skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how so many people come to the same, in my opinion correct, conclusion but get there for all the wrong reasons. Marco almost gets it in the first paragraph, then stumbles around trying to explain it. There's nothing to explain; people want the iPad because it is a desirable "sexy" device, plain and simple. Trying to go further and you've missed the point entirely. It's the cumulation of years of brand strengthening, good products, and good advertising. If you ask the average person who wants an iPad (and I've done this) they won't be able to tell you any one thing, and no "apps" have absolutely nothing to with it. All they know is that the iPad is cool, people who have one are cool, and they must have one as well.
Give it time. The safeguards will be steadily eroded by money.
So brilliant, I tweeted it :)
Wouldn't it likely have a hash collision with a much shorter password though?
Not sure that's possible. "R in a Nutshell" is 640 pages for a reason.
You can't run a Solr server because (1) present limits are 300MB RAM hard, and (2) disk is transient. There's a solr addon though.
Didn't Apple have stores a long time ago too? I vaguely recall going to one 25 or so years ago. It wasn't like the beautiful ones we see now, but more just like a typical strip mall computer store, but all Apple stuff.
Yes. He's complaining about that decision.
he claims that $1,000 daily limit at MtGox is broken and you are able to withdraw as many times as you want as long as each withdrawal is under $1,000.

the most interesting part I think is that he was actually able to withdraw 643.27 bitcoins (much more than usual daily limit) when they were for around $1.55 each which means withdrawal limit for BTC was calculated at current market prices.

If this is all true, then hacker is probably banging his head against the wall now because he was likely able to steal millions without any hope being ever caught. or did he?

MtGox claims he got away with only $1,000 worth of bitcoins however if he took them out of the exchange right after the crash when their market value was around $0.01... oh well, there is something very fishy going on here. I suspect MtGox doesn't have enough bitcoins to back their accounts now. If you see in upcoming days people complaining about MtGox not willing to physically transfer bitcoins back to their traders, it will be more than obvious.
Are these standards being relaxed because they were initially set overly cautiously tight, or are they being routinely relaxed without appropriate engineering?

I think the problem is that no one really knows. No doubt the original standards were set with substantial safety factors. No doubt time and experience have given us a lot more data on what we can usually get away with.

But the keyword there is "usually". However unlikely a major accident has been, it is getting more likely. And we won't know just how much more likely until it actually happens.
according to this help doc (which points to the original blog post announcement), they're moving gmail to this same support system:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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Redolf is a simple online music service with playlist support. You can search & play songs, add songs to playlist and share a song or entire playlist with others.
GitHub API v3: 190 methods
MtGox has a trading API
Sounds like a good reason to be as anonymous in your interactions with mt.gox as you are with anything else when using BitCoins (no judging here).

If I was on a public IP, it'd be very hard for me to not sprint with that much coinage.
Someone on the forum (post 69 http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.msg252979#msg... ) thinks that it's the pooled accounts of all the people on MtGox.

Edit (added link) + post 122 as well. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.120
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> Even though MtGox never stated they'd interfere, being hacked is unexpected enough to allow some leeway

What of the repeated security warnings and downplaying by MtGox mentioned by the author of this post?

At some point it becomes willful ignorance, which usually leads to bad outcomes.
Well, the OP here is actually claiming that the hacker made away with the btc, if I'm to understand his accusations correctly.
Well yeah, the web as a collection of interlinked information is dead. It's now television 2.0 with most innovation going to marketing.
A thief can't pass good title on stolen goods: If you buy a stolen item, it is not yours, it is still the original owner's. Doesn't matter if it's a bitcoin, a car, or a quarter.

The sale was not legit, it should not stand. The rest of the rollback is fuzzier, but on this gentlemans coins, a seizure should occur.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/corpsec/blogs/bus-law-an...
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I hate the way sites are using this kind of way to sign up. It feels so scammy and turns me right off what ever their "product" is, now I just want my email address back and couldn't care less about them.

Next time I see the LaunchRock format I'm just gonna close the window
Ask HN: Ideas for marketing our new site
We just launched our new site, www.twoint.com, which provides easy access to useful and/or entertaining twitter feeds. We'd appreciate the HN community's feedback on the site and suggestions for how we can market it to pull in traffic and create a loyal visitor base. Looking forward to seeing all of your ideas!
This reminds me of the story about the executive in training that cost his company several hundred thousand dollars. He goes into the boss' office and says "are you going to fire me?"

The boss says: "Hell no, why would I fire you when I just paid $500k to educate you!"
I am well out of my specific expertise here, but consider these facts for a less frightening interpretation that would not sell newspapers…

• There are reactors in operation that were designed in the age of slide rules. Even in 1980, $5 million "supercomputers" ($15M in today's dollars) were less powerful than my phone.

