skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I go around downtown SD and hand out food/ talk to homeless for an org I'm active in. I wonder if we ever met?
I once had a physics professor (who I admittedly was not too close to) who loved mathematica and is quite the evangelist for the tool at my old school. However, he once met Stephen Wolfram and didn't feel that he had "a high opinion" of my professor.

Regardless of his ego, he has somewhat earned the bragging rights given that he is responsible for mathematica and wolfram-alpha.
You can un-redact it yourself if you stick an ID on one of the surrounding divs, and then do $("#mydiv img").remove();

http://i.imgur.com/jixb1FZ.png
> this bug

"9001 Wrong Things Programmers Assume About Internationalization"

This behavior should at a minimum be locale-aware. I would be surprised if Firefox did that by default in my pt-BR profile.
There you go: http://imgur.com/MwPTktl
Backblaze.com continuously, and a nightly SuperDuper! image backup so I could get recover immediately after a disk crash.

(Belt and suspenders. ;-)
What is a "leak in the hot wallet"? Is that a euphemism for "we did not correctly move coins to cold storage"?
Interesting. Thanks for clarifying. I wonder if those files can have other restrictions tied to them, such as being transported or copied between two computers.
It also uses "robbery" in a really unbusiness-like way. Still, there's only a few things here and there that are kind of out-of-line, and might be of the sort I'd expect for a intended-to-be-internal document.
Yeah, I'm not talking about random DoD employees calling out the documents as fabrications on Reddit...

My point is that although the government has not officially declared the documents to be authentic, their failure to merely laugh them off as obvious fakes created by a kook is more than telling.
Comcast is a natural monopoly, and there isn't anything wrong with that. Competitors are free right now to lay cabling to areas where Comcast already serves, they just choose not to because it isn't a smart financial decision.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html
I think GPL3 is a fine license for the project. Affero GPL would be even better.

Communication is fundamental to what humans do, and if you want secure communications, the USER needs access to the source for auditing purposes. The GPL gives that freedom & protection to the user. BSD et al. only gives freedom to developers, and when building a platform that purports to be secure, the code must be visible to everyone that uses it. That's what the GPL provides.
> I'm happy to see any money going into fusion research, but it does seem that Focus Fusion has a much better chance of delivering in the near term

What do you base that on? I've found very little in the open literature.
It'll be interesting to see if Silk Road 2 will be able to recover from their loss by creating a truly (crypto) trustable escrow service that can be reused by exchange...

I don't understand how you can trust any exchange otherwise!
There is overlap. I once lost a fair amount of time because some dimwit predecessor thought putting anything other than a space after commas was acceptable. (It sounds ridiculous but it's true. I can explain if you care.)

So: a formatter will, for example, make sure your lines are indented to some standard amount of indentation, a linter will bitch if they are not, and both the formatter and the linter should DTRT when they identify certain indefensible coding practices.
The second slide shows a timeline[0]. If this is correct, Gox spent the last two weeks snapping up BTC at a 75% discount to replenish their balances.

I figured as much[1].

If this is even remotely true, no amount of "rebranding" will save them.

Please save us months of drama and be gone.

[0] http://www.scribd.com/doc/209050732/MtGox-Situation-Crisis-S...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211417
This is how markets should be handled and regulated, not the US way.

I am glad to live in Europe, not in the uncivilized ultra-capitalist US.
a question how does one audit an anonymous money transaction?

NO, really from a standpoint of say security, financial,etc?

The Fiat is only as trust worthy as its baddest actor. This works not only for physical but for bitcoin a well.

