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Never quite understood the need for the Strobe platform to start with, but it seems it is now dead (left in beta). I hope not many of you planned on using it...
Sweeping the technical details under a rug is what is making this scary. Many people may not care, but it would be very comforting to those that do if you had a document somewhere that explained exactly, in gory detail, where and how BankSimple fits in between the customer and the bank.
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Good point, but if you don't need to handle unstructured terrain, you might just as well put the robot on wheels. The humanoids robot Justin from DLR [1] for instance has an omnidirectional wheeled platform that even allows for adaptive foot print. The only current advantage for ASIMO that I see at the moment, is that it doesn't have to take the elevator but can use stairs.

[1] Here is a good video from 2009 that shows that Justin is capable of the same tasks that Honda showed of today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPwpGpMoAxs
Not that I've seen, but that does not mean I simply haven't stumbled into the right FAQ.
We might as well not discuss at all then, right? How can anyone prove the negative?
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Lovely; they'll just start anew with a different company.
App exploiting iOS security flaw gets researcher in trouble with Apple
Not to mention that Woz had an equal amount of failures..

What we have is really several different Founder styles:

1. Young Woz
2. Old Woz
3. Young Jobs
4 Old Jobs
This repo was first created at 8am today though. (https://github.com/ihatelawyers3/ihatelawyers3.github.com/co...)

What's going on here?
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I have heard stories implying that you can reliably produce an "original" doctoral thesis by digging out something from the vast amount of work published 70–100 years ago in German.
Can the user choose for their money to deposited in a credit union rather than a bank?
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I don't know about the "good" part (salaries here are pretty low), but we do have a shortage of software engineers here in Uruguay, and it's far easier to get a job permit than the U.S., plus we have very nice summer weather.

(winter, not so much - cold isn't the only dreadful thing, I'd rather have snow and dry cold than our humid cold. People actually perceive it as colder).

(low being U$ 1.500 after taxes plus free socialist-style healthcare)
You're right. GPS trackers make it easier for LEOs to track people.

I'm saying, good. As long as they can't track everyone (or a significant fraction of everyone), and as long as we're talking about information that was already subject to surveillance (so, for instance, explicitly not talking about where your actual body is walking around inside buildings &c)... this seems like a good thing. LEOs are generally starved for resources. This seems like a common sense win to me.
Doesn't the fact that a stock is traded on an OTC exchange really tell you all you need to know?
I fully understand and respect why people want to protect their rights.

But often times I think people are too strong in fighting to protect their rights. It's as though reducing/eliminating the _minor_ inconvenience of a false positive is more important than stopping/preventing a false negative.
If you encode their test-video with an off-the-shelf open source H264 codec on normal settings, you end up with a video that is smaller than their sample video. Their "amazing new technology" is just vanilla h264 compression.
ground patrol cars or aerial surveillance require a person to operate them. GPS tracking allows for tracking many targets at once and then sifting through the data to find "bad guys".

the added costs of having a person track a target means more care is taken to avoid false positives. the person doing the tracking can also dis-regard irrelevant data that an automated system might erroneously use.

imagine some program that automatically sifted through a source of ubiquitous GPS data which actually did catch 100% of all terrorist attempts in New York in 2010 (the Times Square bombing attempt). what if that system meant 100 false positives were added to the no-fly-list because they drove on street X on date Y followed by street Z within 2 days (or some other such algorithm) when (if) someone asks about these no-fly-list additions they are simply told that the suspects exhibited behavior that was consistent with the Times Square bomber... if you are not a terrorist, you have nothing to hide!
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I expect that, in 20 years, self-driving cars will be just about to "cross the chasm", so to speak. I see them roughly analogous to what the Leaf and other electric cars are today. I don't think these cars will fly, but I do think that they will be on the cusp of mass-market consumption.
Thank you for the input!
What is not how bcrypt works? The example that I gave? That comes from the 'crypt' man page explaining how to use blowfish encryption patched into libcrypt?
And so did Hitler. Does that end this pointless debate?

