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OK, so what about the allegation that the developer in question "has taken proprietary source code from inside of our application and posted it as a GitHub project"? Was there any of GrooveShark's actual code that was distributed without permission? Because that's what your lawyer told GitHub in order to get it taken down.
Worth mentioning, the "used game fees" thing is highly disputed right now. There are different people within Microsoft and within official channels who are saying different things.
This is not about the code, just binaries or other kinds of download
So they don't QA the first patch, but they'll QA the second patch? I don't follow your logic.
Amazon had to match Apple's price model (or at least maintain a facade of doing so — in fact amazon's royalties only come close to matching Apple's for books under $10). It's hard to compete with someone who sells at a loss to grow market share with no apparent sustainable business model in mind. What's really odd is that Amazon's investors are perfectly happy with this.
How does this stack up to Google Image Search (type:gif)?

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=type%3Agif
Seems like you didn't read the second part of the article. But if you really can't be bothered to offer support, you better be darn good at designing your product in the first place. And even then you're leaving huge amounts of potential on the table.
This is very common usage, though technically incorrect. The poster meant 50 cents.
Would the whey be usable for production of protein supplements[0], or is it too acidic? It seems like a fairly major industry.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey_protein
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The government is setting a price on the previously unpaid externality of carbon emissions.
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I think it's partially to prove the philosophy of bitcoin--it can be a successful currency without any central authority. Even the original creator is eventually unnecessary and need not be known for the system to function.
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>so her solution was merely down the drain.

Suppose greek yogurt hadn't taken off in the US & remained a niche product for some health-freaks, then Dannon & Chobani would also throw it down the drain & we'd be none the wiser. The product has taken off in a way no one imagined. At the supermarkets, I see not just athletes but positively obese masses loading up on greek yogurt in some mistaken belief that it can compensate for their other excesses with soda pop & candy. Greek yogurt sells out even after they price it at $6! Clearly, we need an industrial solution to get rid of the byproduct, if we are going to manufacture the damn thing on an industrial scale.
Did you really just compare Google to a totalitarian regime responsible for millions of deaths?
Voluntarily it would take a lot to resist making maximal short-term profits from gas guzzlers for long term unproven gains such as the ones Musk's company has been doing. Are you saying governments shouldn't institute any regulations, including carbon credit systems, and everything should be decided by the free market?

Sure, it's not voluntary, but then again neither is most of the stuff that producers of things do. The consumer demand is the taskmaster, and thanks to government regulations, so is the public interest, in the form of policies designed to reduce carbon emissions and pollution.

I think unqualified free market advocacy amounts to basically a wish for there to be consumer interest only, without any system for representing public interest that uses any signal other than money. But taken to its extreme, the absence of any system to balance the money signal can lead to things like buying up lakes to dump in, or buying up all the judges in a town, just because you can pay off enough people. In a completely free market, if you are rich enough, you can theoretically buy enough institutions and mercenaries and set up enough corrupt judges to let you kill people for fun.
Once speculation has been that since he's likely to own a significant fraction of the existing bitcoins, he and his family may be threatened/kidnapped/etc if his identity becomes public.

There are many "rich people" around the world but their wealth isn't usually found in an untraceable, liquid form
Seems like it would be trivial for the various admins of mailing lists, forums, newsgroups, etc.. to just see what IP "satoshin@gmx.com" posted under.

I am sure a select people know who/whom 'satoshi' is

I believe the reason for not wanting to be found out is 2 fold-

1: The answer could have a substantial effect on bitcoin prices, since such a large portion is held by one entity. If that entity is something other than a charismatic, reclusive japanese guy, could be weird. How would we feel if zynga == satoshi (obviously not likely)

2: Lottery syndrome. Not wanting to risk being kidnapped or begged for money from friends. If what is said is true, this guy is worth a serious amount of money now.
Thanks. At 4MB that's 500,000 downloads a month. Awesome work.
I don't remember getting a check from tesla nor was I asked permission to loan them money . The whole absurdity of "greater common good"
I don't really have much of an opinion on the news itself, but I'm curious how they decided on January 14th / 15th as the cut-off date. It seems sort of arbitrary.
That's the biggest fail from the announcement. Microsoft mentioned a number of things that are guaranteed to provoke gamers, like used game fees and always-on DRM, then refused to clarify any of them. Some reporters present got flat refusals to answer questions while others were given different answers depending on who they talked to.
There's a big difference between cutting soda because you're flaming out, and cutting soda because the company hired "professional management". The former is penny stupid, but the latter is pound dumb.

