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Telegram is not governed by VCs or large corporations with ambiguous ties to government. Its code is open-source. It hasn't needed to spend money to make itself popular...its users did it for them.

Which you could really say about all the services you mentioned.

The difference is in who's footing the bill for all the other costs.

The founder of Telegram is a privacy and civil liberties activist who has publicly committed to keeping Telegram as secure as possible, and that until a revenue model is determined that honors that standard, he'll continue funding it on his own (he's loaded from equity in VKontakte).

What else are you looking for?
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let it go, man. You keep belaboring the point
Aah I recognise Rooks & Kings... The Clarion Call videos (see youtube rooks & kings clarion call) are absolutely brilliant.
Back in the day, one of the main arguments were that they're "rolling their own crypto", although I don't know how it stands today[0].

[0]: https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-why-did-you-go-for-a-cus...
Isn't it more efficient to use their GPU instances for rendering?
Very bad decision. Myntra's parent Flipkart is also pushing for something similar. Not every user in India has a smartphone to use apps. They will be losing a lot of customers (like my mom, aunt, grandpa, etc) who can use websites but don't use smartphones.
"The payee's name, the written and numeric amount to be tendered, the remitter's information, and other tracking information (such as the branch of issue), are printed on the front of the check." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashier%27s_check

"A bearer instrument is a document that indicates that the owner of the document has title to property, such as shares or bonds. Bearer instruments differ from normal registered instruments, in that no records are kept of who owns the underlying property, or of the transactions involving transfer of ownership. Whoever physically holds the bearer bond papers is assumed to be the owner of the property. This is useful for investors and corporate officers who wish to retain anonymity, but ownership is extremely difficult to recover in event of loss or theft." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_instrument
Arguments as far as I'm aware (please correct me where I'm wrong):

- Crypto is 'home made' and - in spite of their crypto-challenges (or, as another school of thought states, related to the fact of trying to use these challenges to appear 'secure') unproven

- End to end encryption isn't the default
hurmm I really dont understand this, How much it would cost for these multimillion dollar companies to maintain a desktop version!?

To my limited knowledge this is only an effort on client side as the apis to interact on server would be the same be it desktop or mobile.
MacKeeper will execute arbitrary base64 encoded commands on a custom url as root.

I guess it's a "flaw" but whoever put that in knew that would come back to bite. Haha, it's so insanely irresponsible that I don't even know where to start.

We need something like a hippocratic oath, and probably a governing body (or however grown up industries manage themselves), to stop people responsible for this sort of code from having a license to practice.
What's the popularity of 'WhatsApp' like at the moment?

IIRC the folks at Open Whisper Systems (TextSecure, Redphone and Signal) did some work with them to integrate the TextSecure protocol into that.

So while I use TextSecure with friends who are happy to use that, I'm not upset about using WhatsApp with others as it's more mainstream and friendly, but has decent security under the hood.
It depends what the core is. There are a number of Xeons which are the same core as their i7 counterparts. In this case, I'm pretty sure you're not buying anything extra (I think they even cost the same price). You probably had one of these, if your computer was a standard tower. You get ECC memory, but for most that's not a huge problem.

This system they're testing is a beast that's designed for enterprise systems; they're hugely expensive. You're meant to get perhaps 144 hardware threads, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, terabytes of storage and a price tag of >$50,000; it's designed for the limits of vertical scaling (and is a job I imagine it does well).

Even if you were to dump this kind of cash, you'd get terrible performance in practice due to the design decisions made behind all of this (memory system will be tuned for throughput not latency, for example) and poor software support (i.e. an OS like OS X would do a shoddy job of scheduling threads, especially across NUMA domains. Linux was terrible also until a few years ago, it wouldn't manage to schedule more than about 30 threads simultaneously no matter the lad).

I'd go so far as to say that you'd expect better performance from a standard tower than you would from this.

In general you'd expect a desktop processor to give you about as good performance as you'd manage to get for developing C++. All of the editing tools are tuned for desktop processors, and there's not amazing parallelism to be had with most compilations (and incremental compilations won't see them at all). Note the benchmarks are for 'total number of kernel compilations' and not 'time for single compilation' :)
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Venom... really... ugh
Students actually study that much these days?!

I don't see it!

Not being facetious or judgmental either. And there's strong pressure for calc profs these days to not assign more than 30 problems a week. Sensitivity about workload is very high at many institutions.
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Why is string '+' faster than array join with JS?
Technically, using a brainwallet could have prevented that unless they tortured the guy over it.
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Yes that's a good point. So low arithmetic intensity + SIMD benefits POWER mostly.
>> What's wrong with Telegram?

