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Kind of random, but I just checked out your site, typed in the first "1980s" thing that came to mind (Walter Payton) and really enjoyed reading this New England Patriots fan's post sizing up his teams chances against the Chicago Bears in the upcoming Super Bowl:

http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/getmsg.php?whichmsg=%3C4...

The Bears would crush the Patriots and win that game easily. I guess this might seem weird to some of you, but I grew up in the 90s and this game was one of the only iconic 80s moments that stood out to me.

Thanks for building the site. It's neat.
Ubuntu Linux came on my last PC, my wife's current laptop, and will probably come on my next PC if PC makers get their heads out of ... the sand.
Let's not forget that StackOverflow has basically replaced ExpertsExchange for everything.

That alone is probably worth $1B+.
If you like learning about cognitive biases (I certainly do!), may I recommend spending some time with some of the articles on lesswrong.com -- I find that for me, sometimes reading online distracts me from work, so I have all of Eliezer's work in e-book format which I read via kindle. Here it is: http://lesswrong.com/lw/72m/an_epub_of_eliezers_blog_posts/
True, iOS docs are really good compared to Android docs.
Christmasfy: Chrome Extension to make any website Christmas-y
I really like the step by step list - nothing's been removed and I can see exactly how frustrating/enlightening the process was!
Snowden attended hacking school in India
Thank you for you feedback :).
The idea behind the website is that we're trying to have all FAQs in one place, it could be about anything, health, life, technology, etc. For example you are an experienced web designed and people always ask you the same questions, now you can put them in your page and everyone can read see it. This page is a good example http://www.faqrobo.com/tash
Does that create another way for money to just disappear? What happens if 2 people disagree and the other takes a flight to Conventry for whatever reason?
I can tell you which habit affected my productivity the most. Video games. I used to spend 4-8 hours a day, every day, playing games. Back then, my drug of choice was Civilization 4, and I succumbed hard to the "one... more... turn..." effect, occasionally skipping sleep altogether.

No matter what gamers might claim, there's really no benefit in spending 8 hours a day chasing virtual goals. Cutting back on my gaming sessions resulted in me suddenly having a lot more time for things like sleeping and learning, and has truly made me a better person overall. I only regret not killing the habit sooner.
A few years ago, I had an old Gateway 400MHz weakling box that could boot Slackware 3.2, and Slackware 13. I couldn't find an earlier version of Slackware that had an ISO image available.

Just by-the-by, Slackware 3.2 did not include an ssh of any stripe, just telnet.
There are a couple of subreddits geared towards algorithmic music (http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithmicmusic and the more general http://www.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming). Definitely cross/post any other resources you find
My opinion isn't the question here. I'm observing first that there are many people who profess that one or more of our multiple wars are immoral; and second, that they simultaneously profess that the soldiers fighting deserve our support rather than scorn for supporting the putatively unjust war.

If you believe that the war is unjust, and you believe that it's the duty of a soldier (or any person) to refuse to perform immoral acts, then consistency dictates that you should condemn the soldiers fighting in those wars, not revere them.
jpatokal is right!... more than 7% are 'free' and it can only get better... great times. /s
> It's not a philosophical problem at all....

Well, that was my main point. You are free to disagree.

> IMO this conversation is all air until you propose your own precise set of axioms.

Apoplectically, the three basic axioms are Existence, Identity and Consciousness. Whatever the proper mathematical axioms (and methods) are they have to be consistent with these three. Cantor's method treats infinity as a real thing, which violates the axiom of identity. You could even call it the Reification of Infinity but the error is easier to see in Rand's identification of Reification of Zero by the mystics who attempt to treat nothingness as real.
Feature request: Could you strip the dots from user input if the email address is @gmail.com, and similarly strip the dots from the records of pwned email addresses? Gmail usernames are dot agnostic, and I sometimes use xyz@gmail.com, x.yz@gmail.com, etc. This makes it hard to use the tool to check of my Gmail has been pwned. (Also, I assume you don't do this already).
I'm sure it isn't pedantic to the recipients of transactions in the orphaned block chain
Post it on HN, I'd love to see it as well.
i heard about a book that discusses the various ways in which our brains fool ourselves. i've never actually seen it though. anyone have a clue what book it might be?
Ah OK I see, I guess you are right. Thanks for pointing that out.
This site has done a good job highlighting just how badly Adobe screwed up with their data breach. Everyone in my office had their email address show up from the Adobe breach (including mine) and based on the comments, everyone else mostly did as well. Whoa.
This is not 'reversibility'. It's a go/no-go system, basically the same as an escrow. The article is wrong in saying it's not escrow - the justification used is "the independent party might sod off with the money"; that is a downside to current escrow services when they go wrong, not the actual escrow function itself. Multisig offers the same basic function as an escrow: an independent third party signs off on the payment or the cancelling of it.

