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No man. The blockchain man, the blockchain. It's out there. We got this. The question could be that once they find out the who or who's, and those people are riding pitchfork style, around Bittown, who's going to be in charge of liqudating assets and sending pennies on the dollar back to all those quasi-anonymous folks saying the fiat is theirs?

Oh, and what about when we find out that suspect 1 might not actually be the culprit? Oops. YOLO.

Is there not an interesting question in, assuming coins could be recovered, what laws, in what countries, will cover them, and what value would they have if the 'currency' has no value? Do people want their BC back?

Looks like a bunch of people are praying to get out of bitcoin at 550 right now. If that aspiration thinking fails and people eat through the standing buys around 400, the next stop is 400, where panic will kick in and, maybe there's a pause at 100.

Pins, needles, popcorn... Black Tuesday 2014?
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I would not like to be in the shoes of mtgox CEO... He lost about 400M USD, some of them probably belonging to shady peoples (drug dealer, mobs, etc.)
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That is the kind of stuff that should be in the school curriculum! Good on you for doing something cool and useful for the kids.
With cookies: this is done all the time for retargeting (those ads that follow you around the web).

When you visit website X, it gets ad-exchange Y to leave a cookie on your browser to tag you as having Y-id and associates your X-id with that Y-id.

When you then visit site Z, that site requests an ad from ad-exchange Y, which gets its cookie back, and sends out bid-requests for the user with Y-id, which can then be remapped by X to an X-id.
>> I wholeheartedly disagree. By your logic, people wouldn't pay money for Windows, or Photoshop, or thousands of other software packages. Oh, and Steam! People pay $20 or more on Steam for some mediocre stuff.

The mistake in his logic is generalizing to all digital goods. People are hesitant to pay for mobile goods relative to others. Look at Angry Birds. In terms of hours of enjoyment (or distraction for your kids), it is worth much more than $.99 based on what you would pay for something as basic as a Slinkee. However, it took me almost a year of playing only the demo versions to finally buy the full game. This may be a positive in terms of people resisting purchase of frivolous goods, but the point about mobile goods being valued less than their physical or non-mobile counterparts stands.

What's the most expensive app to ever hit the top charts for iPhone/iPad purchases? My guess is that it is substantially cheaper than the most expensive best-selling software.

Final note: I wholeheartedly agree with you that the proportion of useless to useful apps is likely the most important factor in this valuation difference.
Hey, not bad for 19 years of memory!

Do you know if Rob ever released any of those unfinished things?

It looks like some work has been done recently on a port of SF2 to CPC -- I must admit, it's been a decade since I had a working CPC... I would like to get one, but maybe emulating things is best at this point.
I guess this could be taken to mean "the leak was a fake and unanticipated, we closed the markets to prevent even more panic selling"

Maybe there is a faint glimmer of hope for gox... (I personally doubt it)
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So I have n bitcoins and $x in MtGox; will I get this back? Will there be a haircut? Is MtGox winding down? So many questions...
Look at how hard it is to get a tiny twist on an old idea like AirBnB or Uber legal in society. These are great things that the existing institutions that benefit from government enforced monopolies try and use the law to smother.

I view the lack of regulation as a feature, not a bug.

Bitcoin is an arena for innovation and new ideas for micro transactions and programmable contracts and probably lots of decentralized things nobody has thought of yet. Were it left to the existing financial regulators and institution, the pace of innovation would be glacial and they would prevent most new ideas from coming into fruition. Why would they want innovation? They have an effective monopoly and use regulations to prevent competition. And these companies know that if they take major risks and nearly kill themselves, that they'll almost certainly be bailed out by a magic bag of free money.

It's refreshing to see a financial system with no bailouts for companies that crash and burn.
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What does that even mean?

There is not one single oficial statement saying what they will do from now on. To me, this delay means just one thing, they screwed big time and have zero good news.
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Except if you're rich, like HSBC banksters. No matter how many rules you set up, it'll never be fair.
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Their way of protecting the site and the users is doing precisely the opposite
I'm guessing that gox lost ~$400m and is insolvent?

Perhaps the leak was fake, so gox shut down to prevent people panic selling
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In other words, it works like interest. In a properly functioning monetary system, interest and inflation are fairly similar, so even though the number of coins in McDuck's pile is getting bigger, what can be bought with that pile stays relatively constant.
I don't care much about distinctions between "currency" and "not currency". But I don't think this incident changes the fundamentals of BTC. I don't understand those fundamentals well enough to speculate, but I don't think the collapse of a single exchange alters them much in the long term.

