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subverting the IETF is a little like subverting the Linux kernel --- doable, but bad tradecraft

Unfortunately the fact it might be "bad tradecraft" doesn't seem to be much of an impediment for U.S. intelligence agencies. They seem to have a knack for getting caught with their pants down over stunts that one would think that cooler heads would have prevailed against as being not only reckless, but to have had the potential for, at the very best, marginal tactical benefit.[1],[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946909

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case
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but the point is that if you are saying "don't hire a person to do something that you can't afford to pay a living wage for" then you are encouraging them to hire less people, which directly creates unemployment (even if there are other mechanisms that counteract this).

I'm aware of the study, but I think that economic theory is more informative than a single study that can't necessarily be generalized.
Definitely a much better resource. Kinda weird - I really didn't know how to find such a resource. After the weird link above, I actually spent a good bit of effort digging around. It's not easy.

And as others noted as well, it looks like there is a fair bit of a slope to the phase-out of the subsidies, and not an (obvious) cliff.
Thanks for the reminder, just did.
The same incentives exist in any system.

Yes; I never said otherwise.

in what you might call 'pro-market' sytems, you often find business people closely involved with regulation

I don't call these "pro-market" systems, precisely because business people being closely involved with regulation is not, IMO, "pro-market". It may be "pro-business", depending on the business, but businesses that succeed this way are not "pro-market".

a lot of government services sub-contracted out to private companies

That's not "pro-market" either; the companies may be private, but the demand they are satisfying is not, it's generated by the government.

In Europe, the countries with the highest levels of taxation and regulation often have the best anti-corruption reputations, the most well-functioning regulatory systems, and the most buoyant economies

References, please?
From near the top of the opening post:

A quick word on SSDs:
SSDs do NOT require the confusing and intense setup that a lot of people seem to suggest. The current day SSDs are much more reliable and literally all that is necessary is to change the SATA mode to AHCI or RAID in the BIOS/UEFI, install, and you are good to go.
Then explain the proven successes of state regulatory mechanisms.

Examples, please?
This is nothing new. Mark Cuban has always looked into investment opportunities he receives via email, and has publicized the fact that he does just that. He came very close to investing in Siasto while I was a cofounder there.
Thanks for the very interesting article. Sorry if its a sill question but I'm a little bit confused. As someone who is barely starting with node.js, I'm curios if this would be a good architecture for a node.js app, or am I getting this wrong?

Sorry if the question is not clear, I can clarify if necessary :)
There's a lesson here. I genuinely don't mean to sound smug, but -- remember how confident the Telegram guys were? Remember how sure they were that their protocol would be able to resist the eavesdropping efforts of the NSA and whatever other nefarious interlopers may come along? Remember how they said they'd been working on it for years, and presumably expected for it to last many more years?

Remember how that was, like, five days ago?
I think that you undervalue the role of imperialism with regards to the purchasing power of USD

Point me to a historical example of the US government saying "Use dollars or else!" and I'll change my tune. I think foreigners use dollars because dollars are actually a really great currency relative to the local alternative ... or bartering (3 goats for 1 iPhone sort of thing).

My objection to your argument is that USD is better than alternative cryptocurrencies because the Federal Reserve does a good job of managing the stability of the value of the currency, and that's a social good for everyone. If your latte costs 3 dogecoins today and 6 dogecoins tomorrow you can be like "lol. so latte. much coins." That's funny for you and that's great. But if a bushel of wheat doubles or triples in price overnight because it's priced in some weird volatile currency, people will starve. And that's not funny.

I moved to Chicago recently and I work on the technology behind some of the commodities markets here. I guess that has sort of forced me to think more about these kinds of things. If you are in Chicago hit me up and we can bullshit face to face (over coffee that's probably better than whatever you have in SF. Zing!)
I agree with everything you said. What it comes down to, however, is your last sentence. Who decides what is and what isn't "respecting the reasonable wishes of others"? Who decides what constitutes "good manners"?

What's reasonable in one decade may be unreasonable the next. The bad manners of the last generation are common place acts today. That's the nature of change. And it doesn't happen by itself: it happens because there are people actively pushing against the boundaries set by the status quo.

Of course not everyone will agree with this. For every boundary-pusher, I'd expect there to be at least 10 or 20 people who have to be dragged along kicking and screaming about how in their day, it was considered rude to [wage war with guns|fornicate|use phones in public|wear a recording device].

At what point do we dismiss these people as mere curmudgeons, holding onto the past for the sake of the past, and at what point do we take them seriously and put on the brakes? I'm sure a thoroughly enlightened answer would have many complexities... but I'd say it's generally safe to let society itself decide. Just because the boundaries are being pushed doesn't mean society has to follow. If tiny wearable computers and recording devices aren't useful enough to be worth the affronts to privacy and intimacy (and fashion, in the case of Glass), then none of this stuff will last.

