skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks to me more like 700k was blocked as part of the capital controls to prevent a bank run. The actual amount to be seized will be much smaller. Cold comfort, I know.
This fellow is using Laiki bank, and the Cyprus Finance Minister said that they would be seeing an 80% haircut.

Relevant: https://twitter.com/finansakrobat/status/316813023639646208
The unlimited FDIC protection ended December 31 2012. It's back to the 250K
You haven't seen anything yet. Bayview is where Google's new googleplex building will be located.........
Honestly, I don't know what you even mean by purity.
>Diehr, 450 U.S. at 188-178; establishes that if the patent is for a particular application of an abstract idea, but not for the abstract idea itself, it may be patentable.

Worth pointing out is that the patent in Diehr claimed a method for curing rubber and contemplated a collection of specialized hardware. Not exactly pure software.

Do you know of any case other than Diehr where the Supreme Court has actually sanctioned a software patent?
Apparently he didn't read up on deposit insurance. In most EU countries, anything over Euro 100,000 is not safe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_insurance#By_EU_country
You are mistaken, there are no type guards within asm.js-verified/compiled/linked code. Read more at http://asmjs.org/.

/be
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Doesn't sound like it[1]. It looks like it is 700k gone.

1. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/03/27/cyprus-finance-mi...
As a current high school student, I can say that the trend away from tracking, at least in my district, is largely a product of parental indignation: they feel as though their kids are being systematically disadvantaged or academically repressed due to some sort of misguided assessment of their kid's innate ability. It's really pretty intuitive; no one wants to be told that their kid is too dumb to succeed in the upper-echelons of secondary education.

Although, in my personal opinion, tracking is probably detrimental inasmuch as success in high school is determined by sheer effort and monetary resources (and to a much lesser extent by academic ability.) Most people are capable of sufficiently completing most AP courses, but either don't have a desire to work for 4 hours per night on top of 10 hours at school, or aren't even offered the opportunity to take them. Because of that, tracking (like most other paradigms in k-12 education) rewards people with high income and supportive parents that compel their kid to take on more responsibility, and ends up artificially excluding potentially qualified students based on a test they took when they were literally 10 years old and is defined largely by wealth anyway.

On top of this, tracking involves a disproportionate allocation of resources whereby the "smart" kids get the most time poured into them, artificially increasing their test scores to a greater extent while leaving the less-qualified students out to dry. Malcolm Gladwell articulates this quite well in Outliers (which everyone ought to read). So, an arbitrary difference when one is 10 becomes a massive dichotomy when individuals are 18 because the kids on the higher track are given access to superior resources, while the kids who aren't are perpetually disadvantaged. Tracking takes minute differences in intelligence and, based largely off of one's circumstances and not innate ability, exacerbates those differences through unfair allocation of resources.

Tracking is largely arbitrary, enables disproportionate appropriation of district resources, and is needlessly exclusionary.

Just my two cents...
It appears that they are actually having a bank run, but they limited daily withdrawals to 300 Euros per person. The banks have been closed since the 16th and just reopened today with these new restrictions. Cyprus is in a state of financial emergency.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/28/gallery-people-line-up-outside...
There's an awful LOT happening behind those 580 lines. I'm not sure whether it is a good thing to start at such an unrealistically high level of abstraction for a 3d game.
I got a similar error.

"arch -i386 python main.py" solve the problem for me.
hmm I agree. But if there was a rush it seems like people wouldn't convert to private wallets they would attempt to exchange their bitcoins for a national currency. Mt.Gox seems to have a 10,000 max withdraw limit over a 30 day period. Something like that would hopefully prevent Mt.Gox from not having enough on hand national currency.
Summly acquisition was BS
I'll say it first so no one will jump on me. I am jealous of the 17 year old kid. Don't kid yourselves, you all are too. Who wouldn't want their start up acquired? I mean what's the point starting your own company? The goal should eventually be an exit of some kind.

The news of Summly getting bought out by Yahoo shocked basically almost all of us. It really flies in the face of all that we know too. How often do you hear, "you don't need VC money before you have traction, market fit, etc." It's bull crap. I believe a huge reason Summly was acquired was because of the VC connections it had. Without those connections and investors, that company with no revenue no real traction, would be swimming in the abyss with other start ups.

Summly basically is a company that uses another companies technology!! I mean that's insane! A tech company that uses another companies technology! To be honest, I wouldn't be shocked if this deal falls through because of it's licensing agreement with their technology provider. Maybe that's why the company is being shut down, and "re tooled."

The larger point I am trying to make here is that luck, is literally half the battle with start ups. You could have the best product, design, etc. but if you don't catch a few breaks you will be nothing.

