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The Stripe TOS says:

"Most Prohibited Business categories are imposed by Card Network rules or the requirements of our banking providers or processors" (https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses).

Bitcoin avoids much of the high-risk card issues so will Stripe update its Bitcoin TOS to allow more high-risk transactions and regulated industries?
You could use a Coinbase USD account, that only converts to BTC at point of purchase. This eliminates all volatility risk.

If anonymity is important to you, then you can hold BTC, and pay the volatility cost.
The maps itself are stellar
But the app itself is horrendous to me (especially on Android) - a lot of advanced functionality was simply gutted out of it
Interesting article.

I checked your repo, maybe use nuget for packages such as Newtonsoft.Json.
Internal computer parts are not even close to comparable to a tire. A more reasonable comparison would be a clutch, which you'd expect to last more than a year if treated properly.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&&q=argentine+peso+blu...

I believe you are looking at the official rate.

Having said that, even if I was Argentinian I wouldn't hold any significant wealth in Bitcoin.
means can u enter your data in JSON format ? looks very simple ,in frontend i can see you are using jQuery ..whats the Application layer language/framework. also looks very fast . which db are u using?
Seems it was created by one developer called Stephen Cross (scross.co.uk). I am quite impressed by his accomplishment. The only thing I miss are custom allocators.
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For international fund transfers, yes. It doesn't require using correspondent banks. It's a direct, point-to-point transfer of value.
Of course none of that is strictly necessary. Plants grew for millions of years without anybody planting them, they can still grow.

That said, plowing and fertilizing are used to improve a terrain. Without those, you'll get a much lower yield. Their effects will last for several years, so one can get good results for some time without using them, but they are far from unnecessary. Human population was too big to sustain on Earth without those techniques milenia ago. Weeding is useless for some crops, actually damaging for others, but essential for some. Pesticides and herbicides too often do more harm than good, but are almost unavoidable on some cases. And pruning makes trees have the shape you want, what has a deep economical impact.

It's true that the agriculture overuses some techniques, but alternative agro proponents are often radicals that really don't deserve to be listened.
I replaced the one in mine with an Intel card (7260NGW) and it works fine under Linux.
I haven't used the Suface Pro 3 myself but I'm wondering, can it become your sole/main dev machine? Or is it only good for some light coding?
sigh

Linux on good new laptops always tends to be 85-90% of the way there. I'd like to switch back to Linux from Apple products but it's never 100%.
Cheaper fees are moot points in the context of what costs the end user will incur at the end of the day. Anonymity? Are we still keeping our talk limited to "BC payments for VPNs" and "BC payment for those seedboxes in the DMCA agnostic parts of the EU" (not that it's not a valid use case)? I guess not, at least that's not the popular argument around.

Volatility of Bitcoin prices puts stock market rate fluctuations to shame. Think of it from the market price point of view and from the point of view of an end user, like me - who'll buy Bitcoins (yes, one who didn't win the gold rush lottery or couldn't afford the mean machines or wasn't just aware) to buy a pair of jeans which has its price fixed at, let's say, $59.99 since last 7 months. When I bought the Bitcoins it cost me $1200/b.c, but the next day when I went to buy that jeans with my Bitcoins - or maybe I just wanted to convert it back to dollars, it was at $800/b.c or let's just say $1100/b.c if you find the former rate too far fetched.

Trust me, it just doesn't make any practical financial sense to me and no, I am not in the minority, I am part of the majority. If you say that "Bitcoins were never meant for the majority in the first place" then it's a different story altogether.

Also, if I would have had the 1000s or even 10s or maybe 100s of Bitcoins from the initial gold rush (given I was able to afford an able and mean mining rig) it would have been a different story - I mean my "different" point of view then.

And just to be clear I value my privacy just like I know my affordability and financial limits too.
Stupid popup about something-or-other.

http://tabcloseddidntread.com/
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I'm not convinced there's much traffic to shownew
So they just decided to declassify or screw up all the intelligence operations that did just that to give them selves a bad rep?
Bullet point 4 is what I'd been wondering about:

• The Superfish proxy accepts its own certificate, so now that the private key has been leaked, an attacker can mimic an arbitrary site in Chrome and IE

I thought there might be a chance that despite all the other idiocy here, they might have refused external certificates from their own CA, mitigating the risks somewhat. But no suck luck for Lenovo customers!
No.

Companies like Apple are the place where you can have the least impact.
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Terms, defined here: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/semantics

Explanation of the conflict resolution in simple terms, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077969 .

Return values, with comments explaining their purpose, here: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/How-to-Create-GUN (I know you referenced this already, but did you read the comments explaining each return value? Edit: upon further reading your comment, it looks like you did, you just didn't like them. Perhaps I should make them more concise)

Slides (no audio/video unfortunately) on what operations to apply given the HAM return values, here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VIOJc0bdzUNs7yXMLKCc...

