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The Internet Of Everything And The Tie To An App-Centric World
I got a <video> tag as well. Firefox on Mac OS X.
I don't understand all the hate on the episode one. Except for Jar Jar Binks, the movie was quite entertaining, actually.
Scala.Rx: a library for FRP in Scala
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I think I remember a Bill Nye the Scoence Guy episode about this.
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As much as I hate sitting next to a whale who is trying to occupy half of my seat, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737 a fairly typical jet while empty is about 62,000 pounds, and can carry a maximum of 124 people (in most configurations less). That's 500 pounds of plane per seat.

For the vast majority of people, your share of the empty weight of the plane exceeds the weight of you and your luggage by a good margin.
Open question - who is really involved in developing the CSS specs and specific implementations for specific browser? Is it people who would also end up being end users, or people with a more theoretical/academic background?

I ask not to be snarky, but ... I've never really been satisfied with CSS. CSS proponents have shouted me down (figuratively) for being a 'tables' holdout, but it felt to me like we traded super-nested tables with ALIGN and CELLPADDING attributes for box-model hacks and numerous interpretations of the word "may" and "should" from years-old spec docs; it didn't feel like that much of an improvement in many cases.

Do browser makers consult 'regular' web developers before coding in new browser-specific CSS extensions?
Can't say I can help you on identifying the specific site, but if you're looking for a freelance developer to turn a small job around quickly for a reasonable price, feel free to email me. Address in profile.
This was an April Fools joke (and presumably a dig at obesity in Samoa) that refuses to die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa_Air ceased operations in 2003.
I found it funny that below this article about in-game advertising creep, the first comment is a "promoted comment," pinned to the top of the list and praising the ad effort.
I believe that using basic functional programming tools is a much more powerful way than using promises. The main issue with promises is that the code you write will be less replaceable, and less compatible with other code.
Is this from you, combataircraft? Always curious about your style because you always post that EditGrid example :)
FESS your CSS
"the currency is not wildly deflating right now"

Yes it is. $1 in 2012 bought as much as $1.01 today [1]. 1 Bitcoin a year ago bought about 1/27th what one does today [2]. Thus, U.S. dollars have inflated by 1% while Bitcoins have deflated by some 95%.

Inflation is not calculated from the monetary base or FX rate. It is a function of the price level of real goods and services. Since most goods and services are priced in U.S. dollars (and U.S. CPI isn't inflating ridiculously) BTC/USD does double as an estimator of Bitcoin deflation.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

[2] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10zm2g... 4 April 2013 versus 11 April 2012
Judging by the original paper, the subsequent writings, and the kinds of things prominent members of the Bitcoin community say, it is likely that whoever created Bitcoin was an amateur. There are few references made to the work done by Chaum or Okamoto. The security proof in the Bitcoin paper considers only one specific attack strategy. ECDSA and SHA256 are referenced but little is said about whether or not they compose securely with the Bitcoin protocol, or even if the Bitcoin protocol itself is secure.

It is not that I mean to insult amateurs -- amateurs can theoretically make secure cryptosystems (though Bitcoin is not secure under the security notions used by cryptographers), but it is usually pretty clear when a system was designed by someone who is not well-versed in cryptography. It is unfortunate, however, that Bitcoin's developers cannot be bothered to search Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=digital+cash+site%3Aeprint.i...
Heres more on double spending attack vectors: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Double-spending

But heres the question: how long would it take for governmental bureaucracy to amass the resources to execute such an attack without raising a flags from other nodes who then will take proactive measures to not only mitigate such attacks but also alert others nodes on the network?
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Bitcoins are valuable only because people are hoarding it. It's a classic case of bubble. In the end, they're just bits, and that doesn't have much value.
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On the other hand, if they find value in telling each other superficial stories about their life experiences, on a purely private platform to boot that spies on their every move, that's kinda fucked up.
Valve's Steam gaming platform uses Webkit to render their Store and have a 40-million strong userbase at most recent count http://gamespot.com/news/steam-crosses-40-million-users-6348...
Simulating an SSH Worm using Python
I have a Samsung Note 2, from Verizone. While it came with a lot of apps I don't want (like the NHL app), it did not have the FB app.
Zuckerberg Says Building A Facebook Phone Is “The Wrong Strategy For Us”
Yeah that's me and https://twitter.com/4zjs/status/319970549910614016 :)
So does it by you a lot of something, or nothing?
If the right of first refusal only applies to the asking price, there isn't much downside except if the market is hot and/or you have a highly sought-after place where multiple bidders push the price above the asking price. If that's not the case, set the asking price at an amount you're confident the market won't pay, and the psychological pressure of the neighbor having wanted right of first refusal might make them buy at your inflated price.
The approach of Satoshi Nakamoto is not the way typical cryptographers would create cryptocurrencies.

