skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taken back? Finding a person is one thing - you need a lot of resources to track a person down - then trying to find where they may have hidden the keys needed to use the Bitcoin is another. People who have stolen millions of real dollars are still able to just hide the cash or money in off-shore accounts. Similar problems exist, though it doesn't start off anonymously. It's not really good or bad, it just is. We need to manage for best case scenario, and structure systems to provide best case scenarios. Controlled or rather fully-manageable ecosystems are the best, though they have the ability to be badly managed and through political lobbying, etc. cause a whole series of problems in a society.
When following the splits-in-2 of this transaction, many accounts still have about 1000 BTC in their final balance according to blockchain. E.g: 1BoGw97oS9L2mU8HTQqpm7yxC72H4LCm6i (Final Balance: 1,000.35 BTC). The question is: who may be the owner of those large amounts of of about 1000 btc? If MtGox did all those splits in 2 smaller accounts, then MtGox could still be the owner?
Yeah, that worked out well.
Eventually all addresses will contain coin from all other addresses, if they are spent. It's the Kevin Bacon rating for currency.

In the short term, referencing Blockchain transaction over a given period of time, a destination address could be assigned a lower karma value for having a relationship with a bad actor address. The karma could be measured in amounts taken from other bad karma addresses.

While your wallet may contain trace amounts of bad karma money, it eventually gets diluted over time. Maybe we could utilize a days destroyed karma as well.
There's a lengthy post in /r/BitcoinMarkets about it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1z2xo5/specu...
Jobs launched the wave of lawsuits when Android got popular.
Good things happen when you subtract datetimes in MySQL
The bonus entry functionality shown in http://www.viralsweep.com/series/images/s2-success.jpg is against the Facebook TOS.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_...

"our policies prohibit directly tying incentives to the use of our Social Channels"
So do you think that these 429k bitcoins were all sent through a tumbler? Now that would be interesting information.

Can we verify this? Obviously we can't trace the outputs, but can we look for patterns that suggest the use of tumblers/mixers?
"...government regulations did not allow them, even though they offered, to be volunteers if they worked for any sustained period. So they were put on the payroll of contractor QSSI as hourly workers, making what Dickerson says was "a fraction" of his Google pay"

This information troubles me, because QSSI was just hired to fix Maryland's broken Health Exchange site. It sounds like the company is cashing in on the donation of brandonb and others experts' time?

brandonb, is your team involved with the Maryland efforts, or is that a completely separate team?
I like the ideas of Dart much more, but the JavaScript-interop is rather bad in Dart, because of the DartVM focus.

TypeScript seems C# flange-mounted on top of JavaScript, but it's probaby the only viable alternative with good js-interop...
Python Best Practice Patterns
I just tried inspecting an element in Chrome and it didn't automatically expand to show the children. That's the behavior I would have expected. Interesting that it behaves differently for you. Are you sure you're not inspecting the child, thinking you are inspecting the parent, which would appear to be expanded in that case?

Firefox offers a dark theme in the inspector's settings, maybe try that. I personally don't like it though.
Amazon EC2 Console Improvements
Velma yanks off mask.

Daphne gasps

"Mr. Karpeles!"

Fred: "Mark Karpeles was the thief all along!"

Karpeles: "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!"
I'm gonna write a series of posts breaking down the chunks of the work and experiences. This is just the first.
The IDE makes TypeScript compelling, but it is useful even without the IDE. You can use the command-line compiler to check your code for errors. This is extremely useful if you have thousands of lines of code and multiple developers working on the project.
tl;dr: /r/news considers the piece an opinion piece and they don't allow those.

