skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard multiple explanations for the delays, and I think there are multiple issues at play.

Firstly it has been claimed that they have freshly mined coins stored undistinguished from others. If someone withdraws an amount that draws from an address with new coins, that withdrawal will be delayed.

I'm not sure how those freshly minted coins get to MtGox in the first place (any such transfer would presumably be delayed). Assuming they do have freshly minted coins in their pools, That would be consistent of some short term delays. I have experienced delays that fit this model where a Hash for the transaction has been provided but the transfer does not arrive at the other end for a few hours. Anything affected by this mechanism shouldn't be delayed beyond 17ish hours.

There are transactions not going though for longer periods, The transaction hash is being provided. I have seen claims suggesting that transactions are failing because of a subtle protocol incompatibility, which would explain the fairly random nature of the failed transactions.

Lots of people are saying MtGox is out of funds and the sky is falling. The biggest problem with those claims is that people have been predicting the imminent demise of MtGox for quite some time. MtGox may be failing, but everything that happens cannot be a sign of imminent collapse if it keeps on going.

I'm not sure if the claims of MtGox running a fractional reserve on the sly are very valid. I think it's more likely that they have technical issues, but the very nature of Bitcoin means that they could potentially lose all their bitcoin through technical issues alone. If you lose a private key or transfer bitcoin to an address with a lost key, those coins are effectively gone. If your software isn't behaving it's quite possible to make an automated money shredder.

It's fairly obvious that at this point they need to do some fairly significant steps to demonstrate that they are in control of enough bitcoin. If they want to restore confidence in their ability to pay out, they should use Bitcoin's ability to demonstrate ownership to do just that. Restoring confidence in their ability to operate is going to be a longer road.
Docker does not (yet) support 32-bit architectures.
Twitter reports it lost over $645 million in 2013, stock price plummets
Why I love HN
Same day, 2 stories one after the other. Just a vivid contrast. One fighting for crowdsourcing and the other an appeal to stay away

https://flightfox.com/community/why-we-abandoned-crowdsourcing

http://blog.algorithmia.com/post/75680476188/algorithm-development-is-broken
Ok so like...

"They hope the vaccine will be used both to prevent infection with the herpes type 2 virus, and also to cure it in people who are already infected."

If this is possible, that would be huge. Like, amazingly huge. Herpes is one of the most impossible to destroy things, second to only HIV.

If the technique really generalizes, that would be incredible.
Was I the only one expecting it to be a fun play on words and be about embracing golang?
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> This one struck me. Today the public methods of a class would check to make sure the inputs are valid. Back then the programmer would just know the location of every single caller and make sure the calls are always valid in the first place.

Personally, I would use the second option even today, with the caveat that there should be few, if any invalid inputs, what with type systems and OOP. If your method takes a string as a parameter, and can't handle every string that ever existed, then you really should be deserializing it into a data object of some kind, so that the compiler does the validation for you. If I'm developing some kind of API for public consumption, then I'll do input validation at the service boundary so that the consumer knows why it didn't work, but otherwise I'm a big proponent of the "just don't pass null" approach. Input validation on every function call bloats the code base, and is annoying to read through.
Kata is a choreography of martial arts movements. Often these movements involve an aggressor or a theoretical aggressor.

Also, after all the site is called Code Wars, perhaps she was influenced by that as well.
It's not so much "fees" in the traditional sense. When a grant is awarded, a researcher is asking for what are known as "Direct Costs" - the costs of staff, certain types of equipment, reagents, patient recruitment, travel and publication fees, etc.

This is not how much money goes to the university. The university negotiates an overhead rate, which gets tacked onto the cost. This can often be more than half the cost of the grant. This helps cover indirect costs - the costs of administrative staff, copier paper, computing infrastructure, startup funds for new faculty, etc.

"More bang for the buck" assumes the researcher would get that overhead back for their own use. What actually happens is researchers get the same direct costs, the overhead % is zero, etc.

For minor grants, like where crowd funding is now, this isn't such a big deal. But if this somehow became the dominant paradigm, the overhead costs are going to have to come from somewhere...
It might be because I only use C family languages for very low level highly optimized stuff, but I found it very weird that a blog post about types would force all those useless casts from int to double.

9 / 5 in lieu of 9. / 5. or 1.8 will come back and bite you!
This is not in any way meant as a refutation to your point, but merely as a "for your interest" piece of information:

From working in the TV industry, I can tell you that real money comes from sports broadcasts, which also means that the sports people are the ones with money to burn. Apparently, ESPN made an attempt at a TV channel dedicated to 3D broadcasts of sports events. It was discontinued in September last year not for lack of content, but because of the reasons that you dismiss :) (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_3D ) Similarly, I expect early 4k TV content to be sports and news.

