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If you ask me . . . :-)

The rhetoric of Malcolm Gladwell's work represents that of the "new historicism" in literary studies, which emerged in the 80s.

There is a common style to these works:

-- They start with a startling and interesting anecdote, and, basically, tell a story.

-- They leverage finding from various articles.

-- They use a lot of argumentative ju-jitsu. For example, when the author is going to basically attempt a kind of whopper, they will admit that there are some failing to the argument. The rhetorical tic for Greenblatt is to write: "To be sure . . ." to make the reader feel that, yes, there are other opinions, but I'm kind of right. Then they go barreling ahead with a highly contentious argument.

For Greenblatt and the literary historians who write about the past: Their claims are rarely falsifiable. Sometimes other scholars will say that the new historicists are "wrong," but it is not uncommon for the critics' basis for their own claims to be equally frail.

If you asked Greenblatt, he might not claim that what is describing is "true," but, rather, "good to think with." For the past, maybe that's reasonable.

But:

Gladwell is almost always talking about the present, and making claims that should be testable with a robust experiment. Very frequently, he will cite incredibly thin research (as Chris Chabris notes).

I think this is the essential problem:

Gladwell's style is OK if you can't really test the hypothesis (new historicism).
But if you're talking about the here-and-now, you have to answer to a higher standard of argumentation.
True, but to exchange cash you need to either physically hand it over or have it delivered.

If you exchange in person, then the other person will see you, and that person or a third party can capture an image of you which can be matched against a database of facial images. Identity blown, unless you're very careful to hide your face.

If you exchange by delivery, by whatever method, your package can be tracked to either endpoint. Even if you use a courier, that courier knows the endpoints and can be coerced into revealing them, and also might be able to identify you or capture an identifying image of you. Again, it's very easy to lose your anonymity.

It's all a matter of degree: the more likely it is that your transactions can be used as evidence against you (whether they're actually illegal or they're just being used as an intimidating force against you) the more you need to care about your anonymity. For most of us, most of the time, so long as we don't get creepy advertising that specifically references things we've looked at or purchased recently we don't really care about it.
We had a legacy application using MFC/C++ and no one anymore likes MFC at the studio, so we had to either somehow switch to C#/Windows.Forms|WPF overnight or slowly move to something else. Since there is MfcMigration toolkit for Qt - slow progress was the choice - so every week less and less of MFC is visible, and more and more from Qt.

Other toolkits can benefit if there is a transition layer - or at least something where you can plug into the existing message pipeline, windowing system - and then start replacing widget by widget, dialog by dialog.
It gets harder to do the older you get though.
Back in the days, people used to draw graphic by hand. Then, tools like Illustrator help automate the creation of graphic. Vector graphic libraries are going to disrupt the landscape.

It is starting out as artisan tool for programmers to build data visualization. Overtime, we'll have reusable templates/components that speed up the creation process and reduce cost. Christophe's list is awesome. I reference it quite a bit :)

At some point, creating vector graphic will be just as fast as creating static graphic. Plus, much more flexibility.

My team is tinkering with such idea with http://vida.io. Here's a little demo video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_LDH1T1D1Y
Dear Microsoft, you made thousands of us to suffer the pain to deal with your API to access long paths.

Please have now at least the decency to do the same without complaining.
I came to this conclusion as well when my Dad was looking for a way to share travel photos.

Another issue: I imagine it would take a lot of time for the Dropbox client to sync 1.6GB of data, even for people with fast Internet connections.
Whether it is or isn't doesn't change the premise that it's unwise to advertise that you're subverting it.
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I find QByteArray and QString more useful and complete than std::string, yet we keep our interfaces to std::string or const char*, since this would reduce external dependencies for other folks that want to use the library (also the learning process, and less include files).
What a great idea for a hidden service
More or less, yes, that is my implication. Luckily, my sibling comment provides some extra information.

For the example of SHA-1 computation, you mention using FPGAs that finish in 400 clock cycles, which is at most an order of magnitude away from a naive CPU implementation of around 4000 clock cycles. I'm not as familiar with SHA-256.
See also: Freenet, MNet:

https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/FAQ#q-what...
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The TrueCrypt devs certainly appear to.
I use XBMC and myplex on a daily basis. And this seems to be closer to myplex than XBMC. Nice to see an open source version though. :)
> SR1 was shut down due to a forum post that was linked to an anonymous PHP question on Stack Overflow.

