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I am getting tired of all this dogecoin hype. This altcoin is not innovative, does not solve a problem that bitcoin has and was in fact created to mock all the altcoins. Yes it's funny (for the first 5 minutes) but tell me the added value? You think it's good for tipping because it's almost worthless?

The beauty of bitcoin is that you CAN type out long decimals. The beauty is that you can USE bitcoin to pay for goods and services. Bitcoin was like Dogecoin 5 years ago, why are you trying to repeat this proces?

If you look at the site of Tippercoin, you see that it is also possible to send for example a beer ($4) in bitcoin. Seems pretty easy to type, not?

The way I see it is that most of the altcoins are created by and for people who think they have missed the Bitcoin-boat and are stuck with their old mining hardware. Hoping that their altcoin will take off, by pumping and hyping it everywhere including Hacker News, so they can make some easy money.
The expression "laws or war" should sound very strange to you, yet it exists.
Which is correct behaviour and what governments all ask banks to do, believe it or not. It's called the "risk based approach" in the AML jargon.

The problem with AML laws is that they are so vague, it's impossible to ever really be sure you're in compliance. They turn banks into a privatised police force. How much effort should they make? Governments won't tell. They just say "be sensible about it". Banks hate this, as would you in their position, they want clarity about what to do, but governments don't want to give them a list of boxes to tick because they feel it'd be too slow and inflexible to keep up with criminals.

See the problem? Banks invest VAST sums in AML compliance. They develop automated software to spot suspicious transactions, they have massive internal compliance departments, they ID verify all their customers. It's a huge, huge drain (which is passed on to all of us, of course). But how much is enough? As far as the Justice Department is concerned, there can never be enough. Whilst criminals exist, it must mean failures of compliance by banks.
So peercoin? Its designed around a 1% annual inflation which random people on the internet told me is important.
Ah, true. x86 ABIs are much less unified than x86-64 ones.
Here's an article typeset in Computer Modern that was recently on the HN frontpage: http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...

Great article, but ZOMG is the typesetting atrocious! Look at the kerning between F and u in Future, and a and S in JavSscript. So, so bad.

Knuth's contribution to typography was great for its time but with so many excellent free fonts available we have moved beyond the need for Computer Modern.
Note: I work for Grooveshark, which is in Gainesville, FL, about as far away from San Francisco as you can be in the continental US...so what I'm about to talk about might not be like what is going on over there at all.

When we bring someone in for an interview, we generally already have a pretty good idea of their technical skill level. Part of the filtering process is asking to see their work, either code samples or a portfolio. For frontend engineers it is especially easy to see their work since you can load it up in the browser, inspect, interact with the console, etc.

If we are impressed by their work, the interview is 90% making sure they are a good personality fit, 10% making sure the work we looked at was actually theirs. We probably end up asking slightly more frontend-specific questions than the author experienced, but probably not much.

We find that this process generally works quite well, but a few people that we gave offers to did tell us they were surprised because they felt they had bombed the interview, assuming that since we didn't get into a lot of nitty gritty technical stuff or ask them to write code on a whiteboard, that we had already decided we weren't going to hire them.
To that effect, many countries can prosecute a foreign citizen committing a crime in a foreign country. For example, genocide.
I'm guessing that was a sarcastic comment.
Knuth's contribution to typography was far greater than a single font. Just saying. I'm curious to see that article actually typeset with his work.
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> They are non-Turing-Complete programming languages

Wrong! CSS is in fact a turing-complete language. :) I know it sounds weird, but it's true. Turing-completeness can be formally proved for CSS.
That's because of the crooked contracts that the big 4 labels of the music industry foists onto its artists, making CD sales not a viable profit-making venture for the artists themselves.

The tours are the meat and potatoes of income for most artists because of this, unless you go completely independent.
If others feel as you do, it might be time to work on a (cough) feature branch and worse-is-better that sucker.
Dogecoin is the small man's answer to banks to shove it, think about it.
I agree with you that it is everybody's own decision :) Although from a slightly philosophical point of view: how can one determine what levels are beyond their own knowledge, let alone what amount of effort it would take for them to get there and if it would worth it to do so. An experienced developer can tell a beginner what they could/should learn next to step up, but how do you determine the same for yourself?

