skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the argument is that there's nothing to stop this from happening all the time and maybe even perpetrated by the same people. Yes, scams happen, but there are repercussions and sometimes preventative measures even work. The Mt. Gox soap opera is not something that would occur in a regulated baking environment (at least in the US environment), but in bitcoin it's been dragged out for months (since it became a target of the US Government). It's bad publicity if nothing else.

I believe in bitcoin and its long term potential, but there is no question that lack of regulated exchanges will stunt its long term acceptance.
Ah, good point, thanks for the correction.
What offices are in the second floor of that building across the street?

Is there something special about the house I'm pointing my phone at?

Who owns the daycare centre I'm pointing my phone at? Have there been any licensing / regulatory violations?

Paint a coloured path on the floor or wall to guide me to the dentist's office.

I'm old and can't see very well. Give me verbal directions to navigate (indoors) to get to the clinic.

I've got a wet spot on my basement ceiling. Highlight the outside of the house where water might be entering.
I'm just using (bad) third-party projections for now with the assumption that people who want to use my tool will be bringing their own projections to the table.

I also feel for Danilo...so many surgeries.
I used Gandi for my domains for the last six years. They been great, but since I've never had an issue, I can't say how good their customer service is.
regulation is not a guarantee of much. major banks in foreign exchange are in the middle of a scandal involving widespread collusion on fixing of prices.
Since people addressed your inaccurate observation.. let me explain my comment better..

The Ocidental culture has a collective neurosis toward objectivism (eg. Kant, Descartes ...) and trying to measure and antecipate everything, and put everything under control, because of its constant fear in dealing with the uncertainty in life.. which is unavoidable..

I have cited buddhism, because its a great philosophical umbrella for subjectivism and uncertainty.. a medicine we need badly over here.. given(over-objectivism) its a common root for a lot of stupid reasoning.. so that was really what i was talking about

Note: I have a ocidental tradition

Note II: Objectivism can be great when used in the right way (lead invention of Calculus, Computers..) but can be a poison if used everywhere
It would be hard to convince them to line up.
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Such a boring and cynical way to see the world. Even if the technology is used to target ads to you more effectively, how exactly is this a bad thing? How are you being harmed?
Great list, thanks for putting this together!

My own project (http://flowlab.io) is a visual programming language for 2d games.
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He wonders about PostgreSQL users doing poorly on question 4. This is a fairly tricky question. Since the index is a btree index, it is pretty clear what the right answer is, but there are ways to address the wildcard issue with better indexes. PostgreSQL folks who have less familiarity with the db may miss the fact that a GIN or GIST index is required along with the pg_trgm addon, to make that query fast.
As someone who's worked on visual odometry projects before, I'm extremely interested in how they're able to compute the phone's motion estimations so accurately and in real time on a mobile device. Is any of this project open source? Is anyone here familiar with the vision techniques they're using to accomplish this feat? Perhaps there's an FPGA or ASIC designed for visual odometry inside the phone.
Yep, quite so. There is a lot of legacy cruft. There are even bugs in prior versions which have now become features[1]!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line
While you're correct, GROUP BY apparently also does kill the indexing:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/group-by-optimization...
AC is lethal at lower RMS voltages. Two reasons:
(1) peak-to-peak voltage is higher
(2) It is not synced to heart, so can cause more damage
Not sure where the conspiracy part is?

American branded "milk chocolate" (and specifically the process that Hershey's does) has much lower cocoa solids (and additive control) requirements than elsewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate
Some people are taking the extravagant behavior as sign that he's mentally ill.

But, as you are probably aware, the extravagant behavior could be a cold deliberate move, an attempt to get people to give him money. "Look, I'm a rising star, I'm rich, hook yourself up to me." Lots of con artists flash money to get people to trust them.
Google maps was based on an acquisition, as were many of Google's marquee products:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
The problem is that most clients are in control of a ton of addresses. Transactions often will come from a combination of several of the addresses. And the user has no control over which addresses are used. So a user cannot enter what address(es) a transaction will come from before the transaction is sent.

Bitcrypt works around this problem by having the victim enter the address after the transaction is sent. But this also has a problem. The victim can simply go to this page http://blockchain.info/address/1HKCHx1RFhNHuF3NxLviHdrjNFzJb... and watch for when a different victim sends a new transaction to that address. Then the first victim can claim that payment as their own.
Interesting about Private FLITE. Why would a company like that extend services without upfront payment? Especially for $100K+...
It will be a problem for a while, as the price drops, people get screwed, and people lose confidence in Bitcoin. However, it is probably best to not have the largest exchange be a disaster that has repeatedly shown its technical incompetence. For Bitcoin to move forward, Mt.Gox needs to go.

