skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding of bitcoin, doing this would be trivially easy to track also. However, I haven't studied this in great detail, so what is said here may be incorrect.

*simplified view
Wallet 1 stores 50 bitcoin
for(i = 1; i < 100000; i++) {
Transfer 1 bitcoin from Wallet i to Wallet i+1
}

At this point, wallet 100000 contains exactly 1 bitcoin, that every transaction can be traced back to wallet 0. I understand that you would include more wallets, varying values, etc. But the point is every one of those bitcoins can be traced back to the original wallet which has the stolen funds.

The only way to make this behavior viable that I can see, is to have intermediate services that mix up funds.

So you have 50BTC Stolen funds in Wallet A.
I run Wallet B, that takes transactions from many people.
You give me the 50BTC that is stolen. I send you 50 bitcoins in small increments randomly over a set period of time, but from the other transactions I have. I do the same for other people, using the 50BTC that you sent me.

As such, my service mixed the coins through a common point, which now makes tracking the chain very difficult. If I didn't mix this with other people's transactions, and gave you back you're own coin numbers, the coins would just track through me back to the original stolen wallet.

This would need a party to offer this type of service, with enough volume to obscure the source, and for that service to not keep records (or not be inspected through other means).

Again, I want to re-iterate, my knowledge of bitcoin is somewhat superficial, so don't take this as an authoritative post on the subject.
Peace negotiations? Those are a joke. A new settlement is announced and a Palistinian community in Jerusalem is scheduled for demolition. I'm unaware of such extreme provocation from the Palistinian side, but I'm sure it is there. Peace isn't wanted anywhere near enough by anything like enough people.
1.1 Million US$ is a strong incentive to fake a theft. How can they prove it was someone else?
Well I do find it useful although in my experience it's boring. What I usually do is use the book/framework documentation to create a project which interests me, instead of the project described in the book.

Edit: This seems like a good resource http://effectivedjango.com/
That's usually true... Until it isn't
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I like how the golang team solved the issue. Ship a formatter in the core package. Discussion closed.
Lots of people have had that idea, but it doesn't work because you just end up with "Sales as a Service" to use your words.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6686977
I also received a spam email from them after contributing to Rails and sent them an email about it. PredictionIO people: your fellow developers aren't idiots. You wouldn't want to be spammed after contributing to open source projects, so don't spam us.
Google mandates 4 space indentation according to this: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht...
The primary reason people use monospace fonts is historical inertia. It's definitely worth trying out a proportional font if your environment is amenable to it (some tools don't cope particularly well, for sad and disappointing reasons).
My thoughts exactly.... $100 for only 10 modules? i believe i can get a LOT more for 1/10 of the price... But i may be wrong. They did mention it is open source. So will look into exactly what those modules are and how expensive they are to build. Might build em myself as a gift for my kid sister
It's either up to you and your daughter to decide if going over is a good thing; however; it is not an argument that says wether that parent should be put in prison.
Archive.org's scanning center destroyed by fire
or..... he never had a lethal dose of polonium
The food you choose to eat is influenced by your surrounding society. I'm glad you drink lots of water :-) but the shelter you live in, and your idea if attraction is also influenced by society!
Then use Satoshi Dice first, or start your own game of chance with ridiculous odds floated with the stolen coins and exploit peoples natural greed.
see ars' comment
> Your target audience is techies […]

“Techies” do not usually make purchase decisions. Those products that you describe sell well because the very same features you decry (Excel files, drag-and-drop web UI) are appreciated by those who actually make the purchasing decisions.
but they need EMTs who live nearby, just about everywhere - and it does not take much for neighbourhoods and states to clear into distinct patterns by house-purchase preferences (game theoretic economist whose name cannot remember won a prize for this) basically all that is needed is a prefernce for a particular neighbourhood attribute (walk to shops, less black people, more black people, close to hiking routes) and for that preference to be available at that persons clearing price.

so, a dribbling knuckle dragging KKK member would pay a lot to avoid living in Harlem (or rather would sacrifice opportunity by staying in Fuckwatsr Alabama.)

Take a nice black professional couple - happy to live in well integrated area of Manhattan - till along comes baby. at this point a slightly larger house nearer good schools is desirable - and preferably closer to grandma. Alternatively there is a nice area of Queens (?) that is predominately white but has good schools. Now all it takes is a preference or a feeling of being more comfortable near grandma and near other young mothers "just like me".

Since grandma will likely be living in an area where there was traditionally a larger percentage of black families the comfortable preference is near grandma. and who would argue with an expectant mother wanting to be comfortable.

At a certain point the cost of being near grandma will exceed the amount they can afford without realising they are making an explicit racist choice. which is I think my preferred definition - not emotional preference but when a conscious decision is made with race as a factor.

