the right term is for this. When docker was new it got tons of hype and people were talking about how great it was. Now it's no longer the hot new thing so it's just another tool many people are using quietly and successfully. It no longer warrants much positive discussion. The people using docker in production successfully don't feel compelled to write articles about it working for them.

I'd say the pros/cons of docker (or containers in general) are similar to the pros/cons of buying hand made vs. mass produced goods. The hand made goods will probably be higher quality but they take more time and skill to produce so they're more expensive. The mass produced goods will probably be lower quality but will work fine and at least offer consistent/reliable level of quality. They take less time and skill to produce so they'll also be less expensive. In the context of using Docker in production this translates to it being very good for solving 'off the shelf' types of problems quickly and reliably. It's essentially the software/systems version of an assembly line. If you don't need an assembly line then docker may be worthless or even a total waste of time. If you do need an assembly line it's the best option currently.
> Every piece of software should run within a sandbox

I sort of agree with this but I think more in terms of projects/activities (e.g. casual media consumption, banking, working on different projects) rather than applications. To do different activities I need different combinations of tools but often the tools overlap. For example I want to sandbox the browser I use for watching cat videos on youtube from the browser I use for banking from the various browsers I use for work. So that some drive by on a casual browsing site can't attack my banking. But I don't want two browsers installed I want the same program in the same version with some common and some different config - but I don't want to manage the common config in 5 different places.

The multi-user model allows for some attempt at this if one sets up multiple user accounts for the different activities. It certainly isn't sufficient but I'm not sure that sandboxing each application will actually get us there either.
It's called dutch disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Again, who says that was the only path to success? Microsoft made billions by letting others handle the hardware. If Microsoft was in Google's position and controlled a dominant mobile OS, I think they would be very happy. Microsoft could never have pulled off Apple's mobile strategy of controlling the entire verticle. It's not in their DNA.
The US grew from subsistance farming to superpower before the fiat money system, and had zero net inflation.
Please submit this to HN. That's fabulous.

(It's also much better than a few similar conversations I've been having myself.)
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> e2e could be enforced for the DHT clients if the user states they aren't going to be using SIP though, right?

That needs user intervention, which implies his understanding of why it is necessary.

Here's a better idea, remove backwards compatibility. Perhaps they could release a separate SIP client under a different name. Just keep it away from Ring itself. Let Ring be actually secure.
Ask your search engine:

"ignition" filetype:pdf
That's like saying Google releasing Chrome OS and Android while porting their software the Linux was dumb because it just increases their costs for a platform that no one uses while totally missing the part that Google now controls an alternative platform that people actually do use... do you really not see how Adobe seems to hold almost all of the cards needed right now to take over as de facto operating system?
Will do...I will also attempt to make a few "ready to run" versions with necessary dlls
On the English demo site, someone was able to do a script injection, sending you to a porn website when you type a message.

http://imgur.com/QTFPUGy (SFW)
Although TensorFlow/Keras allows anyone to implement Deep Learning easily, that doesn't mean that they will get hired for a relevant job position without a PhD. Most Deep Learning jobs, and even relatively mundane Data Scientist jobs nowadays, want a PhD from my experience. There is a surplus of Statistics/CS PhDs, why would a company hire someone without one if they do not have to?

Without a relevant job position, knowing how to implement Deep Learning is a buzzword trick for Medium thought pieces or getting $$ in funding from venture capitalists for a generic "AI" startup that no one actually understands how it works.
Serious question: what does "went through crypto reviews" even mean? One of these messaging systems is designed and implemented by experts; the others, not, but they've gotten 1-2 person/weeks of attention by (one hopes) a crypto experts.
US East, North Atlantic, for comparison. As I said in grandparent, ft/s^2.
I am going to assume you are trying to say that would never happen, but suddenly going into the operating system market with a Linux distribution is not unprecedented (Google Chrome OS) and doing a simultaneous pivot to take over a related space is not either (Amazon AWS).
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Venezuela’s political problems also did not begin with Chavismo (indeed, Chavismo was a populist response to entrenched political corruption of the previous ruling elite).

