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No, it doesn't have to be SF. And of course I can learn on my own anywhere. I just think it'd be really motivational to be where it's all 'happening' for a while. Also, my industry (with some exceptions) seems late to adopt any new school of thought in this space. Outside of my own projects/ideas, I'd rather contribute where it counts.
Absolutely true. For an intern without a car, the critical factor is probably BART access. The best non-ghetto + BART at a low price is probably around 19th street, so "Uptown", toward Adams Point. There are apartments in the $1200 1BR range, vs. 2-3x that for short term in SF (!!!). I'd still probably suggest trying to find a roommate, sublet, or company sponsored thing, even if it's tiny or sketchy, nearer work and social stuff, in SF or PA/MV, though. Temescal (which is farther up, near MacArthur BART) is also a good choice. There's a weird auto-dealer wasteland in between, which was a horrible zoning choice by Oakland, but they're working on redeveloping that, so it should be a continuous area of interesting stuff from ~16th to ~40th at some point.

OTOH, I live in Oakland and drive. I've never gone to anything in Oakland except Amazon locker pickup, Whole Foods (but prefer Berkeley places), and the 580/880 onramps. I step into my car in an underground garage and essentially don't get out until I'm in the civilized/Promised Land (Peninsula).

Berkeley is also maybe more fun as an intern, even if you work in SF, and has BART. I'm not sure what summer housing is like there -- I'd assume there are vacancies in places rented to students during the year over the summer.

Nitpicking: Piedmont is an enclave contained within Oakland (but independent), but Rockridge is part of Oakland. (it's also "Adams Point", not Adam's Point)
> They're scared of the legal liability of holding onto all the personal details they receive don't need but Facebook shares anyway because Facebook genuinely doesn't care as long as they're monetizing.

I find it odd that Facebook isn't scared of the same legal liability. Infact, they should be more scared. I don't see any reason why Facebook would give away more information than they need to. They have the skill and resources to filter data themselves. I highly doubt that they would throw away personal and sensitive to other companies.
What if it blurred the background images during work hours? Or maybe just images with flesh tones detected.
I think were all missing the point here, there's now a "facebook phone". For a certain demographic facebook is the most important thing on their phone. It doesn't really matter if home is a huge inovation or not, it only needs to be slightly better then iOS and Android for using facebook and this demo will adopt it.

Facebook is opening up a new market for themselves and with a phone for $99 its very easy for someone to say "mommy I want the facebook phone" and get it.

Soon "facebook phone" will start appearing alongside "iphone", "droid", and "windows phone" as common vernacular. By partnering with att & htc and building on top of android they have now gained access into the cell phone industry with no investment in hardware, cell towers or in creating a new OS, just redesigning a home screen.

Theres a huge potential upside with very little risk involved. Its a good move on facebooks part.
I would have titled this much differently. More along the lines of: "A Comprehensive Guide to Bitcoin".

I just found it humorous that they titled the article "Are Bitcoins the future?" and then failed the ask or answer that question anywhere in mini novel they wrote following that title.
What happens if you don't install the app but it comes pre-installed on your shiny new phone and you're not tech savvy enough to take it off?
Pray may I ask how anyone can use than information to harm me?
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> In short, most webkit devs are happy about this. It's worked out well for everyone.

I can't say the same about front-end web devs. They are potentially looking at yet another browser family that can have its own quirks (sure, safari and chrome were different enough already, but this fork means that now they can be different at a lower level).
Market cap is just over $1b USD at the moment.

A guy used MtGox to sell 5,000 BTC the other day, and caused a small dip - about 15%, if I recall. That's about 500k USD out in an afternoon.

Some exchanges also have "dark pools", designed to allow big investor to get into and out of the market "quietly".
Well, on Android you can install TextSecure and have even a more secure messaging.

And replace the stock system with Cyanogen mod or similar and have a smartphone that won't be taking commands from the mothership.
Whether or not the software is secure from Apple is a moot point if Apple can, at any point in time, deploy an arbitrary software update that only affects a single device.

I presume Apple has the ability to send a backdoored update to iMessage to any user they want, and probably to obfuscate it well enough to not tip anyone off. Therefore, if DEA can get a warrant requiring Apple to provide technical assistance, Apple has at least one route to get message plaintext.
No released IE supports it, but IE11 might. Microsoft hasn't announced anything explicit.
The messages don't always arrive in the same order between the devices, so it's definitely not passed from one to the other. I imagine the senders encrypt the message with every public key in your keybag.

Someone who actually knows should weigh in, though. GP's understanding seems a bit murky to me.
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This article makes me ponder about the origins of Bitcoin.