So, once a payment has been made, how does multisig reverse the payment, as the article title promises?
Scientists prove that fears and memories can be inherited via sperm
Ok, fair observation. I admit I did not look further into these games past the fact that the Mac icon was missing on Steam.

Comparing the number of games available on Mac vs the ones available on Linux on Steam is not really comparing apples to apples, since Steam Linux just launched less than a year ago, and the pace of releases has been steadily increasing since then.
How is it that your interpretation of this evidence is so different to not only Zimmer's summary, but also all of the people quoted in the article? I think you would be more convincing if you addressed why these people interpreted the results so differently to you, than simply claiming that Zimmer has overlooked something.
I believe you can use nLockTime[0] to construct and broadcast a transaction that cannot be accepted into a block at least until a particular time. Before that time is reached, you should be able to broadcast a conflicting transaction if so desired that is included in a block sooner, thus invalidating the previously broadcast transaction.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/NLockTime
Not really.

I think a day or two extra is typical punishment for minor problems (not cleaning your room, etc). It said in the linked DN article that he was kept locked up the rest of the month (not moved to a separate institution).

They are quite tolerant there, as I said that place is also used as last stop to get people used to not being inside walls after years in prison.

Either the prison administrator was incompetent, probably not uncommon, or the guy had a low pain threshold.

(same Disclaimer as in the GP.)
> "The definition of protocols such as HTTP and data formats such as HTML are in the public domain and may be freely used by anyone."

The definitions: I'm pretty sure this means that you can copy the documents themselves. This distinguishes it from standards documents by bodies like ISO where the standards documents themselves are copyright.

Here's another example: in the SCO lawsuit against IBM, why did they not attempt to claim copyright infringement over APIs? That would have been a much easier case to make than copyright infringement of the code, as Linux does in fact "copy" the APIs of UNIX.

Also, as another poster pointed out, if APIs were copyrightable then BSD UNIX would never have happened.

> The trade off is the incentive to create and promote new platforms and the breadth of the right to implement them.

No one would be incentivized to create platforms unless they could lock out competitors? WINE/ReactOS hasn't stopped Microsoft from developing the Windows API. Mono hasn't stopped them from developing .NET. Companies that create platforms get natural benefits from developing platforms: it puts them in a position of leadership and ahead of everybody else.

> I would add as I have in other places that you need to consider how you would feel if it was old Sun in the Oracle role and MS in the Google role? Would this not be an egregious case of "embrace, extend extinguish"?

Copyright law is not a tool for preventing anticompetitive business practices. It's not copyright's job to prevent "embrace, extend, extinguish."

But if Microsoft (for example) decided to implement the Dart APIs as their development environment for apps on Windows Phone, I don't see the problem with that.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish" would be if Google took a platform that already had a J2ME ecosystem and started distributing their own J2ME SDK that was targeted at the same developers and devices and introduced proprietary extensions that would make the Google-J2ME apps incompatible with the Oracle-J2ME apps.
If you can find an aquarium that has Archerfish, try really hard to be around during feeding. The "Downtown Aquarium" in Denver has (had?) a tank full of Archerfish, and someone would come and put crickets on the plants overhanging the tank twice a day.

An individual Archerfish takes quite a while to draw a bead on a cricket. The fish very clearly know that the crickets are up in the plants, but it seems like they have to run their aiming algorithm on really slow hardware.

In the Denver Aquarium, there are (were?) quite a number of Archerfish in the tank, 20 or so. Any given spitter did not have room to get the cricket when it hit the surface of the water, but lots of spitters still toook aim at any given cricket. Until I read this article, I was under the impression that Archerfish spat philanthropically, for no immediate reward.
Finding a freelancer to write a mouse chording add-in for Word
Of the various websites that try to match freelancers with projects, which one tends to have the highest quality freelancers, especially when considering a project that would be an add-in for Word implementing acme-style mouse chording?
How many proxies are you behind? :)
Facebook just gave a talk at an HN London meetup recently about exactly this topic: http://vimeo.com/80460475#t=11m48s . The gist is that 2FA doesn't work because people don't enable it, but you can protect accounts by detecting anomalous behaviour on logins.
4 hours of lifting a week? That's a lot of time. I know myself well enough that I won't make goals/commitments that I know I won't keep, like this. I have some simple weights in my living space that are hard to ignore. I typically lift for <5 min/day; when I go to the gym I keep it under 20 min to lower the cognitive commitment. It works for me - I can bench press 250 lbs. You really don't need to spend hours at the gym to stay in shape.
If your transaction gets orphaned you can just broadcast it again.
Not with a reputation system. Perhaps the reputation system could even be based directly on the blockchain; just sum the total BTC the arbitrator has arbitrated in the past.
That's right. You have to keep broadcasting it though, the transaction won't be retained in the nodes storage for a long period of time.
People put in bogus addresses when they register for things. I have a domain that is similar to a common mash on the keyboard, and I get a steady stream of backscatter from people signing up to things with crap@keyboardmash.org.
Reminds me of the movie The Cube[1].