All this shakes out to mean that levels of preference few if any of us would consider racist, lead to segregated neighbourhoods. luckily other preferences intrude masking the effect.

So to help with the discussion, this implies that if everyone was perfectly color blind we would expect to see a 81% ratio. if not what is the level, the error bar, that we accept as emotional preference that does not cross the line ?

And how do we tell that difference if the starting population is not 81% in that area ? and if the school district in the area is really bad / good? (nb nationally funded schools systems I would expect see nationally less segregated societies than the USA for this reason)

anyway my 2 cents
Please don't downmod the parent comment for being racist. Before rurounijones' edit, this answer was probably the most accurate. According to Wikipedia, "In 2011, the NBA was composed of 83 percent non-white players, including 78 percent black, four percent Latino, and one percent Asian; 17 percent of the players were white." [1] Furthermore, a 1999 analysis of the top 150 NBA point scorers found that 135 (90%) were Black and 15 (10%) were White. Given that 78% of the US is white and 13% of the US is black, Blacks are substantially over-represented in the NBA. The author also estimated that in order to explain this effect, the mean "athletic quotient" of Blacks must be about 0.87 standard deviations higher than the mean "athletic quotient" of Whites. Furthermore, this athletic superiority is also found in other sports. [2] Very interesting read, if you're reading this far I suggest you look through it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NBA

[2] http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/blackathlete.htm
you're getting used to it within few months.. (currently we have tabs though)
Somehow I always thought your middle name (or initial) was d.

It's nice to see you.
> The only way to make this behavior viable that I can see, is to have intermediate services that mix up funds.

They're called 'mixers.'

> Again, I want to re-iterate, my knowledge of bitcoin is somewhat superficial, so don't take this as an authoritative post on the subject.

You've got your head on straight. Here's one small aspect you're missing: there's no connection between a person and a wallet, and there's no transaction costs, so just make a million wallets and send random amounts to each one, and then send them through a mixer, and then to each other some more, and then to a mixer....
Is there any scientific/empirical proof on this? I indent 4 spaces, no tabs, but I would like to see the real rationale there, not just the PEP-8 "rules".
While it's true of some languages, it's certainly not true of all of them. I'm not sure most is accurate either. JSON is a subset of JavaScript, so it stands to reason that JavaScript could have as many indentation levels as JSON without a loss of clarity. It also stands to reason that any language with hashes, dictionaries, etc could feasibly exceed 3 indentation levels without it being a red flag, particularly if those hashes are in a method that is already indented more than one or two levels.
My editor automatically converts [TAB] to four spaces. Works just fine for me.
Technically I live in Israel, where we have 14 days minimum holidays but nobody actually enforces labor law because there's More Important Stuff (ie: silly geopolitical game-playing) to take care of.
The book (http://www.amazon.com/Humans-New-York-Brandon-Stanton/dp/125...) is currently in spot 28 on Amazon's best seller list.
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEVM6bM-fNs&feature=share&lis...

As a Wittgensteinian (follower of L.W. on the way to P.M.S Hacker) I must simply reiterate:

Brains do not behave, nor do they fail to behave; humans behave.

Regardless of the neural correlates of developmental disorders, the behavior (map) is not a substratum (territory) – to reinforce this point, check out http://eyewire.org, where our judicious participation guides the mapping of the human brain, in a modular way (starting with the perceptual system). The perceptual system follows (eyes, e.g.) what we believe following entails. ("I believe X means nothing more or less than that I am disposed to behave in certain ways under certain conditions" – where "certainty" involves pre-theoretical commitments emergent by our own evolutionary tract.)

The intensional-extensional domain distinction of the number theory is directly structurally relevant to the discussion of inside-outside (internal-external) behavior of neuroscience. Ultimately, "rules" are ordered, and some are self-organizing (like π): "autism creates itself", as A. Klin notes.
It's a custom webapp that's modeled after Outlook, hence the resemblance. Try the demo, I'm sure you'll like it ;)
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I wouldn't be surprised (or disappointed) if some enterprising company developed a security certification (a la PCI) for Bitcoin-related providers. You wouldn't _have_ to offer it, but the market might favor those that had subjected themselves to that scrutiny.
Last I checked, I owned $0.25 worth of bitcoin.

Where's my "just here to say I bought bitcoin before it was cool" option?
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Integrate bitcoin or litecoin with your api authentication and volume tracking... pay as they go... less work for accounting staff, lower receivables days outstanding, no credit card fees
"Everyone should learn to code" != "everyone should have a job as a programmer."

