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I wonder if you are somehow far outside the norm in a way that is suspicious to Google, e.g. do you use Tor or VPNs or similar?

I'm mostly asking rhetorically, because I haven't needed to do more than click the checkbox saying I am not a robot in months.
Was this article basically a rip-off of:

https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd...

I'm prepared to give the benefit of the doubt though.
They offer free lunches.
This is such a cool idea. Going to backup Soundcloud myself tomorrow !
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wow... that spoiler was actually a spoiler. I was thinking "I should read that" till I hit that last line.
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You can find out in this impenetrable, 500 page technical guide here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248451.pdf

It contains crystalline prose like this, something all technical manuals should aspire to:

"Digital technologies are driving major industry shifts, ushering in a new age. In the Cognitive EraTM1, it is either disrupting or being disrupted. Tomorrow’s disrupters will be organizations that can converge digital business with a new level of digital intelligence. A key in digital transformation is the ability to accelerate the innovation of new business (Internet of Things, Cognitive, and Virtual Reality), while keeping complexity in check."

The answer to your question, by the way, appears to be 'very'. You can have lots of processors and 32TB of RAM.
> Especially if you consider that the process of "mining" is literally computing hashes over and over again until you find the right nonce that meets some arbitrary criteria, it's hard to see this process as anything except wasting massive amounts of energy.

I think this wording obscures why the mining process gives the network trustworthiness.

You are changing the nonce over and over again until the HASH of the block meets some criteria. For example, your hash is below some value (it starts with a certain number of zeroes). This is important.

It's important because you can't 'fake' the work. The only physically possible way to come up with a block that has a conforming hash is to change the nonce and run the hashing algorithm and repeat this until your hash matches the criteria. There's no way I can know the nonce I need to use without running the hashing algorithm. Hence, if I present a block that hashes to a conforming value (you don't just take my word for it, you run the hashing algorithm on the block yourself to independently verify the work), you know that I've invested time and electricity (tangible, real-world things) in the creation of that conforming block.

Alone this doesn't seem like much, but the time and energy limitations it imposes gives a blockchain properties that make data more 'immutable' the longer it is stored in the chain by making it computationally more expensive to change data further back in time from the most recent block in the chain and makes it computationally expensive for a single bad actor to change past data that nodes in the network have 'agreed' upon. This computational expense is important when combined with the other rules that a node uses when receiving a new block and trying to independently determine that the block is valid and should be treated by that node as 'truth'.

The trustworthiness of the blockchain is an emergent network effect. It's not provided or enabled by one single thing, but by many things all contributing at the same time. Proof-of-work is just one small piece of a much larger system. For example, you also need to consider what other rules make proof-of-work useful in the system, such as the rule that a node must accept a chain with more work in it as more truthful than one with less work (hopefully I'm wording that somewhat right!).

Saying 'the miners provide security by hashing' is a massive oversimplification of what's going on. It's very much a sum-of-all-the-parts thing.

I found this helpful in particularly driving this process as a whole home:
https://anders.com/blockchain/

I'm still really getting my head around blockchain itself, so if I'm way off base on anything in my understanding here I'm happy to be corrected :)

As I understand it, the challenging question is - is there something else we can use that's as independently verifiable as proof-of-work that's more energy efficient? What independent verification do we give up if we do choose something that's less energy consuming (but maybe less 'provable')?
Yes. I suppose if you have ad-blocking/tracking-blocking you get to do more work as well (Google gives me some 2 panes to identify before allowing me through)

And yes, it's frustrating. You never know if that tiny corner of a triangle sign counts as "a sign" or not
If you only had to fill captchas to access google services you'd have a point

No, in that case Google is providing the service to plenty of 3rd party websites completely unrelated to Google, who basically punt and wind up saying "do this work for Google for access".
What worries me is that this is just a public research done in uni. What should we expect from secret projects then?!
I have a better link. Scroll down to the end, and click on "Redbooks"; there you'll find the technical information we HN readers tend to be more interested in.

In particular this one: "IBM z14 Technical Introduction" https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248450.pdf (I'm still reading it, but page 5 already has a short list with "the main technical enhancements in the z14 over its predecessor platforms").
Why not go and start your ideal business then?
The exercises I do on Mon + Weds take care of my shoulders and arms. Abs, depending on how tired I am + time, I do at the end of the session.

