skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polio-like paralysis can be caused by a number of enteroviruses, and there are cases in the United States every year. This is a large number of cases, but there's no reason to believe it has anything to do with polio or the vaccine (the U.S. does not use the attenuated vaccine that occasionally causes polio-like side effects). Rather, it's cause is likely a as yet unknown enterovirus.
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My local credit union works fine in a browser, but their (cr)app (the cr is silent) wants access to my complete contact list, presumably for spamming purposes. Nope! Not happening.

Other than that oddity in their outsourced app, they're a legit business, not scummy at all, which makes it weird. A place that specializes in financial transactions should probably stick to traditional protocols like a website and stay out of the (cr)app business.

I want to do mobile banking. I don't want them to add the feature of "spam my friends and family" at all. No thanks!
Interestingly, I also didn't remember that point. The autonomous corporations (and the lobsters) are pretty much the only detail I remember from _Accelerando_, and the bit about them being the villain was lost.
As money transmission goes, high volatility is probably worse than predictable value erosion.
If you want to use 50mb of my phone's flash space then yeah, you'd better have a good reason for that.
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I do not see where in your sources Austrian Economics "actively rejects empirical research and deductive reasoning." The foundation of Austrian Economics is in studying human behavior in the market (Praxeology[0]). Austrian economists use praxeology give meaning to economic models.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology
> There's a reason we got URLs, HTTP, and HTML.

Ok, build those 30 apps with URLS, HTTP and HTML. Ok I will drop CSS into the bag. No javascript though.

Let's see the results.
If this address does belong to the thief, why would they steal all the bitcoins with a single address? Surely using different addresses would make it less suspicious
Thanks!

Currently there isn't a way to do that without adjusting the number of words. I've had other users complain about this though, so in the next update I'm going to make the time slider free to move, and introduce a stepper to adjust to the nearest 50wpm or something. This update has taken a while because I've been working on Pocket/Instapaper support.

Originally the slider was free to move; it was just too finicky to get down to a round-figure WPM on the smaller devices so I added the 'ratchet'.
And thanks to the "controlls" in place, everything changed and we're now in a situation where something like what happened in 2008 would be inimaginable !
/s
I didn't take the idea of an autonomous corporation as inherently bad, but maybe I should have. A nightmare is just a flavor of dream--it is still a dream.
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No, it almost certainly did not originally stand for "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt.Gox#Possible_citogenes...

Discussion about this topic on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7249615
In the US, capital losses can be applied to capital gains without any such limit. Perhaps you are thinking of the amount of carried forward cap loss that can be applied to offset ordinary income.
LOL @ using the Sex Pistols for the example. Google "Malcolm McClaren" if you aren't sure why claiming them as "an alternative to manufactured pop shite" is funny...
According to Wikipedia, that 65b figure is inflated. It's more likely the total amount was somewhere between 10 and 20 billion[1].

That's obviously still a ton of money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
A really great start. Keep it up!

Would be helpful to have a version that doesn't depend on internet connectivity... e.g. so I can read it on my iPad offline.

Does iPython easily allow saving as a pdf?
I see the Austrian economists have already started up the "no true Scotsman" machines...
I missed the part where people were able to use tulips to transfer money internationally, without fees, and faster than established wiring methods.
This is the web platform
You have slipped a lot there: the difference between website and app is much much bigger than many would like to admit.
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I don't think so. I don't see any direct calls to recvfrom_into in Django, and it seems little used. It is more likely to be called with a UDP listener - with TCP sockets there isn't usually a need to use recvfrom (which returns the address of the sender, too).
The diamond market is way more comparable to tulips than Bitcoin.
Funnily enough I've found ebay and similar stuck-in-the-90s websites are very easy to use on my phone. It's the ones from the late '00s fancy css and rounded corners era that are less usable.
Interesting. There's much more to building a business than simply how difficult it is to build the product, so using just that as a reason to reject people seems a bit off. For example, Buffer [1] seems to be doing pretty well and that must have been a comparatively simple app to get off the ground (in terms of MVP). I expect the hard work there is in growing fast enough that you capture most of the market/mindshare (as well as how big that market is).

[1] http://open.bufferapp.com/buffer-december-update-2819000-run...

