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Ok, 90% of these "useful mining" projects get the economics backwards. Paying coins to miners does not generate demand for the coin! The miners (in this case, tor nodes) will sell and push the price to the ground. Who will buy the coins? Other altcoin enthusiasts who also don't get the economics?

(And yes, this argument theoretically applies to Bitcoin, but you have to use bitcoins to pay the transaction fee to use the bitcoin network, which has value because of its network effect for use in value transfer).
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Parents mobilize to fight data-mining of kids
I actually like the ribbon. It is a rather elegant solution to a very hard problem, and overall much better than a sea of dropdown menus.

Now, if they only could group options to match my mental model of text editing...
It is spelled Tor, not TOR. Also I partially agree with you, but more so because mining leads to centralization than anything else.
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I saw these folks at gluecon. Haven't looked at a ton of dashboard solutions, but I found Kibana to be pretty compelling, simply because it was trivial to get the elk stack up and running and input arbitrary data. I am not as interested in log data, more in business metrics.
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Taking bets its a marketing ploy for one listed paid apps.

Specifically, telling to enable the two-factor authentication to protect against government snooping makes no sense whatsoever. So this is either just an amateur "OMG, they are spying on us, let's do something secure!!" campaign or it has secondary objectives. My bet is on latter.
Proposal: When something is completed according to the devs a bonus is posted. For every vulnerability discovered by all the other devs in the company a portion of the bonus gets paid out. If an 'x' period has passed and no vulnerabilities have been discovered the remainder is paid out to the original devs.
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>If you would find a recipe for a toxin that is deadly, untraceable and can be mixed together from common household items by a talented 14 year old, it's probably a bad fucking idea to post that to 4chan.

Does this count as a straw man argument? Wouldn't the actual scenario would be more like disseminating the information that a deadly toxin that is deadly, untraceable, and can be mixed together from common ingredients exists, not the recipe itself.
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That's not a given. Here's an example: A daycare center was getting tired of parents not picking their kids up on time. So they implemented a fee - something small like $5 for late pickup. The result is that even more parents left their kids late! The social pressure of not annoying the daycare employees had been replaced with a monetary transaction: $5 for late pickup, not a bad deal.

If you start paying people tiny amounts of money to run a Tor relay, they will calculate that it's not worth it and they will stop doing it.
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Have you seen the "Stop drawing dead fish" and other Bret Victor talks? Those are not high level tools, they allow you to build generative animation and graphs from scratch.

Photoshop-like visual tools are indeed limited to pre-built concepts, but Victor has found a way to make coding possible without textual syntax; that's a powerful idea that may be the basis for a tool allowing artists to program without requiring the programmer's skill to keep the parse-tree-plus-AST in your head while building automations.

Take a look at the topic of End User Development and Programming by Example[1], it's a quite comprehensive research field dealing with ways that programming-like activities can be done without any traditional "raw coding".

[1] http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Your-Wish/
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How do people know that one lang would compile down to another? Is there something about the lang that make this possible?

Also, is it possible that something won't translate from ruby --> js and cause a bug?
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You do realize that this 100% configurable by stylesheets? The entire point is, that their maps are stylable by the user (i.e. the app developer).
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I'm sitting in Elasticsearch training right now (during a caffeine break). These are some really great guys that know their stuff, and they're committed to contributing back to the OSS version everything that makes sense. They contribute a ton of code back to Lucene and employ a lot of the brightest minds in this space.

On the product side, I'm sitting here being amazed at some of the problems they've solved very elegantly. Elasticsearch has a bright future.
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I liked this version:

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
It seems odd that I haven't seen a full state diagram (including send/receive packet details) for SSL, unlike e.g. TCP, since I think that having one, either as part of the spec (which only contains a brief one for the handshake sequence) or created from it before writing any code, would've made it much more difficult to cause bugs like this. At least I've found state diagrams very useful when working with protocols like this.
Paul Graham wants this application. He asked for it in 2008

PG is not at YC anymore.
> Except that the caller can't tell what failed - was it file.Open, or was it callFunctionThatMightErrorOut?

The caller knows that the function they called failed, and has as much detail from the underlying error as it makes sense to include in the special case Exception constructed from it.

> They both just cause the same FailedToReadConfigFileException

No, they cause the same class of exception. The data in that Exception can vary as much as necessary based on the data in the underlying exceptions thrown.