"Hey look! We invented this novel cryptosystem and, despite it being unproven and not having it validated by anyone, we reckon it's the most secure thing ever!"
> but can you imagine what a freshman/sophmore student would do if faced with this situation?

Learn, in my experience.

Getting people to leave a mere "answer getting" mindset and engage with the "technique and problem understanding" mindset is one of the most important parts of the job of teaching freshmen and sophomores (particularly in mathematics). They've often been rewarded for this approach in high school and have trouble letting it go -- but it really constrains the ability to understand things.

The really sad cases are the ones who are really good at it, good enough to survive all the way to grad school sometimes. They aren't doing themselves any favors, and invariably get left behind by people who may have less innate talent but engage more. Hopefully recoverably.
It's always been a part of the American mindset. Look at how Prohibition began to see the connections between the various religious groups and the current groups calling for stricter drug laws. Such groups just have no concept of the social and biological causes of drug abuse. And they would rather punish society at large for what amounts to an illness. I guess it's easier to be tough on drugs/crime/etc than work towards a real solution.
> To write fast JS you need to understand the basics of the engine

The problem is that there are many different engines out there.

Unless of course you are talking about server-side code. But for the server-side, there are more efficient solutions than just javascript.
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One of the precursors to this type of programming was Church (http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church), a Scheme-based probabilistic programming language.

I guess they're separating from said Church? :)
There are some great-looking pixel art phone games out there. Pixel Dungeon, Game Dev Story (and other Mobage games by the same developer). I haven't seen anyone claiming that the graphics are shit in those. This guy's game doesn't look all that great to be honest. However the points he's making about the public misunderstanding the craft that goes into pixel art are valid.
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And step 2.25: find the scraps of paper under the infinitely tall pile of monkey poo.
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Could the order be reversed, encrypting first then compressing second?

So only compress when sending over the wire?
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It depends on what you're doing and which Xeon you get. If you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it. I have some Xeon's with 20MB cache that cut my processing time by ~40%, so they paid for themselves the first time I ran something on them.
> It presents a cosmos of 7,500 interconnected star systems

Is that counting the Wormhole systems? Don't think so.
Most drug trials are 30-90 days.

Is this specific to psychiatric drugs? I write software for a company that facilitates patient report outcome/clinical outcome assessment trials for the pharmaceutical industry, and we have trials that run for years. I don't believe our products have been used in a psychiatric drug trial, though.
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Just long enough to unplug fibers, install passive taps, and reconnect.
Just thought I would mention that only the client is libre; the server is still closed.
In my case I meant my most outspoken feminist friend - i.e. someone who does not hide it and folds feminism into her outlook on life and her everyday actions.

Also please note that at no point have I said "all feminism is good and right all the time", I think much of the hysterical stuff on the net is counterproductive (at best) and some of it is downright hostile to all men.

--edit-- But I think that there is 'good' feminism in abundance as well, whereas I don't think that this exists very much in the MRA space.
We're all equal, but some are more equal than others.

This is the endgame of your so-called "responsible disclosure". Those with profit loss exposure win, and the peasants get it whenever the PR company is done making the logo and infographics.
So stupid. Taco Bell tried it and fairly quickly realized how stupid it was.
Apparently it does happen with bank accounts. So no, your point does not stand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

EDIT: In fact Bitcoin is much better protected against this. m-of-n signatures, brain wallets, hardware devices such as Tresor, etc.
My Mom would love the name. Clever.
> Having sex with someone without their consent is rape, but that doesn't automatically mean it's a bad thing.

Yes, it does.

> If a woman "raped" me, didn't get pregnant by it, didn't give me any skanky diseases, and didn't publicly accuse me of being the rapist, then I'd probably enjoy it.

Jesus Christ.
Yes, if you mean vs humans.

