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Agree with buying index funds. Disagree you shouldn't buy stocks. Buy index funds with your real retirement and long term investment. Buy stocks with money you can afford to lose.
When vine ran up against a similar issue they registered the .co tld and it hasn't held them back. Plus, .co's are selling for around $10 still for decent names. This might be a good area to look at.
Well played minimax. Well played.
How?

Visual Studio isn't available for my OS, and Makefiles just don't cut it anymore. (I typically use CMake, but I'll use anything that gives me fast build times and gets out of the way. Make typically isn't that.)¹

1. I can do a build in one command.
2. It doesn't take forever.
3. It's easy to set up & modify.

¹Although, CMake generates makefiles. Does that count?
Scala -- A++ would definitely program again
incredible product and looking forward to start such facility in India
As a Canadian I notice as 2 consecutively ranked queries:

"Why are Canadians so rude"

"Why are Canadians so friendly"

And I'm suddenly reminded of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" segments. And my guess is that for the majority of these queries, it's because the person has 7 different toolbars loaded into IE. IE8 if we're lucky, but probably IE7. Maybe IE6. Plus they probably have a ton of autostart crap on their computer and don't know how to differentiate between "my computer is slow" and "the web is slow."
That's even assuming the 4chan story is real.

Anyone who wwants to spread distrust about police could write it too, and it would be easier than brute-forcing the SD card.
But doesn't a transaction fee defeat the purpose of bitcoin?
why is It that almost no site uses appcache, when it is a way of ensuring that resources are already local and the only network traffic is the truly essential part?

HTTP caching is fine for that. appcache is more about allowing the site to largely work even after going offline. That's more than most sites need.
I think the original author wanted to imply, that a more productive discussion would occur if we'd think of how to fix these issues. Like put a protective cover at the rim and a grid at the intake so air can flow, but hands, eyes and paws are safe?
These are interesting comments.

But it's not my impression that the patents that have been causing a lot of trouble are largely of this extremely specialized kind. A lot of them seem to have to do with implementations or applications of networking -- like the one Newegg is currently defending against, which is claimed to cover SSL/TLS key negotiation. There was another a while back that purportedly covered podcasting. I don't think it takes years of study to understand what these things are.
So how does your argument affect stock options? Once a company IPO'ed they aren't much different from stock from any other company. Do you suggest to sell them as soon as they vest?
Latency is funny, it is so because:

* It is additive. It is necessary for just one component in the chain to add latency (monitor refresh, uncompressing, a bad cable modem, a bad router in the path, overloaded server, bloated JS code in the page). It is very hard to remove (one can argue impossible, but I am thinking of a multi-path set up with redundant hardware or network connections)

* Even though we can process teraflops per second on home GPU cards, our websites load about as a fast as they did 10 years ago.

* Border-line imperceptible UI or audio latencies still lead to bad user experience. They might not even know why they don't like it but in an A/B test they would pick the faster more response one. This was the case with Android vs Apple up until not too long ago. Even tiny UI jerkiness is enough to annoy a large number of users.

* OS and whole software stacks are usually designed for improved throughput not low latency processing. It takes tuning (proc and sys params) or even installing a special kernel to get better latency support for low level code.

* More benchmarks also measure throughput more than latency. Software is often picked and compared based on throughput, latency is second citizen most often. In a sequential setup for example, the two are compliments of each other, the more requests per second, the lower the latency of each request. It is only in concurrent and parallel contexts when latency starts to behave widely different. Send 100 requests at the same time towards the server? What happens? Do 50 get processed in 1ms but the rest block for 25ms?

* Low latency and liveliness has to be baked into the innards of the system/VM/framework. Depending on what is picked (and it often is picked based on throughput) a lot of time might end up being wasted fighting latency in a highly concurrent situation.
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It's kind of like fortune cookies that include winning lottery numbers. The problem is they don't tell you which lottery or which day.
I am responding to this section of your comment:

"and the DEA can check your records any time. they have caught at least some people (who were "diverting" cocaine up their nose) with this."

It would be trivial for any chemist to "divert" cocaine up their nose and not get caught if they put some thought into it. As you said, some already do "divert" cocaine up their nose, so obviously some chemists are interested in random guy's cocaine. If the DEA is catching people through record keeping, you can be sure there are some chemists who sensibly doctor the records at the same time.

