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>PhoneBloks
>product

PhoneBloks was just a "product" of designer's imagination, nothing more. All he did was to think about "LEGO-phone" and make a catchy animation describing the idea - the idea that wasn't even unique or new, as similar ones (together with 3D-printed or homemade cases, which were later actually realized) were already appearing few years ago on Openmoko mailing lists triggered by GTA04 motherboard upgrade for Neo Freerunner.
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Have you seen how big it is next to an iPhone? Pretty close in physical size, despite the screen. http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/reviews/142861-image/Appl...
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Figure out how to import from Pocket and I'll use this till the end of my days
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The problem with regulation is that one must first establish who is capable of regulating correctly. There's no such thing as abstract regulation that simply exists.

The entities that would most likely do the regulating already exist, but I'm unconvinced any of them would actually improve the situation. For instance, see http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140411-nist.html . What real group of people could really regulate cryptography? What real group of people's regulations could actually bring benefits to the field, rather than rubber stamping, government meddling for the NSA, and an emphasis on quantity over quantity?

If you can't answer that, I'd suggest staying away from a reflexive "regulation" standpoint.
I can't imagine being on the receiving side of those canned messages. In particular, beginners seeking help being told to go away.

I still don't know how to do it in open source tho. In private companies that's what support technicians are for, they triage and they do the repro.
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1. US laws can have a huge impact on foreigners, especially if they are Internet-related

2. you can help a good cause without directly profiting from it
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> Slovenia is rather crazy about everything computer-related. A while ago Google was forbidden from collecting Street View data

whispers

That was Austria.
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Modularity has its advantages too. You could always run a bare bones phone with only the hardware you actually use attached to it while having a very good battery.
Having a sense of humor is one thing; having some common sense shouldn't be another. I don't have any issues with someone being jovial but I expect it done in a responsible way. Perhaps I am just old.
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Boring is in the eye of the beholder. The biggest challenge I've found is that very few engineers have the depth to even attempt the job competently.

Most engineers simply don't have a meaningful understanding of the internals of large-scale environments.
Throughout most of history, parenting was largely focused on equipping one's children to survive. The idea that one could impart specific qualities onto one's children is very new - until recently one instead struggled to impart religious rules onto them, with sufficient impact that they would continue to be followed.

If you think 'treat people with respect and dignity' is about manipulating other people to behave as you want them to, then you're doing it wrong.
Why should the EFF discourage assistance from Non-US citizens?

AFAICS, this is all about accessing and describing publicly available web forms. You don't need to be US citizen to do that.
Thanks for the clarification. I was, however, not interested in this specific information, rather giving my opinion about the "transparency" of the report. Some data might be boring, but still important in the matter of transparency.
Having an investment from a company like Blackberry may on the surface look just the same as any other investment. But in fact things are dramatically different. You may very well end up having your stock sold to the highest bidder at some future liquidation auction (there is a definitive chance of Blackberry ending like that) and then suddenly you find yourself with a new partner that you didn't choose. One that may even be in competition with you.

Another resource that Blackberry owns (QnX) is at risk of having the same happen to it, fortunately for the QnX users there are a very large number of companies that depend on the QnX for their real time needs including various governments so likely QnX will survive a meltdown.
The article is about how DevOps is killing the role of the Developer by making the Developer be a SysAdmin.

Chuck points out that abstracting the Developer's work too far away from the system in question means the Developer doesn't really understand the system as a whole. Jeff refers to "purely development roles" and other "pure" roles that aren't necessarily natural boundaries.

The example of VHDL is not about hardware and software, but about learning that you didn't actually know something you thought you knew.

The repairmen in Brazil do not realize (or necessarily care) what they don't know about duct repair. The system allows them to function and even thrive, despite this false confidence in their understanding.

At one point at least, Google was investing in (metaphorically) having DeNiro cross-train those guys, instead of umm... Well, the rest of the movie.
Firefox does. Found that out in my development box which I hadn't updated with the new certs, the old certs showed up as revoked and Firefox wouldn't let me proceed.
Ask HN: Design a Cryptocurrency that Could Only Be Mined by Phones / Tablets?
About a month ago it came to light that some developers were making money by using their customers' phones to mine cryptocurrencies:
http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/android-app-bitcoin-malware/<p>While this approach is clearly a lot more efficient at alienating users than at producing actual revenue, due to the low performance of mobile CPUs, this article made me wonder whether creating a mobile-only cryptocurrency has ever been attempted and if not - why is it a bad idea?
I'm not an expert on CPU architecture, but could a protocol be developed that would make the mining process only accessible to mobile processors (ARM)? Or would the only way to accept a device for mining be to provide it with the necessary software via a controlled app store?
Such a cryptocurrency would greatly reduce the effect of mining farms on the network and would therefore make it a lot more compelling for individual users to user their devices for mining (at night, while charging, etc.). It would also create opportunities to develop mobile payments, app monetisation, etc.<p>What are your thoughts?
This story is tacked up on the wall inside the clock room at the Arecibo Radio Observatory. The "Keeper of the Clocks" here eagerly awaits a true atomic watch based off the CSAC SA.45s chip that @daniel-cussen mentioned.
"Industrial Standing Desk
$ 1,495.00"

