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You don't need VS for TS. Eclipse and WebStorm support it pretty well. I've evaluated Visual Studio, Eclipse and WebStorm, and Eclipse and WebStorm are better for TypeScript development, at least if you're using Node.js.
MtGox may just have larger problems right now and can't get around to the actuarial work involved.

Though I agree a cold storage failure is still a good possibility, given the poor communication.
Perhaps VS online might be worth a shot? Subscription based so at least you don't stand to loose a lot of cash http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/visual-stu...
The community really needs to choose one of two messages:

a) Bitcoin is pseudonymous enough that you can safely buy drugs with it

b) Large thefts of bitcoin can be traced; it's not pseudonymous enough for massive frauds
So if the bitcoins are seized by some government entity....wouldn't that make the total value of bitcoin go up? Supply and demand and all that...

Again, I know very, very little about bitcoin or economics in general.
Correlation is not causation.

Far more likely an explanation is an inverse correlation between work hours and wealth, intelligence, and education, as those are shown correlated to health and life expectancy with better and more plausible mechanisms for causation than those waved around for work hours.
Interesting quiz. I found the differences in ends of the C's, and the s's, and a's, and the tops of the t's, and the like. In the Helvetica ones they're completely level; in the Arial they've got a little bit of a tilt to them.

NFC how the uppercase editions differ, though. :b
Which is the same as 2) and 3).
Signing the key is the important part. Proving that the key was in fact created by the people it was supposed to be. (I think they key does have to be kept secure, which could be done by using a one time pad. Theoretically unbreakable.)
Yeah, people have been trying all kinds of analysis on these addresses on r/bitcoin this week- So far the jury is out as to whether meaningful info can be gathered in this way.
So, it's not an investment bubble because the new start-up's don't burn as much cash as dotcoms did? Is that the conclusion? What about all the people holding value stock at P/E's of 50-100, and more?
It must be. Has anyone built a transaction tracer? Perhaps a visualizer using d3?
>Most of all, we need to stop thinking that we know anything about teaching merely by virtue of having once been students.

I know something about teaching by reading peer-reviewed studies which give evidence for better teaching methods, but are almost never adopted because the teaching systems and/or teachers are extremely conservative apparently all around the world.

In fact, I'd trust studies over teachers any day.
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"Coming together" is a bit difficult to determine -- how do you identify a large group of recipient addresses as a single entity? How do you differentiate between a group of addresses belonging to a single owner, and a group of addresses belonging to multiple owners?

We can construct a graph tree all destinations beginning from that one address, but what good would that be? Where do you make inferences to determine the identity of the recipients? How do you group them together?

At some point your trail becomes so long and so disparate that any effort to continue following that trail would be a pointless endeavor.

Sure the technology is there to follow the trail indefinitely, and (where available) you can easily check all recipient addresses from this "poisoned" tree against regular fiat exchange logs, but within the BTC ecosystem? It's an interesting intellectual challenge, but not useful.
You are right. Please see my second edit in my comment.
Until a mobile connection will reach the speed and stability of my 100Mbps cable connection some time will pass i guess. It also would need to be unmetered as right now the max i can get for LTE in Germany is 30-50GB for home connections.
I know its just a matter of when, but still...
Ask HN: Any interest in remote system administration?
I've thought about this off and on for the past four months without coming to a conclusion.

With the rise of SaaS a lot of startups and developers don't necessarily need system administration, they've outsourced it implicitly.

Others might benefit though?

http://remote-sysadmin.com/

Simple proof/landing page.
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I hate writing like this. Even if most people don't know the thing you're referring to, basically telling the entire browsing population of the internet "we're all stupid and here's why" immediately leaves a bad taste, particularly for people -- you know, like teachers -- who do know what teachers do, or people who didn't make the assumption being assumed in the first place (which says a lot more about the author than anything else).

Pedantic? Maybe. But to me this is a really childish way to make a point that could be better stated in a way that doesn't instantly, baselessly denigrate the reader, particularly when you're writing for a publication that banks on its credibility and reputation.
"Lost" is such a harsh word. They are still here, in the blockchain.
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Some people do consider it morally wrong to exploit the weak or uninformed.
Awesome man, thanks for the compliments. It's seriously rewarding to have someone like what you create. I'm worried that there is way too much green though. I know the right colors can bring up some emotion. I've tinkered with the idea of adding dirt to the road, but I'm afraid it'll be too distracting. Any ideas?
I haven't seen anyone do a comprehensive analysis yet. I assume someone is working on this. But maybe everyone else thinks that too.