• In "An Overview of Radiation Embrittlement Modeling for Reactor Vessel Steels" 1993, http://books.google.com/books?id=quzCvTWt9CMC&pg=PA99... the oldest work in the bibliography specifically on embrittlement that I see is from the 1970s with the bulk being in the 1980s.

• When faced with uncertainty, engineers set the limits high enough to encompass the worst case.

• When faced with approximation, engineers set the limits to encompass the error of the calculation.

A poorly understood phenomenon coupled with primitive, coarse grained models (in order to be computable by the existing resources) is going to get you an overly conservative operating range.

25 years of studying what actually happens in live reactors, 25 years of theoretical studying, and unimaginably fast computers for verifying models and simulating situations is going to get you a different answer to the question.
Interesting. HN isn't ideal for debugging, but if you wanted to send cookies or IP addresses (e.g. via Twitter), I could see if someone could look into it.
What on earth is all this talk about "attacks" and "rolling back the market"? This is how currency works; we've just been witness to one of the darker parts. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not legitimate.

Even if it's illegal to manipulate the US Dollar, it is most certainly legal to manipulate the BitCoin, whose express purpose was to be wholly unregulated!!!
The Vermont Yankee plant has the same design as Fukushima Daiichi and was approved for a 20 year extension, ten days after the Fukushima meltdown: http://vtdigger.org/2011/03/22/nrc-makes-vermont-yankee-lice...

Also, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) "has never turned down a plant relicensing":http://ecopolitology.org/2011/03/30/fukushima-daiichi-proble...
Is that a Daring Fireball copycat thing? Trolling with Apple works every time, it seems.
"not supported" and "not working" are different things. I can't think of any breaking changes between 3.6 and 4 outside of the extension system.
The worst case scenario for coal is very close to the average case scenario, which is that tens of thousands of people die every year from pollution-induced heart attacks and strokes, as well as mining accidents. But that doesn't make exciting headlines.

This is a tragedy, of course, but nowhere near the level of a nuclear disaster like we're seeing in Japan right now.

Last I heard the current death toll from Fukushima was 2, and those workers were killed by the tsunami itself.
There isn't a tablet market because there isn't a need for them. The iPad is popular for reasons that the buyers can't give you (prior to purchase). They just know that they want one.

My girlfriend is the target audience for an iPad. She's not great at computers, she consumes media but doesn't create her own. She wanted an iPad and so I got her one for Christmas. She loved it, at least at first. But I rarely see her using it (and I don't use mine much either). When she wants to get on the internet quickly she pulls out her macbook. The iPad really is a device that you use for a specific purpose, it's not the low-level general purpose machine that it's made out to be. I would say ditto for the rest of the tablets as well.

I don't think it's because tablets are a bad idea, I just don't think they are very good at this point. They can't keep up with a desktop web browser (the reason most people use computers) and they aren't very easy to use.
If you want, you can set "&safe=on" or "&safe=off" at the end of the url.
The stolen user hasn't reported until now, it seems. From one of the comments:

"It was definitely all our bitcoins that mtgox had in one account! I remember a few days before, people saying that some big bitcoin movements on bitcoin monitor were from mtgox, and the quantity being moved was around 400 000 to 500 000 bitcoins. No single user lost that quantity, it was our coins, from all of us!"
"Every major exchange breaks trades. Too bad for you, consider yourself lucky if you don't get sued for the 643 btc."

I'd love to see how this would go down in the courts.
you see, majority of bitcoin forum audience are traders themselves. they are in for money and they are jealous.
> Then trying to withdraw $5 million USD from Mt. Gox?

He didn't do that. He withdrew $1000, once, and some bitcoins. Then notified the administrators.
It would have many collisions with many shorter passwords.

But almost certainly not any collisions with very simple and very short passwords. The hash output space is sufficiently large.

Someone who (given infinite time) found a brute-force collision would likely find one of the shorter preimages first – you aren't really gaining anything by going ever-longer, after your preimage choice has as many bits as the hash output.

But if the attacker truly needed to brute-force it over the entire 160-bit (SHA1) or larger (other hashes) output space, unconstrained by usual simple-password-like limits on what to try as preimages, that's impractical, and you've achieved your goal... even if you overdid it on the input.
In case you missed where I said this below, we did launch a message on the top-right of the search results page. The Search Engine Land article had a snapshot, but here's a direct link to what it looked like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/searchengineland/2717951328/

Over time, we saw that people didn't seem to notice/care about the message and corresponding link much, so it eventually migrated down to the bottom of the search results.
I was hoping to find more people in Canberra, Australia. The only thing that really came up was a meetup almost two years ago.
"There is little difference between personalization and the relevance of search results. How would you go about ranking then? alphabetically?!"

Oh, you know, maybe using Google's much vaunted "PageRank" algorithm, which is supposed to take in to account things such as links on other pages back to the page being considered for inclusion in the search results.. the more such links there are, the better the rank is supposed to be.

