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What makes a senior developer
It certainly can't hurt to not be distracted -- Erdos was famously asexual, and it seemed to have turned out well for him! [1][2]

[1] http://www.jrhenry.net/johnrhenry/erdos.htm
[2] http://www.nndb.com/people/401/000032305/
This article from 2012 offers some background on the page: http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2012/05/02/heavens-gate-website...
i disagree. i think there's some morality hard-wired in most people.
If you want to give it a try in your computer or in the cloud you can use one of the images from bitnami. We already have updated them to gitlab 6.3

http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab
>Creation Date: 1997-12-18 05:00:00Z

Considering the suicide happened in March 1997, I guess the name has already expired once, and someone re-purchased it.
When you create an account with cryptic.io, a private key is generated in browser and encrypted with the hash of your password. This encrypted private key is what we keep server-side. All files you upload, and all of your user-data, is encrypted using that private key. In short, all encrypting/decrypting of ANY sort happens inside your browser. So someone logging onto the server and viewing data as it is uploaded is still seeing encrypted data. Short of compromising a user's computer there is no way for them to see it. Our encryption scheme is nothing like the scheme that lavabit used.

The extension won't be able to mitigate an attack, but it will be able to alert you to one, which for someone who had the initiative to install it (which we will be heavily encouraging users to do) would be enough to inform them that something is amiss. And if something is amiss they can host the front-end themselves and use a local copy of the html/js/css so they can be sure they're getting a good copy of the site (something we will also be making easy to do).
Orwell based his writings on his first hand experiences with communism. I agree that 1984's world is unrealistic and destined to fail, but it is in fact pretty much identical to the world that the Soviets were attempting to build.
Doesn't the use of a hosting provider kill the point?
My main caution about how you framed the challenge is with the constraint of familiarity(hackers fix systems), which can take us nowhere in a hurry. Often, it's pushing a philosophical angle that can drive technical work into the supporting role of a big, positive change.

Here is a relevant selection of general wisdom quotes I've collected/made for myself and keep in a notes file:

Competition is the source of complexity in society; cooperation, in individuals.
Sources of power exist by consent; anarchic elements are checks on system stability.
Cycles exist everywhere and are bigger than we can observe.
When you understand yourself better, you're also better to other people.
Creative works should be based on selfishness and tempered by principle.

Putting some of those things into practice, I see myself existing in a period that is increasingly communitarian, in backlash against the individualism of previous years; but where the role of the community is also far more distributed and ephemeral than in the past, with the consequence being that our relationships are individually complex, rather than being centered around formal institutions that antagonize each other. It's not that the complexity will go away, it just moves around and catalyzes societal changes.

As such, I also believe that progressing further towards the communitarian mode will unravel other problems currently faced by Western society. Redistributing the burden of our systems enables us to change our approach and implement policies that wouldn't fly previously.

Of course, to put this thought into action leads me towards those last quotes: You have to know, very deeply, that the thing you're going to create is something you want to exist, and then inform it against the external concerns. Doing that well means that you can't lie to yourself.
Unless someone renews it again, as they have been doing every year since 1997.
Why are you trying to contact them to remove the hidden text?
Twitter in its latest app update also requested to be able to read all my incoming text messages. So they have that going for them.
>There are very few legitimate reasons to be concealing where you money came from or is going from the IRS, and they well aware of the intent behind the actions

Nice circular reasoning. Because everything that the IRS would disapprove of is illegitimate? When did the IRS get ultimate moral authority?
Tinder privacy issues
Most of the developed countries forbid adoptions of country nationals by foreign citizens, how many US children got adopted by foreign countries?...not sure why Russian media is making such a big buzz around this law, probably just to find one more way to criticize Putin.
I'd end up wanting to spell it 0x0B501337.
The wiki page of the sect links to this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction_insurance
For that case you're right, the scheme suffers from the same concerns as the CA scheme. The difference is that there is room to move forward, in that you can host the namecoin chain yourself and be sure of its accuracy. I think we could even have browsers have it built-in that they host a copy of the chain (the whole chain doesn't have to be downloaded, nor does all that's been downloaded need to be in memory).
> If only our society held intelligent people in the same regard as athletes.

I suspect you're comparing top paid athletes with low-end PhDs. Which might not be a fair comparison - who gets paid more, Michael Jordan or the CEO of Genentech? It might be fairer to compare a low-end PhD with, some college high jump athlete. So keep that in mind when I use the labels "intelligent" and "athlete".

Why? Intelligence is an inward quality. What good does it do to have 100,000 smart people? Athletes, however, are valued for their outward quality - they entertain us with their skill. They provide marginal utility for a huge chunk of society; intelligence in and of itself, only provides a marginal utility for the self.