Mars is the only planet known to be inhabited entirely by robots
for which the big IT service providers are either too expensive, too slow or just don't have the right skills at hand

If you know what your BigCo competition charges, can you simply reduce the delta between their price and yours, at a level where your customer will still save significantly?
In general, not unless the judge rules the claim was made in bad faith. There are some specific exceptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney%27s_fee#Who_pays
To my way of thinking, Solyndra is far more defensible than the bank bailouts, especially when you look at it in the context of Tesla and other companies they've funded. However, that's not how it plays politically, and there's really nothing Democrats can do about that in the short-to-medium term. Besides, Tesla still has something of an "elite" flavor, so bragging about "saving" it (which probably isn't true, but they did help) doesn't get them much credit from voters who don't even know anyone who owns a Tesla.
Didn't try nearly as many, but same thing for me.
The default protocol is share everything with the server:

https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-secure-is-telegram

That is clearly prioritizing user convenience over "as secure as possible".
As far as I'm aware:

- Your WhatsApp messages don't use that 'security' by default (or do they?)

- That thing isn't open source and they could rip or swap out any encryption support they offer
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I've been flying RC for ~16 years, on and off, and the rules for operating an RC aircraft safely have always been the same.

DO NOT FLY NEAR PEOPLE.

It's that simple. No functioning machine can ever be inherently safe, safety is the result of continuous exercise of good judgement. When operating a large nitro powered helicopter, featuring 700mm long carbon fibre knives that spin at 2000rpm, controlled by an imperfect operator, through an imperfect electronics system, powered by an unreliable motor I am aware that it is an intrinsically dangerous object, and I only fly it in controlled areas, without bystanders who could get hurt.

And it annoys me to no end when I see some idiot crashing his DJI into a building (no flying within 400m of a built-up area - don't fly near people), or a new guy with a t-rex or raptor helicopter flying near people in a park in the middle of town (Don't fly near people!) Or someone who should know better like a model aero club member flying over the pits or the viewing area or the carpark (don't fly near/over people!)

I actually want something like the machine described in the article, because I want to be able to film myself skiing, without the horribly cliched helmet cam, but unless I can get something small enough that it CANT hurt someone in a collision, or something with very robust collision avoidance, I can't use it.
Ideally both, because even with perfect collision avoidance, something else could still break.
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I quote a price, you accept or reject it. If you reject it, I was too high for you. But being too high for you may be just be a natural outcome of any number greater than zero being too high for you. God bless cheap clients, but I don't want them anymore. They're not worth the trouble.

On the other hand, if you accept my offer, I was either perfectly priced or too-low. Odds are the latter. Next time around I should raise my prices. It will make you a better client.

The important point is that pricing is both empirical and social. The empirical part is solely what someone is willing to pay. The social part is how pricing as a signifier effects the business relation. Clients who push hard for zero dollar pricing don't value the relationship. Long term B2B relationships are built around mutual success and the value of working with the same people on future projects.

The pitfall of pricing is imposter syndrome. It's thinking "Surely, I am not worth $15 per hour so I'll offer my services at $10." Fear of rejection also plays a role, "I'm not even worth $7.50 an hour." Note the downward pressure. Remember that for some clients zero dollars is the best price because they don't value the relationship.

All of which is to get to the advice, value based pricing is empirical. The only way to establish the right value is by raising your prices. Time and materials proposals are just as value based priced as fixed price proposals. The value comes from what I do, not the contract form. Value based pricing doesn't mean that I get a share of future revenue. That's a bad idea anyway, it's too much accounting and auditing for both parties. Getting paid quickly trumps just about everything except getting paid.

Finally, your clients aren't avoiding the big IT service providers and calling on you because they are expensive. The slow and low quality are what kills your client. Essentially no matter how much they pay a big IT service your client won't get what they really want. That's why they've contacted you. That's why they are willing to take the hit-by-a-bus-risks associated with a one person shop.

Good luck.
> I just fired back something along the lines of "you're quite a sperglord.
> Would you be comfortable with that response? Would it feel pleasant, or even neutral? Or would it feel like a personal attack -- something that would make you feel an impulse to lash out back at me?

Just as I don't care about your feelings, I also don't care that you thing I am a sperglord. It's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

I agree that we must be nice (smiling, saying "thank you", being polite, etc). I see it as a social convention, a sort of rule like driving in the right side of the road and following the traffic signs. It makes society work smoothly and we, as social beings, are hardwired to react positively to it. Now being kind... That just assumes an emotial investement in the other person, which I simply don't have with 90% of the people I interact daily.

To conclude, I'll respond to the OP's article. It's not the author's fault. His co-workers don't want to work with him because he wasn't nice, besides him being more than capable for the job. IMO it shows how unprofessional they are.
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It would have been reassuring if they disclosed whether they were vulnerable earlier, and if it required a patch to be installed.
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I'm guessing recorded music and film/TV.
The vulnerability is in floppy drive emulator code. It isn't clear to me whether all users are vulnerable or only hosts that have floppy drive devices defined [in their guests] are vulnerable.

