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This is why I think something blinded is essential; your unlinkability (and thus anonymity) are essentially as strong as cryptography, vs. policy.

I'm still trying to figure out if Zerocoin or another decentralized system can work, or if it will require just having a large number of redundant small-but-individually-centralized blinded currencies. You can make each pretty resilient (hidden behind tor or message pools/offline, k of n threshold cryptography, etc.), but if there are 1000 USD currencies, you can hedge and accept the loss of a few and lose only a small percentage of assets.
The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'.

Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?
You're probably right. I believe that this is using a the system described in this paper:

http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0534.pdf

Google 'acquired' Professor Hinton along with the two co-authors of this paper earlier this year.
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This raises the question of how much we users can trust any for-profit corporation, since at some point that corporation will value its own profit above our intersts. One possible answer is that we can trust them with short-term transactions, but not with any kind of long-term relationship, especially one that's hard to get out of.
E-Gold got used for carders (a lot), HYIPs/moneygames, and, most regrettably, child pornography (this is all in court documents; I consulted for E-Gold and worked on an affiliated project back in 1998-1999, about a decade before the prosecution). It was funny running into Carol Van Cleef, a lawyer from Patton Boggs, who defended E-Gold after they were convicted (in implementing the agreement), at the Bitcoin 2013 conference (she knew my name from docs, but we'd never met).

E-Gold actually was helping prosecutors vs. the carders/cp people, and maintaining files on them/actively working with law enforcement, but when it became a criminal case about E-Gold, that information was used as evidence the system itself supported these activities.

LR is probably in the same position; I know they have essentially the same market positioning.
To be fair, most people misconstrue the moral of the fable as being about envy and bitterness, when it's mainly about rationalization to make one feel better about something unachievable or missed.
I am going to be "that guy" but let me quote something from that wired article about Xanadu and Ted Nelson I read every few years:

> [...] Jellinghaus also began to question whether a hypertext revolution required the perfect preservation of all knowledge. He saw the beauty of the Xanadu dream - "How do you codify all the information in the world in a way that is infinitely scalable?" - but he suspected that human society might not benefit from a perfect technological memory. Thinking is based on selection and weeding out; remembering everything is strangely similar to forgetting everything. "Maybe most things that people do shouldn't be remembered," Jellinghaus says. "Maybe forgetting is good."

Regarding your implementation problem regarding things that must be done: why not simply grep txt files and decide on a simple set of symbol (eg: X,*,1,etc.) to put in front of lines that have to be processed later on ?

Revisit those txt files later for a good read and see what comes out ?
Piss off. Did you consider adding a disclaimer indicating English is not your native language?
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We're already doing the first item, as dbuapp mentioned. Actually, we aren't doing it for fun—we're fine with keeping along some C++ for practicality's sake if it's working and we have higher-priority things to do, but the performance of the old scheduler is not where we need it to be, and a rewrite of much of the scheduling code was necessary. Doing it in Rust made sense from a safety and integration standpoint.

Early I/O performance numbers for the new scheduler are quite encouraging. (Nothing to post yet, as we need to do more measurements before we can definitively talk about performance, but you can find numbers in the issue tracker if you're curious.)
Does not surprise me at all. Almost every cyber crime forum (Damagelab, exploit.in, Darkode, carder.pro, opensc etc) used Liberty Reserve (LR) to receive payments for malware, credit cards, personal information and other illegal content. This used LR because the payments could not be reversed and because the company did not comply with law enforcement.

Not to worry though, Bitcoin seems to be getting more and more popular among these forums and will probably take over.
Wow, after reading a dozen or so responses, I still don't really get it.
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Yeah, whatever the solution is, I think it has to be something massively decentralized and blinded.

I've been speculating that a distributed double-blind commodities ownership system might fit the bill. Some people buy commodities and hold them, then distribute ownership cryptographically. Owners never know holders, only the definition of what they own. Ownership is transferred cryptographically.

Still needs a lot of work, though, even as a blue-sky idea.
You don't even need a source for this, it should be obvious that it's used for that.
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The Rust compiler doesn't really generate code targeting a runtime in the traditional sense. Rather it generates calls to various "language items" known to the compiler, which are usually defined in the standard library. (Lang items are the Rust equivalent of C++ things like "operator new".)

This is simply a tiny alternate implementation of all the lang items on top of the C library.
Discourse sell dedicated server solutions, so I don't know how much of a problem it is to them, though. Maybe it'll mean more people use their solution instead of rolling their own.

