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Yeah I can actually understand where you are coming from. I spend a lot of time with Bitcoin but never come to HN for Bitcoin information, I prefer my HN being startups and programming/algorithm stuff.

I think one of the reasons Bitcoin is becoming more popular on HN is that a lot of us are interested in fun/challenging tech ways to make a decent living or even make a million bucks.

At the moment Bitcoin is making a bunch of nerds millionaires and we are all interested in making sure Bitcoin overcomes all the hurdles ahead.
Family court's a joke. It terrorizes everyone involved.
Try doing volunteer work on the weekends for some cause you care about. One it will get you out of the house and two you will meet people who may be like-minded but are different enough from your co-workers as to be more interesting.

I'd recommend also trying church. Not trying to push religion, but it's a way to get involved with a group of people who often organize social or community activities.
I'm not entirely unsympathetic to this point, but I think it's frequently harder to deal with emotionally fraught things like this for oneself than for another. So long as you're there to do the same for others, I don't think it's necessarily wrong to let someone help you with it.
You can always shoot me an email (profile). I'm always up for talking about nerdy stuff. Currently writing code for a robot as a I type this message.
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I always feel that many in the U.S., by far my largest cultural exposure, consider a false stoicism as mature and wise.

That's a trait we inherited from our cultural progenitors the British. And in general we don't take it to the extremes they do. On the broad spectrum of human cultures, Americans are fairly "chummy" and open, or at least seeming openness is encouraged. The problem is, we expect others to be open, but we also expect them to be like ourselves. So we punish people who open up and turn out to be different. So they clam up.

The best place that I have found people to open up and be themselves within a day, is at a bar. Even if they just got there and have not had a bit to drink.

You think American bars are good? Try Japanese bars. American bars, to me, are usually noisy, crowded affairs where it is difficult to even say a few words to someone let alone have a conversation. This is particularly true where I live (Boston area), where the bars are often packed for the Red Sox/Patriots/Celtics/Bruins games. But the bars I went to in Japan were tiny and intimate. Only five or six people could be in there drinking at once and it is far easier to strike up a conversation. Particularly if you are a Westerner.

Japanese society is about as serious and as punishing of individuality as it gets in the developed world. The Japanese bar scene is thus correspondingly lively and full of sincerity, even in tiny bars where there's barely any room to move your elbows.
I have no idea if EFF would be down to help in this, but i wouldn't put it past them for helping in situations like this. https://www.eff.org/work

Definitely a worthy cause to donate to.
This is a good thing. Carmack said at a recent Quakecon that he didn't let us have a light on any gun in Doom 3 because he didn't want another light source in his rendering..

this is a guy who has no business making games. And none of his games have been good for a long time (and they were always pretty bland, Quake was the peak).

Having Carmack out of id's games is a good thing. Having him geek out on technical problems without being allowed in game design decisions of any sort is also a good thing.
Poll: How many Bitcoins do you have?
Are you surfing the wave? Or Just think it's great?

How many you have? why? are you holding or using them?
None, I hate this coin thing.
0 to 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999
11 to 50
100 to 500
1000 to a LOT !
Lack of provenance information makes me wary of adopting cats from the SPCA (instead, I'm going to a breeder I know and adopting a retired show cat, or possibly kitten from that breeder). My friends have adopted pets which/who turned out to have massive unreported health problems, and now have high expenses and a fairly non functional or labor intensive pet.

Children would be vastly worse, I'm sure.
Those links are about very different cases of children being blackmailed. What's at issue in the link is leaked pictures of grown women.

Clearly the behaviour of the people involved in this is abhorrent (for multiple reasons) but there has to be a point where you stop caring. Moore is not the only asshole in the story by a long stretch. He might not even be the worst.

I mean, if the boyfriend thought about leaving her for a second then he's not worth worrying about, he's an asshole. Whoever fired the kindergarten teacher likewise. The real story is not the 'revenge porn', it's the morons that are so upset by it that they fire someone, or that anyone would take kids away from their mother over it, or really any of the societal bullshit about nudity.

edit: And seriously, some professions don't like taking people who have been naked on the internet? Those professions need to grow the f*ck up.
> It scared me when I found out such a high percentage of people are sociopaths.

What, from psychologists? You do understand, don't you, that most of psychology is based on anecdotes, yes? Consider the term "sociopath" itself -- is there a thermometer or a high-tech scanner that flashes a red warning when a sociopath is under the sensor? Or is the label a matter of opinion?

