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Rasengan is Andrew Lee, cofounder of London Trust Media, parent company of Private Internet Access. He has been personal friends with Mark Karpeles since well before Mark's fraud was discovered. Here's a PR piece he put out when he hired Mark as CTO after he was let out of prison. Yes you read that right, an infamous fraudster who couldn't even be bothered to use version control on MtGox who lied day after day for years and who ran his business into the ground and was imprisoned for it was hired as a CTO for a major VPN company.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/why-i-hired-mt-go...

Rasengan has an obvious bias here, you can call that whatever you want but whatever you call it, he's not a neutral third party. I'm not either, Mark Karpeles stole a great deal of money from me and many others on this site. Rasengan has in the past given this same spiel on HN trying to make Mark out to be some kind of victim of circumstance.

>People who make amends for significant errors, after aggressively trying to obfuscate them for many years, have some measure of retroactive integrity.

At no point has Mark Karpeles done anything at all that could objectively be described as making amends for anything. Jed McCaleb previously indicated that Mark Karpeles was aware from when he originally made the deal for buying most of MtGox that the exchange was already insolvent. He lied to users for years and claimed that MtGox had a cold storage system comprised of 3 geographically disparate locations, of which access to 2 were required to move funds out of cold storage and 95% of customer funds were kept out of the hot wallets. In reality that never existed, and Mark just continually kept emptying the cold wallets that were just stored in their office into the hot wallet. The hot wallet was compromised in a hack, Mark knew the hot wallet was wiped out in the hack, he didn't rotate keys, he just kept dumping our money into a known compromised address and never once bothered to check just how much money was missing until it was gone. The only saving grace was that Mark was so incompetent and blaise with managing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of other peoples money that he quite literally forgot about 200,000 BTC. If he had remembered it, there's no reason to believe that he wouldn't have just kept dumping it in and push the collapse back by another 6 months.

Since the collapse everything's been in the hands of the trustee for MtGox and Tibanne. If Mark Karpeles told me the sky was blue I'd have to go outside and check.
Civ5 multi was actually the best 4x multi until maybe hoi4 (and hoi4 is only good for micro nerds like me).
This is good journalism ArsTechnica! Thanks!
I disagree. Many, many relationships end 5 and 10 years into it. People change, and this is even more likely to happen if you met before both of you are 25 and then again in mid life.

Yes, get to know someone before having children. But I'd argue that you should have children with someone that seems like they'll be a good parent even if the relationship is over. Its OK to talk about it upfront, too.

Also, a note about "getting snipped": In some countries (like the US), it is almost impossible for a childless female to get sterilized. "You'll change your mind" "you don't have children, so no" "Why don't we ask your spouse" (these last two happen to men as well). You don't have the right to be sterilized. Other places, you must wait until you are 25, but then everyone - male or female - can get sterilized so long as they can pay for it. So, good luck, poor people.
Yep, but it works well for me in landscape view.
Oh, that looks quite interesting. I’m going to have to check it out.
Which reporters, which news is what I wonder.

My org subscribes to multiple wires and we have an internal knowledge and intelligence sharing system. For the state dept and alphabet agencies, collecting and processing information, including news, is a serious investment of resources. They don't get the info they need from mass media. Same for traders, etc etc.

Information needed by decision-makers is often lacking in the commodified news, which I would just call mass-consumer-culture news. So news in itself is not commodified. Mass culture news was always there to serve the interests of the channel, made up of content producers and distributors. An "early" internet example would be Arrington and TC. He was doing journalism and news as a means to get power, by dabbling in some delicious insider deals on the way to financial independence.

What is interesting is the ideological clash between those three camps of journalism thought. Journalism should liberate and enlighten the unwashed masses, provide unbiased information, or serve the interest of the journalist and publisher. Somehow many don't see that one can and often is the other.

But I find views such as in above article, with one agenda pushed above all others, behind even 18th century thought.
An amateur cloud society that rattled the scientific community (2016)
Found out from a random share that this resonated and reached HN! Happy days ... Am the author and glad it sparked a discussion.

Re the eccentricity inflation, I do think the fact that we now know more about everyone and everything means the need for peacocking is much higher! So it does play a part.
> Yes. Does it annoy you that we use our own dialect with its own meaning of certain words?

Because the audience of HN is not just Americans and the title of this submission gives no clue it's about the US.
I don't think it's purely a location-based thing. Not that long ago, Australia 108 became Melbourne's tallest building after surpassing the Eureka Tower in height. The residents there complained of walls that creak and crack like what you'd hear in a ship (which the 432 Park residents are also complaining about).

