skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding lots of data to the transaction logs is one easy DDoS. Do so many transactions that the logs get to be larger than fit on most systems. With multiple Gigs of data already required, if someone was evil they could up the volume and keep people out of the game by making sure that that there were over a terabyte of transaction logs. Most machines won't have that kind of storage and would "fall off" the network.

Patient0 mentioned before I got to post this, the other attack I know would work. Destroying tokens. But it is a bit more complex than he mentions, but you can actually generate ECDSA key's that will work for one transaction, and then never again. A one time spend token that then self destructs for the person you paid.

I haven't been able to build anything that would work for two transactions. Which would be the most useful since you'd have a delayed "poison coin" but I don't see any reason it isn't computationally possible.
Yeah, the fact that bitcoins can be permanently destroyed is a little bit worrying, one of BTC's benefits is it's cap. What's the economical consequences of these coins being destroyed?
The idea described in that part of the article, that software vendors selling their software to an organisation should try to licence to an individual from that organisation personally, also seems like an unhealthy principle to me.

If I'm an employee, I don't want to be tied down to some third party's arbitrary commercial licensing terms just to do my job for the employer who is paying for that software so I can. Software vendors put some crazy things in EULAs, and there's no way I want to be the guy going to court to find out whether any of them stands up when tested.

As an employer, it's an even more blatant cash grab than moving one-time purchases to subscription arrangements without any useful improvement in other areas to justify it. It creates a fixed cost that walks out the door with the same notice that the employee in question gives to leave their employment. And depending on the software vendor's policies, it may be an irreplaceable asset, if for example they force you to upgrade to the latest version when buying a replacement, which in turn creates built-in obsolescence.

I'm pretty sure I'd refuse to accept the terms of such a licence agreement in either role. There is absolutely nothing in it for the licensor, as far as I can see. It seems like it's just warping the concept of copyright another step in favour of the copyright holder, which the very idea of licence agreements already does to a dubious extent anyway.
"Your document will not be uploaded. The cryptographic digest is calculated client-side."

That's great, but I have to trust you there. For a document that really matters, I don't think I would.

How about a box that allows me to specify my own SHA256 instead?
Note that this only sets precedent for cases under English law (and not Scots or Northern Irish law).
2) Scanner can act as a web server pushing its UI to the phone after Bluetooth handshake(I think this will be the future of Internet Of Things)
Maybe HN is some sort of social experiment/prank on information gobblers who also happen to be more prone to ADD ;((
No matter which language you use, you will not beat Intel MKL because that code is optimized by Intel specifically for each architecture. Precisely because automatic optimization by compilers is not good enough. These comparisons are completely irrelevant. Incidentally, this also shows why pursuing the goal of a "fast" numerical computing language is a waste of time: the speed derives from using the appropriate hardware vendor libraries, not from the language runtime.
5. Don't Believe the Hype - really good points there, too. "Use technology that's proven (to you)."

I agree but also don't ignore newer technologies just for the sake of familiarity. Especially if it has an active, supportive community.
Plato believes Democracy is the second lowest form of government.
I made stuff with font tags too ... in 1995.
Sure, but if we're assuming there's life in two dimensions, the amoeba's digestive system is much simpler than zipper organs.
Are you familiar with the joke that ends with the punchline "I don't know, but he's got the Pope for a driver"?

For all I know, you have the knowledge and experience to hold your own, but do you realize that in just this thread you've defended your position by suggesting that (among others) the authors of Emscripten and Rust don't how understand the how the web works at a low level? This seems unlikely. I think you have a good point to make about the indirectness of asm.js, but your style of argument leaves something to be desired.
$1,000 for a leased line half a mile away last time I checked, that excludes set up fee.
Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers
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Yes, but the same democracy in Athens had strict rules about voting participation, and about 35% of the population was enslaved.

Coincidentally, about 300,000 people lived in Athens at the time, while it's estimated that only 30,000 people were eligible to vote.
Only if by ubiquitous you mean "all my friends use it" or developed country = [US, UK, Germany and a few others]. Really.
You're asking for plans, but I'd like to tell you what actually happened for me. As someone who did this in the past for far too long I've seen the darkness that emerges. I'd rate myself 2/10 in terms of willpower and 8/10 in terms of can-always-find-something-interesting. I probably handled it better than most people would (never ended up unshaven for weeks in a yellowed wifebeater), which to be honest frightens me whenever the topic of not-having-to-work comes up.

