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Barbara Oakley's great. I wish her "learning how to learn" course had existed when I was in middle/high school!
Great little article. I was just talking to my mom the other day and I mentioned that I never forgot the day we were in the McDonald's drive-thru and I somehow convinced her to spend the 5 extra bucks to get the Land Before Time on VHS. I haven't thought of those movies in the article in years, and never knew the same team was behind them. I just remember being a kid and knowing that something was different about those films that separated them from other kids movies, even throughout the entire '90s. It's definitely an aesthetic that sticks with you, I can attest!
Government is a big reason SpaceX is where it is in the first place. They used government facilities on Kwajalein to launch their first five rockets, and have used government facilities in Florida and California to launch all the ones since. NASA’s CRS contract paid for a substantial part of the development of Falcon 9 and Dragon.

If SpaceX had built their own launch facilities instead of using the government’s, they wouldn’t be beholden to the shutdown like this.
yes. even googling it everyone just talked about DDR back then, that‘s why I couldn‘t find it anymore.
"According to the daily, MİT has completed most of its works regarding ByLock and determined all the users in the server."

"The Department of Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime transferred the list to its own database, with police in provinces able to check the list with a password given to them. Only one or two officials in the provinces are able to check the names in the list by entering the suspected person’s Turkish identity number or phone number.

In the checks done in the provinces, authorities are initially attempting to find who used the phones with ByLock. If the person who bought the phone line and the one who used it is different, then legal proceedings are conducted against the latter."

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-intel-agency-sends-...

"Beşikçi said it was due to a single line of code, which created a window "one pixel high, one pixel wide" — essentially invisible to the human eye — to Bylock.net. Hypothetically, people could be accused of accessing the site without having knowingly viewed it."

Sounds like the app touched base with a unique server. Then it's a simple lookup of users at the ISP level.

Then inform government agencies / employers if their employees are on the list.

To me both articles imply the trace evidence on the phone is that it accessed something at some point in time rather than forensics on the phone.

[edit] I can't find any trace of the "bylock.net" in the Bylock apk source code. Someone else might want to look but something is missing. It'd be nice to know the exact line, if it's obscured that'd make it interesting.
I was referring to "patent process", not "filing process".

Filing application until issue of patent is only the very beginning. You have renewal payments at 3.5, 7.5, and 11.5 years after issue. If you get a restriction requirement, you get to start the clock over each time as your single patent application blossoms into multiple, or dozens, or hundreds, if it's deemed worth the expense. Continuations-in-part and reissues can take it even further.

And that doesn't even bring litigation into the picture. Your patent can be long expired before you file an infringement lawsuit (because you can demonstrate they infringed when it was valid), and that by itself can add 10+ years, as we're seeing in many cases out of the courts.

For what it's worth, I'm on year 9 of the filing-to-issue process for my first patent.
I am still struggling to understand the whole crypto currency thing. I just don't get it. Clearly, it has become a tool for speculation and quick money for most people. Everyone is trying to get on the crypto bandwagon but to speculate. What is the point ? I thought it was supposed to decentralize currency and make it easy to "transact" with low fees and less redtape. Also I could be really dumb but isn't centralized wallets/exchanges like coinbase defeating the entire purpose of crypto currency ? Weren't we supposed to manage it peer to peer so that anyone could get paid anytime without worrying about borders and boundaries ?
No chill out and get better. If I work myself while sick I just stay sick for longer. I eat ice cream and do only things I like doing. Which still ends up at programming but not work stuff.
Personally, I think that it's impossible to completely avoid getting a cold or flu. Exercise, diet, etc can, however, lesson the effects.

I tend to drop my working hours to maybe one or two so I can deal with any critical stuff and then rest as much as possible. I've found that shortens the shortens the length of illness considerably compared to trying to work through it. I'd rather have a few days of no productivity than have a linger sickness screw it over.
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Bots! Bots! Bots! Bots!

A random sampling of shit is still shit.
> never have been the main benefits of Bitcoin

Then why the $#@! did they include "fast" and "low fee" as 2 of the 3 main points on their website.
Apart from the first 8 and a half years when speculators were predicting it would replace fiat for everyday transactions, you mean?
Anyone has an idea as to when the lightning network will get out and how good it is?
shocked that this doesn't mention taxes at all.

if you donate a piece of art to a museum, in the US you can deduct its "fair market value" from your taxes. so if there's a way to drive "fair market value" up higher than what was paid, say if a few comparable artworks sell for an inflated price, everyone can donate to museums and effectively realize some profits without crashing the market by actually selling their art.
Agreed. But not surprised. Journalists have been doing this for decades with other things like guns.
It's not news for anyone already in bitcoin. It's been clear that this is (currently) the case for awhile.
So, we get a prescription article from the industry that tech has struck the hardest: print journalism. And their prescription? Regulation!