"Everyone should learn to write" does not mean that everyone is an author.
You could learn puppet or something similar for configuration management on multiple nodes.
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Direct link to the article:
http://www.dn.no/dnBil/article2710523.ece

English translation:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http:/...
Why are you so angry at the world?
> I'm really, really, REALLY not suggesting that "Since banks are equally insecure

That's just as well, because otherwise I'd have to mock you. Banks are not equally insecure. I work for one, and we typically spend 10-20% of the cost of development for apps on security reviews and testing, and not from numptys from accounting firms, but actual, well-known, well-respected white hats who review our designs and run hacks against us.

We aren't perfect, of course. But these monkeys are barely on the same planet, never mind in the ballpark.
Well, Torvalds said that about C where you have no indent at the class/namespace level. So I'd argue it can be a bit more for languages that have this (most of the popular ones), 4-5 I guess.
1.7 release will be very interesting. Instead of South there will be migrations support. At DjangoCon EU Andrew Godwin told about his vision of it. i.e. if you have 200 migrations you'll be able to merge them into 1.

Form fields will get extended support like input[type="email"]

Django comments are now deprecated.

Congratulations to everyone using Django!
And?

Every editor can do it, I'm not complaining about pressing the space bar 4 times.

I'm complaining about the appearance of code indented with 4 spaces.
kinda, but you can't tell people to just go and be different. People do what they think is cool, it's pretty effective and easy to understand. The trend setters are going to appear from time to time and make something new, but they don't need to be told to do that. Maybe people can be reminded, though, that certain parameters are flexible within a familiar design language.
Actually the DX/TX series allowed limited additive synthesis using their 4 or 6 operators (oscillators in Yamaha lingo). That's how the phonic-wheel organ sounds were programmed.
Sharon looked for a deal with Abbas. That says it all. That lame duck was propped up just to split the opposition. That fact that the US and Israelis supported a deal with him is evidence enough. Negotiating with Abbas was never an attempt to negotiate with the Palestinian people, it was a an attempt to appear reasonable whilst running a prison camp that is widely likened to apartheid South Africa.
Growing up in the 70's, I learned electronics from Denshi blocks:

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

Still one of the most amazing toys I've ever seen - nothing can prepare you for the pleasures of assembling, lego-style, a circuit - and then it works!

I loved it so much I've now sort of become a bit of an EBay junky, trying to find Denshi blocks for my kids to play with .. all I've found so far is the cheap clone ripoff, but I hope to one day have a full collection of the real thing soon enough. I'd love to have the Denshi block system that came with a small synthesizer chip, for example .. this would be a fabulous toy for my 6 year old and 3 year old to play with together.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like we've sort of lost something that toys like this didn't persist in the marketplace and are just now being "re-invented" by new generations. It'd be great if Denshi blocks came back on the market .. maybe an open source version makes more sense now, though.
My local blockbuster had (6 years ago) a policy that if new releases were more than 2 days late they charged your credit card for the full movie cost ($30-40 per DVD). No refunds on this.
That is a particularly useful approach in functional languages, where the function declaration itself is actually a fairly concrete guarantee of what the function will do.

Shell scripts are almost the complete opposite end of the spectrum:

Shell script functions are usually only created as a last resort.

Global side effects (creating temporary files, changing global system state, global variables, etc.) are what shell scripts are all about.

There are rare snippets of shell scripting that are different, using local variables and doing some sort of calculation, but that is the exception, not the rule.

While ideally comments would be prolific, poetic, and perfect, some commenting is always better than none and most developers have bad habits of not commenting their code, so pushing them gently in the direction of more, not less, usually works.
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> Also, Bitcoin can be confiscated by the government

Not if you specifically want to prevent this. A bitcoin private key is 256-bit ECDSA, which provides 128 bits of security. If you can remember a 10 word randomly generated diceware phrase[1], you can securely store bitcoins in your brain.

[1] calculating the private key as a SHA256(phrase) for example
Not to mention Kissinger, cough.
Tabs should be abolished, it is a pain to edit source code full of spaces and tabs characters mixed everywhere.

Then the additional issue that everyone maps tabs to a different amount of space characters.

Only spaces can give a proper consistency without relying on external tools.
How are you calculating the price movement as a function of order size?
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If that guy did not have some kind of insurance like banks do, how can he refund anyone? ( that's a question ).

And would insurances insure this kind of business ? Now are bitcoin wallets banks ? and are they subject to the same regulations ?

Is that guy a US citizen ? can he be sued by his clients ?
They said on day one and in the EULA that it would be supported until 2012 (10 years). They extended that to 12 years to give people time to migrate. They've been more than reasonable.

Since XP came out, I've got married, had three children, owned two houses, owned 3 cars, have gone from a simple black and white Nokia phone that makes calls to a pocket cray, I've watches wars waged between many nation, I've got 160x the bandwidth on my internet connection, I have no CRTs any more, I can just sit down anywhere and get a WiFi connection and my entire library fits in my pocket,

That's a fuck of a long time. All these people really need to just stop whinging like babies and realise how long 12 years is.
Coding in the terminal does have its drawbacks.

