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"If they had the same size network, it would take 60 confirmations on DOGE to match 6 confirmations on BTC. If you are OK with 30 confirmations on DOGE, you would be OK with 3 confirmations on BTC."

That's not actually true. Satoshi actually provided code in his original paper to calculate this which I've just run, and it turns out that if, say, an attacker controlled 30% of the total mining power of each network during their attack they'd have a 33% chance of successfully double-spending against BTC with its 3 confirmation requirement and a 0.015% chance of successfully double-spending against DOGE with its 30 confirmation requirement. That's a big difference.

Let's suppose we decided to take advantage of this to require less confirmations on DOGE, say 10. Then the chance of a successful double-spend goes up to 4%, still lower than Bitcoin. Of course, let's be generous and assume our attacker now has three times the opportunities to double-spend, upping that to a 12% chance of success. It'd still be safer to accept transactions with 10 confirmations taking 10 minutes on same-size-DOGE than ones with 3 confirmations taking 30 minutes on BTC.

Actually, it looks like if we give our attacker those extra attempts provided by a faster attack for free, 8 one-minute confirmations are at least as secure as 3 ten-minute ones for any size of attacker that BTC can realistically defend against at all. (And remember, we're already talking about attackers powerful enough that 3 confirmations in BTC isn't safe. If we assume a hacker with 10% of the total mining power, which is arguably all that 3 confirmations can realistically protect against, 5 DOGE confirmations are enough and take half the amount of time as a single BTC confirmation)
Your point's valid as far as the importance of depth of engineering talent, but I will push back and say the talent's not nearly as sparse in St. Louis as you think.

St. Louis has two strong universities: Washington University[1], ranked 14th in the nation, and St. Louis University, ranked 101st [2]. Washington University has the 7th ranked SAT score average, ahead of Stanford, Columbia, Duke, et. al. [3]

While a huge chunk of these kids move away from St. Louis (including myself), the challenge of getting talent to St. Louis isn't as hard when you have a strong U. in the area as a default. There are also great champions of the St. Louis scene, like Jim McKelvey, cofounder of Square and Wash U alum.

[1] http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
[2] http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/complete-ranking-of-americas-...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McKelvey
There's a big difference between putting a substance into your own body and breaking into someone else's computer and taking their data. Personally I think the punishments for "hacking", the way the term is used in this article, are too light.
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That's required in Austria too, but even in high-profile cases it's not being done and if it's proven that evidence was hidden by the prosecution, there are no consequences.
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What about Lothar König (http://www.dnn-online.de/dresden/web/dresden-nachrichten/det... - sorry, I found no english article), or the NSU files (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/intelligence-age...) that were destroyed just in time (though that wasn't the police, but the federal domestic intelligence agency)?
"Before I saw the rain clouds, I knew it'd rain, but I didn't know when. After the sky grew darker, I knew it'd rain, but I didn't know when."

Within that passage lies the meaning of weather.

I'm not belittling the OP; I enjoyed the article quite a bit. I just find the whole "meaning of life is explained by the inevitability of death" sentiment to be rather empty.
He thankfully had independent evidence to corroborate his assertion that the charge was false.

In Scotland, prosecutors only require to provide the evidence they intend to use against you; any other evidence, including exculpatory evidence can (and is) withheld - it's up to you to find that by yourself.

Your only safeguard is the requirement for corroboration - a second piece of evidence to confirm what is suggested by another; in this case the informant's pictures would be considered corroboration of his claim.

The Scottish Government is currently trying to remove the requirement for corroboration completely so a single allegation (without any supporting evidence) is sufficient for a conviction.

What could possibly go wrong ?
But in this case, Samantha won't really need to make new metaphors or abstractions, these can come from other people she is connected to. She needs to have certain limited understanding of those metaphors, but doesn't need to be able to create them.
Most businesses are slowly using the Web as an open source document format... not sure what your point is, or if we are in wild agreement! :)
Unapologetic atheist here. I downvoted your complaint about downvoting because such complaints add nothing to HN.

(I do share your distaste at the way some Christians have seized on this as a preaching opportunity.)
We did research it, but don't worry, your insults don't affect us much anymore.
I wonder if they drop unread pictures after a certain length of time? it would seem sensible and fit with the ephemeral nature of the mesdages
Why not use OpenDNS then? If you have an account you can configure them to behave however you'd like.
Some people, and I'm obviously one of them, think that a flag is raised when someone mentions things like self defence or other victim behaviours before condemning the attacker.

