skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is, half the people voted it up for pure schadenfreude, and the other half voted it up so they could talk smack back to her :)
Indeed pages 3-4 suggest that's part of the purported strategy, retiring the BTC debt at the low price (during "Part 1").

But I initially read p. 7 as proposing something that would work to attract needed money (including traders) over time, since it's labelled "Support from Bitcoin big players and core community - long term, high leverage". That would imply they're getting something of value in return, like equity or redeemable coins.

But of course the new money, as investors or traders, can't get real coins cheap, because cheap coins don't exist.

Perhaps I've misread – and p. 7 is only another restatement of the short-term gambit, to extinguish Goxcoins via buybacks while at panic discount prices.

But then the "cash injections" are just a 100% donation to help unwind Gox debts, and the crazy part becomes: who'd want to throw fresh money into that wood-chipper?

I suppose it might make internal sense if the audience was deeply committed to the idea of Gox's resurrection – existing investors, or people entangled facing personal liabilities. Prior recipients of in-retrospect fishy distributions, maybe?
poss. related: colored gradients https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
Don't you mean the Cypriots?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Cypriot_financi...

And weren't a lot of the people who were hit by the levy on deposits actually non-Cypriots using Cypriot banks as tax havens?
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I love the photo subtitle:

> Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of email in 2010.
Looking at the Sibdo pricing page, it looks like much higher pricing (compared to the more established competitors) at $95 a month for use on a SINGLE website with a confusing limitation to "50 users" whatever that means.

Not only that, the example graphs and charts look very basic.
This is almost always a bad idea. I've extracted many a python line into 2-4 lines to make it a hell of a lot more clear. Packing logic into a line is not a good thing. It may be fun and a challenge, but it makes for fragile code that is easy to get wrong and/or misunderstand.
When a newbie developer faces a coding problem they often just keep adding more and more special cases to cope. And then after a long time someone very clever comes along and refactors the whole mess in to a much more simple, beautiful, and structured block of code...

I think physics is going to turn out the same way, only with unified fields instead of nested if statements.
Yes, 3^0=1, but the wording "0, 1 and powers of 3, 5" does not imply 3^0
Sure, if instead of Android you mean a Linux distribution for phones
Well, for most people it's a straw man. I've worked with some greybeards, and they are smart enough to know that they can resize the terminal on their modern laptop :)
What you wrote made me think, "What would anyone in their right mind write on their blog that would make people think something like that?" So I clicked through, and read the first four words, that struck me in the face like a four layer wedding cake: You were right. Then I read the rest of the sentence, and that was like a ton of frosting being poured on the cake from a dump truck. Point well taken, sir!
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How are we regulators? How can we demand anything from any enxchange? How can we punish them if they violate the rules, or our trust?
Mexican is not a race. There are blonde haired and blue-eyed Mexicans. There are indigenous peoples in Mexico that appear much as their ancestors did before the arrival of the Spaniards. There are persons of Asian descent who are Mexicans.

Both you and the other poster whining about racism are the committing the real racism, fortunately I think you're both just ignorant rather than actual racists.
Wow. I found "reading" their demo a deeply unpleasant experience. It seemed to induce tunnel vision, and put a huge amount of strain on my lenses. The dark background of the page surrounding the banner didn't help, and persisted in my vision for a good 5 minutes. My eyes still hurt.
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exactly and therein lies the contradiction , here he says bitcoin is as valueless as fiat a particular fiat currency, and then later he goes on to say that fiat currency is much more valuable
Sure it is, the old way you either

* get an alert when going to e.g. www.google.com as the carrier tries to hijack the session with a fake certificate.

* the carrier have their own versions of libraries/browsers/etc. installed on the phone that disables certificate checks/alerts that would pop up when they hijack a session.

* the carrier have actually gotten hold of a certificate for www.google.com - which I'm sure is doable, but harder, and is thus able to perform a successful mitm attack.

With this approach, the carrier just needs to generate their own certificate, install it on the phone they sell, and can proxy any service they want without user alerts. A significant lower entry bar.
The Scrum Backlog is where Features go to die.
F-Droid?

Yeah, it's not really "debian" per-se, and it has it's own issues, but it's close.
Isn't your argument equivalent to saying that Latin isn't a language, because it's hard to find anyone who uses it to chat?

Gold is money, it just has been superseded for most uses. And even so, when dollars are harder to use, gold is still used for some large transactions: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732435200...
This demo is pretty amazing and will take me a while to digest.