EDIT: in addition, hopefully people will learn from this, and not use exchanges as wallets, and not (try to) make trades on an exchange without doing their research first.
The last image in the article I linked is an example of how to correctly document and structure code
Bernie Madoff's customers wanted a regulated market. Bernie Madoff's customers got a regulated market.

CMO buyers wanted a regulated market. CMO buyers got a regulated market.

I could go on for a while. But I'm left wondering - do you really think that your comment is insightful or are you just reveling in schadenfreude?
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Makes sense. Hershey's chocolate here (Brazil) taste like crap too - while although more expensive, I'm yet to find a bad product from Nestlé. I believe in the US they mainly ride on brand recognition.

The bad taste is due to less cocoa content and more filler, like palm oil, or even paraffin (yeah, candle wax).
ELI5. How can a bitcoin on Mt.Gox be going for one price and the "general" bitcoing market be going for another? I feel like I'm missing something.
Let's hope they don't go down the toilet like ING direct did after Capital One acquired them.
https://www.gandi.net/ and https://dns.he.net.
I only know because someone linked to a prior techcrunch article in this thread: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/30/motionloft-jon-mills/

He's R&B singer Miguel, who I guess you kids are listening to these days.
Excel does qualify as a visual programming language. Especially with the formula auditing feature.
No. They are the same crime. You are wrong, both morally and factually. As a founder you have the right to represent investor interest however you see fit. It is up to them to judge you independently and, if they cannot do that, then any gain you make in dealing with them is rightfully yours.
It's not a question of whether scams happen - it's a question of how many scams happen and how severe they are.
Why not just rsync to a sticky bit enabled directory?
This basic point is something I keep thinking, too… either you have your shit together, or you don't. If your fundamentals are strong, you should be able to get funding easily. If your fundamentals are weak, no amount of would-be cleverness will make funding viable.

If you want to impress investors, impress your customers.

Interestingly, this just falls out of something I've learned from years of developing big systems, which is that the line between success and failure is narrow, but the grounds on either side of that line are broad. So back of the envelope calculations that strongly suggest one conclusion or the other are almost always right, assuming there's nothing wrong with your analysis. Because of this, I've learned to not be pedantic about precision. Quick decisions are usually more effective than cautious ones.

Maybe that's why I've set out on a path away from the enterprise and toward entrepreneurship.
Non-Gox bitcoins have higher utility, in that they can be withdrawn.
FYI: TokuMX builds ACID underneath MongoDB. They ripped out Mongo's storage engine and replaced it with their own. It seems to be faster and it supports ACID transactions.
sprawl doesn't scale and isn't healthy.

it's bad for everyone: takes the wealth out of the cities - which means bad schools in the cities.

it leads to segregation.

It wastes massive amounts of time/energy commuting.

It makes you fat if the only exercise you get is the walk from a parking lot to your destination. why do you think the US is the fattest country in the world? sprawl.
If you think of a programming language as a set of tokens and production rules (a grammar), then can't every programming language have infinitely-many visual representations, including "pure text," "blocks/pipes" and "Jacob's Representation"?

Does it make sense to call a programming language "visual"?

What if I represent a C program by a sequence of smells... The translator device reads the text from start to end, converts it to a token sequence, and emits a different smell for each token. Does that mean C is a "smell-based programming language"?

If the tokens get read by a text-to-speech program, does that make C an "audio programming language"?

What about a different visual way to represent C programs (besides the usual text way)? Maybe we replace each token with a colored block, where each token has its own color.

Can't we dispense with the notion of a "visual programming language"? There are programming languages, and for each language, there are many ways to represent its programs.
You know your own numbers better than I do.

I just want FF to get some love.
As many have observed, it is not as if conventional currencies are free from this sort of problem either. But I do not draw an equivalence between the two types of crisis. What matters is that BitCoin faces the exact same question conventional currencies face when some sort of disaster strikes... what comes next? It should have been obvious to all, skeptic and advocate alike, that this sort of thing would happen in the "early days" of BitCoin. (Assuming of course that it survives long enough for this to be the "early days".) The question that determines whether it lives or dies is what emerges in reaction to solve this problem.

Don't chortle gleefully at the fact some disaster struck; it is a true and valid observation that conventional currencies still have disasters strike. Chortle if it proves that there's no practical solution to this sort of problem.

I have been and remain broadly skeptical. However, rationality forces me to concede that BitCoin has already gotten further than I would have predicted. The reaction to this crisis, moreso than the crisis itself, will be another interesting test of whether it has true staying power.

