skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe more pointedly - white hat and in high school, OR independent and not well known, OR when dealing with any sort of organization affiliated with government, banking, telecommunications or retail.

I think that covers 80% of this type of story cropping up quarterly in mainstream media.
In that "Steambox" is a synonym for "PC" then yes , I suppose it is.
See the other posts in this thread for more technical details, it isn't the owner of the largest amount of bitcoins, it is the miners with the most amount of hashing power. See, miners are supposed to be decentralized to prevent double spending. When you mine in a pool, you are giving up your hashing power to a pool operator in exchange for a payout that is more regular. When that operator controls over half the bitcoin network, they become bitcoin God.

In theory everyone mines alone to prevent this, in practice, this isn't very feasible.
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> Developing an app for Firefox OS really is as simple as building an HTML5 web app.

Building a high quality HTML5 web app is hard and complicated.

> Despite its many benefits, there still just isn’t a whole lot of excitement for the Firefox OS. That may change though if LG, ZTE, or especially Panasonic can create compelling hardware to show off the open source software.

Despite what benefits? What does Firefox OS do better than everybody else? If Mozilla wants consumers to adopt it's OS, it should focus on features that actually matter to users, otherwise, it will be just a platform for vendor/carrier crapware.
I actually know jack-shit about Google+. I assumed what the article was talking about was like a Facebook friend request where you have to individually invite a specific person. Will Google+ really just randomly spam people you've had e-mail conversations with?
"PHP used to be by far the easiest language to get started with for web dev. This is not the case anymore."

um - who would be the contenders? in terms of getting started, which also means deploying and see your stuff on something other than your local machine, I can't think of anything better supported than PHP. Most budget hosting you can simply upload your brand new, first-ever PHP script and have it 'just work'. No need to worry about wsgi, cgi-bin, application servers or anything.

As much as I loathe PHP because it sweeps the developer towards bad habits and unreadable, bug-ridden, slop, I love it because, rather like a bash, it's a flexible and comprehensive tool in my toolbox.
I understand your position. I've managed a group that was struggling to increase test coverage. It's hard to make testing work if management wasn't behind it from the get-go. Short term thinking almost ensures this doesn't happen. It is possible to catch up, however. A friend of mine did it with a DoD project. (In C++!)
I think it makes complete sense to someone who knows only very basic information about steam boxes, without any distortion field needed.

If you take a look at the beta box Valve released, it's based on linux and it looks sexy. If that's all the information you have then sure, Valve might threaten Apple.

But the author's job is to find out more information than that, and with all the recent press that isn't even 3 minutes of research to do.
1 beard trick, surely?
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They provide all 3 formats: pdf, epub, mobi. They also have the option to set a kindle address through the site to send books to a kindle (if the file size is okay). I agree with sergiotapia by the way, it really is an excellent service.
It seems you have used some Unicode for the buttons, but most of them don't appear on my navigator (latest Firefox on Win 7x64).

I tried to play with the page encoding but it didn't change anything.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0ih0ztk7k8wiq1/ui.jpg
I think the point is more that without a decent cache, the speed of a cpu is greatly throttled to really be the speed of the memory feeding it.

Consider, for much of the task of browsing the web, the largest noticable speed problem is decidedly not the local device, but how long it takes for the data to load.
Ahh that's interesting. Was the overlay un-dismissible?
Can you recommend some good REITs for high dividends? Is there anything special you do when researching them?
You should know that you don't understand enough about Bitcoin to reason about it [+], and before trusting my representations about it, you should know that I am approximately the most skeptical person about it in the entire tech community.

+ This phrasing is rather more robust than I'd prefer, but you're dangerously mistaken about something which many people will attempt to get you to equate with money.

The Bitcoin protocol does not trust owners of large amounts of bitcoins. An emergent behavior of the protocol is that it trusts people with large amounts of hash power over given periods of time. Why not trust every client equally? Because Satoshi believed that IP addresses were really easy to conjure up, and compute farms were really hard to conjure up, so a malicious actor could easily get a majority of the network if you were counting via IP addresses but it would be hard if you required computational proof of work.

This is one of the core engineering decisions in Bitcoin. One of the other ones is, to incentivize people to spend computational power on computations which have no utility the overwhelming majority of the time, periodically they're allowed by the protocol to claim bitcoins which are created from nothing. Every bitcoin in circulation first came into possession by someone who won a lottery with tickets basically bought by the expenditure of hash power.

Response to edit: In a war during which 75% of the world's datacenters are destroyed, the Internet collapses, Bitcoin dies along with many hundreds of millions of people, and cryptocurrency enthusiasts join Beanie Baby collectors in the long line of people who will not find their favorite hobbies treated well in a nuclear winter.