The above description is obviously an oversimplification, and I don't have access to Google's PageRank algorithm anyway, so couldn't tell you what it actually was if I wanted to, but it's something along those lines, and need not take in to account your previous search history in any way or "personalize" the search for you.
As a Bitcoin forum moderator, I'm debating if I should nuke the thread, or move it to the comedy section
translation: If the editorial was longer with more independent created content it would be under copyright.

However, than that opens up a new can of worms as most user generated content is editorial yet we claim or grant copyrights on it all the time..it means Google can scrape FB without violating copyrights
"The Tablet PC popularity nowadays is decline if compared to the launch time in 2002. IDC data also shows that sale of Tablet PC in 2007 is around 3,3 million units, or only 1,2% from total sale of all PC in around the world."

From:
http://ngadgeti.blogspot.com/2008/04/hp-pavilion-tx1209-revi...

With that said, I think its absurd to say that the market for non-iPad tablets is the same today as it was 18 months ago. People are definitely more interested in tablets now. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 50M tablet PCs with Win8 sold next year.
http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/samples/note.html

He didn't want to criticize the GoF book. He wanted to say that C++ and Java suck because they need Patterns. PG also said as much. Quote from the link above :

> I am not saying "design patterns" are a bad idea. GoF-style design patterns seem to me to be an interesting and valuable idea, worth studying and developing. Even in their least interesting form, people do need to work around the severe deficiencies of C++, and if "design patterns" help them do that, it's a good thing.
how about buying some miles from wwww.getAmile.com ? :)
The exception to this rule is a "bona fide purchaser for value without notice". If someone has no reason to believe that property is stolen and buys it, then it's their property now. So sorry.

I'm still confused about whether or not bitcoin transactions are traceable. If they have deniability, it might be impossible to prove/disprove that you knew the goods were stolen.

Of course, I am neither a lawyer nor a crypto specialist and this isn't legal advice.

(In particular, the rules vary depending on whether the property is realty, on whether you have a Torrens system, whether you have fused equity and what your local courts and legislatures have decided).
Not just a hack. Recognized developers such as Brendan Eich (creator of javascript) or Douglas Crockford (author of Javascript: The Good Parts) say that Coffeescript is good stuff. Coffeescript is a "transpiler", a source-to-source compiler wich translates a high level, very flexible and powerfull language such as coffeescript into plain old javascript. It doesn't change the underlying language at all, it keeps its object model and its data types. It just adds a more expressive and succinct syntax, inspired in python and ruby (and these languages have a very well deserved reputation for expressiveness and joy amongst programmers for a reason).
It sounded like he probably tried to remove the bitcoins, hit the limit, then contemplated hitting that $1000 limit a bunch of times.

Honestly, this whole forum post reeks of "I know I did something wrong, hopefully posting here will make the pit in my stomach go away."

Same goes for contacting magicaltux (the admin of mtgox) -- I bet he was absolutely losing his mind when the trade went through. I know I would have been.
Look, if it wasn't for this, my 100 "latex"-related searches today wouldn't have led me to a typesetting language.
It's not that they never stated they'd interfere, it's that they explicitly stated they would never interfere by publicly disclaiming any role as a counter-party.

If they were hacked, it's their responsibility to make things right with the party that was hacked, and not interfere with anyone else's accounts/trades. Anything less does severe damage to faith in the exchange, which tends to lead people to only keep money and BTC in the system for as long as they need to to make a trade, and then pull it out. That's not good for the exchange or the economy.
This (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676336) is why it happened.

> Then trying to withdraw $5 million USD from Mt. Gox?

He was stating that he could have withdrawn the entire amount, but didn't want to appear shady (especially since doing so would have made him seem even more like a hacker that initiated the sell order).
I don't see the problem with a rollback. Couldn't the legal users just redo all their transactions?

It sounds to me, as the first commentator on bitcoin.org says, that someone would like to keep their fat booty.
I would recommend http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2.html (I'm biased, though ;))
Tell that to the British people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
You can recreate the hash by calling crypt() in php with your PW and the full hash as arguments. Basically, the hash is built like $1$_salt_$_hash_ - by feeding it as an argument to the function, you make it use the same salt used originally at encryption, when it was randomly generated. This is exactly the way these hashes are verified on login.
Ask HN: Minecraft blueprint app with proven demand. Interested in contributing?
Being done with university classes and in a transition period between academic pursuits and my career as an entrepreneur, I wanted to create a fun side project and the concept of a blueprint builder for Minecraft came to mind (after working to build a complex structure in Minecraft myself). The goal is to create an app that makes planning a Minecraft structure easy—dare I say fun—and helpful by letting users know the amount of materials required and to provide instructions for creating the structure in-game.