Not much better than placebo if you ask me. US government is so venal. Only reason Europe is on the war path is that the offenders aren't European companies. With the amount of cash the big 4/5/6 have on hand, they'll eventually neuter and/or bypass the European regulators as well.

I don't know about Amazon, but with the amount of compute power lying around today, a lot of what Google and Facebook do could probably done just as well--if not better--through a distributed model. Sometimes I wonder if NAT and all of the extraneous junk in IPv6 were just the incumbents' way of salting the ground?
As others have commented, it was just a matter of the ISP identifying all clients doing DNS lookups or connecting to the Bylock domain.

The government have complete control of all ISPs and mobile network operators in Turkey. They don't own them, but you can't give people Internet access without joining the government censorship/logging program.

As she was a teacher she would be employed by the government, and they just fire everyone employed in the government automatically when their names show up on the blacklist. I suspected firing of family members and friends that are connected to falsely accused person is done manually.

Also it doesn't really matter if the person is employed by the government or not. No employer would dare to keep anyone that is blacklisted as the employer would probably be accused themselves of helping a terrorist if they kept them. Plus, obviously, most big corps in Turkey are run by Erdoğans friends and family directly and indirectly.
It worries me that this isn't higher both here and on Reddit. I read through the rest of the email thread this morning and wanted to say something but I'm worried that I don't understand it well enough.
In Denmark for example, which by all accounts is a first world country, the majority of educated people are actually women[2], and there is absolutely nothing that prevents anyone from any social class or gender to take an education (it's free, heck even payed for), yet we still see women leaning more towards the humanities, social sciences and professions such as lawyer[0], than men. Men predominantly lean towards STEM, but even then it varies.

Take for example the first source[0], which only has a difference of 962 women to 1082 men accepted into the scientific faculty. At DTU[1] it varies more, although anything with Bio, Environment or Medicin in the name will be skewed more towards women.

I guess my point is: why do we insist there is some inherent bias against someone in society, if there is not a 50/50 split (which would in itself be weird)? If given completely free choice, perhaps some people are just disposed to being in interested in different things.

Disclaimer: I should probably say that the above of course only applies to Denmark, and I cannot talk on behalf of the situation in the US.

[0]: http://studier.ku.dk/bachelor/ansoegning-og-optagelse/optage...

[1]: https://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

[2]: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/levevilkaar/ligestilli...

EDIT: Added source on first claim about more women being educated.
BeyondCorp sounds great in theory, but deployment sounds like a nightmare without going to one of the several companies that are offering it as a service. It's certainly not as accessible as a decent VPN w/ 2FA, and I doubt we'll see mass deployment for smaller groups until then.
At least for the planet labs Dove satellites, the orbits are low enough that they decay within a year or two.
This was absolutely proselytized as a core tenet of cryptocurrency, starting with bitcoin. Obviously, it has not remained true.
well said. You know what makes me really sad? This money ($Billions+) is being stored in cryptocurrencies instead of being put to good use, such as investing in companies that actually build things... Am I seeing it wrong? Tell me!

Note: I am not a big fan of the stock market either (it's pretty much a fake investment), we need investing 2.0, we have the tools, we just need the "Elon Musk" of finance

Note #2: I don't do what i'm preaching. I do own Ethereum because i'm hoping the smart contract layer might actually become useful someday (right now there are about 1000 DApps and they aren't that useful just yet IMHO)
Well, jeez. If I messed up badly and my boss, colleague, wife calls me a moron about this particular mess it doesn't mean they think I'm a moron generally, they just call it as it is, and I'm responsible for it. I don't take it personally just because they call me a 'moron', especially if I deserve it!

That means that if you get offended by the way someone else criticizes the mess you're responsible for you are not accepting the responsibility at all! Well, now that's an interesting insight!
If, as you say, the majority of bitcoin is owned by very few people, that market is cornered and you shouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Yes, but my point is that only when the corporation issues the hardware themselves they can be sure that the user did not tamper with it. (It's not clear to me if that's what you're saying...)
If no on is getting paid, they aren't going into work, simple as that. This can be anyone. Fire personnel, security, gate guards, flight-line / launch pad techs & engineers, anyone. Most civilian companies barely function if the office manager is out of the building. The launch pad is private property with a ton of personnel, they can't just launch without the workers.
What can I say I don't trust Google. No walled gardens for me.
That was the point, according to the original Bitcoin paper:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It's just not reality for today's Bitcoin. We'll need better scaling in production to make it reality, either on Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
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There's an adage in poker that's applicable to crypto trading: if you don't know who the sucker is at the table....it's probably you.
His blog also contains regular fascinating commentary on world events, future economics, runaway AI, sci fi world-building, and the various difficulties associated with predicting the future. Charlie is an under-appreciated polymath, honestly.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Or at least, the vast majority of published reviews are.