And here's the last paragraph of The Incerpt aticle that makes clear it's opinion:

>Whatever else is true, no government should be able to engage in these tactics: what justification is there for having government agencies target people – who have been charged with no crime – for reputation-destruction, infiltrate online political communities, and develop techniques for manipulating online discourse? But to allow those actions with no public knowledge or accountability is particularly unjustifiable.
But people will tell what kind of coffee they would like.
I second that. Also, in Firebug, you can see the padding clearly (it's in a different color) when you hover over an element with the inspector. This is not the case in the Firefox Development Tools. It's still possible to get the same information from the Box Model view but it's just nice to be able to see it visually on the page.
This is the key reason why I hate it too.
PRoot – user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc
Changing or improving?
Teacher worship can only go so far.

Because this post makes the claim that all teachers should be looked up to.

My entire family consists of teachers. They know who the bad teachers are. You've got Paulina Pensioner who just shows old VHS tapes as a history cirriculum. Or Carl the Coach that knows, just knows there's only one way to solve this pre-algebra problem.

And some teachers work hard. They bust their ass and bring grading home and lesson plan on the weekends.

But they aren't the problem. There's a bad system that keeps bad teachers in at the expense of the good.

So they design tests and standards as a way to "firewall" these bad teachers in, to turn their poor performance into mediocre performance. And there's a cost, because it removes the creativity and initiative from the good teachers.

I understand that the goal of the author is to criticize common core, but while the conclusion is sound (Core is garbage) the reasoning is not.

And the new standards being developed? One of the main proponents is the Council of Chief State School officers. Many (probably most) came from the teaching profession. Who know what it's like to be a teacher.

The author gives us some feel-good patronization about how teachers have it so hard and we have no right to impose standards upon them. But these standards exist because we can't fire bad teachers.
you mean because we've been trained for 8 hours a day for 10 years by field workers?

or we've been trained for 8 hours a day for 10 years by factory workers?

we've been working for oil rig operators for 8 hours a day for 10 years?

this looks a little like a straw man fallacy to me. go speak to someone who has worked in the oil field for years. oil field is a thing that has actually changed little over the years. you don't think they have a fair share of criticism and improvements to suggest?

coffee shop owners are probably the most dynamic of the bunch in your example. definitely much more dynamic than the teaching industry.

although we're actually in the process of a teaching revolution. a few top tier university are completely switching their study methodologies.

...or they could have just asked students 10 years ago, and asked them whether it makes sense to just read slides for them during the lecture. guess how many would have said yes.
Good find!

How many of those did you trace? Can someone automate this trace?

Or if not, can we start listing all the addresses and the transaction chains to get there?

[Update] Here's a doc if anyone else wants to work on this manually:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AguUOoH79qm7dFl...

[Update] Forgot to make it editable. Now it is editable.
I guess the question is, did the buyer want him to keep blogging there, as part of the deal?
Bummer. Well, if you haven't asked for help over at the tonymacx86.com forums yet, I would. Maybe someone there can spot the problem.
Not if you think using GOTO in modern code represents acceptable programming. Remember? The topic?
This is the previous discussion here, for some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6960119
Also, you almost never need to use goto.
Magazine articles are usually dated to the print edition they appear in.
being ignorant

"Ignorance is Strength" (1984)
If I was trying to colonize mars, I'd do the same to optimize costs and build money reserves
I assume you mean HipHop Virtual Machine?
Tooling is a big boon with TypeScript: Go to Definition, Find All References, Refactor->Rename, debug your TypeScript in Visual Studio.

You're right that if you don't use the tooling, TypeScript is of lesser value. Using things like classes, lambdas, modules syntax is still there, of course, and is quite a bit nicer than JS equivalents.
A collection of information about game console browsers
I really hate it when people glorify Apple for releasing Mavericks for free. They make money with hardware, not software. OS sales had no impact on their revenue at all, so they made it free and people even think it's because they are such a nice company.

Windows on the other hand is a big deal to MS revenue. Its Apples vs Oranges, no pun intended. Obv. thats a bad situation for MS to be in and they will need to adopt, but please stop thinking Apple did this out of good-will.
Any truth to the claims made on this website?

http://www.doctrackr.com/blog/bid/376566/409-Million-in-Bitc...

