skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to term this "retaliation", I suppose technically you're right, but your characterization disregards the fact that they're human, with human emotions. I think one of the great mistakes people make when debating the flaws of the justice system is to assume that its people are somehow on a higher ethical pedestal than the rest of society, that somehow they should and must behave more correctly. Unfortunately, they don't, and so it's easy to find biases and injustices in the system.

Which is why there should be an accounting when someone reveals these humans letting their emotions get the best of them. To act like everyone has the same emotional control is absurd -- put people with better emotional control in power and not these people.
Really? Last I saw, they just said they would make it right. We haven't seen confirmation from the original customer saying it was dealt with. Considering all he had gotten from them up to the point of posting on Hacker News was more reassurances that the situation would be fixed, I'm not reassured that it's fixed yet just because there was yet another reassurance given.
So, remember that virus that communicates using high-pitched sound? If no, here's an article:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mys...

This article says that the Furby communicates in the same way. It would be interesting if the Furby was a vector for spreading messages via this virus. Very, very interesting.
developers. developers.
you shouldn't have to raise money to provide solid service
1. Tech buses were a response to people living in the city. I don't think not having them would necessarily "force" them to live on the peninsula. When I worked for a company in Sunnyvale that didn't have a private bus I still didn't move down there.

2. People act like this is a simple matter of getting more money into public transit. This is silly, even if that was the only roadblock (pun intended!), building a new freeway takes a lot of time, and expanding public transportation takes a lot of time, and in the meanwhile makes things even more miserable for everyone. Just look at all the very modest light rail expansions in the city and how they've made those sections nightmares for traffic for years. Google and FB need solutions today, not 5 years from now, and personally paying for shuttling their own employees seems like an incredibly environmentally conscious and fair way to handle it: don't forget, they're decreasing congestion on muni/bart/caltrain for everyone else. Lastly, money isn't the only problem: there's a lot of politics in public transport. For example, the reason the BART doesn't go all the way to Cupertino is because they voted against it there. So when you throw around expanding public transport as if its a defense of poor existing SF residents, realize that it may also be a form of antagonization for people in other communities. Hiring your own bus seems to be the simplest, cheapest, least displacing, and fairest way of solving this problem.
Forget the difference in the exchange rates. Are you saying you have no system in place to monitor if transactions execute successfully? I'm not trying to be hyperbolic but that's really shocking for a company that is trying to play a role as a financial institution.
Amen. This really does seem like a problem of SF's own making. You have a booming population of wealthy (or at least upper middle class) workers — this is typically a good problem to have! If there was ample housing, and/or the ability to develop and increase density in areas to accommodate, then rents wouldn't be rising so drastically, and the entire community could benefit.

I wonder how many of these protestors blocking the Google bus also protest any increase in density/development?
What's the case for marijuana being more than 5% of Mexico's economy?

(I read a little bit that suggests that is a reasonable estimate of the maximum size of the U.S. market; the numbers are wishy-washy because use is not especially well characterized. U.S. tobacco consumption is ~7% of the Mexican economy, for the sake of establishing some sort of scale.)
Good call spotting the sock puppet.
I'm still very puzzled about these eventually consistent systems… Maybe I'm just getting old…

> Consider Immutable Data

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Perhaps locking isn't such a bad idea after all?

> De-Normalise Your Data

The more usual advise is to normalize it to the hilt:

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/12/12/10-...
? Are you suggesting the problem here is people aren't allowed to control 2008 era macbooks?
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What about the criticism that the private buses are using public infrastructure and are blocking the public busses from using the stop? Certainly you can agree that the public infrastructure should first go to the public systems we all fund and benefit from?
Intrinsic. Those people have not been making use of the intrinsic value of Gold, they have been making the same use as in fiat money and bitcoins today, as a rare commodity considered acceptable as a financial instrument. That's (rarity) not an intrinsic value.

That is to say, its intrinsic value includes electrical conductive properties and capacity for use in electrolytic plating. I am ignorant, what are some other intrinsically useful properties of Gold (and Diamonds?)
Obviously the importance of paying taxes directly depends on the strength and stability of the government collecting them.

I am personally sure that 1) the US govt will be here tomorrow to collect and 2) they have enough guns to do so.
What you seem to be missing is that the OP tried to buy them then, Coinbase did not process the transaction in a timely manner, and subsequently bought the coins for the OP today after the OP's post at the original price, having already breached the purchase agreement.

This is a pretty close to being a classic contract law case, except with bitcoins rather than tangible goods. If this goes to trial, the outcome is not likely to be favorable to Coinbase.
The staging area is only a powerful and necessary tool if you believe in the Commits Are Immutable rule (i.e. "don't rewrite history"). If you believe in that rule then you have to have a special mutable commit called the staging area, for when you're halfway through creating a commit.

