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> What I think is even more interesting is the fact that advertising, such a wildly inefficient method, right now props up so many industries.

What makes you think advertising is inefficient? For specific parties it's extremely efficient. It gives the advertiser the power to change the viewer's preference between Brand X and Brand Y. Allowing himself to be convinced to buy Brand X in exchange for content allows the viewer to pay for the content with money out of Brand Y's pocket instead of his own. In many cases this brings more profit to the content provider than that customer would be willing to pay directly out of pocket. The detriment goes almost entirely to the competing brand who loses a sale to the advertiser.

Which is really the trouble for advertisers. Advertising is an arms race. Brand X buys advertising and takes market share from Brand Y, so Brand Y buys advertising to take it back. Repeat until advertising expenses consume a significant portion of the margins for every brand, in all industries across the entire world economy. Kind of a nice business to be in, isn't it? Start an economic war and force all sides to bid against each other to buy your weapons.

> Imagine if Google released a product tomorrow that was 100% efficient at replacing advertising.. Some sort of beam that just got people to understand/like your product immediately. What would all of these major industries do for revenue?

Use the beam to make people like their products enough to pay money for them?

A viewer's time is worth more to the advertiser than to the viewer, and the content provider profits more from arranging that transaction than selling the content directly for money. Content providers could still sell content for money if advertising somehow disappeared, but they would be significantly less profitable because they would lose their ability to arbitrage the time-for-money transaction between the advertiser and the viewer.
What's this in reference to? (genuinely curious)
So you're ditching the incredibly sleazy and offensive advertising?
Buying Treasuries is more trivially reversible when you encounter an opportunity that requires lots of cash than paying dividends is.
I have a similar setup, but I've automated a few more steps.

I have couchpotato[1] running on my VPS. When I add a movie to it, it'll find and drop the torrent file to a directory, where rtorrent will pick it up and immediately start downloading it. When it finishes, it moves the files to a temporary directory, where couchpotato will detect them, rename them and move them to yet another directory, where Git Annex Assistant[2] will add them to its store and sync to a Raspberry Pi in my home through SSH/rsync.

Then I can either copy the file to my laptop or Android by doing "git annex get <file>" or stream it from the Samba server running on the Pi.

Complicated to setup initially, yes, but now it runs smoothly with almost no manual work.

[1] https://couchpota.to/

[2] https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
Does that lend credibility to the idea that part of the rest of the data dump is also fraudulent? Tampering with numbers or exploiting a 0-day could prove to be even worse, though I admit the latter is a bit far fetched.
I've been doing almost exactly this for years, always ashamed that I didn't take the time to learn a "real" tool like puppet. Solidarity.
Is there a way to create a trojan wallet.dat file that would identify thieves if stolen?
I received a phishing spam that was advertising a 'Scam victim's compensation fund'.

From a scammer point of view, it is a pretty clever way to select targets.
And one more thing: the point of a system management tool is to have no dependencies. If you need to install or use anything other than the provisioner to setup a vanilla distro, you've been hustled. Bash is guaranteed to work everywhere and that's what most love about it - myself including. But Ansible works on my RaspberryPies, on my FreeBSD storage servers and on my production Debians, Ubuntus and ArchLinuxes with no crutches or aids. I had bash scripts before, was really close to open sourcing them, but then I realised there is a much better way ; )
The previous version still works, you can download it from here https://mega.co.nz/#!aoB02BwK!AXxujXpZ2AJPe9YUwYDs1EYM6BBnWw... (aprently in the last version they added something that let them shut it down if the needed)
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The previous version still works, you can download it from here https://mega.co.nz/#!aoB02BwK!AXxujXpZ2AJPe9YUwYDs1EYM6BBnWw.... (aprently in the last version they added something that let them shut it down if the needed)
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How do you know it hasn't happened in the case of BMR, Sheep, etc?

It's one of those things you can't really know in those cases.
Not all of us get offended by the word fucking. We don't have to be super serious all the time.
Nitpick: Medicaid, not Medicare. Completely different programs.
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Is this a real news report?

AOL is reporting that AOL may be laying off between 10 and 99 people out of 5,100?

"I’ve reached out to the company and will update if I hear back." => wat?
Yup. I entirely agree with you that AnimalMuppet's post was ridiculous.
Shrug

If you want people to use your software -- and you do or you wouldn't be promoting it -- you should consider how you present it. Bad words don't offend me, but they do suggest immaturity and inexperience... qualities I tend to avoid in systems orchestration.
I think the reference is that Karpeles does everything in PHP, so the "stolen" Windows/Mac executables are clearly not his. (Though I don't know that anyone thought they were.)
Have to say I'm a bit puzzled by the claim of Ansible being "blow your brains out" difficult.

