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In case of Blockchain.info, wallet decryption happens in browser. The server sends you an encrypted wallet if you know user ID and provide 2-FA code. Without the code, anyone who knows your user ID will get the encrypted wallet and bruteforce it offline. With 2-FA they'd have to hack into your email or phone to get the code or hack into your email or computer to get your encrypted backup.
> Why would the strings match? Aren't they completely different?

In some theoretical sense, yes. In terms of solving users' problems and providing business value, I need to make it possible for users to find the entry for "Łódź" without typing accents.

> (What language are we talking about, anyway?)

We're talking about Scala; it runs on the JVM and so java.lang.String is the string type.
How does this affect un-upgradable computers like ultrabooks? Can't even add more RAM to them
Im not sure your contention that browsers will always be hamstrung is true, time will tell, but proposals for HTML spec camera integration, gps integration, etc are alive and well.

To the point of paying the fee of app in app, you're right that there will always be a penalty. But "will browser apps ever run as fast as native" is not really the right question. The right question is "will browser apps ever be able to run fast enough."

Finally, a clarifying point. When i said "do whatever you do" I meant that a website does the same thing in every browser, not that websites currently can do the same thing as native apps.
There is no such thing as "permission to the mapping" - you can only MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE - in the latter case the updates are not visible to other processes mapping the same file. Whether you can mmap() a file solely depends on permissions of the file - the one you pass in to mmap using the "int fd" parameter. So if two processes both have READ access to a file, both can mmap with PROT_READ and if both can madvise() then the kernel zaps the page ranges.

Do you see anything in the Linux kernel code that says otherwise?
Is it really true that no two snowflakes are alike? (1999)
In 2010 a guy paid 10,000 BTC for 2 pizza's, probably roughly equivalent to $40.

10,000 BTC today = $10.5 million USD.
Print books basically have two overwhelming disadvantages for me. (1) They mass a LOT. (2) Due to #1, they AREN'T HERE. My tablet is here, my phone is here. My ebooks are here. My squashed tree books are at home.
I miss Wikibooks and Wikiversity.
basic income doesn't increase the amount of currency in circulation...
The problem with making it unconditional is that it will completely break the ceteris paribus calculations as to what is good enough, making a lot of collateral damage on its way while being largely ineffective.

Showering money to everybody is very likely to make more harm than good to real people's economies. A transition to Friedman's proposal on a "moderate" negative income tax (it's not what the name suggests) makes a lot more sense than this. Although I'd just give conditional help as it's done in many European countries with a reasonable degree of success.
> Search is always a hairy problem, you would probably store a normalized version of your searchable text and match a normalized input on that. What should actually match will be different depending on what you're doing

Sure, but the language should offer support for this, even if it requires some level of configuration. It's not a problem we want every programmer solving anew for every program.

> I wouldn't rely on something like string.equals for it.

True enough. But I think the existing String.equals method is broken: it behaves very surprisingly and leads programmers to introduce bugs. Likewise e.g. String.subString (which can chop a character in half). These methods cannot be fixed (because existing code assumes their current functionality) and are very difficult to use effectively; they should be deprecated, which in practice means a new String type.
What about Paypal? It seems to me they could really advantage of this by becoming the defacto way people use to buy Bitcoins (or at least one of the most popular methods). It's too bad they are so shortsighted about it, and only see Bitcoin as a threat.

Yes, Bitcoin is a threat, for the whole financial system for that matter, but it's much more of a threat for those who don't adopt it than for those who do. At least if Paypal adopted it, they could remain relevant in the future, and people would still use them.
I've always put it on the end of the line and found it easier to parse visually than when its on a separate line. To me that just seems like a waste of space.
money printing is inflation.
Yet, they represent a overwhelming part of the site-loads users experience (certainly >50%, at least for people from big countries).
I strongly suspect this has more to do with bottle water being overpriced (you're paying for convenience). Also, who cares that coca cola is cheaper? Why is that "bad for humanity?"
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Very esoteric title, but the message got me thinking about my personal marketing crusades.

