skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are forgetting the extra fees.

(Also the 'a deposit-trade-withdraw transaction takes 1 hour' assumption is nowhere near accurate, especially for Mtgox.)
Huffington Post isn't a scraper site. Aside from the original content they produce, they republish blog posts with permission from the authors. If you have an example of Huffington Post literally cut-and-pasting content from someone without attribution, please share.

I also assume that by "HuffPo investors" you mean AOL? Huffington Post is a fully owned subsidiary.

(Disclosure: I consult for Huffington Post)
I tuned out of this article as soon as I saw the name "Craig Pirrong." I've heard about him before in the financial sector - kind of a scummy, academic-for-hire. The kind of guy who gets really mad when you ask him about his paid consulting positions and whether it might affect his objectivity.

http://blog.themistrading.com/the-best-research-money-can-bu...

http://blog.themistrading.com/the-profane-professor-who-love...

Anyway - reading anything in Bloomberg about "rent-seeking" or monopolies is the definition of irony IMHO. Always the other guys taking advantage, right?
I called it.

Here's what I said MSFT should do and it looks like they're on their way:

Have a free version of windows that sends back analytics, displays ads every now and then etc.

The normal version of windows that's for enterprise/government/the rest will get a significant price bump.

I made the mistake of not putting my prediction on the internet before the free version was released. Now we wait for the price bump.
This is an asinine comment. RHEL and SLED are enterprise-geared distros and paid products.
I beg to differ (I completely agree with it being a horrible place to do business, on the other hand).

Apart from having free healthcare (although they are trying to change that as well), layoffs are regulated by law (companies must file a special request,ERE, to the government in order to axe more than a percentage of employees, which must be justified), workers are entitled to a severance package of 30 days (it was 45 a few years ago) of pay for each year spent at the company, and for each year working you accumulate three months worth of unemployment benefits.

I'm sure that there are countries which offer better conditions, but I can't say Spain has a weak safety net.
Something similar happened to me with SpaceX. I went through all the technical interviews and had a chat with Elon. He convinced me in about three minutes that he and SpaceX were the real deal (this was in 2007). Later, HR said I'd have to take a substantial pay cut (didn't say how much), would I be interested? It became a second behavioral interview where I was being tested on whether I would be a loyal employee for low pay because space is awesome.
"There was some weakness in the system, and the bitcoins have disappeared."

They've "disappeared". Curious choice of words.

Karpeles didn't say they were stolen, or misplaced, or destroyed. And he didn't say when the mysterious disappearing act occurred.

The most likely explanation is that Gox's crappy system lost the private keys to cold storage long ago, and they've been running fractional reserve since then, hoping to close the gap.

Transaction malleability was probably an insignificant fraction of the loss.
Or?
This is total nonsense. If you want to get a sense of the innovator at apple, read the Johnny Ives book.
Yes people make mistakes.... that is why code in a file called sslKeyExchange.c ffs can be expected to be reviewed by another person at apple BEFORE the commit enters a release candidate. A double goto fail; is something that sticks out to anyone looking at that commit line by line. Seems like apple handles application security like any 6 dude valley startup.

My commit suggestion:
- goto fail;
+ fail;
Yes, log^2(x) seems almost always to be used to mean [log(x)]^2 in the routing theory papers I tend to read.

I agree with you though that using log^2(x) for [log(x)]^2 is horridly ambiguous notation that should be avoided! (Which reminds me, I should go and check my thesis for this ;) ).
Hey @dangoor,

Yeah that's certainly a valid point. I've tried to account for this on smaller viewports by having min width for the board set to like 400px I believe.

I guess setting a minimum column width could be useful, on the other hand you kinda don't want people to have loads of columns because you want to keep the amount of things you're working on to a minimum right?

I'd be interested to see what people think is the best approach to this.

