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Moot says they use JSON-RPC because a standard REST framework is not suitable.

Can anyone shed some light on how big of a performance boost JSON-RPC provides when dealing with things like notifications?
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It rarely matters enough to justify amount of work needed.
> This isn't nearly as interesting of a discussion as you think it is.

I'm glad we found someone who can objectively decide what's interesting! Now you can suggest books and movies to me! Do you work for Netflix?

But seriously, I never made a value judgement about the poll. The poll costs real time, and real money to host. But data from a poll is not a window. Adding noise into a poll is not breaking a window.

This blatant inaccuracy is actually harmless, because it basically invalidates the two buckets which were already going to be an insignificant part of the poll. Absent any response I would've said those buckets are there to absorb troublemakers, but pg's response implies I'm giving him too much credit. The bigger risk is people who are fudging by one or two buckets, giving plausible but inaccurate data. Hell, the whole poll could actually be inaccurate, but we're focusing on the fact that there are a few joke responses which can be discarded safely.
You missed the "Havana Club" rum bottle and a mulatta. ;)

Well, the internet access is a delicate topic, lots of schools have it, government offices, but not much civilians yet, they say is coming soon, but the problem is they fear technology (old people mostly), they see it as a possible way of US Gov. and Miami oppositors to take control of our minds or whatever.

Old people have fears, they have their reasons, young people have ideas, we want to push forward. And is like that, some get tired of waiting for a change and go away to a more tech-savvy place, but is not an option for everyone.

The bandwith is better than 5 years ago and improving, it's not wideband but we can live with that.

Anyway, it sucks to have studied IT Engineering (so far, thousands of us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Information_Scien...) to end up setting up printers and not creating awesome stuff, people in charge have no faith in knowledge products.

I realized a big truth reading Peopleware: The "Spanish Theory of Value" is killing us.
If you were to hire an unpaid intern - are they not creating any value for you (or very little)? Then why are you hiring them? If they are creating value for you, then that should be extra money in the pool, and some of it should go to the intern. What am I missing?
Thanks Paul. You're legend for resolving that so quickly.
This also applies to "scaling." Scalability seems to be a major boogeyman among tech startups. The way you make something scalable is by improving the big-O of your processing algorithm, and the way you do that is not by throwing money and processing power at it (buying more servers, hiring more developers with "scaling experience," etc.), but by optimizing your application logic to do as little as possible per input.

Scaling is just a large value of n.
Okay, here's a thing - how about developing a more accurate risk profile assessment and pricing structure than any other broker out there (just like some lending platforms doubled the accuracy in evaluating credit ratings in comparison to large banks and built their business around that technology) and then buy in advance low risk properties, while charging relatively high fees? You'd have to keep the asset on the books (while knowing the average time required to sell it for a low commission) till it's gone, but eliminate the pain number 1 for consumers, as in most cases they're ready to be charged more to get rid of the property asap.

Just throwing it there. Crazy enough to make sense.
Obviously, keeping company secrests is important. That goes without saying. But that wasn't what happened, was it? An employee expressed his personal prefeerence for a technology that may, or may not be part of the netx gen consoles. (And everyone have been anticipatin this for years anyway.)
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Like all new laws this one will be sold one way and used another -- likely very expansionary -- way.

For example the Patriot Act was sold as a thing that would only be used to catch terrorists. It's total terrorist-catching prosecutions to date is trivial, zero to a few. But it's still getting used quite a bit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/us/us-uses-terror-law-to-p...

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-573155.html

I'm not saying that the people who got caught in many of those cases didn't do something wrong, nor am I saying that they should get away with no consequences. But I don't see how you can charge people with "terrorism" for doing decidedly non-terrorist things.
It's pretty neat but the URL length is a huge problem, you can check any moderately long domains at all.
The posed question is kind of offensive and arrogant if you think of it. It is kind of along the lines of 'Will/do you hire someone who is a woman/foreign/handicapped/ugly?' Suddenly the proposed properties are super offensive. "Women are smart", "Women think differently", etc. "Dave Wellman has managed several employees who were women." Eh what?

How about asking "Will/do you hire someone who is good for the job?". The question asked here though is more along the lines of "Will/do discriminate in your hiring process and how much?"

Furthermore the article is pretty biased, for example: "Aspies are intelligent -- and independent".