Thanks, but no thanks.
The separate volume controls makes it a must-have upgrade for me.
That doesn't change the fact the castle isn't secure. This is a wakeup call for anyone relying on 0-confirmations transactions.
We've been using sit/stand desks at our office since the start now. At first I was the only one using them, but now every developer seems to be using it more and more. To me, the most important feature is to be able to alter the height of the desk as I want to sit or stand during the day. I find myself switching positions 2-3 times a day. Couldn't work without it anymore. Awesome product!
We could also do PRs accepted, or issues closed, or other things a little less squishy than commits. But either way - it'll probably be fine.
> If your startup is wildly successful and IPO's and turns into a giant, you don't think you will have to pay a lot of lobbyists to control the legislators?

It seems weak to beg the government to protect your precious company. It also smacks of hubris to believe your business is somehow so special that it needs to always be raking in cash despite 'progress.'

Disclaimer: I don't understand business.
How would swapping actresses help?

The issue is not a quality of the individual person, but of their action - and the relationship between their action and the baby's later response to that person is very thing being tested.

BTW: Whatever your intention, calling people "obnoxious", "nit picking", "novices" and "whining" because they question something does not actually raise the level of discourse.
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I built my own standing desk with a piece of pine from home depot, and some white paint, and 4 sturdy 6" brackets. Wall mounted it and now I have a $100 standing desk.

I think making a standing desk is great, but you haven't solved the problem people have. They are all pretty expensive, but don't have to be.

Additionally if I am being honest, the craftsmanship simply isn't there for a $1,500 desk. The welds look awful.

I paid $1,500 shipped for a driftwood dresser, made to order, and to spec. It was about 10x more material and labor, at the same cost, and it was made by an amazing craftsman.

The problem you should be solving isn't 'making another standing desk' it's making an affordable, quality standing desk that is accessible to people.
Yeah, right.

I remember computers built in the 90s and 2000s, touting their modular construction and never having to buy a new system again. I wonder if those machines are still in operation?

I think what would guarantee longevity is something that is rock-solid good, inexpensive, repairable, and easy to develop on. I'm thinking of track records of computers like the Commodore 64, iMac, or in vehicles like the beetle, video game consoles, ipod, iphone etc.
I don't know what Sweden's tax code looks like, but at least here in the U.S., the IRS simply can't know a lot of the information necessary to calculate your taxes. How would it know how much you paid in daycare expenses, tuition and tuition interest, home mortgage interest, etc?

You can say that we just shouldn't have deductions for these sorts of things, but that's a very programmer way to look at things (we need to get rid of these features because they would be hard to program). It's also not theoretically sound. An income tax is supposed to be a tax on net accretion to wealth. Expenditures that are non-consumptive should be excluded from taxable income because they don't represent an increase in wealth.
Can someone explain me this?

> In considering RSA, the book recommends /dev/random, despite having previously advised readers to avoid /dev/random in favor of /dev/urandom. The book was right the first time.

From "man 4 urandom":

> A read from the /dev/urandom device will not block waiting for more entropy. As a result, if there is not sufficient entropy in the entropy pool, the returned values are theoretically vulnerable to a cryptographic attack on the algorithms used by the driver.

In fact, using /dev/urandom is one of the causes of the creation of weak ssh key, found in this research: https://factorable.net/

So: Why is /dev/urandom the correct choice over /dev/random ?
You can see the code affected by the PURIFY define here:-

https://github.com/joyent/node/search?q=PURIFY

Specifically it is these two files:-

https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/5fcd6e40385f45bc90916893...

https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/c20b209dbb7e2f3ac8a75a87...

In the first it just does a memset of the buffer so that the values are not unset.