Thanks again for the feedback, it's much appreciated.
Windows 8 is terrible. Free is still too expensive. It's Windows 7 with reduced functionality and an app store. I've been using Windows on my work laptops for the last 4 years because I use the adobe suite, and it's been easier. I've been stuck with Windows 8 on my most recent laptop, and yesterday I finally decided to switch to Ubuntu. Good riddance.
I assumed you thought scraping wikipedia and putting it on top of the search results was unethical. (The other alternative - that punishing scraper sites is unethical - seemed unlikely). So the fact that you prefer DDG because of this seemed weird, considering DDG does the same thing.
Maybe another check was done between those two goto fail but later was deleted because didn't make sense. The extra goto fail was left behind.
If you want to represent "humans and their idiosyncrasies" in terms that can be understandable to a classical liberal economist...

Government itself is an emergent phenomenon. Rent seeking, regulatory capture or other market distortions are not the only emergent elements of government. Legislation, elections and all the other basic components of democratic government are themselves emergent, changing in response to "market" forces. I don't personally think this is the best framework for thinking about these things, but even within the framework it is possible to consider them.
And to have someone else look at your diffs and sign off on them before it's merged into master.

Google / Chrome does this, and so should everyone else, even more so if they're dealing with security.
Some info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z37zw/mt_gox_has_a...

"MtGox still has at least 200k BTC"

Here are the possibilities, as far as I can tell:

1) That information is inaccurate.

2) MtGox lost their private keys.

3) The private keys were kept in a bank vault, which was seized by a foreign entity like the US government at some earlier time.

4) MtGox stole the coins.

The management of MtGox knows which of these is correct, but they probably aren't going to say.
I just want Mozilla Firefox to be better :)

What language are you guys writing Dev Tools? I'd love to be able to help out, but I'm not too great with C++?
"The President then confirmed this was just a joke", as the article quickly points out.
The first time I saw the web was in a command line browser and I thought meh. Then I watched Netscape go public a couple years later. No more meh. Revolutions often start with meh and wind up with billionaires.
How and why not to use !important
Bloomberg's research, news, and opinion columns do not always slavishly toe the mothership's line.

When the parent is that large and diverse I imagine just expressing an opinion has a high chance of hypocrisy.
I think what might be more useful than another HN for Github (or other code) projects only is if there was a tumblr or a microblog of curated code projects/library. There are many cons to having it curated instead of a democratized voting board, (and there may be room for both), but what would interest me with the curated stuff is that there would always be a place with good links (that is, if the curation was good). Thing with HN is that things get buried within hours.

I don't think it'd be hard. Just start a tumblr or some microblogging site.. You could also just start a subreddit for this kind of stuff.

There are various sites to do very specific areas of code/library listing such as https://www.cocoacontrols.com
This isn't realistic for an exchange. They have an enormous transaction volume, which is represented as internal/off-chain transaction in an internal accounting system.

Using multi-signature transactions requires every fund transfer to be represented as a Bitcoin transaction, which the Bitcoin neAtwork simply can't handle.
Perhaps. But I think they are keeping MySQL support both for legacy reasons and compatibility reasons. You could also argue they should stop implementing it in PHP, if they are willing to sacrifice its ease of install.

But MediaWiki does support other DBs, such as Postgresql and Sqlite.
It's pushing the technological envelope by applying existing tech. One could argue that Grasshopper is the same sort of thing. DC-X and the Lunar Lander already implemented hovering by tail-sitting on rocket thrust. Musk is just applying the tech.
Slide into obscurity is probably the phrase you seek.
That's what I do professionally for over 10 years. I know it sounds unorthodox, but I have have plenty of first hand experience that it works.
> correlation studies actually can have significant value - otherwise peer-reviewed journals wouldn't publish them

This is an appeal to authority. And unfortunately, the evidence is accumulating that there are problems with that authority. The success of peer-review depends on the quality of the peers and of the review. If those reviewing don't understand how to evaluate a correlation study, or do understand but don't take the time to properly evaluate it, then garbage will slip through.

