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(Libgit2 contributer here.) Currently, SSH support is in-progress in libgit2 (what all of this is built on), so there is no dealing with keys right now. :) Once the API is in place, it should be fairly straightforward for the VS team to deal with keys in a user-friendly way.
Violent crime is decreasing, period. It is spurious (if not intentionally misleading) to suggest that this correlates in a meaningful way with changes in poverty.
The analogies on this post are strange, and the title is a little much. He's essentially arguing that well-intentioned design through technological advancements are hindering our growth and we should limit such innovation to ensure that there's still problems for us to solve and feel frustration by. But every solution introduces another problem, and I think we'd be idiots to stagnate growth over the assumption that people will learn faster if they have to jump the same hurdles as everyone else.
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No, they MITM google as well as everyone else. The whitelist includes yelp, for some reason... not really sure what else. I definitely do not add their MITM CA as a trusted root in my browser...
Agree the cloud integration looks quite useful. I'd love to just open and save files directly to SkyDrive and have that list of recent files available to me in any office client I use. This is an awesome functionality. Worth 2.5 years or not... don't know but I'm sure there is more cool stuff to office 2013 than just that. Love the OneNote app on metro.
Statists are always looking to point to people's freedoms as being the problem. The vast majority of gun violence is actually State-driven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9bRDNgd6E4
Why aren't we replacing TCP with these?
Unix workstations were largely slaughtered by Windows NT (and faster/cheaper PC hardware). Linux wasn't helping, but it didn't have the professional CAD etc. software at the time.
What are the specs for someone who doesn't really follow the whole BitCoin thing?
I don't want my corp firewall spying on net traffic, so I don't add them to the trusted CAs DB.

It would be slightly more palatable if the firewall did cert validation on the other side of things… but they don't.
I took a look, but how do you compare yourself to existing players like meetup.com ?
Excel and PowerPoint have seen some nice new features added however Word is mostly the same. The new UI is different but mostly just cosmetic over 2010. Although the ribbon has more options.

The biggest changes in 2013 are SkyDrive integration. If you don't really need SkyDrive you can probably live without it until the next version of Office.

I do find 2013 uses less memory than 2010 and generally performs better which is the reason I have stuck with 2013 more than anything else.
I've been reading about bayesian stats and likelihood ratios lately.

So, a likelihood ratio is P(X|A) / P(X|~A) .

If you define X as "likely to commit gun violence", then A would be the way to identify X.

Here, he's saying that A="plays violent video games". The problem is that not only is there a poorly correlated relationship between gun violence and video games, there's also plenty of gun violence by people who don't play violent video games. So the likelihood ratio isn't great.

It's the same with "is mentally ill". Even if you screen for mental illness, you're going to get a lot of false positives and false negatives.

The problem is that people keep trying to identify "A", and I suspect there isn't even a root cause. To me it seems like it's more a matter of multiple contributory causes that reach tipping points. System dynamics, if you will. For instance, if you reduce the allure of "preparing for the end of the world", that could have a system-level impact. Or, if guns looked feminine, that would probably do it too.
I am arguing that he was behaving like a reasonable person because he was protesting an injustice. You may disagree but I think you are wrong.
I've got Office 2010 on a machine, I use Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Something I don't like is the impact this has on a 2G laptop. (I know they are all 4G now, get with the program) Office 2013 continues the grand engagement that Microsoft started on but didn't get a chance to fully consummate (in my opinion of course) with a fully integrated Enterprise. They left people like me, who want to do documents, spreadsheets, and presentations some what out in the cold.

I wonder if the Libre Office stuff can take advantage of that. I wonder if a group targeting the most resource efficient word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation builder could find success in the burnt out landscape behind the Office juggernaut. Something not 'cloud' based but simple. I'm probably just suffering from nostalgia but sometimes ...
i agree with this ^. if you're going to launch a project that you hope builds the momentum to fund +$100,000 of your capital needs, it might be worth putting aside $5k or so for strategic PR or hiring a PR person for the launch of your own crowdfunded project.

And Lockitron proved with a product people want and getting people to notice it, you can do really well without Kickstarter (+$2,000,000 to date I believe).
I'm planning to do something like that in the near future.
I would like to know if you think this a good/bad approach, and how to improve it.
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Specifically, I am imagining attacks against political dissidents inside China. Sure, technology savvy folks like us can just un-trust the CNNIC CA. But your average person doesn't know enough to do so.
I said it before (and other people made useful rebuttals) but I find it interesting that people are quick to condemn pro-anna and thinsperation type imagery, but they'll also defend violent video games.