But if you believe in rewriting history, then you can just use the tip of the working branch as a staging area. This would eliminate a whole slew of nonorthogonal git commands.

Personally I believe that branches should be explicitly designated as mutable (private "work" branches) or immutable (published branches): this gets you the best of both worlds. It's a shame Git doesn't have any tools to enforce that distinction.
...by engineers.
Woah there, software development is a very collaborative field. You can be the best programmer on the team, but if you go around putting others down and name calling you are going to sabotage your product.

There are ways to criticize people constructively, and sometimes that requires being nice to others.
The science i've seen done in university labs does not follow the kind of rigor you're talking about. Much of the time, you simply need to get "pretty close" to best practices.

The biggest indicator that the machine was the likely culprit (without considering any of the factors you mention) was that the experiment had been proven in the past to work, with a control group for comparison. Add to that the other mice that were doing fine that were away from the machine, and that the mice close to the machine got better when it was turned off. It's not "scientific" per se, but it makes more sense than any other reason that anyone could come up with for this scenario.

To deal with this in future projects, a researcher could take an approach that treats everything as a set of systems, and examining every part of each system for potential problems. But I doubt anyone's getting paid well enough to do all that for every experiment. But it is reasonable that if you're doing an experiment that depends on a bunch of other experimental results, you do your due diligence and vet all the information and results.
Respect and criticism are not mutually exclusive things. There are people I highly respect but who I disagree with and criticize quite often. The reverse is also true, I am quite often criticized and disagreed with but it isn't a personal attack and it isn't disrespectful, it's merely a reflection of differing ideas on how particular features should be implemented, or how certain processes should be done.
It is pretty much like that if you buy a book to gamble with its resale value.
I didn't do the math (not even back of the envelope) but my sense tells me it'll be less footprint than the current mega banks.

True, but Bitcoin also does less than those banks. It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison.
It's less than minimum wage for a full-time job, but it's perfectly possible for a part-time job.
And all it took was a single comment on HN to get it resolved. Thanks!
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It actually is clever. I like this "go around instead of breaking" approach very much. Two similar cases:

A car magazine claimed they discovered a serious weakness in a particular brand of a steering wheel lock. The company made a series of improvements to the lock and challenged the magazine to demo their hack. The magazine guy approached the new lock, gave it a good hard yank and it came off the steering wheel.

Another one was the Flash fullscreen mode. Flash used to (probably still does) display a hard-coded warning after the app went full screen - obviously to prevent Flash apps from impersonating browsers, OSes and so on. I've seen a demo that took advantage of the fact that the text was an overlay over what the app displayed.

The demo app just went full screen and printed lots of messages in the same font as the Flash warning, all over the screen. The overlay was still visible (Flash made it impossible to hide or cover) but it was basically impossible to read. The demo then pretended it did a Windows restart - it was pretty scary :-)
Yeah, until SF looks like this, newcomers crowding out the existing residents shouldn't be considered a real issue: http://photomichaelwolf.com/#architecture-of-densitiy/
Certainly, to be exact, his decision to 'invest' is entirely separate from the functionality offered by Coinbase, et al. Duly noted, but if you can demonstrate a material loss due to the failure to deliver of another party, it would be hard to argue you don't have a civil case for losses / damages.
An important point to consider, is that not all networking is equal. A lot of startup founders, for example, tend to like attending "startup events" which are mostly filled with other startup founders, wantrapreneurs, and maybe a few VCs and some angel investors. OK, attending some of those and getting to know the local VCs is important, if you think you'll be raising money at some point. But... if you have to choose between, say, working on your product, and hanging out with a bunch of wantrepreneurs and broke startup founders, I think a strong argument could be made that - in most cases - it's better to be working on your product.

But, on the other hand... what about events that are designed to cater to people who happen to fit the demographic profile of your target market? What if you can attend a networking event where you will be meeting people that you intend to sell your product to? Depending on where in your process you are, that could be very valuable. And, truth be told, at times it has to trump writing code and working on the product.

I'll argue that in the vast majority of cases, the latter type of event has far more value than the former, with the possible exception of a situation where you are specifically in the middle of trying to raise a round and are pointedly working on meeting investors.

In the end though it's all about balance. Networking is important, but you can't just do nothing but network and expect success to just fall in your lap. OTOH, if you spend your entire life in your basement building your product, you're likely to emerge with a product that nobody wants, and with no connections to help you market and sell it.

