skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legally it's not prostitution, the laws would have to change to cover what we have here. However, there are some places (such as in the south pacific/se asia) that consider any pornography or webcam sex criminal regardless of robotic augmentation.

A virtual glory hole is a day one feature actually! To randomly connect two users with complimentary devices and the option to reveal themselves if they both choose to do so. You can imagine sex between game avatars as well, never knowing who's actually on the other side because all you can see is the in-game world but the robot telemetry is real from another person.

Your notes about pregnancy and std's are important, no threat of violence or stalking either. It's a very safe form of sex -- and we may be able to debate what actually constitutes "sex" but this is for sure not masturbation anymore.
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Just wondering if anybody has an update as to the best payment solution in the UK?
Some of us live under the federal poverty level, where any sum of double digits or more is significant.
http://www.startssl.com/
It's amusing to see how the numbers are very close despite the PS4 launching in 11 less countries than the XBone did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786416 from 30 minutes ago.

Here’s who (probably) did that massive $150,000,000 Bitcoin transaction (washingtonpost.com)

From the article: "Who was responsible for the transaction? I asked Sarah Meiklejohn, a computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, for her thoughts. She's the author of a recent paper demonstrating that sophisticated analysis can reveal a lot of information about who is responsible for Bitcoin transactions. She has combined a large database of Bitcoin addresses tagged with their likely owners."

Link to the paper is provided.
alias.

tunnels gem, running SSL in dev+test environments is much easier with this.

ngrok for temporary serving of localhost developer environments publicly.

BrowserStack for cross-browser testing.

Heroku, and its add-ons for eliminating the need for many other tools and time I used to use when managing production environments.

Sass and LESS for making CSS maintenance sensible.

bundler for simplifying ruby dependencies.

Rails for baking tests in and the asset pipeline so JS+CSS optimization just works.
Physical access to a computer is complete access, in terms of security. Therefore, this cannot be used for most computations. Latency is also an issue. A lot of computations can locally be done more cheaply and efficiently if two long journeys must take place with each unit of work at a distance. Ergo, this is likely to be viable only for "public" computations like Bitcoin mining or Folding at home. Public computations usually are poorly funded. Therefore, this business plan is unlikely to succeed without some vast innovation in terms of distributed computing reaching the masses. Example: Intelligent job scheduling ala Google Omega and beyond.
I'm a sloppy 5-minute speed chess player, for whatever that's worth.
What are we spending "hundreds of billions of dollars" on that we could save under the dictates of HBD theory?
How to share links between a tablet and a computer, with out email.
Hello every one I always had a problem of switching between the computer and a tablet, for example If i am reading an article on my tablet/phone and I would like to view it on my computer quickly. I don't want to type the link in the browser or email myself the link I would want it quickly. Is there a way to it????
What do you mean exactly? If you want, you can say which addresses are yours. If you don't: privacy!
Can SMS be a surrogate for the Internet in the developing world?
And what is wrong with taking someone's code from a website and using it?

I'm a programmer and I say NOTHING is wrong with that!
No, we don't. Nor should we.
At some point the robots will have limbs and sweat.
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> It appears as though he's a relentless self-promoter.

That's true. The (linked) article is almost as much about analyzing an image on a hunch as it is about his giving talks and to whom those talks have been delivered.

On the other hand, there is a lesson in this: It's important to be critical of all media we consume.
I supposed that encrypted search is better than not, but won't help when the NSA is tapping from inside their machine rooms.
Could you elaborate on SQL Server vs Redis claim? Or throw some references?

I am not doubting but just honestly asking. I've been discussing a possible Redis solution for complementing our current SQL Server.

Our problem isn't that big, we need to serve 10k req/sec of a simple query, can SQL Server do that? Isn't the connection pool the bottleneck to handle loads of this scale?
Re-Ask HN: Supported locations for merchants (Play store) - no new countries
This is the list of supported countries for publishing paid apps on Google Play Store:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/150324

Years go by and the list is mostly intact - why can't Google do more? Are they really trying?
But doesn't any such successful agency become a state in its own right?
Those kinds of "gimmick" openings don't work well once people know the game. It's like losing to the 4-turn checkmate: it only happens once or twice before you start looking for it and planning against it.
> The news is the scope of the intrusions (installing malware on 50k computers), and of the motivations for the behavior.

GCHQ have said for at least 15 years that their mission is to monitor all communications, world wide, at frequencies from DC to light. They've said that they provide intelligence for their customers, who are the Ministry of Defence and other parts of government. (MI5, MI6, etc).

> It's about global information dominance.

GCHQ / NSA have never ever said anything different.