If anything, my views are learning towards BTC being a widely used medium of exchange (not necessarily a medium of account) but a poor speculation vehicle. Demand for BTC is (sublinearly) proportional to transaction costs and the size of the BTC economy - I can easily envision scenarios where transaction costs go sufficiently low that BTC demand remains low.

I do some math here if you are interested: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/demand_for_bitcoins.h...
That's the first thing I've thought. Back in the old SR days you could hire hitmen for pretty reasonable amounts, especially compared to 750kBTC.
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Don't forget the divitis of responsive web design - one of my utter bugbears. Should people jump ahead of technology so much, or wait for Flexbox support to catch up and then do it? I know what I think...
I see jsfiddle.net being used this way for jQuery, plugins, themes, etc. While I really hate doing HTML + CSS + JS work, the outgrowth of jsfiddle and the like is brilliant.
Are you kidding me?

This message is likely worse than staying silent.
I'm truly sorry you've taken a hit but hopefully you can take this opportunity to learn from the mistake and in the future avoid investing large sums of money in something you don't fully understand. I know what I've just said makes me sound like a smug c*nt but it really is the truth. If you don't understand something inside out don't directly invest in it - it's that simple. This is why I personally stay away from stocks and shares as I don't know enough about them to be sure I wont get fleeced.

Even if MtGox had been the best run exchange in the world and was still going strong today, you should not have left 3BTC sitting in a wallet under their control. None of the exchanges have been going long enough nor is the BTC ecosystem itself mature enough to be granted that level of trust.

If you need to trade a large BTC amount always do it in a hit and run fashion, making sure the coins or cash are only on the exchange for the absolute minimum amount of time needed to make the trade. An exchange should be viewed as just that, an exchange. Not a bank or savings account.
There are a few things inherent in the design and policies of the app store that pushes prices to be low.

One is that there are no demos possible. You can't make an app that works for 30 days and then stops working. You can sort of do this by limiting the app and having it fully unlocked by in-app purchase. I really don't mind that model at all, because I just see it as a demo version.

Another limiting policy is that there is no upgrade pricing. The app is just the app.
It was once said that Stephen Wolfram builds such powerful tools that even the great man himself doesn't know how to use or explain what these tools are :P

On a more serious note, think of this language as something highly-sophisticated tech and other-industry companies might use.

You won't be building a farting-noise-type app with this language, unless it is a bowel-detecting-smell-sniffing-doctor-replacing-treatment-providing analysis app that uses sensors to compute the above scenario.

If Wolfram wants the language to be used in knowledge and computation fields, then maybe a couple of demos on how to use it for something like stock-trading, or tweet-timing-reach or weather-analysis might get this into the hands of people that use computation in some form with rather 'primitive' tools when compared to the Wolfram language (which basically is the equivalent of a huge-ass library and works like a huge-ass framework of sorts).

I personally would probably like to try or see the language being used in optimizing an industry like logistics or travel or anything to do with maximizing time-efficiency.
Sounds very passive. "Closely monitoring"? "React accordingly"? As if they were not the ones running the site.
That strikes me as a minor quality of life issue. Great, you've removed about 1% of all Bikesheds (which library,which framework, etc). Not, something that NEEDS to exist.
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here's a quick and dirty fork to make it restart when you click

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/DimBz
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Once you get something for free it becomes hard to associate a monetary value to it.
That's level ten Vice President.
Previously submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4526609

Also from another source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115168
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Sure, especially if you include low volatility in the definition of success.

My point was that predictability is the more important characteristic for value transmission, not trajectory.
The usability is a huge and totally valid critisism, though I don't think for the reason you suggest. You can use software to allow you to sync keys between your devices. I use 1password - that's a fairly minor usability hurdle.

More of an issue is the bitcoin client software itself. It's a usability disaster. From every point of view - it's hard to use / understand for the layman. But even as someone technically minded, it's hard to figure out what you need from the software to manage your wallet. Given that all you need to keep your coins safe is a tiny bit of text that you can take with you - why is it so hard to get it out and in to the client software?

Edit: for a layperson the 1password hurdle is a lot bigger so you're right about how that's a major usability issue.
I would say if a member with a high reputation has moderation powers then that member is a moderator. They may not have the full powers of an elected moderator, but that would just make them a lower level moderator. It seems the comment can be considered accurate.
Well that's what people say, yet I haven't seen lots of executives in large companies where scandals have occurred suddenly getting randomly killed by hitmen in the streets. And Madoff's still alive, too.
Is it at all possible that Mt. Gox users will have any recourse? I have a bit of money in there, not enough to care about, but it's caused me to follow this a bit more closely than I might otherwise. Reminds me in a small way of the Full Tilt poker fallout (at least those people got some small compensation from the class-action. I assume that's not an option given Japanese law being notoriously difficult to sue under - from what I've been told).
The counter-counter argument is that without regulation, there's nothing to stop incompetent actors from getting enough power to screw the whole system, and no real failsafe if they do.

