skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency is just another bit of randomness. There have already been examples of using latency across the internet to extract encryption keys because e.g. someone didn't compare the checksum to the entire string and simply stopped once it was clear it wasn't valid. That's detecting nanosecond differences across a hundred-millisecond extremely noisy channel.

Besides, if you can get the output, you can tell how many rolls occurred, so it doesn't really matter. And this is a "chosen cyphertext" example, so the attacker has some idea of how long the computation will take under certain circumstances.
At the risk of overgeneralizing our particular species/planetary history, the point you raise has been suggested as an explanation for the Fermi Paradox by Ugo Bardi and John Michael Greer.

If another life-bearing planet eventually evolves an intelligent species, than it certainly evolved an equivalent of our phytoplankton, zooplankton, and plants, the precursors of fossil fuels

As the intelligent species develops it eventually discovers its planet's equivalent of fossil fuel. But it does not understand that this extremely power-dense source has no true substitute, until it is too late.
At least it's labeled that the BTC-USD price is the daily average for the month.
There are as many reasons as there are other things in the world besides bitcoin why you can't look at it that way.

$/yuan, $/euro, $/big mac, $/potted plants, $/dinner at applebees...
Sometimes it just feels like not removing the nuclear missile launch button from a cage with monkeys arguing that we should not remove the power of nuclear weapons just because monkeys are unable to understand the geopolitical situation.
I'm still in it for the long haul. I'm sure it will go back up at some point.
wow, this is so nice, i don't like wordpress, but this changes everything

Thanks!!
Even a dead cat bounces? Then it tumbles? Then it inevitably disintegrates?
I am not an expert in markets or finance, but this is my observation: a lot of inexperienced people owning BTC will sell when they see these sudden drops; experienced investors will be there, reaping the benefits and buying BTC at a "discount". It wouldn't surprise me if BTC will go back to 1,000 US$ and beyond just in a matter of weeks.

This is NOT an investment advice, but I would buy some BTC now that the price is at approx. 600 US$, and keep it for a few months at least.
Bitcoin is deflationary, a very non-trivial amounts of bitcoins are lost forever.
No, then you have a benchmark that is useless for 99.999999999999999999% of people whose website does not get hundreds of simultaneous requests, much less tens of thousands.
Ditches need to be dug. Farms need to be tended to. People need to eat.

The laborers should be paid for the value of the work instead of receiving the slimmest of margins from the fruit of their labor.
... This means the the cost of generating new Bitcoins rises over time, so that the value of Bitcoins rise relative to the available goods and services in the market

False. I mean, it could go that way, but if you have a large established market to anchor the value of BTC, the mining difficulty will adjust to match (instead of the value of BTC adjusting to match). If it is not profitable to mine BTC, people will stop mining and the difficulty will drop; the cost of mining will adjust to the value of BTC.
As long as oDesk does not change at all, I'm happy. The only reason I hire on oDesk is because it is NOT elance - have had horrible experience with elance both with providers and the company itself and how it conducts business (or what it calls business).

Although this is called a merger, it is only that in name. It seems elance's CEO will call the shots.

https://www.odesk.com/blog/2013/12/mergerfaq/

"Who will lead the new company?
oDesk executive chairman Thomas Layton will continue in the same role at the combined company, and Elance CEO Fabio Rosati will serve as chief executive officer."

There's a huge wave of consolidation in the industry in the past 5 years. Just last year freelancer bought vworker. It is ripe for disruption as the dominant sites grow bloated and complacent, only seeing acquisitions as the way to grow.
But some clients (electrum, for example) refuse to send the transaction if you don't include a fee? There's also this:

A transaction may be safely sent without fees if these conditions are met:

It is smaller than 10,000 bytes.
All outputs are 0.01 BTC or larger.
Its priority is large enough (see the Technical Info section below)

Otherwise, the reference implementation will round up the transaction size to the next thousand bytes and add a fee of 0.1 mBTC (0.0001 BTC) per thousand byte.
Its really depressing when you're talking about how good guys in chemical engineering have it...

I'm a little wary of this line of reasoning, because I don't like to imply that women in tech should be viewed as romantic objects. I'd certainly never date a coworker. So let me phrase it this way. I met my wife in law school and I love the fact that she and I can talk shop and understand what the other does for a living, especially because we're both quite passionate about our careers. At the same time, I think woman lawyers are less likely to be viewed as romantic prospects by their coworkers, precisely because they're not a novelty. Its a dynamic I like better than the one I experienced in software.
It is really a good idea to know our employee's ideas and their work culture. It also provides a great things about our employee through this. We can know that what exactly our employee wants from us and are we giving or not??

