skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the balances revealed are concretely tied to wallet data, or rather simply are entries in a database. If the latter (and from what they said it seems to indeed be the latter), doesn't really mean much / doesn't contradict Mark's words in itself. (cf. Mark's comment that 'technically speaking [bitcoins are] not "lost" just yet, just temporarily unavailable.')
Yes the potential for abuse in any of these sensitive systems is why I think it's understandable we're moving slowly. We don't want to fuck up. The Hacker Way of “Move fast and break things” isn't always realistic.
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It's just a database dump. This doesn't mean that these values are backed by their wallets.

It's possible the bitcoin could be stolen and not reflected in the data.
Aviation is stuck in the 60s because if it wasn't airliner stuff would all be automatic.
The author of the article is apparently so uninformed that not only does he realize that ACARS is available, but that is uses the same "awful, really awful" HF radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Data_Link

It's actually a brilliant system, with network of transmit and receive sites its like globally available text messaging for pilots.

Also, unless the pilot was using atrocious equipment I can't see why HF radio would sound awful. I use my HF radio almost daily and don't have any complaints. I can legally listen to air traffic controllers on HF with no problem as well. The equipment I have is far, far inferior to that in most commercial airliners.
I agree. The encryption that should be implemented should be strong enough that when the government says "Give us this data", Google gives them the virtually unbreakable encrypted data and says that Google can't unencrpyt it. Of course google would never do that considering they want to use the data for advertising purposes.
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Stunning photo of the California Zephyr line, Chicago - San Francisco: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Amtrak_Ca...
Why flying 'Internet drones' over Africa is a dumb, libertarian fantasy
I'm against the mentality of Shit HN Says, but your comment really takes the cake.

I'm mean really... just read it out loud. :)
I can't help but remember the story of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

During their heyday, they made one of America's most popular beers. At the time there was a lot of interest in developing a faster fermentation process in an effort to make beer less expensive to produce. Schlitz got caught up in this - competition was fierce at the time - and ended up deciding to switch over to a continuous fermentation process and also started using extracts instead of more expensive traditional ingredients.

End result? The company was sunk within a decade. The new beer wasn't the same, and customers didn't like it. The flavor just wasn't there. That's really saying something when you're talking about an American-style adjunct lager, which isn't exactly the world's most full-flavored beer in the first place.

Which isn't to say that it's futile to try and come up with new processes for making fermented beverages. Companies like Miller and Anheuser-Busch have managed to figure out how to produce consistent, clean-tasting pale lagers in only a week or two where historically brewers would need to allow months of time for fermentation and cold conditioning. But they developed these processes incrementally. Attempts at radical, all-at-once re-envisioning of the processes for beer & winemaking seem to have a historical tendency to end up being radical failures.
My cousin had an account on there with 102 BTC, and bought it while the price was around $650. He was having a hard time since last few days, but after a trekking trip and being with him since the fiasco he seems to be coping up fine. He is more worried about the Driver's license copy he provided as a verification. The database sure is leaked, and Identity theft seems real possibility. What are the safeguards that can be adopted now? Any help will be good.
PierreA seems to be doing well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934352
Thank you for that post. I think of the saying 'hurt people hurt people'.

I really like your last thought of 'that period in your life where you don't really know how life works, there's nobody to show you'. I think of looking into the abyss.

My parents divorced too, at a shit time in my life - young teens. I have turned that into a positive though, by accepting that parents can still be a gift by showing us what _not_ to do, just as much as what to do.

I have to control my passive-agressive side. It's too easy to think 'f this, I don't need you'.

Edit: I haven't seen anyone mention karate / martial arts yet, but as someone who skipped a grade, I think taking that was a very good decision. Luckily, I've never been in a [physical] fight.

Edit: One of my worst moments, though, was when another kid was being bullied and I didn't do anything, or even report it :-(
Think of it as targeted marketing: smaller set of people, but higher likelihood of buy-in.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b6545ecc7db8d44c8cbc4e93989edf8221af75f5&dn=MtGox2014Leak.zip

If you can't get a peer via DHT, add tracker udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
even at $100 is more than the liabialities of 66 million
There was also the GIMIX, and of course later the Radio Shack Color Computer. A (ugh single 5.25" floppy) SWTPC 6809 system was my first "home" computer system. Flex was a great simple operating system.

