skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Done correctly, mixing N together means a strict 1/N chance of getting the source correct, and being more certain is impossible.

Trivialized example: a friend and I split a single bitcoin each and send half to address A and half to address B, and we each control one address. Who owns A and who owns B? If A is used to buy something, am I the buyer or my friend? Since the private keys are generated offline, the fact that two sources sent to both A and B is all the information that exists. I've "tainted" both addresses, anyone can see that, but that's all.

But even when done correctly, odds are you still expose your identity through your use of the coins in the future. So you run through a random number of mixers, and then you behave extremely carefully, since there's some taint to everything and someone could be watching any of a billion addresses for signs of you (shipment to your house, for example). Given enough connections, you can get pretty reasonable probabilities and start forming deeper and more confident paths.
He's being ignorant about it and tries to blame others for the mess MtGox caused. On a speculative note, he'll propably walk out of this with millions in his pockets, while his customers lost tons of cash due to this mess.
I'm not really that familiar with Xopus so I can't really comment. Judging from the screenshots (E.g. DITA) it looks like it has a lot of per-schema customisations which my software doesn't have.
Hard to see how the OP could have tracked this down, being unaware of the feature.
Even more than it not being lost, it's potentially now in the hands of people who stole it and probably want to sell it off.
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Reasonable! I've just been through my fair share of primary email addresses over the years (be it from my ISP, university, or the webmail provider du jour), so the idea of an email address being forever unchanging was a bit incongruent with my experiences. :)
The kind of people that (unlike mafia or the police) don't need physical proximity to make your life a nightmare...
That (compiled vs interpreted/VMed) is beside the point. It's what people use them FOR that matters.

And even Rob Pike admitted that most people come to Go from Python/Ruby, whereas he expected that to be from C++.
Oh you mean like how millions of Bitcoin market cap disappeared when people jumped off the hype train? Does that look like a closed system to you?
Nope. It costs money, risk and power to tape. Every Unfair taping erodes that country's power a bit. So it's still worth building things defending a country's sovereignty and it's still worth starting anytime.
Not to be nitpicking but a common criticism of China is that they manipulate their currency to _increase_ the value of dollar not devalue it.
The funds were likely stolen, not sent into the void.
Why would you agree to insure your competitor against their own incompetence?
You can order CDs for these courses (Indian Rs 200 per course) and they ship it for you.
Don't know if they ship outside India.
But you can contact them and find out.
>It's really easy in all of this to pile a bunch of hatred on Mark Karpeles, but please, everybody remember that he is a human being, with real human emotions, and that those things really do hurt.

Fraudsters are real human beings too.

As are people who are incometent but go ahead and build stuff risking other people's money and providing false assurances.
How do we know that the mgmt hasn't run away with a whole load of coin? They may really have lost a lot; they may really not be able to continue; but how do we know that they lost everything?
As discussed yesterday, this is not a new MITM vulnerability. To make this work you need to establish a TLS connection to the proxy which is verified in the usual certificate authority way. Note that the standard says that user agents that discover they're talking to a trusted proxy should obtain user consent to talk to that proxy.

Any situation in which someone can force your machine to trust one of these proxies is a situation when they had administrator access to your machine anyway, and in that situation you're already screwed.

Would it kill HN to actually read one of these specs instead of just whining about it?
You guys have any idea on how to proceed if you (allegedly) have a few BTC and USD there?

Yeah yeah I know, I read HN often but obviously I missed the "Stay away from Gox" posts :(
Yes, the size is now big enough to consider them as a storage/secondary hard drive for ultrabooks.

How would read/write speeds compare to, say, a USB3 external drive ?
I'm sorry it's not an easy source to access, but you should watch this film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated
"Hey Michael, systemd is going to handle networking!" His response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ
The excellent "Blame it on Mt.Gox" music video from last spring seems rather topical again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U
You still need an email to sign up for facebook.
My cousin is often profoundly amazed by GB large usb keys. He (We) went through many steps in perception of digital data. I think someone from the 50s would have a hard time realizing what it could mean.
I understand that HTTP/2.0 needs to address both scalability and security, but the proposed "trusted" proxies smells really bad.
Knowing what we know today, in that the current level of security offered by HTTP/1.1 is barely adequate to protect web citizens from real and present threats, shouldn't we be radically rethinking HTTP security.
>Most people who've been around bitcointalk and bitcoin-otc know not to use MtGox since circa 2011 when their stunning incompetence was at it's height.

And still, even 2 weeks ago, tons of people defended MtGox in HN threads, and said how it's a temporary glitch and they are very good exchange and such.