I have met dumb 'aspies'. I don't know about figures, but I would argue that there are both dumb and intelligent 'aspies'.
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The web frontend commands the trading platform, and the BTC/money outflow. It would be irresponsible for them to host it in an environment they dont control.
"The Nazis and the Soviets both used intimidation tactics to further their political power". Ohhh...it seems I have lost the argument. Horrible pity, really.
Hopefully what you say is true. It is not what the article described.
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Many breeds actually have this behavior. It's common in play.
I clicked the evilhub.com link out of curiosity and it redirects to a porn-youtube kind of site. Just a heads up to people browsing this from work.
I'd still like a way to see it first-to-last, if only to get the combined nostalgia from seeing those first commits and from the music.
I listed two examples, not sure what you're looking for. But, this page has more: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts
I remember there was clever algorithm that substracted before adding, that made it possible to get much more accurate sums.

EDIT: found it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
JSON-RPC is not about performance. A RPC protocol just makes more sense for full-duplex communication where both sending and receiving end can send messages to each other at any time. REST is inherently a request / response pattern and is not designed to build these kinds of "real time" applications. It's about your system architecture. Better to use the right tools for the job.
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Recently, I've taken to just saying this directly. "OMG I'm so sorry X that I haven't called in like months. I'm a total asshole and a terrible friend. Lunch next week?"

"I'm busy" just sounds like "I have more important things than you."
They'd fit if you got creative. You could always put pieces of them in someone else's box. :)
> all you get over a good €1000 bike is some protection from the elements

and speed. http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm
at 200w i would be 50% faster (with no wind) than with a road bike. with wind its far more. imagine going 50km/h or 60km/h with a bicycle
I think for buyers, agents make a lot of sense. Largely, because of how the system works, they're free to buyers, as the seller's pay the agent fees.

Are they really free for the buyer, though? Isn't some of the commission fee being built subconsciously into the price that the seller lists it at? Recent downtown aside, the general upward trend of house prices must at least be buoyed up a bit by those commissions. Surely not every seller just marks the cost up as a loss.

Plus, I've never been quite convinced that any buyer's agent would work as hard as possible to negotiate the price down if their commission is going to be a fixed percent of that price. There's zero incentive to get a better price and very infrequent repeat business from the same customers.
I don't know much about Mr Poole's personal politics, but based on the nature of 4chan it seems pretty hypocritical of him to run to the legal system over someone using an English language word for their product name.

"Yeah, anarchy! Wait, I can't have everything my way?"
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You're mixing in two different things, self diagnosis according to Internet reading, and professional diagnosis which use the DSM for insurance payments. Don't confuse them like this. Professional diagnosis may well be growing faster than you like, but the same is true for prison population which is also based on a very good but imperfect system (juries and trials).
A similar solution would have been to not answer at all. Is there a non-tangential purpose served by answering "Do not wish to disclose" on a non-mandatory poll?
Jurisdiction may be disputed, and yes, in sales disputes it might be decided that Belgium doesn't have jurisdiction over that contract if you have no subsidiaries or other relations there. Still, even in your case the "target" country law does apply for whatever things happen on their side of the border - and it may impact you. Say, if the item is considered illegal there then it may be confiscated at customs, leaving you without the item and payment; and your local courts won't help you there.

But in Google Summer of Code case, if it's treated as 'work for hire' then the host country definitely has jurisdiction as the actual work happens there. And Google has subsidiaries worldwide (used for ad sales), so they can easily be targeted.
It was a very simple question - have you sorted out the legal issues or not?

His lawyers sent you a C&D; you responded to that C&D and now you've launched.

Considering he's been known as moot since 2003, and is known by millions of people as moot, and has a strong link to online discussion forums, I'd think he has an excellent case.

Since, apart from his name, the primary meaning of moot is "closed to debate" (not "open to debate"; you're welcome to provide examples of "moot point" where the meaning is "open to debate" and not "closed to debate") it seems like a weird choice of name.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's been resolved.
If it was a sure bet that doing it would make you rich tomorrow, don't you think there would be scores of people racing to get it done? It's hard to find fruit hanging this low, if coinlab doesn't get it, I have a feeling someone will.
I wouldn't say there was any social engineering here, they asked for some detail's the hacker was able to give them.

This just highlights the problem of having accounts that rely in the same email address that are used for identification.

Also im not sure how the author experts someone to add 5 temp accounts to bypass the Microsoft support, when you would need to have the password and have logged in to add them. In which case there already in the account and wouldn't need to contact Microsoft. (unless there is a way to add Skype contacts without being logged in.)
Is there any evidence to back this up? In terms of consumer products, Google Now is also pretty awesome, and has no interaction with G+ that I've seen.
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That's a good point, although i believe it is natural for pitbulls to be well behaved (in our eyes), but your point is taken.

