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I think that Solidity is quickly getting ready for prime time and in 2017 we will see tons of very big and high stake projects getting deployed.

That being said, there are already projects like http://rouleth.com that has been managing an over $100k bankroll with no issues for 8 months now.

To sum up, if the needed security measures are taken, you should be good. And we won't be encouraging anyone to run a company with Aragon in production for the next months until proper security audits have been done.
Linus Torvalds uses Google+. Compare https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds to https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds/with_replies?lang=en

Which means that different people in different communities choose different communication tools for reasons that are not obvious.
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Well it's hardly spam since clients are posting to their own social media accounts.
I guess we're talking about two different approaches to solving the same problem (code-based tests can't be used by non-technical people). So we can:

1. Substitute writing code with a visual editor. This is, essentially, what Screenster does.

2. Make scripting abstract enough to a point where it starts to resemble plain English. That's, in a nutshell, the approach of Cucumber.

Each of the two has its pros and cons. In my opinion, the key strength of tools like Screenster in this context is how they address visual/css regression testing (specifically, things like text or image formatting issues, layout issues and other things that typically get broken by CSS updates):
http://screenster.io/a-better-way-to-do-visual-regression-te...
What you're saying is, it's unsafe to write a crypto library in PHP without being aware of PHP internals. Which I'd agree with, in general.

Thankfully the PHP community now has a group like Paragonie willing to share implementation risks. And because of that, we can help solve the problem with pull requests to those libraries.
Lofty valuations are based on expectations of a lot of growth in subs and $/sub.

Even though they have a lot of users and some $/sub - without the growth it won't justify the valuation multiple.

So they have to get priced more like a normal company, with normal growth rates.

Which is the 'bubble burst' that so many post-IPO companies have to face. There's a few that can keep it going, or make up for it in other ways ... but not Twitter.

I feel Snap may be in the same category: their offer at least today is somewhat nichy. My mother uses Facebook, but will never use Snapchat as it is today.
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Getting 10% of users to pay would be extremely unlikely, though. I think a more realistic number would be closer to 0.5%.
I completely agree, insurance and proper bug bounty mechanisms are being worked on.
This is a great comment. It's so easy to be hyper-critical when you're critiquing words on a screen and not realizing there is a human behind those words.
It still about $6000 in filing fees and premium processing fees on top of the legal fees and meeting any other requirements the business has to meet to be in a place to sponsor them in the first place.
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> Every possible display surface will become a display, and study its watchers.

Probably true, and from my perspective, more than a little creepy. I suppose people 30 years from now will regard it as normal, but it sounds rather oppressive to have to live in such an environment.
Your link talks about a conceptual project that isn't in any way running yet nor has been approved by the National Bank of Spain. How can Aragon companies comply with their INSS obligations today?
wind of change was blowing long before Nadella took the job

Well, just look at that stock prices graph, seems in line with this: sure there's a flat line during Ballmer's first 10 years, but then it suddenly started going up and the trend just continued in the same trend when Nadella got assigned. Not saying he's not doing a good job: from what I see I'd say he's doing well, though of course there's a whole lot of information I don't see so I really cannot tell.
> What I would really like are more robust layout APIs for both the browser and native apps.

This is what I love about CSS flexbox and grid. Flexbox completely changed how I approach layouts, and I'm excited for grid to hit the big time as well.

The only thing I wish flexbox could do is allow custom spacing functions, so I could write my own alternative to "justify-content: space-around".
The obligation for h1-bs is to pay a competitive salary, not a competitive salary sans legal fees for obtaining visa sponsorship.
Food and/or drugs. When two animal species have an intimately codependent relationship like this it's called symbiosis, and it's a very interesting field. Some ants keep herds of aphids, a tiny insect whose secretions apparently taste like delicious caek.
Robert Scoble uses Facebook.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scobleizer

Of note for Scoble is that there's much more room to talk on Facebook than twitter. I wonder if that's a similar reason that Torvalds uses G+
Well said.

Every project has to determine their own path to sustainability. Knowing only what I've read here, I'd sell support in seat packs, e.g. $1000/yr for every 250 users. A good sized university might have 1000 engineering students and $4000/yr for a critical tool used by all their classes seems reasonable.

The great thing is that you define support however you want. 24/7 phone? Email during business hours only? Just make it clear to the customer so expectations are properly set.

A business might only have 10 people that use a tool like Octave but $1000/yr isn't a big deal if that tool is necessary for their daily work.
The launch post seems to say that Ethereum|Aragon can solve the nation state problem, taxes and a whole host of other "problems" associated with running a business.

How?

How does Aragon eliminate the IRS or DIAN if you are doing business in America or Colombia, respectively?

