skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl to Python convert here. At first I hated the whitespace, but when I went back to Perl, I moved some code about and "lost" a brace. You never get the unmatched brace problem in Python.
Someone has implemented a similar process in an iOS app called Velocity (http://velocityapp.com). I downloaded it a few weeks ago and have tried it off and on, I have trouble for the use case of reading feeds (it integrates mostly with rss feeds I think) in that I tend to do that reading in distraction-prone environments but it might work better for other mediums
Something like that may work for digital goods.

You deliver some digital assets, the key to which can only be derived if a particular crypto currency transaction is performed.

But if you are delivering physical goods, there's going to be some human aspect to it.

Some human, somewhere, is going to deliver the good to some other human.

I'm not discounting the idea of automated contract enforcement. I think contract enforcement is really inefficient. Finding a way to automate it seems like it could be useful. That's the niche paypal originally filled (providing escrow services for ebay transactions). If you could find a way to automate such things, so that everywhere you currently see a "standard service" contract nowadays you had someone clicking on a button (and maybe entering a credit card number), it seems like it could be disruptive. Kind of like a Google App engine for executing contract logic.

I'm just not sure that bit coin is central to the whole thing.

The whole "free from government interference" thing is a bit of a fallacy. If the government wants to seize your bit coins, they will find a way. It may be difficult for them to manipulate the price of bit coin, and to implement wholesale theft (stealing everyone's bit coins), but seizure of a specific individual's bit coins is definitely possible. They'll find a way.

Maybe some form of contracts, like options trading, might work. Equity funding of startups might work too. Basically anything that's purely digital.

But I don't think that any contract involving physical goods can be rendered mathematically perfect.
> i don't understand how 6% of bitcoin can disappear

The didn't disappear, they were stolen. Someone else has them.

(Coins can disappear if the owner forgets the password. They are still there, just no one can ever spend them.)
We'll do better next time.
In the one case the life of the engineers and not the execs bonuses were on the line. In the other created one of the more potent systems of censorship (it is largely invisible and encourages self censoring the content) and preventing new/small guys from entering.
They recreated the trailer park?
Facebook will leave your privacy settings intact after you die
Actually, they do - courts award damages for loss of life all the time, and calculating such economic loss is a basic skill of practicing tort law. A person's life is almost always infinitely valuable to the individual in question, but for everyone else it's surprisingly calculable. A gloomy business, but a necessary one all the same -life still goes on for the survivors, and at some point accountings are made and people move on.
It's also an Italian cocktail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_(alcoholic_beverage)
Polio-Like Disease Appears in California Children
I don't know any high-profile cases, but this random Reddit user did:

https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1r88vl/need_advice...
These days it is so much easier to have access to all kinds of technical information on the C64. I remember travelling half a day to the single bookshop that sold assembler books. Learning anything beyond those books was mostly a matter of figuring out other people's code (e.g. the 'sprites in the border' hack).
Yes, you have to think a bit more when reformatting Python, but it is worth it as you never get the missing brace problem that you can get when moving Perl blocks around. Its enough of a benefit for me.
I know my eyesight is bad (test scheduled for today and new glasses overdue), but I really struggled with this.

I tried multiple times to read the example, but would stumble to comprehend the shape of a word or two, lose my way, and have to rewind back to the beginning.

Overall it felt considerably slower and more broken, less rhythmic. My comprehension felt lower, I felt I spent far more time comprehending the shapes of the words rather than the totality of the meaning expressed.

I know my eyesight is bad, that I am long-sighted and colour blind, but this was a painful and slow reading experience.

Some words took so much concentration to figure out that I'd forgotten the words that preceded it, and lost context.

Without the ability to rewind this or to see a larger context, I would avoid this like the plague.

Clearly an outlier as everyone else is raving.
I'm actually a little surprised that the answer wasn't something along the lines of "# is simple straight lines, while B requires a bunch of Bezier splines for TrueType to render." I guess the graphics cards must accelerate that or something. I'm surprised that line-breaking algorithms take that long.
Your username brings to mind a song.

"Duuuuuuuuuuust in the wiiiiiiiind...all my coins are duuuuussssssssst in the wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind..."

(in doge we trust)
THUNDER.DJ – The crowd powered party DJ
Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired
Response to Statement on Mt. Gox's Insolvency
"Other than garbage collection..."

Control over memory management is a major, major design point. In my opinion, it's a lot more significant than whether it runs in a VM or uses native code.

