skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who commit fraud deserve no compassion. Failing and stealing are vastly different things. Gox didn't just fail, they tried to hide it and have done nothing to deserve a single lick of compassion.
Dungeon Highway – An Exercise in Validated Fun
> This should really have been a separate fix & installed without user interaction

Considering it needs to update the TLS support on the rescue partition too, doing it outside of single-user mode is probably not a good idea.

You're nitpicking, it seems.
I'm in Europe :) Specifically the UK. But I take your point it probably is how you describe for a lot of people.
Yes, Rust is very promising especially if you look for better alternatives for C++. I wish it would stabilize and someone could write an in depth and well structured book on it. I have easier time learning languages that way, when ideas are explained and well presented, rather than deducing it all from very lacking documentation. In case of Rust it's even more difficult since it's packed with new ideas.
We want to target airbnb users, because this is where most of transactions are happening, and this is where it's easiest to rent out your flat if you're the host.

We are aiming to offer you a full service, which consists of welcoming guests in the flat, giving them keys, and then checkout plus cleaning for about 60 pounds.

From my experience for many people this is worth cost as otherwise you are just unable to rent out a flat, and this fee is less then one night in flat in London.
How I Quit Google
A clean break from the past was tried once already: XHTML 2.0. It failed.

We absolutely plan to (and are!) working on new standards that enable greater efficiency and developer productivity. I don't like the fact that floats are used for layout any more than anyone does, not the least because it makes it hard to parallelize. But at the end of the day we're building a browser, not a from-scratch app platform.
The Apple site http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1726 reports

c06a63982b522e43997a05cedc04b0bdb1a10207

which matches my download using `shasum -a OSXUpdCombo10.9.2.dmg`
Currency devaluation (not inflation) amounts practically to the same thing: money lose their value overnight. You go to sleep a millionaire and the next day you pay a million for half a bread.
The best route appears to save $2.05 each direction according to https://github.com/asifhaque/transit-arbitrage/blob/master/d...:

[orinda => pittsburg] + [walnut-creek => pleasant-hill]: 2.05 (35.6522%)
[orinda => pittsburg] + [walnut-creek => concord]: 2.05 (35.6522%)
[orinda => pittsburg] + [pleasant-hill => concord]: 2.05 (35.6522%)

Though who knows if anyone actually takes these routes. And remember many of the places BART goes aren't exactly filled with people with large disposable incomes who can stop drinking "lattes" to make up the difference.
The best data point you'll see is ex-Apple people basically not defending the company, and any Apple departures in the next weeks/months.
Its totally unacceptable. Even Microsoft does patches of this severity in less than 24 hours.

I suspect what this points to is that Apple doesn't have automated testing and they need a bunch of old school "hands on keyboards testers" to run a test case list that takes 4 days.
But neither user that swaps is attempting to evade payment of a fare - they are both paying fares at the end of their trip.

Of course, a judge would probably laugh at you and find you guilty in 15 seconds with a "logical" argument like that.
Hack the gas station by driving off!
That day was the last 4 days , between when Apple disclosed the SSL bug by patching it in iOS(effectively zero daying themselves) and when they bothered to fix it in OSX. If you are in North America, please contact the National Security Agency to retrieve your messages. For Asia, please contact the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
Sci-Fi Is Cool (Flying Cars Life on Mars)—But Real Science is Cooler
We would like to offer more holistic solution, which includes even things like sending you photos of the flat after check out so you're sure your flat is OK and nothing is missing.

Plus we would take care of liaising with guests etc, so it's less hassle for you. All you would do is just approve guests in airbnb.
SSAC Issues New Report On DDoS Attacks Against DNS
Hack your calculator. Type in 58008. Turn upside down. WHAT?!
Put another way, $400,000 - over 100x the per capita GDP of Ukraine - is a pretty massive windfall for a guy who grew up in a village outside Kiev. Sure, he chose to stay in the Bay Area and double down on his earnings, but it's not like he didn't have other realistic options that involved never working another day in his life.
The only excuse for 10.9.2-only would have been if rolling a 10.9.1.1 would have actually taken longer to get out the door at all. But if that's the case, they have serious problems.
Mozilla seems like a post-capitalist non-profit for the benefit of bored programmers everywhere, sponsoring such useful work as "lets rewrite the browser".