The thing is, the answer to how all of this will end is blindingly obvious. Assuming technology continues to improve, then CLEARLY people will find it useful to turn themselves into walking computers/phones/cameras. Yes, society as we know it will change as a result, but it's been doing that since the dawn of time.
Maybe because the dominant use pattern where return cannot be substituted by output parameters is in expressions.
In other words if there were no expressions then return would not be needed at all.
Namecoin is one place where crypto-currencies get really interesting. I'm really excited to see what people can actually DO with blockchain technology, not just create a speculative financial instrument ;)
Heh. Even loud music? Why not?

Now I really want to repeat Shamir's experiment with Gangnam Style blaring just to see what would happen.
The thing is, I though it was poorly written English, written by a non native speaker, rather than a computer.

I must also clarify that I was a little distracted.
Never forget.

RIP Telegram (2013-2013).

This whole thing has been interesting to follow because it seems this same thing happens every time someone make macho Crypto-claims. From seeing how confident the Telegram team was to reading all the detractors who were so ready to criticize. It's an interesting dynamic in the Crypto community.
What a coincidence. I was just holding his cofounder, Drew Schiller's card in my hand at the time I read this headline on HN. Clicked through the link and saw it was for Validic!

For those who don't know, Validic is a very nice API for health data. I met Drew at the Novartis Heart Health hackathon in SF and he was very proactive in troubleshooting our issues with their API, on the spot. Congrats!
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State secrets doctrine was just tacitly upheld a couple of years ago in General Dynamics. I don't think the Supreme Court is willing to entertain a challenge to the doctrine any time soon.

That said, state secrets doctrine is not a get out of jail free card. Both General Dynamics and Reynolds were contracts cases. There was no allegation that the government was exceeding the scope of its domestic powers. Dismissing a case on state secrets grounds has a separation of powers implication when the government invokes the privilege in the face of allegedly unconstitutional activity than when it invokes it in a contractual dispute. Historically, the courts have given much more scrutiny to claims of national security privileges when such claims prevent them from reviewing Constitutional questions. Especially in this context where the cat is already out of the bag.
This is a great proposal. DNS is probably internet's biggest weakness and making it decentralized should be a top priority.

I haven't adopted Namecoin yet, but i still will when this is implemented.
I haven't seen this idea anywhere, but it'd be great if Namecoin hindered domain squatters.

One way you could hinder them is geometrically increasing cost of registering additional domains from existing accounts.

Examples:

- Adam wants to set up his personal site. It costs him X to register.

- Bob wants to set up his personal site, and 3 hobby sites. It costs him X + 2X + 4X + 8X = 15X or (2^4 - 1)X.

- Carl the domain squatter wants to register 100 domains. It costs him (2^100 - 1)X. This could be defeated by changing Carl's business name, or other details, which creates extra hassles for him.

Edit: Didn't know that registering new accounts is near 0 effort. Guess that nixes this idea.
Oh I understand the term, it still sounded funny.
This is too late since all the domains are squatted and there is little to no incentive for those squatting these domains; and these domains have been available to apple, etc for as long as anyone else.

Unless they are just going to reset the blockchain; the I don't really see how this type of "rule" will be implemented or supported by the namecoin hash power.

There might be more support for

- A .bit pool bounty to companies that become early adopters of .bit

- A .bit pool bounty to companies if some number of major DNS server support the .bit domain directly

- A sort of 'emminent domain' reward to the 'squatters' in a way that relates the "price" (paid in namecoin or bitcoin, probably) to the (alexa, or other) ranking of the domain with a time table for these companies to purchase.
Lua's weird return values are basically just exposing the fact that it's a stack-based VM and letting the user take advantage of that. foo(1, return_two_values(arg), 2) pushes 1 onto the stack, pushes arg onto the stack, calls return_two_values (which pops one value from the stack and pushes two new ones), pushes 2 onto the stack, and then calls foo, resulting in foo being called with four arguments.

With this design you get zero-overhead (you save the construction of a table) multiple return values for free, since it simply requires a trivial bit of syntax and no error checking to verify that a function only left zero or one values on the stack. Lists aren't exposed as concrete things that can be passed around because the really aren't things at all.
namecoin attempted to hinder domain squatters by charging less and less per domain overtime; where the first domains cost a lot of namecoin, and now they are very cheap. The problem was only that the the adoption was too slow to for this to have had a big effect.

edit: the notion of "existing accounts" is broken here; "new accounts" are free/cheap and not related to identities.
Is there a more important factor than TRIM in preventing performance degradation over time? (aside from just not letting the drive get too full)

It _all_ might be somewhat overrated. I've certainly never worried much about all this stuff, and my SSDs still perform phenomenally well. I used one in my old Macbook well before OS X supported TRIM and all was well, although I have to admit that on another machine I thought for sure Linux was taking care of TRIM for me. Apparently not.
This might sound like a weird question that I don't expect to be answered, but I was wondering "what side" these guys are on? I'm not making a judgement for one side or the other, because I think there are bad actors on at least two of the sides.
If it became illegal, sure. The chances of that are almost nil though. Almost everyone carries a camera with them nowadays, and public cameras have been commonplace for decades.

