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> The problem arises when the bad tech crowds the good tech out of the market altogether.

That's not possible in normal market dynamics. When only shitty products are available, someone will start competing at the high end.

The reason it doesn't, and won't, happen with smartphones is because the telcos have [government granted] legal monopolies. And they function as government bureaus. Look up what happened to the CEO of Quest. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
The only reason we don't have more actual stories similar to this is we don't know the inside scoop on what happens. We aren't a fly on the wall for such meetings.
How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield
No guy, this is sort of an inside joke about the nil discussion. Every time Hoare comes up.
The severe inequality of the Angolan oil boom
Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht to sentenced life in prison
How can you say you'd recommend them, when the only way you got any real support was via public shaming?

And for the account to be closed based on multi country logins, without any kind of verification with you, is absolutely insane.
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Synthwave is another one too
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Caterpillar buys into construction rental startup Yard Club
Northwestern University Venture Challenge's semi-finalists are published
Yes. I guess I was just (badly) making the point that since it's impossible to just communicate with one server you control, a secure mail paradigm should include servers we do not control.
Hey boud, sorry for getting your server hammered.
Your blog is now getting points on the strength of the title alone.
Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison
"You live a new life for every new language you speak.
If you know only one language, you live only once."
-- Czech proverb

Dead languages like Latin and Old Greek don't add lives.
You don't even speak them.

More seriously: I'm all for offering Latin, Greek, and even Esperanto but why would you give up teaching modern foreign languages? Why do you think they'd get a lot more from a year of Latin or Esperanto?
Also called new wave retro or futureretro

Lots of nostalgic 80s TV, movie, and video game sampling.

Here's a play list for those interested:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL52109BD7632583B2
You don't have to pay for private forks.
I did.

I pretty much gave up on TV because of the commercials.
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I might be able to refer you for a paid part-time python position...you can reach me at jamesalexanderlevy at g mail. If you do happen to have a github account its always a plus to link to it when you're asking around about jobs, as well.
Comments, issues, etc could also be objects that are updated through the protocol, and signed with a public key.
On the other hand, I started to believe there's still apparently place for things seemingly similar and non-unique, even "nearly the same", but in some way different or better. And they totally can have potential to break through, even in area that looks saturated. That said, it's sure not guaranteed, but absolutely possible.
And the latest Tegra X1 is twice as powerful as the K1, which was already an amazing chip.

The even more amazing part is the energy usage of these new mobile chips.
I disagree with the writer's conclusion that one should't mention other interviews or other offers. In my most recent search (after a layoff), my best leads were two companies who'd gotten in touch while I had been with my former company. One came in with a low offer, which I declined--they countered with a higher one. That was also followed up by the other company coming up with a higher offer. I told the first company about it, and they ended up exceeding the other offer.

My experience may have differed from the author's because of how I presented the situation. He says, "So I told both of them that I had other offers and they must give me a revised and a better offer." That reads a bit smug to me. The way I said it was, "I'd like to work with you guys, but I'm looking at an offer from (other company) that's $X higher. How can we make this work?" I mentioned some concerns and reservations I had about the other, what I liked about each, and they came up enough to make a difference.

I didn't ask the other company to counter--I think that I would have worn out both companies' patience and probably had the same result the author had. In the end, money was important, but fit was also important, and if one of them had been a clearly bad fit, this process wouldn't have been productive.
Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
> Traversal is proportional to the number of pointers changed since the last collection (HotSpot's GCs do card marking).

True. I was just trying to make the point that GC comes with complexity cost, and this should be considered—it's not "free" for an arbitrary algorithm.
I strongly prefer Mercurial. Github, Inc. seems like a decent company, and I like the UI.

But hg roxx. :-)
Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
That's roughtly what I was thinking, yeah.
Realistically the self-driving car isn't going to be smart or fast enough to make these choices. We are assuming some infallible perfect AI when if-fact you have a bunch of (relatively) simple algorithms a bunch of mapping data. The fact is that the type of complicated moral analysis will take time prehaps in the absolute best case several 1/10th of a second. For a moving vehicle that analysis will likely be moot during that time. We don't expect human drivers to make such difficulty snap decisions as part of a driving tests why should we ask a self driving car to?
"Prominent Vegas Casinos announce widespread deployment of near-field EMF jamming"
Titan Z can do 8 teraflops. From the Top500 List - June 2001, the #1 system at Lawrence Livermore could do R(max) 7 teraflops and R(peak) 12 teraflops.

