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I presume that you're referring to Wiles' statement to the effect that, "Proving Fermat's Last Theorem is probably the biggest thing that I'll ever do." As a young student, it made a big impression. Eighteen years later, as a professional scientist, it's even more poignant.

Found it in a NOVA transcript [1]:

"At the beginning of September, I was sitting here at this desk, when suddenly, totally unexpectedly, I had this incredible revelation. It was the most—the most important moment of my working life. Nothing I ever do again will. . . I'm sorry."

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2414proof.html
Don't forget Kavinsky!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavinsky
> just because you have trouble reading it

Please don't make comments needlessly personal.
Will be interesting but a distraction from real INFOSEC work. DARPA and NSF have been leading the way with programs investing in real security. All kinds of results from SAFE processor to CHERI capability architecture to self-diversifying systems to inherently secure programming have come from this. Their HACMS work, for example, was even integrated into a UAV software.

It's that sort of work that's really delivering and needs more support. Smart people at institutions with good grant writers should stay watching all the DARPA and NSF security funding announcements. Plenty of money going around to solve fundamental problems. Great results so far that just need more development and adoption. And more bright men and women in the trenches fighting the rest of the hard problems.
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Same issue we had trying to get people to forums. Signing up is hard to do no matter how easy you make it. Including if it allows for Facebook sign-ons.

They're already ON Facebook. It's on their phone. They don't have to do anything.

Trust me, I -want- an updated platform to use, but the rest of the gamer community here just doesn't seem to want to migrate.
This is a neat idea, nicely presented. The proposal appeals to a wide audience by explaining the defensive significance of the tools it asks participants to develop. Is there any reason to think that people who were directly or indirectly involved in proposing this challenging are also interested in offensive applications, and chose not to talk about them?
I thought that it was obvious that I was talking about ability. Why should it matter if the founders are attractive?

VCs can probably tell a 5 apart from a 3, but it doesn't matter because neither a 3 nor a 5 is someone you want to fund. They can't tell a 7 from a 9, is what I'm saying. If they're not dealing with people of similar pedigree and experience, they may not be able to tell a 9 from a 5, even.
I was convinced that self-driving convoy trucks where they just follow the leader were already a thing for like 20 years. Downright certain of it. It just seemed so obvious and relatively easy to implement.

Then bam, a few months ago, someone makes a big deal out of making that a reality. I was very confused.
> Disagree. I have yet in my life (I'm 32) to see a true conservative exist anymore (fiscally conservative, and libertarian from a social perspective).

The conflation of social libertarianism with being a "true conservative" is kind of a weird thing. In the centuries since the term was coined as a political descriptor, conservative has mostly been associated with, on the social dimension, authoritarian traditionalism, not libertarianism.
How many successful ventures have you created so far? How succesful?

How much capital do you have?

What else are you bringing to the table that no one else has?
Firewalls were always an ugly hack that got grandfathered in as a 'best practice.'
If you are predicting these things, and people are doing mass market products before you can even prototype, it just means that people had this idea before you did, and it isn't that unique any more.
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GNUCash lets you do separate import and reconciliation steps. The problem was the bank didn't support OFX. Or maybe even QIF, it was a long time ago and I was naieve.
I think they are talking about the issue tracking etc
Escape from New York,
Big Trouble in Little China,
maybe even Howard the Duck
Oh, it has a transcript! With code samples! I don't even know what Realm does but I like them already.
I had never heard of that minus the self-organizing teams concept. I'll have to read more on the subject, esp empirical data, before I can answer such a question. Thanks for the link and bringing it to my attention!
Just a note: this is definitely not one of those "fall from grace" stories where SMB was some sort of pinnacle achievement in gaming. If you want to relive your childhood by playing a Mario game on a TV, get a Wii U and play NSMBU. It'll look "as good as you remember" (rather than having aged), and more importantly, it'll be a fresh set of challenges exercising the same skills, so it'll be just as hard as you remember, rather than just an automatic muscle-memory cruise. You will actually feel like a kid again, rather than an adult reminiscing.

People get so excited about "modernized ports" of the old Mario games... but Nintendo has already made them, with new levels! (I should also mention that Mario 3D World is everything I ever wished for while playing Mario 64.)
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My impression was that peers are generating the deltas on-the-fly based on which commits the requesting peer states it needs. The problem's therefore shoved onto git itself, with the seeder just cherry-picking a specific range of commits from its own copy of the repo and bundling them together.
Wanderlust, Socrates, and the Social Contract
I can't help but imagine how awkward that would be. If tilting your head repeatedly and talking to yourself was not enough, touching yourself all over the body will definitely make you look awkward!
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Fair point!

