skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing article. Explained it roughly how I always assumed it as being, but far better than I ever could have.

Also, interesting link from there on The Culture, another of my favourite scifi universes: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
Dedicated lawn genius and part time red carpet crawler.
>> or that releasing coins for privileged customers would help MtGox...

I don't agree with that. If this person got his coins back, people would have gained a little faith that MtGox might actually get back on its feet. So at least that'd be positive PR for them. The fact that this guy did not get his coins back suggests to me that the situation, whatever it is, must be very serious and lowers my faith that MtGox will recover.
That's really sweet.

I've always been envious of my talented artist friend who does portraits for girls he's dating. Seems like a good way to save money on gifts :p
https://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/criminal-l...
AirBnB legal in Amsterdam
I don't see how this is any better than a keyserver and just asking confirming their GPG fingerprint by some other means. Not knowing someone and guessing that their fingerprint is right from some third party is very sketchy because it doesn't use a trustworthy, authoritative source (the other person).

Also, WoT works best when people meet other people they trust in person and sign each other's keys as the GNU/Linux community encourages. https://www.kernel.org/signature.html Then it's possible to get other people's keys elsewhere on the planet and know they're probably good given they're signed by someone you trust.
I also have one and I'm from Ohio :|
Startup scaling
That recent immigration vote has been a major point of discussion with every Swiss person I've spoken to since the weekend. It's not business as usual, it's very concerning, and people in the more populated parts of Switzerland are very much opposed to it.

I strongly suspect that something will happen in the three years that it will take to implement this nonsense that will invalidate it.
You should write Squarespace and ask if this is their standard process. I suspect that it could be a new support employee who is still learning how to handle this kind of stuff.
Yep, this is the last straw for me. The final drop of water that overflowed the cup.

I'm switching back to Firefox and will make a conscious decision to start deleting all my Google data. The tin foil conspiracy theorists were right all along it seems, I'll do my best to support companies that fight for my privacy and are open source.

Firefox, I'm sorry I ever left you - happy to be back.
If I understand this correctly then the huge improvement in latency (from 200ms to 3ms) comes from not having to deal with slow clients directly. Traffic to your front-end server are now only from ELB, and ELB is "spoon-feeding" the web-clients. This is true if you are using ELB in "http-mode".
This also explains why you can cut the front-end servers by 20% - as each request is handled more efficiently (lower latency equals higher throughput). Also, connection-reuse is more efficient as the set of servers in the ELB-pool is more limited that the set of web-clients.
If a job someone doesn't want to do pays well enough, it becomes a job someone wants to do.

See: Working in $expensiveCity, banker, lawyer, jobs requiring lots of travel, etc.

If the lack of available workers pushes the pay up, more people consider the previously undesirable job desirable again and start learning the requisite skills if applicable, increasing the candidate pool and pushing pay back down - in this way, jobs find equilibrium.
Hahaha, impressed you saw that, redid the site yesterday and forgot to swap pictures before going live :)
Wall Street Journal covers this: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/02/14/bitcoin-protes...
When insurance is priced correctly, the premiums will roughly match the payouts. The taxpayers will still be paying the premiums.

It would introduce some sort of independent oversight, but it seems like a roundabout way of doing it.
There is zero chance of making more housing available in Mountain View. No one who currently lives in Mountain View want or would benefit for an increase in density.
The success of applications like Viber, Whatsapp or Skype goes to show how much international communications there is and also hints at the level of immigration.

I'm curious to see what repercussions the removal of roaming taxes from this summer in the EU will have on these apps, if at all.
I wouldn't want to work for a company that would slam the door in my face because I was arrested for a petty offence like the one mentioned. There are plenty of companies out there that will treat me like a human being.
> I've heard other thoughts in this thread about not trusting police

A rational individual in America is absolutely justified in not trusting police. Wake up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
That would be a great topic for a presentation ;)
Tell the Greeks that:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/03/16/cypriots-frantic-...

Or citizens of the EU:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/us-eu-banks-saving...

This type of event is in no way unique to bitcoin.
Still No Response from MIT to Aaron Swartz Case
History of IEEE P1003.1 Posix time
De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free
Note that Rust was a personal project of Graydon's before it became a Mozilla thing - they picked it up a few years.
I've used similar tricks to build this hideous creature:

http://jsbin.com/yecuh/1/edit?js,console

(click run)
Why is the CEO in a T-Shirt?
You get the gold medal with 16 flying birds.
By the time I reached it I had prevented 12k collisions.
Spanning at random position would help to create different orbits.
Google Valentine's Day Doodle featuring Stories from This American Life
Significance of ATM Service
We do this, but have a shared account, and don't bother to move the money.

