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> You didn't have rich media because the Usenet was about exchange of thoughts and knowledge

Also most (American, anyway...) clients couldn't support such large messages, since the choice of speed for most of us was 16.6, 28.8 and 56k modems at the time.
Better is easy, good is hard
He knows how to sound informed, which is the important part. Large walls of text, big words, selective citation of valid sounding papers.
You out yourself by using the phrase "Reification of Zero," which is something I've only ever heard from Objectivists. It's funny to hear you say this, since Objectivists are usually so apoplectic about axioms and premises.

You can object to ZF(C) as the basis for set theory, but I don't see how one can call it "wrong." If you want to build up a theory without the Axiom of Infinity you're free to do so — many mathematicians have. Either Cantor's arguments follow from ZF(C) or they don't (hint: they do).

It's not a philosophical problem at all. One can certainly explore what it would mean to do mathematics without access to "infinity", as many mathematicians in the first half of the 20th century did. IMO this conversation is all air until you propose your own precise set of axioms.
I am not sure, but I think an illogical argument can be just illogical without being a bias. It is possible to reject the initial solution due to some bias (which may be any of the number of them), but it may also be possible to be just wrong at rejecting it.
Absolutely not. This is not about others' opinions, which you cannot ultimately control. This is about your own action, which is the only thing you can.
Absolutely agree that if there were no prior encounters with man who charged his car, then the cop acted in bad faith wasting tens of thousands of dollars of public money in judicial costs for a "crime" than could have been prevented with a simple community policing effort, basically telling the guy to unplug the car.

But of course considering that crappy newspapers like USAToday often omit information to make the stories sound bigger (technically not a lie), there may have been some background that caused the cop to arrest the car owner.

Also I wonder if using outlet would be considered a fair use of the facilities. The car owner son was playing tennis at the school which means he was given a permission to use the facility. If this is the case then using the parking lot, drinking fountain, light or electric outlet at the school should be considered a fair use.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig... -> If that's not a success, I don't know what is.

Your point doesn't stand. You implied that society needs cellphones, therefore there can be no ban on them. No one's calling to ban all cellphones. The suggestion is to reevaluate safety criteria, and disallow phones above that threshold.

Seems maybe you're right on one point, it seems plain education seems to be less successful. It's only a contributing factor whereas taxing and banning are the main factors in getting adults to stop smoking:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/why-smoking-rates-a...

This is even funnier though, since it suggests that the approach of taxing and banning nonconforming cell phones would work, which is the opposite of what you're suggesting.
Good quote, thanks for this
I am 100% sure that SO makes my employees and me more productive. QAOP (Question and Answer Oriented Programming) boosts the productivity significantly.

But I think in the long term, when everybody incorporates the same QAOP skills all developers will compete at the same level and new productivity horizons will came.
What is it meant to achieve?
That's the ideology of Bitcoin, the reality is that the majority of people are NOT using it for any of those things. It's still just a pyramid scheme after all these years because of the friction and time it takes to exchange USD for Bitcoins and back. The price changes so often you'd have to update your prices constantly, and with the constantly rising price of bitcoin, people earn money by keeping the currency and NOT using it.

Bitcoin encourages people to KEEP their bitcoins. Why use them to buy something when next month they're going to increase in value.
Personally I see this list as not necessarily complete. For instance, as I see it, the term 'moral hazard' is as valid as 'gambler's fallacy' as a cognitive bias, however, I would not dare to edit the page and add it in.

Another example is 'wilful ignorance' - this is when trying to think about something is so mind-blowing that the mind just goes blank. Despite the name of the term this is not 'wilful' - it is subconscious. It might kick in when the world goes to war or something serious like that. This is not the same as the 'Ostrich Effect' - this is conscious ignorance, e.g. if someone asks me about what shoes they should buy next and I really cannot be bothered to think about it then I make a conscious decision to be ignorant.
Bitcoin solved the problem of double spending in a distributed system. Cryptocurrencies without this specific feature have been around.

Your paper avoids this issue: "In order to prevent multiple spending in off-line payments, we need to rely on physical security."

Basically they envisioned that for their system to work, you'd need really good DRM that prevented people from spending money twice. The NSA envisioned that most people wouldn't break the DRM so the counterfeiting wouldn't be any worse then it is now.

Yet, you should know how hard (or impossible) it is to prevent people from copying and distributing stuff. That's where the blockchain shines. It prevents this problem by having an eventually-consistant public ledger. No drm needed.
Has Hacker News cost billions of dollars in programmer productivity? :P
> Yes, and if you'd read anywhere else in the thread, You'd find that the Linux Mint issue does not happen because there's a package in the LM16 repositories for steam. Which means that the entire issue of LM not running steam is moot. Which means there is no fragmentation issue in Linux as related to steam.

