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Ouch. Your combination of ignorance and arrogance is painful to behold. If you don't know anything about a subject, take an inquisitive approach rather than a dismissive one.

TPC is a non-profit that creates and publishes standard benchmarks that can be used to compare database systems. They had done so for over 20 years, and with widespread consensus among competing vendors (who outright hate each other) that the benchmarks are fair and representative of real work loads.

Mysql and postgresql have both been in the benchmarks published by TPC. They are rarely there because people simply don't spend the time and money to do the benchmarks. Back when Sun was providing commercial support for postgresql, they ran benchmarks for postgresql and submitted them. Anyone is welcome to submit benchmarks of any database, running on any OS and hardware combination.
Good question. Even when I take a break I head for a sports bar. Drive time is ... oh, I just quit to concentrate on my startup. Getting older, don't sleep as much. Fifteen?
Insurance deposits. Both nodes lock up much more money than being "promised". If one node does not deliver, another node will automatically destroy both deposits. Nodes thus are motivated to follow the protocol and not cheat. Since the process is automated, there's no one to play extortion games.

The insurance contract is a special type of transaction that I invented: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/58240549599/contracts-without-...
Government would still have to set up a center of "approving" unknown money coming from other sources into local economy. These centers, as you can expect, will be massively bribed by everyone who needs to launder their tainted coins.

Also, governments will be much more limited in power when they can't print their money at will and do any "deficit spending".
It's both. There is such a thing as synonyms.
I am really looking forward to e-paper displays that have good enough color and a fast enough refresh rate that they can be used in laptops.
If it were just a photo album I would be totally with you. I already just store my photo "albums" in a folder on my hard drive, and upload a few here and there.

However, there's the mapping and the layout, as riffraff points out. There's not really a quick and easy way for me to create this kind of integrated thing myself.
802.11ac = fail
The standard of proof, and things you're expected to cite as evidence, is very different for "this particular person is a psychopath" vs "psychopaths in general have this characteristic".

>You just wouldn't be able to achive anything approaching a decent level of statistical confidence from studying a single subject, no matter how many anecdotes you cite about them.

Therefore, no one can be found guilty of murder beyond a reasonable doubt given that it's "just one person"?
What I find quite ironic is that today in the British Common Wealth, the combination of an almost symbolic monarch, and parliamentary rule leads to -- in practice -- far less centralization of in the hands of the executive branch in comparison to presidential republics such as United States.

What's more troubling is that there's very little history of constitutional monarchies reverting to absolutism and staying that way for a long time. On the other hand, many post-Soviet USSR republics (including Russia) provide plenty of democratic presidents turning into dictators.
Yeah, GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey/GreaseKit ... seems like a much easier way of doing what he is going for.
In the article, caption to the large figure at the bottom: "Northern Hemisphere, Looking East-Southeast"
In "The Grammar of Romanian"[1] book, Romanian language contains the following: 20 percent inherited Latin, 11.5 percent Slavic, 3.6 percent Turkish, 2.17 percent Hungarian, 43 percent Romance borrowings (mainly French - 38.4 percent).

The lexical similarity of Romanian with Italian has been estimated at 77%, followed by French at 75%, Sardinian 83%, Catalan 73%, Portuguese and Rhaeto-Romance 72%, Spanish 71%.
In modern times Romanian vocabulary has been strongly influenced by French, Italian and other languages.

More on wikipedia if you are interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language

BTW, are you Spanish?

[1] http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199644926.do
Some suggestions:
1) Pick another platform. Where I work just finished a year long migration off Blackberry, and I know we're not the only ones.
2) Don't rely on Blackberry to do your marketing. Getting in the app store might be enough on iOS if you really were the "only app that does" something X. On Blackberry you are going to have to get folks looking for you first, and then the link to the store. Even Blackberry fans are rarely browsing the app store - usually if they're on there it's to find something specific.

Hope this helps...
While I agree with the characterization of Heaven's Gate as a parasite or virus, I disagree that this is a means of "survival." Suicide cults are an ancient phenomenon, and a key to their success (I think) is ignorance.

I hope the web page stays online. It serves as a monument to how wrong they where. Now that Heaven's Gate has run it's course, I think the biggest threat to the "virus" at this point is sunlight.

And, plus, I think it's an important part of Internet history. The Internet during the '90s was an amazing transformation of society, and this site shows how old ideas embrace new means. It's fascinating from a sociological perspective.
> It's news to my mother.

2001, in mainstream UK newspaper http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/30/eu.politics4

> the European Parliament warned EU citizens of the threat to their privacy from Echelon, a global eavesdropping network run by the US National Security Agency in cooperation with Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As we reported on Saturday, it concluded that the primary purpose of the system is to "intercept private and commercial communications". It urged individuals and businesses to use codes to protect their communications.

