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What sort of moron prefers sandwiches to cakes??!!

Just kidding :)

I live and work here, I do understand that the risks are real, but I am also aware that the spirit of the Scottish people has been crushed by the fact that they have not had control over their own destiny. You might be English, in which case this will seem mystifying, but people genuinely do need that control.

People can disagree on individual policies, but this is a meta issue, regardless of where you sit on the usual political spectrum: do we make our own decisions, or allow someone else to do that for us?

I have spent a lot of time interacting and understanding the motivations of No voters. If you are not from the UK, you might be unfamiliar with the UK press, but there is a tremendous bias towards the establishment and they are very good at pressing the right buttons. A complicated system of pensions, benefits and tax credits has created a situation in which most people feel dependent upon the state, despite the fact that everyone is paying substantial amounts right back into the state.

My observation is that the sudden swing towards independence is largely due to an active and highly-motivated grassroots campaign highlighting some of the cruder button-pressing attempts by the No campaign. Voter by voter, they are dispelling fear.
Intel does not yet use 450mm wafers for any shipping products, that's quite a while away.

http://blog.timesunion.com/business/intel-says-450mm-will-de...
It's already been said, but take heed: do not do anything illegal or unethical yourself. Be professional.
More details via Wired: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/satoshi/

1) A pastebin threating to dox Satoshi for 25 BTC: http://pastebin.com/7gbPi8Qr. Address has received less than .02 BTC thus far: https://blockchain.info/address/19pta6x1hXzV9F5hHnhMARYbRjux...

2) The GMX screenshots show 11k+ emails in the inbox, with one from as far back as June 2013
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Unless your job pays you in cold hard cash, you have to go to the ATM. And you expose yourself to getting mugged, or have a the debit card skimmed. You could physically walk into the bank and get whatever-you-spend-per-month-in-stores in cash. So that might be an approach. But now you have to carry a fat wallet with you and manages lots of pocket change. Also not purchase much online.
There's no atmosphere distortion in L2 either.

"Really long term" on the Moon means dealing with moonquakes, which can last for more than 10 minutes. That's going to affect any baseline distances.

We can get a much longer baseline in space than on the Moon. LISA and DECIGO give some idea of how accurate we can expect to measure a baseline that is over 1 million km long. There's no way the Moon can match that baseline, if that's what you're looking for.

Labeyrie has proposed a 100-kilometer space-based 'Hypertelescope' that might be able to directly see continents on planets up to 10 light years away. I strongly suspect this is harder to pull off on the Moon, which has gravity, vibrations, and every-changing thermal stresses messing up the interferometry.

I think you are confusing two different telescope projects. Liquid-based mirrors are for optical telescopes, which aren't affected by radio interference. While there are proposals for 20m-100m liquid mirrors on the Moon, they have the big problem that they can't be pointed; it seems to be more cool than useful, as the lack of research for projects on Earth like the Large Zenith Telescope suggests.

While there's some advantage to using the Moon as a radio shield, the WP page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon points out other difficulties in addition to the simple difficulties you pointed out:

> Before deploying radio telescopes to the far side, several problems must be overcome. The fine lunar dust can contaminate equipment, vehicles, and space suits. The conducting materials used for the radio dishes must also be carefully shielded against the effects of solar flares. Finally the area around the telescopes must be protected against contamination by other radio sources.

As an alternative, the radio telescope can be built in lunar orbit, as, for example, the OLFAR proposal at http://doc.utwente.nl/75270/1/Smallsat_final.pdf . This seems cheaper and easier than building a farside telescope and support infrastructure with the same capabilities.
You could always ask here if someone would like to take over the maintenance.
Someone’s Threatening to Expose Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto
...seriously?? Normal slide decks are annoying enough, but one that doesn't have the fade ins/outs stripped and progressively adds things instead of showing the whole screen (er, slide) at once?

WTF happened to usability?

Slides are meant to support a talk. Putting everything on the slides, while it does let you just read from them, gives a bad UX for the talk attendees. Posting proper (ie, supporting) slides -- like these appear to be -- online, gives a bad UX for the online readers. Leaving in transitions and progressiveness just makes it that much worse.

So what's up with places line HN posting links to online slide decks? They're a seriously lousy way to communicate. Put some thought into what's appropriate for the audience -- not just who sees it, but also how they get it.
From what I've read so far, this was another case of memory scraping malware[1], most likely running on each POS. The pinpads typically have tamper protection, though I wouldn't completely discount the possibility that we'll see malware at the pinpad level at some point in the future.