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/residents-of-mel...

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/incorrect-constr...
What I got out of the article:

- define what productive means for you. The narrow definition of "doing work" won't work for the missus, kids. And your general well being for most of us. The author doesn't dive into that. I guess because the article is already too long. My take is - doing the things that matter.
- Being meticulous and ruthless about removing garbage getting in the way. And for that all the data and tracking help.
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SSH tunnels are my favorite tool for NAT-busting. I always have to look up the cryptic syntax, but with one strategically placed Raspberry Pi, you can basically get from anywhere to anywhere.

And it works just as well on a locked down corporate network as it does on a home network. Why people put up with garbage VPN software is beyond me.
Agreed. Once we've nailed metric and test kit we could expand our services to offer precise reproduction of Highness levels. Highness-on-Demand or Highness-as-a-Service could become indispensable supply chain elements for serious QA setups.
> a beautifully elegant solution for a class of problem of which there will only ever be a single instance, which can be solved with 1 hour of bad scripting

This is a stupidly common problem, and one that is hard to fight against. Why would you decline a good / inspiring part of the codebase, coupled with the unsureness that during the lifetime of the software this would come handy.
We're talking about 20.12% vs 20.48% chance of divorce. Take this sentence from the article:

> “If fathers were really more likely to take off because they preferred sons, surely they wouldn’t wait 13 years to do so,” reasons Dr Kabatek.

It's pure speculation: no data, no model, nothing. But even if dr. Kabatek is right, it only takes a fraction of the fathers to obtain that 1.8% difference. You can't really explain such small differences with sweeping explanations (raising daughters is more stressful than raising sons, abortion of sons conceived into tenuous marriages, or your mother/daughter friction) without adding many, many more factors that mitigate them.

And let's not forget that the data is difficult to interpret. The (preprint of the) article's abstract even starts like this:

> Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found for other Western countries.
You should try Descript[1]. One of its features is automatic filer word removal. I'm not affiliated, just a happy user.

1: https://www.descript.com/filler-words
in a more traditional sense Lisp does not have operators by default. Operators which have a special syntax (infix ...) and precedence rules. Operators like + and - are written as normal functions -- thus these characters are allowed in function names. Actually more characters incl. whitespace and returns are possible -> one can escape characters in symbols or whole symbols.

There are a bunch of conventions for naming things:

+foo+ ; convention for naming a constant
*foo* ; convention for naming a special/global variable
foo-bar ; convention for a compound name

Other programming languages use FooBar, foo_bar or similar, instead of foo-bar.

More naming conventions in Lisp are collected here:

https://www.cliki.net/Naming+conventions
While big company politics play a role, IMO the main driver is that all of these companies have shifted their activities.

It used to be the case that these companies would build stuff (this doesn’t only apply to cars), and charged for that stuff, and thus had an incentive to have their well guarded IP. This era is long gone.

The manufacturing business has become a race to the bottom because this IP is no longer considered profitable. There’s a mantra in MBA parlance “externalize cost centers, internalize profit centers”. For the manufacturing sector this meant keeping the sales business, while externalizing engineering. This has gone to the point that even the subcontractors have undergone that process (that’s why there’s a “tiered” model). Nowadays most of the time Engineering is 4 subcontractors down. This also means that most manufacturers are buying from the same tech providers, and are sharing most of the IP (and their costs).

The only reason this makes sense is that car companies don’t sell cars anymore, their real business is loaning, because it turns out that manufacturing big things is an amazingly good way of generating free cashflows. Look at the earnings report of any carmaker (or GE for that matter), more than half of their earnings come from finance.
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> No, my technologically savvy friends and family cannot.

There's a "less" missing in there, oops.
It needn't cost that much, the UK's NHS is charged around $15/pill if I'm reading this right: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/thalidomide.html

Also worth noting that "Don't get pregnant" also extends to "don't get anyone else pregnant" since the side effects can pass from men to women too.
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Maybe the inhabitants of those islands should have some say in their future?

“We don’t want to be ruled by mainland China,” he said. “We have freedom, which is limited over there.”

Edit: and to the person who just downvoted this, I invite you to explain why this statement is wrong? Downvotes are easy, justifying yourself - in front of a critical audience - is another story...
The errors made during the study are concerning but not an immediate cause to throw away all the work done so far. If you are going to use that as justification for refusing the vaccine then you should do so in a scientific way.

What are your qualifications and what makes you think you know better than the scientists involved in the trial and in the approval process? What mistake did the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency make when approving it? What circumstances do you think leads to you drawing a different conclusion from them?
Well written fun to read article, but surely just an example of someone complaining "someone is wrong on the internet".

