skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about the anarchy, but I don't see the burning world. I don't see hackers and cheaters "taking over" bitcoin.

An account was compromised, and despite there being no government regulation, the exchange stepped in, protected their customer, rolled back the trades and protected the market.

That is anarchy exactly! But no burning world. And it is yet another realworld test that has been successfully met by the bitcoin idea.

I'm not sold on bitcoins viability, due to questions about the larger marketability and having not done an audit of the software. But from an economic perspective, bitcoin is a viable currency, or as close to meeting all the requirements that any non-physical currency can.
There's an alleged database dump of Mt Gox floating around... https://twitter.com/#!/954/status/82531189705019392

UPDATE: looks legit.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0

https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell...
The entire account database was also leaked:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0
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Also worth noting that if I go to connect with facebook and hit don't allow because I don't want your wall posts, I get faced with the weirdest rendered page in the history of today, that simultaneously has all and none of the info.
You're not, but apparently it's sacrilege to have done so, hence the downvotes LOL.
I wonder if now's the time to think about what happens when an API provider goes away. Since APIs are the DDLs of the web, it would a good idea to have replacements. That's why I like OpenStack.
It's fun that Symbolics would probably still be here today,if they just registered one more domain at the time.
Passwords seem to be hashed. I think this is to be expected since this is such a techy thing (currency?), but still nice to know. Now whether they are hashed and whether the algorithm used is safe are a different story.
Maybe I wasn't very clear: the post made it sound like the point of the "hack" was to identify and recruit talent (i.e. if you were interested in the book you were probably talented). Dealing with physical books, on campus, obviously limits the pool of potential talent. Something like Kindle's notes (or its next, more refined, version) could not only identify who might be talented (i.e. who had read the book), but the notes/bookmarks/highlights could also provide insight into just how talented someone was, whether that person was on MIT's campus or was some kid living in a village in India.
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The original BLAST paper has >34,000 incoming links or references, according to Google Scholar.

http://www2.cs.fit.edu/~dmitra/Compbio/Resources/altschuleta...

Edit: see replies, etc.
I think they were very lucky. Quite frankly I hope people take note of these near-misses and think a lot more about security.
it would appear to be salted md5.
http://evilrouters.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/accounts.c...
Mt Gox database compromised
Ah, true, taking advantage of market glitches. I should add some positions for that, too :-)
Both the title of the article (headline) and the statement you highlighted, are valid guesses. The number of citations of that paper was 275,669 as of January 2004; quite possibly over 300K by now. For comparison, the most cited article in CS, Rubin's paper on EM, has about 12K citations in ISI. What additional fields of academia (outside of science) did you have in mind?
So it was... I confirmed my username is in there but at least passwords are hashed. Luckily, I never added an email address and used a different Username and pw than I do everywhere else. Gotta take precautions with bitcoin!
No, I just don't consider people with strange Christian beliefs to be my friends.
The number of citations of this JBC article is closer to 300K, so it has a safe order of magnitude more citations than the BLAST paper.
We shouldn't be surprised by this. This monetary have no authority behind it.
Quite public. At least passwords seem to be hashed, though.
sinzone, is that you? =)
See also: http://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-web-apps-have-AJAX-response...
> and despite there being no government regulation, the exchange stepped in, protected their customer, rolled back the trades and protected the market

You know that's basically the same thing - central entity with overarching authority exerts its will over the market, canceling transactions it's deemed 'fraudulent' between two independent consenting entities. "Free hand of the market" ain't present here, chief - this is regulation.
Damn, I'm in there. Glad I used a generated password (from LastPass) so I don't have to change my passwords on a lot of various sites.
Did you not read the outcome? The accounts are being rolled back while other exchanges are operating fine. These kinks have to be worked out and it's better late than never - even though it's relatively early.
> The speediness you get is algorithmic.

Don't you mean asymptotic?
If you have to be a security expert to own more than a few dollars worth of bitcoins, the project has effectively failed already.

Why?

It's true that key management and security are not as good as they could be in the official client, but that doesn't mean the project has failed, merely that the client needs to be improved.
Where in the claims did you see adaptive encoding? It seems to be describing any sort of load balancing of media servers based on network throughput to the client. Do bit-torrent clients do that? Or do they just throttle their own response to a peer based on the p2p throughput? In any case claim 1 is overly broad and is obvious. I hope someone digs up prior art and gets it invalidated.
The only thing I've ever regretted in my life is not going and doing a startup right out of high-school. In hind sight I already know it failed, but I still regret it. School will always be there IMHO.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if this "Tranz-Send Broadcasting Network" would turn out to be owned by a number of holding companies eventually leading to MAFIAA. Maybe they just bought a company with a remotely applicable generic patent merely to attack BitTorrent. It would fit in the style and civility of actions they've exhibited in the last decade.
Yes, although some of them (especially for older accounts, which probably haven't been logged into in a while) appear to be unsalted MD5. That's not unusual: it probably means that MtGox used unsalted MD5 at some point in the past and was upgrading people's passwords in-place after a successful login.

