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It'd be pretty nice if the last blog post was more recent than 3 years. It's also really nice to know that curvedns-0.87 has been downloaded 1050 times... but i have no idea when it was actually released. No sign of a changelog... No public repository? No mailing list?

All of these crypto projects (Nacl, CurveDNS) would benefit from moving to Github. Nobody's going to use a seemingly stagnant project. That's ultimately the problem with most of djbs best work, and a lot of other good work, I think. He does world class research and reference implementation, but it doesn't feel like there's an open source community rallying around it.

We need more Linus' in the crypto world.
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I guarantee you that CC wants you to think of them as a social site! Whenever you try to pin down a buzzword, you'll find people on all sides saying they are/aren't part of it.
There would probably be a bunch of trust issues blocking it. Why should any legitimate thief trust you/whatever person to take stolen property and actually do something profitable with it, instead of go straight to the police or the original owner? If you intended to offer this service as an honest criminal, how would you go about finding actual thieves and not undercover cops, and getting their trust? How could you trust them to not turn you in to the cops themselves?

If anybody came up with a startup or website or something to resolve those issues, that would be evil genius on the scale of Cryptolocker.
If you have enough access to the phone to dump the hashed pin code then why would you care what the pin code is to begin with? This seems like a non-problem unless people are reusing their phone pin code for them ATM cards but no amount of security is going to fix that kind of stupid.
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It's kind of weird though because there's almost no motivation to proceed. There's no goal - other than addiction (and also, I suppose, the happiness gained from passing your friends on the board). Other successful games which have grinding such as this have something - loot, abilities, unlocks - something to strive towards. Candy Crush just presents you with another board which requires a certain amount of luck to win (because the board clears so frequently, it's impossible to look more than one move ahead anyway).
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Ether scripts are not operating in unrestricted environment. They are turing-complete, but their environment and available memory are very restricted. A bug in the implementation may lead to denial-of-service attacks (just like similar bugs in Bitcoin), but it does not mean there will be ether viruses spreading through the network. At worst, it could be a global DoS issue that can be quickly fixed and the entire history reversed right before the problematic transaction.
Turning complete you say? Hark the birth of currency viruses.
>I've been making $60+ per day mining it. //

So is that "I've been grossing $60+ per day mining it."?

Also, you've converted that value from doge to bitcoin? Any idea what your costs are (hardware + running)?
Healthcare is approximately the same cost now from what I've seen with ACA prices in the US.

Are you using ACA? (I am.) Do Germans have to pay $500-$1000/month, maybe more if you're older, for a plan that pays almost 80% of their in-network costs? And speaking of those costs, how much is an endoscopy in Germany? Here I was just quoted $8000.
This is very interesting, because:

>Einstein denied several times that black holes could form. In 1939 he published a paper that argues that a star collapsing would spin faster and faster, spinning at the speed of light with infinite energy well before the point where it is about to collapse into a black hole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's_unsuccessful_investi...
It changes nothing but it is a fact. The original ancestor of this thread was put off Owncloud by the fact it was PHP and Pydia was offered as an alternative. The name suggest at least to me that it would be Python based.

Now whether the PHP should put us off is a separate question. I have probably unfair doubts about the quality of things developed in PHP based worrying about the sort of people who would choose it when they have a free choice (see fractal of bad design post). However I personally don't want to learn PHP so I would prefer something in Python, Rails or possibly even Node (I've a feeling that I'm going to need to learn Javascript one day), Java, C or C+++ so that the barrier to me tinkering/fixing is lower.
Yes.

"light-truck share at 51.2 percent with sales up 10.4 percent from last year." https://www.nada.org/Publications/NADADATA/
Please, go ahead. Few people would complain about getting money tips, even if it is funny money. It will just add to the game.
Does this mean Kip Thorne has to return a year's worth of Penthouse magazines?
Why are Microsoft's profits from Windows excluded from the numbers while profits from OS X are included? Why isn't MS considered part of the PC industry?
> switch to Intel changed that

The turnaround started with Mac OS X, in 2001. That's what really started turning heads. The intel macs five years later helped, but it really was the wow factor of having a great Mac- or Mac-like (considering Aqua was the most radical departure Apple had made from the System 6/7/8/9 UI lineage up until that point) interface on top of real Unix, with all of its tools. It put to bed all sorts of concerns with architecture, open source/free software, macho "real programmers" insecurities, etc.
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It took Carlsen 12 seconds and 2 piece "sacrifices" to mate Gates. That was fast.
I'm in the same boat as you - played for a while, high level, never paid.