And 100$ is not a big deal...
A Face Recognition App for Google Glass
A lot of animal testing is general research, not drug testing. For example, it's fairly impossible to do brain research on anything but a brain. Also, a lot of research is basically infinite trial-and-error until you find something that works; doing this on a scale large enough for humans would kill lots of people, versus lots of mice. It's also faster with mice because they breed quickly and prodigiously, so we don't have to wait 300 years for enough testing to find a result.

Your basic argument is "it's error prone so we shouldn't do it." But that's exactly why we do testing - to work out the errors! The fact that all of these failures are occurring is proof that doing human research would simply take more time, not less.

"Organ on a chip" is also only useful to test for specific response. It does not show how the experiment works when introduced to an entire system of organs.
Really wish oDesk had carried on by itself.
Thanks for your constructive reply. Your exact statement was:

> Can data be transferred via acoustics over a 2 conductor 16 gauge wire at the speeds memory is accessed or is sent to the CPU? No

Which is of course true, if you're talking about >GB/s signals over wide buses.

But we're not. So I don't see why it's relevant here.

These attacks are not "sniff the actual data the CPU is flinging around by coupling to signal traces", so they don't need anything like full data-rate capability.

Edit: On re-reading your claim again, I noticed the phrase "transferred via acoustics over a 2 conductor 16 gauge wire" is a bit ambiguous.
Do you mean transferred electrically over those wires, but limited to the typical acoustic frequency band (say, 0-20kHz)? Or do you mean actually acoustically coupled as mechanical vibrations of the wire itself? I can't imagine it makes any difference to my argument above, but I do wonder.
Humans try to keep other more vulnerable species around for our own pleasure/benefit. We don't do a very good job of it; but we do try. What's to say an intelligence greater than us wouldn't?
Corporations are still human-oriented.

Another scary thing is the combination of the internet of things that is currently taking shape, and the fact that a lot of computer systems are backdoored by governments.

Nice attack vector for smart software (not counting accidental vulnerabilities).
Yes, it defintely is.

The data needs to have either been obtained directly from the users complying with laws regarding PII or you need to have all necessary rights to use the data (if obtained from a third party)

Names are definitely PII. In this case Facebook will probably turn a blind eye, but if stuff like this became widespread it would only lead to harder restrictions into who can advertise in fb (right now, anyone with a fb account can just add a funding source and start buying ads)

I mean, people being able to advertise DIRECTLY to you in Facebook with absolutely no regard to privacy laws is a scary thought.
> In Britain, 0.6% of the population owns 69% of all the inhabited land in the country

> look at say Manhattan

Cherry-picking examples like this undermines your point. The value of land is non-uniform. Of course looking at the largest urban metropolises or extremely powerful island countries, land will be valuable. In the north central US for example, away from urban areas, land is much cheaper (provided it isn't sitting on large deposits of fossil fuels, of course) and I'd guess it also changes hands a lot more often.

Bitcoins OTOH are all created equal.
You can, but last time I tried it was only via editing the diffs ('e' command in `git add -p`), which is unpleasant and sometimes pretty annoying (ah, how many times I missed the leading space on context line to have it shout at me with incomprehensible errors). (And yeah, I'm just using `git gui` for this now.)
True, but the total amount of bitcoin owners are in the millions. AznHisoka stated that only 1000 people own bitcoins, which is simply not true.
This is a huge problem for me. Excited to see how this works!
I couldn't agree more. My experiences with oDesk have been overall phenomenal, while Elance has consistently been a pain.

I wonder what's fully fueling the merger, as oDesk seems to be doing pretty well as of late on its own.
It seems to me you're confusing words of encouragement and empathy with an attitude of acceptance at lack of results.

I've had management who gives encouragement exactly as the author describes, and it does help with my own state of mind. It does not make me think I need to try less hard (if anything, the opposite), nor does it give me the impression that they think it's OK I haven't produced results yet - only that they know I'm working on it, and appreciate the effort I'm putting into it. And that my manager is approachable, which is critically important.

In my own role in managing others, I find a bit of empathy goes a lot further than silence when someone isn't . (And that makes it sound more cold than it is - it's not a conscious choice of 'apply empathy, encourage employee, get results', but rather 'hey, it sucks to be in that spot. employee should know that I understand that - even though I still expect results.')

edit: mismatch paren
http://www.mta.info/nyct/rules/rules.htm#restricted

See Section 1050.9 (d)
It's a safety razor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_razor
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Crows Could be the Key to Understanding Alien Intelligence
Basically, the future of programming is Smalltalk. At least, the way you envision it.
Absolutely, you can always go for an option to collect all funds contributed even if goal is not met
A few things people might be missing from this announcement.

1) Simply recompiling an application with iOS 7 SDK unlocks a different set of view metrics and subtle behaviors that are non-trivial to address. Developers need to make sure views lay out properly (accounting for the status bar, etc.) in both iOS 7 and iOS 5/6.