In the second it doesn't use a (possibly only partially filled) buffer as a source of entropy.
While GoDaddy has a point about the opt-in component being important for deciding whether spamming took place

I don't think they do have a point. If someone is spamming, why the hell aren't they just going to lie to GoDaddy about who opted in?

Even if they're not outright lying, lots of businesses have a very sketchy idea of what "opting in" means. I had my email address posted on a website once as a public contact. You would be surprised how many people consider that "opting in." When I used that email address to make sales enquirers, plenty of sales departments considered that an "opt-in" too.

The spam filters we had were fine for the outright trash, but the the flavor of spam that doesn't fall under the legal definition of spam was a nightmare.

I eventually had Constant Contact blacklist every single email alias I had at the organization because of how often I was "opting in" to email.
That's also my reading. They warn that they may share the report itself, such as the reported tweet and the comments (e.g. the "further description of the problem" field) to the reported, but will not share contact/identifying reporter information. That seems fine to me, one needs to know what he's being accused of to mount a defense.
What if the company just lies that someone's not on their lists - they'll have to turn the information over one way or the other if it's to be checked, and it may as well be in a checksum as anything else.
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the problem is cryptocurrencies are based on an algo which can be run anywhere. as long as you've got the compute power you get the credit(bitcoins etc) Second you could always build an emulator of the phone on a more powerful computer.
> What's important to you in a standing desk?

Being affordable. That is, having a price tag comparable with normal furniture. Who will pay $ 1495 for a desk?!
The interesting thing about the mobile phone market is how big it is and what that means for niches.

There are about 900m Android phones out there. That means if you assume only 10% of the market might be interested in a particular variant of phone, your total addressable market is still 90 million (and growing).

My instinct is that this level of customisation is probably a relatively niche thing but - as outlined above - that doesn't mean that there isn't room for it to be commercially successful.
Today was the launch. Three profiles today and one each week, from here on out.

I love DC's startup scene!
I failed to express myself well. I'm not suggesting that all crypto is immediately regulated, that is completely infeasible. I'm just point out that regulation in general, over all domains, isn't inherently bad.

There is actually some regulation in this space. FIPS compliance, PCI DSS etc.. It's just not as wide reaching as something like the FAA for aeroplanes.
I've never heard of any provider making someone turn over their mailing lists. Do you have any further information about when this has occurred?

Generally, when someone gets too many spam complaints, or doesn't handle them well, they get terminated from the hosting provider.
This was my rejected idea for Ycombinator. I still think there's a lot of potential in this space, very similar to Simple.
Here's the blog post that always gets linked when this comes up: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...
hey just signed up for the service, really really useful! I just have a question: Where is everything saved?

I thought at first that the saving is done locally since you started the presentation showing a desktop and then you moved to Dragdis where there are folders defined.
Didn't Windows Phone's mail client break gmail threading for the longest time? I remember a huge hubbub over this a few months ago (or maybe a year or two?)
I know people that just toss an $800 laptop like it's nothing when something goes wrong. We truly live in a disposable society.
This has been driving me insane. I loved cross posting to Facebook and Twitter from the People hub. The application that brings that back will earn my money.

The prospect of paying for something I used to get for free is kind of infuriating though.
In other words, you're basically saying that WP is even more locked-down than iOS?

I did a bit of research between iOS/WP/Android before buying my first smartphone and the openness and large choice of phones with Android is what ultimately made the decision for me. The ability to root and have full control, install (and develop - eventually, that is...) apps without needing the approval of anyone but yourself, custom ROMs, etc. I probably won't ever exercise all that control, but it's nice to know that I can if I want to in the future.

Had WP allowed more freedom, closer to that of desktop Windows, I might've chosen otherwise, since my main PC runs Windows and there's a lot less constraints on what I can do there.
I have been thinking about this for a long time. It would be a great open source project. If you want to do it, I would be willing to work with you on it.
Note that in this case, as far as I can see TFA is not using GoDaddy, the spammer was and TFA reported them for breach of GoDaddy's TOS.
We received rejection email from YC last night and we think we knew the reason for it. We will put together a better presentation for the coming batch.
Imagine yourself being a highly respected business owner, where your main product is sending personalized newsletters to privacy concerned customers paying you much for their data to stay safe.

Will your argument still stay the same? Are you going to hand in millions of your precious customers email addresses each time to your domain registrant when one of them marks your email as a spam? How are you going to explain later to your customer why he is receiving spam on email address 100mil_worth_customer+news_from_wattengard@gmail.com? That you had to send everyone's address lists each time a spam was reported?
I like the idea of using salvaged materials, but the price seems way off the mark, even for something custom made.
Did you include 'express disapproval, then talk rationally about why' in your range of responses?