I made that statement because a lot of people don't realize that Bitcoin, ignoring the fact that you can trade it, has solved a fundamental consensus problem in distributed systems that we should care about and use :)
Why is this just being added to the native API?

What about wrapped-js-apps, and single page apps?
I like the fact that selectsmart ranks each possible candidate, and not just general parties.

For example in 2008 there were significant policy differences between Obama and Clinton. And I wanted to know who I sided with in the primary.
There's no doubt about that. Namely because people are chasing dumb money which is flooding various markets around the world due to the respective central banks. No one has a vision anymore and consumers have been so twisted in and around themselves and social media its not likely they'd recognize it anyway. So, a correction occurs, and people re-center on what's of value after .. When that happens is anyone's guess. The central banks surely dont intend to stop anytime soon w/ the cheap credit and outright dumping of trillions into equity markets. So, for now we get ventures of excess in one's self a la : branding/advertising/social media/tinderfication etc.
I've heard it more often referred to as Vaporwave, your basic point is sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave
If that's the case, then you need to adjust your income/wealth/etc inequality numbers by that same factor. I.e., the inequality for a person living in London and earning 2x as much as someone in Preston might need to be adjusted down to perfect equality (assuming the cost of living in London is also 2x Preston). So why didn't you adjust your numbers in this way?

Also, if inequality is merely a matter of where one lives, why do you care?

As I said, this sort of observation seriously undermines basically every complaint about inequality.
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One thing I really like from a design perspective is the fact that you list the role (and Language) first. Often times I care a lot less about the company than about the position and stack I'd be applying for. Unless it's a particular well known startup most have likely never heard of the company anyway so it makes a lot of sense to not have that information be the focus of the listing.
Yaw is rotation about the z (up/down) axis.
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Git is built out of deltas. You're already storing all of them.
I might be interested send me an email? gitgive@wfc.help
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Facebook confirms it will officially support gifs
I love Google's investment and dedication to Internet of Things, but not for the reasons Google does.
The problem arises when the bad tech crowds the good tech out of the market altogether.

I would like to have a smartphone that doesn't spy on me. I can't, because nobody makes one. So my personal preference doesn't matter; my only choice is between either accepting the spying, or not having a smartphone at all.

Now I get to look forward to enjoying this exact same dilemma when I buy furniture! Hooray.
Big programming languages are built from big JARs (compiler, runtime, stdlib). Loading those each time in memory is a long process. Using nailgun saves ~10 seconds on my laptop.

Another problem is compiler performance (both Kotlin and Scala compilers compile less statements per second than Javac), but it's not that dramatic.

Finally, dexing languages with runtime (kotlin - ~200KB, scala - more than 1MB) takes time.

Luckily, Buck optimizes most of it.
Strong, usable end to end crypto is probably not very feasible. But doing user friendly crypto makes people feel secure and gets them sharing more online. The NSA stuff could only have hurt Google, so it's obviously in their own interest to make sure they control the connection fully to the end user.
I'd recommend that you go to places and meet people in person with no expectations (eg. go hang out at local Python meetups, get to know people, discuss your current projects over a pint, etc.), contribute to as many open source projects as possible, and don't put too much emphasis on particular technologies (eg. lots of places won't care that you know Python in particular as much as they'll care that you understand general concepts: Learn your algorithms, distributed version control principles, and be able to talk intelligently about computer science in general)
Sweet as hell. My only quibble is the idea of using the blockchain for validated naming. I think it'd end up in a landgrab which is nasty.

As much as we all hate DNS, having the ability to kick a squatter off someone's name is probably a good thing. Personally I don't think having a crazy hash for identification is a bad thing. Rather, what you need to do is just have some sort of reasonable personal contact book so you only have to deal with the crazy hash once (when you decide you want to remember that someone is who they said they were).
Seconded, there's a discouraging element to being unemployed. Besides the training angle, this helps people to stay confident and even improve their skills.

I'm wondering how this could be translated to software development. Setting up an IT department in these virtual companies would be a very good idea. Going further, you could even sell the software and kickstart real software businesses in the B2B space, this could be a tremendous opportunity to help software developers to learn about marketing, sales, accounting, etc.
I know people who have done a Recurse Center batch, and people who have done bootcamp courses. I agree that each could potentially be a useful experience for someone changing careers, depending on the situation.

