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Legally, probably. Your final question sets a bad standard, present day societal approval is only weak evidence (that is, lots of heinous shit has been normative in various historical periods).

There is also the problem where you are talking about morality as if it is clear cut and all settled.

Anyway, I'm pretty well in favor of trying to find a meaningful definition of a space that exists between public and private, where shared space activities are not just a free for all. Mostly, because I think I would/will be more comfortable in shared spaces if I can expect that other people will mostly have some respect for my wish to not be followed around with technology.

(I would argue this space exists, it's plenty easy to irritate someone by 'getting in their face' in public. This is them expressing strident disapproval of your behavior...)
Perhaps you are attending hackathons for the wrong reason? I didn't personally attend, but I'm sure anyone who went in order to build an interesting indea with smart hackers probably had a decent time.

Allegations of cheating are serious, but they shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the event unless your main purpose was the win the prize.
I wasn't there. But I'm unconvinced and a little offended by some of this "reasoning."

As far as I can tell, there is no consistent angle that matches all of the blood drips.

Why must she have stood (or lain) still while the blood finished dripping?

Her eyes show no sign of pain.

Have you ever been bombed, or shot, or in a car accident, or fallen down stairs? The pain often doesn't kick in immediately. The pop explanation for that is "adrenalin" - I don't know the scientific reasoning. But it's a very real effect.

While I realize you intend your tone to be scientific and dispassionate, it is a little too reminiscent of those you use "rational analysis" to deny, well, just about anything.
you mean like typing prop and hitting tab?
7 years bad luck when they do, though.
Personally I'd much rather see android on iPhone hardware than the other way around. Cool project though.
I mean, if someone ported Linux to a toaster, you wouldn't say they posted the Android core to a toaster. Userspace is what people care about when they mention any OS by name (IMO).

The title would have been equally correct if it said OS X, which tells you that the title is essentially meaningless.
Yep: https://blockchain.info/wallet/paper-tutorial

As with _all_ security, there's a tradeoff between security and convenience. Inline wallets are spectacularly convenient - and guess what that implies security-wise?

Paper wallets are much more hassle. But a paper wallet in a bank vault is arguably up there with the most secure bitcoin storage techniques.

As the stored value of your bitcoin varies - so should your security requirements. If I need to keep under $100USD available to pay for my anonymous vpn or my torrent-box vps - an online wallet (who's operator could make off with my half or quarter of a bitcoin at any time) might be a sensible choice. If I'd been mining bitcoin at a reasonable rate since 2009 and was sitting on a house-worth of bitcoins, I'd make a _very_ different choice.

Consider the value of your wallet(s) - if they were piles of $50 notes, how much would you spend securing that? Would you leave it in your pocket? Hide it under you mattress? Buy a lockbox or a safe for your home? Rent a safe deposit box? At what stage is a never-internet-connected laptop a perfectly sensible expense to incur? I'd suggest a lot of people I see posting in forums about how much they lost in onine-wallet-hack-de-jour who should be kicking themselves for not having a dedicated $300 laptop fr storing their wallets on.
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I'm not blaming you for being wrong. I just don't think that having a good idea about the python ecosystem qualifies denying that you can do symbolic calculus, more than knowing how to sail qualifies you to say that the earth is flat.
How does one do logic and store state in HTML/CSS? DOM elements for state I guess, but logic?
It was a joke. I did read the article.
The term "Pallywood" would also be a form of propaganda, possibly a stronger one given the high budget production like the video you linked to.
I'm not remotely an expert, or even exceptionally knowledgeable on the subject, but I don't know if I'm even sold on the idea that BitCoin is the crypto-currency to succeed.

The current implementation works pretty well, but other currencies have other advantages. Litecoin, for example, is designed to be mined on more commodity CPUs than GPUs, and has an algorithm specifically designed to deter faster GPU processing. Meanwhile, WorldCoin (WDC) is optimized for faster transfer times.

I don't know the ultimate long-term value on the former, but WorldCoin's advantage is pretty big, as currently BitCoin is too slow in transfer without slowing up the line to purchase a cup of coffee, for example.

It's possible that other currencies come out mitigating more of BitCoin's deficiencies, or maybe BitCoin can be altered in such a way that its shortcomings can be ameliorated, or maybe they aren't really so painful that they're actually a problem that needs a solution. I dunno.

Either way, I'd be surprised if the first-mover becomes the most entrenched permanently.
The Angel Hack in Chile was the same thing earlier on this year, I dunno if there was a lot of money on the table, but still the winners had the app done from long long ago.