Another way to put it is if you have 100% transparency you have 0% bad information ..ie less price swings and less opportunities to make money on swings either up or down.
Design Details: Sunrise for iOS
So while I can't see myself using this to write applications I can certainly see it replacing / augmenting my current iPython notebooks. I can do a lot with pandas and plotly for data exploration and visualization, but I can't do many of the things he demo'ed nearly as easily.
That this even could be conceivably real is the entire problem with Bitcoin.
It's linked under 'Documents' at the top of the page:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/documents/

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/02/24/art-d...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1021...
Pinging the URL points to the same IP address as mtgox.com 46.51.247.57.
Mori's data structures are the ones from ClojureScript, so they're designed in a functional, rather than OO, style. I agree it's more foreign in a JS context. For some operations, there are advantages to being able to write functions that just work with generic data rather than objects. I could imagine having a layer on top of Mori that provides a more familiar face while still giving access to the "just data" stuff underneath for performing functional operations.

Pete Hunt did just that:

https://github.com/petehunt/morimodel/

Mori is sophisticated under the hood. It doesn't do massive amounts of copying or anything like that, so I don't think you need a "batch mode" to make it perform. Perhaps I'm missing something though.

Edit: I took a quick look at _tree's code. It's quite different from how I understand Mori to work. Mori exposes Clojure's data structures which implement their own immutable maps, lists and vectors in a way that is very efficient for copying (both in time and space).
Aside from in the future work with a contract, I would also recommend breaking all projects up in to phases with incremental payments. That way you are satisfied the client is paying and the client can verify they are happy with the work. And you'll find out if there are going to be issues early on.

Sounds like things are getting out of control with this project as far as scope and payments.

I would setup a scope of work in phases for what you quoted initially. Note what is completed. Then setup a reasonable time frame to complete the remaining items along with incremental payments and an initial payment to cover some of the work you completed above the initial deposit.

Be careful with this as far as when you can complete it and how much payment you expect. If things are way more work than they should have been now is the time to ask for extra time/money. And if you can pad your schedule some I would do that as well so you meet all the remaining deadlines to keep them happy and paying.

This will document that you have far exceeded what they have paid for so far . . . in their initial payment.

Once you have this, contact them and let them know you are committed to completing the project this is the time frame and payment schedule you are proposing to make it happen.

If they balk at doing this I would indicate you will send them an invoice for the work completed beyond their initial payment and you'll be happy to provide their next developer with a summary of the status of the project to get them up and running.

Follow up and send them an invoice for the % of work completed. Best case they pay this . . . but this is mainly to allow them to screw you by not paying this invoice and not think about trying to ask for their initial deposit back.

They might not be as mad as you think and just want a cost/time frame for their project so if the scope is out of line you could even propose more fee. To cover items they have added or if the existing app was in bad shape.

You should probably weigh if you'd be happy getting away from this project with just their initial deposit. If so you might want to try to go the invoice for % complete route and move on to other projects.

Good luck.
As a top-selling Girl Scout in the San Jacinto Council (Texas), she sold 5,131 boxes of cookies last year. At four dollars a box, she could buy a car, her mother and troop leader Kimberly Welsh, jokes

They must have a great pricing scheme in their troop or get the cookies for free, because in my daughter's troop that $4 per box only results in $0.65/box of profits (16.25%) given back to the girls. It's really an inefficient way to raise money.

On the other hand my son's Cub Scout pack sells overpriced lousy popcorn, but at least Trail's End kicks 66% of the money back to the boys (33% to the pack, 33% to the local council)
For those interested: page 8 unredacted...
http://imgur.com/aU5mCVP
Emocean.me is finally live
Maybe somebody like the Bitcoin foundation doing some crisis management and taking over what's left of MtGox to save the market?
No, it's not. A huge tokamak is far more likely to reach break even. Smaller designs would be an important part of a healthy research program, but unfortunately, the US has been gutting the smaller projects.
Whoever created this PDF knew that.
Ha! The first talk[1] about Jason pretending to have a copy of the iPad 2 is hilarious. I've never heard that story before, definitely an entertaining couple of minutes.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbI9pIbpY4
Good tool. Nicely done!
That is a good point, though D2 is younger than Rust, no?
Is this a fake/placeholder balance sheet? Why would MtGox have a "Cost of Goods Sold"?
http://alias.sh

has had these for a long time. both git lg and git gl
Not really. What's nice about fusion is the ridiculous amount of energy that would be available as fuel. Geothermal would do very little.

www.withouthotair.com
At this point 744,408 BTC are missing due to malleability-related theft which went unnoticed for several years.