2) If you're a game company, chances are you can set your target device to iOS 5 and after making sure you account for the metrics changes you should be fine.

3) Clang/LLVM changes might cause a new crash when run on iPad 1, for example, because Apple won't be testing it anymore. You'll need to have this hardware around to verify everything runs if you want to support that device.

4) If the application is rarely updated or barely maintained, chances are it will be abandoned at this point. What used to be a simple bug fix here and there will now become a massive project.

5) Last and most important point, most software that IS maintained, or at least downloaded enough to warrant concern, I promise you that Apple's developer relations has a point person on top of it. All of your games and important tool makers are well aware of their need to transition to the new SDK if they haven't already. Perhaps a bug in 7.0 that will be fixed in 7.1 was keeping them from releasing an update.

5.1) If you have a game that is used on iPad 1, speak up and let the developer know so that they can make a decision to keep supporting it. OpenGL ES has been quite stable API-wise for quite some time so I suspect most games will continue to support iOS 5 for the foreseeable future.
Better to have gotten out of tech, then.

Alternatively, maybe the rest of us who accept this as the norm should do a little introspection of our own.
Needing an email address or watching a video before you get information about why this is better? Pass.
You are not an expert, that is not advice, but you advise people to buy it at some arbitrary value? Thats one of the many things wrong with bitcoin, all the stupid people talking shit. Classic bubble signs.
Happy holidays Five gifts for the data scientist on your list
Do you believe that most people who watch TED talks understand and care about the distinction between TED and TEDx?
Flash Mob Feed the Homeless Event
We've all seen the generic dance flash mobs, but have you seen the ones that sporadically feed homeless people? Check it out and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Apache OpenOffice Available Via Git
The author says Metro is the new OS/2. I think the correct metaphor would be Microsoft Bob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
As others here have mentioned, Quantum Mechanics confirms that the universe has fundamental randomness. It is baked in.

God does indeed play dice with the universe. Eternity would be too boring without it. Of course, it doesn't hurt that he is both the dice and the one rolling them...
Side-by-side comparison of AWS, Google Compute Engine and Rackspace
> They simply missed mobile.

This might be a bit premature. Mobile isn't done yet. There's still plenty of time for Microsoft to develop a successful strategy. I don't think we'll ever see Microsoft as dominant in the mobile space, but I doubt there was ever a strategy that would have led to long term mobile domination by Microsoft.
I'm pretty happy with Elance. Currently Elance charge a 8.75% fee and oDesk charge 10%. Hopefully they won't jack up the price now that they own the market.
Ban cycling makes perfect sense considered from the right angle! Who are those making the laws, huh? I just somehow guess that some influential people, the same people which can afford cars and who are annoyed by high bicycle-traffic. Hey policeman, clean me the streets!
With vworker first being absorbed by freelancer and now this, there's a decided lack of competition developing in this market.

I think these guys know that a startup will struggle to compete, getting the critical mass of devs and employers is the same problem as starting a social network.

I share the view that ODesk quality is an order of magnitude better than elance, I think only those using elance will being thinking anything positive at this moment...
thx for the BEM tip!
How a tech-savvy immigrant built a $100 million company
It really comes down to being a team player, and being able to accept help from others. A lot of us are the loan wolf type. Just as @kstenerud said. "Most software development occurs in my head". Personally, I find that I can over complicate things especially with a problem I don't have a road map for. However, when I have someone else around to bounce my ideas off of I usually end up with a very scalable simple solution.

AirPair allows you to find someone who is an expert in what you're working on, and instead of hiring that person to be a full time engineer for 120K+ per year you get to pick their brain for an hour or two and see if they can at the very least point you in the right direction. Two heads are always better than one.

So, to answer the question. Is AirPair worth it? 100% worth it IMO.
We made this mess... (PHK on The War On Privacy)
It's not a distraction, it's a real issue in our industry, and one that isn't going away by plugging our ears when people try and talk about it. Yes, these things can happen to any gender configuration but it predominantly happens to females.
I took the "there's no way back to iOS6" to mean that they'd run it on the phone before, which would mean they were on a 5. Thanks, Apple, for these wonderfully ambiguous names.
Milken Institute’s "Best Performing Cities" (incl. tech concentration)
That is not the point of the anecdote. Nobody should have their competency questioned by a coworker in front of a client.

This is why so many men (and a lot of women) don't get the issues that women (and a lot of men) face in technology: people are fucking assholes to each other.
I have a similar opinion [0]. Humans are likely to be troubled by other humans who may eventually get a hold on general-intelligence. Mannah [1] is a good read which seems both likely and scary.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929600

1: http://marshallbrain.com/manna4.htm
I was thinking the same - no real information on the site, but I did notice that the guy flipped the razor when performing a second pass? Probably just the video showing it is double sided just like a safety razor.
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None of the problems she describes have to do with sexism.