Even when it was pointed to them that it's a service build by a guy with no actual knowledge of exchanges and no prior experience at finance services whatsoever -- a mere PHP developer (not to knock the language) that had done nothing spectacular before (no Carmack, or Fitzpatrick or your favorite coder hero).

People trusted their money to a guy that literary calls himself "MagicalTux" -- which to me seems like investing to the hobo on the corner, people call Crazy Bob.
No, you can sign up for Facebook with just a phone number. It only presents this option to you when you access the signup page from a phone, though.
Wow! That is a helluva pitch. My fear is that it _is_ the mind of Stephen Wolfram and unless you have that the whole thing will be one big mystery.
No no no, I meant a bailout by Saint Satoshi. He will return on the 13th day after the fall of Gox to reimburse all its users.
You also realize it when adding 'quiet' to the bootloard kernel params. No output => boot time decreased (sometimes halved)
Sorry, I was too general. I am very much aware that there are selective workshops in CS (I've been to some). I think I mostly wanted to point out some differences. My main wish was to convey that publishing venues are different, and the name of the venue is not always an indication of the type of publishing.

Thanks for pointing out that I made the mistake I was trying to correct.
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What is the name of this operator: “--&gt;”?
-> Public protest from the diplomacy
-> Pictures leaked in the press
-> Legitimity in not inviting US to the next trading agreement or whatever
From the WhatsApp's acqusition to closing down Facebook Messages, I think his talk back in 2010 makes sense.

"We don't think modern messaging system will be email," he noted, saying that he believes seven characteristics that we will come to define "next generation" messaging: seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal, and short.

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/facebook-email-addr...)

He hasn't given up his dream of becoming the leader in mobile, seamless messaging/communication.
These websites always remind me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhg7vxTM9Q4

it seems human nature changes little.

More seriously, it's a fun toy, but as others pointed out, reading is not simply about reading one word at a time.
Also my thought: Are FB going to "unbork" all the displayed email values that they automatically and without user opt-in switched over to instead display these @facebook email addresses?

To me, it seemed an obvious ploy to keep user and their friends further captured within FB. Want to contact a friend out-of-band? Well, now (i.e. then) even though that friend chose to make their email address visible to you, you effectively no longer have it; you instead have this FB email address that forces you to remain within FB for this communication and until you manually request and receive that friend's "real" email address.

Now, supposedly emails to that FB address will silently forward to the person's "real" (registered) email address. You still don't, in these cases, actually have that address; everything still passes through FB, and you are dependent upon FB doing the right thing (or not) both morally and technically in forwarding your email on.

I'm not saying they won't. But the whole endeavour has become a mess that apparently stemmed out of the business' self-interest -- as opposed to the user's interest -- in keeping users "trapped" within its domain.

P.S. And would they do so correctly, reverting displayed addresses where the prior address values had been displayed to others, but not doing so where they had not been or had been displayed to a different set/group that current -- some people may have been comfortable displaying an @facebook.com email address once those became available but not their "real", personal email address.
I've been meaning to look in to ThoughtBot's RCM [1] dotfile management system for something like this, btw.

[1]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
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Just I don't know !
This would be an awesome term project for students studying computer security to find problems in the draft, if there is any.
Slide 8 of MtGox 'Crisis Strategy' presentation uncensored: MtGox Financials
AngularJS change detection – draft
Why do you think "forces of supply and demand will keep the value stable"? Bitcoin is much more susceptible to huge valuation fluctuations than fiat currency, where central bank can step in to shift demand/supply.
German Wikipedia uses proper quotes instead of the straight variety. I did a lot of wikignoming a while ago and fixing quotes (and non-breaking spaces, and citation formats) was among the things I did. Being able to quickly find straight quotes on the page is very helpful in that regard.
From my understanding, a big part of its intended usage is for interfacing from applications in other languages. So you can offload all of the difficult calculations from your C/Java/PHP program and get Wolfram to do the work.
Interesting that they didn't restore the old email addresses for people who kept it or didn't know their email showed up as *@facebook.com. Or at least it didn't seem like it from the profiles I viewed.
I don't really care to argue this point so I'll just explain why I find this extremely problematic. What percentage of browser users have any concept of how TLS works? This an exceedingly low number. You're essentially creating a dragnet to capture and decrypt the contents of transfers for a huge number of people who likely have no idea that they're volunteering their (sensitive) information. Browser users are not TLS experts. They will click right through warnings without a second thought. No, this standard doesn't harm the very small minority of people capable of protecting themselves. It only takes advantage of everyone else. This is why, to me, dismissing this off-hand as no big deal is seriously negligent. Yes, I've read the draft. Yes I have the technical experience and qualifications to understand fully what it proposes. And yes, I believe this is an egregious thing to propose.
Does this mean we shouldn't trust "coldtea" to develop anything?