I was 65kg last year and now I'm about 83/84. It helps that my trainer is an ex-bodybuilder + powerlifter and I train in a gym which is not your typical 'macho' gym but has a very supportive and challenging environment.
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Twitter already identifies what app was used to post a tweet, if you're looking through the API not their app. It would be trivial to display that information and distinguish between apps sent by humans and by automated programs.
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Has anyone done something like? Anyone built stock options with smart contracts? What particular laws are against these aragments?
Got a link to your site?
> It makes me feel like I'm being used to do free work for Google - like a digital miner of sorts.

They are providing you a service--preventing spam bots from abusing services that you want to use--and are using your proof-of-work as payment. I don't see the problem.
I submitted this with a different title from the web page to get more attention to the issue. Not many people care about FreeRADIUS. I suspect there will be more interest in the underlying issues.

We run FreeRADIUS through four different static analysis tools, and have hundreds of regression tests. After the OpenVPM issues recently, I asked Guido Vranken to look into FreeRADIUS.

In short, fuzzing and address sanitization found about as many security issues as were found by all other techniques in the last 10 years.

Everyone: Please use fuzzers and address sanitizers on your C code. It will find things.
> Jenkins has some serious problems when you want to work with CD.

When you want to work with CD in a particular way.

A simple fix to the above issue would be to have a "production" branch. When you want to do a release, you merge to the production branch. A roll back would just be a revert of the commits since the last merge to production, and could even be tagged.

If you are doing CD by allowing devs to tag random branches, cool, but I would not call it a "failure" on the Jenkins side.

> Unfortunately, hack such a fix is not very pleasant either, because Java, and i don't think the Jenkins developers are interested in it either, at least not if just a few people ask for it.

Its a webhook - that can be in any language, or if you use Git(hub|lab) a config item.
Is a USB drive really plug and play if it doesn't even work on my 20 year old flip phone?

Why would you conflate two separate systems like that?
This looks amazing, thankyou for sharing! :)
> The time horizon of "archival storage" probably starts at a hundred years - that will need some structure to have a likelihood of persisting for so long.

This reminds me of one of the principles of camlistore's data schema, which explicitly says that they made their schemas overly-explicit so that future digital archeologists can re-create the schema purely from examples[1].

It's a shame that camlistore feels more like a very long experiment over a polished and usable backup/archive system.

[1]: https://camlistore.org/doc/principles ; There used to be a more explicit explanation, but I couldn't find it.
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Ditto on car warranties, that's a good 70% of mine.
I hope you will never have a difficult disease with diffuse symptoms and then be treated like that.
Because there seems to be a rising belief that "vitamins" are a universal good, like some sort of direct tap to an archetype of health, rather than something the body uses in small(ish) quantities.

So you see woo springing up about super-doses and vitamin flooding, and you generally see an awful lot of wasted money on people taking unnecessary supplements. Most pass through the system fine, some may cause harm in large quantities.

There was that old factoid that due to supplements, Americans had the most expensive, vitamin-rich urine on the planet....
Really?

While WTO negotiations in the Doha round largely failed, China perfected its firewall.

When Turkey's negotiations with EU failed, Turkey tightened its firewall.

When it becomes increasingly likely that Britain will crash out of the common market, British censorship emerges.

Whether a firewall is justified by concerns with pornography or terrorism or something else, those concerns tend to be kept at bay as long as economic forces wanting to keep society open are stronger. When those economic forces collapse, political forces that want censorship find it easier to prevail.

Also, import regulation consist of many measures and countries don't just impose those measures on products that compete with domestic products. Countries impose tariffs on wine even if they don't produce wine or competing liquors themselves.
If it's already in Visual Basic the default for "modern stack" would be a C# API back end and whatever JS front end you want. This would also be crazy easy to host online if that's what you wanted to do.

This has to benefit of being able to use the exact same database and update the schema over time with your API, completely independent of the front end.

You don't specify whether your app is currently desktop or web based. Hitting the enter key has been the standard way to submit HTML forms since the very early days of the internet. Why would you need a special library to support that?