For example the D programming language. While it actually targets C++, selling it to C++ programmer is tough, because they are unlikely to switch. It is probably easier to sell to people researching Scala vs Clojure vs Go.
But that's not what you said. You claimed Coca-Cola was doing "nothing for the betterment of humanity". The billions of dollars people spend on their products suggest they're either providing some benefit or have brainwashed their customers. I guess I have a little more faith in humanity than you do.
Universal income experiment in India, which I think we can mark as 'successful'.

http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
Our town just voted to buy our street lights back from the utility. It's projected to save us millions even before we upgrade them to LEDs. It's notable that the utility is forced to offer to sell them back by a state law, otherwise they would have no interest in it.
Absolutely. Actually in that case we could just do something like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" hash="b6792c2dcaafc7678f18236f6e7289152756a14f" href="...."></link>

Now that I look at it.. where do we suggest this to the web people?
There's got to be a prediction market somewhere I can bet against this thing.
That's why taxes must be proportional too.
The state spends X euro, the productive economy pays Y euro of salaries+dividends, therefore everybody pays incomeX/Y of taxes. X/Y is the income tax rate.

Or if you prefer to tax sales, with Z being the total amount of sales, priceX/Z. X/Z is the VAT rate.
The inverse is this...what is modern software doing that makes them so slow?
How do you propose they get this money to give to people then?
I recently moved to the UK and this is so true. The lack of dairy product variety and good dark bread is actually one of the most noticeable changes for me in my daily life.
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Interesting. Can you send me more info?
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> People buy soda and milk with returnable bottles, walk outside, pour it out, return the bottles for cash, and buy a beer. This happens consistently at grocery stores.

This is a perfect example of how all people do not in fact act in a responsible manner as many people would have us believe when discussing topics such as this. Some people simply are unwilling or unable to even semi-wisely manage the life of a human being, which shouldn't be that shameful really considering how complex of a job it is nowadays.

In many cases, some people really do know what is better for certain others.
Taxes? I'm not proposing anything by the way, just explaining that mincome isn't a proposal to print a bunch of new money. I think the idea is that it replaces current welfare programs.
What kind of a fucking comment is that? Is he supposed to arrive at the conclusion you failed to make?

You're not serious, are you?
I am a fan of python.
when developing python and needing a breakpoint I just write
>> import pdb;pdb.set_trace()
in the respective line and can then execute the code till that point and have all the current variables available in the console.

This was missing for me when I started doing stuff in scala, so I hacked something to be able to do the same in Scala and jump straight to the REPL(unfortunately variables need to be passed explicitly here, but most of the REPL functionality works:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7693857
To be fair... the mechanism of penicillin when described for the lay person is remarkably similar to the description that IBM provides.

"the polymer attaches to the bacteria's membrane and then facilitates destabilization of the membrane" vs "act by inhibiting the synthesis of the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell walls".

And the resistance isn't to getting your head blown off. That's thinking too much in the box. It's more like being resistant to having a bullet shot at your head, either by somehow becoming invisible to your assailant's vision, wearing a sufficiently good helmet, or having your vital organs located somewhere else.

While I agree that it seems much harder for bacteria to overcome this new approach, it really isn't safe to say that it's not possible. We have no idea about the microbial world. We barely know a fraction of the microbes that swarm around us, we have no idea what defenses, mechanisms and quirks they have that might provide a method of resistace.

And since this is a passive process (just some polymer floating around) that somehow does not damage human cells, you can bet that there's someway to spoof that.
I don't care if it's just Google or Google + Mozilla + some bunch of other guys. At least with Dart I can see the difference and it took a couple of years to implement instead of a dozen of years. I hope Dart will get some traction so that other players will be innovating again instead of relying on legacy languages.
To me, this is the right approach to creating value...ignoring sunk costs. I wish you luck with the expectation that you don't need quite as much of it as an alternative growth strategy might require.
Whom would you tax? It isn't possible that taxes would cover all of it.
> Corporations pay market value for wages, to increase wages you need to either increase the number of jobs, or decrease the number of workers.

To a large degree the market value for wages is such only because of a government subsidy to the employers. Take Wal-Mart for example, they go as far as helping their employees enroll in all sorts of government poverty programs because even though they are full-time workers they still qualify for SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid and other similar programs.

Wal-Mart, McDonalds and other similar large low-wage paying corporations should not be able to use government welfare in what effectively part of their compensation to employees.
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Adjectives, to me, are more unresolved but I think Clojure's protocols appear to be close to the right answer.

Adjectives are properties or classes of things, like Numeric or Closeable (with-open pattern) or Monad. The Haskell solution is type classes. The Java solution is OOP. The Erlang solution (fairly similar) is the actor model, which is the inspiration for OOP's principle of locally interpreted functions/methods (as opposed to global function definitions). OCaml's is functors, which are extremely powerful but hard for most people to use.
One subset for each TLD would be nice. Or, if you can afford more CPU-power, per language, using a good open language detector.
Depends how hard you throw it. ;)
>This scientific field is called universal artificial intelligence

How many times do we need to re-define the same concept? Artificial Intelligence, Human Level Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Strong Artificial Intelligence etc....