As far as pitbull biting stats:
1. Pitbull is not a breed; it's an umbrella term for six different breeds.
2. There are _a lot_ of pitbulls in the U.S.
Sales information also does not take into account market factors such as 'days on market' and 'condition' or if it was a retail sale vs short sale vs foreclosure. There is a lot of pricing fluctuation even within a neighborhood with different house models.
I currently work at a startup and am doing grad school for my masters in pattern recognition. The way the grad classes are designed, you should be able to work and go to school at the same time, because pretty much everyone in your class is working currently too (whether it be 30 hrs a week in research or, say, 40 a week at Garmin). The classes are lecture heavy and the homework load is way lighter than undergrad (tougher, yes, but nothing you couldn't finish in a weekend).

tl;dr try and do both if possible, cus it'll only suck for 1 year
Very detailed analysis of different grocery services. I love how the items that were selected with some additional information (freshest milk, ripe avocado, etc…).
You're correct in pointing out that the odds of #FF4A00 being selected randomly are the same as the odds of #EAF7C2 being selected randomly; just as the odds of the Powerball numbers 1 2 3 4 5 P6 being selected randomly are just the same as the odds of the Powerball numbers 1 36 40 52 53 P20 being selected randomly. However, the odds of the former sets being selected non-randomly are greater.
I think you are missing the point that this poll is voluntary. So, the "Do not disclose" option is there -- just click on one of the many other links on HN today, or otherwise do something else with your time. There, you "did not disclose."
> Companies taking responsibility for the actions of their employees is far more grownup than whatever you're suggesting.

Agreed. But firing someone for expressing personal oppinions (if that is what happened, as the article sucgests) isn't "taking responsibility".

> "Twitter isn't even connected to MS. Seriously."
> What a meaningless statement.

You missed my point. The article suggests you can't tweet anything without your employee feeling you are representing them. That would be reasonable if you used the company website to communicate, but the person in the article had used twitter. There is absolutely no reason for a reader to believe he is representing anyone but himself.
If you check the chrome page on fixtracking.com (prepared by DuckDuckGo), it is asking you to uncheck "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar", so what is the point here?It is enabled by default.
"- What if Heroku were giving to kennethreitz or other Heroku employees? They're not (I checked under the hood), but what if?"

That would definitely be shady. What if you paid a substantial portion of an employee's salary under the table like that?
MtGox isn't the only exchange, just the largest.
This is the part where tptacek says CISPA doesn't do anything particularly bad vs. the state of law now, other people express fairly emotional vs. fact based arguments about what bad it could do, and no one (in industry or government or watchdog groups) really knows for sure what CISPA would, in practice, mean, right?
I agree with you over-arching theme...write good tests. So why would I write tests that verify property getters and setters? Why would I write more inline code just so my coverage % goes up?
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If he were to use pushState for this, wouldn't he need a .htaccess (or other means) to point all requests to index.html? Meaning it's not just as easy?
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If they have selected for their data to be sent to someone in their close trust, how is this a problem? The trustee will know they are not actually dead, and may in fact need to intercede, e.g. with the mail trying to reach the unavailable person.

Now for data to be simply erased there's no easy solution, but it's not an option I would ever pick. I mean, at any point in time there may be people depending on me through email, sometimes in remote locations, who would have little way of knowing if anything happened to me. The least I can do is to have a setup that would have someone notify them if I died. I once bought a product from an eBay seller, and upon inquiring on the lateness to ship it, was notified by his brother that he had passed away a few days ago. It happens.
That's been true since the first compiler. There are always going to be people who want the extra speed and are willing to work for it.
Yup. That's going to be the biggest challenge. Wanna help solve it? :)

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/449
Interesting how much Python they use. Perhaps they'll add Python hosting as well?
Maybe POSIXLY_CORRECT was probably a bad example as it's not necessarily a heavily used option. On the other hand, no one is crying 'censorship' (or stifling of artistic creativity) because RMS didn't name it POSIX_ME_HARDER.

| It's open source, so someone could fork it
| with a new identity.

We've seen this happen before (e.g. OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Jenkins/Hudson). Just because it's an option doesn't mean that people can't complain about the decisions that cause these splits.
> In that case, yeah, it's absolutely your fault.

No. It's not. It's the fault of the thief.