I created a few mock ups showcasing how the app will function and posed a question gauging interest (links below) to the /r/Minecraft community a few nights ago before heading to bed at 3:00AM. I woke up and was expecting to find a handful of comments; maybe two or three. There were sixty. SIXTY comments before 8:30AM! Over the course of the day, it grew to 170+ comments, all positive saying they want this app—my favorite being, "Shut up and take my money!!! Really looking forward to this! Will save me so much pain," which turned out to be a common sentiment.

Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/i04lm/who_would_be_interested_in_using_this_blueprint/

Mock up: http://i.imgur.com/gBIv6.png

Mock up with key features shown/explained: http://i.imgur.com/klihn.png

So here I am on HN looking for a technical partner to help create a beautiful app that helps solve a major problem Minecraft players have. You need to play Minecraft yourself or be willing to get your hands dirty in-game and able to devote the time to release the app very quickly (with minimal features). This is meant to be a for-profit project, but more importantly it's for fun and as a means to showcase our talents!

Please check out the Reddit post first and send me an email (in my HN profile) if you want to contribute! I'll answer any questions you have in this thread as well.
Maybe my team wasn't sensible, but the main reason we were using C++ in 2002 was for the reasons you described. We admittedly weren't cross platform, but we found the features compelling -- and while maybe not as stable as we'd like -- still more stable than most JVMs that were all the rage.
What is the probability of an earthquake and tsunami the size of the Tōhoku earthquake hitting Vermont?
It is stunningly beautiful. Can you sell it as a theme, on Themeforest? say?
Or it could, again, be stupidity by MtGox:

This was a "test account" that had no real user attached to it. After all, if the trade is internal on MtGox, it's just a double in a database.

If that is the case, then hell yes, I can see why MtGox would want this rollback.
Here are some generic links to help your search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Valuation_Model
http://scholar.google.dk/scholar?q=automated+valuation+model
There have been several times recently where I was unable to use Uber because there were no Ubercabs available. I wonder if the demand will be too much for the system to handle... though presumably they've got all hands on deck tomorrow.
Withdrawls from MtGox are traceable. It just a payment to an address which has to be known in order to make that payment. So, unless they (MtGox) have lost that address too..
"You may not be interested in the law", goes the saying, "but the law is interested in you".

Bitcoin is meant to be unregulated, but MtGox and its identifiable customers all have legal personality. The main challenge would be identifying jurisdiction, but after that I suspect usual laws would be found to be applicable.

(IANAL, TINLA)
It does matter if it's a bitcoin, a car or a quarter. A bitcoin is completely virtual with no intrinsic value. The legal recourse that would occur in this case is undefined.
I wish there had been a careful reexamination of standards based on new knowledge.

More likely is that bringing old plants up to standard was too expensive. Or even worse, taking them off the grid.

In my view this is the real danger of nuclear power: New plants are probably quite safe but they are very expensive to maintain when they get old. On the other hand, if you relax the standard they are more profitable the older they get. So at some point you end up with a lot of old plants that are extremely expensive to maintain or shut down.
> exactly which versions of Chrome they still support is somewhat useful information

The current stable release of Chrome the the version before it.
OK. That suggests that the original owners would be within their rights to demand a return of the coins.

(IANAL, TINLA).
Is it possible for an open-source project to be successful without unit tests?
I'm getting ready to publicly announce/release a Ruby project (< 1.0). At this point no unit tests have been written. What do you think, can an open-source project be successful without unit tests given the popularity of TDD among developers?
When the electrical grid connecting to your house get updated and no longer supports your installed system you upgrade as well or you don't get electricity.
Yeah, reading the story that is what he says, but the fact that the also doesn't want to give back the 600BTC or so that he ended up getting out to me suggests that he isn't quite that honest.

If the limit had been $10,000 -- I'm sure he would have gone for that.
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> developing for desktop must be the hardest thing ever

Among the hardest challenges you could ask for UX-wise, definitely. That's why so much desktop software has been shit since the 80's. As a guy who specializes in mobile, desktop stuff is horrifying. You have to consider all kinds of screen resolutions, interactions with other apps, huge variations in system performance, printing... On and on. No constraints to speak of.

I mean, Office only recently (last five years) emerged from mediocrity into something decent. And even then, it's not awesome. Though I'll always have a place in my heart for Excel. What a great product.

Meanwhile, look at Skype. The latest Skype for Mac is utter shit. This is not easy work.
I'd just put it on /search and have a link in the header to it.
I don't understand how design patterns can't exist in any language. I'd even argue its the existence of design patterns that make programs readable at all. I can look at code and say, "ahh... case analysis."
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From the article, that plant is moving its spent fuel rods from the roof top pools to a passive containment system.

I guess actively cooled, roof top swimming pools full of used fuel rods makes sense from the standpoint of monitoring, but it carries more failure modes than anyone wants now.