It turns out, lots of garbage is produced and sent to the reviewers, as was noted in a recent Nature feature:

http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-err...

see also:

http://www.nature.com/news/weak-statistical-standards-implic...

http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/reproducibility/index.htm...

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tl,dr; lots of crappy correlation studies are published in peer-reviewed journals. These studies later turn out to be irreproducible.
i do this all the time in vim. all it takes is one extra keystroke 'p' to do this.

if i were to take a guess, the programmer first typed out all the if conditional expressions, then went in and pasted 'goto fail' out of a buffer after each one, and accidentally did it twice there.
If the question is "does causation imply linear correlation", then the answer is obviously and trivially "no".

But we don't need a PRNG to see that. Take a series of chutes whose entrances are lined up in a row, and whose exits are arranged in a circle. Now start dropping balls in the entrances and see where they end up.

Obviously there is a causal relationship between where we drop the ball and where it lands, but it's not a linear correlation. But there's still a correlation.
At this point Windows is only a quarter of MS's revenue, and that is a figure that is sure to continue declining.

The only question is whether it declines because they make it free, or because fewer people will be buying and using it.
Uh, what? Did you think everyone would kiss your feet and praise you as a god if only you had put your random prediction somewhere on the internet?
Waiting for it to come back up. HN effect :).
Did anyone notice that the "fail:" section is misnamed? It's a completion section, run regardless of failure or success. Marked as such, the reader assumes "if it succeeds it won't go here" before actually (if at all) reading it, processing all the logic, and concluding that it's run regardless.
"In the blockchain".

Assuming they weren't lost because someone forgot a password, all of the BTC lost / stolen in transaction malleability are traceable. Whether or not its feasible to check every transaction from Gox over the last few years and add up all the partial BTC is something I can't comment on.
Larry Summers Nails The Economic Implications of The Facebook-WhatsApp Deal
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXm...
Google does not reproduce whole articles, only short excerpts to help searchers decide whether it's relevant to what they're looking for - and with clear indication of the source and in a context where it's understood that Google is showing the blurb only to pointing to the source where it was found.

This is technically scraping but it's hardly comparable to the bottom-feeders that plagiarize for money. (Edit: according to 'pud' on this page, Google uses a Wikipedia index so it's not scraping, but it is in the case of other sites that Google indexes.)

And yes, it's OK both legally and ethically if you do the same to Wikipedia - like Google that is, just for indexing purposes and not using whole articles.
Women: Don’t Sabotage Your Career with These Childhood Mistakes
Why would bitalo ever require users ID themselves or provide bank details? multisignature scheme already adds a latency on transaction. just not clear how this exchange works. Is it P2P where users transact between each others bank accounts. If so the AMA/KYC seems unnecessary.
I mostly sympathize with your statement. But, I also don't think it is a moral offense to offer an offer that can and may be rejected (I assume it was).
Working on electric cars and clean energy is generally more satisfying than working on Facebook ads that add paid-for visibility to friends' likes to trick you into thinking there are product trends etc.

Same applies to SpaceX.
It's time for you to take the cloud back from corporations
what functionality is lost in Windows 8.1 that 7 had?
How do you turn on the memory tab in FF (like the one shown in the article) ? I have Aurora and I can't find an option to do that.
> but the function prototype can not provide a strong guarantee

It doesn't provide any such guarantee, and I think that was the whole point.
Why? How is it different from your suggestion of inlining SVG in an HTML5 document?
A Summer of Fun – The Manifesto 
I wrote "A Summer of Fun" 13 years ago. It's been through a number of revisions since then, but the sentiment hasn't changed.

I'm now 31 and I spend the good part of my day behind my laptop, directing a great team of hackers, creatives and thinkers at HYPERHYPER. I love my job and the people I work with - to the point that calling it "work" might seem unfair.

