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By this article's logic, virtually every Linux desktop environment "stole" from Microsoft for over 10 years, and have spent the past 10 years "stealing" from Apple instead. Hacker News is stealing from a million different old Perl-based forum sites. Sure, you kinda sorta have a point... but it would be very hypocritical for anyone here to care much about that point.

I'm also not sure that I buy the main premise of the article, that GitHub's and BitBucket's "communities" warrant comparison. Of course they don't.

GitHub's pricing model offers you open collaboration for free, and charges you for private repos. Thus it is ideal for open source development, and open community.

BitBucket's pricing model offers you unlimited private repos for free, but charges you by the number of collaborators. It also integrates well with JIRA, a very popular task/bug tracking system in small to midsize shops. In sum, it's not really trying to be an open source "community"... it's trying to compete for the in-house business of small to midsize shops.

If you're trying to draw collaborators to your open source project, then BitBucket is a poor host. Likewise, if your company has one or two dozen developers and a large number of repos, then GitHub makes no sense as a paid host.

All of my personal projects are on GitHub, and my company is all on BitBucket. I'm not so much interested in their "innovation vs. creative bankruptcy" as I am in the choices they've made with structuring their pricing models.
Incorrect.

The problem new devs face isn't even really that people won't pay for the game. It's that no one knows about the game.

It's all good and well that 100 of your friends and acquaintances will pay $20 for your game, but you really need 10000 people to buy it.
The protocol is so obfuscated that BTC is open-source. Hidden in plain sight! :)
The U.S. and China confronting each other over some islands would move the markets dramatically regardless of how China decides to allocate their foreign currency reserves.

I don't think there's any evidence that U.S. strategic planners consider the economic impact of defending the interests of our allies (particularly one as critical as Japan) as more significant than a third or fourth order effect.

And as I alluded to: If China's 8% is so influential on our strategic actions, why isn't Japan's 7% almost equally so? It's not as if the Japanese government couldn't pick up the slack if China started reducing its position in T-bills. There's likely no reason for them to, because unlike you, I don't believe foreign bond holdings represent any kind of serious lever in international relations.
Well there is a way if you know both the plaintext and the encripted form of a message. But anyway, I'd like to see some kind of proof that bitcoin transactions can be used for that.
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Thanks for providing this.
In my last company/startup, when I was more actively involved in the hiring, the best candidate we saw of the 100+ interviewed was 40 yo. He declined the offer because we couldn't pay him enough even though he was _obviously_ worth the money.

At my current startup, around the time I joined we were explicitly only looking for senior developers who were generally at the top of their game. As a result we _mostly_ hired people who were at least 28, and often significantly over 30 because that seems to be about the time you hit that point. Needless to say, we hired a lot of people with kids. I personally had my first kid one month after hire, and I was very open about that timing in my interviews.

So yeah, it depends on the startup, but it seems to me that any startup that isn't willing to hire "older" developers is discriminating their way out of many of the top candidates.
Why is that cleaner? A for-loop is one of the basic programming constructs.
It is brute force, just not for a cracking context like you would normally hear that word.
The comment on the copyright stuff also seems to be in play. If MSNBC could play some good snippets I feel like they would.

There might be some wariness to playing other network's interviews. If I were Snowden I'd try giving an interview to an American network. Though he would actually get some real interview questions(the german interview is only softballs), and would have to defend his position. But I'm sure any news network would love to get that.
Oh dear. I think the OP might need to tighten his tin foil hat a bit...

I gave his arguments a fair shake, though. Using it as a brute force tool seems... Like it wouldn't work with how it's set up right now, right? As in, yeah, it's solving RSA (or whatever, I can't remember) -- but only for the particular configuration the Bitcoins protocol uses. And only one specific key length, etc. Am I on the right track here? If so, then the entire thesis is invalid.
Even if you can find this sort of daycare setup, good luck getting your kid into it. My building (federal building in Philadelphia) has one, and we're still on the waiting list 5 months into my job, and almost a year after applying. Several law firms and agencies in D.C. have on-site day cares, but you need to sign up probably two years in advance.
For some reason it makes me really want to try writing raw transactions at home, even though I have no idea what I am doing.
Gamers have voted with their wallets for this outcome. (Dungeon Keeper retailed for $60, not $6, at launch. I couldn't afford it so I checked back weekly, and then found the best deal of my life six months later: $9.99 with a $20 manufacturers rebate.)