So, movies isn't the only kind of content and 3D TV channels have failed because of lack of adoption. This, however, doesn't mean that lack of (even more) content still isn't the cause of lack of adoption.
The funds aren't currently subject to overhead according to the funder, but that seriously demotivates grant staff to shepherd a tiny little grant that isn't particularly helping.

That's what I meant by more trouble than it's worth. A staff member going "meh" can turn into a huge time sink.
But ARM is already taken!
What does it offer more than Typescript ?
I have judged Marissa Mayer because of this article making into Yahoo Sports. Nothing has changed.
If I wore a suit today, out of the blue, I would get a dozen people ask me if I was going to a job interview...
I think since they refuse to show evidence they have enough funds, it should be assumed it's a scam until proven otherwise. Really, they're making tons of money off fees, they are the most expensive exchange. Screwing customers like that is below acceptable. They're not just some paid app that can go down and customer won't be affected too much. It's money. Lot's of them. You can't refuse to pay and keep silence, otherwise you're a scammer.
I think many people would get less reaction with the latter.
> I'm not sure how those freshly minted coins get to MtGox in the first place (any such transfer would presumably be delayed). Assuming they do have freshly minted coins in their pools, That would be consistent of some short term delays. I have experienced delays that fit this model where a Hash for the transaction has been provided but the transfer does not arrive at the other end for a few hours. Anything affected by this mechanism shouldn't be delayed beyond 17ish hours.

Both p2pool and eligius.st allow coinbase payouts to any address, and for arbitrary amounts. It's entirely possible for a person to set their mining address to their deposit one, and suddenly Mt Gox has unspendable coinbase transactions in their wallet pool. People frequently assume as you did that no spends would occur of coinbase transactions, and suddenly end up with broken systems because of it.

Here's one from p2pool, paying to 402 outputs (truncated for brevity).

"in":[
{
"prev_out":{
"hash":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"n":4294967295
},
"coinbase":"03435404062f503253482f"
}
],
"out":[
{
"value":"0.00174533",
"scriptPubKey":"OP_DUP OP_HASH160 7abdace1a0588adf6bc6673ea11ba2312285f1db OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG"
},
[......]
]

http://blockexplorer.com/tx/81e5874360f5c511ae9ad305b9797853...
Same here. That's why I wore a tshirt and jeans to the interview for my current job - also a convenient filter for what kind of company it is - if they don't want me wearing that every day, I didn't want that job.
Mt.Gox needs to calm everyone down by signing a message from an address (or multiple addresses) that contain enough bitcoins to prove that they can handle the withdrawals.

If they do not do this, we must assume that they are insolvent and have lost their customers' coins.
I've seen people do it. You'll get a few "witty" comments, but you're not going to get a talking-to from your manager like when you violate an actual dress code.
Or leave him hanged with his pockets stuffed with money as an old-testament warning. What the supreme being in "Time Bandits" described as "doing something extroverted and vengeful."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi#Death
My point isn't whether it's an issue or something more in this case, but things like this don't happen with banks (at least not all the time [0][1]). With a bank you can be pretty confident you can go to an ATM and get your money out. If something does go wrong they will eventually sort it out. If something major goes wrong like them going bust your savings will be covered (at least in the EU, up to a point). Bitcoin services don't have any of these securities - it's akin to asking a bloke down the pub to hold on to £50 for you.

[0] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/saving/article-2168701/RBS-...

[1] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517106/NatWest-RBS-...
You could also call it "all but the single most important issue facing the technology and computing industries today," but your proposal is more concise.
"Google" was also one of the main forces combating DRM in HTML.

Bullshit. Utter and complete bullshit.

Google was one of the initial enablers of DRM on the web. Without Google enabling it, nobody could have used DRM on the web and it would have been a non-issue. If they were "against DRM" they should have stood their stance.

But they didn't. Because to them being able to sell ChromeOS with Netflix-support was more important than the integrity of the open web itself.

And so it shall stand in the history-books: When the web was poisened with DRM, it was done so first by the hands of Google.

There's no way they can claim they "were actually against it" when they were the ones doing the original sin. Fuck Google. Seriously fuck Google for this one.

Fucking standards-maimers.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Aside from the fact that IE being bundled made it far less likely for someone to go looking for another browser, they were shut out from being bundled by OEMs and ISPs through restrictive covenants[0][1]. It obviously wasn't impossible to install Netscape, but situations where Netscape was the user's first entry to the web became extremely unlikely.

This isn't really controversial, it was one of the major factors of the antitrust case against MS, and MS didn't argue they didn't do it, only that it wasn't illegal afaik.

