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A couple of years ago a server management application called HyperVM had a 0day due to some questionable programming, hundreds of thousands of websites were los

A couple of years ago a server management application called HyperVM had a 0day due to some questionable programming, hundreds of thousands of websites were lost along with a lot of money... the next day the creator took his own life. A lot of people are going to be in a very bad position right now (both customers and people inside mtgox), let's hope it doesn't come to that.

kyrra 13y ago
According to this[0] the HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. [0] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/25559-hypervm-boss-hangs-himself-after-exploit-damages-100000-websites http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/25559-hyperv...
- blazespin 13y ago
  oh, well, that's alright then.
- napoleond 13y ago
  I'm having trouble understanding what you think the relevance of that might be. Obviously, when someone commits suicide, that decision ultimately rests on their shoulders and is borne of their experience/history/state/what-have-you. GP was trying to make a broader point about the difference in levels of significance between a catastrophic business fuck-up and the wasting of human life, a conflation that people without family histories of suicide make all the time.
  - kyrra 13y ago
    On the general point my original parent was trying to make, I totally agree. People throwing away their lives over a business fuck-up is a waste. I just wanted to search on the story and saw that point was made in the article I linked, and thought it was an interesting point to that specific case.
- pekru 13y ago
  > HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. Seems so. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ But more than that, in his own words, he was a "man of excesses." Here is his archived blog (http://echoreply.us/ligesh.com/ligesh.com/about/index.html http://echoreply.us/ligesh.com/ligesh.com/about/index.html)
panarky 13y ago
October 19, 1987 was "Black Monday" as US equity markets crashed. A number of Wall Street bankers defenestrated themselves because they lost so much money. I hope that customers of MtGox don't do the same thing when they realize how much they've lost. I also hope Karpeles doesn't harm himself, though we should have at least as much concern for the customers as we have for the proprietor.
- djur 13y ago
  There were no suicides associated with the 1987 Black Monday crash. You're thinking of Black Tuesday in 1929, a much bigger event. Even so, nobody jumped out any windows on Black Tuesday -- it was an urban legend. There were a handful of suicides but nothing statistically significant.

kyrra 13y ago

According to this[0] the HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. [0] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/25559-hypervm-boss-hangs-himself-after-exploit-damages-100000-websites http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/25559-hyperv...

blazespin 13y ago
oh, well, that's alright then.
napoleond 13y ago
I'm having trouble understanding what you think the relevance of that might be. Obviously, when someone commits suicide, that decision ultimately rests on their shoulders and is borne of their experience/history/state/what-have-you. GP was trying to make a broader point about the difference in levels of significance between a catastrophic business fuck-up and the wasting of human life, a conflation that people without family histories of suicide make all the time.
- kyrra 13y ago
  On the general point my original parent was trying to make, I totally agree. People throwing away their lives over a business fuck-up is a waste. I just wanted to search on the story and saw that point was made in the article I linked, and thought it was an interesting point to that specific case.
pekru 13y ago
> HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. Seems so. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ But more than that, in his own words, he was a "man of excesses." Here is his archived blog (http://echoreply.us/ligesh.com/ligesh.com/about/index.html http://echoreply.us/ligesh.com/ligesh.com/about/index.html)

panarky 13y ago

October 19, 1987 was "Black Monday" as US equity markets crashed. A number of Wall Street bankers defenestrated themselves because they lost so much money. I hope that customers of MtGox don't do the same thing when they realize how much they've lost. I also hope Karpeles doesn't harm himself, though we should have at least as much concern for the customers as we have for the proprietor.

djur 13y ago
There were no suicides associated with the 1987 Black Monday crash. You're thinking of Black Tuesday in 1929, a much bigger event. Even so, nobody jumped out any windows on Black Tuesday -- it was an urban legend. There were a handful of suicides but nothing statistically significant.