Persistence, currently S3 or localhost-testing-only disk. Persistence is a plugin.

ACID: Please link me to your favorite explanation of ACID that is clear and concise. I'll try and base my reply off that. I haven't found any good ones. GUN is AP, not CP.

People are taking me seriously, enough that I have contributors and funding. Some people don't take me seriously, and I'm trying hard to open up to them and be honest.

Do I need better documentation? Yes. Do I have documentation? At least some, yes.

What else can I handle for you?
So far the consumer support stories I heard from Dell and Lenovo, have almost always been way worse than Apple's. When you read about good support from Dell for example, it's usually their business support. Apple can be tricky, but so far I've always been able to find at least one support partner or Apple store that is competent in a particular area. I've also never had to wait for long.
That is a different package of the same name.
That's not how the law works for multinational corporations - they are accountable to the laws in the nation in which they conduct business (which isn't to say they will be persecuted).
I have a REST API in place already (you can check the graphs page and use that endpoint to return whatever you want from your data), but read-only at the moment, as I'm doing some adjustments to the 'write' part. You'll be able to insert data in JSON, bulk or not, within days. Need to write documentation and put it live.

The tokens are just a simple GET call you can make and it counts +1 to the dataset (for that token).

The stack is Django, Postgres, uWSGI, nginx.
why minus votes?
You're going to block all of AWS?
Back in the day all you had to do was monitor the microwave and satellite links to get all the long haul communications. You didn't have to expose yourself at all.

Now things are the opposite. It is easier to sweep up a bunch of local stuff in the form of cell phone calls but you need a physical connection to tap fibre..
Sounds like a good idea. I'll add that as a feature request :)
This is an impressive trajectory these guys have been on -- congratulations to Max and the team, and I hope they have a great year ahead.
Just left a message for you. We might be able to offer an entry level gig if you're willing to move to the valley. You do have to know your math & cs, but you are a uiuc guy so that shouldn't be a problem.
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It was illegal until recently.
And this matters because even if you uninstall the program, it leaves the certificate behind, right? So you have to manually remove the cert to shield yourself against future attacks, in addition to removing the program
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It's also likely or possible that other disclosures are labeled under Snowden in order not to compromise or reveal the existence of a new source.
This is a PDF attached to this issue, requesting blacklisting of the Superfish certificate:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134506
This says a good deal about your company's priorities.

You say you do due diligence to make sure the software you include is secure... yet you miss on such blatant vulnerabilities.

"Not doing enough" only scrapes the surface.
I never intended to imply that anyone should implicitly trust Lenovo now because this happened; such a point is so ridiculous I'm surprised you believe I was making it. I also never made that point that Lenovo is somehow the wronged party -- which is again is ridiculous.

Instead, given the general attitude of most PC manufacturers with regard to what is pre-installed, I don't think boycotting Lenovo would necessarily save you from this sort of issue in the future. You're just as likely to be burned by almost any one of them. This product wasn't even made specifically for Lenovo.

Perhaps this attention will make Lenovo more careful in the future. It equally might not. It might make other manufactures more careful. Or it might make no difference at all.
It relies on the data being commutative. If the data is not commutative then we need, wait for it, drum roll please, some consistency, which by your own admission is not provided. The consistency is the hard part which is why there is an entire field of study on just this problem.

I fail to see how your merge algorithm is deterministic in case of failures.
This is also one of my favourite books of all time, and many of Dr Sacks' books are other top contenders. Quite apart from his wonderful human aspect, and the fascination and empathy he has with his patients, it's very thought provoking. I had never really considered how totally wonderful our perception and consciousness mechanisms are until I was forced to by reading his accounts of patients who for one reason or another are missing them. For example, the title story is a man whose vision is perfect, but totally lacks the ability to synthesise the forms he's perceiving into objects, so he has no idea what he's looking at. Truly fascinating. What amazing abilities we all take for granted.
There are folks using Hack (e.g. http://hhvm.com/blog/6005/hack-community-roundup-3) and there are some others in the pipe that will be detailed later on.
How many silicon valley patriots would support this outrageous attack?

It was one week ago that Obama was arguing that this kind of activity is necessary.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/stanford-obama-ti...

This is not a republican/democrat problem. This is an institutional problem. We need comprehensive reform of both parties and it should be followed by a purging of the existing federal machine.
Then I think the CLR would be a good starting point [1]. Or you could settle for single-threaded ClojureScript/JavaScript.

