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Right on point. I work for a firm that helps predict whether patients will be readmitted for various reasons, and while our algorithms are better than any standard rules, getting doctors and case managers to actually use and trust them is the greatest challenge we face.
This may be a British/American English gaffe. Collective nouns in British English are referred to using plurals, e.g. "Apple are planning a new product," vs. the American "Apple is planning a new product."
Same here ;/ looks bad on chrome osx
The bitcoins that Satoshi Nakamoto own are worth about ~400 million USD. There are also a ton of coins missing from Mt. Gox and Silkroad. Maybe it’s all related somehow? Anyhow, it's clear why the authorities would be interested: potentially there are hundreds of millions of USD on the line.

This said, this is horrible for Craig Wright if he is innocent...
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10696422 and marked it off-topic.
>> Uncritical, detached acceptance of the status quo is the only morally upright posture, and those who draw a distinction between is and ought are all smug bullies, outlandish freaks, and/or closed-minded zealots.

To play devils advocate to this point, I think perhaps this season in particular is trying to say that changing the status quo is fine, but changing the status quo for the sake of changing the status quo isn't. Changing the status quo requires collective scrutiny, and accepting the supposition that the status quo is always bad is not quite correct.

Randy complains to his wife that, because South Park has ostensibly embraced this new anti-status quo agenda, it is therefore paradise. His wife retorts "is it?"

>> It's a show that teaches its audience to become lazy and self-satisfied, that praises them for being uncritically accepting of their own biases, and that provides them with an endless buffet of thought-terminating cliches suitable for shutting down all manner of challenges to their comfort zones.

On this point, the same critique of laziness can be applied to the "status quo == bad" crowd. Perhaps applying a little more intellectual depth and thought to why, from a moral philosophy perspective, we should go about changing it and then processing that into a how with the goal of that change being a productive, value-added process.
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The big problem I see with this idea is that scrappy, do-whatever-it-takes people almost never write clean code, checkin cleanly, test properly, and practice good product design. I value these things more than "rugged individualism". Furthermore, if your software team is doing sales, that's a really bad allocation of talent. Even the tinyest of startups should have dedicated roles for the other dimensions of your business (e.g. Sales, Support, HR, CTO). You pit 2 teams against one another with the goal of producing a great product, and one team has a wide spectrum of talent, the other has great software engineering discipline, I would bet on the latter team every time.
Sorry, I think google is incompetently run. That they whiteboard, and want prestigious degrees, and all that other BS is just a smell of their incompetence. (Their performance in key technical areas is the proof... but I understand to most readers here they are probably starry eyed about google, while I've competed with them and kicked their ass in the market.)
There is another social factor to basic income, and State-based welfare, that I'm not sure is being mentioned: it allows people to become more isolated because they can be less dependent on friends, family, and neighbors. I'm not sure if that's a positive for society in the long run.
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Either they want the candidate to be physically strong, or more likely, they're really looking for some other qualities which they can't easily summarize.
well he is (innocent), until proven guilty...
It strikes me as odd to characterize civil suits as "the government". Maybe private enforcement organizations would be harder on fake reviewers ;)
i think i'll utilise one of randall munroe's 'thought-terminating cliches':

[citation needed]
It's really pretty impressive how quickly they churn out episodes. "Six Days to Air" is a really interesting documentary on that process. I wish they had included more details on how they manage to get all of the animation and artwork done in such a short time window. They've got to have invested some considerable effort in their tooling and processes to support that - and they do touch briefly on the original way that the pilot and early seasons were produced, stop-motion with construction paper.

Just the facial animation to sync up the mouths with the script, limited as it is in South Park, has to have some interesting automation underlying it. Unless they've got a huge army of animators chained to their desks pushing sprites around that they didn't show.
So if the popular theory that he's faked a lot of the evidence to make himself look like Satoshi is true, it would appear he didn't entirely think his plan through...
Anyone know why the presumed inventor would have existing tax problems, given the ample amount of valuable bitcoin that could be used to pay bills?

Edit: Gizmodo mentions a bunch of tax issues http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-frie...
You've been posting many inflammatory comments about politics and religion to HN. That's an abuse of this site, so please stop.
Of course I'm mocking you. You just said "In theory - why not?" to "it's not OK to sell an arsenic laced Apple just because it has a warning on it." You cannot be serious.
What would be the problem if he were Satoshi Nakamoto? He'd rather deserve the Nobel prize.
I've worked for two of those, beat one in the market, and have a low regard of the quality of engineering at the other two... so yeah, low quality companies. Or at least low quality hiring processes.