Lets pick one as a community and stick with it. I thought AGI was in the lead there recently what with the conference, journal and high amount of web searches but apparently that isn't enough.

Beyond that, I would like to see how they make their algorithm narrow for the narrow application of the Pac-Man game while keeping it generalizable. My guess is that they don't and this algo ends up being a "starting point" for narrow AI applications to rest on. In that case it's fine and interesting, but doesn't pass the test to integrating specificity within a general learning model.
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One explanation for the wrong answers is how people use the phrase 'pen floats', and how people are imprecise about using words.

The gravitational constant is 1/6 of the Earth's. This means that I can jump on the Moon 6 times higher than here and the pen will tale 6 times longer to fall down.

It will take 6 times longer for gravity to 'kick-in' and cause the perceivable movement, as we got used to here on Earth - where on Earth the pen moved already 6 cm on the Moon the movement is still 1 cm.

It looks as if the things are moving slower. I can catch a falling egg before it reaches the ground, my reactions are like of a fly on Earth.

So I can say that the things are floating on Moon, because they are not accelerating and falling fast enough, in common terms. In interstellar space the pen will fall onto the neighbor galaxy, but will do this so slow, that I will perceive as if it is floating. If the pen will move alongside with an object much smaller than the Moon (a rock), the pen will fall onto the rock with much slower acceleration. For time perception of humans it will float in space.

Another explanation for wrong answers is that if you feed people with stupid questions, you will get stupid answers. Have you asked me to answer these questions I will surely answer wrongly 'pen floats' and 'heavy boots' on purpose only to prove the point. These answers seem to be serious enough to mislead you.
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Oh, so you're coding around your users' inability to type the letters they actually want? That sounds basically impossible... you'd have to pick letters according to how similar they look instead of their meaning in any context. And, I meant human language! :)
>This pretty much happens already in progressive taxation countries(e.g. belgium) where you can actually make less money by having a higher salary because your tax-rate increases.

All sane countries with progressive taxation always apply the higher tax bracket only to the part of the salary that is in the bracket.

E.g. if the tax is 10% < $50k and 25% >= $50k, a $60k salary would have to pay 10% * $50k + 25% * $10k in taxes, and all wage increases increase net pay.
In order for a basic income program to save costs on bureaucracy and replace existing programs, those existing programs must be closed by legislation or executive order, and the people employed by them must lose their jobs, and the number of employees in the new basic income agency must be fewer. Many of these employees will not find replacement work due to age or their industry (government bureaucracy) shrinking so will go from middle class to poor on basic income.

This will have a large economic effect unless it is done slowly, but if it is done slowly, both programs will have to exist at once without paying too much to the same person. This will require the basic income agency to have the same kind of bureaucracy as the other agencies or else have no oversight. In the first phase of the transition, at least, it would cost much more.

The agency would need to maintain some bureaucracy to guard against fraud since obtaining benefits would never require a visit to an office or proof of some activity. It would be easy for someone to claim extra people without oversight.
Nice and easy to use data binding.
The relative strength of gravity mostly does not matter. If the Earth pulled on you harder than the moon, you'd still fall towards the moon, because the moon is just as strongly affected by that gravity as you are (momentarily ignoring tides).

So no, I'm pretty sure your thought process wasn't remotely correct.
Or any programmer who works on legacy code... sure destroys the misconception that natural selection must end up with the best option ;)
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That's absurd, of course people will work. Why does anyone work right now when there are already welfare programs?

By your logic there would be no sense in companies paying bonuses--if you already have a guaranteed salary why would you do anything more than the minimum?
I'm glad I stuck with Intel ssds even though they eventually switched to SandForce I have drives with both controllers and they are both awesome. I almost bought an OCZ but they were garbage especially now Samsung is a player.
$100k limit is completely unnecessary in a universal income. The whole point is that the basic income is fully "paid" through taxes at some point. If the universal income is $12k and someone is paying $14k in taxes total, the "true tax" to fund the state (apart from basic income) is $2k.
> In the current system, you can go stay at home and get income support, which should provide you with the basics...

Income support is about £71 week (25 and over, or lone parent). That's £307.66 PCM.

Assuming water, gas and electric are around £100/month, you now have £48/week.

If you have to pay the "spare" bedroom "tax (average £16) £32/week is now your budget for travel, food and clothing.

And this is not a contrived example! It's barely even survival with the changes that the Tories have implemented.

