skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off: money isn't "real". It is itself a representation of real property (land, minerals, houses, plant and equipment, books), subject to its own supply and demand. Part of that is based on faith in the currency itself. What provides the basis for that faith is itself interesting, and I'm increasingly drawn to the suggestion that it's payments which must be made in specific currencies, such as tax obligations and petroleum purchases, which play a huge role in supporting the US dollar.

Secondly: the "real money" went at the time the BTC were bought (if they were bought and not mined). If they were mined, then the "real money" went to pay mining expenses: plant and resources, which is to say, processors and electricity.

What would have vanished should BTC lose its acceptance as a currency and value store is the market in which bitcoin are traded and valued, and any significant price within that market. More specifically, if the offered price for BTC falls below the present mining costs, it's likely that few will be created, though there might exist some sort of zombie market for what bitcoin already exist, likely at a small fraction of recent prices. This is what has happened with other currency and coin whose value has disappeared. At best you have the underlying worth in specie (or CPU cycles for BTC).

The question about where the coin went and whether or not they're of any use to the present holder is a good one, and my understanding of bitcoin and transaction logs isn't sufficient to answer it. But if the original coin holder could track the coins they'd at least be able to see who's transacting them. I'm not sure that this would be sufficient to have them recoverable.

Seems another useful feature might be to be able to repudiate a coin: if someone steals it, publish a revocation key. Though of course, this would have to not be exploitable in legitimate, authorized, transactions, and you'd then have to be able to distinguish authorized from unauthorized transactions.
I'd wonder how much of that is just from being used to reading more traditionally, though.
Could you comment on why it is faster?
This Spritz thing seems to do that, which I found very comfortable.
I was just talking to someone about this service today. I don't think I ever tried it.

When it launched I still actively used Facebook, but it was a slow rollout and I didn't have access at that time. Since then, I've stopped using Facebook for almost everything and after the initial launch, all but forgot about it.

The recent purchase of WhatsApp however, reminded me of their email service and I remarked how reminiscent it was of the move in the late 90's from email to IM.

I'm sort of surprised that they are retiring it entirely as I thought they'd use the messaging app to drive higher adoption rates of their email service, akin to Hangouts integrating with GMail. I thought it would actually be a good strategy. I guess it's hard to convert the masses to another email system when most users are probably happy with what they've already got.
The only "safe" coin is a cold storage coin.

Even that is not safe, because the value ultimately depends on confidence in the currency as a whole. Money is a social construct; you can never safely hold it with no fear of loss, even in cold storage or under your mattress. As you say, this happens with every currency, but we introduce regulations to limit the fallout.

This is a lesson that many alternative currency fans are learning today.
Unfortunately if the rumors are true, that 6% is now owned by a thief, not destroyed.
This is the most likely explanation that I've heard so far and lines up with their Twitter account being emptied, gox.com being transferred, the statement from the other exchanges etc.

Completely rebuilding an entire exchange from the ground up in 1 month seems insane. I would not like to be in that office right now.
Am I burned out?
Oh - but yes it is! Indeed there is much tyranny to be had in the undermining of foreign economies with espionage and injected turmoil, and the nation of the USA has invested much in its ability to tyrannise other nations through economic means. If you cannot see the tyranny, perhaps you are standing too close.
The NSA isn't going to publish a statement about this. That would be silly.
They would absolutely have to.

The impending cap on bitcoin production would dry up the already recession-like liquidity, making it worse than gold as a currency.
Secure hardware device which sends data to cloud?
I have never had much luck speed-reading technical papers. It's too difficult for me to interpret and think critically together -- words flashing by will go unevaluated I think.
Their FAQ seems to suggest it's more than RSVP, the addition of the red 'centre' and the differing alignment (not centred on the middle of the word but slightly to the left). I've used both and I found Spritz more comfortable on the eyes, less eye movement.
All those arguments about whether or not they ever traded Magic: the Gathering cards look kind of frivolous now, DON'T THEY. Sounds like Bitcoin is about to have its Enron moment...
So MtGox is basically confirming, that some online criminals have accumulated at least 6% of total Bitcoin market capital?

Not to count the drug dealers, cryptolockers, etc. The banksters are bad, but this kind of stuff isn't good for wider adoption. "Hey, invest in bitcoin and watch how the deflation will boost your friendly local crime empire!"
Mint is great, I'm also tracking my federal student loan balance with it
How are movie ratings used as a bludgeon against independent filmmakers?
One of the most under advertised open course content on web. Glad to see this.
I still have every 8-bit machine I ever used to educate myself, and they still work. In fact my children are using them to learn programming, too.

I think what happened was that people got lazy and decided to just buy games instead of developing themselves. And this lead to the game console, and .. developer greed economy .. and the rest is history.

