skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There certainly is opportunity for major traders to manipulate the price, and for exchange operators. Stage a denial of service attack against the biggest exchanges, or spread media FUD and watch the price temporarily tumble. Start buying and boost the price, sell and repeat. It's getting harder to manipulate now though with more decentralized trading, but a year ago you could blast just 2 exchanges offline and affect the price. Btcchina and MtGox, and since Gox left ports wide open this was easy to do.

Exchange operators could also fix the price if they wanted. There's nothing that prevents them from making hundreds of fake accounts on their own exchanges and bidding the price up or down since they are unregulated. They could even be pgp emailing each other to coordinate this for all we know.
Of course. Datalog also gets alot of use in industry.
Yep, Salesforce bought its way into the mark with the Desk.com (FKA Assistly) acquisition at the ridiculously low price of around $50m. It looks like Zendesk is going to start trading north of $1b. Talk about inequality!
Even easier:

Some dude finds a 0day and sells it to some agency.
I've looked at dumping Google apps in the past. It looks like you could get Yahoo! Mail at your domain relatively cheaply if you went with one of their small business hosting packages: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting

Of course then you have to use Yahoo! Mail...

Edit: I forgot to mention that I've used Rackspace's Hosted Email in the past. $2/account/month, so that might fit your needs: http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/pricing/
Tunneling the Youtube webpage and flash player is tiny, tunneling the video itself isn't. The video is loaded from googlevideo.com and the Turkish government forgot to block that one...

But yeah, if it becomes popular enough I'm ready to look into ways to pay for more servers and a whole lot more bandwidth.
Whoever said that OpenSSL was written by monkeys continues to be proven right.
Happens to me all the time. Assume the ids are drawn straight from a database that has been set up to use integers for ids. Facebook was originally built with PHP and MySql. This happens to me: I start a project, create a few user accounts, and then delete them all. Then I create my real account. So I end up with an id of 5 or 6.

The earlier accounts look like they were deleted:

http://graph.facebook.com/3
I did not down-vote your answer and this kind of foul language is not acceptable in the community.
Microsoft has successfully enforced its non-competes against at least two California firms, Saleseforce and Google:

"The inherent unfairness of employee non-compete agreements:
Judge rules former Microsoft executive can't take new Salesforce job"

http://www.itworld.com/legal/138182/inherent-unfairness-empl...

"Microsoft Googles 'Non-Compete Agreement'"

http://www.searchnewz.com/microsoft-googles-non-compete-agre...

The maker of Windows and the Xbox has filed suit over Google’s hiring of a former Microsoft executive.

Google hired Kai-Fu Lee, formerly the corporate VP of Microsoft’s Interactive Services Division, to run Google’s China operations.
I don't know why I continue to be amazed at how pathetic the analysis of things like IPOs and venture investing is here on HN.

OK, I'll bite...what sort of model would you propose?
That email message from Gandi is _so_ confusing, at first I thought the story was going to be about how it was a phishing attempt!

> If you can read this message, then you can recover the password of your
account, and thus modify the email address of the handle. In that case, we won't take care of your request.

Wait... what?
There are a lot of good Prolog resources on the web. I gathered up a little list some time ago. You can find it here:

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/05/prolog-im-going-to-learn...
Well, it can be argued that this instance of mistake happened BECAUSE they didn't fix their review process the last time a silly bug managed to get in.
Switching from screen to tmux
There's been a lot of speculation that they have been manipulating it, all the way since the rise from $10-something to $250+ last year. If you watched the public trading, it seemed like Mt. Gox was intentionally blocking 'sell' orders, refusing to sell bitcoins at market price and instead waiting until someone placed an order for slightly more money.

I forget what the other 'evidences' were but it seemed like they were trying very hard to drive the price up. And they would frequently shut down altogether if the price started to dive.

Most people who were paying attention considered Mt. Gox toxic and avoided them as much as possible since the $250 peak-then-crash of last year. It wasn't just the can't-really-prove-it suspicions, but also things like a trading engine lag of 4 hours.

Recently, a lot of the price fluctuation seems attributable to what Mt. Gox has been doing. When the price at Mt. Gox fell to $100, imagine how easy it would be for Mt. Gox admins to buy btc from their customers and then sell at bitstamp/coinbase for a giant return. Rinse and repeat. Only Mt. Gox should have been affected, but all of bitcoin tanked, suggesting that maybe Mt. Gox was actually doing a lot of selling.