We are also both pretty cheap, and don't spend much money other than "I will give you $100 to go start tea for me."
> "Installing Linux on a laptop recently was a pain thanks to the secure boot nonsense, but I got there."

Is it easier if you just temporarily remove the HDD, boot the laptop, get thrown into the UEFI settings, remove the unwanted crypto key, then put the HDD back in again? I was thinking about doing that the last time someone asked me to install Linux on their secureboot laptop.
Not exactly. He didn't say he "could" shoot up a kindergarten, he said he was going to. Is there a difference between naming a specific kindergarten? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean only one of them is a threat.
There's actually a UK citizen science project running along very similar lines: http://www.mappiness.org.uk/
What is "IAP"?
ALmost works now:

docker run -p 8000:8000 oyvindsk/wagtail-demo

https://index.docker.io/u/oyvindsk/wagtail-demo/
No big deal. But requesting top posting in red is outraging :-)
It was nearly 3 years ago when I sensed that Mt. Gox lack of maturity as an exchange would eventually spell trouble for Bitcoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608055

... and 78 days ago I recommended sell your Bitcoin now.

I'm not clairvoyant or an insider, rather I've seen this movie before. It's called The Bubble. This is the part of the movie where the bubble pops and remaining investors act all shocked and disappointed.

There was a Dot-com Bubble, it popped, people lost a lot money, but many of the dot-coms still exist and have grown.

There was a (US) Housing Bubble, it popped, and there's still houses being bought and sold, just at lower prices today.

... and there's still tulips for sale too.

My point is Bitcoin may still carry on past this episode, but you have to recognize that its current price is way too heavy to make it over this bridge without collapsing, and it takes a long long long time for prices to recover after a bubble pop.
It's interesting that the prices are going down on Mtgox but on other exchanges they have experienced just a minor drop. I would expect people to be selling BTCs in all places at once.

Does this happen with other currencies in the physical world too? I've no idea.
I think the author overlooked a much more elegant solution to the problem of menial labor. People simply don't do it, except when they want to, and rely on automated / robotic solutions to do it for them. At some point, it will get far easier and cheaper to design and implement robotic maids than it will to convince a human to do anything resembling a good job at something people are bound to shit on him for.

The economy will simply optimize all such tasks out of the system. Surfaces won't need more than the quickest of spot cleaning, people will get used to checking out their own groceries, they'll go get their own drink refills and clean off their own tables.
This is huge. This is amazing. Not only are De La Soul incredible artists, but their work isn't available on Rdio. I had De La Soul is Dead on cassette -- I definitely know what I'll be doing at 11 am (servers willing).
NSA Employee Shared Password, Key, Classified Data with Snowden [pdf]
America The land of the free... if you're a cop and careful to never get caught on camera or recorder in any way shape or form.

But what do you expect when you send a swat team for every arrest.

Even the cops start to think that their allows to use as much force as they like.
August 2009. The author told me by email.
no, blog belongs to someone working for Internet equivalent of a cockroach.
Euros and dollars are backed by guns and ammunition, not the wealth of nations.

A short peek at history will show you that.
A Drug-Dealing Robot That Upends the Pharmacy Model
Sorry, I should've thought about that, did you try reaching out to them? Just to see if there are any options or things they can suggest? I am trying to think of any other systems like that which exist already.

Maybe someone else has some ideas of systems that work where you are.

If you do have to go about making something, you might want to checkout the payment API's, like Balanced, Stripe etc to see the type of things they handle. Might help things go a little faster.

Good luck.
Yikes! So glad to know that these type of things are being broadcast to the wider Internet community. I know quite a few people that use squarespace; I'll make sure to let them know.
>>The video on youtube does not add anything negative to the current situation: Withdrawals are not possible, in no way.

If you think this video does not negatively impact MtGox's public image or cause people with funds stuck in there to become even more concerned, then I don't agree with you.
I have no idea.. ;) I guess I'll have to ask him.
This is probably just some customer service mistake, not a systematic failure.

Why do people take isolated examples of uneducated, misinformed customer service reps, and blow them into raging complaints damning the entire company? I'm starting to see this regularly. Take a deep breath before you spew out some diatribe on your blog.
I wrote "man in the middle" attack, but that's wrong, since the connection is over https. The point is still valid if the server is compromised (or managed by evil people).
Trig functions on 64-bit floats are hard.
What are this companies doing that you think is so disrupting?
I could not see anything really new there.
At the contrary they all seem to be doing not anything innovative or new.

I checked flink and the app could barely keep up when scrolling so they execution quality is not there either...
This.. Is the best flappy game ever!
Losing graciously
Absolutely not. Given how mechanized customer support is these days, there is no reason to ask for login credentials. A new support employee would no doubt be reading off of a prompt and a seasoned support employee should absolutely know better.
^This is true.

