skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One main reason that Bitcoin cannot, IMO, replace the current banking system is that the coupling of banks and government guarantees stability. If you have a bank account anywhere within the EU, the first 100.000€ (or thereabout) on that account are guaranteed by the government, no matter what happens to the bank. In addition, the value of the currency, via the central bank and the government, is strongly coupled to the economic output of the overall economy, which also does change slowly.

Any scenario in which "they" started "messing" with our money would probably either end in a pitchforks-foodcans-and-ammo situation or already be in the context of a major catastrophy such as war.

What I'm trying to say is that a scenario in which you can't trust the banks and the government with your money but the rest of the economy is still fine is rather unlikely.
Companies pretty much do hate working with physical cash - it is heavy, difficult to secure, prone to theft etc.

This was the genius of offering "cashback" when doing a card transaction at somewhere like a supermarket - it is a real win-win - the customer gets cash they might need for something and the supermarket reduces the amount of cash they have to deal with.
Nope, sorry, you're wrong. You are the exact definition of an introvert. You're in a social environment, surrounded by other people, and instead of interacting with others, you're lost in thought about something else entirely.

Just wikipedia it: Introversion is "the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life". That exactly describes the behaviour you're relating. Now, being an introvert isn't a problem, but that title tells me that you're no so much concerned about introversion being a problem, as you are about grandstanding and making your "busyness" mark you as important somehow.
No, PayPal is fucking incompetent. That's why they have like 4 APIs that do the same thing, except they don't have feature parity and you need a feature from the Pay API and another feature from Express Checkout and you can't do either one of those because PayPal sucks.
What's the difference between “Layers” and “Tiers”?
It's in an iframe, so no.
preface: I'm doing a PhD in granular physics.

I was at a conference two years ago where this experiment (flash of light from a tub of flour) was discussed. This is not new, or news.

It was also linked, by another speaker at the conference, to earthquake lightning in the following discussions.
Apple is wildly inconsistent with their example code and even the templates within XCode when you add a ViewController for example. Same line for the first accolade or the start or the next time in the same file. I always find myself correcting their code, that's just bad.
I strictly measure how much weight I can lift in the gym. This helps me to know if my program is on the right track or not. If things are not progressing upwards I know I have to tweak something.

I not so strictly measure my food intake, but I know enough now to correlate certain diet choices with my effectiveness in the gym.

Things I don't measure but would like to are various hormone levels and other health markers that could probably be worked out with a blood test. I take a number of foods and supplements that are meant to maintain a decent hormone profile - high testosterone, low oestrogen, cortisol etc.. But because I don't measure these I have no idea really if I am doing it right or not.

Another thing I really should measure is my sleep. Although obvious that if I feel dog tired I won't be as effective, I really should measure how much of a sleep deficit I can tolerate so I can balance my work/project time with sleep time effectively.
What would you say was the best resource to learn it? I've been curious about Scala for a while, but never really taken the plunge.
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Apparently breaking the web interface for older versions of CUPS in the process.
If learning is not painful, then you're not learning.

How long did it take you to go from zero to being able to get stuff done, when you started to learn programming?

Complaining that Scala is unlike C# or Ruby doesn't make sense, since if you want C# or Ruby, might as well stick with C# or Ruby. And what came first anyway? Guess you started out with C#, since it's more popular in universities, right? Well, when you got into Ruby, where you able to understand all the meta-programming going on in like all the popular libraries?

Speaking of which, after working a lot with Ruby, I still have problems in grokking other people's code when meta-programming is involved, since it's almost always a fragile design that's stitched together with spit and glue and I can never wrap my head around all the things that could happen in the right context. This is very, very unlike my experience with Scala. Yes, it's difficult to learn because many new concepts are involved, but once passed that learning curve, everything becomes much clearer instead of going down a rabbit whole.
If I put up a "Microsoft Windows security patch installation service [price tag]" on ad banners, it would be misleading and consider by most as a shady business. It would also likely attract the legal ire of Microsoft lawyers.
They should've used something like stripe for the checkout, as there's a lack of payment options. Oh well, guess they don't want my money.
Wow, so much resentment in this comment !

I for one think I did never fit into one or the other category, I'm an extrovert sometimes, and introvert at some other times.

One thing is certain is, when I'm problem solving, I don't want to talk to people, because I need to preserve the mental state of my reflexion. And it is very annoying to have to justify that all the time at work.

So for me, wether the author is really an introvert or not in the grand scheme of things is not important. What is important is that a lot of people don't feel like talking when they do this kind of jobs, and for a very good reason.
If this did cause a brain drain then this would likely force other industries to raise salaries in order to compete; and so continues the circle of life.
Out of curiosity, do you think that would be bad if they did? Also, how big of a machine do you need to have before its considered a mainframe?
The US have been and are still recognized for their economical strength.