Yes, if you actually have a need to differentiate, you may need additional try/catches, but that's usually a violation of encapsulation that exposes internal implementation details of a method to calling code, which defeats much of the purpose of OO, or even merely structured, programming.
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Time to crash the FCC's servers again.
What is interesting is that the (core?) of OpenSSL was re-written in Coq according to the author. Then the natural question can that representation be used to generate C code from it and would that make a safer product.
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Kickstarter also simplified the rules document by cutting more than two thirds of the original.
We had one of these posted earlier today about AH buying YC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7851238
He's asking what those things are.
Thats the problem with Lost. They don't know how to use git.
The Mac one is definitely consistent with my experience. Took a while to memorize cmd-shift-4 for taking screenshots.
New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
Using market forces to incentivise this is a great idea. Running a node incurs a quantifiable cost in terms of bandwidth, causes authorities to watch you more closely, and exposes you to a risk of litigation over the content you are relaying. Ideals regarding privacy, the freedom of information, and anonymity aren't enough for most people to surmount the risk and cost of operating one.

As it stands I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of nodes were operated by various national intelligence agencies simply because they have vastly more incentive to do so than anyone else.

Potentially being able to profit from this changes things dramatically and gives people who wouldn't consider themselves stakeholders actual reason to 'sell' their bandwidth to the tor network.
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Yes, I'm familiar with the theory of computation, I'm just not sure it applies to the ability to determine if a tweet is sarcasm or not. Or, put it another way, if a human had enough time and the ability to access the amount of data a computer system can, perhaps the human would better be able to determine if a given tweet is sarcasm, than the same human without such help.

I do agree (with you and Pope) that sarcasm might be indeterminable in the general case. Now, if a computer system that has superhuman domain knowledge of the author can tell if a tweet is sarcastic, but a human can not -- is the tweet then, in fact, sarcastic? I'd say that's an open question.
I suppose that's true. Maybe the desired commits could be cherry picked onto the branch before you make the branch into master.
> I have not tried to share memory (ex: a pointer-to-struct) between two different go threads before, so I can't really comment on what happens when one tries to break out of the language's philosophy.

As in other languages, you have to handle it--either through locking or some other means.
Arg, I really don't want to argue with someone I respect as much as I do. Agree to disagree on this one, and thanks for your work.
Indeed, and not only static images, but also animation and audio can be procedurally generated.

No discussion of computer-generated art is complete without a mention of the demoscene. :-)
Open-source is becoming the only way to develop (and, especially, maintain) complex software. The fact that the engineers can gain employer-independent reputations gives them an incentive that's astronomically expensive (as hedge fund compensation goes) to replicate otherwise.

The world is finally figuring out that it's impossible to employ top talent, but that it can be quite lucrative to sponsor it.
I can never remember if it's 3 or 4, and Alt, or Command, or Ctrl, or Shift, or a combination of, or...
Yes, there have been no audits of the protocol code yet. I have a feeling it will be patched shortly.

See Ted's comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7851949
CVE-2014-0224 is the only one that really impacts OpenVPN (No DTLS nor SSL_RELEASE_BUFFERS etc) and as others have said, if you are using OpenVPN chances are you are making use of TLS-AUTH which helps mitigate MITM issues to a reasonable degree. Furthermore, both sides apparently need to be vulnerable. So if you have little control over the clients, updating the server seems to be adequate to address this specific bug.
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> I still haven't figured out how to close a "new UI" app

The ancient alt+f4 keyboard "shortcut" still seems to work as with other apps. Not exactly intuitive though.

Perhaps the intention is that they don't close as-such, like on a mobile device where things seem to hang around until the OOM monitor kills something gracefully (so it can save state and restore back to as it was as if not closed when next requested) when more memory is needed by active apps.
That matters less with LTE and VoLTE
Your proposal is interesting in an office dynamic sense, however I feel that the problem is really time pressure, not a lack of quality pressure. Additional carrot (financial reward) for programmers is always good, but perhaps a more meaningful range of attacks would only be made by experienced external consultants... and the size of the fund must then be large enough to interest them.

For fun, I just duckduckwent 'make a game of it' and got some amusing responses in the context of this suggestion.

Kids can make a game out of almost anything! See more about gross motor activities, outdoor play and pool noodles.

Whatever you'd like to improve about your life, try making it into a game. Challenge yourself. Make up your own rules. Then play it to win.