But, I wonder if all of the levels actually are beatable. I haven't been able to figure out if some of the levels are random or not. It seems like there are definite patterns for some levels, but not all.

This is what bothers me. I want to know that any given board can be beaten. If it can't and then they charge you to keep playing, that would be dishonest.

I just haven't figured out it that was the case or not.
"... time is too important to waste" as we piss it away playing Candy Crush et al.

So much effort has been made to streamline our lives and make every task as efficient as possible (if not eliminate it all together). We then suddenly find ourselves so bored that we have to fill it with hours of brainless smartphone games and low-quality television. We'll call it entertainment!
No, the built in sales reporting is very basic. You need to build in analytics if you want a device or OS breakdown.
Well a cryptocurrency which actually allowed you to pay for distributed computing, that did useful computations - would be a very interesting thing.

"Miners" would have to buy generic hardware that did generic calculations, which actually would have "intrinsic" value since they wouldn't be busy-work to keep things secure, they'd be executing useful computation for a client.
I meant being apologetic for the language: "Remember how methods use parentheses to group arguments? Well anonymous functions use pipes for some reason. Yeah I know, it doesn't make sense to me either. It's just one of those things you have to memorize."
DNSSEC basically has all the problems of SSL registrars with almost no user-facing of the benefits - it's still a centralized system that could be overridden by a registrar hack or state level strong-arming

I thought the problem with CAs was that any compromised CA breaks security on all sites? Whereas with DNS there's one registrar that handles your domain (well, plus the tld admin, but that's still only 2 instead of lots), which is chosen by you rather than any attacker?

The better technology to look into if you're concerned about individual user rights and privacy is DNSCurve: http://dnscurve.org

After re-reading that, I still don't see how it authenticates the DNS server (and if it does, I imagine it could only do so by relying on information from the parent zone). So I'll assume that it's no more resistant to "registrar hack[s] or state level strong-arming" than anything else.
The buses fix the Bay Area's bad public transportation problem. Now unless the Bay Area city and county govts and its residents are open to the idea of having tech companies use imminent domain and straight up pay for everything (like Google's municipal wifi initiative), I don't understand the hate for the buses. You don't hear this in NY.
Ah, but it's a matter of what you're trying to protect against.

I'm having a number of devices, from 'swipe to unlock' via 'pattern unlock' and full passphrases.

My phone uses a lock pattern, because

- swipe to unlock would unlock the phone in my pocket. Rare, but happened a number of times

- my phone is the one device that consistently lies around the house and gets carried away by my 1.x year old son. Swipe to unlock was very easy to understand...

So - pattern aren't secure, agreed. They are just a way to lock the keyboard against accidents and for that they work quite well..
The Doom model wouldn't work on me anymore, unless the game was spectacular.

Once I've played the first x levels, I've usually satisfied my curiosity about the game and, if there is a pay wall, move on.

I do appreciate the chance to try before I buy, but maybe because I'm not 'investing' in the game (either by paying money upfront or time investment in a free game), it's easy to move on to one of the hundreds of other good games out here.
Id say the layout of the keyboard doesn't matter. I've been using vim in Dvorak for years now and it hasn't been an issue. The 'hjkl' thing doesn't make sense, but once you get past that, it's just another set of keys to learn.
It will "kill" the certification business by vesting that authority with governments: the USG controls the root of .com, and Libya(!) controls .ly. If DANE had been successful a few years ago, Ghaddafi's government would have controlled bit.ly's certs.
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F-150's aren't the "trucks" he's talking about. F-150s are cars for people who want to feel like they're in a truck. In fact I think by "truck" he pretty much means "trucks not sold directly to consumers." Like a semi, an actual delivery truck, MAYBE an F-450 in a pinch.
How about not coding in Objective-C amirite?
Because... Reasons... The headline doesn't look as clickbait-y otherwise most likely.

Or because Microsoft doesn't make "PCs"(well not really) and Mac does. But MS does make devices/phones/Xbox (which is a PC in console's clothing).

Edit: I'm glad that they at least lump it in with PCs now though... It used to be that people would get angry if you called their Apple Computer a PC. But now that they are just Intel PCs running OSX it seems hard to debate.
It's surreal when you take a step back for a second, like marathon runners at one of those drinking stands, and you take in how far we've come in the last 50, 30, and 15 years even. Then you have to think what's next because computers are getting skinnier and faster from the original design and we all know that eventually something else will take over. I wonder who will do it, what it will be like, and how it will change the world even more.