So I guess I can't get too mad at the Summly kid, everyone needs to get lucky once in a while.
It's all about standing on the shoulders of giants.
Correct, and since MF global showed us where deposits lie on the totem pole compared to derivative exposure, i'm quite excited to see whats next when [insert bank here] needs to meet its margin calls :P
The more secure systems I've been to don't acknowledge whether or not the account exists. I've actually seen a message that said something like

"If an account exists for that email address, it will receive an email shortly."

As I said (or meant to say) earlier, how anal you are has a little bit of luxury dependent on the nature of the site. If it's a social network, it's probably fine to show that usernames exist (unless their profiles are specifically flagged to be private), as part of the site shows that their usernames exist already. I could easily harvest usernames on HN here without ever having to test against the password form.

If your site is of a more personal, sensitive, embarrassing or whatever other situation you can concoct, then of course you'd want to adjust your username/password strategies accordingly.
30 million for a tenacious product manager. Could be worth it
I founded SupportFu ( http://www.supportfu.com ), which is a lightweight alternative to Zendesk. We focus on being invisible to the end customer and do email support pretty well.
As conjectured above, the worst case is pre authentication remote code execution. i.e. anyone can just connect, send magic packets, and get a shell.
Confessions of a Bitcoin Scammer
Note vitamin d3 doses are in iu not mg. It is very hard to overdose.
> why a compact, concise, standardized bytecode format isn't being pursued

Two reasons:

1. Backwards compatibility.

2. We've had such a thing since the 1990's. It's called Java. Nobody likes it and nobody uses it [1], so that's a good enough reason.

[1] Nobody uses Java in the browser, that is. When was the last time you remember seeing a Java applet?
Not opensource, so basically I don't think anybody is going to use it.
Well, that's certainly true when we're talking about the underlying 3D graphics libraries, IO, etc. But it seems like there's still a lot more to the rest of it, and that it shouldn't fit in 500 lines of code.

This one really gets me as well:

http://www.mojang.com/notch/j4k/l4kd/
>I'm not Russian oligarch, but just European medium size IT business

I fail to see the difference, honestly.

The OP, by running a business within a society where many services essential to that business are provided by the government and paid for by the citizens and businesses within that society, profited directly from other people's taxes - but refused to contribute.

I feel about as bad for him as I do for any of the other gangsters, Russian or otherwise.
Well to be fair, Finder's been a mess for years. ;)
"You could have the best product, design, etc. but if you don't catch a few breaks you will be nothing."

Many people have learned this lesson the hard way.

"I am jealous of the 17 year old kid"

Why? Do you really define your personal success to be when another company buys you out?
Don't oversimplify. Prosecutors also aren't pay percentages of the sentences they get, still many prosecutors are zealous to get longer sentences. Because it's their job. The job of IRS is to extract taxes, more they do, more successful they are. People like to be successful.
Funny, I was just looking at Haraka earlier today to build an email-first startup. Being an active Node.js dev, Haraka looks very attractive!
Oops, you're right, this is CPB. He's screwed.
Graphic Gore Photos: NO Redemption Day - Just a Blaze of glory
Google has an SF office. Try working there.
In the past century, in the US, people spent approximately 1/3 of their income on housing.

Its been years since I did that analysis, and I can't find it anymore so I don't know if it was 1/3 of pre or post tax, but I do remember that it was remarkably consistent over time.
I don't think IRS has all the data in one place. E.g. do they have my local property taxes? Do they have record of mileage that I could deduct for charity purposes? Do they have a value of goods I donated to charity? Hypothetical examples, there can be a lot more options, many of them not so easy for them to verify. That's why they audit - then if I am audited, I'd have to prove them it's true.
asm.js doesn't support GC... for now. Read the FAQ for more details:
http://asmjs.org/faq.html

Even if it never supports GC, it's not out of the question to use historically GC languages like Java. It's just a matter of manually releasing memory through the API. It's a pain, but it's one i would gladly bear for better performance on some specific methods.
Yeah...funny thing is blaming the EU. The banks were lending out the money on what turned out to be bad assets, not sure there's any cure for that where deposits don't get wrecked.

Iceland before, Cyprus now, not sure what they think will happen to Carribean banks in the long run. Bitcoin might be an ok solution for people who don't care about earning interest, but if you still want the interest you have to deal with a lending institution.
The richest people I know personally are all incredibly hard workers with rather wide-ranging skillsets and certainly a willingness to try new things. But that's just anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt.
Some people love power.
Yes, blame Angela Merkel and not the bank executives at your bank that loaded up on Greek debt while Greece was careening towards insolvency.

