skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A Bitcoin Christmas
Link: www.SpreadtheCoin.com

A few weeks ago I wanted to give my parents and brother, (who had all heard about bitcoin on the news) their first ever Bitcoin as a gift for Christmas and educate them along the way.

Amid the recent China crash there has been a lot of negativity in the Bitcoin community and the news... My buds and soon-to-be-teammates thought that what I was wanting to do for my family was just what the Bitcoin community needed.

So we put together a certificate, graphic designs, and cards to make the "Spread the Coin Bitcoin Christmas package".
The idea being that if we all spread a little Bitcoin cheer this holiday season and share any amount you wish with our friends and family that together we can grow and enrich the Bitcoin community.

You can find us at www.SpreadtheCoin.com

Feel free to give us any feedback on the idea, designs, or the website. We are wanting to make this Bitcoin marketing project crowd-sourced very soon!
Political polarization of the U.S. Senate: Is the data fooling us?
Robophobia: A talk about what it means to be human in a digital age
At this point, I would not be surprised to learn that: 1) all of these incidents are occuring, 2) the U.S. government (NSA/CIA/whatever) is behind them, and 3) the police (local/"federal"/whatever) are aware of the incidents and the USG's involvement and are either actively participating or simply allowing it to happen.

If all of the above were true, then all that might be accomplished by going to the police would be that the USG becomes aware of exactly what Appelbaum knows of their actions and, perhaps more importantly, what he doesn't know (assuming there have been additional incidents that he has not discovered).

Documenting the incidents as best as he can is possibly (one of) his best course of action(s). I think that I, personally, would also document them publicly in addition to a paper notebook, though.
Arguments concerning hypocrisy are interesting, but they are tangential as well. They point up the need for a change in a different context. One can both appreciate the hypocrisy of a related issue and still be a little flummoxed at the case at hand.

The cavity search sounds to me like police overreach, and it's hard to imagine that it would have been needed. I wonder whether there would be case for pursuing charges of police misconduct, even if the practice turned out to be something that is routinely done in such situations.
Now I need to go take a shower and read some Paul Krugman columns...

Wouldn't you just need to take another shower after reading Krugman?
Acoustic cryptanalysis 2004
The elephant in the room with all this is that America has its own big problems in this area. The illegal immigrant workers from Mexico and other places seem to have issues with wages, employment rights and other things. Let's not even talk about the big daddy of them all on the corporate side, Walmart with its wage issues.

So, before Americans start feeling smug about how they set the standards for the rest of the world, please look in your own back yard. It's not that much prettier.
> The WASPs' day is done. Such leadership as it provided isn't likely to be revived. Recalling it at its best is a reminder that the meritocracy that has followed it marks something less than clear progress. Rather the reverse.

Wow. Obama has been disappointing but he hasn't come close to the damage Dubya did. Dubya really was a drunk dimbulb, and his name got him into Harvard Business School. Heck of a dividend we got from that anti-meritocratic inbred WASP-favoring move there. Let's try a really meritorious president next time.

And just above the words "Trust, honor, and character" I see John and Allen Dulles. Seriously? I wish I could call the author of this piece uninformed but I think it's worse than that.
Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics (http://goo.gl/ozq7Sh) really helped me a lot with figuring out how the concepts work, through a wide range of fully worked out example problems.
Medical bills can go into the millions, but this is very rare. I quite doubt hundreds of thousands is something that could reasonably be described as typical.

I had surgery with anesthesia (kidney stones) for less than $10K.

I might be wrong--but I'd want to see data based on actual people actually treated.
Because gratuitous sarcastic negativity doesn't age a bit.
I don't think it supports floats at all.

The strange thing is that Outlook 2000 and 2003 did, because they used IE's rendering engine. But then with Outlook 2007, they switched to Word's engine for "security reasons" but haven't added some of even the most basic modern HTML features to it over the last five years...
You should have told him you would run it on overclocked CPUs
What's the point of this? The filter can be opted out of, and if you're in circumstances that deny you such control (say, at work), then maybe you should just obey "the house rules".

I expect lots of workplace masturbators to downvote this post.
Can't wait for 2015! Year of the smart clothes!
Well, to be fair, the STASI was more extreme in many respects. Kinda hard to beat them, with there being informants basically everywhere, and a literal wall around the country. It's like being spied on and harrassed while in a prison. Maybe North Korea might be similar, I have no idea.

On the other hand we are stuck in this gravity well, with an adversary with unlimited reach and electronic eyes and ears everywhere. So the comparison may be much less far fetched than we'd like to believe. After all, the GDR had people who just "went along" and didn't mind any of the STASI stuff either; how is our situation any different? Some people not currently directly affected care, but I would guess all that don't, are not currently directly affected... because once this stuff turns on you, you're not in Kansas anymore, I bet you.
If anyone is baffled by why this article exists, go to your favorite search engine and type "the new wasps", including the quotes. The target audience doesn't need to do that, but you might.

