skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cavirtex.com/home is another alternative.

"Cold Storage is the act of sending Bitcoins to an offline wallet address. Access to withdraw these funds must be by a human being and with a computer that is never plugged into the internet. This guarantees that a hacker cannot steal the wallet through the internet. This is done with transaction signing and USB keys to transfer the signed transaction from the offline computer to the online Bitcoin network. Over $500,000USD was stolen from the Exchanges Bitcoinica and Bitfloor by hackers because they did not use cold storage. VirtEx uses cold storage on approximately 80% of customer funds.

We keep the remaining 20% in a server ‘hot’ wallet to allow the small daily BTC withdrawal activity to be instant. If the amount of your withdrawal is too large, you will be required to wait for a human to perform a cold storage withdrawal of your funds. We have many different cold storage wallets and use multi-signature authentication so there is never just one person who can access cold storage and large amounts. You can even choose to place 100% of your funds in cold storage with us; however you will not be able to trade the funds unless you withdraw them from cold storage. This feature is coming soon."
The guy is depressed. Anybody can burn out on a job, at any age. He needs to get help, not rationalize how he's too old for this.
I'm another uninvolved observer, from what I've seen there are quite a number of other exchanges, many of them fail due to low volumes (and other reasons, some security related).

Whatever their relative strengths or weaknesses, Gox has captured most of the market, and is high enough volume to make it the most liquid and trusted exchange, so it's going to be hard to challenge.
I was informed of this by cutting edge researchers in Brazil public-funded universities (they are equivalent to US Ivy League), because they relied a lot on Windows 7 and their equipment don't boot at all.
F-yeah, Star Guitar! This is one of my all time favorite music videos. Once you figure out what is going on it's such a fun and amazing, "Ah ha!" moment and then it really keeps delivering throughout the whole video.
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Producers and merchants of food have no reason not to lie to you about that food, including with bogus inspection programs and simply failing to measure.

That is why the government plays a natural role in regulating food safety.
I don't see how this is even comparable to Bitcoin. It's not open and it's not decentralised.
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well.. it's not unheard of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_halt
Agreed. I suspect there are very few people that lie on their deathbeds and wish they spent more time at work.
I don't know. JackThreads and a couple of other sites seem to be on the right track. Not sure what these guys have in mind, but that copy repels me. Maybe they are attuned to a whole different market I'm not really aware of, or can relate to.
It's other people that have blamed this on a DDoS attack. MtGox themselves have explicitly denied it.

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html

"""
First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success!
""""
As someone who just took the plunge and started my own company I have thought about this a lot lately. What we have started to do is go on temporary relocations as a team (there are only 3 of us), and do our work from different cities. Our home base is Chicago, but we just spent a week working in SF. Allows us to keep working longer hours and stay sane at the same time.
Not on the flights I've been on recently. As long as it's in airplane mode you're fine.

Also you think somebody doing something illegal like this is going to listen to any rule that involves turning your phone off? If anything they'll just be discreet about it.
This is kind of like asking, why didn't you switch away from them before they had these issues. Not much incentive.
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I think the blogger has an Indian background, because in that culture you're seen as a failure if you're still developing software after a decade of programming. You're supposed to be at least a manager by then. Maybe the author reinforces this sentiment by disallowing himself to find enjoyment in programming when he grows older.

I'm 48, programming since 10, and it hasn't bored me one moment. I can't really relate to the problems the author poses in his article. The IT field is continuously shifting and very broad, look a bit left and right and you'll discover new things. And if you've reached your Blub Ceiling [1], try out some language which is more powerful than Blub.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Okay, stupid question, what would it take to re-code this for human face detection?
I always laugh at people who say how many hours they worked per day like it's an achievement of any sort.

Anybody can 'sit' at their desk for 10 hours that says absolutely nothing about you or your job performance but hey you can brag about how many hours you worked for.

I will come in focused, do all the work I have to do while you bullshit with co-workers or talk about doing something for the 10th time without doing anything and leave on time.

That what sucks about engineering/start-ups, if person is mediocre all they have to do is stay in the office the longest and even if they can't beat the quality and output of an engineer who does 9-5 that's overlooked by 'hey I 'worked' for 10 hours!'
Man, sarcasme.
Except arbitration requires more than just money + information, people doing arbitration must have low fees / latency for example so it's not available to all players in the market. Net result real world markets are not efficient due to various access levels.