I appreciate the PR nightmare here for the E.C. People are going to be madder at the E.C. for wiping out depositors at this unviable bank than they would have if the E.C. just let the whole Cypriot banking sector collapse and let everyone lose their money.

See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732350100457838...
As Bitcoin has no country or jurisdiction of origin, I fail to see how Bitcoin can be classified as foreign.

I also fail to see how the IRS has any regulatory power over a currency not defined by US tax law.
AFAIK that's already more than was lost in any of the bitcoin heists...
I think you're talking about a very different kind of "ability" than I am. Some kids, coming out of high school, will know calculus, or have the ability to play an instrument, or the ability to render the human form in an anatomically-correct fashion. They also might know any amount of trivia--a list of presidents, the names of all the bones in the human body, etc.

None of that knowledge is really representative of being any "better" at anything. They may have just spent less time on the basics, and more time on the advanced stuff. It might just mean they were pushed to take more credits by their parents. They will likely have fundamental gaps (the inability to multiply two numbers in their head, for example) and rely on crutches (like a calculator) to keep up with everyone else in the advanced classes they're forced to sprint through. They might have done it all through rote memorization, and have no clear idea of what any of it means. Recall the refrain of most medical students: "I don't have time for the lesson; just give me the formula."

This is in opposition to the people who are "just better" at the fundamentals: each new thing they set out to learn, they'll learn faster and better, because they'll be building their new knowledge on top of mastery rather than a shaky 60%-and-move-on foundation.

You might wonder about IQ: IQ or "g" is literally the measure of how fast you can recognize and employ new patterns, and therefore how fast you'll master new micro-skills. Kids with higher IQs will do better under time-constraint. But given as much time as needed, and assuming mastery of previous subjects, IQ is irrelevant.

An amusing visual analogy: when you master a micro-skill, you've cleanly filled up a line of blocks in the "well" of your knowledge. When you master enough micro-skills, leaving no "gaps", the knowledge comes together and compresses: you get a Tetris. :)
Take a look at the code, it's not THAT hard when you have the right tools (language, libraries, knowledge...) though it's quite awesome nonetheless.

IMHO the game actually shows how powerful Python + Pyglet (OpenGL actually) are.

Wanna get your mind blown even harder? Check some 4kb demos[1]... and that's binary size! No JVM/Python runtime supporting it.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=4kb+demo&pag...
The people running the government, which uses the taxes to secure loans that they have no intention on paying back, in order to prop up a failing economy that is failing because of the rules and regulations that are setup to maximize the illigit profit for said people running government.. those are the real gangsters.

Most large state governments amount to little more then just legalized mafias. Ran by political and family dynasties serving the purposes of whoever is capable of providing them the most money and power.

IMHO, paying as little taxes as possible is a moral imperative.
One possible upshot of this is that maybe people will actually start paying attention to how their home banks are capitalized. What's their reserve ratio? What are their major investments? Have those investments been rated by independent agencies?

Schemes like the FDIC (which, as mentioned in a previous comment, can change the rules at any time) only serve to dumb us down and encourage bad behavior; firstly by lulling depositors into a false sense of security, and secondly by eliminating the incentive to be prudent and appropriately risk-averse.
Putting money in an uninsured bank is an investment the same stocks or property.

If the asset you invest in fails you lose your money.

Don't see how this is the European Commission robbing anyone.

I thought (But could be wrong) without the bailout all the money would be lost. Isn't this them giving someone who's lost it all 20% of their money back?
Try running it using 32 bit Python vs 64 bit Python. It also depends on your OS. Which OS X are you on?
As others have mentioned, I don't see asm.js as being fundamentally tied to C/C++. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Memory management could be addressed in future versions, but even if it is not, there are still ways of getting the performance benefit of asm.js using altjs.
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Most banks have 'negative interest'.

Not only because the interest rates they offer for savings and checking accounts no where near is able to keep up with real inflation (which means you lose money by saving, from the get-go), but they charge as many service fees as they feel they can get away with.
I think part of it has to relate to what you enjoy doing. I enjoy few things more than reaching the time of day when work clothes can come off, dirty old shirt goes on, lithium ion tool drill comes out and the circular saw is plugged in.
It's the best relaxation I have found, and unlike my real job, I can actually achieve something without other screwing it up and the results are measurable. Don't ask about the accidents, stitches and cost/time blowouts.
I am not sure what kind of companies are the "slog it out" type. Which company can be profitable (I assume) and not grow much in 2 decades? If they are just cash cows, why can't the VC/entrepreneurs figure out how to reinvest it in other sectors?
What is the poster suggesting? EC should've stayed out and let the banks go bankrupt?