One problem that seems pervasive on hacker news is Cargo Cultism. Just because one of those companies does something does not mean that it's a good thing. Some of those companies have really capricious and arbitrary hiring policies.

Don't get starry eyed. Don't confuse a household name for quality. And don't mindlessly copy the broken system of a fortune 500 company for your startup.

I'm an engineer, I'm not just pulling this out of my ass. I've been conducting thousands of interviews over the past decades and had to manage the people I hired with my process.
Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News.
Xbox is still not an affected device in this.
At this point, if he is Satoshi, he would probably be better off coming out of the closet. If you read through the McGrath-Nichols documents about the Hotwire bankruptcy and how the R&D tax credits dispute killed Hotwire, it's clear the ATO has it out for Wright.

I bet that whatever this raid is about, it's about something like R&D tax credits again (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-hav... says $54 million in 2015 alone!) or some sort of VAT rebate, and it may kill another of Wright's companies. There's not much you can do against the ATO if they are determined to reach an adverse decision against you... But if he's Satoshi, he can take the moral high ground and wage a media campaign to shame the ATO into dropping the case and maybe finally correctly treating Bitcoin as money.
I don't think most people would read such a label. But some people would and some of them would write articles summarizing it. Much like terms of use statements on websites. Further, legislators and scientists would have access to these labels which could help guide policy and research.
The quality for Peeron isn't always the best - it's very much still a Web 1.0 site, and so they aren't full-resolution, HD scans, just whatever was uploaded at the time.

But what I like about it is that it has pretty good coverage of what is for me "classic" Lego. The official site in the parent looks like it only goes back into the 90s, and is missing a lot of sets.

EDIT: read too fast the first time. It does kind of look like the same set of scans for the linked site, although they have coverage for newer stuff as well.
All (?) of these images seem to be rendered from the PDFs that are available for free download at lego.com though.
That makes no sense to me. I can't imagine feeling strongly enough (positively or negatively) about something that I bought locally (or wherever) to bother commenting on Amazon. What does Amazon get from accepting reviews that are likely fake?
FFxOS kernel is a fork of android kernal, but optimized to run on small memory footprint (128 MB RAM). Its speed on 128 MB RAM devices is commendable. Javascript is the only and primary development language for FFxOS & we get to access all hardware devices (Bluetooth, wifi, camera, etc ) via Javascript.
I think the possible reason for raiding him is to catch up on tax obligations from having accrued so much undeclared wealth.

I don't know if there are other crimes for which they intend to charge him, but that's the first one that pops to mind.

Also, they've obviously had meetings in advance of "what do we do if we determine the identity of Satoshi", because this raid was FAST.
Magnificent work!
>What would be the problem if he were Satoshi Nakamoto?

From the article:

"Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation."
> Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation.

Seems like a hell of a coincidence for these two things to happen on the same day...
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The difference is that "cultural fit" means a different thing at every different company, so it would have to be proven to be discriminatory on a case-by-case basis. That takes too much work, so it doesn't happen very often.

IQ tests are well known to have a disparate impact on some protected classes, so you are treading on extremely thin ice to use one.
I agree with you 100%, concerning this comment and others you've made in this thread.

For a long time South Park has pushed the message that apathy is cool, and while protest, pacifism, and consideration for social issues is, as the creators would probably put it, "gay".

People can claim that it's entertainment all they want, but it's undeniably influential. And people like this season because of its especially strong resonance with other brain-dead ideas they have about "SJWs", "MGTOW", "Dindu Nothings", "Tumblrinas", etc.
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> the truth can't be literally unbelievable by definition.

Why? How does the truth of a story have any bearing on its believability.

(Eg some people are literally unable to believe some scientific facts.)
The person(s) who leaked the documents to the media, could also have leaked them to the Australian authorities.
Reading the Wikipedia link on Griggs it seems to have been about requiring a high school diploma for jobs that didn't need that as a way of keeping blacks out. That seems a different matter to wanting to hire intelligent people to programme?
"As millennial I feel as though I should be entitled"

That about sums it up.

