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The problem with the highest value will be very subjective as everyone from different fields will say that their problem is of highest value. I would suggest that you can pick a problem from a domain that you are most familiar with to understand the problem and it's impact.
Wait... Are you asking about a start-up idea ;)
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Agreed. This is how it is done in most hospitals in Germany.

When we had our child in May there were two midwifes with us during the process, the doctor joined once it got serious.

We could have had the child at home or at a birthing house, however we wanted to have the security of knowing that there is surgery available if something should go wrong (the hospital had a special icu for babies, I don't know the english phrase for it, but they basically could do every procedure that might have been necessary).

In addition to that, we really enjoyed the "we don't have to do shit" during the next three days (we got a familiy room, so I could stay with my significant ohter and child. Giving birth at home would have added to the stress (cleaning, getting food, trying to keep visitors away until we had slept a little etc), so for us the hospital was perfect.

That beeing said, I have tremendous respect for midwives. They do a hard job with really shitty hours and a lot of responsibility. And they get screwed over with the insurance, especially in Germany (the premiums for insurance skyrocket while the payment doesn't (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/-camalo-gaskin/the-other-upr...)
I'm surprised not to see the usual contingent of malthusians out in force. We're saving more kids than ever; surely this means we're all doomed, right? BillG should spend all this money on sterilising (poor, non-white) people instead, right?

(ok, ok, this is a bit trollish, but my point stands: the world is getting better and the sky is not falling -- deal with it)
Currently I am going through Udacity front end web developer Nanodegree program where I am paying $200/month.
Link: https://www.udacity.com/nanodegrees
I have paid for last three months and will be paying few more months to complete the program.

In addition, I am also enrolled to Codecademy Labs (Recently introduced pilot program) where it plans to give us project based practices for 3 months. For this it is a one time payment of $250 which I think it worth after attending one on site class and completing 15 HTML, CSS based sites.

So my questions are:

What are your credentials? I mean why would I believe you have enough skills/expertise to take me from absolute beginner level to employable position? You have not mentioned anything about that in your post. So I assume you are just testing the water.

2. What is the timeline? How long it will take for you to guide a batch of students or an individual? Udacity is asking for 6-9 months of time (part time effort) and Codecademy Lab is around 3 months.

If I find you are skilled enough to guide me and land me a web developer job I would not mind shelling couple of thousand dollars for 2-3 months.
True.

Oh. Wait...

How many companies can point to software as impactful as FFMpeg and QEMU? (Don't forget that most Linux based non-VMWare virtualization solutions use QEMU at least in part).
There was a great Nerdnite talk about those bats not long ago http://auckland.nerdnite.com/2014/10/05/nerd-nite-auckland-c...
Yip - may I recommend "Treasure Islands" : http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Uncovering-Offshore-B...

Really really interesting, and quite disheartening.
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Backblaze should expand their service to a cheaper cloud storage service similar to Amazon S3. They already have the infrastructure and the know-how.
The situation described by JackC happens all the time. That's why patent pools like MPEG LA exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA
> I was thinking about writing up a small application paper for this project, but I am really terrible at reading papers from the Computer Science field, let alone writing them.

Thank goodness for that. This blog post was so much easier to read then a formal paper.

Why are formal papers so tedious to read? Imagine how much time we'd waste as a group if he written this as a paper. Many of us would give up before finding the actual information, and those of us that /did/ identify the actual information would have invested a lot more time than it took to read this excellent blog post.
Nah. If they want your stuff, they'd work through the appropriate Mutual Assistance Treaty to get an Australian court to issue a warrant, and then we'd comply with it and hand over your mail because we follow the law.

Making a phone call is way easier and cheaper than giving RobM a free Mediterranean holiday :)
There's also the prickly moral issue that whales are not clearly non-sentient, on a similar level of consciousness to humans.
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This isn't a full time project for me, but just something to scratch an itch: writing out big UML processes in a HTML textarea isn't my idea of an ideal editing process.

It's hard to promise anything up front, but if you register an issue on the github issue-tracker I can at least consider it.

I may like the idea and take on the challenge or I may decide that for me it doesn't seem worth it. But I do also accept pull requests :)
Thanks Tony?
would love to write the script using http://www.nightmarejs.org instead ;)
Although I imagine being able to conduct research but never commercially exploit any discoveries made without the prospect of winding up in court would have a significant chilling effect on research funding.
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Yeah, I figured that was kinda self evident. We wouldn't leave any security holes open. I guess I can edit the blog post to clarify this without changing the meaning any.
> too drained

Drained, or scared?
You can also start with going on a lunch with one person at a time and get to know them while using all your 5 senses at a meal! http://LetsLunch.com
> How many companies can point to software as impactful as FFMpeg and QEMU?

Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc...

> How many individuals can point to software as impactful as FFMpeg and QEMU?

Tougher question.
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Thanks for making a really interesting point that I didn't have space for in the Confidentiality post, but did touch on in the Integrity post.

The whole thing with email is that it's your own immutable copy. If you can't even read it without going to some website that may or may not exist at a later date, then you don't really have a copy. So you wind up having to extract the plaintext and then keep a copy of that somehow to ensure you never lose access. Sounds like normal email, the hard way.
> You, reader, can be a Bellard.

In the sense that you, reader, can write ffmpeg, that's not really true.

In the sense that you, reader, can achieve your maximum potential in any given field if you commit yourself wholeheartedly to doing so, then yes, it is.
I was on the support team for my friends earlier this year for the Oxfam 100km trailwalker[1] - a fundraising event - though I know they're other endurance events where people run for 200kms and longer

1. https://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/melbourne
If your hustle muscle is developed enough you could power through without even needing a technical cofounder. Sam Ovens is one great example (of many).
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Shouldn't all browsers today insist on always trying to establish a TLS 1.2 connection regardless of what the user typed?

This imposes a performance penalty of some kind on the browser. But you can use a bloom filter to know if you should try / not try. Is that too much to ask before communicating in clear-text?

Where is the open #issue - 'communicates in plain text'?
Good question, for now it's a "who's on board" shout. But I would like to float a plan.
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I doubt it. For some websites it probably does not make sense to bear the overhead of TLS.
The price ratio between comparable LED and incandescent holiday light strings is now between 2 and 2.5 to 1. Incandescent holiday lights probably have about two to three years of life left as a product.
Soo, you missed a trollish debate so you're trying to start it even though you don't agree with the presumed point which, in fact, nobody is making?
I think you've hit on a really interesting limitation of end-user password managers. They are really convenient in some cases, but they have crazy bad failure modes, and they aren't always easier to use.

In this landscape, I would be highly paranoid about those kinds of applications. They don't provide the level of protection I would really want for that kind of sensitive data.
My life has become markedly better since I cut out following daily mainstream news. I realized I wasn't gaining anything from it, just loosing.
Helium filled drives are literally a dead-end as their lifespan can be shorter than SSD
If there was some way to pick a referee for x-prizes fairly, I would put money behind that.
I made this a while back. :) http://rmmh.github.io/abbrase/

An interesting fork: http://bcaller.github.io/abbrase/

Some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059210

Letting users pick their passphrases from a list sacrifices a few bits of entropy in theory, and in practice gives much more usable mnemonics.

I'm not sure grammatical models are a definite improvement over Abbrase's naive bigram method -- part-of-speech constraints can make sentences more awkward than freeform associations.

Having 128 bit passwords feels like overkill. I'm not sure on the precise threat model for sites, but the worst case of someone getting your password hash should be ameliorated by not reusing passwords between sites and the password being stretched properly.

If you're actually deriving encryption keys directly from passwords, you'll probably be okay with 60 bits of password entropy and 30 bits of memory-hard stretching.
Why do UI/UX designers not help without charging?
I qualify as senior tech management and have held that role in several companies - large and small. Yet, whenever there was a startup (hell, someone randomly writing in from the internet) I have always spent an inordinate amount of time helping them out - even fixing bugs.

I have taken a lot of help myself - from other engineers, hackers, etc. People here take it for granted that you can ask people to help you with their code and they will not ask for money. Hell, I have lawyer friends who help out for free.

Yet, that is missing from the whole UI/UX design community - we are a small startup and needed some design help. Yet, all the designers that I seek even a bit of help from, take it as a personal affront that I am not paying. Somehow the inability to pay has morphed to a feeling of unwillingness to pay. There seems to be a general defensiveness because (and I'm guessing here) that design was a second class citizen at some point in technology's evolution.

Am I doing something wrong by expecting help for free as a friendly gesture ? this is a genuine question and I'm truly flummoxed.
It's great to see that this wasn't just a one-shot experiment but rather led to the creation of a program that still exists to this day, close to 20 years later, that teaches courses for low-income students in a variety of cities:

http://clementecourse.org/
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3DES is not broken but it is legacy.
If the airlines adopted a simple, predictable pricing scheme, you likely wouldn't be able to afford it.
I visited New Zealand for the millennium. When we picked up our rental car in Auckland, the following conversation happened:

"Sir, a moment before I give you your keys?"