None of this is proof. I have no proof more solid than what I stated. But I'm fairly convinced that Mt. Gox has intentionally and successfully tampered with the price of Bitcoin for the past year or more.
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Because that's just unfeasible. Removing him as CEO is one thing, we can't even get another language on the web anymore as it is.
Any possibility this could be partly due to coins stolen in relation to the Heartbleed exploit being cashed out? Even if it's just a single individual who gained access to a large stash, dumping it via the exchanges could be playing a part. Perhaps their motive would be to cash out before anyone catches on and starts trying to trace their transactions/withdrawals.
iCloud is the other featured cloud provider that AgileBits proclaims on their website, although I wouldn't recommend it. Not a knock against Apple, but I prefer to diversify my technology and not get locked-in into any one service.

I just switched back to 1Password from LastPass, and I'm just syncing between my iPhone and my MacBook (my only computer ATM) using wi-fi sync, and backing up my 1Password data on my MacBook to tarsnap.

I've seen someone else say they sync their 1Password data using BitTorrent. Haven't tried it myself, but that seems interesting.
The app does support two page reading and right to left books, but it has a limited selection of those kinds of books.
I'm using a laptop. Is there a significant difference in the reading experience between their "immersive and cinematic" one and just looking at, e.g., Questionable Content on Firefox?

(I ask because I was going to try reading one of their free comics and they want me to "register" with email and date of birth and password and oh give it a rest for pete's sake...)
Use htop on the Mac? It's a 5-year old fork. Let's fix this.
> Postscript. Oh, of course I'm going to be modded down for this. Civil conversation has been replaced with culture war. Well, maybe not culture war, but a close analogue. :P

Lets not get into that.

However, to your point: This is one of those areas where I'm forced to wonder just how strongly everyone felt. Did I like Eich representing me, as an open source contributor? No, certainly not. Did I feel that strongly about it? No, not really. I wasn't going to boycott anything, I wasn't going to speak out against Mozilla. I'd be mildly disappointed he was their choice, then I would move on.

I sincerely have to wonder how many others would have felt the same if not worked into a lather.
I don't particularly disagree with your moral relativism. But I will point out that there are obviously axioms we can base our beliefs on (be they "harming people is bad" or "gods are good so do what they say") and we build up from them to a point were the underlying reasoning is lost and actions can be viewed as both good or bad so obviously reasonable people can hold different views. However the issue with saying we shouldn't be intolerant of intolerance is that nearly everyone agrees that we don't have the perfect world. You're asking us to break the feedback loop when we know things aren't right. Perhaps you're just arguing caution before deciding to boycott and argue for a boycott, still I would argue the action is not unreasonable and it is derived from a basis on very sound axioms.
According to my traffic stats, there's a few people in China using it and tunneling "stuff" over it. I don't know which sites, but I know that it's being used there successfully.
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Many won't even stop then because of the belief that the price can/will return to previous levels if not higher. Quite the interesting dynamic.
This is going to hurt a little, but these guys are 10 years ahead of you: http://www.uship.com
My dad is the CEO there. I know they got a lot of shit from the other ISPs in Sweden behind the scenes for this.
This isn't exactly a revolutionary concept. Onyx Ashanti[0][1][2] has built an entire performance around it (literally, the the whole system is custom built). And on a sort of parallel track, nerds like Herrmutt Lobby and DZA have done some really remarkable things pushing the boundaries of what can be done with off the shelf MIDI gear[3] as well as with game controllers[4].

Perhaps Mi.Mu will be the best execution of a MIDI/OSC glove to date—it will probably have to be if it's going to make it on stage with performers like Imogen Heap and Tim Exile.

I will say, sometimes an encoder is exactly what you need. Other times what you need is a long throw fader (to say nothing of the very particular engineering of crossfaders for scratch DJs). I hope designers and engineers continue to experiment in this space, but not every conventional interface needs 'disrupting', and they certainly don't all need to be made wireless. I always feel a bit annoyed when these developments are framed as a breaking down of walls between performer and audience, a paradigm shift away from the dark ages of electronic musicians hunched over banks of knobs and 'checking their email'.

It's a cliché, and I'm not even sure it maps to reality all that well. I'm fairly certain Miles Davis spent the majority of his time on stage looking at piano keys. And if not there, at his collaborators. Maybe occasionally a glance towards the audience. Maybe. Stevie Wonder never looked at anybody. It never mattered, because that was never the point.

[0]http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/11/way-out-from-behind-th...

[1]http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/10/open-source-music-berl...

[2]http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/04/fractals-bots-nodes-an...

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zN7Pjwjcp0

[4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQaMW_5oxyg
The Lumia 520 actually sells for ~ $50 (or lower if you look around) with no contract[1]. Its the cheapest a phone can get for the given specs: 4" LCD touchscreen, 5MP camera & 13 days standby. Too bad it hasn't been hacked yet.

