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> It's not that they will paper over problems a child has; if you read other sources they will outright lie. I also recall reading, unfortunately an article that I can no longer find, that China and Russia would often give severely challenged children to US adoptive parents.

Yes they would lie. Shortcuts are taken at every step, bribes are paid. [Well I speak about the situation 10 years ago]. So some shadiness and cutting corners happens form both ends. American parents know they are paying bribes and cutting corners in the "process". I know of a case 10 years ago. They snuck the baby out of Russia by bribing. Bribed officials and people all through the chain. I was told there would not be another way. That child turnout to have issues. Not as severe but it sure put a tremendous strain on that family.

Anyway back to lies. I don't know if Russia or those other countries have laws to only give severely challenged kids to US parents. I think many orphanages do that individually because they think those children would have a better chance at a good life in America. Americans (at least a decade ago, when I was able to better compare) were seen as having unlimited resources and big hearts. They were the only ones who would adopt children with those issues. And by enlarge American families felt (feel?) the same, they feel they can provide and take care of a child with special needs. Some are aware of what they are getting into but many, don't but think they can handle it. That is when it becomes very dangerous.
Which SPCA were you looking into?

When I went to go adopt a cat with my fiancé, the SF SPCA were so upfront about known problems with the cats they had that I was surprised because it wasn't something I had really considered. We ended up adopting a cat from SF Animal Care & Control in the end since the SPCA had no more younger-than-5-years cats to adopt that day. SF ACC (and I assume SF SPCA too) not only test for health and behavioral issues before even making pets available for adoption, but also keep track of day to day behavior and are upfront about everything they found out while they've had the cat. It wouldn't be in anyone's benefit to make someone adopt a pet without learning of major, discoverable problems anyway, since the cats would be back for adoption soon if it was that bad.

Anyway, we found the sweetest 2 year old cat that had been abandoned by her owner that had nothing bad about her except that she doesn't like other cats and that she had been around at the shelter for a couple months because nobody wanted an "older" cat to adopt. She loves to just sit around and preen herself, and occasionally knocks our mice over or sits in front of our computers or on our laptops asking for treats. Life is so much better with her around, no idea what we would have done without her or with a different cat, and we were also of the "we really want to get kittens, maybe we should check breeders" mindset thankfully changed by an SPCA volunteer that gave us a heads up about the ACC shelter across the street. Maybe you can find a cat like her too instead of getting a kitten from a breeder :)
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Courts don't exist to solve all disputes, surely. One clear indication that this is not an appropriate dispute to solve using men with guns is the fact that she had to rely on awkward legal maneuvers (retroactively registering the photo with the copyright office and sending a DMCA notice) that clearly weren't intended for this. The alternative is not to engage in a different form of violence, but rather to ignore it and continue on with your life.

Edit: To be clear, I'm aware that some of these victims lost their jobs. I did not mean to suggest there was no harm done. However, they lost their job due to the prudish culture that I originally referred to, not directly by the actions of the villain.
I just wonder how many people think that web is so wonderful invention. But they completely forget Gopher. There isn't so much difference between web and gopher after all. It's just a bit different linking method. After all, it's rare that invetions are relly great, most of those are just small gradual change over time. Still remember how much hype there was about hypertext back in old days. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
Have you considered going to a Universalist Unitarian church?
Do you have kids? Perhaps you don't understand the righteous anger that a parent would feel in this scenario.

If this happened to my kid, I would also completely take over, and want them involved as little as possible. Yes, even if they were 24.
Right, because the UK & much of the EU already have that positive culture. You're standing on the mountain, we're ten thousand feet below in a valley, and you're asking why we can't just hop on up to the peak to join you quicklike :)
At the risk of sounding negative, I've found that this is probably a waste of time, because most therapists are utter garbage...

And, it's really no surprise, really, if you look at the average salary for therapists. I imagine that most of the ones who could actually help you are running high-priced practices treating Arab princes and basketball players...naturally they are not going to be found in the provider directory for your insurance...if you even have insurance... (US perspective here)
This kind of hidden text seems trivial to exclude. Does the phrase being searched occur in a parseable sentence? If not, penalize the result. Also, it's trivial to deduce that the text doesn't display; that alone should make it excludable from any and all searches.
28 million results with google means less then 1000 results
How do you propose to spend money from your underworld wallet to buy real things - say to buy a car - without revealing your identity to the merchant? And once your identity is out in the open, how do you propose to evade the undisclosed income investigation that will be inevitably follow.
Ask HN: What are some problems in need of a solution in the travel industry?
Hi All,

I've been working on a side project focusing on the travel industry for a while but it seems that this market is very overcrowded at the moment, and unfortunately I am finding it very very hard to come up with something unique enough that will convince people to use my product and everyday I'm feeling less and less motivated to keep going.