[0] http://www.businessweek.com/1998/42/b3600109.htm
[1] http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f2600/2613toc_htm.htm
So is Mitsubishi. It's also in insurance, and owns Kirin (a major Japanese brewer).
I would love to build systems that modeled pathogens and applied monte carlo methods/fuzzing techniques to permuting proteins or other molecules that might render the pathogens harmless within the simulation. One might then use these results to either cure the pathogen else refine the model. Sort of like TDD for biology. I have no idea where to begin with modeling such profoundly complex biological systems, but please let me know if you have any suggestions because I would love to pursue this.
Which is a pretty reasonable thing to ask, given a dramatic shift from your normal wardrobe to something much more formal. I don't see a problem.
Ask HN: What steps should Acer take to recover their business?
Acer has dropped 82% since its peak in 2010 and continue to spiral downward.

What specific actions do you think they should take if efforts to recover and regrow their market?
The circle vs ellipse problem is rather artificial and, if anything, it shows that modeling with types and everyday intuition are two different things.

If the rest of your program can handle general ellipses, it should also be able to handle ellipses having the same minor and major radius (i.e., circles). The obvious solution is to not have the Circle class and _maybe_ equip Ellipse with IsCircle() method. (Though, why would you care?!)

See the C++ faq lite items 21.6 -- 21.8. (A quote from 21.8: "Here's how to make good inheritance decisions in OO design/programming: recognize that the derived class objects must be substitutable for the base class objects. ")
>"With this case Syrian Electronic Army had proved thay can hack facebook website also"

No way I can take anything this badly written or ill-informed seriously. Also, "Cyber", not to mention the stupid anti-highlighting JS (attempt to stop people from quoting their site?).
I'm pretty optimistic about Sony's future:

> Under Hirai’s leadership, the trajectory of improvement has been gradual but unswerving. What was once the struggling Sony Ericsson has been transformed into the popular and profitable Sony Mobile Communications group. Mirrorless cameras have helped position Sony as a leader in imaging gear, with enthusiasts increasingly opting for the Alpha (née NEX) range over the traditional DSLR format that Canon and Nikon still dominate. And most recently, the PlayStation 4 has managed to outsell its nemesis Xbox One while almost doubling subscriptions to Sony’s paid PlayStation Plus service.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/10/5293414/sony-rediscovers-s...
We pretty seriously looked at PPAPI back when Adobe announced effective end of life for NPAPI Flash on Linux.

If PPAPI were not as tied to Chrome's internals as it is, we might in fact have implemented it.

As far as being invested in JS, I think it's more being invested in managed code. Our experience with NPAPI is that you end up with the unmanaged code depending on all sorts of implementation details because it can. The classic example is that all NPAPI Flash instances across have to be in a single process, because they assume they share memory. And the browser can't do anything about it, since it's not involved in the memory sharing bits in any way. Similarly, the fact that NPAPI plug-ins can do their own network access makes them hard to align with CSP and the like. Managed code can start to depend on internals in weird ways too (e.g. sync access to cross-origin window bits), but you have more chances to pull the wool over its eyes in some way (e.g. blocking cross-process proxies).

Once you accept managed code, JS seems like as good a place to start as any, with at least the benefit of being there to start with. ;)

There are, of course, obvious drawbacks to the all-JS approach, starting with the fairly lacking parallelism story. At least now we've grown Workers, and there's work on things like SIMD, ParallelJS, etc. Then again, the one major language addition to a browser VM recently (Dart) didn't exactly address this need either....
I would of course add "The good parts" by Crockford to the list.

But maybe that is just par for the language course, before one even starts to wants to master Engineering :)

JavaScript: The Good Parts - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596517742/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Here's a few other good ones:

Functional JavaScript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449360726/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193398869X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Javascript Allongé (free to read online) - https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge

Javascript Spessore (free to read online, but currently work in progress) - https://leanpub.com/javascript-spessore

Here's a good one about Angular, my favorite framework:

Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1782161821/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

I would of course also recommend the Egghead videos for any Angular aficionados: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP6DbQBkn9ymGQh2qpk9Im...

PS. The Amazon links are affiliate links.
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Isnt that the same as samsung are doing with their devices? They come up with a phone/tv/dishwasher that have 550Ghz/100Mpix of whatever, but no clue for what it should be used. Its just "faster, and look, very large screen"

If samsung didnt produce stuff for others they might have been in the same situation, probably a bit better but close.

I guess the sony vaio line wont be missed if it goes away, I've never come by a vaio which as nice/good.
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Is kraken taking money in all States? Or just South Carolina which, I believe, is the only State they have a license in.
No detail. How were they 'hacked'? How did they notice?
Dolphins and whales, hopefully. But they're most likely gone long before us.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Chrome is the worst thing which has happened to the web because of what it allows Google to do.