In many cases, Ansible is even easier than shell scripts. I wrote a post about this a few months ago: https://devopsu.com/blog/ansible-vs-shell-scripts/

I completely understand where the sentiment is coming from though. I wrote a comparison book on Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible a few months ago and am currently finishing the 2nd edition ( https://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-... ). Even for an experienced sysadmin, using Puppet and Chef to do even a trivial project (replacing a ~10 line shell script) took a painful couple of days. Why? They're overly complex and have confusing broken documentation (that mostly haven't been corrected even 6 months after I gave them a full breakdown on the issues). Salt was pretty smooth, but Ansible was downright easy.

Using a shell script to set up a server generally indicates that it will then be managed manually afterwards (sadness and despair!).

A huge advantage of using a configuration management (CM) tool is that they're "idempotent". Idempotency basically means that you can run the directives over and over again safely.

An idempotent command will verify that the system is how you defined it and will only make changes to bring the system back into alignment with what you defined. That means you can define your system in the language of the CM tool and use it not only for initial system setup, but also for monitoring, updating, and correcting a server's configuration over the life of the server.

A CM tool can ultimately act like a self-healing test suite for your systems - neat!

Your systems are the "app" that your app runs on. They're the foundation. Not using a CM tool is like not having any tests for your app. Sure, it might seem faster at first, but you'll pay for it in chaos, slowness, bugs, and misery later.

Shell scripts are a great first step, but if you're serious about your systems, you need to be using a CM tool. Modern ones like Ansible are simple, easy, and have great docs so there's little excuse left for not using one now.
It's worth noting that while Veronica Mars was kickstarted, Warner Brothers still owns it.

I strongly suspect they're the entity responsible for the distribution decisions.
The quoted tweet "... we decided middle of black friday is perfect time for a release"
It's pretty funny, but it's an example of where we do NOT want to be headed.

The Unix philosophy is a set of tenets based on assumptions that held in the 1970s and 1980s, but don't really hold today. One of these tenets is, "make the implementation as simple and as correct as possible; it is better for an implementation to be simple than to be correct."

This may have been true in an era when every site had to roll a homegrown solution for pert-near everything that didn't come with the base OS, but in this era of open source it is far more important for the implementation to be correct, because the Right Thing can be written once and everybody can use it, and save themselves the accumulated hours of frustration incurred by simple-but-subtly-incorrect implementations.

This is why the Linux world is standardizing on systemd -- to get AWAY from Fucking Shell Scripts and towards a more deterministic, declarative model of what we want done. In the case of configuration management, what you want is a tool that accepts a description of what the system configuration should be, diffs that against the current configuration, and enacts a plan of changes to get from point A to point B automatically. NixOS seems to be a good step in this overall direction.

Fun fact: I used to do instancing of robotic control computers running a specialized version of Debian with Fucking Shell Scripts (FAI, to be exact: http://fai-project.org/ ). It was pure hell. We would have killed for a more deterministic solution.
Worse yet, there are banks that don't let you use any of the last 3-5 passwords. This is really annoying, especially when combined with enforcing a password change every 3 or 6 months. But there is a solution: just use whatever password you have chosen, and add a number for the current quarter or semester. Until they come up with a password strength checker measuring the similarity between your current and previous passwords (eg. levenshtein()), you should be ok.
I used it and submitted bug reports to help the team find issues. I hate Windows but am forced to use it in certain cases. While Windows 8 touch is not huge, I would prefer to have options other than IE for myself and other users.
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This looks really cool.
"after only four days"?

I've known about popcorn time for at least a month...
Gee thanks for the attack on my character! Yes, I had a lady extort me when I tried to help out one of my friends in the entertainment industry. She tried to charge for services that she didn't perform. I tried to send her a check for what we agreed on but she wouldn't give me an address and decided to attack me in public instead. I never met this lady nor talked to her before this incident happened. Btw, stay away from the entertainment crowd. Too much drama. Ripoff report also has great SEO.

Character assassination is great and totally fair, lol! One thing I have learned from this experience is to spot bullshit and call it out immediately. And some of the things you have said, and now some of your actions, smell like bullshit.

I'm sorry it upset you. Now can we stick to our actual discussion?

Anyways, I have over 12 years experience and have been contributing to open source for a while. Projects including RSpec & RR. I'm pretty disciplined (automation, testing, good practices, etc) been a lead dev on a number of projects. I've done full stack web development (front end & back end), devops, scaling, scientific computing, & embedded systems. I worked with a number of startups. I've spoken at conferences. Check out my Linked In & Github profile if you want to see my caliber.

What I meant by good developer is someone who is on the edge of technological movements. Yes, that even includes open source software.

I was an early adopter in the Ruby community. I've been blessed by being around innovative people. I've rubbed elbows with the founders of Github, Ward Cunningham, and the many innovative developers that make up a strong community. It had a great feeling of innovation because there were great people involved. I feel (yes, it's a feeling), that the same spirit of innovation has moved to the node.js community.