If the latter, perhaps Amazon was never vulnerable anyway?
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Freedom Pop, ugh my experience with them has been one of bait and switch. I bought a hotspot from them and I ended up canceling a couple of months after that due to unauthorized charges and suspicious account upgrades.
To add insult to injury you have to call them to cancel your account something that took me hours to finalize.
The one bright spot is that their customer service do not contest at requests to drop fees/charges it must be a common request from customers
Saying that it was "not cool" on social media, causing a shit-storm (hence, mob morality). She could have just notified the organizers and have them deal with it, and be done with it. Maybe talk to the guys if she felt comfortable with that, but obviously she didn't. I don't hold that against her.

But instead she had to go the extra mile and tweet it in a state of fury and indignant rage. Sharing/shaming people on social media in order to get revenge; always an advisable move. Like being drunk and deciding that you should give that guy who you've always had a problem with "a piece of your mind". But surely, she couldn't have foreseen that sharing something like that might cost one of the guys his job? Except her job had to do with PR and social media. Come on; she knew what she was doing. She knows what kind of power having many followers on Twitter grants you. She knows how touchy this whole gender/women/tech topic is. And she wasn't sorry about it later.

Well, that was a nice trip down memory lane...
Ask HN: To what extent should code be taught in schools?
Hi HN!

I'm curious to hear your opinions regarding whether or not children should be taught to code in school. In 10 years, should it be a significant, mandatory part of the curriculum, or not? Why?
Depends.

If it costs you 15 full time developers 6 months to transfer your x86 rendering code to port to OpenCL (or CUDA), then maybe spending $100,000 on hardware is cheaper than spending $700,000+ on developers.
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Speedy public trials, in this day and age, can take a year or more from the time of conviction.

That's a long time to spend in jail - a location where you have no real freedoms.
Easy. Any involved computation like raytracing, molecule interaction, protein folding.

Raytracing alone can load absolutely any system to the max, because it scales so well.
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It's from the same director. I like the series, the second season in currently on TV.
I'm looking at this: https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-why-are-you-mostly-relyi...

While there seem to be "home made" elements, these are in how they are combining well-known cryptosystems.

So there may well be flaws in how they put it together or in the implementation, it doesn't appear to be a classic case of "home made" snake oil encryption. Also, it seems to be public, not the usual "trade secret" of snake oil.
I don't understand the point in shutting down the website. There's a large audience in India which browses for products on e-commerce website while casually browsing other stuff.
Taking the service entirely to an app based platform isolates a lot of such customers.

Another point is that the there is a section of audience which doesn't necessarily use smart phones, or won't use smart phones for making such purchases, who now won't access myntra.

Indian e-commerce space is evolving, and with so many players in the field, the ultimate user would explore all the other options before committing to a purchase (unless they are extremely loyal to myntra), and now it seems to me that with the platform restricted to mobile/tab application, myntra has made a huge mistake.

But it would be interesting to see how this pans out.
I think a lot of it is timing and momentum. I just bought an Ubuntu phone only to discover there is no whatsapp on it. I am happy to use Telegram, but convincing friends is an uphill battle.
Since the vulnerability is in floppy drive emulator code, it isn't clear to me whether all deployments are vulnerable or only hosts that have floppy drive devices defined in their guests are vulnerable. Can someone please clarify?
I'd wager a large amount of virtual currency that these are not specifically aimed at virtual currencies, but virtual implementations of real-world currencies.
I for one am hoping that this catches on, walled garden or not I'd rather spend my time reading content on an interface that I don't have to fight against (e.g. full screen overlay ads with a tiny x to close) and I trust facebook to build that better than anyone else.

I'm also surprised publishers are going along with it though, it seems a little ironic. The only reason this product is interesting is because so many mobile articles today have horrible UIs. Native views will probably be nicer anyway but publishers could mostly fix this right now if they were willing to give up my accidental ad clicks. But instead they need someone like facebook to save them from themselves in order to make their content consumable again.
Render 3d graphics really fast? That's all I do that would begin to leverage that sort of power. Typically the two taxing things I do are play around with games and do 3d graphics/animation in Cinema 4D and AfterEffects. Games aren't built to make use of that many threads/cores or that much RAM but for graphics stuff, it would be like having my own little render farm in one workstation.
Does that even matter? All transactions are logged, including money transfers.
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