If the chemist is interested in doctoring lab results to screw over a defendant (rather than get high).... well shit, we already know that is possible, don't we? That is the entire point of this discussion. There is really absolutely no sense in arguing that chemists cannot doctor evidence to send some guy up the river, we already know that they can.
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I see all sorts of negative press from past employees:<p>-Old/inefficient tech
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I feel like that should be made into a latin phrase like "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

Someone better versed in Latin may need to double check this:

"Quis prosequiet ipsos prosecutores?"
> Economies must be managed.

Mouhahaha. I give you back your line. They tried it in Japan, Europe, US, Russia, and almost everywhere else and it didn't work. Countless countries sinking in huge public debt, that's hardly a way you build up a strong argument against Free Markets. Free markets and Free economy don't exist anywhere at the moment, period. What you see as a failure is centralized-economic policies at work, with more or less degree of economic freedom depending on where you live. But don't kid yourself : as long as the money supply is controlled (and this is effectively the case when you have a central bank), you are not in a Free Economy anymore.

And of course Deflation in Japan was a direct consequence of the Japanese government actions. Deflation wouldn't occur constantly for x years if there was no policy behind it to sustain it. And you will find many other particularities of Japan markets to be strongly linked to governments policies and disruption in different fields (there was an article on Japan housing on HN a couple of days ago, explaining why housing was so different in Japan... again nothing to do with Free Markets at work).
Block all advertising, tracking an analytics, and a considerable part of the web becomes much faster.

The amount of worthless crap that comes with a simple web page where only a bit of text is relevant is staggering.
No. If you have an Imgur account maybe, but you could just open an incognito window and upload the picture. No account is necessary.
This vision for last mile of deliveries looks right. Looking forward to buildings having "chute systems" that organize and automate deliveries to individual recipients.
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Correctly. Nowadays most of the web application frameworks have a built-in concept of an "asset pipeline". You drop your javascripts and stylesheets in a specific folder, and when starting your application in a production environment, everything is concatenated, minified and optimized, so you have basically exactly one javascript file and one stylesheet file to download for your users.
> Scala is on my "will not work with" list of languages/technologies

Just curious, what are the some languages/platforms you like or enjoy using? (Mine are Python, Erlang and Go for ex).
Paul Allen (of Microsoft and Ticketmaster fame) refers to this as a "complexity brake" in his critique of Kurzweil's Singularity concept.

Bandwidth is well and good, but latencies are non-fungible, as are other overheads.
South Korea's business culture is... Different, in my limited (lived there for 6mths and have a number of good friends from SK) experience, but also I think a lot of businesses wouldn't know what to do with someone so smart?
Yes. Sorta. Depends if you believe that the NSA is responsible for creating bitcoin as a means to get millions of CPU resources for free, which could be used to crack SHA and to track the comings and goings of criminals.

It is not so far fetched. Since we don't know who really created it, and we know that for something that the government should have been very "anti" and yet seem to have left it alone.

I am not one for conspiracies, but if it walks like a duck, and you haven't heard it make a noise who is to say it isn't a duck?
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In the tech bubble, were not most of the companies that didn't survive making losses? Seems you could quite easily defend against the possibility of the company being unable to claw their way back by only buying companies that are actually viable.
I haven't seen a .tk domain in years... You used to be able to get a free domain (with ads overlayed) on it.
> but also I think a lot of businesses wouldn't know what to do with someone so smart?

Figuring out what to do with him wasn't what was holding them back. He got a job offer after completing his high school and college degree.
I really don't think either of those options is going to give you the desired results. As the cliche goes, ideas are a dime a dozen, and are pretty worthless in the eyes of an investor. What you need to do is put together a team of people, and get busy with a prototype. Test the market. Get some traction. Develop a business model. Then start approaching angel investors, and take it from there.
I'm not even a dabbler in this kind of stuff but wouldn't it be fair to assume that individuals that invest small ammounts of money ( up to 100k let's say ) could potentially see larger ROI than big investors since big investors change the market prices so much when they trade with tens of millions?

For example in bitcoin if you trade with 5 BTC you could scalp for some nice poket money but you couldn't possibly do this with 10000 btc
dot tk... as a kid, did anyone else enjoy getting their first (free) domain from that register?
"... she needs to be held accountable for each and every
instance."