Some select quotes (minor spoiler alert):

"There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan."

"It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine."

Quentin: But why put people in it?

Worth: Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit that it's pointless.

Quentin: But it is pointless.

Worth: Quentin... that's my point.

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-cube/
Have either of you considered that all the people who think bitcoin is wonderful are those who stand to make the most from them?
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In the credit card situation, it's possible for the consumer to change their mind for up to 180 days. If so, then the credit card company gets involved and things move on from there.

If I understand this BTC mechanism properly (and I've never used it, so disclaimer there), once the consumer says "yes" there's no going back as far as they're concerned. Since the merchant is going to always say "yes" right away, that means that the only way to approximate the level of consumer protection that credit cards offer using this protocol is if the consumer makes a habit of waiting up to 6 months to release funds to the merchant. Which is something I wouldn't blame merchants for not being willing to accept such a situation. Defaulting to "180 days, same as cash" sounds like a terrible business practice to me.
Famo.us is blowing up on Codepen
lol somebody listens to KCRW...
Linux is Hacked more often than windows, cant beleive
Yeah, it's important to have an arbitrator whom both parties trust to fulfill their obligation (such as a major bank, to borrow the article's example). Otherwise, the arbitrator could also just offer to split the money with one of the parties if the deal goes sour.
Darn! I would be -150 by now. :-)
To be pedantic, those aren't really 'reversed transactions' so much as 'data loss'. It's not like specific transactions were targeted. If a bank incorrectly recorded a credit card purchase of yours, you wouldn't classify it as 'a reversed transaction'.
Sounds like the opposite of the Dunning-Krueger effect[0]. Instead of one with below average skill overestimating their ability, someone with above average skill underestimates their ability.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
So, he took a class? I don't get the point of this.
Not if you religiously believed in their cause.
Emotions in software
I have my passwords secure, and use Keepass. The database is backed up on my Truecrypt external drives, in case my laptop is stolen, and I lose the database file.

I figure my job is to protect my username and password, so that's exactly what I do, secure them, and have backups. What I don't expect is getting locked out of my account when I have the valid username and password to login. Also, Google provides zero support. I generate them at least $20k a year in profits off advertising, and I lose my Gmail account for no reason. Anyway, I'm done with them, and switching to alternatives.
ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners who install solar panels
I think by broadening the pool they are effectively bringing more music to Spotify. This is good even if it's of the Bieber variety because then users like me can discover artists I wouldn't normally listen to or discover new CDs from artists that used to be in fashion and are no longer.
Be cautious of the backstabbing, blackmail, gossip you might/can get involved in if you trust the wrong person.

Personally it's hard for me to imagine life without deep trust friendships.
Of course having the logo on top doesn't help in the dark or when the ports are vertical.

I'm consistently confused by mini/micro USB ports on the rare occasion I use them. It's the only trapezoidal connector I know of where the long end is on the bottom. I always think it's upside-down.
I used to love the tech meetups in Philly when I was living there -- especially Philly Lambda.
i am with you, i actually think the author coming from economics background who knows nothing about cryptography systems should just shut up before saying anything stupid in public...
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Actually I discovered great Indie games like Urban Terror and Minecraft among many others.
Can we stop pushing these lines everywhere, everytime there is a topic on the NSA ? It's really starting to get boring, and the OP was saying more than that anyway.
>> Well, their motives aren't sinister, which is all you can really want or hope for. In a capitalistic market, vanishingly few players will switch to Linux out of altruism.

There was a time when no one thought gamers would switch from DOS to Windows.
I don't know... replace "car" with "water filter" and "America" with "Africa", and I think you might be able to see Ford's point of view.
Ah great question. It does, but it usually stays logged in on your computer, since it runs locally. So you rarely if ever need to type your password for Lastpass, meaning the keylogger would have had to be running on your computer when you installed and set up Lastpass. On a related note, it can also be set up with 2 factor auth.
By the time this comes out, 15 years will have been a pretty good run for a connector (ignoring the craziness that VGA is still with us).
Does John Carmack count as experienced? Because he is the guy who made the claim we're talking about.
"The API key is to prevent someone from coming and taking all the bread at once and leaving none for everyone else (i.e., computation/network capacity)."

