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Which division gets the calculators?

I learned about the HP-12C today, which appears to be the TI-83 of finance: "The HP-12C is HP's longest and best-selling product, in continual production since its introduction in 1981" ... "In 2008, HP modified the design so that new production runs contain an ARM processor which runs an emulated version of previous chips."

http://www.hp.com/calculators/
http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PDPStdView?cat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-12C
This is a much better book than anything Watts wrote.

Ironically, at least among Western Mahayana teachers it's very hard to find such a coherent and pragmatic framework as the one described in "Mindfulness in Plain English."
Yup. The reality is that you can't defeat the NSA unless you are able to design and fab your own silicon without any third party involvement, are able to write and audit your own crypto code with zero bugs, and are able to physically protect yourself from being "encouraged" to reveal your passphrases.
It's not worth seriously trying to defeat an organisation as well funded/staffed/connected as NSA from obtaining your chat history and nude photos.
Github costs money, Bitbucket gives me the same thing for free. Usually I use Bitbucket for private and if I open source something move it to Github.
> I think the crux of the matter is that this crypto scheme is not designed to stop the NSA

I think the NSA has so many tools available when it comes to hack into people's data, it doesn't really matter how you secure yourself, there are many ways for the NSA to spy on people if they really want to. Right now I don't think anyone can really pretend to secure their data from the NSA.

It might make it harder for them, but if you really want to hide from the NSA, I don't think it's really realistic to just be informed about cryptography and computer security. You would really need to just not use computers at all.
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We could make passive observation (beamsplitters) useless by opportunistically encrypting all traffic with unauthenticated DH to derive a key. This would do nothing against an active observer, but it would raise the cost of interception significantly.
Indeed - the stories are straight out of a Ben Mezrich book about silicon valley.

We've got a crashed Mercedes, a breakup, a bank account illegally held in bitcoin, skateboarding in the hallways, DJ parties in the office, prostitutes galore, and a 22 year old founder.

...and that's just the first four comments.
I remember reading the T&Cs for one of these 'marketplace lenders'; they would do collections for the lender, if the borrower was 60 days late (which doesn't even seem that late). But the lender would get nothing, setting up a huge conflict of interest for the marketplace: they could make a lot more money on a loan in default than a successful loan.

Wild West indeed.

Edit: Yuk.. "Currently, Lending Club charges investors... 18% of the amount recovered if the loan is 16 or more days late and no litigation is involved". In other words: an automated-payment screws up, Lending Club sends a letter to the borrower, who fixes the problem: Lending Club takes 18% of the principal.

https://www.lendingclub.com/public/rates-and-fees.action
Well, why don't you enlighten us by posting links to these surveys?
Just search for "Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two" in google. I wish people would stop posting these paywalled articles, as there are lots of other non-paywall sources for this story.
No that was the contract for personnel services scam not IT contracting which is treated far less fairly than say accountants or lawyers.
Airgaps and secured physical access are probably good enough.
It would make sense to update the title to indicate that this is old news, it happened on the 10th of May, more than 4 months ago.
And can't the person who borrowed $100 using a p2p loans marketplace also loan it out again?
Mindfulness is simply keeping something in mind. In concentration practice, mindfulness is remembering to maintain attention on the object of concentration. Concentration is maintaining a particular state of mind.

"Mindfulness Defined" http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/mindfu...

"The Agendas of Mindfulness" http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/agenda...

"Right Mindfulness"
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/rightm...
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You don't need to down vote if you disagree. I was contributing to the conversation. Either way, in my opinion it's valuable feedback. If I was working on something like this, I'd want to hear what people really thought. Not useless cheerleading. I did not poke holes - I gave suggestions. Look for alternate methods of input not just rehashing the same methods from a desktop.

Also I am working on something on my own. Which is why I thought I'd give feedback. I encountered the same issues myself.
Bitcoin should have been the petty cash of the Internet. People should be buying music tracks, in-game items, and junk food from vending machines with Bitcoins. But, as discussed in a previous topic, it doesn't do small or quick transactions very well.

That may not necessarily be a bad thing. Enthusiasm for micropayments, which predates the Internet (look up Ted Nelson and Xanadu) comes from the people who want to collect them. There's no vast consumer demand for the ability to send $0.10 over the Internet. Even the big players couldn't make that happen. Beenz, Microsoft Points, and Facebook Credits were all failures.

The big run-up from $100 to $1100 last year was because, for a while, it was possible to easily and legally bypass China's exchange controls by buying Bitcoins with yuan and selling them for dollars or euros. Then the People's Bank of China cracked down, and that bubble popped. We're still in the aftermath of that event.

