skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smaller houses are not a bad trend, but smaller houses are often much less energy efficient due to thinner walls, lighter weight, less thermal mass.

If one does not live in a very temperate area such as Hawaii, this has consequences regarding the cost of heating and cooling that should be considered.

Many poor people for example live in single wide trailers. It is not uncommon for them to have winter heating bills in the range of $500-$1000, completely destroying their income budget and keeping them mired in poverty.

Another factor with small portable homes in particular is that they depreciate and one is almost never able to use them as collateral for a business loan to help their kids or nephews or other family members get started in a self owned business, which is something that is not a problem for those with full size houses. This inability to convert housing investment into investable liquid assets is another problem with small portable housing which keeps the poor poor.

For small houses to lift people from poverty, they would need to be much more energy efficient than they are typically made, unless the owners plan to try to get through the winter without heat.
Ryan is the guy who originally shared the slide deck.
He blogs/tweets under the pseudonym @twobitidiot:

http://www.slideshare.net/selkisr/bitcoin-market-opportunity...

(see slide 2)

original tweet sharing the slide deck:

https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/438131088607965184
> why not from code?

We build networks of lots of different kinds against our own codebases and databases. And personally I've done a bunch of experiments around visualizing code in the past.

Unfortunately, I don't think I, or anyone else at the company, has convincingly cracked the problem yet. Generally, the visualizations look pretty, but they aren't "tactile" or practical enough to be useful.

But you've convinced me that it would be worth digging up some of my old experiments and writing a blog post around them, so that at least any progress I've made can be carried further by other people.
this isn't true, it is worth about 7 millions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life)
If 50%+1 of the Bitcoin miners agree, couldn't they just mint 700000 extra bitcoin to make the depositors at MtGox whole? The confidence it inspires would probably be worth more than the impact of the inflation, and with Bitcoin prices dropping miners need to support the price to stay above break-even.
Yeah, but that is always a threat with any code ever written by anybody other than oneself. The only assurance against that is if one writes their own code compiled with their own compiler and run on their own fabricated hardware. Oh, and implementing their own security algorithms. Which means any data exchange would be impossible.
... they didn't lose half a billion dollars.
You are working for the wrong companies.
> The DDP itself is kind of like REST over sockets on steroids.

Wait, could you help me grok that? The way I see DDP, it's more like "just" RPC + notifications. Where does the RESTfulness come from?
But that sacrifices a lot, by using TLC (since 128Gb MLC isn't available yet), and by stacking stacking 16 dies per package, and by having less spare area than most drives. The end result is significantly lower performance and longevity than other mSATA drives, and it's currently got a 25% premium over the 2.5" counterpart.
I've been around. What is bitcoin?, and who cares about whatever the hell 'Mount Gox' is?? Can we all get back to work on something meaningful to the future, family, or nature... someone we don't know about made up a currency, and some other company we also don't know about made up an 'exchange' of this 'currency' and now we still don't know what's going on and some 'bitcoins' are missing... the most it's all worth is a laugh
Ah, that makes sense, looks like this Wired article agrees...

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/bitcoins-mt-gox...

Edit: the NYT article attributes the leaked document to someone else though, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/business/apparent-theft-at...
A bitcoin can be divided into many pieces.
I've been watching the discussion here for the past few hours.

Mt Gox failing doesn't surprise me. The number of people stepping up and saying this is a hoax or fake does surprise me.

Over 2 months ago I responded to a poster on another bitcoin story who said they had waited over 5 months for their withdrawals. That means Mt Gox has not been solvent since at least last summer.

How can there be a run on a bank you can't get your money from? While the recent freezes of USD and BTC withdrawals were only recently announced it appears that you couldn't really get your money out before either.

I'm going to take a guess. An investor received this document, was appalled and published it.

If I was an investor in Mt Gox and received a document like this, which is clearly an admission of very illegal activity, I would publish it publicly and forward it to the FBI. I don't think there will be a gox.com, but I do think someone will end up on an Interpol list in a few days. Mt Gox wasn't run by people who should be celebrated, it was run by criminals who knowingly took monetary deposits for their insolvent for-profit business.
if there is no fucking way, then where is the news
Technically speaking, yes. That would kill Bitcoin, though, because the community depends on it having an (eventually) fixed supply rather than it being having "an eventually fixed supply, except when we have a really good reason to do quantitative easing."
> Bush's 'you are either with us or against us', was surprisingly effective politics at the time.

