skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could, but there will always be people willing to accept the coins anyway. Without protocol support, it's not particularly meaningful.
First, I doubt Israel was looking for a Grand Bargain in the midst of Second Intifada.

Second, you made grand bargain with the strongest player that could deliver the result. That was Arafat at the time.
"No regulations" sounds great up until the moment when the bank gets robbed, the police don't care, and the only proof that it wasn't an inside job is a screenshot of the banker's email[1]. (Not that I think that it was an inside job. I just think this whole situation is kinda funny.)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=283756.msg3505394#ms...
In theory, each coin (called transaction output in bitcoin lingo) can be traced through a chain of transactions to its originating block. In practice, this is useless because there is no correspondence between bitcoin addresses and individuals (except in certain points like exchanges that require your ID)

In other words, each time a coin changes addresses there is a plausible deniability for the owner of the receiving address that s/he received the coin as a result of a legitimate transaction (sale of goods/services, donation, whatever)
Many members of the community have reacted quite loudly and negatively to the suggestion that a central authority should be able to declare certain bitcoins tainted. This effectively introduces an external-to-the-blockchain way to essentially remove their bitcoins from their control, which they (currently) believe is impossible in bitcoin, and which they believe would devalue their bitcoins if it were known to be possible.
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Autism is a more likely a lot of discrete neurological diseases with some common attributes, not a spectrum.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-s-greenspan/autism-concep...
Just like Mein Kampf is evidence not everyone should learn to read and write.
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But they can always just run them through mixing services.
I don't know, $1.1M is a lot of money. If someone stole a million dollars from my company, I don't know if I'd be rushing to reimburse it with personal funds (assuming I even could), however bad I felt for the users.

That said, if I recall correctly, one case where the corporate veil can potentially be pierced in a lawsuit is negligence. IANAL, but maybe users would have a legitimate case against personal funds, assuming keeping a large percentage of deposits online was found to be negligent. It'd obviously be an incredibly complicated and expensive class action suit if it were to happen though. Also it would probably mean trying to bankrupt a guy who just got hacked and lost his company...
I'm curious, how would someone go about proving this wasn't an inside job. Is that possible?
Well, one attack that I can come up with immediately is to just create a new wallet, transfer the bitcoins from the flagged wallet, then cash out from the new wallet. Your obvious retort would then be "Aha! But how about we just track any transactions from the flagged wallet and flag those wallets too!", sure, but then you open up for an alternative attack where you could get your wallet flagged and then send a minimal amount of bitcoins to some prominent wallet to have it automatically flagged (say the hot wallet of a major exchange), extortion anyone? To solve this we would need whitelists and the arms race goes on and on...
I don't think it needs to be binary. Anyone today can choose to accept stolen or blood money. But I think you could create a distributed dye pack. It could just be an API that you query with a coin and receive a signed answer. Your Bitcoin client can report saying e.g. 'Blockchain.info thinks that this coin may be stolen. Accept anyway? Y/N' and leave it up to the user to decide. The downside is that the next person you try to give the coin to could decide that they trust Blockchain.info and not accept your money.

It's a democracy. If the masses decide that Blockchain.info is blocking coins that weren't stolen for some nefarious reason, they can just ignore their warning.

The question is: do the majority of bitcoin users even care if they are using stolen coins?
You fail to point out that cash has all the same drawbacks:

You can permanently lose cash if destroyed in a fire.

Your cash or bank account can be confiscated easily by the government.

Etc.

Of course, unlike cash, Bitcoin has advantages because it offers the option to prevent these losses: you can back up a Bitcoin wallet. You can avoid government confiscation (password-protected wallet). Etc.
We operate with this mindset for each of the roles in our org:

Sales: assume the product sucks and your job is to convince customers to buy a really shitty product

Product: assume that there is no sales and your job is to create a product that people cannot stop raving about after using it for few minutes

Client Services: assume the product sucks and your job is to still keep the customer satisfied
As an interested bystander who doesn't know much about bitcoin I'm genuinely curious if you can address any of the criticisms above or what you think about them. I'd love to see digital currencies outside state control thrive but am hesitant to use things like Bitcoin given the explicit lack of regulation and controls. The anonymous, unregulated side of it is the least attractive to me - I'd prefer it were not at all anonymous, because of all the issues raised by that - it leads directly to incidents like this IMO.
Meh, he provided a bunch of useful and relevant info, and subtly (but not misleadingly) plugged his business. I don't mind.
"Accept-and-mutter-darkly just preserves the status quo."

