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> since ITER isn't supposed to reach the ignition point, the output is 500 MW, but the input is > 500 MW.

Actually, it's supposed to reach about 10x breakeven, but there can be reasonable debate on how possible that is. Ignition is something different, when the fusion power itself keeps the plasma hot enough to sustain it. This is unlikely for ITER.

But your point is valid. It won't actually function as a power plant.

> If fusion requires wonder-of-the-world kind of technology to not even break even, it makes me somewhat pessimistic. (However, I still say, more power to them, fund them, let's see where this goes)

I agree, and I too think it's well worth it. I'm certainly not suggested we rely entirely on fusion research for getting us through the upcoming energy crisis, but it will be essential if we ever want long-term (centuries) sustainable industrial growth.
Gah, this reminds me so strongly of undergraduate Economics, where all the textual information and explanation was completely clear to me and all the manipulation of formulae was completely impenetrable to me. I deeply regret not studying maths to a higher level. There is an entire language of symbols and notation that I don't understand, and it's frustrating because I imagine the symbols and notation are trivial in difficulty to learn compared to the underlying logic of the operations.
Would be interesting a real introductory video this is much like an infomercial, though a good infomercial.
No news here, except for the issue of it not having already been reported on in the country of origin, as far as I know.
The alleged Mt. Gox insolvency document claims that they lost about 744,408 BTC due to malleability-related theft which went unnoticed for several years. This is an address that just happens to have had 782,558 BTC flow through it over the last two years.

Of course, if the Mt. Gox document is a fake, the author could easily have chosen an amount that corresponded to an address that had such a number of Bitcoins flow through it.

It's difficult to know what's going on here.
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No, it's not, the 780k were not from a recent transaction, they're the cumulative sum of all transactions in the last two years on that address.
How do you usually pay for stuff online?
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No, it can't. You're arguing very confidently about a proposal you haven't even read. What you've instead done is take the headlines about the proposal at face value, and then constructing an argument by reasoning about what global TLS MITM would mean for the Internet.
If you make a $100,000 loss on an investment and the next year make a $100,000 profit on a (different) investment you can point to the loss and point out that overall you have made no profit and therefore are liable for no tax. Obviously each loss can only be used once.
This looks almost identical to Mathematica. What's the difference?
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Actually I did work @ CERN. :)

What I mean is that I don't see a value in Firefox OS over the existing browsers on mobile OS. It is nothing more than a revamped WebOS.
7 - 8 years ago I was envying all my friends who were buying properties that keep going up and up ...
Spritz - read better one word at a time!
I'm sure you could find several addresses with a transaction amount in those heights. Exchanges don't operate from a single address - so any theft could only be traced back to several addresses.
From using both Lisp and Wolfram language (in the good old days when it didn't have a name and was called "the language Mathematica uses"), I have to say I find lowercase and dashes, parenthesis and spaces more readable than CamelCase, square brackets and commas.
Seems like the middle-click issue is a bug known to the owner of the site:
http://www.leggetter.co.uk/2014/02/24/10-realtime-web-techno...
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Overly misleading title!

Full disclosure: I cannot understand Arabic, so I relied on English-written reports — for instance [1].

1. The cure is supposed to be for HIV and Hepatitis C, nothing to do with cancer.

2. This story sounds like a load of bullshit to me too, but as a scientist I will not call them liars until I have proof.

[1] http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/95121/Egypt/Pol...
Turning ads into a micropayment mechanism is a pretty clever idea.
Nice, anyone who disagrees with you is a spammer? (And it's not "mine"; I'm not involved with or holding any cryptocoin)

It's not about the number of coins, it's about how the number changes over time. I think bitcoin's regressive, pyramidal exponential decay is a very bad thing. I'm much more willing to support a currency that has e.g. a constant mining reward/year. Doge is the only one I'm aware of that departs from the bitcoin model.
> Or for that matter, rewriting your app for every phone platform.

Cordova, Qt/C++, Xamarin Mono, Unity, Cocos-2D-X, Titanium, ....

There are lots of alternatives to minimize duplicate native code. Plus it is not as if one doesn't need to write once, debug everywhere with HTML 5.
So... for those that might not know how to read the blockchain.info site, this isn't 782,000 BTC moved today.

That's the total amount the address has ever been exposed to, ever. As you scroll down you'll see red arrows and green arrows, along with dates. Red = withdraws from the address, and green = deposits into the address. You can see the dates and note this is just an address that's been doing business(whatever that is) for awhile now. You see the pagination at the bottom and can view history for at least a year back.

In short, this isn't news. It's people who are angry looking for a target. Don't let this be a repeat of SheepMarketPlace fiasco... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/09/recovering...

You can't catch bitcoin thieves this way. They need to make some other mistake somewhere else outside of blockchain world.
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Would you want to fly in a hacked together MVP plane released to production? A similarly made bike in a park? Maybe.
"Fiat currencies (money) are pegged to real assets and backed by governments, which give their valuation credibility."