My take is that (a) development of political institutions and functioning civil society is really hard, (b) being a petrostate makes it much harder, and (c) when you’re a weak undiversified petrostate and oil prices collapse, heaven help you.
Awesome, thanks! Also, after getting back into heavy git usage these days, I appreciate its value much more. Wish I had started a private repository from the beginning, but too late now of course.
And then the NFS handle goes stale, and the fun begins.
Just like, say, Norway. Oh wait, Norway has the highest standard of living in the world.
The practical problem is that a lot of power-users have strong opinions about which e2e scheme to use in which case. That may include "none". [1] If you enforce a single e2e scheme (no matter which), you will lose a lot of potential power-users, who would double as multipliers to spread your app.

I don't say that Conversations (and the XMPP community at large) couldn't do better, though. For example, there could be a standardized, automated, transparent process for determining which e2e schemes are supported by the clients involved in the conversation.

[1] For example, I skip e2e when talking to my several XMPP bots. They run on the same host as the XMPP server, so e2e won't reduce my attack surface when I already have TLS enforced along the way, but make the bot implementation considerably more complex.
Funny that you mention Alfred and I forgot to. It's so built in to how I do things on my Mac that I forgot all about it!

I also use Dash regularly while I work, often in conjunction with Alfred.
More specifically, it's called a "resource curse".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
So Amazon is just Acme with good customer support and less credit?
... that'll probably be as popular as ogg-vorbis. Compression algorithms simply don't benefit that much from outside scrutiny (like encryption does), so without major corporate backing, (open) standards are very unlikely to succeed.
There are such mechanisms.

Wire for example, doesn't require you to sign up with a phone number. You don't even have to have a phone.

How is it not an obfuscation mechanism that works at scale?

Also, what if google has a rogue employee who works for one of the surveillance agencies?

Trusting all your private data to an advertising company that has root access on your device in an app that is explicitly built around security and privacy is insane.
How long does it generally take to study for the ham exam?
OK, I know a lot of folks are tired of me talking about it, but if you are interested only in UX functionality and not necessarily in learning the latest trendy tools, I have built a library that gives you a lot of what the other front-end libraries do at a fraction of the complexity:

http://intercoolerjs.org

Basically you use HTML attributes to drive AJAX requests, and render your HTML on the server side. (There are actually very good theoretical reasons for doing this[1][2].) It is built on top of jQuery and dovetails very nicely with it.

There are lots of examples here:

http://intercoolerjs.org/examples/index.html

And, again, if you are looking for simplicity in front end development, while still building a modern web application, I think it's a good option. There is no tool chain beyond what you currently use for web development.

[1] - http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

[2] - http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
Well, that's certainly rude. It seems you missed my point, but it also seems you're not interested in having a grownup conversation today, so I'll leave you alone.
But you seem to be hand-waving away the problems Moxie had with federation [1]. Citing xmpp is not a counterexample. Some problems do not have solutions.

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Very interesting. Do you have resources you could recommend about working with/programming with voxels? Or how using voxels differs from using polygons in practice?
So, not really open source?
You do not want a 'downside' with any database. Especially when big money are involved, people are shown the door for far lesser issues than the ones that docker seems to have.

By the way, you still haven't answered his question.
> Do they already have forced labor camps in Venezuela?

Yes. http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/news/economy/venezuela-decre...
Edit: Well, I have to probably extend this to make it more understandable.

...that actually matters is diversity of thought. How does this person approach problem solving differently?

I think that this is what the industry is after, kind of. It would at least make economical sense, I think. While the problem is interesting and important, it also looks to be hard to solve. But there seems to exists a heuristic, instead of trying to create an actual diversity of thought directly, create a diversity of thinkers in hope that diversity of thought will arise from it.