It's not yet another HTTP, HTML, CSS .. implementation that is needed, it's making these standards sane and fit for 2014.
Having both studied it and lived it, my best understanding is that homelessness is generally rooted in having too many intractable problems combined with too few resources to meet them. No one thing causes it but, certainly, structural issues can change the tipping point at which available resources fail to be sufficient to one's needs. So while changing the housing stock won't solve it, it can help reduce the problem.
I agree that if it were just about the impact to themselves this would be "unconscionable", but I think that in practice the effect on users will also be very limited unless this vulnerability has already been known and exploited in the wild, or unless they take weeks more to patch OSX. Remember it requires a MITM attack to exploit it - not just a compromised host.

There is definitely a gamble they are taking, and definitely process improvements they should make (e.g. mandatory static analysis of shipping code). I just think think this is more about poor performance than poor morals.

[noting again that if this was discovered because it's in the wild, then it's all about performance]
The pictures of the largest stars are not realistic, since they show a clear border of a solid object. In reality the out parts are more like a very thin atmosphere. The average density of the whole star is almost vacuum( 1000 times less than earth atmosphere ).
Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375 Billion Industry: Freight
M is widely used as "thousand" in specialized contexts like "CPM" and "RPM" within the advertising/accounting space.
When I was young, those crazy kids would buy two tickets and enter the theatre. Then, one person would exit with both stubs, give one to a friend waiting outside, and then repeat the process for as many friends as one had.
XHTML 2.0 was not a worthy successor. Apologies if my hatred for the current technology is coming through, but hey... At least I'm being honest.
Both the webserver (Apache) and PHP are off by default and have to be enabled separately, the latter by editing a config file.

Essentially, only Mac-owning web developers who enable these things (and serve PHP from their box to the world) are affected by any security problems in PHP. I imagine that most such web developers actually only dev locally and push the code to another server. It's nice that they updated them anyway.
> take some of the money saved on salaries and use it for foreign aid to countries such as Somalia and you'd have stopped piracy before you know it.

No, that certainly won't work. With all respect, it's naive to think that foreign aid can solve the problem of poverty. In many cases it makes the problem worse.

Consider the Diem regime in the early 1960s, South Vietnam. Copious American aid made the prior situation much worse, led to large amounts of corruption, and in part contributed to the eventual fall of South Vietnam.

Look at foreign aid programs that don't also address political and social issues like basic human rights and reproductive choice for women. They always fail, and many make the original problems worse.
That's not exactly true. Older transactions aren't indexed by most nodes, so it's a lot of work to retrieve them, but almost all nodes still have a full copy of the entire transaction history.
I'm looking forward to trying this. KVO is very powerful (I used it extensively in my last app: Well), but it's delicate. Registering/unregistering, making sure you write methods to properly fire KVO events for collections, etc.
Why not just jump the turnstile? There really is no difference between this and his "hack".
It's mentioned in the last line here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6114 And yeah, that's kind of bizarre.
Yes, obviously. Both you and jbooth seem to be missing my point, you perhaps a bit more painfully, so I'll spell it out in plain English:

Just because Bitcoin is unregulated and uncontrolled today does not mean it always will be.

And to my original point:

MtGox incompetence is not much of a data point either way, other than that MtGox couldn't have come into existence in a more mature landscape.
I wonder if prolonged exposition to sth like Spritz can trigger an epileptic seizure? It sure blinks a lot while displaying words.
I got mugged. Obviously the US Dollar is a failure.
APL, too
I sure as hell hope it fixes this issue... I am X-Istence on that thread, and I get almost daily emails with other people with the same issues.
Hey did you see the video of crazy Preacher Part 2
he's singing about on the highway to heaven
Looks like it was generated using this: http://grantslatton.com/hngen/?lookback=2
If the country planning the private cable had a better human rights record than the US, I'd agree.

