jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine (Hi Erick!) is working on http://puppod.com/
I will point out that MtGox did not use bitcoind (the official Bitcoin client), instead writing their own. However, even that would not have allowed attackers to withdraw more than they should.

What can happen is that the Bitcoin network fails to confirm a transaction. This can happen for various reasons, but a fairly obscure one is that someone on the network can mangle the transaction, changing its transaction ID without changing its signature. The transaction will actually go through, but with a different ID. The way to get around this is to keep track of what money you're spending and to whom, just like a normal ledger.

Because transactions aren't necessarily guaranteed (they're just very likely to happen, if accompanied by a fee), MtGox implemented logic to allow them to mark a transaction as not having taken place in their internal record-keeping, and generate a whole new transaction, with the money coming from a different source. This may have been an automatic process.

The thing is, if someone had mangled the transaction, MtGox would not have picked it up as having happened - because rather than keeping track of what money they'd spent and to whom, they kept track of transaction IDs - and sent more money to the attackers. This may have happened multiple times.

What they should have done is simply re-sent the exact same transaction (same money, same recipient) if it didn't go through. If it doesn't go through after several retries, that's a technical issue that should be forwarded to a developer who can look at the blockchain and see whether the money was actually spent.

This is, therefore, a cascading disaster, but a very preventable one. It started with MtGox's developers not understanding the bitcoin protocol correctly, but that in itself wouldn't have been a problem. It's what they did in a failure scenario that was the problem; if a transaction didn't go through, they simply attempted to spend different money (think a completely automated "I can't seem to spend out of one bank account, so I'll spend out of my other bank account"), and they didn't throw an error back to a human. This should never be done in financial software.

The long and the short of it is, don't trust developers who've never touched financial systems to develop closed source financial software.
Thanks for testing! That does seem kinda high. Western Digital has the following figures for 14 TB WD Reds:

Read/Write – 6.2 W
Idle – 3.0 W
Standby and sleep - 0.8 W

Which strikes me as pretty reasonable. I suppose I'll stick with those since I can rip them out of EasyStores.
>"Break things" is objectively an imperative.

I wrote desirable imperative.

You are focusing on grammar (objective interpretation). I was talking about the meaning ("imperative" as synonym for "importance"[1] instead of grammar).

Likewise, "go get more rejections" is also an imperative (via objective lens of pedantic grammar categorization) ... but that's not what the underlying message means.

>MFABT is not an optimal expression. There are better ones.

It may have been fine as an internal mantra within the walls of Facebook when it was a smaller private company. The engineers would know what it really meant. But then MZ publicized it in an investor letter before the IPO which opens itself to misinterpretation by the outside world like journalists, bloggers, etc.

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/imperative
I live in South Carolina, and have one child in elementary school, and another in middle school. I've been surprised by how quickly the teachers and schools have moved the entire curriculum online. The middle school kids all already had iPads to take home, and their teachers were already doing a lot on Google Classroom. So for them, it was an incremental change, not a night and day difference.

The elementary school had all the teachers put together three weeks worth of take home work, which parents had to come pick up from the school. So the actual work is on paper. Feedback is done through ClassDojo, where the teachers also post videos and share work from the children.

Altogether, they've done an impressive job in our district, all things considered.

The hardest part is getting the kids to wrap their heads around the idea that these are school days, not holidays. I don't think there's an app for that yet.
what about "Stay home. Buy groceries once a week at most"? all this social distance etc seems ambiguous, why not be really specific ?
Why are we so excited about the French trial? What about the Chinese treatment guidelines [0]?

The Chinese recommend chloroquine phosphate. They've had more experience than anyone else in this area and have had time to conduct actual trials. The disease has a ~2-4 week course so it should take about that long to gather compelling evidence; and they've been dealing with it since January.

The French are clever people, but we really should be looking to Asia for this information. People should be finding and quoting Chinese studies.

[0] http://kjfy.meetingchina.org/msite/news/show/cn/3337.html 10(b)(4)
What percentage reduction would you consider to be a solution? Since AFAICT you already moved the goalposts from "methane emissions" to "resource usage".
I am in man, it is 100% free to use now right?
Not really. The majority of cases of the common cold are caused by rhinoviruses, not coronaviruses. Then again I would gladly take a 10% cut in the common cold...
That's what I meant by "I want this to be a statistical discussion". I'm not spreading FUD at all. Those are all valid questions from a statistical point of view.

