skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't class much of the female-to-female dialogue in hardcore porn as being worthy of the label 'conversation'.
Really. Given that Gross World Product was 72 trillion dollars[1] last year, only 0.4% (by price) of all global trade for goods and services was illegal drugs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
They can sell the coins on any exchange that allows them to convert it to real money. Not sure how deep the order book is so they may not be able to convert it all at once.
They can certainly cash it out using a number of bitcoin to currency services. So the hacker has done the equivalent of stealing $1mil out of a bank, except a bank is very easy to trace while stealing BTC means the thief is home free.

https://www.bitcoin.de/en?cr=1
https://www.bitstamp.net/
https://btc-e.com/
https://www.bitfinex.com/
https://localbitcoins.com/
>The really high notes aren’t so important (our ears can barely hear them), so MP3s throw them out,

Quantization is not the same thing as "throwing out".
I see what you did there[3] ;-)

Also, it's a shame that this kind of breach happens, but it seems like it's been a while since a "$COMPANY hacked X BTC stolen" headline was out there[1]. There seem to have been more of those in the past and they appear with less frequency, which is a good thing, I guess.

[1] Silk Road doesn't count toward this recollection, since it falls under the "Bitcoin $COMPANY busted by the feds" headline, which will probably happen more often in the future.
That you think the terms "slave morality" and "total degeneration" are "extreme rhetoric" illustrates that you didn't understand the post. The point of reading is not to find any old interpretation, but to figure out what the poster meant. It's because of these highly superficial readings that the GP is allowed to get away with inserting the assumption that these sort of measures represent improvement, in spite of the fact that at the limit of slave morality is total degeneration.
Would have to be a rather large hole to lose a million dollars through it. Would have to be about 43" wide.
This is exactly why everyone SHOULD learn how to code and be a developer. They were negligent.
It's funny seeing you on my side. How you been? I haven't crossed words with you in a while. james_d?
I had been waiting 4 months for my withdraw -- just email their support and ask them to cancel the transaction. They were able to do so for me today, and I can now trade them again (and transfer them out as BTC anywhere).
Yes, this accounts for the disparity. The BLS report has miscellaneous agricultural workers at 92% white, with 48.9% of all workers having Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.

Most Hispanics identify themselves as white, but 2-3% of Hispanic Americans identify as black.
In 2010 I chose an amount of money that I wouldn't feel too stupid about spending on a silly web lark. That was $30, and the price was $1. It took me a week to get them, during which the price hit $4, so I got 7. It's quite possible (/likely?) it goes to 0 at some point but I still think of it as a $30 option with an uncapped upside.

And that's the point - the exchange rate has no underlying fundamental except supply is limited and demand is unpredictable. If you're unsure whether you should get some, choose a figure you don't care about and just buy some tiny amount. You might get 0.01 btc but you won't care if it goes down and you will if it goes up.

Admittedly I'm not sure I'd follow my own advice because the price always seems insane. $280? Madness. But much easier than getting emotionally invested in the whole mining route, which for the majority is destined to fail since you have to be on the leading edge of performance to make anything.

If I were to do it now I'd probably buy a tiny amount now and a bit more if it drops a lot. No amount I'd care about.

I've tucked mine away, took it off mtgox ages ago and no wallet on my computer. Don't care if it hits 0, it was only $30 anyway. It's either a new thing or a bubble, but this feels less stupid than a lottery ticket.
Because patriarchy is the slaving morality of the status quo?

You've never thought that the fact these little tests exists is because the level of male domination in social discourse is so high that it causes reactions such as yours when it is challenged?
I love to work at night especially when everyone is sleeping. No noise, no gadgets, no distraction and mum will not call me from a distance. Just me and my work.

Sometimes I do love to work early in the morning.. just that waking up is so difficult in the morning. As if the gravity is stronger in the morning than at night!

Otherwise a perfect working environment for me will be quiet and comfortable.
This is a very interesting idea - a formalized representation of contact information would help a lot in fighting the walled-garden effect of Facebook/etc.

Unfortunately, as currently implemented, this seems to be yet another centralized service that that is a single point of failure.

Would you consider taking a moment to write up a (draft) protocol first? Core features of the internet (representation of personal metadata could easily count a a "core feature") became popular because the protocol was there first in the RFCs for anybody to implement and interface with.