Just from a cynical commercial point of view.
Hmmm? The Dodd-Frank Act as of July 21, 2010 excluded an accredited investor's primary residence in counting their wealth (although for many I'm sure that was closing the barn door after the house's value plummeted), but I don't remember anything like that in SarBox (the accredited investor restriction goes back to 1933, thank you FDR).
Pull with rebase: yes, that's how it works. You can also make it the default behavior globally or per-repository if you prefer.
If the future civilization is advanced then the warnings are unnecessary. They already have the technology to deal with radiation, in fact it is possible that a future civilization would want to mine one of these sites for fuel. This is actually why I feel the whole exercise is pointless.
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Honestly, I think you're too bitter/pessimistic, even if more than sufficiently technically competent, to be an effective EIR (or VC/angel, or founder of a VC-funded company), at least now.

I actually think that a bit of so-called "depressive realism" is in order. Sure, it needs to be tempered with some optimism, but you need at least one guy with the winter-traveler insight and the courage to say, "Groupon for cat food sounds like a terrible idea!" Sadly, people like us are not well-received because we tend to haul out the truth when it's not wanted.

But yes, a less-bitter version of you might be a good EIR, although I think it usually comes from "founder of a company funded by the firm has a midsize exit", not out of the blue.

So you have to be born into the club to have that option? Not surprising.

Like I said, the future's not going to come from the people born into VC connections. I don't know where it's going to start and when, but I'm optimistic enough to believe that Real Technology is coming back. I see it already, but not in the high cost-of-living areas.
Well, that's just "anyone can run a currency"; they don't have to be commodities necessarily; they could be any kind of financial asset. Commodities are maybe easier to trust (I trust you if you say and can easily document possession of 100kg of gold, vs. "promise to repay a loan"), but are neither necessary nor sufficient.

Ripple (non-anonymous) and OpenTransactions (potentially anonymous using blinded tokens issued by each participant) kind of take that model.

What I'm unclear on is if Zerocoin can be efficient enough, maybe given an optimized, scrypt-based blockchain underlying, to work with either of those as a base, globally decentralized currency.

I might like Ripple a lot more if XRP got replaced with Zerocoin. Once Ripple's software is open sourced, it wouldn't be too hard to rip XRP out and replace it with Bitcoin or Zerocoin or anything else.
Yup! bandwidth is a major issue.
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> bad people many times use e-currency for repulsive things like child slavery

Do people not use fiat currency, as well, for repulsive things like child slavery?
A PhD does not take at least 5 years, I did mine in just under 3 and am now 2 years in to a startup I founded which will take at least 5 years.

I think the post is meant to be about an American PhD program, not a European one. 3-year PhDs in the US are pretty rare.
You mean exactly the same way that pound sterling and dollar are used for illegal things too?
The ZeroCoin extension to bitcoin addresses this, perhaps it should be taken up

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-mak...
PhD's and Startups are similar enough experiences that they can be constrasted. Every PhD is unique - REALLY unique and only a few people in the world understand. Startups these days seem to be as individual.

I agree that PhD's and startups have similar elements of risk. In both spaces, it's possible to stick to safe ideas or ideas that don't meet approval of your colleagues.

Startups teach you to be responsible for your own ideas, in a way the PhD system does not.

Not every PhD student has a scholarship. The ones who don't get a fellowship, tend not to accept. The ones that do get money still don't really understand where that money comes from.
Hmm. the location seems to be here: http://goo.gl/maps/PMUSl on the outskirts of Tokyo. I'm not sure why it's significant.. Is the ruby language going to be maintained in github in 4 days? (just a total guess).
Yes, but it wouldn't work very well if some EU governments introduced it and some didn't as you would still have freedom of movement within the EU.
I have to say that I never expected to see the iconic black and white portrait of a Daft Punk helmet in the Wall Street Journal. That just happened.

Interesting to see them branch out into this subject matter. The related article on how they've managed to market their album is more their speed.
Thanks for pointing that out. My understanding of standard was that it is something which is agreed upon and then used. But now this standard is some kind of irreversible pre-standard.

More on this is going with web-components:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/polymer-...
Hehe, I came here to point this out as well. People are all too quick to jump on the "e-currency is for bad things!" band wagon thinking their precious pounds and dollars are squeaky clean.
Although the author didn't go to college and had a low GPA in High School, it's evident he had a penchant for math, and therefore grasped advanced Computer Science concepts.

