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Volatility should never be important when selecting a store of value. Gold and silver has much volatility compared to USD and hamburger price, still if you sold a cow 5000 years ago in Egypt for silver, you could buy at least 0.1 cows from the same amount of silver today. Silver doesn't lose more than 0.01% of its value/year (still the volatility is much higher than that).
It's actually more important to understand why USD and CHF are so bad store of value. The best explanation is by Mike Maloney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0
Does anyone else wish all these smarts people bake into per-browser plugins... could instead be part of a localhost proxy?

Then the browser-plugin component could be entirely optional, just a more-convenient way to command the proxy (via some HTTP call that it recognizes and intercepts) to block a given URL or pattern.
Proxy.app from Websecurify is native Mac proxy and it is pretty good too.
That's because you haven't actually responded to anything in this thread. You just repeat your standpoint that you'd personally prefer DNSCurve and DNSSEC adoption holds it back.
but then how can amazon.com bombard you with ads for Anal Wart Cream for the next six weeks?
Also note that the connection is symmetrical at 1Gbs while most connections greatly favor download and punish upload
"I am personally intrigued by point 4, 'any untouched asset after five years is abandoned property'."

That's how bank accounts in NY State currently work. However, if your account has been idle for a while, your bank tries to contact you to tell you about it. If you have on-line banking, logging in to your account usually makes it active again.

Also, in the event that your money does get turned over to the state, you can ask the state to return it to you.

I think this law is primarily designed to ensure that if people die without leaving a will, the funds will go to the state rather than to the bank. If heirs (e.g., next of kin) turn up eventually, it's easier to go to the state's web site and look for unclaimed property under someone's name than to try to figure out which of hundreds of banks the deceased had his account at.
Can you show me Democrats that have voted against the gas tax increasing? I'm going off recent (the last 4-8 years) news.
The bulk of readers are not going to know your history. I didn't.

It doesn't take a lot to add "[full disclosure: I'm suing Coinbase]" when you opine on Coinbase. Having somebody else bring it up first definitely reduces your credibility.
Also, the (private "stay-out-of-our-business-unless-you-are-giving-us-corporate-welfare") telcos have and continue to receive billions of dollars worth of financial incentives in the form of subsidies, stimulus tax breaks, etc.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/11/big-isps-dwell-in...
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If it was there, it probably still is. I can't imagine BA moving fast ;)
So many grammatical errors and misspellings.
I sent a friend of mine about 2000 Yo's (Charles will show you that the Yo app uses Parse...very simple API requests) with Charles's request-replay feature - quite easy to do and oh so funny...or at least I thought so.
Point taken, but I think that a long list of all accounts and their balances is essentially a ledger even if those balances are constrained to be positive.

A ledger is almost certainly a better model for thinking about the blockchain than, say, a bunch of people with cash under their mattress.
Right, I'm well aware. But I was trying to be conservative as to how pessimistic we should be. We can always be more pessimistic, but we should be no less pessimistic than halving the efficiency. It's not a useful number except to show that on the back of the envelope it's not that great for power generation.

The 85% case is probably more about desalinization than it is about making steam to do useful work unless that useful work is heating. A concentrator, some of this stuff and you could make solar powered steam kettles which are very common in large kitchens.
That sounds like a bit of a quandary. One thing I'm not clear on - if these run unattended, how do you enter the passphrase?

ssh-agent isn't insecure, it's just not magic. If an attacker gets root access to a box, they can examine the system's memory, and the memory of ssh-agent necessarily contains the unencrypted private keys.

Edit: if you're really concerned about private keys being exfiltrated, you can always use a smartcard (the OpenPGP card[1] in a Gemalto USB Shell Token[2] works well with SSH). But if the smartcard is online all the time, then an intruder can always simply use the smartcard to SSH wherever they want, even if they can't actually get the private key itself.

[1] http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?products_id=4...

[2] http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?products_id=1...
Volatility matters a lot for a value store, because the point of storing value is being able to convert back to something you actually value later on. If you put it in something highly volatile relative to whatever you actually care about, you may end up losing a lot of the stored value.
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Most of us can work really well with people of different ages, interests, family structures, backgrounds, political persuasions, religious ideas, and popular media choices. Different approaches to responsibility and how to treat others will kill a partnership; Different TV tastes, not so much.
I haven't tried the new compiler yet, but note that a lot of the compiler's slowdown comes from parsing lib.d.ts each time it's invoked. So the time taken for compiling X lines of code doesn't scale in a linear fashion - a helloworld will probably take a long time for you to compile too, but remove the dependency on lib.d.ts and the same helloworld will compile very much faster.
It can also be caused by too much embrace of polyglot tools. "We use the best tools for the job" can easily mean an architecture with Redis, Memcached, Mongo, MySQL, Angular, JQuery, Node, and several dozen third-party libraries, all glued together with Thrift or JSON-RPC. If all you're doing is a messaging app, you might be much better off with a single in-process Java app.

