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"interest in the coin is failing to pass on"

What makes you think it is failing? Literally all the indicators show that interest in Bitcoin is growing:

- Payment processors are growing very fast (eg. BitPay is signing up 500-1000 new merchants every week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8YSivdLKf0 and see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7974197)

- Even very large companies began to accept Bitcoin: Dell, Expedia, Newegg, Dish Network, Overstock, TigerDirect...

- BTC continues to gain value --chaotically through bubbles but still gaining value overall: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg730zigWeeklyzc...

- Bitcoin VC investment reached $158 million this year, and is on target to reach $200-300 million, approximately 2x-3x more than last year: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-venture-capital/
Pardons are often granted before someone is found guilty. The most famous pardon in US history, Ford's pardon of Nixon, was before he was formally charged with anything. The blanket pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers also wound up pardoning many people who had not yet been charged. A pardon of Snowden would not be improper procedure.

His accepting the pardon would be an admission that he performed the actions in question, but he admits that anyway.
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>If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was.

Assuming one would find out about such, which is plausible, but so is the opposite. I can even imagine such a system being engineered to lower such chances of the recipient being rendered unable to discern such messages from current situations where people ask friends nearby in person or over the phone.

It's amazing to watch what people/computers are able to do that can challenge the social constructs that are ingrained into us that some of us have come to accept as how things should be, only to be collectively reminded from time to time of how such systems are constructed on shifting sands in the scheme of things.
@Walkman

I actually have been using Git extensively for 1 1/2 years. I have read the Pro Git book and many other sources cover to cover several times. I use magit with Emacs and gitk extensively. I gave up on the Android repo utility after it repeatedly goofed up the equivalents of git pull --rebase.

My complaints about Git are based on direct experience and watching others struggle with it.

Yes, I can and have set up Git in a very simple way not unlike an RCS project that avoids most of the issues that I discuss. No rebasing. Minimal use of branches, just a simple approximation of a development/production branch system. Nonetheless there are several problems with Git that still bit me such as the lack of sequential ids for files and the confusing terminology (staging areas, the index, etc.) and documentation.

For a better Git:

1. Clean up the documentation and man pages to remove the confusing terminology. Settle on one name for the "index" and so on.

2. Ditch rebasing.

3. Use sequential ids with a suffix of some sort for local changes. e.g. 1.2 on the master, 1.3.repo.branch or something like that for local changes. Keep the SHA, hide the SHA, but give users an easy intuitive way to access the SHA if needed.

1.1

1.2

1.3 \

1.4 1.4.myrepo.master

1.5 |

| /

1.6

1.7

I would guess there is some scheme like this in some other distributed version control system.

4. Simple checkin/checkout commands like RCS

Sincerely,

Bit by Git
My first two thoughts:

1) Every laptop has a microphone built in that doesn't have an indicator light that you'd have to bypass to surreptitiously record audio. I think that, as far as invasion of privacy/corporate espionage goes, this is scarier than the webcam (which in my case, if someone were to hack it, would be hours of me simply staring into the screen, as my laptop is usually closed when I'm not using it).

2) You should try charging more than $3. To me that's so cheap as to inspire some questions about its quality. At least $5, perhaps $10 would make it seem more legitimate.
iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED - https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
I'd rather say that C++ "fixes" C's unsafe type system by making some of the castings legal, instead of safer :)
Or would see Snowden's actions as patriotic.
Would love to hang next time I come out to SF area.

Custom S3 buckets are great for us because they don't cost us a lot to support, not many people ever want them (relative to the general public), but it allows us to do something awesome for the people who do want them.

I'm curious about your experience about supporting other storage options as well – we only do S3 because we know we can give a really high quality experience with them and it fits in nicely with all our processing steps. Complexity aside, I'd be concerned that something like Dropbox, for instance, woudl have high latency with their API and then make Picturelife seem slow.
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The reasons for using COBOL in any new project weren't explained, so whatever was "established" is irrelevant to the discussion.
Fair enough. So perhaps not smart, but brave? When you have a lot invested in something like Google+ a smart call can be tough to make.
Of course not. Even if you believe that "working at the NSA" is necessarily an example of terrorism (and I certainly don't) what you would have is a subset relationship not equality.
A lot of webcams have a hardware LED (ie when the camera the powered the LED goes on because on the current path).

Some have it software controlled (either firmware or driver).