FWIW, I've made a conscious decision to all but stop attending "startup events" since we're not raising at the moment, and my time is limited. Right now, my priorities are A. meeting customers and B. working on the product.
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Great, now if you could please convince the government to adopt your attitude. Ridicule and childish insults I don't mind, just men with guns coming to lock me up if I don't run my business in the way you think it should be run.
In which case, I'd argue a moral person should throw the generally sound rule against talking to police out the window, despite the fact that it'll probably make you the prime suspect.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad run. It seems like Basecamp is pretty stable these days, and well staffed, so they're looking for the Next Big Thing for the company. In order do do that, you have to do a lot of little experiments with things that seem trivial but have some potential to become big. There are going to be a bunch of things that work OK but aren't that perfect fit for the next tent pole for 37signals. That's a normal, expected part of the experimentation process.

What's noteworthy is that most companies just shutter their failed experiments, and most startups fail. The fact that they've spun out two of their projects into sustainable businesses is kind of amazing really.
I don't think even a killer feature would help that much at this point, due to the lock-in iOS and Android have at this point, in the form of enormous app catalogs. If they had the current Windows Phone with a killer feature or 2 around when the Verizon Droid came out, then they might have taken the market instead of Android, but I think it's too late now. They're doomed to a ~10% or so market share for the foreseeable future, much like Apple was in the 90s, and for pretty much the same reason, interestingly enough.
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The attack requires the victim to encrypt/decrypt many chosen messages, no? Configure your laptop to only encrypt or decrypt messages when you want it to.
Yes, which of course she attributes to men's problems with needing attention from women who understand them.
OP has no economic loss as a result of Coinbase's delay. OP has a loss as a result of Bitcoin price changes independent of this error.
Its not ridiculous at all.

With that much spread and at prices as high and fluctuating as much as they currently are you cannot expect to take 10 DAYS for a transaction of this nature.

Honestly, looking at this from the outside what is the difference between this an actual larceny? A large purchase comes in while the commodity is priced high, the commodity is not purchased but instead funds are held on to while the price drops and then the bitcoins are purchased at the lower price and the company pockets the difference...

Not even saying that foul play truly happened, but instead saying you cant run a business whos actions LOOK indistinguishable from foul play and expect to stay in business...

If you're in a business where you can tell customers i lost 30% of the value of your transaction due to a mistake on our end its eventually going to turn into a scam, even if that wasn't the initial intention... its just too much temptation
Original article has much more detail:
http://healthland.time.com/2013/12/10/teachers-give-better-g...
It's not often you get to hear an astrophysicist say "...then we’re all buggered."
This is very very impressive and a great way to grok.
This deserves a bit of context, as many U.S. and Canadian members may either be affected or have family and friends who may be:

Nationwide retail giant Target is investigating a data breach potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records, multiple reliable sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The sources said the breach appears to have begun on or around Black Friday 2013 — by far the busiest shopping day the year.

According to sources at two different top 10 credit card issuers, the breach extends to nearly all Target locations nationwide, and involves the theft of data stored on the magnetic stripe of cards used at the stores...
So this is like layaway for vacations?
Probably because the spec is not finalized yet - I bet once SPDY is essentially name changed to HTTP2 it will see wide adoption.
Going from being nearly dead to not quite dead is not the same as being healthy.
Why do you value water? It's just something that can be taken away.
i updated the article to move the inline update to the `2. Enable mod_pagespeed` section as requested =)
Inequality and Good Intentions
N.S.A. shouldn’t keep phone database, review board recommends
Almost any regulatory agency probably has it's roots in some kind of transparancy issue.

FDA - did the food company/employee cut corners
EPA - did somebody dump or release toxins into the environment
Legal system - what happened on x date/time. if virtually all human intraction was recorded we could elimate half effort of the court system.
For Zizek, this was quite trite and meaningless.

Thanks for contributing to the spectacle, man.
NSA information assurance guidelines specify that one should cut the cables to all unnecessary IO devices before deploying hardware in a sensitive environment.

Not sure where that one is, but there is a wealth of data here: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/index.shtml

It's safe to assume they left a few things out, but part of NSA's mission is to protect the communications of US interests (government and enterprise) so it actually is part of their mandate to give advice like this.
Do you think Elon Musk goes to a lot of networking events?

