skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone knowledgeable elaborate on how this works? I'm not well versed in wi-fi MITM techniques.. Does it inject packets, pretending to be from Facebook's servers or is there some other trick to it?
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I think this isn't necessarily about using a tablet or phone interface on the desktop, it's about using either one depending on what peripherals you are using. One configuration is a separate OS instance per device, but a more interesting configuration is basically a phone that you can hook up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. So basically you get a mobile interface in one mode, and a desktop interface in another. I'd much rather have a single small device i can lug around everywhere I go instead of separate devices for home, office and mobile. Given how quickly cpu speeds are progressing on mobile devices and the prevalence of cloud hosted applications, this could be a possibility sooner rather than later..

And regardless of that, this is about having a single application platform for all the form factors. This video shows a tablet interface, I don't think they will force you to use it on the desktop, at least as shown here. I think the point was the same apps can run everywhere.
> Besides, even if you're right, the CSA still would never have allowed former slaves equal rights.

Was the civil war a better outcome? After the war former slaves were still agricultural workers, working long days in the fields. Only now they faced random violence and Jim Crow laws. Lynchings occurred well into the 20th century. Oh and the cost of the civil war was 600,000 lives, unbelievable destruction and a complete abandonment of all of the principles this nation was founded on(self-determination).

> Not without a race war that successfully toppled the post-slavery CSA

Why not? It almost happened before the invention of the cotton gin. Slavery was in serious decline.
Why is deflation a problem? Keep in mind that it's just one currency out of many worldwide. If inflation is required in the service of a country, nothing stops them from inflating. Same with point 4 - instant deflation would just raise the value of existing bitcoins, unless it affected the confidence levels in the currency. What would happen if somebody smoked half the gold world-wide? Deflation of gold, which most gold investors would love.
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Because WinPhone is a finished operating system, unlike MeeGo.

Nokia's problem was they couldn't get a competitive product out quickly enough. WinPhone gives them a chance, MeeGo wouldn't have shipped in decent numbers until 2014.
Just like my direct mail campaign is not automated because when the letters come out of the printer/stuffer machine I still have to lick the envelopes.
#1) This happens historically with many curencies. Making things more attractive to early adopters (but nto TOO attractive) gives this momontum to take off.

#2) Deflation is bad with real currencies because real currencies are tied to real economies and key things like food bein grown, healthcare, etc - and they are run on debt. In deflation, things get cheaper. Money buys more. But people only need so many cards, so many houses, so many rolls of toilet paper - so produces get net less money for their product over time. You now have to sell twice as many shoes to keep up payroll.
BTC could be fine because in this - as it's position of a value store is somewhat different - it's not attached to anyone or anything, and it works digitally in the true sense of a crypto currency.
The fact that it has an exchange rate demonstrates that it is working.

Convertibility: This is the same with every other form of electronic-transfer today. State actors telly ou how much, when, where, and what kind you are and are not allowed to do. Some states forbid their citizens from removing currency from the country period. They still "work"

4) This is the same as any other e-commerce provider out there (e-gold, etc) - except in those cases we feel we have someone to sue or whatever. But we're not just talking electronic payment methods - we're talking about an actual crypto currency.
If the algorithm turns out to be flawed, yes, it will collapse totally. Thankfully it's open and transparent - and hopefully strongenough.
If someoen wanted to damage any currency, tehy could buy up tons of it (with real money! and zap it from circulation. All that buying might drive the price up as well.
If they then destroy it - right on, they've driven the price ven higher.

Again, the deflation would only be a problem if people start denominating debts in bitcoins - rather than at market rates set against other currencies they actually get paid in, which seems to be where this will go.
If it turns out to be managed and run the way it's planned out - I'd have no problem telling someone "Yup, you can pay me $x USD in BTC calculated at the average closing rate over the last week" or whatever was a mutually agreeable term.

Also - as I haven't read the whole protoocl (but mean to) - if someone deliberately destroyed them - hwo would that affect value - they'd have to let everyone know, right? How do you prove you destroyed them?
Yes, but it goes down in the case of slashdot. It's neither oscillating nor increasing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows Phone 7 doesn't even seem to have any windows in the interface left (they replaced them with tiles, right?) That makes the name nonsensical.
I've never heard a Linux distro, especially one based on an existing distro, and made by people who have already made one before, only working on 3 pieces of hardware in 4 years. Could anyone explain this?
The best of both worlds is to have a fake system—that is booted automatically, without any password etc. and with installed spyware—alongside your actual OS, encrypted and hidden.