I'm the last person to defend Karpeles' competency, but his internet alias has nothing to do with it.
Yikes I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about my 0.03 btc that I lost.
It should probably be aware to the language of the page, not your own.
Why would you assume violence? If he has covered up massive losses like this for a while but still taken deposits then he may be criminally liable.
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This update broke my working TextSecure this morning. Couldn't access my messages. Had to reinstall. :(
Interestingly, whilst everyone pushed for netctl on IRC when it was released, I asked a question the other day and the opinion was that netctl sucks and I should use NetworkManager, which has handier VPN support and has improved substantially.
If you do that, you need to store it on your own premises and hand-deliver it. You can't do internet transactions that way. Crucially you can't do credit, which is a practical requirement of most business.
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The market for video games has expanded exponentially over the last few years most of the games being simple rehashes of previously attempted games. The FPS (first person shooter) genre has become swamped with the same general mechanics of gameplay. They never challenge your intelligence, they challenge your twitch ability. In other words, how fast can you look at someone and kill them will determine how successful you are at the game.
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Motorcycles are cool, I won’t deny that, but the safety risk always seems a bit much for such a lifestyle. You can never get lost, you have to be constantly aware of your surroundings because any accident will do more damage to you than the woman who’s talking on her phone in a minivan, and it can get a bit annoying listening to wind rushing past your face.
I am not sure how you can change the world, but you will be featured on https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/ this month. So you have at least that going for you.
That is sadly true.

It's even worse than that. 'e' is the most used letter in french, but 'é' and 'è' are quite used too. 'ê' and 'ë' being rarer, but still existing.

So, I am exaggerating it a bit, but you can compare it to having to search for words with the consonants, because every vowel is considered the same by your search algorithm.

Yes, I'm pushing it, but you see the problem it can easily become in huge pages.
The problem is they also say this about every exchange. It was enough for me to send half my btc to coinbase, but not enough to warrant any real urgency about it. Thus I lost about 7 btc due to this fiasco.
Yes, the Chinese are hard at work to give Americans ever more manufactured goods for ever fewer green pieces of paper.

(Or to be more accurately, entries in a data base.)
Gox horror story thread – How much did you lose?
But major aspects of this plan are delusional. Take p. 7, "To reduce liabilities":

"Coins for equity,…"

You can't just improvise a private-offering of shares for Bitcoin in the envisioned timeframe. The other exchanges know this. The kind of people with the deep pockets and credibility to consider a reboot/turnaround would know this.

"…coin donations,…"

Who's going to donate to a distrusted brand with large, poorly-understood multi-jurisdictional legal problems, which also starts out 633K BTC ($280 million, at $450/BTC) and $33 million USD in debt?

"…and cash injections to buy coins at the cheap MtGox price are some options among many."

THERE ARE NO COINS TO SELL AT THE CHEAP MT GOX PRICE, if the rest of the document is to be believed. Even if they launched this plan and kept that fact secret – against the other implied steps of bringing in credible new expert team members – there's no net-improvement in the entities' position if it keeps selling BTC (adding BTC-denominated debt to its balance sheet) at a lower price it would take to acquire BTC elsewhere. That's not even competent as fraud: you'd want to buy at the artificially-low price, not sell.

It's nonsense on its face, even according to its own terms.

I can believe this is a parody of some industry bailout idea that was floated… but recrafted to poke fun at it. (The proposed April 1 relaunch and reasoning evocative of "too big to fail" bailouts are more hints.)

For this to have been a legitimate outline of a believed-possible plan, everyone involved in its authorship would have to be high on their leftover Silk Road stashes.
why not turn off swap entirely?
Well, good. Being assigned an email address I didn't ask for by the "we need to know all we can about you in order to optimise the pictures of baking your Aunt keeps posting" website never really drew me in.
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I just saw this on 11PM news on TV. This sounds serious, since it seems like there is no cure at this point and they have no idea the cause or how this is being spread. This needs more coverage.
Technically speaking, no.

patio11: that is not how the Bitcoin protocol works.

Even if 99% of the Bitcoin miners agree, they cannot create extra bitcoin; it is simply impossible because that is not something that miners control. Every full node (client) on the Bitcoin network verifies the validity of each block. A block that created more bitcoins than allowed by the protocol would be rejected by the clients (and the miners who follow the original rules). The "extra" bitcoins would be on a hard fork and thus invalid to anyone on the main (original) blockchain.