We aren't just going to stop once our laptops are paper thin and lightning fast (ha ha), so what will it be? The future is a vast frontier even today with how far we've come.
How intelligent does a machine need to be for you?
Nope, and you cannot read. Dammit, I hate being suckered by a troll.
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That's hardly a 1-to-1 comparison. For starters there are a number of large, legitimate businesses that make their money selling MtG cards on the secondary market. Secondly, didn't the folks at mtgox just use the domain name because they already owned it? AFAIK, the mtgox exchange bitcoin didn't grow out of the mtg exchange, it just happened to share a domain name.
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Actually the title is both accurate and roughly as big as it looks. Stephen Hawking is, in fact, saying that there are no black holes: no event horizon, no black hole. The fact that this statement has yet to pass peer review and enter publication is interesting but does not detract from the accuracy nor news interest of the article and title.
You haven't read enough Veblen. Once machines could make things like perfectly machined aluminum silverware, people just began to desire imperfections that were hard to produce by machine.

A carpeted dwelling was the pinnacle of opulence until machines and synthetic fibers made plywood+carpet cheaper than hardwood floors. Once that happened, after a brief carpet opulence arm race going all the way to shag, carpet was for low class people and hardwood floors were the new thing.

In this new revolution you are talking, people will just literally start wearing printed coats made of solved auditable captchas, to prove how important they are and how much labor they can command and put to waste.

There will be plenty of jobs for a while to come. The revolution will be dampened by zero-sum status wars. By the time domination over machine overtakes domination over man as a primary status signal, there won't be any humans left anyway.
Title Case is still very common in the USA (see http://www.nytimes.com/ for an example, their house style is to use it for all of their headlines). You hardly ever see it in the UK these days.
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Specifically, to add two velocities 'v' and 'u', the formula is (v+u)/(1+(vu/c^2)).

(For small v and u, this is approximately v+u/1).
I'd really love to see Julia start being used for this sort of thing. You can trade off between performance and abstraction within the same language. No more bouncing between C and Objective-C, with all the difficulties that can involve, especially due to C's runtime limitations.
There's just no way that every (or even most) companies in, say, the US, are all collectively colluding to do much of anything, much less fix wages. There's a reason that cartels don't really work, and that's because somebody always has an incentive to cheat. Same deal here... even IF you got every single company to agree to fix programmer salaries, it would never hold up, because some member of the group would either find a way to pay more and disguise it somehow, or they'd flat out openly rebel and take their chances.

Does this happen on a small scale among handfuls of companies? Almost certainly, as we've seen. But how much impact it has at a more macro level is certainly questionable.
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>No, Ethereum is not an altcoin. Ethereum is going to be 10,000 altcoins.

Oh boy! Exciting!
Yep. Chipped in some money against these evil clowns.
I'm curious, do you think all of those "X but on the internet" patents are good inventions worthy of 17 years of government protection? Because this is basically the same thing. Uber provides a service that has been around for centuries, it's just "on smartphones". Is that really sufficiently unique to call other people who do it "a clone"?
I wonder if what they did could be considered criminal. Back in highschool a friend of mine did the "order a dozen pizzas to someone's house" prank and he got caught doing it. Though nothing came of it, a police officer told him he could have been charged under a crime called "Defrauding an innkeeper" for ordering a service/product under false pretenses.
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Yup, sure the PC won, but what did IBM get? 1.75 billion from Lenovo.
Tried to read this on my phone, but 20% of the page was locked in a non-dismissable banner. Fire your marketing team.
I'd wager that people in ancient Athens would send a messenger to the local chariot service when they needed to get around on short notice. The idea that Uber is somehow doing something new is ludicrous.
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He isn't wrong. I've had friends that had their processing take much longer and go into a more detailed review which delayed them taking a job. You can also get your "H1B transfer" denied for the new job even if you're doing a similar job to your old gig
It is 'free' if you buy their PC. The same way Windows is 'free' if you buy a windows PC from any PC manu who doesn't allow you to take it off the invoice.

It is folded into the cost of the hardware at this point. So yes I can see what you're saying in terms of profits on the OS vs another OS. But it is not free (as in beer) exactly.
its a good ideea,
but maybe it should be something on a site, installing an extension is not that easy and straight forward.
like a tipping website (online wallet) , by username , or email
Value and price are distinct things. The value of anything is not the price the author think he is entitled to charge nor the manufacturing cost + a fair profit, it is the price people is willing to pay.
Yes! Multi-targeted IPAs! Don't force iPhone 3GS users to download retina iPad assets from store. Have xcode produce multiple IPA files. Android and Play Store already does this.
not if ISP, nsa, etc are involved.
This man knows what he's talking about, listen to him kids
This video seemed to celebrate the software that ran on the machines more than the actual hardware itself. I get that they are trying to market the emotion behind the experience but I almost feel as if the emotion they are conveying is misplaced here.