On the other hand I strongly dislike the "in minimal time" condition. After let's say 10 years or more in programming (that's me in this case) and you say that the next step one could achieve is something that comes faster than learning a new programming paradigm? My gut feeling is that it will take me about 6 months with a strong programming background. I am not talking about learning Haskell (What could it be: a week or so?) but about understanding FP, knowing (and feeling) the fp design patterns. Depending on the investment in 6 months one probably can achieve that the application of those patterns come as second nature. That's my goal. Two questions:

1) What would give greater and longer-term benefits than that? Learning Reactive Extensions? Yet another ORM framework? Node.js? Those are only tools. One can learn them in some days when a project requires it.

2) What is the rush for? Do you remember the time you learnt OO programming? I would say to learn it properly, in the beginning of your career as most of us do it, required much more effort than to learn Haskell and FP when you are already an experienced programmer. Wasn't it worth to spend all that time to learn OO principles, design-patterns, tools, languages? And if you were stuck in the OO world throughout your career, then I am pretty sure that learning FP principles, patterns and language(s) have about the same effect on your future than OO had on your present expertise.
I'm currently using a Dualshock 2 with a "SmartJoy Plus" adapter I bought years ago. Awesome.
As with all benchmarks, without standard deviations, or, preferably, the complete test data, it is meaningless to attempt to infer anything from this data.
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DOJ did not drop it because they are too lazy. They were chomping at the bit to prosecute. Go read up on the background to this.

DOJ dropped it because the Treasury panicked and got into a massive fight with them. Treasury is responsible for AML laws and know full well how stupid they are - they became very scared that actually enforcing the laws Congress had passed to their full extent would trigger another financial crisis due to an exodus of trained staff. What DOJ wanted to do quite literally is jail CEOs in America for crimes committed by drug dealers in Mexico regardless of whether or not they knew anything about it. If they had succeeded, just imagine the impact that would have had on the finance industry. Under that standard, every single banker in the world would be a criminal facing jail time. Many of them would try to get out of banking as fast as possible, and banks couldn't easily survive massive simultaneous exits of senior staff.
Where is the love for Atari? :-) Perhaps Stella can be used somehow? I have no idea how this stuff is made as it's not really my area of expertise.
And the mimicry of Steve Jobs continues.
Crappy ad article. Plus, this doesn't even explicitly say if Iron Maiden hired the firm and acted on the results. This could be a correlation for all we know and again, just be a crappy ad article.
Yeah. I'm not seeing the connection between the two. I coincidentally just watched Flight 666 a few days ago for the first time, which is about a tour in early 2008. It showed how they get a huge response from fans around the world, but maybe especially South America. There was no indication that they went there as a response to piracy rankings. The article itself doesn't even support the headline.
NSA didn't need to backdoor DES when they just forced everyone to use weak keys:

> 1979 - Present, DES: The Data Encryption Standard was altered by the NSA to make it harder to mathematically attack but easier to attack via Brute Force methods. The original version of DES, called Lucifer, used a block and key length of 128-bits and was vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis. NSA requested that the already small DES key size of 64-bits be shrunk even more to 48-bits, IBM resisted and they compromised on 56-bits11. This key size allowed the NSA to break communications secured by DES.

http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/70646748808/a-brief-hist...

This is why any known NSA employee from security standards groups (including IETF and Trusted Computing Group [1]) must be forbidden to participate in the making of that standard. Their role there can only be seen as to facilitate weakening of the standards, either by weakening the algorithms themselves, or if that's too hard and/or obvious, to convince everyone else to use a weaker version of it (which NIST kind of tried to do with SHA-3 recently, too).

As long as there's any chance of NSA being involved even remotely in a security standard, I'm going to lose faith in that whole standard and the group.

[1] - http://www.securitycurrent.com/en/writers/richard-stiennon/i...
Yes you are right. I would even go as far as stating that the term "defensive weapon" makes no sense in the context of assault rifles.
If you're not sure if it'll be popular, make a post asking on reddit.com/r/dogecoin
I'm afraid your logo is not allowed by Twitter: "Do not modify or alter the marks or use them in a confusing way, including suggesting sponsorship or endorsement by Twitter, or in a way that confuses Twitter with another brand." See https://about.twitter.com/press/brand-assets

I'd change it if I were you! Otherwise, very simple and usable service. https://www.pikapay.com/ would be a competitor.
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the thing is, i'm pretty sure the weakness in DUAL_EC_DRBG has been public knowledge for a while. this paper detailing the vulnerability came out in 2007, and shows how fundamental the weakness really is:

http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf
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No, you keep saying this. There is NO consensus that Mexico is high risk. In fact the consensus is that it isn't. Go look at this list:

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/topics/high-riskandnon-cooperativej...

