skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I read the same page you did? It seemed quite generic and gave the following rating. Which means it hasn't been explicitly disproven. In fact, I'd suggest that these things might indeed have happened if the skilled worker, needing to prove his worth, used such a glib line because he'd heard it somewhere else. But I'm skeptical too, that's why I was Googling. You'd think someone, somewhere would know how long each took and was more consistent in the retelling. Or that they would have kept the itemized receipt for the joke.

LEGEND: Hollow yellow bullets are the ones most commonly associated with "pure" urban legends — entries that describe plausible events so general that they could have happened to someone, somewhere, at some time, and are therefore essentially unprovable. Some legends that describe events known to have occurred in real life are also put into this category if there is no evidence that the events occurred before the origination of the legends.
As maxerickson said, the common English use is not the literal Latin translation. "The man came crauling [sic] down the hallway." The [sic] means that the misspelling or error has been left in for some reason. Other ways to express what you intended:

Original: Real time exchangers [sic: merchants] will settle on slightly less than normal exchange rates.

Alternative: Real time exchangers (e.g., merchants) will settle on slightly less than normal exchange rates.

Alternative: Real time exchangers, such as merchants, will settle on slightly less than normal exchange rates.
It's important to note that asymmetric crypto behaves somewhat differently. RSA is a particularly notable example of this: a 160-bit RSA key is almost trivial to break, 512-bit keys are possible, and there are good reasons to think that large organizations with lots of cash and motivation are able to break individual 1024-bit keys when they want to.

The ECDSA keys used in Bitcoin are much stronger than RSA keys at the same size, and they seem quite safe, but don't make the mistake of looking at the time needed to brute force e.g. a 128-bit AES key and assume that applies to asymmetric algorithms too.
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Yes, because the motivations behind money laundering are driven almost exclusively by crime. For purchases you wish to remain private, such as personally embarrassing products, there are 'anonymizing' but traceable services for you to save face with.

There are very few legitimate reasons to be concealing where you money came from or is going from the IRS, and they well aware of the intent behind the actions.
Single page sites with scrolling animations and large fonts seem to be all the rage right now. I'm on the fence - this can work, but I agree, it's already become a 2013 web-design cliche.
The copy def needs a lot of work. Will hire a professional.
Very curious how Meiklejohn came to associate the 12sENw address with Bitstamp...
I am not sure this comet deserves the title of "comet of the century" just yet, but it is still an interesting exercise to observe the comet.

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I buy all my domain names at Namecheap.com with bitcoin.
I'm horrified by the possibility, perhaps even a near-certainty, that there probably is fanfic on the internet somewhere outlining how this might happen and what the experience would be like.
People are supposed to stop stating true facts because people are doing research that everybody hopes will solve the problem?

That's... pretty stupid.

Calling it "privacy scaremongering" would be reasonable if it were simply wrong. But if it's completely correct, and the only reason you disagree is because you're pretty sure it'll eventually be solved, that's crazy.
The economics of this do not work.

A house typically gets residential electrical service, ranging from 10-18¢/kWh in most of the country.

A server farm or datacenter typically gets general or industrial electrical service, at a savings of >5¢/kWh off the residential rate.

So, either you compensate the homeowner for the extra power cost (why?) or expect them to eat at least part of the cost.

This service would need some of the following to happen in order to be justifiable:

•A specific reason to have a server in a specific town (perhaps as a data collection or distribution center)

•Lack of suitable space and reliable power in an area, making residential or remote the only option

•A residential client capable of taking on general or industrial power rates (some apartment complexes or buildings might)

•Ridiculously low power costs and a constant need for low-grade heat (eastern Iceland perhaps?)
I am very, very anti-union (among other things, came of political age when Joseph Yablonski, his wife and daughter, and close to home, the driver of an explosives cargo truck were murdered by union thugs) and perhaps even more so anti-public union (a worse principle, but they kill fewer people), but they aren't sufficient to explain the Blue Line of Silence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Code_of_Silence that tells us that outside of a few, generally very small and rural departments, there are NO "good cops".
Ya.. This is a controversial business and you bring up a good point. I think that we need to remind our users of this point. Ultimately, the customer won't go back to the business - so they need to use our service responsibly.
He's not only used it for the title but the actual quotes are from the Prolog of the book.
Yeah, I've read the book many a years ago. Another good read in this vein is Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" [1]:

"they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods — films, radio programmes, magazines, etc. — that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity. Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
Given the amount of closed source routing hardware built by U.S. companies, it would surprise me more if they weren't complicit in similar activities to Microsoft on this topic. I've never been big on conspiracy theories, but this isn't really so much a conspiracy as what would be an obvious point of being able to distribute information from global sources.

