skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you (general you) aren't giving money to things that are actively harmful, you don't have to 'justify'[] what you give your money to. Sure, it can be constructive to discuss what things should be focused on compared to others. But I think it's silly when people judge others for trying to make a positive impact in one area because they think that there are more pressing issues.

[] Yeah, that was probably not the main intent in this case. You know what I mean.
The statement is inherently flawed, regardless of its source. Because some exchanges were unaffected does not mean that MtGox was not affected, and the statement itself implies that other exchanges were affected which would be evidence in MtGox' favor.

I'm not saying MtGox was not incredibly incompetent, however nobody is helped by this false defensiveness over a very serious and clear bug in bitcoin that seems to have affected at least a few exchanges.

Regardless of MtGox' incompetence, this IS a serious bug in bitcoin for which a workaround is required, and without which a bitcoin theft is possible.
Protect your #eBooks, make more $ and stay in control. Here's how:
Interesting: After the update, ocspd downloaded roughly 40MB of ... certificate revocation lists?

ocspd
/usr/sbin/ocspd
Total: 196 B sent, 45.8 MB received
Outgoing to devimages.apple.com (92.122.207.101), Port http (80), Protocol TCP (6), 196 B sent, 45.8 MB received
Help for Moving To The Cloud; A Response to "AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before"
I am not an environmentally conscious consumer and I am going to buy one when our current lease is up. I am a monetarily concious consumer who sees the value in a high quality car which maintains its value well, has good purchase incentives. I also have a family and have seen the amazing safety record the car has put together so far and I am a hacker on top of all of it and have been to a Tesla center and explored the Model S. It is a technical marvel imho.

All of these things make me want one, not some green aspect.
When You Can't Compete On Salary: Tech Talent on a Budget
Three Months Later, Egyptian Blogger Remains Imprisoned
Actually, that's a good point - I suspect testing the wacky double update could have added a day or so to QA
Is Andrew Mason still involved? He's not on the list.
I like it too. I don't understand all the problems people have. I use it 24-7 communicating with a large group of friends who at any given time are on android, iOS or desktop. No problems ever. The one thing missing for me is sending video and audio in a chat. The chrome extension on mac can be a little buggy, but that is about it.
For perfect accompaniment, listen to Austrian Death Machine [1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Death_Machine
It puts all the blame on Mt. Gox, assuming that their lack of good management is to blame. But I still see the lack of reversibility of transactions (one of bitcoin's strengths) as the major problem here. We live in civilized in a world where there are laws and polices and judges and banks and governments, but bitcoin tries to workaround them for no good reason.

I'm still hoping that banks will take what to me is the bitcoin's biggest feature (multiple wallet addresses and the ability to easily make cash transfers to other wallet address) but without pretending that centuries of legal and financial traditions somehow don't matter.
I HAVE DETAILED FILES - Something related to file I/O maybe?

FUCK YOU ASSHOLE - Equivalent of Perl die()?

Other suggestions for future expansion:

COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE

TRUST ME (An assert()?)

I NEED A VACATION
Where did you get "anti-Bitcoin extremist" from any of what they wrote?
That's how my very first website worked, which let users vote for Coke or Pepsi. I would get emails during the week and then update the count on the site manually. Horribly inefficient, but as a kid I thought it was pretty great.
Impressive numbers. I'll give it a shot in a few hours on a spare pi and see how it performs. Thank you.
Exactly. The US has a pretty good, as these things go, food protection regime. But it hardly mattered when Peanut Corporation of America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America) set up a factory in Texas and never informed any of the authorities so it could be regulated. (That wasn't the only facility that was rotten, but the one the regulators never had a chance to fail in dealing with.)
Consultation Salesforce Montréal, implantation et développement
Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in California
"I'LL BE BACK" should really be call/cc.
Reading faster with technology
"What is a man in the infinite? But to show him another prodigy no less astonishing, let him examine the most delicate things he knows. Let him take a mite which in its minute body presents him with parts incomparably more minute; limbs with their joints, veins in the limbs, blood in the veins, humours in the blood, drops in the humours, vapours in the drops; let him, again dividing these last, exhaust his power of thought; let the last point at which he arrives be that of which we speak, and he will perhaps think that here is the extremest diminutive in nature. Then I will open before him therein a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature’s immensity in the enclosure of this diminished atom. Let him therein see an infinity of universes of which each has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each earth animals, and at the last the mites, in which he will come upon all that was in the first, and still find in these others the same without end and without cessation; let him lose himself in wonders as astonishing in their minuteness as the others in their immensity; for who will not be amazed at seeing that our body, which before was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, a whole, in regard to the nothingness to which we cannot attain."