Define "a lot" and "networking event". Does Elon go to events that are explicitly titled "Silicon Valley Leads Group" or "Bay Area Startup Mixer"? Probably not. That doesn't mean he doesn't go to networking events though. It's just that his networking events are titled "Gala Banquet Fundraiser for $FOO" and you only get invited if you donated $50,000 to $FOO. When Elon Musk "networks" he's meeting other CEOs, the President, Senators, and the like. But it's still networking.
Exactly. It'll be once investors are done putting money into it. Is there a way to know how much pure investment money has gone into it though? I'm not sure.
He may not have held on to them, which he was forced to due to the delay.
FinCEN, one of the US agencies charged with regulating financial institutions, considers Bitcoin to be a "virtual currency" and thus institutions dealing in Bitcoin are subject to some, but not all, of the regulations applying to normal currencies.

So you're right, it's not a matter for the SEC, but it definitely is a matter of concern for several other federal agencies, all of which have more teeth than the SEC.
Except there's a big flaw with your entire argument. Most of the big tech companies (with the exception of Twitter) are located in Santa Clara County, rather than in downtown SF. When those engineers get older and start families, they're probably just going to move out to Santa Clara County, where they will be able to get a house and live closer to work (allowing them to spend more time with their families). There will be no reason for them to switch jobs - in fact, their commute will be shortened.
Actually NO from an independent point of view they JAMMED him. Trades and transactions have a SETTLEMENT day and date in the financial markets. If a trade is not settled, i.e deposited and the funds available by the said settlement date the trade is called a FAILED trade. Both parties return at original transaction or go to arbitration. This alone is a reason not to touch coinbase. The system is too immature and new and I would learn from this and not play around with sums of 35K on underdeveloped platforms.

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Amazing. So when the rich try to segregate, the papers start screaming about how gated communities are bad for everyone. On the other hand, when the rich try to live where everybody else does, then the popular reaction is, "Oh my god, gentrification!" Why don't we just come together and realize that what the public/press really wish is that everyone else better off than them had died (or actually, perhaps the press doesn't want to take it that far, otherwise there would be no more "revolutionary" feelings to stir anymore, and the papers would go out of business).
The tech bus protests aren't anti-bus, they're anti-discrimination. The rich people get to use the bus and the poor(er) people aren't allowed to. Other organizations and companies aren't even allowed to use their own buses - the city fines anyone else who uses the bus stops.
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What's even more interesting than this rehash is the passing mention that they sold a whopping million copies of the original app.
Good analogy; you're also referencing how the MtGox domain started out as a Magic the Gathering exchange, right?
I'm just playing devil's advocate here... Your argument for "open software/hardware" doesn't apply here. There was an exploit found in almost 6+ year old hardware/software. Has nothing to do with the fact if it is open or not. "Open" != "non-exploitable" || "flawless".

Edited for bad boolean.
As with global warming, though, the truth hasn't stopped a cottage industry of deniers from getting "he-said-she-said" style media coverage and lots of followers willing to ignore the science.
99% of computer users have no idea what you just typed.

HDD light blinking? That means it's working correctly. Am I right?
I'm not bummed at all -- I'm excited! I can't give Know Your Company my full attention forever.

The product is in great hands now with Claire fully-focused on making it better as her full time job.

I'm standing by as an advisor and eager to help when called upon.

We also still own a sizable piece of the company so it's in our best interest to see it succeed.

And we're customers - we use Know Your Company every week.
Well, Apple and supporters (obligatory disclaimer: I own, and love, my rMBP, iPhone 5, and have two iPads in my house) have claimed that it was the case, and that it was physically impossible not to.

Then again, Apple’s marketing for the iPhone 5s made many claims of “subdermal fields”, “RF micro fields produced by the human body”, and how, as a result, it couldn’t be faked.

Except it could. Fairly easily. And without any remote pretense around the ‘emulate a live finger’. Just the fingerprint.

Much as I like Apple, these are pretty bold-faced deceptions.
If only Mt. Gox were as responsive. I haven't been able to pull my bitcoins out of there for a month now, because they still haven't verified me.

Add to that the fact that their fucking site LIES TO YOU about how you can withdraw 100 bitcoins per day, and then surprises you with how you can't actually withdraw any until you get verified first.
Its funny you say this but I noticed it first hand.
Also, it depends on where you network and who you network with.

Last month or so I was compelled to network aggressively being the CTO & all. Most folks I met at meetups or other networking events were flat out pointless. This also applies to so called "investor forums/pitches" etc, which to me was the worst kind.

But then I started targeting specific people using linkedin, personal references and my ROI has been great.

Also, you should never network for sake of networking. In fact most people I admire, want others to contact them only if they can help others than just exchange pleasantries. This to me was the biggest surprise but it does make sense [after the fact :)]
quannabe: You have been hellbanned since your second comment.
Or we could double the density of San Francisco by making it look like these hideous dystopias:

http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2011/021311.html

That would be ten times the density of the peninsula cities today. Pretty nice isn't it?