skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing is clear. There's a lot of information yet to come. They've indicated that it's "highly probably" the coins were lots due to the TX Mal bug which seems to be the least likely hypothesis in the eyes of the community.

I suspect they're still analyzing their logs to find the full story themselves.
Yes, but as a browser extension technology I think it's fair to say that it has failed.
Yes, if you can pull that off, it's a huge win.
What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta.

I would have expected/hoped that it would be possible to simply silently improve the server-side algorithms because of all the data being sent in and analysed. But so far it's been a big disappointment. Google Now is far better and more useful.
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You have no idea how big 10^100 is.

That is 1.4 * 10^90 (atomic units of bitcoin) for everyone on earth. There are only around 1.2 * 10^12 actual US dollar coins and notes in the world, and only 1.2 * 10^13 dollars if you count all of M2 money supply.
MagicalTux is a known lunatic who wants to write everything in PHP. Which isn't too bad of an idea, but he, for example, hacked together an SSHd in PHP and immediately put it into production use:

http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do-anything-wh...

Essentially he is a bad programmer and he has Not Invented Here (fixed, thanks jey) syndrome, both of which are terrible attributes for someone coding a Bitcoin exchange.
I gave Sublime four months; and in those four months, I only used Emacs once on a remote machine.

I really did try, but the experience left me wanting, and made me realize I'm never going to try another editor ever again: I'm just not ready for another four months of hate directed at my main working tool before I'll revert to the One True Editor™.
Tesla and Audi are missing :(
Oh yes, +1. Linear algebra is about vector spaces; matrices are a separate topic.

Unfortunately, Axler does not define determinant as a volume scaling coefficient and goes the still arcane way of “(-1)^\deg…” which does not really do justice to the concept.

Check out Sergei Winitzki's “Linear algebra via Exterior Products” https://sites.google.com/site/winitzki/linalg It's free for download and treats determinants in a more geometrically inclined way. BTW, it's written by a physicist, not a mathematician.
New Mt. Gox site update – Mar 2nd
What I don't get is why CC payments cannot be done in a OAuth-like manner.

For RL payments, the card would, supplied with the correct PIN, generate an OAuth token that allows the merchant's processor (and ONLY it!) to withdraw money from the card onto ONLY the merchant's account.

For online payments, the customer would be redirected to a central, MasterCard/Visa/foo supplied site, once again giving out access tokens valid only for a specific destination account, as well as optionally locked money/time limits for recurring withdrawals.
If you're connecting to a machine over SSH and you're making enough changes that it's going to be difficult to maintain an indentation scheme, open it up on a local editor with SFTP. Emacs supports it out of the box, and Sublime has an excellent nagware SFTP package in the standard repos.
Do you mind providing examples of use cases re Google Now vs Siri? Not disagreeing with you - just haven't owned an Android device in the last year to know.
I think this suggests either talks between Tesla and Apple didn't go well, or something even bigger (integration wise) could be coming up.
I did at one point plug a Logitech keyboard into the Surface, but I definitely did not intentionally install any Logitech drivers. It's something Windows put there by itself, only for it to become a problem later.
>Sometimes it moves to a place where the indent level is different but the total number of expanded spaces is the same.

This is exactly why Smart Tabs is the only intelligent way to do it - if you change the width of a tab, everything resizes instantly to match the current user's aesthetics, but things that need to be aligned stay aligned. The only case in which it breaks is if you switch to a non-monospaced font, and in that case, God help you.
As a German, you may want to brush up on your understanding of U.S. law. First, if you're a mail order business in California you don't have to pay attention to any other state's sales or use tax laws unless you have a business presence (such as an office) in that state. As a California shipper shipping in-state you need to look up the destination zip code's tax rate, true, but it's county-by-county and you can do it for free here:
https://maps.gis.ca.gov/boe/TaxRates/

Second, if you want to avoid even this annoyance, you can start your business in one of the five states with no sales taxes including New Hampshire or Oregon, meaning you never have to collect any sales taxes. Third, if you do have offices in other states, you can buy some relatively cheap software that takes care of billing for you.

I'm not saying this system is perfect or even that it'll continue given the pro-Internet tax forces in Congress, but nevertheless I don't think your description is accurate.
Just for the sake of argument – any reason why not PHP?
I signed up before they had ID verification about two years ago, and deposited a little money. Then a few months later I'd had my fun and I wanted to take my money back, but discovered they wouldn't let me withdraw unless I provided ID.