[1] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/home-depot-hit-by-same-ma...
David Cameron – less popular in Scotland than Windows 8
Or understand that your card most likely has a zero fraud liability policy, meaning that if it gets stolen, the fraudulent charges simply go away.

If you use cash and it gets stolen, your money is just gone.
> I think it's missing a verb?

Gervase may have meant to write "Currently, it is not permitted by the CAB Forum Baseline Requirements to [remove] revocation pointers out of a cert, ever."

For more details, see Appendix B (2) b of the CAB Forum's Baseline Requirements [0]. Per the document, a CRL distribution point MUST always be provided.

Currently, certificate revocation is ineffective, prone to failure and a potential privacy risk. Adam Langley has described the issues comprehensibly and at length in a series [1, 2, 3] of insightful posts on ImperialViolet.

[0] https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Baseline_Requirement...

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html

[2] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/19/revchecking.html

[3] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/29/revocationagain.ht...
It's safer than Bitcoin, but still many times less safe than any sane credit card with a no fraud liability policy.
Billguard asks for my online bank username and password, it's a deal breaker for me. Do you really trust them? https://medium.com/@hyphenated/mint-com-and-billguard-are-ly...
If the Tor leak thing is true, this could add to the evidence for the common speculation that Satoshi is a collective pseudonym.
There are all sorts of reports, including the ones which point out that the oil and gas fields off the West coast of Scotland have remained unexplored because the British Ministry of Defense banned it because the nuclear submarines needed to get safely in and out of the Faslane naval base (Europe's biggest accumulation of nuclear weaponry, just 30 miles from Scotland's largest city).

My belief, based on the most recent independent reports, is that there is a great deal of oil and gas left ... but ... even if there was not a drop, it would still be better for the Scottish people to control their own destiny.
Just for another point of data, all of my purchases during the timeframe in question were on the Self-Checkout units, and I was given the option for eReceipt, which I took advantage of. What I noticed was that upon returning with the same card, my email address was remembered, which tells me that they must store some information to cross reference (hopefully just name + last 4 or similar). Typing this reminds me that I actually did use both of my cards at Home Depot, because I now remember being prompted again when I had used another card. Guess that means two new cards for me...
They used to - it used to be enough for a merchant to lose 'rights' to process credit cards - but the federal regulations of a couple years ago put a stop to it.
Actually it doesn't: https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/509145414008725504
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Hey now, mountain air and the regular exercise of a vigorous outdoor life style increase ones life expectancy!

Oh sorry what were we talking about? I thought this was the weekly "Where you should move to/away from" thread.
I assume they would just join the Euro zone sooner or later.
Some states previously used to also restrict the ability of merchant agreements to do that, though usually only in specific industries. E.g. in Texas, liquor stores (but nobody else) have been able to offer cash discounts for ages. Now anyone can.
As others pointed out, AMEX has supported this for a while - I get texted almost instantly with any transactions on my card. I believe their mobile app also supports notifications, but I prefer SMS for this.

I only wish my bank (Wells Fargo) supported SMS alerts for transactions - if there's one thing I don't mind getting frequent notifications about, it would be this.
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They also have a relatively transparent application process. I think that means a more level playing field based on merits rather than on who you know.
Even with those things, most phishing is a matter of trying to get one out of thousands to respond. So a few people may notice the change, but that doesn't help the hundreds who may not.
They claim they do but there's never been any 3rd party auditing or verification of this that I know of. In the gold business every reliable business has auditing and insurance while so far Bitcoin businesses are run like a regular startup with open offices. Who's cleaning the offices after hours with access to the workstations or servers, who are the hired developers and are they smuggling wallet stealing software inside to transfer to themselves while on a flight to Brazil, who is writing their custom wallet and is it robust, how do we know they didn't copy every address to themselves. Lot's of security questions I've never seen addressed by any of the big exchanges. There was a payment processor startup that posted their office to bitcointalk.org which was floor to ceiling open glass windows with laptops facing the outside. How many binoculars are trained on those laptops across the street to get logins.

Some friends of mine trade large amounts of Bitcoin on a regular basis and there's never been much of a delay withdrawing. I doubt they are going to a bank to physically take out printed keys everyday for every transaction over $10,000 or phoning 5 people to combine keys. I bet the backups are kept in a safe deposit box, the cold wallet is likely an offline system anybody can walk up to with some kind of feeble authentication judging by past Bitcoin exchange incompetence.

