skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No apologies, Bitcoin can rot.

We as a society have the unique opportunity to reverse a pyramid scheme & foot black marketers with the bill, but instead everyone is just buying up more because "up up up and awayyyy it goes!!!". Because computers. Because cryptoooo. Because whatever-BS-notion-you-use-to-convince-yourself-that-the-ecosystem-is-so-valuable-it-has-an-insane-amount-of-subjective-worth-and-for-some-reason-subjectivity-is-now-esteemed. Because Litecoin isn't as hip.

Instead, people are contributing massive amounts of money to the ecosystem where black marketers & the founders already have the upper hand (you're buying that one Bitcoin for $600 or w/e made up price it currently has been bid to, as opposed to their hoards).

Even with your enlightened knowledge about "subjective value" you should realize that once you're in the same medium, their much bigger BTC# means a much bigger slice of the pie. But Bitcoiners believe the pie is infinite, right?
I see it as an offensive maneuver by a foreign government from which my government fails to protect me.

Which is why you should be angry at your government for failing to protect you.
Before I posted that I googled "define irony" and was surprised to see the first definition as something that sounded like sarcasm. The definition appears to already be changing, making hipsters retroactively correct, which is just another reason we can all hate them. ;)
"Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond"
Ha ha ha ha!
Recent discoveries of isolated water have lead to investigations of new organisms (see http://www.nature.com/news/russian-scientist-defends-lake-vo...). This appears to be much older, but perhaps not as well isolated as Lake Vostok since there appears to be a connection with increased groundwater salinity in the area.
But, by protocol design, bitcoin's number of transactions will not get much higher than that. Only the transaction size will get larger.

For a higher number of transactions, you need to include the 3rd parties that provide services as a layer on top of the protocol.
I was wondering why there were not any C koans. Interestingly most of the original "koans" were about Unix and Lisp. Kind of makes sense to have code koans for them too.
What does illegal mean in the context of government? The government decides what's illegal. If you want to declare some government's action illegal, you need to find a bigger government to impose their laws on the little government.
So Justin Bieber could have sex with all his Twitter followers simultaneously.

Fascinating.
Currently, I spend them only on the Humble Bundle (okay, I don't have much).

I advise you to look at Coinbase API if you want to implement checkout using BTCs.
Haha, thanks! Glad you like it. I recently got back into toying around with Pharen, the goal being to get accepted to the next Strange Loop.
Why Finnish Apps Are Beating American Rivals On US iPad Market
Apturing Cognitive Fingerprints from Keystroke Dynamics
http://www.gizmag.com/nsfw-review-realtouch-sex-toy-for-men/...
That is part of the internet archive's mission. There may be a newer and maybe transcripted version of this talk, but it's a wonderful talk by Brewster Kahle estimating the amount of space needed to store all of humanity's collected output (including all broadcast TV): http://web.archive.org/web/20130729231218id_/http://itc.conv...

(Cooincidentally it looks like archive.org has taken over hosting the now-defunct itconversations podcasts.)
That wasn't my claim, as others have already stated. It's really way off base from what I actually did say. FWIW, I do think though, there is a better than 50% chance that in one year from now BTC will be worth less than todays price.
Probably a well-crafted phone call would be as useful...

"I am the administrator of MtGox, I need you to send us a copy of your private key..."
I bought subway with mine: https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/48c233e67ddc
You have a good reply, but I'd like to give another answer with a slightly different approach.

Pick a number. Make it as large as you like. A billion to the power of a billion to the power of two billion? Just pick something.

Now whatever you pick, I can then proceed to find two prime numbers which are at most 600 apart. Maybe they're just slightly larger than the number you picked. Maybe they're vastly larger. But the point is, they exist.

We can repeat the procedure with you picking larger and larger numbers and I can always find a suitable pair that's bigger than what you pick.

(In theory. In practice, we may get to a point where it takes more time to locate the actual pair than we have time before the universe burns out or collapses. But we can prove that they exist, at least.)
Your browser could also be a trojan.
Traction vs Growth
(I like this a lot, but) you describe your "technology" as both revolutionary and proprietary, and operating "automagically."

While I'm sure there's something neat going on under the hood, legitimate users probably don't care about the technological marvels you're pulling off and just that it does what it says on the tin.

A lot of the current copy is self-congratulatory. The technology likely isn't starting revolutions, so describing it as such is puffery.
It's in section 5 of the ToS here: https://twitter.com/tos

The short of it is that you retain copyright over your photos, but grant Twitter a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce them. You also authorize Twitter to extend that right to third parties via syndication agreements or APIs. This seems mostly intended to ensure that Twitter can set up APIs and feeds usable by third parties, although the permission as written would allow Twitter to engage in broader syndication agreements if they wanted.