I have a few years of experience as a software developer in the travel industry and would love to work on something innovative that solves a REAL problem in the travel space, but I just can't come up with anything.

Any Ideas?

Thanks.
I love seeing modern 2-legged dinosaur depictions with feathers. I wondered why, growing up, everyone didn't see that they were just giant birds with teeth and weird little arms.
"free will"

this is heavily contested.
The really bad cases were in Singapore. I'm probably waiting until I buy/rent a house in WA next year, so maybe up in Bellevue I'll look, but one of the world's top 5 Russian Blue breeders is in Hillsborough, and she offered one of her retired show cats, which might be better than a kitten. The advantage of a kitten is I want to train the cat to be comfortable in cars, as well as (ideally) to use a toilet. Show cats tend to be used to travel, at least.
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As an American whose only connection to India is my name and my ancestry, I wish there was a way where it was clearly delineated that this trend is of Indian resident programmers. It just sucks when you get turned down by clients becuase they assume you code bad due to your name.
Here's a quick litmus test when someone proposes a Satoshi candidate X: "how did $X pay for DigiRock hosting of bitcoin.org in August 2008 when DigiRock accepts only yen and has no English language support?"
Not all the early mined coins were controlled by Satoshi, Hal Finney and other's on the crypto mailing list have many, many coins. Maybe Hal bought some weed

According to Bitcoin developers Satoshi hasn't moved any of the coins they know he is/was in control of. Amateur sleuths trying to unmask Satoshi have gone through every piece of public writing and paper he's done, picked out unique phrases and words and tried to match them up to existing mailing list posts, forum posts and white papers with no success. Satoshi slipped in and out of British slang as well, either on purpose for distraction from his real identity or they were 2 people using the same account. He also referenced the Times when mining the first block as proof he had not premined a bunch of coins to run a ponzi/scam further indicating he may of been from the UK.

Either way he certainly is content with avoiding the spotlight while Ulbricht loved the fame that came with being DPR.
I remember hearing this at the time, but it's mentioned on her Wikipedia page as well. The brother of Nichelle Nicholas ("Uhura," as I'm sure you know) was a member of the cult and took part in the mass suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols#Personal_life
Wait. What. Really?

Oh my goodness.

Okay, so that sort of works. It's a bit of a kludge though.
Nobody deserves a billion dollars and if someone was to become a billionaire I feel it is more likely the people holding BitCoin would be more concerned with their own value appreciation than all cooperating to devalue a single entities value. You also have to consider that wide adoption of BTC would mean a diverse set of people with a diverse set of values.

I've often read that in the US (as an example, but I'm sure it applies elsewhere) poorer people are likely to vote against their best interest because they have a belief that one day they will be rich. That sort of scenario makes more sense to me, people will just worry about themselves than burning their own value for some collective 'good'.
The alternative is not to engage in a different form of violence, but rather to ignore it and continue on with your life.

You and I have our beliefs about sexuality, and perhaps any one woman showing up on this website could elect to ignore it. But it's quite clear that Hunter was causing women real harm & suffering, regardless what your or my beliefs about sexuality are. Particularly considering he got people fired. I don't know about you, but someone getting me fired is not some little joke I can ignore.

One clear indication that this is not an appropriate dispute (...) is the fact that she had to rely on awkward legal maneuvers

I disagree. I believe that's a clear indication the legal system is currently catching up to technology, not that the law doesn't belong on the internet.
Perhaps so.

I find the whole thing baffling. I find it genuinely difficult to understand how any actor was anything but sympathetic to the women in the story. It brings a whole new light to the idea of 'revenge porn', which I had always assumed was just a way to cause someone some embarrassment and would be quickly forgotten.
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It could be Finney buying drugs for his unfortunate condition: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rbd8q/study_sugges...
"it would be like saying war is really a good thing because of the (possibly good) ending side effects."

>it would be like saying war is really a good thing because of the (possibly good) ending side effects.

War can be a good thing for that very reason. It can be a form of politics that is used to avoid further and larger loss of life. However, this only works if the war is not drawn out.

Art of War (and relevant analyses) are good references on this topic. Art of War specifically talks about avoiding long and drawn out campaigns, and let's just say that a few recent examples come to mind.
It depends on how much your underground wallet holds. There was that guy who was successful for many years, laundering dollar bills in person.

If you buy a BMW, your identity will be noted and the transaction recorded. If you buy a bagel sandwich, the clerk will forget about you by noon the next day. So if it's small potatoes, you could be fine.