This page claims that it could be a group of people who made it, which seems a bit more likely: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

Does anyone else have any interesting insights into the origin of Bitcoin?
Oakland PD is also one of the worst departments in the Bay Area (although BART PD and EPA PD take the cake).
If you are a money-chasing robot, perhaps. Most businesses care at least a little about making a good product/satisfying their customers. That's good. Making life easy for your employees at the expense of your customers? That's bad.
Not with that attitude we wont, doctors.
How is that relevant? Comcast is not a software company. Shipping something that works and then never touching it again is exactly what they want.
This article covers a lot of interesting ground, and isn't the usual same, old same-old article about Bitcoin. I especially liked the reminders of earlier examples of online currencies.

The conclusion is tentative, and reasonable. Along the way, the author brings up many interesting facts about Bitcoin, about its supporters, and about its critics.

I think it is especially reasonable to assume that Bitcoin exists with the tacit consent of the United States National Security Agency, even if the NSA didn't invent Bitcoin.

AFTER EDIT: Addition of my FAQ-in-progress about Bitcoin for Hacker New. A while ago I wrote that perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics. And later I added that the Bitcoin experiment will also contribute to greater understanding of attack surfaces and online crime. Many of the ideas about how to mine Bitcoins, store Bitcoins, and trade with Bitcoins as a medium of exchange illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of any other medium of exchange in a world full of human beings. Seeing the discussion of Bitcoins here on Hacker News reminds me of early online discussions in the 1990s of online payment systems such as PayPal, and the arguments beforehand that PayPal wouldn't have to invest a lot of time and effort (as it eventually did) building defenses against theft and fraud. If a weakness in a system is attached to a lot of money, the way to bet is to bet that someone will go looking for that weakness, even if you haven't thought of it.

This prompts a question for all the security-knowledgeable persons who participate here on Hacker News, a question once asked of the inventor of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). How expensive do you think it would be for the United States National Security Agency (or a comparable organization from another national government) to crack a Bitcoin store, given that we know that some Bitcoin caches have already been cracked? And if the organization storing Bitcoin data held personal bank account data too, how attractive a target might it be to thieves?
South (database migration for django). Until django core has its own migration tool I won't be using it with Python 3.

PIL as well. similar reasons. django image fields are dependent on PIL.

Celery is still on Python 2 also, and while there are other message queues available, none of them is as easy to integrate with for an app that's already written in Python.
I've read articles talking about young ones already being bored with FB because of this.. and it only tends to get worse, nicely remembered ;D
Could you explain how this is "pumping and dumping"?
What I have learned from the material floating around is that there are fundamental difference in the architectures of Chrome and Safari and how they talk to WebKit. Google decided to go their own way because maintaining the common code base was a pain for both sets of developers.
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Opera was planning to move to Chromium all along, not WebKit. So it was a given they would be using v8.
Who cares? He didn't even play them. He's right, he has every right to believe what he wants, but he shouldn't have said anything about it because he's not qualified to comment.
Check out circleci.com. My company uses them -- it's incredibly simple, and works amazingly well.
If that's the case though, where would this popup be appearing from? (I haven't seen it, not quite sure where it would be) I would guess they wouldn't be asking the sender to approve adding my multiple computers whenever I add one, since that would be a fairly crummy user experience. Seems like it should be something that I, the owner of the receiving devices, would approve or deny.
There's probably a whitelist of sites that still require Trident. The reason for this is that there are a lot of Chinese websites that are still only IE6-compatible (this is a result of many Chinese installs of Windows being pirated copies of XP running IE6 - they don't want to upgrade to new versions of IE or Windows for fear of losing their OS validation). The Chinese internet is currently in a transitional period, with many established sites still working only with older versions of Trident, while newer sites (particularly mobile sites, and particuarly those targeted at the middle- and upper-class) support modern engines. Such dual-engine browsers help to ease that transition.
I'm new to js and using async.js on the client and node server. Is that acceptable? Honestly I just dont find promises very intuitive.
> That is not true in the slightest,

I don't see how this isn't true. Care to back up your statement of fact with evidence.

> The fact remains that the money spent on entertainment was diverted into fund raising, diluting the product.

Or, none of the money you spent on the game was placed into the development of this DLC, because it was entirely sponsored by Nissan. Hell, for all we know, this DLC was Nissan's idea to begin with.

> It shows me that my interests are not their interests and I should avoid doing business with them.

Of all the recent EA drama over the years, this is one of the few things which is probably the least indicative of such a thing.

> They aren't spending money on making new entertaining experiences (obviously).