When Iran buys computer hardware via third parties, odds are the software may well be a generation or two older... Having knowledge of internal exploit vectors would be invaluable to a state actor (like the NSA).

In my career I've been contacted (usually by recruiter) to consider projects by the RIAA, MPAA and the NSA... None of these were cracking projects or otherwise covert that I am aware of. Just the same, I don't think I could work for an organization that works directly against ideologies that I believe in.. those being liberty, privacy and the greater public good. On the last point some may well believe that these organizations work towards that, I disagree.
Wasn't comet McNaught a nice spectacle from southernly latitudes? I don't recall exactly when (before or after perihelion), but I remember hearing some talk about it.
https://bitdazzle.com has products from hundreds (thousands?) of merchants, and you can buy any of them with Bitcoin.
This is exactly right. Alan Kay said something to the effect that the reason he invented OOP is because he hated algorithms (and data structures). Indeed, one of his criticisms of Java-style OOP is that, by using setters, it "turns objects back into data structures".
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Hmm How does Oracle come out that far ahead given they supposedly measured?:
- Number of mentions of the system on websites
- General interest in the system
> It is also a figurative goldmine for economics researchers, who get to study every transaction in an economy for once, with full information on how the funds are following.

If you're interested in that than you should look at the economy for Eve Online. It's definitely the closest thing ever created to a real economy which astounding amounts of information available to study. I'll provide some links that talk about Eve's market from economic standpoints, but these really only scratch the surface of what type of analysis is possible.

[NOTE: I am not an author of any of these posts, and I claim no ownership over them]

http://justinandrewjohnson.com/gaming/eve-online-best-game-e...

http://justinandrewjohnson.com/gaming/The-EVE-Online-Monopol...
I'm ashamed to say that this is the first time I heard about island. Sounds intriguing, I just ordered the book. Thanks!
I definitely see the value in this service, what do you think is the best way to use it though? tweet them a thank you? a promotion?
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Data ransom shouldn't ever happen to valuable data. Preventing single points of failure is much more important than chasing around the bad actors that come along and exploit them.

Run of the mill kidnappings are parents violating custody agreements.

Infrastructure needs to be resilient in any case.

I don't mind that bitcoin has a public ledger, but you haven't convinced me it is particularly important.
Jobs was an asshole in more than one way. Having a "bold, opinionated leader" is one thing. Having a partner who stiffs you of a fair share is something else. (Good thing is Woz is so forgiving.)
Cop killers are heros.
Let's face it, being a senior citizen in 25+ years is going to be amazing. I can't wait to retire and just have Viagra fuelled cyber VR sex all day. Take a drag of my e-cig after and sent some bitcoins to my grand kids.
I used it to donate to What.CD and buy a Namecheap domain.
I see this as a valid point, but I also feel nowadays companies should engage users with twitter to help build relationships and loyalty. Just got to keep customers happy and keep delivering them value so they stay loyal. This could be a good tool to help do that.
There are a lot of ways to use the service. Sending them a promo coupon works very well, or thanking them for their subscription, sending them a PDF with more info about your service, etc..
It would be great if column oriented DBs weren't tagged as relational databases!
It's not going to have a dramatic impact on your sales. Not a lot of people are going to pay you with bitcoin today, and of those who would, most of them would have used another payment method if you didn't accept bitcoin.

It's fairly irrelevant to you as a vendor whether most transactions are currency conversion, though. Who cares? What matters to you is your bottom line, not what the economy as a whole looks like.

What actually matters is how much it costs you to implement vs how much extra revenue it brings you. Given that it wouldn't cost much at all, why not add it?
> Sir Humphrey Davy, its discoverer, called it Aluminum when he published his work Chemical Philosophy in 1812.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

To be fair he didn't know what he wanted to call it. "In 1808, Humphry Davy identified the existence of a metal base of alum, which he at first termed alumium...", so whoever the dilettante was can't blame them to too much, for wanted to have a standard spelling for it.
Classy. Very classy.
We like the realtouch and intend to support it on the frixion platform eventually -- it has an open source sdk available and having broad support for diverse haptic experiences is the point of the plugin system -- however the realtouch is different in some important ways compared to what we've accomplished here using robotics.

