skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, let's break down the theory here.

Traditional banks take deposits of USD, loan them out using fractional reserve, and fail if depositors all simultaneously run to the bank and close their account. Banks need loans to pay operating costs (I suppose) so any economy (specifically, currency) with loans going on will need deposit insurance, i.e. all banks will eventually end up subsidiaries of a single enormous bank - the Federal Reserve.

MtGox does not do loans. In fact, BTC loans are so risky that no large scale lending happens in BTC. Unless MtGox embezzled funds or shredded BTC (see below), they will ultimately have the ability to honor all payment requests and _still_ have their profits.

It is possible they've had some sort of error which has irretrievably sent BTC to random addresses where it can't feasibly be recovered. If this is true, they should say so.

On their USD side, they are struggling and may have chosen to use some BTC deposits to generate USD funds to accelerate payouts. However, I find this unlikely since their USD payout problem has only gotten worse. I may be wrong; if MtGox is trying to play with their deposits, they should say so.

In other words, check your assumptions. And MtGox of course has always had a problem with communication.
Thanks, I've changed the link now.
Not sure how you can be so confident there's no other issue. I certainly hope you are right, though...
"This is only true if supply is easily increased. The percentage of the population willing and able to be trained as software developers appears to be strongly inelastic."

If the salaries of software developers go up relative to the salaries of Wall Street analysts or neurosurgeons, more smart young people will quickly start going into CS. Conversely, if word gets out that tech companies are doing everything they can to hold salaries down while making their employees work long hours, fewer people will major in CS. The number of people willing to enter a field is a function of the job prospects in that field. Also, people in other fields who already write code as part of their jobs (e.g., scientists using NumPy) wouldn't be that hard to train as software developers. I've known some excellent software developers who used to be scientists.

"If a company is willing to pay above market rates to import a developer from another country, doesn't that imply that there is indeed a lack of local talent?"

If a company has been caught illegally colluding with other companies to artificially hold down the salaries of local employees, wouldn't you be somewhat suspicious that its goal in importing more workers (increasing the supply of workers and thus the competition among workers for jobs) might also be to keep down the price of labor?

An alternative would be to offer higher salaries, at which point they'd have a much better chance of recruiting developers from other parts of the U.S. to move to Silicon Valley, which is one of the most expensive places in the country to live. If a Silicon Valley company offered me 50% more than what I'm making now, my standard of living would probably decline, especially due to the quality of housing I could afford within easy commuting distance of work.
Apple, recently Microsoft and now Google are either making or stake holders in PC manufacturing. So much for post-PC era.
great point! I'll try and remember to keep that in mind for anything else, and/or update that in the future.
That if you care about what's on paper, yeah, Russia is worse than the US.

But if you care about facts on the ground—what people do, not what they say—then the US is worse than Russia.

I have no idea about any of the facts, but that's what I took to be what he was saying.
Wasn't there a seizure of a portion of their USD funds though? That would affect their ability to refund all their customers.
If you're an average journalist, it does. That looks exactly like in those hacker movies, after all.
MtGox does not loan out currency. Unless they've embezzled funds or shredded BTC (see below), they will ultimately have the ability to honor all payment requests and _still_ have their profits.

Or unless they were hacked, and simply don't have the BTC anymore.
I specifically addressed why that would not affect their BTC payouts.
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They use wallets in cold storage. Perhaps an insider could make off with the BTC.

I'm seriously not defending MtGox. I'm affected by this. But if we're speculating, at least speculate credibly. :)
How does anyone thing doing ANYTHING on MtGox is a good idea? They've had enough issues that they've been verbed: Goxed.
It's not a rebuttal, it's just pointing out that while it is useful to know about logical fallacies, simply citing them does not an argument make. Worse, citing a logical fallacy is often employed by those who are lazy and aren't genuinely addressing a given argument.
Agree with the language or not, it's the kind of thing that Google fears. Though things have changed a lot since 1998 and being bundled is nowhere near as important as it was then. Hell, PCs and laptops aren't as important as they were then.