"The Pony botnet attack was an ambitious data collection program. TrustWave reported staggering data loss statistics from the event the following sensitive information was stolen.

1,580,000 website login credentials
320,000 email account credentials
41,000 FTP account credentials
3,000 Remote Desktop credentials
3,000 Secure Shell account credentials
Pony’s attack on the Bitcoin community took down the worlds largest Bitcoin exchange, and caused the price of Bitcoin to plummet. The attack reinforced security concerns over the currency. Can confidence in Bitcoin recover?"
I still see the "don't bend the rules" mentality.
Interesting idea... good luck with it!

I like the quality of your presentation: the images you include all convey a certain sense of elegance and style.

That being said, I would not sign up. Your price point is too high for me to consider it "throw-away money" and if I'm spending "real money" then I want to know what products you are sending. Not just some pretty pictures, and obviously you haven't yet selected products for the future, but you don't have an actual list of the products selected previously. So unless you already have a reputation (like a referral from a friend) I'm not buying.
"The fleet denied its forces were involved in seizing one of the airports, Interfax news agency reported, while a supporter described the armed group at the other site as Crimean militiamen."
Meta “When is it stealing?” Inception.
> All of you former students: you did not design
> curricula, plan lessons, attend faculty meetings,
> assess papers, design rubrics, create exams, prepare
> report cards, and monitor attendance. You did
> not tutor students, review rough drafts, and create
> study questions. You did not assign homework. You
> did not write daily lesson objectives on the
> white board. You did not write poems of the week
> on the white board. You did not write homework on
> the white board. You did not learn to write
> legibly on the white board while simultaneously
> making sure that none of your students threw a
> chair out a window.

I'm not a teacher, so I could be wrong, but it seems to me that much of this list falls into two categories:

1. Routine things that could be orders of magnitude more efficient (or even fully automated) given enough resources. In most cases, the resources needed would be fairly modest compared to the aggregate amount of effort teachers everywhere spend on them. Writing and grading elementary-level math tests, for example, shouldn't take any time at all given the right software.

2. Routine things that couldn't be automated well but could easily be done by some sort of entry-level assistant. Babysitting and discipline tasks don't require college degrees.

It strikes me that the economics of education are structured in a way that there is marginal impetus to improve efficiencies in the day-to-day work of teachers.
Has this ever been enforced against giveaway contests?
"We also allow for specific rewarding around the Like button, provided the incentive is open to all new and existing users who Like your Page."

We are compliant with this.
This feels too convenient.

And maybe just a little bit ironic given the subject matter?
The best alternative I have come across so far is implemented at http://www.zdnet.com/ At the bottom of the page, there is a button "View More Articles". Plain and simple.
Motivation gets you motivated more than anything else, check it out
To reply to a recurring line of thought, Bitcoins are not atomic entities with serial numbers like dollar bills. You can't say "Bitcoin #AE472b was stolen" and then trace it through its life, or blacklist it.

Instead Bitcoin is a ledger that details wallets and accounts. The origin of balances came from mining, and then people made transactions that, on the official ledger, transferred some or all of those amounts to other wallets. And on, and on, and on.

Hypothetically, if the community were foolhardy enough to trust someone's list of "recipients of mislaid money" wallet ids, you could blacklist those wallets, or even, through group agreement, force transfers back. But that's where tumblers come in: Tumblers are group wallets that take transactions in from all sorts, and then distribute them anonymously to new wallets you control (after a service fee, of course). Anyone hiding their tracks will of course have used a tumbler, often anonymously run on the Tor network. Do you blacklist or reclaim from every wallet that took an output from a tumbler?

Bitcoin would be toast. Tumblers are something that legitimate users of the currency make use of. You won't get the cooperation of tumbler operators because they are themselves engaged in a very serious crime.

