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Feel like this is an infomercial directed at me. Instead of coming on at 3AM during a TV movie, it's on in the middle of my web browsing. That said, I've had some success buying random self published books of the interwebs (lookin' at you idiomatic python)....

Apropos help in emacs is nice. For similar in vim type :help blah<ctrl-d>

He gave us a bit of a run-through presentation of his tactics for the latest shmoocon CTF. It seemed like it was a combination of time, skill, more time, patience... and skill? The world of reversing is so beyond my ken, but I love having people around who know how to do it.

When I asked how to get started, he suggested I just jump into a CTF and try.

[edit] I work at endgame (see my other comment), we're hiring, etc. etc.

Anyone who's interested we (Endgame) are hiring. Check the careers page and get in touch. I'm on the data science team, but we have a variety of openings in DC and SF.

Read this in 1999. Still went to grad school in 2004 after working in .coms of that era. No regrets.

I feel like the defunct PLEAC site page on Haskell sums up most autodidactic folks experience with Haskell: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_haskell/index.html

Oh cool, you can do everything, right up to something useful. At which point you should use this library for side effects, no wait, this new library, oh wait, have you tried this new feature that's only in the latest GHCi and w/ the right Data import? ... eh, maybe I'll pass.

Still doesn't stop me from playing around now and thien. Right now the resources here: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/

and the new book Beginning Haskell, seem to be alright.

define old news? It's technically newer than SuperCollider by quite a bit. ChucK has a lot of users in the laptop orchestra world.

Even CSound has had resurgence with iOS apps. Likewise with Pd. I'm really liking the haskell based sample player Tidal, that's a lot of fun.

Aww that's sad. What I liked about the Nest smoke alarm was that I could check which of my various houses was on fire, right from my smartphone. Ugh, guess will have to wait for version 2.0.

I've had these two books for a while. He updates them rather regularly and they contain exactly what the author states. Python isn't supposed to have TIMTOWTDI, but when you start getting in the weeds you figure out bad ways to do common things. This book can help you recover from bad habits.

Is this what he means by taking back the internet? http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/russia-media-black-out-ahead-...

I had that WFMU shirt. :)

I found it a bit of a restriction, but ideally I'm not shipping code with unused variables, so why put them in. In the worst case I'd viciously comment things out, then uncomment them and add them back where I'd deleted once I figured out what the problem was.

Trying to drink the scala kool aid here at work, but I had a similar situation with Go and a freelance job. Went from 0 real experience to working code in very little time w/ go.

With scala I feel like I've spent more time waiting for it to compile than actually coding. Especially since we have been doing so much in Python, the switch back to compiled Java (with saccharine scala flavor) is like jumping back a decade in terms of productivity. Also, as you mentioned, the Go syntax is much easier to read, superficially just K&R C style with the types on the opposite side of the variable names.

Sounds suspicious already.

Uhh... dude that was your fault for getting arrested on a weekend. Duh...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remand_(detention)

and

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

are really important subjects for people who want to understand their freedoms. If you are a danger to yourself, others or gravely disabled you may be taken into a hospital and honestly you should be. If you are arrested, you might be held for up to 72 hours in the US. I think there are a lot of really good reasons for those laws honestly, but they can trip up people who are focusing on broad constitutional aphorisms instead of real state and local policy.

As a white person thrown into psychiatric solitary a couple times, I'd say that he got pretty cushy treatment compared to what black folks get. No trial, out in 12 hours? Try that if you're black.

Sounds crazy, but considering how many questions he was asking the officers after they'd cuffed him he got off quite easy. I wonder if my friends that went to UCSF around the same time as him knew him. I know a lot of folks like him, but they don't know much standard "know your rights" type stuff that teaches you to do nothing, say nothing once you are cuffed.

Unless you are making them laugh, you're probably on their bad side.

Generally the less syllables the better...

Love whitelines. I'm kind of a notebook fanboy though, so I'm always trying others. :)

Whitelines are the most unique by far.

Pen and/or pencil and paper. Mead, Moleskine, Rhodia all make great paper notebooks along with Staples, OfficeMax having house brands. Pens and pencils are available from a variety of sellers as well.

Lacks text searchability, distributed backups and portability (it's not on your phone all the time).