Really, the situation Google needs to keep pressure on, to prevent a modern equivalent to what happened to Netscape, was almost acted out with Maps on iOS.

As for whether the case had any merit.. ok? What I said doesn't rely on the case having merit. Like I said, MS admitted to doing this.
I stopped using Gox long ago because of the fiat withdrawal issues. Their reign as the king of the Bitcoin markets boggles my mind. Like Bitinstant, somehow the fact that they were among the first in this space has engendered undying loyalty in the face of outrageous problems that would be instant business killers for any site other than themselves.

It's a fascinating study in brand loyalty, but is also ultimately hurtful to the Bitcoin community. Customer acceptance of Gox's mediocrity will only ensure that these and even more egregious issues continue to occur.
They should at least remove trading fees for a while, that's the least they can do to please the customers.
Well Lenovo acquired Motorola off of Google, so Lenovo is technically not just in the PC manufacturing game anymore.
Ask HN: How tarnished is this domain name?
I have a project I've been pretty excited about, which is basically building a Hacker News for the education profession. I tried to register educatornews.org, only to find it had been registered a few months before. I saw that it wasn't being used, so I wrote to the registrant. He had no real plans for it, so he happily transferred it to me at no cost. He told me, however, that he had used it to run a mailserver and it might be on some blacklists.

I thought little of it until I emailed a friend about the project for the first time. My email was rejected, and when I looked at the rejection message, this is the error I saw:

The error that the other server returned was:
550 An address in this message (at educatornews . org) is listed on sbl-multi.rbl.spamrl.com. Please organise removal and retry.

I found a page that claims to help a domain get removed from the SURBL blacklist, but I have no idea how legitimate this is: http://www.surbl.org/faqs#whitelist

Does anyone have any experience dealing with domains that have been blacklisted because of use by a previous registrant? Should I try to get it de-listed? Should I abandon the domain and find one that has never been used? I don't want new users' registration emails to be blocked because of these issues.
> all that's happened is another bug

Yes, all that's happened is a bug that completely halted trading at a financial service managing millions and millions of dollars worth of assets.

At every point in the sad journey of Mt Gox -- from expertly storing passwords in plaintext (EDIT: actually it was unsalted MD5 hashes, but still, jesus christ) to this awful business of freezing the entire exchange -- the bitcoin community has fallen all over itself to forgive and excuse them.

How much is too much? You people should be calling for someone's head on a damn platter.
I'm not saying it was arbitrary from regulator's side. I am saying it would be arbitrary for you because you won't know if you're in the wrong or not.

>>> but when you're making C-level salaries, I'm sorry but you're expected to figure out if you're committing a crime or not.

I'm not sure how it has anything to do with the salary. I'm sure whichever lawyers OKed this practice - and I would find it very hard to believe hundreds of companies would just decide to wing it without asking a lawyer - I'm sure they were paid enough. They just thought it'd be OK, but they were wrong. How the salary helps to deal with that? Unless you're claiming the salary is just compensation for the possibility of being jailed for something you have no idea you were doing wrong. In which case I'd prefer a system with more transparent laws and lower CEO salaries.
I'm curious, why this isn't insider trading?

Edit: I misread the post, they did buy it after the announcement which means it's public knowledge
The packages we typically use have shown a few rough edges when we took 1.7a1 for a test drive, so we submitted some pull requests and that was that.

It took us about an hour to get the site up on 1.7a1. This announcement came too late today to try 1.7a2 yet.
This is fantastic. Safety in public places will increase and increase over time. I cannot wait.

Surveillance is the new fear of nuclear weapons. In both cases, new technology generates a huge frothy paranoia among the public which does not, in the end, amount to anything.

