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hisabness··on Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf]
Claim says he had info on about 2 dozen drug dealers not thousands, and that he had info on about 5 thousands buyers.
hisabness··on Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf]
Nigerian American here
hisabness··on FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
is there anyway to prove that the post in the forum occurred when alleged?
hisabness··on Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm
Stanford and StartX are different entities. It's not clear from the article whether Stanford will take equity in investments it may make outside StartX.
hisabness··on Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
you seem knowledgeable about military courts. do you know if anyone has the power to grant pardons within the military court system?
hisabness··on The NSA is Commandeering the Internet
i think he means 2001.
hisabness··on Hyperloop
aren't 90% of technologies promising?
hisabness··on Sources: NSA sucks in data from 50 companies
what are the name of the 50 companies?
hisabness··on Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS
this is great, freeze a company's bank account without even serving them:

https://mtgox.com/pdf/20130515_statement_regarding_dhs_court...

hisabness··on Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS
people buy bitcoins for cash in person today. if anything, preventing financial institutions from accepting bitcoins makes the transactions harder to track.
hisabness··on Dwolla Raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz
why can't you all delete dkhenry's account information from your system?
hisabness··on The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf]
looks like a high school homework assignment to me.
hisabness··on On Adria Richards
"TL;DR" should go towards the top of your writing.
hisabness··on The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (2009)
yes, blame the city's problems on the head of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. is this supposed to be journalism?
hisabness··on Ask HN: API-only startups?
janrain?
hisabness··on SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork
xcode photo was just removed, and intern probably fired. stolen background image still in use.
hisabness··on Google kills off seven more products
forgot google health
hisabness··on Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs
do people here actually believe the current system isn't rigged? does anyone believe an internet based system wouldn't be rigged?
hisabness··on Those 500K Bitcoins that caused the flash crash weren't real
Something here is still real fishy:

March, 2011 – MtGox.com (Mt. Gox), now the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange, was purchased by Tibanne Co. Ltd. As part of the purchase agreement, for a period of time, Tibanne Co. Ltd was required to pay the previous owner a percentage of commissions. In order to audit and verify this percentage, the previous owner retained an admin level user account. This account was compromised. So far we have not been able to determine how this account’s credentials were obtained.March, 2011 – MtGox.com (Mt. Gox), now the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange, was purchased by Tibanne Co. Ltd. As part of the purchase agreement, for a period of time, Tibanne Co. Ltd was required to pay the previous owner a percentage of commissions. In order to audit and verify this percentage, the previous owner retained an admin level user account. This account was compromised. So far we have not been able to determine how this account’s credentials were obtained.

A quick search of Google for Tibanne Co Ltd leads to Tibanne.com:

DOMAIN: TIBANNE.COM

RSP: KalyHost

URL: http://www.kalyhost.com/

created-date: 2009-10-02 05:43:17

updated-date: 2011-05-25 15:15:09

registration-expiration-date: 2012-10-02 05:43:17

owner-organization:

owner-name: Mark Karpeles

Does this mean Mark sold Mt. Gox to himself and in the process created a superuser account so he could manipulate the exchange to his benefit? Sounds like he could be taking a page out of the Ultimate Bet / Absolute Poker playbook.

Probably would be willing to take him at his word if the explanation of the flash crash didn't change every few hours. And/or if he and others didn't mobb the guy who put in the low bid during the crash.

hisabness··on Stop Calling Projects Startups
i guess a computer scientist isn't a computer scientist unless he or she has a piece of paper to prove it
hisabness··on OATV posted an opening for an associate. Only one woman applied.
how many African Americans applied?
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