skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here's a non-hypothetical question that I don't know the answer to: if Charles Murray was a Singaporean who tried to publish a popular book (as opposed to a purely academic paper, which was to be non-publicized and behind a paywall, etc...) that states that Malays and Indians have a lower average IQ than Chinese (and that this determined primary by hereditary genetics and unlikely to change in the long term), would he face more or less obstacles in Singapore than he did in US? My intuition says that he would be prohibited to publish in Singapore and possibly face fines and/or jail time (especially without political connections). I think this has an actual answer (have there been similar cases before? I would be surprised if there weren't), however, but alas I am too lazy to look.

In regards to paternalism (laws regulating personal safety, nutrition, private health, family relations, etc...) I also believe Singapore tends to fare worse, even if it's manifested in different ways (e.g., there may not be laws against trans fat, but there is compulsory military service, near impossibility of being allowed to live alone in an apartment, extreme difficulty of private car ownership -- which moots the discussion of car seats, etc...). As I a firearm owner, I find California (where I live) and New York gun laws to be idiotic -- but I'm pretty sure my "collection" (couple of rifles and a pistol) would mean death penalty in Singapore.

I think one place where you may have a point is the case of entitlements: it is indeed rare for democracies to have significantly cut some aspects welfare state, namely middle-class entitlement like medicare and social security (welfare programs for the truly poor do get cut frequently, but they are actually less fiscally burdensome than the middle class entitlement).

However, there have been cases of other regulations being significantly loosened, e.g., airline deregulation is something I am quite grateful for.
so you say we should ditch all browsers and only use chrome. my issue VERY exactly.
I thought it was spreading with HMRC notices and fake invoice corrections?

The ones I've seen are pretty good, all the lingo is correct. They're pushing all the right buttons in the email which would immediately get an accountant or business owner to open it immediately to find out what was wrong.

The only obvious warning sign is the zip attachment.
I consider SN to be an entity with one or more people behind it.
Even if I missed that, argument from authority doesn't do much for me.
Yeah, but when an incandescent bulb burns out it costs, like, seventy cents and not twenty bucks.
Sure, but are the police using that definition of stealing?
Couldn't agree more. I think litecoin actually has the makings of a better day to day currency:

http://blog.alexsmith.io/?p=59
I look at a computer screen 8 hours a day at work, drive an hour home, and look at a screen another four to five hours.

This past week, I had a weird experience where there was a white spot in my vision that prevented me from being able to read. Any particular letter or number I focused on couldn't been seen. It only lasted for about fifteen minutes but left me with a headache that lasted a couple of hours. According to my eye-doctor, it was probably an ocular migraine.
You would really be surprised... Then again maybe HN was just a little tipsy last night.
I know, I mean they are confused about fairly basic terminology.
"I believe printing money is actually a good thing. But let's not get into an economics argument here."

This, is where I stopped reading.
yeah upvotes must just be for humiliation's sake.
I don't personally believe that anything is unblockable or untraceable. If data can find its way back to you, then you can be found (although it might be very hard).
Sorry if I removed a comment of yours -- wasn't intentional. I only removed comments stating that bitcoin was undergoing inflation to help avoid confusion.
I don't get it. Is this a joke?
Those about to hurt themselves because this isn't yet another Bitcoin story might want to search that page for Merkle trees. They've been used in other P2P networks as far back as the heydays of 2002:

http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2002-June/000621.html
How did you come to meet them? (if you don't mind me asking)
I was expecting nobody to pay for hosting! Websites don't run on magic.
Only unrealistic thing I found there is stability. And half of the book is just torture porn. On the other hand some thing in Brave New World are just plain silly.
Chrome Dev Tools have become powerful enough to do some decent debugging for extensions, but does anyone know if it can be used to create them? If there is some sort of sandboxing to prevent such things, how much code would have to be changed to have Chrome join the list of self-extensible systems?
Great book on the topic. Talks a lot about how they do function in society (great business man-jerk of a boss, Provides well for family-controlling husband/father, etc). The book 'Sociopath Next Door' also goes further on how to deal with them.
You purchase them on exchanges (or from individuals).
That last one is the killer for me. CFLs don't get anything like their rated lifespan unless you leave them on all the time. In my experience they burn out faster than incandescents.
Like the article says, there are other factors. There are those that are genetically predisposed to addictions (alcoholism, drugs), but that doesn't mean all of them are addicts.
GP may not have had ideology in mind. Bitcoin is probably worth more when everyone has some.
I posted the same idea 244 days ago but was downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432569
Have you talked through what the company will do once developers start creating FriXion experiences with virtual children? Are you taking a hands-off approach (no pun intended) to what people do with the technology, or do you plan on vetting each application? If presented with an abuse scenario, would you cooperate with law enforcement to find who is "connecting" with (or creating) these children? I'm not knocking the tech or your intention to make a fun product - just throwing out some important questions.
Perhaps Satoshi needed something from some other Silk Road seller... and this was a desposit-to-escrow?
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It's nice to be noticed. :)
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Fish do not know what water is.
The title is wrong: "99 Percent of Indian IT Engineers Lack Secure Programming Skills"