As a speculation, Bitcoin is zero-sum. There's no productive activity, and no profits. All gains by winners come from losses by losers. Much effort is spent by the Bitcoin community recruiting more losers.
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Not to mention, the larger the black budget, the harder it is to hide, and the more outrage when something like Snowden happens.
Horrible calculators despite a major following. I wouldn't buy too much into the HP calculator love.

I myself was a follower and had an HP 50G (Nice 205MHz ARM RPL machine, successor of the HP48 series). Was totally unusable without the manual which was in PDF format only so I'd have to sit at the computer anyway. I couldn't print it out because the three volumes were ~2000 pages. Plus the thing was so damn obtuse and totally non discoverable.

Then they released the Prime which is a buggy turd of a calculator wrapped in a very polished case.

Ended up with an old TI89 I paid £25 for on ebay that came with the manual which isn't a million pages long.
err these are minimum wage security guards employed by a contractor not self employed contractors in their own right
Voting is still going on but we already have news from several cities in Brazil, telling of malfunctioning of voting machines: some wouldn't allow people to choose one or two digits (those related to the main opposing candidates, what a coincidence!), pople arriving at their voting location and finding out they had alrady voted (!!)... It's a shame! Our voting system is insecure, unreliable and the institutions that should intervene to make it better are completetely dominated by the governing party, so there's no interest in changing this shameful scenario!
Well it does not exactly match filesystem semantics- I mean a directory/file has both content and directory entries, and they are ordered. You would have to define what 'ls' does in this context.

This made me wonder what code-browser did with xml files. It's nothing special, but it could have treated the elements as folds.
Sounds like CastAR: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/20/castar-update-gdc/
Using the Windows 10 Microsoft might be watching your every move
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What's often missing from the discussion around Apple's new encryption regime is that it serves two primary important purposes: it gives privacy-oriented consumers a little bit of peace-of-mind about the surveillance state and the safety of their personal data (a plus for Apple) and it relieves Apple from having to be involved in routine, low-stakes law enforcement subpoenas and other requests (a plus for Apple), so it's a double win for Apple to make he change. Whether or not it actually deters NSA snooping is beside the point.
> I don't understand the need for constantly interspersing
> an otherwise flowing article with references to science.

It's just that that was what sold spirituality back in the day. Even though it seems tired and forced now, it was a very easy path to popularity.
FWIW, moderators didn't touch this story. It fell in rank because users flagged it.
I fear that just as bitcoin arrived suddenly it will go just as quickly. It's based on fundamentals that is not well understood, at least by people who buy it (because its gonna go up!).
"> die in coal mines
Women too.
> put roofs on houses in 110 degree weather
Women too."

Look at this data.

http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chala...

You also need to read this thread. Keep scrolling down the thread there's some good information.
Review the research about male vs female reproductive fitness, male genetic traits being at the top and bottom, risk taking, etc.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2i9684/grap...

Gender differences aren't some socially constructed force to keep men in power.

They are fundamentally biologically based and job roles stem from them as well.
It really bothers me what has been been done to HP as an engine of innovation and product development. It's extremely similar to what the leadership at IBM has done to that company the last ~15 years.

I feel like the destiny for both of these companies is to slowly be split into ever smaller pieces until half of those pieces are eventually acquired by other US or Chinese firms for dirt cheap (and nothing against Chinese firms, rather, they'll find value in what IBM / HP are throwing away through negligence).

Profit milking, EPS goosing, bad acquisitions, and financial engineering are all the leaders at HP and IBM seem to know how to do. The MBAs took over engineering cultures, and this is the result. (contrasted with actually creating new products the market wants and generating new profit streams and new growth)
It's a sign that hr and accountants have taken over and the tail is wagging the dog
> You could marvel at the things RADIO-ACTIVE and ELECTRIC that were invariably fitted to be inserted in the anus!

Clearly alien technology.
well unskilled labour vs overwhelmingly grad entry high skilled professional jobs works like that and devs are underpaid relative to lawyers and MD's
It's amazing how hard it can be to remember a password that one has not typed in a long time, and has been subjected to solitary confinement.

"Grassian and Haney show that a cluster of different symptoms, which they refer to as SHU syndrome, occurred in something like 90 percent of the prisoners they studied. Included symptoms can be affective, like paranoia and depression; cognitive, like confusion, memory loss, perceptual distortions, hallucinations; or even physical, like headaches and insomnia. So there is documented, psychiatric evidence that even a comparatively short term in solitary confinement can have negative consequences" (source http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/solitary-confinement-is-a-leg...)
They'd save a lot of money on new logos and letterheads by just flipping their existing logo upside down. HP and DY. It'll be fine.
You are only considering technological attacks.
Want a nice desk or want them to go the extra mile when I worked at a large company we made sure that our floor support staff had good pc's back when a sound card was a luxury we made sure they all had one.
What is the rationale for the lower tax rate?