After some back and forth with them I somehat angrily provided ID and got my money returned. It later turned out that they had either been dishonest or incompetent in their argument for providing ID, and I got them to promise me that they had deleted any and all ID docs I sent them, specifically because of scenarios like this one.

Well, I hope they were telling the truth.
Ah finally, no more atrocious pressure-sensitive touch screens. I wouldn't be surprised if this feature alone is sufficient to increase demand for supported brands in large enough quantities to make other manufacturers take notice.
It looks as though this is running your your iPhone, virtualized in your cars built-in display.

I'm happily surprised to see Apple go this route, as I suspect/hope I don't have to have an iPhone in order to make use of the cars built-in display.

Also, if auto manufacturers are going the virtualized route, their is very little preventing Android/WP/Ubuntu/Firefox/etc. to work just as easily.
you never know when you will need this. i can see people trying to remember that silly css library's name.
What's the deal with third-party apps? I see music apps mentioned, but it looks like there isn't general support. I bet a lot of people will be interested in Google Maps in particular...
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Agreed, I've been using https://github.com/dkduck/FLKAutoLayout to simplify the constraint creation
http://www.openautoalliance.net/#members
Interesting.. should be quite interesting for app developers. Will apple work with partners or is it open for the app developer community? In the case of the latter, any news on a CarPlay SDK?

On another note, I was actually expecting Android to do this first. Interesting times ahead!
They probably scrapped it due to the utter impossibility of enforcing it.
> than the thousands of Android devices

this probably explains why android would have it but not iOS, originally iOS only had 1 screen size and didn't need it (though it still would have been much better). Now that new screen sizes are being released / rumoured its much more useful
Ultimately what I want is an in-car media system that is as up to date as your phone is.

I want to swap out my phone for a better in-car experiences, not switch out my entire car (as is the current way of doing it).

If this enables that and makes it possible across brands, that's fantastic. In a way it would be an unprecedented level of tech standardization in the car world.
The slow shake could be nice, I think. Looks excitable rather than just vibrating.
The thing which excites me the most about this is the little LTE symbol in the corner. Why? So your navigation app can update itself. We had a Range Rover a few years ago which had some crazy proprietary satnav in which was stuck with five year old maps and a buggy interface. Software Update, mmm.
For a bank?

I can think of lots of reasons.

* You're exposed to any upstream bugs in the language and interpreter

* Dynamic typing and silent errors mean you're far more likely to make a mistake and not realize it

* It's missing a lot of battle tested libraries and frameworks

* It's PHP
most of apples sample code is pretty poor design for large projects, the biggest example I think is core data stack in the app delegate
If I were an auto manufacturer, I'd be pushing Apple to open up the standard for interfacing this with phones. iOS and iPhones are great, but are still only used by a fraction of potential customers. Why limit your market so Apple can score some lock-in?
Checking out the source code https://github.com/simplefocus/FlowType.JS/blob/master/flowt..., I was amazed to find how simply they've implemented this.

Beautiful.
Ubuntu's Unity does an interesting thing - dragging a window to the top panel maximizes the window, dragging it to the left/right borders will auto-tile it to that side of the screen, taking up either the whole vertical space or half of it.

It's very easy to arrange 2 windows side by side, or 4 windows in all 4 corners. And besides using mouse interactions that would work with screen touch gestures, it works with keyboard shortcuts too.

I'm also not convinced that having windows that can overlap is not desirable. Personally I like having windows that I can move around. Works great with multi monitor setups too. Have a window opened on this screen and you need to move it to the other screen? You just drag it from here to there.

The only problem with draggable windows on mobile devices is that you don't have enough screen real-estate, so having a top border for dragging is wasteful, or if that top border is too small it's painful to target it with your finger. But touch gestures can work - as in, a two or three finger swipe could mean a drag, or whatever.

I'm all for wheel reinvention and new UI paradigms, but when introducing something new, it has to be better and not inferior to the old UI paradigm.
Money laundering legislation in Japan may well apply to them.
Alexa lists Wikipedia as the 6th most popular site in the world ( http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org ). Its web server logs are more open than the five sites in front of it, AFAIK.

The January 2014 web browser report has -
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera...

23.24% of requests from iPhones
10.94% of requests from Android devices
10.48% of requests from iPads

Not over 50%, but fairly close when totalled, 44.66%.

This is just one of many possible data points, of course. But most data I have seen over the past few years has pointed toward the continuing rise of mobile devices.
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> There's 200BTC a day withdraw limits

If you had a verified account you could ask for any limit you wanted up to 10k BTC, with a trusted account I think there was no maximum— I've talked to people who say they had 50k limits.