There are still great machines out there that can encourage youth to develop software - take the Open Pandora, for example (http://openpandora.org/) - it comes with everything you need to develop great software, and is complete. It is expensive - the economies of scale dictate this alas - but until someone rises up and demonstrates to 'the majors' that there is viability in teaching someone to program software again, we won't get compilers back onboard.

Imagine if the Nintendo had a compiler cartridge .. Imagine the same thing for the PS3/XBoxen of today. All it takes is a little less consumerism and a little more developerism.

Encourage a developer ethos on all fronts!
#1. What platforms do you think people would actually want to run a static analyzer on?

#2. You can enforce dependencies at a project level if you cared to. Lexers really haven't changed much from version to version.

Based on #3, you don't understand how lexers work.

Also, based on #4, do you actually know anybody that has encountered a blocking bug with a lexer?

#5. WHAT? How is that even remotely hard. This is a static analyzer. I'm not using my arduino to analyze code or anything.
Please read this (written by the owner):

http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do-anything-wh...
I wonder if Arch Linux will pick this up. They jumped head first into systemd a while back, but have also rolled out their own network config program, netctl. I think it'll be interesting to see whether they stick with that or switch to networkd.
From the Article:

>Acting as a custodian should require a high-bar, including appropriate security safeguards that are independently audited and tested on a regular basis, adequate balance sheets and reserves as commercial entities, transparent and accountable customer disclosures, and clear policies to not use customer assets for proprietary trading or for margin loans in leveraged trading.
You also have to account for the insane levels of indirection in the management structure of an institution like Barings Bank, an exponential sneakernet.
What is the virtue of reading at 250 wpm? I do just fine reading at 1 wpm. Some times I feel just being good enough has lost its value.
The city itself is what took you so long. Take a good hard look - did you always know what was beyond the wall?

For the record, I live outside the city limits, at the tip of the Donauinsel, and frequent the area often.. yes, Donauinsel is 'in the city of Vienna', but it still takes on average 3 train rides through the concrete jungle to get there for the average citizen.

Wienerwald is definitely not something I'd consider 'within the city limits' - its close, and the city is surrounded by it, but again - we're talking about the city, not its surrounding towns. The city of Vienna is a concrete jungle, and has been so for centuries - its citizens, and this is my point, have become acclimated to it and no longer see The Wall. Its still there, though. You just demonstrated this fact..
"The highest paid job in America is thinking. Some people think, many people think that they think and the vast majority would rather die than think" - Brian Tracey

Over the years I've seen that this is true. People avoid to think and make their own mind on a subject.

That's a discussion Brian Tracey in the podcast "The Miracle of Self-Discipline".

ps. By thinking of course I don't mean think about it 5 minutes while running on the park with your iPod. I mean think thoroughly, spend some time alone with no abstractions, before taking an important decision: be it a product, partnership, etc.
"Transacting under the auspices of a neutral, trusted third party is what money means."

Can you explain this a little more? How do I need to trust a 3rd party when I use, say, gold as money?
Here is a reason one might ethically believe Greenwald should be thwarted: because they believe that Greenwald is deeply dishonest, making up details about stories in order to fill in the gaps of his narrative and reporting them as if they were facts

Weren't the people trying to (order people to) thwart him in the best position to know whether details were actually made up?
I started mining bitcoin years ago; this sounds awfully "hipster", but it was still a relatively new, unheard of thing. I had no clue what I was doing, and mined 1 BTC. I lost it when I lost that hard drive; it took me until a year or so ago to even remember that I had it.

I consider myself lucky that I did not invest more of myself in BTC at that time. I think this MtGox event would be a huge hit to me.
Probably just dosn themselves with that statement.
Many municipalities adopt restrictive housing codes.

For instance, you cannot build a house less than X square feet in size.

You must have a lot size of X square feet (or this may be expressed in acres).

The international residential building code, which has some good things in it, but may be overkill for a smaller structure (like the ones mentioned, which are 320sf or less), must be followed.

These sorts of thing force compliance on 2000sf, multi-story dwellings with all kinds of complex systems; but is it needed for a well built but small, glorified storage shed? I would argue, "no".
You could start with Assignats...
I haven't looked in to the details but if it was in your wallet it would be safe. The issue is people leaving coins in online wallets where the security is in the hands of others (who really don't have the experience required).
for the sake of argument (I have no position in this, but I have read plenty of these):

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1orvkc/do_not_use_m...

