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Lambda calculus is a rigorous mathematical way to define what "computation" even means. You need something -like- Lambda calculus to even begin reasoning about computation mathematically.
Palm founder Jeff Hawkins on his life's work
A couple of links that may be of interest on this topic:

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/87/slides/slides-87-tsvarea-...

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcmtf/current/maillist....
Last year it cost the tech industry $456,345,234.23
Half of the time the rest of the team doesn't seem to give a shit about learning anything new.
This the craziest job posting I think I've ever seen in any of these threads. The salary link? Insane.
As a terminally gullible person, even I have doubts the Apache bureaucracy could really be this incredibly stupid.

April fools?
I'm interested on the author's thoughts on using solutions like ENet, which offer both reliable (TCP-like) and unreliable (UDP-like) "channels".

I live somewhere where bandwidth is decent (12Mbps) but dropped packets are frequent (copper lines). Games that use UDP (TF2, CoD, NS2) work perfectly, in contrast to TCP games (WoW, Minecraft) which stutter to the point of being unplayable.

In my hobby game's engine (Source Engine-inspired), I use ENet. Even with high packet loss, variable latency, and limited bandwidth (simulated) the game remains playable; whereas when all the channels are set to 'reliable', it's the opposite.

Another consideration is NAT-punching. From the small amount I've read, it seems this is much easier to accomplish with UDP.
Not mine. Everyone right up to Senior Director are embedded with the teams. The only exceptions that get an office and door is HR and Legal. When the CTO comes to our office, he also sits with us.
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Seriously? Downvoting? Did you actually read the discussion?

"I would like to point out that the new community dynamic for git-based projects is different in many salient ways from a traditional subversion project. Voting in private, or even decisions by fiat of the chair, are most welcome in the new regime. It is good to see the subversion project embrace this new mode of project development in their smart exodus from the chains of the past."
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PostgreSQL old data structure: the HyperLogLog
You're right, there isn't anything suggesting that they hold a partial reserve.

And there won't be even when they do.

And when they close due to massive theft / loss of coin, and take all of their users' funds with them, that will be the first suggestion that any user hears of.

It happened to me. It's not fearmongering, it's fact.
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"I remembered the notification from YouTube that someone had accessed my account from a different location – a notification I had ignored, assuming that I had logged in on a mobile device or that my husband had accidentally logged into my account instead of his own."

All of her accounts were compromised - seems more likely to be malware than social engineering.

Also the hosts you mentioned use in-house support.
Honestly, if you don't understand that the civil and legal concepts are "political concepts" delegated to the legislature, its not worth debating this any further.

And yeah there are plenty of ways to be a bully without breaking the law. But using HN as a megaphone to be a bully on some murky bit of special interest politics is in poor form.

Lastly, the first amendment (like the second) applies to legal persons. And someone casting a ballot or taking a good-faith position on the other side of a legitimate political question or debate, is not an excuse for dis-proportionate behaviour.
It's getting there. AT&T's pushing their new Mobile Share Value plans pretty hard now, and those are essentially contract-free and directly give you back a $25 subsidy on each phone. You can use Next to spread the payments for your phone over two years, but it's not required.
> we have discovered that by making public both the private and the public keys, we would remove the need for digital signatures or TLS. Several government agencies support our work in the domain.

Ha ha

Nice April 1st post.
> "smart"

They have a few decades of computational (game theoretic) modeling and decades of (grant supported) academic research
into individual and collective behavior behind them.

> ~rabbit hole

Apply that well worn razor. What information has actually been disclosed? Extra extra! "states spy on states"; "government reads your mail"; "technology firms are in bed with the military-industrial complex"; ...

What you need to ask yourself is whether you are now more inclinded to be guarded in your conversations with your fellow citizens and are self-censoring.
Namecheap offers two-factor-authentication.
Yes. The visual editor helps you do drag and drop changes and publish them in realtime.
2 things:

First, the vast majority of attackers are more "smash and grab" than "stealthy jewel theft." They really don't care about leaving tracks, they are going for volume. Want to phish people for coinbase creds? Email a mass of people. Have a list of usernames/password from a data breach? Attackers have automated tools that will automatically try them against thousands of websites. It's more expensive and time consuming for them to try and leverage minor info disclosures to narrow down their attack than to simply brute the crap out of everything. The economies of scale devalue the info discloure.

Second, you are making an apples-to-oranges comparison. The boolean "Is/Is not a Coinbase user" provides a single data point, and is far less valuable than a hundreds if not thousands of datapoints about who is communicating with whom, and for how long. The single piece of meta-datUM of Coinbase pales in comparison to the meta-datA of phone logs.
How Apple Tried to Avert a War With Samsung
This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. I think it's a great idea, but at 2.99 I don't think it's going to be profitable enough to take on the lawsuit risk.
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Thanks! It uses around a quarter of your battery overnight. Maybe less. The ideal place is somewhere close to you, like under your pillow or in your pocket, but pillows and covers may dampen the noise.