Now take a high school graduate who sucks at math, but may be a great web developer. My advice to them, should they want to work at Google, is graduate from college.
WebKit removed a lot of the ShadowDOM (upon which polymer rests, with a polyfill for non-native ShadowDOM) code after the Blink divorce because it was really complicated. So that's not super positive.

Less related to polymer, I feel like a lot of proposed standards get implemented in Blink/Moz when one could accomplish the same thing with a polyfill to see if it's a good design or not. ShadowDOM is an example of this as it exposes a huge new interface surface area. Mutation Observers are a good counter-example since it's a small API and is well defined.
The only interesting aspect of this article to me is the continued rise of cottage industries like this. The internet facilitates connecting people of ability (hardware hackers) with their potential patrons.

Too bad these fans can't be creative and industrious themselves. I'd love to read about a sharing community (plans and schematics) built up solely on reproducing these sorts of artifacts.
Object recognition also works on videos, judging from the fact that a recording of my cat came up in search results for “dog”. (Could be that it only looks at the first frame, though.)
The good news: there seems to be no well-documented correlation between upper-tier IQ and mental illness. At a measured IQ of 150, you're no more or less likely to have mental health issues than at 100. You can rest easy now (sort of). Technically speaking, your high IQ is not going to make you crazy or depressed.

The bad news: beyond about a 125 IQ, it's the CCCP (courage, creativity, curiosity, passion) that actually matter as predictors of creative achievement, and those correlate slightly positively with biological mental illness[0], and very strongly with induced mental illness due to social adversity.

Society makes sure that the best people have fucked-up lives. That's well-documented. Fucked-up lives lead to mental illness. Also well-documented.
I've found that there is a mindset out there that ops should be the sole responsibility of developers. They wrote the code, they should own the running of the service. This mindset falls down on two key reasons:

1) Not all developers are good at ops. Issues aren't always related to the code. Platform choices come into play and all the characteristics of a particular platform aren't necessarily known to developers.

2) In companies where developers are pushed hard -- It's a startup!, We must deliver! (the typical death march) -- after 60+ hour weeks, one's trouble shooting skills aren't the best.

In the last 3-4 startups I've been involved with, I've been one of a small handful of people who can do ops as well as code (across a myriad of technologies) and have pushed for engineering to provide as much logging, documentation, and guidance to ops when the company deems them relevant; when ops is considered part of dev, I pushed for getting some basic ops in house (the two instances I can think of were the 'weekends are in the schedule' type startups).
What would you really do?
In fairness, I think they were trying to point out that the idea there might be a correlation between intelligence and depression has been around for a long time:

"Aristotle introduced a quantitative factor, asserting that levels of melancholy and black bile are positively correlated; however, under a given threshold of black bile, it can give rise to an exceptional being"

The fact that Aristotle thought "black bile" was responsible for both is neither here not there, but just a necessary context to understand the quotation.
I think you're looking for a different kind of "Hacker News".

The word "hacker", as used around here, has more to do with the creative process.

Often one of us might say we're hacking rackspace or we're hacking rails -- but that doesn't mean we're breaking into those things -- it means that the legit work we're doing is focussed in that area.

However, the answer to your question on programming language is: it doesn't matter.

Just pick one.

Python is pretty easy to get started with -- so that's a thought. But I'd encourage you to use whatever skills you learn for the greater good (not that it's any of my business).
Why do so many people have such trouble with this simple concept?

Git isn't complicated, you just have to understand that a git repository is composed of two things:

1) The index which is the git information about all your files (ie. .git/)

2) The files you currently have checked out.

When you git fetch, you update the index, nothing else.

When you git merge or git rebase or reset or checkout, you update your files from the index.

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It makes me extremely sad to see this repeated over and over and people don't get it.
Drawing is certainly NOT a key foundation skill for learning design (at least if we're talking about designing websites and user interfaces). Certainly not on the same level as typography, for example.

I think a good equivalent would be math and programming. Being good at math can certainly help with some things, but if someone asked me how to become a Rails developer I would not suggest they start by learning math.
As the article mentions, Harry Eastlack's skeleton is on display -- along with many other medical anomalies -- at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. It's an interesting museum and definitely worth a visit if you are nearby:

http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/mutter-museum/
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Physical cash is decentralized and used for a lot of bad stuff. However, it's not digital/online, so there are a lot of ways it's not useful, and it's also easier to investigate in some ways (bulk currency smuggled out of the country can be tracked the same way drugs coming in are tracked.)

