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The point of a distributed system is not having to trust people to act honestly.

If you're perfectly fine trusting a GHASH to act honestly, you should be perfectly fine trusting them or some other entity to run a centralized, non-distributed currency.
I had to create a rule in gmail. Marking them as spam didn't seem to work too well and still a lot slipped through. Now anything that has linkedin.com in subject, from, to, and body is automatically deleted.
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Assuming that pushing to gain skills is the highest priority. Since I have while a bit of autonomy in the current startup (comparing to working in other company), would it be possible to improve my skills while simultaneously trying to changing things in the company (since I'd get to do more things)? Or would that be a futile effort?
This isn't big news unless it's made public.
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It seems like a stretch to me. Accelerating a whole big valuable spaceship just to help a missile reach its target seems like a bad idea. Instead just build missiles with a boost stage.
Presumably large pools aren't charities, so the lack of fees can remain indefinitely.

Bandwidth is certainly a problem though... are there any good numbers on the bandwidth difference?
Why I’m not worried about GHash and 51%
No, 51% is vastly more powerful than 49%. With 51%, you essentially control the entire Blockchain because you can always create a new Blockchain that would be accepted by the network, given enough time. Always.
With 49%, you can only get away with it a few times, and it's less likely you will mine the next 6 blocks.

Essentially, as time progresses, with 49% you lose out, with 51%, you keep winning.
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Isn't the HTTpie command simpler because it uses defaults for the content type and charset? If Curl did the same (not sure why it should because not everything is JSON/UTF-8), the command would be about as short as the HTTPie one.
httpie uses requests[0] under the hood, a well respected python HTT library. See https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie/blob/77955c9837259b1...
the rich will control bitcoin, and nothing can ever stop that from happening.

But should the rich have control in proportion to their richness or out of proportion to it? That's the key issue that I see behind this article (and the previous selfish mining work).
Nice ad hominems you've got there.

>In fact, the paper just formalized some concerns discussed in the mining community for years.

This is false. Discussed here: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/09/no-you-dint/

>the "Bitcoin lunatic fringe" this author mocks has been right about the pool(s) having such power refraining from destructive (and self-bankrupting) next steps.

No. The Bitcoin lunatic fringe was adamant that no pool would willingly cross the 50% boundary.

That just happened. Models and reasoning based on "no rational miner would do X" are clearly flawed, partly because the miners may not be rational, or partly because they are rational within a time-frame not modeled. In any case, people who reasoned like you have now been shown conclusively to have the model wrong.

This is an opportunity to fix the protocol, not shill for the price, and certainly not to engage in ad hominems.

Cheers.
That's what httpie uses internally: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie/blob/77955c9837259b1...
Attack ships/missiles that need to carry a payload and/or accelerate will always be orders of magnitude more expensive and easier to detect than a sensor that essentially remains motionless.

In general. I'm basically arguing that this can be subverted in limited geometric/temporal contexts. Given a sufficiently motivated arms race, it will be exploited.

And even if Side A knows where all 10,000 of Side B's sensors are located around the solar system, then what?

Then if Side B has completely discounted stealth, Side A has the opportunity to circumvent all of Side B's sensors and mount attacks with units that "stay quiet until nearby," as you outlined. Also, if Side B's sensors are so minimalist and cheap, what's to keep Side A from destroying them all, or enough of them to make them moot? If you've completely discounted stealth from a simplistic thermodynamic argument, you've not thought through the nuances.

Ultimately, what the ease-of-detection means in space is that battles will much tougher to win for the underdogs, as it will be harder for them to overcome a deficit in resources with the use of stealth or surprise.

Stealth as I've outlined it isn't going to benefit the underdog. It will benefit the side with the greater industrial and technological resources.

EDIT: Alternately (or complimentarilty? is that a word?) another effective strategy might be to park a bunch of dormant ships/weapons around the area you wish to attack/defend. Dark and cold, they'd be nearly undetectable... until they're needed.

It seems like we're thinking along the same lines. Only in space, there is no reason to limit yourself to distance proximity. There will also be proximity by delta-v. If you extrapolate improving detection technology, there will be a point at which a little bit of active effort will be required to maintain stealth in the face of enemy reconnaissance.
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> Women are the automatic receivers of custody

No, they aren't. They need to actively choose to seek it just as much as men do, they are just more likely to choose to do so.
Ideally, you should be using a unique password at every site. There are plenty of secure password storage tools to help you keep track.

