skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly UPS already pre-determines the shelf location of the package inside the delivery van before they even show up in the destination city so to some extent the drivers' routes have already been predetermined but their system is capable of last-minute changes pretty much every step of the way.
SecondMarket to launch first New York-based Bitcoin exchange
Is iBeacon used for anything other than to push ads to your phone as soon as you enter a store?
Catching bugs via parallel support staff not in the primary workflow, or even building automated infrastructure is exactly the kind of parallelism that Brooks diagrams out as within the realm of workable in his team structure diagrams in TMMM.

The intel agencies (both the ones where Apple lives, and all the other ones too) are black box testing this stuff, every single point release, automatically - you can be sure. Why Apple isn't is confusing. They wouldn't even have to be on the team or in the building with the development efforts themselves.

There's something we're missing here.
Sticking all your investments in a fund is pretty awful advice too. A fairly diversified stock fund is made up of a bunch of risky investments that are all fairly highly correlated. Pretty much all investment advice is based on the history of American stock markets over the last one hundred years, which is anomalous globally and not a lot of history for the typical investment horizon of 20-50 years. Why the US?

Risks add funny. That's why you're always told to put 15% of your investments in bonds. It's not because bonds are less risky than stocks, but because they are counter-cyclical and less correlated.

For the same reasons, putting a small amount of your wealth into very risky investments such as bitcoin can reduce your overall risk.
Well, he did say 'indeed'.
Site is loading very slow for me, so here's the text:
http://pastebin.com/2WisUL8z
I stupidly had my life's savings in bitcoin, and when the
price started to fall, I converted to dollars and watched
the price plummet. I lost $357,000.

As I said, this is a sad moment for him. My point still stands: it was a very naïve and borderline criminally stupid thing to do. I feel bad for the guy because he didn't make Mt. Gox crash, but then he could win the equivalent of a Darwin Award in finance.

Harsh words, but you can't reason yourself out of such a bad decision as that he made. He should have used cold storage, period.
The new company will receive from SecondMarket:

* Digital currency asset management. This includes Bitcoin Investment Trust, the first-ever U.S. investment vehicle dedicated exclusively to Bitcoin. It sort of acts like a currency ETF, and was launched last fall.

* Trading desk: SecondMarket has an 11-person Bitcoin trading team that originally was just a market-maker, but now is on both sides after Mt. Gox began disintegrating.

* $$: SecondMarket will contribute approximately $20 million in cash and Bitcoin assets toward the new company.
Presumably as anarchists they're unwilling to be blatantly manipulative?

In either case, TextSecure works, so...
"No, recompiling your Linux kernel ain't the same thing."

You're right. It's not at all like Red Hat compiling and releasing a new RPM which they would push out in hours, max. It's actually much easier. Apple retains absolute control over their source code.
Stockholm seems to be startup friendly.
Lessons from Facebook Stopping its E-mail Service
It actually made me laugh out loud. The statement makes it seem like MtGox was all fine and dandy until media started to talk about its shutdown. And now they say:

> We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly.

As if they're just sitting back, staring at their screen, waiting to see what will happen. Passively.
'#' is commonly called either "hash" or "pound", and "tag" as a suffix just describes this tagging use in context. For an apples-to-apples comparison you'd be saying "poundtag", but good luck getting that to catch on. :)
Times like these I'm glad I didn't have a dime in gox--but I was never trustful of them, they didn't to seem to be as legit to me as Coinbase or Bitpay -- I'm not 100% sold on some of the other exchanges either - coins-e has left me with a bad taste in my mouth when they held onto my dogecoins for 2 weeks during a transfer request...

Luckily I have no money in BTC at all - other than 2k for mining equipment(scrypt) - and the coins earned from my small operation is only about 1 BTC so far -- which I'm planning on holding onto till it rallies, WHICH it will (too much investment money in too many companies) for it not to.

Lots of companies have spent a lot of money to integrate it, and there will be a vacuum for a few weeks, maybe even months, but trust will come back into the market and it'll grow...

One thing I'd like to see is some sort of P2P exchange service where exchanges don't happen on any network --ie all funds remain in wallet until time of exchange, -- of course this wouldn't work for usd necessarily, but for coin to coin exchanges it would, unless it was also tied into some sort of site like coinbase where they can store a fiat currency value like a bank for deposit at a later date.
Threema – Seriously secure mobile messaging
I see this as a reality. The majority of ships' machinery is already automated and/or controlled remotely, so it's not a huge leap to leave the operator(s) shoreside.
OK...