It's worth noting that crypt-ed MD5 (which appears to be what's in use here) is fairly weak on modern hardware when compared to an alternative like BCrypt. There's some basic information available on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crypt_%28Unix%29&#...
I really think this is a great niche. I do some contract work (when not working on my startup :)) and I can remember creating my first proposal from scratch and being somewhat overwhelmed. Not because anything in particular was all that difficult, just that there were lots of details that needed to get right, and then it needed to be formatted and professional looking. The second proposal was a million times easier b/c I had the first as a reference.

Some constructive criticism based on my first visit to the site:

- I really wanted to see an example final proposal, right away. I never did find one. I guess you have to sign up to see one? That seems like expecting too much from someone who doesn't know if they want to use your service yet.

- I didn't get what the 'negotiation' features where about. The site mentions the ability to get parts of the proposal approved or discussed with a client, but I think you need to describe that a bit more up front. I'm hesistant to ask a client to do very much work to give me a contract, so I'd need to know exactly what the client would need to do to use that feature. Sure, I could figure it out by signing up and playing with that feature, but I'd rather you just tell me. (As your potential customer, I don't want to have to do very much work to decide if I want to give you money :))
Haskell is extremely extensible. In beginner tutorials, it's normal to implement subsets of other languages (Perl, Javascript, Lisp) as exercises. Often, the game seems to be making a domain-specific language uniquely suited to the problem you're working on.
Symbolics.com was bought by domain squatter XF investments in 2009... some information here about that (though price is undisclosed)
http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/27/25-years-later-first-regist...
I'm a history teacher, with Master's degrees in both History and Education, and what McCullough says here deeply resonates with me.

History, though, is only part of what you are concerned with, as a high school teacher, and increasingly it is not the most important.

Take, for example, my student teaching experience. When I asked a supervisor whether I should focus on Industrialization or Urbanization, or whether I would have enough time to take a detour to discuss the "robber barons," I was told that it didn't matter what I taught them. It didn't matter if I never got to the Cold War, as was written in the curriculum map, and it didn't matter if we covered Vanderbilt but not Edison, or if I spent a week on the First World War but only a day on the Civil War.

"The only thing that matters is that you teach them how to write," she said.

You see, our school was being examined by the state (Connecticut), and our standardized test scores were low. History teachers were openly referred to as "secondary english teachers," and our purpose was to teach children to write essays with thesis sentences. Every week, we were to devote class time to writing lessons, go over things such as topic sentences, conclusion paragraphs, editing, grammar, etc. Never mind that the kids have nothing to write about, nothing to say, because they haven't actually engaged with the world in any meaningful way. They could have been writing VCR instruction manuals.

History isn't tested on standardized tests. It isn't tested because no one cares. Writing is important because it gets you a job. History never gets anyone a higher salary (with the possible exception of history teachers), and so who gives a shit?

You have no idea how demoralizing it was to see the subject I love, that I passionately believe in, degraded in this way. Who cares what you teach? It's all a bunch of useless bullshit anyway, right?

Our problem with history is a symptom of our problem with education, which is that we don't know what it's for. We don't know, or can't decide, why we still adhere to the classical, liberal form of education. When little Joan or Sam or Miguel looks up at us and asks why he has to learn about Thomas Edison, the administrators of our school systems have no idea what to tell them. They don't say that the world is more interesting, more vivid, more meaningful, when you understand how it works. They don't say that we only understand ourselves when we understand where we come from. They don't say that much of popular culture has roots in historical precedents, and that understanding historical references opens up a whole new level of cultural understanding. They don't say that all Americans have a civic duty to understand their own past, and they don't say that understanding the past is the only way to avoid repeating our worst atrocities.

They say that it will all help them get a good job.

And that's total bullshit, and the kids know it.
Sounds like it might be a lot of responsibility to lay on someone.
Thank you, your response means a lot to me. Do you think the figures I talked about are exaggerated?
Exactly right.

A couple years ago someone asked me to build him a product that would simulate sunrise: basically just gradually fade up a few high-power LEDs. The only thing I found that worked was a very gradual logarithmic-type fade. Even so, I had to prolong the curve at the low end. It turns out that human vision can detect small changes at low light levels, but at high brightness it takes a big step change to register.