While the attempt to contact the CEO in person does push the issue, it is sort of ridiculous to think that they keep 'cash on hand' at the office to cash people out.

As pointed out there are a bunch of reasons to keep withdrawal processes within process especially with a semi-anonymous currency of this type.
You'll be back man. Trust me. I've tried numerous times to go back to FF, but you enjoy the speed + ridiculous amount of available popular snooping extensions more than anything.

I know you're in a different state of mind atm, but you will be back to Chrome within a couple weeks.
I'm doing two right now. It's not as exciting as it seems.

The first I worked on for a year straight starting fall 2012, it launched, we got our first customer which exceeded our year-one goal in revenue by 2-3x, and was too big for us to handle anyone else without raising funds. We're replacing a Lotus Notes system for a $100 million/year company with 800+ employees.

My dev partner in Australia has been handling that account ever since (it's an Australian company, and I'm in the US), and as we've been working together for almost 8 years, there's not a lot of back and forth needed at this point. Mostly just weekly meetings and the occasional Skype call. My plan is to pick development back up again on that startup mid-Summer in preparation for expanding beyond that first company.

The other startup I began immediately after the first launched, and I've been designing and coding basically non-stop for 4 months. So there's hasn't been much overlap for me, and so far, it's worked out okay.

In my experience, I'm most useful launching projects. I can do the architecture, code up the initial design, and then at that point, other (better) programmers can see what it is I'm trying to do, and buckle in for the long haul.

(BTW I'm contemplating CTOing a third company, if anyone has one they'd like to pitch me (erich.ocean@me.com). I've got 3-4 months of time available to work on something new. If you project can be launched in that amount of time, I might be able to help.)
The social contract is broken.
How we hijacked the news and got 2,000,000 views
This video was what I had in mind when I wrote

> the "never talk to police" strategy ... only starts to probabilistically pay off after you've gotten to the point of requiring complex court proceedings (which you might never have gotten to if you were more cooperative in the first place).

> Once you require the services of a trial lawyer, the benefits of talking are off the table and the price of silence looks like pocket change. That's why you hear the advice "never talk to the police." Not because it's a good idea in general (try it next time you get a traffic ticket and tell me how it goes), but because it's a very bad idea in certain very specific cases, which happen to be precisely the cases seen by those giving the advice. Your prior probabilities are different, and your behavior should reflect that.
you know they have been tackling without a release for many months now
Classic example: the value held in the Coca Cola trademark.

And of course we have accounting for this exact thing: intangible assets.
Totally! I read another blog post, not long ago, that describe it pretty well... He said something like: You need to know what every single line of your code does and when to clean up after yourself - in turn, you know what every single of your code does! :)

That makes the code so much more robust and you are less likely to make wrong assumptions about what a function or piece of code does.

I do a lot of JS at the moment - node.js and jQuery - what I hate the most, is all the wrong assumptions I have, when somebody makes a function called "clone" (this particulalry one copies the reference) or when jQuery has chained functions, that does not "inherit scope"...

I wish I had the time and patience to learn assembly - but then again... C or C++ is close enough and probably way faster to get anything done in :)
yeah, I think it'll test those servers a bit!
We have a winner, folks.
There is no such implied statement. Capitalism is not the logical opposite to socialism and communism. Assuming that what is true for one is automatically false for the other is a logical fallacy.
They did drop the price dramatically.
Lots of assumptions here.
Oh no, it's definitely the company's fault. Any real service where support may need to get involved will provide the support people with an admin interface or a way to login as the user without their password. That's the standard way to do it.

If they didn't provide that and didn't explicitly say "never ask for password", that's really the company's fault.
For standing his ground against racist stalking and getting shot for it?
We know one thing for sure... the CEO did not steal the bitcoins in order to invest in proper winter attire.
JSF is not what you’ve been told anymore
Given that most people re-use a very small set of passwords across many services, they essentially did.
Facebook has disabled Developer Tools
You know America is in decline when Uruguay is out classing her!
As pointed out by another reply, if this user had gotten his withdrawal processed, it would show that you more or less have to fly to Japan in person to get your money. If that precedent were set I believe that would negatively impact MtGox's PR in a pretty substantial way.

I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying. It would show that they at least 'have funds' to pay out, rather than what looks like them not having anything (or enough) to cover the coins. I just think that the realization that you need to fly to Japan would also cause a lot of negative PR for them.
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Yeah I have to so this often to get a purchase order approved in advance. Most vendors give me a quote at full price even if we are buying a year
Sorry, I don't know how to compress the original title.
I'm actually working for a company now that specializes in online marketing/websites for lawn care and pest control companies. There's a guy in the area that was a programmer for a big corporation (IBM, maybe?) and he saw an opportunity in pest control, so he started his own company and pretty much wiped out all the competition. Then he bought the agency I'm now working for so we could focus on similar lawn/pest companies across the states.