Accountability is nice, but let's not lose sight of the bigger picture here which is a sharp correction of the system that not only allowed her to carry on for years, but more than likely actively encouraged her.

Personally, instead of having her serve a 100 year jail sentence, I would have no problem letting get a jail sentence of 1 year if it meant that everyone else complicit in these crimes also got 1 year of jail. Spreading it among all those responsible is a much bigger deterrent than throwing one person under the bus.

Going to jail for a serious crime you are guilty of is a lottery. It is a much more effective deterrent when being found guilty and spending time in jail is a likely event when a crime actually occurs."
It will be cost effective if people are willing to pay for it. It won't be available everywhere, only in densely populated areas, and the warehouses will only carry a subset of smaller, higher-value, more time-sensitive goods.
I think it can be put more bluntly. By trading stocks you are entering an arena filled with professional gladiators. Unless you're their equal, you're going to come out missing several body parts. And simply being smart doesn't begin to make you their equal: these people are smart too, and have been doing this for years.
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That's a Bombay Sandwich, technically.
Because of incessant cryptocurrency price checking?
Seems that having a more free/playful upbringing would have allowed him to explore his interests more. Being turned into an equation-solving robot seems to have crushed his soul.
You're probably saying that as an ambitious man -- but happiness is not necessarily linked to "ambitious success". In fact, the opposite is likely -- if you're highly intelligent and have low ambition, it's very likely you will achieve whatever you're aiming for and lead a happy life.

I say that as an ambitious person (I can't really understand "safe" people motivations either) - it's outside our capability to understand by ourselves a completely orthogonal mindset because you basically can't really simulate it to reach conclusions.
Yeah, based on the email content from the prosecutors, it looks like they were in on it too. How does a 50lbs package of marijuana magically become 80lbs as requested by the prosecutor? It sounds like the entire system is corrupt.
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Modulo some tax considerations (specifically, you want to sell them when they'll count as long term capital gains), yes, sell them as soon as you can. Keeping your company stock for a publicly traded company is silly for both the reason above and for another reason that goes one step beyond it: you didn't even pick it!

Think of it this way: look at all the employee stock you hold and ask yourself, "would I ever buy this much stock from this company if I didn't work here?" Of course not. The only reason you have it at all is because you got it in a stock grant or bought it at a substantial employee discount. But now that you have it, it's the biggest individual position you have in the whole market. Where you happen to work is a totally arbitrary consideration relative to where your money should be, so this is a really silly state of affairs. There's just no sound reason for you to be holding it just because someone happens to have given it to you; past events are irrelevant to your present decisions. So execute your options as soon as they vest and buy into no-load ETF or something.
I believe Intellectual Ventures has patented that business model. You'll be hearing from their drone soon.
This happens all the time - a firm will make a number of "exploratory" funds, with the losers being rolled into existing funds and the winners "graduating" to being full funds and promoted aggressively by the firm. (At least according to A Random Walk Down Wall Street, a great book that is very relevant to this thread.)
The hashes that come out of bitcoin mining aren't just any ordinary hash you could use to crack passwords, though. The hashes have to begin with a number of 0s corresponding to the difficulty.

Most password hashes (including the salt) hardly have these 0s so even as a lookup table the blockchain isn't very good.
More like the anti-soylent. Nice texture, no nutritional content.
so how come equities have consistently outperformed every other investment YoY since 1930 ? There is no other investment that consistently yields what equities do. Nor does he say what investment one should make instead (because of inflation, you are losing your money simply by having cash).
Haiku (BeOS' descendant) is written in C++ as well
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Actually India is going to be hard-hit by climate change on several fronts. Firstly, many parts of southern India are low-lying and will be affected by rising sea levels. Then there's the effect that India is in the tropical zone - they've already experienced devastating monsoons and this is only predicted to get worse (see Typhoon Yolanda) as time goes by. Lastly, those glaciers aren't far away, they're right there in the Himalayas - India can expect to have major problems with drinking water supplies as those glaciers melt.