The first ones are pretty safe since you know when they're in use and the notification is mostly unbypassable.

The other thing is that one rarely get interesting data through the webcam thus access to the webcam is generally no something people are looking for when running large scale attacks (for targetted attacks this is different).

Also... a piece of tape is nicer, lighter, more convenient and infinitely cheaper than a 3d printed shape :/
It could also possibly make hacking Nginx a whole lot harder.
For the first Newton we didn't have much choice. The unit only had 512K of RAM and no flash; we added a single lane of 128K of RAM (one chip) for extra user data storage when it was clear we were not going to meet our RAM budget for heaps and such (that single lane wasn't usable as vanilla RAM, since only every 4th byte was working RAM).

Later units had flash chips, and the wacky battery lockout stuff went away (to everyone's relief).

We might have been able to add flash to the first Newton, removed all the wacky battery stuff and had cost parity, but the schedule was so tight that there was no time to make any changes. (I have a write-up of fake deadlines and bad scheduling practices in the various companies I've worked for, I should really finish that...).
> Rewriting everything in the hot-new-language-of-the-year would almost certainly introduce bugs

Yes, that's the point I usually hear. I.e. that it's used for legacy applications, just because switching to anything else doesn't worth the effort. I'd be more surprised however when it would be used for any new project.
I use Shush on my mac to toggle the microphone. It may be possible to bypass it, but I doubt it would be. It's on the Mac App Store, by the same people who made Divvy.
5000$ is ridiculously low.
Using a sticker sounds like a great idea - it would be vastly thinner than any 3d-printed clip, and cheaper too. You might even be able to muffle the mic with one (but I haven't tested that).

You could probably even market stickers like that specifically for the purpose of covering cameras. Designed to not leave adhesive behind when removed (like the adhesive on post-its), and perhaps even given a shiny black finish that matches common laptop screen frames.

Personally, I've never seen a need for covering my webcam through some combination of just not caring if some remote entity is watching me type, and assuming that the risk of my webcam being activated without the little light going on is pretty low.

But, if I was offered a cheap well-designed sticker made for the purpose of covering my webcam I'd probably buy a pack.
The LED doesn't help with snapshots though. The light would come one and go off pretty quickly and you'd have to be looking at it to notice.
The old Click and Clack special. Check Engine light got you down? Cover it up!
If that's the case I was being too harsh on clang.
> In most cases current residents do not have a tie to the original culture or history.

> living through race riots does not have any relevance whatsoever.

Oooook then. I'll let you think about these two statements side-by-side for a few. Get back to me when you have.
Well, no, it didn't.

It might have sent a fraction of a generation of younger space opera fans to hell, but the only place it sent sci-fi fans was mild depression at having wasted their money on it.

I was 14. I think I'd discovered Asimov and Moorcock already, and Clark - not sure - but I already knew the difference between real sci-fi, pop sci-fi, and space opera (even though I don't think I knew that term until an Epic with a "Sgt Rock Opera" segment a year or two later).

Anyone old enough to have grokked that difference was hugely disappointed - as we were with most sci-fi films - and probably went back to watching Space 1999 reruns. So there were a few years worth of you scarred, but less than a generation.
Depending on available memory, attempting to compile an expression with ridiculously large numbers of nested parentheses (e.g. "return (((...(42)...)));" will also do the trick.

I don't expect a compiler to be able to compile programs that exceed its internal limits, but a better error message would be much appreciated, instead of a hard crash. For comparison, with MSVC the parent's code produces

fatal error C1026: parser stack overflow, program too complex

and the nested parentheses results in

fatal error C1013: compiler limit : too many open parentheses
Agreed! Securing stuff is NOT an easy problem--especially cost constrained, embedded goods. Having worked on multiple connected device projects now (including Square's first encrypted reader--but that was one of the more rigorous efforts I've seen), I'd say there's not much communication in our industry & everyone seems to roll their own security. It's disastrous & I'm not certain what the solution is. Only companies with obvious liability issues seem to bother with security consultants such as Matasano. The rest wing it with reference designs and code scraped from dubious places. So, when articles like this surface, I'm fascinated, but not surprised. BTW, this problem is only going to get worse with the IoT boom.