[1] http://www.walmart.com/ip/27449094
Am I missing something? Isn't a quantum computer just a non deterministic computation mechanism?

It feels wrong to suppose that answers come out in an "instant", or a mere one step.
If the market were efficient, it would already price in the dilution from newly minted coins, as it does for share dilution in the stock market (which is actually quite common due to employee stock options). However, every indication is that the bitcoin market is not at all efficient. It is largely driven by speculators playing a greater fool game, not investors who are betting on intrinsic value per bitcoin based on a future estimate of coins outstanding. The result has been a series of manias and panics, which will continue until real buyers enter the market.
Interconnect may be faster but as a whole system it is hard to compete with the raw speed of an x64 box with all the latest/greatest chipsets. You usually wind up having to write non-portable code to eke full performance out of the massive box and in the end your apps will probably still be faster on x64. They're best suited for massive parallel computation that isn't afraid of getting down to the metal and taking advantage of lots of the special chip instructions in asm. (Or alternatively you want POWER specifically because it has hardware dfp support.) The total gain from running on x64 will most likely exceed any loss from a network hop in a case where both have to go off to SAN for their data.
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Anything communicated over unsecure/not-secure-enough wi-fi could've been captured & apparently now decrypted using newly-acquired information?

Yes. An attacker would have to collect that information, AND have grabbed the private keys from a vulnerable site. But there is nothing technically stopping that from happening. (And of course I expect there may be a market for those keys now)

But that would just be crazy, right?

Yes. Crazy but possible.
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There are two types of data here: traffic data, and data used to identify a customer given their IP address. The former seems obviously excessive to me. However, identifying customers from their IPs is pretty much only useful when there's a specific crime being investigated, which greatly reduces the potential for abuse. I think it's worth discussing the privacy implications of these two types of data separately.

I run a chat Web site. On multiple occasions, my moderation team has found people raping children live on webcam and reported them. People have been arrested, and children have been saved from abuse. That was only possible because they could be tracked down via their IP address. This isn't a hypothetical "think of the children" argument; it's something that has actually happened, multiple times, in the course of running my site.
I have been using Zoho.
It's probably not practical, but it doesn't hurt to fix or remove (it's not used internally in OpenSSL) the code anyways. I submitted a pull request to Ruby, where the code was copied to, and is used: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/591 .
Measuring certainly would, but I don't think that's what it's describing. Instead, I think it is describing connecting the qbits together and allowing them all to share the same super-position through the entangled photon.
3600 coins are currently added to the system per day. There are currently ~12.6M coins in circulation.

So that's an increase of .02% per day.

This doesn't come close to accounting for the price swings we've seen in the last 6 months. There are much larger forces at work. What these forces are exactly is...difficult to determine.
Is it actually feasible to do a timing attack using memcpy?

I've been testing a bit locally, as in within the same process, without any luck. I have a hard to seeing how this would work, especially when you add network latency.

Does anyone have any proof-of-concept code that actually exploits memcpy with a timing attack?
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I just tried Outlook for the first time in a while, and I am pretty surprised. It's quite good.
Dude, you didn't "misinterpret" anything. You just made shit up.

I've found that conversations with people who do that kind of thing are almost never a productive use of my time.

Sorry.
Is there any argument in defense of the TLS heartbeat extension? It seems completely inappropriate thing to stick into TLS (wrong level of abstraction), and the idea of sending any kind of payload as part of heartbeat seems completely redundant (what does this achieve over just basic fields "this is heartbeen #17" -- "this is response to heartbeat #17"?
It's worth mentioning that the Rackspace product requires a minimum of 5 mailboxes, so the actual cost is $10 a month.
>Further, wouldn't that pressure be somewhat proportional to the upward pressure he created with the buy activity, given that he was trying to make those fractions whole again?

Yeah, it would be, if all players in the market knew how many bitcoins (including the marginal bitcoins "created" by gox) were in circulation. /and/ if the value of all bitcoin was fixed over the time period.
Look good. Almost any increase in visibility would be useful
to motorcyclists. Earlier attempts include the Vovedesky Cyberlight from the 1980s and more recently:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vololights/vololights-e...

There have also been setups that pulse headlights. People will
tend to have concerns about whether pulsing or flickering lights
are legal, but in the US, if you aren't trying to use the lighting
to pretend to be an emergency response vehicle, law enforcement
folks are unlikely to care, unless one gives them a reason to care.
https://coinforcoffee.com/#how-it-works

This design looks strangely familiar... :)
Your book is awesome, I was reading it a while back. Great stuff!
What kind of data is available for prior 1964? It'd be foolish to draw conclusions with only 50 years' data. Pre-industrial-revolution readings could be a useful control...
He stated it quite clear.