This seems backwards or insufficient to me. It seems to me that what's happened with the wallet-votes is that IAP is a way to maximize exposure among people unwilling to pay and maximize revenue from people willing to pay a lot, while mostly ignoring everyone in the middle who want a quality game at a reasonable price (the traditional core videogame audience).

It's not really price discrimination because PD is usually about getting people to pay more for the same product. In this case, "free-to-play" is not getting the same product as the users spending yachtloads of money.

It's not a lemon market, it's a cleverly-disguised luxury market.
Ahhhhhh. The widdle baby doesn't wike being pwiced outta da market. Boo hoo. Have a widdle cry cry, widdle baby. I remember when people couldn't afford to live certain neighbourhoods anymore and everybody was crying over that too. Either buck up with the cash or hit the road. That's life, son. That's how the world works. If you can't afford to eat, you go hungry. Suck it up crybaby.
lol - just saw this

I think you're mis-reading the intent of my comment

Of course skills matter (I'm unlikely to hire a hair-dresser who has never done anything other than cut hair for a development role - but I have hired "career changers" like this for other roles - like support / sales).

HOWEVER if I'm judging two candidates with suitable (define as you will) skill sets then the one with the better attitude will always get the role

TBH this is even more important when it comes to internal promotions than for initial hiring (but now we're going slightly off topic)
Mine does :)

http://www.sociablelabs.com/careers/
We're talking about dishonesty in saying that "Linux is a usability nightmare" from an article about improving Windows' usability. I'm not talking about learning curve here! He cited 2 examples regarding Linux's usability that I don't think are relevant at all.
Look at games like XCom, or Jagged Alliance. These games had better depth and AI than even current console games. They work well with a touchscreen interface.

The problem is that good game design is hard, and not particularly repeatable. Having a single simple mechanic, surrounded by a reusable monetization platform is much more formulaic and repeatable. Formulaic is bad for players, but good for businesses.
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Thanks for the suggestion. This or box (I have 50GB through box as well) may be our last resort.
Because discrimination against criteria that have nothing to do with job performance is bad.
Yes. The hash you have to crack is padded with 0s at the start. I'm hazy on how hash difficulty actually adjusts, but that's the idea. For more, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
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The problem I find with 'idea enthusiasts' is that rather than pick 1 good idea and build on it they have lots of ideas and want to stick them all together which leaves you with a big mess of a product.
This website, this source for "investigative journalism" includes a video that claims that there's a link between autism and vaccines.

http://benswann.com/truth-in-media-vaccine-court-and-autism/
This is a great idea for folks in urban spaces.

We live in the suburbs and did something similar for about a year. My wife and I both work from home full time, and when our second daughter was born, we had an in-home nanny take care of her for the first year.

We could take regular breaks during the day to visit with her, check in with the nanny, and help out with a feeding or two.
If any government invented bitcoins, it seems unlikely that the motivation was to reduce their costs.

Given the transparent nature of bitcoin transactions, it could however be used to track, cartography underground transactions.
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someone is just experimenting with deploying wordpress blogs, filling it in with an off-the-cuff conspiracy theory instead of lorem ipsum.

at first i found these claims embarrassing for being wildly uninformed.

in no way is the protocol obfuscated. there are many successful reimplementations, and there was recently a "lets formulate and publish a transaction manually" post here on hn.

in no way does a standard transaction incentivise using "the full mining power" of the network towards cracking a key pair. at a stretch, an address which has spent inputs and still holds a balance is vulnerable to public key factorisation (i don't know if that's the right term for elliptic curve key pairs), but there is no incentive to publicise the private key for anyone who finds it.

> although I am not an expert on cryptography, I am an expert on software and the products of software groups

the author is not named anywhere. the about page is the template "This is an example of a page." filler.

now i find it embarrassing that i mistook any of it as something meant to be taken seriously.

anyway, i'm done here. bad post.
Mining even does not have anything to do with asymmetric cryptography (which is in case of bitcoin ECDSA).