EDIT: IIRC Buffer didn't make it to the interview stage for YC. They carried on anyway.
I certainly agree there are a lot of good ideas and neat projects starting in France -- what I mean is they have trouble growing into big successes.
True - right now they are only as secure as paper money with a vendor on the road. And as we all know, no one transacts with paper money.
The hacker really only needs to be slightly smarter than whoever wrote that bad PHP in the first place. It's not implausible really that they'd send it through the same address.
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Well I would argue that the "M" in MVP would necessitate never losing anyone's money. If I were going to create a trading platform, I'd probably start with one that only accepted Play Money.
recvfrom_into is meant to be used with bytearrays, which can give you a performance boost by avoiding one extra copy of the received data. You don't need ctypes to use it.
"as long as it's commented correctly there's no issue"

How do you know it is commented correctly? Now you have to understand the code and the comment and mentally confirm them to be in sync. You also have to maintain the comment when you make changes to the code and you have to trust that others are going to do the same.

It would be better if the code itself was expressive enough so that a comment wasn't needed.
Mt.Gox CEO says bitcoin exchange at 'turning point'
What traditional reading speed/comprehension test did you take? I just took the one at readingsoft.com, and I felt like I could have guessed most of the answers in the test without even reading the text. I'm wondering if mosts comprehension tests actually do a poor job to testing comprehension.

This stuff always interests me because I'm a terribly slow reader (I think I did ~180 wpm on the above test). I'd really like to be able to improve without hurting my comprehension. However, when I discuss an article with someone who reads quickly I usually find that they've missed some important pieces of information. The sort of gaps exposed by real conversation may not show up on a simple multiple choice quiz. I'm just guessing here though. Based on my own experience, hearing that someone read 700wpm with 95% comprehension is like hearing that someone has broken the laws of physics.
Literally yesterday I got an email to download the new Sallie Mae app. Now I can have my student loans with me wherever I go!

I wouldn't be surprised if the app had a button to "share this loan on Facebook".
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Just FYI, bitcoin has had half a dozen 50% retraces into 1000% explosions already. This is probably another one (I hope, at least, I just bought another 2 btc at 480).
I feel the same way whenever I think about quantum mechanics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, medical terminology, probability/statistics, functional programming, APL, and internal combustion engine repair manuals. For me, the biggest barrier to grokking something is almost always terminology.

I'm not sure if not knowing is better or worse than forgetting. I used to really excel at multivariable calculus and now I have to ask people on physics forums or wolfram alpha to solve basic integrations. I really, really wish they made Cliffs Notes for people who already learned something. For example I think every college course should have on the order of a one hour review video that covers everything. Maybe a hybrid of spaced interval learning and Khan Academy.
That's all you need to do to make money on stocks, or bonds, or any other speculative trade. The trick is being consistent :)
What's in dispute is whether there was ever a card trading site hosted at mtgox.com, not whether that's what it stands for. Even if it never hosted a card trading site, it is generally assumed that the domain was originally purchased for one.
It's interesting that they're talking specifically about international expansion, though. Maybe they'll just set up DailyMotion US, LLC.
> It seems that the line between native app and web will
> increasingly blur as HTML5 matures

Would you care to elaborate on that? Because I see no blurring. Building apps with webtech was a stupid idea to start with, and the current state is just incessant running in circles trying to invent a wheel.
I am pretty sure that webdevs touting the victory of HTML5 have no idea what native offers and how many years behind even the best web-based offering is.

Why don't you first replace all the desktop apps with the browser and then talk about mobile? Why this obsession that web should win? Why not everything has it's place?
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Why? (the javascript restriction)

There's quite a lot of websites where the app is a mediocre replication of the website. Especially magazines.
"any other user does want a feature that somehow uses those perms,"

Nobody "needs" or "deserves" or is "entitled" to my location and contact list merely because they would really like to spam me and my friends. If that is "development" then I don't want it. My contact list is absolutely positively none of their business and I will not cooperate with them. They need me a lot more than I need them, so we'll see how this turns out.
If somebody wanted forge "leaked strategy document" these kind of verifiable facts would be nice to put in.
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744,000 MtGox 2014
400,000 MtGox 2011
154,000 MyBitcoin 2011
43,000 Bitcoinica 2012
1,000,000 Satoshi early mining estimate
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2,341,000 ~20 % of all bitcoins in circulation (12,400,000)

Assuming no overlap at least around 20 % of all bitcoins are not in circulation or stolen. Just throw away the block chain, start over and make less mistakes the second time. This would at least make the thieves unhappy, too. ^^
The bug says Python 3 is affected

http://bugs.python.org/issue20246
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It almost certainly did, but it was never used for that purpose.
Hardly Simon Cowell or PWL levels of manufacturing though... and as the author states, no analogy is perfect
What about herd immunity?
We all need to get the vaccine so that those who definitely cannot are protected from the fact that they cannot contract it from anyone around them.