Anyone remember Frank Hogg for CoCo ports of Flex?

FYI, '68 Micro Journal is available online or on CD, though I have a full print set and a few SWTPCs if anyone wants to do a 6809 get together and hackfest at some point.
The article hints at a big reason for retiring XP support, but doesn't get right at it:

"After April [2014], when we release monthly security updates for supported versions of Windows, attackers will try and reverse engineer them to identify any vulnerabilities that also exist in Windows XP," said Tim Rains, director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group. "If they succeed, attackers will have the capability to develop exploit code to take advantage of them."

Right now, the cadence of security updates to Vista/7/8/Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012 is tied to how quickly those updates can be backported and tested for Windows XP, because as soon as those patches are released for any Windows operating system, attackers can use them to create exploits for those vulnerabilities and backport those exploits to XP (which they can do faster and with fewer resources than Microsoft can backport patches, because exploits have a much smaller test suite to ensure they don't break systems, ie they don't have such a test suite at all).

Continuing to support XP degrades the ability to support newer operating systems that haven't gotten an extension on their end of life, and at this point it's pretty clear that people still using XP aren't taking advantage of postponing its EOL to do anything but keep using XP. Something's got to give.
I wouldn't mind some help.

https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker

Nick
> Do you have any research to show that exercise is effective in helping people lose weight?

I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this question. Epidemiologic studies tend to support the notion that in a practical setting (not an ideal laboratory), exercise is helpful for keeping weight off, but not really for losing weight.

So yeah, exercise is very important, but in the normal setting, it seems that exercise is counterbalanced by an increase in appetite, so it doesn't promote weight loss (but somehow does promote weight maintenance once weight is lost).
The Cascades line can be nice as well.
Analyzing for a fixed duration and then going with your gut is what I've tried. However, I still get that nagging feeling sometimes that I'm not sure about a decision. In these cases, I either ask someone for their opinion or simply defer the decision, hoping I'll think of the right answer in the shower. Of course, I still need to work on discipline. It's very easy to spend a while on a decision because you can't get away from it until you feel you have a right answer.
pretty sure that's around Green River, Utah.
Yes.

I get a lot of freelance/contract offers too. Depends on the question I answer, if it's a good and quality answer, I will get more inquiries.
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FWIW, the original reddit post says "Keeping in line with fucking Gox alone, no user database dumps have been included."
Hopefully the author is reading this, as I have some structural comments.

First, I agree with your thesis. In fact, I'd argue General Aviation is stuck in the 1950s. Lots of reasons for that, including the cost of insurance.

Second, I had a hard time reading this, as you seem to lack the ability to form cohesive paragraphs. Very sorry to have to tell you, but I figured somebody should. Nobody can read a big wall of text where each paragraph is trying to say several different things at the same time.

Best of luck in future drafts.
Is Facebook obsession tied to eating disorders?
I'm not sure if being cut off from patches means a lot to people. Most XP users I know use a third-party browser and a third-party internet security suite. They're probably even happy to never see the stupid force-reboot dialog again. But the issue is that they pose a risk to everyone else too (botnet infections etc.)
> You can't control the future, but I feel that intelligent planning is important.

Gen. Eisenhower had a quote he liked: "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."

Edit: Having read the article again I'm not so sure that it is truly so laissez-faire. I can vouch for the idea of self-improvement via letting go, for instance. I have improved myself over time, but it only started happening once I stopped caring so much about improving myself and instead let myself drift into being better bit by bit.

Likewise I've found that I feel better about myself and the world the more I allow myself to simply drift and experience it. Conversely I get more agitated and worried the more I try to swim in the current of existence. That doesn't mean I just tread water, you have to meet Maslow's needs after all. But once those needs are met it's prudent to step back every once in awhile, there won't always be a later to push important things off to.
Just because my database says I have $100 trillion does not mean I have $100 trillion.
I love how dense but clear slide 125 is. I look forward to the upload.
It's pretty striking really. Amtrak makes a fair bit of money on the Northeast Corridor (and a couple of related routes) and then universally loses that money across the rest of the country, especially the long-haul routes like the California Zephyr. One of these days I'll have to take one of their long Western routes although I suspect that it's more romantic in theory than it is in practice.
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Maybe this attitude of nobody cares is more healthy.

Versus "look at that startup that got acquired! Look at his successful their founder is! And look at all the billions they have that YOU DON'T".