In all, mining is quite orthogonal to how the whole protocol works, it is just some computation that satisfies that it could be somehow tied to block contents, it's difficulty can be tuned and it's result can be quickly verified.
Should be noted that it's not impossible to create a game with an FTP+Subscription+IAP pricing model where IAP has a strictly limited effect on actual gameplay and most of the core game is accessible either at the free tier or a modest subscription.

Usually, such games are still lower quality than the equivalent game with a shrink-wrap or subscription model, but the IAP infection is more like a festering sore than the terminal cancer described in the OP.
> So pretty much a statement that a modern open linux can be made the most secure.

Why didn't they test any other Linux distributions besides Ubuntu (and Android, if you want to include that)?

I also wonder why, if they were really interested in conducting a thorough test, they didn't include any of the BSDs (e.g., FreeBSD, OpenBSD).
According to linus' talk, git's whole point is branching. The point is that cost must not be an argument not to branch.

The public-or-pay on github effectively forces one to pay for starting a project. Starting a project should be free, easy and obvious. Github satisfies none of those.
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The free version is also x86 only.

I'd recommend using Hopper as a hobbiest.
> a free-to-play game is a fully functional game

I suspect my definition for "fully functional" is different from yours, but I have high standards.

> If consumers hated freemium, it wouldn't dominate the app store.

Actually it's entirely possible for something hated to also be the most profitable course of action given things like information asymmetry. For instance, if people would be happier with good $20 apps, but it's so hard to tell which $20 apps are good that no one is willing to risk buying them, then you end up with the current situation.

I'm not necessarily saying that this is the case (much as I hope it is), but I would love nothing more than for reviews like this to bring people around to how exploitative this model is, and how much it encourages bad game design.
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For a number of days. I wonder when they will go un-publish this one.

Most things disappear from their websites after 7 days, which is a "compromise" they worked out with the private media corporations.
That's not really the problem, though. Free demos have been around for ages. The issue is integrating cash payments into the core gameplay. This necessarily undermines the integrity of any game that uses it, unless it's really a game designed around real money like poker or blackjack.
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I was really disappointed at the interview. I feel like the interviewer really just spent their time throwing softballs for Snowden, instead of asking him at least some real questions (why leak things that were obviously within the domain of par-for-the-course intelligence collection? Comments on the faux outrage by Brazil, Germany, and company? Why not hit harder at intelligence services of other countries, despite the fact that he's shown that he has the knowledge?).

At the very least it would give him a platform to defend himself from the criticisms he receives (instead of preaching to the choir) and if he were to flub on a question TV stations could at least replay that all the time (no more complaining about a "blackout" due to lack of anything interesting).

I'm sorry but an interview that is basically rehashing everything said before, without even attempting to take a critical view, is not interesting
That suggests they are hard to find, if they can't even see each other?
I see a huge difference between historians and spooks.

For one, few historians run torture camps and assassination units.
NSA leader lied under oath to Congress.

Why is this not as big as Watergate?
According to linus' talk, git's whole point is branching. The point is that cost must not be an argument not to branch.

The public-or-pay on github effectively forces one to pay for starting a project. Starting a project should be free, easy and obvious. Github satisfies none of those.

I don't agree that this is the main difference between github and bitbucket though. I would argue bitbucket is support for their other services (basecamp and whatnot), and team-based development is what you pay for.

Github's features seem directly oriented to make github's administrator's jobs easier. Anything that is a bit of a problem, or doesn't fit in the original design doesn't get made at all or gets cut (ie. file attachments, project downloads). And "darling" features, like the network graph, that are unusable due to speed and bad UI get pushed into the spotlight, despite that.
Why is this even on the first page? Don't feed the troll, anyone?

> I believe that any forensic analysis of the bitcoin protocol would reveal the same results as I have posited. [sic]