I would love to force devs to use git and implement a true hackathon system (Open Source) to run hackathons and avoid cheating.
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The hatches and frames on the Mercury and Gemini capsules had to be well painted because the exposure to vacuum raised the danger of like metals welding together.
Yeah mostly by my partner, thanks for the kind words :)
> Cracking the RSA algorithm itself is basically equivalent to turning r back into p and q.

This has not been proven. RSA encrypts by taking C=m^e (MOD N). The normal way of decrypting is to take C^d (MOD N), where d can be efficiently computed if you know the factors of N. However, all you need to do to decrypt C is to take the e`th root (mod n). It has not been shown that the ability to do so allows you to factor N.

In fact, it appears (after a few minutes of research, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong), that their is evidence that breaking RSA is easier than factoring [1]

[1]http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/no_rsa_red.pdf
What is that argument, specifically? So far all I've heard is "this is wrong", not "this is wrong because of x".

The only point anyone's been able to make is that it could possibly be abused, but frankly, everything the government can do can be abused. You'll need more than "it could be abused" to argue against it.
I'm not sure I see where you're going by mentioning reporting requirements. Isn't the point of Bitcoin that those kind of laws are unenforceable?
Yes, I totally get what you mean. The hilarious thing is making something small ends up always taking longer lol =P
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It's plausible enough that Django released 1.5.4 to limit password length. Yes, they later 1.5.5 which removed the limit, but it still showed that it was a possible problem in some implementations.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/
flying has made no progress since the 60's. planes still crawl along and it takes me 6 hours to get to the East Coast. I'll be wow'd when they make some progress beyond allowing me to listen to my music during take off.
I'm confused by the "Admissible Combs" sidebar. Can someone help me understand?

"Roughly speaking, a comb is admissible if there is no obvious reason why its teeth couldn’t point entirely to primes infinitely often as you move it along the number line"

Then: "A much more audacious conjecture called the prime k-tuple conjecture ... posits that any admissible comb will point entirely to primes infinitely often."

Isn't this just saying the prime-tuple conjecture states that admissible combs are admissible?
SSL needs to be stripped from the stream at the end point to allow the application to process the data received. If the endpoint is a human reader, there's no way to man-in-the-middle the message.
Launch Hackathon had the best process of the dozen-or-so large hackathons I've been a part of. They split the judging into two rounds: a 4 minute face-to-face interview with 2 mentors (2-minute presentation, 2-minutes for questions), and if you were the top team in your group (10 teams per interview group) then you made it on stage for the grand final pitch to the audience and a judging panel of 6.

Things they did well:
* Each team received a score and brief feedback afterwards. (Ours was "7/10, it looks like you've solved a real problem for that industry" - so not extensive but our effort was validate, which is psychologically important for the end of a weekend hackathon - especially when you don't make the final round : )
* 20 mentors for preliminary round meant that everyone had their pitch and the process went smoothly and ran on time (seemingly a rare occurrence for these events).
* 3 wild-cards. (13 teams eventually pitched)
* Face-to-face interviews. A nice change to the theater of pitching an audience.
* Grand final was short instead of a 2-hour fiasco where everybody loses interest.
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This is the end for id.

The only thing id has had going for it are Carmack's engines. In recent years his stuff has been as amazing as ever, but so many commercial engines are only a fraction of a step behind, and the difference hardly matters.

Design-wise id is a complete mess. They're stuck back in the 1990s. RAGE appears to have had no leadership and no vision, and the actual design work that shipped is amateur-hour at best.
It means some obnoxious twit telling you to start using Chatter instead of email, and spend half your day using one of the worst UI's known to man instead of getting work done.
Got it. I did not properly understand the relationship between wallets and addresses.

That is also a pretty cool paper as well. Thanks for the link.
I'm arguing that it makes me uncomfortable and that this discomfort will be widely shared. Go ahead and disagree that morality is something different than that if you want. You are also welcome to think that is weak sauce (but then go ahead and make a habit of making strangers uncomfortable in public and see how that serves you).
My first reaction to this was "it's too good to be true". Now I won't wonder if it wasn't true
What is it about this quote that makes you feel it should be cited throughout future history? Just curious.
Admissibility doesn't say that a comb's teeth will point entirely to primes infinitely often, it merely says (as you quoted) that there's no obvious reason its teeth won't point entirely to primes infinitely often.

I suspect that "obvious reason" is being used as shorthand for some technical definition the article doesn't try to state. Any mathematician here that knows more?
Reminds me one of Michael Lewis' anecdotes from The Big Short. Something along the lines of one of the big Wall Street banks transferring tens of billions of dollars to the Fed by literally gathering up a set of bonds from their safe, putting them in a briefcase and giving them to a secretary and an armed guard to carry to the building across the street where the Fed had set up an impromptu office.
Oh sure, but I can't follow your around whenever you leave your house, and record everything you do. There has to be a line, and we need to decide what is crossing it.