To give you a feel for how loose psychology is, for decades psychiatrists and psychologists treated a condition called "Asperger Syndrome", marked by a tendency to focus one's attention on very few things, even just one, and poor social skills. Eventually people complained that what was being described might be normal, even advantageous behavior, as a result of which a split took place -- half the psychologists begin making lists of famous, very successful people who were supposedly mentally ill with the condition (Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Bill Gates and many more), and the other half petitioned to have the condition removed from the profession's diagnostic guidebook.

The critics won that battle, Asperger's has been removed, and in a delicious irony, there is now a new therapy meant to get people to focus more, show more intense dedication to a few pursuits, or even just one. Sound familiar? The new fad is called "Grit", and it extols the virtue of the same behaviors that the Asperger's people thought marked one as mentally ill and in need of treatment.

In short, until about five years ago, people paid psychologists to be treated for the defect of too much focus and concentration on too few activities. Now they pay psychologists to develop that very ability -- it's now fashionable to be focused.

To see how psychology works, all you need to do is read its history, see how many fads come and go without any serious science being done. But this era is drawing to a close -- people are beginning to abandon psychiatry and psychology, including some heavyweights like the sitting director of the NIMH:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...
I was thinking the same, does this mean only rich has the right to get justice ? And others must keep calm and suffer ?
There's a lot of persistent, executable storage on modern computers. I don't know how often attackers take advantage of these, but if you suspect a threat against you is capable of taking advantage of them, then you may want to be more thorough. I kind of think the technician was overreacting too, but I don't know what kinds of rootkits are publicly available for any attacker to copy and paste these days.
True, but his brand is already powerful and has established meanings and connections in the same market with his blogging platform. It's not illegal or anything, but why fight a mindshare battle you don't have to?
Everyone keeps doing this poll wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6687341

Your lowest cutoff is $800. That's massive, and utterly destroys how much info we collect about the most interesting segment of the market.

FYI you also don't cover 50-100 BTC.
How does GitLab compares to Gerrit? At work we are massively using Gerrit and loving it, but as I can see, GitLab has also a neat CI integration.
Yes, murder is the correct solution to situations that make you mad. This cannot fail to go well for absolutely everyone.
Indeed, I did not make that clear.

All farmers - Not nihilistic, Not stable

All pillagers - Nihilistic, Not evolutionary stable

Some ratio of pillagers:farmers - Not nihilistic, Evolutionary stable

Where nihilism means that the society is very self defeating that it collapses instantly. And evolutionary stable means that the society can maintain it's general composition for a long enough time period.

P.S: There is probably a better word than nihilism for what I have chosen it to mean.
Why? This is the kind of person who would be running them.
Not only will this NOT raise wages for workers (for obvious reasons – you can't pay janitors, low skilled employees, nor replaceable employees half a million per year, if you want to stay in business), it will also create a system that ends up either automating or outsourcing the work force (and in turn hurting those same people that want this to happen).

This is totally self-destructive and counter-productive, and an example of a group of people with no real experience + absolute bad judgment attempting to force their ill conceived notions on anyone they think is preventing them from reaching the happiness they are entitled to (all without doing the hard work).

If you want to get paid well, take the chance and start your own business, or buy shares in an existing enterprise. Or have the ability to be skillful and in high demand.

> Schwan was paid 261 times as much as Roche's lowest paid worker in 2012, according to a study by employee group Travail.Suisse.

Perhaps Schwan created 261 times more value for the company than the lowest paid employee.
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> Fear entered my life. I received verbal attacks on Twitter, computer viruses and death threats. ... This prompted me to make Moore's home address public on Twitter.

And people wonder why death threats on the internet is not taken serious by the police. If the victims of death threat do not care, then the police won't. The result is that death threats then become normal on online forums, and real death threats gets ignored.
Please do just one thing: make an appointment with a therapist to see if you have depression.
What's really sick is the personality cult around this creep, even after the end of IAU. I had originally assumed that the "I love Hunter" posts that appear on the Internet on the topic were him-- he's a troll; trolls do that-- but apparently he has real-life fans.

It's basically the Shawn Parker story. No real accomplishments, but active participation in the party scene leads to high status. If this current incarnation of the VC-funded bubble hasn't crashed, in 3 years he'll be part of the "tech" in-crowd and people here will be discussing his new venture capital fund.

I, for one, will never take investment from any VC firm that employs Hunter Moore as a Managing Partner.
If I remember correctly there are rootkits that hide in firmware.
Those points are the first things that come to my mind.