If you have a ton of cash to move, you are right- in person becomes a bad option. That's when you go back to the basics- you launder the money, like every big-time criminal in history.
Its not responsive in it current definition. The site is just fluid (based on percentages), the reason some elements seem to realign/behave like responsive design, is because those elements have fixed widths.

History lesson: Fluid widths were quite common until around 2005, as there weren't a large number of resolutions to cater to. Around the start of 2006 designers started switching to 800-960px to have the webpages look the same or nearly the same on every page.

[0] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp - In early 2006 77% of displays were between 800-1024px wide.
Let's see - the HREF attribute that implements the basic principle of hypertext referencing in the Hypertext Markup Language which TBL invented as a file format to serve over his Hypertext Transfer Protocol... what could it possibly mean? I can see the confusion.
If you trust in the feasibility of anonymous currency and anonymous internet hosting/browsing (we are close to both already via Tor and Bitcoin/blind mixes), then get ready for a world with assassination markets. It really doesn't matter what you think about it.

I see a number of advantages to de facto anarchy, Hunter Moore getting offed is only one.
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Ignoring it and continuing on with your life isn't an option if you have to worry that next time you apply for a job someone is going to search your name and find that picture.

This guy wasn't posting these pictures annonymously, he was including personal and identifying information so that it would come up if you searched their name and even their facebook timeline. You should also look past the daughter in the story, what about the teacher who was fired on the spot when the photo was posted? Not only was she fired, but she would be unable to work in that field ever again. How could she possibly ignore what happened?
Thanks! I need to fix my weird accent, though.
Based on that quote and my understanding of aeronautical engineering, I would say Mr Bill agrees with you. Even if, as you imply, he has been less than successful in achieving the goal.
It could maybe be described as hidden in plain sight. If you dug around there were pieces in the public domain that you could put together. But if you suggested this, you would have been dismissed as a tinfoil hatter by most people.

More to the point, the fact that it is a huge story in the news across the world proves that most people were simply unaware. So it doesn't mean much to say that this was already known when to most it wasn't. That could be taken to imply that there is nothing to see here and that people who are bringing it up are a little slow - which is simply disingenuous. The fact that my mother doesn't read every page of every newspaper doesn't mean she should be disenfranchised. And it also doesn't change the fact that many businesses are only now changing their behaviour and moving away from US companies and reconsidering architecture for IT projects and business operations.
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It seems likely there were at least 2 DPRs. Ulbricht hints at this in his interview: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-inte...
To claim to be offended is to say that you consider certain areas of thought morally off limits.

Thought isn't the issue. It's the public expression of that thought.

When people claim to have been victims of a serious crime, for a third party to jump in with a pompous "analysis," in a faux dispassionate tone ... is offensive. Similarly, it's offensive when the male judge asks a rape victim "why didn't we hear more screams?" It's offensive to Holocaust victims (and, frankly, most people) when Holocaust deniers launch into a lengthy analysis of the chemical properties of Zyklon B.

If you don't see this, then I can't help you.

(And yes, claims of crime and attack should be open to examination. Who does the examination, and in what manner, determines whether it is offensive.)
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How does this compare to bitmessage?
This comment screams "downvote me".

EDIT: The one above, I meant. Thanks though, the downvote here too was well deserved. :D
Two very good points. As you said, Tor can handle the first, but the second is much like the 51% attack on Bitcoin. In any case, if you have a possible solution to the second, I would be glad to have a coffee with you.
I am Intrested in that , I am an Indian teen with a lot of free time and technical knowledge .
You might also reasonably ask why tptacek and friends weren't blowing the whistle as this is huge news to most.
Nah, I don't think it's immoral. I figure it's kind of like advertising; it's not dishonest of me to view an ad without intent to buy. The advertiser knows I probably won't, but I might- so they are satisfied simply having my eyeballs. Similarly, the church wants your ear. Give them your ear. If you aren't converted, that's fine, they had their chance, they had your ear, both parties get what they want.

And, maybe, in that spirit of exchange, throw a few dollars in the collection bowl. You enjoyed their HVAC for a few hours, and maybe even ate a little of their food.
Do you have a link to the Reddit post? I'd like to have a look.