I don't follow this argument.

1. Linux Mint is Linux. People who run it say "I'm running linux."
2. Linux Mint does not run steam. People who run it say "Steam doesn't work on Linux Mint".
3. This means that the linux market is fragmented.

You can't just exclude Mint from linux for some arbitrary reasons. It's linux and it doesn't run steam.

And Mint is hardly alone. It's very much like android, there's a huge number of possible issues developers need to contend with. This doesn't mean it's a failure, it means that the cost of doing business will be higher than with the relatively controlled Windows ecosystem or the even more controlled console market.
Well, it's not just a simple plug: "The plug itself incorporates a processor which detects the plug's orientation and routes the electrical signals to the correct pins." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)

Depressingly... "Official Lightning connectors contain an authentication chip that makes it difficult for third-party manufacturers to produce compatible accessories without being approved by Apple."
Have you found a good mac app for this? I've tried a few but haven't gotten a good one yet.
no, I am just storing my passwords in a text file and I don't want to do it plaintext, but I also don't want to have to encode the whole text file and have to decode it first to use it. Just make it more complicated if someone opens it.

Thanks for the reminder of ticks (`) I was accidentally using single quotes (')
The Launch Code for U.S. Nukes Was 00000000 for 20 Year
The Launch Code for U.S. Nukes Was 00000000 for 20 Year
I'm guessing that was the point.
Reddit and HN can be alright, but they are a shadow of what was normal back in usenet's glory days. Some sub-reddits can be quite good, especially with heavy moderation, but they have all of the problems of usenet except worse.

Most discussions on HN/reddit have a 48-hour time horizon, if that, whereas usenet could easily support threads lasting for weeks or months, with obvious effects on the quality of discussion. Also, web-based discussion makes it difficult to get rid of the clutter of read messages and manages threading poorly so discussions that were perfectly fine when everyone was using newsreaders would today be unwieldy.
It won't be patented by Apple. Which is a hindrance to a 'universal' connector design. Of course Apple started patenting its connectors in part to give it a weapon against inferior cable/accessory makers (or so I'm told).
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> Sun put a ton of work into designing and documenting these APIs, and morally speaking they should be compensated by having some kind of ownership over it.

And how much work did Tim Berners-Lee put into HTTP/HTML, the Unicode Consortium into Unicode, the W3C into XML, etc? The Java ecosystem depends heavily on these and many more. What kind of licensing agreement does Oracle have with the W3C? If you can own copyright on an API, I can't imagine what argument you would use to justify implementing a protocol without licensing it first.

Some parts of the Java API implement APIs that others have designed. Should Oracle need a licensing agreement with the W3C to implement the DOM?

Some parts of the Java API are thin wrappers around existing APIs. Is the Java API a derivative work of CORBA? Does Oracle need a licensing agreement with OMG?
Whenever somebody brings up the intrinsic value of bitcoin vs something else, like gold, I ask them - what's the intrinsic value of gold, give me a dollar figure. It's like seeing deer in the headlights, they never thought of that, they just keep repeating that talking point.

Bitcoin's value is not in its growing price (it's nice, I admit), but in the fact that it solves many monetary problems - nearly free nearly instant transfers, extremely secure, global acceptance, non-reversible, not centralized. I admit it has its issues, but many will go away as it gains more popularity and stabilizes.
Ideally investors can give advice too besides money - it's nice to get two things instead of one. But there is some value to investors who can only provide money, as well as some value to investors who can provide money + advice-distorted-through-skype.
scale so well? What makes you believe they have scale? I mean this in a non-snarky way, I’d love to know how “well” they are doing.
I believe the word "character" means "reputation" in this context.
I wonder if using outlet would be considered a fair use of the facilities. The car owner's son was playing tennis at the school which means he was given a permission to use the facility. If this is the case then using the parking lot, drinking fountain, water in the bathroom, light or electric outlet at the school should be considered a fair use unless there is something that indicates otherwise (like a no-parking sign)
If you read the second version, it is modified into "never play at any game of chance", so I think they meant gambling.
They’ve now joined Blogspot[1] for the title of “Javascript all the things, and break default behavior”

[1] Example http://www.stoyanr.com/2012/12/evictor-java-concurrent-map-w...
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> Bitcoin encourages people to KEEP their bitcoins.

Particularly, so long as it is preceived to be likely to increase rapidly in value, it encourages them to use bitcoin as an investment vehicle rather than investing bitcoins in other things.

Obviously, if you want to consume things, you need to liquidate some assets to consume them, and if you've tied up your assets in bitcoin, you'll spend them for consumption.
Aaah, good point, that's probably the cause. Yeah, this is on a Mac.
Safari 7.0, Mac OS X.
I tried to buy a Nexus 5 in Ebay, I'm being sued for it
I tried to buy a Nexus 5 from Ebay, the seller published some bad data regarding delivery dates. after insulting me and getting angry because I asked for being treat fair and respectably. he is trying to sue me. check the conversation.
I'd like to verify my users are not among those exposed, since we use some of the aforementioned services for single sign on.
Did your friend have an input on the the risk/reward decision?
Yes!