Bank/etc. operated payment systems, at least the above-board ones, at least pay some level of attention to AML, anti other criminal activity, etc. It's not uniformly effective, sure, but it's hard to operate a large child-porn-for-Visa merchant, and visa/card issuers/gateways tend to cooperate fully with various government agencies in both stopping the activity and in catching/prosecuting the offenders.
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As it stands now, zerocoin is infeasible for practical use. A single proof averages 40kb, and takes about to two seconds to verify. Still, it was the first attempt at such a ptotocal, so hopefully we will see improvement.
I know it's used for child pornography, carding and malware related incomes but not for child slavery.

From the little I saw on underground forums LR is used for mid to low criminal incomes, by the like of botnet herding profits and carding infos trade.
For things bigger and riskier like cashing out massive amounts of stolen cards and bank drops it's my understanding that cybercrooks are using money mule schemes and networks of off shore companies, not LR or similar... I'd flag child slavery as an high risk activity which can't be done just trough LR-like currencies, that's why I was asking for some sources.
Online transaction providers, like Liberty Reserve, Paypal, credit card processors, your bank's website, and so on, are really not digital currencies at all... they are transaction processors.

Bitcoin, and things resembling it are actual cryptocurrencies and something we could truly call an e-currency.
It's about as trackable as cash (in that it can be tracked but it takes very significant effort, and it can be traded like cash.. it's much more than a number in some database.)
I would be more grateful for one good word processor than another half baked fork of MS office.
> "The office suite was built with NetBeans"

The code was written in Netbeans? The code uses the Netbeans platform (which rocks). Or both?
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You should check out Microcosm (http://microco.sm/), which is my favourite of the upcoming paid forum CMSes out there.

The API documentation for Microcosm is seriously impressive, especially at this stage: http://microcosm-cc.github.io/.

I have my own pet project at http://pony-forum.com, but it’s more of a hobby project at the moment. But I think it’s also too early for non-technical users to use the CMSes listed in the article; they’re more like alpha or beta versions at this point.
I think you have to go with the early bank model: keep something of value, then issue paper (in our case proof of ownership) against it. The trick here is that both the bank and the owner can be hidden. And there can be a million of each. We live in an information age where this can scale out wonderfully.

The thing about commodities is that they "plug into" a pre-existing worldwide commodity market. There are futures markets, places to store them, third-party methods to transport, insurance, and so forth. You can have a standard underlying type of thing to value. Things like promissory notes become much more difficult to value. Not impossible, though. The problem is that in order to understand and predict attacks on the currency, you don't want lots of things with different underlying physical realities.

There are two questions here. The first one, as you point out, is risk. The second one is the applicability of international ownership laws. If government X shuts down E-currency #48, everybody gets nothing. But in a decentralized system, if everybody can prove ownership of some tangible item, it might be possible to not lose your shirt. I'd much rather be making a case that these anonymous eight people owe me 10kg of gold -- and demand the government allow me to access it -- than asking for, say, something completely virtual and esoteric like Bitcoin. Asking for my physical property is well-covered by international law. Asking for some cryptographic stuff? You're back into uncharted waters.
opensc is not a cyber crime forum. Greyhat at most.
Cash doesn't have a public record of (nearly) all transaction
True, but you can also produce instrumented binaries for the same purpose.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune-amplifier-xe

The thing is many developers don't want to pay for such tooling in the age of free.
You're missing two dimensions in your analysis:

1: The possibility that some people that are currently contributing (by having a job, even if it's not a great job, and takes care of themselves) choose a life of no positive activity. I don't know what the calculus is, but they're not balanced out by just any >0 number of people choosing to improve society.

2: That when at least some of those people on long term passive income receive a good, solid kick in the butt (in terms of expiring benefits), they are, in fact, able to turn their lives around and become contributing members of society.
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An interesting idea.

s|movies, games, music|games/software| and it might be more plausible. (.mkv, .mp3 or even the .rmvb that's weirdly popular in China are hardly common attack vectors.)

However, if we're talking about China, and the demographic of employees that get sent for international matters, then we're definitely not talking about people that can't afford their own computers. I would posit this holds for nearly any country (except North Korea?)

Taking your argument as just "a culture of grabbing untrustworthy software from anywhere is the reason", it becomes more persuasive to me.
ultimately this is where Glass will have to go. First comes the tech, then comes the fashion.

Though knowing Google from past android experiences, they will hard code in resolution settings for a consistent "experience" completely forgetting that other form factors will necessitate technological change....so it'll be a while.