That way, even if there is a site breach, your other accounts are not at risk.
Well if these aren't public...

Would a FOIA request on the FCC for them since they are technically Comcast, Verizon copyright?
I actually like it. It's pretty clear it's a joke. I always disregard testimonials like this anyway, at least this one made me laugh.
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TripExpert is using expedia's affiliate program. You can signup as an affiliate in a few minutes. They give you a link that takes your users to expedia's site to complete the booking. You get a small percentage of the bookings made via your link.

Hotel.com which is owned by expedia connects to hotels via a Global Distribution System (GDS) like Sabre or Pegasus. All reasonable sized hotel's connect to one of the GDS's (there are 3-4) and travel agents and OTA's like expedia and priceline also connect to them. Getting access to one of the GDS systems takes time and costs a lot. The GDS's speak XML using the Open Travel Alliance's spec. Travel agents typically make a 10% commission on books they make. Hotels pay the commission to the TA and usually a couple of dollars per booking to the GDS. Expedia and the other big OTA's do it differently, making deals with each hotel company and charge much higher commissions.
>There's no doubt in my mind that there will be swarms of people developing with the language, but AFAICT, we'll mostly only see Apple developers working on the language itself.

Well, it's not like there's a "vibrant community" working on Ruby either.

AFAIK, the core developers are Japanese ( http://rubycoreteam.heroku.com/ ) and the core communication and decisions is mostly opaque to outsiders, and new language stuff mostly comes in bunches pre-formed.

As opposed say to Python and the PEPs discussion, PHP etc.
You haven't answered my question, i was asking whether you've removed all the possible information leak cases or not.

Yes the message timing , payload size and ip you're connecting to is leaking some information aswell and can be monitored e.g on a ISP level.
The bitcoin protocol defines the longest chain as the correct/canonical chain.

At 51% you have more hashing power than the rest of the network combined, so you can start mining blocks on your own and create your own chain with the knowledge that eventually your chain will be longer than the 49% chain everyone else is working on. When that happens, the 49% will abandon their chain and start working on yours.
>bigger pools let you diversify the best

According to the article the big draw is that GHash don't have a fee.
Exactly -- drones firing missiles and asymmetrical warfare.

Warfare has usually been asymmetrical. We're a bit biased because of emphasis on recent western wars, but historically most wars have been fought between different technologies and doctrines. And asymmetries are likely to be far greater in future.

Incidentally the US navy has been experimenting with drone submarines as torpedo launch platforms for decades, so it's underwater too.
What does "in control" mean in this sense? Is that an equivalent expression to "greater than 50%"?

Also the "Some or all" doesn't seem very specific. What is the factor that makes some become all?
SSA is probably the best idea- I wouldn't put too much effort into making the bytecode nice for interpreters, since that's not a very common way of running JS. With a simpler type system (i.e. not dynamically typed), there would be even less reason to interpret or even partially JIT- may as well just design it to be pre-optimized and fast to just AOT the whole thing.

The Mill CPU is interesting here, in that it's a belt machine, so SSA is very close to what its native machine/assembly looks like. It basically takes what is currently register renaming and drops the layer of ISA registers, and just refers to the results of previous instructions relative to the current one. That sort of architecture would be almost trivial to JIT SSA for- you wouldn't even need register allocation, just instruction scheduling.

Another consideration to go along with decompiling hints, debug symbols, etc. is that web pages are very transparent and manipulable with the browser's inspector and JS console. Any new bytecode would ideally keep the ability to poke around the app's data and interface- it's a very nice REPL-type tool.
I may be living under a rock, but is Kotlin really used in production a lot?

And Rust? Does anyone dare basing production stuff on Rust like now? With breaking changes all the time?
It's worth nothing that you don't need 51% to attack bitcoin , there are some probabilistic attacks for adversaries with smaller share in the network.
I think it's doing both. Exposing native APIs for non UI related APIs, and providing an abstract UI layer that works across all devices. The article says: "Cross Platform UI abstractions - available will be full UI abstraction to build the application UI. All the UI code will be shared - you do not need prior Android, iOS or Windows knowledge."
> the network is still functioning as intended.