We just passed through 4 years of Trump, QAnon, the resurrection of flat earthers, a man wearing horns storming Capitol hill, Goop selling out of $5 candles selling for $80 because they smell like Gwyneth Paltrow vagina, GameStop take downs, Imelda Marcos 2,700 shoe fetish, and a training driver trying sink a hospital ship by ramming it. It's not so out there for some parts of the world, but for a fellow Australian "That's my Boy" [0] takes the cake.

And the claim is we don't have eccentricity like the old days. Ye gods, I hope the aren't pining for the old days.

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2721230/x.html
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I wonder that as well. When I ask the question out loud, people usually answer "Well, everything looks so much worse now". I don't think that's the real reason -- Star Trek aired as the Vietnam War heated up, during an era of high-profile political assassinations, and it reached mass popularity in the 70s, which no one at the time regarded as a high point.

What's changed is that we no longer believe in the future, that the future could be better than the present.
That analogy is incorrect. Only when you install software from the repository, I can see the point.
Yes but at least Ford didn’t lobby against the California standards as heavily as GM did during the Trump years.
this is also possible...

CL-USER 5 > (- 1 2 3 4 (third -))
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I am doing a restoration of an old palace in Poland, the biggest issue is often the contractors do not understand the architect’s drawings.

The drawings are more for the regulators such as building control than actually for the people working on site.

Talking to the constructors it is normal for architects to specify the impossible, leaving it to the constructor to actually make it up on the job.

Somebody said to me that over 30% of construction costs is waste.

It looks like there is an opportunity to implement lean methods in construction. And weirdly implement Alexander’s ideas patterns and anti patterns.
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit
Speaking from experience, unless one has a desktop gaming rig, Android development is plain awful.

Only doing WebSphere 5 with RAD comes close as bad experience, and even in 2005 it was faster than doing Android builds.

Also the emulator is unusable for any kind of graphics programming testing.
Could it be that the video is embedded somewhere else, without the YouTube interface with its buttons and comments, hence explaining why people don't add their reaction?

Does a view of a video when embedded counts the same as a view directly on YouTube?
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I do indeed. Here's a complete list of books I recommend when asked -

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Books.aspx

The one that made the biggest impact on my approach to architecture is "Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems: A Structured Process for Managers and Consultants" by Betty Vandenbosch.

The one that made the biggest impact on me in ever is "Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions" by Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet Stahl. Lots of forehead slapping and kicking myself ensued. Even more applicable today than it was in 1990 when written.

"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister comes as a very close second.

Not directly architecture or technology-related is "The Story Factor by Anette Simmons". It... changes you. Really useful for technical writing.
Nickel is a lot more of a limiting factor than Lithium. This is straight from the horses mouth (Elon). See the recent news about Indonesia. Elon is always a step or two ahead.
I think both creating and recycling glass requires intense heat, and so a large energy input. This process seems to very low energy requirements.
Specifically in the mostly-but-not-exclusively tech world, Leanpub (Leanpub.com) is very close to a bandcamp for books. Authors get most of the sales revenue, and are free to publish what they want including in-progress works. I’ve got a few books there, the readership is smaller than with my mainstream-published titles but as this article shows, that’s because readers don’t yet know about these places.
Link to the ruling: https://www.eff.org/files/2021/02/03/decision_appdiv_232021....
> You are not painting the sistine chapel

This is very uninspiring and destructive thinking. Just think of detailed and pristine handworks of everyday tools found at excavations, or the charters of guilds in the middle ages. It's not about what you do. It's about you doing it.
> Spare me the hair splitting, insulting and mocking people's integral part of their identity is insulting them too

This is flirting with integrism.

If religion was really an integral part of people's identity, apostasy would not be a thing. This is telling that it's cause of death penalty for religious extremists.
That is surprising given the amount of AC you use. I lived for a few years in a similar climate to Melbourne and double glazing made a huge difference in the Summer.
I eat meat because I like the taste, but I don't give a hoot about the slaughter/animals. I don't want a replacement for my steak that is a bad steak, and I don't want to ruin great vegetables by making them into something that is not.
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Recently, I came across the podcast on Talk Python where you talked about Dogsheep and Datasette. Dogsheep looks amazing and I can definitely get behind your philosophy of SQLite for everything.
> Imagine being able to take a year off for the Appalachian trail or get a PhD in your 50s without concern for ROI or the short-term career impact of losing 4-5 years.