If someone really wanted to get a law on the books they'd take an existing game, re-skin it to be full of children, "Jews" and "blacks", and build some levels in schools and shopping malls, release it anonymously, and then tip-off the most vocal press.

And I find it a bit confusing that people spend billions on influencing others, but that we never refer to the research when discussing this.
You or I can, sure. But most people don't know how to. And even I use chrome on many machines… should I have to remember to un-trust CNNIC on every single browser I use?
Lots of legacy equipment
Voilent games can also be seen as a punching bag to vent out your anger, without hurting somebody in actual.

It can also be seen as "practice" for people that are addicted to cruelty and dominance. I don't know about you, but when I play online I am often amazed at how low people can go, and how some never tire of being mean. And I'm not "raging" either, I can usually hold my own and generally care zilch about winning or loosing random pub games; but compared to how fun it is to play with "normal people", those sociopaths really do stick out, and it's obvious they live in a world where they have everything and all the peers they could want, and nothing that reminds them of the fact they have a problem - games and gamers don't do that usually, they're the silent accomplices.

But sure, if it keeps them from abusing animals or whatever, I'm all for it. But there's just no way of telling if it does that, or if it just grows a hunger for something more real. I don't feel comfortable shrugging it off. None of this can or should be solved with laws, it's all about debate and culture. It should be legal, but I frown upon it, and I want to be explicit and vocal about it and step on people's toes. Just because some got used to it, just because so many people do it, doesn't mean it's not fucking pathetic. But so are other things, movies for example. Not picking on violent video games, or violence... more the shallow display and glorification of it.
For The First Time, Facebook’s 680M Mobile DAUs Surpassed Desktop DAUs
Musk definitely has a horse in the race. Still, he's independent to the extent that he's beholden to neither Boeing nor the NTSB/FAA. He's also critiquing Boeing on a specific technology on which he has substantial expertise and experience: lithium-ion battery storage. Including experience with aerospace implementations of that technology.

My point was that your assertion that working within the system is sufficient to effect change is demonstrably false.

As for businesses competing not only on dollars but mindshare and technological direction -- isn't that what the free market system is all about? Directed self-interest?
I don't think there is a real issue here, because there's a lack of good evidence that video games are linked to real-life murders in the first place, regardless of parental influence.

Sure, there's some evidence that playing violent video games increases aggressive play in young children, but to connect the dots from that to shooting sprees is like concluding that because baby dolls encourage maternal role play in young girls, exposure to dolls will lead to higher teen pregnancy rates. It's an insane generalization in the first place, and there's no reason to even bring parental responsibility into the discussion.
People did this quite a bit back when Doom was big, and it caused some controversy, but I don't know of any laws that arose from it.
All that's been seen was a pre-release preview version that came with Windows RT. You can't get Office 2013 yet, it's not out.
This happens at other employers as well; same general rationale.
if the company divulged its secret, it wouldn’t be able to commercialize the new protocol

why? does it contain nothing new? have software patents suddenly become worthless?
Office workers are going to do a lot of work on tablets, but the work they will do on tablets mightn't fit into the Microsoft Office paradigm.

For example, when it comes to meeting minutes, Microsoft Word doesn't stack up well against Evernote.
Realistically, normal TCP works fine in most cases and multiple parallel TCP connections (a la GridFTP or BitTorrent) can fix the other cases. TCP replacements tend to be pretty complex and some of them are proprietary, so IMO it's just not worth the complexity.
How to fix the UPnP security holes
Aerial Images of India taken from a kite
> I'm personally rather more disturbed that people actually enjoy watching the Saw series of films

Isn't that the truth. I appreciate this is largely preaching to the choir, but it seems increasingly bizarre that sexual content (including simple nudity) is so often censored, while graphic violent acts are everywhere in mainstream entertainment. What are people afraid of?
I don't think Heroku's deploy is smart enough to recognize that you've packaged, right? It'll still try to bundle install, which would break in the current situation.

I think a full solution requires packaging, and using a modified buildpack that skips the bundle step.
66 GHash/sec. Or about the same as a cluster of 110 AMD Radeon HD 7970 cards!