If you're answering purely as a math abstraction, though, the protocol will eventually self-correct by picking a new, lower block difficulty, with the goal being creating a new block approximately every ten minutes. The approximate upper bound on how long it would take to recalibrate if you lost 3/4th of the hashing power is plus or minus eight weeks. (I originally said "an hour", which is clearly in error.) During the interim, Bitcoin would be possible to transact in and mine but it would be slower than previously -- instead of it requiring about an hour to know that a given transaction was safe to rely on, it would require about four hours.

But again: Bitcoin is very much not robust against "the end of the world."
This is what permissive licenses allow for.
Spoken like a true Programmer.

remember to refactor costs man hours, which costs real cash. If it works there is no point changing it. especially if the benefit is some so nebulous as "sub optimal VM" if you were worried about speed in the first place it wouldn't have been written in python.

also you wouldn't port your script to new hardware, you'd port Python (well wait for someone else to....)
God is perfectly just.

God says...
climate woot phasors_on_stun hit you_better_not stuff yep
I'll_get_right_on_it Shhh employer couldnt_possibly I_was_sleeping
to_infinity_and_beyond beam_me_up heathen other it_gets_better
I_didn't_see_that hey_thats_right what's_up crash_and_burn
money ROFLMAO absolutely I_love_you no_more if_anything_can_go_wrong
na_na on_occassion super_computer everythings_a_okay comedy
just_lovely basically rocket_science it's_my_world I'll_get_right_on_it
caution adultery Obama wife end sad Mars What_are_you_doing_dave
Despite the good responses, there are two points that I believe are important that haven't been pointed out yet.

1. While a 51% pool operator could double spend, none of the participants can do that. The social incentives against a pool operator exploiting this power are very strong, however, because double spends are basically impossible to hide and would destroy the value Bitcoin - which is pretty much against the operator of a mining pool who is likely to hold significant amounts of Bitcoin herself.

2. There is a second possible exploit that is not so well known, which is that a >50% pool can capture all mining rewards. They can do so by never accepting a block mined by somebody else, and instead always mining on their private chain. This pool-specific chain will always ultimately become longer.

The loss of confidence associated with such an attack is probably smaller. So I would bet that if the pool operator has evil intentions, that would be the way to go for them.
You're right of course, but I struggle to view the world in such a black-and-white manner to be honest especially when there are black boxes like in play, Google+'s source code in this case.

How much proof would have to be provided that the Google+ invitation was sent deliberately by the user? Sworn testimony from a Google employee? There can of course exist bugs that send invites erroneously that nobody knows about. Revealing of the source code and analysis by experts? Unknown bugs can still exist, especially in systems as large as Google's.

Stepping back from this particular case, what about apps that scan your contact list and automatically send invites and/or messages?

These situations aside, it's far too easy to accidentally send an invitation. Hell, I don't doubt that many people reflexively agree to prompts on websites they think they're familiar with. Of course the argument can be made that people with restraining orders must be more careful, but it just doesn't seem sane to me that people can get jail time for clicking a button on a prompt that most people wouldn't think twice about.
Hi: I placed a link in my public Dropbox.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9657839/Investment%20Fun...
You correctly point out that unicode is much much better, but How often are you dealing with it? I know that I certainly don't have to think about it in my pipeline.
It's not about the blog post and not about this specific law, but Google's attitude as a company. Their business model is at odds with privacy.

The only thing that Google can do to show that they respect their users is to stop storing so much information about them and change their TOS to restrict usage of data and ensure there's a convenient way to control it for the end user. Instead they force them to input more info like their real names and phone numbers.

As for this blog, it's so ridiculous that they talk about Snowden and yet Google is one of the main personal information providers included in the revelations. I don't think I've seen one post from a Google employee that demonstrated they understand privacy, they are hopeless.
Having gone through Mechanical Engineering school and also developing software (coding C++ and others) for the past 12 years...I see programming as more assembling physical systems and getting them to interact much more than how well programming can be related to any particular mathematics.
Facebook can and does "randomly spam" people you've had e-mail conversations with if you let them at your address book.
It's okay. It's just most often used as a pejorative term by people who dislike copyleft.
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> but the reality is that in any social system there will always be concentration of power in the hands of the few.

Actually in this particular case, it's not in the hands of the few, it's in the hands of the majority.
From what I've read online about Wii U sales, they may have a big problem. I haven't read anything about the holiday season so they might have turned it around. But I doubt it. There was no significant discounting or console bundles. I thought they'd release a Super Mario 3D world bundle to move sales .. surprising that they didn't do this in the US.
"Mining" is basically brute-forcing a value (the proof of work). Whoever stumbles on that value gets a previously agreed-upon bounty awarded, currently 25 BTC.