You can't argue from a position that says "surveillance" and "arrest" are the same thing. They are simply not the same thing. The police cannot arrest you at will. An arrest is a big deal.
That's mostly not true, nearly every windows install from a store bought machine has trial versions of office already installed. Word and Excel are expected programs for most people.
Christ alive, I thought HP would struggle to offload to a more stale and boring company than themselves but they might just manage to pull it off.
I'm glad you liked it!

Of course, it's impossible to satisfy the longer/shorter contingents. I can't say I can promise that the length will be consistent though, so maybe everyone will have something to love/hate soon enough. :-)
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The truth is that US citizens are being detained by our government and jailed in a space station (codenamed "Camp RT") orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars.
> That this was done with a GPS device as opposed to
> being tailed by people doesn't strike me as a big
> difference

It's easier to do at scale.

What's the difference between having a cop watch a street corner vs installing a security camera? You can install a lot of security cameras for the same cost as hiring a police officer or FBI agent.

It's the same case here. They can track a lot more people via GPS devices when they don't have to pay for agents (agent salaries + car + gas) to tail someone.

I mean, at ~$400 a pop, how many GPS devices can you get for the cost of a single agent? And a list of GPS coordinates is something that can easily be processed automatically to look for patterns.
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Quite frankly, I don't think any legitimate argument can be made that this kind of surveillance is Constitutional. That's not the most interesting thought evoked by this story though.

How many of you that are outraged by this leave location services enabled on your smartphone 24/7? How do hourly location reports compare to the endless stream of information available from your dormant smartphone? A stream that can be provided to police in real-time without leaving a single shred of evidence. At least a little black box is minimally visible, has a finite power source, and has to be placed and maintained by a person who can be observed.
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"To obtain an integer in [0, n[, one may simply take the remainder modulo n"

Isn't that the wrong way? IIRC, most PRNGs behave badly in low-order bits. I always heard that you want to keep the high-order bits around instead via the appropriate integer division.
That site degrades /awfully/ without Javascript.
Not all discussion needs to adhere to strict logic and proof. It's called speculation, and silencing it is not acceptable.
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Thanks pg.

My intent was not to bash Jobs, quite the opposite as I called him "one of the best CEOs ever to live" in the conclusion.

My goal is to reflect on what skills are really important in an early startup. The Apple II wasn't a success because of Jobs's leadership or because of his design focus like with the iPhone. Founders don't think about Markkula's role in getting the Apple II mainstream. Furthermore, Jobs had to fail over and over, wasting millions of dollars, before he tamed his bad habits and realized what would work. Then again, I only know what I'm talking about from reading Isaacson's biography and doing my own research. Thought this would make an interesting discussion.
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There's been a number of hoaxes like this previously: http://compressionscams.blogspot.com/ - even down to "software demos" that turned out to be various utilities downloaded from the Internet bolted together (http://www.c10n.info/archives/415)

What is it about scammers and impossibly high compression? Is it because it's easy to explain but hard to prove the concept to non-tech savvy investors, or is it just because they read about it having been done before and copy it verbatim?

Guessing the latter, as there's other technologies (cryptography and semiconductor fabrication come to mind as easy to explain/hard to disprove) that could hoodwink unsophisticated investors.
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Perhaps two sets, one that's just a few hundred kilobytes that contains a few sample .arc files to test against the format, and then one larger 'training' set that's small enough to test against offline (maybe like 100MB?) but large enough to contain a good sample of the possible content.
"Report" > "Other/abusive content" > "Spam or scam".
Done.
Indeed. "Functionally equivalent" all too often misses the point.

Endless arguments have been had over Apple computers vs. "functionally equivalent" computers for far lower costs ... funny thing is, it's Apple that has achieved "most valuable company worldwide period" status, showing customers see something superior in addition to the standard simplistic comparison charts.

Ditto cars. For years I wondered "what is it about BMWs and other German cars? ok, they're built nice, but really - why?" Then I drove a Mercedes on the Autobahn. Sometimes you just can't quantify in simple charts the difference between "can do" vs. "excellent" - but customers demand and pay for it.