Someone higher in this thread said that Mozilla is not like Dropbox because it's a "community" and he came to say that Mozilla is a "money making entitiy" just as much as Dropbox.

He never said or implied anything about "only bigots being capable of running a successful business".

If we are to assume anything from what he said, is that whether the CEO is a bigot or not is beside the point.
> Your @gmail.com account is still in the headers

you can easily remedy this btw set up your smtp server inside gmail's settings

https://raamdev.com/2009/removing-the-gmail-on-behalf-of-sen...
Unless you believe that bitcoin is the end game (as I do). In which case you never "sell" them although you may end up spending them.
Writing code every day doesn't necessarily make you a workaholic. Working on code all day, every day might make you one though.

What John is doing is akin to what an artist would do to hone their skills. Practice. Every great singer practices often. Every master of a musical instrument. And for programmers, it's a similar thing - there's no substitute for writing code.

His approach is to write something meaningful every day, but it shouldn't be interpreted as 'let the code writing take over your life every day'
>Shouldn't a person's status as a war criminal depend on whether they've actually been charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced?

No, not really. After all most war criminals are never tried, especially if they are on the winning side.

People can have and state their opinions. It's not like recent history is that obscure for someone not to be able to come to a conclusion.
article seems to be a response to an announcement HS made, but source is not linked or quoted.
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Not any less riduculous than the original (old and tired) analogy.

Plus, I don't recall computers having killed many people. Planes do. If planes were like computers, we'd just reboot them and carry on.
This will make a great HN post when the game is out. (A trailer video is sort of borderline.)
MonoGame 3.2 has been released
http://www.thestupidmoose.com/ lets you pay in bitcoin. Based in Canada.
Percentage of total coins isn't the correct comparison, it's the percentage of total volume. We're on a pretty high volume day right now and the 24hr volume is at 150k. Some days it's a fraction of that, there have been multiple < 20k days recently. Depending on the day the mined coins are a significant percentage of the total being exchanged (not that all mined coins would be exchanged, but it's a fairly high number otherwise most people wouldn't have any BTC unless they mined it).
this is an example of where I'd love to see the new HN mods close off-topic threads. No offense the parent, but your general musing on the feasibility of Bitcoin - amount to thread jacking given the original topic above
I think so, yes. But I'm averaging[1] and buying in small pieces, because I have no idea where the bottom will be.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
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Saying they have to start over is implying that you're somehow making progress. The only progress your are making is just ruling out a few inputs from a massive search space. You don't really lose any work when it resets because the work you've done is useless.
For current-ish Marvel comics, rather than/ in addition to waiting for Comixology sales, you can use the comiccodes subreddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/comiccodes/

The way it works is that currently almost all physical Marvel issues and some hardcover collections come with a code that can be redeemed for the digital copy. People who have a physical copy often don't need the digital copy too, so /r/comiccodes/ is a marketplace where people sell those codes. The going price tends to be $1/ issue and most people take Paypal, although some prefer Comixology gifts or Amazon e-giftcards or whatever.
I'd love (and would pay for) a hosted email service that charged in some fashion other than per user or per domain. I've got various low volume addresses on various domains that I'd love to consolidate under one roof, and MS's custom domains was the closest thing to that. What keeps me from migrating to so many of these other services is the flat $x/address structure. That gets pricey fast if you have two or three per domain, and three, four, or more domains.

Other tacts might be charging by space consumed, messages sent, or a flat fee for a bucket with resource limits. Anyone know any providers offering models like that?
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You can't avoid dealing with javascript when doing web development. Before you mention something like coffeescript, I have to say first that the mixin, forwarding and delegating code were only several lines long. Compare that to the amount of code used to compile to javascript.
The whole point of the plugin is to give you visual feedback so you can easily avoid markdown syntax errors.
Actually, the opposite. A startup should be as homogeneous and non-diverse as possible in the early stages.

> The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-...
> finding people who know how to manhandle furniture and appliances without damaging them or the building they're being moved into/out of, and how to pack a truck so that the contents don't move around during transit.

This. If you just need a truck, U-Haul or similar will do that for under $100. If you want to move anything fragile and valuable, pay someone knowledgeable and insured. There just isn't much money in schlepping things around town for $40 plus gas.
everyone wants to know, how are you fulfilling the Starbucks card side of things?

Do you have access to a private API?

Are you distributing the barcode of a card you are auto-loading? (but then how do you know the balance post sale?)

Are you screen-scraping?

I think there's a lot of people in this thread that are v curious, please do tell :)
Yes.

Hosting your own code is hardly difficult.

It's also not just the provider you have to worry about, but the entire internet that has access to that provider.