A lone miner has a very low chance of finding the value, but will get the full 25 BTC. In a pool, a number of miners combine their computational power, and if the pool finds the value they get awarded a fraction of the bounty corresponding to the amount of work they did (the number of possible values they checked). E.g. if A, B and C are in a pool, A verified 140 values, B verified 100, C verified 10 and one of them (who it was isn't supposed to matter) they'll get respectively 14, 10 and 1 BTC. If they had not been in a pool, one of them would have gotten 25 and the others 0. So being in a pool reduces your payout, but increases the chances that you get a regular payout.
> if you have collected good patterns from other languages

Not at all - I think it's ok to invent languages, period. Little or huge, DSL or general, using established syntax or creating new ones - making them is good. The results can be bad (and frequently are), but that's to be expected of every process.

Knowing different languages just helps in seeing syntax for what it is: another level of abstraction, not a set of rules cast in stone. You can come at the same conclusion with a proper university class or with any number of other means - I mentioned learning languages just because that's what worked for me.
From TFA, a perfect example of how joining G+ could lead to this predicament:

And by default, when someone joins Google+ and that person is in your Gmail contacts, Google will automatically send you a notification, along with an invitation suggesting that you "add him [or her] to your Circles to stay connected."

In such a scenario, the alleged unrestrained person could be held responsible for the fact that his alleged target had received emails from him at any time in the past, such as before the order was requested or before they even "broke up".

It may well be that there are other scenarios that require even less interaction.
I have been learning Flask for a while and any other python based light frameworks are of interest. This looks promising with its own set of conventions but one thing that immediately caught my eye is this:

pecan create test_project

Essentially, it creates a barebone project with a list of pre-defined folders/files. For me, this is not very useful as I actually prefer to create my own. In fact, as you get to a decent sized project, you always end up customizing the structure of the app and hence a barebone structure even though sounds good actually becomes unusable. For a lightweight framework, I really don't want any app structure conventions done for me. Let me do that.
Hahahaha. You're funny.

Ok. So I'm doing a strawman... But you're not doing an argument from authority ?

So let's be clear. Bell's theorem is not an "old thing". I mean, what serious scientist argue something like that... (Yep, that's a No true Scotsman ;-) ) I've never encountered any argument in that direction. Of course some people argue against some of the derivations of Bell's theorem, and his test, but against the soundness of the theorem in itself ? For the record : "No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics."

Then people who challenge the consequences of Bell's Theorem, argue for Non Local Hidden Variables (http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9906036v1.pdf). But frankly, non locality is not at all in the actual consensus of quantum physicists. It would have huge consequences on special relativity.

So, again, if you want to argue that Non locality is true, welcome to a completely new world of physics. As of today, no one have any proof that non-locality is real. The scientific consensus is that No communication theorem is a much more credible solution to the EPR paradox. I mean of course some people say that proof of NCT are circular. But most only do because they think we can find a better proof of it.

How many serious scientists work on disproving the Non Communication Theorem ? John Cramer ? Some people in his lab ? That's mostly it. And as of today... they found nothing I am aware of.

And then what are your references ? A nature article, published in the vulgarization part of the review and non peer reviewed ? That short blog post that show very limited understanding of the problems with Quantum Entanglement ?

Anyway, if No Com Theorem is false, boy what a world, time traveling become possible, teleportation, several other sci-fi things. That would be great. But probably will never happen.
The network hash rate is currently about 13,000,000 Gigahash / second.

That unit does 1.6 Gigahash / second.

The bitcoin earned in a period of time will roughly follow that proportion.
No, it's in the hand of the pool operator not in the hand of the pool's miners.
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You could make it easier to buy shares from abroad.

I tried to buy NZ stock exchange shares in the UK, and my broker didn't cover it.

Not sure what the situation with Australian ones is. But basically, the more brokers abroad that can get them, the less the advantage of being on NASDAQ.
Oh, great! Now I'll really have to get one.
Haha, I can imagine the argument.

"I've just broken up with my girlfriend, it was a pretty messy event and now she's got a temporary restraining order on me... And this really pissed me off. So as an obvious next step, I went to go exercise my rights via purchasing a handgun... only to find my 2nd amendment rights had been taken away! What's become of blessed 'merica?"
This question should establish a separation between the content that mathematics teaches, and the cognitive abilities that develop as a result of learning mathematics.