It if becomes socially unacceptable, then it's just a matter of time. People don't like Glass because it looks clunky, nerdy, and distracting. What happens when technology improves to the point where it looks like a normal pair of glasses? What happens when we can put a chip in a contact lens? A phone in your brain? Your brain in a robot?
You seem to have not understood the proposal.

The proposal is about introducing new namespaces that map today's DNS into namespaces that can be looked up in the Namecoin blockchain.

.bit domains are stored in the "d" namespace. These would go into others (that don't exist yet) based on their extension.
"I'm optimistic."

Don't be. The supremes have made it clear as recently as last year they have little to no interest in this one.
Even the move to AHCI isn't strictly necessary with most drives.
Not sure if NMC already does this, but why not auction the domains? Whoever "bids" the largest value owns the domain.
> But it took minutes. Many, many "oh wow" moments. Right now, I am 3-fingering back and forth between FF full screen as I write this and FF streaming a bowl game. Gestures are the bomb.

Let's not get carried away here. When they work, it's nice, bit sometimes I have to do the gesture twice to get it to work (on a last rev MacBook Pro). I still find myself using the Ctrl + Left / Ctrl + Right key combos more than the gestures.

I've also noticed my "Spaces" getting randomly swapped (e.g. Desktop 2 & Desktop 3 swap places) without any (to me) rhyme or reason.
> Contact admins and perhaps ask them what rule exactly you contravened with this one comment

Being genuinely bad at posting would be one.
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My understanding is that it isn't but recent-ish statistical approaches have had lots of success. I know that almost overnight Arabic went from an unreadable mess to about as good as a basic non-native speaker.

I wish it'd find its way into usage for East Asian languages more, but I suppose finding dual-equivalent corpuses to build the models off of is hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translatio...
Google hijacking DNS to sabotage projects like Namecoin?
Basically, I agree with Greenspan, before he recanted:

> Without elaborating, he writes, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09...

Every so often, OPEC threatens to switch over to the Euro...

But really, I don't think modern imperialism works via direct threat. That was the style of the 1700s. You won't find a direct statement to 'use the dollar or else,' you'll just find lots of wars and economic sanctions.

I don't think cryptocurrencies are 'better' than USD. I agree that the Fed is good for basically everyone, or at least, I don't think abolishing the Fed is a good idea. I agree that the volatility of DOGE makes it bad for anything but playing around at this point, and BTC dropping 50% in a day means that it's also nothing more than a speculative commodity at this point.

I've been thinking about this more because I moved here to work for a payments company, so ha! I actually know someone in Chicago who's working in commodities market stuff, IIRC... I always thought I'd live in Chicago before SFO. I'll certainly tweet if I'm ever there, and feel free to go take the blue line to Forest Park and put some flowers on Emma Goldman's grave for me ;) (I bet the coffee is better there, luckily, I don't really have a taste for good coffee, it's all just about the chemicals for me.)
We have seen a lot of deregulation in the past decades, and I do not think that the experience suggests that more capitalism is the way to go. So the OP's argument seems to be, if we just deregulate even more, then - contrary to experience - we get a better system. Which sounds quite similar to the argument Leninists use to defend the Soviet Union. Hence the quip about the "Austrian New Man".
The American hegemony is bigger and involves a lot more moving parts, sure, but is that really a difference in kind rather than scale?

And if being a global superpower is the key to running an economy based on fiat money, how did it get that big in the first place?
Yeah I saw, it made me wonder why @shocks linked me to it...
I've redone the CPU benchmark in C and run the CPU and GPU benchmarks on an EC2 G2 instance. The blog post has been updated with the corrected results.
Oh; you are right I obviously missed the crux of the proposal.

However, I still think the proposal is flawed but for a different reason.

How do you determine who owns the .com domain? When a domain is seized by the government does the com/piratebay domain respect the blockchain or the centralized DNS now updated signtaure? If it's the latter.. what's the point of using the blockchain version at all?
Can the OP please change the title to append ".. in X lines of C". It's no longer cool to just do stuff... it has to be done in an impressively small number of lines of code to win my upvote.
As others have already said, the prize was essentially meaningless because the terms were so narrow.