So the trace-ability claim repeatedly being made just doesn't hold when you have legitimate and illegitimate transactions by the millions all intermixed. When bitcoins are transferred...game over. Give up on that thought.
well, that's the whole purpose of a tumbling service. i mean you don't even know how long they will be stuck there. i didn't investigate this, but splitting those into small amounts and then tumbling these around seems like exactly this pattern. if you are interested on how this was done in the maybe now second biggest known btc heist check http://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/12/theres-£60m...
The screenshot shows reward for sharing, which isn't covered by that.

Based on the screenshot, you're doing the Like rewarding in the non-compliant manner, not the compliant one - doesn't appear that pre-existing likes get the 10 entries.
I think you're taking the words too literally. Colloquially they mean pretty much the same thing, though "I apologize" has a more formal tone.
Enabling rich IDE support is precisely the point of TypeScript and similar enhancements like Python 3 type annotations: Give the computer in front of you enough information to automatically do for you what you would otherwise have to do manually, freeing you up to focus on higher level problems.
Too glib I suppose, I just meant that if the coins are "out there" they're not actually recoverable, are they? If a bunch of sand falls out of my hand on the beach, those grains didn't disappear but I'm never getting them back again. Then there's the very real question of whether it actually is theft. I would argue no, in the sense that downloading a song isn't theft.

You play in dirt, you get dirty. You want an unregulated purely digital currency with irrevocable transactions, you know it's going to sting if you lose some of it.
Power users/Mods using the vague reasoning of "editorial standards" on a crowdsourced rating mechanism to game stories. Where have we seen this before???
A tcpdump tutorial and primer
As a regular user of Chrome dev tools, they're nice, but it's no Visual Studio.
Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
Correct, but no evidence of Mtgox improving on the original spaghetti. Circumstances point to the contrary.
Open Source Brings High-End Canon Camera Dynamic Range (Much) Closer to Nikon's
> Redditors are calling it an act of censorship.

It's not as thought Reddit moderators don't censor certain fact-based topics at their personal whim:

http://arachnoid.com/psychology/reddit_psychology.html
That's probably because TypeScript has more in common with CoffeeScript than Dart as a language. Dart is a full featured language that can stand on it's own and has it's own runtime.

TypeScript is a superscript of javascript. It doesn't have a runtime - it gets transcompiled into javascript. If coffeescript is for writing javascript like you would write python or ruby, then typescript is for writing javascript like you would C#.

I've used TypeScript on a large project I'm working on. Sometimes I regret it. I went with typescript mainly because I was not as confident that I could just jump into building a large JS codebase. Now that I've been in that world for a year, many times I'm wishing that I had just gone with JS from the start, or maybe limited my use of TypeScript to just type annotations.
You can't disclose if you are under a gag order. If Mark was running a fractional reserve because the coins were seized, and they got hit with the transaction mailability issue, that could set the stage for what we're seeing today.

I agree Occam's Razor applies here. That said, we still don't know a lot about what happened.
Yeah, but we're talking about The Wire here :). But also I was an education reporter, worked as an aide, and have been part of other bureaucracies myself...
That's not unusual. You don't want winner notification dragging on for weeks/months (you'd usually move onto an alternate winner after the deadline).
Past a certain level of ambition--e.g. when you want to redefine transportation, energy production or interplanetary colonization--you cannot avoid mingling with governments. Doing so on friendly terms, and if possible gathering a bit of cash on your way, is the sane way to do it.
Forgive me for plugging my own flappy inspired (but sufficiently different) game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...

I made it over the course of a few days, using libgdx as an engine. It was really fun to make.
I’m not very convinced by either side: none is trying to offer an objective take on what Greenwald tried to do. It doesn't sound impossible to get the source, filter facts from his analysis and offer that to r/news. Is this me not being a journalist, and missing the point?
utf8_general_ci will still spell your name correctly, it just might not sort it correctly if you use an ORDER BY
Interesting.