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313359.0

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263425#up_6264944
Hangout eating SMS was really nasty. And trivial to enable, too. :(
Do you have a logo for the app? I would really like to add it to the directory at http://libreprojects.net :)
It's interesting to watch ordinary people attempt to dabble in currency. How many criminal organizations, governments, and financial institutions (redundant?) the world over have people who wake up everyday just to manipulate the value of currency? For example, a common criticism of China is that they purposely manipulate their currency to devalue the US dollar. In which ways could such organizations impact a new currency like bitcoin? Simple theft doesn't work very well unless immediately converted to cash, just like tangible goods being fenced, often below true value. Was it really just theft?
A very rare used featured in facebook... May be whatsup might take that spot, facebook should be looking to launch some service similar to whatsup instead of email service.
I want to see the real email addresses of my friends (again).
Note that these pledges were CREDIT, not MONEY. A distinction without a difference when it comes to post-Federal Reserve days.

You can't do this with BTC, because there is no credit market at this point.

Everything in BTC is full-reserve, all the time; there is no fractional reserve banking of BTC - it is in your wallet, or it is in my wallet.
I'm getting a 509 - Bandwidth Exceeded when viewing the page.
So there is alot of talk about coins being lost. I converted all my coins to litecoin a while ago, but I think I had some yen in my account. What is the likely hood of me getting that back.
So we're not the only ones. We had to go back to Clang 3.3 because Clang 3.4 had issues with our meta-programming craziness.

But still, I submit a clang-based tool is a better bet in the long run.
This is definitely true. Margins on flash are so thin nowadays you gotta make money on every card.
They also don't have these obligations because they are young. They haven't had time to start a family or buy a house. It's true that some people may want to go into a startup to avoid the "real risk". However, the "real risk" is the tried and true path, making it easier to fall into. And once a young person does, they have much more to lose by taking a job that may not work out in the long run.

I really don't see where I implied young people don't have the right to these things until they contribute to society. While it's fine if the majority continue on a "normal" path through life (college, job, family + house, 401k, etc), we need some young people who are willing to take the risk of not following that path.
They are insured in the US, but that's a relatively recent development. Before 1934, when your bank failed, you lost your money, which was why there were runs on banks during financial panics (1929, for example). But it is important to note that there is nothing special about a bank that makes it insured. You could set up a bank that is not FDIC insured. Maybe offer people a higher rate of interest the entice them to come. You can set up a brokerage that is not SIPC insured, too.

If MtGox were managing real money or stocks, and did what they are alleged to have done, I expect there would be some jail time. I doubt it's worth the Japanese government's time to criminally prosecute a few million dollars of new, unregulated currency-equivalent, but if they do prosecute, I'm guessing there is a serious risk of jail time here.
Some context: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001076.html

"What they propose for the new HTTP/2.0 protocol is nothing short of officially sanctioned snooping."
So I guess the transfer out I initiated 3 weeks ago is also lost then. You live you learn I guess !
GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator)
It's really more like a bank shut down, or maybe the bank owner stealing everyone's money. If you had a dollar in your pocket it would be fine, but here it was deposited into a bank that vanished.
Wasn't it the case in Argentina ?
Argentina in 2001 following the implementation of the "corralito" fiscal policy. But this seems like a very pedantic quibble you have here.
No. Its a closed system. For every dollar that someone spent on a bitcoin, that dollar was received by someone else.

Now, you can certainly say that the money was spent on things like electricity, or GPU hardware, that has little/no value now. But thats irrelevant - the money most certainly spent, rather than "evaporate" into thin air.
As someone who uses an email address that no longer exists to log into Facebook, I'm not sure what you're implying about the inexorability of email addresses. May I ask for an elaboration?
Well, that's not good.
I doubt they would willingly downgrade a working 64GB to a 4GB (and lose all the profit they could have made). That's just not a sane business practice in the flash industry.

Keep in mind, even the major brands are re-branding flash they buy from other manufacturers. So e.g. maybe Sandisk manufactures the high-end 64GB cards themselves using an advanced process, but they purchase the 4GB cards from some shitty manufacturer using a decade-old process.
Section 6 (Security Considerations) is truly shocking. And Section 7 (Privacy Considerations)? Whaddya know? It's empty!
I constantly find myself questioning the sanity of doing something like:

> inoremap :wq
I second this - I have a Nifty and it's perfect
I would think that this is their attempt to kill the very idea of e-mail. In their world, everybody has Facebook, period.
What is up with HNSummaries?
Haven't received an email since the 19th. Domain seems unreachable as well.
Yeah my first harddrive was a 5 megabyte drive running off the side expansion port of an Amiga 500 -- I was pretty sure there was no way I'd ever fill that drive up when I first got it.
If I may jump in here, I believe lugg was suggesting that email addresses are much more longer-lived than another type of username you might use to log into a service.
>The free market does not exist because the government stands in its way

So people should quit talking about it as it existed.

Not to mention that the same could (and WAS) said for communism ("it didn't exist because party bureucrats got in the way").

>You can't break my spine and then blame me for being paralyzed.

No, but I can point out that the unicorn pony you frequently talk about doesn't exist and never did in human history.
Tend to agree. If it had've had an iOS version and a little broadcasting of what it is and does, it could have been in Telegrams or Threema's position now, post FB aka Borg acquisition.