-Blaise Pascal, 1669
"PAWWWWWL, I gotta startup that corrects misspelled 'Role Tide' Tattoos. WATCHU THINK??"
How difficult is this to follow?

Despite the fact that internally, there are different teams involved, it doesn’t lessen the PR perception that your priorities are in the wrong place when there’s radio silence on this critical security hole (and most reviews I’ve read seem to be of the opinion that this is a horrific hole), but yet you’re putting out press releases on a feature that holds little value beyond advertising.
EPIC! The author included a list of video clips for each line he used. https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
I would argue that hiring is not the biggest problem: people are. Hiring, firing, and management are all critical. Early on, finding people is about finding trust, motivation, and (to some extent) skills. Firing is about identifying that something isn't working out and ending it -- you cannot keep people around that hurt the company, they are a cancer and should be removed. Managing people is often forgotten and really important. Happy employees are better employees, they are motivated, care, and create a better work product.

With all that said, I like some of these messages. Always be recruiting and create a process are both really important. The latter of these does not mean to create bureaucracy, it just means to be deliberate about who you bring on.
I think something was lost in translation here (assuming you aren't a native English speaker). This was a joke.
In addition to pillf's suggestion:

1. Use linux/fbsd/obsd/win box to download update.
2. Verify authenticity of cert/sha1
3. scp dmg / copy to USB drive
4. Apply update and move on.
Among some circles, disagreement with Bill Gates is a positive signal.

In seriousness though, I don't think your link disagrees with lutusp's comment. The Gates Foundation seems to care about human rights and reproductive choice, the lack of which causes aid to fail (as claimed by the parent comment). In other words, I think lutusp is saying that dumping money into an impoverished environment will lead to corruption and more poverty, but more involved approaches that directly liberate the people can work.
Lack of QA was the problem, not the sloppy coding
This is a useful collection of links. One point of note, Facebook's solution doesn't rely on swizzling. Much like THObserversAndBinders, KVOController ties observation to the controller scope.

We use a shared controller instance, that acts as a receptionist for all KVO notifications, as well as a weak reference to the observer, in order to safely allow observer removal on dealloc.
Vigilante rewriting of the blockchain has been discussed before and it tends to get hung up on the issue of agreeing who's the thief and who's the victim.
Just like a little regulation and oversight stopped the housing bubble, tech bubble, etc.

I'm not saying this is comparable directly to those situations, but we shouldn't forget that regulated markets have crooks and cheats too.
While that may have been true, I dare say that the burnt child that is today's Microsoft would not have mishandled this so horribly.
I'm not sure that's accurate. The article mentions this:

>Crew costs of $3,299 a day account for about 44 percent of total operating expenses for a large container ship, according to Moore Stephens LLP, an industry accountant and consultant.

That would be what, 10 days at sea? Are they really that fast? Even if so, where does 44% come from?
Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop selected to oversee Xbox
The next step is obviously Samuel L. Jackson.
If we can regulate them, so can the government. AFAIU Bitcoin is designed to prevent exactly that, at least in general.

Fully resolving their books would require knowing identities of those entitled to receive Bitcoin from an exchange, as only one example, as otherwise an exchange could simply transfer the right amount to an account under their control and use those Silk Road-style money laundering schemes to transfer it to some wallet they actually care about.

To make sure the outlays went to the customers it's required to know which Bitcoin wallets belong to said customers. Are you going to sign up for an exchange that maps wallet IDs to customer identities for public transparency purposes?
Working code is far less valuable than maintainable code.

EDIT: not always, of course, but unless it's a one-off tool, it doesn't make a lot of sense to NOT be idiomatic.
Cloudflare SSL Vulnerability Fixed (even if they don't admit it)
I didn't mean that 93% was deliberately disabled, I meant that 93% of the card failed QA and so it was sold as a 4Gb card. This is not unlike 1 core CPU chips being made as multi-core ones where the other cores failed to work.
This seems to be the correct URL: http://romuluscrisan.com/blog/2014/02/24/why-i-choose-github...
finally a lot of sensible comments on the hangout disaster, the G imposed on us. gtalk was a pretty acceptable im, it was near instant and acceptable. hangout replaced it, killing a hundred small features and killing instant part of it. i had trained all my family on gtalk, we just expected audio, and video to get better. . hangout came with extremely delayed messaging and all kind of bloated features....
We get new material thrown on us by space every day.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Is this an HN comments-seeded Markov chain?
I guess the correct link was http://romuluscrisan.com/blog/2014/02/24/why-i-choose-github...
Have you seen the content of the security update? It doesn't really excuse the 4 days between iOS and OS X updates, but it's a hell of a lot more than FaceTime updates.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150
Here's a list of most of the phrases:
https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC/blob/master/src/main/sca...
That gave me a good chuckle. Thanks for that.
Unfortunately things usually don't change on their own, it's actually good that this happened. The client-side key-management solutions that Andreas mentioned in the last paragraph of his statement are a testament to that.

