skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So I'll put the question to you as well: if your taxes were assessed in silver, would that make silver, to you, a fiat currency?"

I would argue yes, because:

(1) Under such a system, silver would be used as currency because people would need to acquire enough to pay their taxes (and other metals e.g. gold, platinum, copper would not be used as currency).

(2) You would be hard-pressed to find a market where silver (by weight, not by "face value") is used as currency in today's world. Once upon a time silver was used as currency, and I would say that it is no coincidence that back then silver was a way to pay taxes (among other things).

As for people saying that metal-based currencies are not fiat currencies, the subtle assumption hiding in there is that there is some other source of demand for metals that has nothing to do with the law. I am not a huge fan of this sort of idea, because to me it looks like this:

Step 1: Metals have certain properties that are useful for currencies to have.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: People use metals as currency (profit, at least if you can dig up some metal).

Are you wondering what step 2 might be? Step 2 is the reason people use particular metals rather than wampum, geodes, or Somali shillings. Step 2 is usually ignored in these discussions, but it should not be. To bring things full circle, let's turn your question about silver around: if the government allowed taxes to be paid with wampum, would wampum be a fiat currency? If your answer is "yes" then the real question is, "What differentiates wampum from silver?" If your answer is "no" then the real question is, "What differentiates wampum from dollar bills?"
According to Wikipedia the "href" attribute stands for:
"Hypertext REFerence"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink)
And very Geocities looking.
>Computer technology enables everyone from Madison Avenue executives to Government agencies to keep a record of your every move, and "flags" are thrown up any time you don't fit their pre-conceived mold of what a good citizen should be. Our right to travel and remain nomadic is rapidly being restricted. We often travel light on spur-of-the-moment instructions, however we can no longer take an airline flight on short notice without harassment. Anyone who purchases a ticket with cash without advance reservations and does not have a load of baggage to check will likely be subjected to baggage searches, interrogation, and suspicion. Even when they can find nothing whatsoever that is questionable, authorities have at times reluctantly let our members proceed, convinced that they are indeed guilty of some crime but too clever to be caught. Police presence at border crossings have increased to the point that you feel you are in a war zone.

About right.
Is this like Freenet, but less general-purpose?
I read it recently, and found it to be Atlas Shrugged for 5-year-olds. The only point of the story is to say: "YOU, the reader, being a child, are so much better and smarter than all these grown-up sheeple!!"

All told, I like the version at the end of this page[1] much better.

[1] http://the-toast.net/2013/08/02/texts-from-peter-pan-et-al/
>>Well, if people in their social circle made fun of him saying they'd seen her topless, it could certainly stress things between them.

That would make him pretty worthless.
I can't speak for tptacek. I don't know what he and his friends were doing.

But I've been telling people to encrypt everything, and to assume the government can read everything, for very many years.

Sure, I lack gravitas, but still. We were telling people about it.

A Google web search for Echelon before 1999 reveals many hits for the secret codename (as well as many not relevant hits)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=echelon&sa=X&ei=IXWRUpCGE8...

We successfully fought against idiotic ideas from government to control use of encryption (EG Clipper chip). We told you to use encryption. We told you they could listen. We told you they were listening.

What more could people have done?

http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/1997/issue1/akdeniz1.html#ukpolicy
> And most of the PhDs are just... not friendly towards him. Why not?

Insecurity. "They're not as good as me, I will be seen as lesser for associating with them."

Personally, I automatically distrust people who won't bullshit with a taxi driver or exchange quick comments about the local sports teams with a delivery guy (and no, you don't have to like sports to do that).
i write "hello - we met @ <wherever> - my contact info is ______ - let's grab a coffee when you're free"

i add more if there was something more specific/interesting that we chatted about.
Immaturity (in the aggregate) is an outgrowth and cause of cultural degradation, which is more of a problem in the US than in European countries in which, yes, people tend (on average) to be more socially balanced and adult. Religious conservatism is one expression of an immature mindset (an imaginary friend who rains buttfire on your ideological enemies by the millions). Hunter Moore does not appear religious, but shows a different expression of the pervasive immaturity.

After the 1980s, the anti-intellectual undercurrent (that exists in all societies) metastasized through the resurgent conservative movement (Reagan Revolution). Combine this with economic forces that are (through no fault of their own, for many people) delaying adolescence into what used to be full adulthood and you get a stupid, immature, brain-dead culture.
With static files, it's easy to setup serving assets cached in memory. Since all files are static, expiring assets is also trivial. Also, setting up a CDN is super easy too (just a CNAME redirect).