Coffee? Snob here. Haven't gone so far as roasting my own, but have gone thru endless varieties, roasts, and makers to settle on palatable superiority.

Beer? No, it's NOT an acquired taste. Bavarian brews bought & imbibed in Bavaria are 100x better than the canned swill here.

But of course, the cheap & premium stuff are considered "functionally equivalent" by the rabble. Let them be content in their ignorance.
You beat me to it. I was going to note that in my experience, a lot of folks that fit the "senior discount" age bracket make a hobby, or even a lifestyle, out of cheapness. My parents and my in-laws certainly do.
I don't see how a parity based implementation can work in a meaningful way across multiple datacenters. You certainly couldn't rebuild if you lost an entire datacenter due to disaster.

Sure you can. Given a system that can tolerate loss of N shares, you need to ensure that no datacenter holds more than N shares. In practice, this means you need many smaller datacenters, not two or three; whether that is economically feasible depends on the provider.
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So I'm guessing this is US-only?
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I think I'm going to start flagging every Jobs story from now on. This has gone on long enough.
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The speed of encoding on the given machine is 6 fps ... not the resulting video.
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Accidentally down voted you. Readers should note that the vast majority of people observed by the Stasi were never arrested. At one point in history, their mere pervasive and unjustified "observing" was considered bad enough...
You seem to share a common statistical misconception about success rates. If 10% of startups succeed, that doesn't mean that if you start a startup, your chances of succeeding are 10%. They are either much higher or much lower.

This is clearer if you consider a statement like "10% of men are over 6 feet tall." There's no one who has actually has a 10% chance of being over 6 feet tall. 10% of people have a 100% chance, and the remaining 90% have a 0% chance.

For the sort of person who has sufficient drive to get rich at all, starting a startup is a much more reliable way to do it than the overall success rate implies.
"Jobs’s most important contribution was just general hustling."

This is where I think you went wrong. You can have the greatest product in the World, and if you can't sell it, you're toast.
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> and get out of the way when they are not

Really? How would you discern that failure mode from all of the other possible startup failure modes?
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Sure, I am not a coffee drinker, but I can see where they might overlap a lot. I am just suggesting that the kind of things you do to get great coffee might enable you to call it free trade coffee, but that does not mean simply buying free trade coffee means it's great coffee.

Or more generally beware of the hype cycle. It starts with people that believe in the product and add quality in areas that are important but less noticeable. Then get's taken over by people that find out they can increase their markup by ticking off some check boxes. Until, all those hidden values are lost and all your left with is the minimum required to pass the test.
I wish people would stop using the word "disruptive" all the time...
Steve's "vision" failed him time and time again. He risked his own money and lost it. He risked other peoples' money and lost it. And then eventually he made it work. It doesn't matter that he leveraged other peoples' genius and vision. It doesn't matter that he stole everything. It doesn't matter that he was a little self-delusional or that he was an asshole. Under his direction, his "vision" finally materialized, and was wildly successful.

Now I wouldn't say that being a narcissistic asshole is a good strategy or something to emulate (after all, nobody's perfect), but pursuing a vision through all manner of trial and tribulation is a worthy goal, and something to emulate.

The people who make the biggest impact tend to be those who spend years, even decades in the harsh wildnerness, taking hits and taking falls, but never giving up because they refuse to believe that it can't be done. And then one day they do it, or die trying.

These people look at a territory and say "I'm going to conquer that." Most people will tell them they're crazy to even try, and that it would already be conquered if it were worthwhile or even possible to do so. "Just till the land like everyone else does" they'll say.
And then these would-be conquerors get some other key people to see the vision and the possibility. They all work hard, doing what nobody else is doing, or would even try doing.
They fail campaign after campaign, but keep going, eventually seeing some success. And then one day the visionary stands on the tallest hill, surveying their newly acquired "unconquerable" territory, and suddenly they're not crazy, but genius.
Good to hear things are still happening behind the scenes. I suppose it was only a matter of time before all the 'make me a clone of facebook for $20 and chicken' requests started to come in. I'm just happy they never made it to my inbox, that's what I love about tinyproj.