Link your RFC describing the protocol on the front page, and many people will jump on it. Without that, it's just a service that could fail. (I'll never understand why business choose to rely on services without first establishing a /second source/)
My language is not more "wildly provocative" than your use of the the phrase "wildly provocative". It's only "wildly provocative" to you because you didn't bother to understand it. The whole point of the Bechdel test is to promote a slave morality (in this case feminism). Insisting that nobody embellish their language a little is unworkable, as you illustrated by embellishing your own language.
Align all the blue lines inside each circle, hold shift and drag.
Who would manage such database of "shunned" Bitcoins? Who would decide which ones are "shunned" and which aren't? This is a delicate topic, almost as much controversial as censoring internet to get rid of child porn. With decentralized protocol/currency as Bitcoin is, that is not possible to do properly.
OTOH, every service can decide on their own what they accept and how they operate, so each and every service operator COULD implement such measures. But then the thief would just choose another service provider who doesn't implement that.
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I understand that services like Heroku, Engineyard, Google AppEngine, etc. exist. But I'm looking for a solution that will automate server administration on my own VPS/cloud servers while actually allowing me to focus on building my product rather than spend a significant time on reading server logs to see if someone one broke into my server, or if my code/database has been compromised, etc.

Ideally I would want a solution that I can install on top of say, a digital ocean VPS (droplet) and forget about it. But I am open to other options as well. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
I thought IE updates through Windows Update?

Regardless, what a piece if shit! Just fired it up to check the version (it's version 9, apparently no Windows Update update) and it's so goddamn slow!

I'm now on 100mbps fiber, Firefox and Chrome are pretty much instant, IE takes 10 seconds to open the MSN page, and another 20 to perform a search from the address bar in Bing and open the first result (a Microsoft.com page!). Unbelievable.
I'm not sure how to answer that. What is the purpose of determining which one is more likely? I don't think that's a question that's possible to answer nor one that reveals anything about the nature of existence.
I don't know what you mean by "slaving morality". Is that a new term for "master morality", or a typo?
They may very well hang onto them for a while, and in the event the price goes up even more in the coming months, they may make out with quite a bit more than $1M.
Are you referring to the 144,000 BTC confiscated in the Silk Road bust? There are almost 12,000,000 BTC in circulation. The Silk Road share accounts for about 1.2% Compare that with any government currency that is 100% government-controlled.

It's easy to permanently lose cash, too.
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(This point is also made lower down).

When you run a program, your concern should be what it is called. Not how it is written.

A language-specific filename extension puts an implementation detail in userspace. If you run a binary executable, you shouldn't care whether it's written in C, C++, Fortran, or any other language (though source files, being used only by developers and compilers, generally do have extensions).

Worse: if you decide for whatever reason to change the implementation language, you're either forced to track down and change all references to the program name, or to retain the (now incorrect) filename extension for backwards compatibility.

And, as noted, magic(5) or the shebang line should correctly identify the file type and language for syntax highlighting -- if not, your editor is broken. Replace it with a shell script, "editor.sh".

file(1) will tell you the types of files in a directory with far greater accuracy than filename extensions can.
Is there anything to stop the community from creating a database of known-stolen Bitcoins which participants can choose to reject? I guess all it takes is one non-participating exchange, but it seems like you could make it much less convenient to cash out.
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And, a 2 minute phone call doesn't take just 2 minutes. The lawyer has to pull the file, make notes on the call, set a tickler, then put the file back. Boom, 10 minutes.
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This is just lovely
Some things I don't particularly care for (2 space indent? SRSLY?!!), but it warms the cockles of my heart to see an 80 character line limit.

Yes, it matters.
Banks losing $1 million to hackers are not exactly science fiction. Typical outcomes including authorities not catching the thief, insurance paying out or the bank self-insuring, reiterating NDAs to employees who became aware of the theft, and absolutely no media coverage.

[Edit to add: For avoidance of ambiguity, I'm really, really, REALLY not suggesting that "Since banks are equally insecure, bitcoins are a great idea." Of greatest interest to HN readers, if your bank has a security fumble and your account is debited $25,000 as a result of this, you will almost certainly be reimbursed for every penny of that post-haste.]
It's probably because the market for such services is slowly saturating. Entry bar is quite high, and people are not willing to use newly released services as much anymore, as it was before. So yeah, it's good that the rate is decreasing, but unless we remove the source of this (i.e. move away from "hosted Bitcoin wallets" scheme) this will still happen in the future.
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I find this point a very interesting one. Everyone insists that transactions are saved and traceable (which of course they are), but I've never heard of anyone finding out who stole their coins and getting them back. People just seem to accept after a break-in that the money is gone and there's nothing they can do about it. That's not acceptable to me in a currency, particularly not one that people use as a store of value long-term. So it is effectively untraceable even if technically you can trace the anonymous transactions. The important part of that statement, which was not wrong, is they can be used when stolen.