...

... I shrunk it.
When the speaker exists as a virtual office in another country.

It reminds me of something out of Heinlein's Friday.
Very good article. It aligns with our envisioned architecture for our next-gen analytics platform.

So far our decision is to keep the raw events in Cassandra, and pre-aggregate most data for fast reads. Just wondering about your decision to not store raw events in Cassandra, and use raw files for that, and using Cassandra only for storing Hadoop analysis results. Do you think this decision may affect you later if you ever decide to support real-time analytics?
First Google result for tupac has spam title
What causes this issue?
Here's an example: http://m.slashdot.org/story/198449

And these android vulnerabilities are essentially unpatchable by design - which I think is something that really does deserve the word unconscionable.

But I accept that the overall behavior in the industry could be described by that term.

My comment about the negative attention is that Apple makes decisions based on the impact to itself. A few days of delay in fixing the bug might result in some small number of compromises, but as long as it doesn't drag on for months, it's unlikely to be a big deal.

On the other hand, negative attention and social media sentiment could have been a big deal for Apple, had it not been for all the wolf-crying. Now it's just a muted signal.

So from Apple's position this is actually a minor affair. We are horrified in principle but they are basing their actions on their practical reality.
I don't see anything like that. Here's the page source for me:

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><img src="/img/mtgox_logo_mail.png"/></p>
<p>Dear MtGox Customers,</p>
<p>In the event of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox&#39;s operations and the market, a decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being in order to protect the site and our users. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br/>
MtGox Team</p>
</body>
</html>
The book by Vassili Peskov is really interesting and gives lots of detail about their lives there:
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Taiga-Fifty-Year-Religious-Wilder...
I blame the security community on this one, for not releasing an apocalyptic weaponized exploit for this vulnerability over the weekend, instead of stuff like agl's checker.

If end users were on fire, Apple might be more motivated to push a fix.
Ex-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to take over Microsoft Xbox division
To be fair, "ability to learn, process on the fly, and pull together disparate information" is indeed "indeed distinct from IQ", but only in the pedantic sense that it'd be more accurate to say such capacities refer to g.

But then...IQ is indeed a reliable, verifiable, and efficient indicator of g, so...indeed.
'Goldman Sachs Elevator' tweeter unmasked
Fukushima's Radioactive Ocean Water Arrives At West Coast
Introducing SocialRank
Serious question: How will memory management work for this?

Not-so-serious corollary: How much RAM would a Wolfram wolf if a Wolfram would wolf RAM?
Why not set up a secure offline wallet and keep your coins there?
Data for Convenience: It's a Business Deal
-I liked this quote: "“If everybody in the industry would say, ‘Yes, this is the way to go,’ then we are too late.”

-I think it's possible. It might also be viable to have a mix of a few manned ships (cargo or otherwise) leading a group of drone ships.

-We, as humans, need to get used to the fact that machines are going to become better (not to mention cheaper) than us at almost every task we now classify as human only.

-And this makes me envision a time in the future where Somali pirates use computers instead of guns to take over ships.
IWBNI the site actually said that. I combed the site for a while to understand which kind of application and framework I can use.
Enough to feel uncomfortable telling people the amount ;)
>My contact list was a glorious zero people (everyone I know uses WhatsApp).

...TextSecure is an SMS replacement. Your contact list is your contact list.

Does nobody you know receive SMS messages?
I read some VC stories regarding Skype recently. At the time they were looking for series A (?), broadband penetration was still poor. Obviously they managed to get by until the broadband environment tipped to their advantage. The point is that you don't want to wait until it's obvious that gigabit is really coming. At that point you may already be way behind.
Yes. At least if the question is actually deleted and not kept around as closed.
Death threats on HN. That's a first.
You mean $100B in cash.

Yes - it's obvious that there are bad practices at work here - in particular no strict static analysis. I agree there's little excuse for not adding machine processes that could have helped.

But adding human processes costs time and agility, and as you point out, money cannot replace these.
Are you saying that since no one actually uses Safari it doesn't matter?

Or are you saying that this doesn't impact the underlying SSL library for all of OSX?