I now see that I missed the gist of this, which was about mobile performance. The Tegra X1 can do a teraflop, which would put it at #2 on the Top500 List - June 1998.
Well, it's down now. I guess I'll bring it up again tomorrow or so.
I used to use Dimensions (paid, I was reminded just now), but the latest Chrome Dev Tools made the space very competitive.
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I AM GOING TO STOP GIVING SPACE TO NEGATIVITY
Reading the article, I don't think this was meant as a question to the group here. The question/title feeds into the article explaining why they don't use github. Perhaps a more forum-friendly title would have been "Why We Don't Use Github." I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts on the statements made in the article (see posts with cache link if you can't load it).
As I said it is of course totally okay to get back the investment you made with your longer education. But the difference over the lifetime between being a developer and a toilet cleaner is way larger than that. Your second points is just exploiting the supply and demand situation - you can ask for a higher wage if your skill is rare but it does not mean you deserve it.
Early Facebook had the facility to get in touch (or stalk!) people I had no contact details for provided I knew their name, and check out upcoming party details, not mention a photographic record of my university life complete with comments and status boosting likes. Facebook didn't need to remain cool to be relevant and useful, and I logged in far more often than someone sent me an actual message from the service - still do a decade on.

Snapchat is a messaging app which distinguishes itself from the other messaging apps users also have installed on their phones by the fact it doesn't preserve any past interactions. Much like when I stopped bothering to log into MSN Messenger because people sent me messages in other ways, it dies in the eyes of its users once the daily updates stop, or even more quickly if the daily updates become near-exclusively advertising of the unwanted kind
Kind of telling that of the other comments I see here so far, nobody seems to be addressing what the article is about: because they don't trust github, a for-profit company who hides their source code, to not some day pull a Sourceforge.

We had this discussion in the GNU project. The basic conclusion I could see was that simply using github as a place to host the repo like Linus does with Linux is not a problem. In typical GNU fashion, the biggest problem people saw was with the non-free javascript that entails from using the github web interface. Some also were concerned with whole SaSS problem with github, were they tie you up with wikis, bug trackers, pull requests and a lot of other things around just git hosting that are difficult to transplant to another service.
Not how I read that.

>So, one big reason for not moving Krita's development
to github is that I simply do not trust them.

>We cannot be forced by a venture capitalist to monetize
our projects by adding malware installers. We own our
stuff, which means we can trust our stuff.

Whether you agree or disagree, they did in fact make an argument.
Right - a robot might kill without remorse, but it also never kills because of fear, or hate, or to take revenge for its fallen comrades.

But then why does it kill at all? Presumably because it's been sent to further a human agenda.

If you imagine a noble military purpose - liberating an oppressed population from an aggressive occupying enemy, for example - then your robot soldiers are awesome; they will target only combatants; minimize collateral civilian casualties; they will never loot or rape; they will selflessly interpose themselves between the innocent and those who would harm them. The perfect heroic soldier, better than any human army could be. They will be greeted as liberators.

But to the extent that the underlying human agenda involves pacifying a civilian population, instilling fear, or outright causing terror, there's no reason to think that a robot soldier would not be capable of being far worse than human soldiers. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't have a conscience. It doesn't matter that it doesn't 'fear for its life' when kids throw stones at it if it's been programmed to respond to that threat with deadly force precisely to discourage other kids from throwing stones.
TL;DR of the parable. Incumbent businesses will lobby and use professionalism as an excuse against individuals using their own resources to do ad-hoc business. Article makes an argument that this is bad.

I found this article as print out on the floor of a bathroom on an equities trading floor of Goldman Sachs circa 2010. It intrigued me and since then I have shared it with my friends and family, who seemed to have enjoyed it. I post it now because it reminds me of the arguments surrounding new car hailing services and on demand short term housing rentals. Our problems aren't entirely new, so why not leverage some wisdom of decades past when reasoning about them?
What does that matter? They still have over 150 repositories.
Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
As someone who knows the Polish language: I agree with you. With the Esperanto part, at least. Latin's very mentally stimulating, but more useless than a modern language, so I wouldn't quite agree with learning it.
'Silk Road' founder sentenced to life in prison
Talking about monocultures : https://twitter.com/mjackson/status/604325015333412864

That tweet explain that there are numerous cool projects on codepen that you can explore.
I'm financially independent. I don't have to work to pay the bills, but I do like working on interesting and challenging projects. I just want to be able to pick and choose what I work on.

I have a large network on the leading business network site with lots of endorsements, but it seems to be doing no good.

I'm in San Diego, and there are a lot of unemployed hardware engineers like myself here at the moment. EE's aren't much in demand. I need to stay in San Diego as we
have family obligations which need tending to.