This is my biggest reservation about bitcoin - they have taken the worst attributes of paper cash (pretty anonymous, not tied to a verifiable identity), and replicated them in a digital currency. If I'm transacting with someone I want to know who they are, in case of fraud or theft. People even openly run money laundering operations (mixing), and the community put up with it! In contrast, most people never store large values of money in actual paper cash anymore, they store it in a bank, which has identification and laundering checks, proper tracing of accounts to identities, immediate yet reversible transactions, and compensation if money is stolen. Bitcoin doesn't come out well in that comparison.

The other reservation I have about it is the lack of regulation - these exchanges which hold the money of lots of people are not regulated as banks are. No-one knows exactly what security they actually have (as opposed to say they have), sometimes people don't know who's behind them (I remember that 17 year old from Singapore talking here about starting one[1]), and there's no protection against market manipulation, speculation and cornering, or it seems against online theft. Given they have become so valuable so quickly, you can be quite sure the market is heavily manipulated, perhaps even in advance of thefts like this in order to gain the maximum benefit. What is the cause of the huge recent spike in prices for example? If bitcoin is to work as a currency and a store of value (the traditional roles of money), it does need regulation and verification, but I find it hard to see how that would come about, given the lack of a central authority and the lack of will to deal with incidents like this.

I'd love to see a digital currency that tried to emulate the advantages of digital cash, while doing away with the ability of a central government to print the currency ad infinitum - that's the big downside of our current state-backed currencies - it seems Bitcoin is not that currency.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973301
BitCoins are difficult to anonymize. If you take your stolen coins directly to an exchange, the exchange would be able to identify you if law enforcement asked.
Feminism is a slave morality by definition. I didn't invent the term. You're welcome to reject advances in Western Philosophy if you like. The value that comes out of engaging me is talking to someone who is interested in more than mere gossip. I mean, look at your comment: no more than questioning my credentials, in response to a comment of mine suggesting that maybe people put forward some _actual content_. Amazing
looks great! Love the simplicity of the landing page too. Though I'm a little unsure why you have the reddit page in your video? Did you mean that with your tool, you'd save lots of time (to waste?). I personally find it distracting and misleading.
It's okay, I don't expect chronically stupid people to recognise their betters.
Also there is no connection between a wallet and an address except the wallet stores the address.

When the client sends the address the change is returned to a new change address, and the wallets are being designed now to never reuse addresses.

So it would become very hard to determine which of the outputs are change addresses and in the same wallet.
I think you might be able to just start and end with the laundry cleaners. Blockchain.info could just decide that they won't wash coins that they know were from a high profile hack like this.
yeah, that's a good reason. I am convinced.
I think it may be something like the inverse of bitcoin days destroyed. See: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed
They are not "more accurate". Just different. They measure 2 different things. I think pretty much any website owner can tell you their stats look a lot closer to what StatCounter says than what Net Apps says, though.
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There's a GNOME Remix that we must account for. It's what I have running on a few VMs at work and at home.
The inputs.io hack required zero sophistication. Did you read TradeFortress' explanation? The hacker merely used the password reset feature on an email account, and then reset the Linode Manager password from the email.
True. Trading in a physical currency also carries a stigma.

But don't confuse physical currency with fiat currency.

Electronic transactions, direct deposit, wire transfers, credit card payments, etc., denoted in fiat currencies are the norm.

The reason Bitcoin and physical currency carry a stigma is both can be spent or received anonymously: which is perfect for illegal transactions.
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It's also illegal to traffic it across international borders, which is why what foreign spies do is prosecutable. Which is the exact thing they were doing.
> I know this doesn't mean much, but I'm sorry, and saying that I'm very sad that this happened is an understatement.

Um....I don't see how anyone is okay with this answer.
This was a long time coming. The owner of the site's first posts on the forum was offering blackhat SEO and forum spamming services. Anybody who looked into the background of the creator could see that.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=111563.msg1208770#ms...
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Admittedly, I was in something of a rush to throw it together, and altogether skipped that step. As you'd expect, the result was a bunch of second guessing, and false starts.

That said, I'm absolutely trending that direction, but I felt like there was enough that I didn't know that attempting a spec out of the gate would have led to a bad spec and a bad implementation, and the way that I've always worked, it's easier for me to spot errors in implementation that I don't catch in a design phase, which is frustrating for both me and some of the product managers I've worked with.