Also of note: HN uses the filesystem as a database (ie static files).
When they can optimize their success only by hiding so well that antisocial behaviour hardly ever occurs, where's the problem?
Hey guys thanks a lot for the feedback. I will move to iOS but I'm scared about the competition that exist plus learning an entirely new language from scratch.
My comment was not intended facetiously in any way.
Sure, while certainly the change in legal environment engendered all sorts of new breeding, by and large most medical marijuana is the exact same strains that were (and still are) sold on the illegal market, largely grown by the same people who would be/used to/are growing it for the illegal market.
Could be, or he could have made it up. Source: your resident trolling expert. (There are two ways to parse that.)
Yes. I'm specifically trying to create a safe, secure and anonymous discussion platform, not a darknet.
all without doing the hard work

Sorry, I didn't read that correctly. I got the impression somewhere along the way that the people in companies that are are doing the hard work and adding real value are the same ones who are paid insufficiently to start families and get ahead in their lives. It is middle and upper management that can be trimmed without worrying too much about a company's bottom line.
A late reply for anyone still reading...

I've been here for far longer than you and I'm still stuck in the 300 karma range. Why? Because of my timezone. Most people are asleep when I'm awake.

It is virtually impossible for me to submit an article and have it viewed by a large number of people before it is pushed off the front page. So all my submissions get low score, only for the same article to be submitted later in the day once NY and LA have woken up and get big karma scores for someone else. I've given up submitting, which is how you accumulate the big karma scores.
Wow...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6787898
I'm not sure if this will help but two of my friends have found their significant others through this site. http://www.interpals.net/ Didn't work for me for some reason but it might work for you.

I did have a penpal for a while (someone I met in person but then moved away) which was awesome when I was travelling a lot.
The women in question are considered "bad" because of a naked picture, presumably showing their sexuality. I would call that sex-negative.

How can the word "slut" be considered a slur in a sex-positive society?

Now, perhaps your point is that it is sex-positive, but only for men. The inequity of sex-acceptability is this: men have their status increased by the act of sex, and women have their status decreased by the act of sex. (Even this is problematic, but it works in general.)

The question is this: is the right answer to normalize having sex with multiple partners so that the woman's status is not decreased by sexual activity, or is it to decrease the man's status by not being constrained to a monogamous relationship?

Consider the gay male culture: within the culture, having sex is normalized -- it does not decrease one's status to have had sex with just about anyone. (this is problematized by AIDS, but stick with me.) A culture of sex-positivity may look like this: yes, it's highly sexualized, but within the culture there isn't a taboo of sex.

A sex-negative culture, on the other hand, places shame on the participants of sex except within rigid boundaries. Is this better than sex-positivity? I argue no.

The US culture, with respects to women, is heavily sexualized but isn't sex-positive.
I would be unsurprised if use of zerocoin winds up being treated as money laundering.
StatusPage.io hiring remote dev / CTO
Fairly simple

- We're profitable, didn't raise a bunch of money. We're more of a "37 Signals" company than a "Snapchat" company.

- We're building a remote team, and are looking for our first dev hire to eventually become our CTO

- We have some of the best customers, many you've heard of, and they're great to work with (read: no support tickets)

- We're trying to make downtime as awesome as it can be, because our customers can't seem to get away from it

Full time salary + benefits available to the right candidate, will start as contractor for 4-8 weeks full time before coming on permanently.

Send whatever information you think we'll appreciate to hn@statuspage.io, and we'll get back to you.
This looks pretty neat.

I've been a happy Vimium[0] user for a few years now - it's an extension that adds Vim keybindings to Chrome (just like Vimperator for Firefox).

My main gripe with it, though, is that it doesn't work on many Google properties, like Google Groups. Because Google Groups insists on supplying its own keybindings (which, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to turn off), I always end up accidentally collapsing a thread every time I want to go back to the previous page ("H").

Disabling Javascript doesn't help, because Google Groups refuses to load without Javascript enabled.

I wonder if Ferro suffers from this same problem - I imagine it must, because I believe this has to do with the way that Chrome separates (or doesn't separate) the scripts run by extensions and the scripts run by the website.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
It was firsthand. I'm not entirely sure how many people were invited to the call. They talked about the hackathon (mostly marketing stuff). In the QA afterward they were asked some details about teams (if everyone had to be there, etc), but the question of preventing people from bringing premade apps came up. And the answer given was almost exactly (per my memory) "You may use an existing application, however, you will only be judged on your contributions for the hackathon". It's weird that no one really dug deeper for more clarification, and I'm ashamed for not doing so myself.
Self-driving Car Laws Backs Google’s Vision of the Future Over Ford’s-for Now
It depends on the relationship of course. Some relationships are worth taking abuse for. Some aren't.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles make some noise at LA Auto Show
Presumably the same reason they chose a Japanese name--that at least one of them speaks Japanese. I'm not really sure where you're going with this, but if you read the analysis in the article I linked to, as well as King's response to the author's email, I think you'll agree that they're a likely candidate.
Of course I'd want to on some level, but I'd also want to make sure that even if I helped I'd also be imparting the skills for them to accomplish things on their own.