Here is a some background information at Let's Talk Bitcoin:

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-ghost-in-the-machine-at-mtgox
Gigabyte board, Gigabyte AMD video, Intel i5. I actually specced this machine out three-ish years ago with the express intent of hackintoshing. Except for some early issues with dual monitors back in the Snow Leopard/Lion days (we're talking hex editing the ATI driver kext), it has worked really well.
But I thought one of the bullet points of Win8 was that it was more developer friendly.

When you say developer friendly, what do you mean by that? Seems to me you can develop more or less whatever you want in numerous different ways. Are you talking about developing on the core?

As for open sourcing a previous version, there's always something like ReactOS, http://www.reactos.org/.
If devs are here, check your site's appearance on Windows. Effra doesn't render well in small sizes - http://i.imgur.com/vUv8wqY.png
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If you have your own startup or small company or are a student, Microsoft has several options aimed at you:

- BizSpark for startups( http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ )

- DreamSpark for students ( https://www.dreamspark.com/ )

and I think there are other options if you contact someone at your local Microsoft office.

I've just started using BizSpark (for a side project with 2 friends, so the "startup" term is a bit loose), and it's a great program.

It's still way too expensive, but their goal is to let you give it a try, and if your startup is doing well you won't mind paying U$ 10.000 or whatever if you're cashing millions :)
If I had to venture a guess, I'd bet that not even Mark Karpeles knows what happened to the money.
This story strikes home with me. Like the author, I too picked up an MAT, taught for a couple years, and then left the field to pursue other opportunities. In the 3-4 years since I left, I have worked a lot less, made a lot more, and feel much more respected in what I do.
You're right it's not, but we talk about it a lot.
I begrudgingly upgraded WinXP to Win8 because I figured I couldn't really hold out any more for work purposes (I usually run Windows VMs on my Macbook in the cases where my customers are Windows shops).

At first, Win8 was a huge shock to my system. I didn't get it, and I also fixated on the loss of the Start Menu.

But things changed once I found a decent video that explained Win8 on YouTube. Things weren't nearly as different or as bad as I had thought.

I give Ubuntu desktop a run every year to see if I could use it full time, and every time, I uninstall it, thinking "maybe next year". One of the main reasons is that it never feels as well put together as OSX or Windows <-- this is purely subjective for my use case, ymmv. For all of Windows inconsistencies, I still feel more at home using Windows than Ubuntu.
He could pay the same rates as deceptive web advertising companies and use a lottery system to give out the jobs (which have heavy demand at that salary and job-satisfaction level).

Or he could hire 1.5X as many people at the lower rates that they will gladly accept and get to space faster.
> Second, the amount of power to burn a person is many orders of magnitude higher than needed to receive a signal.

And how does it compare to the power needed to make a car run? Did you look at the patents in the end?

Have no doubt that we'll increase the frequency untill we can focus it in a few cm sphere. The market will demand that.
Americans can't live without the web – but social media is a different story
PostgreSQL is no exception, but hey I do insane things with the db so I suppose it is fitting that I occasionally (but rarely) run into insane aspects of the system.

The difference is, you don't have to do crazy things to run into truly insane behavior on MySQL ;-)
No. I was pointing out how the previous analogy was flawed. People expect to talk to strangers at bars, particularly about a specific purpose.

People sit on park benches to enjoy public space without being bothered by random strangers. It doesn't have to be a pimp that spams you. It could be a construction foreman asking you to fill sandbags at his worksite, or a cab dispatcher wanting you to drive around town collecting fares. Complaining about people that annoy you with offers for work that you don't want is complaining that they don't actually care what you want, not just complaining that you have so many opportunities available.

But even my current employer doesn't care what I want, or even that I am an actual human being that still exists on this planet for the 128 hours a week that are not recorded on my time card. So it isn't just the recruiters. My complaint, such as it is, is that I resent the dehumanization of my industry and the diminishing levels of respect I see for people that have the same valuable skill as I do from the people that do not.

Basically, I'm complaining that nerds are not popular. I can see how that complaint would be easily dismissed, even by the nerds.
I can add external peripherals to any laptop/desktop and drive the price up as well. I'm talking out of the box.
I suppose that’s the way most maps operate: loads map tiles and anchors current viewport properties in URL. Difference is that there is no 'real scroll position with real scrollbar'.
All right, but no invitation responses are coming back.
Ho to download Atom?
Lots of people may want to "work on space", but many (most) can't. This isn't unskilled labor we are talking about here.
And like many other situations which can be summed up as supply and demand, a race to the bottom is an obvious outcome.

Maybe we'd get better teachers if we paid more?
I am pretty amazed by this technology and can't wait to learn more about it. Just a note on the live demo with iPhones — aren't they likely to have buffered the video they need before they were stacked, and therefore it doesn't matter if their antenna connection was interrupted?
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>They are fine forcing their agenda down our throats //

The agenda of ensuring children have access to life-enhancing educational opportunities?