See gwern's article Bitcoin is Worse Is Better http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better

Satoshi's genius is the ability to combine several well known technologies and figure out the right kind of tradeoffs that would make bitcoin works.

Yes, bitcoin sucks in many way such as not being able to do anonymous trade offline, being forced to store a blockchain, needing enough computation power to counter evil miners, needing the social cooperation of miners and users, and so on. But you have to admit, it works.
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gnosis didn't say anything about film or new media. I'd be really pretty surprised if gnosis believed there weren't "intellectual" (read: thoughtful) things to say about film. That said, he didn't explain why it's sad that Ebert was considered an intellectual either, so who knows.
Cancer is about two hundred diseases, at least. It's a case of undesirable evolution: cells evolve toward radical individual fitness at the expense of the organism. The body has ways of protecting against that, but the most "fit" cancer cells can sometimes overcome those. It's an ongoing arms race. This selection phenomenon (clonal evolution) similar to anti-biotic resistance is what makes it so hard to treat.

This is one reason why I have little patience for creationists. One of the most important problems (curing cancer) is an issue directly involving evolution (at the cellular level).

The cancer research is returning a lot of yield, but this is just a very hard problem. The body has about 10 trillion cells. Some are good, some are bad. The bad ones become increasingly able to survive treatments due to clonal evolution. The good ones die as well, because these are systemic treatments (highly powerful drugs) that interfere with cell reproduction. You have to kill all the bad ones, or the cancer will probably return. If you kill too many good ones, the patient dies a horrible death that's much worse than a regular cancer death. It's not easy to do.

It's just a fucking hard problem. We should be putting 10-20 times as much money into it. How many things are more important than fighting cancer? Not these fucking social media startups.
A single person cashing out can cause a 'small' drop of 15%? Imagine the chaos if the USD crashed 15%. That's recession territory.
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"But heres the question: how long would it take for governmental bureaucracy to amass the resources to execute such an attack without raising a flags from other nodes who then will take proactive measures to not only mitigate such attacks but also alert others nodes on the network?"

Do you really thing that purchasing a hundred million dollars worth of ASICs would alert anyone? The government spends far more than that in a given year, and there are government agencies that are good at keeping secret operations of that size secret. I would not rely on the inefficiency of bureaucracy when it comes to equipment procurement, certainly not as a security measure.

Also, what exactly would the honest nodes do to mitigate the attack? They can only buy more computing power to try to maintain control of the block chain. That is the real problem here: the effort needed to run the Bitcoin network is proportional to the effort needed to attack the system.
Shameless plug, eh? I don't think your product really showcases how most Facebook photos are poor quality since you pull news images as well. I know most of the pictures in my feed are some that I don't give two cares about.

Cool concept, by the way!
To replace PIL you should try Pillow, a fork of PIL that is capable of running on py3k (and 2.x).
"Hack attack?"

I wouldn't call a DDoS a 'hack.' You would think that BBC News could hire a competent technology expert for these sorts of articles.
Get rid of the sharing buttons and tracking cookies on your page and maybe I'll take your argument seriously.
Right, except they don't understand social, and simply taking over a phone to make your whole website the interface doesn't really change that.
There's obvious privacy issues, you don't want say, your employer finding out you just used certain apps like a job seeker or something else that posts to Facebook that you use it and ergo Facebook automatically likes it for you like they do with keywords.
Fair; but, what about other things you wouldn't want your boss, or your mom, or anyone you know to see?

Your friend completely trashed with markings on him? His friend like that?
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I don't see how an informed consumer can't avoid this. I really started to dislike OEM's and decided to go Nexus. The number of bundled apps that went dead (Blockbuster went bankrupt and yet I was stuck with that app) or unsupported just drove me away.

I understand that now instead of worrying about unsupported apps you have to worry about what these apps track in the background, however there are a number of other phone options - why not just use another?

The appeal of this Launcher is there, it seems like a fairly clean interface that is satisfying to use, but like Facebook.com, if you don't feel comfortable using it, then you don't have to.
Sure. This is intended as a quick way to send small bits of sensitive information over email, chat, etc.
The difficulty in settling debts directly does not prevent Bitcoin from being the future.

The Bitcoin as a currency is not a new concept. Right now, Bitcoin is almost exactly like gold. You don't pay your taxes with gold but it could be exchanged for your nation's currency to settle debts.

Some people exchange gold directly for goods and services but very few things are priced in gold. People price things in their local currency so you must exchange the gold for national currency to purchase.