I think I view enabling a child's independence as a parent's most important job, particularly in light of the often random and occasionally capricious nature of death.
The lay user is probably more likely to install a chrome extension than code. Then again, I don't know if greasemonkey has gotten more lay-friendly recently.
I should make it clear that I'm surprised, but also very glad that it has not happened!
I agree, a side project that satisfy your developerness is a good thing. I see two obvious reasons myself, you learn new things & in return of your time you get some good money as well.

But I see a pain in phrase "...it doesn't compete against my day job...", I dont know why on earth we cant compete with our employer if we are investing our own time after office hours.
A 4 pool isn't a sucker punch. It is a highly risky opening strategy that almost always ends the game very quickly. If your opponent does not scout it quickly, he is very likely to lose. If he does, you are very likely to lose. The existence of this early all-in option does much to "keep players honest" during the opening phases of the game and greatly expands the strategic depth of the beginning minutes. Without this option, each player's optimal strategy would always be to sacrifice defense and scouting early in favor of better late-game economy.
Reminds me of this video: http://youtu.be/c6Bkr_udado about loneliness (and how technology has influenced this)
Many of the photos were photoshopped.
TripIt blocks API access for FlightTrack, lies about it, and blames developer
This is a fascinating, well-written account, a decade after the events: http://www.laweekly.com/2007-03-22/news/heaven-s-gate-the-se...
All they'd have to do is click a link that says "install this script" and then gm prompts you to install it.
Sadly, we recently saw it on HN.
8 hours total
6 for computer, 2 for tablet
Upon installing I get this creepy message: http://i.imgur.com/6MYin5b.png
Are they really going to spy on my coinbase and stripe activities!?
No, it doesn't. If the woman you are with has pictures stolen and posted to the internet, and you are anything but supportive, you're a worthless human being. If your friends are somehow abusing you for it and you do anything but tell them where to get off, see above.

It doesn't matter if you're going to break up with her the next day or you hate the very sight of the woman, it's basic human decency.
A braggart might construct a humble persona, but would a true braggart maintain such a persona for long? If they could, is there really any basis for calling them a braggart in the first place?

Being a braggart seems fundamentally incompatible with "not bragging", for years on end, about your greatest accomplishment (and barring the possibility that SN is somebody very famous, say, Putin, it is almost certain that bitcoin is the most famous thing that SN has done). Not in a "Scottish, but doesn't wear a kilt" way, but in a "Scottish, but does not live and was not born in Scotland" kind of way.
Trojan Malware Steals Sensitive Data From SAP Client Apps
Marvin Minsky - The Society of Mind (1988)
Cult Suicide
http://alexsmith.io/?p=51 Should work, too bad I can't update the link.
wow... so there's no way to clean it? the only option is to junk the hardware?
A vimium that doesn't suck would be more useful than this. :-/
For Chess, a Would-Be White Knight
IOS to Android Developer: A Quick Transition Guide
I have. I was very disappointed with it because it was such an utterly massive application to be running in the background all the time.

It was 2007 and it was consuming 300MB of ram, that was just not acceptable. Maybe more tolerable now, but still bad.
That's a nice sentiment, but when your child's life is being systematically destroyed by pathologically perverted harassers then you just deal with the situation.

Your argument is a little like saying that the best time to teach first aid is when your kid has a gaping chest wound.
They dropped a single letter, and it resulted in something that was still a word. What internet have you been dealing with?
Sounds just like Dread Pirate Roberts. You could say that his defining feature is that he is NOT the same people.
Why aren't you asking GitHub directly?

https://github.com/contact
The link to Ulbricht's identity as DPR seems to go back to the beginning of the site. It seems more plausible he did that interview and made up the multiple DPR story to:

A: Advertise his willingness to sell out.

B: Perhaps toss a bit of confusion onto anyone following him.
Not just possible but likely. Then DPR created Silk Road to earn more BTC in a more traditional way than mining, and then DPR passed the business to one Ross Ulbricht. Or there may even have been more than one DPR before Ulbricht.
I'm repeating myself, but in every single one of these patent trolling cases:

Name. And. Shame.

Eileen Shapiro. The headline should be: "FindTheBest destroys 'matchmaking' patent, pushes RICO case against patent troll Eileen Shapiro." (I'm assuming she's not the only one involved, but they've got her name in there.)

Don't let these people hide behind the names of their patent companies. Let them become famous for their malicious greediness.
Another feature I would want and I really feel handicapped about in vimium is that I cannot use the vim bindings when typing stuff in a textbox like this one.
Then he won't be covered under the safe harbour provisions of the DMCA.
The keepthefaith.com site listed in examples certainly looks as if it could of been designed by Higher Source.