For every different site I use a different email address, so I know when something fishy is going on. so I might have hackernews@mydomain.com. The form wont accept just @domainname.com :(
Do you really think service workers can't learn new skills? We're talking about human beings here, not ants.
All that's true (FULL DISCLOSURE: I work at Apple), but the physical plug that Lightning uses is fantastic. Nothing in there seems to be particularly dependent on the state of technology in 2012.

I mean, USB is better than the physically identical but electrically distinct PS/2 ports, but that's not setting the bar particularly high.
Interesting that the JS is concatenated and mangled but not minified (and the source maps are basically self-referential).
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What immoral acts do you consider US troops to currently be engaged in?
If you're willing to sacrifice half of the conductors, you can make it such that, for example, conductor 1 is always on the left.

You could make USB this way easily with 4 conductors on each side whose order is correct regardless of which side of the cable is up. There'd be 8 total conductors on the connector.
I'm not particularly enthusiastic for the mBTC proposal but on the other hand I don't see it doing any harm.
Not God's temple. Not divine intellect.

God says...
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can_you_hear_me_now end ehheh_thats_all_folks dance quit
do_I_have_to church
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It can be all - a method of transferring money, a method of payment for products and services, and a convenient way to invest while it's going up.

There's not that much friction to exchange it for currencies. I just transferred a five-figure USD amount to an exchange, sold it for BTC, sent them to another exchanged, sold BTC for Euro, withdrew it on the other side of the world. All of that through two exchanges based in countries I've never visited. I saved enormous amount of money compared to just wiring USD -> Euro through my bank.

For every bad story your read online there are hundreds of transactions that went perfectly fine, but people rarely bother to write about their positive experiences.
Partial reactionary says something partial and reactionary, more news at 11.
In the machine learning cheat sheet [1], one of the boxes is "tough luck".

[1] http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2013/01/machine-learning...
I agree gender issues are important. Pull requests are the wrong place to begin that debate. NodeJS was not started as a asynchronous framework for server side javascript with gender inclusive comments.

The project was never gender exclusive. The comments could have easily used the pronouns she instead of he. Whoever wrote the comment chose he for whatever reason. Had someone else who has a different gender pronoun preference written the code being commented on, then it would have been different. It doesn't really matter because it's irrelevant to the purpose of the project.

Yes, I disagree with people wasting the committer's time with something that simply does not matter. Pronouns don't matter. He, she, it, user, dog, cat, lamp. If it's not code or comments that further clarify the code in question who cares because it simply does not matter. Knowing or not knowing the gender of the example user in the comment doesn't change anything about the code. Were we really supposed to believe that it was only going to send the nsent flag is the user is male and that we are not sending the flag if the user is female.

People should either code or not code, but they should not pretend to contribute with trivial pull requests that have been one huge net negative addition to the project due to the shitstorm kicked up. That's all the original pull request has accomplished ... one big massive net negative addition to the community. What an excellent way to make your point and endear people with your cause. I hope they are happy with the turd they left in the pool.

You know what statistic I would love to see. Lines of code contributed by those who think the change is trivial versus those that think it is not trivial. That's the only worthwhile objective measure of "important" that really matters. I bet you that the conversation on that PR is actually really really short once you eliminate everyone who has never contributed a pull request.
There's some decent Chrome apps for it.
I'm a fan of the HP Microserver for home use, it's pretty neat, but certainly not as high end as the examples you mentioned.
The bias here is the belief that bias is a bad word.
Just do:

wget https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker/releases/download/v0.1/boot2docker.iso
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom boot2docker.iso -m 1024

Mind. Blown.
>Lloyd Burrell is the author of a new ebook entitled "How To Beat Electrical Sensitivity" which offers a solution to the growing number of people whose health is being compromised by exposure to wireless and similar technologies, see www.electricsense.com/3-free-chapters.html

>Since falling prey to a violent reaction to his cell phone in 2002 he has spent the last 10 years researching the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on health. He now offers a complete solution on how to live a healthy life in our increasingly electromagnetic world.

dubfan, what you said might just be the biggest understatement I've heard all year.

"Electrical sensitivity" is the realm of quacks and the mentally ill, so I'm pretty unconvinced when someone who believes in that starts talking about the EM risks of cell phones.
I guess that's why he has a 'perfect' reputation in Ebay. hope Ebay was more responsive with these cases...
>Indeed, cyberlibertarians are all about decentralized power structures.