So, unless you're some sort of Ayn-Rand individualist, really the athlete does do more good (for the collective) than the intelligent, and therefore is compensated more.

Note this is from a qualitative standpoint. Athletes are somewhat absurdly highly compensated, but there are reasons for that, but it shouldn't be surprising that Athletes are more compensated than the intelligent.

Obligatory David Wong quote:

Let's say that the person you love the most has just been shot. He or she is lying in the street, bleeding and screaming. A guy rushes up and says, "Step aside." He looks over your loved one's bullet wound and pulls out a pocket knife -- he's going to operate right there in the street.

"OK, which one is the injured one?"

You ask, "Are you a doctor?"

The guy says, "No."

You say, "But you know what you're doing, right? You're an old Army medic, or ..."

At this point the guy becomes annoyed. He tells you that he is a nice guy, he is honest, he is always on time. He tells you that he is a great son to his mother and has a rich life full of fulfilling hobbies, and he boasts that he never uses foul language.

Confused, you say, "How does any of that fucking matter when my (wife/husband/best friend/parent) is lying here bleeding! I need somebody who knows how to operate on bullet wounds! Can you do that or not?!?"

Now the man becomes agitated -- why are you being shallow and selfish? Do you not care about any of his other good qualities? Didn't you just hear him say that he always remembers his girlfriend's birthday? In light of all of the good things he does, does it really matter if he knows how to perform surgery?
Back when BTC was ~$10 I was going to purchase 20 or so but decided on another VPN provider and never ended up buying them. Oops!
Is it only me, but such things make Bitcoin seem somwhat... less private... than real money?
While I feel that every student should read a Brave New World, it is not included in every high school cirriculum. In the US at least, it is actually pretty rare for a school to include it.
"... welding railroad tracks with _termite_."

Sheesh! With the above post the state of spelling on the Internet reaches a new low.
Certainly that can be seen. Does anyone keep historical whois data?
No, not valuable at all. I thought that it would make sense to, initially.

You want to set the price in each marked separately, finding the maximum price for that product in the given market. A product you can sell for say £10 in the UK, might sell equally well for the equivalent of £12 or even £15 in Scandinavia. You could sell the item for the £10 in every country, but why miss out on the profit?

Just using an exchange rate won't take the market (competition) and purchasing power in the different countries. Also you'll end up fighting sells personal who will want to be able to set the sales price, or set them as dictated by the suppliers ( it's technically illegal in many countries, but very few are willing to fight the suppliers, so you need to support it ).

Even in the Euro countries you'll want to be able to price a product differently in each country.
right click => inspect element => set style to "display:none" on the popup and overlay, and you're good to go.
Be Your Best Self
maybe to improve their SEO.
A domain name may be registered for more then one year at a time.
Shogi is derived from xiangqi (same with Korean chess or janggi). And note that the characters are called hanzi or kanji (literally Chinese/Han characters), not oriental characters. It may be hard because the pieces don't have distinct shapes, but it's not after you learn/recognize the characters.
Is there a reason why this isn't on front page of 'Ask'?
Maybe someone knows--How to best see this commet? Face east/west/north? Straight above?
>Maybe I am wrong. If you think I am wrong, please show me some reference that explicitly mentions this is just API, and there's no running memcache instance.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached-ben...

Yes, there is a memcached "daemon" in the sense that they run a memcached host within mysql, which they obviously have to do. That memcached "instance" reads and writes from InnoDB and the shared buffer pool also used by the SQL engine: It does not maintain a unique memory instance, and values read or written are atomically consistent with the mySQL instance.

The single and only reason this product exists is that the memcached API is much simpler and network/parsing efficient, allowing for much better round-trip-times when doing simple queries.
The biggest justification for that was this very issue in the article. But boy, didn't American media kept downplaying those abuses and incidents pointed by the Russians... And kept insisting that it was a retaliation for the Magnitsky act. IMHO the ban indeed was a retaliative act, but these problems presented by Russians at the time could have been at least looked at. May be then the existence of the issue would be recognized, accepted and trigger some further protective laws for the adopted children. I didn't see one single major American news outlet who touched on this part, all simply ignored it as a mere 'yet another poke from the Russians'.
Land of the free. Maybe legal custody should be limited to relatives or people with a proven connection to the official family, or disallowed at all for children adopted from foreign countries? It is disturbing to read all these ads talking about "private adoption" like it's a puppy trade fair.
I think you underestimate the benefit of collaboration, which would hinder the apparition of "sheep-eating sheeps". There lies the benefit of morality.
I don't think he underestimated it. Here's a quote: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/61694565252/satoshi-on-bitcoin...