That's their public version of the story.

Thanks to Snowden, we know today that they use "parallel construction", so we may have no clue at all to what lengths they went and how many illegal tactics they used:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
What's wrong with uploading 200 photos to Flickr? Sharing 1.8GB of photos more than once on Dropbox (who deletes things like this?) means you need a paid Dropbox account. So even if this was in the Past when Flickr didn't have an "unlimited" free account, you'd still need to pay for something.

The only way I've found Flickr isn't good at sharing a large number of photos if you want/expect some people to have high res versions of all or a large percentage of those photos on their computer so they could print them offline or something.

Still an unsolved problem there, but if all you were going to do was "host them on a hostname", I'm not how Flickr doesn't address the need very well.
We also use it over at http://gamewisp.com to populate our Let's Plays game hubs (https://gamewisp.com/game/427).

Thanks for making that happen man! That API is fantastically awesome and really saved us. Oh the hours of manual entry before we found it... the horror!
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It would be wonderful if the submitter included any sort of description of what the 'Vault of Satoshi' is, rather than what technologies they're using and links to APIs.
Oh come on man.

There is only one way to read your comment:
"Small correction -- state income tax in CA is a big deal even if you're saving for retirement. And once you retire, you presumably won't care what the state income tax is."

You didn't qualify that! You added a "small correction" that was anything but. And yes, you got me, I didn't realize that for 2013 (possibly 2012?) the Roth limit was increased to $5500. Still not much stacked against the $24,000 I saved in my tax deferred accounts last year.

Listen man, i'm not one for silly debates on the internet, so go ahead and have the last word. But If you're going to add a "small correction" that is not really a correction, you should expect some disagreement.

Perhaps what you really meant was "That's true, unless you chose a Roth IRA as your only form of retirement savings. In that case, current tax rates matter and future tax rates don't."

That still glosses over the fact that I'm talking generally and you're talking about a specific, somewhat rare scenario. But at least it's accurate. As it was, had I not replied to you, a casual reader would've read my post, then yours, and walked away assuming that retirement savings is taxed at your current tax rate, in your current state of residence, when in reality it's just not so.
> you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.

Believe it or not, V for Vendetta is not actually a handbook on how to run a democracy.
Ah, they are using the Winamp versioning system.
I see the problem with Silk Road not essentially being with the currency or the network mode itself, those both seem effective and appear to have been functioning properly at the time of its shut down (in so far as we know). I think the main issue is the trying to get physical items from point A to point B without getting intercepted/apprehended. It's all well and good to move digital items without getting noticed, but once you start shipping things you have to used pre-existing structures (ie: USPS, Fedex, et al.) which, if not run by the government, has no issue with giving any and all information to them. How to solve this is more complicated than the other parts, IMO.

Secondly, the arbitration through a third party I could see as being corruptible, if that third party is known and has no legal ramification/justification for just acting on their own good recognizance. It's like there needs to be a black market escrow that can't be bribed and won't steal the money.

Also, I'd just like to add that there are other potentials for connectivity outside of Tor & I2P. Older networks such as Freenet allow this kind of node hosting without having to "invent the wheel" and use some kind of new way to host a forum -- it probably just needs some oil added to the wheels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
Everyone focuses on money, but it's the developers that matter most. It's just simply tougher to find good modern .NET developers that aren't stuck in classic ASP and drink the Sharepoint kool-aid. The MS stack can compete with RoR and node.js, but good luck finding the same level of quality of developers.
Comparing maps is no sillier than looking for correlations between any two data sets.

And indeed, I suspect the resemblance between your map and mine is not a coincidence either.
If I'm looking at ~10,000 users, I will go with Ruby on Rails (ROR) because I have a few years of ROR experience and I can get things done faster. ROR handles many things for you (like security) and there are many gems out there to help you get things done that otherwise would have been complicated (devise for generating users database). When you are done, push it up on heroku and you will have a solid product.

If your site is very real time (chat, real-time data), I'd look into meteor. They are a framework built on top of NodeJS and its built from the ground up to be real time. Like ROR, they do many wonders for you app (security) and has built in user authentication system.