Polio still exists, and not vaccinating yourself might just start to wear away at that defense.

Earlier this year, researchers confirmed that a 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California, the nation's worst in over 50 years, was spread by children whose parents applied for non-medical exemptions to school vaccination requirements, many for religious reasons.
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/children-anti-vaccinat...
Is it worth the price?
Well, for starters the "Methodology' section opens with

> Critics generally argue that Austrian economics lacks scientific rigor and rejects scientific methods and the use of empirical data in modelling economic behavior. Some economists describe Austrian methodology as being a priori or non-empirical

a statement which includes citations from five different sources. You may disagree with that conclusion, but I think it's clear where I found it in those two links.

And if you dig a bit more into both of links that I provided, you'll find a more detailed exposition, even in sections that don't use the word "data" explicitly.
> A real currency with a fiscal policy and the backing of a state that could raise loans would be able to ride out this insult.

My bitcoins in my personal wallet seem to be "riding out" everything just fine. What am I missing?
> Can we call it the HN effect?

We can, but a more general term would be more useful.

Crowd crashed?
Good question. If they don't release the source, then this, as awesome as it is, is just a product and not a language.
It certainly did, which is easily confirmed with archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070525044536/http://mtgox.com/...
A bit of a mixed metaphor given that we're talking about an exchange collapse, here. You don't deposit your paycheck in cash with a dude in a streetcart.

Anyways, the thing with transformative new products is you have to be notably better in order to get people to switch. "Just as good" isn't good enough. "Less good but you get a lot of ideological satisfaction if that's your thing" is certainly not good enough.

So far, BTC is a speculation vehicle, not currency.
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I think that the move from the web to apps the web brought on itself.

Fundementally the web is a linked document viewing system. Later it needed scripting and a bletcherous system was hastily added. But the web had huge momentum, the system stuck, and here we are with three+ major browers all interpreting the morass of HTML, DOM, CSS and Javascript slightly different. Yes, HTML5 tries to rectify some of that, but it's sadly too late.

As a developer of a mobile or tablet application you have a choice of the technology cesspool that is the web or the nice tidy mobile development tool of your choice (mostly) with sane UI tools and a language that probably didn't need a "good parts" book. You also get a better system for collecting payment, easy access to the customer's data, and when it's installed and then compromised it's on someone else's computer, not yours. And that computer is relatively easy to use. No calling nephews to figure out where the internet went ("It used to be right here on the screen..."). To view a usable 1024x768 web page you need one of those complicated general purpose computers, which really aren't practical or even understandable for 95% of the population.

It's so easy to make an app we now have a gajillion of them cranked out daily that no one cares about. Then they get thrown in the the cesspool that is the mobile app market and the suckage continues.

If you want to have the web continue to flourish (and I'm not aligning with the trolling and utterly stupid Mr. Rabois here) we should have better tools for creating applications for the web. I'm not sure what that would be (bytecode runtimes, mature HTML5, a new language?) nor how to wrest control from the oppressive JavaScript Empire. But unless that happens don't be surprised if the web turns a bit gray.
Mt Gox acquisition?
Loading their page this morning yielded:

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>
</html>

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So everything is great because you (still) happen to be among the lucky few that have profit from holding BTC? Got it...
Happy to hear that, because disrupting using wordpress isn't disruptive enough for me ;)
Judging from http://hillbrad.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/trusted-proxies-and... it looks like opportunistic encryption is not meant to convey security, but rather add obscurity to in-transit plain-text traffic from the perspective of any in-between listeners (and he has no qualms pointing the finger at governments there).

Sadly he now seems to have changed his mind about the validity of this approach, mostly because users and devs alike dislike complexity in their decision process as to what is secure and what is merely obscured.
by that time i guess nobody would care if the NDA is violated..
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Who would have thought customers would want yet another email service that had no real benefits over their existing email service?

It always seemed like a baffling idea to try and run out in the world, especially as to get a Facebook account you need an email address.
This is why I'm not putting my money into any other crytocoin, even if something like peercoin is better than btc in every way. It just has momentum you can't just say "ah well, we done fucked, reboot time". The money is in bitcoin and it isn't going anywhere, at least not yet. Also, we have already endured those early losses.
But don't you really wish that your camera/panorama app were a webpage? Then you could use the same one across all of your devices, and you wouldn't need to install anything! And instead of doing local processing on your phone to stitch things, it could send the photos out to a datacenter for stitching and get a finished image back! And if you're out of cell range, maybe it could just cache any camera data and let you see the finished images later when you're back online. And it'd be great for disk space, because everything lives in the cloud and instead of saving videos locally you just have to wait for them to load and use a bunch of bandwidth every time you want to watch one.