Later in 2010, Satoshi also mentioned that block size limit can be raised if needed in the future. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.0

My point is not philosophical. It's purely economical. When miners start getting much more transactions than they could fit in, usefulness of Bitcoin will become limited by the costs of transactions (bigger fees would be needed to outcompete other transactions and get in the block). If costs go up, value of Bitcoin does not grow or even goes down (because value of money is always speculative: if the future does not look bright, one money quickly loses in value and becomes replaced by some other money). Miners earn bitcoins, not dollars. Investing a lot in expensive hardware, they are very interested in getting a decent return. They would never do something "out of principle" if it hurts their entire business. Block size will be raised by the vast majority of miners from 1 Mb to, say, 8 Mb. It's still small enough to protect against flood, but still gives enough room of growth.

Also: "race to the bottom" is just someone's personal fear. In reality, very soon only huge chip factories will be miners. They will produce chips as fast as possible and plug them into their computing clusters right away. Forget about shipping nice boxes overseas, that's too inefficient. Mining will be done by big factories in China or Iceland (cheap electricity).

I believe, mining in the hands of small number of big players is not a problem for censorship of transactions or raising their cost. If a miner tries to hurt fungibility of the coins on large scale, he'll simply be boycotted by other miners. (Because they are driven by desire to keep Bitcoin value up.)
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It would seem like they got people to believe that The End Was Nigh and that they should commit suicide to avoid said End (Yeah, hold on to your logic there). If he truly believed that it was the end, why would he need to stay behind to tend to other things?

That seems like picking nits, though - these people clearly weren't the best and brightest in the first place.
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You mean trustless mixing/anonymising services that will largely get you brought up on money-laundering charges.
Agree, shouldn't happen. Does anyway, with high risk, medium reward to perps. Lower risk, higher reward = more of it.
This is also a failure of social services / the agency that regulates adoptions. Over here I know that the adoptive family has to go through a long vetting process, and needs to have proven financial means to provide for them and the children.
I'm aware of this, but the 2012 article posted around here says it was done yearly.
There's nature, nurture, and free will, as the article mentions. Biology is only one factor.
$200 a year should be easily affordable under the US welfare system. Many people on welfare (oftentimes it's fraudulent, but government-encouraged, "disability" these days) make more than minimum wage.

I am making a US-based comparison since you used the word "federal."
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I wish I could put varnish in front of their web server for them.
Column orientation is an implementation detail. It has nothing to do with whether or not a DBMS is relational. Whether a system should be classified as relational depends on how fully it supports the standard SQL interfaces, not on how it works under the covers.
Honestly I am not sure whether the Russian media made any big deal at all out of that, I would bet in fact even if they did, it was far (lower) from the extent to which American media did. Not to mention the protests held by thousands in the US.
Chaosnet, a memo from July 1981
Thanks for your reply.

"No, a scientist doesn't trust either hardware or software, but hardware can be checked and validated."
Do you know if or how this is done?
One point I see here is when a senior developer move to management role, I have a opportunity right now and its hard to try to imagine loosing what I like most for a non-technical position.
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Yeah, my gauge reads "more anonymous than wire transfers or credit cards, less anonymous than cash". Hard to send cash digitally, though.
Pretty much just CoinJoin, which is in development.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
If by LTC you mean Litecoin---litecoin is not a Ponzi scheme, either. Like BTC, it does not fit the definition.

Even if the creators of BTC or LTC were intentionally setting out to defraud people, it would not be a Ponzi scheme.
http://whois.domaintools.com/heavensgate.com

It has expired twice.
Just downvote these and move on.
I don't have numbers, but people from outside America can adopt American children.
Today we could be using Chaosnet and writing Lisp.
Whoops, I meant to say 2014.
I mentioned explicitly why it's not like CoinJoin. CoinJoin leaves a trace of "structuring money", while perfect mixing needs to leave no such trace. All transactions must look like regular payments, statistically indifferent from any other payment. Also, CoinJoin in present form requires a trusted operator who can mark all transactions as "laundering".

CoinJoin is better for making Bitcoin look good in the eyes of law enforcement. You can get your privacy with it from everyone, except law enforcement. Lawful citizens and cops must be both happy and not fear that Bitcoin will be used for "terrorism".
For those who aren't familiar, Gitlab is essentially an open-source clone of Github.

For those who already use it, this is a good time to upgrade, because multiple security vulnerabilities were recently fixed [1]. (You can upgrade to a patch version within the same major/minor release, e.g. 6.2.3 to 6.2.4, but it's not too much more effort to just upgrade to the latest 6.3 release).