Since you're asking about C/Qt I'm assuming the current app is desktop based? Having just completed a client project migrating a large desktop-based application to the web (C# API, Angular front-end), work flows are going to have to change to at least some degree. It is very rare to be able to cleanly, easily port 100% of the desktop experience to the web. If that's a deal breaker, make sure it's not worth it to stick with the desktop. You can still separate your concerns and provide a modern experience.
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I love how you whitewashed the "strong personalities" bit--yeah, those people are assholes who mistreated the developers. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
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I have not been able to find an answer for this and sadly I do not have any friends currently living there :(
$3.8k for peace sign dot com?
But you both did not give any links...
> I'm talking about lasting, unambiguous, not-up-for-debate physical changes that are still present more than fifteen years later.

Was it back pain?

I distinctly remember a study concluding that acupuncture was indeed effective at treating back pain (but not a host of other tested symptoms, and needle positioning didn't matter, which kinda discredits the philosophy behind it).
Out of interest, what are your PBs on bench, deads and squats?
>The problem with these debates is they become very tribal. It's easy for not very interesting people to assume an air of instant scientific authority and credibility by calling out "obvious" nonsense.

Yeah, being "not very interesting" is the biggest issue in my life. How about not wanting relatives and friends who don't know any better to get scammed?

>Unfortunately it's a very selective form of criticism, and IMO it's selective bullying directed exclusively at certain demographics.
The reality is that everyone believes utter nonsense, and every area of human experience is prone to it. We're not nearly as rational as we think we are.
Goop is an easy target, but there's plenty of snake oil in finance, econ, business, and politics. IMO it's far more dangerous and destructive there - and challenged far less often.

There are scams in other industries, so it's OK to sell snake oil? Curious reasoning.
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I want to develop simple apps for non profits and instead of charging $xx,xxx per project, I want to take care of everything including hosting the native apps on my app store licenses, for a $250/mo subscription. Is this a price range that non profits would love to jump on?
Devs get ping-pong tables because they can be bought off in other ways besides money because they are naive.

I loved your comment about "max out wealth" because that is the underlying truth to all of this--you get maybe 30 years to make as much money as possible and that's it!
A completely rational explanation that may or may not be the answer.

If my car disappears from my garage, it may be because it was stolen, or maybe because it was transported to an alien planet by extra-terrestrial life forms.

My assertion that it was E.T. does not mean that your counter-assertion that it was stolen is true. Maybe I lent it to a friend and forgot, or my wife took it to be pimped out on Overhaulin', or that it was repossessed due to some bank error.

It's quite appropriate to raise additional possible explanations. It's quite inappropriate to tell someone that their treatment is in no way causative to the amelioration of symptoms, especially when they cannot know for certain that they were not.
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in exchange for my dependence on their services they show me ads

... plus ask you to solve captchas sometimes, right? Is there some line or reason where ads are ok but captchas aren't?

Edit: With captchas the site benefits directly from Google, but ads function similarly.
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I found TIME Stories to be an expensive box of disappointment. You can play it only once since there is only one scenario in the box and you need to buy others after that. You'll be done with it in a couple hours
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>But dismissing the option that something unproven could have helped me is the same fallacy as not trying it because it's unproven.

It's not about dismissing it. It's that the burden on proof is on that side, not on those that are not convinced.

It might very well have been a case of self-healing, the kind that happened many times (often thought as miraculous, etc), and whose exact mechanism is not known.

>I mean, there's also conclusive evidence that eg homeopathy does not work better than a placebo. I'm talking about the cases where there's no conclusive evidence for either outcome (1). Ars calls those snake oil and I think they're jumping to conclusions too fast.

Well, the burden on proof is not on Ars side though. They can legitimately call snake-oil anything that has not been proven but is nonetheless sold.
That would be legally iffy, since they don't own the copyright, and so it's unlikely that they're allowed to bless an wholesale copy of their users' content to some third-party.
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One of the things about the film was how the humans treated each other far worse than what the zombies did to them. The zombies (the slow kind!) were just a force of nature.
> Or maybe even tell it in a joke 'yeah, I am a robot hahaha'.