Yeah, me neither.
But their "studying of human behavior" isn't based on empirical models. Its based on idealized assumptions. For example, they continue to use rational actor abstractions despite empirical research showing that human behavior is irrational in predictable ways. We are going to realize, sooner or later, that cognitive psychology pretty much obliterates the assumptions underlying Austrian economics.
I had no problem keeping up with the 500 words per minute example, but was bored after a few seconds of marketing copy that I couldn't skip over.
Just because the situation has improved with respect to absolute poverty doesn't mean that relative poverty isn't a problem, too. It's just a different kind of problem.

First, rising income inequality/relative poverty is economically harmful. It's simply not sustainable forever, especially in the consumer economy that the US has. Capital gains in particular cannot continue to exceed general economic growth without something eventually giving.

Second, relative poverty creates social exclusion, leading to social stratification, low social mobility, and a whole host of related problems. This is probably best seen in the rising cost of college tuition in the US, creating an ever higher barrier for access to the middle class (admittedly, exacerbated by the fact that the US has no VET system worth speaking of). Perversely, where the affluent European countries invest in the education of their citizens, some US states seem to try and position themselves as low-wage alternatives to Mexico and China. Especially considering the ever-increasing levels of automation, this is all kinds of crazy.

Also, with respect to absolute poverty, while the American poor have it generally better than serfs in Czarist Russia or most of the people in your average third world country (not a very high bar, of course), there's still plenty of hunger and homelessness in the US.
Well, why not?

Just put your phone in your pocket when you want to stop replying immediately!
Which country has the highest tax rate?
The counterargument to that is that when the regulation itself is incompetent - and there's plenty of political incentives for that - you're worse off that with non-central incompetent actors, which are less likely to have the power to screw the whole system.
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Not sure what not in circulation has to do with anything - it just increases the value of all other bitcoins, it isn't a problem.

Also, this isn't how many bitcoins are stolen, this is how many have been stolen at some point. How many dollars have at some point been stolen? Quite a lot I bet
So can a dollar. Admittedly not as many pieces - only 100 of them - but the principle is exactly the same.
Rather than enjoying some shadenfreude (directed at MtGox and its users, not Bitcoin itself), I'm bewildered by the users and upset that their stupidity has allowed this predictable fiasco to happen.

Leaving the entirety of your BTC savings on an exchange provided and managed wallet is utterly insane at the best of times but to have done so with MtGox was just asking for it.

There are countless examples stretching back years that reveal MtGox was nothing more than a badly run website put together by a bunch of amateurs who took an early bet on Bitcoin and got lucky.

It's been obvious to anyone who performed even the most basic of research that MtGox would one day blow up spectacularly and there have been vastly better options available for a _long_ time now: http://www.bitstamp.net, http://www.kraken.com and http://www.coinbase.com

It's sad people have lost money but MtGox users largely have only themselves to blame. The writing's been on the wall since almost forever, better alternatives have been available for a long time now and, regardless of the exchange, they should never, ever have left significant chunks of their BTC net worth on a wallet not under their exclusive control. If you leave all your money on an exchange controlled wallet, you'll eventually end up like the poor chumps who bought penny stocks from the Wolf of Wall street: robbed.

I just hope the entire BTC ecosystem doesn't come crashing down in the fallout.
PDF reader and Kindle are probably my most used apps.
Unfortunately humans are famously loss averse[1] which leads to downwardly sticky nominal prices[2] in practice. In the face of deflation a lot of people just stop buying and selling and hope that prices go back up, or hold out for a nominal offer as big as what they think they "should" get even if the real value is the same.

If your bitcoin economy is full of nerds who really understand the subjective value of money than that's fine. But if you were to start having lots of normal people using Bitcoin and denominating prices and contracts in Bbitcoin than deflation would be a huge problem. As long as most of the surrounding economy isn't using Bitcoin it still wouldn't have the positive feedback loops that caused the Great Depression under the gold standard, though.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_prices
Explain? Surely stake out == stake in, or something is very wrong with your proof of stake?
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Here's a small lib I made this past weekend. I wanted to be able to listen to patterns for a specific module, but most implementations I found weren't that consistent with EventEmitter. Most had differences in behaviour when emitting events, handling exceptions, lacked support for domains, etc. So this is a quick attempt at keeping things consistent with, and inheriting from lib/events.js.

Hope this might prove to be useful!