"Certainly."

"You know what a possum is, correct?"

"Yeah."

"Well, we have these furry cute ones that foreigners love to coo over."

"Really?"

"Yes. Very cute. Fuzzy and the like."

"Fascinating"

"Quite! Now, if you see one of the little buggers on the road, there's something you should do."

"Oh? Slow down or drive around them? What should I do?"

"Aim."

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Is anybody has comparison of original image and one decoded from BPG with highlighted difference? E. g. using Imagemagick's compare command.
It is interesting in which areas BPG differ from original.
>I don't know why flash shouldn't be able to win at price/capacity, longevity, total capacity, robustness, performance, etc

yes, you dont, and this is why you think this:
>But flash will have higher performance and higher capacity

longevity, robustness, endurance, it all goes down with every new generation of flash. Performance at silicon level is already as good as it gets, we only win by making wider busses and assessing more data in parallel.
Price per gigabyte comes at a price (haha) or endurance. Speed comes at a price of more chips per disk (or more wafers/structures inside chips) = money.

Want that sweet new 1TB PCIE SSD able to write at 2GB/s? it will shit itself after ~24hours of continuous write.

There is no free lunch with SSDs, they are a dead alley.
Re: "Helium filled drives are a dead end" - Citation?

Also, SSDs come with 10 year warranties [1], so, which exceeds anything you can get with a normal spinning HD. If anything, I'd have more confidence with my SSD than I would with a spinning HD - particularly as you don't have to worry about the drives failing to spin up over time.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-2-5-Inch-Warranty--SDS...
Gosu is good, and Chingu on top of that is even better.
https://github.com/ippa/chingu
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I wish they would setup servers in another country, say Iceland (since they have some there already).

Also, I'm thinking that Australia may not be an ideal jurisdiction if you want to run an email company that cares about privacy. The offering will never get any better than the worst of national laws [weakest link argument].

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/australian-government-...

http://theconversation.com/sweeping-security-law-would-have-...
Not to mention price of this 8GB is multiplies of what you would pay for very fast USB pendrive.
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Why do you think Iceland is safe from government access (even safe from the US government)?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/14/4836994/dont-host-your-vi...
For the readers, this is not a "sous-vide" cooker, only a temperature controlled immersion cooker. "Sous-vide" means "in vacuum" and usually you combine low temperature controlled long time cooking with low pressure.

A book from Thomas Keller about sous vide cooking:
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Pressure-Cooking-Sous-Vide/dp/15...
I fly across the country every few months (live in Arizona, family in Pennsylvania) and I usually pay around $450, round trip.

I could pay less, but I stick with US Airways so I can rack up miles. When I made less money I'd fly whatever airline was cheapest - just under $400 was common.

I've done it all: bus, train, and drove myself. Flying is the best deal, hands down. There's no comparison - round-trip cross-country for $500 is a modern miracle.
This might be useful in minecraft itself - to enhance a bit the animation.
That's a pretty big area of research apparently.
This is painful, because you can support and institution while hate what happens to it. The same happens in the military. You can support our soldiers, but be sickened by base closure being turned into a political tool.
I love Scratch, but it is irresponsible of them to still not be using SSL.
I'm pretty sure there is no need to troll this comment.

Even if your point was logical, it would be debatable.
Hmm surely you had some idea of potential use cases before building it?

The website and your description here don't really match up. The website has some social stuff (local chat, music lists, etc) which isn't really hard to do and doesn't make any sense to do through a 3rd party API at the pricing you're suggesting.

Your description in the OP sounds like there is MORE going on behind the scenes. Tracking unique area covered sounds like a more unique offering. Like other posters, I'm thinking maybe it could be useful to things closer to it's original Bing Maps purpose - local services like snow ploughs, mail delivery, drone fleets, etc.
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In a rack of multiple drives, their short lifespan isn't a problem if the cost model works out. Also, citation on that lifespan claim? They haven't been around long enough to know.
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Are you saying rich countries can figure out how to deal with it so everything is OK?
In all honesty, I can't think of how this data can be used for anything else.
But they're one of the few things to tip the balance in favor of researchers and inventors.