Probably old-hat to trained lighting engineers, but I learned a lot doing such a seemingly simple project.
What is the point of down votes without explanation?
Nice :) But still, there is a bit difference with or without the umlauts on the o's:

there's gombóc (=dumpling), probably from gomb (=button, knot) plus diminutive,

and

gömböc, from gömb (=sphere) with diminutive. "Kis gömböc" is the "meatball" that eats up everyone, until he bursts, in an old folk tale, probably the source of the name here. Ultimately I guess both words are from the same root.

http://www.google.com/search?q=A+kis+g%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gomb%C3%B3c
(Dis)/agree? can a site based on a premium theme be part of a dev's portfolio?
I wanted to know opinions - if it's fair to put a bunch of WordPress based sites on a developer's portfolio page?
It's entirely free market for an exchange to have its own set of rules and regulation.

Yes, for some time MtGox was The Exchange. It seems that it just ended.
I'm the author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript, and I run @coffeescript on Twitter.

I like this site. The official CoffeeScript wiki on GitHub has some good content, but it's fairly scattered; no one has taken an intense interest in it. It's what happens when the main source of wiki contributions is people on an issue tracker saying "Let's add this to the wiki." A good wiki needs to have some organizing principle behind it, and the Cookbook's how-to ethos is clearly striking a chord with a lot of folks.

Of course, the Cookbook is only a few weeks old; its main page is a mixture of welcome and sorry-about-the-mess, and it still lacks a strong sense of focus. Some topics feel superfluous ("Converting Radians to Degrees") while others are undercovered (only two short pages on jQuery?).

Also, I find it a little alarming that the first page listed on the TOC is "Embedding JavaScript"—I feel like the page should more or less just say, "Don't do this!" And what's with all the classical OO design patterns? (A bunch more are listed on the "Wanted Recipes" page.) Yes, CoffeeScript adds classes, but a lot of those design patterns are just plain unnecessary in the land of JS. Adding Java-esque boilerplate would be a huge step backwards.

Still, I'm optimistic. As CoffeeScript gains popularity, it's likely that the Cookbook will grow to become an important resource.
The self righting designs I'm familiar with for (large) dinghies have a lot of lead in the bottom of the boat combined with a lot of built in buoyancy - they'd probably self right deep underwater.
I would argue that it's not the same thing, since people use Mt.Gox voluntarily. We can expect no-rollback exchanges to appear any day now.
And therein lies the seed of the eternal cat-and-mouse game that is key management.

Technically, each layer of security you impose is also an impediment to the bitcoin market's liquidity.
My concern is that politicians will want to respond to allay the fears of the average person an act rashly and do something that doesn't actually make things more secure and just causes headaches for everyone.
> central entity with overarching authority exerts its will over the market

MtGox certainly is not central authority. If you stop being their customer, they will have just to live with that.
You don't necessarily have to be a security expert to use Bitcoins, just if you want to run the client by yourself.

If you don't have the required knowledge just pay a little bit to a "Bitcoin bank" that handles the task for you. In the real world you also don't carry your money with you all the time, but store it on a bank.
I would hire a web designer for many things, product design wouldn't necessarily be one of them.

Again you are taking a small subpart of design and trying to make it the de facto standard of design. It's not.

Even if we where to use that subpart even within "web-design" there is a style component and a problem solving component just as there is a communication component.

Even if you design a CLI you are designing. It's pretty important what type you use, what colors you use and so one. Not for style purpose but for actual usefulness of the interface.
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As long as you/he states the kind of work done (slicing, theming, adding plugins etc) I think it's pretty fair.
CoffeeKup is great for layouts, but it's very Haml-esque. I think it suffers from many of the issues described in "Haml Sucks for Content" (http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/02/08/haml-sucks-f...). Markdown/Textile are really better-suited to a wiki.
What do you hope to get out of a degree that you don't have already?
Clinical depression has different causes. Even when it is neurochemical it could be an imbalance of dopamine or serotonin or norepinephrine or something else entirely. There's no one pill that works for everyone, or even most everyone.
I don't know specifically about tech companies but the hedge fund I work for will lend and match up to very large amounts of money that you put into the fund.