For one thing, running in a VM vs. native code is usually an implementation detail. But the only language I can think of where memory management appears to be an implementation detail is Ada.
Not a good time to be Mark Karpeles.
Very interesting, and I did manage to read 500WPM without too much of a struggle, but I did not enjoy reading with this technique. I feel uncomfortable not knowing when a paragraph is going to end, and the relentless onslaught of words took the fun out of it.
There can be Only One.
Plenty of threads on HN.
Oooh, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY GRANTED BY LAW. That definitely makes the rape of the middle class to bailout Goldman Sachs legit.
* was expecting a paraglider at launch.
This is a bit bigger than Silk Road in terms of the amount of money people will probably lose but it wouldn't surprise me if something similar to the rally that followed the Silk Road take down happens. It's going to put Bitcoin in the news, this is the best entry price in the past 4 months, and Mt.Gox going under means the unethical players continue to shake out which can only be good.
It's a bit more sophisticated than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7292588
A few things we should be looking very critically in secure messaging apps are:

1. How are keys generated? PseudoRandomGenerator() used? What sort? This is one of the key break-in areas into a crypto framework.

2. Software based crypto used? It's prone to channel attacks where another app maybe inspecting the memory.

3. How are keys shared?

4. How are keys stored?

"Security" would just be illusion, a flawed insurance policy if these aspects are not properly catered for. There's a reason why hardware crypto exists.

The weakest link in any security system is the "key". Does not matter how strong the crypto algorithm is as long as key management is not rock solid.
App-pocalypse Now
Mt. Gox Allegedly Loses $340 Million in Bitcoin (744,400 BTC)
The new SpagoBI (version 3.6.0) – Installation instructions and Troubleshooting
There's a need for a good charting library built on top of d3. Kind of like Highcharts, in terms of usability, but free. d3 is powerful but not as easy to use and customize as Highcharts.
Why did coin base issue one statement, take it down seconds later, and issue almost the same statement with some slight differences. See if you can tell the difference.http://openxrptalk.org/topic/102/mtgox-original-unaltered-in...
It is real - this is an internal strategy doc shared between the exchanges and other Bitcoin people with MtGox and it was never supposed to be public. Something has gone wrong with the plan.

Here is what i've worked out so far what has happen. MtGox worked out a while ago that they were insolvent, so they reached out to prominent members of the Bitcoin community to help them out.

The plan was instead of just having MtGox make a statement saying 'we are insolvent, no more money' they would team up with the other exchanges and come up with a plan where they could wrap that news around some 'good' news.

This document is the draft of that plan as it was being worked on by the exchanges and MtGox.

The 'good' news parts would be:

1. MtGox customers would be transferred to a new entity Gox

2. Karpeles wouldn't be involved

3. The new exchange would have old 'owed' figures from MtGox

4. The other exchanges would attempt to partially bail out the MtGox holders

edit: point 4.5. the Mt Gox closing statement would shift blame away from Bitcoin - which is important. MtGox has spent the last 3 months blaming on a 'bitcoin bug' what was a failure of their own accounting and auditing system. A lot of media bought up the 'bitcoin bug' story.

5. The other exchanges and Gox would announce all this at the same time on Tue 25th Feb

6. For some reason the exchanges did their part but Gox didn't do their part

7. Someone from the exchanges leaked this internal strategy doc that was written between MtGox and the exchanges to show what should have happen today but didn't since MtGox bailed out on their part of it.

We are now stuck in a situation where part of this internal plan has been implemented (the exchanges, gox.com being registered) but the majority of it has not.

edit: most interesting q's for me atm are: why did MtGox reneg on this plan (or have they?), when did MtGox finally reach out for help? and how long have these insiders known that MtGox is in trouble - there was a huge sell spike in MtGox coins days ago.

edit 2: note that outside of verifying this doc with somebody who works at one of the companies, since this doc was leaked and published the following has happen, as outlined in the doc:

* the other markets released their joint statement

* the gox.com domain was registered/activated

* trading halted

edit 3: you may have noticed slide 8 of the presentation is censored, i've managed to remove the black bars. It is details of MtGox's financials, image here:

http://i.imgur.com/Rb5MIcg.png

Google Doc version here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1miioFP1oFnLa8OQ1MZ91ABUD...
If they took money from depositors after they knew they were insolvent they probably broke the law.
Between all the squabbling in this thread, your post shines through like a ray of sunlight. You don't see this type of thing often on the internet without it being faked. Life is good sometimes.
I am pretty sure this sort of practice is illegal bitcoin or not.
China should get in on this game... it borders half the planet.
So "lots of people" suddenly became "My impression"
I already built a cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) application based on the "SpeedReading" concept, which is similar to Spritz.

http://vanniktech.de/SpeedReader/

I would like to get some feedback.
Sorry, but that is not what I'd include in the real world, not in the sense that is relevant to this thread. Economic loss is not the only kind of loss.