When the family gets so big that you no longer can buy holiday gifts for everyone, you have to find an alternative. For many, that turns the gift exchange into a rousing game. "We used to buy for everyone and I enjoyed that, but in the last couple of years, we had to face the fact ...

I decided to put together my own Iron Rations and make a game of it. You are welcome to play. I hope you have some helpful ideas to add to the stash. The rules are: Everything must be shelf safe with an expiration date or best by date of at least two years.

Principal Skinner: Oh, licking envelopes can be fun! All you have to do is make a game of it. Bart: What kind of game? Principal Skinner: Well, for example, you could see how many you could lick in an hour, then try to break that record.
I've tried this with a couple of other sites that are well known but certainly less so than facebook and twitter. Poor results if any. I'm not sure how practical this is for anyone that's not an absolute giant.
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Tried it on hacker news: http://shrturl.co/AtYui
You're fine. I've seen Excel used for far worse.
The second doesn't follow from the first. At most, you could say that people MAY calculate that running a tor relay is no longer worth it, but you could also say that without bringing up the (almost completely unrelated) daycare example.
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Ruby and JS are both Turing-complete languages (as with just about any other programming language you'll ever use), which means that one can simulate the other. The simulation might be messy, complicated, or slow, but it will still work. In this case, Ruby and JS are close enough that it can be done without too much trouble (see the compiled JS).
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I get and send ~ 10 to 15 emails per week. Not even 1 of my regular 'correspondence' uses GnuPG. It's too complicated to setup and even harder to use for avg Joe, like bitcoin, he has to spent time understanding totally new concepts. And no one is willing to do that, unfortunately :-(
All this article tells us is that Windows 8 is different from the previous versions of Windows that most users are familiar with. Windows 8 might suck [1], but the article doesn't in any way demonstrate that.

[1] FWIW I use Win 8 every day and had no problem adapting to it. I've been using and developing on Windows since NT 3.51.
Agree but then of course who will put up the bonus money? Could be a great philanthropic outreach opportunity for Google or other big company.
The problem is that the software architects didn't separate concerns very well in architecting the World system. So subtle bug fixes could have unexpected consequences if they were just cherry-picked in!
This is completely the opposite: in Rust you have an explicit sender and an explicit receiver, and you have no control on the channel that was created. Only this sender can send to the pipe, and only this receiver can receive.

In go, all you have is the channel. Anyone can send to it/read from it:

c := make(chan int)

go func() {
// I can write here
c <- 1
}()

go func() {
// I can also write here
c <- 2
}()

// I can read here, even though I have no idea who wrote to the channel
for a := <- c {
// Note that since I don't know who wrote to c, I can't expect
// any order here. All I can do is process stuff that is coming
// down the pipe (which is all I really care about after all
}
It's not insider trading; you have no relationship with the company that establishes a responsibility to keep their secrets (might be a different story if you, eg, paid an insider for the information). For that matter the device as it's handed to the public is public information. It's no different than discovering your hamburger is poisoned and shorting McDonald's.
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Just wait till you see the NPR take on this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/04/318882...
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I am interested in your article.

And yes, HN absolutely accepts links to personal blogs discussing pet projects.
How do you get that first client?
I do everything prod in AWS and just open a security group to my IP. Or I make an SSH tunnel in from a bastion server.
The "problem" with the daycare is simply that they needed to either raise their prices or hire more employees willing to work a few extra hours to get overtime pay.

This isn't a problem at all, they have actually found another source of revenue for their company with a service their customers value and are willing to pay for.

Of all places where I would expect someone to be oblivious to this I find the fact that it's on a site focused on entrepreneurship and nurturing start ups to become profitable hilariously ironic.
It's not. It's just SEO marketing.

I would be surprised if anyone mentioned they were using Eclipse or JSP. Both are seen as legacy technologies amongst most enterprise developers.
The parent explicitly assumed that running a tor node would not wind up profitable. If that's true, then no one is going to do it for purely economic reasons (even if this makes the economic situation better) and this might be harmful. If that's not true, then certainly we'll see more people start doing it.
What can't bootstrappers be cheap about?
http://shrturl.co/q93wy
Good code seldom emerges right away
"major star" may have been a bit strong, of course you won't make it onto the top 100 lists since those are completely controlled and owned by the major labels.