This isn't obvious. They spent millions of dollars building a game which, other than the DRM drama, has been fairly well-received, and is considered by many to be entertaining.
I really like the idea of cryptographic currency, but bitcoin strikes me as a somewhat ill fated v1 of the idea.

Whatever replaces it will needs some sort of more sophisticated measure for keeping the value of a coin from fluctuating wildly; because with the way the currency is wildly deflating right now, I'd be super hesitant to "spend" a bitcoin for fear that it might be worth twice what it is now, while on the other hand, I'm also terribly afraid of buying a bitcoin, because what if they drop back down to earth? Currency only really seems spendable if its value is at least somewhat predictable.
This idea that new forms of media (film, TV) are innately anti-intellectual just because the classics were in writing is ridiculous.

Don't get me wrong. Reading is important, the classics are important. But the idea that you have to focus in "old stuff" to be intellectual is absurd.
> Understanding "biology 101" means understanding that biology is about experiments, everyth is empirical (and will be for quite some time I guess), nothing can be said that "it works" in biology or medicine until you experimentally prove it does.

Part of this isn't really biology (as we know it) though, so I'm not sure that biologists who criticize are seeing the whole picture. Look at it like a cryptographer: Is putting a brain in liquid nitrogen a secure erasure method against all future attacks from a determined opponent with lots of resources? Would you trust your financial data to such a method of data erasure?

> "Nature"/"The universe"/"God" is NOT on our side on this path, so there's no room for optimistic thinking, we can only rely on cold (literally) hard science and math!

I like this sentiment, I wish more cryonics people took it to heart, but at the same time I don't believe that "The Force" is actually against us. There is some reasonable burden of proof on the assertion that the data is is utterly gone and out of reach of all realistic future technology.
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No, Bitcoin is not the future. Most people need to deal with their nation's currency to pay taxes and settle debts, most businesses need a currency that is at least reasonably stable, and that is not getting into the extremely questionable security of the Bitcoin system itself.
Ian Bogost. Example review: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/hun...
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Back when I was an MIT undergrad in the early 1970's I got a ride back to eastern New York for Thanksgiving or Christmas break with several other MIT students. That evening, the moon appeared very large, and I mentioned it was just an illusion. (I had read the July, 1962 issue of Scientific American growing up and knew about the illusion--it was the cover story.) Try as I might, I could not convince the others in the car that it was an illusion.
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>I think it is especially reasonable to assume that Bitcoin exists with the tacit consent of the United States National Security Agency, even if the NSA didn't invent Bitcoin.

How so? If the NSA really hated bitcoin, what would they do? Even if it were made illegal in the US, the United States are not the world, and it would be extremely hard to enforce.
I said the title of this topic in my head in a German accent IDK why
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On that matter, I wonder why they didn't continue to provide security updates for 5.x when they decided to continue support for Snow Leopard, like MS did with IE.
Ebert rated movies by how well they succeeded at what was trying to be accomplished - by that measure, isn't his rating accurate? That movie did almost everything its makers were trying to accomplish.
You need to explain more - for example what do you mean by a "partial"? A quick search for "partial functions" gave me several links to mathematics articles. When I followed the links to the composition modules I got more of the same impenetrable context-less style.

What I did get from the article is something that works a lot like promises:

- async functions return type of "eventual" data (in your case, a function you pass a callback to)

- various other functions that can operate on that eventual data type to return more eventual data

What does this style offer that standard promises doesn't?
It is not a park, it is a car charging station. It behaves like a park, which plainly breaks the spirit of the rules of the game.
Why would you trust any company of that size?
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I always believed that perseverance is 90% of what is required to be a great "anything". The other 10% is sheer talent. In every case I have seen so far, that 90% will make you good enough so that the talent doesn't matter much.
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Bitcoin is not even "v1," it is just an attempt by cryptoanarchists to create a currency without any central authority. Chaum, Okamoto, and many other researchers published a large volume of work on digital cash, creating systems that supported various notions of secure and anonymous electronic payments. Unlike Bitcoin, the security of many of these designs can be proved by reductions to hard problems, much like the security of public-key cryptosystems like ElGamal. In the typical "hack it out and pay no attention to previous work" style of the Bitcoin community, none of that research was cited or even hinted at in the original Bitcoin paper. The fact that the article presents this as a choice between something like Bitcoin and something like Paypal is telling.

The reason Chaum's digital cash startup failed is complicated, but it boils down to this: digital cash is poorly understood, banks have few compelling reasons to deploy it (their existing fraud mitigation measures keep them well within the realm of profitability), and the US government continues to work against the deployment of good cryptography.
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One hypothesis of how stretching increases flexibility is that it's a long term learned effect on the central and peripheral nervous system.

