skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the forum post (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=782.0):

When you do a transaction you always spend ALL of the coins in that address, part of the money goes to whoever you're paying, and there rest is returned to you an a new 'change' address. (This helps your anonymity as someone watching cannot tell which amount you spent and which amount you kept.)

Before transaction:

Address1: 9000

Address2: 0

After transaction:

Address1: 0

Address2: 1

Address3: 8999

It sounds like you have wallet.dat that contains the private keys for Address1 and Address2, but not Address3.

The problem seems to be he didn't backup after he initiated the transaction. It's news to me (and apparently a lot of other people) that you can lose bitcoins in this scenario.

One proposed solution is to pre-generate some number of addresses that get stored in your wallet long before you actually use them, so they'll get backed up.
He also misrepresents the view of Victor Davis Hanson-- I think he's referring to "Carnage and Culture", which has a much more nuanced (and thus far different) argument.
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I'm dubious of these reports because all screen savers I have used lock and password protect the screen. How did these seemingly unaware thieves crack the password? If the password was so weak that it was easily cracked by an opportunist thief, did the user really care enough about security to install tracking software? I tend to think these reports are more promotional, self or otherwise.

Anyway, I prefer to avoid theft by keeping my laptop with me at all times and never leave it unattended. When it's not in use, it's in my backpack. Haven't been mugged yet, knock wood.
Intelligence information is speculative and absolutely cannot be compared to an official warning.
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actually, this is based on something that actually happened to someone
I'm unconvinced that this is relevant unless the markets you're talking about have a history of accurately predicting random or chaotic systems like weather :P

A lot of the decision points for whether to go on or turn back have to be made in the short term on the mountain.
Delicacy is an understatement when the smallest transaction puts the entire wallet at risk every time.
I'm a big fan of anyone who's blatantly honest, and CEOs especially, since they have their (future) careers on the line. Admit your faults? What a novel idea!

I agree with the sentiments made by Schmitty, except for this line:

> Schmidt called cloud services “the death of IT as we know it.”

Then who's going to take care of our devices that connect to the cloud? It's not death, it's downsizing. Agree that it's inevitable, disagree on the magnitude.
great writeup. AirBnB may not be wrong, but what this means, it that anyone else can do the same thing .

this definitely reduces their valuation.
I hope that avc, ycombinator, Andreessen Horowitz and a lot of known VC and business angels introduce a new simple rule on their agreement:

To get funded, a company must not try to obtain software patent, and if they do have software patent(s), they will publicly say they will not try to license them and will not sue for infringement of one of their patent.

Beside clearing up the landscape, it will send a clear message, hopefully that is going to be heard by politicians and media: software patent doesn't help innovation, quite the opposite, the guys that fund innovation refuse to give money to companies (ab)using software patent.

Moreover, as VCs seem to be able to work on templates for the paperwork to lower the cost of the creation and founding of a start-up, couldn't they work on standard responses to lower the cost of defending against a patent troll as well ?
And then there's iA Writer and their egotistic attempt to patent "Focus Mode"… Seriously: https://twitter.com/#!/iA/status/74588465953640448

Same problem: other apps used it because it's such a generic concept. They (always) say that it's for protection… Riiiight! :|
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From 14 on, I worked tons of minimum wage and odd jobs after school, every summer and spring break. Fast food, painting housing, construction, whatever. I remember painting housing, standing on aluminum ladders in the sun in July the NC heat as being particularly punishing work. That's just how things were.

I used to dream about how awesome it would be to have an office job, get paid a nice salary to work on problems inside w/ AC. It's still not easy work and sometimes I might complain, but compared to the shit I used to do when I was a kid, it's a vacation.
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Given there is an absolutely finite number of bitcoins doesn't this mean that given enough losses over time we will in fact run out of bitcoins with no mechanism (by design) to replace the supply, adding further deflationary pressure?

Given we're talking about bitcoins this discussion is about as practical as discussing a russian tank invasion of western europe but it's interesting none the less.
I don't see it that way. The comp sci field moved forward because of the democratization of the personal computer where you have the freedom to develop what you want and distribute it yourself.

For example one of the mini revolutions was Turbo Pascal from Borland offering the compiler for few bucks when compilers were more expensive, with patents all prices go high and that means few people or companies can spend money on that.
I don't know how much I agree with the statement "even the Cold War was really just the US and Russia building to re-win WWII until Russia ran out of cash". Not that it matters for this discussion, because I think its clear that the U.S. military is still trying to design itself for a Cold War scenario, and encountering huge problems when faced with asymmetrical opponents.
Roberto Ierusalimschy's Programming in Lua[1] comes to mind. (The link is to the freely available first edition. There's a second edition available that covers more recent versions of Lua.) (Whoops - apologies to brianm - he beat me to this, but I didn't notice.)

