skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can somebody with some knowledge about the chinese bank and regulatory system tell me if Bitcoin presents an attractive opportunity for chinese people to buy foreign currency like the Euro and Dollar easily?
I think what he means is this:

If you buy something online for example and you don't get it, you can call them up bitch about it and they refund you, and in worse case if they are jerks and you used your credit card you can dispute.

With bitcoin, once transfer is done from one account to another account, the transaction is not reversible. Since bitcoin addresses are anonymous, you don't know who it went to so there is no way to track and reverse the transaction like we do with refunds and voids.

However, his explanation doesn't make sense anyway. The concerns he raises are about fake accounts and having them to pay exchange to purchase the coins before they actually withdraw money from your account, which is taking a risk on their part to be able to secure the coins at the price you purchased. However, this is not true either. I had my orders cancelled back to back even if the money was withdrawn from my bank account. What risk? I don't know. Perhaps they made money from not granting me the coins that were doubled in price since last week.
Actually there are many benefits to the LEO for having their interactions recorded. The use to the organization when addressing citizen complaints and providing evidence are pretty widely acknowledged. [0]
This isn't just about 'catching cops doing bad'. It is also about having more reliable evidence to use if a complaint or a situation of one person's word against another arises.
The fact that it can also prove wrongdoing by a LEO should be thought of as a side benefit.

[0] http://www.theiacp.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=5k3IK9SZuz4...
I don't care if they've taken heavy inspiration from Chrome. I love the UI of Chrome and I am glad Firefox aren't embarrassed or afraid to take such obvious inspiration from a great looking browser and build upon it. This is exactly what Firefox has needed, a properly designed UI.
That would be quite useful. Otherwise it's very hard to tease apart the differences between optimization back ends of GCC and LLVM vs the Rust and C++ front ends. I feel like I have seen benchmarks showing differences around 5-20% between LLVM and GCC in speed, so the it will have an effect.
Everyone I know in Chicago with residential Comcast service (including myself) has had native IPv6 deployed since ~June 2012. Based on information from http://www.comcast6.net it looks like Comcast lit up IPv6 for residential customers first and is now conducting trials with their business customers.
Does any other expert agree with Lustig, or is it just him and a bunch of people who've watched videos by him?
I just did a quick calculation: 12000000 bitcoins in circulation, @ $750/BTC... $9billion worth of bitcoin.
The US Dollar is based upon the full faith and credit of the American nuclear weapons stockpile.
This may be true, but it doesn't make a phone with one any less outdated. Almost every company has eliminated phones with physical keyboards from their portfolio, and even the company that pioneered them is downplaying them and has shifted them off of the flagship models.

They're as outdated as rotary phones or cellphones with a physical number pad. Can you still buy them? Sure. Are there still those that desire them? Absolutely.

None of that makes them any less arcane.
I thought I linked to the chapter. It's chapter 19 if you're interested.

I agree that wrong isn't the same as stupid, but in this case I meant to say stupid.

I thought it would be apparent that it was a stupid decision but maybe I should have justified it.

One way to look at it is that rules (like "parents don't depend on their children") are just guidelines used to achieve desirable outcomes. In choosing how you act, you should aim to achieve the outcome, not to follow the rule. It seems that in his "not depending on his children", he acted to follow the rule, instead of to achieve the outcome.
That's why I've held onto my Sony Xperia Pro for ages...
If a transaction is decided to be "High Risk", why not postpone the transaction until additional verification is done?

Instead, we are left wondering if Coinbase is selectively cancelling transactions that they can make a profit off of (due to the volatility of bitcoins)
Based on your username, I am going to assume you are referring to this lawsuit:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/139975904/Aaron-Greenspan-lawsuit

In which case you are the Plaintiff suing these companies which is very different than the US government suing them.
> Every now and then I'll notice that my web browser selects the AAAA record for ...

By what method are you noticing that? I made this extension for Chrome that displays a "4" or "6" in the address bar:

https://ipvfoo.googlecode.com/

Here's a similar extension for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sixornot/

Sadly, Hacker News is still stuck on "4".
The ACLU stands for civil liberty. Civil liberty is about protecting the rights of individuals from the government and other powerful actors. In this case, the privacy of individual officers is being threatened by the government.

One might argue that on-duty police shouldn't have privacy, that society benefits from transparency. But that's not the job of the ACLU. Personally I respect their ideological consistency. It reminds me of Richard Stallman; even when I disagree with him, I'm glad he's out there doing what he does.
For those who want a Nokia N900 and only want to pay $199, it's still on Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-N900-Unlocked-Computer-Touchscre...
The IEEE would say that everything a software ENGINEER should know is in their SWEBOK guide here http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok/htmlformat

If the date 2004 worries you, then download a draft of version 3 of SWEBOK here http://computer.centraldesktop.com/swebokv3review/ and click on SWEBOKV3_Ballot_public.pdf on the left sidebar of the page.

