skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joining the Sarah Palin school of geography makes me think you're just trolling. Take it somewhere else.
Says the non-democratic European muppet government? Hahaha. This cable goes directly into obamas laptop.
This is FUD. Someone is trying really hard to push the market down. MtGox has withdrawing limits, which means that the only way to exploit the malleability bug is to slowly drain the hot wallets, and MtGox would have to keep replenishing them from their cold vault; also assuming that MtGox's system would resend apparently failed transactions. This means that there's no way they wouldn't have noticed missing funds in their balances. No way someone could slowly steal 750K BTC, without anyone noticing. Just no way.
I think if they were the kind of people with the discipline and character to do that, they probably wouldn't be in this pickle.
One would think that if the documents were fabrications, they would be dismissed as such by the people and organizations that they indict.

I mean, I could fabricate documents that detail how the moon landing was faked, but I would be called out on my fabrication immediately. In this case however the only people floating the "the documents are fake" theory are third parties with no unique insight into the allegations, notably not the accused.
You could make an 'Illuminati' card-game expansion set out of a few of these slides.
There's no chance this is true. It would mean that Gox would have had to have drained their cold wallet (a manual process) without noticing.

Gox is not particularly competent, but there's no way that happened.
At the risk of drastically oversimplifying... This seems hauntingly familiar to a pattern I've seen dozens of times in MMO's when the right sort of exploit falls into the hands of the right group of people. Once you've found out about it, the damage is done, and usually now obfuscated in such a way as to be unfixable(e.g. laundering); now a handful of players can control the bulk of currency in a market. "the right people" aspect is the "keep quiet" aspect; and is necessary for the impact to have sufficient time to really grow in magnitude. (right people doesn't have to != normal people)

Perhaps I'm just overfantasizing the whole thing in my head; but I like to think (and probably in doing so coloring my perceptions) that there are similarities between certain events in cryptocurrency and game-currency life cycles.
Higher residential density wouldn't add that much strain---the destinations (ie workplaces) still have the same density, it's just that commuters don't travel as far on the tube.

So you could make the system more intense, and less extense; concentrate the investments in tube upgrades on the centres.
If you think the slides are bad now, try digesting them on government coffee.
rsnapshot to an old machine hosting a Linux software raid-5 array.
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What's so dumb about them? Do you like your opening and closing parenthesis to be the same, too?
Because Michael Hastings was killed for his unpublished work on chemtrails, not the reporting he'd done on CIA, and Barrett Brown is no hero: he's out to immanentize the eschaton! Hail Eris!

If you're going to write a conspiracy theory for us, "streetnigga", at least do it with some style. Throw an "Ewige Blumenkraft" or two in there.
But of course no one advocates capitalism as an actual philosophical goal, they advocate that it's the best way to distribute our limited resources to get the most out of them. So if you accept the existence of natural monopolies it's hard to defend that the inefficiencies of regulating a monopoly to better capture externalities aren't less than the inefficiencies of personal profit maximizing behavior by the private entity with the monopoly.
Yes, and as the article says, the locals are also paying. The parlance seems to be "costs and burden-sharing".

On the other hand a fraction of ten billion USD is not that much for the Germans to sacrifice for slightly more privacy. (A fraction, since ten billion USD is the total cost the US pays, and Germany is but one country they have bases in.)

The bases do provide security, though.
1735 kilograms (Ferrari California curb weight) * (the speed of light^2) =
1.55934024 × 1020 joules
Is it just me or do these slides make GCHQ look like a bunch of frustrated PUAs? Jump forward to the slide following the text "The documents lay out theories of how humans interact" to see what I mean.
What an unnecessarily antagonistic and intellectually dishonest response. It's obvious from the GP's post that he's talking about actual problems with possible solutions, and for what it's worth I've experienced the same phenomenon.