LOL. "Pegged to real assets." Hilarious!

It's like this author has literally no understanding of "value".
Except there was no such thing as a sovereign currency of Cyprus as Cyprus is using the euro, but only balances in bank accounts in Cyprus were at risk, so people with euro bank accounts outside Cyprus selling bitcoins for euros were simply profiting from that risk asymmetry.
looks aweomse but in a classic HN top 5 reaction... It's down.
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The referenced document was leaked and it's authenticity is uncertain. Meanwhile mtgox is serving the following index file

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- put announce for mtgox acq here -->
</body>
</html>
How in the world do you keep people on staff through this?

Maybe they individually own a lot of Bitcoins and are thus, indirectly, big equity holders.
And this is how Bitcoin community discovers the virtues of industry-sponsored deposit insurance.
"Right now; no." No to all mentioned languages/frameworks or only no to Node.js?
Why would it be? Bitcoin on it's own is just a good that can be traded, just like gold, silver, or bags of potatoes. If you setup an exchange for gold,but then instead of paying people who deposited gold with you ran away with all of it, would you call gold a "scam"?
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It's wishful thinking. He wished he had security until he had none. He wished people would blame bitcoin until they called him out. He's now wishing someone would acquire him.
You can trace all transactions forever, they're all public in the Bitcoin ledger (blockchain). But since Bitcoins are fungible, if you transfer them to an address that holds BTC from many people, you can "mix" them and make it harder to tell to where did your amount go: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service
It's PHP only right this second. We have a branch for Node, but we have no ETA on when that'll be live. We want it as much as you guys; so soon :)
Also, how fast can you browse through and find the bookmark you need? There's a lot of useful data attached to each one of them, including a tree structure.

If you lose a bookmark (or maybe you're on a different device), how easy is it to get it back? You can even choose from a wealth of great search engines!

Maybe search engines will come for "native" apps. Maybe that's what OP hinted at at the end. Even then, those apps are not cross-platform.
While you're building the game, you can just use placeholder graphics from a website like http://opengameart.org. Alternatively, you can create super-simple graphics using the GIMP -- simple configurations of geometric shapes work very well -- and use them as placeholders. When you feel you are ready to incorporate "real" graphics into your game, you can hire somebody to create them for you (or adapt them from existing graphics).

Also check out /r/gamedev. They will be able to help you out with this.
Oh dear, you're a very vituperative fellow.

I don't expect you to read it at all. I couldn't give a tinker's cuss if you do or don't. Generally though, if you don't want to look like a fool, it's best not to express an opinion about a piece you haven't read.

The claim you are so hostile to is actually not even particularly controversial. It's a conditional statement for one thing (you don't even read an introduction carefully) and it's easily defended. It's a fact that no currency has ever been widely adopted without having some kind of intrinsic or government mandated value. Plain, historical fact. Bitcoin has no intrinsic or government mandated value. So if it gains widespread adoption, then I don't see how you could possibly deny the historical significance of this. A large amount of economic orthodoxy goes out the window.

If you are willing to address this argument, I'm willing to listen. But if you're just here to beat your chest and get all alpha on me then I might point out you're better off hitting the gym and cruising the bars. It's more likely to get you laid than arguing with me.
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Or tulips....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
The account shows transactions roughly matching the number of BTC missing from Mt. Gox. The recent transaction lots are large: 3000 - 15,000 BTC going back to December (at least, I'm still looking). That's $1.5 - $7.5 million in daily TX, which is pretty damned significant. Well above financial reporting requirements pretty much anywhere. For a long time this was at $10k in the US, though that threshold is now lower with improved technical capabilities.

Odd story: a friend of mine was a bagman for a con artist who happened to get caught. The friend ended up testifying in the case. Quite some years back.

Edit: The account dates to April, 2012, with lots of TX, including large blocks, even fairly early on. There's some discussion at reddit here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yvdcd/heres_a_summ...
I bought my house 6 years ago. I bought some bitcoins this autumn.
You can't trace individual coins, but you can trace amounts. Bitcoin is made of nothing but the blockchain which is the whole ledger of which wallet owns how many BTC.
Bitcoin is a game for geeks: nothing more, nothing less.

But digital currencies will be the future. It's just that we have still to find the best way to do it.

A digital currency with libertarian ideas hardcoded in it is not a good idea. We don't need a new gold.
The appendix of this article has a slightly more intuitive explanation: http://blog.quenta.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df-appendix.html
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They're a business. Just not a good one.
Well actually I am :D
I believe he is referring to the fact that your website requests one's location for no apparent reason.
Strange how articles like this aren't taken as an argument against the utility of "inequality". Does anyone think that the poor of today would be better off in Czarist Russia? [1]

I also find it interesting that "inequality" is based solely on "share of national income", as if there is just this big pile of ex nihilo money being apportioned out unfairly.

