skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this too, and agree. The benefits and straightforward version control diffs are fantastic when working on a distributed team with multiple devs touching the UI.
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The shell is a second class citizen on Windows, and "the Microsoft way" discourages its use.
That's probably because of your upbringing and your surroundings. When English is your native language, and all the input you get (books, tv, music, internet) is in English, there's little incentive to learn more languages.

For a majority of the people on this planet, this isn't the case.
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It'd be most accurate to say you rigorously described a kind of mining-cartel attack that had been discussed years earlier, but I know I won't convince you of that, because you only count published academic papers, and the earlier discussions of the same attack all happened in less-formal bitcoin forums.

Regarding MtGox scenarios:

Reliable evidence on what MtGox truly did is scarce, but people have widely speculated that at times they auto-reissued payouts, and without the protective measure of reusing the same inputs. It would be in character – see other examples of their recklessness below.

So while I share your doubt that malleability could have resulted in significant losses, there is a theory for that, which doesn't require extensive social engineering/human-in-the-loop processes. And, if it had been happening for years, only outsiders with a giant archive of long-ago race-losing transactions (that never reached blocks) would be able to estimate the magnitude of the losses. (I don't know any public source for such an archive.)

Similarly, at times Karpeles mentioned that the cold storage was a "paper-based RAID" in 3 parts, or some other scheme in 6 places. As the 'key man' in an enterprise that suddenly found itself atop $100MM+ in easily-transferable assets, his feared threats may have included kidnapping/extortion to force disclosure of the keys. Thus his cold storage scheme may have involved putting necessary key-shares totally outside his easy control, even via people and safety-deposit boxes in other countries. Any "key-loss" scenario should consider the chance law-enforcement-actions or other calamities, far from the MtGox offices or Japanese accounts, have made essential parts of the cold-storage keys unrecoverable, for now and perhaps permanently.

There's a forum thread from years ago where people mention 2600+ bitcoins MtGox lost from their own bad-transaction-issuing code (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50206.0;all). Karpeles wrote his own SSH server in PHP. Over the years MtGox suffered SQL injection & cross-site scripting attacks. In the June 2011 'flash crash', the entire user database with weakly-hashed passwords was lost (supposedly via an auditor compromise), allowing outsiders to carry off some unknown number of artificially-cheap bitcoin – but MtGox made customers 'whole' via a database rollback. MtGox later that year made the customers of competing exchange Bitomat whole, at a cost of 17,000 BTC or more, after that exchange lost its keys.

So when speaking of MtGox, we're already in Alice-in-Wonderland territory, with both custom (and often unwisely eccentric) implementation choices, and overconfident grand gestures. It's hard to rule anything out, based on ideas from elsewhere about plausible engineering or business practices.
Fixed the link; thanks!

You're correct -- on average, there's a major hurricane every 25 years: http://www.dnr.sc.gov/climate/sco/Education/facts/historical...
Could any of the downvoters expand a little bit? Do you not know what I'm referring to? Why isn't arbitrary choice of font size a violation of CSS?
"It has been pretended by some, (and in England especially,) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs.

But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it.

Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody.

Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea. In some other countries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society; and it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices."

— Thomas Jefferson, 1813-08-13

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-03...
First public beta of 'Darksend' released by Darkcoin (anonymous crypto) dev.
As the commit message stated, the current method (of dropping just the right file in a usually hidden part of the filesystem) is fairly user hostile as it is.

Extensions exist which make this significaly friendly to all involved, such as Stylish.
Results. He made Apple a huge success then come back and did it again.

Yes, but I could also posit that Jobs was the only visionary type who not only had a POV that let him see under the surface of mainstream thinking but also had the good fortune of founding Apple, which enabled him to found his later enterprises. (If nothing else, than through the reputation it gained him.)
Why you should avoid Google as a business technology supplier
Scribe: A rich text editor framework for the web platform, from The Guardian
Will do that right now, thanks!
Parents do tend to be better workers. They have commitments to keep that are personally important to them. They have people they care about counting on them. They tend to be more reliable, more committed, etc. Young, single and childless may give you the time and energy to do more but it doesn't necessarily give you the impetus to do so.
I see where this is coming from, but loosing the convinience of xibs + auto layout is too great to sacrifice for me. Just thinking of how much bigger my view controller code will get makes me shudder.
There's generally two kinds of iOS apps/devs and once you work out what bracket you fall into, choosing between IB and code is easy.