Which assumes there has been no such thing to this date, which I doubt. This post is riddled with "likely" and "I believe" and stuff like that, and he came up with all that after reading a blog post by some guy explaining the protocol. I'd have thought that it'd take more than a couple of random accusations to reach the first page...
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"Yes, but what about..." This is moving the goalposts.
The media discussion so far has centered around personal issues. Is Snowden a traitor, did he give secrets away to China/Russia, should he be assassinated, how is his girlfriend feeling, what did his father say, does he have a new job, etc. This interview puts the focus back where it should be: have intelligence agencies broken the law, have they taken justice into their own hands, have they been deceiving the executive branch, what balance should be struck between security and privacy, and so on. It also puts a human face on this man, who has never been given a chance to explain his motives.
I also saw the talk at FOSDEM. If Mailpile is just a MUA, why does it do its own indexing, why is there talk about including a server, etc.?
Jorge Luis Borges would have loved this article.
Bizarre that nowhere does this article say you must invalidate the key. Lots of people could well have pulled a branch with the key, and rewriting history will make this very obvious.
Spacechem is also really great
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Whether or not there is some kind a conspiracy, which doesn't seem credible to me, the US media could have interviewed Snowden if they wanted to anywhere in the world he felt safe. But they don't appear to care to since it might make that network lose access to politicians and government officials and be branded by rivals as traitors. That's far more likely.
people that don't worship^wcare about football

Saw a tweet earlier that I can't find now, unfortunately, to the effect that "the people who do care about the Super Bowl will be watching it, instead of watching your tweets explaining how much you don't care".
It seems like it depends on the field. I joined my current startup at 36, and there's a lot of people older than me - also, some younger. Some with kids, some without. But that's in the storage industry, not web apps, so there might be some institutional bias or lack thereof.
Yay! Get your tin foil hats out!

Still, given that we can attach arbitrary data to transactions, and the easy accessibility of the various services with which we can look them up, the whole network does make for a nice replacement for your CnC server, doesn't it?
I was surprised to hear there was a blackout. The reddit commentary shows that it was picked up, albeit with lackluster coverage.

One important thing is still missing, though: Where is a link to the video that has a chance of persisting for some time? After all, this is a document of a certain historical significance, so it should be accessible.

Maybe I'm to meta-cynical, but the reason for that link not existing might just as well have something to do with a copyright-fuckup instead of an intelligence agency conspiracy.
Bessemer Venture Partners' anti-portfolio makes it clear just how hard it is to appreciate ideas early on:

http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio

They had the chance to invest in the following companies early, but didn't: Intel, Google, Apple, FedEx, PayPal, and others.
> All of AA and everyone who's ever quit smoking stand as evidence

Have you ever met a "former" addict? Plenty will tell you it's not as simple as that, unless you're using your own novel definition of "choice," "free will," and given studies generally show genetic predisposition is a factor, "born with."
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Yeah, like running it through 'strings' and testing what comes out as password.
You can avoid google, not put your picture up on social media and so on.

But you can't avoid the government.
In the end we will all wind up as tracked and identified records in a vast database. Hi, I'm #149586723432.
I’m curious how the search engine is going to scale. Every time things like that are reinvented instead of using something that already exists, like, say, ElasticSearch, I will be skeptical. Then I looked at the implementation, and it begins with "take all the message-ids you know… then do a bunch of set intersects on it". Um, seriously? Do you have some stats on runtime behavior with, say, 250k messages?
It's a mobile-friendly web app (and you also use SMS to interact with it). No native app (yet!). I just added an FAQ at the bottom. Sorry for the confusion!
haha, only on HackerNews could a simple photoshopped stock image get so completely destroyed by critical analysis.

One wee mote that appears to have slipped past your assault on oversimplification... the article's on BBC news, so a small amend's required — “in America, ONLY the techies are going to be reading about this today...” ;)
Awesome post Tawheed. I've been a fan and user of ToutApp since the beginning. I never doubted it would succeed.
Ah, you misunderstood. I was talking about a Skyrim-like Elder scrolls game _after_ Elder Scrolls Online. That is what I consider unlikely.
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I don't remember exact term for the idea that too efficient virus (a parasite) eventually eliminates the whole population of potential hosts and therefore destroys itself.

Too many cheaters destroys a market. Too many thiefs destroys a country.
A word of advice: Use the separate "Skype for Desktop" that can be downloaded from Skype's website. The fullscreen "Skype App" is just horrible...

EDIT: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-windows/dow...
Great point. (BTW. It doesn't ask your contacts to confirm their numbers, and you can list yourself as an emergency contact to test it out.)
They closed down all charity and affiliate related projects and replaced them with smile to make it cheaper.
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> I highly recommend watching this interview

How?

Edit: I found a transcript.
http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/snowden277_page-1.html
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