Maybe also Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell[2]. It's certainly wonderfully concise and dense (you meet a simple Haskell quicksort in the second chapter, as I recall), but I have to admit that I haven't had a chance to finish it.

One more: The AWK Programming Language[3] by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger, but that's almost cheating since one of the authors is K from K&R.

[1] http://www.lua.org/pil/

[2] http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html

[3] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
I am not sad for him personally. We all die, he chose his time and place. Attempting to summit Everest is meaningful in part because one out of every ten climbers making the final push doesn't make it home alive.

Compare and contrast his death to Bob Parsons' cowardly choice of shooting an elephant. Bob was never in any meaningful danger, where is the courage in killing an animal that can't shoot back?

I am sorry for his family's loss.
That's called a bank :)
> If you think about it, it's no different than reporting a bug.

It's no different than reporting a bug with a patch. If I go to the police with evidence of a crime and details to apprehend the probable culprit, I expect them to deal with it. Those are really low hanging fruits.
Lieback wasn't driving.
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I received the same treatment by the NYPD when a burglar broke into my house. Literally 10 officers arrived within 90 seconds.
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Optimizations are the hardest part. So those additional LOC are actually the most valuable and difficult to replace.

Your utility of those optimizations might be vary from other peoples'... personally, I would hesitate before calling Gnu grep bloated.
You forgot the most salient point: At that temperature, the styrofoam was so soft (though not quite melted) that after removing the lid, it collapsed on itself. So she "spilled" the coffee by assuming that the cup would retain its shape without a lid. Since it was so hot, it did not, the cup collapsed, and she was burned.
There's not much on this site, but I've known Jon for a decade and I think you'll be inspired by working with him on his (currently) quiet company.
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> but... she put the cup between her legs while driving.

No she didn't. She was a passenger and the car was parked.

> The McDonald's case is the poster child for frivolous litigation because,

It's the poster child because if you don't bother to learn any of the facts, it sounds outrageous. And the world is full of people who can't be bothered to learn the facts before they form strong opinions.
How can the market adjust in a vacuum of information?
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Congrats to the TapTapTap team for another massive success in the app store.

@Phillryu... do you guys have a plan on how you're going to stay in the top charts? From the blog post, it seems as though you expect to gradually fall off the charts, but you must be continually working to support the current community and keeping interest high?
I agree. Competition is healthy but I'm sick of companies trying to jump on a bandwagon just to scrape whatever profit they can. It's so uninspired. It does nothing but clutter the market with things we really don't need. Now, if HP were truly doing something new and innovative, that would be different. But all they're doing here is leaching and creating more trash for landfills.
Yes it does indeed. However, should you ask such a question on the bitcoin forum it will most likely be brushed aside with a reply of "the net effect is negligable". When in fact, I would argue it is not.
Hmm. Lots of employers in the the on-site jobs thread. Lots of job seekers in the freelance thread. We've long had the technology to work remotely, now we're just waiting for corporations to catch up to the 21st century.
I've never heard a case where the do-or-do-not decision regarding a software project hinged on patents.

Me neither, but that just means that patents, as they are now, don't serve their intended purpose. It doesn't mean that there's nothing that could be done to remedy that situation.

That they are somehow needed to encourage innovation is a myth.

Maybe it's more accurate to say that they (are intended to) prevent situation that seriously discourage innovation. If I come up with a really ingenious algorithm to do a hellishly complicated thing X, it would be nice to have the legal protection for a certain period while I struggle to get it to the point where it starts making me money. Protection from what? Protection from someone else stealing the algorithm and implementing it faster and beating me to the money making stage.

Besides, they're unfair. A typical software product might have perhaps 1% patented matter, and 99% copied from the "standard requirements" of the market segment it's in. The competitors spent the money developing the market to figure out that 99%, so if you use a quid pro quo measure then they have an automatic right to the 1% innovation the new player brings to the table.

First of all, the assumption that a "typical software product" should rely on a patent is not necessarily true. The company to which I was referring is in the business of developing software for semiconductor manufacturers. Their products are definitely not "typical software products". That specific market is pretty much cut-throat: there aren't many companies developing for it and, consequently, the customer always has you by short hairs. Patents are just another tool in their toolbox for dealing with the competition.

Second, I don't understand why you automatically assume that the patent holder isn't one of those players who "spent the money developing the market to figure out that 99%". I'm not defending patent trolls here. I'm defending the cases in which you want to protect that 1% that distinguishes you from the competition.

Third, even if the patent holder is a new player, how did you arrive at a conclusion that spending money on figuring out 99% of "standard requirements" somehow makes you have "an automatic right to the 1% innovation the new player brings to the table"? It sounds like a false sense of entitlement.
and it already exists, online wallets are very much present already
A couple years ago(my first year in Uni) I took an unpaid internship and I ended up getting a job out of it. So, from personal experience I'd suggest to do the following:
- Have them do work that will in turn actually teach them things they want to do in their career.
- DO NOT make them do boring menial tasks.
- Engage them in actual company decisions. (Just because they are an intern doesn't mean they don't have good views)
- Get to know them both on a work and personal level. (...or even offer being their mentor or introduce them to people they'd like to be mentored by)

All in all, since you aren't paying the interns you have to provide them with an experience that will be equivalent of getting paid.

