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Nobody knows how many dollars are still in circulation. They have good guesses, but nobody knows about the millions in cash that was lost/burned/buried in the desert. It doesn't matter. Supply and demand doesn't rely on the total number of bitcoins in existence; only the number that are available on exchanges. And with blockchain analysis, we can have a very clear picture of bitcoin circulation - much better than with traditional currencies.
Can we stick to the web somehow instead and bypass the various proprietary walled gardens?
That wasn't the bank run causing riots. That was the government policy which froze deposits, to avert a bank run, that caused riots.
Seeing this article, I can't help having horrible feelings of reading the following.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in-41-...

Chilling, in context.

Lets hope it's nothing nearly as serious.
Actually this is what I understood from your previous post. I was trying to strengthen your point with concrete examples and thought the best way to do it was in a reply. Sorry if that was unclear!
So? As long as you have same style on your project - any style, your code will be readable and with less WS conflicts. I don't see what a built in formatter does, other than allow to minimize bikeshedding about format, which will just pop up as BS about libraries or VCS or something.

That is assuming built in formatter doesn't have configurable options. Which some formatters do.
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The riot was because the government froze deposits so people weren't allowed to withdraw money from the banks. My original (implied) point was that bank runs themselves don't necessarily cause the chaos they're made out to, so if anything this supports my case: if the government had allowed the bank to collapse, there may not have been riots.
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Sure, much like offering an @facebook.com email was their attempt to take over the entirety of email. Everybody has Facebook, after all.
> How is it the bitcoin network's fault?

Because the protocol is broken with regards to tracking transactions and that has been acknowledged. Even the official implementation got it wrong. It needs to be fixed because the workaround just does not scale.
A bit OT:

In 2006, Volkswagen made an ad in the States for the Golf GTI and called it "turbo cojones". Apparently, they didn't know that "cojones" means testicles. They didn't do their research.

While spritz is a seemingly normal German word (spritzer means splash and the logo shows a water drop), the phrase I was spritzing is actually an extremely bad branding choice. It's usually said in a specific context and means:

I was ejaculating.

Edit: It could also mean I spilled the tomato sauce, but it's still poor.
OK, looks like I need to go back to school for a bit before attempting to comment on this again! Thanks for the history lesson.
I believe they are suggesting that. The question is who picks up the tab. As long as it's not a publicly funded bailout, I can't say as I really care.

JP Morgan did it. So can Satoshi.
You need at least 4 story tenements to make rail based public transport viable. You can go a bit less dense with buses but not much. Refer to 'Cities for a Small Planet'. Ricky Burdet at the LSE has done quite a bit of research into this.
MtGox claims the theft had gone on for "years", so the coins may already be sold long ago.
> It's a useful policy (assuming you believe in Keynesian stimulus) because the distributional effect is close to nil, unlike fiscal stimulus or mailing money to specified individuals.

Except that we don't really see QE causing the hyperinflation many feared or the lowering of real wages. If it is intended to do these things, it is a miserable failure.

The fact is that when you dump a whole lot of money into what Steve Keen called "the slowest part of the system" it isn't going to actually have much effect. Velocity in money matters if you want the money to actually circulate.
I find it very comparable to hearing.

Whenever you hear something, you hear it word by word. And similarly you can't immediately go back (you have to stop it, "rewind it" and play it again).

Very interesting concept, though.
> Mt.Gox going under means the unethical players continue to shake out which can only be good.

I'm not completely clear on the details (likely no one is), but it seems to me that the unethical players stole a lot of money and got away scot free. Lots of innocent people lost money, and yes mtgox, an incompetent player, will get shaken out. That doesn't exactly seem like a stellar outcome.
Journals are highly variable, at least in physics. I've experienced everything from acceptance after a week and publication within the month to pure hell that dragged on for over 2 years. The average is a few months and certainly not over a year! You'd better believe physics moves fast too. Preprints frequently gather dozens of citations before a journal editor even bestirs him or herself to send the submitted article out to referees! ArXiv is what everyone reads daily for the latest stuff, but always with caution. There's crazy crank stuff and crap in there too unfortunately.

Preprints are a great way to distribute results quickly without waiting for the gears of the peer-review process to complete their grinding or for the right conference to come up. However, when you get good referees the peer-review process can really put your work through the acid-test. We frequently get comments back that prompt us to do great work (along with many that just piss us off with busy work...). When it functions properly, the peer-review process bursts your institution's local bubble of thought-patterns and reminds you of how other experts in the field might think about the same problem. Occasionally it catches big mistakes or spots huge redundancies.

