skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really annoying. No - not even comparable to Tulip mania. That thing was based on artificially limited supply. If you want to start trading bitcoin or get your own miner, you can do it any time you want at a reasonable investment. Supply is always known in this case and demand is not ongoing (as in, bitcoins you keep don't disappear after a couple of days, unless you keep them with mtgox). Or do you want to explain why it's comparable?
This "fiat currency is backed by the government" is being thrown around a lot, but what does that actually mean? Can you go and redeem your dollars for a piece of the government? Well, obviously not, but what is it that you mean by that?

And as for Mt Gox: Well, what if Toyota runs off with your money, who has jurisdiction? Who you gonna sue? May I suggest Japan's courts and Toyota? What does that even have to do with bitcoin? If you do business with someone you don't know, that may be risky, whether you give them dollar bills or bitcoin, and if you do business with someone you can identify in real life, some country will probably have jurisdiction over them and you can sue them there, no matter whether they stole your dollars, your bitcoins, or your car.
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It really surprises me that Bitstamp has absorbed 100k+ in last 24 hours at current price range.
That email switcheroo was the day FB was removed from my phone.

Now it's back again, in Whatsapp clothes.
Google tried that with Wave, which unfortunately was released before it's time.
Yeah; it shouldn't be appealing to the wider market: you don't even know what that market is at the point you're building your MVP. The MVP is as much a tool to help you learn about the market as it is an actual product.
Mt.Gox put announce for mtgox acq here
The only HTML on the Mt.Gox homepage

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>
</html>
Hindsight is 20/20, but:

whatever they were paying to accountants and lawyers already, it wasn't enough.
Here here! I also didn't like her cheesy stock images in the article.
Frankly I am surprised so many people in this community were so incredibly stupid and blind about Gox. Months and months ago when I was deciding to get into BTC I researched the exchanges and people were complaining about difficulties withdrawing from Gox. I just had this instinctive feeling that it was a big red flag and I would rather deal with a regulated albeit slow broker (Coinbase) where I can actually get my money back.
Rogue traders at conventional financial institutions (Nick Leeson at Barings; Jerome Kerviel at Societe Generale) each cost their employer over a billion dollars, but they didn't keep the money. So, if the perp here got away with all the stolen BTC, it's big. Even if not, it's up there...
You lucky bastard! :D
The fact that it wasn't all moved today does not mean it isn't related. The theft was due to a leak that happened over a long period of time. The transactions to this address start in April of 2012. That is entirely consistent with the theft. 740k worth of transactions in one day would make it a less likely candidate for being related.
We are heavy users of both Graylog2 and Logstash and they both shine at different things at the moment.

In an enterprise context with lots and lots of logs Graylog2 is making the process of segregating access to certain logs very,very easy. It's interface is a lot less "bling bling" than Kibana but much easier to use for a certain type of users.

Logstash is still king for parsing logs into structured events (and we use it a LOT - our current config file is ~2.5k lines) but we had issues with stability and loosing messages (crashes due to character issues, etc).

The core of Graylog2 rocks - it's stable and very performant (we are pushing 30k+ msgs/s over a single node with room to spare) and the support we have received from the Graylog2 team has been nothing but awesome.

I am confident that they will catch up with Kibana (in terms of visualisations) very, very quickly.
I think he's asking if your initial 1k becomes 200k and you lose 100k from the 200k, can you use that loss of 100k to offset before you have been taxed on the 199k gain.
Because if they do that they will be unable to eavesdrop on your e-mail anymore, technically to forward an e-mail they have to receive it and resend. AFAIR SMTP protocol does not have redirects as HTTP does.
How dare he take profits for his work! How dare Zuckerberg keep 56% of Facebook for himself. Jesus the things we read on HN these days.
"He" used to post in various message boards at the beginning then abruptly stopped in 2011(http://www.coindesk.com/information/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/).
> What if Bitcoin does recover?

This is what's interesting to me about all of this. I don't think anyone knows whether or not it's going to work in the long term. The only predictions (both positive and negative) that I've seen have come from dogmatism and not from data. The ultimate test is whether or not it actually works. Very rarely are radical ideas like this put to the test, which is why it's so exciting to watch it unfold. I have no idea what is going to happen.
For me the schadenfreude isn't about cryotocurrency versus fiat currency. To me the whole Mt. Gox mess is a reminder that there are enough bad actors in society to screw things up, and combine that with ineptitude and you have a recipe for this sort of event. Sure its just one event, but its also a small community, and the event is quite huge proportionally. And its not going to get better. Indeed, as the stakes get higher, it will get worse. Its a corrolary to the idea that DRM will always be broken, no matter how technically sophisticated you make it.

There are a lot of idealists in the anarcholibertarian community who talk about "violence" as something that can be taken off the table. And what this shows is that violence is endemic. You can't take it off the table, you can just think of different ways to manage it.

I would really like to not see Bitcoin regulated or protected, except to the extent it is used to subvert meatspace laws. I just want to see what would happen if, e.g., it wasn't considered a crime to "steal" bitcoin. Ideally, it should also be legal to mug someone in real life for his bitcoin, so long as bitcoin is the only thing taken. Because cryptocurrency or not, holding a gun to someone and asking them to hand over the bitcoins they have under their mattress is always an option. Then we could see if the community came up with non-government based solutions to these problems.
Ask HN: Do You Disclose Your Password Encryption Policy to Users
I haven’t come across any real discussions about this, so I thought I would ask: Do you think it’s a good idea to disclose your password encryption policies in your privacy policy or terms of service agreement? In other words, would you tell your users - and the world - you don’t store their passwords in plain text, and disclose the exact method you use to store passwords?

For example, a privacy policy might read like this;

“Under no circumstances will we store your password as plain text. All passwords are encrypted with the Bcrypt hashing function and individual random password salts. If your password is 123456, your password would be stored in our database in a form similar to; salt:f11ba67d8a hash:$2a$08$jRAovt7x1lgHjMGsZstzUukaE4Nga6jxfneZXPSMc6/Uhlx.rY4ri
Therefore, our website - nor anyone else - will know your your password.”

Question #1: Do you think publicly disclosing password hashing is a good policy?

Question #2: Would disclosing password hashing policies disincentivise hackers from attempting to hack your password database?

PS: This is not a question about which password hashing scheme or use of salts is best.
1. I guess I could've removed the "10" bit?

2. I'm running some realtime benchmarks on a number of hosted service providers. If I can get the geolocation it let's me add that to the benchmark results. Granted, a banner that provides info on that would be better than the bog-standard browser prompt.

3. Yeah, sorry about that. I'm interested to see where I'm sending traffic to so am capturing outbound clicks. It seems there's a bug on Chromium on Linux where the `event.metaKey` isn't set to `true` when it should be. See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95874
Do you think this means that it is less likely, or more likely to be related to the thefts?

According to Gox, the theft was happening over a long period of time, not one lump sum. Transfers to this address began in April of 2012, which is consistent with the story.
The claim I'm hostile to is ANYONE making grand claims without acknowledging that it is all just story telling.

Arguing with you about your faith in the world changing powers of Bitcoin would be like arguing with a Christian about the Bible.

I'm not saying that Bitcoin is useless. I'm not saying it is without value.

I'm saying that the kind of zealotry you're exhibiting is nauseating and nothing new.

There are vast capital machinery in place entwined with giant military fleets, tax collectors, fiat currency and billions of democratically elected positions of power. That shit has a lot of inertia and the concepts are so interdependent on one another that you can't just slot out 'US dollars' and drop in 'bitcoin'. Farmers and soldiers don't give two shits about your blog posts.

If you want to change the world you will have to deal with... the world.

The problem with bitcoin or tech or Christianity or any other kind of ideological zealotry is that you're basically putting on blinders and ignoring the world because you're so convinced that what you're doing is the only thing that matters.

"The rest of the world doesn't matter because it will all change so drastically that I don't need to know anything about it!"

Again, there is nothing wrong with bitcoin, tech, or Christians... Just zeal applied to grand narratives.

Getting my drift yet, dude?
How does running of nightly cron jobs that email out once a day work in this plan?
Ah, I understand now. See point 2 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297658
Is that true? Again, I'm not an accountant, so it's an honest question. I was always under the impression that you can write down that $100,000 loss only $3,000/year. So the 2nd year, you'd have $97,000 profit to be taxed on.
Yeah, thanks. Hopefully that's fixed now.
Honestly, Mt. Gox users are not that bright (of course with exception).

Either that or their entire IRC channel is full of trolls because some of the statements being made there are completely insane.

It's almost like they've never done any research about what Bitcoin actually is and just ran to Mt Gox to buy up this magical currency that they were told would make them rich. Just to note; I'm not talking about the Doge trolls either.
In other words, inequality is at an all-time high if you ignore all the measures we take to make it better and spread the wealth around. Clearly we should elect more politicians who promise to spread the wealth around. Better start stumping for Hilary 2016. Oh, wait, look! We already are! cough

:b
You can also use alt-coin exchanges, e.g. BTC->LTC->BTC, or even multiple exchanges (one to buy, one to sell) to obscure the trail even more.
0.

BTC that are in some service aren't in your own wallet and so aren't secure.
And I'm tired of shoddily-coded webapps, which are also a dime-a-dozen.

Maybe the real issue here is that software has a serious quality problem. The public knows it, and perhaps its the reason programmers are not as respected as they could be.
Also, are there any examples of companies / websites who publicly disclose their password encryption policies on their sites / apps?
And now ask yourself a question why would they want to do that? I mean why keep unneeded load on their servers and support whole infrastructure just to forward e-mail. Probably because they want to continue to reading your e-mails but now they don't have to invest into storage. Just copy the interesting ones for themselves.
That is a possible reading although I'm not sure if it was the intended one. That would just be a 1k loss that you could carry forward.

I am not a lawyer, accountant or American.
Software Trumps Everything
Who is this product aimed at? If it's academics, students, etc, then it's doomed, the wave today is free open source software.
The title here is misleading they are looking for Minority partners for investment for international growth.

It would be an interesting position for Microsoft to take particularly as they seem to be going all in on mobile.

As an aside I prefer dailymotion in just about every way to youtube so I hope they do well.
I just love that IPython-driven style of explanation becoming popular. I wish there will still be appearing more of this. Maybe something a little more advanced: I guess Bayesian methods is something most of us already know.
Kind of a misleading title, Microsoft is interested, it hasn't been approved at all.

> In April 2013, Yahoo was about to acquire 75 percent of Dailymotion for $200 million. Yet, the French government suspended the deal as the state still owns 27 percent of Orange. “Montebourg didn’t want to let it go to the Americans,” a source told TechCrunch at the time — Arnaud Montebourg is the French Minister of Industrial Renewal.

Who knows, the same thing could happen this time.

Looks like Microsoft is looking for it's own YouTube.
I'd be fine to see nonintrusive ads, but some people (see: Google, and the ABP dev they pay bribes to) think 'nonintrusive' means 'text only' when I say 'text only, and doesn't track you'. I'm fine seeing text ads based on page keywords or purchased for a specific site/site category, but not based on google/whoever else spying on browsing history. That's why I ditched Adblock Plus for Adblock Edge. As it is, I whitelist a few sites, but the list is relatively small simple because AdSense is the furthest thing imaginable from 'nonintrusive'. Yes, flash/audio/popup ads are more intrusive in a purely sense aspect, but tracking of users is just as intrusive overall.
Gave it a go and while I did ok, I agree with the sentiment about reading being non-linear.

That said, I don't see it as being a blocker exactly. A UI that let you pause the stream, and then if asked revealed some kind of tome navigation can't be too difficult to do. Also, images (photos, diagrams) could be revealed in a similar way.

That way the benefit of speed reading is retained, but with the added benefit of being able to skip backwards and forwards, and pausing to look at graphics.
Hey, I currently host ~10 low traffic PHP websites on a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet. So far it works well, even on peak days when my wordpress blog has gotten ~15k visitors. I would love to switch to your service for the sheer convenience it brings, however I'm hesitant to part with $50 every month for this. $10 or $15 for a 100k hits per month plan would be a no brainer though.

And a $0.0001/request pricing model would totally revolutionise hosting :-).
The ultimate guide to logo design 
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The title here is completely wrong. The article mentions that they are potentially in talks to buy a stake in DailyMotion, but nowhere does it state that MSFT will be buying them for certain.
Out of curiosity, what's your opinion on crypto-currencies that aren't deflationary, or that rely on proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work?

Now, that sounds like a good idea. But at that point, we're talking about a cryptocurrency equivalent of real grown-up money, which would sort of kill its appeal to a lot of the folks who rant on about the evils of fractional reserve banking and hoard gold because they think it has some sort of mystical inherent value -- the sort of folks who invest in what William Gibson termed "Dunning-Krueger-rands".
Scott Johnston Joins Docker as SVP of Product
It's not a feature implemented yet, but we're going to add it. We need to adapt it to our architecture and make it scalable.
Already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295094
And how much of the apps written with such frameworks will feel remotely like a native app? How much of the frameworks you mention even support a reasonable amount of target platforms?

I don't disagree HTML5 has porting problems between devices & browsers. I'm just saying that native apps have more.
Firefox absolutely does.
If I was going to steal 782,000 BTC over a period of two years why would I steal them all from the same address? Doesn't pass the sniff test.
It's fascinating to watch it happen. I hope it does recover. But I hope the most vocal proponents become a little more mature. I think part of the reason bitcoin seems radical to people, especially the tech-outsider non-first-adopter crowd, is that bitcoin is championed by radical free market types who don't just want deregulation, they want complete abolition of government.
Because bitcoin has an artificially limited supply built into the system and the pricing has exhibited the kind of wild fluctuations more characteristic of penny stocks rather than a currency? Toss in the fact that the entire system is predicated on making early adopters rich and it's a basic econ lesson concealed behind some cool crypto code.
Good points. However, I will be meta-nitpicking.

You are right, originally Higgs boson is about the inertial mass — gravitational mass may not be the only other. Nevertheless, I find frame (8,1) very appropriate: Higgs boson is actually about the mass of some specific particles. As explained in the comics, the weak force does not have infinite range, so W and Z bosons must have a mass, and the Higgs boson provides just that. I agree with you, though, the drawing is not an accurate illustration, since a bathroom scale does not measure inertial mass — but the idea is there.

Also, frame (10,1) is saying "massless", not "molasses".
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The incentive is that Google will benefit form having an ecosystem of high quality apps. A good ecosystem lowers the bar to creating high quality apps - the non-app open source software ecosystem is pretty conclusive proof of that.

But you're right - CyanogenMod is probably a better forum for such an ecosystem to bootstrap.
> "But Bitcoin doesn't have a fiscal policy: it wears a gimp suit and a ball gag, padlocked into permanent deflation and with the rate of issue of new "notes" governed by the law of algorithmic complexity."

I like that about the gimp. I don't want him to have compassion with MtGox or those who've been told to stay away from MtGox for over a year.
These positions by countries that like to reduce foreign ownership of non-critical businesses strike me as bizarre. It radically reduces the market value of the business, and thus greatly reduces their ability to raise money and grow organically.

No coincidence such markets tend to have a reputation as being nightmares to attempt to grow in.
Ouch! (It hurts to just consider that)
Please stop saying Java sucks (2009)
> "Dailymotion is one of France’s biggest Internet successes"

That tells a lot about France's so called "successes" (I'm French btw)
This address was mentioned in November in Washington Post article about 194,993 BTC transaction:

[Sarah Meiklejohn: ] "About half of the transactions sending bitcoins to this 12sENw address between August 29 and November 14 were from addresses we had associated with Bitstamp. This could be true for a lot of reasons (a heavyweight user withdrawing their bitcoins, for example), but there were a few other weird things I saw that made me think otherwise.

For example, a lot of the bitcoins that flowed out of the 12sENw address went to one of two other addresses: 1Drt3c8 and (especially recently) 1HBa5. The former of these addresses we have tagged as Bitstamp, and the latter is often within one hop of a known Bitstamp address (e.g., it has also sent a lot of bitcoins to 1Drt3c8).

So, while a lot of things could explain many bitcoins being received from Bitstamp, it seems like fewer of them could be explained by many bitcoins flowing from Bitstamp and then back to Bitstamp in a small span of time which is what leads me to think this is an internal shuffling of some kind.

Of course, I could also be completely wrong! For example, I should definitely mention that, for the direct transaction of interest, I don't have any of the input addresses tagged (i.e., they might or might not belong to Bitstamp), so that my inferences are really just going on the past behavior of this small handful of addresses."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/23...

So this address was tagged as "Bitstamp" in her database.
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Nice try hacker.
They don't want to provide you e-mail services, but they do want to read your e-mails. It seems they have found a way to read your e-mails and not be your e-mail provider.
I think you can take up to $3K/year in losses if you have no gains. So if you have 0 gains, you adjust your income down by $3K. If you have 10K in gains, you can negate out that 10K. That's my early morning understanding of it though.
I'm pretty sure its "Mount Gocks".

Funny fact, Mt.Gox originally stood for Magic The Gathering Online eXchange.
You're somewhat right but in practice, tempered considerably by the terms of service on most contracts? There are all sorts of restrictions, time / volume / price limits, acts of god clauses, etc. designed to avoid making permanent commitments which would lose significant amounts of money.
I rarely do. When I have to (or want to) I ask a relative or a close friend of mine. Usually my brother. I think in the last ten year I haven't made more than ten online purchases.

So... Not owning a credit cart isn't (for the moment) an inconvenience for me because I rarely need to use one and if I have to I can find someone to help me with it.

I pay my bills via the online banking system my bank set up though. I use a card (one issued by my bank to each of its clients that allows me to pay for stuff IRL or to retrieve cash from ATMs) with a little calculator-like device that churns out temporary authentication codes. This system only works with my bank though ; I can't use it to buy from online vendors[0]. But I don't think it qualifies as online purchases. It wouldn't let me buy hosting for instance :)

[0] there are some exceptions though. ie mobile company generates links that initiate a transaction I have to confirm via the calculator and by logging into my bank.
It is possible for the exchanges and miners to get together and change the protocol, to mark the stolen bitcoins as invalid? The thief is probably going to dump the stolen bitcoins on the market - not exactly a good thing for the bitcoin price or the long term viability of bitcoin itself.

Especially since it will take quite some time to dump all thsoe bitcoins - the market isn't all that liquid.
I agree there's no point in getting a Firefox OS phone if you have a phone with a decently modern browser. Their pricing and hardware positioning appear to be squarely aimed at those places where those are not available.

However, that takes nothing away from, and even supports the assertion, that webapps (or generally, pages that behave like apps) seem more future-proof. They'll work on your "phones with decently modern browser" too, regardless of what happens with Firefox OS.