Many of the smaller exchanges are using Blockchain.info wallets as their hot wallet too but won't admit it.
Yeah, I've also found that the abstract approach is what pays the most dividends. When I taught electronics lab, the physics students would get wrapped up in trying to think from the point of view of fields and charges, which honestly isn't that helpful for electronics (unless, as mentioned above, you're doing device physics).

On the other hand, research (by the PhET folks in Colorado I believe) has shown that having students play with a Java applet beforehand (that shows electrons moving through wires) really helps their performance in a basic electronics lab activity. This would be measuring voltage, resistance, current. However it's likely that the sandbox nature of the applet is what helps, not so much the moving charge concept.
You must not have used a packet capture tool like wireshark then. Try Wireshark, a packet capture of HTTP traffic will be parsed and you can click through all of the headers of both of the individual packets as well as the HTTP traffic. The difference inside the program is just one layer of clicking. Either way you are extract the IP from headers presented to you in the packet capture.
Looks like they are using http://exposure.co
It will be interesting to see if any Paypal account compromises can be attributed to this breach. From what I've read, this type of malware typically scrapes the memory of processes on the POS, looking specifically for what appears to be track data, and which passes a Luhn check.
Two quick thougths on this are; a) if i were gonna vote YES, i would talk about Cameron all the time - calling him to the carpet - and b) start talking about Windows ME if I were David Cameron.

^_
It uses reveal.js. You can ESC or Pinch on device to go to the overview, then click a slide that way as well.

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
Works fine on an S4 in Chrome as well.
FWIW I typically find Anandtech to have really comprehensive analyses of new products. I also appreciate that they tend to highlight the bad things in almost everything they review.
What are the signs that it has been hacked, the sourceforge page looks correct, has it been recovered?
I don't often tear up reading something posted on HN, let alone a company's website...

I really wish my mobile internet was good enough to watch Chase's talk right now.

Edit: Also want to express that I'm proud of the Humble Bundle community! The games industry has made us lose faith in humanity a bit recently. It is heartwarming to hear we're regaining ground.
Do you have reason to believe that Windows 7 instead of Windows XP would have prevented this attack? It sounds like weak credentials and overall lax security are more to blame.

edit: Also, keep in mind that some retailers are running POSReady 2009 / POSReady 7, which may look just like Windows XP at first glance.
Billguard uses Yodlee as a backend, so at the very least I do trust that Billguard only has read-only access. I'm less certain how Yodlee functions -- whether they just scrape data and have full access, or whether they get some sort of read-only token from the financial institution.
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...and with all these software people, I'm sure no one has bots submitting stories to game points :)

Sometimes the meta-game is more fun than the actual game.
I finished reading this thread thinking that Watsi donations are not tax deductible in the US... In case anyone else was confused like I was, I just wanted to clarify -- Watsi donations ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE in the US. See their FAQ, way down the bottom: https://watsi.org/faq
Because they know once bitcoin starts getting accepted nobody is going to put up with their ridiculous system of rules or give them a cut out of every transaction. And its tax free too. They just became irrelevant. Makes me wish I believed in a deity so I could give thanks :) Holy shit Paypal were a awful service. Customer service was like a colonoscopy. Ferreting out information with that suspicious tone. A million arbitrary limits and hoops to jump though. They got away with that because they were the only game in town. Not anymore.

They are looking for a life raft. Thats what coinbase move is about... appeasing their shareholders. But heres the thing about coinbase.... nobody needs them either.
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"do we make our own decisions, or allow someone else to do that for us?"

The problem is, who do you consider to be "we" and who is "someone else".

Does Scotland make her own decisions or allow the UK to do that for her?

Do the Highlands make their own decisions or allow Scotland to do that for them?

Does my town make its own decisions or allow the Highlands to do that for them?

Why is Scotland the point at which you cut off and say this is a "we" and other people are a "someone else"? It sounds very reasonable to say people should govern themselves, but how do you stop before you reduce to absurdity?

Is it because Scotland is a "nation"? What does that mean? That it used to be independent? So did many regions in the UK. Is Cornwall a nation as well? What about the whole north of England, which is culturally very different to the south?