If you're making fairly standard apps that substitute largely for websites - eg, login screens, some data in lists, couple forms - then you will probably want to go with IB storyboards. For these types of apps, development speed is most essential and future changes are mostly just tweaking the UI a bit as a large part of the functionality of the app is just pulling data from web services or doing standard calculations and displaying the result. Storyboards will let you get a nice looking and fairly simple UI done very fast and allow for rapid UI changes.

However, if you are going to have 3+ devs working on your app because it's actually the basis for a business or is very complicated, storyboards cause a lot of merge problems. They're far harder to create automated test code for. Refactoring your app becomes an exercise in tracking down IBOutlets. The couple days you saved at the start with easy layout and transitions get eclipsed by the amount of time you spend fighting IB later for changes. Also, if you use code review tools and have a heavy peer review culture then storyboards are a particularly bad fit.

Honestly I believe most apps fit into the first option and storyboards are the way to go. 95%+ of the apps on the Apple Store are definitely in the first category, and there usually isn't a need to over engineer them.
If this were an operation, it'd be more likely to be GCHQ. Keep in mind, GCHQ sent the NSA the Yahoo webcam photos, for use in XKEYSCORE. The two are close allies.

The CIA on the other hand, competes with the NSA for resources and jurisdiction.

Right now the NSA's budget dwarfs that of the CIA, since data collection and SIGINT have been prioritized over HUMINT. Technology advances and cost reductions might have encouraged this.

What types of intelligence and which agencies will be more relevant in the 21st century? The Snowden revelations and ongoing saga will play a large part in affecting future views, and answers to that question.

It might be more beneficial for the CIA to actually step back.

Plus, a lot of people want to see mass surveillance fail. It's pretty obviously a threat to democracy waiting to happen, and most people in service are dedicating their life to protecting democracy.
This is exactly the time when you'd want to write about such a topic in pen and paper.
I have seen more than a few Linux screenshots with customized Xdefaults and customized user stylesheets. Granted, they are advanced user, but they were not developers.
I think the point here is some people like to tinker with new things. There is a balance to strike here. Some do live in a bubble. On the other extreme are people who jump from one new thing to the next. Understanding the tools available is great but becoming an expert at something is import too. Most important thing is creating great products no matter what you use to build it. Your users don't care what it was developed in.
That's only looking at one kind of malleability. Notably, I've been told that MtGox for years issued its own transactions in a non-standard format... so one potential 'attack' would be to mutate those to canonical form and race them into the blockchain. There'd be no evidence of such an attack in the blockchain: only someone who'd been long-archiving losing, non-canonical transactions from multiple places in the network would have a way to estimate the frequency/magnitude of such activity.
A technologist's take on Ukraine, Venezuela, and the Arab Spring.
It's been invaluable to me in keeping up with the cryptocurrency scene the last year or two.
Britain to scrap Bitcoin tax
What if we shift the discussion from investor risk and reward to founder risk and reward? In the US it's possible for founders to win big and I suspect that is the reason why startups gravitate to the US. On the risk side, yes you can lose your shirt and so can your investors, but the system considers it normal to get up and try again.

I don't like the fact that we don't have much of a social safety net in the US but that can be considered one of the larger risks founders face as well.
They have been sued and a very interesting ruling came out of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_Inc._v_World_Prog...
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Except that Storyboards are pretty detrimental to large project maintenance, especially universal apps. AND they have a really awful habit (or most developers do!) to keep copy IN the storyboards.. which is an unimaginably bad practice.

Storyboards are good for small, simple apps where you're the sole developer (or maybe a team of 1-3). Go bigger, drop storyboards.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious

clever puzzles though!
Could you define "dead weight" in this context?