Also: Empirical analyses have consistently found problems with the efficient-market hypothesis, the most consistent being that stocks with low price to earnings (and similarly, low price to cash-flow or book value) outperform other stocks. Which is presumably due to cognitive bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

PS: It's a reasonable simplification that's useful for the average investor, but not policy makers for example.
As I said, I actually like these features of paypal and CCs, even if prices are slightly higher as a result. I definitely agree that competition in this space would be good, but I don't think throwing out consumer-friendly features is the answer.

To me, "no longer have to worry about chargebacks" is the same thing as "can take your money and run, and there's nothing you can do about it".
Why let someone else prescribe your retirement age?!
I used to make avionics for a living and I don't even understand what this man is talking about. (I don't think he does too) That seems to be just an ACARS sniffer.

ACARS and ADS-b has nothing do to with aircraft control systems. You don't need an android app to intercept satellite communication and even if you 'root' the ACARS computer, it is not connected to the systems that could control the airplane.

Also: to pass DO-254 at level A you must have physical switches for flight/computer functionality, that said, no software can engage autopilot or change AP behavior, you need physical switches to do that. They are NOT similar to keyboard buttons, those switches actually interfere at the hardware level.
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This takes humility. Some people don't have enough to survive contact with a grizzled veteran without coming away bitter.

By the way, this is why many self-preserving large companies use humility as a filter for new hires. They want knowledge to pass down effortlessly from the veterans to the noobs (and others) without creating unnecessary internal battlegrounds.
Check out the good book "Getting Past No" (the follow-up to "Getting to Yes") - this is called having your BATNA - Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement and will help your position even if you don't have to bring it up, just having it in your mind could boost your confidence and help you ask for what you want
I think the young founder trope persists for social reasons, not technical. The average 25 year old "understands" the internet on a very different level than the average 35 year old- simply as a consequence of having grown up around it.
>Don't even consider interning part time during the school year.

Really? All the advice I've heard anywhere else said it's extremely important to do as many internships as possible before graduating. And 7k a month? I thought internships were unpaid.
This reminds me of my current place of employment.

It's the Marxist description of capitalist employment, so you're supposed to be reminded of your day-job.
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I like the simplicity of this types of platforms (including the algorithm for hype) and I'd like to install one internally inside my organization. Have you ever used an open source platform of this kind that was clean and simple?
It's not wrong as such. It's just shallow. Hopefully it's the beginning for him of understanding sexism more deeply.

I do think it's wrong for a writer, though. If you're going to set yourself up as writing an article about a topic, I think you should actually know something about the topic.

This would have been a better piece if he'd made it more explicitly about his own feelings all the way through, rather than trying to make it about bigger things.
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It's too late you guys, I already got the account name.
Started programming at age 5, professionally since 15, now 35. I admit I've gone through short phases of this sentiment, but to me, this attitude says a lot about tolerating a crappy environment (fluorescent lights, big companies, bad clients) and how that can grind down your enthusiasm for just about anything. I'm guessing the problem isn't that you've been programming for too long, it's how you've let the situation become stale. So you've got the 'what' down? Great. Now challenge yourself on the 'how'. You're a software developer, it's literally your world right now. Work from a cabin in the mountains, a ship on the sea, or the top floor of the Ritz.
Launch now.

What is "launch" exactly? Do a Show HN. Tell all friends/family you're live and to start spreading the word. Email your personal networks and do the same. If you have a mailing list, let your list know you're live and ready to go.

Start getting feedback as soon as possible and don't ever stop listening.
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Over time, I have discovered that I generally work in one of 3 modes:

Mode 1: Unproductive. Like many corporate people. Busy, even completing transactions, but when you get right down to it, not producing much product.

Mode 2: Productive. Writing software. Testing. Talking to users. Crossing stuff off to-do lists. Making progress and feeling good about it.

Mode 3: Transcendence. Being "in the zone". "Seeing" things I hadn't seen before. Making discoveries that leapfrog previous struggles and implementing them quickly. Being ecstatic understanding new possibilities from the things I'm building right now.

I'm usually in Mode 2 (I've discovered tricks to quickly identify and get out of Mode 1.) I LOVE to be in Mode 3, but often don't have as much control getting there when I'd like.

For me, Mode 3 is usually very early in the morning or late at night. I often lose all awareness of time and space and don't leave Mode 3 until I'm spent.

I'd guess I am: Mode 1, 10%. Mode 2, 80%. Mode 3, 10%.

When you're in Modes 1 or 2, you think about things like Work/Life Balance, work hours & conditions, and work habits. When you're in Mode 3, you don't think about much of anything except what you're working on.