I am curious how you came to this conclusion? Maybe this is more of a personal observations and is colored by your political leanings and those that you are surrounded by? I know a lot of people that were not turned on by the "with us or against us" line. I also think that it did not go over well in the international political arena.
Jay Kreps speaks the truth. His talk "Building LinkedIn's Real-time Data Pipeline" is along the same lines as the Log blogpost mentioned here and is also extremely informative.
What do you mean gone? What happened to the hard drives with the wallet numbers and private keys? How hard is it to transfer them via the blockchain transactions to their owners?
> "Um. It's ridiculously bad PR to respond to every such claim."

There have been responses, just no accusations of fabrication....
I'm sorry this didn't work out. I want to hope that they'll at least try to pay people back, but I can't bring myself to believe there's any funds to fill what they've lost.
An exchange shouldn't be able to have a run, unless their assets are less than their deposits. They don't give you BTC or USD at the spot price. You buy the one you want from another person, and then you withdraw it from the exchange.
Incidentally, automatic rifles such as AK-47s are heavily regulated in the US. It's possible to get them, but it requires a lot of paperwork, they're all at least 25 years old, and more cannot be imported.

The More You Know.
As a german i find the name a bit unfortunate.
To spritz = spritzen means to squirt/spray coat and in german is often associated with ejaculating. I don't know if this name would fly around here, but maybe thats why it would. Could make for some funny conversations.
You are not suppose to trust any exchange to large sums of coins. You buy, you transfer out immediately.
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MtGox had to code custom software to interact with the bitcoin network because of their size. They coded it wrong and allowed a bug that could (and did) wipe them of their money.

How is it the bitcoin network's fault?
A laugh and a few good tens of millions of dollars that people actually do value and will pay that much for. Maybe cryptocurrencies aren't in your favor, but their value and growth isn't something to scoff at.
absolutely agree with skj. The pay is decent+, the perks are very good, but the most impressive thing has been how intelligent and competent everyone is. Going from my previous job to Google was about the same experience as going from my decent high school where I was nearly valedictorian to a top-tier university where I couldn't even keep up with honors physics - that moment of "oh, wow, I thought I was amazing but there are a ton of people here who take that level of ability for granted."

I think eventually you stop feeling impostor syndrome but it hasn't happened yet for me :)
I don't think there is any meaningful dichotomy between "external" and "internal" anything with regard to a currency. If an "external" asteroid hits a country and destroys all the users of a given currency, it goes to zero, but that is a meaningful measure of the value of the "internal" exchanges that are going on as valued in that currency.
Wired: Bitcoin Exchange MtGox Goes Offline Amid Allegations of $350 Million Hack
He probably got paid in BTC that mtgox was holding so maybe not.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing that the Stasi has pursued a similar course of action?

Personally, I am disgusted by not surprised that the same authoritarianism can be found all over the world, even in a nominal democracy like the US.
This reminds me of ZAP Reader http://www.zapreader.spreeder.com/
If you feel guilty just add an addendum:

EDIT: Use correct honorific
how happy will you be when they'll be back? 0 or 1
>>It's not appropriate here. A human life and money are not comparable no matter how much money.

Oh, Just wait a few days... =/
Facebook quietly ends email address system
I mean, you are the one that decided to dive into the middle of a bitcoin discussion. I typically find it rather easy to ignore things that do not interest me, maybe you should work on that.
So, instead of addressing his points, you instead chose to make fun of it, criticize HN and invoke a marketing piece to somehow prove your stance on the matter. Nice going.

Note that I find Roslyn an interesting project and it's always a WTF for me whenever I touch .NET that I'm not able to easily view/step through the source code of everything I use, including the standard library, so for those suffering, this article is actually good news - and I'm fed up with negative and uninformed opinions on anything interesting, especially on my current platform of choice that's very trendy to bash lately, which I won't name because it would defeat the purpose - because it's much easier to provide uninformed, non-constructive criticism then it is to build stuff, plus we tend to treat our favorites as sports teams with us behaving like cheerleaders, am I right or what?

But for the uninformed reader, such as myself, comments such as yours just add to the noise, I mean WTF?
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Don't you hate it when the answer you want to give to a question isn't an option on the survey?
I was under the impression that the whole point of Bitcoin was that it was a decentralised currency, and your coins lived in your wallet. What is the value of actually entrusting your coins to 3rd party where they're outside of your control? Just the ability to exchange them for USD? Why would you keep coins with them on a long-term basis?
Existing discussions about this news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295190

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295084

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295331
People usually don't refer to securing their own money as "blacklisting". Look into cold wallets, hardware wallets, and multisignature transactions.
Sony's Oculus Rift competitor to be announced in March
In many CS fields, workshops are the equivalent of conferences in other fields such as physics. It is important to judge each field on how the primary peer-review publication is done, not by some abstract rule that is supposed to be the only valid standard.

