skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found a potential inconsistency.

The document states their USD assets are $22.5M liquid and $10.5M seized/locked ($33M total) and USD liabilities of $55M.

How is this $22M deficit possible when the balance sheet on page 8 (look for the non-redacted version in this thread) shows a positive income for both the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years?
I'm going with hoax. When the brown stuff is hitting the fan you lawyer up and stay quiet. You don't write a Powerpoint presentation that could later be used to sue your ass off.

Update: Tracking the Coinbase spot price it dipped below $500 for a short while just after the document went public. It's now back over $500. Smells even more that someone is trying to push the non Mt.Gox BTC price down to buy cheap to sell on the rebound.
Yup, articles showing up online.

http://www.businessinsider.com/reports-mtgox-halts-all-tradi...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yuopj/trading_disa...
I chuckled at this passage: "flint is written in the D language, making it the first D codebase open-sourced by Facebook. In fact, our initial version of flint was written in C++; the D rewrite started as an experiment. From the measurements and anecdotes we gathered, the translation turned out to be a win on all fronts: the D version of the linter turned out smaller, dramatically faster to build, significantly faster to run, and easier to contribute to."

Seems like the argument is stronger to rewrite the code being linted, than to use the linter itself ;-)
It's not even particularly well done. Doesn't pass even a cursory inspection. It's fake.
'Pony' botnet steals bitcoins, digital currencies
I don't think it's the time for Rodney Dangerfield to show up anywhere to start making jokes.
I can't express how much I wish my apartment had just 1 window on the shared interior wall. It would turn a lightless cave into perfection.

I wonder what the energy trade off would be. I would think proper insulation (and heat from natural sunlight in winter) could work out to be more efficient than having the lights on in the middle of the day.
Fair point. Sounds like you probably know a lot more than me. Is D2 enough of an overhaul that I'm wrong about their relative stability and maturity?
exact same thing happened to me for sokratik.com and www.sokratik.com, i solved it using nginx
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
index index.html index.htm;

server_name sokratik.com;
return 301 $scheme://www.sokratik.com$request_uri;
I believe it. We know there have been times when withdrawals of BTC stopped and the stated resolution was that they had to top off the hot wallet from cold storage. Now you might think it would be pretty dan hard to be scammed for years and not notice so many missing coins but we also know they are incompetent so I'm gonna say this could be legit.
Still easy to download from Rdio with a proxy
They gain transaction fees on both sides of the trade, half in USD/etc and half in Bitcoin. It is possible that they valued their Bitcoin at e.g. market for the purpose of preparing the accounting reports, but did not actually sell it on their own exchange or otherwise. It was, therefore, part of the 120,000 they report as owing themselves, which (if you believe the document) was looted along with the bulk of customers' coins.
A slideshow does not an original document make.
What a fracking joke! Hypocrisy at it's finest folks! This shows just how out of touch the 1% are with the 99%. ExxonMobil has bullied those cites, counties & homeowners that have tried to sue them to stop projects like the one Mr. Tillerson is so outraged about!!! So basically isn't he sorta just suing himself? People like this don't care about safety regulations, EPA regulations or people in general. It's the mighty dollar they have a relationship with! Watch as he uses his money to support a Tea Turd Candidate that wants less government, like The EPA to further their Fracking Cause. Gullible citizens that support their hand picked candidates do this by telling what you want hear not what the candidates are planning on doing once elected. These vultures just like the Koch Brothers don't care about these citizens they just want someone(candidate & special interest groups) to do their dirty work. They bankroll and fund the crap of their hand picked candidates campaigns all the while hiding in the shadows. They never speak in public or news interviews because people will do it for them. So my Question Is: "don't those supporting their idelogy & views realize their supporting something that is against their(your) best interest?"Wake up these slime balls are buying government to further their agenda. They want no regulations so they can deepen their pockets. They could care less about your home, land, town, city, county or state. Just read about the growing number of earthquakes in Oklahoma! If you vote for their candidates these scum support then you CAN NOT whine or moan once a well, water tower, pipeline or project like this runs right through your community! THINK!!!!' Think before voting this mid-election 2014. They could give a FRACK about your livelihood.
What would you have expected them to have done if they had noticed but the people who noticed were netting millions of dollars a year? Sacrifice all that money or ride the gravy train to the end of the line?

Suppose they figured it out three or four months ago that all their bitcoins were gone, what would have made things better? Suppose they figured they'd commit a small fraud two years ago before bitcoin took off, when were they supposed to come clean?

People are building supercomputers to mine bitcoins. The whole idea of bitcoin is as rational as Easter Island totems but organized religion is probably a better analogy.
I believe clang also doesn't currently support the "ifunc" attribute, which we also use in a few places.
Ruby Set#include? 150X faster than Array#include?
First, these people have not necessarily done anything illegal.

But let's say your facebook suddenly has "accidental" porn searches for "big black gay cocks". Or your picture mysteriously turns up in a set of pictures for Occupy Wall Street (dirty hippy!) even when you were not there.

However, the only good about this is that the more revelations come out the more courts and people will ignore internet "evidence". And that's as it should be.
> 2. Exclude the people who support this type of spookery, from investment bankers, to hawking politicians, from polite company. Whether you meet them at a party, or a plane, shun and shame them.

This is a remarkably effective method to alienate people who are "on the fence." These are precisely the people that you need for suggestion #1 to be effective.
It reads like someone's idea of what "should" be done, sort of an 'open letter' type approach. Time will tell.
Who would be voting on a bailout of Mt. Gox?
I wonder how Israel's spies stack up. (But I guess they might have some actual work to do, and thus don't have as much time spying on ordinary citizens.)
That would mean that a computer had passed the Turing test which would be...quite an achievement.
Regulator to sound alarm on bitcoin
Somewhere I read that cost of manufacturing a 4GB card and a 64GB card are more or less the same. Is it true? Why then is there a colossal difference between their prices?
This is great work. I'm curious about your motivations. Do you consider it a validation of your work that so many papers were published?
The most impressive thing about this is that someone managed to successfully complete an order at Element14, where registration before ordering is compulsory (and can take up to a dozen attempts because the site throws random 500 errors almost everywhere), and where Visa cards are required to have start dates even though most of them don't, and where they don't answer your email telling them about the errors.
My bet is on hoax and here is why:

1. A business like mtgox would expect to be moving coins into cold storage. The moment they need to move coins from cold storage into the hot wallet they would take notice and check their accounting. Theft from transaction malleability would show up in any simple summing of the balances and liabilities. They would notice the theft and stop pulling money from cold storage long before cold storage was empty.

2. The tone is too harsh on mtgox to be a report from a client of mtgox. Who produced it? If you hire a consultancy you can be sure they will brand any document produced.

3. Where did the cash liabilities imbalance come from? The "leaked" financial report did not show them spending the fiat reserve so where did the missing 20M go? How could the fiat liability be unclear? Shouldn't fiat liability be the one thing their accountant has a clear picture of? How do you "average across currencies", you cannot "average" exchange rates, the word makes no sense.

The more I look at this the more it feels like a post on bitcointalk.
If this document is real, the criminality of what's going on is mindblowing (and I don't just mean the theft from Mt Gox, I mean the theft from Gox customers by Gox...the "buy Gox BTC while it's cheap" and then manipulating the market to insure it stays cheap and gets cheaper over time, is straight up fraud).

If this is real, I don't want Mt Gox to survive. Just like I don't think many of the banks during the mortgage crisis should have survived. We'd be better off today had the market been allowed to destroy them (or, if not today...then in five or ten more years; in the long run, all we've ever gotten from bailouts and Hail Mary passes for the big banks has been more criminality on an even larger scale further down the road, and less justice for the people they hurt).

I don't know what the right answer is here, but bailing out a criminal enterprise isn't it.
Not at all - you aren't engaged in conversation with a paper you are reading.
Something better than MorpheuZ. I currently use it because it's the best solution out there, but damn, it's hard to use. Keeps crashing
Maybe the domain was already with GoDaddy, and an inter-client push was just faster? I've taken domains at registrars I'd rather not use to ease things for the other party.
one use case could be a business analytics tool. 'business intelligence'.

i.e., import 30 days of log data and instantly plot the geo-located hits on a world map, as a time series of dynamically rendered graphical points, with built-in information i.e. size, color, icon, shape, etc. and also statistical analysis to go with it.

this scenario and many others are certainly possible today but would require quite a bit of code, libraries, and external api calls, as well as a wrapper such as a web app if you wanted a large audience to view it.

i think in the future, managers/executives who will separate themselves from the MBA herd are the ones who will be able to effectively use tools such as this.
Real-world analogies don't always work on virtual problems, even when they seem to on the surface. Unfortunately, this seems to be the standard way to respond [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273324
It's possible that the 4Gb cards are 64Gb cards where 93% of it doesn't work.
Honestly that's a bit creepy. I've started to play around with Dogecoin and decided to see how I could buy $50 or so worth and was horrified at the answers.

* Make a physical deposit against an account number we give you at a bank branch

* Buy Linden Dollars, swap them for Bitcoin, swap them for Dogecoin

* Give people gift card codes

* Pay random people via PayPal or Google Wallet

The last of those was the least sketchy looking but by and large it creeped me the hell out. The options looked like 50% scamming and 50% money laundering.
En masse
Playable GameBoy costume
Debian has an ongoing project for this, https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds driven by Lunar from the Tor project.
I suppose it depends what you consider the "end site" to be (the company/client or the host (virtual or otherwise)). I'm happy to accept other judgement for lack of more certainty myself! Either way I'd expect more than a /96 per client if done right.
That seems like a great way to break the already weak connector on the 2012 N7.

I know there are alternatives but nothing can match the integration of an internal MicroSD slot, even if it's inconveniently located behind a battery.
You say "the only parties" claiming these are fake as if there isn't the third option of being in a holding pattern until more can be determined as to the authenticity of the documents, or not. But that's what I'd do if I were in the govt's place - not immediately say one way or another and actually think about how wrong that could go.
Hrmmm. Yes, that's true. I stand corrected!
It may not be long before passable high school and college essays can be undetectably generated by software. I wonder what we'll do then.

If we fed such a program good-quality reference books, we could massively improve the quality of most Wikipedia articles.
Why we cannot, and should not save Mt. Gox
They give 4 million USD a year to accountants and lawyers?

That's a bit mind boggling.
Mt. Gox itself feels like a post on BitCoinTalk
Conference proceedings (not to be confused with a handful of actual journals that just contain "proceedings" in their name) can be thought of like the paper programs you might be handed at a play. They're usually meant to be an accompaniment to the event rather than a stand-alone publication. Their intent is to collect contributions from conference participants into a handy reference that attendees can use if they want more information, missed a talk they were interested in, etc.. Extremely high quality proceedings are peer-reviewed and might eventually evolve into a text-book. This level of quality is relatively rare though.

Most conference proceedings are not peer-reviewed and many aren't even read once by the conference organizers/"editors". This usually isn't thought to be a big deal because it is assumed that, were a submission truly fraudulent, the submitter would inevitably be outed when they give their talk. However, some conferences make submitting an original paper for their proceedings mandatory for acceptance. Getting funding to attend a conference is usually a lot easier if you're presenting, so researchers are motivated to speak even if they merely wish to attend. Speaking looks better on your CV to boot. Since conference proceedings are typically ignored, researchers generally won't put their best effort into these papers. When dead trees ruled, conference proceedings would be rapidly forgotten simply because you'd have a deuce of a time finding them if you somehow heard about a paper in it that you wanted to read! They simply weren't distributed to anyone besides conference attendees and maybe a library or two. Today, electronic copies have brought poor quality conference proceedings to a far vaster audience than they were ever intended for!

I'm disappointed, but not the least bit surprised that some people would submit something created by a paper generator to a conference. The blame for this falls squarely on conference organizers for requiring paper submissions but being too lazy to even read them once. If you don't want to read a stack of badly written papers, require abstracts only and, if you're still gung-ho to make some proceedings, welcome voluntary paper submissions.

This incident should not shake confidence in peer-reviewed journals one iota. It might, however, discourage conference organizers from requiring papers from speakers if they're not committed to reading them all.
I tried to read the papers but they cost $35.95 each to download.
That is their projection for the future, and if you assume protracted litigation while they're restructuring is going to be the order of the day, that doesn't sound insane at all.
Fiat regulators would've prevented them from running such slipshod operation in the first place. Or at least required better accounting controls.
(Assuming this is real)

How do you lose HUNDREDS of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins over the course of years and not notice it?? There is no evidence that this "accidental loss" is not merely obfuscated theft.
A lookup on domaintools.com shows some older information:

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: 2014-01-21 18:29:05
Creation Date: 1997-10-09 23:00:00
Registrant Name: Andy Booth
Registrant Organization: Booth.com

Booth.com is a domain reseller, which definitely suggests that somebody purchased the domain very recently.
HOLY FRACK! Are you kidding me?
What a fracking joke! Hypocrisy at is finest folks! This shows just how out of touch the 1% are with the 99%. ExxonMobil has bullied those cites, counties & homeowners that have tried to sue them to stop projects like the one Mr. Tillerson is so outraged about!!! So basically isn't he sorta just suing himself? People like this don't care about safety regulations, EPA regulations or people in general. It's the mighty dollar they have a relationship with! Watch as he uses his money to support a Tea Turd Candidate that wants less government, like The EPA to further their Fracking Cause. Gullible citizens that support their hand picked candidates do this by telling what you want hear not what the candidates are planning on doing once elected. These vultures just like the Koch Brothers don't care about these citizens they just want someone(candidate & special interest groups) to do their dirty work. They bankroll and fund the crap of their hand picked candidates campaigns all the while hiding in the shadows. They never speak in public or news interviews because people will do it for them. So my Question Is: "don't those supporting their idelogy & views realize their supporting something that is against their(your) best interest?"Wake up these slime balls are buying government to further their agenda. They want no regulations so they can deepen their pockets. They could care less about your home, land, town, city, county or state. Just read about the growing number of earthquakes in Oklahoma! If you vote for their candidates these scum support then you CAN NOT whine or moan once a well, water tower, pipeline or project like this runs right through your community! THINK!!!!' Think before voting this mid-election 2014. They could give a FRACK about your livelihood.
I glanced down at my Nexus 7 last night while walking and realised how futuristic stuff is. It seems so light and handy, and I said that about the previous N7 last year.

In '96, I only had 1GB of storage total in my PC, across several hard drives. I thought that was amazingly huge.
It's probably mostly written in assembly. (Or Forth, if you are extra lucky.)
A solution has been proposed here: http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2013/why_hn_shouldnt_use_r...

Basically move some new articles closer to the front page to get them more exposure in order to find the ones that are actually best. More exploration and less exploitation, and finding the optimal tradeoff between the two.
"Without axioms, we can't figure anything out."

But with the wrong axioms, we can figure out things that are false and think they are true. Just because you're taking something as an axiom doesn't mean you are correct to do so.
Seriously? That was weak example.....especially when the water tower is for fracking. So stop the Fracking nonsense
The Missing Manual for Securing Your Mac From Theft
>Since conference proceedings are typically ignored researchers generally won't put their best effort into these papers.

It's interesting, because this is completely the opposite in many CS fields (e.g. security). The top conferences carry much more weight than any journal. It's probably related to how fast the field changes.
ARM processors try to find the sweet spot between small size, low power and high speed. By picking which pieces to include, which to leave out and which to optimize for size/power/speed the big licensees such as Apple, Qualcomm and Samsung can each choose there own sweet spots for the products they want to make.
It's melodramatic because it sounds like it was authored by, not MtGox, but an in-the-know bitcoin stakeholder who needs to convince other probably reluctant big stakeholders to help bail out MtGox.

I'm reminded of the Federal Reserve calling in every major Wall Street bank CEO and demanding that they chip in to help rescue the imploding hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, lest it take down the entire market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

First time I'm ever seriously considering just cashing out all my coins...
"Either something is axiomatic, or it's not, and two separate statements can't be contradictory and axiomatic at the same time."

Yes they can. It just means the system is inconsistent. I'd recommend studying some logic, if you intend to use your mighty powers of REASON to reach TRUTH.
Nice. Sorry for the self promotion but seemed appropriate

http://greggman.github.io/doodles/sort.html

click one for a larger version

PS: My method of cycle counting may not make any sense.

See https://github.com/greggman/doodles for details
It's a cruel world.
Yeah, but how incompetent can you be to lose 700k of coins? I mean at some point you'd look and say, "hey, that's weird, we only have 400k left in our cold storage!"
It's PREMIUM gibberish. :-)
Does your apartment not have any windows at all?

At least in New York, I believe that a bedroom is required to have a window.
Yeah if I was running a server I would have done that in a heartbeat but I was using S3 so I was a little more limited.
An, I suspected as much. Let me respond in kind, then. Ahem.

Kindly insert the antiquated, unfriendly device that you dignify with the name "proper computer" into your excretory orifice of your choice.

Hmm, not very good. I'm really not very good at platform flames any more. Especially when it's such an unspecific one as "tablet" vs "not tablet". I dunno, I'll take a shot in the dark and urge you to go back to fellating Bill Gates and his heirs, or Linus? Or pick up on the British English and suggest that you go back to your precious Speccy. I mean, really, give me something to work with, man.
I'm not in CS, but I've heard of this. It's definitely aberrant. Some other fields change just as rapidly so I'd just chalk this up as a cultural difference.
3. is the most important there. The other questions could be speculatively answered. But there's no way to explain a 20M imbalance without some sort of criminal negligence, which would make any sort of rebrand / relaunch absolutely impossible.
Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox
This is really fantastic of course, but the video doesn't answer the following question: The video says it’s the most powerful language, one can build so much etc. What’s one of those things, that they've built that no one else could build before? What great application now exists that didn’t before? I will still use google for search, twitter for opinion (that’s where the people are at..), photoshop for photo manipulation etc. Besides doing mathematics, which Mathematica is great at, what concrete evidence is there that this language is better for solving any particular problem one would actually care to solve? I don’t care about dominant flag colors.
Or does work and is just disabled. I don't know about high end cards but it's hard to believe Sandisk would have a completely separate manufacturing process for 2GB and 4GB cards when they're both sold at less than $10 each.
That's only because, as soon as that claim was made in 1980, the fusion budget was immediately (and thereafter, steadily) cut.

"We're only 30 years away? Bah, what's the rush?"