Has multiple tactile benefits. Can always be scanned for digital backup if need be. Far less likely to be hacked, never has a version that randomly deletes a note. Forces you to keep notes in an actual place not essentially a series of memory addresses of local and/or remote computer.

As someone who's played with nearly every item on this list from tiddlywiki to vim wiki to the mind mappers evernote, .plan files, etc etc. Paper is still the most flexible. I just think differently when I'm not limited by keyboards and/or almost OK drawing interfaces (aka penultimate, paper (the app), etc).

A little DoxieGo scanner and paper is the place to be. Otherwise you'll find yourself looking back at your vast cache of notes in cloudnot.es (or whatever new YC15 startup comes up with the new hot note app that revolutionizes your life) that document your thoughts from 2014-2019 and you'll end up wondering... what really mattered here? How do I save this... Why did I save this? Do I need this note on what I wanted to buy my ex-boyfriend for valentine's day 2017? Etc etc.

The ephemeral nature of paper is perhaps its biggest feature, forcing you to save it or delete it. Or just go full Warhol and save everything: http://edu.warhol.org/aract_timecap.html

Someone has not read many mathematical books on a Kindle (or even PDFs on an iPad), let alone seen the intricate typesetting of TAoCP. For an epub the configurable font size alone wreaks havoc with mathematical typesetting, and converting them to pixelated versions fails as screen resolutions go to higher and higher DPI.

It's a monster of a problem, which still isn't solved. As good as TeX/LaTeX is at handling paper sizes, the screen sizes / DPIs / pagination / font sizes of eReaders is a far more difficult platform to target.

I jumped on arango, looking for a small graphdb I could run locally on my machine. They've since moved it to a much wider scope. Turns out I abandoned that project idea (like most... :D), but I think Arango is sufficiently unique to merit more investment.

Interesting look at the lower bound that got a lot of bitcoiners angry. The comments are actually pretty good as the initial author did miss some of the finer points on bitcoin to which he responds in the comments.

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/12/fair-price-bitcoi...

They are linked at the hip in many ways. Bitcoin is a speculative asset, but it is also a really well thought out accounting ledger and transaction protocol for that asset. Plus m-of-n transactions, watermarking, etc... lot's of cools stuff.

When people talk about the speculative nature, they tend to sound like Glenn Beck. When they talk about the technology, they sound more like techno-futurists. I like now that economists other than Austrians are getting into analyzing the possibilities. It isn't what the worst bitbugs want to hear (bitcoin taking over all currency and forcing global financial institutions to crumble), it is more contemplating how bitcoin fits into the complex monetary, financial, fiscal, etc world that already exists.

I agree it was a great post from someone who doesn't necessarily understand the finer points of bitcoin, but does understand money writ large. I think the comments section actually ironed out a fair amount of the misinfo, etc. I quite liked it.

Well 404 people starred this github repo that does it... https://github.com/maxme/bitcoin-arbitrage I added campbx support to a pull I did and tried it out a while back. It was kinda cool. So yeah, you can do it. The problem is, unless you have limitless liquid $$$ at both exchanges you're probably going to hit bottom on one of them sooner or later. At that point you're talking time and fees before you can get more cash in.

But telegraphs are virtually gone in the western world, X.25 has very few installations. Tech doesn't ever fully die out, since just when it is about to a subculture grows around keeping it alive.

The printed page is centuries if not millennia away from becoming a niche subculture.

Telegraph... colossal fail. But note that the first wire transfers in 1871 were done on western union's telegraph system. Yours is an interesting question. The tulip mania bubble people like to reference was less than a year long, so BTC is already beating that.

Oddly that mania lasted less than 12 months. Bitcoin has been on the rise for years, is used for more than decoration and won't rot...

If it weren't for the extraneous window decoration you end up with. I'm good with using Moom to size and shape my windows on the fly on OSX. I've been relatively happy tiling on Linux though, but customizing keyboard shortcuts gets tedious quickly.

The main problem with OSX has been knowing which window is foregrounded, especially with two monitors.

I'm afraid the spot price of EC2 has never been even close. EC2 GPUs are nVidia anyway, which don't have the specific on die instruction that made ATI/AMD cards so good for mining back in 2010-2012. That's all been superseded by ASIC tech which is already in a race to smaller and smaller feature sizes.

The math can be most easily done at mining.thegenesisblock.com