skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: This post is NOT ENTIRELY VALID -- they removed the old letter from March 2 and edited the original portions in addition to adding more.

The Japanese portion at the top doesn't come across as especially professional and it looks like nobody checked or edited it -- there's a pretty big typo toward the bottom and a few disfluencies throughout. I think he really needs native speakers to assist him if he's going to insist on releasing things or speaking in Japanese.

For example, the phrase "いただきますようお願い申し上げます" is a pretty common polite speech mistake (it should be "くださいますようお願い申し上げます"). These types of things never translate well, but it's disfluent in a way that sounds something like "I want you would be so kind as to please do this for me."

There's even a typo at the bottom saying "いただきす" instead of "いただきます."

Even the punctuation is a little strange -- rather than using the Japanese comma (、), whoever wrote the notice chose to use a full-width English comma (，), which is noticeably different and jarring.

"コール・センター" is a strange choice of punctuation, too, kind of similar to saying "call-center" in English.

I'm being very critical here, but I really do think he should seek the help of a native speaker (who understands business language) to help him refine his written and verbal presentations in Japanese.

If this is the kind of attention being paid to an official release by MtGox in this kind of crisis, I wonder how much double-checking and internal review they did prior to the crisis.
> Nanashi also said they group plans on not releasing the huge store of passport scans they found… Hopefully this group has the public’s best interests at heart.

Good lord. Lose all your bitcoins AND your identity. Mt. Gox can't go away fast enough!
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Reposting what I commented in the other thread since the post was deleted.

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I just saw this also in ##mtgox-chat.

What legitimized this was the fact there was a portion where MtGox connected to Eligius's servers to broadcast free transactions.

Eligius and MtGox had a partnership where MtGox provided free hosting for their pool in return for their acceptance of MtGox's transactions with no charge.
I fear for the future
They have passport scans?

I'm impressed by how hard MtGox is fucking up.
60 pages before defining vector spaces seems like a not so good approach to linear algebra. Since Linear Algebra Done Right has already been recommended, I will suggest Linear Algebra Done Wrong: http://www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/LADW.html
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Good riddance. It's pure garbage, regardless of the legal reasons behind the takedown.
Can you elaborate on why you disliked doing interviews? Were there other parts of the FSO job that you disliked as well?
Yes print version is on the way. I will use the proceeds from the pre-release sale to hire my trusty copy-editor again, work on some exercises, and then we'll have a v1.0 release, print and PDF.
How is Japan not "a country with solid laws".
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The Internet Is Actually Controlled By 14 People Who Hold 7 Secret Keys
The EFF has much better coverage: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/bad-facts-really-bad-l...

Note that this is an injunction ahead of the decision of whether her copyright claim is valid. This is especially bad, even if she does eventually succeed in her claim, as it reinforces claims of copyright infringement as a way to restrain speech (especially worrying here because her performance consists of 5 seconds of film).
the writer is the owner of the blockchain website so he does have his biases
Could these hacking incidents against Mt Gox have been the work of the NSA? It is extremely unlikely to be Karpeles because hurting Mt Gox would send the price of Bitcoin tumbling, so he would be stealing from himself.

It could be other staff that worked for him or maybe just organized crime, sure. But who really has a motive to destroy faith in cryptocurrencies by hurting trust in the exchanges that make it appealing to use by everyday people? Mostly the American government, which does not want to see any competitor to the dollar as a global international reserve currency. I'm not saying Bitcoin was going to take that spot, but when Bitcoin suddenly gets popular internationally and even the Central Bank of China is talking about it, there is definitely a looming threat that exists for the dollar.