I find it odd that it was posted here though.
It may be obvious to someone who bothers to think about it. I get the feeling most people never give it a thought, which is why we're in the predicament that we are.
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
It is not mentioned (in either the English article or the original German) exactly what his "alarms" are. It is quite possible that (at least) one of those involves recording video but we can't know for certain. In addition, I certainly can't blame Appelbaum for not publicly describing just what his "alarms" are.

Just because the article doesn't say that he has video does not mean that he doesn't have it. In other words, as the saying goes, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!".
I've used both and for some reason on another the Firefox ones just seem more user friendly. Maybe its because I started with Firebug in some ways but the Firefox tools seem better implemented from a usability perspective.
Thank you (and others). I feel silly for not checking the man pages for the macros I didn't recognize.
> bag man watching her through night vision goggles

Pretty sure the "bag man" idiom doesn't mean what you think it does.
The difference here is that you're not paying the postman to drive to the store for you alone, you're paying for one tiny fraction of his rounds. It's simply a matter of efficiency.
I don't think it'd be illegal (in the US anyways). AFAIK only the employer is legally restricted as to what questions they may ask. I believe a prospective employee may ask any thing they want. What the employer responds to a question with might be restricted though.
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What are the rules? That is, are these Perl regexes, POSIX regexes, …? (Come to that, what is this site? Going up one level to alf.nu gives me a lot of suggestions for what I can do by modifying the address, but no clue of who's doing it on my behalf.)
Sometimes when I talk to CS students at my university, I feel like we are living in parallel universes. I live in one where Python, Ruby and JavaScript are the most important languages, basic Unix skills is a must-have, etc. In their world, the whole programming landscape is divided in two sides: .NET and Java. Everything that doesn't fall in either of those categories is a toy.

I thought it was just the atmosphere of my university, or maybe realities of the job market in my country[1]. But reading this made me wonder id there are really two parallel universes in computer-land.

[1] Based on the name of OP, I am 90% sure we have the same nationality.
I actually read that Boeing was in the lead for winning this contract before, but I don't remember the source.
I think it's in Cmder but I will update to include it because I know I use it.
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His argument is that WASPs were men of "character"? What a load of tripe.

I honestly cannot believe this is being published in the WSJ, an article wanting for a return to hereditary rule (not that it's gone far from that, but still). Awful, awful things.

I, for one , look forward to the last time that people try to use a "standards" argument in deciding things.

An interview with the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S2NKlMW0vc#t=1059

"All that we say is lets have some standards, in decency , in behavior , and in civilisation" , this is the argument to justify not giving 95% of the population franchise in elections.

The more I hear people talk, the more I feel that "moral standards" and "decency" are arguments that are only used to enforce some existing (usually racist) plutocracy.
This is exactly how National Insurance works in the UK. It isn't really insurance per se; money coming in is paid straight out again.
In fact, a play about Joseph Alsop's life and this milieu the OP speaks of was on Broadway not so long ago starring John Lithgow as Alsop.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/theater/the-columnist-diss...
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/the_colum...
Which is the main issue with Brazil's choice of the Gripen -- range. Brazil is huge, larger than the US's lower 48. From this point of view, the Rafale was a clear winner.
100 Years Later, the Crossword Is Still the King of Puzzles
I don't quite follow your logic.

You focus on how having an au pair is a perk of her job. How is that connected with not paying an employee the legal minimum wage?
And yes it is exploitative in that it puts a much higher value on your time than on your servants.

That doesn't make sense. It's a simple fact that some people's time is more valuable than others. It doesn't seem exploitative to me.
If I purchase stocks for $X and then someone immediately comes and asks to buy those stocks for 50% more than $X I would absolutely accept (barring special circumstances). But if I pay someone $X to clean my house for an hour, and then someone asks me to clean their house for 50% more than $X I would absolutely refuse (barring special circumstances).

This suggests that either a) a maids time is worth much less than mine or b) the market price for cleaning services is severely depressed below its "true price".
World’s 1st Wireless Molecular Network Uses Alcohol To Send Text Messages
2016: Year of smart people.....well at least I can dream :)
> Well, to be fair, the STASI was more extreme in many respects.

Sure, we are talking about one of many components of why the Stasi are maligned.

Basically this is not a "Hitler was a vegetarian; you're a vegetarian" type of scenario. Rather this is a "Hitler wrote a book blaming Jews for everything; you wrote a book blaming Jews for everything" scenario. Yes, writing an anti-semitic book is by no means Hitler's greatest crime, it barely even ranks on that list; but you can be sure it is very central to the reasons that he is maligned.