Clarification: The Recurse Center isn't a bootcamp in the sense that many people use the phrase. (There is no curriculum, it is free to attend, and many attendees were working as software engineers before their batch.)

https://www.recurse.com/blog/77-hacker-school-is-now-the-rec...
I don't really understand the landgrab complaint: this costs $0.08 per username registered ($0.16 if you want to avoid races with miners), in comparison to centralized sites, which usually cost $0 per username registered. Why does this lose?
This question, and some of the responses give me the thought: Maybe there's room for a site that allows people to post the fact that they are at a stage in their career that they're willing to work for free.

They'd include useful information such as why they are prepared to contribute (such as 18 months studying python and Flask and building some personal projects), letters of reference from people who can attest to their character and smarts, etc.

Also, the site could perform such basics as a criminal check and make the results available to potential "employers" with the permission of the person who wants to get experience (he or she would OK the information dissemination for each potential one).

Just had this thought today and am wondering what people might think about it. (As it happens, I'm in the process of deciding on my next project...)
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"embeds malware/adware with downloads"
Can you recommend any alternatives to Junaio?

Free app for the users. 3D, animated, interactive.
Hi HN! I’m Jonny, one of the lead engineers who worked on this feature. I’m really excited about this release, and I’m looking forward to getting your feedback when you try it out.
Many companies will not pay their workers any more than they have to, regardless of how much value that worker is creating. Supposing that an employee is producing $50/hour of value, their employer could afford much more than $15/hour without losing money, but most will choose not to because they have no compelling reason to do so.

There are, of course, marginal roles and not-very-profitable businesses where the value of an employee is pretty close to the minimum wage.
Make stuff relevant to the places you want to work. It's both a signal of competence and of drive and caring about that place.

For example, assuming a data science team in an e-commerce retailer is hiring a Python dev: crawl their site, grab the relevant attributes (category, gender, name, price, discount), then upload a graphical, interactive representation of their inventory and a short analysis of their price structure. Do so on a page hosted on your own server (like a free AWS micro instance + $5/year for domain), then stick the code on a private repo which you share with the person you get in touch with ($7/month for 5 on Github).

You've just demonstrated both technical competence over the whole ecosystem, and that you are at least aware of the "business side". You've also probably done more than 99% of candidates for the position.

Recent example: I recently had a chat with a friend who explained to me a problem he had been having for 6 months getting a simple web tool up and running for his business. My co-founder and I knocked out a working prototype in 2 hours and sent him the link. He signed us up immediately.

I think there's a lot of less technically literate folks out there who need some work done. Think your local tailor, restaurant, whatever. You can try ask them about it and present some solutions, and some might end up paying you. It's a start, allows you to say you put something in production.
I believe this is the reasoning behind The Economist anonymizing their journalists, which they have always done.
I don't get why people keep bringing up bitcoin as a way of handling microtransactions. It simply doesn't scale for that.

Bitcoin, with the current block size of 1 MB, can handle a maximum of 7 transactions per second (about 600k per day). Facebook supposedly get 2.7 billion likes per day. To scale to handling that many transactions, bitcoin would either need to increase the block size to 4.5 GB or be completely re-architectured.
That's not a cheetah. That's an electric sheep.
Appears to be still cooking in the lab. Similar to Ara and also Glass. Sounds like a research project that needs not answer the business question of how to make money. IBM, Microsoft, Apple likes to keep theirs secretive. Google likes to showcase.
You mean, for those rare occasions when Google Glass just doesn't cut it to make you the nerdiest guy in the room, you can now get an extra-boost? Well, sign me up!
Specifically about ArrayList<Integer> -- there are specifically a bunch of projects (Goldman Sachs Collections, trove, FastUtil, Koloboke) that solve the array of primitives problem.

I would say that's a Java-standard-libary-specific problem.
What do you do currently? I went from a BA in Econ and an MBA to software development by bringing those technical skills and applying them to whatever job I was currently doing. Those companies had a need for automation and internal applications which I was able to step up and take on those tasks. After some time, I had built up enough experience to warrant a software engineer role.

Of course, this probably works better if you are a) in a small company and b) in an area or organization that doesn't have access to many developers.
Google’s ATAP said the micro SD format made sense because there’s already advanced security features on your phone, contained in the SIM card, which protects the things important to carriers. Vault is designed to be an equivalent, but designed to project a user’s important content.

How exactly does this help on a mobile platform that is architected to enable easy and legal exfiltration of user data?

It seems like a difficult sell to imply I can't trust the smartphone's primary storage for key material, but to trust processes on the same system with the plain text.

I know why this is useful in the abstract (I use a yubikey as an openpgp card to keep key material off my computer and phone) but the class of attacks it is designed for are not the attacks smart phone users face daily and en mass. (I'd trade in the yubikey in an instant for a platform with a stronger permission system, and apps that don't send home a copy of all data I allow them to operate on.)
Advertising. Wearing a specific brand of clothing will impact what your Google search results contain.