I don't accept and mutter darkly, i just think the majority of the populace in the US is happy "as long as it doesn't happen to them", so i'm not sure much will change?
What's wrong with posting an alternative solution to the problem? If someone else developed this kind of service, I would post it here instead, because I'm in Bitcoin from 2011 and I believe it will succeed. Unfortunately no one to date did this yet, that's why we come in.
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Maybe I don't understand the argument: what if `int the_third_parameter` lies on an odd column. How would one indent to that column using only tabs of an even shift width?
Oh, I'm sorry if I gave a pro-bitcoin impression. I think BTC is nothing more than a curiosity. Your criticisms are spot on. I won't ever use BTC for anything.
The most obvious ones were Pakistan, Iran and North Korea. You can find possible links between these countries to the Palestinians (especially via Syria and Hezbollah).
Being in position #1 doesn't make a monopoly.
It actually does, 2 spaces indents are hard to read, period.
Is Form/Task fit is a new Product/Market fit for wearable-computers startups?
All of those but possibly Boston are essentially mentally ill people who went nuts - domestic attacks. The NSA is usually tasked with dealing with foreign threats. So your complaint is, by and large, mistaken. Your complaint is better directed at local police and mental health facilities.

It's almost certain that the TLAs generally tries to keep within the law as they see it, and push the boundaries as far as they can - this is the trend of the executive branch. I would expect them to have batteries of lawyers hired to find out exactly what is permissible, and then to do all of it.

It'a also entirely disingenuous to say that the TLAs have no purpose. To riff off of @leashless from Twitter - they are a reaction - an immune response - to some entities which do and did some very bad things covertly, and are now being an autoimmune disease on the host state. The truth is, 9/11 gave a rather large blank check to the industrial/ security/intelligence companies and agencies in the US, and most people were not in the mood to worry about civil liberties too much at the time. "Never again" was the refrain, and that sort of perspective removes all ability to do a cost-benefit analysis. So they expanded with that attitude and that check... then, like beauracracies do, they entrenched and began to expand power and capabilities. This is not new behavior in any bureaucracy. This sort of eventuality was, as I recall, predicted quite loudly after the Patriot Act was passed.
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>Interesting thought. Could there be "shunned" Bitcoins where, if they held certain blacklisted wallets in their history, businesses and users would choose not to accept them?

This is the mechanism I always thought the feds would use to go after bitcoin. "Possession of stolen property" - My understanding of the law in my area is that I am breaking the law if I possess stolen property, even if I can prove that I obtained said property legitimately and even if I couldn't reasonably be expected to know that said property was stolen.

What if the feds decided to apply the same thing to bitcoins? I mean, what if you legitimately obtain bitcoins that are, in fact, stolen property? Or bitcoins that were used in a law-breaking transaction?
Buy high, sell low, and make up for it with volume.
Did you just repost that from /r/worldnews?
Note, I'm not saying it's a fantastic idea, just something that happened to occur to me as a possible development in Bitcoin's future.

It'd likely be along the lines of anti-spam lists. You might have one that's high-profile thefts or seizures. For that matter, these lists could be political, issue-based, or whatever.

It's ridiculous and unlikely to be followed if taken out to the extremes of issue-based disputes, but I don't think it's impossible for a significant number of people to agree not to transact in stolen Bitcoins, some on principle, some as self-preservation (the exchanges), and most because their utility is reduced by the first two groups refusing them. This also happens to increase the value of untainted Bitcoins.
Remember that more often than not the technical interviewers won't be prepared
for you because they're probably more concerned about whatever's stopping them
from shipping the next release then growing the team and the fact that you're
taking time away from that puts you at a disadvantage.

You can counter this by showing what you can do and how you can help them
right at the start. Bring your laptop and be prepared to show code samples,
demo applications, documentation, training materials or whatever you else you
can and jump on any opportunity to take charge and show your stuff.
Try and promote a feeling of optimism and the sense that you take pride
in your work.

If you get the chance to chat, ask about something they'e struggling with and
relate that back to your own experience. Tell them about your struggles, how
you kept your head and helped the team when things got tough and make sure they
know how happy it made you when you finally shipped your last product.
Real craftsmen will know what you're talking about and appreciate it.

Finally, do your research before you visit. If you can, ask for the interview
schedule in advance and find out what you can about your interviewers.