There is also a political aspect, as the field is felt as attractive and high paying then there exists political groups that try to take advantage of the situation, also this forum is oriented to the CS field, so we also hear more about this field here.

This comment does not try to address the real issue but a meta-issue - that is, why it is perceived that there is so much talk about the issue.
Through miscellanious old sites and The GNU Humor collection. It's hard to find new material: it's out there, but the signal:noise on the internet sucks, so you have to be really lucky.

Oh, and BOFH is still going strong. So go read that if you haven't yet. The official archives are down, but there are mirrors, of you want to read '95-'99.
That didn't sound too impartial to me. Seemed to have a firmly anti-left opinion.
Important update, looks like Google drive limits file size to 20MB for public files. I will get a workaround up in a second.... (edit, fixed, drop box link is now on the site and appears to be serving larger files, although many are still in the process of uploading)
Is there evidence that this is because there was not a fiat money system? One could argue that the economy would have grown faster with fiat money and a small amount of inflation to further incentivize investment.
As far as I can tell no college uses ft/sec^2, but I've heard mixed things from people who went to different high schools (in the US).
> To a libertarian this is one of the most oppressive things about the way the government works currently ... it forces everyone to work more than they would ideally have to, in a sense.

This part I don't get. It is generally straightforward to invest one's fiat currency in a very secure (and privately run in a nicely capitalist way!) instrument that has positive real interest rate.
This is awesome! Thanks for doing the work to make the project accessible to everyone!
The argument that a deflationary currency is doomed to fail has been made many times too. But it's not a very strong one since Bitcoin isn't forced on anyone like a national currency, so it doesn't behave in all the same ways as everything we've seen before.

Gold is also deflationary, but it's the longest lived currency on Earth. That pretty much proves your claim wrong.
Oh so the central banks come into being from nothing, their existence and their powers have nothing to do with the government itself.

It's just a group of independent people who decided: We'd like to print some money. And Hyperinflation has nothing to do with government failure.

Only delusional people or people with an agenda would argue against there being any connection between inflation and the government.
I have a virtual server (1 CPU + 1 GiB RAM) running nginx, murmur and Prosody. free(1) reports 80 MiB used memory, thereof 10 MiB for Prosody. (I just have one active account, though: myself.)

So unless you're planning on hosting hundreds or thousands of users, you should be fine IMO.
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sounds like you were in the majority.

i have been in it also, and it works just fine. i certainly do not like to be in a minority where the majority gets what it wants and the minority is steamrolled.
Library operating systems like IncludeOS are a further extension of this phenomenon: http://www.includeos.org

With IncludeOS, you don't even have a full kernel. You just have the bare necessities, and run your code in real mode in ring 0.
What did you expect? You know where they come from, right?

If you don't, they come from 4chan. So yeah...

But they got accepted into GSoC as a mentor project, so they can't all be bad.
I'd say broadly that the right first step is to communicate with the maintainers somehow. Figuring out how is part of it. Check for activity - how many PRs, open and closed, does the project have? How often do they come in, and how quickly do they get commented on or merged by project maintainers? Are they linked to Issues on GitHub or some other system, and what's the activity level on those? Maybe they have a mailing list, Google Groups, IRC, Slack, or something else. Find it, see if it looks active, maybe send out a quick hello and see if anybody responds, and have a chat with them about what you'd like to do, if they're open to that, and how they would like for you to proceed. If they use GitHub issues or some other open issue tracker, you could open an issue for poor documentation or whatever, with an offer to fix it, and see if anybody responds.

Sounds complex, but you should only spend like 10-20 minutes on this. If you can't find clear signs of activity in that amount of time, there's a good chance that the project is abandoned or only accepts contributions from a private group. It may take a couple of days or so to get a response to messages on less active projects, that's okay. If you can't see any activity or get any response from maintainers in a reasonable timeframe, then don't bother. If your contributions are wanted and have a good chance of being accepted into the project, then somebody should be willing to write a few sentences to you specifically telling you so, and outlining how to contribute or where to find a current contribution guide.
>I’m pretty sure that Google could serve a specially modified update or version of Signal to specific targets for surveillance, and they would be none the wiser that they installed malware on their phones.

