skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I wonder what will happen to Mt. Gox's 200k BTC? If it's true that repayments will be in USD, then it logically follows that the 200k BTC will be liquidated into USD, which will then be distributed evenly among debtees.

Liquidating 200k BTC would be quite a sight to behold. For example, there are only 18k BTC of orders on Bitstamp right now: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/bitstampUSD_depth.html

... meaning, selling 200k BTC would blow through the entire order book eleven times over. I have no idea how the market would react to that. I'm sure bitcoin would survive it, just like it's survived every other disaster, but it will be quite the rollercoaster.

The reason I say the 200k BTC would be sold off if the repayments are all in USD is because, if I remember correctly, Mt. Gox had almost no cash when it shut down. Most of its cash had been seized by the US government long ago. So if Mt. Gox are going to repay anything of significance, then it seems like those 200k BTC will be sold off. What's the alternative? Those 200k BTC have to wind up somewhere. I know nothing of Japan's legal system, but the alternatives seem to be "either the government ends up keeping the coins, or the coins are redistributed to Mt. Gox debtees, or the coins are all sold off and the proceeds are distributed to Mt. Gox debtees."

Anyone have any theories about what will happen to the coins?
For me at least, that means exactly what you mention in your other reply below. Even more than weird operators themselves, but the problem for me is that they're hard to vocalize in my mind when reading. In other words, this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7746894/are-there-pronoun...

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Pronunciation

plus any more potentially introduced by any libs, or whatever else. When I see any Haskell code, I feel that I trip on those every time. And among them, especially confusion between: -> => <- -< >>= >>
Not being at work is understandable and mentally filtered out. Nobody really cares if you're sick or your kid is sick, or you're on vacation, either way you're not there.

When you're present, people DO notice who spends two hours a day talking about golf or football or facebook or talking on the phone. Don't be that guy. Work at work, play at home, and you'll appear (and be) much more productive for 8 hours than the guy who works 6 hours and plays 6 hours while physically in the office for 12 each day.

Abstractly, someone home with a sick kid is probably sitting in the same room with the kid and occasionally nursing the kid while spending most of the time playing minecraft or Eve or posting on HN or whatever. But what people actually remember is the guy who spent his entire afternoon birthday party shopping on amazon, or the guy who spent 2 hours talking about the superbowl or game of thrones, because they saw that with their own eyes.

A secret "hack" I've done over a decade is when the kids are playing at the playground by themselves and most of the parents are looking at twitter on their phones or reading romance novels, I have some pragprog or oreilly book either dead tree or ebook form. From the kids point of view "Dad took us to chuck e cheese" or whatever, but out of an hours time I get 15 or more minutes of serious study. I'm taking off and going to a little league game on friday afternoon/evening, and I'll pay attention while he's in the field or at bat, but when he's merely sitting on the bench waiting, rather than checking out some of the moms or staring off into space or whatever, I'll read or study something "useful". There's a lot of downtime during "family time". If we're driving somewhere to do something as a family, and my wife is driving, I'll read something.
Along that reasoning... I'm from your bank. Please give me your account # and PIN.
Is this only for ebay US or are other country versions affected too?
I think it depends on where you work. I work for a large corporation and don't find it troubling even to leave around 4:30, although I'm known to be the first in the office usually around 7.

I do sometimes feel the pressure to get stuff done so I work from home after the kids are asleep, but it's difficult (and hard on a marital relationship) to get in more than an hour of extra time for this every evening.

I've come to the conclusion that:

a) When I go home, I go home. I try very hard to drop everything at work and not worry about it until the morning.

b) I love having the time with my family. I want more of it, and want to eliminate my commute. I'm looking into freelancing and remote work as a possible route, although competition is fierce and I need to put food on the table. My research is telling me that I need to bolster my resume with skills (from what I've seen, bigco work doesn't align well with freelancing & remote work teams, although I would be ecstatic to be wrong), and I don't know if I have the time to do this. It's a chicken & egg problem, and I may not solve this without herculean effort.
I find this to be true of a lot of promising new technologies.

None of my day-to-day work is the kind of flashy/bleeding edge stuff that HN tends to cater to, but I'm always on the lookout for new tools that'll make things easier or more reliable.

Oftentimes I'll go to evaluate something new only to find that their examples are the tried and true "get some tweets and do something with them" or "here's how you make yet another blog platform."