A bad day might have looked like this:

1. Get up at 11AM.

2. Eat for an hour while watching some Let's Play/V-Log or listening to some podcast.

3. Start reading blogs and learning which after an hour turns into reading bullshit that leaves my brain a day after.

4. Play guitar for two hours.

5. Play videogames for two hours. If lucky with people over skype (the tiniest amount of social interaction for the day)

6. Repeat the eat-watch-routine

7. Lift weights for an hour

8. Repeat the eat-watch-routine

9. Reddit/HN

10. Get bored by the general Reddit/HN and read the weird subreddits instead

11. Do what I call the horny-but-jerking-off-in-5-minutes-is-too-fast routine which I guess releases quite the potent mix of endorphines because I might end up sitting there for an hour with my pants open

12. If nothing good comes up I use my useless amount of private torrent tracker invites to find some porn I've never seen before (which becomes increasingly rare). If I'm too lazy to do that I just browse around and might come across some weird shit like Japanese women squirting milk on each others out of their ass (I guess that's pretty tame in comparison). Not that it matters, my mind is sometimes so numb, I could jerk off to a car accident

13. Lament for an hour where my life has gone while doing Yoga and stretching to bottle up some memories

14. Play a poker freeroll and lose

15. Refocus and write 20 lines of code for a project that I'll never finish in a hundred years

16. Throw a coin. Heads I shower, shave and promise myself tomorrow will be the day everything changes. Tails I contemplate suicide again.

17. Cry myself to sleep if bottled up memories come to light

At the end of the day I'm a better guitarist, one step closer to beeing jacked and one step closer to insanity. That must be the reason why some rockstars are complete lunatics.
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What determines the size_in_bytes value?

In general, let's say a govt agency get assigned an $18.5m budget to break the Bitcoin currency as much possible, what could their plan of attack be, i.e. spend that money in the most efficient way possible? Create a large ring of wallets and send tiny payment around the ring? Create less wallets but send large payments between them?
> Military people want it spy-proof and secure.

Ah. That changed.
Show HN: A Better Prototyping Tool
Back around the early 2000's we were running something of an ad-hoc VPN of dynamically connected servers. It was somewhat similar to the way Napster worked with one central server and many connected nodes. These connections relied on manual configuration, for the most part, and that did involve a fair amount of tunneling.
I'm not exactly a big Bitcoin booster, but I love the way techniques and structures developed for it are being adapted to uses like this.

Given that this seems very similar to el33th4xor's Virtual Notary, how would one distinguish between the strengths or use cases of the two?

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/06/20/virtual-notary-intr...
My math does the same as the guy's before...

No it doesn't. It returned 0.0 for 69.0 before, now it returns 6900.0.
Middle-earth Thehobbit
well... you can save actual files to namecoin blockchain if you try a little.

my script that does exactly that (not updated, maybe won't work now)

https://github.com/runn1ng/namecoin-files
Hadoop vendor ecosystem gaining critical mass
Yes, I was being ironic. But those quotes don't help his case much. Saying "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" is, with or without context, just laughable.
Excellent question! The REST API part should be familiar to any Rails programmer.

The main difference is that back-end models, validation rules, triggers and views are coded in DB level via stored procedures written in Node.js-compatible modules, so it's enforced for both SQL- and HTTP-speaking clients.

As you pointed out, this is simply an instant JSON-over-REST API server on top of existing Pg databases, and is not intended to replace the need for traditional frameworks with server-side templating.
Hidden features of Python [2011]
Colorful Equations with MathJax
Right. We used to handle that in an exception in which the function ran.
So my math is theoretically better!
Script assisted manual commands are something I use a lot as well, I can hack up scripts and cope with minor changes in data format &c.

I'm interested in the reaction to automated posting but the comparative acceptance of 'by hand' posting. Is that simply frequency? Are you selecting which historic threads to run searches against?
Looking to move? The Census has an app for that
See here for an explanation about musical notes vs currency notes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1rpm41/my_f...
I am aware (although only gdc was around back when I cared, and it didn't compile), but it still poses the problem. People expect to be able to download and use the "main" or "primary" implementation or whatever you want to call it. The reason I don't use D is because when I wanted to try it, I couldn't.
Could you please elaborate on this? I understand neither your comment, nor the part that you quoted from the site.
The Unmitigated Inanity of Cyber Monday
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but Democrats can say dumb things too.
Can a coin survive without a ledger? I rather see a coin with proof-of-exchange without a ton-of-gigs blockchain at all.
Which one is 'native using JS?' Apple introduced JavaSciptCore in iOS 7. I don't care for ObjC so JS calling native UI from a familiar language sounds good.
I have taken the precaution of searching for phrases in titles of older pages before submitting (I submit seldom) and have not submitted if previously discussed.

