skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An IPO is a good point, can you name a currency that had a similar IPO?
Neither open source nor a documented protocol, which makes it entirely unsuitable for many users.
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EU spokesman: Iran nuclear deal reached
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Should You Invest In Bitcoin?
So would you say that Hunter Moore is really a hero? Helping us all get over our hang ups wether we like it or not?
Sorry, probably a bit of stupid humor on my part. American Dad! season 6 episode 10. Francine and Stan have been married for a really long time and Francine always tell Stan the same story: she got her head stuck in the staircase banister and her mother got her out using a stick of butter, so now she also always carries a stick of butter in her purse in case of emergencies.

This is mildly like the situation where you should always slashdot-proof your web servers if it's easy to do, just in case some piece of content you have on there gets slashdotted. I feel like I say this so much that it's become my "stick of butter" story.
Other people absolutely have plans. They have them all the time. They have those plans because someone called them up and made those plans.

Get used to hearing no. The only way to do that is to be told no a lot. The only way to be told no is to ask in the first place.

It's not easy. It's still not easy for me. I go through long phases where I've given up and refuse to invite people to things or tell them about things I'm going to because I'm unwilling to deal with the feeling of frustration that comes with their being busy or having plans. And then I pick myself back up and ask them and sometimes they are busy or they do have plans. And that sucks. And I make another go at it and hey, they're free that evening! It can happen! And suddenly that evening turns into a great evening.

So ask. Call them up and ask. Or text them. Or email them. They're slightly less likely to respond, but for different people, those media work better. Try to do the leg work for them: the less thinking they have to do, the easier it is to say yes.
The author claimed to have been a private eye in the 80s, and presumably knew how to investigate with some degree of success. It's not clear how much experience, capacity or energy her victimized daughter had in this time of great distress.
this applies to me. I'm very alone pretty much most of the time. Not really had friends and not great at making them. For the last 11 months I've tried going out and being the most positive person I can, to be a friend to as many people as I can but I don't know if it's working or not. Just talking to people, listening to them, smiling at everyone.

It feels like I'm just a grinning idiot, that no one takes me seriously, that I have to completely change everything about me and who I am so before long I'm not the same person in the slightest; I have to pretend to be someone else.

I know I'm not the best person I can be but how much harder and longer do I have to fight to make it?

I hate the weekends and look forward to Mondays because I can go out and meet co-workers. Friday afternoons I fill with a heavy dread. It sounds ridiculous to talk about it out loud because it makes me sound so...high-school. I feel like a loser talking about it, now, just like how I felt like a loser in elementary through high school, and grad school. It feels dumb now. I'm an older man, now. I think most days people won't notice I'm gone until the bugs don't get fixed and a few years later they find me in my condo after I hung myself in the closet.
Their indoctrination vids are a must watch for craziness: http://youtu.be/AqSZhwu1Rwo

Check out that thousand yard stare.

This guy reminds me of that insane space cult leader from Star Trek TOS. Apparently this cult was full of ST fans, including wearing "away team" gear while they killed themselves.
too many.
No. Though I obviously can't speak for either of the folks above, I read their reactions as them not caring whether other people saw nude pictures of them. Instead, they care about other folks' reactions to those pictures and that is what the above replies want to guard against. If the latter (the reaction by others) wasn't negative, the former (the posting of nude photos) wouldn't have a stigma that the jerks in the linked article could exploit.
I'm imagining Bieber standing in front of a giant wall of monitors on a huge video conference with thousands of followers. It would be real time and his actions would obviously originate from him.

(Why am I imagining this?!)
Thanks for commenting. I do think this is a subject worth discussing until it is fixed.

GCHQ has a many petabyte dump of data but there's no impact on me unless they grep my name.

I'd disagree there - if GCHQ is collecting huge dumps of data, it doesn't have to be your data to affect you directly. For example if your MP or prime minister is deposed because of selective leaks of their data, that could easily affect your life in dramatic ways.
At some point can't she say "so there's a picture of my left tit on the net, and?"

Also I don't understand why people like Moore haven't been sued into the ground for profiting from copyright violation.