I have nothing but respect for what you do, Thomas. I wish everyone I've worked with had access to your services. Could you maybe help TI wrap it all up into a hardware block in the next generation of MSP430s? :)
I think in this day and age to actually be a good software engineer you need to keep advancing and learning new skills. If you sit back with what you learned in uni and don't actively seek out more knowledge you will fall behind into the category of just a programmer.
Maybe there is a serious problem.
When i input some chinese character,The error is occur.
The result is

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/3/2/9/tittle.co/httpd.www/index.php:14)

Filename: core/Common.php

Line Number: 438

A Database Error Occurred

Error Number: 1267

Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation 'like'

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Line Number: 29
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Thanks, that's a nice and concise statement.

NB, a comment by Peter da Silva, who's been doing networking / communications / security stuff for quite a while:

"Don't like the callback model in the API, they need a version of tox_wait() that takes a select() fd mask.﻿"

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/MDYU...
Someone went on Shark Tank with a web cam cover and that was their same reaction too.
The cover, depending on what it's made of, might be less messy (no sticky residue) and more reusable than a strip of electrical tape.
Who in his right mind would actually buy a webcam cover? Just find a piece of paper and fold it over. Good Christ.
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Very cool, is there options to scale sizing? My webcam is external and I doubt this would suit it. However if it was scaled 2x or even 3x the size, it'd fit perfectly on it.
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I cover mine with a post-it note, as do my coworkers. Sorry, but a 3d-printed cover is cmopletely unnecessary.
I'd be much more concerned about the microphone than the webcam.
Well isn't SQL's TRUE|FALSE|NULL kind of the same. That is pretty common.

Also Russians in the 50s had built a computer based on 3 value logic -- Setun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
A small bit of paper (I use a Post-It dot) under the tape will protect the lens just fine.
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I wonder whether the FBI bypasses hardware interlocks. Presumably no. The Washington Post reported in December 2013 that :

""The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations, said Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico, now on the advisory board of Subsentio, a firm that helps telecommunications carriers comply with federal wiretap statutes.
""

Good times. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06...
Interesting why they didn't license Wacom tech like Samsung did for the Note family.
That's exactly the opposite of what p values mean. Other replies addressed the publication bias problem, but even absent that, p < 0.05 usually implies a probability much higher than 5% that any single "significant" result is false:

http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/p-value.html

The p value describes the probability that a nonexistent effect will falsely be be called significant. You can't turn that around (without Bayes' theorem and a prior) to calculate the probability that the effect is nonexistent.

To compound this, most studies are underpowered -- they don't collect enough data to detect the effect they're looking for. So a statistically insignificant result usually does not mean the effect does not exist.
It's funny that just today i added "Make activerecord errors visible" to my todos lol, thank you.

-spelling.
Your problem isn't that covering your WebCam isn't a good idea (it is). It's that there's little market for a solution -- electrical, scotch, gaffer, duct, or other tape works just fine. A small scrap of paper or Post-It will keep adhesive from marring the lens. That's a $0.01 solution I doubt you could ever hope to compete with (though I hear suckers are born on an aggressive schedule).

That said, from a design perspective, I'd very much prefer that devices (laptops, desktops, tablets, phones, monitors, etc.) offered:

1. Hardware indicators of activation of media inputs: camera, microphones, etc.

2. Physical covers or switches to activate/deactivate these. My Thinkpad has a physical switch to activate the WiFi transmitter, but there's no shutter for the camera (I've seen slider doors on some devices), nor can the mic circuits be toggled by a physical control (though I can set my mixer settings via software).

Edit: But see comments elsewhere: stickers which explicitly convey a message about security/privacy and cover lenses could be an interesting angle. Much lower cost, fad/awareness appeal. Possibly even a tie-in with privacy groups (e.g., EFF, etc.). Good schwag.
There are a lot of Kaggle competitions with similar prizes. Netflix is an outlier.
Blinking lights tend to attract attention faster than static ones. It's a bit of a wash.
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I guess I was being to harsh on the memory issues in C++.

In practice it is a non issue, because build scripts can run arbitrary code long before a memory corruption in the system compiler. And if you plan on running the code you just compiled, you must already trust the code.

Unless of course its a segfault in LLVM and not just clang. LLVM is used for JIT in web browsers now, not that there are really any suitable replacements for C++ right now.
Stickers serve the role of readily identifying your laptop.

This means if it starts walking, you know it's yours. And the potential walker is likely to realize you'll be able to ID the device quickly.
If I was in the market for a product, I'd buy mine from the EFF. Simple sticker covers the camera, and supports a good group.

https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set

So there's some competition in the space.
This is actually something I might consider.

