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Oh man, if there's one thing I could change in my childhood, it'd be trading half of my gaming time with programming time. I was unfortunately growing up in the golden age of web programming and games and 'chose' the latter. Unfortunately, you can't do much with just 20 years of gaming experience. My parents mostly let me do whatever because I already had a skill then (basic tech support) which we thought would guarantee a self-supporting job after college...

Nope.

It's becoming increasingly important to get college right the first time through if only because of insane, rising costs. If it were cheap, I could probably find a class on self-moderation.

On the bright side, I find most of today's games boring, so it's rather easy to get productive.
Volume doesn't always mean it becomes the industry standard. (Obvious, but hear me out)

Embedded has never been very capitalized precisely because nobody cares what the software on their microwave is doing, as long as it isn't burning their food or starting fires.

There is a push right now to get some more openness into embedded devices: Nest thermostats, smart watches, and the like, but each of these must compete with dumb devices that can be made cheaply and just work.

Embedded is (to a first approximation) a red herring.
It's possible that the difference is in the actual code: x86 machine code sometimes has multiple different encodings for the same assembler instruction.
These would show up as single-byte differences in the binary.
See http://www.strchr.com/machine_code_redundancy for some examples.
Compilers might use this to stenographically hide additional data in the binary. Printer manufacturers already do something similar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography). I wouldn't be surprised if MS compilers embedded a hidden data in binaries -- it could be useful to track down malware authors; or identify software created with pirated MS tooling.
Mullenweg probably isn't crying all the way to the bank; Automattic does pretty well and might be worth as much as Tumblr:

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/24/automattic-nears-t...
boto is great and I am a big fan of it. I think the combination of troposphere and boto is very powerful. Using boto along can certainly get the job done, but:
- it will take longer to come up as calls will happen in serial (CloudFormation does parallel execution)
- you will have to do your own dependency management (not hard, just get the order right)
- you will have to do your own teardown when you are finished with the resources (this is why I would use both)

Hope that helps.
Russell Brand May Have Started a Revolution Last Night
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The article says that the two functions,

f : x -> pow(x, pubkey) mod m
g : x -> pow(x, privkey) mod m

being inverses of each other was a big breakthrough when it was discovered. The article implies, but does not directly state, that this "big breakthrough" was part of what separated the "classical" era of cryptography (pre-1977 as defined by the article) from the "modern" era (post-1977).

The "big breakthrough" result was actually proven by Euler hundreds of years ago! [1] The innovation of RSA was building a working public-key cryptosystem around Euler's result, not the result itself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_theorem
This is one of the key factors. I think the other is that when they shove a high density display into a phone/tablet, it's simply a bigger deal.

When Apple finally does sell a 4k monitor, they won't be selling mountains of them. It won't be a niche halo sports car product like the Mac Pro. It'll just be an expensive monitor with a ThunderBolt hub. There's simply less incentive, so they're going to wait until suppliers catch up rather than pushing the suppliers.
Sure, but by that definition we don't "know" anything we didn't directly observe ourselves (and even that is at least suspect), and I can't do much by going philosopher-style on what we really know or not.
This is why I love Linux. Every generic piece of software comes with no BS attached.
For example, on Windows, if you want to mount an ISO you have to download some shady piece of software, the installer of which comes bundled with n toolbars. In Linux it's a matter of a simple one-line command...
Ah yes, the time-tested virtue of taking advantage of the naive.
That's not the same thing. Why are you comparing consumables with software? I don't care how much Tweetbot costs, if it does the job, I can pay $30, but I when I buy it, I must know the release policy of the publisher.

Is it going to be Microsoft Office where I have to pay for upgrades? Or is it going to be like Instapaper, a lifetime purchase? This is the point I tried to make.
The PC is not dead; the market for selling new PCs is just stagnant. PostPC doesn't mean the PC is dead, but it lives on more like a zombie.

I'm hoping that a new generation of largish (24-27") 4K displays will lead to a rebirth in desktop PCs, if only because we depend on them so much for professional work where they've fallen behind in experience when compared to high-end laptops, which shouldn't be the case!
I wonder how many of these run in DOSBOX
uTorrent went bad ages ago...ive been using an old, solid version (around 2.7?) for years, no reason to change.

It was a beautiful bit of software.
What does PG mean by "being an animal"?
Facebook have something somewhat similar to that called Sponsored Stories. Page admins can pick a user post and promote it/turn it into an ad. Doesn't have the cool acronym VAPS though :)
This read nicely until I got to the code block. Does anyone else see this as yellow and gray (with syntax highlighting) coloration--such that it's virtually impossible to read?
Wow, this is an unusual step for Yahoo. Who would think that a hijack process that tempers with user's browser settings is a good idea? Hello, Marissa Mayer?