Even so, I still have to remind myself that life exists outside of the office. And I encourage my team to do the same. Every spring, I reread "A Summer of Fun", and every summer I respond to it a little differently. I hope it challenges you the way it has me.

See you out there.
That's a good measure too, although I think with a mistake like this, the person writing the code might be more likely to spot the mistake than someone else.

It also makes me wonder if the diff display shouldn't have a specific notation for duplicated lines, since they are a special case that can easily be mistaken for a trivial change to a line with the way diffs are typically shown.
Or because lots of people want to work on space, so you were facing competition from others who would take a salary cut.
It's evolution and not revolution. They aren't bringing new amazing tech, they are improving the tech they have already.
I have to go with the following answer: in someone's pocket.
MS starts fearing really free OSes at last. Interesting times. What's next, MS will open source Windows?
>Combining functions using next, unwrap (or, equivalently, bind), and make_ready_future is equivalent to specifying data dependencies between computations and letting the runtime explore opportunities for parallelism between independent computations.

He wants a jit for cpp?
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The idea that was hammered into my head in school is that you should have a single point of truth.
"Rent-seeking" is specifically a scheme to get rich without creating wealth. Mr. Musk is a huge beneficiary of low-interest federal loans and government-support programs, but at least he's actually creating wealth.
Second - I really hope this doesn't happen, as every time I have to use a non-touch Windows 8 machine I end up wanting to throw it at a wall.

More windows 8 machines sounds like my nightmare. The worst part is Windows 7 is actually good, and will run IE 9 and 10 - both decent browsers by MS standards.
>As a male, I don't think I've ever had an issue following a feminine video game character.

That's because lead female characters are (almost always) sexualized.
This comment provided me with more information than the entire article. Would you care to add more details on what the key cards are and what their power is (the article seems to be stuck on "can they shut down the internet?")
The traditional start menu. A proper desktop instead of a tablet-optimized interface.
That means you're a software engineer.
That... changed my view of ducks completely.. unfortunately.
With the possibility of getting down voted into oblivion.

The BTC lost/stolen are all available within blockchain/public ledger. Depending on who stole them, it would probably be distributed within multiple very smaller transaction.

It my be traceable, but likely unrecoverable, because this is a feature of Bitcoin. In other words authorities and forensic enthusiasts can find the BTC but they are most likely lost at the same time.
Best.Problem.Ever!!!
Here s an idea..

Feds sized silk road and the Bitcoin wallets

If any was stored or transacted at MTGox this might be some of the amount of losses MTGOX is now showing but NOT ALL OF The lOSSeS obviously
Windows 8.1, so bad they're giving it away for free.

Seriously, doesn't this fall under monopoly no-nos?
I don't think that applies here. Neither incompetence nor theft strains credulity.
Test driven development is actually quite uncommon in many parts of the industry.

Sure the startup culture and new breed (new bubble?) tech companies mostly emphasise it, but among older companies it's much less common for a few reasons:

1. It just wasn't considered normal practice until fairly recently.
2. They often use 'lower level' languages, and as @raverbashing mentions, they're more difficult to test.
3. The companies are much slower moving, so arguably have less of a risk with not having automated testing. Automated testing has more benefits in agile than it does in the waterfall methodology.
Ack re: TDD, but integration tests with a bad certificate would have picked this up.
I liked this advice too. I think it is an interesting counterpoint to Jeff Bezos's "Regret Minimization Framework," i.e., take the path that is least likely to leave you with regrets.

What do you do about a path that scares you a bit, and is also more likely to leave you with regrets? I suspect one's choice in this case says a lot about one, and I also suspect that people like Atwood and Bezos would go for it: perhaps they would define "regret" as "not having tried something that could have been amazing!"
Sorry, that is just a prototype for now! We are in the process of designing and planning the memory (and performance) tools, which should hopefully be available sometime this year.
Fortunately there's ways of proving available deposits when using bitcoin. In theory at least, this can address the issue of counterparty risk. Hopefully all the exchanges will start adopting this.
++ on mismerge. The change likely won't impact the output binary - compiler should issue a warning, which devs might ignore; then the optimizer would remove it as unreachable.