Unless you're filling swimming pools with soda or something, drink and snack expenses are rounding error on the salaries of your people. If it comes down to the free drinks, something else is broken. The real tragedy is when idiot bean-counters take over, and start imposing these sorts of nit-picky cost-controls because "that's what big companies do".

It takes a strong leader to stand up for company culture, because these sorts of issues often look like they're too small to be worth a fight. You grow to 200, 500, 1000 employees, and before long, you have to go out of your way to pull the Senior Bean-Counter for Drink Expenses aside and tell him to back off. That's when the bad stuff happens.
And has your twitter credentials? Then you are SOL, same as with most other TFA systems out there.
My knowledge of this comes directly from the Levchin interview in Founders at Work by YC's own Jessica Livingston. I consider that a primary source.

Regarding the name, PayPal the product -- which included a web app and not just the Palm Pilot product -- launched before the merger. I remember evaluating both x.com and paypal when I was in high school selling computer parts on auction -- at Haggle.com.

Finally, starting your comment with "Sigh, blah blah middlebrow blah blah" just kind of makes you seem.... yeah.
Anyone who corrects me on how I pronounce GIF is just as much a pompous jack ass as the person that would correct me on how I pronounce tomato, potato, schedule, apricot or pecan.
If this is the same whey as in whey protein… Whey prices are THROUGH THE ROOF the last couple of years owing to inflation and large purchasers drying up supply.
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For those that don't know, Jason is the editor in chief of MIT Technology Review.
Exactly. But why would he be touchy about an employee providing feedback? Where I work that's the escalation path, talk to your manager about things that bother you or that you're not comfortable with. A manager refusing to take my criticism means either the manager is failing at his job or that he's incapable of doing his job.

A simple, "I'll bring it up in our next meeting" would soothe me over much more than arguing over semantics and entitlement with me. Or even just being sympathetic: "Yeah, I know it sucks, but them accountants needed something to trim this quarter!".

But the defensive reaction tells me there is something lurking underneath the surface, be it frustration or resentment.
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Some possible reasons are:

- He's just too humble to want the fame. Gavin Andresen could then be a likely candidate.

- Scared, maybe by what happened to Julian Assange. However, unlike WikiLeaks, it's hard to imagine what law Bitcoin breaks.

- He wanted to make money off it and move on. That would suggest Jed McCaleb, who founded and then sold MtGox.

Other reasons?
We'll see if Bitbucket takes these kind of drastic measures. Anyway, I don't understand one thing: why is it safer to let developers host the download files on their drive? What's the difference, really? Nobody could upload the files anonymously, could they? Perhaps it's just a way to 'encourage' people to use the drive?
You are absolutely right. I've been using GV as my general number since 2009 and I do not recall this feature not being there. It is quite handy for me when I'm overseas - not paying any roaming charges to make/receive calls - but there is nothing new or disruptive in this.
Satoshi could be sitting on a stash of roughly one million bitcoins, worth ~$120 million at today’s exchange rate.

I just love the idea of someone creating a crypto-currency in order to amass a fortune. That's higher-level entrepreneurship, for sure.
I'm guessing he would have bounced these through various proxies, tor nodes,whathaveyou.
It's a different whey, although they're trying to use it for the same supplement market.
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- Scared, maybe by what happened to Julian Assange. However, unlike WikiLeaks, it's hard to imagine what law Bitcoin breaks.

A determined government could probably concoct something if it became determined to do so.
I think that all biscuits combined make for all greek yogurt combined. We're talking comparable output here. Of course, not all recipes win from using whey, but that will seriously soften the problem already.
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Only if those operations become more expensive as the problem size grows. The point of asymptotic analysis is the relationship between problem size and expense, not the expense of individual operations.

To put it another way, imagine an strange implementation of quicksort that caused a cache miss on every comparison and every swap, and an implementation of bubble sort that hardly ever caused a cache miss. Which would you use in your code?
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I would think a guy who developed an extremely forward-thinking semi-anonymous crypto-currency would know how to adequately obfuscate his identity.
Not the case apparently:

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/01/lancor-sues-non...
That choice of prioritization of targets could reasonably be interpreted as circumstantial evidence of fraud, because it bears strong semblance to how certain criminals behave (e.g. people who steal from old ladies).

Common sense for honest folk suggests you go after people with money when you have a legitimate claim -- in other words, go after the large businesses whose violation of your rights will look embarrassing under the bright lights of a courtroom. The alleged troll is choosing the opposite strategy.
The article gives example of e-gold creators who were charged months before Bitcoin came out. Sounds like a good reason to stay anonymous.
Several indie game makers I've talked to are really excited about this for all these reasons + the low barrier of entry ($99).
Simultaneously brilliant and hilarious :)
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He's not wrong. Nothing about the statement infringes on any copyright or intellectual property.