As for uTorrent, it's been going down this path for a while, gradually introducing crap into the app. And this one is the last for me, as well.

Btw, apparently, they turned off registration on the forum to ward off the mounting complains. When I go to https://forum.utorrent.com/register.php, I'm greeted with Get lost spammer, we don't need your kind here. And of course the topic is closed. Well done.
OT, but: you get a toolbar-less installer if you go through oracle.com instead of java.com.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ (choose the JRE download)
This particular one was taken from Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p56pz/til_st...
Reminds me of a convo with one of my very best friends..

Him: "You live in San Francisco. What do you need a car for?"

Me: "Loving, mostly."

I get more enjoyment out of having and caring for and loving the car than driving it. But that sort of love does diminish when I start to covet other models or newer model years.
In Windows 8, the ability to mount ISOs is native.
What is so good about transmissionbt?
Will blocking third party cookies prevent this? Or is this a server-to-server transfer of regular (second-party?) cookies?
I hate nigger scum that consider themselves pirates and actualy just suck dick
As long as they provide economic impact assessments of the status-quo services like cabs and hotels.

I'd be especially interested in how the impact of established services changes over time.
I just can't fathom how something so ridiculous could pass so many engineers at LinkedIn, without raising flags on how bad this is. The moment I saw the word "proxy" I cringed!
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whenever i get utorrent, i always find out that i've "chosen" to install a toolbar.
was not aware of this, pretty late to the game though.
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I couldn't feel more identified.

I've done similar things sometimes (not playing at that level but, similar in the end) and what I felt was a big discomfort and a really huge passion for something.

You want to defend your values.

These two together creates a willingness to change the status quo and make something better can move mountains. At the same time I can say this seconds you are terribly fragile.

Not even courage is needed. That's why it's so difficult to explain, it's something you feel inside and need to get out.
you work for transmission you kike
The first source from the article has a list of sources of its own:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2971/is-steel-from-...
The one downside to this in terms of this move increasing adoptions is that RHEL 7 will be based on Fedora 19 not Fedora 20 and subsequent releases. If Python 3 managed to be default on RHEL/CentOS and the like, that would have a much broader impact.
While that was super annoying for years, Windows 8+ natively supports ISO mounting[1].

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mis_laboratory/archive/2012/08/30/mo...
Jenkins easily runs on a $20/month digital ocean box and should take less than 2 hours to setup. I scripted jenkins to shutdown and wake up the workers on heroku during off hours. It took me less than five minutes to script up the job and saves us $35 a month per environment. Effectively, jenkins costs nothing per month (actually saves us money).

Most testing services are horribly over priced and you don't get that level of control. Maybe you want to reconsider that one?

http://travis-ci.com/plans

https://circleci.com/pricing

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta...
I wish he actually discussed his work as a data scientist, not just the field in general
I wrote an iOS speed-dial app that does the same sort of predication for contacts that this does for applications. It's definitely an order of magnitude less sophisticated, but I though it might be worth sharing:
http://nate-at-lightspeed.appspot.com/swiftdial
No reference to the stoned virus? I remember that being extremely widespread, despite not having the Internet to easily propagate it.
"...swing an enterprise away from..." implies they are already there. They are not. The question should be reversed,"What offerings conclusively swing an enterprise away from Windows?", and the answer is not much (so far).
There are filters to turn off auto-updates easily. Also keep in mind it's currently for minor updates only, which basically never break a site. And in beta and RC testing, there were no hard failures, only some instances where the update stopped because it detected a potential issue. It's a pretty clean setup, and overall really good for the security of millions of websites.
You make some good points, and HN has been such a boon for finding new services to integrate. Of course, if we could all do it in-house reasonably we'd all be doing that no doubt, but it's just not feasible, even for large corporations. Who can justify the cost?

Security is always a concern, and I do hope most services have taken heed of online security breaches in recent history. However, I don't find it an argument against using SaaS because most of the time, the security from doing software in-house is dispelled by poor security in meatspace, i.e., social engineering (which is WAY easier to do than people suspect).
You're right, and you are the first person I've seen say it out loud.

Further evidence: the Office competitor from Apple is also free. Why? The low-end Surface devices bundled Office for free, and one cycle later Apple began bundling its Office version alongside new devices. Microsoft would bundle Office with the high-end Surface devices (Surface Pros) if it weren't for pesky anti-trust threats looming (Windows RT is advertised to regulators as a separate OS from the Windows NT line, and a lot of weirdness stems from this distinction). It's very clear that Apple is trying to head off the Microsoft efforts with these pricing games.