I'm definitely not spreading Fear. Fear is what is spread by the media when showing military trucks carrying away corpses and people subsequently assume that the situation is very very bad without asking for baselines.
fair enough, might minimize the risk but not eliminate it. (contracting it before they live with you)
> Professional Airbnb investors buy up whole properties

Not in NYC. Here they violate both the law and leases/condo rules to Airbnb units they bought or rented under false pretenses. Airbnb knows this and doesn’t care. It’s not about the free market, it’s just another swindle.
In italy hospitals are right now divided in two parts. One is for covid positives only and the other for covid negatives only. The staff which works in one part does not work in the other and has no contact with any member of the other one. Even ambulances are separated and with independent staff.
Right. I'd say polypropylene spunbond-meltblown-spunbond design is just a safe choice for non-reusable medical masks. It's not necessary, and especially for general population, for that just spunbond alone should be enough which is in abundance and there are other polymers too. And the masks should be treated as reusable outside of hospitals, polypropylene is safe to boil.
Do we have these numbers to compare? How much has the overall death rate increased by?
That proverbial gas station sushi. There, I said it, mark me down. It was worth it.
Theranos is a recent example of medical professionals being fooled by exactly that kind of hucksters. Without regulation I assume the situation would deteriorate significantly as the risks of being sued would still exist but be irrelevant for people who took the money and ran.
Dead are all tested... when dead. If coronavirus accelerates the passing away of chronically ill or severely ill people, would you count that as a covid death? Italy does, that’s the point. And it is not influenza, please stop that, the particular pneumonia associated with covid is viral instead of bacterial, and there is no antibiotic for that, only drugs (experimental, allowed for compassionate use) mitigating the quick and deadly inflammation effects.
It may still have been flu; a 102 fever is higher than expected for covid, although definitely not excluded
As someone who blissfully retired from Facebook years ago (for all the usual cranky reasons regularly cited on HN), I really hope Facebook doesn't come to fill this niche.

But I can see how it would be a natural Schelling point[1] for doing so.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_%28game_theory%29
That slow-motion was pretty awesome, I agree. You could tell that the fencer had practiced that to where retreating into a defensive guard was likely instinctice. :)

When you look at many of the plates from earlier fencing manuals, such as those of Fabris or Capo Ferro (Italian fencers from the 1600s), many of the prime guards and ways you strike are done so that you are parrying in measure -- your blade and hilt are in a position that prevents the opponent's sword from connecting with your body. Many similar ideas are present in other swordmasters' treatises.

Disclaimer: I'm a terrible fencer, but several of my friends are up to their eyeballs in historican fencing, so when I go home on holiday, I get an earfull of it. ;)
My experience has been that these little systems come up because we can't get IT to do what we want and have to work around them to get our jobs done. That's not to say all requests or IT customers are reasonable; some ideas are stupid or infeasible. Labelling those ideas as such without addressing the underlying business need that birthed them does no one any good. I rarely see IT organizations try to understand that; they judge requests primarily on technical merits.

> So a little bit of training early on could indeed be a good thing. It would solve many issues. :)

What we are talking about in the context of the article is a lot of training. It would give non-technical people the ability to go beyond something that barely works. It would increase the number of independent micro-systems, unless IT departments are willing to start really listening to their customer base.
Click-bait editors of sloppy lists on random topics will very soon be obsolete as well, if they aren't already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations

Snarky meta-commentors who insist on proper attribution soon to follow.

[EDIT] It's worse, no editor here, only copy-paste operator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8949065
You have a fair point.
"Shock" doesn't necessarily imply shocking referent. Beethoven was shocking; Monet was shocking; Stravinsky was shocking, but none of them were shocking because of their subject matter. I think the kind of "shocking" art that they created is more what the article's talking about.
That's a myth. The current legislation [0] says you only need a license to watch programmes when "received at the same time (or virtually the same time)" as broadcast - it doesn't say anything about requiring one to have a device which can receive live broadcasts. If that's the case you would be required to have a TV license to own a PC, as they can also receive live broadcasts.

[0] - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/692
It's been running perfectly in production since Dec. 1, with over $5 billion in ETH staked so far.

Migrating the legacy stake and EVM to it still needs to be done, but that's irrelevant to the consensus algorithm. It's just changing the data it reaches consensus about.
My experience is mostly with American, but while AA can be annoying (though not when you are in paid First/Business and have status), aren't Delta, United, and US Air significantly worse? That's the consensus I get from FlyerTalk. (Continental seems better than AA, but not out of Chicago.)
Especially at a coffee place where anybody not wearing earphones is likely there expressly for the idle chatter that happens there.
It's not hypocrisy, it's just very subjective. People upvote funny things from time to time, and downvote things that aren't funny often. There's no objective standard for that, obviously, but generally, 'funny' means something fairly new and unique and with some thought behind it, not trotting out some lame old sarcastic joke.

Edit: I suppose the moral of the story is: if you're not sure, don't post it.
Yep.