Or are you saying that no one (should) use Mac for actual work, so it doesn't matter?

Obviously, you're not saying these things, but what if you did. :)
Ask HN: Data extraction from a web page, I forgot the name of the app.
Some weeks ago there was a showcased app that allows the extraction of structured data from a web page. The UI was really friendly (just selecting divs) and it worked on the browser.

Do you remember the name of the app? If I remember, for the visual minded, the color palette was dark with some purple/pink. Thanks.
That seems to be the current push, but off the top of my head I could see museums use them for exhibits, airports for communication back to the airline on where you are in the airport (ie, you should head to the gate now, or your gate has changed).
Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens
> Yeah, they probably should have known better than to use a wallet service on a cobbled-together site like that, but you sound like you're suggesting that's sufficient reason for them to be out their money.

This was an expected outcome given what information was public about Mt. Gox, but I'm not suggesting that the users deserve to be out of their money.

The only thing I like about what happened is that nobody is going to bail out Mt. Gox's owners. And this incident should hopefully make people more cautious about where they store their money.

> Maybe you're comfortable living in that world. I don't think that's remotely grounds on which to suggest that everyone else should be comfortable with the same level of risk.

I'm also not suggesting that everybody else should be comfortable with any particular level of risk. The great thing about Bitcoin is that it's voluntary. Nobody is forcing another human to use it - you only do so if you feel it's the best avenue for you.
This link provides a bit better technical coverage and context

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/02/puzzling-...
eh... fair enough.
The man who destroyed America‘s ego
Probably not. But don't give up hope yet.
IOS 7.0.6
This security update provides a fix for SSL connection verification.

Just notified on my iPad.
I think you can use it for indoor navigation were GPS is useless. However I am not sure of this.
128GB / (15mm × 11mm × 1mm) ~= 800GB per cubic centimeter.

Granted, that doesn't include any volume for the equipment needed to address or power all that memory, but it's pretty an impressive information density.

Nothing compared to the upper bounds on what can be stored in that volume, but the technology has come far in 50 years.
In most of the world it may be just plain fraud; the "wire" distinction is a justification for invoking the interstate commerce clause and, thus, federal jurisdiction in the US.

But its still probably illegal just about everywhere.
DVR for apps
True - I was reaching out for an extreme. When the price dropped to less than $3 from ~$35 I think it was close to losing its critical mass, but I think as long as the price is at least $10-20/BTC, the infrastructure backing it as a medium of transfer will still exist.
They do have a bigger issue. The bigger issue is that they're releasing an entire operating system, with 15 years or so of accumulated cruft and process. And it's not just a one line change... they need to understand the implications of the bug across their system and create regression tests to catch all those corner cases, then do the "one line change" and properly regression test it everywhere.

Again, this isn't some little web site. This is a piece of software that thousands of programmers have worked on for more than a decade, millions of lines of code with a tremendously complex build, testing, release, and approval system.

And finally, Apple's primary concern isn't that a handful of customers might be exposed to risk for a couple of extra days. It's that they botch the rollout of a major security patch and have to re-release, or customers are victimized by new bugs as part of the patch. That sort of thing can cost them billions in market punishment.
Caught momma dancing
Hmm over here on this side of the pond a pound symbol means £ not octothorpe / hash / sharp.
It will be interesting to see if this language takes off. I see its use limited to academics mostly. Long-term, I don't expect too much growth since most non-academics would rather use more general-purpose langs.
When Facebook released email, I were quite sure it would be super popular. But this article tells quite well, why nobody wanted to actually use it. I wonder why they didn't fix these obvious flaws. I have some friends who aren't using any other email, so Facebooks (even bad email) was still a great option to reach them by email.
I too see this happening, and am always surprised these companies aren't pushing faster for this... I also think of delivery vans and lorries around the city - whenever I walk to work I see about a dozen delivery vans and lorries, all just driving back-and-forth to deliver bread to shops, etc. and I always think that one day, we'll totally automate all this...
Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles says Bitcoin exchange is at "turning point"
How I handle it. Effective so far... http://img42.com/881bp
Or they're fucking up comms as best they can deliberately in order to drive the price down, so they can buy enough btc to "repay" everyone.
The poor grammar in the first sentence suggests someone for whom English is a second language.

