mappum

The real reason for the bias is that everyone thought they could sneak a piece.

Sha256 is not a suitable key derivation function. Attackers could then crack the keys pretty easily (now the keys are only as secure as the passphrases). Use something like pbkdf2/bcrypt/scrypt.

Socrates was just pretty conservative, he was also against the idea of writing:

" ...this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

More people are starting to handle their own crowdfunding. Lockitron got rejected by Kickstarter so they created an open-source app for it: http://selfstarter.us

Looks like one of the founders is from Munich. Maybe he is just a little trolly.

The creator of this is Sos, the developer of the game "McPixel". He is well known in the Ludum Dare community.

Shouldn't it be "OpenCrowdtilt"?

You're right, they take a lot of shortcuts, but the point I was making is that simulating parts of organic chemistry probably isn't inherently necessary for intelligence.

More specifically, I mean systems designed by biological evolution vs. systems designed by human thought.

What it adds is the simple point, "be optimistic about strong AI in the near future".

I believe human-level general intelligence (and beyond) is already inevitable, even if we don't make significant developments in "solving" intelligence. Projects that are already developing stuff like this (e.g. IBM Blue Brain) are just copying the human brain as closely as possible. Of course, this isn't as efficient as it could be (they simulate it all at the molecular level, so you can only get 1 neuron per CPU). However, as Moore's Law progresses, even if we don't make the software more efficient, we will eventually be able to create a fully functional simulation.

But if you look at the history of technology, things we create aren't usually exactly based on models seen in nature. Airplanes aren't exactly like birds. I believe we will find a more "man made" model for general intelligence (maybe not even a neuronal model) that works much more efficiently with the hardware we have available.

Going back to the airplane analogy, we already have the people who strap wooden wings to their arms and jump off buildings (like Blue Brain), but we are looking for the first Wright brothers design.

Because he basically is mini-Paul Graham.

This is pretty logical. MtGox halted BTC withdrawals because of the transaction malleability issue (which, due to MtGox's poorly made software, let people get their withdrawal payments more than once, leaving MtGox open to get its wallet emptied).

So now many people are stuck with MtGoxBTC, which is simply a balance in MtGox's database. MtGoxBTC is being traded for actual BTC (on exchanges like https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/). It has a lower value since people are unsure whether or not MtGox will fix their system and let them take their money (IMO they probably will). Sellers are getting out to avoid the risk, and buyers are getting discounted (but potentially risky) BTC.

And there's even another one: http://www.chipolo.net/

The other one that article referenced is only $28 and looks to be pretty much the same: http://www.vat19.com/dvds/the-inkless-metal-pen.cfm

EDIT: And now they are all sold out. If only I had signed up for their affiliate program...

It seems a lot of people (including me) have made projects like this, but it would probably be most efficient if one project emerged as the standard (it's surprising one hasn't).

https://github.com/mappum/node-sock

I don't think the attacker tried variations of your password to get into your gmail, their malware most likely got it some other way (keylogger or extracted from saved passwords in browser).

You are partly correct. The IP is the node who first told Blockchain.info (assuming that's what this is using) about the transaction. The "entry point" to the network would be when the person sending first transmits it.

There is no way to be sure where a transaction came from, but if you have data about how long it took to reach parts of the network, you can make an educated guess (which becomes more accurate if you have more connections/nodes).

Some people specifically add Blockchain.info to their peer list, but that is bad for anonymity since all your transactions will then list your real IP in the "relayed by" field.

I would be terrified if "brainfuck" had a nonzero frequency.

The author seems pretty hung up on the fact that mining consumes electricity, but let's look at the numbers.

Miners consume an estimated 108,619 megawatt hours per day (according to https://blockchain.info/stats). This is actually a very high estimate as most miners have switched to ASICs and are consuming orders of magnitude less power, but let's use it anyway. This would add up to about $16m spent per day on electricity.

In 2011, the United States alone consumed 367 million gallons of gasoline daily (according to http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=23&t=10). At an average gas price of $3.576 / gallon (http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_a.htm), this would be $1.3b spent per day on gas.

Pretty much everything on Earth is going to consume power, but I don't think Bitcoin mining consumes enough to worry about.

Does this mean YC will start accepting malicious startups? Something like a marketplace for 0days?

Let's make a movement to call W "wub". It uses its own sound, it is one syllable, and it sounds like "dub" (as in "double U"). As a bonus side effect, "www" will sound like dubstep.

Just because you can't perceive individual pixels doesn't mean you can't perceive higher quality. Imagine if you wanted to draw a human hair to scale, you would need some small pixels to make that look good.

However in most smartphone use cases, that's probably not an issue.

Good job, but I have one small suggestion: the name colors should be seeded by the name value, so people are always the same color. That's what IRC clients do so you remember people a little better.

Wow, this video and the game are bringing back memories. This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3. Thankfully my dad cared enough about computers to have one for the family, that early experience probably contributed to my passion for software today.

The OCR is really useless. I tested it with some reddit "advice animal" memes (because there is a need for transcriptions). You would think that text is pretty simple and easy, but the output I got was like:

    /\n\nnmrs wn\ufb02qyi mm mm\nTlIIEI\ufb02|\ufb02llllM\u2018l co

I found the idea that one person can make a huge difference really interesting, I will have to start experimenting with this myself. All the roads OP wrote about are where I drive, but the Lynnwood ramp he talked about recently got expanded.

This also makes me want to make some sort of simple traffic simulator to do experiments like this, does anyone know if any already exist?

And now that kid will grow up to join Daft Punk.

When you made that comment, it was the middle of the night here. Everyone was online at USA after-work hours.

The reason the world was near-pristine was because I messed up the storage for this deployment, which made so every once in a while it would regenerate the chunks.

I am leaning towards opensourcing it, but we don't want to do it too soon unless we realize we want to do a PaaS sort of thing.