[1] https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
That would have been comical, considering uninstalling doesn't remove the root cert, so a user would have been more secure with superfish installed than uninstalled.
The Superfish proxy accepts any certificate. If you're being MITMed (before Superfish MITMs you), Superfish will help them by replacing their certificate with Superfish's.
Always wire payments. My consulting clients are mostly based in Europe for their HQ's, so they don't believe in checks. They also are very timely, within 5-7 days of a NET30. Like clockwork.
Not that this excuses Lenovo in any regard whatsoever, the removal instructions[1] Lenovo link to in their press release[2][3] includes the removal of a certificate.

[1] http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_u...

[2] http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929

[3] http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish
I don't understand the appeal of touch screens (really, not trolling). What sort of tasks do you find one superior for?
Plaxo is still in business, as are any number of dark-pattern-using and outright user-hostile companies who do not have good reputations among people who are not their customers. Certain dirty tricks may also enjoy a perverse incentive in that they don't directly affect their customers, but market share or other B2B forces.

Surely a good reputation is better than a bad one, and Mr. Buffett is successful in light of the reputations in which he invests, but this is not the sum total of companies enjoying capital success.

This is what I mean by capitalism not discouraging dirty tricks: it may encourage not using dirty tricks, but using dirty tricks is not a disqualifier for success, nor do dirty tricks always result in a universally poor reputation that would kill companies in other contexts.
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Their partner sees "XYZ.com" on the bill and goes to look it up. "Why are you buying porn?" "Oh that wasn't me! Someone must have stolen our card" and they submit a chargeback.
I am not concerned about that. It is bad practice to damage security for all because of few. This is all I am saying. It seems like a pretty bad idea to me.
Ah, but how would you easily access the number 6 out of the nested list '((((5 4 3 2 1) 6) 7) 8 9) without one of the cute compositions of "car" and "cdr"? In this case, "cadaar". (Rhetorical question. "car" and "cdr" are neat for their cute composition, but I would never inflict that on someone first learning the language.)
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Email him. In my experience he's fantastic about answering questions via email.

Then post his reply here, I'm curious too.
This is the reason:

"This design also differs from C++ in that vtable pointers are not stored in objects, but are part of an interface type reference. This decision is particularly appropriate to the language, since Loci doesn’t require classes to explicitly implement interfaces"
hehe good one.

for people that need more info on the joke. You can count with one hand to 31 in binary and to 1023 using both hands.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_binary
He's talking about the Ars review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/review-the-dell-xps-1...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but a common criticism of The Economist's values is that they have never seen a problem that could not be fixed by deregulation and privatization.

Like the second-to-last paragraph here, for instance:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/aug/21/pressandpublish...
That depends on what network you're using. If you're using a landline from the incumbent local exchange carrier, the probability of a local call going over voip is effectively almost zero. Likewise, for long distance carriers, AT&T, the ex-MCI networks Verizon owns, and the Sprint wireline long distance network (their mobile stuff goes over separate facilities; their long distance network, as well as most of the ex-MCI networks use a platform called the DMS-250, which is very much oriented to non-packet connectivity) generally don't use voip trunks for national traffic. Also, there is no least cost routing operation like on most of the smaller carriers, so there's no need to hit any sort of public network until it reaches the access tandem at your destination, at which point, it definitely isn't exchanged in any sort of IP format.

Internationally, it depends on what carrier they interconnect with and what they want. Generally speaking, I think Verizon will use more IP-based routes (usually to more expensive countries) then the other two.

By contrast, landline service coming from the cable company generally does go over voip, but only within their internal network. For local and inbound calls, it'll still hit some DSx trunks back to the phone network. 1+ long distance traffic, at least on Comcast, is definitely in IP format, and could very well even be hitting the public internet for least cost routing operations.
You don't think that would feel like reading a new suicide note every year?
Because you've misunderstood the situation.

There's no doubt that this key can be used to man in the middle user connections, that's what the software it was extracted from is using it for.
> The Obayashi Corporation, one of Japan’s five big construction companies, last year published plans for a more robust space elevator carrying robotic cars powered by maglev motors similar to those used on high speed rail lines. These would carry humans making the required tether strength greater. Their design would cost $100bn, with transport costs down to $50-100 a kilogram.

That seems... incredibly cheap for a space elevator. Are they saying their design would cost $100bn total, or is that for the car only?
Well one plus is the total RAM footprint of a Linux distro + a DE, is less (by a lot) than just OS X's kernel. Right now, xnu alone is using 960MB on my laptop. Oink oink oink.

Edit:MBP82, created new user accounts, reboot, login, launch Firefox, load CNN, wait 2 minutes. Did this twice each Fedora 21 Workstation (Gnome) and OS X 10.9.5. Fedora free -m used = 614MB. OS X top PhysMem Used = 2866M, Activity Monitor Memory Used = 3.69GB. I suspect Activity Monitor includes "wired" which top splits out. shrug Anyway, it's not a tiny difference. Omnomnomnom.
Thank you so much for letting me know! I've emailed the admins about it.
It compiles to LLVM and LLVM abstracts the calling convention. So it might be safe to assume it supports all the calling conventions that LLVM supports.
> 90% of the time the desirable quality of TLS traffic is authentication of the server, not encryption.