Personally, I have not trouble tracking every car.
It's very easy to forget the first step :-)
Very excited but confused! Is this for real?!
It is kind of a property owned by Michael Bloomberg to warn us off rich elites.
I don't know anyone involved in the judging or the winning team, but if what is alleged is true (that a team won that violated the terms of service) then my guess is that it was the team actively breaking the rules, and a judging panel selecting what they saw was the best product and being unaware of the violation. Honestly, judging hackathons is tough and screening each team ahead of time is close to impossible - it's not like you're going to code review everybody.

Cheaters always get caught.
Blood can be very red. But from what I see, blood from facial cuts should be more watery in consistency.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/09/article-0-026890B8...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zOUSe8DKLjk/S0ebhT-SvXI/AAAAAAAAAA...

http://english.ahram.org.eg/Media/News/2011/2/3/2011-6343233...
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I honestly haven't seen a single complaint like that. Can you point me to one? FWIW, I am pretty sure that each entry was reviewed at least twice.
Solving problems is nice in the abstract, but I can't really get excited that someone has solved the problem "I wanna move $150 million without paying for it." In terms of things that actually make a positive difference in the world, it's right up there with "that breastplate I want for my Warcraft paladin won't drop."
Norway is hardly in the ideal latitude for a vegetarian diet. I wonder whether they aren't importing a lot of vegetable fats from point south in order to do this.
It seems like the official commentary is of sub par quality. According to the /r/chess subreddit, this commentary is pretty good and fun: http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork/profile/pastBroadcasts
Yep; we did that too. The flow was something like:

- Phone screen with our HR rep to figure out if you're even remotely what we're looking for
- Takehome challenge to make sure you can code
- Engineer reviews the challenge and, if good, calls you to discuss the challenge and discuss your experience in depth.
- If good, come onsite to meet the team, do a couple 1-hour use-anything challenges, and answer a few higher level long-form questions.
- Offer.
Chile is in the top-10 freest countries in the world right now, alongside Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore and other economic successes. Taxes are low, and there are huge incentives for people to start their own businesses. You can register a new business in 3 days, and registering trademarks is one of simplest processes in the world. This is in very sharp contrast to Argentina.

Yes, copper is selling very well, and it takes up a large proportion of the country's exports, but you are mistaken to think that this is the driving cause of the country's increase in wealth over the last 20 years.

The increase in wealth comes from the fact that incentives now exist for people to create wealth. Where wealth is created, there is more wealth. It's the same principle we have seen working throughout history.
Seconded. I've used both for queuing, and once you start using beanstalkd, it feels like it's built for queuing. Redis can be given this role, but it's a bit more work (and back and forth).

This may have changed with Lua scripting in Redis since now more advanced operations are scriptable, but until I see some good examples, it's beanstalkd for me =].
Everybody is suddenly a currency expert. Remember the days when everybody was a real estate investor? Yup. I'm gonna enjoy the show from the sidelines.
When I ordered a set of three foot-long chicken parmesan sandwiches from Subway a few weeks ago, the guy behind the counter said, "Because prime numbers are fundamentally connected with multiplication, understanding their additive properties can be tricky."

I was confused at the time, but it makes sense now.
Correction: we keep allowing political parties to give us less than ideal candidates that combined with the first-past-the-post election method ends up having people voting for what they perceive to be the least evil candidate and not an actual representation of, for and by the people.
I agree that the sheer volume of not completely airtight reasons detracted from its cogency and echoes the style of "conspiracy theories".

But for me there was a very solid point that seals the deal: zooming in on the high-resolution source, there were no visible sign of wounds. The blood trickles appear out of nowhere. His "second opinions" agreed on this point as well.

It's clearly a fake. The photographer may or may not have been in on it, but the woman sure was.
Fiat currency is valueless and can only be used because people trust the government issuing it. If Bitcoin can gain the trust of enough people, it can easily become more 'valuable' then many currencies in existence at the moment.
It's not weird. The problem is that at some point bitcoins must acquire an unambiguous intrinsic value which is not related so much to their possible future value. If they don't, that's the definition of a bubble--prices that are considerably higher than intrinsic value.

Consider tulip mania from the 1600s. Speculation drove up prices of tulip bulbs to the point where the only people buying tulips were other speculators who were willing to pay the high prices because they thought they could sell it for more later on--the exact reasoning you just posted. Speculators were just trading tulips--or worse, tulip futures--amongst themselves. When the time came to sell the tulips to people who wanted them for decoration, it was discovered that none of them actually valued tulips that much, and the bubble popped.