I agree that there is lots of innovation in the sciences. But that doesn't diminish the contributions of the many open javascript (& node.js) developers out there.

What has been done in node.js? Keep your eyes open because it's unfolding before you right now. Yahoo, Google, Github, Walmart Labs, Twitter all seem to like it and they are doing a good job in "advancing the field". Your FUD can't do a thing about it.

What have you done? You seem to be the "expert" on this manner, even though you can't even support your argument without ad hominem attacks.
You can trace all transactions, so you would be able to identify where the thieves sent the stolen coins, but attempting to track stolen coins in general doesn't work (the value of a wallet is a quantity, so you cannot distinguish between stolen and unstolen coins once they're in the same wallet/tumbler/etc).

I did like the jokey idea someone had a little while back of putting a (very) small wallet on servers and watching the blockchain for transactions therefrom as an intrusion detection system.
> An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service

Musk is too smart to know hes comparing oranges to apples.

He is only partially right. I say to Mr. Musk - I will agree with your complain when you sell me your car for $18,000 - an average price for an average car in the US. Why it doesnt cost $120,000, like your models, you ask? Well, exactly because of what you mentioned: they use cheaper parts with less engineering that are bound to break faster and then they will make up some profit on the parts. That's why Mr. Musk, they profit from service on car that is TEN times less expensive than your car.

If you asking me I prefer to pay cheaper upfront and be able to treat it like a pair of shoes that I will be able to exchange for a newer model in 2-3 years, when this gets me bored or wears out.

Other than that -- always love to hear brilliant people sticking it out to the lobbyists and corrupted over-bureaucratized politicians! At this stage of things within US, Musk is sticking it to so many groups (building rackets "10-times cheaper than otherwise tax payers would've paid") and pissing off so many powerful people, that I wouldn't be surprised to see him dead sooner or later (although of course I wish him all the best!)
Mapping your location data from the Moves app
Other examples of visualizations and tools for this kind of data?
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Yeah, or Twilio and set it up yourself?
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Google has started down the path to become just another giant company that's a refuge for the mediocre. It'll take a decade or two to get there, but the early signs are already visible.
> Second, some details about the store... "Windows Store apps" can use the IE rendering engine to browse the web, but can't use other existing libraries like Gecko or Blink.
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> Metro-enabled desktop browsers (like other desktop apps) can be listed in the Windows Store, but can't be installed there.

I don't understand why it is legal for Microsoft (AND Apple) to do this! How is this different from what Microsoft did with IE vs Netscape? Why doesn't this violate anti-trust or competition laws?
I work for said ABC financial firm...

Pluses...

-Only real MAJOR PLUS is I work remotely. This is huge and in the company I got acquired from would be unheard of and still is in most corporations. Unfortunately they are trying to get rid of this and nobody joining now is supposed to be allowed to do it.

Negatives...

-Try to get anything done - 6 weeks. Want a VM? No joke - took us over 6 months. 5 minutes of works = 3 weeks of paperwork. It's basically a small government full of red-tape. Maybe this is just a big company thing, but even in my acquired financial firm we got stuff done in a reasonable amount of time.

-You could get tapped on the shoulder at any moment and given your walking papers. There is no logic and no loyalty. It's all about money, money, money. CEO gets 11% bonus, workers are lucky to get anything. There must be like 50 levels of management. There seems to be more management than people actually doing things and they all need to justify their positions.

-It ain't cool code at all, but that's what side projects at home are for.

Salary...

-Since I work remotely it's hard to judge. If I lived in San Fran, I would be homeless on this salary. For the area I'm in, I scrape by. I will say it's a little more than a lot of dev jobs around here though. Salaries were REALLY hit hard around here and never recovered.

-Bonuses and Cost of Living are not dependent upon your work quality but a lot more political, who your manager is and if what you got to work on got noticed by any bigwigs. You basically get nothing in comparison to cost of living around the country. Maybe $50 a pay check.

-Healthcare - Blows. Ever since Obamacare, we pay MUCH more and basically aren't covered for much of anything for the first x $1000

...But, given were I live and the salaries being offered I'm sticking it out, as long as I can continue working remotely and saving on gas expenses and commute time.
This seems to quit immediately for me in Mac :(
All for disrupting Hollywood, but pirating (or file-sharing however you want to phrase it) is NOT how we are going to accomplish this.