If you're building a startup, you should expect to be in Mode 3 quite a bit (certainly more than my 10%). Sure, there's lots of transactions to conduct, but if you want to disrupt, you have to pay your dues in Mode 3.

In Mode 3, expect to miss meals, family, friends, maybe even baths. You can worry about those things when you return to the real world.
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Defining how far or close economies are from "collapsing" will boil down to subjective semantics, but there is at least one metric by which things still seem to be trending worse in the EU; US unemployment is off record highs and job growth is continuing, albeit slowly, while the eurozone is still continuing to reach record unemployment rates[1]

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/business/global/unemployme...
And then you've made your own broker. At that point why not use an existing, more mature broker?
Agreed. A manager is not a promotion, it means you can't/don't code anymore. As long as I have my wits I'll be programming.
Less than 100M to implement and under 10M to maintain per year.

I definitely don't think it's expensive compared to the benefits. Personally, if I'm pipe dreaming, I'd rather have ubiquitous 1gigabit fiber, which google pegged at 11Billion for almost all of the US to be covered.
42 here, and still loving it.

I work from home, and can work anywhere in Europe, as much or as little as I want (within reason). I don't have to put up with meetings and bullshit bosses. Above all, I still love programming for its puzzle-solving side, and for its non-stop accumulation of learning and experience.

I'm currently having an awesome time in Barcelona, but I've lived in a beautiful city in France, by a beach in the Canary Islands, and in an 18th Century Norman Château (well, in its converted stable anyway).

I'm sooooo glad I stuck to the coalface and didn't move into management, or I'd probably still be swearing at tourists on the tube every day.
Wait till you're 30 like me and you'll feel differently about the "midlife" bit ;) . If you're like a vast number of people (not just on HN of course, but anywhere really) there's something similar to a "premature midlife crisis" of sorts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis

It's just part of growing up actually. I think programmers in particular tend to frame that into something a bit different, but the reality is that it's the same thing for all mere mortals. It's just perceived differently.
The key to your comment is "basic" research.

You can discover a new drug for a few tens of millions of dollars. Now to get that drug to market? You need to cough up a few hundred million dollars.

Discovering a drug doesn't save any patients, getting it to market does and THAT is paid for by private companies.
I was going to reply and express my hurt feelings, but I'm not sure how that will go over. I've decided to wait and see what others post before forming my opinion.
"direct-to-consumer marketing, which is already illegal in the UK for prescription drugs".

No (well, yes), it's illegal in -every single country- in the world except for the US.

Only in America does your friendly pharmaceutical giant spend more money and energy on telling you what's wrong with you via non-individualized, vague 30 second spots - "Do you not get excited about anything? Cymbalta may help!" - than your healthcare providers.

As a healthcare professional -in the US-, this disturbs me hugely.
"it seems to be the perception that is being sold to the masses."

That was part of my point - Maisel was characterized in a way that made it easier to whip up the mob against him. And that fact that Baio was a wealthy (probably) internet businessman was not mentioned.

Watterson: I love his work, too. His is unique in that he has so much respect for his own work and love for his characters that he has refused any form of licensing whatsoever - imagine how much money he has left on the table. Any time you see any of his characters on a shirt or anywhere outside of the original comics, it's a bootleg. Contrast this with Peanuts, Dilbert[0], or any other successful strip. Eventually his work will pass into the public domain, as it should, and then anyone can legally make a Hobbes toy. But I think that, until then, it's OK that he has some rights over his creations. Just because he can't stop some infringers doesn't mean that he's given up those rights. I don't see this as Watterson hiding anything: anybody can buy his books or check them out of the library.

Warhol: Interesting point. Maybe if Warhol had put his soup can image on a piece of merchandise for sale, like a record, he would have been in trouble. I'm guessing the artistic point of his paintings had something to do with the very fact that they were so close to the originals, compelling people to take a fresh look at familiar iconography. Or he was just a huckster, which was pretty much how he described himself. I think if the exact image on the cover of the "Bloop" album had been hung in a museum rather than used on merchandise, Maisel would have had a tougher case.

I stole "meatspace" from somewhere, long forgotten.

[0] Not meant as a criticism. Scott Adams has said that Watterson is an artist, while he, himself, is a businessman, and so they have different concerns.
"Federal Reserve Regulation E guarantees that US consumers are made whole when their bank passwords are stolen"

From http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1618...

Of course, as that paper points out, the traditional electronic money system is incredibly reversible. If someone transfers $50,000 from my personal bank account to someone else's bank account, it's pretty easy for it to be undone.