Personally? I'm bummed there was no mac mini update... I need a new personal server at home, and I had been waiting for a supposed refresh... now I need to build and set up my own Linux server... that was fun when I was in my early 20s, but now it just feels tedious.
i'd say deluge over transmission
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I don't think many companies see volatility as a good thing. Market makers, yes. Analysts, maybe. But companies and officers?

There is certainly a psychological sweet-spot for IPO pricing, between $10 and $20 a share. You've seen recent IPOs do reverse splits before going public -- Yelp did a 1:4, Trulia a 1:3, etc -- in order to arrive at an offering price in this range.

I don't think it needs to be any more complicated than that?
"It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.

What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place."

- http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
I gave up on gaming for a while because I got tired of booting into Windows. Lately have been playing way too much on Steam. :-) In fact for my new desktop decided to go with Ubuntu 12.04 because it makes it easy to run Steam. Otherwise I would have gone with Debian proper.
Article is extremely hard to read on my phone.
This concept of 'allies' isn't nearly as solid as people are thinking. It seems as if the American public thinks of nations as 'people' and the relationships formed by these 'people' as 'friendships', when really neither holds true.

For instance, if a friend betrays you, it sucks but you learn from it and are okay. If a nation betrays you, people die, your economy suffers, people lose their jobs, etc. You don't get any, "aw, shucks" moments. This isn't about national security in the sense of a violent threat, this is about national security in the sense that we get the benefit of knowing if your allies are going to maintain their agreements with the US or not.

People make this mistake with the US's fiscal status as well. The US is not a person, having debt is not inherently bad for it, and raising the debt ceiling is not the same as maxing out a credit card.

Furthermore, anyone trying to say if this information is useful, or if the information as a net benefit/detriment to the US is blowing smoke, because we don't know the nature of the intelligence gathered.
It seems like the only folks who consistently upgrade their computers every 1-2 years are gamers and people working with big media files. Some friends and I run a website dedicated to helping people build and upgrade their PCs. We see about 130k visitors per month. That's a pretty low number, but it still converts to a quarter of a million in sales every month.
If you turn on "Reduce Motion" in General > Accessibility, You can slightly reduce the duration of the UI transitions.
How to make double exposure photos in PS?
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I'm a happy owner of a DELL e1505 still working in the living room where has survived two little girls of 4 and 2 years. Now I want to rescue it and install Ubuntu after upgrading to a SSD.
Yeah, so nothing nefarious can result from this puny program.
Powerful Nations and Companies Fight Back Against NSA Spying
If memory serves, uTorrent lost trust-ability when it got sold. IIRC, that means post version 1.6.1 it became a concern and began to needlessly bloat. Prior to that is was a brilliant bit of software.

1.6.1 is light weight, unmolested, and still worth using.
I respectfully disagree. At a company like Twitter, the so-called "insiders" have been able to take plenty of money off the table. And in fact, I'm not totally sure what share (if any) of the offering is from shares held by officers and investors. Have you seen the data?

Moreover, there is liquidity on the secondary market for Twitter like there was for FB, etc.

I think the primary object here is to raise capital and lubricate M&A activity. And most companies have no secondary market, so an IPO really helps unlock value for the rank-and-file who aren't part of the Series-XYZ rounds. There are a lot of engineers and middle managers there who will be able to buy homes and lots of other nice toys not to mention diversify their net worth a little.
You'd expect long-form writing to be unthinkable on today's mobiles, but plenty of people wrote whole novels on Palm PDAs with only the on-screen keyboard/Graffiti. I also performed extensive text entry on Palm PDAs for my middle/high school notes and assignments, and didn't consider it a bad experience. And these examples, and the above commenter with his Sim City clone for the TI-82, demonstrate, when you make up your mind that you're going to do something on a limited device, it's often surprisingly possible.
I'd say the Mac Pro was teased unusually early. A product like a monitor doesn't call for that kind of buildup.
I would think you could update that laptop to at least Lion if you wanted. I know a couple people who are still using Snow Leopard just fine since it was solid and fast. The only major app I know of that they've had issues with is the newest version of Lightroom 5 requires Lion.
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That's Oracle now. Sun weren't such dicks.
>>http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html
what a cheap piece of shit
I don't consider inflation a valid excuse when we continually hear computers get cheaper every year and the Mac mini is selling at the Apple II's old price point. The PC industry abandoned the sub $200 because of Windows licensing, Intel, and Apple taking the old Apple II price as a floor.