It really helps to motivate you when you realize that most of your net worth is tied up in the fund:)

Stock options to hot pre IPO companies like Facebook, twitter, etc are very similar. It's hard to leave before all your options vest( and they never do as you always get a new grant each year) as it's always in the back of your mind that the big IPO is just around the corner.
It seems like what's wanted is something close to: the shortest equation that produces an output interpretable as the input text ("interpretable" at least by captcha standards, perhaps). To make that more formal, would require some model of the range of shapes that are interpretable as Latin letters by a typical reader.
Regulation would be okay... maybe something forbidding the storage of plain-text passwords, special instructions for hashing, a special protocol for (not) storing credit card numbers... Like a security 101...
There are 1766 hashes that are 32 characters in base-16 (probably MD5, possibly with a site-wide salt) and 59245 hashes that are 34 characters in base-66 (appears to be an MD5-based crypt(3) hash).

EDIT: Ops, I missed some hashes.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to plug "The Children" by David Halberstam: http://www.amazon.com/Children-David-Halberstam/dp/044900439...

Instead of following the historical figures that you know best, such as King, it follows the students who were the ground troops in the civil rights movement. What Halberstam makes abundantly clear is how dangerous what they were doing was. Simply, they could have been killed. Some of them very nearly were. And there were people killed, but they obviously weren't around for Halberstam to interview. The corollary to that is he drives home how naked some of the violence against the protestors was.

Something I took away is how sanitized the teaching of the civil rights movement has become. By doing that, we diminish what those young people actually did, and we conveniently forget how cruel humans can be.

Personally, I think history is best taught when it has a narrative. Hence, textbooks are not good at teaching history. Books with a focused topic - which hopefully implies a focused narrative - are much more compelling. I recognize that's probably not helpful to a high school teacher. I started reading history books, on my own, in college.
Wow, thanks so much for wording out your thoughts in such detail here.

Absolutely, I think your very spot on with your analysis. Your experience of your own college life does sound very familiar. Shutting myself off from everything was the only way to get something working.

Yes, the fact that many of the people teaching me, never went through any similar patterns was a big problem for me. Not that I don't like to be given advice from someone, I was just having trouble if it is coming from someone with little background.

Thanks on the kind words on managing the degree and the startup. I think, I am fortunately doing a degree (Management at a Business School) where you can easily sneak through exams and still get decent marks.

Absolutely, even though one tries to say "All thoughts are my own" they never quite are and if you are living under the same roof with your parents it is even more difficult.

Never heard that this was the way Jefferson imagined it, but very true, that's exactly how I think it should be. Simply using the environment and forgetting about actual classes.

Thanks for this great discussion here, you have given me much comfort in my doing. I hope to chat with you more in the future. If you get a chance, hit me up @LeoWid on Twitter, would love talk more. :)
I'd have to disagree with the recommendation for Darcs. I haven't seen any pretty code in Darcs, and some of it is incredibly hairy (the HTTP download module using Curl is pretty horrific).
There are UNSALTED md5 hashes in there.
1, and even that is too many.
Pretty solid look at the problems with building products for specific audiences. It's almost like you have to put up the fence, let the kids play, and see what world they carve out.
If all you can see is the MD5 hash value, how can you tell that it was unsalted?
And who gets to decide which trades are rolled back? By what criteria?
Do they? It's by far the largest BTC exchange - by a factor of ~50 or so. If you want to exchange more than a couple hundred BTC, they're the only game in town right now.
They banned their device from the web--Apple could ban their app from the device. (not that they should)
What do you mean by little people. Curious. Literally little or small minded?
The scenario presented here seems to mistake the Web for the Internet.

Before the Web was invented, Usenet (and to a lesser extent, WAIS and Gopher) was a thriving protocol, with relatively large numbers of people participating daily. Usenet was my first introduction to the Internet, and for years, it was to me what Facebook is to many people now.

There were MUDs where we spent many late hours engaged with other Internet users around the world, and yes, our email systems were on the Internet.

Thousands of independent ISPs were thriving before the Web came along, most having gotten their start as dial-up BBSes. Each provided access to a wealth of Internet services.

For that matter, hyperlinking was already commonplace in Gopher, and fairly mature in Hypercard.

CD-ROMs were introducing rich multimedia experiences before the Web came along, and it doesn't take much of an imagination to move from CD-ROMs and Gopher to something very similar to the Web we know today.

It's fun to imagine alternate dystopian histories, but the one described here is far-fetched, to say the very least.
"Being smart is good but being lucky is better."

This article is actually good.
This is getting ridiculous, these guys need to be tracked down, these are no longer lame DoS attacks, this is theft.

Damn kids, they are alike.
The crypt'ed MD5 hashes have a special prefix which indicates that's what they are.

For the other hashes, the fact that there's no nonce or other value stored alongside them was a strong hint (although it doesn't rule out a site-wide nonce). However, I confirmed my suspicion by Googling one of the hashes: it was on a list of unsalted hashes that had been brute forced (unrelated to this, the password was fairly common).