More info: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
No. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7296376
>there are easier ways

If you're a military contractor, a military buildup or war is optimal.
I bet you leave descriptive commit messages.
I can't believe anyone is still taking the document seriously.

Gox may well be in trouble, but the document is an obvious fake.
Gold is not money... you should say "when I use dollars as money"
I respect your position on HN but I cannot disagree more with you on this one.

You sound like you just finished watching "thank you for smoking". The point that "he is a humanbeing" sounds like "what difference does it make" or other distraction that we are supposed to buy in order to feel less angry for his choices. Yes we are all human beings and im not sure how that helps in this instance. Maybe he should have thought of clients coins where platform continued to deliver slappy code and as a result, crashed?

I took all my coins out long time ago after seeing multiple red flag. But nothing pisses me more than this perfect situation. Any gov burocreat from a three letter agency is happily partying right now because there were waiting for something like this to happen. Mtgox will go down in the history, i dont care. Hope those sloppy pogrammers wont find their way into rocket engineering, traffic systems programming, airplains software programming or similar. But sure the gov will make a perfect example out of it and that gives them ammunition to try to regulate the market again.

You say "we all fucked up at some point". And you right. Just like one could assume most of us dui at some point. I did. Once. I drove very carefully, nothing happened and i hated myself for it for many weeks afterward as of how stupid i was. But still, i wont have much respect for someone else who drink and drive continuously and one day crashes and kills someone.
PSTN and TV are dead, they just don't know it yet.
Note that the 1907 panic and the present Bitcoin situation are fundamentally different in nature. BTC exchanges operate as, well, exchanges and stores -- more akin to a security deposit box with the ability to trade with other boxholders -- not lending institutions.

The other piece of the puzzle is that stock exchanges would allow trading on margin, often as much as 10:1 margin or more (an error repeated in the lead-up to the 1929 crash). Because of transactions, local banks were further implicated.

The trust lost wasn't in the exchanges' and banks' fiduciary responsibility but in their creditworthiness, and what Morgan accomplished was to say "don't trust their credit, trust ours". Not a foolproof gamble, but one which worked. The Federal Reserve takes this one step further by being a lender of last resort: if you're a bank and you need a loan, you can always go to the Federal Reserve's lending window to get more cash (though the FDIC may end up owning you). Stockholders can be wiped out (bank stockholders), but depositors are insured (subject to limitations).

The problem with Mt. Gox is, apparently, one of fiduciary trust or negligence -- it's not clear who's made off with the coin, but it's not creditworthiness that's in question.
Where I work we use tabs; has carried over to my personal projects some. Personally I prefer spaces ;-)
The money was stolen, not a market downturn
It isn't just the net though. It's also deep pockets of the defence industry.

If we really want reform, the uncomfortable truth is that the only way to reform the system is to reduce the amount of money flowing to defence contractors. Unfortunately I think, aside from a total economic collapse, pigs will sooner evolve wings.
Even if they were sent into the void, bitcoins are highly divisible. Just shift the decimal point over a few places and you've got convenient units once again.
Bitcoin's life-or-death moment
Here they are a few hours earlier trying to convince themselves that it was all FUD:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yscsq/mtgox_lets_t...
Netctl is alrady the third implementation of networking scripts I'm aware of. The last one (netcfg) still seems to be working just fine. It's not an overly elaborate set of scripts for networking configuration, that already integrates well with systemd.

All these things tell me that it will probably not take long until Arch takes to take advantage of network configuration in systemd.

But then, for more complex, and more dynamic environments, people have used NetworkManager. If it will replace NM, which is a much more substantial piece of code covering a lot of the more complicated setups (VPNs, cellular, a lot of user-interaction), I don't dare to speculate about.
The paper you cite is a load of crap. And its author John Bohannon is a sell-out. Or at least I hope so for him, because if he compromised his intellectual faculties and his scientific reasoning for less than a very good place in hell, he is mad.

This paper makes and obviously false hypothesis: that the quality of a journal depends on it being open access or not, while clearly it depends on it being seriously peer-reviewed. The real question is: among peer-reviewed journals, are those which have an open access policy worse, better, or the same as the others? (My bet is that they are the same, since scientists/researchers doing the peer reviews have no more incentive to do it better in a case or another).

Bohannon shows his results in a way which can't say anything about that, mainly because he is comparing two things (open access and closed access journals) but only studied one of them and makes assumption about the other. With this level of scientific hypocrisy anyone can make numbers tell anything they want.

What I take from this article is that Science is scared of what is coming. Nothing else. If they were honest they would have titled it "Who's afraid of open access?" and the content would mainly be "us".