Placing this sentence in bold text seems like an attempt to create panic. It seems unlikely that Mt. Gox would want to do that.

The reality is that MtGox can go bankrupt at any moment, and certainly deserves to as a company.

I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that Mt. Gox would make a statement of this nature. "MtGox can go bankrupt at any moment" has a very amateurish ring to it, in stark contrast to recent communications from Mt. Gox. [1] Publicly stating that they deserve to go bankrupt seems highly inconsistent with planning for a relaunch.

Also, the document alternates between first person ("we will use SNS platforms...") and third person ("Publicly, MtGox declared that"), which is suspicious given that the statements released by Mt. Gox recently do not do that. [1]

It's possible that this is real. Personally, I doubt it.

[1] https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140220-Announcement.pdf
Hmmm I still think it is a hoax, and a way for someone intelligent to earn a lot of money by manipulating bitcoin prices... The release in April 1st? Domain registered hours ago? Algo mtgox.com is registered in 1api. I don't see why they would switch registrars only for this, and there is a post in Mark Karpeles' blog accusing GoDaddy of shitty security practices: http://blog.magicaltux.net/tag/godaddy/

Also, if I were on that situation and soundly advised I wouldn't touch a US based registrar for my new domain even with a 10 foot Bitpole.
Nobody said they were completely unaware of it. They might have known about the theft and been hoping they could dig their way out of it.
Make up a number. Double it ASAP. Then double it again.

Then move to daily billing, or project-based billing if you have a lot of high-similarity work with relatively time-definite scoping. Either way, not hourly.

For a developer, floor should be like $50 if you are REALLY new, and totally lack confidence to pitch any other way. Then with the doubling after you have some success to bolster your confidence.

Typical rates for iOS are north of $100, often well north (think multiples). Really, really north if you use project-based billing and leverage a domain specialization.
How will the MtGox fiasco affect the bit coin economy in the long term.
I would honestly be interested in the first 0.5-10 minutes of your leprechaun theory (depending on beer consumption, and if I'd heard similar things before), then I would try to change the subject and hope that there was more to you. And the same would apply if you were to go on a rant about how people who take joy in the idea of leprechauns are positively stupid.

It's not that true/false are equally credible, it's that assertion of either one starts off utterly non-credible. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and all that. This applies to proving the existence of leprechauns. But it also applies to positively disproving the existence of (a specific definition of) leprechauns, especially with the goal of using that result to imply something else.

Insisting the definitiveness of either take on a middleground is akin to rooting for sports teams (not that that isn't fun, but don't think you're helping spread truth).
Wait, what is that line with 5.5 million USD held by DHS ?

Department of Homeland Security?

ps. also, they have 80 THOUSAND seized btc from banned accounts?

that is a whopping bit of profit if that space is a comma and not a decimal

anyone notice this document is a bit sloppy with commas vs spaces?
Are you guys using either of them elsewhere or just for analytics?
Measuring the Unit Testing Culture – 60 Sec Survey
The "Five Eyes Alliance" bothers me. What lines in the sand are drawn in each country? Are there some that the NSA isn't allowed to cross but GCHQ can?

Is it a matter of saying "Hey GCHQ we have a guy who is in the US who we can't do these things to but he's related to this guy over here in foreign country ?" Wouldn't traditionally that example include the CIA/FBI instead? Or for less oversight would it make more sense to use one of the Five Eyes Alliance nations. I think that in that example that's troublesome in that it undermines what for better or worse where bureaucracy protects the citizenry of the US.

Edit to include the CIA
You are the one that brought up conspiracy in reference to Hastings[0]. Stop lying as if I was the one to inject it into the topic of spying. This disinformation bull your are pulling is seriously detrimental to any possible discussion.