Making a comfortable living without a label contract is certainly possible. 2 seconds of googling found this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordis_Unga
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That's funny. My friend just told me this too -- I got to the theater about 5 minutes late.
The Aptera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_2_Series (RIP) may be a better example, it's generally classified as a motorcycle in US states but since it's enclosed a helmet or motorcycle license isn't necessary.
Not to mention the... well, weird keyboards!
PaaS?
(Phishing as a Service)?

Yikes.
How do you protect against people setting up fake nodes that just relay useless data among each other, or claim to do so?
To my knowledge however, I am unaware of any situation where an open allocation culture has been successfully retro-fitted to an existing corporate environment (if you know of one, I'd be interested).

That is hard as hell, to be honest. Paradoxically, I think it requires a top-down commitment. Companies usually want to try this sort of thing incrementally. So they put their best people into an R&D group that has a fair amount of autonomy. However, over time what seems to happen is that it's resented and attacked, and eventually has to spend more time fighting political battles than innovating. At that point, it's often just as underperforming as the rest of the organization, the experiment is judged a failure, and that autonomy is taken away. It's the "fish frying" problem (http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/).

I'm also skeptical in relation to how well an open allocation culture would work out once a company grows beyond a certain inflection point. I'm not well read enough on this matter to put a stake in the ground and define that exact inflection point.

Gore-tex uses open allocation and is large (almost 10,000 employees, if I recall correctly). What I don't think OA can survive is too-rapid growth. I think it can scale to thousands of employees. I don't think it can tolerate personnel growth at the 100-150%/year levels that VCs want to see.
The world is made of unexpected consequences.
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Perhaps but there are so many more actually fun "games" than testing your code that you are again fighting natural incentives - people will pick the most fun game when given the choice of many, yes?
The fee wasn't supposed to be a price, it was supposed to be an additional incentive to show up on time. But instead it replaced the previous incentive instead of adding to it.
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Who to assign the copyright to is the artists decision, so it is - ultimately - the artists decision.
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Then they simply need to increase the fee until leaving their kids there is not worth it to them. This stuff is economics 101. Raise the price and the demand for being late will decrease.

They have literally blundered their way into a source of revenue, fail to see it as an opportunity and are resentful of it.

If the fee wasn't supposed to be a price then they shouldn't have made it a price. If they really hate money as much as it sounds they could instead give tardy parents 3 strikes before banning them from the daycare altogether.
I don't have a vested interest either; I don't work in the industry myself. What I have is a bit of a view into just how far down the road we are on the engineering tradeoffs already.

Small and light cars aren't a miracle cure anyhow. It's amazing how small the gains are from shrinking a car. Yes, there are gains, but we're not talking taking a 40mpg sedan (in routine manufacturing now, BTW) and turning it into an 80mpg sedan "just by shrinking it a bit". You might get it down to 50mpg, but, per other articles observing that "mpg" is the wrong way to view it and "gallons per mile" starts making more sense, a 40 to 50 mpg gain is not actually that large.

No, the environment can't be saved just by "making cars smaller". You don't win anywhere near as much as you think, because of the way drag works (it's nonlinear in speed). And you can't just start taking panels off and stripping out airbags.

From what I gather, having trimmed just about everything they can from the spare tire, they're on the verge of dropping it off entirely. That's the level of optimization we're down to. There isn't much left after that. The seats are what they are due to safety regulations. The airbags are there because of safety regulations. The bumpers are there due to safety regulations. The body panels are what they are due to safety regulations and the need to survive a certain number of years out in the elements. There's just not much freedom in car design anymore.

My family doesn't include designers in them, but they relayed the designer's complaints to me that the constraints are becoming so strong that it's becoming very difficult to differentiate between cars anymore. If it feels like they all look the same lately, excepting perhaps the exact location or shape of the lights, it's because they do look the same; the combination of safety and efficiency regulations is rapidly converging down to one solution for a given form factor. Again... this is the sign of an optimization process reaching its Pareto frontier, and that you can't get big gains anymore without big sacrifices somewhere else.

You can look out in the world and see that last bit of evidence yourself, without anyone in the automotive industry. It's the same systems optimization problem faced by any engineer, even programmers.
A Rust port of JodaTime should definitely be based on Jon Skeet's NodaTime (the .NET port) which probably maps easier to rust because of the closer similarity of C# to Rust (value types etc).
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There's no requirement for information to be "publicly known" to trade on it. You have to be an "insider" for it to be insider trading - ie, there has to be some relationship of trust (eg an employee or officer, or in some circumstances people they "tip off").