> But this is about an executive power grab,

It's a grab that happened a decade or more ago.
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> ... JSON is a legal subset of yaml ...

True in a sense, but false in a more important one. JSON removes the syntactic dependence on whitespace -- one can parse JSON unambiguously while ignoring the whitespace that separates sections, relying only on explicit delimiters:

{"menu": {
"id": "file",
"value": "File",
"popup": {
"menuitem": [
{"value": "New", "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"},
{"value": "Open", "onclick": "OpenDoc()"},
{"value": "Close", "onclick": "CloseDoc()"}
]
}
}}

This makes JSON a superset of YAML, not a subset. JSON has properties that YAML doesn't, properties that remove the ambiguity in YAML's syntax, properties that answer my original objection.

> so if you want to use a more well defined format, you can.

Indeed, I agree. It's true because JSON corrects the primary defect in YAML. YAML was originally designed to be terse and human-readable and -editable, but at the cost of syntactic ambiguity when scanned. JSON solves the problem by reintroducing the delimiters that YAML removed.
Are you a mathematician?
Even if Bitcoin is spent on nothing, it could become worth as much as gold eventually.
Bitcoin is undergoing deflation, not inflation.
Keep in mind this quote comes from the same man who said, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
> The government is making America and Americans enemies of the entire world.

Has made. It's water under the bridge now. All there is left to do is watch how it plays out:

Which US companies will lose their overseas customers because they cannot assure their customers regarding back doors in their products and services? We have already seen IBM and Cisco take significant financial hits.

Which nations are sufficiently independent, or have people sufficiently restive, to take an official position against pervasive surveillance and actually purge their intelligence services of foreign liaisons and cooperation in surveillance? Conversely, we will see which governments agree with and accept pervasive surveillance.

Where will new centers of expertise in cryptography develop?

How much of this will flow back into other areas of diplomacy? Will nations be generally more wary of intelligence and military liasons with the US?
is that actually accepted by browsers now?

IIRC they used to have a ridiculously awful method for revoking a cert. Is that still the case?
Who is funding you?

Why are you tackling censorship in China first and not any other country, like your own?
we need to serve 10k req/sec of a simple query, can SQL Server do that

Several years ago with SQL Server 2008 R2 I achieved 200,000+ simple queries per second (http://bit.ly/IlH2id -- this is not a regimented benchmark by any measure of the imagination, but is only saying "validate before assuming" because you might find your install performs far better than you anticipate) using the standard TDS query interface. This was on pretty beefy hardware, and is obviously enormously contingent on the data being in memory (which you can force with 2012), however it blew me away and completely undermined an initiative we had to implement AppFabric / Redis or other solutions.
Google "disparate impact".

Here's just one ~$4 billion example of tax payer money spent under the assumption that differences in loan approval rates were racist and not related to other factors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us/farm-loan-bias-claims-o...
Why is privacy a necessary property of a "serious" currency? Just because that's the precedent doesn't mean it's the 'right way'.
Many people read and recommend books that they don't fully endorse. The book might just be interesting, based on the current topic of conversation.
Once wallets become available that can mask this type of public exposure, bitcoin popularity and usage will grow even more.
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The spelling with more legitimacy is Aluminum.

Sir Humphrey Davy, its discoverer, called it Aluminum when he published his work Chemical Philosophy in 1812.

Some anonymous dilettante (anonymous to this day!) thought, upon reviewing said book, it sounded better (more classical) with the extra I and syllable.

Everybody calls Aluminum's oxide Alumina, not Aluminia.

Nobody else seems to feel the need to rename Platinum Platinium, or Molybdenum Molybdenium, or Tantalum Tantalium.

We Americans too often like to mock other cultures for being different, and our basis is usually wrong when we do. Maybe mocking our pronunciation and spelling isn't a habit you want to hold on to.
If Google did encrypt traffic in China what would prevent China from serving Google China with a subpoena for the SSL private key under a gag order?
You seem to have a clear idea of how TLS+TACK solves this issue but you're not articulating it, just giving laconic answers. As far as I can tell TACK doesn't solve the first connection problem:

"The big drawback of the TACK mechanism is that, like other client-side key-pinning methods, it does not protect the user against a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack during the very first connection attempt to the remote server."

https://lwn.net/Articles/499134/

So as far as I can tell even in a TLS+TACK world if your initial connection is to http://mail.mydomain.com anyone that controls the DNS has you and if you connect to https://mail.mydomain.com it's anyone that controls a rogue CA. This is exactly the same situation of TLS without TACK, no?
The same could be said about a quote. Verbalizing the words is the easy bit, it's getting the education and life experience to come up with the words that costs the time/money/foresight.