A few questions that I'm really interested in hearing the answer to:

1. Will the language work without an internet connection?

2. Will it be free to use?

3. What happens if/when Wolfram the company goes out of business, or Wolfram himself retires?

4. Are all the disparate APIs and sources that the language uses determined by fiat, or can they be customized? What happens if/when the APIs/sources stop working?

5. Given that the language can do things like query your Facebook graph, it seems like there's a lot of API upkeep that the language requires. Is this done by Wolfram? How does this work when I'm running locally (if this is even possible)?
The question is "why this particular project and why now?" and the article deals with the exact questions one should or should not ask when talking to new clients on the phone and also with what to do with answers you receive.
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I'm looking forward to native Linux on a mobile platform. Preferably a tablet.
>> As we who have spruiked for bitcoin have always said: "This is an experiment that might fail."

It's fine to experiment but when Bitcoin became more mainstream the kind of stupid mistakes MtGox has made are inexcusable. Ordinary people were using it and are losing money now. You can't promote a new technology and push for it's adoption by a wide audience and just call it an experiment when it fails. That's reckless.

>> Heather might want to consider switching to a discipline in which experiments are even possible...

And you're complaining about condescension?
The earliest game I remember where at least one of the levels used the same game logic was Dragonsden from 1983.... But there were at least one more that I can't remember the name of...
Seems it's less tongue-in-cheek than staple-into-roof-of-mouth, but yes.
Given that the Greek government didn't simply close the country, pretty well.
You don't know what fiat actually means. Fiat means, in a short and sweet manner, the government can force you to use it. No one can make you use bitcoin. If they do it is called 'blackmail'.
getting cash stolen is even worse
Clearly, it's a new paradigm. It's different this time.
The system itself is using a few bytes here and there if you let it. Only a couple bytes are totally off limits if you bank switch out the ROMs and turn off interrupts.
What I wonder is this: Were any bitcoins actually lost during the meltdown? I mean in the sense that nobody can get at them any more.

The blockchain should, sooner or later, allow the tracing of some of the coins, right? So if somebody still has access to them, there might be a chance to find out who?

Or am I misunderstanding something here?
How traceable are bitcoins. Suppose Gox released their logs, would it be possible to track when someone tried to offload the stolen bitcoins on one of the major exchanges?

given the alleged value of the stolen coins are in the range of 0.5B USD it's not unreasonable to suspect that some government capacity would investigate this.

If the stolen coins can indeed be detected - how would they go about extracting the value? Seems like a large scale, risky money laundry effort would be needed.
> Ubuntu is following Debian on using systemd

Yes, they were also happy to adopt Gnome shell some time ago... until they came up with own solution. And they worked on another display server... until they came up with own solution. I expect them to go the same route again.
I liked the cat, I still miss him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI
Maybe you should go back around to wherever you've been around, and not be around here, where you have nothing of value to contribute and no interest in the discussion at hand. The way things work, in case you didn't learn that by being around, is that you don't post messages complaining you're not interested in a topic to discussions about that topic. So stop being around here.
>The citizens of the US would be immensely poorer today if the world financial system had collapsed into a second Great Depression.

If the only alternative to bailing out the banks was sitting on our hands, then yes. That's like arguing that if the fire department hadn't put the house fire out with Gatorade, the entire block would have burned.

>If you're including various stabilization programs the Fed put into place, that money was neither stolen nor given either.

Loans with below market-rate interest are giveaways. If you don't believe me, just loan me two trillion at 1% for five years. Or rather, just buy two trillion worth of treasuries for me, and send me the interest in excess of 1%.
>> ""Would you rather trust a government or a mathematical algorithm?"."

Most people can understand government fiscal policy (to a useful extent anyway). Very few can understand an algorithm even when it's explained to them. They vote in the government and currency in it's current form (e.g. USD) has worked for generations. Trusting the government seems much safer.

Also with Bitcoin you are trusting more than an algorithm. You're trusting exchanges. You're trusting in the security of a digital system that can be hacked and you don't understand how to secure properly. With physical currency security is simple and understandable. With digital currency it's not.
I remember reading accounts of ports where the porters were not even given a spec of any sort, but were lent an arcade cabinet of the original and had to essentially test there way through everything to figure out what to implement.
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So I haven't studied Math for ~10 years and find myself having forgotten pretty much everything. Wikipedia's math pages are super confusing; what are good resources for brushing up again?

Looking for something along the lines of CodeSchool/Treehouse, ideally.
I think this blog (and some other sentiments I've heard lately) is chaotic enough to be boiled down to: "Something's not right here!" I'm not sure that fragmentation, inconsistencies, nag screens, hamburger apps and a general refusal to pay $2.49 for an app are explainable in one easy way.