The realtouch is an "input only" device that sits motionless on a mans lap while the conveyor belts do their job either from an encoded video, or from a live model using a touch sensitive dildo called a joystick. This is flow of telemetry in a single direction -- to the realtouch. Our devices create a tethered sense of physical intimacy and connection. One partner feels whats happening with the other side, and vice versa, simultaneously. Also, our design has all the moving parts on the outside, which we feel is more appealing than sticking your penis into an opaque grinding box. (Our devices are very quiet btw, will be adding new videos next week to demonstrate)

You can imagine when we add support for the realtouch that other devices on the platfrom such as the robot itself and accelerometer products will be able to send telemetry to the device to control its functions, and vice versa, the joystick would be able to send telemetry to the robots to manipulate a fleshlight/tenga/sleeve. It's really a robust api that enables all devices to interact where their functionalities overlap.

However, we should all be supportive of realtouch right now -- it appears they're having licensing issues with a certain patent holder that is turning the screws on them and without intervention they wont be able to continue selling devices next year. Dealing with this minefield of patents and licensing has been an important predicate for our development at frixion, and we are eager to create a "safe haven" for other developers to deploy their devices under the agreements we hold in the future.
There are more cross channel promotions on social media now that people are liking and tweeting brands. Social media is becoming more valuable and companies are looking for new ways to engage. But I agree, there needs to be respect for the customer to build the relationship over social channels.
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Going to spend mine on consumer electronics. It's hard though not even a few months ago I threw in 50$ and bought at $124. Spent a little, but now my BTC is worth over $250. I know it could be worth $15 tomorrow but still three LCD's for $50 sounds right up my ally.
In order to be convicted, yes, but police don't usually need to actually confirm to make the initial arrest. However if it turns out an arrest for trespassing was mistaken, because there was actually permission from the property owner, a properly functioning police system should certainly not arrest the same person for allegedly trespassing on the same property.
That was my first thought, except the reality seems worse.
Wow. Learned a lot from the linked shared here. Thanks.
A lot of people in bitcoin discussions online tend to bring up http://www.gyft.com, but maybe things spend their BTC on other things in private. :)
It's also the name of a British boy band, which raises interesting marketing possibilities :)
Look around the system that enables this behavior. The department itself, his peers, the judges he stands before regularly, the thin blue line, his constituency, and you'll see that even if the officers in question knew they didn't have legal impunity through their unions the same bullshit would happen with the same results.

The system of checks and balances ensures that its executors have covered their ass and their friends' asses before justice is 'served'.
Care to expound? If men with guns routinely harassed, assaulted, kidnapped, killed and ruined the standing of your community and every legal avenue of prevention was exhausted it is the victims' right to do whatever necessary to protect themselves from their aggressors.

The only way this will ever stop is if people stop romanticising law enforcement and vanquish the tyranny it has over ethnic communities.
It's not really surprising to me. Oracle has been the DB system for enterprise systems for years - they have a lot of corporations running on their platform.
> EDIT: If you want to downvote, please prove me wrong.

Your original post was a single word with no explanation and did not contribute in any meaningful way to the discussion. It's not a question of whether I agree or disagree with you, it was a crappy post and not the level of content I expect to find on HN. I gave your post, not you, not your ideas, a thumbs down.
In order to be convicted, yes. . .but not in order to be arrested.
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I don't think it's farfetched to say that the social, economic, and ecologic problems of our time are threatening civilization's foundations.

Some questions on my mind: What can we do as hackers to help fix these systems? Or what are you already doing to fix them? Can they be fixed at this point? Am I asking the wrong questions?

I just want to know of the possibilities, maybe I've missed out something big that the media hasn't covered. I want to have a complete perspective. I'm an optimist by default but the world has me feeling pretty uneasy lately.
Or perhaps the tulip.
Be outraged that we're spying on your country if that makes you feel better, I guess. I'd rather nobody spied on each other either.

Opposition to the tactics of the NSA/GCHQ does not require you to be opposed to the existence of spies. That's an old, tired argument, which we didn't need to go into the first time. Of course spies spy, but should they do so without boundaries, without proper supervision, and above the law? Should they do so outside wartime and on allies? Should they be given the very real capacity to subvert our democracies and networks worldwide? Who then will keep them in check if the head of the NSA decides he wants regime change at home? How will we know if this has happened?

Personally I don't think this world-weary acceptance of lawbreaking is an appropriate response, and I'm outraged that spies in my country (GCHQ) have been collaborating with collection of data worldwide and handing it over to the NSA, without any respect for international law or the interests of their own country.