BTW... should BitCoin survive this, more disasters are absolutely sure to come. And when that happens, the question will be, what happens next?
It's a $300 phone, and between licensing and the actual hardware, LTE is very expensive.
The number of WhatsApp users in India is still infinitely less than the plain vanilla SMS people. Specially the ones living in villages which is a huge majority with a huger margin.

We also have SMS packs like 100 SMS a month by paying Rs 40 or so. But a DoT rule (which was actually twisted and misinterpreted by telecos) make that plan ineffective on any festive day and on those days you pay for each SMS and the rate is almost double or x3 or sometime x4 of what you would have paid without the SMS pack :-)
Your reply would have been better without the first sentence :(
Hey, everything2! Nice to see them on HN. I think maybe I'm finally ready... http://everything2.com/title/I+think+I%2527m+finally+ready+f...
Because the current price is just whatever a seller and buyer have 'agreed' to pay at any one time, if there are possible issues with bitcoins on one exchange (for instance, the real or imagined possibility that your bitcoins may go missing on MT Gox, or that there will be difficulties selling or retrieving the ones you hold in that exchange), people will be willing to pay less than the going rate for bitcoins on that exchange. Elsewhere, where this issue doesn't directly exist, people will still be willing to pay full price (though issues at MTGox may affect buyer confidence on other exchange, which leads to an overall decrease in Bitcoin price).
You can use it do group thing but then every message sent to group will charged as: cost of one SMS x number of users in the group.

That charge will come to each user of the group whenever a message (%160 chars) is sent.
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Made the edit. Thanks for having a cooler head.
Those answers are all reasonable, except for the use of "specific specification" and attributing taste differences to differences in the raw agricultural ingredients, rather than the incompleteness of the product specification.
Sort of. If an individual bank has $30M on deposit, then they only have $30M to lend to mortgage borrowers. In order to be able to have $30M in deposit they must have investors invest $3M into the bank (i.e. Tier One Capital must be ~10% of deposits). If this were a real life example this fictional bank would have to borrow from their local federal reserve bank to cover any daily cash flow needs (e.g. Customers withdrew more money from their savings accounts then they deposited in one day).
He promised double-blind trials, but then ran a single-blind trial, and only reluctantly single-blind. And he didn't report preferences, but only that his sample could distinguish between Kit Kats. Science, man! Where's the love?
It sounds like a significant amount of the friction may be coming from the Apache Foundation's infrastructure and/or bureaucracy – or am I reading that wrong? It is hard to understand why Thrift isn't hosted publicly on GitHub – especially when Facebook is using GitHub Enterprise internally – unless the choice is political.

> Many of the changes depended on things that weren’t open source, or only recently became open source in folly.

Is "folly" some sort of jargon I'm unfamiliar with here, or does this literally mean that some things were foolishly open sourced recently due to a lapses of good sense?
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Any chance the pdf file was up early and they simply guessed the URL? This announcement was named 20140220-Announcement.pdf (https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140220-Announcement.pdf) while the previous one was 20140217-Announcement.pdf (https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140217-Announcement.pdf).

Try it the next few days.
Default risk. The price for a bitcoin that is currently held by Mt.Gox factors in the market's expectation that said bitcoin will be able to be redeemed from Mt.Gox. Analogous to why your bank charges you a higher interest rate on a loan if you have a poor credit score, to compensate them for the perceived risk that you fail to repay the loan.
I agree completely. In fact I'll also say that when I first switched I used the !g pretty often - maybe even as much as 20%-30%.

These days I rarely use !g - the results have improved considerably and the bang searches are a very clever way of not requiring me to change search engine to search another site specifically.
That's just free to download. You still pay per year fee.
Windows 8 runs on commodity x86 hardware. Assuming there's driver support, it should work.
Pretty much all junk and ancient looking. It's sad this genre has not advanced.
Hired an accountant that specializes in startups so you don't get accidentally hit with a surprise $30K tax bill like another startup I know just did :(
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Creepy indeed. The last two sentences make me think the entire post is just an attempt at getting this person's attention.
"The Mt. Gox soap opera is not something that would occur in a regulated banking environment"

That just isn't true. Bernie Madoff got away with his outright ponzi scheme for nearly 10 years before being caught. Individuals expressed concern to the SEC about Madoff's investment fund as early as 1999. The SEC didn't do anything until 2009.
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Of course! Facebook is not interested in putting ads in WhatsApp streams. It shall instead take our data to advertisers. The easy way.
I couldn't agree more. That's where CircuitHub can help. We're going to work really tightly with them to provide constant feedback. Everytime we learn something it will improve the DRC. And since the DRC will be based directly on our capabilities it should become remarkably accurate.
I believe we're in the beginning of a weird transitory period right now, but in the long term cryptography and cryptocurrencies have the potential to replace the need for certain types of regulation entirely.