You could even just keep data on your disk and have /boot on a pendrive (or a memory card, which seems more practical).
Here's the original article http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...
It is worrying to me that the public exchanges have so few bids and offers most of the time, and that it is extremely common for people to deal in these things privately to avoid moving the price.
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Chill out bro, life's a cookie.

The growth figures in the article are sourced and you're right Apple only went up a few "degrees" (which because of Apple's relatively small enterprise market share results in a big growth percentage).

I never asserted it was "soooooo hot now", surely I.T. guys everywhere are still smitten with Microsoft and cleverly seeing Apple as rather toyish.

I only brought up Apple's headways into enterprise to prove to 'georgieporgie' that Microsoft's enterprise lock-in strategy is not insurmountable but instead increasingly ineffective.

I don't know why I use url shorteners, i guess they don't break-up the body of paragraphs as much and that makes me feel winning. No this is not twitter.

Being condescending and sarcastic to those whom you share affinity is not cool it merely tends to reverberate a rather toxic attitude throughout an otherwise friendly online community.

Your annoyed sentiment would suggest I came into your home and made disagreeable remarks, only we're in a commons and i was already in a conversation when you decided to balk in protest against misleading information.

BTW a push notification to my iPhone alerted me of your response so I got on my macbook to type this... does that make me a fan boy incapable of seeing apple's short-comings or microsoft's good? Do fanboys make you angry?

then our problem, my friend, has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with philosophy. i recommend you click this shortened url: http://bit.ly/ig2aLF
"I do understand that this might not be the case for other people, but that doesn't make the one option 'more expressive' then the other."

Look, I like the comprehensions better. I also think if you polled a large group of programmers and asked them what the code does, more of them will understand the comprehension than the map. Does that mean it's more expressive? I don't know, know one here agrees on a definition for expressiveness. But that's at least one positive (IMO) of comprehensions.

Also, stacking multiple comprehensions together is much easier (cartesian multiple style). E.g.: (i,j) for i in list_1 for j in list_2.

This is much easier to write and understand with comprehensions.

* Note - I know comprehensions from Python, let me know if the cartesian multiple example doesn't work in CoffeeScript.
Thank you very much. I posted your remarks into technical discussion, where someone was postulating ideas about addressing scalability by somehow making blocks smaller, and applying a divide and conquer strategy.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11189
This isn't a wi-fi MITM. It's just stealing a facebook/twitter session ID from the packets, tricking facebook/twitter to think the attacker is the real user.
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Yes, you are right about deflation increasing the value of Bitcoins. That might make them a great investment.

But Bitcoins are supposed to be a currency, not an investment. A currency needs to be used to transfer value, not sit around appreciating.

If people sit on their Bitcoins as an investment then it will fail, because no one will ever accept it as a currency.
To keep discussions off the public record.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/06/starbucksgate-crew-calls...

Even in absence of some wrong-doing, officials are people too. Why would they conduct personal business using their work account?
Google do not so much forget about Opera as deliberately work against it.

They are well aware of its existence.

I can only assume they want people to migrate to Chrome.
My burning question is: will Microsoft finally tighten up their licensing to stop OEMs loading up Windows PCs with crapware?
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So the internal IP network is the cell providers?
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Bitcoin is a marketing-based currency in the sense that it has no real value besides the fact that it was the first currency with cryptographic properties that gained widespread adoption: if someone would take the code and fork it into an alternative ("Webcoins"), the intrinsec value of a Webcoin would be zero (unless it also found a way to gain market share or early adopters).

That's very similar with a Ponzi scheme, where you need early adopters to pour money in, so you can have a positive cashflow on which to iterate with other customers. But otherwise you don't have an underlying asset to sustain the value.
This is more along the lines of "SHA256 has not been proven to be secure, therefore, it may be cracked." It would require novel discoveries in mathematics to do so.
Not a remake but Warzone 2100 was open sourced by the developers a number of years ago, with people still working to enhance the game

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The article only mentions the attack works on Wi-Fi.
Engadget does an amazingly bad job of linking the original article. You would think that the sentence 'Bloomberg Businessweek just published an amazingly thorough piece on Nokia' would have a link in it, but it doesn't.