Right now, 66 GHash/sec generates about $210/day (11 bitcoins/day).
Hey mate, I've got some free time tonight so I will go back over every font and update them with that information. Thanks for the feedback.
Facebook's social graph data is the closest digital form replication of our offline true social graph. Our true social graph is what affects every single innate decision and action we make and take, as well as structuring the way we are influenced.

While Facebook isn't a "news" platform, it is, however, a platform in its beginning stages (albeit, highly advanced) that shows you "content" that is most relevant to you - through the usage of the replicated social graph.

And you're right, I wouldn't ever go to state that "curated content" (if done right) will leave anytime soon, but the implicit personalization of everything on the web will become reality and nothing will nor should be static content.
Didn't James Holmes dress up like the riddler/joker, record an insane voicemail greeting in joker character, cover his apartment in batman posters, and shoot up a theatre playing batman? Clearly it was call of duty and gaia that made him do it

At least this senator could've found some sort of phony empirical evidence before scapegoating. Guess the violent movies are the root of all evil card is played out
>I said it before (and other people made useful rebuttals) but I find it interesting that people are quick to condemn pro-anna and thinsperation type imagery, but they'll also defend violent video games.

You're sort of right about that being interesting, and the fact is that condemnation and censorship of pro-ana and thinspo material is generally misguided.

But it's sort of different. Pro-ana and thinspo imagery are generally promoted by people with the very mental illness that those movements are blamed for, and should be viewed as a symptom, not a cause.
What they really mean is they want to have automated systems do it for them without worrying.
duh. Couldn't agree more.
I have heard speculation that violent video games are inversely correlated with actual violence, in light of the fact that violent crime is way down over the past thirty years or so.

The reasoning is, people who are predisposed to violence can get their kicks from violent video games, in their own homes, rather than going out and shooting people.

It is just a theory, but it is no less plausible than the opposite theory.
BlackBerry Announces the End of BlackBerry
I'm truly sorry to hear that. Have you ever used any other programming language?
Is mentally ill doesn't have binary outcomes. Mental issues are set on spectrums (spectra?), usually from normal to extreme or extremely low to extremely high, normal in middle, and each human has an analog value on each spectrum for each disorder. With the latter, we expect a Poisson distribution.
Well, good for them. That's one customer-friendly decision out of, what, about eight million?
The Startup Anthem
Take a listen to the video. It seems to me that he's imitating (badly) caller voices, not using recordings. That would indeed by highly unethical.
Sure, but that's what OneNote is for (and there's a touch-optimized OneNote app). The current weak touch support is still good enough to do basic editing on tablets, and is definitely fine for viewing. Touch-optimized interfaces for all parts of the suite would be nice, but I find it hard to fault the Office team's prioritization.
As long as the Chinese authorities do not use CNNIC ( or whatever other root certificates they could obtain) to mitm SSL connections, they have the ability to escalate attacks. On the other hand, once eavesdropping escalates to this level, it will loose quite quickly all effect. ( Since everyone will then restrict certificates to trusted ones.)

So the Chinese authorities probably save this possibility as a measure of last resort. Instead of encouraging everyone to look for a safer alternative than SSL.
Why is opening and saving files to SkyDrive superior to opening and saving files to DropBox or Google Drive? Is the big benefit that the recently opened files list moves with you from machine to machine? I feel like I am missing something.
False tweet sent a company's stock plummeting more than 25 percent
Ask HN: so who likes to code for fun And who does it for money?
Ebb and Flow
At this point Office would be hard pressed to change anything without annoying a lot of people. We see this all the time, people complaining about lack of new features in mature products.

There are so many functions that need to be exposed via the UI that it is always going to be hard to make something that works for everyone.

Making something like word touch friendly while maintaining the right level of functionality is going to be very hard. Pages for iOS has been annoying to use due to the amount of features it lacks.
I will probably get downvoted for this, but I still don't get App.net. Can someone explain to me how I would actually convince all my friends to jump ship from other social networks and pay money to do effectively the same thing?
This pre-fetching behavior reminds me of Amazon Silk. However Silk leverages EC2, vs. doing all of the analytics locally.
Putting the owner's megalomania to the side for a minute, I really admire how the guys behind this are putting it all together.