The ripest piece of disruption is distribution platforms and working with studios to find a safe way to release a picture not going around them illegally.
Interesting you should choose Kotlin over Go. What's your take on it? I'm a big Jetbrains fanboy but haven't played with Kotlin yet.
I think that Mathematica is innovative and love Mathematica. What I object to is that pretty much everything I've seen in the ads is touted as "revolutionary" when, in fact, it pretty much seems like a small upgrade to Mathematica as we know it today. One of the breathless accolades I read touted the "new" way you could type a one liner and have a video of an outline from your cam. Very nice, but I went to my old version of Mathematica, typed in the exact same thing with the exact same results. So while it's cool that Mathematica/Wolfram Language can do this, at this point in time it's hard to see where the new, circa 2014 revolution is coming about.
SEC has consumer protection rules for stocks. Even if they're managed by a brokerage, they're yours, even if the brokerage falls into insolvency
No, he would have seen it coming
Please, no solutions that involve any fakery, theft, lying, or other immoral acts.

Then you're arguably SOL. I work in Indie film, where a great deal of people work for free in hope of getting more work through contacts, or if a project they worked on becomes successful, or will gain valuable experience etc. etc. I don't care to work this way myself (ie asking other people to basically donate to my own projects) and frankly that's a real problem. To succeed with no resources like this, you have to be willing to bullshit a bit and essentially sell people on the merits of something that doesn't exist, in the hope that the whole will be more than the sum of the parts.

The best thing you can offer people when you have no resources is social credit. In order to make that worthwhile in some fashion, then you need to formalize it, so people can go and look up at their credit like a trophy even if it's a worthless one. After all, if people choose to donate time to your project, that's their right too; don't second-guess their reasons for doing so.
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Yeah. Firefox on desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows), Firefox for Android, and Firefox OS (for that mobile phone competition angle). No need for Firefox on Metro right now (hardly any users and the ones there are don't know what different browsers are anyway) or Firefox on iOS (since it would just be a UI skin over the gimped version of Mobile Safari thanks to Apple's anti-competitive rules).
This looks interesting to me, but your website leaves many unanswered questions such as: can I get remote console access? how does the ddos protection work?
You kickstart something because you want to help them make it, not because you want a product in return.

While you could strip the copy protections that's a crime.
How would you take a template file, fill in some values, copy it to a certain path on the server and give it the right permissions? With, say, Python, I'd have to read the file, using mako or jinja to fill in the values, scp the file to some temporary file, then somehow run Python code on the server using SSH to copy the file and give it the right permissions.

With Ansible, this is a single line.
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Unfortunately the law has to be complex and extremely detailed. You can't really use vague non specific terms when it comes to defining laws.
Please do a serious study of the facts. There's no reason that any thinking person in 2014 should still believe that the CRA was to blame for the 2008 financial crisis. It is supremely ludicrous that anyone ever bought that line.

Just start by comparing the total value of subprime loans at that time with the total value of derivatives, CDOs, etc. built upon them. Then, see where that takes you. It's been covered ad nauseum, so it won't be hard to find.

>Consider the FDIC

I have. Bank runs aren't cool. Neither is depositors losing all of their money.

>it's enabled plenty of new forms of reckless behavior on the part of financial institutions

That's why you regulate with something like Glass-Steagall. It worked pretty well for what it sought to prevent until it was repealed, which really set up the 2008 meltdown. And the S&L crisis? Well, that's why the Fed shouldn't double the interest rate over night. You can't just have actors do any mindless thing, then blame unrelated regulation for not mitigating the consequences. The FDIC didn't have anything to do with creating or escalating that crisis. The eventual scale of that crisis was a product of outright fraud.

In fact, Congress had deregulated the thrifts (S&Ls) just prior to the crisis, which opened the door for that fraud [0]:

>Congress finally acted on deregulating the thrift industry. It passed two laws, the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 and the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. The deregulation...significantly expanded [the thrifts'] lending authority and reduced supervision, which invited fraud.[6] These changes were intended to allow S&Ls to "grow" out of their problems...Other changes in thrift oversight included authorizing the use of more lenient accounting rules to report their financial condition, and the elimination of restrictions on the minimum numbers of S&L stockholders. Such policies, combined with an overall decline in regulatory oversight (known as forbearance), would later be cited as factors in the collapse of the thrift industry

>Regulation...should be looked at as a tool of absolute last resort when it comes to addressing market issues.

So, in summary, you believe, for example, that Glass-Steagall has no value and that banks should be able to place ultra-risky market bets on exotic, esoteric derivative products, using their customers' deposits? And, further, that those customers should not have any form of insurance or recourse?

It's stunning that someone could look back at 2008 and conclude that less regulation is the solution.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Backgro...
ultra0 on Reddit [1] posted the source code, which was dumped from memory, of TibanneBackOffice.exe [2] that shows it is stealing Bitcoin-Qt wallets.

The analysis on Securelist the TechCrunch post is referring to is located at [3].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/200k30/the_tibanneb...

[2] https://3d3.ca/ijKOh.vbs#eV7i3HIliI93y+UR

[3] http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/8196/Analysis_of_Malware_f...
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