MSIE ruined and fragmented the web with non-standards because it was in Microsoft's interest at the time to hinder a successfull adaptation of the web.

Google however is fundamentally a web-company and now they are using Chrome to shoehorn anything which fits their company onto the open web without a standards-comitee in sight, or accepting any sort of reasonable feedback.

This breeds monsters like HTTP2.0^W SPDY^W technogizzwizz kitchensink internet everything protocol.

This is much worse than anything MSIE ever did.
This reminds me of the vulnerable Google HVAC last year.
Right, so both industries have dress codes and programmers don't really have much more choice in what to wear than lawyers.
It's a good rule of thumb to assume incompetence instead of malice. In the instance of MtGox it just doesn't make sense for it to be a scam.

They ran a business for a few years in obscurity then when they become a central figure in potentially a massive change in financial infrastructure they decide to run off with the silver? MtGox had the potential to be worth many billions if they were a significant service provider in a successful BitCoin scenario. They possibly still do to some extent if they can get their act together.
This doesn't make much sense. I think this would only make sense if each and map were actual language constructs, like for example in Ruby, but in this case you're bringing in an entire library just for that and that's a bit gross and pointless.
Colloquially they are synonyms. Especially amongst people who don't make software. It's not derogatory and not worth getting bent out of shape about.

BUT ... (Bet you saw this coming)

Coders turn detailed specs into code. No real thought required.

Programmers, or software developers, design systems and code them themselves.

That's the distinction I make anyway. I've seen coders at some workplaces. It's a dreary job and I would never do it.
> At the time you're writing the Vehicle class, it seems perfectly reasonable to define a setPropulsionDevice() method

Are you claiming that it seems reasonable to be able to replace a car engine with a jet engine without changing anything else? (The car's hull, construction, etc., and after all these modifications it's not the "same" car anymore.)
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Tell that people who started projects in GWT ;-) (which by itself is quite horribile as it's Java, but not quite Java and you can't use most of the libs out there because the class library is very crippled)
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These graphics/charts are beautiful. Any more details on how they were made?
It's a good rule of thumb to assume incompetence instead of malice.

I would generally agree, but the calculus changes slightly for banking.
I personally would never give them my business ever. Many people won't either. I'm sorry, they already screwed me once last year holding withdrawal for 2 days, now again. They are going down in history. The only question, again, if they will return the coins. I doubt they will. Even if we assume incompetence, it doesn't mean they suddenly can't SPEAK, right? Go and tell your customers what's going on. When people are not open about things, it most likely means they want to screw you and you are safe to assume this to be the default version.
How would we know that they haven't just paid someone (with a lot of bitcoins) $20k to sign that message?
And I wondered why my fiat withdrawal has not reached my bank account for almost 2 months :-(
Bugger.
No, that's false.
What makes a Great App, Great?
Why would that anyone holding a lot of coins need some incomparably small sum from MtGox while he can clearly make more selling it before the meltdown on other exchanges?
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You don't. But it's better then nothing at least as a PR. On the other hand, I know of no bank that could get it's head straight around a bank-run.
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By "be frozen" he didn't mean "Google will declare it to be unchangeable", he meant "users relying on it will prevent any of us from being able to change it."

And that's only a problem because Google decided to ship it now, RIGHT NOW instead of caring about the standards process and maybe holding off for a little bit.

Nobody dies if Google ships a little bit later.
I love Sony's mobile phones today. I bought one, so my money is where my mouth is. Who other than Apple can really truly differentiate and survive in the PC business today anyway? It's an unfortunate development, but I can't say that it's an overall reflection of the future of Sony. PS4 is rocking. Their phones are great. They still make good movies. Maybe their electronics division can do something special too. If yes, then they're firing on all cylinders. Let's see what happens.
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As the PC market declines, I expect further selling of PC divisions and mergers in the PC market over the next few years.
FDIC covers up to $200,000 for each account.
Tons of Google's client side code is in javascript ... I don't know why you think they'd obsolete their own code.
Anecdotal evidence, but measuring the amount of sex that occurs by the amount of condoms purchased will not often be accurate.
Where do you get the 5:1 ratio?

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I would totally agree, I have no real "enforced" dress code but I choose to wear a suit when I go to clients (even though they never do), I am usually with sysadmins, developers or Security teams. I feel like wearing a suit sets me apart and also gives impact when I enter a room, I also (being young) find it gives me a little more automatic respect which always helps too. I think people should have the choice but I really think this whole "suits" are stuffy thing is stupid, suits are comfortable, can be worn multiple days in a row and make you look fly.
We have a few people who wear suits, or nice dress shirts and slacks. It's just not a big deal. No one cares.