Why was the word "secure" removed from the article title? That's a huge difference, and changes the tenor significantly.
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By definition there is nothing biologic about anti-social behavior. That is to say, without social context there can be no 'anti-social'. Social context is a culture specific construct.

But you say, "Culture and social context are mere extensions of biology." Bullshit, I say.

The whole of popular "neuroscience" is so corrupted and bereft of real science one would be best served to ignore it for a decade or two.
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bigd is right. When I read text with random caps, I turn off.

Consider having a native English speaker edit and structure your copy - I don't understand some of the text.

Further, I'd recommend reviewing your design. Because the screenshots have lots of quirks (such as bizarre use of fonts, weird alignments), I immediately have trouble trusting the app with anything to do with my team. App design is crucial.
A group of us got together and put this together.

We decided that Wordpress sucked for us. Then we stepped into static blogging with Pelican. Then we realized that static blogging kinda sucks too. Setting it up and the dearth of themes are rough.

Can you give us some feedback? We're still working on this together, and would love to hear what you guys think.
Silkroad was also a free mixing service.
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I can recommend buying orange glasses like these:

http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S0360X-Ultra-spec-SCT-Orange-Anti...

I'm wearing them right now. The screen is not the only source of intense blue light in your room. Take them off after an hour or so, and you'll understand why people are too hyperactive to go to bed at night.
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How many times will we have articles submitted on the same topic when it has been adequately debated in similar (same) threads, not to mention you choose to omit the word "secure".

So now the question is: does the OP have an agenda? ;)
> I believe printing money is actually a good thing. But let's not get into an economics argument here.

You are confusing ethical argument with an economical one. I was talking economics, not ethics. Governments get a lot of power from ability to print money and censor transactions. Bitcoin removes these sources of power to a high degree regardless of whether it's good or bad. Like, when the internet got huge, moral question of whether people should be exposed to "evil books" or not becomes irrelevant. If one wants to read a book you think is not appropriate, he will do so anyway.

Governments printing ASICs to spam the network... That's the most expensive way to attack Bitcoin. If anyone ever gets to it, it simply means that BTC is already established in many places and widely used and very valuable. Governments would love to extract that BTC for their spendings instead of killing it. Like it happened with gold: in theory, gold is superior to printed fiat currency, but it isn't killed, it's confiscated and used as a hard currency among those who can afford keeping it secure: governments and banks, not you and me.
Why did you change the headline to delete the word "secure"? That's highly misleading, since the article is specifically about infosec-oriented skills and not programming in general. The article itself is misleading in another way, since it's all about a report using unspecified data or methodology to reach a finding that people should purchase its sponsor's services. It was garbage to start with, and you made it insulting to a billion people with your change.
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When I hear an argument about a simpler explanation, I tend to assume there's an appeal to Occam's razor; but I'm not sure that's useful here:

What's the chances that they took so much care to obscure their identity in every other way, but decided to use their genuine personality? Doesn't that seem improbable, too?

I accept the argument about it being hard to maintain two personas - but what is enormous cognitive effort for you and me might be basic operational security for someone else.

Bitcoin is very interesting, but I'd like if there was more caution about SN, given it has has potentially endowed them with vast resources.
guess what, China has laws that 'regulate' news and online videos, too
Ok. Vote data is public.

People usually vote their stuff. You gather all the posts that been voted by alice. You use text analysis software to group those posts into buckets with the same author.

If you can do this across a large span of the network you get buckets of anonymous authors and voting patterns. Alice's bucket is the one where everything is upvoted(most likely).

That's one way. It's hard to counteract. Even if your software just counteracted this while using something like TOR to supply the rest of the anonimity, it would be pretty cool.