This is because the public feeds on fear and discounts reassuring information. The net effect of nuclear weapons has been, instead, quite positive--bringing about a cessation of world wars.
Anyway to talk to you by email? Your website is difficult to navigate
Atmospheric river to bring heavy rain to Northern California this weekend
Interesting how many buildings were clearly hit by bombs, burned out and still didn't collapse into their own footprint as tall buildings are known to do.
As opposed to other winners of Russian singer contests which are regularly given extensive coverage in prime time on CNN. Come on. 99% of US population probably don't know Russia has American Idol-like program, and of those who do, 99% don't care who won it.
Asteroid strikes Mars, makes incredible starburst design
"Our" affair is over? Gee, too bad my household does not know it yet and a 2 year old laptop has been demoted to kids machine for playing Minecraft... _Our_ love affair with a PC is over. Likely will never buy again.
Russia bans BTC
Notes from the presentation: http://andrewchen.co/2013/10/14/zero-to-productmarket-fit-pr...
Thank you for taking the time to post this (and format it.) I definitely appreciate it.

Not sure where I got the impression NASA had adopted such a dramatic shift in focus.
Because of this: "The purchase was made on the same day after Google announced that it had agreed to sell the Motorola brand to Lenovo for $2.91 billion"

The purchase was made after the announcement. Furthermore, it was part of the Motorola transaction itself, and Google didn't exactly gain anything in the short term (Lenovo shares tanked in the days following the transaction).
Lenovo had a thriving cell phone business already - but it served mainly Asia. Motorola gives them instant access to the NA market...
> the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

Let's not forget that MOST of the Japanese cities were actually destroyed, not just Hiroshima and Nagasaki. US army used incendiary bombs on Japanese cities, causing massive fires (and according death tolls in civilian populations, largely exceeding the people who died from atomic bombs) across the country in all large cities. The whole country was effectively destroyed.
I don't even care about the US 'Idol' contest...
China worried its moon rover is frozen
Google bought $750 million Lenovo stake on January 30: Hong Kong exchange
Very true. One of the things I love about Dr. Strangelove is how it's increasingly relevant today. Soon: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Surveillance"
Indeed, in computational chemistry there seems to be two classes of theorists. The first group attempts to simulate a realistic system using high performance computing and achieve, typically, agreement with existing experiments. The second group tries to think through problems and hopes to provide explanations that don't need the brute force approach. The former model often lacks both creativity and quantitative accuracy. The latter might be impossible for some chaotic or complex systems. I have to agree that having "theorists" who simply are trying to compute some quantity to match existing data must do so very carefully.
“We can’t even see what they are doing in their backyard. And, by the way, we don’t care.”

No, but you can see where those who attended the demonstration lives.
Work backwards
Is this baseless? I.e. it is known that both China and Russia (together with other ex-USSR space) has extensive and flourishing cybercrime economy, and enforcement there in that area is very weak. So I wonder for a random victim of cybercriminal what is the chance the latter is indeed a foreigner?

Also I assume the research was done before Snowden revelations, where it was known that foreign governments engage in cyberwarfare, but there was not known US government does the same and the US government denied it does. Reinforcing the image of the threat as the foreign one.
The HN mods are well known to munge titles pretty much at random.

It's really not clear what, if anything, can be done to stop them.
It's sad that this investigation was misleading at best, fraudulent at worst. But let's be serious for a moment. Using the local Wifi in Sochi, during the Olympics or or more likely than not at any other time, probably isn't all that safe of a thing to do. MITM, content modification, etc is quite likely to occur at drastically higher rates than in many other parts of the world. Russia is a hotbed of this kind of thing, and the vast influx of relatively wealthy Olympic visitors make a prime target.
No offence intended but it sounds to me like you just reimplemented the freenet protocol sans proxying with namecoin bolted on. Don't get me wrong the use of namecoin sounds like a good idea for this.

I have also been toying with the idea of a serverless XMPP chat client using gnunet for key exchange + namecoin as a dynamic dns. You could use something similar for dynamic content I would think.