The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) co-ordinates AML regulations around the world. Note that Mexico is not on the list. Nor has it been there for a long time.

What's more, HSBC classified Mexico as standard risk but this did not override account level risk markers, it just meant they were not attempting to manually investigate every single wire transfer in or out of Mexico, an impossibly vast job. Wire traffic between US and Mexico is vastly larger than between, say, US and Algeria.

HSBC did not do anything wrong here.
That's a dead corp imho. Do we have any famous customer's list floating around?
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Nobody has a problem with funding experimental research and projects. That is not an excuse to not follow basic accounting principles and, quite frankly, have no clue where money has gone.
I haven't pirated anything for probably 8 years or so. I always generally preferred to pay for stuff.

That said, you're making a pretty weak assertion. iTunes often lags other distribution channels, oftentimes by months it seems. These oh-so-convenient alternative distribution channels are also DRMed up to the nines. I've bought all the kid's movies on my iPad through iTunes. Can I play them in my minivan through an HDMI to Composite adapter? Only for about 10 seconds. Then the screen goes black and the iPad says "this is not an approved playback device".

You don't have freedom and choice today. Unless I want to have random purchases over three or four services I need to consolidate my purchases for convenience. If I buy an Android phone I can't view the Google Play content at home (without yet another device and HDCP hookup). When HDCP dies the death it deserves, even with DRM still present, life for the honest consumer will get a lot better. Until then... yeah, no, the "industry" is far from giving me what I want.
To take this further...
Why are we stuck in this business model?
Really, "implement this, it'll help us get our pet standard through the process" isn't that unlikely a request to get - standard processes are rife with shenanigans at the best of times, and more companies/agencies than you'd hope take part in those.

Also, note that "the NSA is backdooring American crypto" has not always been considered a likely proposition.

(Of course, all of the above is bad/wrong; it's just not that much worse than you'd expect. "That much worse than you'd expect" is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security#Security_breach.)
It's not just movies.

I like the TV show Downton Abbey, it airs in the UK in the fall, but not in the US until after the new year - I'm willing to pay money, but cannot until they decide to release it here.

I'm also a fan of old TV shows, most of which I cant buy at any price because they are unwilling to release them at any price.

I'm perfectly content to pay for any of this stuff - but often its not available for purchase, only for pirating.

Same goes for movies - I can buy the DVD for 20 dollars or 'buy' an online copy for 12 dollars (sometimes its the same price as the DVD) - but it's DRM encumbered and I don't get a physical file I can watch anywhere I want - How is that a better value?

What I've found and seen in a handful of studies - is the majority will only turn to pirating after exhausting the legal options to buy a media product, thats been my experience. I'd rather pay a blanket license on my internet bill (say 10%) and be able to download whatever I want from wherever I want, whenever I want. Region Licensing, DRM, strange pricing oddities and the like will keep pirating around for the foreseeable future.
Ahhhhh, but it worked so perfectly!

Oh well, thanks for the heads up :)
The same is true of the Soviets - they were also hastily arming themselves. They were still training secret, massive armies in Siberia as the Germans approached Stalingrad, a city ridiculously deep in Soviet territory. They also had the massive officer purge of the late 30's to recover from.
My belief is that silly internet petitions such as this are designed to steer people away from more effective techniques.
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"They also added a constant value to their calculations that should throw them off, but the team kept themselves blind to it—this kept their own expectations from influencing how they conducted the experiment."

Well that's a cute little touch.
Check out the business of her husband before deciding what "her" industry is.
The CM fonts are great for actual math, mostly because of the matching math characters. The only other near-complete math fonts I know of are Lucida Bright and a Times version, neither of which are free. Most of the other free solutions just smoosh something like Palatino for text together with the CM math fonts or use an incomplete math font with CM fallbacks.
> "What is mathematics?"

Are you referring to the book authored by Richard Courant (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195105192)?
In all fairness, the great-grant parent's post wasn't completely serious, nor was mine ;-)
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We probably need to bring copyright periods back to something reasonable, too. 10 years?
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Because you might be married with kids?

Spending $100 on a night out after hiring a baby-sitter vs an evening after the kid's 8PM bed-time spending $5 to $10 at home in front of my nice speakers and 60" TV? When I've got to wake up at 6AM in the morning to get the kids to day-care?