That's a claim, but is it backed by historical evidence? Because the screwups of the regulatory bodies certainly are.

A problem with that argument is that people point out financial systems with central banks, plenty of subsidies, etc and claim "that's an unregulated system" because it lacks the regulations they find important, when in reality they're aren't.

Regulation doesn't have to be incompetent.

Well, the authors of the recent book Fragile by Design claim that in a populist system like the US, that's almost inevitable.
The function declared earlier is perfectly fine, the comment is sufficient to explain what it's doing, but functions should be understandable simply by reading their source and in that respect the linked function fails. This would be really simple to solve with a simple comment, E.G.

// current power of three, init to 3^0
unsigned three = 1;

The fact that this looks like a bug at first glance is a pretty good indication that there should be some explanation of what exactly it's doing.
There is also this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6871331
There are plenty of free graphics resources if you know where to look.

Use simple placeholder graphics. Make simple tiles. If the game is fun, work on getting better graphics.

If you have a working game with simple graphics that's fun, use one of those freelancer sites to get some better art.

You also need sounds.
Right now it seems likely that the answer is "no".
Although who knows...
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> this tool is truly excellent for breaking the subvocalization habit

Which, according to all the research I've seen, is exactly what you don't want to do if you want to retain any information. (I couldn't find the study I remembered reading recently, but this article references some such studies http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229)
You don't honestly think morality, of all things, had anything to do with that, do you?
Don't forget "a decision was taken"...
Is this a joke? What's worse than a non-response? Lies. That's what.
So basically every email provider, Google, and most of the internet has absolutely no user obligations? That's simply not true, even a cursory understanding of contract law would tell you that. Compensation does not have to be currency to form a valid contract with obligations.
Oh, that's easy. The best thing is to use the off-the-shelf SSH server, one that has been written by experts and carefully reviewed by a lot of people.

Or do you mean this as a metaphor for MtGox? In that case, I would say that I would rather miss the window than be the famous asshole who -- oopsie! -- lost $500 million of other people's money.
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Back in the old SR days you could hire FBI agents posing as hitmen for pretty reasonable amounts, especially compared to 750kBTC
The value hasn't evaporated - if you bought a bitcoin for $1000 a few months ago and now you can sell it for $100, then value of ~$900 (assuming that 'real worth' of USD didn't change much) was transferrend from you to the guy who sold you that bitcoin back then.
But isn't that just one of the differences between a regulated business and an unregulated one?

Madoff isn't dead, but he is in prison.
You could call it blinde.rs
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"Except a shell company does generally have assets, IP and so on, when there is a bankruptcy, there is a chance the shareholders get something out of it."

As far as I know (and I'm aware I don't that much), a bankruptcy means zero value left for the (ante-bankruptcy) owners. Whoever steps in has to (only) put in some value, like the government paying/writing off unsolvable debts, or the next owner that has to effectively buy the bankrupt entity from the government. Am I wrong?
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Even if you were a shady drug dealer, revenge doesn't get your money back.
CONSPIRACY THEORY TIME.

What if Mt. Gox didn't really lose a post-Panamax boatload of Bitcoin (just a small amount)? They're just manufacturing a panic so they can buy Bitcoins at fire-sale prices, declare "We have all the BitCoin we need after all, we fixed our bug, everything's fiiiine" and maybe even turn a cash profit on the upside?

</conspiracy theory, assumes a modicum of competence, etc>
> If you have a great app and price it at $10, if you get a third of the downloads you'd get at $3, you're still ahead.

The problem is that the way the app stores work turn it into an all-or-nothing game. If you get a third of the downloads you would've gotten at a lower price point today, you're so far down the charts that you'll get fewer the next day, and fewer the day after that, etc.

At least, this is the reasoning behind the race to the bottom mentality. Not sure how true it actually is.
I never figured out what their thought process was with this feature. They didn't offer a traditional inbox, and there was no real effort to educate users on how the "Other" inbox worked. They rolled the @facebook.com email addresses out as the default public email address, which suggested they had a plan, but they never went any further.
The pronunciation is "hacker news", not "acker news", therefore "a" and not "an". The consonant is pronounced, not silent.