>They can make a candidate, and they can break a candidate. //

You mean a political candidate? You really think that the combined voice of a group of teachers can do that against the weight of media conglomerates, other unions, rich lobbyists and other political groups? Any examples?

Presumably under your assertion the education system in the USA is the one that the teaching unions have won by political action and the politicos and business people are looking on powerless to influence it?
This is an unusually silly conspiracy theory.

I find it extremely unlikely that MtGox would falsely claim that they suffered a theft due to transaction malleability (a real point of possible error) if the actual issue was a US Government seizure. It just strikes me as utterly unbelievable that they would actively cover up (rather than simply failing to disclose) a government seizure.

It's far, far more likely that Karpales is either grossly incompetent or a thief than it is that he's making up complicated stories to cover up a government action.
Oh come on, the desktop is IDENTICAL to Windows 7.

Yes the crappy start menu was removed and replaced with the start screen. The desktop hasn't changed at all.
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Yet the model line was eventually switched to windows and then killed off entirely.

Heck the netbook as a concept has been rather dormant before the Chromebook came along.
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FYI, Chris Hildenbrand has a number of (mostly) free tutorials and game art assets on his blog, including some of the graphics from this game [1].

[1] http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2014/02/top-down...
I covered this a few months back while it all went down with the Verge and HuffPo and how our social search engine algorithm accounted for this while Google did not.

http://theenginuity.com/blog/how-a-copied-excerpt-of-a-story...
Or you know you can use Apportable and write Objective-C which is entirely cross-platform. :-) Don't have to sell your soul to C++ if you don't want too and you don't have to deal with the NDK.

If really want to write C++, Apportable also is the only place you will get full C++11 support (using libc++) and the same clang as iOS to make your life easier with just a little bit of constancy.

It will seriously make your life easier (the big thing is not having to maintain Makefiles for Android).
I am pretty sure people are just finding different ways to say "Stress shortens your lifespan".

1) Find item/activity that creates stress
2) Graph that vs. life expectancy to see how stress = death

The chart they cite in the first place seems to have a few different trends existing where they take on a polynomial curve upwards (one just passed 1800, one ~2300) and I would personally be more interested in seeing if there's any correlation there.
> The problem with Bitcoin is that because there's no fee associated with them, there's no money or resources being made available or directed towards policing and following of these thieves.

How do you know that? Given the amount that was stolen, I would be very surprised if some victims are not employing considerable resources to find the thieves. Also given the amount, many layers and private investigators are probably willing to do speculative work on commission. It would just be silly for them to advertise such efforts.
What kind of third level institution do you work at? One is under the impress that going from passable to outstanding in teaching has much, much less effect on one's chances of getting tenure than going from mediocre to good in your research.
Here is an example of something you might find:

Say you traced these coins to 50 different addresses. And then, for example, say that those addresses lay dormant for 3 months. And then 45 of those addresses send bitcoins somewhere on the same day. That would imply that the coins are under the control of a single owner.

I agree it is difficult and beyond the scope of just writing a simple script.
If you cut programmers salaries in 1/2 today, you'd still have enough programmers.

Just not very many good ones.
Thanks for the heads up. Looks like there's a bunch of discussion of the issue in the gist comments.

Babies vs bathwater...

EDIT: some interesting and relevant technical info on the history of the npm registry infrastructure: https://gist.github.com/mikeal/8947417
I think the second version with the braces really misses the point of the "use braces" argument. From my perspective, the main error cases for that code are merge conflicts and accidental line duplication. In either of those cases the new gotofail line would end up inside the braces where it would be harmless dead code.
> There are objective concurrency issues with the lack of it, that have been acknowledged by postgres developers when they started work on upserts.

These concurrency issues don't fully go away by adding the feature, which is why it is taking time to work out the desired behavior there.
He won a Turing Award in 2011 for his work. Haven't read it yet, but this is supposedly where to start:

http://www.amazon.com/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-Pe...
Thanks! Gonna give it a try, always thought online plans are only about their team management tools.
He should have shut down the exchange the second that happened; keeping it open is fraud.
The biggest XP replacements that are not Windows are iPads and Android tablets -- at least for the majority of users who are primarily emailers and web surfers. Not sure if a free version of Windows is going to stop the bleeding there.
Addendum: this appears to be somewhat true:

via http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-16/money-launderer-unt...
original italian news http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2014-02-13/ritenuta-a...