Whether you like that or not you need to be aware of it because you will meet people who are very much less civil than I am if you discuss this.
That's the way I see it too. Life is what you make it.
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What does that even mean? Making up meaningless deep-sounding statements doesn't really further any argument. Here's some I just made up:

"We shouldn't fear death any more than an unborn baby fears birth. Death is our true birth."

"Everyone has faith. The only difference is that some people try to define faith, while others let faith define them."

"The world absolutely runs on discoverable physical laws - no exceptions! But my freedom comes from knowing God is those laws."
I don't know what you are going on about? Did I claim it is pleasant?

Nevertheless it would be nice to meet you and do the experiment. One thing: I can't imagine I would remain sitting next to you.
In France and Belgium the investigation is done by a neutral judge (known as juge d'instruction).

It usually prevents these kinds of misgivings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system
It would be wonderful if all law enforcement officers were required to wear uniforms or identify themselves when in the course of their duties.

Obviously the use of compensated informants would be prohibited as well.
I really hope it is true that it's just a generational thing.

http://www.newstatesman.com/glosswitch/2013/09/there-no-grea...

This article says that research shows young people having weird attitudes about rape.

Maybe there are problems with the research; maybe the results would be very different if people were asked about the situation in the article.

But to just say "this is a problem with older people" feels sub-optimal.
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There is already a database product called Pentaho Mondrian. You may want to think about chosing another name, there are still 1-2 alternative famous artists left :-)
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But if they've seized the surveillance tapes that you made can you get those somehow?

And if the evidence is as clear as these tapes apparently were why would they even continue with a prosecution? They must know that the tapes are going to be released at some point?

It shows the importance of off-site backup. Sending the video to an off site store would have allowed his legal team to get access much earlier.

You're right about the Scottish situation being scary.
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belief systems are tools for living in the world. If it is a ruse that helps them live their lives happily and with purpose, then it is a useful ruse. I myself had a lot of fun with discordianism.
I wonder why she went back?
Sure, I didn't think you were blaming her, but I do think the issues go deeper.

Think about it from the perspective of the groper. He perhaps doesn't understand why the action was uncalled for, in his mind he was just being 'friendly' or 'flirty', a little forward but nothing more. How is there this disconnect between these mostly harmless intentions and the inappropriate actions that followed? Certainly a level of ignorance and/or lack of emotional intelligence is at play. So as men, what can we do to help change this?
I don't know the specifics of what happened here, but in my experience with automatic configuration generation one must have a way to validate the config, but that validator can have bugs (as any other software).

Then either the software loading the configuration detects the problem or the monitoring system detects something's not right, and automatically the last working configuration is applied and the non working one is discarded.

By the looks of it I would say their monitoring detected the problem but the reliability team needed some minutes to realise it was a configuration problem. A classic problem is a network appliance that is misbehaving (eg. firewall, switch, etc), but nobody knows it is because of the configuration and it is replaced by a fallback appliance that... oh, has the same problem (configuration).

All together 25 minutes seems a lot, but when you're troubleshooting and you know an important part of your infrastructure is down, time fly!
I disagree with you.

If she wasn't interested, she should have stopped it immediately. - what if she didn't stop it but still wasn't interested? Where does that leave her then?

You have to assume 'this is probably not ok, unless it is communicated to me otherwise', not 'there are no objections, I'm carrying on'.

The only response that she could have made to encourage his behaviour would have been one of enthusiastic consent.

You might have had a positive outcome from this technique, but that doesn't make it right. I can't comment on your experiences but, in general, the fact that an interaction ended in sex does not mean that that interaction was consensual.
This is frighteningly normal.

$500,000 won't make prosecutors suddenly interested in veering away from extinguishing people to win. I doubt $500 billion-with-a-B would scratch beyond the surface of flawed architecture.

The United States' criminal justice system, as a particular hodgepodge of incentives, disincentives, esoteric proceedings, privileged access, violent sentencing, plea pressure, and power-tripping careerism -- irrespective of cruel laws -- is a deeply failed model in the context of ethics. It's a very 'successful' model in other contexts. Before anyone replies with comparative excuses or appeals to historical precedence, see this. I, too, agree that US "justice" is far more ethical than the "justice" of North Korea and several other fundamentalist countries. Great. I, too, agree that nearly every other nation's justice system is similarly ethically primitive. Rejoice for a second in shared misery.
Then why is Palo Alto so expensive?
The tracker should now be blocked also in Easyprivacy.