One insight (I think) is - "My son's iPad has more than 10 pages of apps now, we don't even bother with the pretense of scrolling through pages of icons, we just go straight to search every time."

If search turns out to be a game changer again, that's an interesting result.
MtGox != Bitcoin.

Why is that so hard to understand?
> If some auto-negotiation takes place to change my key, then isn't that exposing a trivial MITM?

This was my primary concern, but I looked into it and you can do an out-of-band identity verification.
It varies. I only had to pay a month up front, but as others said it depends on the landlord and situation. I believe a month is most common in the UK.
The latency benefits of an extra caching layer are minimal, especially since HTTP pipelining and CDNs will continue to exist.
With generated card numbers maybe, I know some banks in France do that.
I noticed this earlier today - here is the html mtgox.com is serving (as of this post):

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>
</html>
Random. It just says 'Connecting' for me.
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Apps are the new CD-ROMs. The Web will win.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AppsAreTooMuchLike1990sCDROMsA...
Bitcoin mining is not valuable for anything other than creating Bitcoins

Bitcoin mining ensures the validity of the blockchain. Bitcoin is valuable as the unit of account by which things can be entered into the blockchain. Good luck trying to convince people that a distributed, consistent transaction ledger has no value.
having not seen the original comment, i'm going to assume they said something like "i wish there was a down-vote button for this article."
It does, you're just not paying attention. The comment appears over the function that uses those variables; it's not 1,1,1 because they want to hit 1 only once in the sequence 1,3,5,7,9,25,27,49,81,125, etc.

It doesn't explain why it's not 3,1,7 or 3,5,1, but that's because there is no reason for that.
It's called Shareware, we had it 15 years ago. We had also demo or trial versions.

(Hopefully they get again in fashion)
>When's the last time your doctor/nurse discussed the potential side-effects with you?

On the one hand your right and doctors should be honest about the risks and it should be your choice. On the other hand it's just going to get kids killed when parents hear the doctor tell them about the potential side-effects and decide not to vaccinate.

>The thought that occurred to me was that, innumeracy being so widespread, no one would dare put numbers on that sheet of paper. If "amputation" is listed as a consequence with a probability of 0.0001%, patients will run screaming out of the office, crying, "Not my toe! I don't want to lose my toe!" No amount of patient explanation will suffice to convince them that they ought to diminish the emotional force of their fear by a factor of one million. Each extra zero after the decimal point would only be one more symbol for their eyes to glaze over; it would not diminish the emotional force of the anticipation by an additional factor of ten.

(source http://lesswrong.com/lw/h4/useless_medical_disclaimers/)
But not market rate interest, which was about infinity for the banks that accepted loans, because they were completely insolvent. And do we get to include the spread between the actual worth of all of those shit bonds we have been purchasing from them and the par prices we have been paying?
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That's really stretching for "news".

It's clearly been put there on purpose. I would guess as damage control, so that people have some hope that they might eventually recover their coins

It doesn't mean anything on its own
I presume the 'you' in your statement is directed at... well... who exactly? Who was promoting Bitcoin in a way that did not foreground its extreme risk front and center? Your journalistic finger wagging will not do here. I would like to see examples. And if you provide them, then I will accept in each such case that they were indeed irresponsible.

As for my last statement - I accept it comes off as no better. But I happen to actually mean it with more sincerity than you can possibly imagine. I was a PhD student in philosophy. After five years I quit because I couldn't stomach my own bullshit any more. I'm currently training myself in math, machine learning and programming. Even as a mediocre tech guy (and I don't doubt I'll ever be more than mediocre) - I'll add more value to the world than I ever did as a philosopher. I believe the same of economics.
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After world war II, people in Germany burn paper money in winter. Because, by that time, fiat money is cheaper than coal and wood.

That's funny it seems that this economist thinks fiat money can't never be valueless. Well, look Cyprus, and look Ukraine now. I am not saying Bitcoin won't never be valueless, but apparently fiat money is not completely invulnerable.
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I found the demo very impressive but I too have a large blue bar persisting in my vision right now. Very peculiar.
> Why don't you all "deserves better comment" people send a patch?

Trying to get a patch into Linux as a new developer without personally knowing one of the (sub-)lieutenants is a futile exercise.
And here's how the "rainbows and butterflies" world of "code perfectionists" come crashing down.