It's a presumption that the transfer is taxable income and a requirement to demonstrate otherwise. That's a very heavy tax enforcement process, but in theory you can get the 20% back if it's not income. If it is income, you should have paid the 20% anyway.
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So why would Apple voluntarily issue an update to fix the problem if they were gagged under a secret court order?
> but since in this case there was probably money and bribes involved

The cognitive process above is really sad: "I speculate this is what happened as a natural outcome of my other speculation"
If you were going to steal bitcoins in this manner you'd run them through a number of tumblers. Tumblers are essentially the laundering facility for bitcoins. Lots of coins from various locations come in, put into a pool, and then get sent back out. There's no way to track coins you receive back to a particular transaction. Since 6% of all bitcoins are stolen, more than likely anyone holding bitcoins has a good chance of holding some stolen ones.
What I miss in FF developer tools and makes me use Chrome Dev Tools instead:

- Working on the console is a nice REPL experience with code completion and data structure navigation, almost similar to a Smalltalk/Lisp workspace

- I can work on the console whenever I feel like it and do not have to pause the debugger

- More freedom to place breakpoints in the whole browser stack (events, html changes, ajax calls, ...)

- Code and event profiling

- Reformatting minified JavaScript

- Tooling for navigation the whole set of resources and local databases being used by the browser
A hero? hah. More like a vandal.

Since when is that the response you get from secret service and FBI? Does that mean that white hat hackers will get the same treatment?
I have written a good chuck of common code in C++ for my diagramming app "Lekh Diagram"(http://www.avabodh.com/lekh). The shape recognition, shape management etc all done in C++ code. The app is available for Android and iOS.

Integrating the C++ code with Objective C is much smoother experience than the Java in android.

As the Objective C (more precisely objective C++) is superset of C++, I can directly call C++ code from objective C and for other way communication (calling objective C code from C++), I had defined an C++ interface. The C++ code calls on interface only and the interface is implemented in objective C.

For Android, little more work was required. I had write wrappers code. I also had to hit many stupid issues like local reference table overflow etc.
I'm a bit new to bitcoins, but is it technically possible for the bitcoins community as a whole to make a blacklist of bitcoins addresses and "ban" the stolen bitcoins ?
Such blacklist would daunt robbers and enforce public trust in bitcoins.
Why is it hypocritical to recieve federal investment, only to decide it isn't for you

The article seems to be suggesting Musk decided government loans to promote alternative energy was a bad idea in general, not that it was just a bad idea for Tesla to take such a loan. The article doesn't say whether he's made any actual statement to that effect though.
Hey guys you know this is meant to be humorous right? I honestly can't believe that people here are saying Google is a scraper site and complaining about "hypocrisy". No more caching! When I search Google I want them to freshly crawl the web and get back to me in a day or two with my results.

</rant>
At the other end of the spectrum, one of the teachers at my old school used to turn up at 8:30 and leave at 15:30. She used to put a video on, and then hand out worksheets to fill in whilst she marked the worksheets from the class before. Terrible teacher, luckily I only had her for a few weeks.
do YOU understand how diff works? it tracks changes between two points in time, it doesn't track how you got there or what you did in between.

he could have easily yanked a goto line 'yy' for use elsewhere or by accident and pasted it by accident with 'p' right after he yanked it.

i see two very similar lines, 49 and 53, which were probably copy/pasted and edited. it is completely reasonable to assume he accidentally did it with another line further down the file.

he could have refactored this code multiple times before re-committing this file, moving blocks around or editing lines. there's plenty of opportunity to introduce errors.

do you understand how editing works?
We also have enough fast food workers. That doesn't mean they're doing the job because they want "a satisfying job with good benefits." That's definitely not a good assumption about any profession.

If you treat teaching as a lowest-bidder-wins "supply and demand" field, you may get passionate teachers who don't mind the pay, teachers who don't need to earn more for whatever reasons, probably some teachers who do find the benefits attractive, and all sorts of other people. But distilling this all to "people do it, so the wages are fine" misses just about all of the central points.

Consider that teaching isn't working in a bookstore or packing shipments for Amazon. It's not just a lot of work; it's a vitally important role in our world's future. I for one would not call "supply and demand" at the lowest possible rate a good way to treat such a profession.
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Wouldn't, in this high profile clustereff, somehow tracking down those bitcoins cause bitcoin in general more harm than good? Would it not highlight that one way or another, either by fault of bitcoin or human error, that like Tor it is not bulletproof in terms of anonymity and susceptibility to being taken back from someone, whether that someone is a good or bad guy?
Microsoft's idea of developer friendliness is always aimed at high-level. Windows is developer friendly as long as you use their tools/languages. Developers want to choose their own tools, so they should make that easier / more integrated.