Great. If my job consisted of making blogging platforms I might be interested. Show me how your product will free me from having to handle the drudgery of setting up yet another similar-yet-slightly-different form. Show me how your new framework makes it easier to do integration with several developers. Show me something that'll let me ease the technical debt we've accrued. That kind of thing.
Credit card numbers should be way down on your list of info to protect. They're easy to change and the consequences of a compromise are small (you're not liable for any fraudulent transactions as long as you're paying the least bit attention). Worry about your checking account number and other info, but not your card numbers.
EBay Suffers Massive Security Breach
Any significant advantages of using this over mitmproxy?
>> "PayPal went full retard."

I'm not usually big on political correctness but you could so easily replace that phrase with something that's not taking the piss out of people.
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I've seen and experience variations on exactly that problems countless times in several different countries.
I don't personally see a problem with a country defining its laws as applying only to itself - the US would have no right to assert that the Fourth Amendment applies to foreign nationals not on US soil anymore than the EU would have to assert that their laws apply to random US citizens.

Although... I think the backlash happening here is right and understandable - other countries certainly do have the right to decide under what terms the US can interact with them (although not always the means to carry it out.)

That said, I think Guantanamo bay demonstrates that foreigners do have rights in the US, since one of the reasons it exists is to create a legalistic "black hole" whereby the detainees don't have access to the rights they typically might.

I think "your Government is breaking it's own laws" is closer to the truth.
It would be nice to have a more detailed feature comparison to get some idea of why I should choose one over the other.

I'm currently trying out Pelican just because I'm comfortable with Python and Jinja2 already, but I really have no idea if it's actually the best choice for the kind of site I'm trying to build.
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I wish the media could report these stories accurately. The BBC News ticker is currently saying:

"Ebay asking people to change passwords after a cyberattack compromised database containing encrypted user details"

Not True! The user details were unencrypted, bar the password.
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I'm the same way (leave around 4:30). For awhile in my career I was coming home around 7, and my wife still reminds me about it from time to time, and is thankful I come home earlier now.
"Kotlin should pick up some steam once a stable release comes around, they've done a good job cherry picking the best of Scala while avoiding the kitchen sink baggage"

I disagree. They picked mostly the easy features like lambdas or null-safety, while they deliberately left out the game-changing features like implicits or type-classes. So Kotlin is just a better Java, with the amount of "betterness" significantly reduced now by Java 8.
Lol, this seriously took me by suprise. I'm currently developing a HackerNews with tags (you can self host it). I quickly generated this Google Form, if you are interested for being a beta user in the nearby future

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UeSD11hrjwhsVbbPiv63VZBrEcz...

PS. Screenshot included + it's already in alpha in a company with 100 users.
I just downloaded it, and it is not intercepting anything? what setups should I do for it? Charles works out of the box!!
Tell that to NYC. We have numbered streets. We have the same numbered street in a Street, Road, Drive, Terrace, and Avenue designation. Sometimes within a block of each other. Here in Queens, you can drive north along 23rd St and cross 23rd Terrace, 23rd Dr, 23rd Rd, and then 23rd Ave.
Couldn't agree more. The post is very well written and reads like a poem, but the message is terrible on all counts. It sounds like a soldier being forced to go to battle crying for the family he leaves behind, where in fact it's entirely his own choices. And if it's some sort of an internal torment, being torn between two passions that conflict with one another, then I would suggest he gets a grip and decide which sacrifices he wants to make and which he doesn't and find the right balance.

It's probably my first negative comment on HN, but as a new father of a 6 months son, and a co-founder of a startup, this just irritates me. I spend 2-3 days per week working from home, being able to take a lunch break with my wife, or change nappies for my son or feed him in the morning before hacking away. I catch up later at night when he sleeps, but generally manage my time well between those two. I'm not a perfect father and not the most successful entrepreneur, but these are the choices I made and the challenges I face. I think it's important for my son that I'm going to be around, but also that he has a father that is proud of his work and enjoys what he does.
In Scheme, SRFI 105[1] gives the ability to do math with infix operators. There's no reason you can't have your cake and eat it too!

[1]: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-105/srfi-105.html
This is one of the areas where I think PG has it completely wrong. Sure if you're a 20-something with no kids/life and only care about your startup, you can code 24/7. But many of us don't fit into this stereotypical startup-founder box that PG and others have created.

Some of us have kids, some have partners, some have ... a life!

Does PG really want a bunch of code obsessed, single minded founders with no hobbies or life outside of their startup? I can't imagine he does, and as a result he should revise some of his advice.