I think the reason this works is threefold;

1. Expanded (geographically targetted) reach for participating companies.

2. Increased chance of full sales conversion (via money up front) - participating companies are better off even if full conversion doesn't take place.

3. Financial incentives turn Groupon's users into a sales team.
Topbar is red too if you logout :)
The real hidden value of the Disney stock is that it has paid him $242,880,000 in dividends since the Pixar sale in 2006.
I don't really see it. Maybe, if you use your imagination, a speeding baby carriage.
Nice, but I prefer my cookie icons to be chocolate chip.
No we shouldn’t and it’s not hypocrisy. It’s appropriate editorial control. Think how a magazine editor would think.

A great profile of Julian Assange might be worthy front page material if it is the first Wikileaks article in months, it probably isn’t if articles about Wikileaks were on the front page every day the whole last month.
Currently during lockdown, I like doing outreach events where kids can interact with me, and each other.

I've decided on not doing anything which isn't "open website X" -- it's far too hard to teach twenty 10 year olds, and their parents, how to install some program, set up account, etc. etc.
You can use a dynamically sized thread pool. E.g. remove a thread with a certain probability once it's idle for more than X seconds.
One of the best software engineers who worked for me was the guy who deleted the most code. He absolutely produced negative net lines of code, and it was a running joke that we were paying him to write code, but he was doing the opposite.
I think we're just a few steps away from having our own devices in such a deeply locked state that boot disks will eventually stop working on any sufficiently modern system.
> Fix Rate is the percentage of merge-blocking findings that are fixed (i.e., not muted*) in CI. We believe this is a proxy for engineering value. As we run our own developer-focused security programs, we’re obsessing over how to increase the Fix Rate for the rules on our projects.

> Observing a bad 0% Fix Rate for random() (with only 7 data points from our projects), we decided to silence the rule for r2c developers
I have to second this. I can't list the number of artists I have discovered over the last few years using Discover Weekly alone. It's really incredible.
The point which is sometimes missing is that it does not matter if you believe a user (i.e. Donald Trump or anyone to whom these policies may apply) deserves to be banned or not.

What matters IMO is that a certain individual lost access to a service or product based on a ToS (not the democratic law) of a company which may change at any time to reflect the corporation's interest (morally or otherwise). Also, these companies happen to intertwine with today's social fabric.

There are no checks or balances on the amount of power these companies hold. Even if you believe, for example, Donald Trump deserved to be banned, you might think for yourself what will stop them to come for you next? Do you believe companies play a moral rule book?

Imagine you lose access to your important email address, or your phone number (which is perhaps operated by a private corporation). Do you also have a podium in your house to fix it?

Now you see where I am going with this. I don't want to take a side in a political argument. That's not the point here.

With all that said, it's hard to not address the elephant in the room. Which is the "free market". Unfortunately, this is a difficult problem to solve which I don't have the expertise to propose a solution for. But what I can observe is that this phenomenon is not new and not exclusive to tech companies.
Take banks, for example, you get a credit score that is shared between banks and you can be denied service. If you make insurance claims your premium may go up even if you switch providers. You can be denied coverage with a pre-existing condition. An airliner can deny you service based on a policy exclusive to them, a company abuses your private data, etc.

In most of the instances I (an individual), have been denied service from a powerful minority and they decide to do so following their interest (fair or unfair).

While there are a ton of arguments by different political, philosophical, and sociological views for these examples pro/against, I wonder if this problem can be solved in the current system without some fundamental changes/enhancements?
I think it's important to separate a desire for privacy outside of work with the transparency/openness in running Facebook, I don't see these things as being closely related to one another.

As for the "dumbfucks" thing - somebody young said something stupid, news at 11. Any time somebody brings this up like some big gotcha I just sort of roll my eyes.
> redirect to goatse upon login

Okay, that is actually a great idea
I have been working on https://pancakes.cloud for the same reasons. No prose, strong sense of community and the recipes being just plaintext in the end. However, without good contributions, I don't think any such site can thrive.
> That's apples and bananas. A more apt comparison would be: does your local newspaper HAVE to print anything you want on the front page? No? Then why should a social media site be forced to?

Yes, but there is the other side of that coin: a newspaper (as in the company) can get sued for libel or other such things, precisely because they have editorial control.

It's seems that social media companies would like to have their cake and eat it too. They are explicitly protected from their users content (thanks to section 230), and yet they seem to flex this immunity by arbitrarily blocking users, often without recourse. IIRC they have even occasionally flipped between being publisher or a platform depending on the question.

To be fair, there is no winning for large social media companies, either they preform this filtering and everyone hates on them, or they don't and everyone hates on them. I do not believe there is a perfect way to block only people who everyone agrees should be blocked, as every method has both false positives and false negatives.
In other words, he changed his line of work from a "sports athlete" to a "marketing guy".