If you try PNF stretching -- where you push back against the stretch -- you'll be surprised how much further a stretch can go. And that's purely a nervous system phenomenon, some of it not reaching the CNS at all.
If they really stood behind the product and wanted you to see it for real, the landing pages would have used your real FB content if you were logged in.
They could buy a bunch of ASICs, keep pulling off double spending attacks until everyone loses confidence in the Bitcoin system, and call it a day.
> In the life stage I am now, I'd say that my Facebook Phone would be showing random baby photos 80% of the time, food photos 10% of the time.

and 10% cats :)
This is a great write up.
Ads suck, but the bigger danger is that the uber-profile will be available for subpoena, or the govt might just flip the fuckit bit and take it because they can. Being allowed to run a billion dollar business unmolested by the govt would be a strong incentive, especially for a company not known for privacy advocacy.
>If the NSA really hated bitcoin, what would they do?

Well, the NSA couldn't do much, but the federal government could. The CIA could set up Bitcoin exchanges then have them "hacked" for one thing.
Wouldn't it be better to feed the RSA public key into an existing message encryption system like gpg? There are a few things you could improve that way:

* No message integrity - it would be good to be able to sign and encrypt.

* Encrypting the same plaintext twice gives the same ciphertext (there is no randomness). This means that an attacker can confirm if a given ciphertext corresponds to a suspected plaintext.

* RSA is comparatively slow; it is usually better to encrypt a symmetric key with RSA and then encrypt the message with the symmetric key.
I love Kettle and I think Matt has done a really good job over this years. Kettle (or PDI) is now a widely used ETL tool with advanced Big Data functionalities and strong community behind it.
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So? I still care about major parts of a society being that recklessly dumb. I live on this planet, it's my problem, too. I cannot afford to live in a "democracy" full of people who are so easily influenced and/or blackmailed. Their votes count as much as mine, so this is a bug.
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the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function

This is the same guy who said "video games cannot be art, and I will not consider debate about it". The second part in particular was what I found disturbing.
Case closed!
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Running 4 hours per week for 20 years will add 6 months to your expected lifespan. However, those 6 months will have been entirely spent running. So, plan accordingly.
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I believe this is pretty much the definition of "fear, uncertainty and doubt." Let's not spread it around.

Google already basically ran their own fork of WebKit — it most definitely was not the same codebase in Chrome and Safari. Now they've just made it a clean, official one. Let's not freak out about problems that may never exist and certainly don't yet.
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Great point. Facebook doesn't offer a lot of value to it's users and that's a fact.

"Man I went this place.."
"Yeah, I saw it on your Facebook..."
Google has been pretty influential in PL, especially in the PL/systems domain (MapReduce); just because they aren't designing so many mainstream languages doesn't mean people like Jeff Dean aren't putting their PL skillz to work. In fact, many of the heavy hitters at Google have PL backgrounds and do a lot of PL work, they are just pragmatic and realize that not all PL work involves overtly new languages.

And then there is what Holzle, Bak, Bracha, etc...are doing with Dart; and of course Pike with Go.
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NSA, China, Russia, most governments really, and possibly a lot of banks, could do a 51% attack and shut down transaction processing... or do double spends, but shutting down all transaction processing seems more damaging. This won't ever change, unless Bitcoin really causes governments to lose most of their power and money.

Edit: gavin has a plan (http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/05/neutralizing-51-attack...) but my guess is if they did the work to start an attack in the first place they'd have planned for gavin's plan and acquired enough older coins to foil it. It'd be nice if more thought went into other ways to thwart a possible attack but I'm not sure there really are any. Most people seem to discount and completely avoid the issue.
Exactly - I believe that school kids should also suck it up and learn to speak properly (I will not shy away from this nomenclature) early, rather than wait for college (and what about the majority who don't make it there?) where an English professor will give them this speech.

My impression of your viewpoint is that kids should be taught in AAVE and have a separate Standard English class to learn how 'white folks speak'.

That said - I have nothing against same kids using AAVE at home and with their friends if they prefer - as long as they realize that knowing SE is instrumental to their success in life.

I also have two niggling points to make:
1) Standard English is not a dialect. That's just a matter of definition.
2) I'd also say that 100% of formal English speech and writing is using it. As far as I can tell, anytime a dialect is used in a book (Huck Finn, William Faulkner) - it's done to demonstrate a character who speaks a particular way. Do you know works written in a dialect where it's not done to this purpose?
Stop smoking, buckle your seatbelt, lose a few pounds and take tons of Vitamin D. Everything else is conjecture.
The Law of conservation of complexity in action! :)