Actually, if you want to put together a plan for self study, then work through SWEBOK and Google for papers on the various sub topics covered. One thing about software engineering is that just about all research is published openly on the web particulary in CiteSeerX.
Hi,

I've created a github project here - http://github.com/krrishd/suicide-prevention
That N900 used to be the ultimate hackers phone because how open it was, in fact always considered it more a pocket computer than a phone. Afaik was the first smartphone were was tested taking HDR photos, had a bunch of special pourpose linux distros for it (i.e. NeoPwn, for network auditing) and some other things that we see as normal today, but probably first tested there). And really miss how comfortable was that keyboard compared with touchscreen ones, there are pretty few hw keyboard phones.

Being even more open than the bundled Maemo, with more memory (if well 512k is the double of what it had, it is still small for current day uses) could be the phone version of the raspberry pi.
2250% Return on investment is rather nice. I wish I had bought more though haha.
That's fine, you should just be aware that the rock you've tied yourself to is being tossed in the ocean by OEMs and it will gradually sink you to the bottom of technological progress.
Hi,
I've created a github project here - http://github.com/krrishd/suicide-prevention
What price would you then give the user?
> the eventual victory of the federalists in the Civil War was, in effect, the creation of a new nation organized around industrial capitalism.

Which is why the war was started by plantation slave-holders: They knew that the only way to keep their slaves was to dissociate their economy and politics from that of the industrialized North. Even after they destroyed the concept of states' rights by passing the fugitive slave laws, they still weren't confident that slavery could endure when the North was going great guns without it. When the North proved that they could elect a President without pandering to Southern Slave Power interests by electing Lincoln in 1860 without a single Southern vote going to him, that was the last straw.

(The election of 1860 was, in effect, two elections going on in parallel: Bell v Breckinridge in the South, Lincoln v Douglas in the North. Except, of course, only one man could be President, and Lincoln won the Electoral College by a convincing majority.)
Rather than focus on only one aspect of security you would be better off to become familiar with everything related to OWASP https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page and in particular, you should know how to address their Top 10 Threats.
No its simply not an engine, you are wrong. WPF or WPFe (Silverlight) or WinRT have layout engines, XAML can instantiate objects that call into the respective layout engines. Those same object can be created with normal code as well, no XAML at all.
No, the privacy extensions simply use a random interface ID instead of deriving it from the MAC address. You still use a single /64 subnet as usual.

(Unless there is an aspect of the privacy extensions I'm not familiar with, but this is what people usually mean when they say "privacy extensions.")
I just activated a new Comcast connection in Portland. Ironically, IPv6 "just works" totally out of the box, but IPv4 does not.
Nah it's not.. never heard of it =)
Technical support position with minimal programming experience 
I've received a job offer from a company to work as a technical support engineer. I originally interviewed with them for a C#/C++ software engineer position, but they offered me a role as a technical support engineer instead. That is because I have just a year of experience as a software developer using C#

I am feeling some pressure to take this role because of the economy and I just put in my 2-week notice in my current job due to personal reasons

I don't think I'll get much of a chance to work with any programming languages, such as C#/C++, in this role, so that's why I'm concerned this may hurt my career. But I will get training and get to work with the other software engineers. I want to have a career as a web developer

Any opinions?
Bitcoin Knocking on $800: Blodget and the rarified air around bitcoin
By that standard, how do you justify Amazon's $170B market cap, given it's notoriously low profit margins?
Good details. US laws suck. But they have all this account/identity verifications which is trackable. As a new user, I followed all steps to become a good user, but all my transactions are being cancelled. I even tried new accounts, and no luck. So, if they were to follow this trust pattern, no new user would be able to become a good user. I have seen posts where people who are veterans on coinbase have their transactions cancelled. I am to the point that I want to drop by their office with a physical check in hand and tell them to buy me BTC.
Ask HN: What's the safest/best site to buy a Bitcoin right now?
It's extravagant, and doesn't provide meaningful security. How much do you pay the armed guards that stand watch over your laptop 24/7?

"Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench." — Gene Spafford

(Hat tip to schoen: http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa/)
That's the original complaint--an amended complaint has been filed since--but I'm not sure I follow... Whether or not the law has been enforced has nothing to do with their compliance. The full docket is here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2434524
The risk is not that your account will be debited, it is that you will go to your bank and claim the charge was not authorized by you after having moved the coins off their site. Now, maybe your bank account was compromised, and the attacker used your info to get coins. The bank will still refund you at the expense of coinbase. Remember, it isn't the "good" actors these actions are meant to protect against. A business like coinbase is a target 24/7 for many malicious individuals with access to lots and lots of compromised accounts.
In practice, they don't. You can compare loans and leases with deposits here (around 75% right now...):

http://www2.fdic.gov/SDI/SOB/

I guess you are saying they do accounting shenanigans with the Federal Reserve to make the deposits larger than they really are?

(I will admit, I am more interested in aggregate practice here than I am in what the more extreme banks are doing)
To answer your questions about the context: over-the-air broadcasts generally only include the games for that particular region of the country. (Here's this week's map: http://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2013&wk=11 )

Having regional broadcasts allows the sports leagues to essentially sell the games twice: once for the local network and once for the cable network (though I'm sure the actual licencing is more complex than that). Access to all of the games is a selling point for cable, particularly when your favorite team hails from a different region than the one you are currently living in (which is fairly common in the US, particularly since team attachment is often based on where someone grew up or which college they went to).

This setup makes sense for the leagues, since it was based on the limits of the original technology. Aereo removes the technical limits, and is threatening to remove the legal limits.
My confusion is that you think there's a slope here to slip down. As mentioned in another comment, the police really are exceptional in both power and responsibility. As stated in a (far) above comment, this actually is a protection for the officer as well. Remember that they are first responders for evidence, and if they do their job well the video evidence will only bolster their credibility. And if not, it will only empower victims of abuse.

None of the other groups have so much responsibility and power where trust is so critical to their functioning.

I've is slippery, too, and it can take you in any direction you fall: how far are you willing to compromise a lack of oversight?
As far as I know the privacy extensions only cycle through the host portion of the address (lower 64 bits) so they should work fine with just a /64. Access to a bigger prefix may help you get around systems that do IP banning in /64 chunks though.
> … that no employee below VP level can afford to live near.

San Jose, Santa Clara, Campbell, and even parts of Cupertino and Sunnyvale are far more affordable than SF. This is especially so for couples and families.

(Suburbia is a far cry from SF in terms of culture, obviously, but that's a different topic)
I understand where they're coming from, but my experience with support has been less than stellar. About four weeks ago I bought 10 BTC from them. My transaction was deemed "high-risk" and the order was cancelled. I never got my money back.

I've been corresponding with support over the past four weeks and still haven't seen a dime. Support generally takes 4-5 business days to respond to each email. I understand that their support staff is extremely limited, but it is still unacceptable, especially because they're dealing with monetary transactions.
Actually, Joel has a lot of great blogs, not just the one on the Joel test. Browse through the titles and read any that seem interesting. He has been writing good material for many years. Of course he is not the only great blogger on the topic of software engineering, so whenever you need to google for info on a topic, click on the More... dropdown and select Blogs to find more great bloggers.
Why is that not ok?
Obviously it's worth something, just not much. It's certainly not worth using obsolete hardware for pretty much all users, and the vast majority of developers.

We all draw a line somewhere, most of us just tend to draw it at what works best for us with the most reasonable tradeoffs. If an RMS-style "free device" is what works best for you, more power to you. It's not for most, and the tradeoffs this device makes so that it can exist make that abundantly clear.
> So outdated it's still got a physical keyboard.

Yes please!
Where "I've" is an example of the sloppiness led from excessive trust in auto-correct. Should be "Ice", a word I clearly slipped up on.
> All this calamity for this family of 10 came from bad planning. This guy had a career that would have likely lasted until retirement, but he took a risk and quit it. That was a smallish risk, not nearly the risk he took while in his next job.

To be fair his career would have quit him shortly after he quit it. The industry changed.
Holly! That is one hell of a plaintiff list. I am going to enjoy reading this.
> What I don't understand: * If I could watch the sports game for free, why would I ever choose to pay for it instead? * If they (I think in this fight 'they' refers to the NFL and MLB) don't want me to watch the sports game for free, then why do they allow/provide free broadcasts in the first place?