(edit: I mean other than the whole upfront cost aspect, but given how frickin' insane copyright penalties are, you would think some or other lawyer would take it on a no-win no-fee basis.)
As far as I can tell this is just a a memcached interface to ordinary InnoDB tables, so yes. 1000k queries per second also sounds plausible since stock PostgreSQL can reach almost 400k queries per second with normal SQL queries.

The storage engines of relational databases are this fast (for read-only queries to datasets which fit in memory).
Rootkits exist that survive OS reinstalls. I don't know how prevalent they are, but if you expect a target to try to reinstall their operating system to attempt to purge an infection it is possible to counter this.
FindTheBest destroys “matchmaking” patent, pushes RICO case against troll
Managing addresses seems like the easy part, to me. The real challenge is getting money in & out of BTC, at least until you can spend it just about anywhere.
Having people name, approximate location and a couple of likes you share it is usually enough to yield a small list of candidates. With the photos is easy to find the actual person.

And that is not something Tinder can fix, since that is a product vulnerability.
It is read-only, InnoDB, and memcached. InnoDB is the storage engine used here for memcached.
Ask HN: Is there a market for my startup idea?
I have a startup idea and am curious if there is a market for it.

The Problem:
Don't have access to family movie collection and DVDs are not as convenient as digital files.

My family has about ~100 movies on DVD from the old days. Many of these movies are not available in Netflix or Amazon Prime. In my case, the family's movie collection lives in a different country then the family. As I don't have access to the family movie collection, I'm sure others don't as well.

The Solution / Business:
A service where you mail us your dvd collection and we return you .mp4 files.

Clients pay $0.50/dvd and postage to send us their movies. We extract the media content and package it in a .mp4 file for each DVD. We either send you a package of USB thumb drives with the videos (extra charge), or provide you with temporary download links. Clients can choose to have their DVDs returned or recycled.

So men and women of HN: Would you pay ~60USD to have digital copies of 100 DVDs from your movie collection? Do you even have a DVD movie collection?

Thanks for reading and hopefully you can provide some insight.
What do the Canadans say?
Sure they do. Sometimes alone, sometimes together. As a male I find them less interesting and I find the idea of remote fucking pale in comparison to the real.
I'm not sure if you're aware; Chrome gives a security warning when going to the site.

You attempted to reach jmduke.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.squarespace.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of jmduke.com.
Absolutely spot on. I have no sympathy for the villain, but this story sums up modern America:

1. A prudish culture in which women are fired for the slightest revealing photo.

2. A litigious culture in which courts and police are heavily relied on to solve disputes.

3. An infantilized youth remaining under the wings of their parents long after reaching adulthood.

4. A burgeoning labyrinth of overly-specific laws being added to regularly in response to each perceived "crisis".
In reality you're right. Seeing someone naked shouldn't be the end of the world - no one should be fired for nudes appearing online somewhere. No ones life should end. That said, this guy in a total sleeze, and knew that (a) he had no rights to do so (b) its morally wrong (c) it had a good chance of ruining peoples lives.

While we need to fix the first problem I think (cultural taboo about nudity) what sleezebag did is still wrong, and not fixing the first problem.
I haven't looked at this in 16 years, but I remembered verbatim one of the links and got a little chill waiting to see it again as I scrolled down: "Our position against suicide".
Well yes, absolutely.

I tend not to bother with LDRs either, I must admit, I think they're mostly a bad thing.
I don't think you read the entire parent post.
Me too and it's sad when we find out in 50 years how bad this is for us. Similar schedule but exercise at lunch in there for me!
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- I am so sorry for removing the word "secure". I was posting this article from my tablet and I memorized the headline. I apologize. Yes I wanted an upvote of the article but not at the expense of the word "secure". Im sorry.
I think the fact, as per the article, a victim teaching at a school was treated like the perpetrator is partially what they are referring to.

Just like the good old days where the rape victims were the ones at fault.

Society has a lot to blame for here as well.
Not quite, one URL has the "?_r=0" at the end and I'm guessing that HN is not stripping that out.
I think that's a stretch - it would be like saying war is really a good thing because of the (possibly good) ending side effects.