Such a feature would be good I think.
There are almost 100 active startup accelerators in Europe today
We just launched Tech.eu, a new digital publication covering European tech innovation in depth, and one of our first posts is about the sheer number of startup accelerators currently operating across Europe today. Hopefully this submission isn't regarded as too promotional - we just figured Hacker News might be interested in this sort of thing :)
Wow, what's with all the frowns and sad faces? The Internet is perhaps the most incredible invention of humanity ever. Billions of people are connected to each other like never before, any information is at our fingertips, anyone who wants to create a web site is free to do so and post whatever they want (except maybe in China), commerce is available to the individual on a global basis, etc etc.

Whining about the "good ole days" when .000001% of the population had even heard of the internet and it was reserved, at great cost, to academics and researchers, is just pathetic.
FBI Document: [DELETED] had plan to kill an unresponsive SSH session

Pffft, this is obviously just another internet conspiracy
What the fuck kind of quotes are those?
Much like schools regulate your usage of English when in school, countries will regulate internet use.
Yes. The most free one is OpenMoko, even the baseband firmware: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2012-July/0672...

(runnig non-certified baseband firmware is illegal in many places however, from spectrum use regulations)
Increased value for the existing coins I would assume.
There are plenty of cases of people "losing" or effectively destroying large amounts of bitcoins.
BTC is designed to support smaller and smaller portions of a coin to handle the scarcity iirc.
Some previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668253

There are many, many submissions with "sorting algorithm" in the title:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28sor...

Some look interesting, although you'll need to sift through the repeats. One of the items that got several comments is this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999443 : O(n) Sorting Algorithm: Quantum Bogosort (uwaterloo.ca)

Another:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445963 : Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance (flowingdata.com)

And one more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997621 : Sorting Algorithm Animations (sorting-algorithms.com)

Not a huge amount of discussion, but some.
Yes, there is also a plethora of new languages popping up and actually getting some traction, while 10 years ago probably was the high watermark of java monoculture.
Time until start (in an easy, cross-timezone understandable format): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=current+time++to++9%3A3...
Ah, so I guess I could stop avoiding traditional SQL features like triggers for fear of having code floating around outside my main app codebase, and it would generally make everything more centralised. I wouldn't have to worry about my workers having access to the correct model code and so on. Interesting.

EDIT: how easy do you think it would be to do the authentication etc outside, at the level of the nginx proxy?
Never understood the need for disqus, it is always blocked like every other 3rdparty service but when i see it blocked i never understood why someone uses an external service for a simle discussion in a CMS. How is it that this part is outsourced frequently on blogs, news posts, etc. where traditionally the CMS itself just showed the comments section? Why? I just never enable disqus because it kind of feels stupid to me.
> Please address this issue promptly.

That`s what you do.

1. Tell them that you provide a service to clients yourself.

2. Ask them if they can give you information on which app`s reputation system was tempered with.

3. Tell them that you will address this issue immediately and that you will remove the apps from the Appstore (indefinitely!!). Don tell them you will talk with your customers and try to fix this or something. Be frank and let them know that you apply a no tolerance strategy (just like them).
For better or worse, JSON is becoming a major format and it is a first-order Postgres data type. You need to add the hstore extension if you want it. So it makes sense for people needing/wanting JSON and are not aware of some extension called hstore. In other words, it is about improving the ease of use.
Do you think you could do it again?

Are you working on the next thing or happy enough with this success?
The link is broken and/or the site is down.
Ain't that amazing that most human inventions were created to either satisfy military or a porn industry.
Yes, it is the only reason I don't use them for hosting, even though I've had my domains with them for over a decade. For a company with a motto of "no bullshit", it is really disappointing. Sketchy credit nonsense is about as bullshit as you can get.
... if I didn't know better I'd assume that headline was spat out by that Markov chain doodad from the other day.
Prescription refill database?
When I fill out my prescription in a pharmacy and the pharmacist enters my info in the computer, where does that data go and is it available in an API?
Which are the highest then. Or there are only 2 of them?
That's a relief. The only thing I need to buy is a large stash of brown trousers then!

Funny how programmers years ago were generally thought of as a bit odd, nerdy types. Now they're almost "cool". Thanks App Store!
StrongLoop Weekly Wrap-Up – Nov 29
And also a way for me to have wasted money left over when I stop using the service and can't use up all my credits.
I'm not sure if you caught the other post, but the discounted rate is the price we charged for a few years. Only after revising it UP did we hit a new higher plateau on revenues. Then discounting it these two times in a "sale", we again hit another increased plateau. The market has no memory of our price.

We started originally with monthly, 3 month, 6 month and 12 month access. The LTV of the customer was less and the satisfaction was much lower. Since we promise language learning results, a common sentiment was that they were penalized for learning slowly. When we charged a fixed price, people were more committed, got better results and were happier.