Which is why this $500m loss is not the same as 71.43 deaths, even if that many deaths might result in a $500m settlement.
It could not be solution because homelessness is not a structural problem but a facet of a deeper one. From what I have read the US has 2 huge social problems right now - the unemployment and the war on drugs. Until the employment moves of the death spiral it is in right now you will always have fresh supply of homeless people.
> since bitcoin is an experiment

I don't know where you get the notion that Bitcoin is an "experiment". It's not. This is less knowledge of Bitcoin than it is knowledge of economic theory and what the words "money" and "currency" mean.

> what happens if it completely fails? what does a total failure scenario even look like, in terms of symptoms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar#Abandonment
Why is there only a single line on preventing a run on MtGox?

Because preventing one at this point is impossible.

If they have truly lost almost everything (2000 BTC remaining), they have nothing, and those USD funds are probably frozen or to be frozen in various investigations. On the contrary, I find this document incredible because it actually envisages keeping mtgox open under new management. That's not going to be possible. Because of massive trust issues with anyone willing to go near this company, at best it's going to close down in an orderly fashion. Putting more money into it now is a lost cause, and without an audit by outside accountants, why should anyone trust them, no matter who the CEO is?

If they actually have lots of USD (I am doubtful), the best outcome for them is a precipitous crash in the bitcoin price down to almost zero, at which point they can pay out all their customers in bitcoin easily by purchasing new bitcoin and walk away with millions of USD. They seem to have done their best to engineer this by being completely opaque about their situation, but I suspect that's just incompetence and panic.

If they don't have accessible funds in USD, and have lost their BTC (as seems likely), no-one will get anything and the company will be wound up. Payouts have been glacial or nonexistent for months, so something has been badly wrong for quite some time.

The best bet for customers now is to apply to financial authorities immediately to have the company shut down and investigated.

Wiping their tweets and leaving it to now to shut down the website then showing a blank page shows you what level they are operating on - I suspect they have no appreciable assets available and are running on fumes, if not they would be acting in a far more rational manner and reassuring customers.

They will not survive this panic and this will end badly when the financial authorities step in.
My response:

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I've been homeless and a street-sleeper. In my experience this is a great thing to do, but it is one of many things that needs doing.

On pure housing, a small space is a great shelter, can provide security. But it can also be a trap. It should be viewed as temporary housing only, for a transition period between the streets and the stability and security of a "normal" living space.

It's a trap as it will be used against you, perceived by others as a weakness or reason to treat you differently, to discriminate.

It's a trap as it will impair ones ability to have the essential social mobility to at least get a firm hold on the lower rungs of society.

But it is needed.

And needed in addition to starter-homes, is a supportive community, mental health advice. It isn't enough to give a room with a roof and walk away, by the time someone reaches this point they are dysfunctional and need help figuring out how to function within the society of others. The entire time homeless is a trauma, and a trauma probably preceded it.

A room with a roof is something essential, but the person is likely suffering PTSD and has various other issues.

There is no magic cure to homelessness, but this is one of many small things that can help.

And when I first came off the street, I didn't know what to do. I put a mattress on the floor of the living room, next to a camping stove. The bedroom was a cavern I never visited, the kitchen just a place where there was a tap, and I didn't understand how there could be so much cupboard space. I basically backed into a corner of one room, I couldn't comprehend the space or what I was supposed to do with it. I didn't even have a carpet, and the only seat was ripped from a car. A roof isn't enough unfortunately.
sounds like he didn't really understand many features of the language.
> Remember that we have ALL fucked up at some point, just luckily for most of us, "fucking up" doesn't mean losing than much of other peoples' money.

Most of us also don't get filthy rich losing other peoples' money.
To be effective only tiny amounts of the 700k bitcoins would be able to be hidden
I will always remember 'Sorting out Sorting'.

Should exist on the web somewhere if you havn't seen it.
Hmmm... If you removed 6% of the world's gold supply (or even, if it were knowable, 3.5% of all the world's gold supply ever) you would expect the price of the remaining gold to rise.

Bitcoin dropping is a sign of panic and uncertainty in the market about the long term viability of it to retain value. If you're confident the underlying value still exists, as many people would do with gold, then this is a great buying opportunity.

/s/gold/commodity-of-your-choice I'm not trying to debate fiat currencies and gold standards here.

[Edit: Thanks to the commenters below for pointing out that the MtGox money hasn't been lost to the world.]
The demo looked really cool. I doubt it's better than Lisp for doing symbolic computation though.
Building a CNC machine with a regular lathe and mill may not be hobbyist level easy, but it's certainly doable by someone as rich in machining tradition as Russia.