The US have been and are still recognized for their military strength.

The US were once recognized for their democracy but this was some time ago. Today the politics - domestic and foreign - of the US is perceived as corrupt and controlled by the economy. Maybe even as stuck in the cold war.

I think this is a fairly typical perception of the US in western Europe, I am quite sure it is here in Germany. Whether this perception is true or false is a different matter. And if you are not living in a well developed country, if you are living in a non-democratic country, you may of course still perceive the US democracy as desirable.

Germany is often looking at Scandinavia because we think they are doing a couple of things in a better way than we do. You would probably have a hard time or have to look quite some time back to find examples were someone suggested we should do it the American way. Even if you forget about politics and look at the economy. Yes, the economy is recognized as really strong, but it is not perceived as superior.
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Storage is cheap. If you're storing on HDDs for quick access, the cost is small - if you're storing on archival tape in silos, the cost drops even further.
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Lexis and code generation, I guess
Micro-analysing ones life in this manner is wrong and counter productive on so many levels.

Knowing how many tracks you listen to a day is interesting trivia only.

Knowing how long you sleep for each night could be useful, but only if you have a problem with sleep and know, scientifically, what you're looking for. If you're consistently missing out on sleep and feeling ill as a result, you shouldn't need exist.io to tell you this. And if you're not feeling unwell or having sleep problems, then you shouldn't need exist.io to tell you this either.

Knowing the number of steps you take is also irrelevant unless it's part of some very slow burn exercise regime you're on, in which case you'd presumably count them anyway. If you're doing normal exercise, steps and heart-rate may be of interest, but only during the exercise period.

In short, knowing all of this info about yourself is not helpful. When it lacks greater context and, unless you know how to interpret it, is just a source of confusion and anxiety. At best, it's novel trivia.
It would be harder, but the developer console has access to closures as well:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/16048707/73681
Seems like it's IE being a bit loose with the spec (the doctype is html 3.2 after all) or just catering for the likely hood of a rule for one element being used for another.

For headings, on http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#headings it says "You always need the start and end tags" but for block elements underneath it says that:

<P>This is the first paragraph.
<P>This is the second paragraph.

is perfectly valid - presumably why it's fine in IE8
I see your point, however for me It's a pretty safe bet that a dev having experience in multiple languages has a drive to learn. Jumping the bandwagon is not necessary always a bad thing (it could be of course), sometimes it's a sign of curiosity and experimentation.
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I was. And i was backed up. The backup was mitigated by the embarrassing technical snafu that I mentioned, the other losses occurred when bitcoins were being held in escrow byt third parties. Those third parties were either shut down by the feds, hacked or the service owners plain just absconded with the funds.

I wasn't a bitcoin millionaire, I only had a modest amount and I never bought in when they were super cheap, but that still added up to a sizeable chunk of cash.

Bottom line, there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong, and there's no safety net when it does.
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I understand what you say. But my interest is actually into AI, so the same way you find pleasure in creating and understanding interesting proofs, I find pleasure in trying to think about how the human mind works and how to make artificial forms of intelligence that share the properties of human mind but not the damn limitations of the "biological hardware" and of mortality. And I also think that in fields like AI "proof by engineering" is the only way to move forward - we'll have to build them or 'evolve them' in order to prove that they can be built (I know, this is not a line of thinking that mathematicians enjoy :) )

I'd love to see AI evolving to the level at which they create art and music or analogues of these (for their own pleasure and maybe for that of humans too, if the pleasures are compatible).

I know, you'd have to share my belief that strong AI is possible (and really close too I think) and that that minds are nothing but machines themselves and that all forms of intelligence will be comparable, regardless of whether the hardware will be "biology" or "technology", "natural" or "artificial" (in a few hundreds years I think we'll even cease to make the difference between these concepts, they will appear synonyms to our non-human or not-so-human-anymore descendents, just some linguists will identify different etymologies of them) :)
What kind of equipment is required to detect those spikes? Can it be done at home as an experiment?
A wild <marquee> tag appears, and it even has alternate behaviour! Haven't seen those in over a decade.
I'm not talking (just) about security. It's about convenience. It's annoying to go through million variations of registrations instead of approving the site with one click.
A ring that runs all your appliances. As well email and paying bills.
Without wanting to draw too many comparisons with Lord of the Rings, this is essentially technologies’ answer to the ‘one ring to rule them all.’ As the start-up says on its Kickstarter page, “Ring is like magic, allowing you to control anything you want, by wearing it on your finger. You can send texts, control home appliances, and even pay your bills — all at once and in a flash.”
The problem with SQL is that you have at least four widely used implementations (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and SQL Server), all similar or consistent at the core, varying wildly at the edges. In this case, "pulling its act together" would mean Oracle and Microsoft taking on massive expenses and risks to converge on a consistent syntax and procedural language.