Yes, the naming is unfortunate. No, there's probably no way to make it better (and if you think code reviews suck, wait until you see a kernel code review) (Well, this came directly from Linus but there's usually some discussion as well)

But in the end this has shipped and is running. (Well, the double goto from Apple as well, but I doubt that went through a code review)
You seem to be able to clone whole projects to mass produce wordpress or other PHP projects..
It was certainly covered in day 1 of my journalists' training.
How to run it? Is there any interpreter?
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"Oh you silly engineers and your bit of coins, let me econ'splain how dumb you were."

Madam, there is nothing in your article that any of the engineers who were (and are) so excited by bitcoin didn't already know long before you'd even heard of bitcoin.
I had this. I bought a racksack, bought a flight ticket to South America and rambled around south and central America for 6 months.

I came back recharged, refreshed and a different person.
you'd have to write a solver for this special hardware, which may see your performance disappear. double precision is usually required for N-S solvers. accounting for errors means injecting noise and averaging (probably) over multiple iterations.

to get 64 bits of precision where only 16 bits are available would be.. tricky.

that said, with 1M PEs on a chip.. i'd definitely give it a go.

source: GPU+CFD are my thing.

edit: seems there is even less than 16 bits of precision available..
Can I be blunt? It's their own goddamned fault.

I get that MtGox made a lot of obviously severe errors in implementation. But I'm also aware that popular wisdom has been (for some time) to avoid it. And further, it should be immediately obvious to anybody with a shred of sense that you do not hand over piles of cash (which is the closest approximation to Bitcoin) to an unregulated, opaque private enterprise.

Yeah, it sucks for the people who lost money. But with the exception of a minority, they were obviously dabbling with things they did not understand.

Nothing about this speaks at all to the long-term viability of Bitcoin as a currency. In fact, I think it'll probably be a benefit in the long-term - there needed to be a large, damaging demonstration of the requirement for security, and this event will cause a lot of changes.
When a government fucks up, you can vote to change it or sue them. When the algorithm eats your savings, there's no recourse. I'll put my trust with the concept that isn't claimed to be infallible here.
it's patented? 16 bit floats have been a thing for a long time.. :/

edit: never mind. somehow convinced myself that this was just 16 bit floating point arithmetic. it is not.
By the same token, what value does gold mining have beyond "creating" gold?
Why do we need the IMEI? (I really don't know this)
View page source

edit: in case people still can't see it:

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>
</html>
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The source reads:

<body>

<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->

</body>
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> Marking namespace-level data as static inside a header is
> almost always a bad idea.

Can anybody explain this to me with some example?
This means nothing. No one with half a brain puts confidential company information in an HTML comment.
Not that there haven't been failures, but in the US, bank customers -- as opposed to bank shareholders or investors -- are a fairly protected class.

In 2008(?), Lehman investors were fucked, WaMu shareholders were fucked, but as a WaMu customer I was not inconvenienced in the slightest. My money was safe and I was able to freely access it every day during the transition to Chase ownership.

Now, I don't think that it is fair to compare MtGox to a bank. It was really an exchange for investors to speculate on fluctuations in exchange rates, so in the regulated financial industry you'd probably be just as fucked.

I think the take-home message from the failure of MtGox is that your risks don't just come from the volatility of the market you are investing in. You could lose your money through a crash in the market, yes, but you could also lose your money through the incompetence or malfeasance of your investment partners, through having your password stolen and your account hacked, through losing your private keys, ... If you only consider one type of risk, you will understate your total risk, and not hedge against it effectively.
This is not proof of anything.
Don't forget <main>, <section>, <cite>, <dfn>, <i> and <b>, which, when used properly, can add significant value to the content. (There are a number of reasons why text might be default italic/oblique or bold, and emphasis is only one of them. HTML not only allows us to remove the ambiguity, it also allows us to tell the reader more, like what language that foreign phrase comes from, without interrupting the flow of reading.) I'm also rather a fan of <figure> when that's appropriate, since it provides a sane way to caption images that need non-optional captioning. <dl>, <dt> and <dd> have their uses as well. But yes, the idea that a document should be universally stylable based on the nature of its content should be at the top of the list.
The most interesting part in that text for me was "Released in 2009 by an anonymous creator known as Satoshi Nakamoto"

It was news to me that the creator of the bitcoin technology is anonymous. Heard the name several times before, but never knew it was a pseudonym for an anonymous person or group of persons.
Introductory video by Stephen Wolfram himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik
I'm just an armchair economist, but I have read real economist argue that a strong US dollar limits the US's ability to repatriate it's manufacturing base. Also, I don't think China so much increases the dollar as it limits the growth of the Yuan in measure with technological and capital improvements that allow it to keep its export market strong and keep manufacturing business in China.