Give your interlocutors the benefit of the doubt, it makes for a much more productive conversation.
LoAaaS

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How would you say your service compares to Gengo.com? It seems you're a lot cheaper. Does that mean we could expect lower quality? What sort of QA do you have in place?
Because it shows a clear pattern. I find it remarkable that he doesn't see a problem with being intimidating. When is it ever ethical to be intimidating?

Not to mention it's hypocritical to be so adamant about someone else's behavior when your own history is so spotty. It shows me that the guy tries to push his own view to the exclusion of all others - if he doesn't agree with you, or he gets mad, he tries to destroy you.
Let it go, man. He's gone to the great laser containment grid in the sky.
>" What good is a programming problem if no one else can reproduce it?"

Well in real life, those are the tough ones and where help is more appreciated.

The only bugs that I remember are the ones that were random or that nobody else could reproduce and yet were there.
Analog computers used to be a thing. If you want to get into this now it's actually a good time, thanks to the resurgence in modular synthesizers, which are just analog computation optimized for audio ranges. You can easily find modules specifically for math operations and so forth.
Damien's writeup is well worth a read, esp. by programmers who want to know what it takes to get to a high level of proficiency. The Iris work appears to have been a critical experience in preparing Damien to write Couch. Anyone who wants to become a great programmer should read this and emulate his example.

I was at Iris around that time too, and went through the IBM slow-death. I really felt like we had to spend at least one whole day per week (maybe more) dicking around with HR stuff. Career objectives, self-eval, performance reviews, peer reviews.

Facilities and IT systems were a horror show too. I spent 2 whole days registering with various internal websites, filling out forms, getting permissions - just trying to get rid of an unwanted monitor. At Iris you'd just put unwanted stuff outside your office and it would be gone the next day.

Funny, losing the amazing Iris tech-bubble perks kind of sucked, but it was really the daily "being an employee" overhead and red-tape that made IBM unbearable.
Thwarting a journalist from reporting by targeting him and his career, not actually unethical according to tptacek.
Ask HN: How was this Facebook thing achieved?
Oh good lord. This question is more about properly isolating your tests (i.e. writing the characters to /dev/null and getting rid of the "random" call) and properly profiling code (which would show high CPU consumption on the console, not the program writing to stdout) more than anything "tricky" about performance.
Perfect for MacBook Airs with 64/128GB SSD's, since the 13" model has an SD card slot
Could you explain exactly how Palantir is accused of attempting to unethically damage Glenn Greenwald's career? In more detail than "one of their SEs was in an email thread with Aaron Barr"? Because what you just wrote is a straw-man version of my comment.
while there is some default risk (but perhaps not enough?) priced into the mt.fgox price, the general bitcoin price doesn't appear much affected, certainly not proportionate to the damage that could be done, or already has been done, to the whole bitcoin ecosystem.
Now, that's a slam. Anywhere in Africa, get it?

Look our use of language is incredibly important, and the sooner people stop seeing and hearing the negative cultural associations between "the story" and "color," the sooner they won't have to be afraid of non-scary things. And yes, "Mexican" is associated with a race amongst many in our population.

There are better ways to word something like this.

I say all this because I care about the EFF.

Also, forgive me if my being offended is misplaced, I can be wrong. But I'll never really know will I? And that would be the sad truth of it.

Peace be with you.
And these are precisely the things, which we know little, that the NSA may be exploiting with extreme effectiveness that scares the shit out of me.

I recall an article from 2005 that described a system that could track BULLETS IN MID FLIGHT over a vast swath, in-the DARK, which provided detailed view in all ballistics in a fighting theater....
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About your point 2:

You say it's fine if it's applied abroad. But assume that someone abroad is applying it to what is to them "abroad", that is, what to us is domestically. But it's a foreign operation trying to influence domestic policy. That is, to apply this against foreign operators, it may well need to be applied domestically.