Unfortunately, that's not the case.
You all might enjoy "Terminally Blonde" at about the 6 minute mark:
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/664-re-sound-27-th...
HOPEFULLY NFC beats this, but who knows.
They already knew about the TLS issue. Remember, they found and fixed it themselves. It is not like Apple's release of iOS 7.0.6 was what alerted Apple to the vulnerability in OS X.

The problem was not coordinating the release of 10.9.2 and iOS 7.0.6. The other problem is their patching cycle in general.

This update includes many high severity fixes from mid 2013 and one issue as far back as 2011. That tells you all you need to know about Apple's security program management. They release uncoordinated and when they feel like it, with no sense of urgency. It's convenient for them to just toss critical security fixes in to their 6 month OS updates, so they do.

Some criticize Microsoft for their "slow" patching, but they at least have a dedicated monthly cycle just for security updates, and they will send them out of band if a 0day gets exposed. And rarely will you see them drop 0day on themselves (though this wasn't always the case).
Ask HN: is anyone using TokuDB in production?
I submitted a similar question about a year ago, but didn't get much answers. Seems like they've been getting more traction lately.

Has anyone had any experience with it?
It sounds very promising, but I couldn't find much info about companies actually using it in production.
> Mozilla seems like a post-capitalist non-profit for the benefit of bored programmers everywhere, sponsoring such useful work as "lets rewrite the browser".

Judging by the number of people who complain that their browsers are slow, it absolutely seems like useful work to me.

> It's not yet another HTTP, HTML, CSS .. implementation that is needed, it's making these standards sane and fit for 2014.

A quick search turns up dozens of standards that Mozilla is working on: https://www.google.com/search?q=w3+module+mozilla+corporatio...
CSS Diff – easily compare elements on the website [2:59]
There are significant laws governing elections and political parties in the US, and particularly gathering raising money and spending it on things connected with elections and parties. ISTR a proposed TV reality show based on basically the same kind of idea foundering because the backers couldn't find a way to do the same kind of thing within the regulatory hurdles involved (particularly, as I recall, there was a problem that much of the funds expended in the process could be viewed as campaign contributions in the form of in kind donations to the various candidates, which both limits their legal sources, limits the allowed quantity, and requires special accounting and reporting.)
A much better guide to working with designers by Julie Zhuo, a Facebook PM https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/6c975dede14...
Silver lining with Apple security issue? They aren't Windows
Swapping clipper cArds makes no sense as you typically have money stored on it.

In high school taking Bart during summer to Berkeley (cus I'm a nerd who took optional summer school at cal) I would clone my Bart cards. The magnetic stripe is redundant horizontally. Take one hard with a nickel on it and rub off its magnetic strip with an exacto knife. Take another with $20 on it, use the knife to cut its and the aligned 5c stripe in half, then swap and place a single scotch tape stripe in the back to affix them. Pop it in the machine, add 10cents, and out pops a new card with $20.10.
What software did you use to render these images? They look nice.
Why We Believe In Native
TLDR: Nothing. There is basically nothing new in this. Just some musings and thoughts, no information.
> I wish it would stabilize

Should be later this year.

> and someone could write an in depth and well structured book on it.

Give me some time. ;)
You can try I-War 2:Edge of Chaos( space action-simulator with newton physics and inertia ) where the total contiguous world map is around 10^20 km( at least ). But of course most of it is empty as the solar system takes a relatively small place in the center of the map. And similarly to Minecraft if you teleport yourself into the high numbers you will get experience floating point accuracy problems, and weird things start to happen.
I had a friend who had a decent size consulting company and then a rather big name client didn't want to pay after he already paid the workers. When he started trying to collect they sued him. I'm not trying to discourage you but it's a whole different game. if there's a communication breakdown your stuck in the middle. What happens if your subcontractor codes something won't release the code until you pay him/her more. Also if someone is overseas what recourse do you have if they don't deliver? Are you going to sue them in another countries court system? Your first thing might be to consult a lawyer and a good accountant?
> I was responding to dethstar's comment, which indicated that "some people" don't think the lives of people should be taken even if they're attempting to pirate a ship.