That can't be an argument for using spaces in code, right? Rather, the terminal should keep track of which parts of its display were generated by a tab character in case the user copies the output?
Google is likely supporting Solaris for customers or for users of their open source software.
It can be if you want it to; sometimes I like to explore everyone with a particular name. There are Alex Guerras all over the world...
It's not a foreign currency. Think of it like gold. I rather think of myself as a human than as a <insert nationality from country I happened to be born in>. Gold is mine, and so is Bitcoin.
Yup. After a decade of programming, the only thing I care about is consistency. Even the weirdest code style people can come up with is just fine in a clean, consistent code base.

Mildly surprised to see people arguing for specific tab widths...
They are so full of bullshit! Like what really bothered me were ads I don't see anyway because I use Adblock! Microsoft was the first company to sign an agreement with the NSA. They even bought Skype and screwed the service because they wanted the NSA to be able to record everything. Shut up, please.
The US has had a lot of known quantities. Look at the Nuremberg trials, or more recently, Saddam and Bin Laden. Being know didn't do them much good.
The Gentoo documentation is a programming guide and doesn't advise on style. The Google style guide doesn't explain [[ because it is out of scope.
A $5 wrench or a jail cell will deal with your encryption.
They were only advocating no extension for executable shell files, not all files.
I'm gently surprised they didn't say what the Blackest jobs in America are. Because that seems like an important part of the comparison.
I basically know how it works, that was just my interpretation of the scheme and I stick to it. But I think I used the term mining in an unorthodox way.

What I meant by mining is getting reward coins from doing the number-crunching required to find good hashes for blocks. I think the current semantics is that mining means doing that hash-finding number-crunching but it's also being used to refer to mining bitcoins which is maybe a bit misleading.

Thus, I rephrase my statement: I maintain that bitcoin rewards themselves aren't necessary —— the rewards are just an incentive and indeed a convenient way to distribute bitcoins in a rather stable way.

When we hit the 21 million mark and have no new bitcoins left, the number-crunching part would still have to continue. This is no problem because of transaction fees will provide a sufficient incentive for that. And this brings us back to my point that theoretically we could've started with just that.

Theoretically, we could've started with distributing 21 million bitcoins to 21 million random people and let the peer-to-peer network start with doing only transaction verification, and incentivize that with transaction fees. (Probably wouldn't have worked in reality but that's only because of the human factor.)

That's what I meant.
Yeah, Google has 80 column limits for almost every language (except for Java, it's pretty difficult there). So does Mozilla and all major open source projects I can think of (again, Java being the exception).

It really does a lot for readability. I recently summed up my reasons for doing it in all of my projects:
http://ubercode.de/blog/80-columns
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Apple to launch 13-inch iPad: report
Umm. I'm not supporting Microsoft here!
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The Model S is outselling the Leaf in the bay area, but yeah, I see a lot of Leafs.
hardly a surprise there: over hyped franchise since the version you have mentioned. The direction the franchise took past the first one has been a let down for anyone following the team behind MoH:AA: shinier graphics, removal of dedicated server and modding tools, same old game modes (apart from Base Assault in CoD:UO and the re-hash of zombie survival in CoD:WaW), leveling system to unlock part of the game (since CoD4).

When DICE started to include destructible environment in BattleField, CoD was trying to convince that their static and confined environment was doing a better job. Obviously their target demographic doesn't have the memory to remember (or choose to ignore) the previous iteration.

It is fair to mention the discord between the owner of the company and the ex studio lead regarding the future of Activision: When you have this kind of climate existing in a company, it should be a good indicator of the product development.

All in all, I would say this is hardly news worthy, even more so on HN (sorry if it sounds harsh).
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Have you asked your team why they don't stick with the tools? Is it too difficult to use?

I invite you and your team to use Brightpod.com.

We built it :)
What external tool can't interpret a \t character correctly?

To me, the problem is consistency. I'm a 4 space man myself, but tabs don't outright offend me, as long as they're everywhere. I'd rather commit edits with tabs than attempt to convert the whole project to spaces, or worse, commit some spaces and some tabs to a single file/project.
Shell script functions are usually only created as a last resort.

Hence why they'd prefer you write Python, not shell.
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I haven't confirmed any transfers. I get email and SMS alerts, but once I press send it's done.
I've always wondered: what would drug dealers do if drugs were legalized? Would they throw their hands up and go get jobs at McDonald's? Or would they turn to robbery, kidnapping, etc?

Maybe black markets are useful for providing an income for people that have criminal records and no skills.
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Beautiful .. has my 6 year old entranced. You know what he said, though? "This thing needs sound." I'm proud of him. :)
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