Edit: oh, that's not german you wrote. You're right about "H N"
That was for the Demo video, not for the page to the language documentation itself.
Thanks, good to know. I'm most interested though in the parts between the canned procedures (which I assume are written in C or similar), for custom algorithms. For example loops which manipulate arrays and pattern matching (probably not the right term, maybe "rule selection")?

I seem to remember the pattern matching was especially slow, though very powerful. Had the latter been fast enough to use, it would have been a big advantage over Java. I'd be happy with single pass linear matching like ML/Haskell if it were just much faster than what I experienced with Mathematica's, I wonder if there's a way of doing that? Or type hinting, which most dynamic languages seem to eventually need to eek out more performance?

Hard to imagine that Mathematica wouldn't need something like that for good performance when you stray from the canned routines, but I'd like to be wrong!
One way to deal with app platform fragmentation is to develop your app using a technology that supports multiple platforms -- Sencha Touch comes to mind as one example. Not that it solves the problem entirely, but it does make it cheaper.

I'm not sure what makes the app ecosystem that much different from the web at large -- if anything, I think the amount of trite, junky apps mirrors the amount of useless noise found on the web in general.

He does make a good observation about there being an opportunity for some startup to come along and do to apps what google did to the web.
They seem to be saying the right things to the right audience at the right time. Kind of like how politicians promise things they can never live up to.

Maybe you need to view SO in a different light in order to understand its usefulness. The SO site itself can be considered broadly as a solve-coding-problem site.

If you want more broad and debatable topics to be involved in your thinking, go with a specialized-forum.

I think the wisdom behind their strict policy applies when (say) a question that was answered in 2011 about some linux software issue provides an exact solution that can be applied by another 10/100/1000 more other people that come across this issue in the future. Therefore, it solves the problem and you move on.
If there was any evidence of that they'd go to jail for a long time - even if bitcoin is not directly regulated, I'm sure there are still some anti-fraud regulations that would kick in...
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Thanks for posting this, I've set a bunch of filters and will be giving it a go.
I don't think this has anything to do with cynicism. Currently HN has 4 main topics: bitcoin, startup, tech, and misc. And they're kind of a stretch from each other, only a subset of us are really interested in all four.
Microsoft (like Apple, Google, etc) has a large portion of their profits stuck overseas and can't repatriate that money without paying US income taxes on it. That's why spending the money internationally is appealing to them.
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Putting on my Lean Startup hat for a sec, I would even say that the M could allow for losing money. If it's early on and your customers are all in the 2 1/2% of innovators, they will put up with a little of that. Certainly if you make them whole, but probably even without.

That said, "flawless accounting" would be very high up on my feature list. I think the failure here isn't launching without perfection; it's operating at scale without perfection.
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One really interesting thing about this: When I speak with my Facebook rep, he has brought up time and time again that Facebook basically believes email is fundamentally broken. They keep saying they are going to remove the offers ad unit (which derives most of its value from sending an email to the users sign in email address), because they see email as something people feel obligated to deal with. There's a clear focus within the company on becoming the default communication medium for the internet. Their attempt to purchase Snapchat and now the WhatsApp purchase seem to back that up too.

Not really commenting either way on whether or not it's a smart strategy, just that it's been interesting to think about while watching their decisions.
This is actually contrary to Linux kernel "good style". Functions should be short and understandable. Comments should be on the top of the function, describing what the function is for. Comments describing variables in functions are discouraged.
“Learn to never be satisfied with the status quo, to constantly expand your understanding of users, audience, products or markets.”

This stuck out at me as a great way to never be happy.
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Given the observation "something medically bad is happening to kids", how to scientists get to the conclusion, "this is caused by virus xyz"?

I'm really curious what the roadmap for the research looks like. Because it seems to me that the potential search space -- all the things that could potentially cause problems -- is mind-bogglingly huge. And any given victim of the illness is likely to have some quirks - history of exposure to various stuff, family history of different diseases, an odd bacterium or two in the gut, etc.

How does it all get sorted out?
This article by Neal Stephenson on cable laying from around 1994 is a long but still a very good read

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
It doesn't have to be MtGox, but anyone who wants to see a quick collapse in the price. And given the anonymous nature of the internet, it is super easy to do.
Wait, nobody said that MtGox's CEO won't go in prison. There will be a lawsuit following the losses. The Law still applies when you start taking money for a service.
Any open source version? Also, to people who have implemented their own language interpreters before, is the description enough to attempt an open source version of it? Might be a fun exercise to try to implement it in jison.