I'm mostly curious because in the US it is somewhat the opposite - employers are required to pay a tax for every employee, so if you are self-employed your tax rate actually goes up.
They definitely don't need cash - they got back to a $5b profit last year; $14b in cash; $9b in long-term investments. They do have a mediocre balance sheet at best, but in the current (temporary) low-cost-of-debt environment, they likely aren't worried about cash vs debt.

I'd go with the 'other' category. Either buyers won't offer what they think it's worth, or they liked the synergy with printers (and now they get to spin off both simultaneously).
That phrase sounds very much as an attack against a straw man. Science does not require that things are cut up, and does not dismiss the interconnectivity of things. It mostly mindfully ignores all the things it can't deal with, so they won't disturb while it deals with the things it can deal.

Anyway, I got the impression the attack was against analytical thinking, and not empiricism. The people that do that kind of attack are completely oblivious from the amount of systemic thinking science does today, they are fighting ideas that are almost a century out of fashion.
Was part of the rise last year due to MtGox's increasingly desperate market manipulation? I remember reading the theories, but don't know if a better picture has developed since then.
I already answered that in the second sentence of my comment.
> I can buy the game new with free prime shipping for $17.99 which makes the "rent 90 days for $30" rather odd

I would say the 90 days is the "evil" option, because it makes the others seem like a bargain.

There's a lot of psychological in in sales because it's almost impossible to "value" something. All you can do is to compare it to market prices.

I especially like the "and get something extra for FREE" trick. :P
Really great advise. Thank you.
If the caller needs to be giving instructions as to care for the injured person, it can delay it. There are genuine reasons why you want the dispatching section of the call over ASAP.
Because they pay your umbrella company, something something corporate magic.

I think the real reason is that the tax system is biased to the already well off.
Nice! Maybe I can now consider buying some HP hardware again. I have been boycotting the whole company because of the poor service of their services unit.
What I really need from straw poll is an option for better voting methods, if we're deciding between more than three choices for streaming we always need to use instant runoff to get an accurate measurement of what people want to watch. Something popular like Schultze voting (maybe implemented with sliders from one to ten instead of entering rank numbers; so it stays as idiot-proof as strawpoll.me)
It's been a while, but I think Apotheker's plan was a two-parter:

* to kill off / sell off the consumer division

* to just turn HP into an IBM-type enterprise company.

The former isn't exactly true in this case; the latter is coming true.
So, perhaps a law to ban any encryption would save us a lot of money. Better yet, force everyone to make every information public.

But most likely, all this data would be of great interest for criminals? What about the cost of fraud, crime, identity theft? Is it better to have unencrypted phones stolen by criminals in exchange for easier and cheaper surveillance?

I'd think Apples encryption isn't mostly targeted to stop law enforcement and surveillance but more to stop misuse of lost and stolen phones. In addition, if able to implant zero-day exploits, any attacker can bypath any encryption - or he might just target the transmission or the other side of a sent/received secret. Most information isn't produced on an iPhone to sit there forever: either it is received from a server / second device or it is intended to be transmitted to a receiver. So, an encrypted phone isn't really stopping surveillance.
I'm skeptical given the direct physical link between energy and wealth.

But it's also true that this link decouples at a certain level of energy consumption. Thankfully so... But it hasn't been shown that this minimum level can be achieved economically and safely at scale without fossil fuels.
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if one motor fails on a quadcopter, it can be saved [1] ... so that might increase reliability when compared to an helicopter.

[1] http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/new-algorithm-can-save-a...
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I remember quite clearly, it was a big thing then. If anything, bigger than now (in that small changes to one's own content, and small manipulations around linking, could have big effects on the major search engines). Back then, SEO was about careful manipulation of <meta> tags, keywords, tricks like filling your page with white text on a white background so the search engine would see it but not users, etc.

I'm not sure what SEO is about now.
LiveScript 1.3.0 (lesser known CoffeeScript cousin) has been released
Good idea. I'm actually testing at the University of Toronto gym, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to reach out to the comsci department.
That the OS can't be silently updated? Many years of experience working with Apple platforms, and iOS in particular.
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Also that it was an remotely operated vehicle not a manned submarine.
I don't understand their methodology or what those numbers really mean. Anyway, you can take the test, supposedly in under an hour, here https://www.efset.org/en

Yes, it's under an hour: 2x25 minutes with an optional break. For some reason they ask for a phone number later. It might have been optional. Spam is opt-out though so beware.
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/new-algorithm-can-save-a...
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Yes, good point about the differences in semantics with conventional filesystems.

