skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, nobody cares about their email or icloud account passwords being exposed.

Good thing they made sure all our AppleTVs are safe from MITMs, though.
I've been wondering whether the "M" in "MVP" is for minimum quality, or minimum feature scope.

I think minimum feature scope doesn't necessitate poor-quality software, just solutions that don't do everything for everybody. It's much better to ship a small feature set with very high quality, IMO, than a big feature set with low quality.
No. Because this shows that they aren't using some sort of professional crisis management team and are trying to handle it in house. That's ridiculous. They keep showing themselves incapable of handling such a high profile company.
// became valid C in C99. 15 years ago.
To be clear, I'm not claiming to agree with this, I'm just trying to lay out both sides of the argument as I see them :)
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How is that like interest? Interest is rent on money. Cash in the mattress doesn't get interest. In a properly functioning monetary system, interest is above inflation.
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isn't the bitcoin scene beginning to resemble a modern government in recession? carefully crafted statements, avoiding to say much, but very reassuring... markets be praised!

the leaked "Crisis Strategy Draft" slideshow seems like it was actually authored by these companies, not MtGox.
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I couldn't agree with this more. It's human nature not to prepare for a theoretical risk. But once it's happened to you, and to many others in the same industry, it's just foolishness not to invest in prevention.

I imagine there's also a bit of outsider-preference going on here. There's no lack of people who could have been hired to implement controls and audits that would have easily caught a slow leak of coins, but they're part of the Obsolete Fiat Economy and thus irrelevant. "Dunning-Krugerrands", indeed.
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"New" for the public -- probably already packaged and sold as a high-priced exploit. Apple needs to get their shit together.
Industry without community is without heart and soul
No it isn't, your syllogism is a straw man. Hastings died under what are commonly known as "suspicious circumstances", which you omit in your rush to denigrate. A more accurate summary:

Hastings was a journalist who had covered "national security" topics. Hastings sent the following email:

"Hey (redacted names) -- the Feds are interviewing my "close friends and associates." Perhaps if the authorities arrive "BuzzFeed GQ," er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news-gathering practices or related journalism issues.
Also: I'm onto a big story, and need to go off the rada[r] for a bit.
All the best, and hope to see you all soon.
Michael"

Hasting died 14 hours later at 4:20 AM when his speeding car veered into one of the many trees lining the road. There were no skidmarks, suggesting that the vehicle was under control. Nobody knows why he was driving at that time.

It's hardly ironclad proof of a conspiracy, but you are not contributing to the discussion.
And you misunderstand: for many of us, that's an absolute dead stop.

It's also an ethical issue: my contact list isn't even mine -- it's other people's data, and their association with me. Even if I am OK providing it, there's no way I can assure that others are. Requesting contact lists is utterly immoral (and yes, so are companies which do it).

What I'd like? What I'd like is granularity on this. I'd like to be able to mark my contact info off-limits. I'd like to duck the surveillance society altogether. I'd really like a legal framework which governs this stuff, as it doesn't seem there's any other way to get the changes I'd prefer. Yes, I'm aware that's going to cause a lot of pain for a lot of companies, but it's absolutely something they've brought on themselves with the present set of circumstances.
@facebook.com was supposed to make people feel that all their electronic communication needs can be met by facebook. I'm guessing, it turned out people didn't mind that much logging into both their gmails/hotmails and facebook.
It's a good question, and it's impossible to answer with historical examples of well-developed capitalist countries without a central bank.
Best and simplest trick I've found for this is having a CSS hidden honeytrap field, something like <input name="message_body" type="text" class="hideme" />

Bots will put something in the field but humans should never see it, so if the server sees anything in there it can safely toss the whole thing.
I'm going to continue programming "in Mathematica" then. Definitely not going to rub his ego by programming "in Wolfram"!

His company offers great products... but his personality irritates me.
Not really; DTrace has never been advertised as a tool for Linux. I've talked about the in-development ports, and that they aren't complete, and that they can panic/freeze systems.

OTOH, SystemTap is advertised as tracing for Linux, and that it's safe for production use. My customers are running Linux, usually Ubuntu, and so I tried using SystemTap.

I wouldn't have written that blog post if the SystemTap homepage simply said: "SystemTap is a tracing tool for RHEL. There are ports in progress for Ubuntu and others, which may panic or freeze systems."

I disagree with the logic for not warning customers of this, and I think it's bad for Red Hat. If the homepage had stated that it's a RHEL tool, those frustrated users would have known to try RHEL, instead of giving up entirely.
hidden message in the HTML? Nothing as of right now http://pastebin.com/yi5j88FG
"It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black."
It's a flawed idea though unfortunately - a malicious party could have a legitimate address blacklisted by sending stolen bitcoin to them.