I agree that there definitely should either be some combinations of education, regulations and resources for parents who find themselves in this situation. There should also be strict enforcement of current laws with severe punishment for trading children online.
By treating allies like enemies US is creating new enemies.
Hmmm - I didn't see the talk on that page... Is there a link?
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In decent societies nudity isn't even something considered worth taking pictures over. Try visiting Austria for example during the summer and taking a swim. Good luck find any non-naked beaches (at least partial), where anyone cares.
Hey there, I could certainly get you linux binaries if you agree to be my linux beta tester :). The issue with tray icon is that it's pretty critical to application's existence, in that the app needs to stay in the background as long as the computer is open. It's a daemon, essentially. Without a functioning tray icon, it's impossible to shut down the application other than via kill [pid] or another way via shell. If you are interested, please email me (in my HN profile). I'm definitely interested in maintaining Linux binaries or help people maintain them.
Aldous Huxley gave a speech at Berkeley "The Ultimate Revolution" which can be found online in many places, not least at http://archive.org/details/AldousHuxley-TheUltimateRevolutio...

In the talk he discusses how the most likely scenario relative to 1984 is that people will come to "love their servitude".

Well worth a listen.
He might have if he trademarked it. A logo being simple doesn't mean it can be copied at will (e.g. Apple, McDonalds, Nike, Mercedes).

Point is, as wmeredith pointed out, he is well known among web designers/developers, created Svbtle (a competing blogging platform), and has been using that as his personal logo for as long as I can remember, maybe half a decade.
It happened a few hours ago. It should turn up in a few days, I think? I'm also waiting for that.
...and if you are fired because someone sees your naked photo? If someone comes up to you in a store and says, "I've seen you naked?" Both of these were examples of the harassment women go through regularly after an event like this.
What's bad about .zips? Surely it's the .exe that's the issue.
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I understood this point to deal with the abuse of the judicial system and the belief that law enforcement has the same powers as portrayed in TV shows like CSI, not in the fact that we have a justice system in place.
This seems to be the answer - some early adopter, maybe even Satoshi, used Silk Road as a coin mixer.
This may sound kinda stupid, but when people ask you to send them an e-mail in a social setting, what are you expected to actually send? I've had a few times when there are people I've met who use the "send me an e-mail" line, but I never find something worth actually sending an e-mail about, and thus never get around to it.
I see what you did there. :) There are many other ways it could go.
Not many of the people commenting in this thread, to say nothing of the general population, are founders of security research firms. We may have seen noisy rumours of these things, and even noisier hints at their scope and extent, but we're not being personally mailed verifiable primary documents by first-party actors.
Well, if people in their social circle made fun of him saying they'd seen her topless, it could certainly stress things between them.
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> I think my threshold is pretty similar, but the danger comes in when those few people you have to interact with move away or otherwise become unavailable, then it can become hard to meet new people because you're so out of practice.

I moved away from everyone I know, I have no friends currently. It really, really sucks.

:|
It doesn't have anything to do with growing up. You have to go for the root cause, which is religious conservatism.

Think about it: why can European TV channels show nudity (and sometimes even porn) during daytime? Is it because Europeans are more "grown up" or is it because they have more sane, liberal values and worldviews?
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They were mined

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining
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> Or are there millions of Ted Bundys out there who never actually killed anyone and even lead productive lives?

Exactly this. Psychopaths may not have empathy or desire for social approval prevent them from becoming murderers, but they still don't want to be punished or become outcasts and lose all the things they need from society. They can even develop their own rational morality, arguably in many ways better than the instinctive emotional morality most people have.

Psychopaths typically only become murderers if they're either stupid, live in a defunct society or have some other metal issue that compels them to kill. Fortunately, that combination is rare.
hacking people on #bitcoin, #bitcoin-otc, etc. on freenode might or might not be a good start
I'm starting a fact timeline that we can contribute to. Google spreadsheet probably. maybe it's all the episodes of ms marple my wife watches. Can you say how and when you came across this info? Was it firsthand?
The first BitCoins were mined as part of the genesis block in January of 2009 but can not be spent due to a quirk in the system.[1]

From then on more BTC were mined (at a rate of 50 for every block solved, now 25 for every block as it halves every 4 years) and the first transaction was done from Satoshi to Hal Finney at block 170 (just under 2 weeks from the first block mined).[2]

By October of 2009 the first valuation for the purchase of BTC was published (New Liberty Standard) and it used a convoluted pricing scheme to value $1 = 1,309.03 BTC.

The first actual market established was BitCoin Market[3] and they were sold for about $0.008 = 1BTC.

So since January 3rd, 2009, every 10 minutes a block was solved, giving a reward of 50 newly created BTC and in November of last year the block reward halved (so now it is 25 BTC for every block solved). It seems for over a year and a half, if you knew BitCoin existed, you could have mined a lot of them with nothing more than a CPU. Once the first GPU miners were released, that's when it became really competitive.

There is a full run down of the history of BitCoin at bitcoin.it[4]

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

[2] https://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000d1145790a8694403d406...

[3] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Market

[4] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History