Evolution in nature is brutal, I can understand that you don't want to be part of that process.
Wouldn't putting your fortune into a charitable trust (like the Gates foundation - iirc a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization) basically count as a way to evade paying full tax on it (estate taxes, etc)? Not that I'm saying giving your money to charity is bad, but it seems like a way to reduce your tax burden while still being able to direct the money towards things you were interested in doing anyway.
At some point you do need some separation between watched bindings and pure logic, that's what the services are for. And quite often people are going to violate those principles of separation until they find out it's a really bad idea.

However the fact that it can be done wrong and get someone into trouble doesn't change the fact that data-binding between the controller and the view is also very useful.
I know you're being glib, but that isn't really accurate. Tesla is compatible with electricity and roads and the report is based solely on road tests, reliability and safety. Cost is not a consideration in this result.
Yes, you're right. :)
It's unfortunate that many people lost money (and some might have lost a lot), but if the ecosystem can recover from this without governmental regulation (as I expect it will), we have the first evidence (ever) that there is no need for a central authority to conduct oversight and ensure a robust currency.

It looks likely that the free market, which includes the self-regulating actions by Coinbase, Blockchain and others (as well as customer reactions), will punish the bad actors and reward "good" (well managed) companies. It will also create better consumers, who will now be more diligent in evaluating relevant services before they sign up.

You write that you'll be staying away for now, that is your right as a potential participant in the market. We are already seeing the major players (like Coinbase) react to your sentiment by increasing transparency to bolster confidence in their services.

1. This is what we want.
2. When have you seen the existing financial system react so rapidly and thoroughly to the many flaws and disasters incumbent within?

Yes, "a little regulation and oversight might have prevented all this", but it also might have prevented crypto currency from being able to prove its value (or fail to) in the free market.
> Gold as in Au does not need any third party.

Even that generally needs a third party, unless you happen to be one of the world's experts in distinguishing counterfeit coin or bullion from gold of a certified purity.
You're suggesting he should have taken his $400,000 and gone back to living in a village in Ukraine?
The Republican party is far from broke, so I'd say "many". Example: the Koch brothers. They're not very much upvoted on Reddit or HN though, and generally don't use social networks a lot, so we don't hear about them as much. They don't need popularity anyway: they have money.

Bill Gates is one of the few who really seems to want to give back, so we read about him a lot. It's a better news story than "Shocking! Another Rich Guy Turns Out to be Greedy" or "Wealthy Person Still Not Giving a Lot of Money".
What a ridiculous asset to be so influenced in price by the mismanagement of technical resources at one exchange. Other than that, it could go lower: not so by people that are pessimistic, but other people trying to take advantage of that pessimism

The sky is not falling in, but people would have you believe it if it suits them.

If there's one achievement of bitcoin, is that it's turned many hackers into currency speculators and traders.

Personally, if 745,000 bitcoins have been stolen (is that even true??), I wouldn't want to be part of that economy as monopolized by one thief (and also one/many anonymous persons - Satoshi) .. I'd suggest Doge myself.
Anyone can hide his access point in a backpack and claim to be Starbucks. Or anything else - most people don't care, they'll hook themselves to just about anything.

This isn't true of home networks using PSK, where the AP and the client need an identical PSK in order to authenticate each other. Yes, each other - if you successfully connect to an AP using a PSK, you can be pretty sure that AP knows the same key, and probably isn't someone impersonating it (note however that anyone with the PSK can impersonate the access point).

Remember kids, when you connect to a network without a PSK or more elaborate authentication where you verify the identity of the AP, you generally have no idea who is operating that network.
Localhost[1] in a frontpage of Hackernews, awesome.

[1] http://localhost:4000/blog/2014/02/24/why-i-choose-github-pa...
I still hold out hope that someday, someone will go from rags to riches and opt out of being what everyone expects him or her to be. A billion dollars could change the world, if applied toward the solving the problems in externalities and the commons that capitalism currently ignores. Reminds me of a book that's still in my queue:

http://www.amazon.com/Only-Super-Rich-Can-Save-Us/dp/B003JTH...
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Yes! Your quote reminded me of Jaime Escalante, the calculus teacher portrayed in Stand and Deliver. In the movie, he teaches some completely unprepared kids calculus and they pass the AP exam. In real life, he taught for years and set up feeder programs so the students would be ready. More here: http://reason.com/archives/2002/07/01/stand-and-deliver-revi...
This was the principal motivation behind KVOController. Manually tracking registered observers is tedious and error prone. We hope you give KVOController a try, feedback from the community is welcome.
It solidified from the melt 4.4 billion years ago and hasn't remelted since.
What Satoshi does after releasing the creation has no bearing on the purpose behind creating something before they released it though.