China is starting to publish a lot, but the standards aren't there yet. Some of their institutions do fantastic work while others really need peer-review to keep them honest. There are, of course, dishonest individuals pretty much everywhere who will take advantage of any flaws in the system. How do disciplines that eschew peer-review deal with this? When viewing preprints, I unfortunately place far too much importance on authors I know and trust. Sources matter when you can't really trust every article you read. Without peer-reviewed journals, how do you avoid potentially ignoring brilliant research by people unknown to you?
As usual the solution is to add a layer of indirection by getting your own domain name and then you can swap out backend email services without changing your address.
How does multi-device implementation work (for the layman).

Are the messages only delivered to the 'logged in' clients? So if I am logged in on the desktop my message exchanges are also sent to the phone client? But any messages I send/receive from my phone while logged out of my desktop are synced through the server on login?
The thing is that you can have many more than one copy of a wallet. Are you sure that you have control over all of them, and that they're all secure? Again, to go to the cash analogy: I know that the buck I have in my pocket is the only copy of that particular buck, that nobody else can spend that buck as long as I'm sure its in my pocket. Yes, bummer if I lose the buck, since there's no backup pocket with the same buck in it at home or in a safe deposit box somewhere. But at the same time, nobody can take my backup pocket and spend the buck that's in it, evaporating the value of the buck that I know is in my pocket.
Getting carriers on board to make a texting replacement? Well, you can dream. ;)
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Huh, strange thing is it seems like I just can read that quickly anyway. Started on the banner at 250wpm, pretty comfortable, went straight to 500wpm on the banner and still fairly comfortable to read. So I thought I'd have a go at just reading some plain text as quickly as I comfortably could and it turns out that I can read more quickly than I do. I don't know why I don't read more quickly than I do, perhaps it down to comprehension, but I think in the future for articles I'm not trying to fully absorb that I may try to just read them more quickly!
Did anyone have a look at the (html) source? What does this comment mean?

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Maybe mtgox has been acquired by another party?
The only good news: If the web is as dead as the PC or Lisp I won't have to care about these problems for a long time. Back to work ..
Just give it a few years (like five or ten), it'll come back to the web.

I think the APP-cycle will end and new Web 3.0 will be the new craze.
I am guessing noise cancelling headphones are not a real option for sleeping, but maybe something like this exists in a form of speakers? It should be doable, you just need something to track where your ears are... I haven't seen anything like this yet though.
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If you have appropriate regulations to support self-regulation it can work very well.

For example, here in Indonesia, if I buy eggs at the supermarket I don't really have to worry about them carrying salmonella. Why? Because truth in labelling laws and demand for salmonella-free eggs means that the farms that sell to the big food distributors all get tested so they can label their eggs as salmonella-free.

One really wonders why this hasn't taken off in the US. I can think however of a few reasons (it's not just too much or too little regulation but the wrong regulations).
"Spritz" is a drink here in Padova where I live:

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2004/11/08/spritz

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2008/09/17/the-spritz-from...

My standing offer to take visitors out to sample a few in the piazza is always open.
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The c# build system (assemblies) is completely mis-designed for performance. I wish .net assembly modules were supported for separate compilation and link step.
Yes, just need a way of letting companies innovate on the web of pigeonholing into crappy HTML5 and JS. Maybe make PNaCl more mainstream.
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Rob Buckley, Radical Software. I was going to be doing the music. But there wasn't really any point doing even homebrew CPC development after AA folded - no-one to sell it to. http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Lethal_Moves
Ask HN: How many bitcoins were on the Mt Gox orderbook in December 2011?
In December 2011, the first bitcoin bubble ended when someone hacked Mt Gox and sold every bitcoin that was possible, clearing out the entire mtgox orderbook. How many bitcoins would you estimate were on Mtgox then? Maybe the hack mostly took place then and mtgox has been slowly covering for what happened ever since.

I think I remember someone on bitcoin talk at the time mentioning that their massive buy order for bitcoin at $0.01 went through.
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I've talked to members of the Roslyn team and asked about some features I would have found interesting to get added to the C# team (immutable, non-nullable data-types, type-inference on return-types, etc).

They seem very much on top of their game, and their response has been that lots of these features would probably introduce problems with existing base-class libraries and classes. If they were to introduce those features, they would have to do it at release 1, not 10 years later. They agreed it would have made the platform better, but now it's too late.