Now, the gotcha: I see the need. But do I trust the NSA/CIA/FBI/whoever to apply it only against foreign-controlled domestic operations? No, I don't.
Are you me? Let's talk.
There is a lot of irony to be had in the world of Bitcoin. From security to stability to manipulation.
>"The likely consequences will be larger than this localized financial damage, and we believe that the benefits of keeping MtGox stable and running outweigh the risks. This isn’t about saving MtGox anymore.”

If this is true, then they are literally claiming that MTGox is too big to fail.
How many drinks have you had this evening?
One would hope that they would periodically compare coins on hand vs coins reportedly held.
Couldn't this be confirmed or denied by analyzing the blockchain for modified transactions and counting the volume? Someone already did something similar and didn't find anything astounding: http://www.righto.com/2014/02/the-bitcoin-malleability-attac...
My issue is that I literally only have a single option for outgoing internet, and always have since living here.

many people seem to gloss over this issue, but BT still has a monopoly here, and will refuse to move unless people kick up a stink.
Your analogy is bad because it would be very hard to ignore Rodney Dangerfield in your bedroom, but it is very easy to ignore these sorts of questions. At worst it sits there and nobody comes up with an answer. We aren't running out of bits.
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal finances and budgets?
Do you use any specific applications or websites? Any neat tips that you may have would be interesting too.

Thanks!
- Ahmed
Their page does a lot of "telling" but not enough "showing". I want to see a hands-on demo of all of the main features, before I could be convinced to back this. Additionally, issues of charging, pairing, and sizing don't seem to be addressed.
> I really do not understand how it is possible to run a system size of MtGox without some kind of reconciliation.

It's very easy. It's actually easier than doing a reconciliation.

Its quite possible that MTGox thought "everything has to balance, because we're only giving out money that people have deposited, therefore what would be the point of a reconciliation?"
I think a cynical view would suggest it is exactly what it appears to be.
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Listening to Paul talk is refreshing. He's like Feynman in that he's got something clever and fun to say and doesn't dress it up in pretense. I still remember feeling about 10 times better during a commute home once because NPR played an interview of his on startup failure, what could have been a depressing subject. The interviewer asked what sort of people he was looking for. He described them as "fierce nerds", which was both hilarious and dead on.

Jason's a great interviewer, though. He brought up questions people wanted to hear, dug in a few times, and stayed on the sidelines. He can be a lot more energetic if he's the focus and not the interviewer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbI9pIbpY4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79I4Jf80FHg
Do you have any reason other than their own claim at credibility to trust this random blog on the internet?
In my experience, unknown authors do tend to make terrible debut albums :)
I thought this was immediately obvious on first watching, and am surprised to find it's considered an Easter Egg.
I remember making a PC game in 1998 with multiplayer.. we had to handle 500 ms lag in an action game! Later I worked on a game that kept three versions of the simulated in memory (the old confirmed world, the new confirmed worlds, and an interpolation) to deal with lag while keeping in sync.

You don't know how easy you have it now!
How was the user to know that the problem had nothing to do with java without knowing what the problem was? From the user's point of view, the answer could have easily been something like "oh yeah, java prints the 'B' character very slowly for xyz reason".
Zero, but thanks for putting the idea in my head. :)

I have a very hard time taking people who believe in the Michael Hastings conspiracy seriously, and that's just one of the goofy conspiracy theories the parent commenter has promoted on HN.
Here's a gem that clang produces when compiling folly:

"clang-3.4: error: unable to execute command: Segmentation fault"
No. There's absolutely a gain. A big one, too. The main reason it isn't done today is not that it isn't useful, but that it's too slow to run e.g. bcrypt on the client without native browser APIs. WebCrypto will change that by adding PBKDF2 as a module accessible from JavaScript.

The main reason we encourage people to use key stretching algorithms on the server is that, if an attacker gets access to a database of password digests that aren't very strong, they can trivially be reversed.

Doing this key stretching or "password scrambling" on the client side simply moves the processing burden from the server to the client. There is nothing less secure or less useful about it.
Cool! Their automation of Vim via Python uses a slightly different approach than ActualVim.