She felt isolated, alone, unseen, unappreciated, and unable to teach others. These feelings have less to do with being a woman in tech, and more to do with her own social habits and communication skills.

If she felt alone and isolated, why didn't she socialize with her teammates more? Organize some social events to bring everyone together? If she felt so isolated, what was she doing to address that? Was she isolating herself?

Becoming an effective manager isn't easy or automatic. For someone to learn from you, you need to first develop mutual trust and respect, and that can take time. I certainly have worked for people I wasn't willing to learn from, and that had nothing to do with their gender. I didn't respect them or trust them as a mentor. It sounds like she resented her struggle to be a lead, and blamed it on sexism rather than work on communication skills to learn how to be an effective mentor.

The only sexism here seems to be her viewpoint of the men around her as unloved, unseen, and needy for female attention. If she treated her coworkers that way, or felt the need to distance herself because of this perspective, that might explain why she felt isolated.

Sometimes when we're insecure about something, it makes us more brittle and sensitive. This can make it difficult to be comfortable around others.
Something that almost nobody talks about in the context of AI is rights. It seems to me that at some point in the reasonably near future we need to have a discussion about modifying our laws to include all sentient beings, or at least decide what rights other intelligences should have. Far better to do this before we develop AI than after, I think. Unless we want to relive something like slavery..
BTC is just a commodity, so yeah I'd say it's just as bad.

Can we stop treating BTC like it's some kind of magical currency and be realists here? It's a commodity, and it trades like one.
The cognitive dissonance is magic. You couldn't fake the tragic similarities to the dotcom crash. People yelling "hold for long!" with people raining down and everybody having a little voice inside their head saying, "I'm smart. I'm sure I knew the risks better than the next guy. I read the forums. I got this computer. This is it. 50% down is nothing."

Then when nearly everything was 95% down and liquidity was drying up because the bulls had all been beat into puddles in the street... everything went back to normal. And we did it all over again.

It doesn't matter if you write the history and they read it. Human nature is to be dragged into these things. Recognize the pattern. Look for the short.
Yes. It will truncate the file first, then allocate new blocks for the new random data, likely leaving the old blocks lying around.

You can avoid this with the 'conv=notrunc' option of 'dd'[1]. It will overwrite existing blocks instead of truncating (and possibly reallocating):

notrunc Do not truncate the output file. This will preserve
any blocks in the output file not explicitly written by
dd. The notrunc value is not supported for tapes.

[1]:https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
Not that the video is much help anyways.
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I thought there were rules against spam? This is a pretty version of the safety razor.

Yes, they work well.
Yes, they cause fewer ingrown hairs.
No, they don't last as long as multi-blades.
No, they don't work on as scruffy a beard.
No, this isn't the only place that sells them you can get any number of these at Walgreen's.
Who is this "we" that the website and the video reference? It might be nice if they more precisely defined their target customer.

I got into safety razor shaving in high school. It feels pretty nice, looks classy, and is a lot cheaper than Mach5 or whatever they are selling now. Now I just use an electric shaver because it's so much faster.
What should have value is how much "service" you render to other people. It should not matter whether providing this service comes hard to you or not - it's all up to you.
>I agree with most of the post but as participation drops so does the energy requirement, so it's a bit of a feedback loop.

Yeah, there are more details in how participation affects the network and how there will probably not be total abandonment, but it's largely irrelevant to the issue of total electrical consumption so I ignored it. And it's more fun to talk about a super-rapid price change capable of destroying bitcoin entirely than a boring slow drop in network capacity.

>future increased value

I did think about mentioning the enthusiastic fools that spend $10 today mining bitcoins they expect to be worth $50 some day, instead of spending $4 just buying the same number of bitcoins. But the bigger the price gets, the more marginal I would expect those people to be. And the more I can pretend the majority of bitcointalk doesn't exist, the better.
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I have mixed emotions about this because I have made a solid income at times with oDesk's time tracker, but I don't want it to become the standard way of doing things. That's because majority of the work I do now is on a subconscious level, so I'm basically thinking about a problem all day and it may only take an hour to code up the solution. I guess a workaround is to double or triple hourly rates, but I don't see that happening, because as more places merge, we may find ourselves in a race to the bottom.

That said, I got burned on eLance by charging a flat rate for a client that was never satisfied with my work. I made less after several weeks than other contractors make in an hour. I guess that's the main reason I went to oDesk (though I always liked eLance).

Please, somebody, somewhere, come up with a daily rate mechanism that doesn't invade workers' privacy.

That and finding a way to spread workloads across multiple developers (to reduce stress and make for a better product) are the two main challenges I see right now in freelancing.
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Yes let's blame the victim.
Two stereo outputs. Somethign about IRQ sharing disallowed more than one soundblaster or gravis ultrasound in a system at one time.

IIRC. YMMV.