Any suggestions on getting the word out? I'm psyched that it's on the front page of HN, and never would have thought it would be, but it would be great if anyone knows of places to reach more of the target market.
Seeing a complaint about Coinbase every week makes me feel like they are a poorly managed company -- which is crucial if you're a company dealing with a lot of money.
Piso flotante
Many uncertainty that's true but It won't be a bad I think to shake this OAuth stuff a bit
The Startup Explosion
So ask them to prove their reserves if it bothers you so. Other large services have in the past.
I used to use UDP. Its nice for some things.
Things I liked:
When you read a UDP message you got the whole message or nothing (its not a stream).
Fast.
Multicast!

Things that challenged us:
64K message size limit (varied slightly from linux/solaris/hpux)
you can't tell if the other side is listening or got the message.
multicast requires use of certain ip ranges which people seem to forget frequently.

I had the UNIX Network Programming by W. Richard Stevens tome I borrowed from my boss. Good for networking.
I own one PC for media (win7). Wife, kids and I use mac laptops. Wife has iPhone and I use a Galaxy Note 3.

I say that to say this; I am no luddite. I've been shopping for a Win8.1 tablet to replace the Google I/O Samsung tablet and perhaps maybe my mbp. Win8.1 tablets are compelling due to the full blown desktop environment. However, the MS dev ecosystem is a bit daunting as the lifecycle or shelf life of their tech is never really known (Silverlight comes to mind here).

I work as a Firefighter (day job) and our municipality are solidly MS integrated. This doesn't look it will change in the short to near term as city IT is steadfast MS. You can byod to work at the station...however, we have two laptops on every engine and ladder apparatus. The tools we use for EMS calls are, quite frankly, complete shit. Web apps seem like a logical solution until you see how they are used in the field... latency, network i/o and the choice for browsers are limited among many/varied issues (hipaa, etc).

All that to say, I believe in Scott Guthrie. I follow him on Twitter and he seems like a logical and candid MS employee from what I've read on his blog over the years. The changes that I've seen in MS recently give me a bit of confidence to test the native development side and perhaps fix our shit software.
> Mozilla is not an organisation with an agenda about marriage or LGBTQ rights.

They disagree with you: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/29/mozilla-supports-lg...

> Brendan Eich is not and never has campaigned against their civil rights.

Brendan Eich has given $1000 to remove access to marriage from same-sex couples. Marriage being a civil right (Loving v. Virginia) and money being speech (Buckley v. Valeo), yes he has campaigned against their civil rights.

> before this appointment Brendan Eich already held a "relatively important and visible position."

He was CTO, he didn't get to decide of Mozilla's overall.

> He was joined in his view by a MAJORITY of voters at that time.

And he was just as wrong[0] as they were, why does the majority being idiotic make things any different?

[0] since it was a majority voting for something which was later found unconstitutional
America was founded by Puritans. Keep this in mind when Americans crusade for righteousness, and you'll be less confused.
Remember-- it's a node-webkit app, so you can peek at its inner workings ;)
My company has a slight variation on the open plan, in which each department has an open space that is separate from the other departments (but you can walk into another for questions). The one critique I had was how screens were inward facing and it was a privacy/security issue. We changed this so now people have screens facing towards outer walls and people face inward, and it preserves the benefits of the open space and keeps a good level of privacy.

One issue is that some people simply don't do well with noise and other people around, for them they need solitary workstations to be fully productive, but that is easy to provide and should be provided. People should work in a comfortable way. Overall, I have been getting used to it and love just being able to ask a few questions of a programmer while I am doing other work.

I do not think I could deal with a single large open space though. Luckily, I also don't field stupid questions as much as some people might in an open plan, as I am one of the only people in the company without a PHD. (it still happens occasionally though)
Now this is a question we don't want an answer to.
So apart from the 4 pretty much "how not to happen", try using a host that supports 2FA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7504296 : 356 comments

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507782

Some other have a few comments - I didn't bother noting them all.
My question was about the position "what does it mean if someone is ..." not who has it.
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Gay marriage opponents believe that the government can regulate and subsidize marriage just like anything else (e.g., wages, consumption of herbs, ownership of a home). I understand this view even if I don't share it - government can regulate anything, and whether gay marriage should be legal or illegal is just the result of a cost/benefit analysis.

It's the gay marriage proponents arguing that unlike medical devices or food preparation techniques, gay marriage is somehow beyond the purview of government to regulate. I'm asking about the principles underlying this strange exclusion.
Haha fair enough re: light bulbs.