As a side note, I've heard people from the humanities scoff at physicists and their belief that journal papers are worth mentioning. The only real publications are books.
And we must never forget that this is simply criminal.

Nobody should get away with that.
Exactly. This is just warmup exercise compared to the pros.
> Wouldn't it be nice if you could see the balance sheet of your bank, in a way that accountants couldn't lie about it?

I don't think it would be a big "feature" for me. As far as confidence in my bank goes the big thing is the FDIC sticker on the door/website.
Not in Phoenix, with Phoenix - Phoenix Compiler and Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/cs/p...

This was supposed to be what clang/llvm has become.
I joined a little over a year ago. Although they do still have the policy about "you're going to be a developer and we'll tell you what to develop when you get here", there is a small window where you can negotiate that. However, that window is after you get the offer, so I suspect a lot of people either don't get to that point or by then are too shell-shocked to argue.

When I got my offer, I was also told as interview feedback that I didn't do amazing on my coding but they saw potential there once I got up to speed - my last job had really let my talents languish. I was offered a position on a back-end infrastructure team in Mountain View. At that point, I had a call with the director of that group to discuss what my role would be as well as a lunch meeting with three people from the team to sell me on it. I told the recruiter that I appreciated the offer and I would consider it, but there was another team that I was really excited about working for (and with responsibilities that I had some previous experience with) and if they could make that happen I would definitely join. Fortunately, that team had open headcount and wanted me, so I got to take the job I wanted after all.

I'm not saying this will necessarily work for everyone, but given that I don't think I was an A-1 candidate they didn't push back very hard once I asked. I think it's hard enough for them to find candidates they want that once they take you they'll loosen up a bit, but before the interview starts they're less inclined to go through the headache of making sure the specific job you want is waiting for you. I have no opinion on whether that's a good way to handle it.
can run FirefoxOS applications already

But without access to the camera, accelerometer etc., right?
Looks like one of the founders is from Munich. Maybe he is just a little trolly.
That addresses the concern about the fusion reaction. But when the plasma melts a hole in a building-sized vacuum chamber and air suddenly rushes in, I expect that you'll get a big implosion, which will ricochet off itself and become an explosion, like if you punched a hole in a CRT with a nail. The article talks about a solenoid that exerts more force than the Space Shuttle does to lift itself to orbit. When the vacuum chamber deforms the solenoid, that energy is going to go somewhere. Plus, they mention gigajoules of electricity going through superconducting wires. I expect that the vacuum chamber implosion would destroy them before they heated up and no longer became superconducting. So instead of gigajoules going through essentially giant resistors and heating up something fierce, that energy will do something else, not sure what.

I don't think this will destroy a mountain, but I would expect the reactor and building to be catastrophically destroyed by the vacuum chamber implosion, along with some, shall we say, interesting, but certainly powerful, effects from the solenoid and other magnets.
They have given their stakeholders and customers a clear signal which amounts to:

"Work with us in everyone's interest and we may slowly be able to return some value to you, work on your own interests and we all will lose everything.".
It may be sour grapes, but why should any one read at such high speeds. What is the virtue of reading at 500 wpm. I don't think that the time saved is such a big deal unless one is reading 40 - 50 books a year or reading 300+ technical papers a year. And comprehension suffers at high speed. I do just fine reading at 250 wpm. Some times I feel just being good enough has lost its value.
It's been 4 hrs and not a peep from MtGox, so I might be wrong about this being a hoax...
HCI and graphics are other examples: a SIGCHI proceedings paper carries way more weight than a paper in one the HCI journals. And a SIGGRAPH proceedings paper is better than than a paper in something like Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, although they've recently converted the SIGGRAPH proceedings into a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics (which is now more prestigious than other issues of that journal, because it's really a proceedings volume), mostly to avoid the confusion from other fields that don't consider conferences to be publications. Those two conferences actually have nearly exclusive prestige in their field, to the extent that they're the only top publication venue: if you're working in HCI or graphics you more or less need SIGCHI or SIGGRAPH publications to be considered a legit active researcher. They also tend to be more selective in peer-review than the journals are, with acceptance rates in the 10-15% range, while journals are usually more like 20-35%.