Is it that STG and GTS were a net loss to the company, or is it that those groups weren't profitable enough to make the alleged $20/share goal?

If IBM has decided to leave the hardware business as a long term goal, then is it fair to call the hardware people a "dead weight" if that part of the organization is still profitable? The term seems to imply that the people themselves are at fault.
I think that's an extremely childish level of morality.
I have some problems with this post.

#1 is saying that you're restricted to point based UI's in interface builder. This is absolutely not true. Wether you do you UI's in interface builder or code - use auto layout!

This way you get dynamic, resolution-independent UI's that can even work automatically with right-to-left text (realigning other elements according to text alignment).

The way the author is doing it is still point-based (just a bit more dynamic since he does some calculations) while auto layout has all this built in.

Yes, it is harder to get started with auto layout, but once you learn it, it is worth it.

#2, using things like UIView+Positioning still sets your frames. And it does so for each property you set. This means that the frame might be set 5 times instead of one (just for slightly cleaner code). This is not good since it might cause 5 calls to layoutSubviews instead of one (performance issue) and also it will ruin animations (dependent on a source and target frame).
"methylammonium trihalogen plumbates"

Methylammonium ions can be had from methylamine, which is dirt-cheap (made from methanol and ammonia, usually).

Halogens are fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine. All common and cheap.

Plumbates are lead and oxygen. Again, common and cheap.

So, no, there shouldn't be any supply problem.

Disposal might need some watching due to the lead, but I doubt this would involve anywhere near the volume that's used in (e.g.) lead-acid car batteries.
No-ip services are free, and there are a lot of them.

So to answer your question bluntly, no, sorry.

Where did you get the 25/yr price from?

Never mind, found the lowest tier on dyndns was 25/yr. Who actually pays that? :s

Check out http://dnsdynamic.org/ This is who I use for my raspberry pi.

Setup with ddclient on debian based os: http://blog.mivia.dk/free-dynamic-dns-for-raspberry-pi/
I prefer the Surface to the Bay Trails I've seen so far and it has to be a least ten inches for my old eyes.
There is a culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia
> there would be no Chipotle if the housing prices kept going up.

I don't follow this at all. Are you suggesting that restaurants would simply disappear from SF entirely? Or that locals would never go to restaurants? It seems much more likely that restaurants would just get more expensive during which time there would be some churn and turnover in the market.
The thing is I'm sure there's a very good reason his company mandates a Windows stack for all the development he's doing - the MS dev stack (for the most part) will not break when you update your system, install a new patch, upgrade your .NET framework, etc. etc.

Personally I can't stand Windows for web development (although Node looks awesome in VS), but there's advantages to both. The author seems to express regret and a feeling he missed out, but would he have become a better developer for embracing the alternatives he mentioned? Would he really have been able to get his work done better and more efficiently? He didn't provide any evidence of this.
I use UIView+Positioning, which exposes x, y, width,
height, right, bottom, centerX, and centerY as both
setters and getters.

IB/code aside, this is convenient. All of those properties are read-only by default, and that's always seemed counterintuitive to me (though I'm sure there's some purpose I'm missing).
I am not a fan of the framing here. This is not about someone "being an asshole." This is about someone opening mouth and inserting foot. Okay, so when men unthinkingly default to stupid assumptions and phrasing, it can seriously hurt women. The fact that women get hurt doesn't mean the harm was intentional, malicious, etc.

What the investor said was probably just the uncomfortable truth coming out. IIRC, Paul Graham has made remarks not terribly unlike that. A lot of investors are leery of investing a woman of child-bearing age. Is that "unfair" to women? Perhaps. But I don't think saying it after the fact is "being an asshole." He did invest in her company. Now she needs to preform, baby or no baby.