This has almost always paid off for me. At one job I discovered one of my
interviewers studied under Knuth. Early in the conversation he asked if I
had any questions and I immediately jumped on that, asking him what it was
like to work with him. He smiled and said that the hardest part for him
was the effort he had to put into TeX and typesetting.
I wonder if this is a problem that could be solved with an evolution of the technology. Meaning bitcoin (or a future crypto-currency) policing itself in a distributed manner, without requiring a central authority. Perhaps some way to hold referendums as to whether specific coins should be considered stolen. And if passed, some predetermined resolution mechanism would come into play, whereby the stolen coins would no longer be valid anywhere, and new coins would become available - either returned to the theft victim, or added to the mining pool, or something.
And there you have it... if you were registered with a regulator you would have insurance and have had put up a multimillion dollar bond in some cases for a scenario were YOU screw up.
Have you never trolled the r/debatereligion circuit?
The optimal mechanism is to indent with tabs, and align with spaces (that is, you have the same number of preceding tabs as whatever you're trying to align with, and then use spaces from there).

Though setting your editor up to do that automatically is an incredible pain, and it kind of forces you to use a monospace font.
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API is a legacy term created the time before the Internet era standing for Application Programming Interface. Should it be called Web Service to be more precise for API connecting over the Internet?
They would be fighting a losing war (ironically, like the drug wars itself). Tracking down random silk road sellers is not really that easy.
Haha, I like your way of putting it. I'll save your comment and re-use it when I have the chance :)
You're healthy, you don't have any life-critical problems at the moment. You don't need insurance.

But when you do need it - if you have an accident, get cancer, or otherwise ill - and you don't have it: well, no medicine for you. Go die in the streets.

And before you say this is an extreme position, no. I have worked with homeless and despondent people in America, on the streets, and time and again encountered people who simply didn't have the money for the treatment they needed, so they were on the streets. Dying of cancer. All over America.
Who will bake my bread and pump my gas?
Instead of hating something you should try to understand it first:

> permanently lost because you forgot a password

You don't have to encrypt your wallet, that's up to you. If you believe that not even knowing the password of an encrypted wallet you should be able to recover your bitcoins your problem is actually with cryptography in general.

> the government cheerfully gained control of a large share

Powerful entities have power, welcome to the real world.

> the fact that you're greedy bastards

huh? can you expand on this?

> it intentionally promotes a counter-establishment treatise

Nop, Bitcoin is a technology, and neither the paper nor the Bitcoin Foundation is "counter-establishment". Actually the last one is trying really hard to make Bitcoin "pro" establishment.

Sorry I don't wanna be rude but your post is absurd.
Mafia: Pay us, or else something bad will happen and you will not survive it.

Insurance: Pay us, or else WHEN something bad happens, you will not survive it.

Understand the nature of the con now? Industrialized medicine never has the individuals' best needs in mind.
Isn't that effectively bitcoin laundering?
On what forms do you have to state your "race" or skin color? Ich have never been asked for it anywhere.
I live in Germany.
Wait a few years for the Bitcoin ecosystem to mature, and all the security mechanisms developed by banks (and more advanced ones that are just inapplicable to cash) will appear and be applied to Bitcoin: theft insurances, properly secured web wallets (HSM, userbased multi-sig, cold wallets, etc), tamper-proof hardware wallets, etc.
Back in July, TradeFortress, the operator of input.io claimed that 0 coins are store on the web facing server.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251553.0
Godwin's law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
First point is wrong, from IE 11 the default is automatic updates.

Actually, I think that is from IE 10, or at least so it is on my machine.
I think she meant you paying $600/hr, and the lawyer delegating the whole task to the student (=increased chance of errors and bad work for the full price).
If the owner is either incapable or unwilling to refund everybody's money then it doesn't even matter whether it was an inside job or not. It's pretty telling that he's posting a screenshot that essentially says nothing instead of being open about whether or not he'll be able to fully reimburse the people who lost money. I don't think it was explicitly stated, but it seems like people are just getting whatever percentage of the remaining funds that they owned.
fosspatents is an Oracle and MS shill.
Just one thing I wanted to add. If anyone has a startup idea "Marketing as a Service", HN is probably a good place to start your service since we see this as a regular need: people making applications they have no clue how to market. There's probably a ton of unmet needs in this field.
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I'd add http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.in/2011/04/on-monet... to round it off
Nope, authored it here and then posted it on worldnews afterwards. That's quite clear from the timestamps.
HTML, XML, and JSON are document description formats. For most programming languages, more than 3 levels of indentation is a red flag.
If you did that, wouldn't you just be re-inventing DATAllegro or early versions of Greenplum or early versions of Aster? I.e., better than nothing, but still far short of a modern analytic relational DBMS?
The size of a need and the complexity of software for that need tend to be completely unrelated.

People are paying in proportion to the pain/joy you solve, not in proportion to how hard it is to solve that. The difficulty affects only supply - i.e., if you do make it, how large the competition will be.
That's probably an important detail when commenting on an article about demographics in America.
I saw these demoed at an event last week. They're very cool, and my kids (age 11 & 7) went right to work snapping stuff together and were able to make working circuits in a few minutes. The downside is that the price point was rather higher than I'd like. In the end, it's a cooler (and somewhat more sophisticated & flexible) version of SnapCircuits.
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Where did I say I was making it executable?
I usually use the trailing | but I can certainly see the sense in the leading pipe.