In AI I think it's a bit mixed, and maybe a US—European difference. Europeans tend to value journal publications in places like JAIR, JMLR, various IEEE Transactions, etc. more. Americans also value the best of those journals, but I get the impression that conference publications at places like NIPS, AAAI, and ICML are at least as good, and definitely better than a lower-tier journal.
Obvious USG answer: The same thing as happens if you have a living terrorist's name. The no-fly list includes dead terrorists in case terrorist identity thieves impersonate them; the Treasury OFAC SDN list (more relevant here, though I do not see David Jones on it) includes dead people because their money does not automatically disappear from their bank accounts and their Amazon Free Super Saver Shipping packages do not immediately disappear from the shipping company's horse-drawn wagons.
Absolutely, but hard to tell exactly where the bottom is
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While I haven't used it personally, I've heard of people shipping Node.js as part of iOS apps (and, for that matter, as part of Firefox extensions), but even without Node.js, most of these devices will have some JS runtime, in or outside of a browser/webview.

As for Python, I would be less hopeful about the presence of Python on smart phones and tablets, although I suppose anything is possible.

Usually you are cross-compiling to target mobile platforms, so you don't generally need to worry about a given toolchain being present on the device itself.
Granted that I've been in the industry a while, but although I did get asked for my GPA, it wasn't until after I was about to receive the offer letter and they were checking references. My guess is that it's just a spot on the form that they still have to fill out.
"The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete": Did NSA Hack Snowden Biographer?
Please don't abuse tildes in this way; use the proper Unicode wavy-line character: ⌇
The Apple Security Hole Keeps Getting Worse
I don't think it has been that great.
I was being facetious in that one line. I never expect "all" the bugs to be fixed, but it's equally true that if you wait 8 months, you'll know better what you're upgrading /to/. In this case, 10.9 had the bug, 10.8 did not. It's usually the case that as new features are added, it's much more likely that you've added new bugs. Whereas in slightly older code, you might be "out of date" but at least you know where the bugs are, generally, by watching what changes in newer releases and back-port as necessary. And as I think I've said elsewhere, if code is updated frequently, this advice might change -- so long as you're running a stable channel, you can both get new updates and enjoy tested code.
Many people panic on their first interview and fail, and if you show any potential they'll let you interview again. I bombed my first one and they told me that I'd be eligible to interview again in 18 months and I should call them then, and they actually called me in 12 months and set up another interview.

Don't worry about the courage, just apply. If you fail... well, many many people (and many many Googlers) also failed their first Google interview, it's not much of a reflection on you.
There is no restfulness inherent in Meteor. You're description of DDP is more accurate.
how can we protect ourselves from any of these efforts

Good question.

One is to live as honestly as possible. Including making others aware of attacks on your character. This may mean admitting your own faults or deviations, which can be painful, but it deprives your opponents of a lever or fulcrum against you.

Reading the FBI blackmail letter to Martin Luther King recently, I was struck by how similar the language was to that of many modern-day trolls. Some tactics simply don't change.

I'm looking for some good guides, though I'm not aware of any in particular (and the Albert Einstein Institution seems oddly silent on this point).

This page has some good bits (under "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?"): http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;top...
It's my genuine impression of the Bitcoin community, nothing more.
I am from India and I am really happy that IIT and IISc are putting these online. However, I have a feeling that American audience will be put off by the accent, speed, or just the teaching style. I saw some pretty awful comments for these videos some time ago. But then again what I saw may not be representative.
Being trollish doesn't make your name any better.

And yeah, I find the name very unfortunate as well, especially in combination with call to actions like "Click here to Spritz".
Carnegie Mellon University's first digital career fair
There are words in other languages, French for instance, that with an accent changed or removed have completely different meaning.
Does it really? Could it not just as easily help Bitcoin to become a currency with real-world controls?

I already remarked once that Bitcoin is remarkable democratic in a way; perhaps this is a good time to leverage that...
The 'pure speculation' was merely because the answerer was not setup at the time with the tools/environment to replicate. It does not mean that the results could not be replicated under any tools/environment however.
I classify my files into ordinary, important and vital. Once a week, everything gets backed up onto one of my two external drives. The important and vital stuff gets backed up onto a USB I always carry with me and the vital stuff also gets backed up onto Dropbox.
98% of mobile malware targets Android platform
My suspicion (I am not an expert on finance) is that (if it remains successful long enough) Bitcoin is going to end up being fractionally reserved by the exchanges—I mean openly so, with the consent of the depositors. That should generate a large increase in the apparent supply of Bitcoins. I mean, gold is already heavily fractionally reserved...
They are a low-level Event Reactor and Actor implementation, respectively. Sure, you can built that, if your database supports it.
Leeson tried to cover it up because he wasn't supposed to be trading at all, he was supposed to a broker and he decided to try to make some extra money.
That's because it takes a long time to publish in a journal (like 1.5 years or longer), and by that time the topic is old. Publishing in a conference allows you to bring fresh-from-the-oven results to your colleagues, along with the freshly-baked bread smell ;)
Bitcoin Prices Down As Mt. Gox Concerns Escalate