Edit: To the downvoters: Why? Am I wrong? Are you Google employees?
I prefer their method, it's nice to see what their R&D looks like.
Hmm. How about mixing and matching, like by having a DNS record with a special TXT record syntax, e.g. 'IN TXT "gt=yoursha256hash"'. That way you could find your destination via DNS and verify the hash in the TXT record against the blockchain.
So, I've witnessed this horrifying thing where someone snaps a photo of, say, the floor, or a blank wall, and then uses the caption line to send their actual message.

Packing roughly 60 bytes into 8 megapixels makes me cringe, although thankfully at least the backdrops are usually high compressible.

Is this practice common, or do I just find myself around the wrong sort of bandwidth-sociopaths?
Surprised Austin did not make the list.
This is really cool, but at first glance one of their images really freaked me out: https://www.google.com/atap/project-jacquard/static/img/maki...

Who's hand is that!
While everything you say is 100% true, it is also a second-order effect, with a much lower magnitude than the primary GC performance behavior for short-lived objects.

Obviously stack allocation is preferable to TLAB allocation (and there's no reason to allocate objects with stack scope on the heap), if only for the fact that it never triggers a collection. Nevertheless, Java allocation/collection of short-lived object is much closer in cost to stack allocation than to malloc/free.
So I see you're running Gnome
I did a containerized deployment for the project: https://github.com/giantswarm/swarm-rocket. Still has some issues that need to be resolved, including configuring the mail server, long build time, and a handful of other issues. If someone finds it useful, let me know!
Definitely yes in Seattle. 33% of 31k is 10.3k, divided by 12 is $861 month for what you should pay for rent. (I can't remember if this number should include utilities, but yeah.)

Just padmap 850/month. You can even get within walking distance. http://www.padmapper.com/# A lot of these listings include rooms within an apartment/house.
I hadn't thought about conductive threads. What a neat idea. The applications could be really interesting here. I'm not sure what would be initially compelling but I'm interested in seeing what people come up with using this tech.
I did open source, put everything up to GitHub, participated in public discussions and I never applied for a job (except for one), they found me.

You should build something biggish in a topic you love and make it open source. It doesn't matter what it is. I did this for example: https://github.com/pokerregion/poker

Also, filling out your LinkedIn profile can help.
It's certainly one of my major griefs with Slack. I don't want my entire company's internal communications to be hosted by some third party startup I can't at all trust.
> Who's hand is that!

Someone's hand. It was someone's hand. Now it belongs to the fabric.
That's bullshit and you know it.

Google is a large company with many businesses. How is Google Cloud Platform related to advertising? Nest? Liftware? Google Docs?

Fact is advertising is cyclical, and Google is aggressively diversifying away from it.
> The co-op structure is interesting but it's ultimately constrained by the members'/employees' financial resources to contribute capital.

Not quite true. Its constrained -- pretty much by definition -- to internal source of equity-based financing, but it can get external non-equity financing.

> That's why co-ops are always modest businesses like grocery stores, or a co-op of cleaning people, or in this article's case, a co-op of IT techs.

I don't know that I'd describe Mondragon corporation as a "modest business".

OTOH, they are usually by design fairly moderate-risk businesses, as their aren't many established financing instruments (or financiers providing them) suitable for high-risk coop ventures.
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I'm very impressed by this, and I'm a bitcoin skeptic and git usability critic.
> Don't use bad tech.

Unfortunately my choices are only a single data point in the market for consumer goods. The choices most other people make with their dollars far surpass any buying power I possess.

Certainly it's worth me doing my due diligence and try to purchase good tech, but at some point the market can and does remove my choices if more profit is made by bad tech.

You mention "smart" TVs. I recently tried to purchase a dumb TV with good resolution and sufficient ports to be used as I desired. I ended up buying a "smart" TV because the dumb TVs offered were all inferior visually. I wish you luck in avoiding a "smart" TV.

You see the same pressures in online video (YouTube ads are getting obnoxious), music streaming (I can't pay Songza to get rid of ads), etc.

In some ways this is a good and fine thing for the market, but at some point one has to realize the market is flooded with bad tech because it makes more money. And I've never known of a market that doesn't optimize for profit.
This.

The labels 'conservative' and 'liberal' in the US are extremely misleading.

I would like to hear a counterargument from a self-described conservative, about why deregulation in particular is a conservative value.
Centralization is about equivalent to ICANN being able to kick off a squatter. A truly decentralized system with first to register doesn't have a way to kick off squatters.