As for the "deep architectural" changes required, Roslyn is indeed that change. But the team was very clear on wanting to deliver in stages. 1: Deliver the new compiler and then 2: later when it all has proven to work well, then start using this new architecture to deliver new features.
yep, but this kind of considerations define which projects get funded and get traction and excitement.

There is always money in legacy, but you don't read often a about a startup creating exiting products for COBOL refactoring...
quite right - thanks for pointing that out :)
I feel the same. I can't read their FAQ without cringing/laughing.

Don’t spritz me you spritzin’ spritzer! (wtf?)

Will spritzing burn my retinas? (only if he spritzes in your eye...)
Really? I find YAML pretty nifty myself, though it has a few gotchas. Many softwares can get away with nothing more than INI-style configuration, but for more complex cases, YAML is much nicer to edit than, say, XML or JSON.
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>> I really wish I had some BTC

So go and buy some
i don't even know there's facebook email address given to us
But the protocol can be changed.

If the most common bitcoin clients are updated to allow this "bonus", and at least 51% of the network installs this update, their blockchain will become the authoritative one. Older or other clients will have to accept it if they still want to participate in the chain.
AFAIK Spritz is generally acknowledged in all Italy as a drink but it's a generic name. Different story is if you ask for an Aperol.
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It doesn't matter how much hate we pile on. Prosecutors will pile enough hatred on Mark et al for us all. The fact that they just shut down and have vanished with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets that don't belong to them is going to bring the legal equivalent of hellfire and brimstone down on the heads of everyone involved.

They could have handled this far better, and maybe avoided some of the major problems they are now headed for. Now, unless Mt Gox suddenly reappears with an explanation, they are in for a very rough ride.
Looks good, will definitely try it out!
Because:

• Receipt of insurance is contingent on meeting requirements for insurance, so it's not blind assistance in the face of incompetence. The 3 years of account thefts reported to have occurred at Mt. Gox would, hopefully, have been detected. Even collaborating on more secure storage and trading systems. There's a precedent for this: it's how the large credit card companies (BankAmericard, I mean, Visa and Interbank/Master Charge, I mean, MasterCard), were formed.

• Rates would correspond to perceived risk, providing a market feedback mechanism.

• Some risks are incidental and random. Weaknesses in protocols, problems in network or technology stacks (independent of individual exchange software).

• The end result is a greater level of trust in the entire marketplace as a whole, so: more transactions, more members, more profits.
The BBC paper yesterday was trying to reassure people, I believe, precisely to avoid reactions like the three comments below. Comparing this to large epidemics is biased: you have forgotten the dozens of potential similar threats. Instead, you consider expert metrics, say, virality (which appears low).
No luck for the GIMP this year (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2014-Feb...).

Glad Blender got in though, as they usually do! :)

Quite amazing to see the width and depth of the list, that's a lot of different organizations.
It has gained popularity in Italy lately, but it's from this area. Yes, 'spritz' is a generic name, and might be made from Aperol or Campari, but the Aperol version is probably the most popular. I prefer the Campari one myself.
according to the wiki

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I am going to test it on BlackBerry 10 anyway. Should make at least a good WhatsApp replacement.
The amount of words is a poor metric. And sorry to point out but your original statement is not supported either, so burden of proof is on you.

To make it easier though I can point you in direction of Alan Cox commits around 2010-2013 and his work on TTY subsystem in particular.
Note the comment in the source code which just appeared:

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To summarize the concerns I have with this study:

1. To prove that open access is worse than close access, you need to do experiments comparing both, not just do experiments on open access and say the results are bad. Try imagining a study using the same methodology to show that American journals are bad.

2. Even assuming that open-access journals on average are worse than closed-access journals, it does not follow that all open-access journals are crap. I think it is safe to say that 80% of all publications venues are crap regardless of their access policy. Fortunately, scientists usually do not choose a venue at random among open-access or closed-access ones, they pick those that have a good reputation. So to establish that open access is bad you should do so by evaluating the right venues.

To give another analogy, this is like looking at random emails in transit, observing that they are spam, and concluding that email is worse than Twitter, without observing anything on Twitter, or taking into account the fact that people are not reading random emails.

I think this study does exemplify the fact (well-known among scientists) that there is a huge mass of low-quality publication venues with little or no review of the submissions, but branding it as "open access is bad!" can only be explained by further political motives.
Prekeys are prerecorded responses to connection initiation: in the alternative world with no prekeys this is what you'd get when you've opened a connection.
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> If I'm dreaming, the ideal outcome of this would be that Springer and IEEE decide to actually apply some kind of scrutiny to the conferences whose proceedings they publish under their names.