What I can tell you in the meantime is that the source, sloppy and unworked as it is, is currently available on Github @ github.com/bmelton/personable, and that some form of a specification is forthcoming, at least in a solid draft state.

The thing that's been really bugging me though is that, my best guess is that in order for it to work as I envision, it would have to be implemented as an oAuth provider (think oAuth, but with a bunch of extra_data fields) which, at least initially, felt very out of scope for the project, but is now starting to feel like more and more of a necessity in getting adoption rates greater than I'd expect to see from an altogether new thing.

EdiT: P.S. Sincerely, thanks for the feedback.
Every story associated with the pic is simply human :)
Oh, definitely. Bitcoin was overvalued when I sold at $20 (whoops). The problem is the language gap, cultural differences, and political considerations make it difficult to discern how deep into their pockets these suckers are willing to reach.
Maybe that's because they only support the two latest versions of Firefox as well?

I haven't gotten any such warnings from Google Docs while using Firefox (latest version) at least.
What are you doing making C header files executable?
> at the same time I think the intersectionalist feminists deserve some positive attention for searching out new ways to get the conversations going.

I'm confused that you say this, but do not actually link any such ways. I'd personally be happy to give them some positive attention, but feminism isn't something I spend much time on so I don't know the latest stuff going on.
Yeah, it's easy to lose cash if you're on Wall Street, but no one lauds that.

You're stuck in a place where you're trying to differentiate yourself from Wall Street and you are exactly like Wall Street.

And then you compare the total BTC in circulation and its equivalence in USD... and...

What the fuck do you think you're doing?

Do you think you're toying with trillions of dollars?

The banking machine is ignoring you. It simply doesn't care.
Looks like they are - https://blockchain.info/address/1GLadosEkeAsLReqS3yQ51E1R3wV...
> The important part of that statement, which was not wrong, is they can be used when stolen.

I think the important part that's missing is this:

If you have the proper opesec, BTC is anonymous.

The 'BTC is anonymous' meme does nothing more than help people who don't know what they're doing get busted. It's like Sarah Palin's email account getting hacked because she picked security questions that were well-known. Even if you're not doing anything nefarious, you may want to keep certain transactions private. "BTC is anonymous" means that some people who don't fully understand how BTC works will be doing things they _think_ are private but actually are not.

And if you think people know how BTC work, just examine this thread.
Nothing that hasn't been said a billion times already -- and likewise for spaces. A fairly comprehensive overview: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TabsVersusSpaces. No, the clever people in this thread are not going to put the issue to bed for once and for all.
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Here's a portland take on HONY if anyone is interested: http://humansofpdx.com/
Great job fixing it so quick but sadly, seems to be down again.
Despite your clumsy attempt at flowery terms, you're clearly a troll. Anyway, this exchange is exactly why the HN guidelines state: Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Cheerio.
So again, you just listed a big list of things which don't actually require a covert surveillance program to implement because the whole point of suppressing people is to be rather overt about doing it.

You then postulate the US government just ignoring the law altogether.

You see the pattern right? All these are things where the US government does some questionably legal, pretty highly visible stuff to you. It's not unintrusive electronic surveillance.

Or to put it another way: the Soviet government didn't start out surveilling their citizens before they just murdered all the ones who were considered dissidents. They started doing it after they needed to get better at murdering the dissidents. But the real problem, was the fact the government was willing to murder dissidents. Has the US government killed a bunch of your neighbors? Disappeared them?
Oh my god it's an actual flame war on HN this is AWESOME.

Ahem.

I'm sorry you weren't able to recognize me as your better. I hope your chronic stupidity is duly cured someday.

Did I do it right?
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Different, James, I think. I'm not completely on board with your view, but your criticism here is valid and should be acknowledged by BTC proponents if they have any hope of observing their currency as realists. This kind of thing is a major drawback to using Bitcoin.
The only reason Xbox was 'profitable' was due to an accounting trick.

The Ultimate SKU of Windows commanded a premium license fee due to the inclusion of Windows Media Center, created by the eHome division. eHome, from an accounting perspective was part of IEB, the group that had the Xbox P&L.

I don't remember the exact license fees but Windows Vista Home was something like $30 and Windows Vista Ultimate was $75 to OEMs. That means for every copy of the Ultimate MS sold about $45 of revenue went to IEB from Windows.

When we envisioned eHome and Media Center we thought we were going to revolutionize the living room. Instead we ended up building a feature in Windows MS could charge more for.