In other words, harassment by the Stasi is not an incidental attribute of the Stasi. It is one of many defining attributes of what the Stasi were.
Is the PDF version working right? I don't see anywhere for public or private keys. You also need a paper wallet address generator. Coinbase wallets look like this: http://i.imgur.com/BPwIAra.png
Carmat's artificial heart finds its way to first human patient
"Today, all of the machines dedicated to mining Bitcoin have a computing power about 4,500 times the capacity of the United States government’s mightiest supercomputer, the IBM Sequoia, according to calculations done by Michael B. Taylor, a professor at the University of California, San Diego."

This is obviously wrong. Where did it come from?
I was under the impression that this question in particular was extremely common, and that most candidates already have heard of the solution. Because of this, I really hate this kind of question because you're getting an incredibly skewed view of the applicant's problem-solving skills.
On the other hand, while design questions are important, there are other important qualities of a candidate that aren't best assessed by knowing how her or she would design a system (such as coding/problem solving/logic skills).
I think the main point is interviewers should stop being lazy and come up with their own unique questions. For example, when I was interviewing at companies after college, I got the BST least common ancestor question at least 3 times. I'm sure the 3rd company had a much better impression of me than the first, even though I didn't get any better at problem solving.
A simple question I sometimes ask is "through a football game, you can score (for simplicity's sake) some combination of touchdowns (7 points) and field goals (3 points). Write a function that takes a final score and outputs the number of possible ways a team could've reached that score."

OP, best of luck on the rest of the interview process!
If you use the technique, you become associated with others who use that technique. The use of "Stasi" here is comparable to saying a band sounds like The Beatles.

As for "par," you're using two different senses of the word. Your analogy could work by acknowledging that par in golf is a comparison to the estimate made by the course designers, not to other golfers. In this way, "on par with the Stasi" is a comparison to the behavior (née "estimate") of that group.

Two mathematicians in different disciplines are both mathematicians, even though their motivations and training are not exactly the same.
> these WASPs of the past that the chap in the article is lamenting so much were pure, unabashed racists

And sexist and elitist - but not more so than the society they lived in. Holding them to the norms accepted today is about as pertinent as calling them uncool because they lacked iPhones. Plus, it erases distinction between people like Lincoln who, while expressing very racist views, did a lot to bring things closer to equality; and others like say John C. Calhoun, who did their utmost to push the opposite way. History makes no sense unless you take it in context, my friend.
Why on earth would I serve a blog of lolcats over HTTPS?

Or really any site that doesn't involve logins, passwords, accounts, or sensitive data of any kind?
Except every time a computer programmer writes a program, an artisan loses his job (roughly speaking)
In theory maybe.

In actual life, the 800-pound gorilla is beating the shit out of monkeys, invades their villages, pushes them diplomatically, installs his lackey-monkeys in power in their jungles, and steals their resources.

And he counts any nick or scratch on his body (inflicted by the monkeys tiny hands) as worthy of the lives of 10,000 monkeys -- which he considers almost subhuman and even talks openly of "bombing them back to stone age".

Oh, and he maintains that he's the righteous and good one in all this, and it's doing it for their own good.
Title should be "What you look like to a social network."

Why did the submitter change it to something ungrammatical and nonsensical?
"Prediction is hard, especially about the future."
I used to hold the opinion that all proof-of-work systems were inherently flawed, because in order to protect against an attacker, you have to waste more resources than the attacker would have gained.

Now I think that in practice, the amount that the attacker could gain might be quite small compared with the total value of the system.
It's always harder for an adversary when he doesn't know your countermeasures, and if Jakob Appelbaum publishes Video footage (or microphone recordings, photographs, whatever his fourth or fifth, or sixth alarm system provides) he'd give away this advantage. So currently the Americal agency trying to bug his flat, or probably the german Verfassungsschutz trying to suck up to them, have to guess if they have found and disabled all alarms, or indeed been recorded, or not.

That's probably the single thing claimed by the NSA that's true: It helps their opponents (e.g. us Germans) if we know the extent of their wiretrapping and other surveillance. Too bad it was mandatory to publish it to expose their morally wrong (and often illegal) activities.
High Concurrency B-Tree
It doesn't have to be on a separate subdomain -- setting a secure flag should provide sufficient protection.
The PDF Certificate relies on the browser's built-in print-to-PDF. It is a really simple page, but has been tested in each major modern browser. There was a client side library called JSPDF which looked really cool - and would provide a <button> to click on, but it was huge, didn't support CSS, and I didn't feel like I could trust the library without understanding it.
Overstock.com CEO Unveils More Details About Bitcoin Adoption
> then took her husband and child into custody!

Holy crap! I have been following this fairly closely and had not read that. Do you have a link?
Why is this very old version here, when the latest results have been submitted recently?

