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This is just passively-aggressively implying that dark matter developers aren't bad because they're inferior at coding, they're bad because they're inferior at being social.

Maybe I don't need to go to every Django convention ever to be a good programmer. Maybe I measure myself by different standards.

I agree with you completely. But in the meantime, mainstream media have started picking the story (omg shocking), which will surely have an effect on the price of Bitcoins. I wonder if the authors are planning to take advantage of this.

I wonder if it ever becomes viable to try to brute-force the private key of such a valuable address, rather than devoting the brute force power to mining.

Edit: got curious and found an answer: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wou...

If I understand correctly, it's still not viable even if you tried your brute-forced keys on all addresses in the network.

This one has a more interesting discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532670

Maybe fix your country next time?

Would be cool if this had an at-a-glance view with incrementing counters for each company on a single screen, updating proportionally to their revenue.

Offtopic but I have to mention it: this is one of the worst mobile experiences I've ever had. The text after initial load is too small, and when you try to zoom in it blurs the text until it finally loads, which on a crappy internet connection can take ages. seriously, why go out of your way to make reading text, one of the lightest possible activities on a mobile device, so horrible?

I can't see this posing a serious threat to Bitcoin. If I understand this correctly the idea relies on mining a block and keeping it secret so that the selfish miners can start mining on the next coin. But they can't change the properties of the network. They'll have to respect Bitcoin's difficulty calculation, since if they try to change that, the main Bitcoin network will reject their chain. Plus, they'll need tons and tons of hashing power to stay ahead of the network.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if you've got future blocks precomputed for weeks in advance, all it takes is someone else finding the current block by chance to completely invalidate your private chain?

That's scary, but it sounds like something that could actually work. Very good.

Are "extremely privileged" people not allowed to "escape"?

Another example of this that I love is that you can build logic gates in Transport Tycoon (well, OpenTTD) using trains and rail signals: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=37902.

Interesting. I had a very similar initial experience [1]. I got sick from Half Life 2 the first two times playing it, but the third time I managed to do a 40-minute session without feeling any serious nausea. It's definitely something you can train yourself to tolerate.

But srsly, 4K resolution is an absolute must.

[1] http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2013/10/02/oculus-rift-dev-...

Leaving your desk and going for a stroll (outside or inside) is great for mental peace. Standing in a long queue with a horde of other people for 15 minutes is not. This is an elegant solution to the problem :)

(Disclaimer: I am a Potato.)

Comment from a project I used to work on:

  # Circular references are a pain, yet so easy to avoid,
  # however unpicking them at a later date can be hard
  # and [python module name] especially so.
  # Therefore I shall ignore this for now and use this poor quality
  # botch to stop the code from breaking.
  # I dream of a day in the future when I will be able to remove
  # this crappy hack and the [project name] source code makes the world
  # a better place.
  # Until then I will cry myself to sleep each night.

People would probably only use wtf if the language did something that they didn't expect of it, regardless of how wtf the language actually is. This just shows that Python programmers programming in Python use WTF x times and Java programmers using Java use WTF y times.

(This would also explain why the wtf rate for Javascript is so low ;) )

So far Microsoft is doing everything right with Outlook. If I didn't already have a gmail address I would easily prefer Outlook over gmail.

Not bad. I always look at the Dokkodo to motivate myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokk%C5%8Dd%C5%8D . I sense some similarities.

I'm not sure who this is targeting. As a (very) small-scale user of S3 I hardly pay anything per month and would not even consider switching.

Large companies on the other hand need to have the reliability and security of a big name behind the storage. Why would they even consider moving to a no-name company that hasn't proven itself? Sorry, it just seems like the wrong niche to step in to.

This would seem like the perfect tactic if the software also has a quiet phone-home system built in that contacts the author if the file checksums don't match. I bet you could get interesting statistics on how many people would try this method after publishing such an article.

This is quite neat. Btw, this breaks with the Https everywhere extension.

It is, in fact: http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-prac...

Today's version: Hammer Factories as a Service.

Hm, the only reason I want a new Macbook Air over an Ultrabook is that it has the HD5000 graphics which are way faster than anything else on the ultraportable market right now. Ultrabooks with HD5000 graphics still haven't launched. If you're going to install Windows on it you might as well buy a (way cheaper) notebook instead.

Would a quantum computer be able to solve these kind of problems instantly?

This should be possible to test automatically. And if that's not possible/easy to do, it should be standard procedure to generate colour maps that can be checked by humans.

Original source: http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listenin...

No. The author has merely proven his own point that it's harder to make an espresso yourself than it is to order one at Starbucks. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

And look at what happened: someone at HN posted the content of the post here. People will always find ways around things, especially people who can do more than just push a button.

Very misleading title. The story is entirely about the D-Wave (supposed) quantum computer, which Google has now bought. It's D-Wave's quantum computer, Google really had nothing to do with it except that it bought one.

Wouldn't that just mean that you need a lot more tries to do a successful timing attack? Not sure if the regularity of his algorithm is enough to make it entirely impractical. I'm not even sure if it's not entirely impractical already using one of the less regular algorithms.

What would be the timeframe of reaching/colonizing these planets? With another 20 years of engine development, would it be possible to reach these planets in our lifetime? That would be a world-changing event.