Recently, I was reading a review of Samuel Beckett [Nobel Prize in Literature 1969], from the NYTimes from 1958 [0], and at first I was shocked by how much higher the quality was than what one might read in the Times today.

Turns out that the author was a Stephen Spender, CBE, [1], a poet who was knighted for his contributions. It's not when or where something is written so much as by whom. You are exactly right that it's determined by who the critic is.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/beckett-unnama...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Spender
Unfortunately, you may be happy with Amazon, but there's loads of examples of where this is going wrong for consumers. From issues with counterfit products (see the post recently about the guy who unknowingly was "charged" with import fraud and denied privileged flight status due to an Amazon order), to them taking advantage of the fact that people assume they're the cheapest price (they aren't always), to "prime shipping" becoming more and more of a thing you can't depend on (late shipments ... all the time).

Maybe you live in an area that Amazon gives higher priority to, maybe you live closer to a shipping center than I do, maybe the things you tend to order tend to be highly stocked in their warehouses ... I don't know, but the more time passes, the more Amazon frustrates me personally as a consumer, and others as well based on articles being written and social media chatter; which is frustrating, because the average national retail store is terrible (and they already killed all the mom n pop stores), and having to maintain accounts on lots of smaller online retailers is a pain (not to mention lax security can lead to stolen credit cards, etc). So obviously, in some ways, I agree with you because Amazon does provide benefits ... they just need to not be the only viable player in the online space.
Two responses.

1. Although I see your point that search queries could be dangerous, Google would never allow such use of search queries. Using search queries from a given person to market them products is one thing, but using it against them is a different beast that would horribly hurt the Google brand. And although one could imagine a court order being used to get a user's history, establishing a pre-existing condition is not enough of a benefit to go through the trouble of getting a court order for search history (and would likely not be granted, given the circumstantial nature of the evidence).

2. There are a hundred reasons to search any given query. If an insurer is using such an insubstantial basis to establish a pre-existing condition, the actual problem is that the insurer has too much market power and can be (for lack of a better word) an asshole without losing customers.
If open pricing were mandated as part of a detailed and systemic reform, it could work. I.e. if reporting is coordinated such that discrepancies are automatically flagged (e.g. in price/inventory receipts between gallery, buyer and artist).
I'm sure it's still months away but they're already performing test transactions such as buying coffee with the tech.
For comparison, SpaceX now as about half of the global satellite launch market.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-SpaceXs-market-share
You don’t see any middle ground between downvotes and jailing? Not even a little?
BeyondCorp is not just about using secure channels and authentication, it's also about using secure end-points (=minimal data breach impact).
Just to play devil's advocate on this, the money in the stock market (i.e. any stock transaction outside of a public offering) is generally not being invested in companies that actually build things, it's getting stored.
Eh, if FB doesn't release those algorithms to an independent 3rd party, one I'd to assume that the manipulation is on FB's part.
Remember the Pet Rock? Well.....
A "better data structure" is almost never an emergency. And being unable to adapt or extend a data structure in the future is not agile, and it's not the simplest thing that can possibly work.

Back when I first started building a startup, I thought "Thank Dog I no longer have to deal with stupid compromised software, and can start writing everything right!" By the time I was getting anywhere, I was well into toss-over-wall methodology. I did things that I knew full well were compromised and would hurt me later, because the work needed done, and needed to "be done". It was a real education.

I actually have a lightning talk in mind on this subject, called "Why software sucks", that argues that suckage is the nature of software development, and that "barely works" is the best we can realistically ask for - or even should ask for.
There was interesting discussion here about disk usage over time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16154682

I wanted to ask again here, directly to Bitcoin techies: How can BTC survive 100 years if no one can download the massive blockchain? Most residential IPs enforce a 1TB/mo cap. Much of the internet is also on slow connections (Australia).

The BTC whitepaper is surprisingly hand wavey on this one subject, and the more I think about it, the more it seems like an Achilles' heel.

Can we eventually reboot BTC back to the genesis block, but with all current BTC pre-mined and allocated to current holders? Kind of like a manual GC, or hard reset back to initial commit.