For example, it's possible to build a decentralized exchange between different cryptocurrencies (or assets where ownership tracked on a crypto ledger) where no party needs to trust any other party at all (e.x. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading)
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My aging Samsung Series 9 has that also, and it worked remarkably well on it.
If the purpose of your message is to convince me to stop being libertarian, trying to explain how I'm actually in favor of bigger, more powerful government as your last paragraph does is a very ineffective way to do it. I'm in favor of breaking down big power structures, where ever they are.

As for the liberal's bete noir the CU decision, I'm pretty ambivalent. It would be far better to break up the big power pool the Federal government represents and thereby make capturing it less useful, then to try to make one big pool of power then insist that people try not to acquire it. The whole thing is the wrong question.
This is great but I will offer a simplistic view how to raise money.

First, you need to get "social proof". Getting accepted into Y-combinator is a very good one. Or if you already sold a company then you are golden. But if you are super smart working in large tech company such as Yahoo! for 15+ years - good luck. Especially if you are over 40. When you are 40 it is easier to convince Discovery Loan to give you 100K loan than seed round from any VC.

Second, you should not have any revenue or god forbid any profit. You might think that is needed but actually revenue and profit are bad for raising money: investors will look your numbers and make projection based on these numbers. It much easier to sell "blue sky" than business with actual revenue and profit.

So to raise money:

1 build "social proof",
2 make powerpoint presentation,
2 go raise money
The simple truth about the recent bitcoin price drop
nb: crashplan will encrypt & back up your stuff locally & remotely (in multiple locations) and keep a version history, which pretty much nips this sort of crap in the bud.

(not affiliated with those guys, just a happy user)
Really? Telegram is a trend? In India I doubt many people even heard about it.

I think I will give it a serious thought if it open sources its code base or otherwise it's as good as Viber or Line as an alternative. Same goes with helm.is.
>provincial, passive-aggressive, unfriendly to outsiders, and segregated

Vancouver isn't?
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KakaoTalk is not even mentioned. It's one of the biggest player and probably more famous than anything in S Korea.

ChatOn has some userbase too.
Bernie's in jail.the system works. what's your point?
Coinbase has had it's share of hiccups and software fails as well. Are they still on MongoDB?
Even if the price of the item doesn't vary and there are no coupons, we can still save money using the most advantageous credit card rewards program.

If the original user sourced from a 3p vendor, we will sometimes source from an equal or higher rated vendor with an item in equal or better condition. One thing that most Amazon users miss is that the location of the Amazon vendor relative to their shipping address can affect their final pricing due to sales tax.

There are cases where we cannot save as much as we promised, in which case we take the loss.
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Gox is holding both the bitcoin and the dollars involved in the trades.

They have been doing a questionable job of transferring dollars out to customers for months and recently they stopped transferring bitcoin out to customers (supposedly due to some technical issues).

So basically MtGox isn't very connected to the general market.
Are drive-by-downloads no longer a legitimate threat?
noted, thanks Greg! The whole reconciliation process is something we'll be improving a lot over the coming weeks.
Is there something wrong with MongoDB that I don't know about? Is it not suitable for Coinbase's business?
You do realize your money has been in a 'big bank' this whole time, right?
"It's not a question of more or less government."

To be honest, that's usually my line.

However I find the balance right now is so grossly in favor of the government being given all the power (to the point that on the so-called "libertarian haven" of HN, libertarians are routinely openly mocked for their beliefs, almost uniquely amongst the political orientations here) that it is not an unreasonable approximation to speak of the government just having power stripped from it. That takes some structure to pull off (many of which were actually written into our government, and defanged in various ways over time), and that's why I'm a libertarian and not an anarchist, but there's no contradiction, precisely because liberatarianism isn't anarchism.

As with the other message, if the point is to convince me that I shouldn't be a libertarian, one should probably avoid arguing against anarchism instead. In the meantime, I can't help but notice the frequency of the basic argument

1. Sometimes governments need power.
2. So, yeah, they need this power too.

Just that. Bare, plain, and simple. Also I love "The government invented the Internet, so, yeah, they need to spend trillions of dollars on everything."
They said they will open source parts of it. And as long as there's not an alternative that you can install it yourself along with their main server installation - like XMPP - the risk will always be there. So, as now Viber seems to be a better alternative than Helmis.