I'm not up with Indian politics, but I rather suspect that the current refusal to deal with emissions is more about climate change denialism mixed in with a sense of anti-colonial defiance than anything else. Don't forget that it's actually easier, politically speaking, for a developing country such as India to adopt renewable energy than it is for the developed world, goodness knows they have the engineers to make it happen! We need baseload power, our society has been constructed expecting it to exist, but as Indian populations get electricity, it's not going to be a major drama if electricity supply is intermittent - that's still way better than no electricity at all.
Sounds yummy, I'll probably do it before a shooter's (which is on my list of food to prepare someday). But qualifying edam and emmental as strong cheese sounds really weird from an European viewpoint
I feel like there must be others who share the responsibility. There's no way a single chemist could be the source of 34,000 convictions. Since they found a second chemist tainting the results at the lab, I'm guessing the entire prosecution system is corrupted.
This has been coming, and there's also so much room for gains from it. Eli Dourado covered this nicely, I think http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/then-internet-now-airsp...

Personally I hope the commercial use of drones become evident and widespread and legislation lags behind it. The last thing we would want is strict military-only licenses for drones out of the fear someone will deliver some explosives to a politician with it.
Re: #2: I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to shoot at other people's property (or within city limits at all, most places).
That's only if you need MORE storage. Heck i am happy with my data limit, and yes, the major attraction is the "Just Fucking Works" part. Its the usability factor. Just cuz you CAN write your own web browser, doesn't mean you wouldn't use firefox or chrome
on the topic of Delhi, perhaps it is pertinent to read this - http://blog.ksidc.org/cng-cleans-up-delhi-air-kerala-awaits-...

or this

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bharat-stage-iii-vehicles-...

There are enough of us trying to change the system from within (notwithstanding the Delhi election day after tomorrow). This has resulted in pollution being one of the main aspects of all three major political parties manifesto ([1] vs [2] vs [3])

So let's not say that "it isn't a cause for concern".

[1] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/we-will-work-free-delh...
[2] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/congress-manifesto-pro...
[3] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/bjp-manifesto-taps-pub...
First .tk not to be used for spam or malware in years!

Great web app, though.
The article is not easy to read, a human editor would help.

Still note that the first found bug looks serious, it seems to lower the security: it's in ssl3_SendEncryptedExtensions and compares wrong.
For those who don't know, all Macs come with "Grapher"; it's really good. Here's a Grapher screenshot of the equation used in Graph.tk:

http://i.imgur.com/ql0Y23a.png

Having shared that, this is a really cool thing for the web.
Yep. I even have a few free 4-letter domains from it, which is rather rare nowadays for any TLD (though probably not too valuable here, especially since you can't really do "-tk" domain hacks).
you should ask yourself why you think you will be able to compete.

I don't want to win, I just want to be in the race (and not lose too terribly much). Much the same as how people like to run in marathons they know they can't win. I suspect it would be an interesting blend of things that I like.
Slightly. Bitcoin mining encourages people to build SHA256 crackers. It's not inconceivable that these things could be repurposed to attack other types of SHA256 attacks besides those relevant to the BTC block chain.
I believe this question exhibits a lack of understanding of what "mining" Bitcoins means. Or possibly how Bitcoin works. Or both.

Mining Bitcoins is simply a search for an SHA256 hash matching a certain set of criteria. The mining hardware could theoretically be used to search for hash collisions faster than previously existing hardware, but that is of limited utility in the scenario of trying to find a specific hash collision (i.e. one that allows you to decrypt a file or login to a system) rather than one that meets certain qualifications (but doesn't have to be an exact match for one unique hash).

The set of possible values is so large that even the next generation of ASIC mining hardware (which will continue the exponential growth of worldwide hashing power) would require hundred or thousands of years (I don't know the specifics and can't be bothered to find the numbers with specificity), on average, to find a specific hash. SHA256 is still strong, even assuming a vastly larger pool of searching machines.

In short: Bitcoin mining is not "cracking" SHA256. It's gambling on finding a hash that has one specific (rare, but not even close to unique) characteristic. Finding one, just like winning at poker or at the roulette wheel, does not make the next round easier.
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Subheading that actually explains what the article is about:

"A Gawker Editor Tells How He Picks 'Viral' Content Readers Can't Resist Sharing"
This would be a very ineffective means of attacking SHA256. The terahashes being thrown at Bitcoin mining are effectively wasting 99.9999% (more at this point, actually, due to difficulty scaling) of their hashing power, if that were the goal. If someone wanted to design a cryptocurrency that helped crack SHA256 (or any other algorithm), it wouldn't look like Bitcoin.