The esports guys should take note at what happens to sports athletes who behave "badly". They typically don't get to participate in sports anymore.
Just get more money 4Head
This isn’t comparable. You weren’t one of five or so corporations that control the majority of communication on the entire web.

Oligopoly changes the equation and requires more oversight, just as your backyard garden might not require regulation like an industrial food producer would.
It doesn't and they know that.
Would Facebook have to inform me within 72 hours if someone got access to another account that can read private info of my account? I don't think that Facebook (or similar networks) disclose such breaches. At least I've never seen information on that.
Perhaps we have different ideas in mind with the terms "public" and "private". The power of both the government (i.e., "public") and corporations (i.e., the business part of the "private" sector) are interdependent, and they wax and wane together.

When we citizens complain about a problem, asking the government to stop it, the legislature makes laws intended (if we're feeling charitable) to rein in the actions of industry. This is done by creating regulatory agencies. But who to staff those agencies with? We need regulators who actually understand what the industry does. Thus, the regulators wind up being staffed by people from the industry, or at least people having a mental paradigm matching that of the status quo. This is called "regulatory capture", and the effect is that over time, the forces intended to bind industry winds up reinforcing the industry.

So what we see is that giving the government more power, intentioned to protect us, winds up subverted and perverted to protecting the industries that were in the crosshairs. This necessarily happens, despite best intentions; see "public choice economics". The more you empower government with the intention of controlling corporations, the more power eventually winds up being wielded by those captured regulatory agencies, helping the corporations.

And the result is that our system today is frequently referred to as "corporatist", meaning that the power of government serves to keep industry afloat.

Corporations wield much more power today, yes. But that's only because we've been suckered into giving more power to the government (ostensibly to control industry). So the power increases in lockstep, and if you want to decrease the power of industry, you need to strip the government power that they've captured. Weaken the corporations by weakening the government, in other words.
They (well, contractors) are re-engineering the F-1B as well: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/new-f-1b-rocket-engin...
> As crazy as this sounds... I've got no problems with being in an "ecosystem" as long as it can be run on any device. See Kindle for a perfect example -- I have it on my iPhone, iPad, desktop and my PaperWhite. Perfect.

That's how I felt, until it wasn't perfect. I have a lot of DRM free tech books from publishers like O'Reilly. I'd like to be able to read them on my Kindle and sync my notes with the Kindle desktop app or "Cloud Reader". Doesn't work. Notes and highlights only sync between desktop apps and the Kindle e-ink device when you're reading Kindle books bought from Amazon.

That's the problem with a closed ecosystem. No matter how hard they try, the creator of the ecosystem isn't going to be able to foresee/support every use case.
For Illinois a contributing factor is poor governance consisting of high taxes, massive unfunded state obligations, a single party legislature that cemented its power by gerrymandering districts, etc.

And the climate.
Well you said 'If the salary is the same, but an employee in one country has 5 weeks vacation (legally required), but another has 2 weeks, is that equal pay for equal work?' like it was a blocker?
Sure, that's reasonable. This is a specific "slippery slope to open borders" as discussed here: http://openborders.info/blog/slippery-slopes-to-open-borders... . The relevant "slippery slope" is:

"Gradual expansion and merging of free migration zones: For instance, the EU is a free migration zone for European countries, and it is gradually adding countries. Suppose the United States and Canada created their own free migration zone, Southeast Asian countries created their own free migration zone, and a few free migration zones emerged in Africa and Latin America (South America). The US-Canada free migration zone could, after some time, add Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, and then merge with the South American free migration zone. The European free migration zone could eventually merge with the new unified American migration zone. Over time, as the threat of terrorism, and the subjective sense of the threat, receded more and more into the past, the Gulf states could merge with the European free migration zone. And so on, until eventually the whole world would be a free migration zone."
You can purchase ddos attacks for $1-2 via paypal.
You are missing the point. But that's ok.
If your number is below theirs, you potentially just cost yourself a chunk of salary. If you aim too high to avoid this outcome, you could look delusional.
Somebody makes this incorrect statement every time I post something. Read this:

https://secure.grepular.com/Why_Does_this_Website_Generate_S...
Great landing page!

I would display the examples even higher in the page.
Burglars and those without concern for legality can already easily and cheaply get bumpkeys. Making them illegal only keeps law-abiding citizens from getting them and using them legally.
I have a hard time believing the use of Nintendo IP in this case (big corporation-backed research lab) falls under Fair Use.
Apparently HFT funds are printing money with all this volatility.
It's easy to kill tanks when you have unchallenged air superiority.

How to kill tanks when you don't, now that's a more interesting question.