To the extent that they are similar, though, a synthetic filesystem could try to expose the folds as a Plan 9 filesystem interface. Plan 9 filesystems may or may not act like conventional filesystems, sometimes also require talking to a control file in some special-purpose protocol.

Presumable, one could write a Plan 9 filesystem to handle folds in a way that a text editor can exploit (some small modifications to Acme, mostly related to mouse input--and a few rc scripts to talk to the filesystem--would probably be more than enough). But, by doing things the Plan 9 way, you get more flexibility and interoperability; for example, the ability to control folds (perhaps without even opening the text editor, although this raises the issue of how persistent folds should be) from the other scripts, or just to do things like access the contents of a fold with programs like cp, diff, ftp, etc.

Good point as well about XML, a file format that is crying out to be treated along with the folds in a more unified way.
> The only meaningful future electronic mediated system must be completely transparent ... Sacrificing voter privacy to ensure election integrity.

It's possible to get a quite good amount of privacy by the use of pseudonyms. You won't get a system with verifiable guarantees of both confidentiality and accuracy, as that's impossible, but there's no reason we can not make it as good as paper ballots.
Just to clarify, I'm not on a mission to start a "world changing startup"...I'm a mission to create a nice little lifestyle SaaS business that will generate 3-5K in MRR.

Maybe I'm naive, but it seems completely realistic to get to that point with a full time gig. Beyond that, sure, you probably have to quit to grow, but quitting at that point isn't risky because you've already proven you've got traction.
Bitcoin is more than a currency, so reducing opinions about it solely to "speculating on currency" is disingenuous.

Bitcoin is a technology. I've made my career by picking winning open source technologies and betting my career on them. If you think some people who spend their lives predicting day-to-day price movements are better at making technology predictions than I am, I question your assumption. There's a reason I don't speculate in international currency, but that I am willing to express my fiscal-opinion on bitcoin.

I also question your assumption that these groups are anywhere near representing the primary driving forces in the thinly traded bitcoin market at this point.

There is no such thing as a nerds-only price for any investment in so much as you believe a given market is efficient. Fundamentally, what I would argue about investing in bitcoin is that small differences in the estimate of the success scenario produce wide differences in fair value estimates of this asset (because the outcomes possibilities are asymmetrical), so if you have a strong opinion on the different weighting of the possibilities it is no more unreasonable than buying an individual stock, and in fact may be the more rational choice.
They'd still be burning the furniture to make quarterly numbers look good? Mark Hurd had no idea what to do with an engineering company. Making numbers look good by cutting costs and reallocating assets was his only skill.
One solution is to write the YC application using your favorite word processor (vi,Notepad,Word), and when finished copy paste the content to the application form.
Looks pretty. Are there instructions anywhere? Examples provided?
I am curious what kind of layout the YC reviewers backend as, maybe some reviewer can tell us.
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When I left HP around 6 years ago there were maybe 3 HP employees left working on calculators, no joke. They were doing their best to keep the dream alive, but they just didn't have a lot of backing or resources.
Pretty sure we have solved this problem, since we use HTTPS
Does this offer more security than hardware encryption e.g. in latest Intel and Samsung drives? These drives can transparently encrypt all the content with 256-bit AES; the password is ATA password.

They lost me at "Firstly the encryption key is flipped". What does this mean?
This is a school of thought I do not understand at all. Why is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (+jQuery) considered "design", but PHP/MySQL is considered "programming"? JavaScript is a programming language, HTML and CSS merely a presentation layer (though with quite complicated semantics, hardly intelligible to a non-programmer).

My take on this: if you like web design, learn the fundamentals of both graphic/visual design and interaction design. If you want to program, learn algorithms and data structures. The specific tools of implementation (sometimes common to both fields) are something you can learn along the way, but the fundamentals of each field are vastly different.

Nobody hires an accountant because they know MS Excel. They hire them because they know accounting.
There are only three scenarios that would alter the USD reserve status: 1) gradual erosion over decades, via the rise of the yuan for example; 2) if the QE / stimulus era explodes and the globe sinks into an even more protracted recession (ie if the Keynesians were wrong), in which case the US government will print incredible sums; 3) if the US initiates a war against the major European powers or China, that could open a fault-line in the global economy (this is another hyper unlikely scenario)
That is a horrible counter-argument. What about the people on the other side of the transaction who (today) might not even have access to a bank account, let alone an international credit card?

Also, tell me how do you hire someone working in a country with strong capital controls (e.g, Argentina). What good is your credit card if a contractor says "sorry, to use PayPal/Visa/Mastercard/Amex there is a 40-50% surcharge"?
This is really cool. I wonder if you could make a simple DIY solution using small amounts of explosive?