I'm not taking sides with this comment, just pointing out the flaw in your argument.
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Pizza and going to space. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1r8e86/bitcoin_acce... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/when_hot_cash_meets_...
It could even become worth as much as the moon eventually. Your comment is pretty void of anything but hype.
I haven't been following closely, but could it have been the FBI transferring Silk Road funds to their own address? Given the timing that seems to make sense.
My comment is true even if I didn't go into a huge explanation of why.
> And no need to patronize with Wikipedia links ...

Translation: "Don't document your claims like a scientist. What kind of conversation do you think this is?"

> As I understand it, vxWorks ...

Not relevant to the discussion except as another example of the dangers of closed-source systems.
I would want wildcard cert if I have over 10 public facing domain names. And if I have that many, $200 is not an issue.

I mean... your cost argument is weak, almost meaningless. Just focus on the trust angle, it's a reason enough against PKI/SSL.
But it's only really worth whatever you actually spend it on, it is not?
Even Carmack admitted that in retrospect the lack of radiosity contributed to the poor gameplay. He also lamented that most of the art was never seen because it was too dark.
Server probably overheated.
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It might become the world's new way of storing value (like gold), instead of a typical currency.
TLS+TACK doesn't solve the first connection problem if you stipulate a corrupted CA PKI. But the difference between the CA PKI and the DNSSEC PKI is that you have to stipulate that the CAs are corrupt; the DNSSEC PKI is corrupt by design.

Meanwhile: the CAs are financially disincentivized from going rogue, because Mozilla and Google will remove them from the trust store if they do stupid things.

What dynamic pinning plus CAs buys you, on top of key continuity that corrupted CAs can't break, is surveillance: an entity that can get bogus certificates issued can't assume they can do it undetected, because those certs will almost immediately break on someone's pin.
Copyright protection is automatic on any creative work. This is required of all countries which are signatory to the Berne Convention, including the US.

If the documentation is non-creative then that would not be covered under copyright but could still be a trade secret.
I run a small publishing business that does a lot of Facebook Marketing. Our primary means of promoting our business is to use original content posted regularly to our Facebook pages. These are usually images that we create ourselves. Our competitors, however, use an endless stream of pictures, cartoons, photos, etc that were created by other people. They use other people's creative work to promote their business, for commercial gain. Their page is filled every day with content from other people, copied and posted directly on Facebook. Occasionally credit is given, occasionally it is not given.

Recently, they used one of our images on their page. They gave no credit, no links to our site, no compensation, or anything. They did, however, link the image to their Pinterest page, which in turn linked to their Tumblr. All giving the impression that they created the image, owned it, and had the right to use it.

A successful Facebook meme has significant monetary value. The 'response' of a good meme is predictable, and can easily reach hundreds of thousands of people. When they posted this image, it did very well. It got thousands of likes and shares. Of course, this happens every day, and not just to us. People steal images all the time. It seems to be "the Internet way."

It is easy to turn a blind eye to this. And usually, we don't mind. But when a direct competitor steals an image and uses it for their own gain, it really pisses me off. It also harms my business. Each time a Facebook image is posted, it loses some of its value. Once someone has "liked" it, they've already liked it, and are less likely to respond in the future.

But, that's just one small piece of the issue. The fact is this competitor has built their business on stealing other people's content, in order to build an audience for their Facebook page. They've become rather successful. We are more successful, but are fighting an uneven battle because of our unwillingness to steal.

My only question, now that they've stolen one of our images, is what to do next. My goal is to 'level the playing field', so that I don't have to compete against thieves. Perhaps a scary letter from a lawyer is in order? They're in South Africa, and I'm in the United States.

I have a feeling, though, that this simply isn't a fight that I can win. Respect for copyright is almost non-existent these days. Look at the rest of the posts on this discussion.

Sigh.
Please stop with the privacy scaremongering. A lot of work is currently going into trustless mixing/anonymising services that will largely stop this type of tracking. (coinjoin/zerocoin)

A lot of us are investing with the expectation true anonymous transactions eventually happen, because when they do Bitcoin will become even more valuable.
Are you doing force reflection with the Falcon? Doesn't seem like it from your videos. It sounds like I'm being dismissive but I think you're overhyping your tech, just a bit. What I see in your video is not cutting edge (yet), this is from my experience of reading papers and attending conferences on telemanipulation and haptics, and doing research in this area.
Bitcoin trades happen on exchanges, off the blockchain. Bitcoin "transactions" are bitcoin payments going from one address to another, not trades.
Thank you for indulging my silly word fetish. What is the state of affairs that could be identified as deliberately or merely accidentally/incidentally contrary in this situation:

* There is a discussion of a problem in V8.
* While reading the discussion a user stumbles across a problem in Chrome.
* V8 is a component of Chrome.
* The Chrome bug may or may not be related to V8.