To everyone not tptacek: Look at my comments, none suggest Hastings died due to tptacek suggested conspiracy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294895
Yes, but that is not informative. Without speculating on the current topic, the person who controls the domain sets both the registrant and the nameservers.
If you find this topic interesting, Robert Nozick's "Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World" explores how this fact should affect epistemology and ethics.

It's a tough book but it's worth your time.
It wouldn't be that hard to rationalize that one. This "bailout" would be completely different than a publicly funded bailout that wasn't even voted on.
http://www.efda.org/faq/i-would-think-that-iter-would-requir...
I learned this at 18, when after a particularly frustrating round of edits on some file, I sent it to my partner for review with a filename like "fuckthiscustomer". He then forwarded it on, without reviewing.

Customer wasn't pleased and demanded an explanation. Somehow my partner convinced them it was an email virus in their system. Still, lesson learned.
Wolfram Language has much more functionality than what existed in Mathematica, so it remains to be seen if it will have applicability outside of toy problems. So, it isn't fair to judge it solely on the merits of Mathematica.

Also, social conventions are exactly that - conventions implicitly or explicitly chosen by a group of people. That group of people does not encompass the entire population of the planet. Hence, there is no reason to assume that your either your or Linus Torvalds' social conventions apply to anyone outside of you or him. I see no reason why he shouldn't name is work after himself. Is it bad marketing? I don't think so - Wolfram's name is a strong brand.
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There are solutions to convert AVI MKV to Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 free and fast on PC/Mac, and to play HD MKV videos on the biggest Galaxy Note Pro Samsung tablet.
gox.com was registered in 1997; it's just the record that was updated today.
This is showing the weakness in that there is no central entity to control BTC.

In a "fiat currency" world regulators would step in and a) supply liquidity (either in BTC or fiat) and b) impose withdrawal limits while at the same time try to prevent a bank run by backing the weak actor.

(Not that I dislike BTCs lack of a central authority, but it certainly would come in handy here)
I've always used only one "A" record for main domain like "domain.com" then everything else goes throught "CNAME", like "www.domain.com" or any oher sub-domain like "blog.domain.com" then have sepeate "MX" record for email. In Nginx I redirect useless (www) to (non-www) using permanent redirect (301) Never had any problems both with CloudFlare and NameCheap ^_^
Uriel hates Node.js
Thanks for the comprehensive answer! I phrased the question poorly, in that I didn't intend to suggest running Mathmatica against its own codebase but rather against shorter end-user programs with a view to developing IDE-type addons.

I agree with your general comments, as I hate writing glue code and my interest is primarily for DSP and simulation applications, for which I already admire it.
When you have coins on an online exchange, it's not as if those coins literally sit there untouched. Your balance is just a number in a database.

Similarly, if you deposit $100 USD(5 physical 20 dollar bills) in a bank those physical bills don't just sit there waiting for you. They can be given to anyone during the course of the business. You just get "100" added to some database row somewhere. When you want that $100 back, the Bank has to reach into its funds and pay you.
Palantir is not a branch of the NSA, they are backed by the CIA[0].

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cia-backed-palantir-technologi...
Yes. The feds seized funds from MtGox's US subsidiary's bank accounts.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/feds-seize-another-2-1-mill...
Both GCHQ and "frustrated" PUAs deal with human interaction, it is unsurprising if they write about the same things.
Yes.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/feds-seize-another-2-1-mill...
As if hacking GoDaddy domains is particularly difficult.
There are software companies that account for hosting fees and payment processing fees as COGS; COGS are non-marketing expenses that scale with sales, which can be nonzero for Internet software companies.
>If he were white they probably wouldn't mention that.

But if he were British you bet they would mention that. Or French, German, Slovenian, Italian, Australian, Canadian, Japanese, Icelandic...

Him being a Mexican tycoon is actually completely and totally relevant to the story...!!