Just my 2 cents though.
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The back button flips back through the accordion, which is unexpected, and not very elegant.
Have you seen WebOS? I find it rather interesting and thinks its better for a tablet than iOS is.
That's kind of the point. Patenting plots is directly analogous to patenting software: you can have the same feature, but the value is in how well it is executed: language it was written in, data structures used, graphic design elements, etc.
This is all fake. Who drives the car with Laptop Lid Open? and why the hell is he looking at the laptop.

Ok let me summarize this. A person came in the car, driving to this persons house, stole the macBook, place it in the front and I guess is browsing Google Maps to find directions. Am I right buddy?
But it seems easy to fake. Can you just put a product, or do you need a number of users or income?
I don't think that is inevitable. There is not an inherent reason why the Patent Office needs to award trivial patents. If they tighten up (or apply) their standards, the problem would be tremendously reduced.
I was one of the people who waited in line for the Palm Pre on launch day, but I left for android after about a year because of the limited app selection. I've been extremely happy with android, but have always missed how WebOS does multitasking. I'm genuinely excited by the Touchpad and I hope that HP doesn't screw it up.
If I'm a patent troll, I see this as a golden opportunity to patent the work of companies they invest in.
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Yes, at the moment. But if safety goes away as an issue, we will hit the issue of sound next.
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It's a service among friends. I actually expect them to act a bit more casual. Given than, I think what they said was just fine: Comcast turned off their service, they're looking into alternatives.
Yes, I am sorry for the elephant family's loss also. What bob did was NOT cool
Yeah, you're probably right. Ideally it would make it more expensive for a troll to do their work, but they could just throw up a web page for their "product" and not attempt to sell it.
I agree, its not the same case. The problem might be in 15 years from now, your algorithm might just become a very natural way to solve that specific problem and at that point how your company plays this out matters. My guess is the companies that are in the business of making, creating, producing and then selling software themselves, will be ok with it. These trolls like Lodsys try to neither produce nor create. A very important rule for the any type of patent should enforce "active" product in use/development.
Sadly, it might never happen.
But I have to say - climbing Everest when your wife is due to give birth - not cool.

Not to mention two sons, two and three years old respectively. There is a season of life for climbing mountains. This was not it.
The Siegfried Line was made enormously more effective by general malaise in the Western armies (then under French command) though; in spite of being relatively weak and unfinished it went largely untroubled. There were some small incursions into western Germany but they weren't substantial.

What makes this particularly galling is relative strengths of the two armies at the time; the Allied forces in northeastern France had significantly more tanks (for example) available there than the Germany army had in total, let alone defending the western front. It's far from impossible that a serious, concerted attack on western Germany in the 1939-1940 'phoney war' period could have had enough success to significantly alter the course of the war and turn it significantly into a land war in western Germany for much of the period.
Looks good, how many people do you have working on it?
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This is surprising. Aren't they aware that this is probably the best publicity that Bitcoin could hope for?
I think that patent trolls typically acquire them from dying companies, not healthy ones. So while they're parasites on the economy, they're vultures to companies. That probably provides some liquidity to the economy, but I doubt it's significant.
There was an IMAX crew on the mountain at the time, and the film they produced would have been good just as a film, let alone the IMAX format.
Yes, that attitude seems fairly prevalent. I read a lot of Amazon reviews suggesting the same idea, that you should basically be paying by the number of pages. What that fails to acknowledge is that distilling ideas down to just the important parts is hard work. It's possible that a short book doesn't cover the topic very well, but I think it's more likely that the author has worked really hard to express their ideas in the fewest number of pages possible.

Lately I have decided that I won't even buy computer books that are more than ~300 pages, and I would prefer if they were more in the 100 to 200 page range. I'll take a short, concise, highly target book over a thousand page monster any day. And I'm more than willing to pay "full price" for the short book.
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Is it supposed to be a tutorial book? I always thought that it was trying (and epically succeeding) to be a massive reference.

I know O'Reilly has the llama and alpacas that are intended to be the actual tutorials, though I can't really speak for their quality (I actually did learn Perl via Camel Book + external projects).
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As someone who has introduced a lot of young people to the new world of extreme openness that he describes, I have not seen the problem that he postulates must exist.

In fact I think he's setting up a false dichotomy. Spending more effort teaching people does not necessarily make them less independent. Counterexamples: special forces, Montessori schools, YC.
Dungeon Keeper is probably my favourite game of all time. A shame theres no mac version of OpenDungeons and that they didn't make it closer to the original.
Yes I noticed that as well yesterday.