How does it eliminate regulations on interstate and international commerce?

What companies would actually use this to run their verses say Quickbooks, right now?

What companies have been built on Ethereum so far and how have the principals done with regard to taxes and tariffs?
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Awesome! So we can stop copy-pasting this: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Aug-26.html
Back in the 90s, the Internet was full of Windows machines with open file and printer shares. How far we've come...
No, but if you're like me it might be time to visit the optician again :)
> I'm only familiar with one domain of enterprise software and that's ERP software.

That's the issue. I'm not talking about ERP (or any other) software offered by vendors. Many corporations build their in-house line of business/ERP/backend apps in .NET.
I've heard good things about Citus for horizontally scaling Postgres.
I agree with this, Twitter is still the best place for celebrities to interact with their fans. Elon Musk for example has unveiled more than a few of his ideas and dropped details of his products on Twitter instead of anywhere else.
Not using "How to git involved" was a missed opportunity.

Jokes aside anyone know what happened to their swag shop? The post reminded me that I was going to pickup a shirt awhile back but never did and now their shop is giving a 404.
> hundreds of words of emotive rambling and vague talk of journeys and values and euphemisms for simple concepts.

I think for the new generation, vague emotional rhetoric has replaced old school business gibberish like "We need a paradigm shift" and so on. People like the idea of appearing to be open and honest without actually making themselves vulnerable by revealing their true thoughts and feelings.
I doubt that 10% of Twitter users would pay 1 EUR / month (=> 12 EUR / year!) for an ad-free experience.

Here is one survey I found, which states that ~10% of people said they would pay at least 10$ / year for ad-free Facebook: http://marketingland.com/survey-ten-percent-would-pay-at-lea...

Surveys greatly overstate such figures because it is much easier to say "yes I want to pay" than to actually hand over money. Also, I would argue that Facebook is more important for most users than Twitter (their central problem).
Apple does the same.
Dos + win 3.11 was an absolute crap. Had a mac at the time and i couldn't understand how people could cope with that horror. Anything, from atari to amiga to mac was obviously better.
Windows started to be usable starting windows 95. Before that, it was mainly a hack.
"Those who act virtuously in every way, will certainly come to grief by those less virtuous." - Machiavelli.

Anyone reading Washington's May 31st 1776 letter to his brother, John Augustine Washington ( https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-... ) will note similarities if not references to Machiavelli in the 2nd paragraph as GW describes Britain ("...She is capable of the most delusive Arts...") and as he describes the weakness of certain members of Congress ("... feeding themselves upon the dainty food of reconciliation...")

So, although Machiavelli never said, "The ends justify the means" or "exitus acta probat", its not surprising that Washington - an avid reader and student of political/military thinking - would arrive at the same conclusion as Machiavelli; namely that acting out of necessity is a virtue, when the alternative is the loss of human rights or a return to what Hobbes described as the "State of Nature".

He felt Congress was kidding itself about alternatives to independence, and GW had the difficult task of motivating an entire army to stay the course.
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"The unwarranted injection of politics into every single discussion is getting very, very tiring."

Some folks won't be satisfied until everybody is clearly aware that they're deeply, DEEPLY unhappy with the 2016 election results.

This will continue for another three years, at which point things will change to how Candidate X is so much better, and we'll hear about Candidate X in everything. If Candidate X loses the 2020 election, expect a repeat of the current situation.

I'm sure there's a cicada analogy here somewhere.
When I try to enter my email for the mailing list I am getting the error: invite_limit_reached

I'd like to just keep up with the project. Is this intentional or is there another way to join the mailing list?
I love how this guy thinks he has no future because he makes bad grades. LOL. So many great programmers I know were flunkies because they only cared about doing different hard things. Myself included.
There's no reason he couldn't do the same with a mailing list.

Twitter might have value, but no route to profitability.

Edit: Y'all are super salty about Twitter falling apart. Sad!
I fear that is like the Diablo, Sim City, or Civilization game brands. Even if they have a very bad release, they could still easily have a release that beats the previous one. But it erodes the brand. In other words, as long as Tim Cook didn't screw up, a simple Mac lineup iteration would've had fantastic sales.
> Why would my advice change because you're building something that uses JWT?

I never said it would, I was simply stating my interest in your opinion on the topic. It seems a shame that you don't seem to be willing to expand though.
What are some planned updates then? I still don't see a good use case...
I think this is the case for many folks -- myself included.