For the sake of the discussion we can pretend that "deliberate" is not a key component of the definition you give[1] and substitute incidental/accidental. What is the contrary result? Given the memory leak in V8 we know that V8 is not the first software product to be bug free. So it should not be surprising or unexpected that there may be another problem in V8 or Chrome.

One of the things that I find interesting about the way irony is tossed around these days is that it signals no information. As a result it is never an "entirely wrong word." Because it does not convey anything to the reader it is merely superfluous. Ironically and randomly have become linguistic NOP sleds.

[1] I have no problem with your definition and I realize you were not endorsing OP's conception of irony.
So your assertion is that (a) hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on antidiscrimination policies or settlement, and (b) that under a HBD regime, we would save this money by simply assuming that disparate outcomes are a result of immutable differences in ability?
My assertion is that absent some way to force TLS from the start on the connection owning DNS allows you to MITM a user that types mail.google.com in the address bar. Where is that wrong?
Getty isn't a single hivemind, it is made up of many individuals.
I didn't feel insulted but you said that someone else must be off their rocker to believe something you think is wrong which is completely unnecessary.

I don't disagree that government can make things worse or even that they may be the main problem in Baltimore and many areas. However I also believe that there can often be problems in unregulated infrastructure markets and also that government can help.

Almost everyone in the UK has a choice of ADSL providers (and most now have the option of VDSL/FTTC from many providers at higher prices). It isn't perfect but the situation could be much worse. This is enabled by the regulation of the wholesale prices of BT Openreach, the arm of the former telephone monopoly company responsible for the lines. I offer this as an example of government enabling competition and a much better scenario than if the incumbent infrastructure owner could charge monopoly rents and only face competition in the highest density most lucrative areas at the cost of significant disruption as more companies dig up the roads.

Bad government is bad and there are places even good government doesn't help much but that doesn't mean that government always makes things worse and less competitive.

Don't forget that even in pure economic theory there are two "efficient" outcomes, perfect competition where the consumers obtain the entire surplus value and monopoly where the monopolist obtains the surplus.
I thought it was a benchmark of the same hardware with 5.6 vs 5.7. I see now that they changed more than that.
Obviously $200 is cheap compared to a skyscraper or a space station.

Compared to the ~$15 a year a .com domain costs, paying 10x that amount for an SSL certificate seems a bit on the high side.
Well, "sex". This is probably nowhere near the real thing.
Looks like an example of cargo cult design to me.
Store owner installs surveillance cameras to spy on police
AFP discovered the photos on a Twitter account other than the photographer's with their copyrights already stripped. It would have been interesting to see how much of the blame should lie with that Twitter user.

This was irrelevant however since the judge found that Twitter's TOS only allows retweeting and personal use, so commercially using the image was a violation of the TOS. I'm not sure how a Twitter TOS violation turns into DMCA damages. I suppose the judge didn't want to get into policing all the LOL cats on the internet.

In one sense this has parallels to the clip art wars. Lots of vendors sold misappropriated clip art in their collections. Buying it in good faith is not protection for the end user.
This general theme is something I'd love to do and have talked about with others in the past. It looks like Nerdalize and Qarnot aren't quite ready for prime time.

I'm sitting next to an electric space heater that's heating our office. It's cold. If there's someone out there with a trivially installed image (think knoppix) that wants to pay for computer time, please send me an email. If the rate is sufficient to pay for the retail purchase of a computer and electricity in a winter season, I'm in.
Without running through a mixer, aren't one's transactions are vulnerable to being followed through the network of addresses back to the point of origin, and forward to the destination?
Thank you; good slides never make sense without the actual presentation.
StartSSL's certs are accepted by browsers and revoking a free cert costs $24.90.
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How is this useless blogspam getting upvoted to the front page?
Yeah, I'd really like to see articles start making profound statements once the comet becomes a spectacle. Until then, let's just say "Hey a Comet is in the Neighborhood!".
>northern hemisphere

Every god damn time.
Well, I am in the software industry, but not the security industry. And I don't recall anyone mentioning to this to me. Or on HN.

Can you point to some HN threads that discussed this in detail before Snowden? For example, when China was hacking Google, some people may off-handedly said, "well we do it too", but nobody gave specifics as Snowden did. His revelations were extremely useful.
Thats true, but a photo leaves a lasting artifact. where as spoken words unless they are transcribed or recorded more or less evaporate. When you take the effort to transcribe or record those words, you have at least some claim to use those words. thats all based on I think montesquieu or adam smith.
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