Substantial discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6927905 (tau.ac.il) (92 comments)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940827 (theregister.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938536 (dailymail.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935289 (tau.ac.il)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933255 (slashdot.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932445 (slideshare.net)

There are probably more.

I'm not saying that this historical page is completely without interest, it's just that it would be nice to know why it's being submitted.
maybe it's a good reality check to realize that society has not moved on as far as we might hope. Or maybe the WSJ's editorial board hasn't. There's a disconnect somewhere.
see zeteo's comment above
Admittedly I haven't seen that video and I'm not very familiar with Floyd Mayweather but you should take anything you see on American light-entertainment television with a healthy dose of skepticism. It's likely the women were friends or actresses hired by either Mayweather or the production to act as staff during filming, to raise his apparent status. This is extremely common in "reality" television.

Not saying there's nobody in the US with a staff of 12 but it strains credulity- and the "sexual services" is definitely not true or he'd be up on charges.

If you post the videos someone can probably attest to the reputation of the program that produced it. Was it MTV Cribs?
That really depends on your definition of "reasonable". I'm not saying you don't have a good point about the economics of it, that would be the one thing included in "reasonable" metrics. But the fact is that all of the cities you listed have different versions of everything from traditions to religion to language. Ignoring that gets you nowhere when talking about India, though politicians and nationalists would have you believe otherwise.
Please tell me I'm not the only one that goes on "Google Maps Vacations". I've been doing this for years, I pick a place and head into street view and start exploring for hours at a time. Literally sometimes 5-7 hours non stop. I seem to favor little towns above big cities. I feel like I'm discovering something secret that few people know about.

Italy, Spain, Greece, Scandinavia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Mexico. I love it all.

My bucket list dream is that one day Google turns their 2D maps into explorable 3D worlds. If I'm around by then, and I'm retired, that is where I will be aaaaaaaaall day.
I would guess from Michael B. Taylor, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.
On the idea of "mechanics 101 for smart people" - can anyone recommend good books that are the analogs of SICP for other subjects? I'd love to know ones for, say, genetics or evolution as well as stats.

I can say that Hubbard + Hubbard "Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations" does a good job of being that for vector calculus specifically and for exposure to theoretical mathematics.
Interesting, I guess I need to change providers. I last used RapidSSL, which advertises itself as a "low-cost" provider at $49: https://www.rapidssl.com/buy-ssl/
Huh? What ad hominem did I apply? That he's got an old-school mentality that worships the good old days without acknowledging the negative parts?

It was kind of funny having such worship of WASPs come from a jew. Whatever. No point in wasting any more time or effort over this.
My mistake. I meant something along the lines of black-bag-job-man.
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It doesn't just have the effect of making it less obvious. I grabbed a Pebble recently, and it's had the effect of making me actually use my phone a lot less. Before, anytime I would hear my phone go off, I would check it and see if it's an important email or text, and frequently end up checking a few other things out of habit. Now, I only do that if I've seen it's actually important, which happens much less often.
I don't know if it's wrong, but it is a meaningless comparison since bitcoin mining is done with special purpose hardware that could never, for example, run a linpack benchmark.

I imagine they are comparing raw operations per second (in some measure) but the comparison is totally meaningless.
Howdy goldenkey, founder of https://commando.io. Would you mind shooting us an e-mail, you can find it on the site.
I'm not sure of this specific calculation but in general they come from the network's total hashrate compared with the known floating point operations per second of the top 500 supercomputers. Not sure how flops has been equated to hashrates though.

Nowadays it makes less sense since bitcoin hardware is ASIC/custom silicon designed & optimized for hashing as opposed to floating point operations making the comparison biased.
What Porn Stars Do When The Porn Industry Shuts Down
To be sure, the people and companies who own those farms are some of the strongest opponents of immigration laws.
We seem to keep finding ways to fuck up the earth for pretty useless and unnecessary reasons. I lol'd at our obvious dumbassness.
And UCSD is home of the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), a major site for National Science Foundation computing research. So rather than 'obviously wrong' I'd weigh this assessment as 'presumptively right' unless/until other better evidence or testimony is presented.
A few more I use:

SSH Tunnel Manager (open source). I don't really like managing tunnels via cmd so here's a GUI to do just that.
https://code.google.com/p/ssh-tunnel-manager/

CryptSync (open source). This keeps a folder in sync with another one but encrypts the content of the destination folder. It's extremely useful to use with Dropbox where I keep everything encrypted.
http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/CryptSync.html

Greenshot (open source). I use this to get screenshots of a particular area of the screen like I would do on OSX with CTRL+SHIFT+4.
http://getgreenshot.org/

Prepos App. A generic preprocessor for everything web (js, css, etc).
http://alphapixels.com/prepros/

SPlayer (open source). I have no idea with I enjoy this video player more than VLC but I do.
http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html

VistaSwitcher. It's an ALT+TAB replacement.
http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html