That passive voice is maddening!
Is there any more context to go with this? Definitely looks interesting. How does this compare to FB's React?
If you're seriously considering switching to Linux, then be aware that nothing you find is going to feel as polished as OS X. Linux developers tend to be more focused on security and under-the-hood improvements while Apple focuses on user experience, plus Apple is a business that can easily afford to hire as many developers as they need while most Linux distros are community-driven.

That said, the Linux user experience has improved dramatically over the past several years, and my recommendation would be openSUSE (what I run), or Ubuntu if you're completely new to Linux.
How can the IRS check the truth of your BC loss statement?
No, initially you were in possession of the value, as you could have sold the bitcoin to somebody else for that $1000 dollars. The fall of value in a bitcoin did not somehow go back in time, find the person you bought it from, and transfer value to them.

Think of it this way, I buy a nice car for $100k. The person selling it gets $100k in cash, and I get $100k worth of car. A year later, I crash the car and it is now worth $1k in scrap metal. Where did my $99k worth of value in the car go? Did the dealer somehow acquire that value? No, I simply destroyed it. I destroyed the value of the car, it wasn't taken from me. The value of the cash I gave the dealer? That is more or less still the same, but that is his business, not mine.

Value is not zero sum. Creating and destroying value is trivial.
Not a bad idea, thanks! It would be sandboxed to boot :)
Say I am on OS X or iOS, why would I prefer this over just telling a WebView to output itself as PDF?
Thought experiment.

So your biggest crooked customer has a balance of 10% of your net liabilities. And someone steals 1/3 your net worth so you're basically outta business and the biggest crook on the planet just took a 1/3 haircut, which he's not going to be too happy about.

You tell the biggest baddest gangster of a customer, you can more than triple his current balance at the mere cost of guaranteeing your personal safety in perpetuity and having a crony of his and a crony of yours re-enact the 1/3 theft. After all, you just figured out what happened, and its not going to be too hard to arrange for it again two more times.

So that leaves the biggest crook in the world in debt to you, a fat bank account, and lifetime guarantee of protection from said crook.

Do some deals with the crooks competitors to make sure they know he gave you his word, so if he ever goes back on it they'll never trust him again. Or run the same scheme three times and make sure the top three crooks know that the enemies of the guy who kills you off are going to split your fortune if you croak.

Or lets say you make "all" the BTC disappear but you actually have enough control to reimburse every player big enough and criminal enough to actually hurt you, with millions left over for yourself.

Your biggest customer is about to get powned as a money launderer by the DEA/IRS and his only legal hope is to make your records look untrustworthy. Would any court of law trust MtGox's records after today? I guess there's no proof anymore that some bad guy was about to get powned. Well, there's an easy way and a hard way to do that, at least WRT collateral damage to the execs family members. And if you still tangentially somehow have control of the "lost" money, nobody important need actually hold a grudge.

I'm not saying any of this is true or even possible, although it could be the plot of GTA:7 or similar. These are better hollywood movie plots than the formulaic dreck we're forced to endure.
http://import.io/?
> AirBnB is not a "tiny twist on an old idea." AirBnB makes much of its business on the counter-contractual use of other people's property. They're a predatory company and I wish them ill.

Insofar as an apartment renter is violating a rental agreement to effectively lease out their apartment to a third party without permission, I can see your point. But this isn't always the case. I'm open to hearing about your opinion, but not sure how AirBnB can really be considered a predatory company at any rate.
> movie and video game industries control their own content ratings

which are pretty much a joke. PG is now a worthless rating

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/11/26/disney...

The difference between PG-13 and R in many cases is completely arbitrary.

The ratings lump many kinds of movies together and says absolutely nothing about their content.

No movie can be NC-17 or unrated because that is a kiss of death. No theaters will play it, no big box stores will sell it. I think what R can get away with has broadened considerably because of that.
Octothorpe FTW
I think the better question to ask would be what percentage of people do that. I am really really interested in that question. I have never had spare battery in 17 year I've been using mobile phones.
> or use an array

That's absolutely horrible: you've now introduced the possibility of accidental out-of-bounds access where there previously was none, not to mention that you just forced the compiler to put those variables on the stack instead of using registers.