Authentication of the server is not sufficient, you also have to authenticate every message as having a valid checksum and signature.

>Typical use case: software updates distributed as signed packages

This is a specific use-case because the package checksums are verified before any of the code is executed (unlike injected javascript to webpages). Also the checksum is usually obtained from the package server, so if SSL is broken the checksum can be spoofed as well.
The 3rd Gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon has 4GB (soldered) by default, and the biggest configuration that I can find has 8GB. What are they thinking?
Greenwald and Poitras have said this publicly many times. They have years worth of material to report from the cache of files.
But what about when someone wants to donate to wikileaks, which supports free speech (say), but they don't want governments to know that?

People need money to speak freely (especially when they are persecuted for it), and those donations should be anonymous.
Gemalto doesn't just make sim cards. They also make OTP tokens - http://www.gemalto.com/readers/tokens
speed: The blockchain is updated only every 10 minutes and you need to wait for even longer if you want to be 100% sure a longer fork won't show up.

cost: bitcoin miners must spend enormous amounts of energy in an inefficient process in order to keep the network running. Right now, most of the mining costs are covered by the bitcoin bounty that is awarded to miners that successfully mine a block but this reward decreases with time and eventually and transaction fees will have to increase to compensate.
This. Arguing that Common Lisp sucks because the names of functions are not sufficiently python/C/Algol-like is like arguing Chinese languages are never going to become widely accepted because they aren't sufficiently like European languages. People who argue against car/cdr are the same people who will blindly accept printf, strlen, scanf (wtf?), __le__, zip. They accept those names because they actually learned the language and discovered those were trivial details and don't judge something so superficially. (also, ~95% of common lisp names are more like with-open-file, or define-setf-expansion, or make-load-form, or most-positive-float, or standard-input, instead of, what mkStr, <stdin>, isalnum, fprintf, ? :, and the like)
Shoot me an email (address in my profile). I'm happy to spend 30 minutes to give you some interview pointers / talk about this issue.
Conscription make the military service irrelevant.
It's project based, something you don't normally see in public education. It focuses on integrating the disciplines. Students don't have a science course, then a math course, then a writing course. Students are given a problem to solve that cuts across disciplines and have to use different disciplines to solve the problem.

The concept has been around forever, but modern education has put disciplines into silos. STEAM is trying to reintegrate things.
Is there any cross platform language that does it like Objective C w/ ARC? I find that one a pretty good balance between being able to go nitty gritty with optimisations while not having to care about memory management details for the standard use cases. IMO it's also much easier to learn than C++. Could Rust be the answer?
http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Publications/Magazines/resourcef...

my work sponsored CSIRO to look into some of this stuff, from everything I've heard theres a lot of potential for biochar.
Erlang, despite its fusty syntax, already feels like the future for anyone using it.
I think at scale, that's true. But what if you're a small team, or a solo developer? Let's face it: there's no way you'll be able to port Unity or Unreal to a new platform by yourself, so that might as well not even factor into it.
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One notable line:

"GCHQ operatives identified key individuals and their positions within Gemalto and then dug into their emails. In one instance, GCHQ zeroed in on a Gemalto employee in Thailand who they observed sending PGP-encrypted files, noting that if GCHQ wanted to expand its Gemalto operations, “he would certainly be a good place to start.”"
And yet for some reason the idea that data should be separately encrypted at every protocol layer is something people fight.
I am not sure I believe this. What studios have you worked for that found lack of source okay?

Basically anyone making interesting games needs source, because at some point you want to do things that the engine didn't exactly anticipate.

Also, if Unity really were "an efficiency avalanche", we'd be seeing a lot of high-polish games in Unity. To date we haven't really.
Good start. Many others have suggested other query types. I would also suggest that you cover inserts as well.
In my experience, HP and Lenovo are usually the only ones enforcing whitelists.
one thing also to consider, though is that Dell and Thinkpad have tiers of products (consumer, business), whereas Apple only has one. For example, the superfish thing doesn't even affect the Thinkpad line of Lenovo. If you only compare consumer reports for their Thinkpads vs Macbooks, you'd probably see less difference in costumer satisfaction.
Asserting the argument is weak doesn't make it weak. You have to prove your case. Your response lacked any awareness of the compelling benefits of the batteries.

And thinking of the idea is one thing. Being able to manufacture, sell, and service the batteries at scale is something entirely different.
You misread me. I am not advocating for anything. I am commenting on the constraints and issues of the problem space.