There was a 200 BTC maximum per withdraw however, at least in recent times.

> as the consistent Gox bug was only triggered by 0.8.0 being released

Even that wasn't consistent, only ~1% of signatures were invalid DER encodings with their code.
This.
As the saying goes, "It's a tool, not a Jewel": pick one that can do what you need, and stick with it.
I believe car manufacturers already have a cross platform standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink

Carplay seems to be just Apple reinventing the wheel.
I too miss the downvote button.
Seems unlikely this will be standard equipment on any car (for several reasons, but mostly the one you stated).
No US car manufacturers in 2014? Why?
Dedication towards improving fitness is certainly a reflection of character.

I honestly can't think of anything in the world that wouldn't be better if every skinny/fat guy started losing fat and gaining muscle.
At least in the US market, BMW and Audi seem very likely to have mainly iOS user buyers. In Europe, probably more Android. So picking one platform is basically guaranteed to piss off a sizable part of one's customers.

I'd probably go BMW instead of Audi if the BMW had better iOS integration, even though I generally prefer Audis. I assume an Android user would go the other way.
I think you meant NIH ("Not Invented Here"), not NIMBY ("Not In My Backyard").
Why aren't they announcing this at an event? I can't recall Apple releasing something like this without some type of fanfare and subsequent media push.
That's because "destroy a gene" is not a treatment. The process of finding a molecule that inhibits the action of the gene, is not rapidly metabolized by the body, is capable of crossing the cell membrane, and doesn't kill people at the same dose as it has its effect takes a while. You have to try a lot of molecules to find one that satisfies all these requirements. There are efforts to speed up the early selection process, such as using computational chemistry approaches to compute which molecules can "dock" with a protein's active site. This is hard though, because proteins & small molecules are not rigid, so it's much harder than just doing a jigsaw puzzle in 3-D. I'm sure robotics is also being used to speed up the initial drug screening, but I know less about that.

Also consider that there's no way to tell the long-term toxicity of a drug except by running a long-term study.

Basically, my dad (who works as a pharma researcher) told me almost exactly what you proposed: it takes 10-20 years to develop a drug and bring it to market once you have a target to develop against.
Ooh, floating-point arithmetic in software making financial transactions!
Yes, but this isn't a decision on the copyright claim. It is an injunction, ordering all copies of the film removed from youtube.

She may eventually prevail and have only her portion of the video removed, with the rest able to be distributed intact. Until that day, though, that in no way justifies the government restraining speech before her claim is even evaluated, especially given the particulars of the case. Prior restraint is almost universally a very bad thing, and something that needs to be fought tooth and claw.
Wait for WWDC this summer. Or next. Apple will want to improve this to encourage lock-in to their ecosystem. I'd expect this to expand in functionality in tandem with that of their watch. Both could serve as secondary screens for information you'd normally get on your phone.
Haha, the first in-car app that came to mind was an illegal street racing lap timer. Perhaps it's a positive that the App Store censors will be approving apps, at least initially.
I've found that I'm more productive when I focus on one thing per day, instead of trying to focus on multiple things at once. One day I'll do consulting work[0], another day I'll learn something new, the next I'll work on side projects[1], etc.

It helps to have task lists[2] and calendars for all your projects. This way you won't feel pressure to remember everything at once. If everything is documented and scheduled, you can focus on one thing and put everything else aside (temporarily).

[0] http://www.gkogan.co

[1] http://www.gagcartoons.com

[2] I really like Subtask for task tracking (http://www.subtask.com), though I rarely see them mentioned here.
Am curious who is in charge on manufacturing the device.. Both car manufacturers and Apple have history of wanting build the "whole widget."
Oops, yes I did indeed mean Not Invented Here syndrome. Thanks.
this talks about some of the added features in the app over time http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961636
Something is already happened. "Nothing will happen" -mantra does not add any value to analysis. Russia has reacted very unpredictable so far and outcomes might be far from what you describe. Ukraine is also more than mere economical issue to EU. In these kind of situations politics comes before business, not the other way around.
So over a period of years your Scrooge McDuck money bin gets emptier and you are completely oblivious to this up until the point that it's basically empty?

The kind of incompetence involved here borders on mental retardation.
Product Lifecycle of the big brands are between 6 and 10 years, at least for Daimler and BMW. I do not expect this to appear before 2018. This is nothing you can put in a MOPF.
>> "What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta."