Don't forget to deduct what you owe for your undoubtedly increased lifespan and quality of life from all the various advances that have gone before.
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DNS would be a disaster if taken down. It's also impossible.
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Sometimes companies would pay (or reimburse) for their "preferred" reviewers to purchase a product off amazon so they can leave favorable reviews as a "verified purchased".

Sometimes the reviewers would be honest and say they are reviewing on behalf of company X. Sometimes not.

Anyways, all of this is a roundabout way of saying that even reviews from verified purchasers may not be 100% honest.
From the article:

> Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation.

So the story is that the Australian Tax Office just happened to be running an investigation looking into some facet of Craig Wright's finances. An investigation that apparently revealed some sort of abnormality, resulting in a raid on a property connected to Mr. Wright...

...18 hours after a major technology publication "outed" him as the possible person behind "Satoshi Nakamoto".

Welp, that looks completely coincidental to me. /s
As a parent I dislike DTN because of the heavily auto-tuned singing and horrible music. It makes the entire show feel very manufactured and hard to watch.
Of course I can. If it's labeled, why not? Maybe somebody wants an arsenic apple; I don't know. I don't judge people that way.

Moreover, and far more importantly, it seems evident that, once government starts making these sorts of decisions, it quickly makes them only for its own interests.
Stability is a concern because startups are not stable. In 6 months time Apple could open source something that makes your last 5 years of work irrelevant in a night. If you can't ship in 6 months you're company will probably have shut up shop in 12 because someone already ate your lunch.

If it's a choice between stability (via proper testing, architecture, etc.) and staying operating, stability loses every time.

No matter what happens the tech world is a different place in a year. You have to adapt regardless so properly thought out code will get thrown out just as easily as 4am hacks.
Isn't this how RFID, NFC, and Sensormatic have worked for decades?

Seems like the only difference here is a temperature dependent effect, something that every basic diode and transistor has anyway.
It is the Core of OSX named Darwin. There used to be ISO files to burn to DVD and install it, but now we just get the source code. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/72095/where-can-i-f...
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I've been on a clean air kick for a while. While investing in a HEPA filter is probably a good idea for urban dwellers, I've been working on filling my home with plants from the book How to Grow Fresh Air [1], a book based on some research NASA did on the air purifying abilities of various indoor plants. The book rates each plant by degree of purification, ease of cultivation, and resistance to pests. Add that to some fountains for negative ions, and you have a fresh and stimulating (rather than repressing) home environment.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-Fresh-Air-Plants/dp/014026243...
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I wonder if Ingress will be actively developed once Pokemon Go is released...
From what I've gathered, this is something the fans have been asking for for years. The Half-Life 3 of Pokemon, so to speak.
all of these take terrible trade offs.
people want a good product AND privacy AND security.
Not fucking OR.

OR will NEVER win. A secure and/or private thing that you can't use simply CANNOT win vs something that actually works. If it doesn't work well being secure or anything missing the point why people even get the tool.

Sadly many companies totally miss that and think they'll get lucky. That's sort of sad.
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If you can ace Algorithms 101 exam, you can get hired. It is a measure of intelligence and ability to learn (and for older folks, free time to refresh) but it doesn't have much to do with job performance.
In terms of ATS's (Applicant Tracking Systems), I've heard lots of recruiters like lever.co
Wasn't it the case that Satoshi Nakamoto published PGP keys early in the days of Bitcoin? Shouldn't the issue of an individual claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto be trivial to solve?
It is contracting. They bill cost plus, so performance is irrelevant
I guess you mean to say he is presumed innocent, at this point.
Just because someone burns a house down while most people don't, doesn't show that the same percentage of people can build one in the time it takes to burn a house down. I'm disappointed I had to make an analogy like this to show the flawed logic that led to that silly idealised simplified math that ignores reality. I have already shown that the effects of hiring a different CEO are unpredictable.

The support of having is stronger than you suggest. The study showed a significant negative association between firm performance and pay disparity in the Korean companies as well, from a separate study where more financial information is required to be disclosed.

I will also say that the CEO compensation is reasonable in most companies, it is just that after about the 8th decile performance starts decreasing and risk increases. The real problem seems to be the more extreme CEO to average employee pay ratios.

Can you think of another reason why banks with lots of mortgage officers might have performed worse during the crisis?