> Half of the UK and US government are saying it's news to them

1999, from the website of this secret agency https://web.archive.org/web/19990428012157/http://www.gchq.g...

> GCHQ employs one of the largest long term bulk near line storage systems in the world. Data is stored in a number of locations on a variety of media, including magnetic tape, cartridges, recordable Compact Disc and optical storage technologies.

What did they think was being done with the largest long term storage system in the world?

> GCHQ has an interest in all aspects of modern telecommunications and uses a variety of systems designed to operate on all frequencies over which data can be transmitted.

I'll admit that the GCHQ FAQ got a bit slimier later on. See this page from 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20040604234303/http://www.gchq.g...

> People sometimes think that we cannot be accountable because we do not disclose much about GCHQ's operations and methods.

> Nothing could be further from the truth.

> In fact, GCHQ is subject to very rigorous oversight both by Parliament and senior members of the judiciary, and works entirely within a legal framework which complies with the European Convention on Human Rights.

> Activities at GCHQ are underpinned by the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (amended most recently by the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001) and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The purposes for which interception may be permitted are set out explicitly in these Acts: national security, safeguarding economic wellbeing, and the prevention and detection of serious crime. Interception for other purposes is not lawful, and we do not do it.

But I've already condemned this kind of wording used to justify unjustifiable privacy violation.

EDIT: It's mildly interesting reading through the technology pages to see it iterating. They list Win3.1 in the early versions!
This currently isn't "news," as the paper hasn't been published yet, and none of the disclosed findings are too damning or conclusive.

That being said, it's important for two reasons:

1.) the paper gets published tomorrow, which will lead to a round of negative press, regardless of the claims' merit.

2.) More significant: it highlights what I see as an existential threat to the Bitcoin experiment: a.) the poor distribution of early wealth and b.) the possibility that a great percentage of all Bitcoins are currently held by bad actors (criminals, anarchists, use your imagination).

A few things to consider:
1. A list of richest Bitcoin addresses is not a good representation of the concentration of wealth. A single person can have x wallets, just like this Ulbricht character.
2. Bitcoin wealth is often used to reinvest in mining equipment, which furthers one's wealth to a greater extent. Rinse/repeat.

Several of the oldest wallets have been dormant for years, which means that this is not hypothetical -- that wealth has not circulated.

edit made to be clear about "bad actors":

"Bad actors" meaning: unpredictable and possibly having malicious intent.

If Bitcoin becomes a more important part of our daily lives, handling commerce ubiquitously, etc.--a single individual with ~10+% of said Bitcoin has enormous disruptive potential. I'm not referring to what said person could purchase with that wealth, but one's ability to manipulate markets.

This has never been a big issue, as far as the growth in value of the currency. However, I think this kind of uncertainty could freak out potential institutional investors.

Altcoins like Litecoin, PPC, Namecoin, etc - do not suffer as much from this issue because their exposure was far greater than Bitcoin ca. 2009, and the mining competition was greater on the respective debut-dates by several orders of magnitude.
I think there were some problems with namecoin.

Mainly that nobody is currently developing it and fixing its bugs.
What if everything is video-recorded clearly with a modern smartphone?
Why would doing such require that member to leave the group?
I've only ever heard Aluminium used in the UK, not the US.
caps lock. really annoying
Could be some rather well paid cleaners in Switzerland.
Various bitcoin charts and currency statistics
Heh so you just find poker too banal, eh?

Lol if you want to code something better than Bitcoin (I think it's trivially easy using libcoin but involves putting a couple of legal/economic advisors on the payroll, which I can't afford yet) you may well count me in, but I'm tired of this same old block chain.

FYI gov't still hasn't shut down Amway & they are obviously a pyramid scheme. That's why I'm not interested, it seems like a clear failure to me that is just festering -- why wait for the official word? It may take a while. I'd want to build a cryptocurrency that stabilizes much faster.

All the best
I'm not an expert in Tor. In one of Snowden's documents NSA admitted that Tor is hard to infiltrate even for them.

I myself don't want to live in a world where you need to actively hide from huge adversaries. I'd prefer a more careless world with smaller adversaries. Hopefully, widespread adoption of Bitcoin will take a lot of power from governments, so we won't have massive money wasting TLAs that create misery all around the world.

Edit: I meant "don't want to live", not "don't live".
I've taken to using a simple server on a public IP that serves different JS based on the referrer, and a bookmark for inserting a script tag in the current page.