I never use or read Twitter directly either, nor do I see any reason for me to. I only see reports about what Trump has written on Twitter.
Twitter is way better for directly hype-building around those tweets. Although maybe a mailing list could be marketed in a similar way, of done cleverly.
That is exactly what I thought it said until I just read your post -=o|
"and -know- it will be trivial to scale" that's my point. You won't know that. If you spend all your time in fantasy land where ram and cpu are infinite you start to loose touch with reality in how you code. You have to code defensively against ram and cpu use.
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Thanks for the open source work. Keep on hacking Talon.[1]

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It really is unwarranted. Every now and then I like to take the opportunity to say this as well, since I am very critical of the H1B program.

The US doesn't have a good immigration system, and if you don't have family reunification or a few other avenues, there isn't much left for you, even as a skilled worker. We don't have a "I'm a skilled and decent person, I'd contribute a lot, and I'd like to live and work in the US" program.

Yeah, I completely get it. This is the only game in town for some really good people. No way would I blame someone using this path, considering their limited options.

The nice thing that I really believe that we can solve this problem by expanding personal freedom and limiting corporate power over people's lives. The sad thing is, that's probably why it hasn't happened and continues to not happen.
this is the sad truth.

Twitter is a perfect example of something that could have worked as a small company with moderate expectations and a tight budget. Instead they presumed that "eventually" the money would catch up to their Fortune 500 ambitions, if they could just get enough eyeballs.

Welcome to the new "real world" of the "Long Tail," Twitter. Turns out that being the #2 social network, just like being the #2 music streaming service, the #2 ride-sharing network, or the #2 search result means a big step down in importance, reach, and profit potential in the Long Tail world (and being #50 puts you in a completely different zip code altogether).

Twitter created expectations that it cannot meet.
Thanks Man!
FWIW, I have seen that advice given for problems with networking performance in virtualized environments, regardless of the operating system.
Hi cperciva can you please explain the following:

1) "Every Tarsnap archive acts like it is completely independent of all other archives"

Lets say I'm backing up `/somedir` that looks like this:

# archive1 - initial backup

── somedir
├── file1.txt
├── file2.txt
└── file3.txt

# archive 2 - 2nd backup

── somedir
└── file3.txt (modified)

Are you suggesting that if I delete `archive1` and `rm -rf /somedir` that I can restore `/somedir` with `archive2` alone?

If so, how is that possible?

2) Does tarsnap stream the backup data to the tarsnap service or does it create the encrypted archive and only after this upload it?

For instance, if I've got 100 GB to backup (first time), do I need 100 GB of free space for tarsnap to work?
I say this as someone who has worked remotely and liked it, but remote workers in positions that require frequent coordination and interaction with their teams are somewhat less productive and more expensive when you add in regular travel to the company. We have to offer some advantage to the company, and reduced salary requirements are often the advantage.
Good question.

One way to think about this is: why don't you or I use a GUI to build a front end.

I tried to use one for Bootstrap, and it was hard to get the everything to line up right. I wasn't sure how things would act when the screen changed, or how to change that.

Then when I went into the CSS it was laid out in an unfamiliar fashion.

These problems seem very solvable, but I don't know why they persist.
Not a stupid question at all!

First, forget about being "branded", "labeled", "be seen as", etc. These things are totally irrelevant for your business success.

Now, I would keep building on your current product, without radical pivots. But would not keep building the exact same product. A company with 10,000 paying customers and millions in financing will most certainly alienate some segment of their customers. While this might be rational for them from a cost/benefit point of view, it might be rational for you to target that exact segment they are alienating and build a successful and very profitable bootstrapped business.

If you need some help figuring out what segments they are alienating and would be a better target for you, email me (email on my profile). I have good experience in this kind of strategic analysis.

Good luck!
Twitter might be better, but it appears it can't make money from "being better" than a mailing list.

You can be the best platform in the world, and if you don't make money, you're going under.
Ex TCS employee here:
Not only the employees are paid meagerly, the benefits most seem to have are literally nothing.

Health and Medical Coverage are very poor. Provides only basic coverage.
No Life Insurance.
Never heard of anyone being paid overtime.
Most employees of these companies would be mostly working in odd hours to manage off shore teams.
That was a damn funny yet informative video. Is that a series?
This is where experience comes into play though. Not every bit of software is totally unique and built on first principals. If you're working at some place and built similar software at a previous place, part of the up-front design is going to be driven by retrospection on previous projects.
If I remember correctly, the web panel allows installing packages from custom repository sources. I'm not saying that's inherently secure (it obviously makes other vulnerabilities much more critical), but how is it realistically different from arbitrary RCE within authenticated sessions?

I agree that CSRF and XSS vulnerabilities - when combined with superuser-level access of any kind - are basically "game over" for security, but from what I've seen, pfSense has been reasonably quick to patch any such vulnerabilities in the past. XSS, while still applicable, is less likely in a system where very little third-party content is rendered in the browser. When it comes to CSRF, I believe most security-conscious administrators keep things like pfSense web sessions limited, logging out before resuming any other browsing (or better, using it only from a separate browser profile). That doesn't solve those issues, but it can limit the attack surface.