But that's true, and it's not based on humanitarian grounds, but pragmatic ones -- if we arm the crews of cargo ships and adopt a policy of killing people who try to board on the high seas, the pirates will simply shoot back sooner, board by force, and kill the crew as a precaution.

I speak as someone who had an armed standoff with pirates in the Indian Ocean, far from land, during my around-the-world sail (http://arachnoid.com/sailbook). As the pirates came alongside I didn't shoot, I only showed my gun, and the pirates had to decide whether they wanted to try to board a boat under gunfire. If I had started shooting instead, that would have invited instant retaliation from the armed pirates and I would have lost.

A small example but a relevant one.
> But neither user that swaps is attempting to evade payment of a fare - they are both paying fares at the end of their trip.

They are attempting to evade (part of) the fare for the trip they are actually taking.
Folly and misery go hand in hand, would you not agree? I don't see why you appear to think they are mutually exclusive.

I'd respond with more venom about your tone, but I hate feeding trolls.
I remember when something like this was being done during the manhunt for the boston bombers. It was pretty exciting the rate at which updates were coming. THere were people in the stream who lived there live updating things. It is amazing how fast information travels these days. In a matter of seconds hundreds of people knew exactly what was going on. This is a rather exciting development as far as documenting world events goes.
If bitcoin needs a savior, then it is pointless.
Why don't you send me an email (it is in my profile) and we can talk. I have done some (very little) art and game programming in Unity. You can see some of the art I was doing for a couple other games at stintaril.blogspot.com that never went anywhere.

Anyways, hit me up and lets chat! If nothing else we can talk about video games.
> but the particular kind of fraud under discussion shares the key features of a Ponzi scheme

No it doesn't; the key feature of a Ponzi scheme is intentional fraud using a phony investment that doesn't actually exit. That's what a Ponzi scheme is.

Bitcoin has nothing in common with a Ponzi scheme and all you people who keep repeating this non-sense need to go educate yourselves on what a Ponzi scheme actually is.
I guess you just need to validate the idea, with some small amount of money.

For example, buy some neutral domain name, where you could setup landing page for your first idea, put 20-30$ on google adwords, bring 1000-2000 visitors to your page, and see if they are interested (by collection their emails).

If it fails, put a new page on the same domain, for new idea, again put some money into adwords, and test the next one...
From now on I will interpret all-caps text as Austrian action-hero monotone rather than shouting.
I think it's extremely unlikely the total missing coins is anywhere near that number. Extremely.
The minimum balance required to enter is now $1.75, which I think is the minimum BART fare. (The minimums depend on which transit system you use.) You can't go negative at all, so you have to add your fare to the card before you can leave.

But a lot of this was due to the fact that they had no Clipper loading capability inside the fare gates as far as I can tell. The signs announcing the change seemed to come up at the same time the old add fare machines were retrofitted with Clipper.

On the bright side, BART does offer small discounts based on usage (which only makes sense for a distance-based fare, as opposed to weekly/monthly passes) so there's that.
Can't tell if you're ironic, but they've just patented their own version of that called Flybell
It just shows that during load, I think. I saw it, then it worked (this is on Firefox Nightly).
I am in San Diego county. I took the class many years ago. I have never actually lived in San Francisco. I was living in Fairfield at the time, not SF. It was a mostly online class and I had to travel to San Francisco for in person class time only a few times. (There was also an internship portion which I was able to arrange more locally.)
The parent 'suspects' and doesn't actually know. It's not 'totally unacceptable' either. It's over a weekend and it's a set of trade offs about cutting a release made by a bunch of smart engineers who were probably very tired (last week for them has probably sucked) and they've just pulled a long weekend to get this out the door.