To me, THAT is more depressing.
A long time ago some crazy open source guys said stuff like "Be wary of building your entire infrastructure on Microsofts solutions". You shouldn't have given them so much money back then!

The chickens have finally come home to roost it seems.

Your problems are not Microsofts fault. Your problems are that your business did not have any foresight. At the time computers were changing drastically every few years, and yet you thought you'd be able to run them and the software on them forever. You bought crappy printers with no demands that the manufactures support future operating systems on them. Your businesses problems are they gave the CEO's 50 million dollar golden parachutes and did not keep infrastructure up to date. Your businesses problems are bad software design paradigms.
You do realise that this talk was given at an Erlang-only conference which you have to pay to attend to it (well, everyone but the speakers)? How people are so focused on language popularity will never cease to amaze me.
The ground-floor safeguard-which-isn't-a-safeguard is subscribing to one of many credit monitoring sites so you know what's happening.

Your state will have information about what to do if your drivers license was lost or stolen (even though obviously he still has the physical license). Some states will have somewhere to report you may be the target of identity theft. You should see if you can replace your license.
>“a college degree can be helpful, but we just want someone that’s smart and dedicated.”

I thought that the reason job posters mention needing a degree is that if you don't, the assumption many job seekers will make is that it's a "learn on the job" situation. You'd end up with a thousand applications from people with no experience who thought "Well, I know my way around MS Word pretty well, so how hard can this be?"
Just because it's not posted publicly doesn't mean it won't be used by whatever parties have it. Given that this seems to be an American posting (comments about pizza and beer) and not the badly-typed Russian hacker earlier, it would appear that two parties at least have a copy of this information now (or alternatively got the information independently). You'd be a fool to assume this person is acting in good faith, they've exposed a hell of a lot of private data by posting this alone.
Remember, the "transaction malleability" attack would have siphoned money from their real wallet while not showing up in their accounting software. So having a balance in this file doesn't mean the wallet actually has BTC left.
One of my fondest memories from high school was an overnight train ride we took from somewhere in Italy to Paris during a spring break study abroad program. The majority of the rail workers had gone on strike and the only people left working the trains were the drivers. The rumors were that gypsies had taken over the trains and that they were now unsafe for normal customers. Being a large group of high schoolers in a foreign country trying to stick to a tight schedule, we didn't have much choice than to take the train or else have to deal with a logistical nightmare. When we got on, the train was deserted, and we had free reign to do whatever we wanted. That type of freedom was rare and pretty thrilling to a high school freshman.
This is how I came to Haskell. If you're a polyglot sort and you eventually want to get to Haskell, but Erlang also looks interesting, it's not a bad path. Erlang can get you over the basics of working with immutable data structures (in particular it can get you past "But how can I write a program without mutable values?!?"), has enough interesting stuff to learn on its own about reliable programming to justify learning it on its own merits, and then when you go to Haskell, you won't be trying to swallow quite as much in one go. You can focus on what Haskell actually has to say, instead of being stuck on the basics. The downside is after that, Erlang's deficiencies as a functional language will be pretty obvious and quite frustrating. (I'm not kidding that it's worth learning, probably much moreso than the next C(#/++/)-etc variant, but there's a certain klunkiness to Erlang that gets old after a while.)
True. They have not included it, they probably have it. Maybe there are other people who already have accessed it. He is effectively considering it in hands he may not want.
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They would just be balances, otherwise every trade in their engine would hammer the Bitcoin network with transactions. No sane person would do anything but have an external databases with a fairly tenuous connection to the actual wallet balances.
Yep, it is true! I think currently we are back down to ~ 1992 VMT (vehicle miles traveled) after peaking in 2004.
Decline the stock offering. Don't give them an incentive to get rid of you during these transitions. Note that you can't judge the probability of the latter, since no matter how good the will of the current players, a new investor might turn out to be a devil (been there, done that, resigned en masse with 12 others, almost all, and of technical staff all but one new hire; had to use the government just to get back pay).

It's all a risk/reward calculation, and with the closing of the IPO exit for all but the most exceptional, stuck by lightening companies, it's pretty clear the possibility of a big reward is very low. But balance with your estimate of the probability of a big success, and how well you can make such an estimate.