Realizing that you need to shy away from something after you do something doesn't invalidate the reasons behind why you did it.
Us and Sweden are in the same ballpark, users everywhere are missing an order of magnitude or three. Gigabit is old and cheap, and after 10 gig last mile tech development stalled due to lack of interest. We should be running 10 gig on the fiber to apartments and 100 gig on the uplinks from buildings by now.

Instead, wired net connectivity has been overtaken by puny LTE...
In reference to the comments on this article, it really is quite a sad day when creationism is reduced to the single "6500 years" theory by those who beg for people to have a more comprehensive approach to the subject (Read: those on the "side of science".)

It's somewhat of a double-standard critique.

Can we all agree that there are a massive number of views on this, and the range between the views is quite a bit closer to continuous than absolute?

For instance, there are those of us creationists who believe in the story of creation as somewhat allegorical, a cultural way of explaining a complex series of events that originated from an intelligent design, possibly including a singularity, evolution, and whatever else might be considered the "anti-creationist" view.
Ben has a good idea here. More about the American Jewish World Service campaign that he's supporting:

http://webelieve.ajws.org

...and the related International Violence Against Women Act, currently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c113:1:./temp/~c113A4Q...
Just out of curiosity, would you be likely to buy one without the assorted tax incentives?
iOS was already patched a couple of days ago with iOS 7.0.6
Also, Red Hat supports the same: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/coolkey (CAC is the DoD "Common Access Card" smartcard...)
In Crunch Time, Square Considers Giving Capital to Businesses
Uncensored slide #8 of Mt. Gox's Crisis Strategy Draft
If this implementation is bugged:

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

then is ssh broken?
Microsoft Releases TypeScript 1.0 RC
Not a contributor, but from what I gather this is the strategy:

PDF plugin -> PDF.js

Flash plugin -> Shumway.js

Java Plugin -> Nope. Good riddance.

Others -> Nope

Jetpack Addons on the other hand with are basically JS with access to some of Fx private API and are ported as soon as hooks for that API is made.
>I am a monetarily concious consumer who sees the value in a high quality car which maintains its value well...

Wouldn't battery degradation bite into that?
It basically requires the Web GL plugin (which is not a part of standards). Some newer versions of _some_ browsers seem to have it built in. This is called "Open Web".
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Building Wsend – a Command Line Tool to Share Massive Files
It seems like there is a straightforward enough principle in this case to do so without much argument. Not that the method would be perfect. But isn't it preferable to the alternative?
Well when mtgox started off btc was play money, it was always play money until perhaps 12 months ago when it became serious money. And I base play and serious on the value, at $10 a coin it was still fun, at $100 a coin I had to seriously consider how much I should keep on my phone or any other single place.
Actually, there's a lot of research on zircons because they're useful for other research.

There are cases ("heavy mineral sands") where zircon is used as an ore, but essentially none of the research on zircons has anything to do with this.

Zircons have a number of nice properties:

1) They contain trace amounts of uranium and (initially) no trace amounts of lead. This allows them to be dated through U/Pb dating, which is relatively precise and is still accurate over _very_ long timescales.

2) They can undergo heating to very high temperatures without allowing lead to escape from the crystal lattice, resulting in the date being "reset". This allows dating of the original zircon grain even after the rock hosting it has gone metamorphism.

3) They're very durable physically and chemically. For this reason, they show up in sedimentary rocks and preserve a record of what was being eroded to produce the sedimentary rocks in question. Even when the sedimentary rocks have been changed into metamorphic rocks, the zircons are often preserved.

4) They're not very rare. Zircon isn't "main" rock forming mineral, but it's a not-too-uncommon accessory mineral in many igneous rocks (mostly in felsic magmas). Because zircons are so durable, they show up in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks sourced from the original igneous rock.

All of these reasons is why you'll see a lot of dating of zircons. They're somewhat common, durable, easy to date, and yield accurate results.

This leads to a lot of uses that you might not think of at first.

For example, if you want to know where (geographically) a given sedimentary rock was sourced from (i.e. what was eroded to form it), the most accurate way is to use the "age spectra" of the zircons within it. You basically disaggregate the rock, sort out the zircons (they're very dense), and date every single grain of zircon (and sometimes many zones on every grain). You take the distribution of ages that you get and compare it to the know ages of large igneous bodies that were likely to be exposed and eroding at the time. By matching the distributions (i.e. mixing models, etc), you can get an estimate of where sediment was being sourced from.

This may sound esoteric, but it's very useful for things like oil exploration.
HASTA LA VISTA, BABY is already an operator in ArnoldC as the method terminator, best not to have it used twice.