> Put it another way, if you lent your laptop to a friend, and they left it on the table like that and it was stolen, would you really find your friend blameless? Would you lend them a laptop again?

I wouldn't lend it to them again because they are careless and didn't take sensible precautions. I wouldn't find them at fault for the theft.
"Here is a tldr if you don't have the time though" - Nice. I see what you did there.
I think you mean "it's"
If I wanted to compress 100:1, how would I select which words would be the "heads" of my chains?

Choose every 100 words in the dictionary?

Is there a risk of not getting complete coverage? Example: I keep applying the one-way function to the ciphertext, but the result is never an endpoint of one of my precomputed chains.
As a casual observer, a second Thanks. It's really really nice to see someone on the internet say the equivalent of "sorry, I was wrong."
For someone like me with relatively new django skills, I felt the book gave me a very good feel for best practices used in the community; I feel the authors did a good balancing act of informing readers of the best options available while being firmly opinionated where necessary.
A cryptography cat-and-mouse game would be very, very interesting; secure channels can be used to secretly architect new channels, whereas broken channels can uncover secret methods and identify nodes in order to break more channels. (I suppose it's not much different than the Drug War or WW2; most wars revolve heavily around information.)

It would take some serious marketing effort to convince most Americans that encrypted communication must imply criminality, but sadly, it could be done.
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We've sorted it out. We found out that there is no case.
This poll was optional, and you could have simply ignored it.

Your action was exactly the type of thing PG's talking about. In the past, the community at large either would have been truthful or simply not responded. Now, a significant portion of the community is responding non-truthfully. Your motivation doesn't matter: whether it was "not believing in the honor system", or "protesting against the poll", or anything else, you still contributed to the pollution of the data.
This stuff can get funny depending on peering agreements. When mapping our network we discovered that our Baltimore provider was routing through Europe on the way to New York [1].

You can take a deeper look at how we get to your box with http://wheresitup.com/ which should return your traceroute as well.

[1] http://wonderproxyblog.com/2011/02/09/miles-per-milisecond/
While I agree that saying "I'm busy" can come off as "I'm super important," I often use it as fill in for "I want to be alone with my thoughts." Often that helps me feel more joy and mindfulness in my work because my focus isn't as splintered. But I also procrastinate heavily, usually depends on the type of work and how interested I am in it. The interplay between mood, goals, self-control, work ethic, passion, etc is complicated. Things like this, breaking down tasks and reorienting them sounds incredibly beneficial, I'm just too busy to start.
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Is there any internationalization planed?

Edit: forgot to say: i'ts awesome!
I'd like to buy, but ... in the spirit of only pursuing immediately-relevant and -actionable information, is there anything in here about outsourcing, and lessening the time expended on repetitive tasks? 4HWW-type material?

Cheers!
I will have to rethink my life plans of outfitting a Tesla Sports car with functioning Tesla Coils. Noone outside of me will care about it, and if it's not external respect, it ain't no respect at all. Having some fun (with dangerously high voltages)? Don't make me laugh.

I mean yes, if you don't enjoy the smell of coronal discharge and smoldering tank capacitors (They're both toxic smells by the way), and you just build one for show, you're not going to win anything. But if you're absolutely obsessed with modding/hacking/knitting/whatever, you don't care about winning anything, just the process of doing, as self-help-book-like that might sound.
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Thank you!
I've lately been thinking about what would happen to all my digital data if I died unexpectedly, so I find this post quite timely. However, I wanted a scheme that did not rely on any single provider. Instead, I split up my master password using secret sharing and distributed the shares to trusted parties. A quorum of them could recover the password and thus my data -- not just gmail, but all my online accounts. I wrote up the details here: http://mrgris.com/blog/2013-03-27-survivorship-in-the-digita...
Few things are truly all good or all bad. Google can do shitty things, be imperfect, and it doesn't mean they still aren't a good company. But we should still be allowed to discuss things they do wrong without being called "spoiled children".
Not just knowing your code works, being able to capture what the code is supposed to do for the next person that comes along.

For example, this week I've been working on refactoring some code that had some performance problems. Digging into the code I found a lot of confusing logic and had to waste a lot of time stepping through the code trying to understand what it was doing.

If there were unit tests, I could have treated it as a replaceable black box.
That's funny, I always get confused and disappointed when hearing/reading people talk about "ML" only to realize they're talking about "machine learning" and not Milner's ML ... I hadn't thought there might be yet another overloaded definition.