We know the NSA has managed to attack all kinds of routers, firewalls, and servers. We know they conduct acts of sabotage against so called enemies, and we know they have the expertise needed to exploit the weaknesses in the system. Now obviously this is just speculation, but I think simple theft doesn't make sense if you know you won't be able to dump a large amount of stolen Bitcoin without being noticed, and without also losing a lot of money from the panic you created in other investors.
Unique is too strong a word, for instance, there's Watership Down (recommended):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_down
This is pretty odd: http://youtube.com/watch?v=69md7aLuo2I

(Pete Zeldman/Enigma)
Being able to say something controversial or offensive is precisely the reason why freedom of speech is necessary. There's no need to have "freedom" to do what everyone else finds non-objectionable.
too bad, it can't be changed now. that would require editing a number and recompiling!
I'm well aware of this history, as well as the earlier transitions of the US fleet from wind to coal (under Admiral Perry) and the British fleet from coal to oil immediately prior to WWI under Churchill. Naval energy needs have driven several fuel transitions, and there's a considerable amount of interesting work that continues to come from the US and other navies.

If you'll read further into Rickover's remarks, he makes clear that he pursued nukes because he felt it was essential to national security. But if there had been an alternative he'd have avoided it. Possibly not even, given the benefit of hindsight.

Your 1/3 of the US naval fleet being nuclear powered doesn't jibe with stats I can find. Nuclear propulsion is presently limited to aircraft carriers (10) and submarines (82 total), or 21%. A number of cruiser and destroyer nuclear ships were commissioned but all have been decommissioned to the best of my knowledge. Wikipedia cites a total of 80 nuclear powered ships operated by the US navy, since 1954, and 430 ships presently active, on reserve, or under construction. If you limit your concern to commissioned ships, then you'd have 33% nuclear propulsion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_U...

As for oil: with most effective naval power being projected via aircraft, the reliance on oil remains rather high. Yes, the US would be able to launch nukes or float a flattop off someones shores (given them opportunity for target practice), but if you want to launch aircraft ... somewhere other than into the drink ... you've got to top them off every so often.
The disastrous effects of exponential growth will be our demise.
Wow, that's a lot of my personal data leaked in these last months. My email and encrypted password in the adobe breach, my user id and part of my mobile number via SnapChat, and now hackers potentially have scans of my passport courtesy of Mt. Gox.

I'm probably forgetting about some leaks, and who knows how many security breaches were never discovered. The internet is not a safe place.
No, not the same thing. The corner coffee store can buy a Windows machine, create an admin and various user accounts and exercise a significant level of control over what your users can do. No server, no MDM program purchase, no lots of things. The same is true for OSX.

I can't take a single iPad and have a decent degree of control over it.
I don't understand how she had any claim to this. I'd expect that everyone working on the film signed an IP agreement releasing all moral rights.
The diver is the only one with any claim to honest stress, among these particular examples.

Catastrophic decompression is not to be trifled with.
When Crypto AG was outed as collaborating with the NSA they were able to remain in business and eventually sell the company to Siemens. Many governments continued to use their products.

I doubt Mr. Coviello's comfortable retirement is in question. Something will be worked out. This kind of brazenness is the least he can do in return.
Here is a live recording of a customer calling the call center for those that want the true experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HJt-MpoTP4
Can't reply to the f2f's snarky comment.

I'm not saying I don't know how to change the value. I want to understand why the designers made the decision to do so.
>"connected tanks of water and salt"[...]After searching for the solution

hehehe
BTC use fixed-point math with 64-bit unsigned integers. Precision is 8 decimal places. So at least as currently built, I believe 1 Satoshi is the smallest possible unit of Bitcoin.

There's talk about it being possible to move the decimal point with a protocol update, but I'm not sure about how the logistics of that would work, or just how far it's possible to move it.
You're hacked – get over it
Every day you wake up, you know somebody is in your network. You just don’t know where they are, what they're getting and what you can do to stop them.
This is one of those odd moments where everybody mysteriously agrees that something... is interesting.

