conroe64

They must have never heard of Groucho Marx glasses

Articles such as these are very strange to me. There always is some unspoken nebulous assumptions which the author doesn't even bother to justify. What is the "better" that the author is referring to? She seems to think that it is better to be a person who could survive living in a Nazi prison camp than someone who could not. But what are you giving up to gain this ability? And why is it so important?

Listing out a recipe for how to become a "better" person is also a strange way of trying to help somebody. I mean, doesn't the idea of becoming a better person appeal the old base instincts of greed and fear? Greed of having the ability to appear confident, strong and satisfied, thereby the social status ladder, and fear of falling behind. By following her advice from such a viewpoint, you might be allowing yourself to be ever more aligned to instincts that drive people to despair.. ever chasing the carrot just out of reach.

Of course, it's just my interpretation. The author may never have intended to appeal to such base emotions, and is simply trying to help you achieve a higher plane of thought by example. And the book she pushes may truly be full of insight to guide you to the next step in your path to enlightenment and fulfillment.

All these self-help guru's all do seem to follow the same pattern though, it's always some sort of plan to appeal to your basic instinct to be better than the people around you. If they were truly altruistic, then why is it always a solution to your problem their peddling, and there is usually some next step tied to giving someone somewhere money?

I think they are often doing a disservice to people who take this stuff too seriously. By constantly bombarding you with the assumption that you're broken and they have the fix, they leave you feeling not to bright, helpless and insecure, when in fact if you just trust in yourself, you'll get over it. But telling people to do that doesn't sell.

The US government doesn't usually directly attack something without putting up a straw man to blame first. Examples would be WMD's to masquerade the purpose of the invasion of Iraq, the drug war, terrorists, etc.

I don't see any big media push to demonize something so a war against bitcoin would then become politically palatable. Not that this won't happen in the future, but for now, it seems just too quiet for them to spring a trap on BTC holders.

Actually, the whole thing is kind of a myth. That statistic doesn't compare men and women working the same job for the same number of hours. Since men often work in more dangerous and harsh conditions then women, this would account for the disparity. Here is some more information about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-tha...

That is possible, but the problem is the time it takes to disseminate the knowledge of the crime is longer than the time to trade the bitcoins. So if the thief immediately exchanged them with some merchant right after the robbery, then sometime later, the coins were marked as tainted, the merchant would suffer as well, since they're now holding the coins.

This would create a chilling effect on trade since now you have to worry about the legitimacy of the other party, which brings us right back to the problems we have with credit cards, etc.

Except for a few full pay video poker machines which actually give the player an small edge given perfect play.

The reason for multiple AES keys is because the gps points are optionally password protected, but I didn't want to save the password anywhere on the file system, and I wanted the app needs to be able to store and encrypt points after a reboot without forcing the user to reenter their password.

I solved this issue using a pair of RSA public/private keys that are stored in internal storage. The private key is then encrypted by the password whereas the public key is not. So what happens is that on reboot, a random AES key is created, encrypted by the public RSA key and stored in a table. Then, this is used to encrypt any future GPS points until a further reboot. (I didn't want to use the RSA key directly due to efficiency concerns and the lack of a good padding mechanism within the library)

It's kind of convenient that he didn't mention food stamps, section 8 (subsidized housing), and medicaid/medicare. All of which are on top of the $661 a month, and make it definitely livable.

Here is a trick I learned biking around in cold Las Vegas nights to warm your hands. Squeeze whatever you are holding hard, (or make a fist and squueze) in pulses about a second apart. It will force the blood through, like a miniature heart, and your hands won't feel cold at all.

I wonder if this could be used to create a 3D sculpture using semi-reflective film, which if you looked at from a certain angle with light coming from a certain angle, you could recreate the image.

I don't like the premise that happiness is based on what you have, and what you do with your time. It always seems to be the underlying assumption, and it drives people to be unhappy to always be striving for better conditions for themselves.

What gave me happiness is the idea in Buddhism fostering compassion for all people, including yourself, but not only yourself. It's the one aspect of Buddhism that most people ignore. Instead they concentrate on inner peace by quieting their mind or stopping their thoughts, which again is striving for a change in what they have, (ie. they would gain the ability to quiet their mind)

I don't mean to be heavy handed, and I'm not trying to force my ideas on others. I just haven't seen this idea of compassion for people brought up very often.

This would only be true if the owner of every address within the bitcoin network could be determined by a government entity. Since bitcoin is international, this is impractical if not impossible depending on the relationship between the nation of the owners where the coins have gone through and the nation trying to determine the source/destination of the funds.

Teachers with an ego trip, step back. Technology is taking over your job, too.

The Horrible Future of Blogging. I give you, the professional complainer...

Nightmare, onslaught, much more likely, lop-side, huge impact, truckloads of sugar... How can you use such scary descriptions without any giving any evidence backing up what you're saying?

Here is an older example. Apple used to use the popularity of their iPod to get people to use iTunes to buy music. They were very aggressive at preventing people from making compatible drivers. People would try to do so to make the iPod compatible with Linux only to have Apple slightly change the protocol every month with a new iPod OS release.

I don't know why their was no outcry over this.

Also, the link in the GP post that contains proof of a world government run by an artificially intelligent quantum computer has no place on Hacker News. Keep your awe inspiring, jaw dropping news with wide reaching social, moral, and technological implications to yourself!

As the saying goes, "Don't fight the Fed." Technical Analysis is voodoo and tea leaves.

What if someone is rapid prototyping? Maybe they just need to perform some one-off task. Maybe they're an entrepreneur and have other things to do then learn an api when then just need to do one simple thing.

The guy probably doesn't speak English very well, and maybe resources and documentation in his native language is lacking, so he doesn't know where to look. Besides, him asking the question and getting an answer can help many more people who need to do the same thing.

The problem with your philosophy in the age of the internet is that the question and answer stays up for others to use a search engine to find for themselves. In the style of the Chinese proverb, "Give a man a fish on the internet, and you will be giving a million men a fish"

By requiring everyone to deeply understand every conceivable task they might need to do, you are limiting the amount of tasks a person can do in a certain amount of time.

The Domino can be disregarded. Only prior art that can run software compatible with Apple hardware can be considered. The Jury foreman explained it better than I could as follows:

The software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changed everything right there.

If you are talking about not being able to log into the server anymore, you can make backups of the seed. On android, you just need to pull the file "/data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases/databases" off the phone.

I've recently had upwards of $10K on mtgox and had no problems. Could it be that you have some malware with a keylogger on your computer?

I see what the author is saying, but this seems more like how to protect a fragile ego rather than a fragile idea.

Using firefox, right click on the image in that page and select "View Image"

You can take away that Michael Jackson's record company is very efficient at directing calls, reaching Michael in 5 minutes. And, Michael Jackson negotiates his own payment for appearances, apparently.