My guess coming into this thread was that the business people and lawyers would be more pro-patent than the researchers and inventors. Of course one can be both, and I don't know the backgrounds of many participants, but it's interesting that in this thread both you and JackC have strong backgrounds in law. Have you found many researchers or inventors without comparable legal expertise who perceive the balance to be tipped in their favor? And moreover, that think this advantage is maintained rather than threatened by patents?
Tests should have some coupling, but good tests need to change less frequently than the target code. Bad tests need to change every time. It seems like there's still value to explore there.
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Scratch is totally awesome, but the huge conundrum has always been where to go "after Scratch". Python isn't it, because its too textural and you can't easily share graphical games unless the recipient also has pyGame installed. Javascript hasn't been it for a lack of appropriate on-ramp, and many of the available resources (eg, CodeAcademy) are too vocationally-based and lack the fun of Scratch.

But there's now a free online tutorial system aimed at "Scratch kids" who want to take the next step. http://s2js.com -- tutors kids through the bits of Javascript they need to know in order to write graphical games that'll run on their smartdevices. It's tutorial, simple development tool, private image storage, and deployment facility all in one.

It's "Javascript as told to Scratchers", and the goal is to provide a bridge that gets them from the delights of Scratch, onto something else that will take them on their journey. S2JS isn't the destination, it's the "enthusiasm transfer tool".
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2) Some GPUs do not penalise branching

3) Some GPUs have MMUs (and share their paging with the host CPUs)
doing an X-prize style competition will probably cause a lot of "wastage" in resources spent by other contestents that _almost_ get the cure, but didn't make it. It will mean that only those who _know_ they have the cure (or it's within reach) would invest in it, and hence, won't get cures for diseases for which we don't know much about. I reckon better way is to have publically funded labs that do the lions share of research, budget split by how common the disease is.
Good call! In this article, they admit to having made up the entire story:

http://observer.com/2014/12/exclusive-new-york-mags-boy-geni...
No need to wait. Rust has basic unit tests inside the source files doc.rust-lang.org/0.12.0/guide-testing.html
AMD have actually released a surprising amount of documentation, for instance:

http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/assets/AMD_Southern_...

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/...

http://www.amd.com/Documents/GCN_Architecture_whitepaper.pdf
I understood it was also because of the pretty yellow flowers and that it didn't grow so well in western Europe
For two independent committees, 6% of papers were acceptable without disagreement, 25% were rejectable while the rest were coin flips. This means when your paper gets accepted or rejected, luck is playing huge part. This is not because judges are actually flipping coin but vast majority of people don't seem strikingly good or bad. So for a repeated trial outcome may not be same. Also, the asymmetry here is striking. Definitely bad papers dominates in number by 4X than definitely good papers.

These are really great observations with deep implications. This same patterns might get applied in other aspects of life such as interviewing candidates or selection of mate or buying a shirt. In all these cases, we might have similar distribution at work.

I have often wondered why is it so hard to have less mediocrity in world? Why is not every book, t-shirt or smartphone is just great? One obvious reason is that lot of times people create something out of obligation such as demand from job instead of out of urge to create. So subsequent question is that if it was possible that no one has to have any obligation to create, can above distribution turn its head over hill? For example, in that scenario would we have, say, 70% great papers, 5% mediocre and rest coin toss?
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This seems likely since it was used for that back in the UK. Also the flowers were used for making dye.
Almost there with SSL - we will be rolling it out for testing by the community in the next month, and we hope to get the entire site SSL only by summer 2015. Sorry it took so long.

(One of the annoying things when we tried rolling SSL out a while back: we got a bunch of reports that users with OS X couldn't access the site - turns out the OS X's parental control blocks SSL sites by default unless explicitly allowed in the whitelist: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201813)
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It's definitely possible that there is no one good definition, but it's a good discussion to have. I applaud that you treat this with your class.

The usefulness is debatable. To me, it's been useful because it helped me see that, for example, a process can also be an object, and you can apply object oriented rules to interacting processes. The Actor model is an extension of that. Modelling a set of Microservices as an object model has also proven valuable.

How you communicate it to students is a not an easy matter. I'm opposed to giving definitions as an absolute truth if they aren't, even if you're doing to prove a point. If you want to teach with different definitions, that is of course perfectly fine, but at least a mention of the debate could solve some later problems. People tend to adhere to the 'laws' they learn for a long time, and if you teach them a definition that is incorrect in some cases, they'll have trouble with those cases.
You could make the same arguments against documenting the machine code of a CPU.
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Of course it sounds interesting...
Threaten is one way to phrase it. Here is another: "you have been speeding on this road for over a year. We told you months ago, and we have been talking about it for months, but it doesn't seem you have changed. If you don't change behaviour before March, we will fine you".

In the end, this is "compared to the USA, in the EU, the government tends to side with humans more than with companies". That discussion has been beaten to death.
I am not sure how many "competitors" there are already