skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not at all saying the Russian army didn't do a very good job in the end; rather, being willing and able both to retreat nearly 1,000 miles from your starting position while more than doubling the width of your front line - and still retaining essentially undiminished capacity to fight and supply the campaign - gives you an enormous advantage.
I happen to believe that criticizing people that cannot defend themselves is tasteless, and judging situations that I know nothing about is misguided.

I'm sure there is a lot of this story that we will never know, criticism is not going to change anything and if anything is offensive to the bereaved.
Mainly because moving them to an elephant reserve costs a good amount of money (something like $5000 per, if I recall correctly) and it's cheaper to just shoot them. His hunting trip was probably more expensive than that.
That is not true. Your wallet.dat doesn't contain your money, the blockchain does. Your wallet.dat just contains the keys to validate that you can spend the money that exists in the blockchain.

If you restore your wallet.dat and let it catch up to the current blockchain, you will still have all your money, unless you really spent it.

edit: Ok, I guess I am mistaken - I see now how this happened with a really old version of the client. Newer versions of the client pre-generate several addresses in your wallet.dat, so even if you only restored an old version of wallet.dat, you would still have access to any money that is in the blockchain that you spent in the recent past. Of course, you should never let your wallet.dat fall too far behind.
well, i'd expect clients to eventually evolve that allow you to automatically back up your stuff. the currency and concept just isn't that evolved yet.
I bet he assumed a product as a service, where the code isn't in the hands of the customer.
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Preview didn't appear for me either, so I just put it on my site to look at it. They look great imo.
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Are people actually buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins?

http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ -- red dots.

Well and the MtGox volume last Friday was roughly half a million. USD.
That game was maddeningly difficult, though probably good for my developing brain.
My understanding is that elephants are being routinely culled on reserves, as well. They eat. A lot.

(I don't mind the downvote at all but it's be good to know if the downvotes connote the fact that I'm wrong; I may be!)
It's unclear what the user gains by clicking on a +1 button. Clearly my friends won't see my recommendations because Google doesn't connect me to them.

They should just come out and say "listen, we know search is broken. We need your help to fix it! Click on this button when you see something you like on the web."

Position it as a passionate call to arms to all google users. Right now it feels like a boring press release.
Thanks for the clarification - the blog posting is terrible. It doesn't even specify how the money is actually lost.
I wondered about that too. I always use a password-protected screen saver.

I know you never leave your laptop unattended, but out of curiosity, have you ever used a security cable to tie your laptop down, if you do have to get up to go to the bathroom or something?
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Why Bitcoin will be banned sooner or later.
This shows that perhaps the potential for bad uses are far outweigh the legitimate ones.
Seriously, just pay something even if it is only $10/hr or whatever service student jobs pay in the area. Not every kid can afford to work free for a summer regardless of the experience gained. Some people need to have a job with some income. Thats why some less privileged students get stuck working in restaurants and bars. Are you interns really not doing enough work to warrant minimum wage?
Lacking an iOS device, I've never seen the Tweetie UI. Was it developed before HP showed its multipane email app?
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American companies that are public are so short termed minded — very few can afford to take the long term view. What the $1 CEO does is it allows the CEO to really take the long view and worry less about shareholders and the board. My only problem is that this limits the role of CEO to rich guys. By the way if you want a proof of concept that this idea works look at Steve Jobs when he returned to Apple.
And if I may reply to myself :-)

This ties into my latest theory as to why Ballmer is in good standing with the board for now: Nokia.

My theory is that Ballmer has a very solid relationship with Elop. Recall that Elop did the odd thing of announcing he was going to Nokia, while still President at MS. I can't recall many examples of that happening. Ballmer must've been fine with it.

I suspect the Nokia partnership/acquisition is Ballmer's big play and the board knows it. Viewed in that light the Skype acquisition and Nokia play are the same deal (you don't do an $8.5B acquisition, while you're in the midst of a huge Nokia play, unless you've tied them together).