If you respect your kid as an autonomous individual, your disapproval will matter to them, and a rational explanation is the only way they can internalize a rule that will persist without the presence of an enforcing authority.

It won't work out of the blue, of course. Children that have not been treated as rational entities won't respond as such, and children that are very young have a limited understanding of the world. But explaining things to them even before they understand the explanation has a lot of value - they may not understand your reasoning, but they will definitely understand that you're trying to explain, even before they can talk.

Sometimes you may find that the 'bad behavior' you perceive isn't actually a problem at all. I instinctively tried to stop my child from stomping through puddles and getting her feet wet; in reality that's only important if she's about to walk a long way, or if she'll have no chance to change her shoes for hours.
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Blackberry just doesn't have traction outside of the US, since most of the rest of the world deeply distrust the architecture of the Blackberry system (i.e. all data sent back to US-based servers). I think this is the one thing they must fix - the perception by the world that Blackberry is just a front for the CIA. Laugh all you want: I've heard this expressed in more than one location here in Europe, enough so that even if its a falsehood, its a solid one that isn't going anywhere. RIM(/Blackberry) haven't done very much to assuage this fear, alas .. and more to the point, seem resistant to doing so, which make the suspicions even more warranted.
> DevOps isn't amount making Developers be Ops guys

Sure seems that way at many places.
Drop the screen and add specialty sensors: you've got the Internet of Things.
If I want to be that portable, I just use #!/bin/sh and write a straight POSIX shell-compatible script instead.
Indeed. The FBAR and FATCA are terrible.

The incredibly heavy handed penalties for making a mistake can be quite frightening.

The seeming assumption that anyone who has a foreign bank account or property must be a tax dodger is insane.
"There is a good reason that everyone who is accepted gets in, but there is not a good reason why people are rejected."

It could simply be something like: "we already reached our capacity with 'definite yes' and 'yes', and there wasn't room".

Nothing specifically wrong with the application, just not as obviously strong as the ones accepted.
Without reading the article I had assumed they were going to be talking about QNX. That is basically keeping the company alive.
Price seems a little high, but metal welding is labor intensive.
Open source security projects have a hard time getting and keeping contributors because the expertise for this particular kind of work is difficult to develop.

Publishing a book like this sends a strong public signal of deep expertise.

I have not found tptacek to be overly rude or negative when offering advice to journeyman cryptologists. But a journeyperson should not necessarily be publicizing their how-to guides yet.
Haskell is the algebra of programming - the way to handle code expressions as Immutable Truths.

I suppose that makes Lisp the Principia Mathematica.
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Well at least he doesn't seem to be mabus-nuts: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Markuze

So there's that...
To a man with a Haskell all the world is a nail...and every nail has a type and requires a special hamner. I.e.:

(define side-effect (cons print "This is not an IO monad"))

(define its-already-generic (cons number->string 4))

The more I think about Lisp the more I believe that the best reference language is C. [1] Lisp took form as a first step away from assembly, not a first step toward the singularity. What is garbage collection but some lazy programner automating memory management?

The mistake is to take the ideological fanaticism of Lispheads for ideological purity of the language. There is none. Even the great schism of Lisp1 versus Lisp is rooted largely in arguments from precedent...and precedent for Lisp is largely that it can shave a few precious bytes and register loads by allowing a single symbol to point to more things.

[1] Or Cobol.
Yay, you made a non-adjustable standing desk from what looks like reused scrap, and decided to put a price tag as if it were art.
Except the important thing is "how much", nobody care if it's 1mm thicker or 20g heavier, especially for someone who would value modularity.
One big reason why the sales tax is NOT included in the price of the item, is that the sales tax you pay is deductible from your federal taxes. To prove the amount of sales tax you pay, should you choose to itemize deductions, you must have itemized receipts.

With itemized receipts, you have a line for the sales tax which serves as proof, if the tax were included in the price, you'd then have to have special indicators for which items are taxable on the receipt, and then calculate for each item on each receipt.
I firmly believe that you shouldn't author a book in something if you lack the appropriate expertise. If you do so, you risk disseminating misinformation at scale, causing enormous harm.

Sometimes expertise is actually required.
"could a protocol be developed that would make the mining process only accessible to mobile processors (ARM)?"

No. In the worst case, use an ARM emulator on a faster machine.

In any case, the validation is in the network communications, not the ability to run specific software. Someone could reverse-engineer what program does, re-implement the protocol, and port it to any other hardware.