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/303e65d3a2bd
> You're paying for the "community" and the experience and the brand.

Totally agreed.

But my point still stands; slightly refined:

providing a snobbish "education" != providing a safe place for people with psychiatric disorders.

I would not have used the term "snobbish", but, well, you went out of your way to mention your Ivy League degree, when it didn't fundamentally address my point that anyone paying for any college, regardless of cost/status, should be expecting to get psychiatric services along the way.

Congrats, you're special, thanks for letting us know. :-)
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A key point to recognize is that the salient aspect of State Surveillance isn't competence, it's impunity.

That's not to say that agents of state security aren't competent, only that the needn't be, and that their real power is that they can act without fear of sanction.

As The Daily Show's John Oliver noted: “We’re not saying anyone broke any laws, we’re just saying it’s a little bit weird that you didn’t have to.”

Similarly, citizens of the USSR and Eastern Germany were well aware that there was constant surveillance. What they lacked was any legal power to oppose it (though the other measures undertaken were ... interesting).
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> News flash for everyone, death is inevitable

As far as we know there is nothing in the laws of physics about death (or life). It's all about fields and particles. Or maybe strings or loops or something else, but vitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism) is over.

So death "is" inevitable only because we don't know how to prevent it.

> How many more years must humanity be shackled to superstition and death fear before we fucking get over it and move on to the important work of getting off of this planet?

I'm totally okay with space colonization but conquering death (with science, I mean) seems like a more pressing issue. After all, even if we already had space colonies people would still die.
The new canned responses take 2-3 clicks to get one answer in. That would add a lot of unnecessary time wasted each day. Perhaps there is a middle ground for Sarah that contains a link to an updated page with this info?
Hear hear. We shouldn't let anyone with a profit motive near healthcare.
You've obviously never had any real interaction with someone in the grip of a mental health emergency. She was put on suicide watch and evaluation, not because it's just fun. She cut the shit out of her leg, to where it bleed through, had repeated, documented thoughts of suicide and then tried to just pretend everything was OK. The first night was emergency care, i.e., make sure she didn't die. The next days were mental health evaluation while making sure she didn't die. You cannot be forcibly admitted in the U.S. she admitted herself. She did not have to stay after the first night, but they will make you think you do because they want you alive and to help you get better. It's not some giant conspiracy to do harm to people.

Does mental health services suck pretty much everywhere? Yes. But nothing she went through was inhumane (I've been through similar scenarios in less pleasant medical facilities) and all of it is geared to try and help.
I get so scared and sad when I read these articles. I always wonder "could it be prevented?", sure, you know you shouldn't smoke, you shouldn't be overweight and you should do at least 15 minutes of exercise every day, but does it really help? I bet a doctor would know better than anyone else how to live a healthy life, so this obviously begs the question: could cancer really be prevented?
People are understandably concerned about surveillance video because it inherently favours the police. If this was a police officer framing him, chances are the video would have mysteriously been "lost" or "damaged" whilst it was in police custody.
The situation of Scotland removing a requirement that no other legal system has is "scary"?

Why?
Thank you for the book recommendation. I will check it out!
Sounds like the standard quality of public interaction with Google, to be honest. I'm not trying to slag Google off, but I don't know of any company of its size and services with as poor customer support as they have.

Maybe Oracle?
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This is why Google did the right thing tying their reviews to their social network. If I know the person doing the review, I can put it in context. There are people whose opinion on wireless routers I'd listen to, and people I wouldn't.

A lot of people got angry at the time, and publicly declared they wouldn't review any more. But that's not really a big loss. Their reviews might be the most qualified out there, but as long as they were anonymous I would be unable to put them in context, and they would be of very limited value to me.
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There is plenty to moralize in your post, but I'll refrain; I'd like to factualize instead.

In many parts of the the U.S., it is possible to be forcibly admitted to a mental unit. In California, for instance, this process is called a 5150 (named for the law that allows it), and authorizes a 72-hour hold for psychiatric care. (It is also possible to authorize a 14 day hold, called a 5250.) This is not unique to California. She almost certainly did have to stay after the first night.