The board likes the Nokia play and is seeing it through. If it works out, Ballmer is there for a while. If it doesn't work out then Ballmer is gone.
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The USPTO is overwhelmed and understaffed, so I can understand why they have poor QC on patents, particularly when they require technical knowledge to determine triviality.

What I don't get though is why it seems to be such a challenge to prove the invalidity of these crap patents in court. The google loss to bedrock (the linux kernel troll) is a high profile example of this. Maybe the standards that need to be looked at are around litigation and if enough crap is thrown out, all the incentive is gone and all of the sudden the USPTO application volume goes way down.
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Google doesn't think that the search is broken, so they aren't looking for fixes. And even if they were, the +1 button would be a heaven-sent for spammers, so that's not the fix they're looking for.
Cool! Thanks! But does anyone know who came up with the observation first? Was it Randall?
Friend at D9 says they are damn delicious, too
I would like to see a map showing the distribution of professional Python programmers across the US. Either a) the conference is supposed to double as a vacation to Florida, or b) there are more southern and east coast Python coders than I know about and this location is actually convenient for most of them.

It makes me sad that I would have to go to Florida just to attend this thing.
The disconnect here may be that he isn't dignifying the notion that scarcity automatically connotes value, in the sense that for instance my toenails are also more scarce than dollars, and always will be, but are not more valuable than them.
only if it runs into things and explodes...if it launches its own torpedoes, its not a torpedo. Mother-torpedo..
Isn't "+1" kind of an insider reference to the Slashdot voting system? It may be instantly recognizable to us, but is it really intuitive what this does to the vast masses of everyday-Joe internet users? Seems to me like another hit from engineer driven Google product development.

Also: "But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you’re on it. After all, how do you know you want to suggest that recipe for chocolate flan if you haven’t tried it out yet?"

I may be having a case of the Mondays here or something, but I really hate this kind of forced chipperness in corporate communication, and I am seeing a lot of it from Google, most recently in the 'funny' "Let's put more cats on the internet!" marketing for the Chrome netbook. Again it seems like some high-brow Google engineers, based on statistical evidence that humans have feelings, decided to employ some grandmother type to filter all their marketing through.
Google does connect you to social graphs it can see:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...

I wouldn't say that +1 is saying "search is broken" at all. It's just another signal.
His family was enabling his narcissism.
Most of the people seeking work seem to be designers and specialists in Wordpress or Drupal and the like. The job seekers nearly all want remote contract work.

Most of the job posters (in the other thread) are looking for full time developers and are concentrated in SF, NY, and Boston. They want programmers on site.

It's either a market imbalance or a communication disconnect.
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Integration by differentiation
illumin8, can you please read this post and explain why you think it is wrong? http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=782.msg8625#msg8625

If you back up your wallet prior to the transaction of 1BTC, it will not receive the private keys to the change address. Your private keys in your wallet.dat will point to an empty account. That is what this entire post about losing $81,000 is about.
You don't know me at all; how can you make that claim? I don't think that's at all true about me. I spend a lot of effort involved in improving the emotional welfare of other people.

Moreover, I think it's ridiculous to commend and "respect" villagers for having to endure unnecessary hardships; it's as if the commender attains a stance of moral superiority for valuing "what really matters". It's not clear to me that:

1) Living rurally is actually net worse for a human being

2) If living rurally is indeed net worse for a human being, that commending and respecting them is a good thing - perhaps such a situation should be held in contempt in order to promote a more radical advance in technology

3) I think effort and willpower deserve respect -- merely having to endure hardship, while unfortunate, is not necessarily worthy of my respect.

P.S. As a friendly FYI, "Smurk" is not a word.
At the time this happened bitcoins were trading for less than 10 cents. But I have seen six-figure deals go by on the ticker at #bitcoin-market.