Usually you want your solution to be just right for the problem; solve the essential complexity but don't introduce any accidental complexity.
How does one calculate whether a government project is "underfunded?" It seems easy to fall into the trap that a government project is underfunded if it did not meet the expected results. Clearly the solution must be to add more money.

Take public schools, for example. It is often said that public schools are "underfunded." Yet Washington DC schools spend almost 3x the national average per student and has abysmal results.
My personal ideal representation of strings.

Modified rope-like tree, where each node stores a flat array of characters, with the caveat that "characters" within a node must have the same encoding, with the node storing the encoding. Yes, this means that a string can have multiple encodings within it. The internal "default" representation is a flat array of a (modified) UTF-8 encoding, at a fixed number of bytes per character (stored in the encoding) using overlong encodings if necessary. (So if you change a character in a node composed of two-byte characters into a single-byte character, you don't need to regenerate the node if it doesn't make sense.)
No, you don't generally don't need to invest a lot of resources to lobby yourself. (There are other politicians with power to do things than "congresscritters". In this case the relevant body would be ... the municipal owners.)
> Your demagoguery does not hold up to the fact that Democrats recently held a majority in both houses of congress

Your argument fails to take into account that, due to the filibuster, legislation can be blocked by one party (with no support from the other party) so long as the opposing party doesn't have both a majority in the House and a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate.
The sites highlighted in the article are generally blocked by plugins such as Ghostery, and so their attempts to track via Canvas won't even be run.

If you block the known trackers, it doesn't really matter what techniques they try to use on you.
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All I see is the Cobra MK III that constitute their logo.
We're in the process right now of writing up a more in-depth policy proposal, but you're spot on in terms of different levels of risk management. And we're not at all against security testing, which is also one of the great benefits of FOSS. ("Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.")

And the audits comprise financial audits as well, which surely make sense for bitcoin exchanges and companies holding funds, but not so much for open source projects or technologies that are built around bitcoin but where no funds are held.

That said, the actual regulatory proposal has many more requirements than even mentioned in the article (including quarterly reports to the NY State Superintendent, collecting of user data, and the possibility of being denied a license without a system for due process in place), and things that the creator of a Reddit tip bot surely couldn't comply with.
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From Comcast's perspective, it's probably easier to invest in buying a company that already exists, than to invest in building something that may or may not work. The existing company already has financials that can be evaluated, rather than estimates that may not hold once the risk is taken.
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For anyone interesting in learning more about this computer system, I highly recommend _Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight_ by David A. Mindell.

The hardware limitations! The incredibly low bug count! The memory hand-woven by ladies in a factory! I was blown away by the capabilities of the Apollo computer systems. The craft could have been practically unmanned.

Even more impressive, the computers could fly the craft while ALSO being interrupted by and adjusting to human intervention at nearly every step of the process. The pilots and the engineers practically battled over who would be in control of the craft. Fascinating stuff!
What is the US's obsession with fingerprint collection?

The rest of it I can sorta understand, provided that society is viewing Bitcoin less as a weird internet thing, and more as a money thing, I can understand regulators wanting to treat Bitcoin institutions like financial institutions, but collecting fingerprints just to start a business seems so 1984.
fair enough, is just that your calculation on power generation put it as being massively better than the best commercially available solar power, which struck me as wildly optimistic
What happens in the US is that municipalities will sign exclusivity agreements with certain companies (Comcast, AT&T, TWC) to encourage them to lay down the infrastructure.

Imagine you are the mayor of Podunk, Arkansas and you want your constituents to have access to high speed internet. AT&T and Comcast won't rush to lay cables to your town because there's simply not enough business for them to compete for. So, as mayor of Podunk give AT&T an exclusivity agreement for 20 years in exchange for them laying down the infrastructure today.

The problem is obvious: now AT&T doesn't have any competition and they can do whatever they want with their prices. Your population is hostage to the exclusivity agreement for the next 20 years.

One possible solution for this problem would be the government to build the infrastructure and then invite companies to compete for it's usage. That's what happens in UK and other countries.
Does this technique work for iOS? There just aren't that many varients of iOS devices, and you can already tell them apart by other browser settings.

Safari on iOS will have the same hardware, renderer and fonts as every other user with the same iOS version and device type. So surely it can't track an individual user?
Here, I gave it a try: http://jsfiddle.net/bD68B/1/
How do you re-sell an e-book without duplicating it, unless you sell your e-reader device with the e-book on it?
I can't reply to your comment for some reason, so I reply here.