I'm sorry to break it to you but that won't happen. It would totally destroy the awfully good business model they have, which is one of the best engineered fraud ever.

Right now the situation is:

- Researchers, oh which almost 100% are paid by public money, do research and write their results in papers which they submit to journals / conferences / workshops.

- If the targeted journal / conference / workshop want to do peer review, their editors / committee is in charge of distributing the load, those people also are researchers (also close to 100% paid by public money).

- They offload the reviewing work to other researchers who hopefully are competent on the subject of the papers. Again, public money since the reviews are seen (and I think it's normal) as a normal part of the researchers' job.

- The selected papers are given to the publishers and often their copyright too.

- The publishers now put the papers online, put a paywall it front of them, and make private profits $$$$.

- On top of that, not many people do buy individual papers, most papers are rented by academic institutions for colossal amount of money (again, public money!). I'm really not kidding when I say "colossal".
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I, for one, am tired of the app-bubble. It will take a few more years, probably, but eventually will go away.

Am I the only one that looks at this whole app-crazy-run as something completely unsustainable?
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That's a shame. There's plenty of potential in email that's yet to be explored. Gmail was a great step ahead 10 years ago but it hasn't kept pace. Deep integration of email with web has yet to happen.
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With fiat money, this is not a problem, because that's only one of the available parameters to determine the relative value of a currency. Also, inflation constantly pushes fiat currency value towards zero, so your stashed 1970 dollars are now worth much less. Bitcoin, being deflationary in nature and not linked to anything, is a different ballgame.
If the theft have gone on for years they have had absolutely no check of the consistency of their inventory. They've relied on the transaction hash to identify a transaction, when it's been known for almost 3 years that it's malleable.

This screams of utterly gross incompetence, or malicious intent.
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Link to yesterdays discussion on this (although it was a BBC article not NYT): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7289467
Also, I was wondering why they had allowed trading, even after finding the issues with their systems - but that document made everything clear.

If they would shut down immediately, they would own:

744,408 BTC is 367,704,753 USD... (at $493 per BTC).

But based on linked document:

744,408 BTC (MtGox av price 160 USD= 119,105,280 USD)

Brilliant move.
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I'm growing increasingly convinced that this is in fact true, and that the global financial system dodged a major asteroid in 2007. Possibly not a planet-killer, but one that would have set things back a long ways.

The problem remains that the bailout didn't just manage to shore up faith in the currency and banking system, but grossly enriched many of the same bankers who'd, if not caused the crisis, played a major role in precipitating and enlarging it.
The authoritative blockchain only determines the order of valid transactions, not which transactions are valid.

A transaction that conjures Bitcoin out of nothing is certainly invalid. Patio11 got this wrong.
I tried posting these to HN some time back but the submission didn't gain any traction. Glad to see it pop up on front page of HN today.
Guys, let's not be angry with the bankers, they're only human. Now, somebody give this man a presidency. That's jwst you get for fraud on this scale.
Gamification and gaming the system at it's best.
I doubt this is the end of Facebook trying email. With WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger they own the major alternative to SMS. WhatsApp is going to be launching voice support in Q2 meaning Facebook will own a large portion of voice calls. The only major communications left out are email. Unless their thought is 'email is dead' they will come back with a better product eventually, it's too big a hole to leave.
I thought the whole point of HTTP2.0 was to make traffic encrypted by default, and not let bit vulnerability holes in the protocol like this. Saying "it just makes it as before" doesn't make me feel better.

Why are we moving to HTTP2.0 otherwise? For a 5 percent increase in speed? The big selling point of HTTP2.0 from my perspective was the "always-on encryption".
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Under what definition of money is that? Gold is and has always been money.
Ask HN: Any 'inclusionist' moderator candidates in Stack Overflow elections?
Currently, Stack Overflow is holding moderator elections ( stackoverflow.com/election ). Most, if not all of the candidates are promising to be very strict, to close and flag even more posts the others.

I don't want to start another debate about Stack Overflow policies here, I know there re different opinions on this, but I've noticed that many HN readers are unsatisfied with the status quo. I regularly see comments like "this is what is wrong with SO" when a link to a closed question is posted here.

I was wondering, is there anyone in the list of candidates who is less deletionist and law-and-order, and more inclusionist and lassez-faire, whom I can vote for? I went through the list, they all seem to be making the same promises, but maybe I've missed something.