I disagree. The data dump gives the developer/user the ability to download and make the data available to the user's device locally, perhaps even via direct attachment thereby obviating the need for network connectivity to access the data.

Consider all the resources needed to stay online and serve myriad API requests 24/7 to consumers all over the globe. Add the resources to develop and maintain an API key system. And then consider behavioral issues like denials of service.

Now contrast this with the resources needed to periodically upload and host data dumps via FTP, Bittorrent or some well-suited protocol; the dumps can also be mirrored, reducing the strain on one set of servers and providing some level of DoS protection.

The key difference is that a data dump can be mirrored by third parties, while API calls must stay with one source.

Downloading a data dump is not "taking all the bread and leaving none for everyone else". Bread was a poor analogy, because customers do not take the original loaf, they merely take a copy of it. If the "bread" is data, then the "baker" never runs out.

The finite resource you allude to is the computation and network capacity.

With a data dump, the developer can provide users with another source for the data: the user's own local storage. As more developers make the data available, user access increases. The costs of the computation and network resources are redistributed. With an API, develpers merely point users at the same data source. That sole source has to foot the bill for the computation and network resources.

It is difficult to discuss this at length without referring to any concrete examples. Keep in mind I gave Wikipedia as one, and let me be clear I only have public data in mind (e.g., government data or user generated content). I am not suggesting that anyone give away proprietary data in a data dump. What I'm saying is that the way in which people are accessing a great deal of publicly available data today (via "APIs") confuses me; it make poor use of the current computational and network resources available.

I'll admit I'm biased. I like working with data dumps. I do not "reinvent the wheel" when I work with data dumps (as someone else suggested), but I do use a simple, more robust wheel than any "API". I like giving users speed, simplicity and reliability. Data dumps give me the freedom to do that in a way that APIs do not.

Anyway, thanks for the comment.
If you look at sologrrl’s comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sologrrl), you can see that her last three comments are all dead. She was most likely banned not for her most recent comment, but for her last few non-dead comments (which repeatedly criticize Hacker News’s moderation across multiple threads).
Kind of. Turning on 64bit by default has resulted in a lot of problems for me, though. It doesn't do the search paths right, I often have 32bit things failing because they stumble on a 64bit dll while linking (or vice-versa).
>... at least on my terms

This was not a cop out as you portray but recognition that many people are not familiar with Aristole's position on infinity nor is it the popular view. I defined my terms and explained my position as to why Cantor's use of "completed infinity" is a contradiction. It is clear to anyone who wants to understand. I defy you to define, in your own words, your concept of infinity and what you actually mean by a completed one without degenerating into non-sense.

> The philosophy of mathematics has considered this matter settled for several hundred years now.

This was hardly a fair fight. As I conceded, the mystics won round one which is why Cantor's non-sense is accepted. The philosophy of mathematics is and was dominated by Platonists and other avowed irrationalists. So no surprise in this outcome.
@Kima testimonial -- these guys took a look at my recent venture very fast, very authoritative, read the docs and sent the money, and have been completely hands-off. Kima is not a startup school for "teach me" founders. It is a the model of a quick-decisions seed fund. In my case they followed a co-investor who they knew well. "He's in? We're in. Done." People say this but I rarely see it.

As for what else they add -- I'll find out next week in Paris at their summit next to Le Web. I suspect the 100s of CEOs they have backed and big european network will be things I value. They are relevant for the company I'm building.

I think the Kima pitch has a lot in common with the PG worldview -- founders want fast decisions, money, network. Maybe they want a school or maybe they can run a school; founders vary.
First, that is my bad. I read the contents of the post, not the title of the blog. Also, I do use "he" as "he or she", because of the influence of both the American culture and the Russian language in which the idea that the male gender is the default is very strong.

Second, no I should not assume. Women and tech have a complex enough relationship as is, and I fully support making our industry more inclusive

Third, you should not assume either. A name is not enough to determine someone's sex or gender. It is then safest to use "they" or even ze or zhe [1], though obviously very few people do. I also hate to be pedantic :).

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-ne...
Slightly OT, but I remember feeling QUITE shocked when I found that one of my favorite bloggers, Rands (aka Michael Lopp), was some sort of honcho over at Palantir. He's written some good stuff on management of 'geeks' and high-performance people in general, it was a sad day when I found out about his employer and removed him from my RSS feed.
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