Historical accident, sure, but remedying it might benefit future users at the expense of the vendors and the current ones.
And what if your boss wants you to deal with them not providing any RPMs, because the stuff has already been paid for?
I don't see anything wrong with this. If the option is selected, probably someone at the shipping out location (or retail location) manually will install firefox, or windows image with firefox on it. It is perfectly fine. Even if automated, automation is not free. Are they overcharging? Probably.

I disagree that it does not follow mozilla's terms, they are selling the service, as stated, not the browser.
I still can't figure why people feel the need to have an all-or-nothing opinion on cryptocurrency.

Stross' article says:

> Bitcoin comes with an implicit political agenda attached.

I disagree. Bitcoin was always supposed to be an experiment. Can we stop inserting political and economic agenda into everything? Bitcoin has never claimed to be the savior of mankind. It may succeed, it may fail. Can't people stop speculating about it? And a lot of it isn't mere speculation: it's extremely adamant positions on whether bitcoin will/should fail or flourish.

Why don't we just wait and see what happens instead of fabricating prophecies? All of this is really tiring me out. I don't think I'm the only one.
Online sleuthing by Mt. Gox dispossessed throws up few clues
Funny story actually - OpenJPEG got a whole bunch of optimisation a few years back because Second Life relies on JPEG2000, after having been generally neglected for some time.
Bitcoin Exchange CEO Commits Suicide
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PayPals API certainly isn't the worst but it's pretty awful. So much pain doing PayPal integrations. I assumed it just kind of happened but I'm shocked if you guys thought it was good... See Stripe for an example of not to abuse your API users.
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up, a bash function to make walking up the directory tree easier.

It allows walking up by passing in a --level commandline option:

$ cd home/helpermethod/projects/bash-specs
$ up --levels=2
$ pwd
/home/helpermethod

or by passing in a basename:

$ cd home/helpermethod/projects/bash-specs
$ up helpermethod
$ pwd
/home/helpermethod

It's written in pure Bash (no external dependencies) and features autocompletion for options and basenames.

It's more or less finished implementation-wise but lacks documentation and installation instructions.

https://github.com/helpermethod/up
Very entertaining. Virginia Woolf stream of consciousness in a socially anxious situation.
Would it be a problem in HTTPS, since you cannot inspect HTTPS headers in the proxy?
It does look like an attempt to dissociate themselves from bad publicity. And will there be an intense effort to comb back through the admission of the last ten years to make sure that none have untruths or omissions?
Good question. If I wasn't in the position of having a budget, I'd:

a) first approach the company asking me to send a link to their packages, making sure their support staff know the company expects packaged software.

b) I'd package it myself, letting my boss know my time was spent doing work the vendor should have.
> Sassigassity, perhaps with the meaning of "audacity", occurs exactly once in Dickens' short story, "A Christmas Tree".

This word is too good to let idle.
Later App wedges into a broad category
"What we appear to have imported is overfamiliarity without good service". Heck yes! I'm constantly impressed at the amount of interaction companies want from me for the smallest transaction. It reminds me of a quote from the movie "BASEketball":

"The athletes caring less about executing the play than planning the vulgar grandstanding that inevitably followed even the most pedestrian of accomplishments"

Hey, I used your online-fax service to send a fax that I need to do once, ever, and now you're sending me notes from your CEO. Who likes this crap?!
I see your point.

My problem is the approach. It is quite common to purchase additional softwares like MS Office, while buying a computer. And generally, you are paying for the software, not for the installation service.

Mozilla is one of the most easy-to-download & setup software. If a person is not able to download Mozilla on her own, how can she sense the necessity to have a Mozilla Web Browser?
(Just interested from an academic perspective)
What are the decision making criteria for your boss? Which parameters trump "Do my guys want to use that stuff"?
Side-channel attack against OpenSSL's ECDSA (secp256k1) implementation
Lately I've grown weary of the overall tone that Hollywood productions (and to some extend American media productions in general) have. Maybe I've gotten old or maybe I'm hopelessly out of touch with mainstream culture but two things in particular alienate me (and my friends):

1. The need to somehow shove god into everything. Vocal religiousness makes me (and I think many Europeans) quite uncomfortable.