If you are looking to build the site for a learning experience and want to learn how the web works and build everything from the ground up, go with NodeJS. Install packages yourself, tinker around with security, etc. Its a great exercise.
I agree that Dropbox is not very good at sharing photos. The solution really has to start much earlier in the tool chain, ideally with the camera itself, or the tool that downloads them. Smart phones are great with this, since you see share options right after snapping a photo. iPhoto also has fairly decent sharing options (resizes images, creates web albums, etc). But once you're outside of the realm of camera and photo apps and working with general purpose tools like Dropbox, it gets a lot more difficult.
I visited Canada a few weeks ago and was extremely impressed by both the lack of pennies and the polymer notes. Keep up the good work, neighbors!
Also, a lot of it is probably in the hands of a few early miners (including Satoshi) who are never using it, and some more has been lost forever.
I understand your specific pain ;) I suppose a quick "hack" would be to allow creating "managed" accounts where you can easily have management access over a sub-section of family/friend accounts without knowing their password, etc. That doesn't solve the underlying problem, though.

Maybe there is room for a single-click-install desktop software app that simply takes the name/email of the destination contact for the arbitrary content and then crawls provider APIs to quickly determine how best to get the content to that person and orchestrates it using the APIs so that the end-user doesn't need to learn configuration screens and confusing (to them) UX.
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I think you're on the right track: there's a large gap between releasing a tool and running a service.

The difference between offering BackTrack isos for download and running live, free Backtrack VMs.

A traditional, non-distributed service is often backed by centralized entity (corporation, nonprofit or private person), so many of the consequences are directed at them. Whereas with a diffused individuals running their own, it would be harder to as easily control.
Why not use one resource and return different fields depending on the type of the requesting user ? I have the same problem to solve right now and not sure yet which way to go.
NTFS has actual support for hard file links, but only usage I ever seen was for jokes similar to this one.
Is implementing a distributed marketplace any more illegal than, say, implementing a distributed digital currency (Bitcoin) or anonymity network (Tor)?
"If are talking about switches as a service if there is a "fixed" pool of switches and an exploit is found that allows you to compromise each switch component you are out of luck because you didn't actually make materializing the secret difficult."

If an exploit is found that allows you to compromise each component, then the adversary can just have the components ignore your messages and open your secret. It makes no difference how the system is structured at that point.

"By requiring actual work to be done and allowing the difficulty of the work to be tuned based on the capacity of the network you make an adversary go up against the math instead of against the people."

By using a threshold secret sharing scheme, you ensure that the adversary cannot get the secret regardless of the their own computing resources. You also avoid wasting electricity for the sake of your switch. You also have the advantage of having a well-defined security model that can actually be analyzed formally.

The only reason you would ever want to burn through some CPU cycles is to thwart sybil attacks. Unlike Bitcoin, you do not need to keep doing proofs of work after that, because once the shares are distributed, there is nothing more to do. If the adversary increases his computing power after that, he gains nothing by it, because he will not be given any more shares. Hence the suggestion in my previous post: have the proof of work be coupled to the generation of a public key, and just have the public keys be generated when someone needs to set up a switch.
More like change the goalposts. The example meets your criteria.
So you are constructing a particular universal language that is designed to make any compression algorithm written in it so long that the concatenation of the algorithm and its own output would always be longer than its input.

First of all, I doubt that this is even possible, because the input, i.e L1 and T0 is arbitrarily long in the general case, while the algorithm's length must be determined before it sees any input, i.e it is constant. That's related to the invariance theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Invarianc...

But even if it were possible or if we agree to arbitrarily limit the size of the input for practical purposes, you wouldn't have achieved your original goal, which was to show that a verbose language can never be as expressive as a terse language.

Your universal language is neither a Turing machine nor any other generally accepted universal language, so no one would agree to accept this particular language as a test of Kolmogorov complexity.

If you can disprove the invariance theorem you may have come up with a valid criticism of Kolmogorov complexity itself, but you were the one who initially based his argument about the expressiveness of programming languages on Kolmogorov complexity. If you invalidate Kolmogorov complexity you invalidate your own argument as well.

In any event, this has been a fun thought experiment.
> distributed Wikipedias

Off topic, but I'm curious what you mean by this. The only thing I can imagine you mean is to have Wikipedia's databases sharded everywhere and... that doesn't really make sense to me.
I don't see any feasible financial model, how will you induce cash flows since you'll need nodes to run the service and these nodes will also be clients? - If I understand correctly that is.
>> "It disturbs the body’s natural energy field"

Wait, what? Body's energy field? Seriously?
This. If they really wanted to improve their banknotes they should've gone straight to polymer.
In there, they don't allow you to practice peaceful protest to the current regime by simply walking into the streets and clapping. No signs, no speeches, no anything. Just a crowd clapping is outlawed. Among other things, they fined a one-handed (!) man for clapping (!).