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Off...
Why do they have passport scan?
A modern, customizable, HTML5 version of the the Netscape 5 blink tag. Neat!

edit:
Sidenote: I've stumbled upon an interesting Google Easter egg: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=blink+tag
Microsoft’s Nadella Said to Shake Up Staff With Penn Appointment
The Reddit thread on this has a bunch of links to paste bins being posted....

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zeurx/alleged_mtgo...
Identity verifications.
Edit: I misread the original post and thought they were scans of employee passports. Apparently a personal verification option was a scan of a passport.

I still have no clue why this kind of information would be kept on a public-facing server.

It's reaching a bit, but they may be scans of passports for foreign employees who need to be registered with proof of identity but do not (for whatever reason) have a form of identity that the Japanese government considers "official."
Thanks for the context, but that still doesn't answer my question.
Probably customers send them to identify themselves.
I know, I would have liked to have linear transformations and vector spaces moved forward, but without the computational skills (grunt work) you can't really do much with vector spaces and lin. trans. except define them.

Hence the current ordering of chapters...
I blame the economists. They had to drop out of their math degree because they couldn't understand exponential functions... surprise surprise now we have earth-destruction level superpowers trying desperately to keep up an economy based on unsustainable exponential growth.
It was part of the account creation process to verify your identity. You had to send in a government issue id and proof of address. I believe I sent in a copy of my drivers license and a cable bill but passport was also an option. I wouldn't be surprised if they have access to all the data that was collected for KYC purposes.
Homo sapiens reached anatomical modernity about 200,000 years ago and began to exhibit behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.

I suspect that our descendants 1,000,000 years from now wouldn't consider themselves Homo sapiens- primitive, brutish creatures. (Consider how we feel about our ancestors from as recently as 50,000 years ago.)
I'm fluent in Japanese. I listened to the beginning of the recording and it's legit. One of the voices is almost certainly Mark Karpeles' (based on hearing his voice in his recent public apology -- his Japanese is broken but reasonably proficient). It seems to be a recording of a Jan 30 2014 meeting where bankers from Mizuho Bank are asking Karpeles various questions about Bitcoin, the nature of his business, his partnerships in different countries, connections to underground activity, etc. Definitely not something that's meant to be publicly released.

EDIT: Listening to snippets from the rest of the recording, it seems that Mizuho is explaining that they want to cancel Mt Gox's accounts with the bank. Karpeles seems to be protesting and asking why the accounts are being shut down. The guy from Mizuho explains (at 28:00 for Japanese speakers out there) that it's a combination of a lot of factors, including recent technical issues, which make the bank uncomfortable dealing with Mt Gox. Karpeles also mentions following the orders of the Financial Services Agency (金融庁）

EDIT2: 15:00~16:10: Mizuho guy explains that the Mt Gox bank accounts will have to be shut down eventually. Karpeles says that he understands that position, but he thinks that the bank has been rude about trying to force the closure, and would appreciate a more cooperative approach.

EDIT3: 18:00~19:00: An awkward discussion of Karpeles' Japanese. The Mizuho person seems to be offended by Karpeles' rude Japanese, which frequently lacks the correct honorifics that would be expected in a business setting. A woman (I think she's on the Gox team?) explains that Karpeles' first language is French and that he means no offense.

I can work on a fuller description of the call, but just wanted to get a quick verification of its authenticity out there, along with some snippets of the contents.
Baseless extrapolation will be you demise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTznEIZRkLg
No. It is an initiative led by an Icelandic citizen. The government has no involvement as of now.
Hi gamblor956, your concerns are all valid. I'll do my best to address them inturn.

1. We'll be disclosing our approach to applicable licenses at launch within our FAQ. Keep in mind, each country has different requirements. We're rolling out globally and will use a different approach in each country we launch in.