Perhaps the developer deliberately allowed that mismerge to give himself an aura of incompetence/sloppiness, enhancing his plausible deniability when it is discovered that one of his other changes led to an insidious vulnerability. But more likely it was just an accident - if he were malicious, the effect of bringing attention to his code would be highly undesirable.
You're obviously not familiar with the massive economic literature on the many, many various ways governments distort economies, create waste and hamstring growth - all while often utterly failing to achieve stated goals.

This isn't to say that governments aren't providers of certain goods (national and personal security, protection of property, legal systems, systems for pricing and controlling externalities) that are critical for growth.
I'm 100% convinced it's malicious... But otherwise, it could be explained by the coder adding another check

If(err==my_dev_string)
goto fail;

Then before committing, sending the diff to a colleague who emails back "you forgot a debug there, besides that ship it"

He removes only one line of two and ships.

And of course i always try to attribute those things to incompetent other than malice, but since in this case there was probably money and bribes involved so i tend to the later.
List of features removed in Windows 8 and 8.1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...

List of features removed in Windows Vista & 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...
This

He may well be a rent-seeker but the other ones are not doing electrical cars or space devices, they're funding their summer house, or investing in traditional (let's not compete with ourselves) companies.
Not testing everywhere, but "smoking test" that your SSL implementation protects from MITM, at all, and none of your programmers screwed it (with gotofail or anything else).

This is what I expect from an OS developers
There are a lot of things that cash can not buy ... MS failed to buy Bing a place in the spotlight, failed to buy good will for Windows 8.1, Google failed to buy its way into social networking and video (there was google video back in the ancient times) - the list goes on.

Unless MS find a way for the people to genuinely like the products they peddle to the Devices and Services target audience - their cash will last only so far.
And sometimes impossible

I've been in that position. Sometimes with embedded, you can't have software fixtures, only hardware ones. (Bit banging)
I came here to make your third point. I feel strongly that code should be written to "fail safe"-- error state should be assumed until calls return otherwise, etc.
Muck-raking for sure.

Using SpaceX as an example of "rent-seeking" because they won a government contract and are doing things 100x cheaper than NASA?

There's a big difference between taking people's money, and being the chosen one when money is being offered.

His strategy is called "risk mitigation". Every entrepreneur and successful innovator needs it and kudos to Musk for being great at it.
Face-recognition system unlocks doors at Manhattan complex
Is there another commercial operating system that isn't free?
Sending emails via plane in the jungle
I was chatting with one of my dad's friends recently who was telling me about how they sometimes used to send emails back in the 1990's when they were in Papua New Guinea working as missionaries. I thought it was worth sharing!

"The phone lines were down for several weeks/months so we needed to transfer the emails from Port Moresby [the capital city where the only Internet pipeline is/was]. That was back in the days of MO drives (magneto optical read-write drives). High tech! We had to setup an intermediary post office box which collected the messages from the US in Port Moresby airport. When the MO drive was connected it transfered messages from and to the MO drive. So that let us fly the messages back and forth from Port Moresby airport to Ukarumpa [the village in the Eastern Highlands Province where the missionaries were based]. One morning, at about 4:30, I got a call because the pilot who was to pickup the disk could not get the procedure to work. It ended up being that someone (not me) had changed the password. Those were the days."
I didn't see any mention of moral offense in his statement, but nonetheless there is nothing wrong with making a lowball offer if someone is willing to accept it.
That didn't happen - look at the diff in the OP.
Very neat. Nice understated design and simple functionality. Probably a good project board for personal projects. Hopefully I'll be able to try it out if I ever get time to do some for-fun coding again =D