"The NYT spent hundreds of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour."

I just said it, myself. That's not a copyright infringement. Anyone asserting that it is is wrong. The NYTimes has every right to be unhappy that this statement exists, but they have absolutely no right to demand it be removed.
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> If this is the same whey as in whey protein... Whey prices are THROUGH THE ROOF the last couple of years owing to inflation and large purchasers drying up supply.

Whey protein is usually processed from whey that is a byproduct of cheesemaking; as the article notes, the acid whey from making Greek yogurt is much more acidic, and has much lower protein concentration; while it is probably possible to extract whey protein from it it is a much poorer source of it than the whey from cheesemaking (and given the apparently huge supply and the rather visible market for whey to supply the supplement, etc., industry, I suspect if it were even marginally economically viable for that use, we wouldn't have articles like the one here.)
You might want to display some kind of prompt to the user, when they change a setting, to tell them they should create an account. Probably would also help your conversion rates too.
Albums, grouping, events etc...
For that matter, with BTSync I can share my project's git repository with a read-only "secret" (identifier, like a magnet link) and cut out google code/github, etc, all together (now, if only there were a foss version).
Careful, Jobs-hero worship is still quite high.
When we make yogurt (greek), I make a chocholate shake with the whey. It's quite good like that when cold.
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Hurd has been in development since 1990, Tanenbaum–Torvalds was 92. The shipping and loading of drivers separately from the kernel was a micro-kernel advantage and Linux being able to do the same is a move towards micro-kernel features in Linux (fuse and cuse being others).
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I don't get your negativity here.

It didn't read as negative.
No, it should be written $0.50 per cup or 50 cents per cup :)

Verizon Wireless had an issue with charging for wireless data like this a few years ago that made for a funny story.
>> GM paid back it's debt in full, but it paid most of it back in stock. ... the government needs to sell at something like $75/share to make their money back, but it's at $33 as I write this.

So they "paid" their debt with something that 1) isn't worth enough to cover their debt and may never be 2) gives the government a financial interest in continuing to keep them afloat.

Pretty nice deal if you can get it.
Bitcoin is not untraceable (far from it), but if I were him this would be my reason for staying anonymous. I would not trust my safety to other people not trusting mixers.
or maybe the problem is that "not doing as well financially" is not identical to "starving to death in poverty"?
I guess I haven't thought about competition for employees - I've only tended to think of the situation as employees competing for jobs. Does competition for employees only tend to happen in places like SF?
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Perhaps the reasons he gave are genuine - he didn't want to get stuck in the 'maintainter' role a la Linus Torvalds. He created a practical implementation of his white paper, with resounding success, and that is the end of his interest in it.
Totally possible- But theres always that chance he didnt, or that he also stayed logged into whatever vpn on another account at the same time, etc..
As far as the lactose intolerance, I think it is indirectly referenced in this line from the article:

It’s also sort of like feeding your cows candy bars — they like it, but shouldn’t eat too much or it upsets their digestive system.
The threshold for using "broken" now is the presence of any imperfection in any process, its an abuse of the word. Hiring is imperfect, but its been moving in the right direction.

Most companies ask programmers to come in, solve some problems on the board, and then pay them a generous salary if they succeed at it. How is this in any way "broken"?

A casting couch is an example of "broken" and corrupt hiring, we have nothing of the sort.
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These benchmarks were taken with Criterium, which performs JIT warming, GC purge, final GC, retains results for each run, isolates outliers, etc.
The list of shell companies is amazing.
Wait, SMS does not have a delivery guarantee, right? How can they implement a reliable 2FA system on asking the user if they received a text or not?
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If one big player in the last generation had welcomed indie devs, it is likely that games like Minecraft and Braid would have been exclusive to their platform. As it was, Microsoft was more open by offering publishing deals. They needed publishing deals in the current generation because there was no other option.
What's absurd about it? If pollution has bad and expensive effects (asthma, flooding, crop loss), those creating it should pay to help deal with it. It's like paying to have your own trash picked up instead of dumping it in your neighbor's yard.

If you doubt that pollution is bad, that's another story, but you're in the minority and outvoted.
You may be right on this ... spoofing is still an aggravation because of the bouncing. Most of the time I haven't been able to find out exactly _why_ a particular provider has an issue (not blacklists), only ask for them to change their mind.
Couldn't agree more.