If PG is looking to make a quick buck, churn and burn founders than it all makes sense. But if PG is looking to help founders build sustainable businesses, he should be telling them to clock out, and open your eyes to the world (and people) around you.
I can do that just fine, must be your browser interfering.
The same might be said for the static site generators themselves :)
That's a great point. JRebel's the kind of tool I imagine a lot of middle-sized (not startup sized, not yet enterprise) codebases probably haven't evaluated, so I'd imagine it's tied to MySQL being a frequent choice for new apps and the quick choice for a one-off internal app in the enterprise.

While this is anecdotal, like you I've find the DBs most of the Java apps I encounter aren't MySQL, but a mix of Postgres, MSSQL and Oracle.
I think that's more of a reflection of the RebelLabs blog readership than the Java developer community at large. Their products as well as their blog, are geared mostly to web developers.
Wow that Kress guy is really missing the point. He keeps yelling true things without realizing that they're irrelevant.
There are a lot of 'match.com' and other dating websites advertised on trains. I guess that their predominance there is for a reason so you just might be onto something.

London is the key market to get right to make it work in the UK. Once you have London then things should be easy.

Maybe you need to take your idea to some place such as the Metro or Evening Standard. They have a similar vested interest in the London commuter thing and they are losing out to gadgets at the moment. A dating app could serve their interests if it also took people to their online news content. Plus they have the million or so readers needed for the app to get traction. A profile need not be as extensive as on a normal dating site as it would be more about time and place. Once the profile is made then, when you browse the rest of the Metro/Evening Standard (waiting for those dates to come in) then they get a good idea of who might want to sell you ads. Great, more targeted advertising - rejoice!!!

One problem is the 'I am going to be stalked as soon as I get off this train' factor. So you could change the rules so that only men have a public profile and any women can browse the available men, drop a 'virtual handkerchief' and allow the app to reveal their profile to those they choose.

I know it is not 'Neighbourhood Watch'/Suzy Lamplugh fear any more in the UK, however, your dating app could allow someone to have their best friend know where they are when they are on a date. If they were going on a random-train-date then this might be useful.

If you watched that Panorama programme on dating websites - and the fake profiles - you will know the dating website business model. This is to have subscribers paying for as long as possible, i.e. not finding dates. If you follow HN you will know about the advertiser funded 'Plenty of Fish' and how much money was to be made there by not having the 'classic' model.

Returning to The Metro, they already have a feature where people can have messages about 'the guy with the whatever on the 185' and so forth. If a similar per-train message board existed, of which extracts were in the Metro, then that could be an idea...
I suppose I could. I was going for the "Tropic Thunder" line. But really, political correctness? Has anyone ever called an actually mentally handicapped person "retarded" in the past thirty years?
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We also use Fastspring and they're great
At n=32 the performance costs are as negligible as dynamic typing once was (even less I'd argue.) As far as I can tell that very much puts us at the point in time where mutable state is usually a premature optimization.

Adopting it successfully does require separating essential from accidental state which naturally leads to some variant of FRP being adopted to manage (re-)derivation of accidental state; which is usually the hard to explain part.

I am wondering what you do see systems people doing by the way? I'm always interested in broadening my perspective on this.
I’ve not used Keepassx, but I have no trouble pasting from Lastpass…
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GA is not being injected into pages. it's only tracking the times you click on the extension button.
I've haven't experienced the whine myself, but I've seen those complaints too.

GPU switching is the one thing I haven't really tried yet. I've stuck with the Intel chip. I've read that people have had success with Bumblebee. In fairness, I've also had a MacBook Pro with Fedora 19 on it, and GPU switching didn't work there either.

Suspend/resume work without issue, but I haven't installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers yet, and those have a tendency to mess up resume (at least it did on my MBP w/ Fedora 19).

I _imagine_ NVIDIA drivers + suspend/resume works just fine with Ubuntu. Any "non-free" drivers in Fedora are pretty iffy in my experience. Usually after installing the NVIDIA drivers from RPM Fusion GDM won't even start, or you have to edit the GRUB menu item to blacklist nouveau, or any number of things the package should theoretically take care of for you. I've not had that problem with Ubuntu (just other problems, like a UEFI install on say a MBP, something Fedora does flawlessly).

These are the kinds of reasons people just use Windows or OS X I guess.
He's referring more to a car that could charge in 5 minutes and go 60 miles.