Would you prefer "business tycoon and citizen of Mexico?"
archive.org seems to indicate nothing of any value has used the domain in the last ~18 years

Did find this though, which was nostalgic https://web.archive.org/web/19961223071948/http://www.gox.co...
So was Decru. I suppose storage encryption is also a CIA plot. So was FireEye. I suppose killing zero-day is also a CIA plot. So was Inktomi. I suppose caching web traffic, &c &c.

I could go on, if you like. In-Q-Tel has backed a lot of stuff.
Windows designer moves to new Microsoft job
They also seem more brazen than NSA. GCHQ scares me more than NSA does. NSA is existentially terrified over losing budget. GCHQ doesn't act like they're worried about anything at all.
Sold all our coins @$500. Not for this reason only, it's the straw on the camels back. It doesn't smell like BS to me (although it could be of course). I highly doubt the author is intentionally misleading us, be he could be being mislead. He's ex VC apparently, seems to be plausible that this document was MtGox's solution to their problem proposed to potential VC's, and one of his VC friends passed it on to him.

Whether or not the document is real or not is pretty irrelevant to me at this stage. Only bad news can now come from Gox.

- Moved to a virtual office

- No withdrawls

- AstroPay rumoured to be non functional

- Communication failure of the highest order

- etc etc

This is a company going bankrupt.

If we had our coins in MtGox and they go bust, I'm going to be pretty distraught by the experience and it would sting enough for me to pay it no more attention going into the future. If Gox does go bankrupt, Bitcoin could lose a large % of their 'userbase', and some passionate and technical ones at that. Chance of MtGox going bust is probable in my opinion. I can't really any scenario where good news comes from Gox.

Happy to buy back in again, but probably wont consider it until the dust has settled, and there's a lot more dust to be kicked up in my opinion.

Been watching Bitcoin religiously for a while now and it feels a little relieving to not have any more serious skin in, for a while at least. Happy to look like an idiot tomorrow morning/next week whenever.
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Assumptions  and  Operating Systems
While undertaking a somewhat substantial project on the systems level, I've become uncertain about standards of operating systems. For example, almost every OS provides a C compile (if they don't, I won't bother). However, other language interpreters/compilers aren't nearly as ubiquitous. Python has become popular, and large projects such as Red Hat have embraced it, but can I assume its presence while designing cross platform software?

What about other languages and libraries? Considering all mainstream platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows, OSX, Android, iOS), what compilers and libraries are found within each?

Forgive me if I've neglected literature. My knowledge on this front is fairly limited. Links for further study are welcome.
Probably targeted toward Gox's investors who are going to be the ones that have to deal with this mess.
For easy viewing:

http://www.muskr.com/MtGoxBalanceSheet.gif
ibogaine?
I wonder if their internal cryptonym for themselves is "Honey Badger".
It's a clever way to get some $400-$500 BTC

But that took some time to manufacturer if fake.
The Rise of the Angels (and the Entrepreneurs) – Disruption Corporation
I love that my my first love, open source, has begun to permeate my new home in academia. This is an unmitigated win to see journals getting on board with reproducibility. Acceess to data is a big part of that.
We should not be using A records for websites. I'm hoping HTTP/2.0 will drag itself into this century and commit to using SRV records or something very like them instead, so that problems like this can go away with a general solution.

See: https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/381
https://mint.com

https://futureadvisor.com

https://simple.com

Simple for banking. FutureAdvisor for automated retirement investments. Mint to aggregate various accounts into one spot.
Now that a document, real or fake has been posted, the price is going to go down whether this is real or not.
Of course, its a three letter domain name, it has been transfered. Someone transfered it today, I'm saying that person is not Mark Karpeles because he is using GoDaddy.
So, you think the US created an entire submarine dedicated to tapping undersea cables, but isn't doing so currently?
It may not be long before passable high school and college essays can be undetectably generated by software. I wonder what we'll do then.

At some point, I guess we'll have writer software that pretty much generates nicely articulated narrative for whatever it is we wish to say. "Write up something about global warming. Make it borderline skeptical, quote the Concerned Scientists and so forth. You know what to say."