Almost everything about gold is the same as Bitcoin and gold is a very trusted and traditional way to store value.
I admired him for that. He's not a technophobe. It was a quirky, provocative position to take, and not the easy one.

I don't think games had any reason to feel threatened by him.
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Can somebody explain to me why, if this really works, you would publish it in a blogpost? Shouldn't you be hunting down investments of $X to turn $1.093X?
Maybe they're in the process of gathering their coins!
1. great app GUI design

2. marketing on the reservation list - as what human behavior, the things that you can not have, that's what make it most desirable. Invite list / reservation list is a perfect example. Think of gmail back then when people needs to be invited to use

3. great product.
if you have great product, words will spread out on itself.
> The thing that amazed me the most - virtually every applicant was downright giddy at the opportunity to work with Ember.js full-time.

Of course people want to work fulltime on the latest hotness in javascript. I'm surprised that you're surprised.
If you don't mind, how is Bitcoin not secure under the security notions used by cryptographers?

This is interesting because if it wasn't secure I wonder why hundreds of millions of dollars have not been stolen yet? You could probably steal 100 million from some top addresses, move to MtGox and sell for a very decent rate before what you did became apparent (of course once what did became apparent Bitcoin would collapse forever)

Or if the addresses are secure and its something else that is not secure what is it? I am on the bitcointalk forum a lot and I have not read anything about the crypto being not secure.

Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by security?
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"It’s not sharing, it’s bragging..."

Turns out social media is freaking way tricky. If you share bad things, well, people don't want to hear it. If you share happy news, well, people think your life is perfect. So its damned if you do, damned if you don't.

My concern is that instead of young adults being the imperfect people that they are -- forming cliques, being sexist or ageist, and so on -- we're teaching kids how to "fake" having the right attitudes. So yeah, you can be as misogynistic as you want, just don't let it show up on social media.

So the real harm social media does is to ourselves: it teaches us fake friendships,fake conversations, and fake storytelling. This will have lifelong negative consequences for many.
Exercise demands time so in terms of increased life expectancy versus time spent exercising it's probably a wash. Speaking personally though, I feel awesome when I exercise regularly, and when I don't, I don't.

Exercise for higher quality of life and a better looking body, the longevity benefits are overrated.
> Right, except they don't understand social,

I'm assuming you mean that they don't understand Mobile because a social network that has over 1 Billion users likely understands social fairly well.
Can you point me toward _any_ proof-of-concepts for Chaum's scheme as applied to digital currency? Hell, there's still people on Bitcointalk trying to figure out how to bootstrap off of Bitcoin with some of those ideas. I don't think it's fair to throw "amateur" around like that, Bitcoin solves separate problems entirely. Crypto-anarchists spent decades theorizing things but never solving problems.

Bitcoin shipped and that shouldn't upset you so much.
"even if [bitcoins] were made illegal in the US, the United States are not the world, and it would be extremely hard to enforce"

Blacklist the Bitcoin exchanges and any foreign financial institution that transacts with them from the U.S. financial system. The script was updated with the twin salvos against online gambling and Iran.
I agree, PHP employs very suicidal workers!

Chromium workers die after you've closed their respective tabs. Once the page finishes loading the worker is no longer needed, another one can pick up the next request. I've never come across the line 0 error, I don't task a single PHP script with a respectably large operation, it's not designed for that - even the default script execution timeout offers a hint.

Obviously session information and state can be stored in a cache, database or file. If you need to trigger a maintenance script create an XHR or cron job. 1x1 transparent PNGs is a horrible way to do some back-end dirty work that the client need not be associated with. If you're doing this to run DB optimization, purges or bulk emailers, you're doing it wrong.

An obscure limitation? Yes, but there are bigger issues in PHP than death-by-design.
I don't know much better than you, but here is the general understanding that I've picked up:

HTML and HTML2 were developed by developers (via the IETF).

HTML3->HTML4->XHTML and CSS1->CSS2 represent increasing control by academics in committees at W3C.

HTML5 and CSS3 are the result of fed-up actual web developers stepping up.

What gets implemented in browser-specific extensions is some combination of governing committees and developers actually willing to write the code.
I've been on both sides.

1. Understand that if you're in a situation where you have to fire someone, as the manager, it is and was your fault. Your fault for not seeing at the beginning that it wasn't a fit, or your fault for taking someone who had potential and then alienating/de-motivating them along the way. Only with this mindset can you learn not to repeat the same mistake. It's all too easy to just chalk things up to "they were a bad employee" - there are certainly cases where it's not your fault, but I think people tend to vastly underestimate the number of cases where you actually could have changed the outcome.