This piece is not about "people being assholes." It is about men opening mouth and inserting foot, probably fairly innocently in both cases cited. A lot of remarks of that ilk are not intended as hostile. I think the phrase "what do you mean?" is probably a good one to use in such situations but I really think this article with this ugly title rooted in ugly assumptions does women more harm than good.
> Nobel[sic] leaurate[sic]

Alfred Nobel had nothing to do with the Swedish Bank Prize. It's a scheme between a bank and the Nobel Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...
Design patterns of 1972
Ah the best comment buryed the deepest. So true you are.
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I've been working as a technical writer for about two years now, and I'm feeling it's time for a change. I've always enjoyed working on the more technical side of the role - that is, writing shell scripts to manage content or collaborating with developers to work out help display bugs related to code, so I've been thinking very strongly about attempting to move into a development role.

I spend most of my free time outside of work coding, primarily in C++ and Python. I taught myself C++ back when I was 15, and I've always used it since for personal projects (my Python is more recent, started playing around with it and realized I liked it too), and I'd say that my C++ is pretty much far beyond "beginner". The only reason why I didn't go for a developer role was because my degree (physics) emphasized mathematical methods and coding was generally treated as a tool, so I felt that a technical writer role may have been better for me but actually working in a software development environment and contrast it with technical writing made me realize that I might enjoy development more.

I'm wondering if my two years in a tech writer role may have pigeonholed me in the eyes of potential interviewers, though. Is this a valid concern, or might it be possible to make the leap from tech writing to software engineering with a bit of work on my understanding of CS?
Sure, you can make up your own definitions for words as much as you want. If you want, you can conflate the definitions of all kinds of criminal labels -- theft, rape, terrorism[1], etc. It's a time-honored tactic of those who seek to demagogue positions they oppose. But it makes a mockery of the serious crimes that those terms describe, and it does nothing to help you effectively communicate your own point of view.

[1] - Note that there is currently a concerted effort by many to connect IP infringement to "terrorism".
Don't worry, Chipotle will weather the storm just fine. However, the good burrito places will have a very hard time.

It makes me cringe that one would even think of Chipotle as an acceptable place to eat in fucking San Francisco.
It could be, but the problem there is its a different concept being implemented as the same english word stealing.

One has a legal definition implying loss of a tangible good, the other a rather different definition implying you haven't paid to use a thing.

Both are correct grammatically, but they aren't the same thing in the end.
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A noble effort and looks like a decent game. As-of-yet though, I think "Papers, Please" is possibly the best take on a dystopian game. The oppression in that game isn't just some puzzle mechanic but the whole monotonous process and being a cog in a gigantic bureaucratic machine. Could something similar be made for surveillance?

http://papersplea.se/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QP5X6fcukM
Same issue in Android. But this does not work in real life, because Designers.

Designers don't do things in code, they use the UI panel designer. end of story.
Is IBM selling or otherwise closing 25% of their hardware business? If not, haven't the executives horribly failed at resource management to have 25% of the workforce underutilized for a long period of time with no efforts to actual utilize them?
It's been slower for me, personally. I write half the tests in Haskell than I had to in Python which means less updating of tests as requirements change. It won't feel slow to you until you've written productive (beyond beginner) software in Haskell.
A detector for such techniques would make a wonderful standard tool for all forums everywhere.

Run all media through it. Assign a "bullshit rating" to stuff.
And this is surely why people of those regions came to meetings today supporting country's integrity and crimeans.
Pretty much all of my experiences with auto layout in code have taken longer both in code length and in time than just implementing -layoutSubviews. Explicit is better than implicit, etc.
:There is a vocal minority of dick heads out there who hate women and happen to be in tech.

Prove it!
Those are struct members, not properties.
My company uses R, Shiny, and Rserve for nearly everything. R is a great programing language - if you need to quickly and efficiently develop stat's based features for medium sized data.

R excels (get it?) at creating reproducible, fault tolerant, consistent functions that can be automated, packaged, applied to a variety of data types, and then extended later.

Our web-stack is Shiny on AWS and we call our API's built in R (ML, images, data, etc) from Android using Rserve.

A lot of the (programing?) criticisms of R will be 'solved' or become non-issues in the next few years. Multithreading, implicit vectorization, better memory handling, gpu functions, among other things are all in the pipe :)
(That said, the syntax _is_ a little weird to get use to)

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