If you find this 'totally unacceptable', my suggestion would be to either go join them and help them improve the situation or to move to another OS. Bitching on the internet merely indicates how little experience you have with the trade offs that need to be made when pushing latge volumes of software.
Hence why you want to be the odd one out with a Mac at Corporates: IT leaves you alone and you can manage it yourself.
Now, the world just needs an ArnoldC#, for interop with LOLCODE.net
They could have done the OSX testing at the same time as the iOS and the AppleTV testing. Remember, it's not 4 days response time, it's (4 days + however long the ios response time was). They unleashed a 0day on themselves.
The headline (which begins that picture) implies that he went directly from food stamps to a billionaire.

You might argue that the time frame doesn't matter, but then you could make up all sorts of crazy headline with logic like that, such as "Man who could barely feed himself now a billionaire" ..and begin the story when the subject was an infant.

Silly and extreme I know, but clearly timeframe matters. It's still an impressive climb, even if he started with millions (as any amount to several billion is just huge). But I don't think being on food stamps as a kid, is the same as being on food stamps recently or as an adult.
For now a bitcoin is just like a soda can to the eyes of the regulators.

So here is a fun exercise, think of bitcoins as soda cans and rethink the whole situation.
And another commy who has never read Karl Marx.
>> Just look at Internet crime and compare it with old-style bank robberies to see my point ...

> That's not really a fair comparison, is it.

As a matter of fact, yes, it is.

> Bank robbers aren't after ransoms, and neither are the guys who robbed MtGox.

It's all about stealing other people's money. You're trying to say that the method one chooses to steal other people's money is more than a detail.
Swedish network operator Telia CEO inspired by Comcast Netflix deal
It failed for a number of reasons - timing, lack of compelling new features, IE's lack of support for application/xhtml+xml, Gecko's Yellow Screen of Death, etc. I'm not sure that you can blame any one of them. And it really wasn't a clean break in the sense that whyme is talking about.
I have to disagree with the "can easily tell within ten minutes if someone cannot pass muster" part. Interviewing is hard. We tend to make such snap judgments but those judgments reflect our own biases.

I have come to believe over the years that interviewing measures interviewing skills. Test scores measure test taking skills. Success on the job requires success-on-the-job (to coin a phrase) skills. All those things correlate, but the correlation coefficient is not super high. In fact, ignoring those correlations can be an effective strategy to find great people.
According to my fast and very plausibly flawed analysis of Powerball odds, I think the average winning should be about $300, using the gracious assumption that all Powerball jackpots are $600,000,000 (the largest Powerball jackpot ever was $590,000,000).

http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_prizes.asp
I disagree. The user interface is poorly designed. It immediately slides everything past in a blur. I wanted to look from smallest to largest, but when I click the icon to go to the smallest scale, I'm asked to "restart". If I use the scroll wheel and get to the smallest scale, I'm also asked to restart. When I restart, I'm shown the blur of objects again and have to go through the entire process over again.
This is painful to read. Manipulating and making up numbers, reclassifying demographics ("teens" vs 20-year-olds), and then concluding that we should "concentrate all of our research and political energy on how marijuana affects driving" even though a study was quoted that "increased availability of marijuana is actually associated with decreased car accidents."
The recipient can be identified by email or md5(email).
Let's be honest, Microsoft is better at security than Apple, mostly as auto-immune response, but regardless of the cause, they've been battle-tested and they know how to handle it.
Are YouTubers Getting Rich from Ad Revenue?
> No it doesn't; the key feature of a Ponzi scheme is intentional fraud on a phone investment that doesn't actually exit.

Assuming the description of this as being a loss that, however unintended when it first started occurring, was known, concealed, and papered over by using other funds, it was an intentional fraud from that point on a phony investment that doesn't actually exist.

> Bitcoin has nothing in common with a Ponzi scheme

That may be true about Bitcoin, but not about the scenario proposed upthread about what was going on at Mt. Gox. They aren't the same thing.