Contrived example:

int array(int lol)
{
unsigned counter[3] = {1,5,7};

for (int i = 0; i < lol; i++)
counter[i % 3]++;

return counter[0] + counter[1] + counter[2];
}

int vars(int lol)
{
unsigned counter1 = 1;
unsigned counter2 = 5;
unsigned counter3 = 7;

for (int i = 0; i < lol; i++)
switch(i % 3) {
case 0: counter1++;
case 1: counter2++;
case 2: counter3++;
}

return counter1 + counter2 + counter3;
}

The output is quite different (gcc -c -O3 -std=gnu99):

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <array>:
0: 85 ff test %edi,%edi
2: c7 44 24 e8 01 00 00 movl $0x1,-0x18(%rsp)
9: 00
a: c7 44 24 ec 05 00 00 movl $0x5,-0x14(%rsp)
11: 00
12: c7 44 24 f0 07 00 00 movl $0x7,-0x10(%rsp)
19: 00
1a: 7e 5f jle 7b <array+0x7b>
1c: 41 b8 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%r8d
22: 31 c9 xor %ecx,%ecx
24: be 56 55 55 55 mov $0x55555556,%esi
29: eb 1f jmp 4a <array+0x4a>
2b: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
30: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
32: f7 ee imul %esi
34: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
36: c1 f8 1f sar $0x1f,%eax
39: 29 c2 sub %eax,%edx
3b: 8d 04 52 lea (%rdx,%rdx,2),%eax
3e: 89 ca mov %ecx,%edx
40: 29 c2 sub %eax,%edx
42: 48 63 c2 movslq %edx,%rax
45: 44 8b 44 84 e8 mov -0x18(%rsp,%rax,4),%r8d
4a: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
4c: f7 ee imul %esi
4e: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
50: c1 f8 1f sar $0x1f,%eax
53: 29 c2 sub %eax,%edx
55: 8d 04 52 lea (%rdx,%rdx,2),%eax
58: 89 ca mov %ecx,%edx
5a: 83 c1 01 add $0x1,%ecx
5d: 29 c2 sub %eax,%edx
5f: 39 f9 cmp %edi,%ecx
61: 48 63 c2 movslq %edx,%rax
64: 41 8d 50 01 lea 0x1(%r8),%edx
68: 89 54 84 e8 mov %edx,-0x18(%rsp,%rax,4)
6c: 75 c2 jne 30 <array+0x30>
6e: 8b 44 24 ec mov -0x14(%rsp),%eax
72: 03 44 24 e8 add -0x18(%rsp),%eax
76: 03 44 24 f0 add -0x10(%rsp),%eax
7a: c3 retq
7b: b8 0d 00 00 00 mov $0xd,%eax
80: c3 retq
81: 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e data32 data32 data32 data32 data32 nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
88: 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
8f: 00

0000000000000090 <vars>:
90: 85 ff test %edi,%edi
92: 7e 52 jle e6 <vars+0x56>
94: 31 c9 xor %ecx,%ecx
96: 41 b8 07 00 00 00 mov $0x7,%r8d
9c: 41 b9 05 00 00 00 mov $0x5,%r9d
a2: 41 bb 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%r11d
a8: 41 ba 56 55 55 55 mov $0x55555556,%r10d
ae: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
b0: 89 ce mov %ecx,%esi
b2: 41 f7 ea imul %r10d
b5: c1 fe 1f sar $0x1f,%esi
b8: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
ba: 29 f2 sub %esi,%edx
bc: 8d 14 52 lea (%rdx,%rdx,2),%edx
bf: 29 d0 sub %edx,%eax
c1: 83 f8 01 cmp $0x1,%eax
c4: 74 09 je cf <vars+0x3f>
c6: 83 f8 02 cmp $0x2,%eax
c9: 74 08 je d3 <vars+0x43>
cb: 41 83 c3 01 add $0x1,%r11d
cf: 41 83 c1 01 add $0x1,%r9d
d3: 83 c1 01 add $0x1,%ecx
d6: 41 83 c0 01 add $0x1,%r8d
da: 39 f9 cmp %edi,%ecx
dc: 75 d0 jne ae <vars+0x1e>
de: 45 01 d9 add %r11d,%r9d
e1: 43 8d 04 01 lea (%r9,%r8,1),%eax
e5: c3 retq
e6: b8 0d 00 00 00 mov $0xd,%eax
eb: c3 retq

Arrays mean memory - don't use them unless you actually want the compiler to use memory.
Does the FBI even consider bitcoin as something that actually has any value that requires investigating an accusation of theft?