Siri exited beta with iOS 7. As for updates there have been quite a lot but nothing major. They added new more human sounding voices. They added new sources (Wikipedia, Twitter). They added other functions like returning calls, playing voicemail, adjusting brightness. That was just iOS 7. iOS 6 added more I believe.
Might have something to do with the Geneva Auto Show that starts this week, where their automaker partners had already announced they'd be showing this stuff.
Maybe someone would like to post a link to the veekun article for the umpteenth time.
It does enable that as it's just mirroring your iPhone screen to a screen in the car. Same thing you can do with an Apple TV.
I agree with your sentiment, but solar prices have plummeted and clever new financing arrangements from Solar City et al. have made them much more accessible, in the US at least.

http://www.urbanphotovoltaic.com/Portals/0/solutions/photovo...

We're slowing getting there, ~100GW of capacity installed in 2012, up from ~40GW in 2010.
"1. Our species has existed for about 200,000 years.

2. On that basis, and given our present knowledge of biology and evolution by natural selection, it's reasonable to assume that, within another 200,000 years, we will have been replaced by another species who either successfully competed with us, or into whom we simply evolved over time.
"

When our species had existed for around 5 years, does that mean it was reasonable to assume that within another 5 years, we will have been replaced by another species?
Get a 4Runner maintenance manual. Look at how the car is wired, and what modules are in the car. That'll probably give you enough hints to figure it out. If not, and you're the owner of the car, start poking around electronics to find out what chips are in them. Look up data sheets. Or try to sniff signals off data lines and see if they look like CAN signals.
>> "At least in the US market, BMW and Audi seem very likely to have mainly iOS user buyers. In Europe, probably more Android."

How did you come up with that??
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I am sure it said that they will 'dispose' of the scans after 2 weeks. Looks like they fucked up again!
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My weekend personal hackathon project. Hopefully useful to some of you. Uses requests, beautifulsoup4, docopt, and prettytable.

`pip install vxapi`
> I think you have misinterpreted their position.

I understand it perfectly -- they're either as ignorant as their followers, or they're exploiting public ignorance.

> Bostrom and Hanson know quite a bit about evolution.

They either know nothing about evolution, or they're deliberately misleading their readers. Contrary to their writing, natural selection is not a race to the top, because it's not a race to any particular objective.

> But they both think that we are entering a time in which we no longer be bound by evolution.

Apart from revealing their inability to grasp evolutionary theory, this is an ignorant New Age fantasy. We will always be bound by natural selection, even when we actively participate in the process.

> They think that humanity will soon be able to engineer minds, allowing us to improve their raw abilities while having them retain many of our own values.

But that's also evolution. To argue that people meddling with genetics isn't evolution is to misunderstand evolution's scope.

> Evolution hill-climbs ...

You really need to stop thinking about natural selection as though it's a race to the top of the hill. This idea contradicts both evolutionary theory and copious observational evidence.

> We're already building lots of stuff that could never evolve [emphasis added]: radio, wheels, impellers, turbines, lasers, etc.

All these things exist in nature, even including the lasers, all of which evolved in nature:

http://laserstars.org/summary.html

Bacteria use wheel- and axle-based electric motors to propel themselves through their environments:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22489/

All your examples have similar pre-existing embodiments in nature. And they all evolved.

> If we want to make better minds in any reasonable time-frame, we'll need to engineer them ourselves.

People doing engineering is an example of natural selection. There is nothing in the sequence of human events that isn't an example of evolution by natural selection.

All this talk about moving beyond evolution fails to grasp how evolution works in our lives. Even A/B testing of Web pages is an example of natural selection.

To summarize, these people you're quoting are simply pandering to low public taste -- they're either broadcasting their own ignorance or exploiting the ignorance of the public. Evolution doesn't work they way they claim, and their writing is a scientific laughingstock.
Nice set of links, somewhat confused as to why they disappear in a super-fancy way when you hover over them though...
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Will DIY clouds hurt OpenStack (repost)
Karpeles making mistakes with honorifics? That's odd, even though it would he incorrect, surely he could just -san suffix everyone and be done with it?
But when do I get to see the video with Jony Ive describing "Carplay as the most revolutionary product Apple has made. Ever."
apple maps? nah i'll use google maps with my phone
I keep waiting to see a car that comes with a tables built into the dash. There are many modders who have accomplished this already, it just seems like the next big thing. Voice control, apps, awesome.