I still have a hard time imagining that building individual offices, with the additional wiring, AC/heat, individual lighting etc. would be even close to a cubicle build out. Haven't built a space myself though and don't have hard data, so guess I'll take your word for it.
I agree. I'd rather see Mozilla as a company and what they've done rather than his personal views. You are right about saying that his views and moves will be more closely watched.
I find people's immense gullibility more humorous than any of these April Fool's jokes. That said, good post! Had a bit of a chuckle at the NSA rib.
Well this might look a bit counter intuitive, but this is what being disruptive is about right?

Some people also made fun of Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman when they exposed the public key theory :)
>If you re-invent TCP on top of UDP without a thorough prior understanding of TCP, you will get it wrong.

I don't know why this is in there twice for emphasis. The use case for a custom TCP on top of UDP is pretty rare. More likely you will not want the kind of flow control and packet ordering that TCP spends its cycles doing.
As seen from outside, Microsoft seems to move very slowly. If you look it up close, you may be aware of smaller changes than those that don't pay attention and give them more importance than those on the outside, as those changes affect your work, but don't affect anyone else's.

Microsoft has been moving, but there is so much more movement outside the Microsoft ecosystem that it's easy to miss when Microsoft makes changes to its technology, even those that shake their entire ecosystem. Microsoft is just one more ecosystem among many and a very insular one.

No Microsoft launch since .NET has had any significant impact on my daily life and it would be perfectly rational to completely ignore them.
It means that until now he was just temporary head of that group because there wasn't yet a successor. Now he was named that successor. The »permanent« is not part of the title; it's just an attribute.
How to improve your software design with code that feels wrong
I am really excited for the application of bitcoin to micro transaction and tipping/donation services. Typically with Paypal you pay a 2.9% + $.30 fee for every transaction. With donations and other transactions in the $2 range that equates to a $.35 or 17% overhead. With bitcoin you can pay 1%, or even a flat monthly fee if you do a large volume. The cost savings enable a variety of occupations that would otherwise be uneconomical.

This is better for the consumer because they have an increased variety of entertainment options that they can have the satisfaction of supporting, and it's better for the person receiving the bitcoin because of lower fees.
> what I ABSOLUTELY don't get is this: why not just ask for a different word with the same legal status

The word at issue is the name of the legal status. By definition, a separate legal institution with a different name with similar (even identical) effects will be a different legal status.

And, as was the case with "separate but equal" racial policies in the US, the same groups that had "separate but equal" for same-sex partnerships as their fallback position also spent lots of time, effort, and money trying to prevent "equal" first. It was never really about the name at all, "separate but equal" was, as always, a means to assure that the "separate" part was codified in law in hopes that the effects could either be kept unequal, or that later political change would allow making the effects unequal again and that having separate institutions well established would streamline that.
Being against gay marriage is being homophobic.

The right for gays to marry doesnt make heterosexual marriage "less valuable". How can more rights can be bad unless you(or Eich) consider homosexuals as second class citizens?

Because that's what it is all about.

If you dont consider that homosexuals should have the same rights you enjoy then you are definetly homophobic.
Proving reserves doesn't help at all. They can die at any time from massive loss. Proof of reserve reveals whether there's a problem; it doesn't prevent any problem from happening.

To use a metaphor, a failed proof of reserve is like detecting that someone who's riding a motorcycle without a helmet has been launched into the air due to a car crash, and is about to hit the ground. That doesn't change the fact that they're not wearing a helmet in the first place. And in bitcoin's case, no such "helmet" exists. There is no protection for consumers against losing their funds by the exchange.

There's always going to be this massive risk of the coins disappearing due to any number of reasons: that they get hacked, that the founder steals them, that they lose them to some massive technical problem, that they experience another undocumented bitcoin protocol issue like malleability, that they lose access to their cold storage wallets, etc.

This has happened at, what, a dozen exchanges so far? They've all died due to one of the above reasons. Who's next? It's completely possible that Coinbase is next, and that you're recommending users throw their money away by trusting them. There's no reason to trust Coinbase. Keep your funds in your own secure cold storage wallet, and you'll have them forever. Keep them in Coinbase and you'll have them exactly as long as Coinbase lasts.
If it is for CS alone and you know you definitely want to major in CS, pick Berkeley. It is one of the 4 "elite" CS programs (Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Stanford).

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I've used Scrapy and it is the easiest and most powerful scraping tool I've used. This is so awesome. Since it is based on Scrapy I guess it should be possible to do the basic stuff with this tool and then take care of the nastier details directly on the code. I'll try it for my next scraping project.
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You can only get so much for FREE, that's not Coinkite.com's model. We charge, but we answer email and fix issues.
I've never heard of Spam Gourmet. I've been using Sneakemail for the past 10-15 years. Since it's so cheap, and it's worked well enough, I just haven't bothered looking at anything else.
See also: Christmas.
This is a great example of how to clearly document a project.

The technical criticisms are confirmation of that. How many HN submissions to open source projects are as well explained?
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