I want to address as well your comment as to "thoughts of suicide". The terminology for this that's used in the literature is called a "suicidal ideation", and they run the gamut from thinking about it for a moment all the way up to making plans. A suicidal ideation is (obviously) a risk factor for suicide, but is not at all a guarantee that a patient will make an attempt on their life. (To hammer the point home, there are plenty of other risk factors that we do not hospitalize for; many patients with personality disorders will try to take their own life at some point, but we obviously cannot hospitalize them all at all times, nor should we!)

Neither I, you, nor anyone outside of this person's care network will have access to her files, so it's not reasonable for me to make a judgement call on whether she should have been placed on suicide watch or not. Given only the data provided, though, it is certainly not a slam dunk that she needed to be admitted.

I appreciate the agony you must have witnessed in someone who needed urgent psychiatric care ... but the experience that you witnessed is not universal.
From personal experience, Christians seem to have a harder time moving on. If your loved one died in a terrible way, you'll still feel the guilt of the accident. On top of that, there will be continuing doubt and guilt, as you imagine your loved one watching you, judging you perhaps, questioning your current actions. Sure, heaven is supposed to be perfect, so that's not a "real" problem. Yet knowing they're still alive somewhere, you can't help but wonder.

Is it fair to be happy again? To love again? To joke about things? What will they think, looking at you continuing "life"? Even 10 years later, in the middle of a family gathering with happiness all around, a shot of guilt - will they be offended I forgot about them this time? That despite saying I never would, I've sorta moved on? How are they doing, anyways? It's joyful for them, but how do they look? Did they grow a bit more? Is their hair still long? What are they doing right now? Again, the answer is to handwave and say it's all magically perfect, and probably time dilation so we'll be dead and up there before they've even gotten through the welcome brochure. Doesn't really stop you from thinking things anyways.

Then they start piling on the "it was God's plan"/"it's for the best"/"there's a higher plan". That's the best answer to the pointless, yet burning desire to know "why?" I find this despicable, although I know many people say it out of good intention - there's really not a whole lot to say, such things fill the awkward silence. But for those that think about what they're saying for more than a second, it comes out to "be happy that a dreadful, evil, event occurred to you; the creator of the universe wishes it so and thus is an honor".

Being able to definitively answer the "why?" question was a major part of my healing. Answer it just like you would any other event; stop chasing something "meaningful" behind it.

OTOH, some people don't analyze things much. They're content to smile and say "he's so happy now, and I'll be joining him soon". This seems somewhat harmless, and might give someone hope in the end of their life, despite it being unrealistic. Sometimes you lie to people make them feel better, even though you're against lying in general.

And I certainly don't begrudge what [most] people do while bereaved - pain sucks and humans should have a basic right to deal with pain. I do find it contemptible to take advantage of their condition and sell them on a "solution".

Edit: I also find it very repulsive to treat death with positive adjectives. To take one of the worst things that plagues humanity, a completely negative experience, and then, because it's inevitable, try to gussy it up and make it not so bad, but something to look forward to.
Most Christians I know are way more open-minded than you seem to be. Your tone reminds me of the few intolerant christians I know.
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Most people who'll die from cancer won't have access to a doctor anyway, so whatever.
Removing the need for evidence means more miscarriages of justice.

In the article seven other cases are now being looked at because they might be wrong. That's a lot of time and money chasing innocent people, and not chasing guilty people. That's a lot of goodwill lost. Since we are policed with our consent they need all the goodwill they can get.
> How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient?

This "positive" environment was an environment where she was suicidal. Objectively, that's not positive.

Yes, the author insinuates Yale was positive for her, but she was also cutting herself at the time, so you need to take her assertions with a grain of salt.

> pretty damn compelling reason not to seek therapy

Are people not reading the article? It has a happy ending. They let her back in. She's healthy now. (Basically; it'll probably be a life-long struggle for her.)

The more realistic ending to "not seeking therapy", "not speaking up so I don't get torn away from my awesome positive experience" is that she ends up not making it. That would be a much worse story for the Yale Daily News to run.

Also, note that her notion of a support network (the person she texted after cutting herself), was her dorm parent. (Yale uses the fancy term "FroCo"/Freshmen Counselor, but this just some senior who volunteered for free housing, and is no way trained to support/treat suicidal/self-harmful students.)

IMO that shows her judgement about a support network is a naive.

With her sort of thoughts/condition, her support network can't be solely "friends & family who love me", it needs to include "professionals who can help my psychiatric disorder".
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