Oh I know, they should've just covered all the tax haven banks losses.
It appears this is a current/chequing/checking account rather than the savings/deposit accounts that were originally reported to be subject to the special tax and which pay the ridiculous levels of interest (10%+).

The impact on local business is already being felt, both consumption & payment of supplies & salaries (and soon tax remittance), and imports will suffer significantly in the coming days and weeks too. Exports may well be paid for and the funds remain outside of Cyprus, further creating problems for the economy, as it goes almost all-cash and tax is evaded too. Credit card balances can not be paid off for now either.

It will be interesting to see how Russian mobsters (and various shades of business people) react to having millions/billions taken from them. I'd not want to be a Cypriot politician or banker having to say no to these guys.
That would certainly be very interesting, especially as PHP is being nudged into that area (Twig also now offers a c-module).

I really hope the author picks up on this and compares it. It could provide some tremendous insights into pushing PHP further into this space.
I'm not sure why, but natermer's past several posts are all dead.

He wrote:

> The people running the government, which uses the taxes to secure loans that they have no intention on paying back, in order to prop up a failing economy that is failing because of the rules and regulations that are setup to maximize the illigit profit for said people running government.. those are the real gangsters.

> Most large state governments amount to little more then just legalized mafias. Ran by political and family dynasties serving the purposes of whoever is capable of providing them the most money and power.

> IMHO, paying as little taxes as possible is a moral imperative.
I definitely noticed that as well. It could be a self-propagating cycle? Maybe people see an article from The Atlantic, then while they're there they find another article and post that? The more people post articles from The Atlantic, the more people who go and read other articles there and go on to post them here. And personally, I think it is a pretty good publication. They have some interesting stories and they are generally well written.
I remember being as excited about Liero as kids are about Minecraft today. Minecraft is great, but so was Liero.
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If you're going to be doing serious django development it would do a whole world of good to learn about the tool chain to make dependencies and deployments super easy.

Use virtualenv, pip, and Python's own built in scripting tools (check out the OS and sys modules of the Python standard library). Try to learn some of the best practices before complaining about dealing with dependencies.
Blaming evil banks and profligate creditors while tightening the money supply wasn't a particularly fruitful thing to do the last time there was a global economic crisis, and a whole lot of modern macro was about not repeating that mistake.

Then the world goes around and repeats the same offenses, and the public once again buys the easy, moralistic stories. Bleh.

The fact of the matter is that the Eurozone is a bad idea, a lot of economists said it was a bad idea, and now they're seeing their predictions come true. For each European financial disaster it's easy to blame some convenient cause, but eventually you have to ask: what is it about the Eurozone that is so good at precipitating financial crises? As banks collapsed and massive financial contagion in America was uncovered, did anyone in 2007-08 (besides a small number of monetary-inclined economists) think the very Euro would be threatened again, and again, and again, as America lurched along in limp but definite recovery?

To paraphrase Bill Clinton: it's the money, stupid. The Eurozone is structured to suck the money out of peripheral economies in times of crisis, which then seize up like an engine starved of oil. The best banking system in the world cannot survive if all its money disappears. Cyprus does not have the best banking system in the world, so I guess they're worse off.
I think what we've learned here is that the only thing rich people have in common is that they all have a lot of money.
That's sad to hear - I ran in to that last week with pygame (can't run it in a 64 bit environment on OS X).
Your bank account's WHAT got robbed?
The OP seems to imply later in the thread that the company is based in Cyprus:

"I've already sold a part of my bitcoins to cover emergency needs. But I don't plan to recover my business in Cyprus. Instead, I'm moving to another country outside EU."
Bitcoin: the network, monetized
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even funnier thing is thinking that these haircuts are gonna do much…

the template according to troika is to do more of the same :D

granted the only future i see in bitcoins is in actual business transactions and not earnings interests,which with typical fiat are subject to the whims of ZIRP and central m̶a̶n̶i̶p̶u̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ planning :D (which [number of business transactions with bitcoins for goods or services] has gone up these couple of years if you look beyond the hype)

and the fact that it would be pretty hard for .gov reallocate funds in a .dat :P
When people live in couples, there's a distinct possibility of being three of you instead of two of you, and then maybe more :) And then combined income of 100K is really not a lot of money.
My wife and I shared an Amazon account for a while (~10 years) because it was easier. If you live with someone and have joint finances, why bother with separate Amazon accounts?
Unless it's something that compromises query/statement integrity from normal user input; a character set problem, for instance.
"Masturblogging (verb): the act of repeatedly fiddling with the look of one's blog, often to the point of social seclusion."
— Jackson Gariety

This dude faps to code
Why am I jealous? I am jealous because I would love to start a company then sell it in two years for 30 million. Very simple.. Never said anything about defining personal success.