Better: labeling to state that the device is explicitly equipped against unwarranted surveillance. The message of avoiding surveillance might be more useful than the act of frustrating it.
>Then write the next Farmville or build the next Facebook. If there's really that much low-hanging fruit, go out and pluck it. Put up or shut up. //

Your reasoning here is as fallacious as the idea that unrepeatable experiments are good science.

Your psychological hypotheses on addictive mechanisms can be entirely false and yet your game can still be addictive. Maybe the Skinner Box-like environment you create has a particular applicable demographic outside which it is largely impotent; but failure to repeat the experiment isn't seen as contradictory to the hypothesis and so you fail to address different markets with the specific sort of addictive elements that suit them best. You'd be leaving a heap of money on the table [for shame /s].

The ancient Greek idea that gravity worked by the attraction of Earth-kind substances to the Earth itself was falsified and yet things still fell down.

Would you say that a single superstitious action (finger crossing, say) coinciding with the desired outcome proves that finger crossing works? Do you think that those who ascribe to such a progression of logic as demonstrating sound scientific thinking, are being scientists?

IMO observations and experiments that can't be repeated are of the utmost importance in furthering knowledge. Truthfully reported anecdotes are valid data. But unrepeatable events have limited scientific value in and of themselves, they can not show statistical significance nor demonstrate that a hypothesis should be held to be true as an objectively valid scientific theory.
Thanks for that -- fixed.
You might find a market with those who use it daily and don't want to be always cutting off new bits of tape and making a growing glue mess. For example foreign students from Asia calling their parents (they all do this and they do it every day), long distance relationships, etc.

People who almost never use their webcam would probably prefer a sticker.
The EFF gives out stickers for this purpose to its donors. You might want to contact them and offer your thing (though I agree with other comments that you're making a solution to a problem that's solved more easily and cheaply in other ways).
I'm aware, I care because LLVM is being integrated in web browsers as part of the JIT engine, and clang uses LLVM as its backend. So any segfaults related to LLVM (though not this one in particular) make me worried about browser security.
Iliad is simply amazing. They've opened up dedibox.fr / http://online.net for international customers sometime last year; if you know anything about dedicated servers (like how much stuff costs and on what terms), your jaw will simply drop when you visit the site!
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If your assertion is correct that Everett truly "broke" Stellar, than they will be worthless and he will have gained nothing. Your logic is contradictory.
I stuck some Velcro on my laptop to create a removable, reusable cover. Your product looks much nicer.

Most people don't seem to care about this. Your job is not to convince everyone that they should, but to get your product in front of the people who already do.
Note: “equivocating” does not mean “equating”.
Anecdotal evidence: I came across an article that showed Martin Muench (Founder of Finfisher) with his laptop camera covered.

Source: http://www.ringit.com.au/blog/taping-over-prying-eyes-of-web...
Really.

Remember that a hibernating system is actually in a low power state, but there's still some draw. This means that specific processes might be running.

Baseboard / preboot / bootloader and other execution environments, including even running within the firmware of specific peripherals, is a concern I've been aware of since ~2005, from people who are taken exceptionally seriously in the security community. Context was a presentation following an RSA conference and Intel's plans at the time for extensive baseboard/preboot environments (which have largely failed to take hold on consumer hardware, though many/most server systems now have same).

Do I think the risk is high? No. But it's nonzero.
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Nature has endowed mankind with diverse faculties, fallible reason and variable fortune, and so in a free society there will by necessity be "winners" and "losers".

Those of you who reflexively oppose gentrification ought to consider what type of society you want to live in. Do you believe that individuals have the right to make decisions that could affect their own lives beneficially or adversely? One such decision is to rent or buy property.

There are clearly potential benefits and drawbacks to either choice. I may value stability of residence and the chance my chosen property will appreciate, and therefore choose to buy, and so put capital down and strain my credit. Alternatively, I may want to bootstrap a small business or startup using the same capital and credit, and therefore choose to rent.

When, in the name of stopping the "evil" of gentrification, you propose to severely restrict what a property owner can do, such as through rent control, you are also proposing to restrict the original choice to rent or buy. You are thus limiting the opportunity of the less fortunate to buy when and where the price is low and sell if and when the price gets high.

In the name of protecting the vulnerable, you prevent them from advancing to a better station in life. It's very easy to consider the benefits of laws and regulation while ignoring the costs.
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