I'm not using SMS on any of my 2-step-auth services because I don't want to be locked into owning that phone number (and worry about roaming charges if I travel).

Google Authenticator or similar apps are my first choice.
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Cool! I'll shoot you an email tonight!
Thank you for all those precious advices, it means a lot to me.

I'll start blogging as soon as I've got something new and interesting.

I need to show what I can do, I'm currently studying and I feel like I haven't a lot of opportunities to really show off my skills because the level of recquirements is not high enough, that's frustrating sometimes.

I agree that a blog could be a good solution, I also enjoy writing articles even if my English is not the best.

I'll keep you informed if you enjoy receiving news from random internet people.

I'll certainly think about some softwares I'd like to analyze during the next few days and start working on finding bugs/vulnerabilities/things interesting.
Exactly, I prefer this feet-to-the-fire hiring process that we have now by far to the previous "hire him if he looks and sounds good" which results in far too many bs artists working in the field.
I hacked up my own in March. I didn't even know Google Reader was closing. I just got tired of the features that other readers didn't have. It's a console application, which I realize has limited utility for most people, but it is very powerful and provides many multi-tool functions that could be useful to someone.

http://github.com/gmn/rsstool

There are screen shots and some instructions on the wiki.
I remember pg posting something along the lines of: if I wanted to write a bullet proof article it would be so long and involved that no one would want to read it and I wouldn't want to write it. I agree, and hence we'll always be nitpicked, especially if we write for a relatively broad, naive audience.
Do you have any links to anyone clearly disputing it? Because I haven't seen any. The closest I've seen is a guy saying, effectively, "Of course we wouldn't do that! Unless it's a used game. We don't want to talk about that case yet."
From the article: "The resulting whey is roughly as acidic as orange juice. It’s almost entirely made up of water... and a very small amount of proteins."
Great! I'll hit you up tonight!
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Would google analytics do the trick?
No, he means the application logic should be on the server side, not in the browser. I doubt he has a problem with server-side Node.js.
Yeah, Google Talk will probably be included on the third spring cleaning list. When Google drops support for XMPP federation, it will be because they are killing an entire product. It will not be because they are disabling a feature.
Ok, so what is stopping someone from copying the bitcoin model?
Neat, I'm looking at it right now!
They can't. That's my point. If they would text you a code and ask you to enter it, then they can infer successful delivery. They don't do that, which means that you can turn on 2FA against a phone number you don't own and completely lock yourself out.

Better yet: They don't have any concept of "trusted devices", so you have to do the 2FA dance every time you log in regardless of whether you've 2FA authed on that device before or not. This means that if you've lost your phone and your desktop session has expired, you can't get back in to turn 2FA off, again meaning that you're completely locked out.
No one has run a search for "Satoshi Nakamoto" on all japanese goverment databases ? We might might get a subset that has some skill with math.
Note that a lot of the best info is actually in the user comments anyway. Some of the arguments there are very enlightening, and uncover good points that the article didn't touch (even if you look at all the pages, the article was pretty brief and short on analysis).
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I haven't read the article since I honestly don't care about trying to manipulate my "influence", but I've seen friends with 1000+ facebook friends who don't care in the slightest about personal branding and influence and whatnot, so we certainly shouldn't equate "many Fb friends" as an indicator of "slimeball" either (though I've seen those too)
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My point is that if you want to become successful, you need to adapt to the reality that exists.

The faster you learn this, the better.
Crony capitalism is one of the few issues both Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye on. Each party has their specific business favorites, but it's sadly a bipartisan problem.
I agree that code should not be a goal in itself, but you miss the point.

Apple is preaching engineering excellence through their campaigns and products. In the Apple World, the quality of a product is not something you assess only depending on the money it makes.
This has always been my thought on the matter. I am surprised there's a controversy. The only times I've heard it pronounced 'jif' is by people unsure of the pronunciation and quickly corrected.
I would sort of expect it to be less problematic for ruminants to have bacteria digesting sugar for them.

It's also going to be a relatively small proportion of the feed.
> he would alternate between British and American spellings and colloquialisms, which could mean that he was trying to mask his nationality or that Satoshi is actually more than one person

Or he's Canadian :)
Takipi lets you attach your own source code to the project, so you will see your original source code when viewing exceptions and other events, instead of decompiled Java.
Support for prettier stack traces is in the planning.
From what I can tell buying a physical disk gives you an activation key that you apply to your console. Any profile on your console can play that game. If you bring the disk to another console and use your profile, you can also play the game. If you try to use the game on another console and profile, you either have to buy another copy or transfer the license from your profile to theirs.