2. Regarding the open source parts of Buttercoin, Benentt (Buttercoin's CTO / co-founder) has been talking to our approach on reddit, http://bit.ly/1lu58J0

=== Copied from http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z86t7/reddit_cofou.... By Rev. C. Bennett Hoffman Buttercoin CTO ===

The project started off as a bit of announce-first development in response to the MtGox issues during the run-up in price last April. We had a lot of really enthusiastic people all trying to figure out what it was we were actually trying to do. Many people wanted to build a completely distributed exchange, others wanted to go other directions. That's the beauty of open projects, even if it can be a bit overwhelming.
Cedric and I already had an interview with Y Combinator scheduled to pitch a different bitcoin idea. A few of us decided to focus on building something we could use to launch a real platform and pitch that instead. We started from scratch and kept it closed to focus on that, always with the intention of opening it back up once it was at least somewhat usable.

It's taken way to long to get there. Why are we waiting for launch? Mostly because we're too busy. There's still a good amount of code specific to our deployment mixed into the stuff that's actually usable by anyone else. I'm embarrassed to admit we even have a couple of test passwords and API keys floating around in the repos. In short, we're humans of limited capacity. If I were to do it again, I'd go about things differently, but if we can put up a technically solid trading platform that helps make bitcoin (and other digital currencies) more widely adopted, then I'll have no regrets. ===

3. Regarding Bitcoin donations, we've asked the community what they'd like us to do with the donations here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttercoin/comments/1l543n/what_to_d...

If any donor would like their bitcoins back, just send us a signed message from the address you used to donate along with a message to hello@buttercoin.com.

Also, for transparency's sake here's the wallet address we've been receiving donations at: 1McqPj92jvWfFg5F24dwyDSUptjTosH2EY

And here's a link to the most recent thread where my bearded buddy Bennett (co-founder/CTO) asked the community what we should do with the donations: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttercoin/comments/1l543n/what_to_d...

Finally, here's the Blockchain record the wallet address: https://blockchain.info/address/1McqPj92jvWfFg5F24dwyDSUptjT... To date we've had 32 transactions in, and 0 transactions out.
I feel a medium-term or maybe even short-term threat (in the next 10-30 years) not of extinction necessarily but of becoming completely irrelevant. People like to jump to the conclusion that artificial super-intelligence will want to eliminate humans. I don't think that is a foregone conclusion at all.

However, if (when) super-intelligent artificial general intelligence "arrives", that pretty much makes normal unaugmented humans the relative equivalent of chimps. It means that our opinions and actions are no longer historically relevant. We will be, relatively speaking, obsolete mentally disabled people running along doing relatively stupid things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Juh7Xh_70

In order for our opinions and abilities to actually matter relative to the super-doings and super-thoughts of the new AIs, we really _must_ have this magical nano-dust or something that integrates our existing homo sapien 1.0 brains with some type of artificial super-intelligence.

So that is what I am worried about -- will the super-AIs show up before the high bandwidth nano-BCIs (brain-computer interfaces) or before I can afford them.

Of course, in the long run there may not be a good reason for AIs to use regular human bodies/brains at all and so that may be phased out for subsequent generations.
At what point did we determine we were substantially different than apes?
Page 3 - phased -> fazed (in figure explanation)
In case anyone's wondering, "nanashi" means "anonymous" in Japanese.
He is not the owner, he is the CSO.
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You could take the evolutionary viewpoint, where two branches of a species are considered to be distinct when they can no longer breed. Though with the current state of globalization I doubt that could happen... on earth.
FWIW, my understanding is that he is just the chief security officer at Blockchain.info [1], and not one of the owners.

[1] http://antonopoulos.com/
Ah, Google. Defending the first amendment, while shitting all over our privacy! Such heroes!
Mt. Gox Bitcoin Address 1LNWw6yCxkUmkhArb2Nf2MPw6vG7u5WG7q
For those that like exposition in their texts:

http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
As I said before, this deal sounds similar to how the MS-Novell deal was done.
Please consider typing out a full English translation. If you post your bitcoin address here, then I'm sure plenty of people here will pay you some coin for your effort.
No worries, a few of the sites use guis, the one I have for my Mac has one, its probably using no-ip. It installs a background CLI process that handles the updating iirc
There's an extra dimension to this, namely the actress who doesn't want to be associated with the film.
Global thermonuclear war is still the #1 risk for destroying civilization and having a good chance of killing every human on the planet.
Britain Will Reportedly Scrap 20% Tax on Bitcoin
> Yes, I know, and rather than take the advice of someone with six decades of English writing experience, you chose to defend a questionable word choice as thought it was self-evident.