It's a wonderfully interesting social issue. We have this high stakes protocol where everything is transparent and the whole system needs to be in a consensus. It's fantastic watching the internal struggle.
Intentional misrepresentation of fact for material gain doesn't seem to require currency of any sort.

So Kome I'll make you a deal, I've got a ownership title for the Brooklyn Bridge and I'll trade this title to you for a case of beer... deal? Deal. Sucka. Then it goes to court. Assuming you can convince the court I knew the title was fake, and the case of beer is worth more than the fake title (maybe the title has artistic merit, or maybe the beer was worthless American Lite "beer" of negative worth) then its pretty cut and dried as fraud.
Hacker News link target = '_blank'.
You either download the CGI script and host it yourself or you pay the formmail.com people to host it. In the olde days there were free ones where you specified the destination in the form, but spam put paid to that.
It's not like diet coke and sausage and vegetables. It's more like "I have sausage, diet coke, ice cream, milk, beans, beef, eggs, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, tuna, cabbage, chicken, pork, cucumbers, corn, potatoes, artichoke, apples, cherries, oranges, cheese, bananas, shrimp, yogurt, kiwi, grapes etc. I guess I can live without that avocado you are offering."
I agree with the vast majority of your comments - especially about the state of the industry. I'm also not a libertarian and I'm fairly neutral about whether I think it would be good if bitcoin achieves some massive scale.

However all enterprises are designed to enrich those who got in early. If you have an alternative model, please suggest it, otherwise this sounds like a bitter and empty criticism.
Regarding the issue of having your email address in the open. This could easily be solved by requiring registration and generating an encrypted URL for each email address that a user associated with their account. I know this highers the barrier for entry, but putting an email address in the open is foolish and making it too easy for the dumbest of email harvesters.
I don't think it's irony. Early jobs in your career drive your perspective on technology and culture. That imprint stays with you, and you build new things in that model. Even if it wasn't explicit, the child mimics the parent. In some cases it is explicit. (I'll make something that my old employer will want to buy, and configure it to be as obvious as possible a decision)
But is that really any better? Instead of not trusting hackers/outside entities, you have to deal with not being able to trust the site/company creators. I'd call that worse than staying silent.

This statement inspires absolutely zero confidence and trust at a time when both those things are necessary at some level.
If Bitcoin proponents ever want to reach people who aren't "equally engaged", then it needs to be safe and reliable. Like, you know, that evil fiat currency. Which pretty much requires either the backing of governments, or an incredible improvement in fundamental security and transaction support.

Until then, it's going to be the currency equivalent of fantasy football, with a side business in digital transactions for otherwise illegal activity.
I'd support if you mean "death by hanging in the public square" by criminal liability for illegal financial activity.

Make the corporation pay back every penny they got illegally, then hang the bastards high to set an example.
> It's actually heartening that this sort of story, eventually, won't really be able to happen any more.

I think it's unfortunate.

What possibilities will exist for people who may want (or may need!) to live a life outside of the societies of man?
This is the way to do it: “Start with a small, intense fire.” Those first customers will make or break you.
Amiga example works; took me definitely over 10 years to stop saying that after I was forced to move to PCs. And then I had it with Unix (SparcStation 5s which never crashed and never had to be rebooted against our uni's 100s of PCs which were mandatory rebooted during the night otherwise they were unusable during the day, and still were actually), luckily everyone listened and we're all using that now. Well no, but at least you CAN now without being hopelessly crippled.

Thing is ; these notebook interfaces COULD be really brilliant, but they suck and I don't know why. Maybe just not enough people working on them?
I think there are a few kinds of hurt here.

There are people who have paper losses. Losing something you never had feels bad, but it's not an actual injury.

There are people who put real money into a completely unregulated financial instrument via a completely unregulated financial company named after a trading-card game. Hopefully they took the advice that's in the first chapter of any book on money management and didn't bet more than they could afford to lose. If so, then there's no hurt.

There are the people who had no clue and took a bath. They did get hurt, and I feel bad for them, but they are incidental to the drama.

Then there are a lot of people who have been hyping BitCoin to the skies. Where they got hurt is in their egos. There, I think adding insult to injury is richly deserved. They are the people who led the clueless into this, so fuck them.
I blew all my money on Beanie Babies and tulips.
For some trees the fire causes the big trees to open their cones so that new trees may grow after the fire has run its course. Sometimes nature has interesting emergency backup systems.
Here in Argentina the government does this all the time. For example, Today they have announced that Nic.ar, the entity that handles .com.ar domains, will start to charge 200 $AR to register a domain. And the guy that made the announcement said "The users were asking for this from long time" (yes, of course, users are asking to pay for something that is free). Source http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
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> Apple is evidently not using to hire enough code reviewers

It's naive to think that the more people you throw at the problem, the less bugs there will be.