The bottleneck is the money mules who are hired (read: suckered) into engaging in irreversible transactions.
Being from the midwest, I agree :)
This comment ^ shouldn't be in gray.

It's a cute story, but if a cloner was dumb, he'd copy the the ROM as is and wouldn't care if the icon was hidden or not. A smarter cloner would tweak the code and the resulting ROM image would've likely had different offsets, so typing "<hex-address> G" in front of a judge simply wouldn't work. It doesn't really smacks of paranoia, but it does look like something Steve Jobs would've insisted on.
So apparently "dunder" isn't a new thing, just an alternative name for the well-known magic methods ("double-underscore methods"), which as far as I can tell never took off... (never heard the term before this video, and googling it, all I can find is references to the phrase being suggested on the python mailing list, but not used in the wild)
I have smoke detectors in my house. I've never had a fire, so they've done bugger all, but the fact that they're there means if there was a fire, I would be notified.

Useless doesn't mean the same thing as never used.
Actually, there are good reasons not to lie about that kind of thing. There are large costs associated with setting up a food production business, and as a result it is important to maintain a good reputation. If you are falsely advertising that you have been inspected to meet standard X, then the owners of standard X will eventually find you, sue you, and you will suffer large losses, both in legal damages and lost business due to reputation damage. Because of the large expense for getting started, it's hard to start over with a clean slate.

Also, I didn't make the claim that there is no role for government, only that inspections should be more diverse and voluntary. If government enforced a truth-in-advertising kind of regulation, where there are penalties for claiming false certifications beyond just reputation damage, I think that would be a much more beneficial arrangement.
Indeed, I think it's neat to consider that the electric grid could eventually end up being more distributed than the petrol grid.

Petrol has to be drilled from wherever the fossils happened to be compressed, transported to wherever the closest port is, pipelined to wherever it's convenient to have a refinery, trucked to gas stations, pumped into your car. It's a very top-down hierarchy.

Electricity can be obtained from wherever the solar, wind, gas-powered-generator, nuclear-generator, geothermal sources are (hint: just about anywhere), put onto a fault-tolerant grid, and "pumped into cars" anywhere we've run copper.

Gas wins on storage capacity/convenience, but that's about it.
Love the downvote without explanation...

That's what I get for deriding the wisdom of almighty Big-Jobs!

What, in particular, did you dis-agree with?
Does Mt Gox require you to enable client-side Java?

I don't like running Java on my computers even if they don't have access to $10,000 worth of bitcoins.
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He mentioned Alastair Humphreys' site but didn't seem to link to it (lot of great reads): http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/.

Here is the route of his around world on a bike trip:
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I'm betting they are using this 48 hour window to upgrade their systems. The most important hint was this:

"Additionally trading fees will not be charged within 48 hours of trading resuming (until 2013-04-14 02:00am UTC)."

Seems like something they are offering to apologize for the inconvenience.

All told, between the 2 days of no trading, plus the 2 days of foregoing fee's, MtGox will forego over $250K of trading fees. That's a pretty big hit.

[Edit: Confirmed by MtGox themselves:]

-- snip --

Orders will not be accepted for the moment as we need to upgrade our database to accommodate the trading volume. However, you may still cancel your pending and open orders. Trading will resume at 11.00 am JST. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

]

[Edit #2 - I just realized, they are saying two, somewhat inconsistent messages.

Message 1: Trading is halted until 2013-04-12 02:00am UTC to allow the market to cooldown following the drop in price.

Message 2: Orders will not be accepted for the moment as we need to upgrade our database to accommodate the trading volume.
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"I don't think anyone doubt that pharma companies do contribute to the investments into new medical innovations."

Every aspect of this system has to be questioned relentlessly, because each of them requires huge investments of social and financial capital. I am happy to doubt the value of the private drug companies' contributions. Many of their discoveries are reformulations of older drugs meant to allow a repatenting and re-marketing of old ideas. Many of the new supposedly breakthrough drugs do not provide significant improvements in mortality, but do cost huge amounts of money so that they can recoup their investment.

There are of course important developments that come from everywhere, but the question is about signal to noise. If, as these statistics imply, you can show that the drugs and other changes in medical care that provide positive changes to quality of life and mortality are coming from government research significantly more so than other sources then why subsidize private research, why protect the private drug development system that results in outrageously priced drugs, why waste 2/3rds of research money to produce such a disproportionately small portion of the advancements in medical knowledge?

Again, I would like to see sources for the numbers, but regardless, there should be no assumptions made about the value of private or public investment because that's the way it has been.