[1] http://blog.gitlab.org/multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-...
Interesting that the G in gate from the top image is the green bay packers logo from the NFL.
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There are other approaches for laundering which do not rely on insurance contracts, such as http://zerocoin.org/
^wrong assumptions. You're assuming he didn't know already. Why would one make a statement like that if one didn't know beforehand?
A famous computer entrepreneur had this† to say about the usefulness of the LOC metric: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

†http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programming...
I think you are actually making very good points, and I learned something.

That said, I am not assuming a major boom/bust cycle, so given that assumption, our two positions are easily reconcilable.

I am assuming a steady rate of growth of the global economy. In that case, there is deflation over time, yes, but investors known that ahead of time, so some of it is already priced into the value of the currency.

I think that the boom-bust cycles are vastly exacerbated by regulatory intervention. For instance, the current recession we are in in the US was entirely caused by Fannie and Freddie buying tons of shit mortgages for decades and the notion of "too big to fail" plus regulatory pressure leading to unhealthy consolidation and gambling in the banking industry.

In a truly free market (which maybe we will never see again so who cares), there may still be glitches in the market that cause temporary busts, but those should become increasingly rare over time as the economic system becomes more globalized, robust, and decentralized.
First, you learn parsing, then you learn what actually makes a language tick. Then you learn what goes into the design process, when you realize you've designed yourself into a corner. Then you start reading up on language design, stumble across sites like Lambda-the-Ultimate.org, and find out that there is a lot more than imperative / OO programming. Then you start getting into the Lisp literature, and reach a zen-like state. Then you snap back to reality, and become a slightly better programmer, who is a bit more humble.

Or (more likely, in my experience) you throw together a parser and then expand into a rudimentary interpreter/compiler and continue along your merry way having essentially reinvented some language you already knew with a few superficial differences.
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14+ Hours
IRS doesn't care what the money is from or for, only that Uncle Sam gets what he's owed. Income from criminal enterprises is not special: you have to pay taxes on it like everything else. The source of the income is kind of don't-ask-don't-tell.

Spending on sex toys is not special, unless the national security apparatus (or more likely your competitor in the private sector) already has a reason to try to discredit you. Which is a valid concern for activists, but not most people.

Investigations and enforcement actions by the IRS have nothing to do with the morality of your checking account statement and everything to do with tax evasion.

The largest threat to your financial privacy is private enterprise. Underwriters, prospective employers, and others with a financial stake in your "good behavior" are the most interested in judging the moral acceptability/health/prudence of your financial choices.
12-14 Hours
I was under the impression they believed they were getting picked up by a space ship that was travelling with Hale Bop not that the end was nigh.
8-12 Hours
There is no "they." Bitcoin tends to attract genius (Satoshi, Gavin) and a bunch of hippy losers. I can hardly stand /r/bitcoin, for instance.
I don't think bitcoin is a pain to cash out of.
If you're doing it persistently you just end up flooding the blockchain with useless information. At least with CoinJoin you're reducing the number of payment TXs that need to be stored and validated. The blockchain is already getting annoyingly large (20GB+ with indexes) without adding fluff like that.

If you really want to hide your tracks without hiding your tracks, just use any service with a shared wallet.
Domain Name: HEAVENSGATE.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
Name Server: SNS19.WIN.HOSTGATOR.COM
Name Server: SNS20.WIN.HOSTGATOR.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 26-jul-2012
Creation Date: 18-dec-1997
Expiration Date: 17-dec-2013

So something was done on 26 juli 2012 at least. I guess that means it is still being actively maintained.
Zerocoin is interesting, but Bitcoin in its current form has two practical advantages:

1. Cryptographic primitives used in Bitcoin are old and well-tested. There's no crypto code in Bitcoin that was invented by Satoshi and could have been badly broken in a subtle manner. Zerocoin's commitment scheme requires years of testing, attempts to crack it and fixing may be impossible. If the problem is discovered, the whole thing may lose all value overnight.

2. Bitcoin is more friendly in the eyes of the law enforcement. Bitcoin looks like a traceable, compatible with "tracking all citizens" policy. It gives it a green light from the governments. Of course, in reality, you can launder bitcoins and hide yourself quite well, but that's extra work and complexity. Meanwhile, like a Trojan horse, Bitcoin comes to the legal scene as a nice instrument that allows to track "bad" guys. Not relevant in the long term, but important in the short term to get legality and massive adoption.
8-10 Hours
I'm considering GitLab for use at work. How does it stack up against Atlassian Stash? (https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview)