skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called RSVP. It is easier (for the same WPM) with 2-4 words at a time than 1 word. I really hope this catches on more and allows different chunk sizes.

500 wpm with no training is an exaggeration. wpm also depends a lot on which book you're reading. however, RSVP is the fastest way to read and way over 500 wpm is possible with practice.
$460 million vanished in minutes when Knight Capital Group deployed code to the wrong servers in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group

Mizuho Securities lost around $400 million when a Tokyo Stock Exchange trader fat-fingered an order in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuho_Securities
Maybe at one point they didn't but Spreeder has had multiword support for some time.
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Only given an unacceptably broad interpretation of the word "Ponzi." Fraud is the one you're looking for.
And even now, that is not a valid criticism. There are many successful businesses who have started in fields only tangentially related to their final form. There will undoubtedly be many postmortems on what happened, but card trading will have very little impact on what happened.
Don't equate Bitcoin the protocol with dodgy websites.

Unlike cash, radical transparency is entirely possible with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin the protocol is as strong as ever, but customers of other sites should demand proof that their exchanges and online wallets actually control 100% of the BTC they claim to have in their custody.
Keep on dreaming.
Interesting. Is it mathematically impossible to trace back to source (and intermediate nodes) or is it just harder?
Really, especially with btc where keeping it local is literally just getting the blockchain and sitting on wallet backups.

Also, who in the world would invest money on MtGox after the repeated bullcrap incompetence out of them since 2011? They have never had a good month of operation.
It may not be a hoax, but it is definitely wishful thinking.
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Why not just use caravans?

Second ones can surely be bought for about $5K each.
Stop leaving money in the exchange (they aren't a bank)! That's what your wallet is for!
Except they are not in a holding pattern. Rather they are trying to justify everything. If these were really fake, it would not be taking this long for us to hear about it. If these documents being fakes is really your theory, then you are delusional.
I successfully withdrew what I had there but that was a long time ago. I know it's easy to say now, but I always suspected they were a bit of a clownshoes operation because of the simply awful web design they deemed acceptable.
I applaud you on your foresight and you should pat yourself on the back extra good tonight.

But clearly others trusted MtGox. I haven't traded a bitcoin since 2011 so I don't know much about the community past what I'd absorb about anything that's on HN daily. But isn't the claim that MtGox lost like 6% of all BTC in existence? If you think this is going to sail by without impacting the larger community, I think the foresight that led you away from MtGox is failing you now.

People are now $500+ million dollars poorer than they thought they were. That has ripples. That will erode confidence. And my bet is that it will erode confidence.
True, unfortunately it's reporting false data. ( everything is 0 )
Maybe so, but the race is long.
Ummm... but the values are all 0!
If you'll open an issue on github and attach the logs from both peers, I can look at it.
I'm working on something akin to this, although my version is somewhat more ambitious[1].

So far I have a "Knowledge Engine" that can answer (some) questions in natural language by using a process similar to how IBM Watson Deep QA works (an extremely simplified version atm, though).

I'm currently working on integrating SymPy for symbolic calculation[2]. SymPy already has a web interface[3] which is broadly similar to what WolframAlpha can do. That relies on Google AppEngine to provide security sandboxing.

My version is designed to be completely private, open source and self-hostable, including all the data[1], so I can't rely on AppEngine. Instead, I have SymPy running inside ZeroVm + LXC (Docker) as a sandbox. I'm currently working out how to get that to communicate with the front end (which is non-trivial, because ZeroVm is pretty much undocumented).

Obviously SymPy isn't as "Natural Language Like" as the WolframAlpha language, but arguably Python is actually more powerful.

After that I'll do OpenStreetMap integration (ie, self hosted OSM), which will give it better geographic understanding that it has.

[1] Every time I mention this I need to include a standard disclaimer that I do realize this is completely and utterly crazy.

[2] http://sympy.org/en/index.html

[3] http://live.sympy.org/
Not to detract from the substance of your post, but the unshifted keyboard key pretty much universally generates an ASCII apostrophe (U+0027, '), not a prime (U+2032, ′, as used for feet and minutes, and while I'm babbling, the addition of a second prime for seconds is not a coincidence).

~~~~ wavy lines starting flashback ~~~~

ASCII 1967, in conjunction with its European counterpart ECMA-6, permitted the visual appearance of some characters, including the apostrophe, to be modified so that they could be used as accents when overstruck¹:

' " , ^ ` ~
ˊ ¨ ¸ ˆ ˋ ˉ (using the modern Unicode spacing modifiers)

Later versions of ECMA-6 suggested that the accent interpretation be used only when the character was actually overstruck:

In the 7-bit character set, some printing symbol may be
designed to permit their use for the composition of ac-
cented letters when necessary for general interchange of
information. A sequence of three characters, comprising
a letter, BACKSPACE and one of these symbols, is needed
for this composition; the symbol is then regarded as a dia-
critical sign. It should be noted that these symbols take
on their diacritical significance only when they precede or
follow the character BACKSPACE; for example, the symbol
corresponding to the code combination 2/7 normally has the
significance of APOSTROPHE, but becomes the diacritical
sign ACUTE ACCENT when preceded or followed by the character
BACKSPACE.²

Although this was fine for the printing teletypes in use when ASCII was first designed, early video terminals were too dumb to handle overstrikes, so it never caught on.

¹Revised American Standard Code for Information Interchange, from http://www.wps.com/J/codes/Revised-ASCII/index.html

²ECMA-6: 7-Bit coded Character Set, 4th Edition, August 1973, from http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...