If I may recall the relevant operetta on HN:

CANDIDE:

Objection! What about war?

PANGLOSS:

War!

Though war may seem a bloody curse

It is a blessing in reverse

When canon roar -- Both rich and poor

By danger are united!

(Till every wrong is righted!)

Philosophers make evident

The point that I have cited

'Tis war makes equal -- as it were --

The noble and the commoner

Thus war improves relations!

(Pangloss tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible world, because it was created by an all powerful/knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
How would that help? You declare your "salary" wallet, your salary flows from your day job. You run your underworld schemes in another wallet, and ne'r the two do meet.
I do not know about ideology but there is definately a political angle to all of this. Bitcoin is only worth anything as long as people are willing to give things or services of value in exchange of bitcoins. For now people have because bitcoin has generated a lot of excitement and there have been relatively few bitcoins available for purchase.

But if one of the early adopters busts out a billion dollars worth of bitcoins and demands massive amounts of real world wealth in exchange, people may just decide he does not deserve it and stop buying bitcoins. Then the bitcoin will be worth nothing again.
The story kind of jumps around and I read it in parts, but I'm confused about the outcome. He basically went into hiding and suffered no consequences?

What worries me more deeply is how society provides people like Moore with the ammunition they need to terrorize women. One victim complained that she would lose her children over the nude pictures. Even if they were actually of her, why does someone have to fear the government taking away their kids simply because they chose to appear naked in front of a camera? That doesn't make someone a bad parent. It doesn't really make them anything.

Why do we make people fear the govenrment AND their exes AND crazy people on the Internet? As society, we're doing a piss-poor job providing protection to people that need it.
A reflection on the cost of change (or why I write software in my free time)
Interested in your strategy for ecommerce sites. I wonder if foxycart integration would make sense.
Yes, you're right, and it's too late for me to either delete or edit my original post. :(

In light of that, I think the discussion and work revolves around discovering the smallest gap as the numbers themselves become larger and tend toward infinity. Obviously the very smallest prime gap is that between 2 and 3, i.e. 1, and there are a great number of primes separated by 2, and the Twin Prime Conjecture asserts that there will always be occasional pairs of primes separated by 2 no matter how large the numbers themselves become. The present work is in part meant to put that conjecture on a more analytical footing.

I would love to delete my original post.
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat . . ."

The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.

"Please--tame me!" he said.

"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand."

"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . ."

"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.

"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."

The next day the little prince came back.

"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."

"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.

"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."
In real life language etymology, people joke (with some degree of seriousness) that if there is an explanation for a particular term or phrase, that is logical, reasonable, and has some historical corroboration, it is almost certainly wrong.

The evolution of language is a strange and unexpected process. I think this clearly applies to programming languages too. Surely more so for some languages than for others... but this seems to definitely be the case for web languages, since the ecosystem they evolve in is so chaotic.
It scared me when I found out such a high percentage of people are sociopaths. I know many are non-violent and live within social norms, but it still unsettles me. How can you have empathy for someone who has no empathy for you or anyone else? Someone who has no guilt?
Portland has a high suicide rate.
Sure, she can say that. Some professions don't welcome people who have nude photographs of themselves on the Internet - teachers, for example.

It seems baffling to me that her partner would consider leaving her, but the article says it was a concern.

Or sometimes people at vulnerable points in their lives are outed. Or not even outed, just plain blackmailed.

It's very easy to say "just shrug it off", but the numbers of people completing suicide (I've found 3 names in a very quick web search) shows that it's not something that people can just get over.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/23724703

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24428437

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24163284
Wikipedia says one of the victims stabbed him, but there are no citations.
I'd assume he's just a botmaster that happens to automate creepy scanning of compromised email accounts for such images, but the fact that 2 of the victims knew each other suggests that he could be doing targeted phishing on new targets that he identifies while browsing accounts.

I'm not familiar with Black Lotus, but looking at their page for http://www.blacklotus.net/protect/protection-for-gear suggests that they basically act as a proxy for a customer's service, preventing malicious traffic from burdening the server. Because whatever goes in or out must pass through them first, they can decide not to allow certain things out if they are not comfortable with it.
I would have loved if they had benchmarked it against doing them same thing in MySQL with SQL so we could see how much overhead is added by the SQL layer for simple selects.