Because they currently have a way to monetize it: retransmission fees. If, however, Aereo becomes popular, the broadcasters claim this monetization model will be undermined; their response will be to stop doing over-the-air transmissions and instead directly license with premium content companies, such as ESPN.
I agree, for the most part. No right of privacy on duty, but they should have a reasonable expectation of discretion. For example, if there are two officers driving a beat somewhere, and they're wearing a recording device of some sort, if they choose to discuss family matters with each other, that has no reason to make it to the public record. However, if in the middle of their conversation, they spot someone doing a purse-snatching, all of the events surrounding that crime should be available for the record. I would expect someone from the court to make the sensible decision as to what goes into the record.
I have never heard that 401ks caused the bubble and would love to see more than one source that says this.
Ironically enough, due to check fraud that check might not help you as much as you think ;)

I don't know what algos they use to detect fraud but being a veteran does not always mean there won't be fraud on your bank account. Remember, this is not about those five 10 dollar transactions you authorized, this is about that one 5 thousand dollar one that was the result of fraud. From their point of view, a false positive is much better than a false negative.
A friend of mine had a similar "issue". He had a modem too new to be on Comcast's approved list so they refused to register it. After plugging it in anyways, IPv4 was filtered to a Comcast captive portal with modem registration instructions but IPv6 stuff worked fine... whoops.
> only the secret service guy seemed to be very cautious; he never said the word bitcoin and mostly spent his time saying the secret service was awesome.

To make it clearer for anyone who doesn't know: The Secret Service is the primary government agency charged with investigating the counterfeiting of American currency. Protecting the President and other dignitaries is minor compared to that. That's probably why they're testifying in the Senate now to begin with.
This is a basic application of the ideas in the first week of a microeconomics 101 course.

Maybe I'm being an arrogant dick, but if you don't already intuitively get this stuff, you really should not get involved in any kind of business that depends for its success on adwords, A/B testing, customer segmentation, and so on.
Unselected tabs blend into the chrome? No border?

Eugh. That seems silly.
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I read the first paragraphs of the overview[1]. It sounds like a federated service that the end-user would still pay for and treat like AWS. The P2P aspect is inter-company federation of storage (so like AWS and Azure could cooperate).

This isn't P2P in the common sense (end-user devices aren't talking to each other). And it doesn't eliminate the need for AWS-esque providers, even if their backend happens to be federated among multiple companies. To the end-user, there's zero difference.

1: http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/info/overview.html
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That's a good point and there seem to exist different understandings of the term in different countries. I do wonder where this comes from. In Germany Sozialismus is always understood in the marxist sense and it is furthermore inseperable from the political system of the German Democratic Republic. I am not privy to the finer points of the French Socialist's political agenda, but from my understanding they roughly resemble our Social Democrats.
I thought the same: say "I was meeting a reluctant witness". His argument sounded more like evasion than reality. I don't see how it's much different to "Why didn't you check in for 45 minutes today?".

If you think that corruption is a problem amongst your senior staff and dispatchers, then that's something that needs to be addressed, not hacked around.
This is the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi).

One interesting observation about the ad: the search results that the girl deems to be good and informative are almost all Wikipedia hits. It's actually pretty similar to my situation: Google is basically a better Wikipedia searching tool than what Wikipedia provides.
I'm not sure that's feasible. At least, not with the current Bitcoin design. Any individual can have as many wallets as they want, and while specific addresses and wallets are traceable, you don't have to make indentifiable transactions from any given wallet. So, for example, one might have a "public" Bitcoin wallet, and a "private" one. The private one you use in the way someone who works for cash and tips might operate today...they don't tell the government about all of it.

So, you've got your public wallet to prove you have money available, for making credit decisions, for deciding whether to sell you a house, etc. And your private wallet because "fuck the police". There's not even a good way to know if a wallet is located in the US or somewhere else.

And, if there are people willing to take coins from people's private wallets, there will likely be a solid economy outside the government's control; as there already is; there's a massive barter and cash economy. Bitcoin makes it slightly technically challenging (like, how do you get and spend bitcoins to and from your private wallet if you can't accept your paycheck there and can't order goods shipped to your house with it).
This is a beautiful ad and will make you emotional. As a person of Indian background I was able to relate to it easily but I wonder what others think of it? Are you able to feel the strong emotions based on reading subtitles or does language hamper the feelings and it loses its impact.

Kudos to the team involved in this and thanks for posting this.
If anything, since your responsibilities increase, your privileges should as well.

I would argue the opposite. The unique powers given to cops (the ability to detain people and use violence) should come with significant hurdles to using those powers and increased oversight.
This is true, but if we take on one side a group of consumers as one entity against the government as another, pseudonymity is way more valuable for the former than for the latter, for practical reasons.
Noble of NYtimes to publish article. But, are we forgetting about one TPP treaty which they sponsored?
Amazing, Jesse. Where in Georgia? I am also in Georgia and am looking to add another partner to a growing team of entrepreneurial spirits and would love to have someone with your skill-set. You could end up with equity in the proposed business plan if you like the idea and want to help our team turn the idea into reality (and of course, if the reality ends up adopting us. I am being cryptic on purpose. My email is djlolastarr@gmail.com if you would like to chat further.