See also: The Mythical Man-Month.
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opensourceapple.com ? If it's an open source part in apple code, then couldn't I fix the issue on my own machine? (by removing the second goto fail; and recompiling)
lesson 1: don't be a butt.

#OOPS
Apparently someone tried it and the publicly-available source is incomplete and doesn't build.
He's probably talking about earlier, when there was an HTML comment about an acquisition
For the same reason that GIMP is no Photoshop.
How do we know they didn't just steal it all themselves?
There's another one (getsimpleform.com) that handles uploads and spam prevention via Akismet. It does not expose your email.
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You are taking advice that I didn't give. I didn't say that all risk was good, just that waiting until there is zero apparent risk is futile.
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Disappointed this sunk from the homepage.
Yeah, but shouldn't they try to pay people back before they spend what's likely tens of thousands of dollars on what amounts to superficial marketing? I mean, it's not even much of a re-brand!
I've been using SimpleForm(http://getsimpleform.com/) for my static site forms, It's quite easy to set up and you can add some spam prevention with Akismet.

This project looks interesting because there no need to register unlike SimpleForm.
Except that the Mathematica editor still lacks a decent undo function: http://undo-for-mathematica.alaifari.com/undo-how-useless/
In other words, this method is on parity with conventional contact methods and the spam harvesting point is moot.
I don't think it's the anonymous nature of the internet that makes this easy. After all, the internet is far less anonymous than many think.

It's likely the unregulated nature of Bitcoin that makes this easy to do. After all, who is going to chase down market manipulators with search warrants and wiretaps?
I upvoted you because I think you present a fair point, especially about "big data" and curses programs, though I recently noticed that top is behaving well in emacs and I don't think it was before, so maybe it's getting better and I need to revisit some of my old workflows to see if I can incorporate them.

As for running grep/awk/sed in tmux being fast, I don't doubt running the individual program and getting your results is faster, but the interaction in eshell and going beyond, say, grep output and actually being able to go the the line in question, the whole workflow, is much faster than running grep and then firing up an editor on the file and moving to the line. That is the real power, the whole workflow is made faster such that the fact that grep is a slow elisp implementation doesn't matter. And elisp grep really isn't that slow, accessing the file system is the slow part and that's true for both implementations and both can benefit from aggressive file caching anyway.

The less I have to leave emacs during an editing session, the faster/more productive I'll be. And that's the real power of eshell IMO.
In investment, there's a basic triangle of risk, liquidity, and return. Choose two. But people are greedy and stupid. They see high return with high liquidity, and deliberately ignore the risk. Bitcoins look like a great way to get high returns with high liquidity, and the promise of "security" based on the non-involvement of evil oppressive governments. That's a fool's game, because government is not usually the threat to your wealth. Step out of the law-backed guarantees and rich ecosystem of fiat currency, and there's basically no one to protect you from theft.
How much did you lose on it?
Well I don't know if this matters but it checks out against benford's law, or at least kinda...
http://i.imgur.com/nL9lO6r.png

for comparison here is a dataset that doesn't checkout against benford's law (it's the city of Chicago's employee Salaries)

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SxAY1d2.png (don't get too alarmed though, it fails because they've used estimations for hourly employees)
If you don't understand something inside out don't directly invest in it - it's that simple.

This is advice is really not plausible to follow. Even the professionals can't figure out all the issues they need to figure out. That's why:

a) so many old corporations get disrupted from the blind side and die

b) so many acquisitions become a waste of of the acquiring company's money

c) so many startups fail

d) etc, etc

Any type of investor in any type of industry or stage of life will know that there is still risk exposure because they know they are not omniscient. How many all-star teams are there who look like sure bets? Many, many. History shows that they're not sure bets.

Yes, to do proper investing, you should do your analysis as much as possible, try to understand your target investment subject inside out, and make decisions based on sound logic and evidence, not hearsay and flimsy ideas. But you never know if you've missed seeing the black swan. The black swan doesn't hit you because you failed to do your analysis inside out. The black swan hits you because you had a blind spot that nobody could see, and you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time, despite all your intellectual understanding.

The people who worked on the trading code for Knight Capital knew their stuff very well, they still missed the bug that caused their fund to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. The people at NASA were the best in the world at what they did, the Challenger still blew up. Peyton Manning won the NFL MVP and still lost the Superbowl.