But in any case, third parties can't just grab content and reuse it on their own. You could probably make some kind of photo-feed website scrolling recently tweeted photos, maybe even sort them into galleries (as long as your website complies with the Twitter API's own ToS). But you can't just right-click/save-as and upload the JPG to embed in your news article, because that removes it from the context where you're covered by the license the photographer has granted to Twitter.
You don't think their boss isn't telling them to harass those people? Clearly there is something going on at this location. The article is one sided. It could just as easily be the case that the store is a drug operation as it is that the police are all racists. 62 arrests makes me think drug dealer. Criminals and police tend to tolerate each other because that's part of their jobs. Normal people would have left somewhere before the first 50 arrests.
It definitely won't hurt you, implementing Bitcoin payments isn't very hard and you usually don't pay anything to get started. You could also get free publicity if you have a good item listing and accept Bitcoin, because still not so many marketplaces do that.
It's Google themselves that block the videos on YouTube for German visitors. Their rationale is that this frees them from paying the fantasy fees that GEMA wants from them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_...
I understand very little of what you just posted, but purely because of my own ignorance. This is wonderful, I now have a reference doc on what to read up on this weekend. HN FTW.
Here are some simple examples from this site,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404362 - "Hackers Steal, Encrypt Health Records and Hold Data for Ransom".

and recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6567735 - "You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins"

A top comment on that article said: It actually made my skin crawl reading about it. Never had that reaction to such a story before. Interesting...

You might think this might have been a speculative work of fiction. It wasn't - this is a story that happened.

As for your run of the mill kidnappings for ransom, blackmail, extortion and other things normal people turn to the FBI with, (that you would too, if you got certain very specific threatening letters for example), I think if you come back after 5 minutes of googling the subject you would not consider the general situation to be speculative. We are talking about sources of blackmail, kidnapping and ransom becoming literally completely untraceable, without even a network effect of where the money is going afterward (what pseudonymous addresses).

As for the infrastructural, nuclear and so forth examples, you will observe that placing or turning moles and spies already occurs historically, which shows that the process is possible. You are talking about lowering the barrier to entry and risk profile.

Literally anyone who is in a position to do something, and understands that they could instantly anonymously receive a the digital equivalent of a briefcase full of cash, without it ever showing up anywhere, without needing to hide it as they spend it (except regarding the effect it would have on their visible lifestyle -- hell, they could anonymously transfer it to some fake lottery that pretends they just won it...nothing would ever connect the two, the lottery could be a complete front and seem 100% legitimate. Or even actually be 99% legitimate, with a single person adding another payout while collecting funds for it from the person being paid and making sure the lotteries ledger's add up... you get the idea.)

It would be a disaster to have absolutely zero leads whatsoever in all such cases. Money has a profound effect on the world and a modicum of possible pseudonymous oversight over its movements is quite a bit more than minimally responsible.

Ask yourself, for hte data ransoming story I linked: would you prefer for the btc address to be totally and completely a black box, or the present state of affairs?

Really, the current implementation is an absolute minimum for 'keeping people honest'. It has a very high level of barrier to de-anonymizing users (as far as I understand it), yet given sufficient resources certain leads can at least be put together.
The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
To do a PhD you have to be smart enough to be able to do one, and dumb enough to actually do one.
FYI: CaVirtex (a Canadian BTC exchange) is holding a $500 shopping cart integration contest to attract developers to their API.

https://www.cavirtex.com/news
The more mixing is done, the higher the daily bitcoin transaction volume is, and the more trustworthy bitcoin becomes!
> Critics of our approach will say that the "do it, they might not block you" argument is tenuous at best. But that is not what we are saying. What we are saying is:

>>“Google! Do it! If they don't block you, freedom wins. If they do block you, there will be much more opposition to censorship inside China and the system will be forced to change, thus freedom wins too!”

>Win-win.

I don't think the author realizes what a "win" means to corporations. Helping the cause of freedom doesn't turn losing a billion potential customers into a win, it's just the silver lining on a very dark cloud.
It's quite safe, the robots you see in the video have a maximum output that is quite gentle, enough to push small and medium sized toys through a well lubricated passage-way but otherwise harmless.

We have stronger devices that will also be supported day 1 on the beta, and these devices have their power and stroke length defined in the driver software. These more powerful devices aren't so much robots though, just single axis articulation and no bidirectional feedback -- good enough for accelerometer control though where there's no channel for feedback anyway.

ALSO, remember in encounters with humans communication is key! make sure they know what you want and how, just as if they were really there.
I'd need a lot more qualification than that. If defense lawyers have only just been invented then perhaps you can say that someone walked free because of defense lawyers, otherwise it is just the actions of a particular defense lawyer and in that case if those actions are a primary cause, then a different defense lawyer could have had a different outcome, so it is not the existence of defence lawyers per se, that caused that person to walk free.
I'd take a bet that it's mostly the former (and the latter is rather similar to it). It's not just that some people get off on pointing out that something is 'obvious', it's that lots of other people feel the same way. So they upvote.