I bought Bitcoins more than 1 year ago. If you look at Bitcoin in terms of years, and as a long-term store of value, Bitcoin is not volatile: the value is increasing until total adaptation.
And I don't know anybody else who bought and held his bitcoins who's complaining :) (I'm not counting people who had Bitcoins held at MtGox, as they didn't have Bitcoins, just IOUs for Bitcoins)
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Do you understand the significance of being able to borrow against the revenue of the local electric utility? This is what that means: EPB goes to the market and says "hey guys, I need like $200M to make some internet and I can raise the electric rates of all the citizens of Chattanooga to whatever it takes in order to pay it back." There is almost no risk for the lender and if the project were to fail it would be $200M down the drain for the citizens of Chattanooga (at least all the ones that buy electricity, which is probably most of them). Why would you even need lobbyists at that point?

I'm not try to be a cheerleader for the big telcos, but I think there are valid financial reasons cities shouldn't fund these kinds of projects this way.
I suspect you're talking about rinse, which I wrote alongside xen-tools.

It is still alive and well, under new maintainers:

http://collab-maint.alioth.debian.org/rinse/
As a side note, it's always surprising how many Chattanoogans come out of the woodwork on HN when a Gig story appears.
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The idea is that they're now in power and if it were such a good idea, they should have implemented it now that they could get it passed.

If it's not such a good idea then perhaps it was only done as a publicity stunt, and that would explain why it hasn't come up again.

I don't know that I care much one way or the other. But saying "Democrats haven't voted it down" is actually different than "Democrats have made it a priority"
have you seen the tshirts, though?!
And one of the key questions is, does this make sense for, say 1000 abandoned dogecoin (current value $0.24) on tipdoge.info? This is why we proposed de minimis exceptions.
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How about this

https://github.com/vindimy/altcointip/blob/master/src/cointi...

with this

https://github.com/vindimy/altcointip/blob/master/src/ctb/ct...

You don't think that might allow someone to do a bit of skimming by playing a little loose with the exchange rates?
FWIW Rinse is still maintained, under new owners.

I stopped maintaining it myself, along with xen-tools, a couple of years ago, but both projects have new owners and are active.
There you go: http://jsfiddle.net/Q2KXu/1/
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Nothing would guarantee that a private coorporation would somehow magically upgrade the water and sewer system. Since they are profit based they would probably just do the minimum required by law. The only thing that could possibly work, would be that the infrastructure is still owned by the city and it awards operation contracts every 10 or so years.
I think that technology that provides goods and services more efficiently is quite different from technology that kills people more efficiently. Think of all those hunters and gatherers who were put out of work with the advent of farming, or all those farmers who lost their jobs when we switched away from a subsistence farming economy. "Make the advances and let society adapt" has worked quite well in the past.
"Cities should not be in the telecommunications business."

You state that as if it is self-evident, and yet cities have run all sorts of utilities for a long time. Internet access is fast turning into a utility.
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This is a genuine question: where is Yahoo getting all this money from?

I think the average internet-goer (myself included) would probably be surprised to hear they're profitable enough to have made so many large purchases recently...
But, we need to rename things like Functor to Mappable and Monad to Bindable because everything has to be a vaguely relatable (even if possibly misleading) adjective, damnit.
> Verizon just wants to double dip and get more money, as a business with commitments to shareholders this is a reasonable argument, as a person that can reason it is very ignorant.

Fuck the cunts with their "commitment to shareholders" at the cost of society. The subhuman imbeciles running this show deserve nothing more than to be taken into an alley and shot. The same goes for the lobbyist cunts that make it all happen, since their entire business is "enrich myself at the cost of EVERYONE else."
I've been looking for a replacement to Mou for a while, and I'm excited to see Haroopad offering not only Markdown support but also a bunch of other features (especially MathJax and intelligent autocomplete). I'll definitely try it out.
Especially compared to the F# compiler, which is actively accepting pull requests and even indicating which issues they'd like people to take up.
I guess the real question is then: Does allowing home/business users onto the same network that manages the electrical grid a good idea (from an OpSec point of view)? Does this make it easier to hack the electric grid? What happens to the electric grid when the network becomes congested?
> You sound unhappy with Comcast, but the fact is that they pump enormous amounts of capital into their network, while municipalities are famous for letting their infrastructure rot.[1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Comcast's profitability is over $1 billion a year.

Should my electric company be able to profit at that level? Because they're much more reliable than Comcast, and they're a regulated monopoly that needs to report to the PUC (Public Utilities Commission).

