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Stephen King seems to disagree: "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

What did you do to work on your social anxiety, if you don't mind my asking.

No. Since asymmetric encryption is slow the standard strategy is to generate a random symmetric key to encrypt your file. Then you just encrypt the symmetric key with your asymmetric key. This has the added benefit of each new encryption attempt leading to a unique result.

What controls? I see some empty reassurances, but nobody that I see is proposing controls. I doubt controls for existing monetary systems would work for bitcoins anyway as it requires a central organization that has power, like printing money, and enough vested interest to through good money after bad money to save the currency. Bitcoins have neither of these.

Great example to bring into the conversation. One complexity to consider is that the long form versus the smiling person may have retained completely different user demographic. To me, the smiling person may represents an easy, idiot proof service with customer support, but may be lacking more advanced technical features, which is fine if you are set up to cater to that demo. Technical services like Github may suffer from increased sign ups from the wrong demo if it means their forums are swamped with beginner level questions that they aren't equipped to hand hold.

I'm currently using an android app to browse HN which uses the hn api. No matter how you change the api there would be no real way of preventing app makers from allowing upvoting from their main story browsing page.

The venture is putting amazon in the news so it also has PR implications for the rest of their business. It isn't clear yet if it will be a positive or negative impact on their reputation, but perhaps they are using this as an icebreaker into other luxury markets.

Put it in an egg drop style container that will protect it from a large impact, the drop it off a building our launch it from a trebuchet.

A reddit/HN clone that customizes the content you see based off your voting history. This has been tried a few times before, but I've just never seen one take off. In fact, reddit had this feature when it started but couldn't scale it well enough so dumped it.

I feel like it would increase the quality of upvotes generally because people would know that their votes will impact the future content they see so it may slow the rate at which people up vote just to show they simply agreement and reserve it for actual high quality they we to see more of. That is just my theory, perhaps in practice it would reveal that people just care more about only seeing content they agree with anyway.

Many people use Amazon's mechanical Turk for this. It allows you to make automated requests like this that are processed by real people. Perhaps it is not the easiest service to dive into, so I wonder if their terms of service would allow someone to make an easy to use front end that focuses on just this task.

You could come at it in a similar way to how the real second was developed. Initially the second was defined as 1/86,400th of a day, later narrowed to a mean solar day, but that still wasn't specific enough so they switched it to the current caesium atom definition.

If we wanted to subdivide the day into 100,000 new units instead of 86,400 seconds, we could simply take the current caesium atom definition * 864,000 / 100,000 and you would get a precise, scientifically acceptable unit that would be about 1/100,000 of a day, but still have the need for the occasional leap units.

Committing an illegal and regularly enforced crime of driving with an obstructed license plate seems like a poor plan to try and defend your right to an abstract sense of privacy.

I understand that the limited amount of data can make for some easy false positives on trading algorithms, but how relevant do you really think market movements from over 11 years ago really apply to today?

> A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The only part that is perjury is if you don't actually represent the client you claim to. Assuming the request isn't from a random person pretending to represent a company they don't, the request is not perjury regardless of how frivolous and unwarranted it is.

Plus aren't statutory damages based on the degree of harm? I think it would be hard to show 150k of harm if this was just a side project for the author.

Sony playstation division only makes up about 10% of Sony's overall revenues (7.2 billion out of 68 billion) so it doesn't make much sense that an announcement from just one of their competitors would have such a large impact on Sony's total valuation.

Feynman may have found the arbitrary nature of syntax for a new language a tedious learning exercise.

The way the system is proposed is that each user would have an exclusive list of honey words for just them. Each user would have, say 10 possible passwords. The password system would recognize all of them as correct for that user, but only 1 of the 10 wouldn't also trip an alarm in a secondary system. The honey word generating system avoid collisions with that specific user's password for generating that user's honey words, which is all that is needed.

Snopes investigated this case and determined it to be false: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp

Could you imagine the reviews about draining battery life?

This feature was a Gmail labs feature for quite some time before being fully implemented in March of 2010. This feature is old news (though not as old as claw mail), but I can understand why people just discovering it would be excited about it.

I thought the whole point of the post was the analyses and methods and that the outcome was of little importance, but was only there to make the subject more interesting, gripping, and relevant.

Check again in October when the health care exchanges go live. Maybe you will see some doesn't prices there.

I believe your tax would be based on billing address, so vpns wouldn't help. And no, this isn't a new tax, just one that virtually no one pays. When you buy stuff online from a company with no physical presents in your state they aren't required to collect a sales tax. You're still suppose to self report it and pay it when you do your taxes at the end of the year, but very few people do.

If I download offline software and opt out of any sort of online registration or reporting I would hope it wouldn't even report my opt out. I don't want it to go any calling home.

The key that people are missing is CM is trying to get this info to make the best directional decisions possible and those that opt out are left out of that conversation, but they probably are aware and okay with that. I say leave them out.

To index to a fiat currency it requires a market maker. Some person or group that will guarantee that if you have $1 they'll give you a unit of currency and if you have a unit of currency they'll give you $1. To meet the demand for this currency it would require the market maker would need to be able to print money, otherwise the price could naturally increase without a way to stop it. Also, to be able to survive a run on the bank, for every unit of currency they issue and take in $1 they would have to keep that $1 in reserve in case everyone tries to cash out at once.

Letting a central authority print money that had no obligations to the general public is dangerous. Also the market maker would likely spend some of the money they take in. If there was ever a run on the bank they would just shut down the currency and keep the money that was paid in, which would make a run on the bank more likely.

This is very similar to online casinos that let you buy chips, but instead of offering gambling services, they would offer annonomous transaction services. Some casinos have just shut down and kept all the money or if it becomes a legal problem (as any solid fully annonomous currency would) could be shut down by their local government.

There is just no good reason to trust a currency that requires a central authority that can print money and that you don't trust and there is no reason to trust that they'll use the printing power responsibly.

Seems to me that it is more likely that Samsung, who he is an official spokesman for, told him to post that as part of his duties as spokesman. Also it seems more likely that Samsung is behind the CCTV campaign as they are the ones that would gain from such a message, so I'm not sure why people are putting it on CCTV as the orchestrator. In my opinion the worst violation of this story is the weibo censorship following the incident.

Yes. The math is much more subtle than people realize. Bayesian (meaning conditional) probability is required for any solution to be passable. The problem that needs to be solved is given the number of upvotes, downvotes, and views, what is the probability that it is a comment that the next random reader would want to upvote it, and then sort on that probability. There are well established formulas for this kind of thing.

The one you link considers the upvotes and downvotes as the sample population then constructs the probability that you will upvote it and ranks on that. This allows late posts to take over early posts if they have a better ratio, even if they have significantly less votes, but only if it is "enough" better to make up for its lack of confidence.

This fails to address a few things here:

* It completely ignores people that read the post but didn't vote. There really is no way to get a perfect count of this no matter how much scroll logging, but you could approximate it and then include it in the calculation.

* On HN many people can't downvote.

* As others have pointed HN doesn't necessarily start with a base assumption of all commenters being equal, nor should they.

I'm not a lawyer, but violating terms, conditions, or other contacts in non malicious ways generally aren't going to be criminal offenses. They are civil offenses for which the main recourse is only for the company to sue.

Could you explain to me why the SimCity launch was any worse than Diablo 3? Seems like apart from initial instability and some people making a lot of noise the resulting sales numbers were still fine.