There are arguments for a bitcoin having an intrinsic value of $100k. If bitcoin were ever used for, say, something as large as the real estate market, it would be hard to imagine the price being any lower than that. But bitcoin is extremely far from being used as the dominant currency in any market that large.
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What if I use bitaddress.org to create 30000 addresses 200 times. Then I use a script to check if any of these addresses have been used on the network. If they have, then I have their private key.

Then I will make this script open source if its not really a vulnerability.
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We have different outlooks on life. I'm thankful and amazed that I have hot water right in my home, grocery stores filled with selection, heaters to keep me warm. We are so lucky to have such things and it's amazing what it took to get us where we are now. Try to build a screw, a single screw that holds one of these planes together.
> I don't know the ultimate long-term value on the former, but WorldCoin's advantage is pretty big, as currently BitCoin is too slow in transfer without slowing up the line to purchase a cup of coffee, for example.

That's not exactly true. The transfer is immediate. The verification that ensures you aren't the victim of double-spend fraud takes an average of 5 minutes (during which they are waiting for their coffee). The transaction will show up as unverified on the blockchain even sooner than that, during which a future merchant could choose to not accept payment until the previous payment clears.

Even if they were successful once, the merchant could choose not to sell to them again. Considering the merchant charges on a credit card vs. the low transaction fees of Bitcoin, I would be surprised if Bitcoin didn't come way ahead in this scenario.
It looks like a joke that someone made, and bothered to pay to design for.
Cut the "offended" bit. It's either a fake or it isn't. This is a factual question. To claim to be offended is to say that you consider certain areas of thought morally off limits.
This hn comment links to a few places where people complained: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6779036

The link that specifically shows people complaining that nobody viewed their app or looked at their video is this:
http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/forum_topics/264...
There's another good way to eliminate these concerns: don't have big prizes.

When I hosted a hackathon last summer, I put no limits on projects but the max value of the prizes was $25. With prizes so small, there's no incentive to game the system nor is it grossly unfair to let people work on something they'd already started on.

The goal was purely to work on something cool for a day with like-minded people. One guy brought on a voice-controlled Nest lamp he'd been working on, another built an Arduino step-counter, a third took a crack at writing a basic chess AI.

We provided pizza and beer and just let everyone loose. It went great and there were no hard feelings.
Isn't the point of Bitcoin that those kind of laws are unenforceable?

As Silk Road (and hundreds of years of cash-based money transfers) shows, the fact that BTC is hard to trace hardly makes laws unenforceable.
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Not necessarily. The protocol itself doesn't use base58 or the typo checksum, AFAIK. If your client sends out a hash it derived from a typoed base58 string, nobody on the network will know it was a typo, they just see a 20-byte hash that could be anything.
> He asked and checked with his prosecutors. They told him they were doing something that they were in fact not doing.

He is responsible for that. Either the individuals who induced him to commit perjury should be prosecuted, or, if he cannot reveal who those people are or is unwilling, then Verelli is just as guilty.
Not sure if others agree, but I think these "privacy"- centered alternatives to "cloud" need to be open source to be taken seriously.

Now that is only my opinion - and I am not in sales. But in my view, you cannot pitch a privacy solution honestly without disclosing the architecture of your proposed system, and the only practical way for anyone to verify that architecture and your implementation is going to protect privacy is to look at the source code.

Of course, you can pitch a solution and be less than 100% transparent about how it works. And this may be enough to make sales. But there's no way for the customer to really know if you're being honest unless they, or their trusted agent, can read and compile the source code.

Assuming there are open source alternatives to "cloud" (e.g. peer-to-peer architectures), then maybe there is a market for "privacy consulting" where customers pay consulting fees for the know-how to use open source alternatives to construct data transfer and storage systems that can deliver a level of privacy that the "cloud" architecture cannot. I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud.

Anyway, it's good to hear WSJ saying customers are seeking privacy. The market will no doubt respond.
Because bitcoin offers a public ledger, isn't it fair to say that it could actually be used to implement more perfect taxation?
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Doctors and police are unqualified to have an opinion on what blood looks like? They seem to be the two groups most likely to have an accurate opinion.

There's nothing in this article that jumps to conclusions. He's saying it looks off to him. He did some analysis to look for obvious ways it could have been altered and reports that he didn't find any of those. He then investigated the possibility that it's a real but staged photo and offers some possibilities with just slightly more validity than "it looks off" and doesn't overstep the actual data and evidence he has.
Fantastic. Thanks for the correction!
They've existed in a significantly more powerful form as DownValues since Mathematica's release.
What if you want to buy something that doesn't require five minutes to prepare, like a newspaper from a newspaper stand on your way to work? Will you need to wait around for five minutes for the transaction to be verified or will the merchant take it on faith, temporarily, and require a way to track you down in case it's denied?