No where on the page do they link to the start of the original story. The 'source' button links to the page/paragraph that the quote is from, but that isn't exactly the same as linking to the front of the other article.

The only links in the content go back to other Engadget stories. I'd say its bad etiquette.
I think agree with everything you said, except that you didn't spell out the negative impacts deflation has.

If people stop spending (which is what deflation implies - as people keep their money to hold onto its increasing value) then the economy slows, and growth stops or becomes negative.

If we look at the Bitcoin economy, the same thing could happen. There are ways around that (eg, an increasing exchange rate that could occur naturally), but it is a valid problem.

deflation would only be a problem if people start denominating debts in bitcoins - isn't this the idea of any currency?

(Edit: BTW, I didn't downvote you - I think your points are valid, and I hate how people just downvote things rather than discuss them)
It's not flawed,it's just to narrow in scope.

Deflation, when things are worth less over time, means producers have to sell MORE to make payroll, pay their bills, pay their debts - which haven't changed in value.
It's great for people flush with cash - and horrible for anyone in debt.

The computer industry has planned obsolescence. None of them are buying 10 years worth of parts for today's computers at projected market rates, because that would be a pile of stuff they'd ahve to eventaully sell at a loss.

It's not so simple as simple analogies....

BTC is designed to be, in the true sense of the word, a trustworthy way to move value from point A to point B -and there is avery strong network effect required to make it work (or any similar currency).
At a point where I know I can go somewhere, locally, and exchange my bitcoin for local currency (and some posted market rates) - I will probably start accepting using it for a few things.

The concept has merit.
He sold all of his Microsoft shares and bought 150,000 of Nokia. http://www.businessinsider.com/nokia-ceo-elop-sells-all-micr...
What is the legality of surveilling somebody and publishing their photos online without their consent?
This seems a lot like http://loosecubes.com/ that was posted earlier this year.
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Exactly, maybe they should let people who complete the "Why I don't want to sign up form" look at the site without signing up?
Your first point is real and valid. Mtgox is neat, but has quite low volume compared to pretty much any other forex in the world.

The second point is specious. How, precisely, do you propose to outlaw private deals, without using universal surveillance, or trained psychics?
> And no, I am not going to starve today, so that I can get marginally more bread a year from now.

That only works if a majority of your assets or earnings are in bitcoins (e.g. you have to convert them in order to live), or if bitcoins are exchangeable for necessities. If the article's author is correct (and he is imo) and it's more sensible to look at Bitcoin as a commodity, not a currency, then i think your assertion is a red herring.
Seems to me that standing up from your PC, picking up that same PC and pressing a button to switch to Metro, then reading a blog from your couch is a much better experience than doing the same thing with 2 different devices.

I think even Apple is going in this direction with it's Back to the Mac stuff, albeit much more slowly (and will be lavished with praise when it completes the transition).
It's often surprising in a large organization how much goes on that upper management is unaware of, either through incompetence or malice. I don't know enough about the specifics of this situation, but sometimes "everyone" knows that a product isn't going to ship in time, but maybe the product manager doesn't want to broadcast this fact for fear of his job. If his manager is asleep at the wheel, this kind of thing can happen. I'm guessing that the new CEO simply did something the previous CEO didn't do: ask the right questions.
This being illegal in the US does not mean it is illegal everywhere. People (Americans?) often seem to forget this. US law is not world law.
I'm pretty sure Hidden recommends that you create a guest account, so that the thief has an account to use.
It's a PR campaign.
In that case ("in real terms") there is no difference. That's not the problem.

The real problem is if someone is more or less likely to buy something in currency denominated terms if it is a deflationary or inflationary environment.

If people don't spend then you tend to end up in a low (or negative) growth environment, which can lead to high unemployment and a falling standard of living.
Anyone know of the equivalent of Stroustrup for Python? If anyone's not familiar with Stroustrup, his book on C++ explains the language in-depth, and gives clear rationales for the design decisions made, so you understand not just the hows but also the whys. It's not a reference manual -- it emphasizes depth over breadth -- but it's also not a tutorial.
More and more, I realize we're nearing a big crisis in computing - touch vs. non-touch.