Thirty day volume over at mtgox is 6 million dollars. Granted, much of this might really same money going back and forth for some day trade action, but it's still way more than people who don't follow bitcoin would ever think.
Ask HN: Transparency in IT?
If you have a 'firewall team' you've probably run into this before: you try to run some new app or install some new server or connect to a different network, and it fails. Now you've got to start troubleshooting it and at the same time send the firewall team an e-mail to see if they might have a rule blocking your attempt.

It would be nice for anyone to be able to look at firewall rules, software deployment/repositories, and account/service access across the network. Does anyone have a simple process to introduce transparency in the operations/network side of their business?
I didn't think slashdot when I saw it, so no.

I thought perl, and the standard ++ we do in chat rooms to say we like something. google++
"Not a concern. Hackers encrypt their high balance wallet.dat then store it on dropbox/whatever."

Not a concern?

And if the trojan sniffed your keystrokes as you typed in your password and/or grabbed a copy of the key you used to encrypt your wallet?

Or what if it just put in a trojan copy of whatever app you used to encrypt your wallet, so that everything you did (from typing in the password, to feeding it a key) would be sent on to the thief?

Are you concerned about that?
Greg House is just about the worst bug-fixer ever. Every episode is essentially a Depth First Search, in a situation in which that type of search maximizes pain and suffering.

"We have our first theory that isn't immediately awful, let's stop thinking and just try it out." Terrible advice in both computing and medicine.

[Edit: changed 'bug-finder' to 'bug-fixer', as pointed out by gilz.]
Your friends will see your recommendations, if they're relevant. You won't spam your friends by clicking +1 all over the place, but if your friends happen to be searching for something relevant to what you've +1'ed, I believe they will show up.
I didn't see the Linux position listed on the jobs page, could you provide some more information?
I agree with this article. More discussion about closed APIs and how to implement a good closed API would be great.
> When startups are acquired, acquirers usually give the founders incentives to stay on. Sometimes to make the founders feel better these incentives are included in the number the acquirer quotes as the acquisition price. In that situation there are effectively two prices, the quoted price, and a lower price investors see.

Wow - I didn't know this. Does anyone have any more detailed examples of this happening they can share?
Python style decorators in Erlang
I appreciate this thread and I think that the movie plot patent is a fantastic analogy so great topic starter submission.

I have to say though that I am disappointed by the blog post. Based on the title and the topic I kind of expected something, anything as a suggestion, instead of just a rant and a loose plan to spam every elected official you meet.
"What Ubuntu "main" means is those packages are actually built by Ubuntu with their own patches and quality control."

I guess this is where I was confused. My understanding is that the packages in main still originate as .debs from Debian (i.e., they are not directly packaged from upstream sources), even if Ubuntu applies their own patches and such, so it sounds strange to say that these are not "repackaged." (I can't find an Ubuntu page confirming this, but Wikipedia says, "Ubuntu packages are based on packages from Debian's unstable branch..." [1])

So, I think the mapping from your terminology to mine is:

"built by Ubuntu" => "repackaged by Canonical from Debian"

"repackaged from Debian" => "repackaged by Ubuntu community from Debian"

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ubuntu_%28ope...
Only if government is willing to collect bitcoin tax in bitcoins, without a conversion.
If I may ask, what were you considerations for having near 100% unit-test coverage even before private beta?
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Apparently there's a bot now that posts the thread FYI.
Bad article. There's no demo, the code is formatted by WP (“stylesheet” instead of "stylesheet") and the line numbers won't even match.
Not just drones, but -swarms- of drones. I make that point because its important to differentiate between what could be massive, battleship (or, likely, crusier) sized drones, and collections of very small drones.