Another way:

Tap the internet. Gather a list of nodes connected to alice. Connect your nodes to all those nodes.

Watch whether message X is first delivered to your nodes from alice or from someone else. If it's first from alice, you got her. Statistically this will catch her at least some times.

Anyway,don't get discouraged. anonimity is hard. really hard.
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The most obvious answer: to try to garner as many reflex-upvotes as possible.
You're correct. This just makes harder. These documents are written for laymen, it would be an asterisk-fest otherwise.
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No, you are. You're bringing up scientific standards of proof that are totally inapplicable to the question of whether one person meets the diagnostic criteria. Your argument would likewise "prove" that therapists can't diagnose patients with anything because they "only have anecdotal evidence" about "one person".

Yes, someone is very confused here and wasting people's time, but it's not me.
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I almost think that you are intentionally trolling, but I will link to and quote from the HN guidelines in response to your comment:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
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Is there a trial version or do a version that is free for x number of days then needs to register (paid for). Otherwise be hard for people to try it out, bit like buying a walkie talkie radio and having nobody to talk with effect.

Consider selling as buy one get one free, give to friend then that way it is usable right then as somebody else to sync with.

But cross platform would add so much as the target audience for this are in general migrating away from blackberry or on their to do lists.

Also landing page for app description seems a bit uninspiring too me and the initial displayed screen shot picture hardly sucking me to even look at the other 7 out of 8 screenshots.
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Good question. I'm not sure, but I suspect it shouldn't do anything interesting; mercury allows oxygen to move through the otherwise impermeable aluminium oxide crust and "rust" the metal.

Since sapphire is already 100% aluminium oxide, but arranged in a crystal lattice I think it should be stable in contact with mercury unless the mercury disrupts the lattice (a possibility--my physical chemistry is weak).
Well, early adopters do have an unfair advantage no matter how you links try to justify it.
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want to start something that's more like a feature with potential to build a legit business on top of it. i can do the marketing/business end. you can do that technical end.some examples:
- very niche dating feature off of a concept that already works but for this niche group it does not. and i know why. already know the different strategies that's available to break chicken an egg (online and offline)
- similar to hacker news/forum but for a different targeted group. there's a unique way to acquire this group of users (and i'm connect to a lot of them).

anything else that has a consumer facing side that's quick to launch and has an interesting feature (must have virality component e.g. selling sex, communication, or inherently a group activity).

if it takes starts to take off i have access to a decent amount of business/fundraising/even celebrity type connections that can help us out along the way. not set on anything. just want to see if anyone is interested.
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That's the only reason I believe there might be some sort of story behind this, although SN figures as way more interesting and complex figure DPR.
I clicked on that link as well and was astonished
How sadly amusing is it that this website can be maintained in its original state 16 years after its owners died, yet publishing companies today routinely fail to protect heir still-alive brands.

Case in point: Michelin Guides http://www.constructaquote.com/business-insurance-blog/index...
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Np. College, work, house-sharing, school (one who I met over 20 years ago) Though I have gone to college twice and worked in many many jobs.

The most recent intense-friend I made was at a college halloween party the year before last. I'm am generally not into wasting time with people but when I do socialise I like to go to house parties and whatnot.

I reckon for me to find one of these special people who I click with is just a statistical probability, I might find one every few 1000 people I meet, so it makes sense to go to events and meet as many people as possible. I was actually going to suggest any big event where you and everyone else are likely to be drunk is a great way to meet lots of people.

Also its handy if one of my good friends is also really generally sociable, then I will meet people/find out about parties and stuff through them.

They do suffer a slight attrition rate as, for example, a few have moved to different countries for work.
The cool thing is if one had been gone for years when we do meet up again it is like no time has passed.

I have 2 in the city I live in atm. Which is fine. Only need 1 imo, but if I had 0 I think I would start feeling lonely.
An all-too-valid point whose realism I was unprepared to consider. Just because harassment isn't a proper or efficient means to stop drug trafficking, doesn't mean it isn't the case here.
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Yeah, it's the kind of thing that requires almost all of one's attention on.
Last time I've tried to install (~ 9-10 months ago):
- Stash: it was a no-brainer (easy setup, easy use).
- GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have changed now, I need to try it again).

Stash seem to have a larger team behind it, with more features, documentation and snappier responses, but GitLab is promising too. I hope they all can be profitable and keep up the speed of improvements in all of the products.
So, I go to Google Groups to try to find the first mention of HREF on Usenet.