2. Pornographic celebration of violence contrasted with ridiculous prudishness. One of the children's movies (or maybe "family" movies) I watched when I was a kid had female toplessness in it. Judging by the late effects, today, decades later, I can tell you that this causes absolutely zero problems. Neither does male nudity. But today, whenever I go to the cinema, I must be prepared to see people being hacked to pieces, which is IMO totally fucked up. Not that I have any problem with violence in movies, but why does it have to be _every single one_ of them? I mean Pirates of the Caribbean 2? That is a movie made for children by Disney. Why does it start with explicit scenes in a torture prison?

I have, however, observed one positive trend, which is the growing willingness of television series producers to take a more relaxed stance towards nudity.

Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy. Hmpff.
My comment said nothing about the actual position only the fact that the point he was trying to express wasn't clear (previous poster had to follow up to at least three posts to explain it again and I wouldn't have understood the meaning without the follow ups). I wouldn't have commented but for the fact the follow up was blaming others for not understanding rather than accepting the lack of clarity in the post.

I don't believe the USA is Hitler or the worst on the planet but that is not the expectation or standard the US should be held to. It used to be an example to the world (or at least wanted to be one), a shining beacon of hope[0]. Now the standard is "not as bad as China" which is a sad state of affairs and isn't enough to have moral authority in the world.[2]

I haven't seen many (not sure I've seen any) posts saying the US government is Hitler but what I have seen is a number of comparisons to the Stasi. The Stasi were famous for the massive amounts of surveilance and they would have loved the capabilities that the NSA had. That doesn't mean that the results of political opposition in the US are the same as they were in East Germany but East Germany was one of the experiments in the effects on observers and the observed in a mass surveilance society and we should at least look to it for lesson and warnings.

[0] I know that there were always flaws but the aspiration was there.

[2] I'm from and in the UK and I make no claim that we are better in general, while in some ways it feels less corrupt and politically broken than the US sometimes seems we don't bother to restrain GCHQ at all.
ssh -X is the usual approach.
See also this discussion about the paper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/44123758372587520...

> “Quick summary of today's side-channel news: don't use ECDSA anywhere. Don't put your Bitcoin wallet on a shared computer.”
There's definitely parts of any language I feel I'll probably never understand, at least under the requirements of what I need to get done in my day to day work. With Scala though that percentage was much higher, and the code that I didn't understand felt much more daunting.

I went into Scala wanting to use it for a new project, expecting to pick it up like I had other languages but unfortunately I was unprepared for the task/sheer scale and had to switch back to a language I knew well.

Whenever I have time I'll continue to study it fully aware of the rewards, but with a better understanding of the time required to get to grips with it.
I expect people do raise the issue with malware ads with Google, but as stated its a Google problem and not much Mozilla can do about it.

Why in the hell would mozilla be pushing this as PR?
Nope, you're still distributing, just in a more elaborate way to try and evade the trademark agreement, which courts don't look too kindly on.
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you guys might be interested in the apigee api-craft google group, which discusses a lot of these topics

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/api-craft
Scala School is probably a good starting point: http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/

As for books you may want to check out Scala for the Impatient and Programming in Scala.
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Not the parent, but sometimes there are cross platform monitoring / auditing applications pushed from Security, where either the Linux or Windows version is clearly a second class citizen.
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Its not the technology as such I don't trust (I haven't read up on it enough to say one way or another). Its the whole infrastructure surrounding it.

I don't trust bitcoin exchanges not to be hacked. Maybe the currency itself. I don't trust there not to be bugs in the systems yet. Some governments are trying to ban the use of it. Whats to say your government will not be next? If it gets banned, I assume the value of any bitcoins you own will go down.

Mt .Gox just declared bankruptcy. If it was a normal currency, then you would have some sort of guarantee (in the UK anyway) so that at least some of your money is protected. Do the people that had bitcoins there have any of that protection?
Oh would you look at that. Might just be the reason why minimum wage laws and unions have been adopted by every single developed country on the planet. Collusion is always cheaper than innovation.
Great job! Congratulations on shipping.

You may already be doing this, but I'd recommend trying to use it with your friends and taking their feedback into account. Do they want a separate app just for link sharing? Are they reluctant to install another application on their phone just for sending links? Are they using the app when you're not around?

I'm around your age and part of a community of young developers on Facebook. Shoot me an email (in my profile) and I'll add you to the group.
Scala for the Impatient (you can get part of the book as a free pdf from Typesafe). Although not designed for learning the language the O'Reilly Scala Cookbook is also very good.
It would be extremely easy to circumvent.

Sell it as the Dell Software Power Bundle for 50 quid, or so. My take of the problem that there's a direct cost involved as soon as you add Firefox to your order and that's clearly against Mozilla's guidelines.
No, it looks like something from 1999. And it completely sucks on mobile.

Actually, it is a disgrace.
Genuine LOL, well played!