If the spirit of the prize was "if you break our crypto you win", this guy should win it. If the spirit of the prize was "we don't want to give away 200k, but we want to pretend we're secure", he shouldn't
It does not currently do this. I'm not sure that the BTC protocol really has support for auctioning transactions.
What's that thing about there being only two difficult things in Computer Science?

But yeah, we aren't particularly concerned about the name, since we don't really plan on continuing development.
> Yes, there is: governments are run by people, subject to the same incentives as people in any other part of society, including the perverse and misaligned incentives that cause "market failures" in other parts of society.

That is simultaneously true and irrelevant. The price of good government is vigilance on the part of the population. People want to vote themselves a New Deal and a strong federal government without the trouble of amending the constitution to add the appropriate checks against the new powers the federal government claims by reinterpretation, here we are.

Governments are terrible blunt instruments that can be simultaneously corrupt and incompetent, but somebody has got to build the roads and stop corporations from dumping toxic waste in the water supply.
As President he's "supposed" to fight for this, even if it's crap. That's how our "adversarial" government works. That's why it's CHECKS... As in gloves off, missing teeth, hockey checks.

It's up to the other TWO BRANCHES to get off their lazy asses and knock the Executive branch down a peg or two. They liked blaming the President but they gotta do the WORK to take things back. Shut up and FIGHT!
"This will be reproducible because the author is famous".

(Appeal to authority fallacy?)
“Disclosure of this still-classified information regarding the scope and operational details of N.S.A. intelligence activities implicated by plaintiffs’ allegations could be expected to cause extremely grave damage to the national security of the United States,” wrote the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr.

I am really getting sick and tired of listening to this dirtbag scum motherfucker. He lied to the congress (willfully knowing upfront what the questions would be), something you or me would be behind bars for 10 years at least, but yet Obama promotes him to oversee NSA program. What a joke.
"Elsewhere, Taleb writes that “The intellectual today is vastly more powerful and dangerous than before,” which I find flattering..."

puke
The writer mentions that he doesn't believe in the subjective theory of value, but doesn't explain why. I am really curious as to what his reasons are.
Big respect. Hope all goes well and that your country finds peace soon.
well, either way, in the snippet of code you just posted, your assignment is still a dereference. CUDAs &theMem is a pointer to somewhere in memory, OpenCL's theMem is a pointer to somewhere in memory. in the back end of CUDA, it's doing the same thing as what you would explicitly do in OpenCL.

we could talk about minor language difference for days. really, there is no major difference between OpenCL and CUDA (and that's one of the main reasons i'll write CUDA code - when i know my code will only ever run on nvidia GPUs).

but when i write OpenCL code, i know it will run on all GPUs, and CPUs, and any accelerator that has an OpenCL stack.
Validic is an awesome product and team:

https://validic.com/

Good to see awesome Durham companies getting attention here.
There are a lot of question marks in your comment and I'm sure some of them are meant to be rhetorical and maybe some aren't. Also you mentioned something about exchanges talking to central banks which isn't something that happens. Your fictional example is:

I've got 150,000BTC, please convert that into dollars for me at the market rate. What? No worries I'll just wait here. You can wire the dollars to this account here ...

That isn't the kind of thing you do at the teller window. That kind of liquidity doesn't exist in bitcoin (though it would be a cinch in other major currencies). At this point you are in need of a really clever broker to find you someone to take the other side of the trade at a price that doesn't totally suck. Though that probably isn't very likely...

You seem to imply that the exchange has some responsibility here that I don't understand. The exchange matches buyers and sellers at a price they can both agree on. If there are no buyers for what you are trying to sell, that's too bad but it isn't the exchange's problem. Go look on the CME product list and you'll see tons of contracts that are listed but have no bids because nobody is interested in trading them.

If you want to trade a shitload of a questionable thing then you just might find there's no bid. See also: people selling mortgage backed securities in 2008. The price for not being able to sell a thing is paid by the people that own the thing (especially if they purchased the thing with borrowed monies and they are forced to price the thing by marking it to the market).

I think maybe your question is just "What happens if you want to sell bitcoins and nobody wants to buy them?" and in that case the sellers are just screwed.
I used to work around the Hamptons, and dealt with Dan's Papers a bit. This is definitely a joke.

EDIT: Yeah, I checked in. This is a hoax to draw attention to the government bringing in people to shoot the deer. The paper opposes this effort, as discussed here: http://danspapers.com/2013/06/one-girls-opinion-they-dont-cu...
The logic here is that the author's credibility would be ruined if this turned out to be a lie. What reason would he have for taking that risk?
sorry, you are correct. i've taken much less time in reading the article, than i have in expressing my arguments in these comments -_-
RIP Telegram (2013-2013) would make an interesting T-shirt. No one except a few cryptography buffs might understand it, but it would be a funny way to start conversations about information security.