I for one interested in looking at your code.
Vegas Gamblers Keep Vigil on Aging Slot Machine They Expect to Pay Off Millions
Wondering why C++ style has been followed, at least, for the * association with the type and not with the variable.
Screener or not screener is just as useless; so what are you hoping for exactly? (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa-screener-...)
I mount drives and use them with whatever IDE. The big problem for me is that if someone else changes a file, then often the text editor doesn't notice... but that's pretty much the case with text editors+ftp. But most ftp programs let you open files in whatever program and save them back.
That's a misstake I'v made, to not provide a demo. I'v recorded a quick screencast [0] how it looks and works that you can view.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivw7XEI8xDs
I can distinguish them - I just noticed I used the wrong one when I already submitted and was too lazy to fix it as I assumed everyone intelligent would deduce what I meant. I type fast and sometimes make typos and sometimes use wrong words if they sound alike because my fingers run ahead of my brain. Usually I catch it before submitting, sometimes I do not. This was the time where I didn't. If it prevents you from understanding the text - well, I'm sorry, I guess I can't get everyone. Some would just zero in on typos and ignore the message. Protip: I probably also used a bunch of articles wrong (my native language has none) and maybe some other grammar errors crept in too. It's OK for you to dismiss everything I wrote as nonsense.
It's not a question of "being smart enough." It's a question of focus and "having enough time." The CEO's job is to lead and delegate and manage, and to trust that the CFO and GC are on top of the details.

Also, while Tesla and SpaceX are great, I'm not sure I'd unquestioningly accept every word Elon Musk says as absolute fact.
Man travels 1,056 miles to claim bogus prize
it's not where you start, it's where you are in your 30s, particularly when you start thinking about starting a family or owning a home. This is a very expensive place to live, and having 1-2 roommates and still paying $1200-$1600 a month gets old.

if you want to have 2 kids, you're staring at a $600k+ condo, or a $1mm+ house; 2 cars; and daycare so you can both work. Plus 9% CA income tax. Oh, and if you ever want to retire, you're going to pay the state $1200/mo of rent just to be allowed to continue to live in the home you fully own (ps: don't take this the wrong way, I understand the state needs money, but $20k+ a year between property tax, insurance, utilities, and a handful of repairs is hard to budget into retirement.)

A couple I'm friends with just left to move back to MI. One was a developer with a masters from a top 10, making $140k. The partner was an account manager and made $90k, for a total of $230. The engineer took a paycut to $105 and the partner took a paycut to $60, for a total of $165. However, you can buy a pretty nice home for $350k; they live near family to help with daycare (saying $400/week for infant childcare); and taxes are lower. It's a much better deal for them. And again, to own a home, they need $100k+ as a downpayment and still have a housing/income ratio of 600/230 for a condo and 1100/230 = 4.8 for a detached house. Compare to MI where they have a housing/income ratio of 350/165 of 2.1. That makes an enormous difference in your financial lives, particularly as you think about savings, retirement, paying for college, etc.

So there is no "should" here. It's what do people need to be paid to live in an insane housing market with a busted ass public transport system, when there are far cheaper deals available elsewhere.
Apparently it was already #1 on the App Store before that, though. Pewdiepie's video was 10 days afterwards:
http://tabtimes.com/feature/tablet-game-business/2014/02/04/...

It's bizarre that the game has been out since May 2013, didn't do very well, and then suddenly went viral 8 months later. It'd be fascinating to see what exactly kicked it off.
> It is well researched, well written and provides citations and sources to its conclusions.

First, this white paper is horribly written in comparison to a real research paper or academic report. It seems to be written for the audience of a site such as Infowars, which, not surprisingly, is one of the main sites that have promoted this white paper.[1]

Second, I was mostly interested in the author's comparison of the rates of hate crimes committed against LGBT people in Russia and the US. Not surprisingly, the author simply compares rates reported by the SOVA Center and the FBI. Anyone who has studied criminology for five minutes knows that you can't adequately compare the levels of crime in different areas this way. The American Society of Criminology, the largest criminological association in the world, has stated this numerous times in their publications, including their policy statements[2] (which strongly recommend against using Unified Crime Reports (UCRs) to compare levels of crime in different cities that are located IN THE SAME COUNTRY).