You say that the Scottish have had no control over their own destiny, but they've had exactly as much control as any other arbitrary region of land in the UK - they return members of parliament like anyone else.
They changed the description to "buttcoin" (which has now been reverted), made some private information public, and removed the administrators. See:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2fuuzf/the_old_now_...
It's hard to believe credible venture institutions would be upset by these moves. I can't speak on specific deep-pocketed VCs who offer nothing more than cash -- which is not what most startups need. However, firms that offer nothing more have their fodder here to complain here as they'll have to rely on real value also to keep them in play. They'll be forced to step it up. Reminds me of Jay Z's quotes on sports agents:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/12/jay-z-says-h...
https://twitter.com/sama/status/509133306278211584
Actually, it makes a lot of sense to me, and you can take advantage of C++'s more efficient abstraction models.
LMAO. Of course it was. I'm not answering your snotty questions. Google it. :)
Quoting from https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200810131547... :

> Few if any business contracts actually require witnesses in order to be valid. In very general terms all you need is terms that are clear enough to be enforced.

> The contract would be considered legally binding as both parties agreed to it, put their signatures on it and had it in writing. Witnesses are not always necessary. You could even have a contract by word of mouth.

> get some free legal advice from someone who can look over the contract. This could be at a CAB. Or, if you're near to a University that has a law school, the students there often hold free legal advice clinics - excellent quality of advice (overseen by tutors)

The CAB home page for England, which facorreia already pointed out, is at http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england.htm (or you can choose Wales, etc.). Search for "unpaid wages", for an additional list of helpful pages.

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Stealing the key should be impossible, it should be on an HSM (which performs the cryptographic operations for you instead of giving you a key)

That's only one part of the article though.
No, you are wrong on the most basic point. The United Kingdom has always been, from the very start, recognised as a union of separate countries, with Scotland retaining its own legal system. The agreement handed over parliamentary and financial governance, but the country remained separate. That is why secession is even possible.

Salmond. If he achieves independence, you can expect him to do one "Mandela victory lap" in office, but he won't risk his legacy as "Father of the nation" by mucking around for long with the dirty business of actual politics.

I have no love for any politician, but I disagree with your assessment. If he had never existed, his basic pitch of "why shouldn't we run our own affairs" would, in time, have come to the fore anyway. He, personally, is being demonised because the arguments for staying in the union are not sufficiently strong.

I do agree with you that 50% odd will not be a decent mandate for either side. From the start, I have presumed that the No side would win, but that the closeness of the result would force significant change. If it is now the case that the Yes side wins, well, their slim majority will greatly influence the subsequent negotiations. For all the current bluff and bluster, we will end up with something that falls short of true independence, but both the English and the Scottish, and the political discourse of both countries, will be better off.
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It's not Google's fault the telecoms cripple every phone they sell.
It does! I loved LDOS and DOS-PLUS.
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Gmail has NEVER included the IP in headers (you can easily check this yourself). Hotmail/Outlook on the other hand ...
Ask HN: Do you have low back pain? If so, what kind of mattress do you sleep on?
Hi everyone. I've had low back pain off and on for most of my adult life. I've had herniated discs, sciatica, and some other complications such as not being able to urinate.

I'm guessing the HN crowd has a handful of people in the same situation due to sitting for long hours.

So if you have low back pain, what kind of mattress do you use and has anything worked for you when it comes to sleeping?

I ask because I'm thinking of helping others with a mattress for low back pain sufferers that's worked for me.
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https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/going-to-court Do not break anything, or you'll be also liable. There are official ways of dealing with people not paying - use them.
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Find the source code here:
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They'd keep you in indefinitely for contempt of court for not handing over what you'd stolen.
Ah, the promise of Clojure and easy parallel programming is near at hand. At what number of cores, does Clojure become a lay-up choice over other hard to parallel languages? Anyone care to opine?
I look forward to hearing your tune when 2,000 illiterate indians show up in your neighborhood and start publicly defecating all over the place. http://www.poo2loo.com/
Thanks for pointing this out. @sama's pitch perfect on his notes here.
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How does it break the back button? Back button works as I would expect it to.
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That's how I felt while reading it. Cook condensed and summarized so well that I actually thought it was about Supply Chain Management, which is my primary background. It only occurred to me that it could be more generally applied after I realized I was linked to it from HN.
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I think just about everybody who has learned to use rand() functions and arrays has built this for his or herself at least in some incarnation.

Basing it on past CC transactions to build choice is an interesting though.. so is foursquare check-in data?
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> One reason everyone flocks to YC is because everyone knows that YC is fair and trustworthy.

Another reason is that YC is the gold standard, and having that endorsement opens all kinds of doors.

But simply put, YC is a better mousetrap compared to the old-boy capital firms.
Mirrored screenshots here:

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Edit: To respond to
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Looks like "Phone 31x" under the email address, which is consistent with St Louis area code of 314.