~~~~ wavy lines ending flashback ~~~~
Today it's transaction malleability. Tomorrow it's something else. Bitcoin is an experiment. Those seeking to turn it into a ponzi scheme are pretending as if it's a reliable currency or investment.

Their is no accountability in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

If you transfer your coins anywhere you should consider them gone. The only "safe" coin is a cold storage coin. The second it goes hot it's at risk. The second you send it somewhere it's at risk.

Whether it's Silk Road or MtGox or whatever comes next, this will happen over and over again. People will spend their time either trying to exploit someone else's system or creating the illusion of trust in a system which they plan to exploit. The next MtGox is already out there.

This happens with dollars all the time too. But we hold people accountable. We have a number of ways to reverse transactions. We have insurance.
Retention with spreeder is a matter of skill and practice. Don't give up easily. I've read difficult non-fiction in it with very good retention at 500 wpm. That requires a slower speed than I could read a simple novel (800+ wpm), but still much faster than I could read it in paper (under 300 wpm).

This took practice. I was reading economics books by Mises at 300 wpm in spreeder for a while and gradually increased the speed. I kept the speed low enough to understand it. However, it was never worse than regular reading.

Also, I started with 3 word chunks. I found that a lot easier than 1 word chunks. I normally use two word chunks now but that took work to get used to. I wanted to lower chunk size to reduce sub-vocalizing and eye movement. I've tried 1 word chunks but I lose over 100 wpm with them.

Anyway, low retention is caused by many things but is not inherent in RSVP.
There already is a 1TB mSATA
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7594/samsung-ssd-840-evo-msata...
If you're going to give credit, then you should actually mention the user, /u/millsdmb http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yuxl8/mtgox_is_dow...
I know nothing, just what I've heard/read. If you go off age alone, 2006 vs 2001 isn't too far off.
So Mt. Gox has defrauded its users of half a BILLION dollars in value.

And, they've put out enough misinformation that those users believe "it wuz a hax0r that did it". So no cops, no jail sentences.

I believe this will go down in history as the largest fraud ever committed.

If you've been following this closely and you aren't writing the book already, you're missing out.
I am using Time Machine and Windows Backup to Time Capsule and Drobo. A friend recently hooked me up with a 1 year trial license so I am also currently testing CrashPlan from Code42 on Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines.
Can you really throw somebody under the bus if the bus is already firmly parked on top of them?
So very true if you have to peg that 400mm to a specific exchange rate for another currency.

You can ascertain the value of 1 BTC in your favored currency rather easily given a choice of marketplaces. Less so with 100, or 10000+. Most market-places couldn't handle the volume without a substantial shift in price before your 400mm mark was hit for say, USD.

That said BTC seems to want to reach the type of ubiquity that allowed USD to be a universal currency of sorts during it's heyday. With means to convert in and out being varied from the strictly regulated to the strictly unregulated.

Now let's see how long the blockchain can live.
Well, considering the price has been pretty stably above the current point (not stable in general but definitely above this point for months), I think it's safe to say if you had that Bitcoin you lost a potential opportunity to have made a lot more money. The worth is simply what people have been willing to buy at, and that price has recently been quite high.
My understanding is that if a majority of the miners agree, certain reversals can be made to the Bitcoin economy. Is this a situation which would benefit from such a reversal?
Its absurd to buy a limited number of people regular houses when you could buy tiny houses for many more people.

To have a secure place to rest one's head and a place where you can take a shower and prepare food is enormously valuable.

If we redirected the resources granted to the middle and upper middle class through the mortgage tax deduction into tiny houses for those at the very bottom, we'd accomplish a lot more good.
FAQ says:

> Next, let’s talk about subvocalization. This is the process whereby, whenever you read, you talk to yourself, repeating every word in your head. The issue here is that most people can only speak at about 180wpm, maximum. Increasing speed beyond that means not saying every word to yourself.

This makes no sense to me. I've read at 600 wpm while sub-vocalizing every word. That's much much faster sub-vocalizing than they claim is possible. I've experienced it.
I would love know how much he got paid. He might be the last person to make a buck out of this fiasco.
> The loss of coins was unintentional on the behalf of MtGox.

Your evidence of that is...
oh, well, that's alright then.
I think the new enums in python 3.4 are based on java enums(module for dynamic typing, for example I beleive comparing them to ints or adding them if they have int values will fail at run time as opposed to compile time) as opposed to enum as an alias for integers.
There are historical instances of self-regulation working. The movie and video game industries control their own content ratings and before the invention of dynamite, nitroglycerin was commonly used as an explosive in construction. Shipping NG is very dangerous because of its instability and many accidents occurred. They industry eventually developed extensive standards regarding shipping that vastly improved the safety of shipping NG.
If they continued to take in deposits after they knew they were insolvent, it was a ponzi scheme.

Every ponzi operator dreams of earning themselves to solvency.
They still have my 6 BTC. Oh well, it didn't really cost me anything to get those coins, and it taught me a valuable lesson about trusting a system with no customer protections.
NSA is bankrolling GCHQ and in most respects the latter seems incredibly subservient to the former. In light of that, your position doesn't make much sense to me.
Correction, they were allowing Mt.Gox to claim they were holding it.
Yes, I think my schadenfreude is for you.
The SD adapter sits out way too far to not accidentally knock the card if you leave it in permanently.

I switched to using these:
http://www.sandisk.com.au/products/usb/drives/cruzer-fit/
and hopefully a 128Gb version is not far away.
I'm having trouble understanding what you think the relevance of that might be. Obviously, when someone commits suicide, that decision ultimately rests on their shoulders and is borne of their experience/history/state/what-have-you. GP was trying to make a broader point about the difference in levels of significance between a catastrophic business fuck-up and the wasting of human life, a conflation that people without family histories of suicide make all the time.
Rather reminds me of the "cdesign proponentsists" version of Of Pandas and People.
What is the "black bar" treatment
I wonder whether this uses the front-facing camera for blink detection, particularly at higher WPM settings. A blink typically lasts 100-400ms (per Wikipedia), and 500 WPM is .8333... words per 100ms. A blink thus seems very likely to miss a word or two once you're using this the way its creators intend. I don't see any mention of blinking or mitigating its impact on the site, though.
Spokesman: "Mt. Gox has confirmed it will file bankruptcy"
The failure of one exchange is not a currency collapse.
Maybe so on the Fear, but there's certainly a certain Uncertainty when the service is not up, and undoubtedly a lot of Doubt when it's been rapidly declining before it fell.
October 19, 1987 was "Black Monday" as US equity markets crashed. A number of Wall Street bankers defenestrated themselves because they lost so much money.

I hope that customers of MtGox don't do the same thing when they realize how much they've lost.

I also hope Karpeles doesn't harm himself, though we should have at least as much concern for the customers as we have for the proprietor.
I don't think you understand what a Ponzi scheme is.
“Mt. Gox has confirmed it will file bankruptcy in private discussions"
Very interesting stuff. This demo would be more interesting if I could paste in my own text to confirm my comprehension. I could process Spritz's marketing statement at 500wpm, but it's fairly simple text and may have been optimized for the delivery mechanism. I'd like to try it on some text that I actually have an interest in reading.
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I have serious doubts that any of the results are honest. Previous polls have never been real.
> I believe this will go down in history as the largest fraud ever committed.

Not even close. Madoff's fraud was in the tens of billions.
It most certainly is a business. They have employees, charge fees, and make a profit (or are supposed to). Exchanges are businesses, and MtGox is most certainly both an exchange and a business.
Personally I don't see the problem with using Google Docs for this, especially since they're just writing one function that should be pretty simple for any programmer to write.

It handles tabs decently enough, lets you see what they type live, and is familiar to most people.
> 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.

Um. It's ridiculously bad PR to respond to every such claim. The best possible scenario is that a couple people will take your word for it. Most people will instead just take such a response as a legitimization of the criticism. You might be particularly credulous and accept the government's say-so, but I wouldn't.
Interesting! I've always been able to read pretty darn quickly, but I've never played with RSVP before. I gave spreeder a try and found that with a chunk size of three words, 2000wpm is surprisingly comfortable and 2500wpm is pushing my limits but not unrealistic.
Same here! Good luck. So far these guys seem good but they did formerly offer to clear trades via gox. Hope that hasn't bitten them too badly.
Don't keep cryptocurrencies in an online wallet/exchange, unless you're actively using it to do day trading and understand/accept the risks. Otherwise always transfer it to a local wallet or cold storage as soon as you make the exchange.

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency for a reason. Don't trust centralized systems with your money when you can easily protect it much better than they can.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_sa...
Canada's banks were still under the equivalent of Glass-Steagall restrictions at the time, and the government had kept them on a very short leash in many other respects. Your analysis is 180 degrees removed fom reality.

I don't know where the heck you're getting the nonsense about the Queen from either, the Canadian Prime Minister selects senators at his own discretion and the royal involvment in the process is just ceremonial.
Please explain this like I'm 5. Gox has for some time required verification for withdraws. So it knows (government ID, passport scans) who withdrew funds twice. Why can't they just ask for their money back like any other business?
Mt. Gox deletes all tweets
Uh, it doesn't work that way.

A competitor does not get to put out a statement and declare a company dead. That's laughable.

The company itself can't even do that, it needs to unwind positions first at a minimum. It can take years to shut down a "dead" company, and until then all NDA's and contracts remain valid (although potentially unenforceable).
There are a couple of examples here: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/#examples

I found them side-splittingly funny, at least for a page or so.
It's hard for me to understand why anyone would have kept any money in any form in Gox. The signs of a poorly run institution have been there for the better part of the past 10 months. As soon as I read about the US Government seizing their US Bank account last May and the suspension of Dwolla for USD transfers I got out of there ASAP and never contemplated going back. With the rise of Bitstamp and Coinbase plus the other players there was just no reason to go anywhere near Gox any more.
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I'm impressed, how did you manage to understand what he meant?
Blinking might explain why I strongly prefer 2-3 word chunks, instead of 1 word chunks, when I read with RSVP. Interesting. I can read some texts at 800 wpm with 2 word chunks but find it a lot more problematic with 1 word chunks so it's flashing twice as fast.
> There is no fucking way 700,000 BTC disappears with nobody noticing.

The history of Barings Bank is interesting, primarily because the main trader Nick Leeson was in the position to mask hundreds of millions of pounds of losses. In that case, no one noticed the roughly $1.3B loss because he was in a position where the internal controls didn't apply
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You attributed the slow broadband rollout to public hostility, not public indifference.
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Yes, trusting a third party with your money, whether MtGox or the US Fed, is a bad idea.
The point is that these people are people - have some compassion.

I failed in my last startup, fairly publicly, and got a fair amount of internet hatred, and suffice to say I was not a happy bunny. But I didnt fail with remotely the publicity this got - I can't even imagine what the mtgox people must be feeling.
What right does GEMA have to block this video? Does it contain some copyrighted music in the background or something?
> This is totally different from an accredited investment.

Well obviously. And it turns out the regulations are different too!

The need for regulations is what we are discussing here.
1) A "bank run" on an exchange should be a non event because all exchanges should have the money they claim to have.

2) I'm skeptical of any exchange I don't know a lot about

3) Is there another cryptocurrency that offers significant additional features over BTC? Right now I don't see it. In the future there is certain to be.

Tomorrow Mt Gox's failure should hit the mainstream press. There should be very harsh coverage and panic selling. The more speculators who are cleared out of the system, the better.
It does. . . but I think there's still plenty of room for Hanlon's Razor to remain in effect here.
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Most links are still valid, like this one for their (last?) announcement:

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140220-Announcement.pdf
>I believe this will go down in history as the largest fraud ever committed.

Madoff was estimated at ~$65b, the Enron settlement was $7.1b, Lehmen folded with $600b in assets, Comp-u-card overstated income and costed investors $14b, etc. etc.
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When someone prominent in the hacking community dies HN puts a black bar at the top of the page as a memorial.

It's not appropriate here. A human life and money are not comparable no matter how much money.
> movie and video game industries control their own content ratings

Not sure you're helping yourself here. The established movie industry uses its content rating system as a bludgeon against independent filmmakers. The video game industry's content controls are largely a joke, assigned arbitrarily by people who never actually play the game.
Ouch! This seems to apply to me. I've written lexers manually in the past but never bothered to learn a lexer generator properly. I guess I should. Would Flex, Ragel or something else be the best starting point? I have unpleasant memories of really cryptic error messages from the compiler when trying to get someone's toy project in Flex to work.
> You increasingly see things like 3 (or more) roommates sharing a three bedroom apartment designed with the nuclear family in mind.

I'm a student in New Zealand, and almost all students here have that sort of accommodation (we call them 'flats'). I actually really enjoy this arrangement, and would go as far as to say that it's close to the optimal living arrangement for unmarried people. You get all the benefits of friendship and community (almost a pseudo-family), while also paying less for rent, utilities, and food.

However, your post was phrased in a way that implied that this was a sub-optimal solution. Could you expand on your reasoning?

To be clear, I'm not trying to say that you're wrong; your post was insightful so I assume you've got good reasons for feeling the way you do.
Did MtGox ever roll out LTC support?