It doesn't auto run, but it is easy test, install on a new system (just a bookmark!), and extend with extra behavior that can be centralized. Additionally, an update immediately affects all clients.
you are confusing the legal with the scientific process, they are not the same thing
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>an opportunity for you to evaluate a prospective employer just as much as it is an opportunity for a prospective employer to evaluate you.

This was the first time it's been such a grey area. Usually, if I don't see myself at a company, it's a "hell no" type of response. This was the first time it was kinda in that middle ground, really trying to critically evaluate how happy I would be in that environment, and if that mentality is a deal breaker for me going on.
With automation and a basic income, why does it matter what government you have? Economic system is independent.
According to every article I've read on the Internet, you can't steal data, only copy it. It's not stealing if the owner is not deprived of the original copy. Therefore, it's correct to say that no data was stolen.
> Most of the developed countries forbid adoptions of country nationals by foreign citizens

I wouldn't exactly consider Russia "developed".
I'll see if I can get around to helping you with that. Linux software is ok with copious debugging to the terminal and an ugly UI - it will fit in well.
What's the chance this will be quickly be skirted by corporate restructuring/outsourcing? Just put all the execs in a parent company.
My favorite algorithm has been the linked list implementation, pretty useful for implementing list on embedded platforms.
Also, for a practical engineering problem, like writing an RSA implementation which will be used in an SSL implementation which will encrypt credit card numbers on an e-commerce website, it is okay to use probabilistic tests which have a tiny chance of a false positive (the test claims a number is prime when it is actually composite).

You can generally repeat a probabilistic test with different parameters to make the probability of a "false positive" prime number very tiny -- like .000 000 000 001 -- while still staying within the computational budget manageable on an ordinary computer (obviously, a practical Internet security scheme should be able to complete its computations in a second or two on a typical desktop, laptop, server, and smartphone).

So probabilistic tests are good enough for practical purposes, but you need a non-probabilistic test to get the false positive probability all the way down to zero. And you need to use a method that has zero percent false positive chance to claim a world record. The EFF-administered monetary prize for a record-breaking prime number, for example, requires "the primality proof must be a deterministic proof..." [1] So you can't use probabilistic methods.

[1] https://www.eff.org/awards/coop/rules
Daryl Davis did a Reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uo2qv/i_am_daryl_davis...

There is also a great Snap Judgment story about this: http://snapjudgment.org/silver-dollar-lounge
Are these in memory innoDB tables durable?
I'm thinking it was more of the latter. No one, founders included, really seemed to know/understand what's going on in the space currently.

I can't imagine working at Adidas, and not being interested in what Nike is doing. Especially if tons of Nike users are leaving.

Thanks. I need to keep this in mind when I'm on the other side of the desk.
A similar tool is Control Freak, optimised for quick CSS or JS tweaks and imo less mental overhead than GM/TM.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/control-freak/jgnc...

(Disclaimer: I wrote it originally, but no longer the maintainer.)
It seems to be linked to the lowest paid workers' pay, rather than the cleaners' pay specifically.

So for an exec to take home $1 million, their lowest paid employee would have to be on $83,333
While I've made plenty of bad decisions myself, I think a large part of why I've always been extremely lonely and isolated is that I was raised with very little sense of family or community. Growing up an only child, my parents apparently never thought it was worth me meeting the 80% of my cousins that lived in the same country, but somewhat far away. My parents themselves had scant friends or associates (at least during my memory) and hardly ever anyone over to visit the house.

That's why if I'm ever somehow in the position to have a child of my own, I won't be able to. I wouldn't trust my ability to raise anything but an ice cold stranger.
Definitely an interesting project.

>> The basic idea is quite simple: if Alice likes a post written by Bob, Alice will upvote it, and thus will start to distribute that post, too, increasing Carol’s chances of coming across Bob’s post.

If i get it correctly , your protocol leaks votes data. Assume i'm an attacker connected to Alice. I now know what she voted for. I gather all her voted posts, and can build pretty decent profile of her and probably uncover some of her messages with some more complexity.
It's sort of like `pip install -r` in Python. I used to do `cat brew_requirements.txt | xargs -L1 brew install`, but Brewfiles mean that that sort of thing is now standardized, and also gives support for things like tapping, linking, etc.
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console.stream() seems super fishy to me: https://github.com/jbail/lumberjack/blob/master/scripts/lumb...

Here you are just changing a global default stream name, but it looks like you have some kind of alternate console objects. E.g., as though I could do "logger = console.stream('component'); logger.info(...);" in my code – but that isn't how it works at all, it's just chaining and a method that means something more like "console.setLogName('component')"
I don't buy this mechanistic explanation. Society has gone through progressive levels of specialization and this has never been a problem before, so either there's a really drastic "nonlinear" effect, or there's something different about this society.