I really fear seeing the world moving towards a place where you have to either choose one platform/metaphor over the other. Or where you have to port every single application to support all different input types. And the thing is, touch is just so good for so many things, but so impractical for certain kinds of work.

Whoever manages to reconcile touch computing with boring old office computers, will have a huge market for them.
I agree, there is certainly a market for the tablet that keeps things possible. The iPad type device is great for consuming content, it excels here, its probably not going to be beaten (at least not any time soon). But there is a huge market waiting to be tapped outside of just consuming content, and microsoft is rightly looking at that.

Not only is a useful tablet what I'm waiting for in a consumer device (for my definitions of useful), but business will love the thing. At work we have tons of netbooks and win xp tablet-ish devices littered around the labs and I love those little fuckers. There is never going to be an iScience or iEngieneer app to do even the bog-standard things that we need the netbooks around the lab for, and if there was it would be a re-invention of the wheel that is watered down with a toy interface slapped on it.

Look at android, many of us use it because we're willing to take a hit on the UI of our phone if it means we can do more. It will happen with tablets where we can get a step less polish and a huge jump of possibility.
You didn't spam anybody. You didn't go against anybody's explicitly stated contact preferences. You didn't even represent yourself as real identifiable people, since the whole site was built to support nicks and personas.

I've never taken any issue with what you did.
Different experiences. The first time I had someone ask me for some, I was confused: I didn't know what it was (I had just immigrated from the US). But I've had more than a few people refer to it as ASA in the thirteen years I've been here.
The problem that Bitcoins will have in gaining traction is inherent in this post. Experienced economists and financial experts will stomp it into the ground. Granted, this post made a lot of strong points, however, it was a bit of a witch hunt at the same time. To call Bitcoins a scam outright is the sign of a person who may not have tried putting money into the system to see how it actually works. As with anything new that might present problems, I guess you'll just need to practice caution. Bitcoin isn't dead because of this, though.
Totally agree. His arguments struck me as complete nonsense with a superficial veneer of plausibility to the economics outsider.

The best flaw in the bitcoin model (I've not studied it too thoroughly) is acceptance testing. You give me a bitcoin: how do I know to accept it as payment? This may not be a problem if suitable proxies are made (like with credit cards).
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Trollish headline.

One fair non-structural criticism, a weak, temporary criticism and two things billed as criticisms that aren't.

1) Early adopters. I couldn't find a point here. I think he's saying that it's unfair that some people get in early. But in the current system, it's unfair that government (through tax law and control of force) mandates that you use a form of money that doesn't function well as a store of value. Bitcoin wins here - it has a bootstrap disadvantage, and I'd expect that to diffuse.

2) Deflation. There's a creed in mainstream economics that deflation is bad, repeated here. "if your money is getting predictably more valuable, why would you want to spend it?" It's just false. Would you buy a computer today if you can buy a more powerful one by waiting until tomorrow? People do. Mainstreamers like the leaves-on-the-fire effect of inflation and also like to overlook the fact that stimlus impairs cyclic corrections and detracts from the role of money as a store of value.

3) Convertability. It's valid to criticise the use of bitcoins on this basis, but it's not a systemic problem. If we had a period of high inflation, it's reasonable to expect people would trust finite-supply bitcoins over an unending supply of newly-minted, inflating notes.

4) "When Something Goes Wrong, It Will Die." I found the logic here non-sequiter. Bitcoin will be tested but from what we know about it at the moment, it looks solid.
What exactly in the Win8 demo is similar to XMonad and similar tiling window managers?
Doesn't make sense though ! I would prefer this concept if they have it on the amazon.com homepage. I would hate to give my mail address. I have a feeling this was done in response to Google Wallet.
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Of course, most forms of wealth people have aren't inflationary anyway - the very wealthy tend to have little in terms of actual liquid currency and more stock and property. It has been argued (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_tax) that inflation can be thought of as a regressive tax for this reason.
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The computer argument is completely misguided.

People buy a computer when the utility they will derive from it outweighs the monetary cost. They know they may get a better deal in the future, but immediate needs may outweigh potential future savings.
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