Best of luck getting the good quality projects again, I'm a massive fan of tinyproj :)
this guy is a penny stock trader and he called it a pump and dump scam:

http://www.timothysykes.com/2011/11/how-a-penny-stock-promot...
I wish Simple the best of success, but it seems clear that a more technically correct name for the company would be Complicated.

I understand that your goal is to create the appearance of simplicity via complicated obfuscations. Those of us who are concerned about where our accounts live, and how they're structured, are not your prospective customers. So while I have no need for an invite, I wish you the best of success. Certainly some people will enjoy your service.
good stuff, want to see a stable open source server on that.
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Thanks Al3x. When you say "we hold ourselves to the same security standards", what does this mean? Are you regulated? Who are your regulators?
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The last years I thought that Objective-C was perhaps not future-proof enough when MS pushed .Net more and more into being desktop class.

And now MS shows WinRT that is not .Net. Hmmm... :)
I see it in the ToS:

http://www.commoncrawl.org/about/terms-of-use/

-Violate other people’s rights (IP, proprietary, etc.)
Good luck, love your enthusiasm.
Anyone who got in want to share one of their five invites?
Could you be more specific about Wozniak's equal amount of failures? Not quite sure I agree.
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The whole "productivity app" market is saturated, yet new startups or apps come out all the time. Trello is one, Asana is another. And now, Do.
With a simple LKG you shouldn't do that. There aren't simple LKG's in the implementations to which that sentence refers.
I'm not sure how informative this is... Percent of what?
Whoa - thanks for the nostalgia. I remember spending SO MUCH time trying to work around RAM limitations using all these techniques only to find the best you could get was the ability to trick a piece of software into thinking more RAM is there, but the performance hit made it a worthless practice.
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It's highly likely that without Jobs, we wouldn't have had the awesome velcro that holds the top cover of an Apple II closed.

For those that haven't had the privilege, first move the monitor and Disk II units off, then grasp the back of the top cover of the Apple II, and lift up. There will be a ripping of Velcro.

It's surprising that no one else ever seemed to copy this, and not something that'd ever occurred to me until now.
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My point is that all cars and cell phones already have GPS trackers installed. Since there is no need to place a device on a car or person to track them, the police just have to access the already existing records. If it is OK to place a device on a car without a warrant, wouldn't be OK to access tracking records without a warrant?
Fantastic. From poking around in the console a bit, it looks like Do.com is a Backbone.js app, and is using Handlebars.js for templating.
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I'm not certain what you mean by a false positive (what happens?) in this case, so it's hard to assess how harmful false positives would be.

wrt excessively zealous enforcement, it may be the case that more efficient police work improves the situation. Right now, the police have an incentive to arrest somebody even if they aren't sure who to arrest. If technology means they can arrest more real bad guys more easily, there won't be so much pressure to bend the rules.
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

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Very cool, great job guys!
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A simple way of finding out if it's a scam is by looking at the balance sheet. If you see little to no assets it is most certainly a pump & dump; this "firm" has not assets. These scams are usually formed through reverse mergers, that is how they are able to sell stock.
Woah, where did all those domains (300m+ over a year) come from?
I give Facebook five years before it shares the fate of MySpace. I give Google ten years before it becomes a Yahoo -- still around but not a leading light, by any means.

I think we will absolutely be rolling out clean energy in ten years, with 70% of new cars as fully electric cars at that time.

The climate will continue to be changing dramatically. That's a large car without brakes; nothing is going to stop it. We'll have cut CO2 emissions significantly but the main damage will have already been done. I think it will be the main focus of concern for people.

I think we'll see the Semantic Web come into full bloom and most will view the web in terms of it, rather than the text we know today.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was at some point a large war involving multiple countries, stopping just short of a world war. Martial law in the United States, for example.

Huge changes in the next ten years, simply huge. But despite the negatives, it's a great time to be alive.
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Happy to see that Salesforce is releasing its own apps on Heroku. It shows they are serious about using the platform as it is, instead of turning it into something enterprisey.