PostgreSQL manages to reach a third of their QPS in Haas's benchmark.
In English a simile is a comparison using the words 'like' or 'as'. So using that as a basis it should be fairly obvious that I was definitely not saying this is an IPO but rather comparing getting in early with BitCoin to getting in early with anything with a market value that could appreciate or depreciate (like stocks traded on a stock market, or newly discovered commodities etc.). There is risk and there is reward.

If you are looking for examples of other currencies you could have made money with due to appreciation (if you got in early), then simply look at the developing countries with appreciating currencies, countries who peg their values to a currency basket that includes a rising commodity (like oil). Money is made (and lost) on speculating on forex markets everyday. The Kuwait Dinar springs to mind.

Personally I think its better to compare BitCoin to a commodity that has scarcity and solves the coincidence of wants problem and so it can be used to exchange value for goods or services, like gold, silver, perhaps oil (to a lesser extent).
Iran nuclear: Geneva talks 'reach deal'
He is under current investigation by the FBI, from what I understood.

I also find it extremely disturbing that someone would lose their job over this. I don't know many other democratic countries how would have this immediate reaction, and would certainly at least investigate first.
Russia is bigger than Pluto?
href stands for HiddenReflex
Poll results: "How many hours a day are you looking at a screen?"
I'm pretty sure that guy doesn't have a monopoly on using stylized thunderbolts as a logo.
I agree about LDRs in the long term, but if you're apart for a period due to career or life circumstances it's different, and some working relationships can start long distance and work out if someone moves.
Please, please tell us what that is from.
I don't get this. As fast as static blogging is, in-memory applications:

1) will actually beat static files in speed

2) you lose none of the flexibility of databases. In fact, because your effective query impact is going to be much smaller, you gain. Not in what can theoretically be done, but in what can be done practically without impact on response time, you gain a lot. Also expressivity gains (SQL is good, but it doesn't match general programming languages) (e.g. drawing a graph of "this person replies to this person and never replies to this other person" would be feasible).

I suppose there's problems too:

3) you lose that your state is always on-disk. In other words : there's a chance that you/your developer will get it wrong, but you won't notice it until your process restarts, which can be months.

4) of course, you have to start monitoring memory usage in these kinds of scenarios.
Then replace the hard drive? I don't know of any viruses that could hide itself in your case fans so I'm inclined to think that buying a whole new computer is an overreaction.
I'm not afraid of hearing no. I'd be relived to hear no. I don't want to cause them to say yes when they don't want to just because they like me or they think they should.

Also most of my plans do not come from people calling me.

I guess my reservation towards calling other people comes from not wanting to cause trouble to other people just like the ones they would have caused me if they called me.

I have no objection to call my friends when I need information or a thing they probably won't mind lending me and would say they mind if they did.

I probably need contact with people but I don't like it. It's like when you know you need to eat but you don't realy have the apetite.
In all seriousness, I look forward to a world with assassination markets every time I read a story like this.
It's Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince". Definitely worth a read!
Really? where would the rootkit hide? Even if I replace all my HD sectors with zeros? I'm truly interested to know if this is real.

thanks
I hope all the upvotes you're receiving is evidence that we _do_ care.

Perhaps get into some multiplayer online games? They really helped me when I was feeling lonely -- especially if you start to play with a regular crowd and start to use voicecomm. It's fun, social, but not too social.
>I don't know of any viruses that could hide itself in your case fans

Wait for Snowden's next leak.
eaving someone to mope seems a little like you're treating them as more a child than an adult

... yes?
I was looking for something like this the other day and found a mine-field of services which seemed like they never went anywhere. Sometimes I would like to be able to throw up a site where I can create content using something like Editorially, have automatically backed up and not have to mess with everything else involved in running a site and making sure content is backed up.

I was looking for something which could run Markdown files from Dropbox (and pick the folder from which they are pulled.) I would also like to be able to make posts (or even the entire site) private if needed (publishing workflow.)