2. Whether or not the situation turns ugly is up to you.

Fire someone unexpectedly and without serious efforts to try to help him/her = possibly ugly. Diplomatically try and help someone work through their issues and only then after a few weeks bring up to issue of them leaving = possibly not ugly.

Fire someone who has a 1 year equity cliff after 9 months on the job and give them nothing = ugly. Fire someone who has a 1 year equity cliff after 9 months and give them 9 months of equity + $$ severance in return for signing a release (talk to your lawyer) = much less ugly.

3. Feelings vary and I don't have much to say about them.
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That wouldn't be a valid contract for several reasons. What's the consideration, acceptance?
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An alternative way of saying that Bitcoin is deflating is that the purchasing power of Bitcoins is growing. Recognizing that the purchasing power of any currency is driven by two long-run factors -- changes in productivity and in the money supply (and money demand) -- BTC will have a natural mean (trend) in terms of a basket of goods. The question is whether, in this initial adoption / speculation phase, we are above or below that mean trend.

So while you might technically describe it as deflation, it might simply be reversion to the mean, in which BTC becomes more valuable until it reaches a saturation point.
As if it were some mind-numbing mundane task. On the contrary, whatever time you spend running will be some of the most alive parts of your life.
Did they intend for it to be a formal contract?

I feel that for every major, an introduction to business/contract law unit should be undertaken if only to educate people on the formal rules that surround the contracts everyone enters in to during their lives.
Can't tell if this job posting is real or just making fun of big data companies. Definitely laughed out loud :)
Is there a nice legal term for "I hope Rackspace gives them hell"?
The video game industry's gender wage gap is worse than you think
Paper currency is valuable only because people agree on it. In the end, they're just green pieces of paper, and that doesn't have much value.
Also I looked at your Google search and could not find anyone talking about a block chain. I would be surprised if someone proposed a digital currency based on a blockchain before Satoshi, because that is the unique insight he is held in high regard for.

- Sure some of the links in the Google search have lots of complicated schemes for a digital currency, but I think its the simplicity of the Bitcoin system that is unique.

- Also I hear the system itself can only be attacked via brute force, do you claim this is not the case?
My comment in the last thread opened with a post from this source:

Past performance does not guarantee future results" is still the operative principle here. Data-mining discovers patterns, but it doesn't lead to deep insight into causes, and markets are perturbed by many events that you don't put into your training algorithm. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is still important investment advice.

You can never build a trading signal just by scraping historical data, unless you like losing your shirt.

Can you tell I'm reading Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder just now? I'm very sensitive to errors in statistical thinking today.
I'm using it (and I have seen similar results consistently to scalr's), but I also work for Google (and my load is a minecraft server, not a business), so I guess my opinion is biased.

Here's another review though: http://www.stackdriver.com/gce-cassandra/
IMHO, when developing a trading strategy it helps to document and share your strategy with others as you'll come to better understand it from the questions and observations others make. No one strategy can or will be successful forever.

Many algorithms stop performing when market conditions (lasting hours, days, weeks, months) change. Having a deep understanding of your algorithm and what makes it successful for any given period of time can better help you make adjustments when needed.

Lastly, this may be where the algo started but not necessarily what they will run in production. It's much more likely to no longer be discussed at this point. Perhaps similar to ideas are worthless, execution is everything for startups.

edit: typo
So did Thomas Friedman.
That's the now, not the future.
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Question for someone who knows something about patent law: does Rackspace have a chance of actually making any money here? Simply based on seeing other stories like this, it seems that all these trolls operate through shell companies, which can simply declare bankruptcy without (1) every paying any actual fees and (2) without hurting the parent. Is that true here as well?
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Eventually you'd run out of patents that are even remotely defensible...

The problem is that more are being assigned all of the time. And if the assignee goes bankrupt, trolls can buy the patent rights for a song.
Paper doesn't have much value either, and precious metal values are also inflated thanks to hoarding/speculation.
No? Unless I'm utterly missing something, the thrust of this design is that it doesn't require tracking at all.

Rather, it doesn't require tracking -and- it's a concentrating design.
This is just my $0.02 (drachma would be better, truth be told) but there are better indicators of 'getting' social than 1bn users.
Cryptographers have a high standard for 'not broken'. A cryptographic algorithm could have no real world attack, but be declared broken because there's a mathematical flaw.

In the case of Bitcoin there's the 51% attack, which is pretty serious flaw even if to carry it out is unfeasable.

We don't know if NSA or GCHQ have broken bitcoin (although they've certainly investigated it); and we haven't seen much crypt-analysis on it; but we have seen very many people trying (sometimes successfully) to attack Bitcoin and the wallets and the exchanges.