Maybe you'd look down on it, but yeah, Married With Children is a big market, and a legit reason not to want to spend several times the price going out to a theatre where there's a good chance other obnoxious viewers will sour the experience anyways. I never have to worry about that at home.

Also, I can pause the movie, not miss anything, and take a bathroom break. Or let the dog out. Or get a drink.

Reading the rest of your comment I'm not really sure what you're trying to argue for/against.
Here's a question: Do we think Snowden is intentionally misleading us to attack RSA and EMC, or that he's actually releasing as little information as he can to get us on the right track toward fixing things? Why would this particular piece of information be selected if it was not a real problem?
I don't see that in "Fundamental features and concepts" of OOP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#Fun...

Let's stay on topic, talking about C. We'll avoid philosophy and hype and will keep talking about the work being done in C.
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I'm not saying that the laws aren't overly vague or in need of improvement. But classifying Mexico as a low-risk country despite KNOWING that it's high-risk was not an accidental misinterpretation of what was expected from them.
And the stock-market shrugged.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:EMC
Salutations are just not that common in modern Russian. It used to be Gospodin or Sudar (сударь) before the Revolution, but these were forcibly replaced by Tovarish (comrade, or rather - friend). Then after collapse of Soviet Union tovarish died out and neither of old salutations came back.

In day to day life if you need to attract someone's attention, you'd use an equivalent of "excuse me", "hey" or "hello". In rare cases people would use "man" (мужчина) or "woman" (женщина), but that's very impersonal and frequently antogonistic, so most people avoid it.

In press and written language, it's just the last name, preceded by the position when appropriate. Sometimes they will use gospodin, but that would typically be reserved for pompous occasions and when referring to people at important positions, e.g. a president of a bank. And yet it still looks odd and catches the eye.

So in the context of your post it's just Kalashnikov. No gospodin.
Very pragmatic approach. C# if you are ok with the Microsoft stack, or F# if you are a bit more advantageous and serious about the "new way of thinking". Python is also a great investment to solve real-world problems. And don't forget JavaScript. It is not just a browser language any more: there is node.js for the server side and it is the common language of most mobile frameworks that are multi-platform targeted.

You cannot go wrong with any of these. So have a look at code samples and spend some time browsing the web-sites about all of them then choose the one that appeals the most to you.
> The average thread on PerlMonks (at least when I was a heavy reader) eventually turns to code golf

That might not be representative of the Perl community as a whole really ... Perl is used in corporate environments where "code golf" or "super clever" solutions will get you odd looks, Perl isn't an excuse for writing unmaintainable code, even if it's straight from PerlMonks. Books like "Modern Perl" by chromatic and software like Perl::Critic have moved the focus from writing "clever" to writing maintainable code in the last couple of years. In my opinion, it was too little and too late though and lacking supporting changes in Perl's implementation to reverse the trend (i.e. losing users).

For people who have touched saner languages (like Go) in the mean time, it's just hopeless to keep messing about with Perl, no matter how disciplined people are and how supporting the toolchain is (I run Perl::Critic and perl -MO=Lint -c before every commit and it takes longer than "go build", which checks code much more thoroughly).
Sure, it's exactly the sort of request you would expect.

It's also exactly the sort of request you need to stay well shut of if you want credibility as a crypto provider to business and consumers. Any interactions with agencies like the NSA taint you, regardless of the intent. By their very nature they are suspect in this context.
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Does Dorsey also scream at his subordinates? I thought he had a calmer persona.
If we presume that the AK-47 is a very well-designed firearm, and 50+ years of its use would seem to indicate that it is, then your response incorrectly presumes that the person who acted with volition would have been equally successful when using a firearm of an inferior design. A death that occurred solely because the weapon allowed a kill by an otherwise insufficiently-skilled marksman can be attributed to the gun rather than its firer.

The number of deaths attributable to the AK-47 would then be the number of total people killed by people using AK-47s minus the number of people who would still have been killed with the best available alternative weapon. It's a much smaller number, but it's a positive number none the less.
I did consider trying to work in the part where they shortened the keys and eventually DES became useless because of it, but it was a bit of a diversion from the salient (heh) reason I put this on the timeline, that they improved the s-boxes without explanation and that colors any subsequent requests they made to do similar.
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Feinstein's husband: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum

All the controversies about self-dealing must just be coincidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum#Controversy