A somewhat similar example that always comes to mind in these cases (and for some reason happens relatively often among my 'geekier' friends) is when someone says 'I don't dream'. There's always a smart-ass around to point out that everybody dreams, but they just don't always remember it. I don't know if that's true, but that's irrelevant..

It might be technically true, but it's pedantic and misses the point of the statement. And it cuts off a potentially interesting conversation for the sole purpose of making this person sound smart.

I've noticed myself doing this too (I privately call it 'snoping' someone), and have been trying to avoid it as much as possible since I became aware of it.
I immediately smelled Fiverr as well.
Boeing Warns of Icing Risk on Some Planes
When Pushing Forward
it looks like my investment in sex slash Oculus related porn domains is well on it's way.
Gyft.com is my go to place for instant conversion of BTC to a medium (a gift card) I can spend in my local Target or CVS Pharmacy. Their reward system rebates 3% of BTC purchases.
"They have proven that SQL-based storage is faster than NOSQL databases."

Too broad of a statement. 'NoSQL' is an umbrella term, and thus likely has several contenders for a raw QPS metric.

The additional step of parsing the query is obviated by statement caching. You're right though, it's simply a benchmark of how fast the query path is to the InnoDB buffer pool. The work is to optimize internal contention.

Very impressive results though.
A Collection of Highlights from "The Everything Store"
>How about someone steals your business' source code [...]

Not a proper analogy. You don't sell software because of source code, you sell it based on what users see. Sharing photographs (with proper attribution) is free marketing.

>[...] you don't qualify.

Why not? I'm paid to press a button on a camera. My product is the same as yours.

>Thanks for pissing all over my profession.

Why? Because I disagree with the prevailing view that photographs are sacred objects that should be locked in a vault available only to those who pay for them?

Yes, I get annoyed when I see my photos elsewhere used without permission/attribution. But have I lost money because of it? I've gained much more business by trying to see that my photos are seen by as many people as possible.

Your arguments are one in the same as the ones used by the RIAA and MPAA. A stolen MP3 or photograph is not a direct negative sale.

Photography is similar to music, so I'll quote from the article 'Why Most Artists Profit from Piracy':

>Several studies have shown that most artists actually profit from unauthorized sharing of files. They sell more albums because people have the opportunity to download songs and entire albums for free. A study by Blackburn (2004), a PhD student from Harvard, found that the 75% of the artist actually profit from piracy. Blackburn reports that the most popular artist (top 25%) sell less records. However, the remaining 75% of all artists actually profit from filesharing.

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/why-most-artists-profit-from-piracy/
Does anyone know why Oregon has a higher misconduct rate than California and Washington? It goes against my admittedly stereotype of Portland, which I know may not be representative of the entire state. Plus, I understand big/major cities tend to be more progressive and cosmopolitan.

I'm just wondering what is at play in this state.
The iPhone display is covered by Corning’s Gorilla Glass (not sapphire). The iPhone 4S’ TouchID sensor (the home button) is covered by a small synthetic sapphire pane. However, given Apple’s substantial investment in GT Advanced, the company might use sapphire for larger panes in the future.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/04/apple-to-build-new-700-e...

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/12/apples-new-manufacturing...
I'd been planning to head over to a local food truck this week until the market became too volatile; nobody knows how to price things. If BTC becomes a functional currency, it'll be when the price is stable to better than 10% over week-to-month timescales. That has happened in the past.

In general, I'd much rather give value to a vendor than play the credit-card --> reward points --> $ game to reduce the effective cost of the charges credit-card companies levy on vendors.

Every time I write and mail a check or arrange for a bank balance transfer, I think "Man, if only the person at the other end used bitcoin. This would be faster, easier, and cheaper." It's so much easier for person-to-person transfers than carrying cash, making change, etc. You can also get a sense for how much practical use bitcoin is getting by searching Craigslist for "Bitcoin".

At the moment, there aren't that many places to spend them. The economic exchange systems we have today are quite good. It remains to be seen if any other system is ultimately superior.
Actually just ordered out this evening, bought my family of 6 dinner (sushi, etc.) for 0.046 BTC at http://lieferservice.de which supports hundreds of restaurants throughout Germany.