The important discussion to be had is on where the boundaries to NSA surveillance lie, and how to perform adequate supervision of them, and just what laws they are not allowed to break. At the very least I think we need a proper inquiry into those topics, which we have not been offered thus far. Spies could (and have) assassinate, kidnap, subvert the political process, and break into networks worldwide but should they do those things to allies and domestically? Should we fund them to keep doing it? Should we accept the perpetual state of war which has been engendered by wars on terrorism and drugs, and the use of that to justify tyranny, assassination and subversion of the democratic process? If we say they can and will do all these things, because it's just what they do, we might as well given up on the pretence of a democracy we currently enjoy.

There are very good reasons the NSA is not supposed to be used domestically, and I'd argue those reasons should also extend to allies, if only because not doing so means your country will no longer have any real allies at all. Why should anyone trust the US or UK in trade negotiations when they've been shown to cheat and steal at every opportunity? Why should Sri Lanka say not just laugh in the face of the UK when Cameron talks of human rights, and China laugh in the face of the US when it complains about intrusive industrial espionage? The blowback on this topic is very real and deep and is only going to be reinforced by reactions like yours above which come down to 'spies will be spies'. The defensive capabilities of the NSA should be far more important than the offensive ones in my opinion, particularly in times of peace. Acting as if you are in a perpetual state of war with other nations, including your closest allies and even domestic population, will lead them to treat you the same way.

The spies have become a supranational organisation which apparently doesn't feel it is answerable to anyone; even the politicians who are ostensibly in charge of them. I think that's dangerous and worthy of note.
I think if a company wanted to compete with BT Openreach they can it is just impractical in most scenarios. There is also a cable company with its own infrastructure covering about half the country but they aren't interested in increasing coverage.

Because the local loop is regulated you can then have competition at the level above that with different pricing and service offers, so you can choose BT or at very similar price a number of others or for a little more really good ones offering IPv6 and good support (within the limits of the Openreach managed lines).

Is it perfect - definitely not but it is a hell of a lot better than the situation in much of the states and I believe than pure unregulated market in this sector.
>My suspicion, which I think many BTC skeptics hold, is that most BTC transactions are more for currency conversions than purchasing goods.

We get about one BTC order a week at my store and then hold our bitcoins rather than immediately cashing out for USD. The largest orders were from someone who told us overtly that they were basically making orders from us as a way of cashing out their bitcoins.
That's fine for you but... I'm horrified at what your grand kids will have access to.
As an add-on question, how do stores or online retailers set prices in BTC's? It would seem that you'd need to have indexed prices (like wages in some high inflation countries) to know what you're actually charging for something.
If we have to wait for a scheme to surface, that does maen that as it stands truly anonymous and private transactions on Bitcoin are currently impossible, right?
Adding a mirror is not much work either.
A bold move such as this would, whether it worked or not, at least restore Google's credibility as an avoider of evil, the Google twinkle many of you think has fizzled.
Let's get this party started...
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The mere existence of a union shouldn't prevent dismissal cases from prevailing, though, unless something else is seriously wrong with the adversarial process. I'm represented by a union [1], and as a result I could ask my union for advice and/or support, if my job was terminated or if I were otherwise disciplined. Their lawyers would look into it and determine: 1) what advice to give me; and 2) whether there is a violation of rights serious enough to threaten the collective interest of the union members, thereby justifying the union themselves lodging an objection.

But the union would not defend me if their lawyers thought the dismissal was according to procedures and with sufficient evidence; it's not considered in the union's interest to defend clearly bad employees, and in practice they object in only a minority of dismissals. Even when they do lodge an objection in a given case, there is hardly any guarantee they will prevail. Why don't police unions work like that? My guess is a mixture of factors, relating to both cultural aspects (the "no snitching" culture) and ineffective oversight or even outright collusion from people who are supposed to be their adversaries in such procedures, such as judges.

[1] http://www.dm.dk/da/OmDM/Organisationen/English
You won't get many bitcoin sales right now, especially with the market being so volatile over the past few weeks, but the integration should be pretty easy and you might get some good publicity out of it. Posts about stores accepting bitcoin generally attract quite a few upvotes on the bitcoin subreddit.

Also, if you keep the money in bitcoins, you could gain if the price keeps rising, making your bitcoin sales worth more. Of course, that's a risky bet, but the potential upside is still 10x-100x over the next few years.
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Halley's did good in the Southern Hemisphere.
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