I'm not sure he understands how app signing works and why it would be impossible for Google to forge a developer's signature. He also seems to have a problem with GCM and Google in general. Perhaps he should look into writing his own secure chat application.
consensus works by give and take. Hal and Bill don't just have to deal only with the fence. They have many more items they need to negotiate if they are to live as neighbors.

our current system does NOT allow Bill to do whatever he wants on his property.
I would have sworn I've seen an animation implying that at sufficient magnification the whole thing loops around to galactic superclusters. Non-intuitive, to be sure...
Did they break it using only single symbol frequency counts? Completely ignoring positional information? Because when a human breaks it by starting with frequency counts and then filling in blanks in words, that's a totally different ball game. Computers can definitely do it, but you need to put in more effort.
This is what I love about internet: when you honestly open your heart even a little bit, you get to read nice and cozy responses like yours. Thanks a lot for the kind words.

I'm certainly way more positive nowadays. Over the years I've accepted myself as I am and have seen that once I am more poised and confident and love myself, I become more and more accepted and liked by others. And when one's nonchalant before the ephemeral stuff, he's more easily content. After adopting these ideas I've begun enjoying life in the last three-four years.
What it is is evidence that a fiat money system (and its associated inflation) is not necessary for excellent long term economic growth.
Sorry, that was supposed to be a silly joke, but it also made it horribly unclear. I meant: How do you find the nodes to bootstrap yourself into the DHT in the first place? They must be IPs shipped with the client?
https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/

It's definitely allowed for JS.
As silly as the touch bar looks this type of project gives me hope for its usefulness.
I had not even 3 users... I was running a Java one, looks like Prosody is worth it's salt. Does it support E2E and other features that Conversations supports? :)

Edit:

I was running it on a DigitalOcean box with only 512MB of ram at the time, which I found a bit silly that I would come back and the server was down, but it was a different XMPP server than Prosody.
>Unfortunately, Google has made it (almost) impossible to wake up the phone via some external event without using its proprietary GCM

No, fortunately Google has made it impossible for apps to abuse waking up the phone.
Taking this a step further, perhaps this can become a quick mock up tool ?
That's the point, this site is written to be read by North Korea.
Regarding Wickr:
isec partners spent 9 person-weeks https://www.wickr.com/about-us/blog/2014/08/08/isec-partner-...

this one spent 240 hrs: https://www.wickr.com/about-us/blog/2014/08/05/aspect-securi...

You haven't talked about Wire.

People have to trust someone. If you are not a crypto expert you have to rely on crypto experts to tell you if the protocol/app is sound.

I don't have to be a security expert to know that google can get the phone numbers of all the contacts I talk to on Signal. So the anonymity angle is lost completely.

Regarding privacy, I don't have to be a crypto expert to know that google services are running as root on my phone. They can easily replace the app itself. Avoiding using google proprietary services and still using Signal is a lot of pain.
I like all of these gaming posts today!
I'm not sure you're seeing the distinction I'm making. I distinguishing between the users of a Linux distro or desktop environment and it's creators and maintainers. The latter are heavily invested in free software or they wouldn't be doing it.

When you say "we keep investing effort" which group are you talking about and what effort? And characterizing the maintainers as a "vocal few" seems so entitled as to suggest a misunderstanding. Want Sublime to be the default editor for a Linux distro? You're probably going to have to start your own.
Sad to hear that, but what's even more sad is that people never learn. Venezuela like most of South America will continue with some kind of Socialist policy and so they are damned to live in abject poverty for the rest of their lives.

The fact that Socialism and government welfare is so attractive to many people, particularly women, is one of the main reasons why Democracy in combination with a strong government can and often is a grave danger to liberty and even the survival of society.
US, high school in the south, 9.81 m/s^2 for life! I have never heard any physics in feet...