I wouldn't call £71/week being provided with the basics.
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I don't know how many kids you have or how many failed startups you have had, but I have some very relevant experience here. Give it 3 months and ask the OP if he ended up homeless.
The gravitational constant is constant DUH!
It's worth the same 6.67384 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2 on the Moon than on Earth than in the other corner of the Universe! (AFAWCK for the other corner of the Universe, from the kind of stellar light we get from there).
>For example, I live in London and enjoy this city. I would love to be able to stay at home and work on my side projects in hope of making extra money, but given the outcome I believe from this, everyone who was to only accept the basic income amount would no longer be able to afford to live in London and would have to relocate to less desirable places in the country.

Some models call for a universal income which takes location inconsideration. The income would be higher in London, for example. That's a pretty controversial model, though.
The only way for it to be fair is for everyone to receive it. Naturally, there will be an inflection point where at some income level a person starts paying out more than they receive.

I once calculated, based on what amounts to a back-of-the-napkin calculation based on a flat tax, that the inflection point would be somewhere in the $60-70k range for Canada. The US would be a bit higher due to the greater income inequality.
I wholly agree that it's worth investing in finding the best solution. However, in my experience I found that having concrete code to work with is invaluable. The magic bullet for me is to slap something concrete together, then aggressively refactor / cut the crap out of it. In some sense, building software is like sculpture. You've got this amorphous block of half baked ideas, and you need to turn it somehow into a svelte shape.

* We end up finding more crap to remove then we'd thought at the start.

* We can cut down misguided arguments from wannabe architects of "what if we'll need x" by saying "we'll add this back when someone asks for x". It's much easier to point out that x is currently pointless with concrete code than at the demiurge phase where everything is possible and timelines are ignored.

* We can chop at the problem as a team, without having a long sequential and solitary step of "designing the best system". Amdahl's law applies to dev teams as well.
This is my exact experience. Another way to put it is that changing involves two decisions: Whether to change and what change to make. Therefore, there are two sales to make to someone who hasn't decided to change, and only one sale to make to someone who has already decided to change.

Given a limited amount of time and energy to invest, you will get the maximum return when you are only trying to make one sale at a time.

We can make up numbers all day, but let's pretend I'm a D Evangelist with a 20% close rate. Given 100 prospects who haven't decided to switch languages, I get 20% of them to agree to switch, and then 20% of those to agree to use switch to D.

That's only 4%. Whereas if I find 100 people who are looking for a new language, I can get 20% of them to switch to "D." On the whole, it makes sense for me to let other mechanisms convince people to make a change, and put my energy into explaining why D is the right change to make.
The UK benefits system has been built up over many years, over a range of different government departments, and covers many different needs and philosophies.

This means it's a horrific mess. For years it was not possible to know how much housing benefit you would get before you moved into a property. While I think there are flaws with the free market I can see that crippling it doesn't help at all.

It's really hard to work out if you're getting the correct benefits, or if you're getting too many. (We have a tax credit system. The credits lag real world payment information, and many people get caught with having to repay tax credits.)

There are other flaws. Someone getting voluntary work (improving their chances of getting full time paid employment) is penalised. Someone with MH illness who gets voluntary work as a step back into society gets penalised.

So, the different government departments have been streamlined a bit. The different benefits are being changed, and signals are being sent about acceptable use of the system.

I got a letter, to my name and address, with all my relevant information. It had a phone number. I called the number. They asked me security information, and confirmed my name and address. They sent me a form. I had to fill out the form and return it. That form is an assessment for an interview. I'll attend an interview, which is given by a doctor. That doctor doesn't do any diagnosis, they have a rigid check list which they assess the patient against. ("Can you walk 10 metres unaided?" "Can you stand for ten minutes without pain?"). The form is scored and sent to a decision maker. That is then returned to a bureaucrat, who awards one benefit, or another, or none.

The checklist is flawed - turn up with a dirty t-shirt because you're a lazy slob? You score points. Turn up with an ironed shirt and tie because your crippling OCD and anxiety won't allow you to leave the house otherwise? You lose points.

All of this bureaucracy is very expensive. The system is open to abuse from multiple parties - criminal gangs using dead people's names to claim benefits; people over claiming, or claiming while working, or claiming for something they're not eligible for.

Sweeping away all of this and replacing it with a relatively simple "Does this person exist? Are the eligible for the universal income?" would save so much money, and time, and stress. It would free people to do voluntary work, or small informal projects.

Then we just need a bonfire of the tax / duties system, and get something sane there.
You could use a magnet "link" (which is really just a hash anyways) to pull the file from the Kademlia DHT.
Universal income can be cost neutral, that would mean that prices wouldn't increase on average.