It makes it clearer that the lines following are continuations; especially the last in the pipeline.
No, that fits with the remarks made by others.

I wasn't sure whether the null hypothesis is approached by looking at the likelihood of sample variation from the general population of individuals, or whether by calculating how many job titles in the population of job titles would have such outlying numbers.

The consensus seems to be that most of these are not by chance. Roll on the debate.
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bemusing clarification. Just line one works.
Hah... if you think 2 space indents are bad in shell (and C++), you should try writing python with it (yes, google coding style, in a fit of madness, insists that engineers try to keep python blocking straight with 2 space indents. Remember, some of these hapless folks are maintaining large bodies of production python code (as opposed to itty bitty automation scripts).
You might, because two slices of white bread spikes your blood sugar higher than a can of full sugar coke http://quittingsugar.com/2012/07/11/bread-and-coke-smackdown...
Ah, I didn't see the distinction between "indent" and "align."

Anyway, it seems like this system necessitates that the leading white space on a given line must be a mixture of both tab characters (\t) and spaces, unless one sets their editor to insert space characters as tabs (which is standard), and is obviously living in a state of sin.
I'm always astounded by comparisons of bitcoin to paper cash - in 10 years we probably won't even be using paper cash and it is hardly ever used for large transactions now in advanced countries - paper cash is history. I think I've done about 5% at most of my spending in paper in the last month.

How about digital cash?

Also, Bitcoin can be confiscated by the government, along with the computer/server it sits on (see silk road). A $5 wrench or a jail cell will deal with your encryption. You can also permanently lose it if someone copies your wallet/backup and then spends it particularly while it is on one of these exchanges - that's because transactions are not reversible or traceable to a verified identity.

Technically, I think Bitcoin sounds really substantial and love the idea of creating/spending keys which avoid government inflation, but the axioms on which the usage is based are all wrong -

I've never lost money in a fire, and never will. I don't want to avoid government confiscation by technical means (which fail), I want to avoid it by law. I don't want to be able to launder money (or for others to). I don't want my transactions to be anonymous and to have no central authority and no accountability when theft/fraud happens.
Who isn't using a monospace font for code editing? I didn't even realize this was a thing.
Except it's not - it's well preserved, and not decomposing in the way that a rotting corpse would be.
The most important point:

Shell should only be used for small
utilities or simple wrapper scripts
Hi!

I'm missing something very basic here. The core idea of Presto seems to be to scan data from dumber systems -- Hive, non-relational stores, whatever -- and do SQL processing on it. So isn't its speed bounded by the speed of the underlying systems? I know you're working on various solutions to that, but what parts are actually in production today?
> The grandparent's hypothesis was that maybe the results seen here are merely the result of random chance

Not necessarily my hypothesis per se. Rather, it's the default hypothesis that you're supposed to disprove before you go on to propose other hypotheses.

My problem is that I remember the existence and requirement to test the null hypothesis, but not the mechanics of how to do that. Luckily we have some people who are across basic statistics and so the conversation is able to move past "it's probably just chance" to speculate about whys.
Understandable. Are there any non-identifying details you're able to provide that might elucidate what separates your business from those who are unable to achieve such success from posting on HN? Do you think the HN post itself was critical to your success, or would it have been just the same if you'd been featured on Reddit, TechCrunch, Pando, Lifehacker, NYT, etc?
Short of the actual thief publicly outing himself, I can't really think of any way.
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The AGPL is exactly the same as the GPL, except that if there is a button to click to download the source code of the program, you are not allowed to remove that button.
But Google doesn't tell you to download Firefox on every other page they own across the entire internet.

They do so for Chrome. "Upgrade your browser", "Get a faster browser" and all that bullshit we laughed at MS for doing with MSIE.

But now it's Google doing it. Everywhere. With no anti-trust regulatory reactions in sight.
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It's a pity that elastic tabstops never got any traction. it's a really nice idea: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
If you'd like assistance working on a spec and learning how to submit it to standards bodies, please send me an email, I'd love to help.
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"Web services" is pretty strongly associated with SOAP, at least in my part of the world.
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Oh, you have got the right guy then. :) but I don't know why you said james_d.
Unfortunately firefox 24(on windows) has problems with rendering the style of the xsl stylesheet and gives crap putput(Basically the full text content with no line breaks). It seems to work on firefox 21/linux though. Also ie8/windows and chrome 30/windows chromium 25/linux work.
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