DPR just does not fit the Satoshi profile in anyway. Satoshi was very humble even, DPR has never shown humility and his journal showed evidence he was power obsessed.
> China and Russia would often give severely challenged children to US adoptive parents

About 2 years ago I was watching a documentary about china-to-america adoptions on japanese television. While the point was never explicitly raised, the viewer could not help but notice that most or all of the children up for adoption - no interested chinese parents having being found - were, and there's no nice way to say this, quite physically unattractive, developmentally challenged, or both.

The program showed American couples arriving to claim their new family member and I was struck by how unwitting they seemed. I got the impression they simply did not have enough experience with asian children to realise that their adoptive child had, to put it brutally, a pretty poor genotype, with a host of physical and behavioural ramifications.
It seems ridiculous to me that the existence of a naked photo (with no context) would be grounds for firing a teacher. It might not be real and, even if, all it proves is that she has a human body, which is not exactly news.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I agree; this country needs to grow the fuck up.
EFI partition, BIOS, other nonvolatile system memory? If it gets root level access it can hide anywhere there are a few KB. Even less than that will do if you're just putting a hook to instruct the computer to re-download the virus if it is detected that it has been removed.
Well, you're wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

Protip: next time, try doing some basic research before making an uneducated comment.
Ahhh - gotcha. I think our experiences are similar.
Hunter Moore is a talentless piece of shit who will do anything to be famous and to have access to the in-crowd. He also has no impulse control, a huge drug problem, and will probably be dead by 30.

He makes Sean Parker look like a respectable businessman. That's how bad he is.
Rape victim-blaming still happens. A lot.
Nicely done. Your demo at DemoDays was pretty cool (http://demodays.co/).
Thanks for the comment!

An insanely noisy console was bugging me this week, so I whipped up the Lumberjack script in about an hour this Saturday while my daughter was napping.

This is a super quick and dirty version #1 to prove that it can work and would work as I imagined. I agree the "stream" name string stuff is wonky and could be better. I've got some ideas I'll be playing with tomorrow. Basically taking what I have and wrapping it up in a constructor, so console.stream('foo') actually creates a 'foo' stream. You could then do (as I believe you suggest) var foo = console.stream('foo'); foo.log(1); foo.warn(2); etc...
Well, yes, his revenge porn only works because other people are arseholes. But it's because all those other people are arseholes that the victims can't just shrug it off.
I do not disagree with you, but in my eyes a sex-positive culture will not prevent the Hunter Moores of the world from making other people's lives miserable. Shaming over nudity is just one example, one way.

I'm glad the FBI & judicial system appear to have been effective in this story. The fundamental reason this sort of thing happens (again, in my eyes) is because the internet is still a pretty lawless place; that's the root of what happened here.
America is sex-negative? I wish. We've sexualized every inch of women's bodies to the point where we've started sexualizing empty spaces around them (thigh gap).

And nice derailing into "men are hurt by society toooooo!!!" Perverts aren't good, and these days they're called rapists. And there are a lot of them. But maybe you think rape/sexual assault only happens in dark alleys the woman probably shouldn't have been walking down anyway..
For those (like me) with 12+ hours: I bet you're not getting enough sleep. Besides f.lux, try melatonin. A tiny dose of 300mcg has helped me a lot to regain the desire to sleep (which was always my problem).

Blue light is indeed the reason why some are still active at 4am. The problem is not that you don't like to sleep; you don't want to sleep, because of your level of melatonin.

Lots of good comments in [1], [2], [3]. Search for f.lux and melatonin on HN and you'll see hundreds of similar discussions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495358

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665696

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3338601
Sure he might not be humble, however if you read everything Satoshi wrote he came across as a very humble person.

Regarding his immense Bitcoin wealth, he has anonymised himself but not his Bitcoins. 99.9% of the Bitcoins he mined lay exactly where they were mined and he has made no attempt to move them or anonymise those coins. He might in the future but who knows.

In addition he made the first block unspendable so that the only block he had to mine himself to start the network would never contribute to his wealth.
> What's really sick is the personality cult around this creep

Yeah, I just had a look at his Twitter, there's a lot of girls sending him naked pictures and telling him how much they love him, and a bunch of sycophants avidly defending him (in a highly misogynistic manner, natürlich).
A litigious culture in which courts and police are heavily relied on to solve disputes.

That's what the courts ARE FOR. Are you saying you'd prefer to live in the world where Charlotte flies to Sacramento and calls Hunter out at high noon in a cowboy hat? Because it seems fairly clear the "negotiation" option was a complete non-starter.
That's certainly not the MPAA's or RIAA's definition of stealing.
>> a sex-positive culture will not prevent the Hunter Moores of the world from making other people's lives miserable.