> It is also written by a lawyer who identifies themselves as part of the LGBT community.

Yes, and Bjørn Lomborg is a lifelong environmentalist, which I also learned at Infowars.

The only mention of Brian M. Heiss, the author of the white paper, anywhere on the Internet[3][4] is this white paper. Please direct me to this author, which should be easy since he's apparently your favorite source regarding this issue. I would never cite a source whose existence I couldn't prove.

> Letting the media tell you what to think

Are Amnesty International[5] and Human Rights Watch[6] "the media"?

[1] http://www.infowars.com/the-truth-about-russias-anti-gay-law...

[2] http://www.asc41.com/policies/policyPositions.html

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brian+M+Heiss%22

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brian+Heiss%22+%22lawyer%...

[5] http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/annual-report-rus...

[6] http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/03/russia-sochi-games-highli...
Right - I wore a Brooks brothers suit to a courthouse to a speeding ticket hearing. I was treated with the utmost courtesy by the security guards who even held the door open for me, and once into the courtroom I was invited to sit with the other attorneys.

Obviously this wasn't because the suit made my body look great.
#Secondworld problems
Google is eating Microsoft's lunch
A suit suit would be a riot! :-)
The unification argument is compelling, but there had to have been a better way to go about it than "OK everyone, use your workstations like tablets and everything will be A-OK! The PC is dead, you know." Someone at MS was trying a little too hard to be ahead of the curve.
hmmm maybe you can make SEVERAL of these sites each in a specific tech so each person can get into their niche of interest
Tim Cook's interview to the Wall Street Journal
> This depends highly on the state. Some states even protect transgender individuals.

Are you seriously saying that you can legally fire somebody for being gay in some US states? Wouldn't you get sued for discrimination if you did that?
So what's the "new technology" here? Looks to me like hi-res videos stitched together? Not saying that that isn't useful to law enforcement, just curious if I am missing something interesting.
You wrote the bots, and I wrote the code that (tries) to keep them from messing with Amazon (as an intern).

People on Amazon don't just buy the lowest priced item: They buy from whoever won the "buy box": The big "add to cart"/"buy now 1 clock" buttons. You seem to be talking about selling used books, where the market is a little different than "new" items.

Price is obviously the biggest determination of who wins, but you can be disqualified because you don't have a high enough ranking, and other factors related to customer satisfaction.

So an established merchant may win the buy box even if they're 50 cents higher. And that's exactly where this scheme comes into play, as soon as you've got two of these bots playing off each other and no other sellers qualified to win the buy box.
I agree -- I stopped having anything to do with them after the debacles of 2011. Karpales is a pretty stunning mix of hubris and incompetence -- the kind that only happens in a very few people.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind another big crash if it finally woke people up to the incompetence, greed, and customer contempt that is Mt. Gox.

Yet somehow, it never does...
What about that funky braces style? Code with wrong braces or whitespace messups indicate a lack of care. If the coder can't put a { in the right spot, what else has he screwed up?
The thing these companies never mention is that video surveillance doesn't deter criminals from committing acts of crime, nor does it stop a crime in progress.

The best result we can hope for from these systems is a record of the event. And I'm not of the opinion that what we gain from using these systems is worth the cost we pay.
Privacy is dead, has been for a decade policy-wise, it's just the implications are ramping up the last few years. Nobody except some fringe groups does anything more than pay lip service tot the concept. I say this as someone with an IRL reputation of rambling about the privacy implications of using electronic payments (well I used to, I gave up years ago when I realized and came to terms with the fact that privacy is dead). The cat is out of the bag people, and there's no putting it back in. Surveillance tech is just like mp3 to the music industry - except this time, 'we' are on the receiving end.
Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense