skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, my phrasing seemed to minimize the importance of SS in terms of dollar amt, but the fact remains that even with the most dramatic cut possible to SS (i.e. "completely replace it"), the SS cuts amount to less than half of the savings in costs (i.e. the error in your simple math claiming to show why it's mathematically impossible). Once you include the revenue increase I mentioned (the one that works out to a tax burden that's no higher for anyone because it just cancels out the basic income for certain income tax tiers), SS cuts become even further below 50% of the cost-savings I mentioned.

I'll assume that you don't actually disagree with my original comment from the fact that you're resorting to picking successively more microscopic nits.
Drop the "Mt.". Just "Gox". It's cleaner.

On a serious note: I still doubt the legitimacy of this document, given how absurd it is to lose that much BTC without noticing.
I'm a little confused by why this was even an issue.

Why couldn't he just setup an A record for both domain.com and www.domain.com, and in his apache/nginx/pick your server config file 301 redirect www.domain.com to domain.com.

Is that not the best practice?
It can be useful in deeply nested loops. One can certainly argue about the wisdom of deeply nested loops whose complexity requires a goto statement, but sometimes you just need to pop out of a loop to somewhere in a higher loop and goto solves that problem effectively.
I've seen so many criticisms of Bitcoin answered with apologies along the line of "well fiat currency is even worse because corruption/inherently worthless/monopoly on violence," so I'm sure the true believers will come up with some way to rationalize it, if it happens, while still keeping a weather eye out for the revolution.
> Once it becomes widespread knowledge that merchants can accept Bitcoin with no fees (up to $1M) and get the exact dollar amounts in their bank accounts, they will accept Bitcoin, and they'll prefer it.

Completely glossing over the fact that nearly all consumers have credit cards and have never heard of bitcoin. And that consumers won't have any of the consumer protections they enjoy with credit cards or those fancy cash back rewards (consumers really like cash back cards). And that whole 15 minute confirmation time, which would make it extremely difficult to use in retail.
8-0

Bonus: download the PDF and change the highlighting page 11 to 20% (or just change teh color) to look at their internal balance sheet and projections out to 2016.
How much have you studied leprechauns? Do you feel qualified to comment on them? What would you think of me if I insisted that leprechauns were behind all the major world events of the last decade?

There are lots of things we can't prove or disprove, and it's good to acknowledge that. But that doesn't make ideas based on huge logical leaps and not much evidence reasonable. It's possible (in the sense of not impossible) that leprechauns are real and do manipulate human history, but the reasons anyone would think so right now are so paltry that even if it did somehow turn out to be the case, the people who supported the theory right now would still not seem any more credible than a broken clock.
AT&T speaking to Netflix about deal for faster speed
You already accepted the offer from the second company. It's clear from the speed that the first company has been responding to your emails that they're either disorganized or not very interested in you - neither is a good thing for a potential employer.

In your shoes, I'd tell them that I'm grateful for the opportunity but have taken another position due to the delay and leave it at that.
Sokal's paper was carefully hand-written, so a somewhat different situation. His goal was to show that if you used scientific jargon in a highly metaphorical way that flattered the ideological views of the editors but was pretty hilariously shallow (e.g. casually analogizing the axiom of choice in mathematics to pro-choice politics), it could get accepted. He didn't aim to show that you could auto-generate such a paper, though, merely that a human could construct one.

Unlike the papers here, Sokal's paper is also not really gibberish. It's well-written and coherent in a certain surface-level sense, it's just that what it's arguing is nonsense. It strings together coherent paragraphs out of coherent sentences, in an argument that goes somewhere and which you can follow... but the argument itself is ridiculous, put together out of hilarious non sequiturs and puns masquerading as reasoning. The SciGen papers are gibberish on a much more literal level, in that their paragraphs don't actually make sense, their abstracts don't match the subject in their titles, etc.
Hastings died in a car crash. Hastings was a journalist who had covered national security topics. Therefore, Hastings was killed by the US government.

That is the entirety of the Hastings conspiracy theory, which the commenter leading this thread has promoted on HN in the past.
Frankly, even though this is clear proof of what ANY informed person SHOULD HAVE ALREADY KNOWN...I want the REAL raw information.

I want the data on false flag stuff and covert James Bond missions.

Snowden needs to drop the REAL gems.
A US citizen is under no legal obligation to do or not do anything with "classified" information. That is a standard that only its employees must observe.

I can go to Wikileaks and read Snowden and Assange-backed papers all day long. Govt. employees on the other hand aren't allowed to read that info even though it's already public (even at home, even on their own time).
whois gox.com

Domain Name: GOX.COM
Registry Domain ID: 816800_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2014-02-24 17:29:44
Creation Date: 1997-10-09 23:00:00
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-10-08 23:00:00
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.480-624-2505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Mark Karpeles
Registrant Organization: Tibanne Co. Ltd.
Mathematica for handling data aggregation, recursive descent parsing, and tasks well suited for it, while the rest is an enormous codebase of compiled and JVM languages stitched together with Mathematica. Such projects are referred to as the "mud bowl", where when something breaks you just have to throw more mud at it.
> this is actual spy-craft and when applied abroad, I have NO qualms about using it to the USA's advantage

This is from the British spies. So using it abroad would be eg against the US.

(And why are foreigners worth less caring than Americans anyway?)
What happens if some one has name like John Doe ? This is the stupiest implementation of system ever. It needs an award. Seriously, very funny article.
I think GPLv3 is perfect in this scenario. There's no reason why you can't integrate it with a proprietary application or distribute it on iOS -- just purchase a proprietary license exception from the authors.
A description of the person? Have we gone so far down into PC land that simply mentioning race (which is a defining characteristic of a person) is now somehow taboo?
All you're doing is demonstrating your own preconceived and wrong notions of Africa and Mexico, and your willingness to adopt the opinions of racists and xenophobes as your own. Mexican nationals are Mexicans, I defy you to tell them otherwise to their faces. I don't think you'll get the reaction you expect when you inform them that their nationality is a slur they should disown.
This is the exact goal of vagrant. The toolset is already in place. I just wish more people use it while filing issues.
I'm not convinced this is real, and I happen to think that MtGox is going to go bankrupt. But this doesn't smell right to me.

If it's a hoax, then it's well done. I would guess it's something done by an investment banker who knows how to write documents up like this. But the write up is far too melodramatic for me to believe this was written by someone actually involved in the situation.

"At the risk of appearing hyperbolic, this could be the end of Bitcoin, at least for most of the public."
"This isn’t about saving MtGox anymore."

Why is there only a single line on preventing a run on MtGox? That to me would be the most pressing issue once MtGox opened up the floodgates.
By thet logic, lots of people had `jobs' in Gulags and concentrations camps, too.
I know multithread is the T5 sweet spot (to put it mildly), but my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro hits 10s and cost ~$2,800. The cheapest T5 I can find on Oracle's site starts at around $28,000.

I'm only jealous because I'd really like my employer to buy a T5 for compiling and running our software on Solaris SPARC, but unfortunately I don't think it's justified given the state of the platform.
+1 for turning me on to xwing95. Thank you!
Some things I learned as a technical co-founder
Kids: we need to talk about Stripes!
The people who own this racket in the US likely don't want foreign competition.

So, his crime is not being a bastard but not being our bastard.
Clearly a hoax or an inside job, nobody loses that much money without noticing, this might go down in history as the Gox scheme.
Nonsense. If they don't spend it on lottery tickets they'll spend it on booze or drugs. Poor people are poor for a reason.
The update date on that and this document recommending an insane and utterly ineffectual rebrand caused me to revise my opinion of its accuracy from "Oh please, nobody, not even Gox, is that stupid" to "I think today will be a very interesting news day."
Thanks; that's both what I've been trying to tell myself and what my other half has been telling me, but it's easier to believe when a third party says it.
1) Asking about running times on code with calls to an RNG ... remove the randomness first, profile repeatedly

2) Outputting to STDOUT can have some serious overhead depending on where you're actually rendering the text-- textview inside your IDE? Crazy, off-the-wall terminals? Let's dump this to a file and see how long it takes
Not only that, but it trains people who don't read RFCs (or run DNS servers) to believe that configuration is even acceptable in the first place.
Sad to hear PG won't be interviewing applicants anymore (though I understand why).

The 10 minutes where he grilled me on my startup idea were some of the most fun I've had, despite me not getting in. I was hoping to get another chance someday.
It's tough being taken seriously for GCHQ when compared to the likes of NSA.
Whoever censored the tables on page 7 appears to have forgotten about deleting the text behind the black bars.
I don't think it's more dignified to live in an isolated dwelling (some the most expensive residences in the world are in apartment buildings), but it does really help with the Tragedy of the Commons. In my apartment building in San Francisco, people do all sorts of anti-social things like having their dog crap in an elevator and not cleaning it up, and as a result we have to pay considerable monthly fees for the building staff to manage these issues. Having a detached property makes it a lot harder to shirk your responsibilities -- if your dog craps it will be on your own property instead of in common space.
Why is the TSA enforcing US Customs law? The "S" in TSA stands for safety. Enforcing finance regulations is definitely outside the realm of transportation safety.
In my opinion, Mt. Gox announcing insolvency would be a good thing for Bitcoin. Given that Mt. Gox froze trades and this document was released around the same time, this might actually be legitimate.

This is a good thing because right now Mt. Gox is giving Bitcoin a very bad name. Silk Road made Bitcoin seem shady. Mt. Gox makes Bitcoin seem like a joke, like you can lose it all because the exchanges are so immature compared to exchanges for USD or etc.

Better now than in a year when a much larger portion of the public has accepted Bitcoin. In the meantime, here comes sub-500 on Bitstamp. Buy the rumor, sell the news, folks.
Same here. The statement that got me was "The reality is that MtGox can go bankrupt at any moment, and certainly deserves to as a company." That is no way to start out a slide show that says there is still hope for recovery from this mess.
Hm, yeah, I'm definitely confusing them. In any case, I saw this headline and thought, "where is the [2004] tag?", because it was literally exactly the way my friend told me the SCIGen and/or Sokal story back then.

Quite a shock to see that this was 2014.
Waaayyyyy too dramatic to be real; even for MtGox.

Not that I think MtGox is coming back. I'm only interested in how(there's no "if" anymore) they shutdown. Will they be able to make everyone whole again.

Now, if this is real and they really did lose over 700K of coins... they better just pack up and run to a far away galaxy.
why Singapore?
That's the difference though. Visualizing "getting thin" is a whole 'nother world from visualizing already being thin and the emotional state you'll be in once that goal is reached.

Not "will do", but "already done".
The output console in many IDE in default configuration, the output console in many linux distros visual updater/installer (eg in xubuntu and mint), etc ...

Terminal is a very large word these days. In the SO post, he was using the output console of NetBeans.
So uncensor it and post it for us here.
Sibling poster Manishearth, you appear to be hellbanned and are being secretly censored (nobody sees your posts unless they view dead posts).
Given the volatility of btc and the 'Gox' situation, it certainly wouldn't be too out of the question that someone is pushing false info to drive the Gox BTC => BTC trade prices down, but unfortunately I feel as if this might be legit
Gox is better crafting crisis strategy draft than coding softwares. :-/
The papers in question were generated by the SCIGen paper generator. Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and I are the authors of that system, with Jeremy doing the lionshare of the work. The inspiration for SCIgen was TheSpark.com's high school paper generator, which ran from about 1999 to 2001. To call these autogenerated works gibberish is an affront to those of us who hand-assembled their context-free grammars!
Well, they certainly could have tried harder to sensor the income statement. It's 100% visible if you open that particular page in Illustrator.
> Let this be a warning to everybody with bitcoin in wallets they do no absolutely control

Is that how this happened?

Given that bitcoins are supposed to be owned by addresses that are protected by private key, I wondered why people couldn't "withdrawal" their bitcoins. If Mt. Gox was controlling the private keys (as a hosted wallet service) that makes more sense.
I've run into it before... I've had compiling etc. limited by the speed & size of my console window.

Isn't it common knowledge though? Cat some 1GB file to your terminal and notice it takes more than the <100ms it takes to cat it to /dev/null.
Listed under "Assets": "New brand and services ready to be launched."

Just what the community needs most - new Gox-quality services, hidden behind brand obfuscation. Ready to go!
How hard would it be to fake that registration though?

Create burner email addresses, prepaid cards, etc and setup the domain. Sounds as plausible as all of the other MtGox conspiracies.
He could well be white. I think "Mexican tycoon" was a way for a largely American organization to identify the subject more completely (as a tycoon in the country of Mexico), in a way that might be useful to its largely American readership.
I was going to do one for the TI-83, but then found out someone else had done it already ( http://www.cemetech.net/programs/index.php?mode=file&id=1039 )... it's getting hard to find a platform that hasn't got Flappy Birds ported to it already!
Elop, the man who wanted to split off the Xbox division is now in charge of it.
That's a nice boost for GoPro right before its IPO. Now their cameras get even more recording time.
Is $15 a month worth it?
I agree.

Hey, any GCHQ 'magicians' here? C'mon, the cat's out of the bag... Lighten up! Strut your magic here and show us how it's done!

You know that story about the soccer match between the trenches.. This could be that, right?
Beware The Monster IPO (2004)
Consumers didn't have gift cards for gas, either. Lots do now. Those gift cards have no consumer protections. When I buy items with Bitcoin, I pay and I walk away, so confirmation time is a non-issue in practice.

Cash back is a fair point, but if merchants offer discounts greater than one percent, it's a moot point.
Clearly MT Gox is too big to fail.
Not only does it put a bigger focus on bitcoin as whole than MtGox, it is extremely negative about the company. I don't know what the intended audience for this is but it wouldn't do a good job of selling the company as a good investment or as good rallying cry for the troops. It reads like it was written by someone who believes in BTC but was burned by MtGox.
Simply putting black bars over text (p.8) in a PDF is not sufficient to redact it.
Here are some examples that we've run into in the past:

Some of our code used GCC nested functions, which Clang did not support.

We were using __sync_val_compare_and_swap with __int128 values, which wasn't supported by the Clang version we were using. I believe the current version of Clang supports this.

Clang is stricter about some things than GCC, e.g. Clang doesn't like it when you declare a class as struct in one place and in a class in another place.

I think there is also a difference where Clang deduces that your enum is unsigned if none of its declared values are negative, and warns you if you compare it < 0. Since we compile with -Werror, this will cause compilation to fail.

None of these are unsurmountable, but they do mean we can't just drop in Clang and expect everything to work.
Currency of the future guys!!!!!!11
Where is the slide about a criminal investigation. If this is real, it has to happen, right?
That's generally how the exchange services work.. you send money from your wallet to one under their control, which credits an "account" you use to make trades.
Anyone can register a domain name and list whatever contact information they want, right? The money made through manipulating the market would certainly outweigh the cost of a 3 letter domain name.

However, MtGox also suspended trading at the same time the document was released, which adds to the likelihood the it is real.
On a three letter domain name, that's at least six figures hard.
Is any of it retrievable?
I believe they're saying that corruption from other countries can spread to ours, but that wasn't written particularly well and you seem to have a very different understanding of it than I do.
Clang may not warn about white space issues, but it certainly does warn about unreachable code if -Wunreachable is on. This code would not compile in my project because the unconditional goto leaves the following code unreachable.
Would you mind posting the figure for those of us who don't have illustrator? I'm curious.
I'll hold off until I learn more about the way they've set that up then. Surely, they've been transparent about it and haven't just said "we do it in an offline data room way."

I could google but if you wouldn't mind linking anything you might have offhand in that regard, I'd appreciate it.
A backend for Meteor, fronted in another language doesn't exist. What I'll assume you're looking for is a bridge. Which Meteor.JS provides access to via the Distributed Data Protocol (DDP). There are clients for most languages, from javascript to ruby and etc. However, there are no servers operating the DDP outside of Meteor to the best of my knowledge. The DDP itself is kind of like REST over sockets on steroids.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/livedat...

https://github.com/search?q=meteor+ddp&ref=cmdform
Download the PDF and set the highlight opacity to 20% if you want to read the balance sheet/projections on page 11.
> On a serious note: I still doubt the legitimacy of this document, given how absurd it is to lose that much BTC without noticing.

Far more absurd things have happened.
Everything in (press coverage about) the docs so far makes it seem pretty clear GCHQ punches way above their weight class (in terms of budget, and general UK military strength) compared to NSA.
Page 8, nonredacted: "MtGox business is healthy and profitable", "Projection Draft": http://i.imgur.com/u9aP9Hg.png
Possibly it took almost that long before someone viewed it or it was otherwise analyzed. The data pile is large.
Now seems like as good a time as any to get on my soapbox and proclaim the glories of Betteridge's law [0]. It has tremendous predictive power.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Yep. At the exchanges, you're basically buying Bitcoin credits when you send them Bitcoin. You can trade these credits for dollar credits. On a functioning exchange, you can withdraw these credits one-to-one for Bitcoin or dollars to a wallet or bank account you control.

In the future there will potentially be decentralized exchanges where a Bitcoin transaction can be a component of an exchange transaction and there is no third-party involved. But not today.
Mt Gox BTC is trading at a 75% discount already, this seems superfluous. I'm betting on real.
EU lawmakers want to scrap roaming fees by 2015
Doh, those are just events that already happened. Not rocket science here.
You are the one that brought up his death as if it was a conspiracy[0] in response to my linking[1] of one Hasting's reports on spying[2]. No one asked you to believe in a conspiracy. You deflected from the original topic of spying with it, and continue to do so by stating I was the one that promoted it.

Retract your outright fallacy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7084938

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083406

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-...
Please see my discussion below b/c I agree. We deserve more than .pngs of these slides.
If the interview is local and they will pay more, why not give it a try. You could always walk from the already accepted position. However, the fact this co took so long to respond doesn't bode well. I think you accepted the right job.
Since you won't be in interviews, would you share any domain/naming ideas for our startup? I'll email you our pitch deck if you'd look at it for 30 seconds. :)
http://cl.ly/image/2L043C464030
It's highly likely this is a hoax. I don't even understand who this is allegedly written by? Gox themselves?

Or is the 2nd slide written by someone else? Why would they hypothesize about the demise of Bitcoin, not to mention say "The reality is that MtGox can go bankrupt at any moment, and certainly deserves to as a company" about themselves?
http://f.cl.ly/items/3a0C2e122c3q02473T1x/Image%202014-02-24...
Yes, and I was thoroughly disappointed by this result. So - new challenge: a radiation hardened quine in less than two times the characters of the equivalent non-radiation hardened version.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294888
OVirt Hosted Engine: The Egg That Hosts its Parent Chicken
I have, although not in the past ~10 years -- I think I read the Illuminatus trilogy in ~3 days at the MIT SFS library; I haven't read Schroedinger's Cat. I often get two of my favorite characters (Celine and Danneskjold) mixed up, though.
> cash injections to buy coins at the cheap MtGox price are some options among many

> cash for buying coins at MtGox price - Target: 50% covered

Called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7289629
> The cold storage has been wiped out due to a leak in the hot wallet.

This sounds like some kind of bullshit.
yeah the uncensored doc on page 7...http://cl.ly/image/2L043C464030. This just stinks of a hoax
Nice to tptacek is still alive and kicking. I kinda missed him.
Thank you, that helps. I face this problem a lot.