Not trying to defend pfSense's security as a whole; I'm just pointing out that RCE is somewhat irrelevant when we're talking about a tool that already allows so much access anyway. One should essentially treat a pfSense admin session as if it were a web-based root shell (because it essentially is that).

A web admin tool that can perform superuser actions is - and probably always will be - less secure than other alternatives. Security-conscious people understand that, and will skip tools like pfSense in high-risk environments. But for many others, those risks are reasonable to accept for the added convenience.
I don't understand these posts. There's no new version of pfSense there's no announcements, nothing has happened to warrant the post. WTF?
At a university I worked at, every IP over DHCP was a public IP address. This means that all of the printers where by default open to the world. I always thought that this was crazy. Every so often a random page would be printed...
> But people will still need to develop the replicators, manage supply chains, and so on.

Machines can do that. If they break in ways a machine can't fix (a diminishing situation over time), an expert gets paid a lot to fix things.

> Bigger problem: medical services. It takes a FUCKING LONG time to become a doctor

Whereas a machine will a better doctor than any human could ever be from the moment it rolls off the factory floor.

> So would the many layabouts freed from labor be entitled to top-notch medical services?

Of course! It'll be dirt cheap to implement anyway (unless you're American).

> And that assumes that population growth doesn't spiral out of control

Population growth doesn't spiral out of control. We have plenty of studies that prove this.

> and that the climate plays along for long enough for our species to get its collective shit together

In many places, renewable energy accounts for more than 75% of new capacity. Solar is about to plummet below coal in cost. Electric cars are mainstream, and will over time displace the internal combustion engine. We've got scientists developing cheap carbon absorbers.

Meanwhile, we've already passed the point where there simply aren't enough jobs to go around. Just wait till the truck drivers are displaced in a few years! That'll be fun...
It's interesting to see how the power and reach of every word on Twitter by politicians or journalists, yet Twitter is unable to profit from it. On the other hand, nobody cares about the power of a Facebook posting or an instagram, yet Facebook makes so much money of the frivolity.
Yeah after a while it seems like the classic case of taking themselves too seriously. I was like "Chill" you guys are developing tools to tweet later not saving lives or anything.
Reminds me of this old story (there are many variations): http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes....
Trump should buy it.
As the poster doesn't this gives Trump the power to manipulate markets with nothing more than a tweet?

You could argue he already has this power, but before the message needed to resonate with a large collective of people. Any public figure (like Warren Buffet, etc) can express an opinion that might effect the stock they are commenting on.

However as this group of people automate trades on only the contents of his tweets (and not say the contents of the tweet as well as past company performance, current POTUS approval ratings, dividend plans etc) he gains a scary amount of control over the markets.

To put another way. The only people who know what he will tweet earlier than these bots are Trump and maybe a select group of people he tells before hand.
If you're talking about the US map near the bottom of the page that is specific to left turns on red, not right turns.
Did Musk ever present any evidence at all for his claim?
Same here. But a new engineer I hired who looked great on paper and on his interviews is just obscene. He's not a great engineer to boot. Can't fire him because I need him for now. I don't think it's a self perpetuating stereotype. I think some people are wired that way, and engineers tend to skew there because of the way their brains work (obviously not every engineer).
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Quite probably, G+ also doesn't beg for login like Facebook does sometimes so it's easier to use without an account.
VyOS is just software. So nothing to purchase there. It's what I use when I need either a virtual router, or want to use commodity hardware to act as a router. It's great to throw in ESXi or another hypervisor, or even EC2. It comes with all features you might need (probably), and because it's fairly standard Linux (Debian based), making it do extra things isn't very hard.

The ERL is $100, and comes with Ubiquiti's EdgeOS, which is largely based on VyOS (or something like that), and simply adds a (decent) web UI, and hardware offloading. This means that the ERL which runs on a dual core 700Mhz MIPS CPU can route 1Gbit/s, and not even break 30% CPU utilisation.

Where VyOS shines is when you need to cobble together a bunch of things. If you just need a pure firewall, I would probably stick with pfsense, as that is, after all, what it is good at. VyOS only offers iptables with some lipstick (which is well enough for a Swiss-army knife setting)

I guess VyOS would run on that box. I can't see specs, nor know what network chipset it is rocking, but I don't see why not.
Can you expand on what he meant by that? I've always taken it to mean "don't ever make an investment that you know deep down is suboptimal".
That interpretation is a classical definition of virtue and I would argue very consistent from Washington throughout history to Plato.