Do you think it is proper to still practice obedience to the rulers in this case?

What is different in the case of anonymous voluntary exchange? Sure, they can outlaw clapping. Or breathing. Or being over 1m tall. Or anything. But just the fact that these people might tell you "breathing is bad" or "being 1m+ is terrible" does not make it actually this way.
Looks like a nice system. Coincidentally I've been working on something similar, albeit a little more on the simple side:
http://www.grimmdude.com/2013/08/22/jebson-cms
Absolutely, this is an actual dealbreaker. If I can't tweak my blog, I'm not doing one.

Then again, I suppose I'm not part of the intended audience.
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I think Flickr recently removed limits, making it the best option. I doubt he has the desktop uploader though, so the upload experience is much worse than Dropbox.
Welp, now I know never to give my money to the Camera+ devs
There is old joke which is now actually true. The best Win32 implementation is Wine on Linux :-)
Why should the right to share information be on a different level than selling drugs? You can sell (share) powerful information. You can share information that would cause far, far more damage than any drugs will.
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Scala tooling is quite ok now, particularly the IntelliJ IDEA plugin. Still not the level of Java, but certainly way above anything for (much older) dynamic languages.
Co-founder here, I replied to you about oauth.

Integration with ESP's is critical to marketers, as someone mentioned below the key reason people run competitions is to drive sales/engagement with followup. Especially for Ecom.

There's a blog post going up in the next few days from Chris at Vero on this very topic :)
I thought Outliers was pretty good (the only one of his I've read). I'd be happy to have you disabuse me of that notion.
>Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Man, I really wish people would stop saying this. It's just completely false. It's a basic result of probability theory that if A is evidence of B, ¬A is evidence of ¬B.
I bet he wouldn't have had any problems emailing that folder to you. I know when I need to send a few documents or photos, I without even thinking try to do it via email, only to be met with messages of exceeding size limits.

Is there a service that ties both the action of emailing with the process of syncing via dropbox? If not, I could see it being incredibly useful for people like your dad, and mine. An app whereby you go through all the same motions of creating a new email, attaching a few documents/folders, and in the background those attachments are being synced to some dropbox folder.

Of course, email services could expand their size limits, but I'm sure there's a reason why they're not.
He didn't even include an affiliate link ... what is this world coming to?
If this incident doesn't alert authorities to the traceability of Bitcoin I don't know what will....
I have an eye-fi that directly uploads to Flickr with settings set to private. It's right in the SD card!
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Fi-Class-Wireless-Memory-EYE-FI-8P...

This is the equivalent of the mobile app experience with Dropbox. Curating and sending photos around is still hard.
A claim that extradition to America isn't the only way that various crimes in the world are punished is not "hating America," unless you're dumb.
No, they can't. Generation speed is adjusted every 2016 blocks, up to 4x change. Let's say the NSA outcompetes the entire network by a factor of 400000%. This gets them about 8 weeks of bitcoins in a few days, before things are slowed back down to normal rates. Not nearly enough bitcoins to cause problems with.

That much power will let them mess around with what transactions get accepted, but that's an entirely separate issue. 51% attack is child's play at this point. What do you do against an adversary that publishes 500 different block chains designed to be easily confused with the 'correct' chain?
I imagine that prisons are largely filled with people who felt they we're "pretty much guaranteed not to get caught at least for a good number of years."

(Even if they remember to destroy their inscribed copies of 'Leaves of Grass')
Thanks for pointing that out. I started coding for profit in about 1990 so I was thinking more along the lines of 15+ years of experience as the old-fart cutoff.
Looking for the longest path on my machine, I was slightly amused to learn it was this one (length of 345 characters):

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.ADC_Reference_Library.DeveloperTools.4_6.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/recipes/instruments_help-stack-trace-help/Displaying_Your_Source_File_That_Contains_a_the_Symbol_in_a_Stack_Trace/13_Displaying_Your_Source_File_That_Contains_a_the_Symbol_in_a_Stack_Trace.html
Yep, it's too big to email.

Dropbox integrates with a few mail clients actually.
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