No, but it would be an easy weapon to take away from them.
Since when does "person X is connected to person Y" mean "person X is person Y"? They're "obviously"[1] not the same people. That by no means shows there is no connection.

[1]: Which isn't to say "definitely" but it'd be quite a lot of misleading going on to no obvious end - better covering up "created something fascinating" than "sold drugs and hired hitmen"?
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I know i am replying to a troll comment, but here it is.

It is very easy to steal data. Copy the data, and then delete the original. However, the goal of this malware is to neither delete nor copy the data. It simply sabotage the data, after which the computer user has to pay in order for getting the data restored.
No, it would be a hard-as-shit weapon to take away from them. In theory it sounds easy, but culture moves at a glacial pace.
Sounds like the early groundwork for a false flag campaign and subsequent crackdown...
... Serving up static HTML/CSS/JS will always be faster than having to render on the server-side.

Now the tradeoff is that you can't have certain dynamic elements based on state unless you use a third party service (i.e. comments). But that's obvious.
GitLab is cool, but Gitorious is where it's at. 3.0 just came out bringing many improvements and it's AGPL licensed.
So it's either:

A) Double, triple, 10x existing wages - and go out of business before the year is out.

B) Dictate to privately run and owned businesses that they are subjects of their employees (rather than the other way around) - creating resentment, socialism, and speeding up automation and outsourcing.

I don't see a win here for anyone.
There was an ars article (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mys...) that was on HN just a few days ago describing all sorts of ways to hide rootkits in nearly any component of your machine with programmable firmware.
Maybe in the US.

I don't know, can't really see the slut-shaming working to this extent here in the UK, let alone other parts of Europe. Hell, Italy had an ex-pornstar as a member of parliament for some time IIRC.
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

I share your concerns, and thank you as I've never been able to sum it up as well as you.
To 'surface' something (in this context) means something like "to expose", or "to bring to attention". It's related to the more literal meaning of the verb, which is roughly "to come up to the surface of the water (or other medium)", as in "the submarine surfaced after a week long dive". He's just using it to describe exposing objects and functions in Objective-C to the JavaScript context.
"Gary Jones" is/was likely a script kiddie who spread malware and carefully looked for nude pictures on the hard drives and accounts he gained access to. Basically he went after low-hanging fruit. If he did target anyone, it was probably phishing ("click here!") through Facebook messages or emails.
There are lots of things that use updatable firmware that can read and write data in interesting places. Portability is often an issue, so I guess it boils down to motivations of the writer.
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You know you can run a program which updates your BIOS?

Therefore, a hacker can write a program to replace your BIOS with something that looks completely the same, except it also reinfects your computer each month.

This isn't paranoia. It's inevitable. I'm surprised it's not more well-known.
Which is why the successful ones are good at hiding.
Proof of concept of rootkit that can survive disk replacement by installing itself to the bios.

http://www.geek.com/news/researchers-demonstrate-persistent-...

> Researchers at Core Security Technologies demonstrated the techniques at CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver earlier this month, compromising one virtual machine running Windows and another running OpenBSD.
The attack relies on modifying the BIOS of the target machine; startup firmware that is booted from a chip on the motherboard. Anybody wishing to use this kind of exploit in the wild would need to already have low-level access to the machine in order to make such a change. As the BIOS code is executed every time the system starts up, even if disks are wiped or replaced, this presents an attractive proposition for hackers.

I agree that it's unlikely, but it's nice to see someone actually saying "nuke it"(although "Nuke it" should probably be just "wipe the drive and re-install"), rather than fiddling around with combofix and malwarebytes.

Don't forget that some people don't have OS discs, they have a "Host Protected Area" partition. Maybe rootkits and malware can infect that?
I know people who run galleries and such things, who find Wordpress too complicated. Markdown is great because they can do rich formatting without needing to learn HTML, but with more control that WYSIWYG. Maybe you want to post a tutorial to add a CNAME to Dropbox. I don't think they really care that the urls would look like /u/xyz/file.html|jpg. What's missing is a markdown editor and light CMS, perhaps.
What better cover?
Serious question: do you (or anyone else) think it's immoral to go to church as an atheist just to meet people?

I get along really well with church people, but I simultaneously hate talking about religion.
Do you have any benchmarks to support your first assertion?
And Ronald Coase says the Coase theorem doesn't represent reality. Bitcoin dramatically decreases some parts of the costs of transactions, but the cost of buying a loaf of bread isn't only the credit card fee - it's also the trip to the store, time considering other things you could have bought, &c. Transaction costs are merely lower. Which does say this should help the Coase theorem better apply, but we don't really know how much better.