My personal suspicion is that it has more to do with people broadly thinking that "others" are not good enough for them.
I'm sorry, I tried to read that and figure out a point, but it was nearly impossible. I suggest fewer parenthetic phrases, and maybe a thesis statement somewhere?
There seems to be one of two possible outcomes if a bill like this passes: Either swiss companies drastically raise worker salaries, or they just move their businesses out of the country.

Is anyone here familiar enough with how Switzerland's economy is structured to know which way it would lean?
Seems like a nice incentive for companies to raise workers' wages, provided the 1:12 law is written in a way that is difficult to get around.
More implementations listed at: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/19773
My parents adopted my sister from Russia about 20 years ago. At the time, Russian law only allowed foreign adoptions if the child had a physical or mental disability. My sister had a crossed eye, that was sufficient to allow her out of the country. She is now 22 years old, going to college, and living a happy, healthy life. Some friends of my parents adopted two children from the same orphanage, a brother and sister. The brother had serious issues - trying to kill his parents and run away at 6 years old type thing. They eventually placed him in the home of parents with no other children who were looking for a child like that to care for, I lost track of the story after that. The sister is also leading a normal, ostensibly happy life, though.
The two altcoins you should know
Cryptolocker spreads with a really stupid email message, and an attachment you have to extract and then execute. You have to be incredibly technically inept to get hit with it.
A few transactions went from one wallet to another and this is considered a link... give me a break

EDIT I am referring to the article not the yet to be published material
I think this is a good point. But the proper response in such cases, it seems to me, is to try to close the loopholes, rather than give up on the experiment.
You haven't explained why you decided against avoiding visiting Ars Technica altogether.
Is Hacker News turning into Reddit? What does this article have to do with startups, tech or anything else HN is about?

Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting article but, frankly, there are plenty of other websites I can go to for this kind of content.
Digital Ocean also added one-click spin-ups of a gitlab VM recently.
Here's tl;dr

Criticism of democracy as "mob rule" don't really apply to modern meaning of democracy. Absolute monarchy (or other types of absolute government) will -- in practice -- lead to far less actual liberty than we see today.
HealthCare.gov contractor had high confidence but low success
I've only ever bought used cars :).
I doubt that the link here amounts to DPR knowing SN personally, or even worse, DPR being SN.

Obviously I don't know DPR or SN, but I really doubt that DPR is SN or even communicated with him. The reasons are entirely circumstantial but from what I've read of both of them:

- DPR is arrogant.

- DPR makes stupid mistakes.

- SN is fairly humble.

- SN is smarter than DPR.

- SN doesn't make mistakes.

Is it possible that DPR himself was an early adopter of BitCoins, and mined those early coins himself - giving him the occasion to later transfer them to himself? He might have had to become acquainted with the BitCoin crypto-currrency scheme for some time before he was confident enough in it to use it to protect his own identity, which means he may have been in the first couple of groups of people to download and use the software.
It will be like playing whack-a-mole. Or the talented executives will just leave the country and go where they can earn more.
An uneven distribution of early wealth describes almost every organisation in society (including society itself): as long as later participants perceive they are gaining value for themselves, they will allow this to continue.

Part (b) is more interesting - the danger as I see it is that Bitcoin is entering legal-issues territory. For example, a legal crackdown on ownership of Bitcoin identified with illegal activity would likely provide an economic shock to the whole network.
Vote data is public. That's the only way I can determine what to distribute. I don't get how you can guess what Alice wrote out of her votes, though?
Why on earth do you want the maintainer to harm this historic artefact?
Just because somebody isn't a serial murderer doesn't mean they are beneficial to society. Ruthless businessmen and politicians can cause far more damage than Ted Bundy ever did.

Unless these ruthless business men tortured, raped and murder people, then no, they did not do more damage than either of these two serial killers.

I get where you're coming from the moral relativism is going overboard.
They got it from an anonymous source, obviously. ;-)
oh....just RSA
Or the talented executives will just leave the country and go where they can earn more.

The whack-a-mole game is undoubtedly true. About the most talented execs leaving, this may be true, and it is certainly what well-compensated execs will argue.

Also possible is that it will be primarily the most self-serving execs, rather than the most talented, that will leave. It would be a delightful irony if Swiss companies began performing better after an exodus of executives. And we should remember that there is no limit on executive pay, specifically.
Absolutely. IIS 7.5 is included in Windows Server 2008 R2, which will be supported until at least 2015 (2020 for extended support)
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