Have we determined yet if Internet access is a utility such as phone service, electricity, water, and natural gas service? If it is, isn't it time last-mile delivery is regulated as such? (Which leaves Comcast in a precarious position as a last-mile provider)

Also, I'm not unhappy with Comcast because of my service. I'm unhappy because of their efforts to prevent municipal broadband. They are the Koch Brothers of the Internet, and are attempting to squeeze whomever they can for access only they provide in a great deal of markets to a tool that is the foundation of the 21st century.

TL;DR Regulate last mile delivery as a utility, politely ask rent-seekers like Comcast to leave.
As this is my personal opinion, please take it with a big grain of salt - ASD's Lifeforce is the new benchmark for demo effectiveness. It is just so beautiful.

When I first saw Farbrausch's Debris I thought it was a bit boring. After all, it's repetitive. The soundtrack is like some cheap industrial techno, and the demo itself doesn't really show off that much.... Until you realise that the whole thing is less than 200kB. An amazing feat.

There is just one experience more profound the demoscene has given me. It must have been no later than 1995 or 1996, or about the time when the Amiga and PC groups had just discovered 3D toroids, vector castles and phong shading in general. Half of the demos shown in the party had some kind of floating/rotating phongs-shaded toroid, and about a third sported a zoom-in/zoom-out view of a castle. It got pretty dull, pretty fast.

And then finally Byterapers showed off how to outdo everyone by using the same effects with better timing. On C-64. Jaw, meet floor.
But what kind of evidence do you consider irrefutable? This is a murky situation where officially there are no russian soldiers in Ukraine and the 'separatists' are just volunteers who happen to have military training and access to russian weapons. You know, nothing special, such things happen in every country.
If there's a `src` folder in your repo, you're doing it wrong.
> Long story short: They went broke, and were acquired by the city in 1940

Not quite as simple as that, the city had been deeply involved for decades prior to them finally taken over completely, and the city effort was itself deeply indebted.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the GP emphasized the MTA as a (rare) example of public infrastructure that's actually run to the high standard we'd want our internet infrastructure to be run at.
Shouldn't this be expected? Hire people based on intelligence and capability, not necessarily for knowing a particular language or APIs.
I've been using Flurry for the past year and thinking of switching. I don't like the way Flurry presents data on their platform and the website is really slow.
> I feel like ssh-agent is essential to my life but it's badly designed and I have this nagging feeling it's insecure (and articles like this feed this fear).

If the attacker has root-access, like in this article, they could also recover your decrypted private keys from the memory used in active connections. (SSH and SSL both)
Or ... TypeScript developers could just have added test cases to their test suite and figure out automatically whether the new implementation fixed things or caused regressions.
I have no issues with mail delivery. Here's what I did.

Step 1, get a Gmail account.
Step 2, live your life.

If you're worried about privacy, don't. I've personally taken email data from co-located machines to give to the government.

If it's a hobby, find a better one. Email administration is terrible.
Now, if they stopped using that crappy app that can't even do a background download and come up with a better app, that would make the redesign more complete.
Be careful what you wish for. Unicode strings are fucking complex. UTF8 double so.

For example which of the four Unicode character normalization interests you most? Or you need grapheme clusters? Or you need code points? Or byte values?
So, is there a big advantage to running ssh-agent vs unencrypted 0400 keys in your ~/.ssh directory?
.... or simply don't dump sensitive files onto cloud storage. Personally, I love Dropbox. It's ideal for sharing the details of my kitchen extension with my builders. It is not suitable for sharing documents with my patent attorney.
> they're hunting down jews and black people already

What are you talking about?
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Yahoo owns about 24% of Alibaba, a company that's worth ~$150B (varies widely on who you talk to). They are reducing their position by 5-10%, which translates into anywhere from $5B to $20B in cash.
The form of investment is irrelevant, and yes, that would be a very reasonable way to invest in getting a quality network. They just don't seem all that interested in making that investment in the first place. When you buy an asset, it's not like you're not paying for the risk of building it in the first place, the risk is just firmly priced into the value of the asset.
They are more familiar with the current system, but after you have done it for the first time, you realise that electrum is actually way easier than banks. People just think its harder, but it is not really.
What do you use for storing sensitive client details?
If you're a web development company or similar and have a good number of clients, you probably have a good number of sensitive details you keep on file (logins for ftp, ssh, domain, email, analytics etc)

My question is what do people use to store these securely while making them accessible to a development team?
Make sure nothing can run as root? Perhaps by using a VM system. You could run ssh-agent on another machine and make key requests over an internal network.

Also you can get a cheap "HSM" by using a smartcard.
Extensive discussion of this topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063661