I can see this presenting "you aren't a team player" problems, though. Certainly signals you don't believe the company will be a big success.
Is that really a good example? Had unsafe old nuke plant designs been decommissioned at the end of their design-life, we would not be dealing with Fukishima, and we might have inherently safe designs and alternative fuel cycles up and running.
That sounds like an equity grab to me.

That sounds more like a subset of protectionism. Its a simple economic concept where policies or doctrines are implemented which protect businesses and workers within a country by restricting or regulating trade with foreign nations.

I prefer free markets and am generally biased against protectionism, but at times its required.

The most common argument for Protectionism is the "infant industry" justification. Considering in 1973 India was 25 years old. The infant theory can be given some merit.

Also note the "Indicators of foreign direct investment regulation in 87 economies"[0] study by world bank, which gives more insight into this.

The protections were enshrined elsewhere.

Please find me one economic law that was repealed anywhere due to being restrictive, where the sections of laws that worked or were still needed were not enshrined elsewhere.

Actually I know of one that was not enshrined elsewhere i.e. Glass–Steagall Act. But that's a whole different story.

such shenanigans aren't out of the ordinary from the Indian power players.

Such shenanigans aren't out of the ordinary from power players in ANY country that has ever implemented or enacted protectionism.

So a country where you have to get a permit for doing every small thing

I must be missing something here, I think procedures and permits are a sign of a developed or developing economy. Can you tell me a business in North America or EU where a Foreign Corporation or even a citizen could do business without getting any permits or licences? Some may have more streamlined systems to get the licenses, but I doubt the streamlined process was version 1 of the system.

There's a bribe associated with each permit

Finally something I agree on. I find the whole business with bribing extremely morally challenging. And I'd try and stay away from businesses and countries where this is required by default.

But I have to ask, from a capitalist point of view, if a corporation wants to do business in such an atmosphere, could this atmosphere be concluded as the cost of doing business?

Also read up on this a bit further, turns out Coke was the largest contributor to the previous government's political campaign in the early 70's which resulted in the opposition party exerting extra pressure on Coke when the opposition came into power in India.

I've said nothing about the amount or the complaint

Thank you for stating this. The topic is a discussion on Google being potentially fined for anti-competition and anti-trust behavior similar to the one's pursued and later settled by the FTC and EU. The complaints have been around for a few years, and not necessarily a money grab. Also as their(India's) current law does not have a provision for settlement or withdrawal, the country has no choice but to investigate the original complaint.

The alternative solution would be to make nudge-nudge-wink-wink type of settlement with a bribe or just letting it slip between the cracks and do nothing.

[0] http://iab.worldbank.org/~/media/FPDKM/IAB/Documents/IAB-rep...
It is true there are corporate shuttles covering a variety of distances and particular use cases. It eludes me why that makes you think I didn't understand, or what it has to do with my comment.
As a BSD/Linux user from the mid '90's it's nice to see the government joining the movement 15 years later. Of course no one listens when the money is good. Don't be surprised if the economy does well again these lessons will be quickly forgotten.
You know what would be brilliant? If this were Karpeles himself using "hackings" in a desperate attempt to deflect legal responsibility.

I have no idea what the likelihood of this is, but it's in the realm of plausibility with all of the feces hitting the fan at Gox.
...what they would go to if they needed to upgrade tomorrow.

Can you say if that system would be any more maintainable than the current one, especially e.g. 7-8 years after installation? Do these restaurants update e.g. prices or sales tax rates without outside help? Could they radically change their menu if they needed to do so? Are there forests of sticky notes sprouting from the sides of the machines reminding users how to make the system do what they want? How long does it take for new waitstaff to use the POS without supervision?

Is the current setup PCI-compliant, and will it still be a couple of months from now?
They might very well be in possession of the 950k but have lost the private key to spend those funds. It looks like in recent days they regained control of 200k BTC, so perhaps they've recovered a key or two?

I sure wish they would make a statement soon because if it was in fact the case that they recovered a large portion of their BTC, that would go a long way to bolstering faith in BitCoin itself, whose brand they totally damaged by blaming transaction malleability in the first place.
Minority cops are likely to be even tougher on other minorities. This is because a.) they don't want to look like they're going easy on minorities and b.) they think whites are more likely to file a complaint.

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Flex was great. I disassembled it all to learn its internals. Then implemented print spooling, RAM-disk, and dual tasking by RAM bank switching, for a 6809 based computer I was co-developing. But then the IBM PC took over the world :/