I'm in the UK, I've known quite a lot of teachers one way or another and observed the actions of teachers union workers and unionised teachers. Here - and limited to my anecdotal data - whilst the union supports the teachers it is supporting them in their primary function as teachers for children. The goal of the union is to enable the teachers to perform as professional teachers rather than merely supporting them as wage earners. Activities of the teachers unions I know of include - as you surmise - the basic functions of support for employees but much of the focus is on sharing best practice, lobbying for the best possible educational system, supporting teachers in other countries and similar.

My overriding experience is that teachers are concerned with enabling children's education.

Analogising, it's like the IoP (http://iop.org) is for physicists and supports them in their careers but it does that in order to advance physics, because that is the primary focus of physicists.
Lawrence Lessig wins damages for bogus YouTube takedown
I suspect that certain Mr Gibbs will be having a word :-)
Translating a Typechecker from 'Math' to OCaml
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would not want to use it.
That's certainly /r/news' justification, but their argument doesn't wash. It's no more opinion than any other piece of investigative reporting - they all tell a particular story through the facts they select, how they describe the issue, and the conclusion they draw.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
Completely forgot about pineapple.io

Although I thought this was more of an educational go to in terms of, I want to learn X so I search for X on pineapple.io.

Would you recommend it as also a source for finding new things then?
I support the Reddit moderators. There is no censorship going on, and the idea of unbiased journalism is becoming something we don't even respect any more (to say nothing of how hard it is to achieve, but we don't even seem to agree it's a laudable goal any more).

Read the article, a non-analysis based piece on the same subject made the front page and was not removed. Reddit has other subreddits for analysis pieces, that why there are subreddits.

/r/news just got a new reader.
I can't figure out how to play. I just smash into the first thing immediately. I gave it 10 tries.

Generally I'm pretty bad at games. I never got past the 2nd pipe in Flappy Bird.
Apple hardware isn't overpriced (maybe slightly) if you compare it with similar offerings, BUT most people don't need/want/can afford premium hardware or get the same value out of a $400 laptop/desktop for their needs.
So for many peoples basic computing needs, Apple is indeed much more expensive.
Right, this is a much stronger case for static analysis and warning-free builds. This change caused dead code. If that code was supposed to be dead, comment it out.
Hmm. OK, here:

#1: Understand the customer!

In this case it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Ignagni
(They lobbied a congressman from Chicago w/ donations to elect, and Republican side is pissed their side did not get more.) In EU, it tends to be written for the people, but in USA, it's the lobbyists as customers.

#2: You can't fix political problems with software!

For example we can make the problem 10 times less by allowing each state to manager Healthcare and compete for residents. Like Massachusetts.
It's a fools errand. But you can milk the feds if you bribe the right official.

#3. You won't find good and un-employed engineers!

Not in SV anyway. A - type engineers are ~ $240K and up. Y-combinator is mostly n00b growth hackers, not expereinced coders. Plus the rumor is that you have to be loyal to the party of New Democrats as the main req, not software systems.

#4. I heard it's written in .NET and Oracle Access Manager.

A requirement? That's not what google plus, facebook or iTunes use or such use. I don't want to code w/ those people that use that stack ( but I would have a great time w/ them after 5pm, they tend to be nice people ).

Kalvin and Brandon: The most patriotic thing to do is to not try and catch a falling knife so that each state can have a system they own - and we can move to a state that has a good one. Party greetings to you.
While you can use the same keyboard habits, I find it much worse. The whole screen gets taken over by a rainbow colored mess of an interface, instead of a concise list in the corner.
“The story itself is irrelevant, it’s simply how the story is presented—which is why any unbiased, objective and wholly factual news article on the event would be (and is) allowed in /r/news.”

That's an awfully hazardous line they're trying to walk. I understand the desire to walk it, but the inevitable hair-splitting over when articles cross a given line is going to go on forever.
Now support for Less, Sass in the IDE instead of using Extensions ;)