[1] http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/~/media/Annual%20Let...
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It is. This is just a description of the language used in Mathematica. Since they are also releasing other products that use the same core language, it looks like they are presenting it in a product-neutral form, but it is just the language of Mathematica.
Also fairly round, large denomination. Even when scamming somebody as incompetent as MtGox, as a criminal I'd be more elaborate than saying "I haven't received the 5000 BTC, can you send them again?" to the same address hundreds of times.

I don't think this has anything to do with it, it should be easy to determine if the transaction are linked to MtGox and malled tx's
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> Everyone uses regexes; using a lexer generator should (in my opinion) be as easy as using a one-off regex. I think the key is to make the lexer generator an embeddable library like regex libraries are.

Interesting read:

http://commandcenter.blogspot.ie/2011/08/regular-expressions...
Here is the patch, if you want to see what was actually missing to cause this bug:

http://bugs.python.org/review/20246/diff/10559/Modules/socke...

It appears to me that a well-written server would not be exploitable: the bug fixed here is a failure to check that the "nbytes" argument is not larger than the "buffer" argument. But nobody should have been calling this function with such erroneous arguments (ideally). Still a bad bug, but not as severe as it might sound at first.
Right. With a market this thoroughly dominated by other players, you have three options:

1. Be compatible with their software (and nobody will write anything native)
2. Don't be compatible with their software (and nobody will use your OS)
3. Be really amazing and marketed perfectly so that you can build your own ecosystem.

Unfortunately, 3 is much harder to do than the first two.
IF the leaked document proves authentic and IF there are no other addresses with a similar cumulative traffic, then I might be inclined to agree.
Under pricing, it says '10 million visitors' in the copy.
There's quite a difference between 10 million requests and 10 million visitors.
So glad for this. Only problem is the constant buffering of videos.
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By your logic, if I aspire to be a doctor, I should let all men practice medicine upon me. After all, if I am up to the challenge, they surely must be.
$50 for a month for a personal website?

Thanks, but no.
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I, unfortunately, lost 58.2 BTC.
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The biggest scam of BitCoin is never even mentioned; that the creator reserved for himself vast numbers of them.
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Yeah, it could be just a coincidence that the total amount matches the amount stolen from Mt. Gox. Or it could be the culprit.

Is it possible to verify whether this came from Mt. Gox? And Whether it matches the transactions that were messed with?
The nice thing with this isn't so much the quick reading but rather that it is well suited for gear and other smart watches (glass as well?). This makes it a lot more feasible to read for example mails on small screens.
Thanks for that spot. We had our metrics labelled as visitors but felt it was too confusing. It's definitely requests. Will change it :)
Give it a bit, for me it eventually loaded the textures and BAM: creepy eye staring at me, sans-LSD.
The book is running out of stock. I am working on a third printing that fixes all errata.
Couldn't someone with a known withdrawal from mtgox use the address the money came from to trace up the blockchain? I don't know if gox used multiple wallets, but if not it should be pretty obvious where the money came from and went.
It's important to remember that those numbers only count taxable income, and don't include welfare and other government services. If the world today seems and indeed is meaningfully less unequal than the world of Downton Abbey its partly because of those things.

And also because more of the income of the super rich these days goes into bidding up the price of positional goods[1] rather than having the biggest possible house or the most possible servants.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good
You cannot[1] track thieves through the blockchain like this. If you're going to catch any alleged MtGox thieves, they need to make some other mistake outside of bitcoin-world. Like a leaked email, or telling a friend who then goes leak it, etc. e.g. SilkRoad's Dread Pirate Roberts got caught because of his errors outside of bitcoin's blockchain.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7235113
That's what I've been reading in the media anyway and i couldn't be bothered to check the numbers.

I tried using them once and they were asking to many unnecessary questions so i just went elsewhere.
Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in commonly used languages and systems are not the same as "every security bug". These are important because knowing about them allows people to make a (usually) easy fix to protect themselves from something that could destroy their startup.

Also, providing an exploit, rather than just the notification makes it clear how important it is to act quickly.
"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. It'd be extraordinarily painful, but it wouldn't devastate the currency in perpetuity."

What if Bitcoin does recover? Would that change your opinion?

"But Bitcoin doesn't have a fiscal policy: it wears a gimp suit and a ball gag, padlocked into permanent deflation and with the rate of issue of new "notes" governed by the law of algorithmic complexity."

Out of curiosity, what's your opinion on crypto-currencies that aren't deflationary, or that rely on proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work?
Many websites. I use it for me and my clients too. :) Which works out really nicely.

Just a personal website would probably fit nicely into the Free plan :)
The leaked mtgox document claims that 700k coins went missing over the last 2 years
Also worth comparing with the numerals used today in Arabic:

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~samir1/620_Project_2/L3T1_1.htm
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