"as intended" reminds me of this koan from the codeless code[1].
[1]http://thecodelesscode.com/case/135
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Well, it's not decentralized anymore.
Netflix has "multiple terabits" of bandwidth to Comcast, so slightly under $1M/month wouldn't be a bad guess.
I seem to spend my every waking moment reporting defects for HTTP APIs. HTTPie's interface is far more intuitive than cURL's, and pretty-printed responses are a kindness not just for me but for the people who have to read the bug reports, too.
I'm working with my employer (a consulting firm) to try and build a solution to this issue. We're trying to keep recruiters out of the loop and place value directly on contractors.

Keep your eye out this weekend, we're going to go live and leave another post here.
I don't know if that kind of contact works, but I have gotten a very well-paying full-time, full-benefits job through LinkedIn. I hate their spamming practices, but I do find the site useful.
I'd be very interested in trying to clarify some of the difficulties you're having with Haskell, if you'd be interested.

I'm working on a tutorial to take people from zero to functional programming thinking and understanding the intuition, and I need people that are interested in learning Haskell but are currently experiencing difficulties grasping the concepts in order to understand which things are the common obstacles.

If you're interested, please email me (my profile should have my email, if not just answer if interested and we'll figure out a way).

Thanks!
This comparison of two-way data bindings assumes that, well, two-way data binding is the way to go. Without taking a stance on whether this is wrong or not, the usage of React here is a bit misleading. React puts emphasis on unidirectional data flow. It's a different model completely. The two-way binding _helper_ happened to be there as sugar only. In fact, here's the note on the add-on page (http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/two-way-binding-helpers...):

If you're new to the framework, note that `ReactLink` is not needed for most applications and should be used cautiously.
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I'm good with options, but I like the way Lua is, as it is. I don't really accept that types are needed for safety in my games, or any application I've used Lua (okay, almost exclusively games). What would be the use cases for this? In my tiny brain, it makes as much sense as dynamic C.
You might need to enable "Open Instant Answers" in Settings / Results.
I fully expect it to cost more than that amount of bandwidth normally would on the open market.
> The agency is trying to amend a 1975 rule, part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, known as Erisa, which outlines when investment advisers become fiduciaries — the eye-glazing legal term describing brokers who must put their customers’ interests first.

“The real problem with revenue sharing is that it is an undisclosed, under-the-table payment from the broker to the adviser,” said Professor Bullard, though he noted that not all arrangements were conflict-ridden.

The divergent standards between those - like me - who serve companies and sophisticated investors, and those who serve unsophisticated Main Street clients is startling. To me, it would be preposterous to not be fiduciarilly bound to a retained client. But apparently this is business-as-usual for retirement advisors. Similarly, I face liability if I do not disclose any related fees or payments to all parties following a transaction. But retail financial advisors see those agreements as trade secrets.

There may be a good argument for obscuring this information from unsophisticated parties. I think the abundance of information available to be mis-interpreted by unsophisticated retail investors is part of the problem. But I haven't heard the brokers articulate it.

As for fiduciary obligation, I cannot understand the present situation. But I also believe that banks should be partnerships, where at the end of the capital structure are the partners' personal assets. Perhaps I'm just old world.
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What kind of chain length differential is enough to cause people to switch. Is it a single block?
You could theoretically mine your own chain from the genesis block right?
He starts talking about that at ~23min. You will probably need to watch the whole video up to there to understand the context and why it is important to him.
Right. It is generally considered un-cool for a teenager to do things that don't necessarily set you up for real-world success, such as doing homework, getting good grades, staying home on the weekends, etc. And partaking in risky behavior or rebelling may briefly help with popularity but not do much for getting into college or establishing a career.
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Then why are you using BTC in the first place? The US Fed and US Government has no reason to act dishonestly. The value of the dollar relies on us trusting the US Government / US Fed to protect it.

If switching over to BTC means "trusting GHash.io"... then nothing has changed.
As an example of this.

http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/14/tewksbury-motel-owner-fights-...

A hotel owned by someone who has no criminal record or charges is being seized because some of its guests have used it to commit their crimes.