There's reasons this makes sense, even in the context of a fight against battleships (please assume similar technical capability, since a WWII Battleship would likely not fair well against a 2020 drone swarm..) A battleship, even a big automated one, has a series of weak points, such as sensors, removal of which can cripple the ship, and a swarm doesn't lose effectiveness at a blast from heavy weaponry...it may get a hole punched through it, and have only a few drones taken out...
It seems to me like the people cooking up "Facebook of X" type projects are not really "idea people".
The three-column view dates back to NeXT, if I recall correctly. It's a great implementation of the three-column view on touch-based devices, but this is no different...

whoa, wait, the columns SLIDE OVER?! Wow...brilliant.
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For those who enjoyed Wing Commander Privateer, there's WCP Gemini Gold, a remake using the open source Vega Strike engine:

http://privateer.sourceforge.net/

I've emailed the author to see if he'd like to add it to the list.
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What, of acquisitions with earn-outs? Search NEWS.GOOGLE.COM for "earnout".
They make tires! I understand they take up some unhealthily larger percent of the Finnish economy
Ask HN: Is there a good standalone art tablet out there?
I'm looking for something to do illustration and animation on for web design, 2d games, etc. I want to draw on the screen, but it can't be tied to another computer, so the Wacom Cintiq is out. I've heard of people using their iPad for illustration, but I am unsure of how well it works with a stylus and how smooth/responsive the drawing experience would be. Can anyone give me a recommendation?
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While it seems to be same as throwing money into fire, it is more of a lack of atomic transaction problem. The backed up wallet has the state snapshotting the account balance. If the new transaction is invalid, it can always be rolled back to the old snapshot. That's how transactional database works. It looks like the new transaction is not atomic. Part of it has been committed (published) and part of it not saved. The system crashes and the account is in the inconsistent state, thus losing everything.
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Well and the MtGox volume last Friday was roughly half a million. USD.

On the other hand, given how much effort is going into promoting bitcoins I wouldn't be surprised if some folks are just trading them with themselves in order to pump up the numbers.

Anyway, if people have gone from "ehh, I'll stick twenty bucks in just to see what happens" to "I'm gonna buy eighty-one thousand dollars worth of these things!" then it confirms my suspicion that the world is about to run out of bigger fools to sell 'em to.
I think missile silos are stationary is pretty easy to understand. They're easier to guard and if you look at when they were built rather than their current functional use (its debatable if there is one when looking at SLBM and B-52/B-2 dropped nuclear weapons). In the 1950s, when ICBM projects began, the threat was not thermonuclear weapons, but fission weapons. It was thought that the silos might survive a direct/indirect attack on a facility.

After the advent of the hydrogen bomb, no harden target can really be called safe. Coupled with modern military GPS and you have a super-precise, super-powerful weapon.
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These numbers are astonishing. By my calculation YC has a cash-on-cash return of 67X!

Avg. value (22.4M) * Avg. equity (6%) = Value of average stake (1.34M)

Compare this to an investment of $20k, wow.

I am sure there is some sort of dilution that occurs, but anywhere in this order of magnitude is remarkable.
It's always worth mentioning Spring, which used to be an open source version of Total Annihilation, but now encompasses so much more:

http://springrts.com/
How i got 100 backlinks in one month
For me the problem is that a "bookmark" function is missing. I usually follow interesting projects so that I'm able to find them later on. For most of those projects I'm not interested in the commits, I'd just like to have a link to them somewhere in my GitHub account.
If it is practically infinitely divisible, then doesn't that mean that it is not truly deflationary? For example, if there is only 1 bitcoin left, and it is infinitely divisible, then it is no longer deflationary...?
This is why I built "GitHub Feed Filter" - a Google Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jcpkhafkpnaljjbgdg...). It adds an interface in the page that enables users to look at feeds filtered by projects, by commits, by issues and by comments.
Gold is trading at the same inflation-adjusted price today as it was in 1979.
A very good question.

First, we caught bugs (not even regressions) just by writing tests. More importantly, many time when we left code without tests, we found a bug in it later. We're not 100% sure it's been a good investment, but we're 90% sure.

Second, because it wasn't that hard. With the tools available, writing tests that cover all of your code is not too painful.

Third, in private beta we're sure we'll have to change things as we face scaling problems and get failure reports. We wanted to have these tests before we started monkeying around with code.
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