Could an 11 year old dive into the CRUD with an 11 year old's mathematical knowledge? Absolutely. Will he/she have the ability to rough it through debugging challenging problems that may emerge without the years grit developed as a result of solving difficult calculus and linear algebra problems? Possibly. Perhaps not.

Either way, you sound like an awesome dad :) I say let him have at it!
Maybe so that they can offer in-browser designing similar to how they offer in-browser code editing via Ace Editor?
> A lot of people now want to use their browser for far more than that

No. People want a way to quickly use new software. It's just that the easiest way to achieve this today is providing applications via the browser.
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I think I got the 3DS on the day or soon after it came out. I was really pissed at the quality, that they lowered the price so soon, and that their "compensation in games" to the original purchasers was a joke. I forget the details but I recall they initially said they'd give 7 games to original buyers ... later it turned out that the set of games they were giving were old, old, old ... I think some were even black and white. WTF!
The core point is the same: With sufficient test coverage, you can change one variable (Python 3 vs 2) and control for all others. Tests are not an end, they are a means to an end; the courage to change your software in the face of a constantly changing world.

Sounds like you're not there, but maybe you have specific domains of EVE that you feel comfortable changing at your whim. That's the success to focus on.
That is great - but just curious, how do you earn $1700 from a free ebook?

Edit : Never mind - figured out by visiting the link to the book on Epub :)
A bug in my code doesn't make javascript horrible, it makes me horrible for rushing to illustrate a point instead of just harrumphing internally and finishing my coffee.

Good catch.
Because there is now a culture of co-opting or manufacturing outrage as part of some sort of ridiculous social justice movement. Unfortunately twitter, tumbler, etc gives idiots a loud mouthpiece for things like this when previously they would have just been ignored.
Ok, I guess I was looking at it wrong.I was thinking about government-granted monopolies where the government willingly prevents competition. It is my understanding that this was how of most of the telecommunication companies around the world started.
The article bemoans the fear that Apple will insist we use it's app store for macs too.

Yet is putting forward a move to SteamOS, an OS named after the app store it is built to promote...
Seeing one of the opening paragraphs say "The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read" while being distracted by the bloody sidebar and ad on this site is rather interesting.
> "And for the record G+ doesn't bulk send invites to all your contacts that just misinformation and FUD spreading"

Does it ever send individual invites without explicit and clear consent or without explicit action by the user?
I'm not sure there is such a difference between mathematics and an "algorithm". Time can be factored out of a process. A process can be represented as a sequence of objects. Take a function taking some arguments, one can describe this function in it's entirety by describing each sequence of objects generated by each possible input. Then if one wants to recreate the operation of the function one simply looks up the appropriate sequence of objects. A function then becomes a mathematical object in the abstract. In the same way some mathematical object can be described as the result of some process. Take the definition of the natural numbers, an object 0 is defined and a successor to this object to the next object is defined. This operation defined recursively sets up the whole natural numbers. The description of the natural numbers is the result of the evaluation of this function recursively applied, or the infinite application of this function. Since the study of mathematics is the study of these abstract objects and these objects encapsulate those objects which we can produce in the physical world through some process, mathematics by definition is a study of programming. Whether the mathematics explored by mainstream mathematics is the same mathematics explored by the code monkey is perhaps relevant. But the duality exists. In essence a study of physical reality is the study of those mathematical objects which can be constructed by the processes extant in that reality. So analysis of anything is mathematics, it just may not be the kind of mathematics we usually associate with the word.
...judges/prosecutors... [lose] common sense the minute they start practicing.

The system actually selects for the most vindictive, Procrustean, authoritarian candidates for these positions. So if you're an attorney with an ounce of decency or common sense, you don't even get the chance to "lose" that as a judge or prosecutor, because you never become one of those.
> lucky php has very clever people doing clever things with it - see hhvm for a recent great thing for PHP

The whole point of HHVM is to migrate away from the PHP runtime (by using the PHP language on another runtime). It's a bit perverted to say that's a god thing for PHP.
I don't think that's to do with our regulations; it's just that Australia's share market is miniscule compared to those in the global capitals of capital. NZ even more so. There's not enough retail investor interest to cover the costs.
I find it more refreshing to read success stories of $16,920.12 rather than $250,000 on my first book success stories.

Perhaps it comes from the fear of the 'I know a guy who...' stories that you hear as an anecdote why someone who really shouldn't take a huge risk is about to take one.

Congratulations on your first book, hopefully the lessons learned will lead to continued success with future endeavors.
Presumably you can create a wallet and use this to send bitcoins to it?
A similar case happened in uk where a man sent facebook friend requests to everyone in his email list, which included his ex wife who had a restraining order againts him.

On mobil so links in a while.
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