How do I not interpret this as wanting everybody, at a time when our society is facing huge challenges, to spend time and resources on prolonging your life, so you can walk around the poorest parts of the US, without it costing you? I mean, it's natural in way, I suppose, to want everything for oneself without investing anything, but it also seems laughably childish, selfish and short-sighted.

Will the people of Appalachia also have access to immortality, in your vision? If so, how?
> Having to take the freight elevator to your unfinished $20M apartment isn't suffering.

It might be? Suffering is entirely subjective...

> These are spoiled brats grown up.

Yes indeed.
British woman in Dubai faces $140k fine for insulting her roomate on WhatsApp
Most shops have i5 and i7 laptop devices with 8GB, so....
> the options we have to buy books and track our reading are terrible

I fundamentally disagree with the idea that reading must be tracked, outside maybe some textbooks/papers if you're going through a study plan.
And, since it vanished from the main pages of HN, another reminder of this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071 ['Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape]

When one of the most powerful nations on Earth is in the process of committing genocide using such horrific methods, intimidating its neighbors, imposing ever-stricter control over its vast population, and pushing for dominance in a multitude of technologies -

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes"
Tesla gives almost all their factory workers stock. I think that’s worked out well.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-giga-berlin-starting-wages-r...
Do they use concrete in those towers or is it all steel?
If you don’t want the conceptual model and features pandas provides, is there a reason you don’t just use regular Python without pandas?
I truly appreciate creators who consider offline first and privacy. Thank you.

"No one but you ... has access to your docs. Not even ... Hush Docs"

The gripe I have with statements like these, which these days everyone seems to make, is that I wouldn't know, and cannot prove that this is true.
I just have to take your word for it.

How do we solve, in general, across software, this one problem?
I do not know about the US, but the problems of the EU are with acquiring enough vaccines (ordering too little and too late), not with distributing it. Distribution even is a per country thing. I cannot speak about the other EU countries but at least in Germany we have a fair vaccination queue based on risk and vaccination centers that are sitting idly just because there's not enough vaccine here yet.

Both my grandparents that still live are over 80 and I worried about them the most. They both were vaccinated in the beginning of January.
I meant that compared to 40 more years of resentment, divorcing and possibly finding a healthier relationship seems worthwhile.
That would be a long way away and it would cause a lot more work, and environmental pollution, from the construction compared to just burying part of the existing route.

Plus no one seems to be considering the archaelogical discoveries that can be done by digging out the tunnel.
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Adding to the confusion is that the "ee" is pronounced the same as the first "ea" which in turn is pronounced differently than the second "ea".
> As someone who is only loosely aware of the story, is there a good place to learn more (I'm pretty sure I could spend countless nights researching this, I'm hoping for something like a detailed article or a particularly insightful forum post)? And I realize part of the issue is the story hasn't been told yet, but you still know a lot more than I do.

It really goes deep, and a lot of it was events as they happened in real time for those of in the Community. Bitcoin Talk Forum and reddit still have many of those threads if you want to go deep.

But here are some links I could find to you get familiarized with all of this [0] [1] at least until you decide to go further.

As you mentioned, so much of this has not been addressed and their are so many parties vying to hijack the narrative, which include Nation States and their respective agencies and bureaus withing them which is why I'd like to hear Mark's story (starting with being brought in for questioning by the Secret Service, FBI, and DHS) be told over a series of podcasts (the lowest barrier of entry with long format). I'm sure we could crowd source this with BTC to make it happen if he ever decides to do it.

I'm just not sure if Mark would be legally allowed to do that at this point because of the ongoing reconciliation process.

0: https://blockonomi.com/mt-gox-hack/

1: https://www.techspot.com/news/61603-weekend-tech-reading-mar...
SSH isn’t a replacement for VPNs. I’d argue that they complement each other.

For example, SSH port forwarding is TCP only, so if you need UDP, you‘ll need a VPN.
Me too. I was in the inaugural OS labs class (CS 537) and it was probably one of the best classes I took at UW. For my final project, I wrote a beep driver.
For the overly conscientious think to yourself, "I am doing the best I can. If this isn't good enough sack me".
> the output requested isn't quoted.

Input: "aaaabbbcca"

Output: [("a", 4), ("b", 3), ("c", 2), ("a", 1)]

The input and output is explicit. The interpretation is a talking point.

Serialization into parens is not native for most? scripting languages. Creating a string would probably be most efficient for the output format, for sure. It's important to remember that interview questions are not just about the algorithm (for which this is trivial) but the requirements. Asking if the double quotes are representing strings (and what kind of strings for some languages) is part of the natural back-and-forth of an interview.
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