Might be worth seeing if either project can steal from the other.

It looks like they rely on Vim +clientserver, which isn't compiled by default afaik.
What about tubesock with Rails 4? https://github.com/ngauthier/tubesock
Don't do it unless it's spam. You'll have your flag ability taken away otherwise.
If that comment were enough to be used against me, then they would not need that comment.
Two-Bit Idiot: Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 BTC
It would be very nice if we could share or clone our development environment and let contributors on Stackoverflow play with it, rather than try to reproduce on their computers. Of course it has its dangers, but once solved, it would be an awesome addition to SO.
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I sometimes wish a HN comment could be 'favourited'.
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> For iOS I believe that decrypting the binary and doing an objdump, then comparing the resulting assembly is a reasonable approach to ensuring that two builds do the same thing.

Not a chance.

And if someone is doing this, we are well past "particularly insidious".
I would love to see MtGox given a bailout. So many heads would explode.
To me, the scariest part of JTRIG is how targets are "determined." The actions taken against said targets by the NSA/GCHQ seem extrajudicial yet they can ruin these peoples' lives. The word “hacktivism” is itself a moving target, which gives these opaque agencies unimaginable power.
BLOKK – a font for clients who do not understand latin.
We have always been at war with citizens.
I'm fairly certain that is fine, it's not "on the root" because it's *.root.com not root.com, you have an A record on the root which is expected and correct.
I hope so, although I can imagine right-wing pundits grumbling about "the moral hazard of giving these folks homes on a silver plate, when so many spend the majority of their adult lives paying for theirs."
That's not really true b/c even leaked to the public top secret documents remain top secret in government circles. It's why government employees are specifically told not to seek out wikileaks or snowden documents - you can't gain "legitimate" access to those documents through the public.

Unless through all the noise I've missed where the govt. has said this or that document in particular is in fact genuine. I'm not saying it hasn't happened but I haven't seen it. Even acknowledgement of a program (PRISM, for example) isn't acknowledgement of PRISM slide #4, although it does make it's authenticity more likely than not.
It should be noted that the question has since been re-opened.
That's because an AK-47 is an AK-47: it's not a game-changer. But a CNC machining system that lets you build silent ship propellers can dramatically change the threats the world faces.
C++14 just got finalized... not sure how stable the language really is...
Can't wait to see someone ironically port this over to SNES.
> The actions taken against said targets by the NSA/GCHQ seem

> extrajudicial

That's why it's secret.
Happy to help. This is Free Liquor Week (aka RSA), but you're probably wise enough to avoid it.

I agree the most likely situation with Hastings was he had personal issues, but maybe got spooked by someone calling him or otherwise being threatening, and crashed his car. After writing some pretty good articles. And Barrett Brown has some serious issues as well, although (like aaronsw and weev, and manning's pre-trial detention conditions) the way the legal system is being used is itself unconscionable.

I still think "punch up" applies.
"Every man has a Property in his own Person" (John Locke, Two Treatises on Government).

As a libertarian, self-ownership is a central principle. Most people don't have any assets, save their own bodies. People should have the legal right to sell their bodies for medical school research, pharmaceutical testing, organ transplantation, safety engineering or anything else.

Selling your own corpse on the spot market doesn't do you any good, so you'd need to sell your cadaver via a forward contract or a futures contract. Forwards are highly custom and generally can't be resold. Futures are standardized contracts; their legalization would make cadavers into commodities and would lead to the creation of a cadaver futures exchange as well as cadaver swaps and derivatives.