I was employed for over 35 years between two companies. The first for 10 years, and the second for 25 years.

I regret not changing jobs more often, but my degree is in CS not EE and that made it harder to change jobs.

Right now, I'm keeping myself busy with open source hardware and firmware projects on github.
this is a great start: https://mailinabox.email/
As always, Luigi is totally neglected.
> That's not possible in normal market dynamics.

It is quite possible in normal market dynamics.

It is not possible in ideal market dynamics where both perfect competition and the rational choice model hold, but where people are not -- contrary to the rational choice model -- perfectly knowledge about the actual utilities that they will individually realize from different market alternatives before making transaction decisions, its quite possible for bad-but-well-marketed-to-create-the-illusion-of-quality products to crowd out actually better products.
Stamos seemed to be making a point about the progression and resources being spent on security solutions. Firewalls are deterrents, but there seems to be a general consensus that they are not feasible for the future and the closest approximation that can be achieved to a "fully secure" system is by focusing on Applicaiton Security. During the video Stamos admits and an audience member loudly agrees that "we suck at appsec". Firewalls are stupid crap because we suck at appsec. If we didn't suck at appsec firewalls would and should not matter.
The most obvious problem is that capacitive interfaces like this detect on both sides. Which means rejecting false touches from the clothing moving on your body is going to be very difficult - unless it's integrated into outerwear or something farther away.
I also wonder how the move to IPv6 will also affect the current paradigm. Internet facing firewalls were typically also NAT machines to save IPv4 address space but all of that is gone in IPv6 meaning your global address is now exposed and a hacker can persistently try to compromise your machine if you don't firewall.
Couldn't find the blog post I read way back when it happened. The closest thing I could find was an Android news site describing the problem. [1]

I'm 90% sure that a Google engineer admitted it on their official blog, but that was 2 years ago so I might be misremembering it.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/03/22/psa-googles-authenti...
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Haha! Smiles from the town of Béziers, Hérault, France... apparently no direct relation to the curve. From the AMS:

Bézier curves are ubiquitous in computer graphics. They were introduced implicitly into theoretical mathematics long before computers, primarily by the French mathematician Charles Hermite and the Russian mathematician Sergei Bernstein. But it was only the work of Pierre Bézier, an employee of the automobile maker Renault, and of Paul de Casteljau, of Citroen, that made these curves familiar to graphics specialists. Recently, the polynomials defined by Bernstein have become again of interest to mathematicians. http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-bezier

Wikipedia expands:

Bézier curves were adopted as the standard curve of the PostScript language and subsequently were adopted by vector programs such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Inkscape. Most outline fonts, including TrueType and PostScript Type 1, are defined with Bézier curves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier#B.C3.A9zier_...

... though almost certainly CorelDraw (and Quark xPress?) came before Illustrator, and PostScript's popularization came through the rather embrace-and-extend PDF format it spawned.

FWIW, I have fond memories of doing CSG with Povray - http://povray.org/ - as an 11 year old. When the supply of new DOS games ran out, it sure beat writing batch file viruses, the other primary form of entertainment.
I got fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'gittorrent'
You have to do it either on a per-site blacklist or heuristically.

Though I'm waiting for something like NoScript that allows JS modification to remove annoyances like this.
Yea, I guess I was thinking more that it would take a lot of time to unnaturally break down a problem into portions small enough to pass as code exercises.
I was a kid in the 80's and I thought the movie was pretty accurate.
I've seen a few already in comments on my newsfeed. Surprisingly, it seems a little more streamlined than on tumblr. Can't help but wonder how my grandma is going to embrace gifs.
Doesn't this seem unnecessarily harsh for what he did?
Because I been using Bitbucket for the past five years and I have no compelling reason to switch.
Something as simple as checking that nothing dynamic blocks too much text would detect most of them currently.

But it quickly turns into a cat-and-mouse game.
I actually prefer the cgit interface. It's fast and simple. I just don't trust myself to run a server and do backups, etc. for something as important as source code.
The key premise is that one year of mandatory classroom teaching isn't actually going to get someone speaking proficiently, unless perhaps it's something like Esperanto.

They won't be speaking Latin either, but at least some written knowledge of Latin will be useful. The basic paradigm of classroom language education started when Latin was commonly taught... and since it focused on teaching passive, literary use of the language (rather than active, oral use), that was entirely appropriate.

But superficial, passive, literary understanding of modern national languages doesn't help anyone much more than it would of Latin.
xmpp is a protocol, it doesn't make any sense to say that it doesn't have server side persistence. Lots of servers that implement XMPP persist chats.
Onboard the Vault itself is an ARM processor running ARTOS, a secure operating system focused on privacy and data security.