I don't care how much writing experience you have or claim to have. You're wrong in this case. All the evidence is against you, and frankly I'm confused why you persist in your argument.

Your use of Google results of as suppose evidence is extremely damning to your own position and to your grasp of the English language. So my usage is 66% as common as yours? That's pretty good evidence that both are very common and well-accepted. You're also implying that only the most common way to phrase an idea should be used, which is ludicrous, especially coming from someone who claims to have writing experience. "Cat" has 447 million results, while "feline" has a mere 11.2 million, so according to your logic, "feline" is a misuse of the English language.

> And looking more carefully, one finds that many of the "genuine belief" citations are meant to refer to a belief in something thought to be true.

In something thought to be true? That's what the word "believe" means. Have you been reading my comments closely? My entire point is that a "genuine belief" is a belief which is sincerely held by someone, regardless of whether the thing believed is itself real. The Google results for "genuine belief" support my usage. I checked literally every result in the first two pages, and every single one supports my usage. A few examples:

"As rape is sexual intercourse without consent, a man who has a genuine belief that the woman was consenting cannot be convicted of rape even where she did not in fact consent." http://www.hkclic.org/en/topics/sexual_offences/I_Non-consen...

"Four billion people say they believe in God, but few genuinely believe. If people believed in God, they would live every minute of their lives in support of that belief, people would give their lives in support of that belief." http://www.mydd.com/users/gary-boatwright/posts/the-man-the-...

"How do you know when your child has genuine belief and should be baptized?" http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2012/01/how-do-you-know-when-y...

"The well known case of British Homes Stores v Burchell (EAT 1980 ICR 303) provides that where an employer dismisses on suspicion of misconduct they must establish (i) that they held a genuine belief the employee was guilty of the alleged misconduct, (ii) that the genuine belief is based on reasonable grounds, and (iii) the grounds for holding that belief were established after an investigation that was reasonable in all the circumstances of the case. The Tribunal does not necessarily have to agree with the employer’s view or consider whether their conclusion was objectively correct or justified." http://www.allanmcdougall.co.uk/employment_law/unfair_dismis...

"Liverpool are heading into the final 13 games of the Barclays Premier League campaign harbouring a genuine belief they can clinch a top-four finish, according to Mike Marsh." http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/we-have-genuine-...
These days I mainly use Ubuntu. Love the package manager. Also, Ubuntu works well for openstack dev. Exploring FreeBSD since I want kqueue.
The code is ... interesting. Smells organic, not designed. Comments are rare but usually useful. Highly coupled. Static methods everywhere. Violates SOLID principles. Basically, ignores current best practices.

Clearly not designed for any sort of automated testing, which should be the first damn thing you do when there's any sort of money involved. Hell, even when there isn't money involved.

We'd already guessed that last bit, given the previous mentions of them having no testing/staging/QA environment.
Much like owning a CA back in the day, basically a license to print money.
This will be another excuse to not release any official specific information about what happened.
This isn't "taking a feature away." It is deciding that such a feature is better implemented in extensions.

An extension like this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...
If you think they are doing something good in this case, I recommend not complaining in discussions about this case.

Also, Google is a big complicated thing with many different people and parts. Don't expect total consistency from anything that large and complex.
Pretty sure "Hell's Bells" starts/finishes in 19/16. A group of 7, a group of 7, then a group of 5.
Yeah, that is really something. To think that people actually supplied that info. Wow.