Edit: Seems like the Judge ended up dismissing this specific attempt but the key to take away from this is that the government will try and also sometimes win such cases.
Has anyone made a processor that speculatively executes both branch options? I guess good simulations would show weather that or branch prediction is better.
Can you be more specific? Because this assertion didn't ring true to me based on my own experience, and less than 5 minutes of Googling appears to refute it:

* OpenSSL supports AEAD through CCM and GCM (and OpenSSL's GCM uses PCLMUL and shouldn't have the obvious cache leak)

* Botan supports AEAD through OCB, GCM, CCM, EAX, and SIV(!).

* Java JCE with the Bouncycastle provider (extremely popular) does AEAD with GCM, CCM, and OCB

* .NET stack languages get AEAD through CCM or GCM.

* Crypto++ supports AEAD with GCM, CCM, and EAX.

* Golang supports AEAD through GCM in the standard library (I did implement a crappy OCB myself, but the go.crypto package probably has a better one).

What bases aren't covered here? Bear in mind that most languages get their crypto through bindings to OpenSSL.
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People go through my course: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

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I'm not sure about httpie but using curl with jq also gives nice formatted and coloured responses.

curl ... | jq '.'
What kind of scenario are you thinking of? Rx has virtual time with the use of schedulers that enables you to abstract over time, which is very cool. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Wes-Dyer-and-Jeffr...
Httpie doesn't come close to Curl in terms of features. Its selling points are colourised output (using pygments) and (slightly) better json formatting. Here's an unobstructed side by side comparison for the same request: http://i.imgur.com/Bj2wRkq.png

While it won't replace Curl, it can prove quite useful while testing APIs.
About ~$17.49m USD (as of June 13, 2014)
Exactly -- This whole thing is just over-hyped IMHO.
That won't work due to checkpoints and even if it did work it would be the equivalent of nuking the entire Bitcoin ecosystem.

It would be more profitable to do something like extending the current blockchain but charge 1% transaction fees.
Interesting. My understanding was that Maclemore et al actually challenged this model by hiring parts of a label to do the parts they themselves could not do and in that they ended up retaining more ownership. The analogy would be that they got (paid) advisors instead of taking on VC money.

The way you put it does make more sense: marketing, distribution, finding gigs is not what musicians do best, so they outsource that job and pay for it with "equity"/creative control.
I think I understand now. That would still be a bit of a tricky position because it isn't so much 51% when you commit the fraud that is important it is the period following the fraud.

How detectable would such an action be? Wouldn't other systems be able look at the block and say "it's verified, but it don't look right to me"
"Seem like MAD to me, if they were to act dishonestly they would destroy their own investment and profit potential."

There's more than a few entities with an incentive to seeing a decentralized network capable of replacing established methods of conducting financial transactions go away.
IANAL, but I'd imagine that they'd fall under NDAs and trade secrets rather than copyrights (although I suppose the text of a contract could be copyrightable).

Still, I'd be curious to see if a FOIA request would work.
Let's rewrite all major userspace tools this way, or maybe use emacs ? I don't know.

ps: not sarcastic at all.
The argument in that counterpoint seems to be as follows:

1. Assume that selfish mining doesn't work.

2. Because selfish mining doesn't work there will be fair weather miners who will only mine on whichever chain is furthest ahead, defaulting to the public chain in the case of a tie.

3. Since the selfish mining pool won't be ahead all the time nobody will mine for it.

4. Therefore selfish mining doesn't work.

It's not what I'd term a strong rebuttal.
LinkedIn is a classic example of how a company must shift from serving their customer to serving their investors after they go public.

They used to be a very useful service.[1] But the closer they got to their IPO the more the started doing things that were clearly in the best interest of generating more page views regardless of how valuable those things were to their users. To my mind this lawsuit was brought about because of that very behavior.

1: Not accounting for the recruiters who have plagued it. Something LinkedIn could probably deal with but they don't want to because that would affect page views.
I've been contacted through LinkedIn by several uninteresting recruiters, but also directly by many big names in tech for seemingly high quality jobs. There's good and there's bad on LinkedIn, but it certainly isn't worthless. By now it has the market penetration to be very difficult to replace, and it could be made great if it were just a little less annoying.
Link is NYT-walled on my iPhone. Could the mods replace it with a link to the full article please?
Generally, statically typed languages are less bug prone than dynamically typed languages. Dynamically typed languages are OK for smaller projects but as projects grow in size, you have to write a lot of tests to be sure that everything works.

Also, projects written in statically typed languages are easier to read and navigate for humans and it's also easier to write static analysis tools for them.