I have no idea how to do this. It takes four clicks just to get to the Google Groups page.

I see a search box. I look for something to give me the advanced search page. I can't find it. (I can see 2 buttons for settings.) So, I type HREF into the search bar and click seach. The drop down offers "in any group" or "groups named". First attempt I ignore both of those and just click the button.

Posts: 28200040, groups: 58

I need to narrow this down. I need the advanced search pane. It's still not there.

I arrange by date. LOL NO, that hasn't worked for literally years.

The advance options turn up if I'm in a group. They allow me to narrow the search down, but not to change the group I'm searching in.

I will donate $5 to the charity of your choice to the first person who tells me how the fuck I can perform the following search:

[HREF]

any Usenet group (or the news hierarchy)

Before 1998

Sorted by date

Bonus $5 if the instructions you give are in any Google documentation online.
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It seems people can already use CoinJoin at blockchain.info. See https://twitter.com/blockchain/status/402224010492006400/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness#Effects A start.
I agree. Here, have an upvote from a fellow curmudgeon.
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I don't think so. Brainwallets are generated as a hash. So if the input is secure, the output is secure. It's not possible to generate the input from the output. And frankly the connection between password -> private key and private key -> public key is very similar in brainwallets. To crack a brainwallet, given only the public key and sufficient bits in the password, is actually harder than directly attacking the private key.

Plus you have to balance "my own fuckup" risk against "someone attacked me" risk, right. Wallets depend on your backup habits, and you backup provider's security. Going through the fora, I'd say "oops. I lot my wallet.dat" is a much more serious threat to your bitcoins, on average, than someone got a hold of your password. Both of those, for most people (including me) are ... lacking. Brainwallets depend on my memory for passwords. A hardware brainwallet would guarantee you're 100% not exposed.

As for ECSDA attacks. It's true that the algorithm itself is near-unhackable. However, make one single transaction on a computer which chooses a non-random k value, and you're exposed. So the risks don't end just because
This. Relationships take effort. Often, one will think "Why should I make the effort? Why should I make the move? The other person has not contacted me?" But it is better to make the move and contact other people. Because a friend has not contacted you for a while does not mean they don't want to keep contact. They may be feeling lonely and down or overwhelmed.
2 possible situations I can think of, based strictly on 'Among their discoveries was a particular transfer to an account controlled by Mr. Ulbricht from another that had been created in January 2009, during the very earliest days of the bitcoin network, which was set up the previous year.':

- the bitcoin wallet, although said to be associated with SN, has changed ownership since its creation in 2009

- SN purchased something from DPR, perhaps something DPR himself was selling on SR, either a legitimate buy or for some other purposes; SN was just a regular customer in this case

In the meantime, I'm eagerly awaiting their paper. Ron and Shamir have previously co-authored another bitcoin related paper titled 'Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph'. There's a very interested overview of it in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/jgarzik/3901921 It appears to have some flaws.

I don't know how accurate this statistic is, but the last Gist comment mentions that 22% of bitcoins are held in reused addresses.
Is facebook still blocking photos of breast-feeding mothers (but allowing beheading videos?)
What's worse, murdering 100 people or taking 10% of the quality of life (yes, it's a fuzzy metric, so what) from 1000?

That's what he's getting at. Of course, there's also the question of whether there are businessmen who have done such a harm, and whether they have done so intentionally, the measure of their blame for it, etc.
Make sure you know what you're doing. This happened in the apartment building we were living in last year: http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci_20952038/apartment-fire-...
What I see in this article is a huge lack of knowledge on the subject, not by the author but by the human kind as a whole.
This is the worst kind of response. To just absolutely declare that morality is X (relative, absolute, personal, anything) and put a period there is not a worthy method for discussing the subject. There is absolutely a case that maximal suffering of a handful is outweighed by lesser suffering across many, many more.

To take your comment at face value -- it's as if the question at the core of thousands of years of philosophy, public policy, and politics has suddenly been resolved. Much more likely that you are unaware of the nuance, and also unaware of your own unawareness. Thus you feel perfectly comfortable making bold, sweeping statements like this as if nobody has ever considered before today the matter at hand.

The truth is that there are many valid ways to measure the good/badness in a thing.
This is only true if the relevant government sets prices by law. Every time that's been tried, it's been a complete disaster.