We keep an "order out" Bitcoin budget and refill it with new Bitcoins from time to time. REALLY cheap food due to the BTC prices as of late.
I feel like this article is extremely short-sighted. If Google did the things that the author suggests, China would simply block all of Google instead. It has done this in the past, and would not hesitate to do so again.
Thought you'd like to know that your site is unusable on iPhone.
'Amusing Ourselves to Death' is actually the name of a great book by Neil Postman. I'm a little bothered by the author of that infographic stealing it for his title. It's a great book and if you like thinking about this kind of thing you should check it out.
How Basecamp Onboards New Users
Please stop interjecting with your vested interest as if it trumps anyone else's valid concerns.
Exception: the most carefully engineered and popular computer in Apple's history, regarded by many reviewers as the best laptop ever designed.

If you consider the MacBook Air to be an 'exception' then there is nothing to discuss. I can't really respond to comments that are in blatant disregard of the evidence.
British Airways unveils billboards that interact with aircraft
The referring URL should NOT use 'kid' for the id.

http://www.frixion.me?kid=99999
I agree with you. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. But we're working hard on load times. Every call is HTTPS, adds lag. But you'll start to see improvements on the new experiences that will start rolling out in Q1. One thing after another, we're improving the company, its platform, and its engineering culture. I have to say I'm quite proud of the team behind Kraken. This framework is solid.
Where's Datomic? Maybe it's excluded because it relies on other databases as storage services?
Money laundering is the process of concealing sources of money. If the IRS found out Western Union was trying to cover it's tracks of who sent/received money they would be investigated immediately. Laundering implies you have something to hide, most likely tax dollars or ill-received profits.
Ya we are getting the mobile site up this week..
> the kind of technically correct that isn't very constructive

Fair enough.

That’s not to say Apple won’t ever update Safari for Windows, but I too won’t hold my breath. Apple’s software offerings for Windows haven’t been great for a long time (QuickTime and FileMaker used to be great on Windows, but that was back in the 90s). Recently, instead of offering a native version of iWork for Windows, Apple has opted to build it as a web app. That might be appreciated by Linux desktop users, but it isn’t a hopeful sign of Apple creating quality native apps for Windows.

I would love for Apple to build good versions of QuickTime X, iTunes, and Safari for Windows >7. As it stands now, the software Apple has for Windows feel outdated and are way too sluggish.
Yup. Winner takes all. Everybody else gets their noses rubbed in the dirt.
> I'm not sure how a Twitter TOS violation turns into DMCA damages.

It didn't directly. The photographer retains copyright of photos, and sued the companies for regular copyright violation. One of the companies' defenses was to claim that they actually had a license, and therefore it was not a copyright violation. Users who tweet photos do grant certain royalty-free reproduction rights to both Twitter, and third-party syndicators authorized by Twitter. See section 5 here: https://twitter.com/tos. Therefore, if AFP were using the photos in accordance with terms authorized by Twitter, they would be covered by this license, and they wouldn't be violating the photographer's copyright.

The judge ruled that their reuse was not within the scope of these terms, however, and therefore not covered by that grant of a royalty-free license. Therefore the defense fails, and they're assessed damages, not for the Twitter ToS violation, but for reproducing photos without a valid license from the photographer.
Horrible company culture. (Widespread, I know.)
In Moab UT and other cities in UT, after speaking with many bartenders, you'll find out that indoor cameras are to protect employees from harassment by alcohol police. Including falsifying reports, and blackmail.
I buy reddit gold[1], Amazon giftcards[2] (with 3% cashback!), grilled cheese sandwiches[3], belgian waffles [4], donate to causes[5], and will be booking a flight[6] using them soon. I also use BTC/LTC for personal payments between friends and co-workers pretty often.

[1] https://ssl.reddit.com/gold

[2] http://www.gyft.com/shop-for-gift-cards/

[3] http://wizardsofcheese.com/wizardscreed.html

[4] https://www.facebook.com/thewaflstop

[5] http://seansoutpost.com/

[6] http://www.cheapair.com/
Some of the mentioned videos are available in this Miami Herald article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/v-fullstory/3769823/in...
Will split the animations.. Good point
America's underground market for adopted children
If people have to use 3rd-party services, doesn't that defeat the purpose of using Bitcoin?
Ya I agree.. Will split test the animations. Seems like a lot of the feedback so far is related to this.
16 years after a mass suicide, the webpage is still up
I agree, It's not for everyone.
Although I entirely see your point. I am not sure what expectations you have of an astronomical artefact, I mean it hasn't been particularly spectacular to us in an aesthetic sense, but it's certainly been interesting to see it's interactions, if only as data points.

I think the wider point I mean is that comets don't give a shit about how pretty they look to us, so it's a tad absurd to consider them disappointing.
Battlefield Afghanistan
My thoughts are, your competitors can already scrape your Twitter followers. It's a legitimate concern, but you also can't live in fear of your competitors.
I'm a little confused. In order to be arrested for trespassing, doesn't the owner of the property have to confirm that the person is not allowed on the property?

There is more behind the scenes going on.