First of all, (AFAIK) this is a high-volume/high-capacity site which was built in a record short time. Not only that, but they promised it would be coming Jan 2013, and they made it on time, such a rare outcome for an IT project.

One also has to appreciate how they made sure everyone has heard of them, without spending a penny on promotion (well, if you exclude the launch extravaganza).

Finally, they seem to be very transparent in how the encryption gets applied and can handle crypto-critics quite well. I think, little by little, they're earning the average user's trust.
I think people could make some pretty hateful games, yes, and some people probably do (but they aren't that popular, as far as I know). But isn't that true of any uncensored medium? People publish white-power books, and books about how Hitler was great, and we're not (at least in the U.S.) pushing for laws about those. Heck, Stormfront is on the net with no age-related access controls. It's just sort of a fact of uncensored media that you'll have to live with some pretty unpleasant stuff. What I don't see is games being uniquely dangerous, or having the unpleasant stuff in unusually high concentrations.
Half of those projects could be class libraries. You can't put those in different solutions cause you miss the whole point of having everything tied up.
MIT Media Lab in Shenzhen, 3 Weeks of Factory Tours for MediaLab Designers
Bunnie Huang organized a 3-week long industrial tour of Shenzhen for designers from MIT Media Lab. The purpose was to give the designers an idea of what manufacturing is like and how it differs from the design world. It turned into an epic tour of the manufacturing side of Shenzhen and I decided that it all needed to be documented. I put them up as long form blog posts on my site along with pictures. You'll have to click through for the pictures since they're all bunched up at the bottom of the posts. Hope you enjoy :)

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Indeed. I think the best correlation may be that if someone is already inclined to commit mass violence, they may be able to improve their technique for practicing murder with a violent video game by studying various reactions by human and computer players.

This, of course, is equally true for watching any violent movie, and even just the news these days. But don't let that get in the way of some good sensationalism.
Key paragraph:

What if the right model for a successful business is not the crescendo (the “hockey stick”) but ebb and flow. I think it’s more important how you manage cutbacks and necessary expense reductions, the organized abandonment of products and business models that are obsolete, and the intelligent pruning of initiatives that either have not worked out or are not longer working. The VC ecosystem profit model is predicated on “the exit” or “the liquidity event.” The professional investor’s goal in an early stage firm is to make the ongoing management of the firm someone else’s problem.
I'm fairly certain that it's more efficient to find matches with a certain number of allowed mismatches. I don't think that suffix arrays have as good of performance when you allow for some ambiguity.
If you have a machine that generates $210 a day, why would you sell it for $1,300? Wondering why they wouldn't plug them all in and not start selling any until they've dropped the value of bitcoin below their profit margin...?
66 gigahashes per second (GH/s) for ~440 W; that's ~160 MH/J compared to ~0.7 GH/s and ~2.4 MH/J for the best GPUs. I hope that math is right.
Good article and agree that Microsoft has been awfully lazy about upgrading their bread and butter but i don't think Microsoft cares to appeal to the hacker / bleeding or even cutting edge community with Office. Office is meant for productivity; and despite the tablet sales figures, when you need to bang out 1000 word essay or make a pivot table you're doing it with a keyboard (maybe even a keyboard attached to a touch device)--anything else would be silly. Input by touch is not productive yet; once so, this is a valid discussion.
Let's see.

USA - strict laws against violence in games (PEGI ratings etc), liberal gun control, 4.8 intentional homicides per 100 000 citizens

Poland - liberal law regarding violence in games, strict gun control, 1.1 intentional homicides per 100 000 citizens

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
It's always amazed me that we seem to try harder to protect children from seeing a nipple than we do to prevent them from seeing depictions of people being killed.
People don't really want self-signed certificates; they just think they want them. When you drill down enough with the "what are you really trying to accomplish here?" questions, people just want a CA that gives them free certs, as many as they like, as often as they like--possibly through an API, even--with no background checks needed, and yet somehow also still protects them from an attacker using exactly the same kind of carefree CA to generate a cert for the same domain. And a pony.

[In other words, people want cert-pinning with a distributed pin cache to prevent initial-session MITM. But they don't know that.]
> Double click a ribbon tab to hide and use the keyboard.

Best advice I've gotten in a long while! It's now gone.
I'm having a hard time cutting through the business buzzwords to understand what these capability cases are. Seems like a standard Waterfall design methodology used by big consulting companies.