I don't think that's really your plan at all, but it's awesome that you're looking into a market that is full of outdated websites and definitely has room for improvement!
If this turns out to be all 128k mp3s, I am going to be thoroughly irked.

...and then proceed to grab the lot anyway, of course.
I'm pretty sure that Ruby was out 10 years before Rails.
Read this! I feel like having to rehydrate after all that dry wit. Here's a spoiler (seems only fitting) that illustrates the writing style:

Maybe I should go and have a lie down for a bit, and come back when the conspiracy theories have subsided. It’s a shame sci-fi films don’t have intermissions these days. Let’s transplant the one from my 2001: A Space Odyssey post, and go and have a cup of tea while the [characters] work out what to do next.

<embedded http://typesetinthefuture.com/postfiles/2001/2001_intermissi... >
I think one of the comments someone left on the blog itself rings true:

"Wow, you are a hell customer."

I'm willing to bet Squarespace is happy the OP is leaving their service, I know I would be if I were in their shoes.

Granted, it is a case of bad support, but as Colin mentions, it is likely an issue with an under trained new hire, not a systematic failure.
Apple to stop, track down spammers with disposable email addresses
Try these:
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http://www.luisaviaroma.com/index.htm?userlang=EN
http://www.stylebop.com/gr/men/
http://www.matchesfashion.com/mens
http://www.eu.forzieri.com/
My view is that software is fascinating and the real world problems you can solve with it are also fascinating - so it is a double win!
What aspect of your Java programming is the biggest pain in the arse?
That is ELISA (with an `S'), if I understand what you mean correctly.
If you understood how customer service business runs, you'd know that this is most definitely a systematic failure. I'm shocked how many people on HN seem to think that customer service reps act on their own volition. And if Squarespace is really that bold as to allow untrained individuals to handle customer service, the first thing they should be trained on is to NEVER ask for a password.

The author of this post is 100% correct in leaving a company she doesn't trust and warning readers that that behavior is entirely unacceptable.
Isn't it MtGox? Not 'mount Gox', sillies.
Yeah, it definitely can. I've lived in Europe all my life, and traveled over Europe since I was kid, and I've seen mainland European police openly abusing people on the street. I've seen cops randomly firing their firearms in the air as 'crowd control' (the crowd in question was three old women trying to get on a boat, this was in Greece), policing openly punching someone in the face for some remark they didn't like (again, Greece), police demanding a person's passport papers at a port and refusing to return them until UK police got involved (France), and so on.

The only countries where I've never seen any open abuse by police so far have been Britain and Germany, and I haven't spent a lot of time in Germany.

EDIT: Actually, there has recently been a famous case in Britain where a police officer shoved a citizen to the floor and the citizen died of internal injuries [0]. I didn't actually witness the abuse, but it proves that even the UK isn't immune.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson
Intelligence really is in our genes, study shows
First you say that this problem can't be helped by other countries and then you discuss the EU's eastward expansion... which is largeely about Western European countries getting together and lifting up ex-Soviet countries.

The terms under which those countries were allowed into the EU were largely about building strong anti-corruption measures and improving transparency in government.

Supernational institutions like the EU and UN can do great things like this.
Agreed! But at one point there was a 'gold standard' which was backed by an actual thing. Although that thing was to a great extent backed by guns and ammo as well.

Serious question: Could a 'crypto-currency' run on a gold standard? IE MtGox (or whoever) having enough of an actual thing to cover all of the coins? I hadn't thought about that but it is an interesting thought to me.
Noooo... I want to give them my money.
Don't you?

I've got a list of things that I think could be improved.
For instance:

The interface of the remote control? Could be improved for elderly.
The price of a CNC router? Could be cheaper.
The atmosphere of that bar? Could be nicer.

Easy to say, hard to do.
You're asking that on HN? Isn't this the t-shirted-ceo capital of the world?

(for what it matters, I share your sentiment.)
I can see a few possibilities here:

1. Squarespace don't have the engineering to support their support team's work, therefore they need passwords. This is unlikely, but if it's the case, people should avoid Squarespace, or at least using their support system.

2. They do have the engineering support, but their support team don't know how to use it and just ask for passwords. Given how much they emphasize support, I find this unlikely, but again, if the case you should avoid using them.

3. A new starter on the support team hasn't been run through all of the details about how to use the support system yet. This strikes me as the most likely, and not grounds for avoiding Squarespace. It should be pointed out to them, privately, so that they can emphasize customer password security in their training process for support staff.