In "Surely your joking", Richard Feynman tells how he got away with hiding the door to one of his fraternity brother's room by answering in such a fashion. Interestingly, apparently it was so convincing that no one present even remembered that he had confessed.
I get cars, road signs, storefronts (with signs, often in other languages), and from time to time, mountains. Not sure how the last two fit into the self-driving car hypothesis, unless the program is being extended to other types of self-driving vehicles, such as delivery drones.
Sure, but then you're either pushing the responsibility on twitter to monitor how every API key they give out is used and label certain apps as bots, or on the user to look up an app and determine for themselves if it's a human or a bot.
This is the kind of rhetoric and narrative-pushing that give laypeople a skewed image of "robots". Technological optimism is blatantly alive and well in tech circles (that's a whole other problem), but it's sensationalist quotes like this that give everyone else ammo. Skepticism is important, but it's also important to recognize when something resonates you mainly because it re-affirms or rationalizes something you believe strongly.
When I applied, they said the queue was backed up.
It almost certainly is not "no cost"-- typically that kind of stuff is rolled into a line item under "service agreement". And if the line item cost does say "zero" that's because of negotiation and sales engineer magic (possibly after a few $20 martini's). The cost is folded in SOMEWHERE. IBM ain't no non-profit!
Very.

They are also built like a tank, and have so many levels of redudancy and reporting that if any component breaks in your machine they guarantee there won't be any downtime (and a technician is dispatched to fix it automatically). That includes things like CPU cache line bridges, complete cooling failures, storage failures, etc. Also they guarantee that every new version of the mainframe will not increase power consumption (which is absolutely insane).

Oh, and the bill will make you dizzy.
Who said anything about paying below market?

Illusory superiority[1] is a real issue - about 70% of people think they are above average, so they keep demanding above-market salaries.

Plus, as I mentioned in my previous post, other employers have harder time evaluating person's skills through interviews than a company that currently employs them. So they offer above-average salary to your average employees and by the time they realize that they overpaid for their skills it usually is too late, so they keep them on payroll anyway - that's basically how IT salary bubble works, most of the time :) (at least that's how it works in Poland, I don't know a thing about US job market)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
I tried very hard to negotiate that happy medium, but was shot down.
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Sorry about that, I removed the spoiler to not ruin the story for anyone else.
I guess that we will start to rely on multiple recordings of an event to consider it proven. Until, of course, 3D recreations start to appear rendering that useless as well.
At the very least the tax fraud should be interesting to IRS?

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/how-do-you-report-suspected-...
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Brief Survey Project Introduction

- it's a free open source webapplication in C# .NET to create, publish and administer webforms and surveys online
- it's a "development platform" including multiple sites

The surveyproject.org platform is there to support and facilitate the development and distribution of the SP™ webapplication. Part of is are this Community site, a B-to-B site, a Test and Demo site, the Codeplex and Github sites.

SP is always looking for "volunteers" to assist in running the project or making contributions to the application. Also promotion and/ or uplifting yet critical comments are most welcome to make improvements.

One of the latest plans is to broaden the platform to become more educationally oriented.
Any suggestions on how to get this started and what needs would have to be fulfilled are most welcome.

Please leave us your advise and thoughts.
It's a journalistic disclosure. Ars' parent company has a relationship with the subject of the article, and the author disclosed that relationship.
> More technology demo should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.

I'd agree with you if you scratched like that.

See here for an opinion on this demonstration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13002787
Great share! Thanks. I'll be sharing this with my developer friends.
I dread the narcisim this allows to unleash, as people will just select whatever they believed in the first place to be true.

The only solution to this is a education towards knowledge masochism. Destroy what you believe in, only in failure there is truth.
It is exactly that attitude that's the result of advertising. People didn't always think that body odor stank.
Most Danes use a combined visa/dankort which is a credit card but doesn't usually incur a fee. Also generally we don't have a seperate credit line, it goes directly to your bank account as soon as the transaction is registered (and simply overdraws it if you don't have sufficient funds). A lot of danes also seems somewhat confused about the debit/credit card distinction, because the only difference most people see is whether it allows you to overdraw your account.
WebRTC works on android and will be supported by iOS 11, due to be released later in 2017.

> But I thought the beauty of this would be transcending the need for native apps.

Right now the only implementations of webrtc are web browsers so if you want to use webrtc on a server you have to run a browser environment like electron.
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I do receive at least between 2 to 5 calls a day ! Same for my wife. We are in the Bay Area.
It is becoming such a pain, that I have decided to work on an app (iOS first) to help filter/detect such calls... it will not necessarily catch every calls but it should help make a dent into it.
There are many apps on iOS with similar features, but I have a different/novel approach for it. The most important piece is the backend system which I have almost complete now, so I have started as of yesterday the iOS code... I would love to get some beta testers before I release it. Contact info in my profile.
Director is a position often used in the UK in lieu of C level positions, and in SME's there is a strong correlation that the company director is also a major shareholder/founder.

based on my unpublished anecdata