Amusingly, the incident would also dispell the (western) myth that it takes very advanced machining technology to build a nuclear bomb. You can't have it both ways.

I suspect the real incident was the software to mill those propellers, but that wasn't on the list of illegal goods. It's one thing to have a fancy but dumb CNC machine, another to come up with a silent prop design.
How about a series of pipes? Will that work?
Small correction, Warren Buffet spent over $34billion on BNSF
About that, I wonder how common are path rendering extensions used ( like NV_PATH http://zrusin.blogspot.fr/2011/09/nv-path-rendering.html ). I'd be sad to hear that my cpu is wasting time on font rendering in 2014.
Nah, I'd believe it. From reading it, I think the purpose of the document was to get other Bitcoin players to help bail out MtGox. Possibly something written by a credible outsider at MtGox's request. The normal answer to that would be, "fuck you", so this document a) has to make it clear that MtGox is doomed without a bailout, and b) the other players will be hurt more if they don't chip in than if they do.
I had no trouble reading at 500 wpm, and although I seemed to miss a few words (maybe due to blinking?), that didn't interfere with comprehension.

But the French translation is gibberish!! This is unprofessional and insulting. If you can't be bothered to hire a professional translator, please don't offer content in that language at all.
Another 4700. About $2.3 million.
I'll keep this disclosure in mind when it comes across my desk. But now you've got no chance of patenting it yourself, so touch luck =).
The First book with printed page numbers
I didn't specifically test that. But I guess not, unless the browser itself can access them. That may be one of the areas for Jolla to work on.
Why? I'd rather put some crazy requirements in my build tools, than in the delivered product.

Eg hypothetical: who cares if it only builds on, say Linux? We have VMs for that. As long as the output program runs on the target platform, say Windows, we are golden.
I dont get it. I really liked the single inbox idea, what I didn't understand is why they didn't just allow IMAP or oauth integration with gmail and tackle it that way, they already have messenger on my phone, they already have all my Facebook messages, the only thing left was email. Email addresses are ids. They dont change. Period.
Macs are certainly full of proprietary and closed-source software, but not in this specific case. [1]

[1]: http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/l...
It hasn't been removed, just moved. Scarcity hasn't changed, but a question about what "ownership" means has been introduced. When I have a buck in my pocket, I have a buck in my pocket. When I "have" a coin in my wallet, do I really have a coin in my wallet, or just some bits that represent a previous state of a coin that has long since moved on?
Vim-Neovim: Convert function declarations from K&R to ANSI style
Congratulations on being one of the millions of internet users who have no idea how the patent system works. First to file is purely for determining priority of an application; the date at which the patent office (or another patent office under the Paris convention) comes to know about the invention. It's used to resolve a) which prior art is relevant (anything published publicly before this date) and b) if two people try to patent the same thing, which one gets it (gross simplification here). America was the only country which had the "First to invent" priority, which the rest of the world has deemed for decades as completely daft and a huge administrative nightmare.
Hardware makers who accepted dollars for graphics cards and ASICS would still have dollars. Electricity companies would still have dollars. VCs who invested $100 million of OPM in Bitcoin companies would still have dollars. Employees of those companies would, one hopes, have been paid in dollars.

And then the biggie: people who sold before the pump-and-dump hit "dump" would still have dollars.

Who loses? People holding hardware which 90%+ depreciates, GPs of funds investing in bitcoin companies, and a whole lot of people who bought into the pump-and-dump at or after "dump."
Could bitcoin function as a viable replacement for today's money/monetary system without entities like MtGox ?

Not functioning technically but functioning pragmatically.

(honest question, I am an economic newbie)
Show HN: Snapify in Submify
Blogify:
This app (submify.com) lets people to share blogs(200 words) under topics. Why "topics"? Coz, I don't want my political post to reach the person who followed me for programming. Lets say I write under "startups", "fun" topics and i get more followers for "fun" topics( may be 100x). What does it say? I am a funny guy more than a startup guy. So, I could write more funny posts.

Snapify:
If you see this url http://submify.com/vyfy/self/61-kevin-spacey-and-house-of-cards, you will see a camera icon on the post which has four different filters. You could take good snapshot of your blog-post and share it across internet as an image, which I believe lets more people to write their thoughts and sharing is more intuitive.

I have stopped freelancing(it is almost 2 months) and building this app. I request HN community to give some response or suggestions or feedback, would be very grateful.
Hoe zelf kunstgras aanleggen?
That's a great comment, except for the last bit. The evidence does not support that welfare grows the welfare population. Concur on the other issues, though. London, where we live, is similar.