Am I the only one wondering why there is no information available about that OS? Google is in many ways committed to Open Source and then it is using a proprietary OS where I do not find any information about.

There is a Wikipedia comparison table with an outdated link. There is an old entry on a blog with basically zero information, except there where only a single person involved in designing and developing this OS. Which makes it suspicious to me regarding the claim "safe and secure".
You are exploiting the supply and demand situation but how does that imply you deserve it? What makes your 40 hours more valuable than someone others 40 hours besides the difference in demand? Shouldn't someone doing unpleasant or dangerous work get paid better than someone sitting in an air-conditioned office independent of the required skills and supply and demand situation?
It matters because he specifically mentions that the team "didn't want to have to make a business justification everytime someone wanted to fork a repository".
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Well done.

I think this is a great piece to build a "pay for branch merging" way of promoting open source.. use decentralized currency and voila, automated programming.
Tegra K1 is 365 GFLOPs @ 950 MHz. Tegra X1 is > 1 TFLOP @ ~1GHz.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9289/the-nvidia-shield-android...
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Free private repositories; Although I'm using GitHub to host two OSS projects.
Got it. Thanks :-)
I don't use Github because of their unacceptable TOS. They reserve the right to delete my account and all content for any reason, at any time, without giving prior notification.

Who can operate a real business with that hanging over your head? Seems very foolish to me.
Won't help if you weave in touch surface, uC, power source and a vibration motor together. I'd be surprised if this hasn't been done before.

"In other news, Las Vegas Casinos become the primary buyer of backscatter X-ray machines."
We all lucky that nothing exploded and created everything 1000000000000000 years ago in a galaxy far far away, right?
There's also push/pop.
Because real, actual murder isn't a serious enough crime for Life in Prison.
No. I'm slightly customizing the experience for a certain group of visitors.

Do you find web analytics creepy? Or A/B tests? Or cookies? If you think your browsing behavior isn't affecting what you're served on a site, then you're in for a surprise...
It's interesting to see how Maud's approach uses syntax extensions, in contrast to the less-powerful (but more stable) macro-based approach that Horrorshow uses: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/horrorshow-a-no-longer-poc-htm...

I also wonder if Maud could benefit from the Syntex library (https://github.com/erickt/rust-syntex) which uses a fork of Rust's (currently unstable) parsing library to enable syntax extensions to work on the stable Rust release via code generation.
Page is down, but my answer to the title is that I don't (always) use github because it's really, really easy to set up a private repo on the Debian VPS I'm renting anyway.

Edit: For those who don't know:

On the server:

mkdir ~/whatever.git

cd ~/whatever.git

git init --bare

On your local machine:

git clone me@myserver.com:~/whatever.git

That's it. Admittedly you are now responsible for backups, but hopefully you back up your server anyway. And of course you don't get the snazzy web interface but I don't imagine most of us use that much anyway.
Speaking of constructed languages, you might find Lojban interesting. It is "a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic." I have read most of the official language description. It's a compelling book not just about Lojban, but about logic and English grammar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

http://mw.lojban.org/papri/the_Complete_Lojban_Language
I've heard before this music with groups like Digitalism, Anoraak, Bestrack, GRUM, ULTRNX, etc, but I never thought it had a style name. I included it all in the NuDisco scene [1]. So thanks for the tip, plenty of groups to listen to now!

[1] https://pro.beatport.com/genre/indie-dance-nu-disco/37
I don't see how they're mutually exclusive. Automation frees people from menial work into higher level jobs that can produce even more automation.

What we currently have, though, is a poorly designed system which doesn't make this transition easy and doesn't reward actors properly. I'm talking about things like free training for programming and technical skills, conditional support for the unemployed so they can have time to re-train and re-insert in the job market (while maintaining their health and spending), and means to make income distribution little flatter (automation can concentrate income to a degree that gets counterproductive).
My condolences go to the mutual friends Ross and I share.

Honestly, I don't have much sympathy for him directly (due to his complete and utter stupidity and lack of opsec), but I know this is going to hurt some people I care about, people who were good friends with Ross back in college, and I feel bad for them.
This isn't really surprising. I think most "drug kingpins" would be able to get much shorter sentences by agreeing to turn in a bunch of smaller dealers. It seems like Ross' work was pretty solitary, so that wasn't really an option for him.
Insurer tells hospitals: You let hackers in, we're not bailing you out
Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?
Watching the results at the bottom I was thinking, this is the first programmable renderer.
My takeaway from this post, as someone who's not a security professional: "Security is hard, swearing is normal."