I guess what I'm asking is how can I know that reducing the price to the discounted rate will result in an increase in sales since we already priced it this way in the past. I would actually very much like to have a sub $100 price point, but i'm pretty sure we won't make it back in increased unit sales.
It was bad. Literally no one responded to his auction, the room was dead silent. After a minute one guy offered ten bucks out of pity and that was the end of the auction.
Personally I think it requires identity verification and secure reversible transactions, and probably some central point of control rather than a distributed network (so that confirmation can be almost instant). That's what I get with current fiat currencies and I wouldn't want to give it up.

I also find the deflation built into Bitcoin worrying, esp. accompanied by the unquestioning cheerleading from many proponents of it.

I had a look at your website, and it looked really interesting - http://evr.gr/.
Might be because lots of us are not using a CMS. For a simple blog page you don't even need a backend - just generate static sites with jekyll.

Having a 3rd party solution for comments is thus necessary (if you want to have comments).
With a context, its not laughable to me. I don't have too much respect to Al Gore, but I don't believe he was so dumb or thought his audience is so that actually anyone would believe he "created" internet from a technical point of view. But he did, unfortunately, took a part in creating internet from a legal point of view.
Exactly. In 1995:

The cost of access to the Internet via 56 kbit/s or 64 kbit/s leased lines varies enormously
throughout the OECD area (Table 9). In countries such as Canada and Finland it is possible to get
extremely inexpensive access to the Internet via 56 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s leased line connections. In fact,
the price quoted for a 56 kbit/s leased line access to the Internet by the Helix Internet, an IAP in British
Columbia, was less expensive than a listed 56 kbit/s leased line charge, over two kilometres, from the PTO
used in OECD comparisons in the “Communications Outlook” to represent Canada.

The reason Helix can offer a less expensive service is because it purchases capacity from a
reseller of BC-Tel’s network in British Columbia. If best practice pricing is defined as the lowest
available prices then the suppliers in Canada (US$7 000) and Finland (US$6 000) appear to have set the
current benchmarks. This finding is confirmed from within the Internet access industry by EUnet’s
Wim Vik who says Finland has the least expensive prices in Europe because of the competitive provision
of infrastructure.viii In fact very little separates the prices of these countries when it is considered the
Canadian charge includes a router at the customer site. By way of contrast with the low prices found in
Finland and Canada, ten OECD countries had a leased line basket price per annum higher than US$10
000, five a basket price higher that US$20 000 and a further three with charges higher than US$30 000.
Overall the average price for leased line access to the Internet in countries with telecommunication
infrastructure competition was 44 per cent less expensive than countries with monopoly provision of
infrastructure.

http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/2758588.pdf

Don't forget inflation. In 1995 your $1000 was worth only $652. What was considered "extremely cheap" in 1995 is 10x more expensive than what you seem to imply is prohibitively expensive today. And never mind the speed - your leased line is probably 100mbps, that's 1800x faster than 56kbps.

EDIT: Strictly speaking off-topic, but in the spirit of this thread: I typed "what did a leased line internet conneciton cost in 1995" into Google, it transparently fixed my spelling mistake and gave my this PDF as the first hit. This is truly an awesome time to be alive.
> And how far would deletion be expected to go?

I believe this is a 'slippery slope fallacy'. If I have the right to delete my comments, it doesn't immediately follow that I have the right to delete occasions where someone has quoted me.

The awkwardness of deleting quotes does not contribute any awkwardness to deleting comments.

Legally, this matter is simplified by acknowledging that written work is copyrightable.

The law around publishing copyrighted work is different than the law around quoting copyrighted work.
There is a developer API that allows you to do this:

http://www.proofofexistence.com/developers
Billions of people are connected to each other like never before

All controlled by about 5 corporations at the top.
So today is an international prime day because
291113
112913
20131129
are all primes

Today could also have been a "perfect prime day" if MM, DD, YY and YYYY had been prime (in addition to the above). But it's not the case...

11 -> is prime

29 -> is prime

13 -> is prime

2013 -> not prime (3 x 11 x 61)

Too bad! We will have to wait another 16 years before we have a perfect prime day...
I define the line at webview = html, no webview = native.
I could show you POS records, but I'm not sure what that would prove. This us not what everyone does, but it was meant as an example of the kind of problems that arise from trying to control consumer behavior that go away if you just give cash. A more extreme example would be the economy of the former U.S.S.R., but I thought exchanging a two dollar milk bottle deposit for beer money was more relevant.
What's new in Creative Commons 4.0
Creating robots that can build cars: useful. Creating yet another social sharing site, etc, not so useful.

Truly - why did anyone ever invest any communication effort after dialup BBS and the TECO editor.
Site is down for me. But I'm surprised there hasn't been a Morlock & Eloi comparison.
Oh yeah, I've seen a few places around Shoreditch selling that, its pretty nice. I didn't realise they did subscriptions