This isn't really true. Libertarians are all about having many centralized power structures. You could call this "decentralized," but it's decentralized in the sense of email being decentralized -- in reality, four entities control email; in a libertarian world I doubt things would be different.

What leftists want is distributed power structures. Facebook is centralized; Email is decentralized; FreeNet[1] is distributed.

I think it'd be a lot more forthcoming for libertarians to say what they actually mean -- something like feudalism -- rather than try to lay claim to a historically leftist term[0].

> not just by proxy of representative politicians or collective voting (as in a "leftist" world)

Are you using quotes here for a reason other than to tonally denigrate leftism?

Voting and representation are hardly hallmarks of leftist political structures. The largest popular leftist movement in the United States recently (Occupy) was based entirely on direct consensus systems (not democracy) (for better or worse).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian#Etymology
[1] https://freenetproject.org/
Ptch was incubated at Dreamworks and was a pretty high-profile project internally there. As another commenter noted, it was something along the lines of an instagram video type of app, with very notable enhancements (think the equivalent of instagram filters, powered by dreamworks technology and content).

It was publicly available in the iOS App Store but didn't get much traction. I'm not sure what's left of the team, as I believe all of the original mobile engineers were already poached.
My personal theory is, that it was tumblr's original arbitrary limit of 512KB (now 1MB) that elevated GIF content's artistic quality to new levels.

Before there were all kinds of GIFs, but mainly unedited direct frame sequences out of movie files, yet there was no need to keep the files small. Yet if you wanted to see them in your dashboard stream in their full animated glory, the GIFs had to be kept under that limit at all costs.

Creative workarounds were found (minimizing frames/short loops/masking out static parts of the image) to create outstanding rebloggable content worth sharing.

If tumblr didn't have that limit, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing the current GIF-renaissance, maybe reaction-GIFs, but for sure not stuff like:

iwdrm, mr. div, head like an orange

file under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_limitation
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I'm pretty sure the intrinsic value of gold is less than 10% of the market value.

If the world suddenly stopped seeing gold as 'money' or a 'store of value' or whatever it would lose 90% or more of its value. Bitcoin would lose 100%. The difference is not that big.
but node.js is javascript.
javascript will replace javascript?

since when was node.js client side?

java is proven at being better at what?

this is pure troll.
I understand your contempt but this distinction is important in this specific discussion, because the NSA charter specifically restricts its actions against Americans. Thus, if the NSA is spying on Americans often enough for it not to be a "mistake", then the NSA is flagrantly violating the scope it has been given. If this is not occurring, the NSA is operating within its (ridiculously loose) legal bounds.
Google did this as well. It's extremely annoying. They're basically telling users to "Fuck off, we don't have time for you. Go ask your questions somewhere else."
I agree! Though technology has been and will be of great help for all of us, still it has its disadvantages and negative effects..
> You're missing the point here—we're grateful that people in the jailbreak community release things as FOSS, but the majority of jailbreaks as you yourself mention are not FOSS themselves, which is part of what motivated Chris, who proposed the prize, and myself.

In other places you've stated the reason he wanted this prize was to get software on his iPhone so he could help with some accessibility issues. This is an incentive that aligns with long-term open hardware, not short term open software. You can't have it both ways. If you are really dropping all of the incentive arguments I'm making and want to concentrate on open source, that's fine: but let's get our stories straight.

> It seems to me that that opensn0w campaign may have been fake (there are a lot of those on IndieGoGo).

I just contacted the developer of opensn0w: no, that was not fake, it just didn't take off. I personally can assert to you that opensn0w (which many people are using right now) is not itself a fake (and I'm one of the people who generally are asked to determine this ;P).

> And to be clear, in talking to friends in the security space, the auditing the code aspect was a huge concern, so I'm glad we can at least agree on something. :)

I talked about auditing changes, not auditing code, and I even explicitly stated that the code was not in any way a concern to someone who really knows what they are doing, so no: we don't really agree on this :/. I have on many occasions, in articles and talks, made the argument that open source is overrated, and that what really matters is open hardware: that in addition to the gap between source code and machine code decreasing over time due to better analysis tools and frameworks, that as long as hardware is capable of being closed off it doesn't matter how much of the code is open <- the iOS jailbreak community is at the front line of this particular battle.

> We're also planning on helping to fund many open hardware projects, and I'll actually be speaking at the SF Hardware Startup meetup tonight to solicit ideas from the community.

FWIW, having third-parties construct open hardware doesn't really help the cause of forcing large companies who make closed hardware to provide means of opening it; that said, I do appreciate that you have future goals, but it may have been more useful to start with them.
OK thanks for the info. I thought it was hard because he was in some mode that required him to setup pagetables and service faults and all that.

So it's just hard because writing a decent malloc/free is involved, algorithmically.
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It'll be on non-apple devices.