As I have an EV, that's closer to my current scenario of charging (once they put in a charger in the office parking lot) 4 hours and going 90 miles. The tradeoff of reduced distance for superior charge time is...irritating.
I don't know browserify well but I'd assume having a compile step is the part that sucks. If you can use require.js style until shipping time you can debug the actual code directly instead of the compiled code. You see each module in the debugger as its original file.
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It either means Android makes up only a small percentage of the total Java market... or the group used to create these statistics is not representative of the Java developer world as a whole.
> customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth

Holy crap, isn't that enough to do some social engineering and get a new credit card or something equally serious?!
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Personally I don't like the look of the code for Gradle. make, Ant and Maven I get, prefer Ant.
It's the new thing. The recent static site generator explosion left the "market" saturated and overwhelming. More and more people looking to get eyeballs on their work have eschewed the notion of "I'll make an SSG", and instead are saying "I'll make an SSG comparator". However, as this is already becoming a thing, I think I'll spend the holiday weekend creating a site to help you choose an SSG comparator - get ahead of the curve and all.
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This is also sort of how I operate.

I have one checking account that my paycheck goes into, and I pay monthly/yearly recurring bills out of this account. There is nothing online for this account, the only way money gets out is that I get my bank to send somebody a check.

I set up a weekly auto-transfer to a separate account which my wife and I carry around debit cards for. This is for groceries, gas, and personal shopping stuff, including online.
Shouldn't eBay have emailed all their customers by now? Why are we learning about this through a blog post?
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From the wife/kid's perspective - they want you to be happy, but they also want you to be present and engaged.

From my own experiences - obviously your mileage may vary - but your family (and especially your wife if you have young kids!) needs you to be present and engaged.

Yes, as others have said, PG has said that you could compress your working life into a few years but what if you're holding a losing lotto ticket at the end of the day? Because you are gambling with your time.

We all make compromises and sacrifices with our lives - and we all have to live with those choices. Whether these are "right" or "wrong" is really for the individual to decide.
> Java 8 (and 9 to come) is the elephant in the room, hopefully won't crush alternate JVM language adoption, diversity's a good thing.

While I agree, I also think that some of the less hardcore JVM languages (Kotlin, Ceylon etc) were mainly developed because of how stale Java itself became / is; even Java 8 only adds very basic support and use cases for lambdas, mostly to retain backwards compatibility with existing libraries.
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Anonymizing user data is very very hard. See http://www.uclalawreview.org/?p=1353 Broken Promises of Privacy by prof. Paul Ohm. Also see the AOL search debacle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

AirBNB seems to be bound to release other data as well though, the document linked says:

"(3) for a period of twelve (12) months from completion of production of anonymized data Airbnb shall further comply with the subpoena by producing the (a) name, e-mail address, telephone numbers, social media account information; (b) website user name, HostID, listing ID; (c) unit/apartment number(s); and (d) tax identification number(s) for individual users about whom anonymized data is produced pursuant to paragraph 2 above and who are then the subjects of an investigation or potential enforcement action by NYAG or the NYC office of special enforcement."

So it looks as if this is just the beginnings of a much more detailed request and that second request will not be anonymous at all.
No, that doesn't work: if you really think that is a good argument, then everyone is also a fool for believing "enter your password here to log in"; remember that you are answering a password reset challenge question at the same site you would normally enter your password.
Oh for fucks sake, go home. This is your kid we're talking about. If getting a 9 to 5 job means spending more time with your kid, I promise you won't regret it. Better yet, keep your start up, just work a regular day. You only think you need to work long hours. You don't. You'll be more productive just working a regular schedule.

I can't believe we're even debating this. Reality check people: Your kids should come before your job.
"In addition to passwords, the database contained basic login information like name, email, phone number, address and date of birth, but officials stressed that, aside from the passwords, no confidential or personal information was included in the breach."

Date of birth. Many businesses and agencies ask for that, and or the other items listed in that sentence, over the phone to provide a fig leaf of security.
> Not exactly a geological timescale

A. Humans don't live on a geological timescale

B. .com TLD's are in the formidable first ~15 years of socializing the web the mass public.
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Week 1: "We have no reason to believe that any confidential information has been compromised."

Week 2: "We have observed some limited and negligible instances of credit card information being compromised that coincidentally happened to be linked to eBay accounts. We consider this purely coincidental and feel it is no cause for concern."

Week 3: "Oh god they took everything."