Stuff will happen when there are many unknown variables in the air, and you won't know where your exposed to risk, even if you know the subject inside out, until it hits you. The only thing you can do is mitigate all the risks you do see and diversify so that the risk that you don't see don't hurt you as much as they would if you put all your eggs in one basket.

edit: I'll say that I agree with you to not put large amounts of money into things you don't understand. But I think the emphasis should not be put into that, but rather into diversification. Putting money into something you don't understand can be very lucrative if it looks good, as long as you can stomach the risk and afford losing all that money. So maybe I would say you should revise your statements from being about "large sums of money" and instead about "unacceptably large proportion of your money".
Just curious, what Linux distro is everyone switching to? At this point I am seriously considering it, because this is pathetic. (I suspect I'll remain with Apple hardware for the foreseeable future, because they still have the best laptops IMO, but running another OS is not out of the question.)

I like elementaryOS, but it really doesn't feel as polished as OS X. Things like their choice of font don't help IMO.
As explained multiple times throughout this page, it'll do no such thing.
Priority Matrix does a good job working offline, even without an account.
Uhh, mostly because East Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

Never assume that Germans lack technical ability, either!
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It's not even as simple as a failure to communicate.

It's hard not to conclude that they outright lied. First it was malleability, then it was "we're waiting on bitcoin developers," then it was "we've moved due to protesters and security problems," and now it's "we've closed our site due to recent news reports."

I wonder when precisely they realized that >700,000btc were missing.
Well, sure, but it's not like this message was rushed out within minutes of anything in particular. They seemed quite content to have a completely blank site for hours on end before putting this up.
There was the Bre-X scandal where a geologist "fell" out of a helicopter and the founder was kidnapped by gunmen (and apparently died later of a brain aneurysm).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre-X
Apparently, there ARE some things $100M in cash can't buy, like security reviewers, security teams, security coders.. hmm, actually, $100M in cash could buy all those things. Guess it's a question of priorities, and security isn't one of them.
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A possible objection to the proposal is that those who opt not to use "trusted" proxies will be making themselves more visible, like users of Tor are more visible.
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Two pitfalls: 1) You should add some text to indicate to people using screen readers that this field should remain blank. 2) You should make sure to name the field something unlikely to be autofilled. There are browser toolbars out there that will happily autofill even hidden fields and trigger your spam filter.

But other than that, I agree that this is extremely effective against the common sort of drive-by spam bot. (And, obviously, completely useless against any sort of advanced or targeted attack.)
Oops, good catch, thanks! Hadn't thought of this.

Apparently the problem is just sending a request https->http. https->https should work fine. Adding SSL asap.

EDIT: now you can also use https://api.formspree.com/your@email.com
He has no beard. The language won't last.
So am I right in understanding that this is measuring something different from the aforementioned Google statistics? On Google's page it seems to be measuring actual IPv6 traffic, whereas worldipv6launch.org is measuring availability in networks if I'm reading this correctly.
If they're under investigation by a regulator or a criminal prosector they may be severely legally restricted as to what they can say publicly.
I'm curious about the $x. Seems like getting bitcoins out if it has gone out the window, but since fiat is regulated, wouldn't they be legally required to pay out any fiat their customers have in the system?

I didn't have bitcoins in the system, but I did have a couple hundred dollars. Completely negligible amount and it doesn't really affect me to lose it, but it would be convenient to get it back.
In case you haven't seen it, Vice made and excellent documentary about Agafia's life in Siberia.

It's a sad yet inspiring story, I highly recommend it for anyone interested.

Heres the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
I love how people keep making excuses for why their favorite cult leader just fed them cyanide.
Excellent points, thank you.
If you replace 'have poor internet service' by 'use a cellular connection' in your post, it also describes the mobile experience, especially when on the move. The app takes ages to reconnect when its connection is dropped (at least on iOS), and frequently even decides to just sign itself out.
Sorry, I should have said it's Linux kernel [1].

Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
Don't use C99-style "// ..." comments.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
> enable more native-like experiences over the web

Didn't user-facing Java (e.g. apps) on the desktop chase this unicorn it's entire existence? Will it be different this time?
I worded it as an oversimplification, but it does offer the same service a REST endpoint would offer (CRUD docs), and more via subscriptions. REST in itself is just an RPC, what I'm trying to convey is that it offers the same, plus more over a socket.
A lot of players (including Apple now it seems) trying to make money on top of a standard. there is no IP to be traded in Bluetooth LE itself.

Device suppliers are trying to lock purchasers into particular brands.

Apple presumable are offering the facility of automatic recognition and filtering of specific devices to fire and pass data to iOS apps.

What we (as developers) need is an open standard for encryption and recognition so that we can work with multiple suppliers to meet the needs of our end users.
This was exactly my reaction to reading this document.

It mirrors "too big to fail" startlingly well.
Don't conduct business with entities practicing Economics 2.0 is all I got to say for that.