I wonder...
That's one of the worst pieces of advise I've ever read on HN.
I'm not sure I follow your logic here.

There is nothing inherently illegal about creating BitCoin but there is something very illegal about facilitating drug trafficking. If they were the same person, wouldn't you practise good OPSEC to keep you out of prison? What is the value of keeping your identity as BitCoin creator a secret when you are in prison?

If they were one and the same, it seems to me, you would just practise good OPSEC across the board or, if need be, make "mistakes" that reveal you as BitCoin creator (and take the credit) and keep your identity as SilkRoad founder a secret.
I wonder what sort of success you'd have by doing social engineering like this:

Show HN: Something something Chrome extension

Except it's actually malware.
Given her general alarmist tone and the fact that I can find plenty of critiques of her failure to give a voice to bodies of evidence that arguably contract her conclusions, but not rebuttals, I'm not sure why I'd want to.

I did, admittedly, manage to find

http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comment...

which appears to point out that she consulted meta-studies ... on the other hand, it also indicates that (a) she's comfortable referring to spanking as physical abuse (b) she explains that "My failure to give a detailed definition of porn, or my refusal to celebrate porn as a diverse set of cultural products, comes not from laziness or oversight but a commitment to a radical political economy."

... and it ends with "So please don’t ask us radical feminists to waste our time coming up with scholarly definitions. We have an industry to close down."

Which seems to suggest that she believes that when you're trying to argue that X is bad, defining X clearly is a waste of time.

I ... really don't think I can see a reason to want to read her books now.
Now that I think about it, it seems like Bitcoin was designed to create this problem. The protocol produces blocks at an (on average) constant rate, but the value of finding a block decreases exponentially. This gives a significant advantage to the initial investor.

I understand that the point of this exponential decay was to that, after the currency was bootstrapped, there would be a constant supply. However, couldn't this be accomplished with a constant, or increasing, rate of production in the beginning, then let the rate decline at the end?
You're so cyberpunk! You think the world wouldn't react to an assassination market? You think the internet wouldn't be changed to disallow such a thing? Think again.
It's not the unfair advantage as much as the risk that individuals controll enough of the currency to cause significant damage to the market.
Well, it might be a good moment to review the submission guidelines:

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.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know about the resources part, but the installation should be easy using Bitnami

http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab
Excellent, I love reading this stuff. Very helpful and informative for those of us who are interested in computer science but studied in a different field.
I would rather lose 10% of my QoL than be murdered, so I'd say murdering 100 is worse than reducing the QoL of 1000.

Easy. Next question?
While it's true that there a wide number of applications, and Aluminum is theoretically perpetually recyclable, there is still a small problem. When an alloy is formed and elements added to pure Al they are exceptionally difficult to remove. This means that for alloy-specific applications the recycled 'aluminum' must have extra elements added to create the alloy desired.

With continued recycling [over a long period of time] there is concern that alloys will converge upon a final aluminum alloy and we will no longer be able to create new application specific alloys.
What a well presented and interesting article.
I'm sure that's a great comfort if you're being harassed by people over the photos.
I'm relatively certain sociopath is a real thing. I don't know how accurate the tests/surveys are or whether it's more like a continuous spectrum rather than a binary on/off switch. But I know there are real full blown sociopaths with no empathy at all, and I have learned it's more common than I thought that it was.

I don't know if there is a name for that fallacy but you seem to be disputing an entire field of science because of a single controversy over another unrelated issue.
A partial visual history of Sugru
Could Tin be the Two-Dimensional Material of the Future?
I don't know about Ferro, but even vimium asks for this many permissions. I guess this due to the way it will handle shortcuts and bindings. I was hesitant to install vimium because of this but it is open source and the author seems to be someone famous so I can trust them. Related vimium ticket:

https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/366

TL;DR: not very unexpected perhaps?
If you define 'properties' as only use of the @property directive, then what you say follows.

However that's a pretty arbitrary definition, since properties pre-date the introduction of that directive.
I know (or think) that most record primes these days are Mersenne primes due to the relative ease of testing their primality. What I wonder is if probablistic tests could be used to find candidates for very large non-Mersenne primes before testing them using AKS.

Or is o̅(log⁷·⁵(n)) just infeasible for those sizes of numbers?
Do you not have a reason?
Antisocial personality disorder and (Hare's) psychopathy are defined largely by behavior, so this title is extremely misleading. However, I supposed "neuroscientist discovers that his brain shares some anatomical similarities to known psychopaths" isn't as catchy a title.
/r/shutdown - Startup graveyard
No more the CTO of my startup
This would be the same Europe where millions of people were murdered by their own governments within living memory, that had a functioning Fascist state (a real one) until 1975 and Communist slave states up until 1989, and that has has active "ethnic cleansing" going on right now? That Europe?

Just checking.