It's going to be hard going to reflow the already interconnected with this. Wish it wasn't so.
There's a fairly thin line between burn out and depression. It depends, as ever. If you can find the motivation to do other stuff, not related to work, and don't felt generally "sad", it's more likely to be burnout. But the other symptoms that you've listed are pretty indicative of depression. (I over generalise on purpose with "feeling sad"; depression is way more than that.)

I was burnt out in 2009/10. I was avoiding work, making mistakes, literally hiding things from my boss at the time, and simultaneously shutting out my then wife, drinking a lot. I'd take walks out during the day, two hour lunches, because I didn't want to be in the office, once I even hid my blackberry in a cupboard. I was interested in other things (I was writing, and reading lots, in preparation for the the PhD that I wanted to do), but anything to do with actual work: no thanks. Having been depressed before, I could tell it wasn't that, and it took me a long time to work it out - long enough to encompass a divorce, nearly getting fired and getting forcibly transferred out of that job. If you're worried you might be burnt out, then you might be burnt out. But you also might just hate your job.

Edit: I'm now doing that PhD, started one company that tanked, working at another startup, and learned to code in the last year so I could build another, different one. Burnout fades when you take yourself out of the situation, but sometimes that's easier said than done. The first part is realising what's happening.
I had one of these as a teenager and loved it. Learned Pascal with it, and did a lot of assembly language programming with it (Z80 apparently - I'd forgotten if it was that or 6502). It finally gave up the ghost a few years ago. Makes me quite nostalgic.
You have a good point, but I don't think it really stands up. By the time somebody's 50 or 60, they are looking toward retirement, not trying to start the next huge product.

I look at my dad as an example. He's not an engineer, but he makes a 6 figure salary. Once his last kid is out of the house, he'll be 60. Even looking at him now, at 50, I don't think he has the energy to take the risk and start a company. While there may be a few 50-60 year olds with everything needed to start something else, I think the norm goes in the exact opposite direction.
Unfortunately an iPhone taken back to the 1950s is going to be a local-apps-only affair.
>..they will invent an IDE that does automatic formatting, for them? Like Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA? Or a library that does the same like JSLint/JsHint?

That's not the same. All those tools allow different styles, and people use them. You'd be hard pressed to find 2 javascript projects with the same formatting style on GitHub, whereas in Go it's like the default way or the highway...
This is Fn awesome. I fail in so many weird ways I like it.

I see two processes, my eyes see the stream of word, but I read in a different order when overwhelmed, or at least I cant tell what order words came in if the context allow for both.

When trying 500 wpm I'm lagging behind about 0.25s regularly, but, as they say, if you let it be and relax you can keep the pipeline going. I even feel a slight pressure in my upper brain, just a little, no cramp, a slight dizziness. Even more relaxing.

So the scanning part of reading is actually a bottleneck ? I feel like I'm learning how asian people feel when they read.
Actually, there are workshops in many CS fields which are selective (not as much as big conferences, that's for sure) and as serious as conferences or journal on peer-reviewing.

The name "workshop" mainly means that the focus of the event is very specific and that the attendance is intended to be small so that real discussion with everyone can happen (contrary to big conferences where there are hundreds of people).

For example my last published paper was submitted to a workshop [1] and I had four different detailed reviews, which had nothing to envy to big conferences reviews I could have got for it. This is an example of a not very selective (because it has little submissions) workshop but which is very serious and would most certainly reject any computer generated paper.

Another example could be CHES [2] which is a workshop which grew big and is now the most prestigious conference (again, that means more prestigious than journals as in most CS fields) of its field (crypto hardware/side-channel security). In this case the name "workshop" sticks, but it is actually a full-fledged conference.

Yet another example of a small workshop [3] (still in the same field) which does serious peer reviewing (I had three looong and detailed reviews when I submitted my paper there). Last year they selected 8 papers for presentation the day of the workshop, and 4 of them were selected by a journal [4] for subsequent publication of an extended version (and after another small round of reviews since there were already the reviews of the workshop which were deemed serious enough by the journal's editors).

Maybe this is particular to the field of security (could it be due to the hacker subculture background it has in addition to its academic background?), but I guess my point is that it is not possible to generalize how the publication system works for all sciences, let alone for all academic research.

[1] http://pprew.org/

[2] http://www.chesworkshop.org/

[3] http://www.proofs-workshop.org/

[4] http://link.springer.com/journal/13389
Wasn't this already discussed on Hacker News, in quite some detail, yesterday? And wasn't the big revelation that this only applied to traffic that was not CA verified and thereby was inherently man-in-the-middle-attackable anyway (as the actually-secure https connections are marked in a way where this feature does not apply), making this a misunderstanding?
Torn b/w the IDE and the IPython Notebook