But it doesn't seem that simple. Millions of people have certain quantities of BTC, and even tiny ones add up. You have to track that data somewhere. It doesn't seem possible to encode the whole state of the world into a 1MB genesis block.

So the question becomes, at what point to we reboot, how, and by what mechanism can we achieve community consensus?

This is combined with the fact that BTC is deflationary, so eventually miners will charge nothing but tx fees. No more block reward = the TX fees must be at least as high as the current block reward. That is a staggering cost since a 1MB block can only encode a couple thousand tx.

That leads to the difficulty death spiral: difficulty re adjusts every 2016 blocks. Two weeks when every block mines at ten minutes. But if miners leave en masse, then suddenly it will take a very long time to mine blocks. It could be months before the difficulty readjusts down.

This must sound identical to all the previous BTC naysayers, but believe me when I say I believe this can work. I'm trying to discuss the technical merits and set aside the question of whether it will fail.
Humans need not apply at Amazon Go
If you don't know who the bag holder is going to be, it is you!
The dream lives on in Bitcoin Cash.

Edited to provide additional information:

- low fees ($0.01) to have your transaction confirmed in next block

- zero confirmation transactions safe for most users

- same pre-fork ledger

- businesses are starting to integrate with the technology because it's usable again (e.g. yours.org)
This is great for "people" accessing server resources but not so much for automation / API access.
Yeah and you buy a piece for $1m and sell it for $1.1m to the guy who wants to "donate" it to a non-profit for a tax write off of $10m, offsetting his tax bill on something much larger.

It's a vehicle for tax write offs and laundering.
i totally agree, i am not a big fan of the stock market, we need investing 2.0, we have the tools, we just need the "Elon Musk" of finance
The opening paragraph’s assumptions imply that the history of art is meaningless. This is ignorant of the entire evolution of the discipline.
Haskell functions as functors, applicatives and monads
One of my sales mentors shared this story with me, but I'm not sure where he heard it originally. Basically what you said, if someone comes to you angry about something, be angrier but not at them. In all but the most extreme cases they end up trying to calm you down.

His example was a tailor of very high-end clothes, think tuxedos that cost as much as most folks' cars, custom women's jackets for formal events, etc. A customer comes in, angry that a button is sewed on with an incorrect thread pattern. Something to fix if you're paying $10,000 for a jacket but not exactly something reasonable to get angry about. The customer comes in, throws the jacket on the counter and demands that it be fixed. Rather than trying to de-escalate their anger, be absolutely outraged that one of your employees would do this. Assure the customer that you will find out who did something so inconceivably stupid, and that you will most certainly fire them on the spot. The expected response will generally be something like "well, it's not that big of a deal I mean if we just fix the threading..."

I'm sure there have been exceptions for other folks but every time I've used this tactic (generally reserved for the most egregiously ridiculous displays of anger) it's worked almost immediately.
They are also most common: «the high-dimensional unit hypercube can be said to consist almost entirely of the "corners" of the hypercube, with almost no "middle".» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality#Distan...
> So how effective is that alone? It seems per capita income would be the prevalent factor.

It isn't, alone, in a cherry-picked example. But ceteris paribus it's a explanatory factor.

I mean, one could also use your argument the other way around and question whether income is effective as a factor by itself. Cherry pick some country with similar levels of median wealth and a wildly different murder rate and gun laws. Like say the Netherlands and the US. Doesn't really prove a point, it'd be silly to now claim income isn't an important factor.
When were you a teen?

I remember having the exact same thoughts when I was a teen. I think it was in 1990 I was at college in the UK and I remember reading a Usenet thread about some student riots going on in Portugal. The media coverage at the time was completely off from what I was hearing from the students 'online'. I remember really believing that the internet really would liberate us all with unfettered access to truth and communication and so on.

Fast forward a few years to 1995 and one Christmas (I was in the US then) I decided to take a look at the 'web' and the liberation it had brought so far. I called it my deep dive into the dark underbelly of the Internet.

And what I found on that night over my dial-up connection stays with me to this day: facism, racism, gore, bestiality, hatred, child porn.

Yes, the Internet liberates us. It allows us to freely be the humans we are, on a larger scale. Unfortunately, humanity has a rather large dark side to it.

So this story doesn't surprise me in the least - but I still hold out hope that we may one day do better.
BeyondCorp is indeed complex but I don't know about outsourcing it to someone else. It's a core of one's company's infrastructure so that'd be extremely risky to let someone else manage it. But maybe it depends on the company size but if that's so a small company doesn't need this level of protection (device keys in TPM, device management and health checking service, etc).
The art they make themselves doesn't look like high-end art.