The actual photos and stories following the video are MUCH better and I enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane. :-)
I do not share your optimism. The worst case is autonomous viruses that steal to sustain their transaction fees and escape their jails to wreak havoc via buffer overruns or other similar exploits.
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Is this a thing that can be mined today? Or is it still paper/brainstorming phase?
You literally cannot "bounce between C and Objective-C”, since all valid C is valid Objective-C. You’re just “writing Objective-C”.
Well, they say you can't make an omelette without breaking some legs.
Since CA is one of the few states that bars non-competes, I doubt this lawsuit could have been brought forth in any other state. Lawyers out there, am I right? In NYC for example, the non-competes are draconian, and there is far less movement between companies. In SiV, fortunately, movement is the norm.
I think there is a big difference here between Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. Harvard and Yale clearly bought "likes" to their pages, while Princeton kept it clean and thus doesn't have any fake followers or fake page "likes".
Occasionally, mostly DJB, programmers write code and it is DONE. This is such an astonishing accomplishment that when it happens, it is mistakenly branded for not being "active".
I wish there was a service similar to Square Cash where I could send arbitrary amounts of money around the world without dealing with bank transfers / Western Union / etc. It would basically have to transparently convert from whatever currency you give it to bitcoin, send the bitcoin to an address, then convert it to the receiver's currency and deposit it in their bank.

The legal and regulatory hurdles involved in this make it a non-trivial business to set up, but I think it plays on a great strength of bitcoin.
Square Enix's offerings on Android are non-functional on newish versions of the OS.

Look at the reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_eni...
These are really impressive, great work. I'd also like to make games and admire the shotgun, just-do-it approach here. If I started working with a framework like phaser, how much of that experience would be applicable to other frameworks? Is it all very similar concepts, with differences in execution (say, like the difference between jQuery and mootools or whatever)? I get a little hesitant at the point of choosing where to start.
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I would make a 99% bet that your personal auto insurance explicitly denies covering you if you are driving a vehicle for money.
TFA: "If Uber employees intentionally diverted Gett drivers from legitimate business by making phony calls, that is an unfair business practice, illegal under California law," he said. "It is also an intentional interference with Gett's business which makes them liable for money damages."
Uhm, I can say with some certainty that a lot of North Dakota farmers would take issue with your statement. F-150s are workhorses around here and there is a bit of concern with the 2014 F-150 given the vehicles many uses.

I can see this being true in the cities, but it is also sold to a lot of contractors who take it to job sites. The Super Duty (F-450) is actually something to buy if you have a specialized need.
My personal experience is that the pay structure at Google has not depressed wages at all. It's not unusual to encounter a mid-tier engineering lead pulling down $650k+/yr (with stock), working 40 hours a week. Try hiring that person away from Google. It's nearly impossible to match that kind of take-home without turning your business completely upside down.
This is difficult, because you need to check the computation. (The whole point of distributed cryptocurrency is that you do not trust your peers.) Only those computations that are hard to compute but easy to check can be used by cryptocurrencies, not any general useful computations.
I think they're mostly just ported. I've bought a few of the Square games on iOS and they were just the normal games with touch capabilities added on top of the old menus. No usability changes at all to accomodate modern touch patterns. There are many "click" needed to navigate some menus, which would just have been one touch or drag in a modern app. Scrolling was also laggy and glitchy.
Microsoft doesn't sell much hardware directly. What you're seeing is a sign that this will change — and that every major PC vendor is probably now wishing they'd invested significantly in software back when they had the profits to do so because that's the only way off of the lowest-price treadmill.

Microsoft is already trying things like Surface to compete with Apple directly – I'm sure they actively weigh the benefits of a Microsoft desktop balanced against the likelihood that PC vendors will start pouring money into something like Linux. I'm tempted to say it would be worth it even if it accomplished nothing other than getting vendors to making the out-of-the-box Windows desktop experience so bad.
Does that mean I can legally run it in a VM or on a non Mac computer? Can I load Macs on bare PCs and sell it?

http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9110179/Apple_sues_Mac_...
Someone has to be the 'professional' for someone else to be the 'hipster'.

Comparison is important to Apple's brand. Unless I was reading those John Hodgeman commercials all wrong.
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