$570 is a lot father out of reach today for many than $200 in the 80's.
Obligatory related Cory Doctorow scifi short story, 0wnz0red: http://www.salon.com/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/
I guess my point is, under the system present in the US and (to my understanding) many or most other countries, you have more dollars floating around than there actually are, a fair chunk is technically non-existent, but still used in transactions.

With bitcoin, unless you're using bitcoin as the backing for another system, you don't have excess floating about. If there are 100BTC in the world, the system doesn't allow the ledger for all bitcoin addresses to sum up to anything over 100BTC. This breaks, for better or worse, the lending model that fractional reserve banking depends on. Now, if BTC is treated like a commodity and is the backing of some other currency (like gold used to be), then that other currency could be used in an economic system that uses fractional reserve banking.
Perhaps this could even be used by an organization to differentiate official binaries of closed-source software from leaked binaries.
Thanks for posting this. I'd forgotten about Transmission.

Anecdotally, I had occasion to fire up a torrent client and grabbed uTorrent, what I used some time ago and found to be a good client. I was shocked to see how it had turned into crapware. It felt like sleazy garbage and I actually worried I'd inadvertently installed spyware on my machine.
Most video encoding is mp4-type now (rather than the mp2-type used by dvds). Mp4 is typically a lot more processor intensive.
Second for tixati. It's the fastest among what I have tried.
I do disagree with the strategy of bundling typically unwanted software in with installers.

But as someone who's installed Java numerous times and never ended up with the Ask Toolbar I don't have much sympathy for people who can't pay attention to what's presented on the screen.
Just to say thanks for the replies. Im now a fair bit less clueless than I was !!!
LDAP is not a substitute for the whole of Active Directory it is a small piece.
How does this technique compare to a computer implementation of the kinds of techniques we learnt in High School? Is it easier to implement? More efficient? Are there some situations where it isn't appropriate?
Thanks, aviv!
Was expecting more like $8-$12 not this high.
Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder
Not caught, exactly. Espionage is well understood and expected in international relations.

The news is the depth and breadth of the NSA's activities, and that it is being shown with hard evidence, instead of the typical former-agent-speaks-vaguely-about-capabilities that typically show up in this area.
Yes. Trading is: first a network game, second a hardware game, third a math game, fourth a software game.
Snowden disputes Feinstein claim that NSA spying isn't 'surveillance'
No, building business logic takes years, and even then it is not done because the business needs demand that it be changed yet again. Business logic is never correct. At best it is just good enough for now. This is why established businesses place so much emphasis on change management. They know that change is constant and that they need changes to be carefully managed in order to adapt fast enough, yet not break anything.
you should google utorrent toolbar mystery. many people have chosen not to install the toolbar and ended up with a toolbar.
nooice!
This idea is such a disaster I don't even know how it was allowed to see the light of day. The sad fact is that there are untold numbers of people who will install this monstrosity.

Serious questions though, if you are an IT shop - how do you defend against this trojan horse app?
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I debated using the word "build" in lieu of "implement". Designing building logic is an ongoing process; implementing it is what we're seeking to make easier.
I agree that there should be nothing illegal about modifying software, and that modifying software can't (or at least shouldn't) blanket-void a warranty.

My point was that since the burden is on the manufacturer to prove that they're denying a warranty claim due to a user's negligence or damage, manufacturers hate users modifying control software.

It's a lot easier to make a software change, damage a car, and reverse the change than it is to make a physical change, damage the car, and swap the part back before taking the part back to the dealer.

Plus, errors in software are much harder to spot. If I get a brake caliper bracket with a giant crack in it, I see the issue while I'm installing it and can send it back. If I download BillyJoe's Flash V1.65, I have to go to a lot more work to figure out if it's going to hurt me.
This is a classic non-denial denial:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial

In these cases, I think what is important is what is not being said. For example, they aren't saying: we did not monitor the Chancellor's phone calls in the past. We didn't and won't record other senior EU officials, etc. The problem is that journalists do not pry enough, because if they are too curious, they will eventually lose privileged access to these government sources.
Microsoft is boring. To watch, use or read about. Moving on.
Microsoft have been under government/competitors' anti-trust watches for the past 10 years.

Now with google/apple catching up, they probably can move a bit faster without consult lawyers in every single move.

On the other hand, with so much cash/profit, the employees/managers have no hurry to move too fast anyway. The share holders might not be too happy.
And that's the rub for them, right? They've totally lost all credibility when they say "Trust us, we're reasonable" or "Actually, we're not doing that". We can only make decisions or form opinions when we have a reasonable basis on which to do so, and why would anyone believe them now?