As a left-libertarian, I don't accept "laissez-faire" as dogma, merely as a means to the end of perfect competition. Government has a role, not only in (1) providing courts to settle cadaver forward/futures contract disputes, but also to (2) police the market to root out fraud and violence, such as the bodysnatching and murder-for-profit of William Burke and William Hare; and to (3) bust trusts/cartels among the body-brokerages.
It's also interesting that if you limit the search to the C language, it looks like the search ignores the ":" after the first dozen or so hits and the remaining entries are matches for "wq" in variable names, etc. e.g.:

extern struct workqueue_struct *kcrypto_wq;

Edit: Actually, this seems to be true of most languages...
ZX81 version https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0disyFsqTyE/Uv_yxfBfPsI/A...
Context? What is :wq - I'm assuming some sort of Vim shortcut?
Do you ever get tired of being so sarcastic?

As if this nation of 300M+ people is all on the same page?
roma1n said "Two european residents have their first kiss", not "Two european residents each have their first kiss". It would definitely be their first kiss. Do I win pedant fight? :)
Hey, cool! That's exactly the kind of behavior that GCHQ is bragging about to their partners.

That's even better than Tang from the space program!
Part of the letter is: yeah, that billion dollar Boeing contract? We're giving it to Sweden. I see the vowels "o", "e" and "i".

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-boeing-brazil-i...
"write file and quit"
NOT show HN: need users to test a music-discovery site so I can tweak the voting
http://www.fuckyeahmusic.com

It finds new (mostly new, some old stuff sneaks in there too sometimes) music videos on YouTube, just click a thumbnail and if you listen for more than 90 seconds it gets a point and moves up the list. Pretty simple, Angular & Firebase.

Inspired by this heartwarming discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1d3mvg/music_on_reddit_is_completely_broken/ , that's why there are no band names or track titles.

Sort of works on a phone but not recommended at all, not sure about iPads. Barely tested, but seems to work on Chrome & Firefox at least.
They reopened it too. That's what you get when you have a collaboratively-managed site: folks working things out, in public. Nobody said democracy was pretty...
Yes, Heroku was another "culprit" of this kind of behavior that I would guess many people fall prey to. The worst part of it is how you will get some/most emails and some will just fall through the cracks. Unless you have a case like mine where you know an email should be coming and it's not then you can easily not know this is happening and be dropping emails.
It's the vim command to write & quit.
I'm sorry but I am responding to this:

"believing that Glenn Greenwald should be thwarted is an opinion that, while obviously objectionable on HN, not actually unethical."

Are you trying to say that an employee for NSA contractor Palantir discussing targeting a journalist because of his work on a topic is separate from the employee's beliefs, therefore is not actually unethical?

How exactly did the journalist, or his career get brought up in a conversation between federal contractors about solicitation for work again? Was it to talk about of the reports they liked from him?
Horrible news.

Today's passing of Ramis added to the passing of John Hughes in '09, means the two powerhouses of the Golden Age of cinematic comedy (70's, 80's and early 90's) are gone.

Thanks for the laughs, Harold.
Considering the cost of a room in a shared apartment in Copenhagen is nearing $800 these days, that's pretty impressive, and relevant to my interests.
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Do 10 minutes of research on Standard Oil. Not a great example.
Usually I understand why a question is marked as offtopic, but I think an issue like this, that someone writing Java is encountering, is definitely on topic.

If a future person were to run into that problem I think that is the most appropriate location for the answer to reside.
Wow, nice demo. It is interesting to see Wolfram explain his vision for an "ultimate fusion language" -- a powerful multi-paradigm language, a huge standard library, data sources, and deployment all rolled into one. This monolithic approach seems to be the opposite of the Unix philosophy, and I wonder how that will play out.

There are clearly benefits to be gained from smooth integration, and the demo is impressive considering it only uses stuff built into the language. But there's also something to be said for letting different teams of people focus on building smaller and more focused tools which can be combined in a variety of ways. I worry that this Wolfram language will be limited in its usefulness for real applications because it simply tries to bite off too much.
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The whole point is that the targets of this activity have not been caught "doing illegal crap online." If they had been caught, the government would actually charge them with a crime.

Also note that the article is about the GCHQ, so anyone in the U.S. is "abroad" to them.