A larger pay gap in the executive ranks promotes greater risk-taking.

By the way, there was the highest CEO compensation compared to employee compensation just before the GFC hit.

...I encourage you to invest in companies with CEOs who are perceived as being terrible.

I would say that is terrible advice that has nothing to do with the conversation, as we were discussing pay ratios.
I dunno, plenty of addicted people recognize their behavior is destructive and they care a medium amount about that. They just care about getting the fix more: human brains have a multiplicity of decision-making agents, and the long-term self-control ones don't always win, especially where these types of addictive agents are involved, but also when they're in the sort of life situations which make quick fixes (like de-stressing yourself by smoking) attractive.
Perhaps. I know it as a more modern linguistic split that isn't really related to the British/American divide. Regardless of the reason, many linguists would laugh someone like them out of the building. Living languages are constantly changing and while somewhat steady rules ensure there is less confusion - the majority will always win.

If the majority of people refer to collective nouns as singular than that is the correct way to use them because the "correct way" is only ever defined by the majority.

How is the pronunciation of a word decided? Majority of people saying it one way. How do people agree upon the meaning of a word? Majority of people using it to mean something. How does grammar become more lax? Majority of people speak with fewer restrictions.

i contest the moderne way of speech is to be thovght proper as he has argvede, bvt the olde way of speeking is the trve way!
Mm, good point, and given that I actually wrote a baby web server for serving up docs a long time ago, I'm disappointed that it didn't occur to me. In fact, I wonder why more don't do that. All of the ones I looked at (and it's hardly an all-encompassing list) seemed to do it through a proxy that the dev hosted.
It sounds like in this case he doesn't want to be Satoshi, but the ATO investigators think he might be.
Lets start with simple facts, current government is formed by rightwing parties. [Not so rightwing by american standards].

~1000€ is what ultra leftwing party's youth group proposes.
~600€ is what the Green leftist party proposes

The right wing parties talks about creating motivation for people to get to work with the basic income. A newspaper supporting prime minister party's talk about either partial basic income of 550€ with it replacing most benefits or full basic income of 800€ with absolute cutting of other benefits.

What I'd like to see most is basic income combined with true flat tax. No tax deductions, minimal bureaucracy.
If we are going to pay certain minimal support to everyone to keep them from going too desperate, we could as well pay it to everyone and then start taxing from first euro earned with the flat percentage.

Instead of current system in which people send lots of separate applications for different benefits and then people paid by government has to work. And when you get raise you probably need to get new tax form from tax office to give your employer.

What well made basic income should give is instead of having long plateau after the minimum everyone is guaranteed to get one way or other, is a way for everyone to get that minimal guaranteed all the time and any marginal employment would increase income over that. And most of the cost would be got from reducing number of government employees required to handle it.
Everyone doing the math should consider that only real cost of basic income is when someone earns less than (1/taxrate)*basic income and more than what government currently gives to poor. And it eliminates cost of MANY government jobs handling papers for benefits, and makes easier to take a job for a day or two or week or two because you cannot loose benefits for it. Or loose benefits for starting your own business.
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20Gbps is actually still impressive if it is a set of valid requests like the parent seems to imply when doing the calculations. 20Gbps via a reflection technique is easy, but also relatively easy to filter and just requires a large pipe. 20Gbps of traffic doing legitimate requests that you can't immediately and trivially filter/rule out is still an impressive feat right now.
There is a strong incentive for SN to stay anonymous now: extortion, GBH threats, kidnapping, tax evasion, etc.

This could be some guy feigning humblebragging to fool prospective customers, or the vaguest individual Wired decided to hoist the label onto because it garners eyeballs in a Daily Mail way that's hard to repute.

The raid is explained because many governments want evidence for tax evasion and evading the conventional banking system... control SN = control BTC.
I fear gwern has gone off the deep end on this one, situation is getting ridiculous: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3vzgnd/bitcoins_cr...
Not so much technical skill, as being able to run one of these "mass" game studios says something about the availability and flexibility of the talent pool. They've been profitable since 2005 so they've been doing something right.

Point being, unless you want to call gamification design, their success was far more based on engineering and business. Like you said it wasn't an original idea, but they could relativly quickly produce a clone of something and monetize. I'm not claiming that this is a particularly great way of doing business, just that it's inaccurate to say that it was design.
In case anyone is interested in the ATO's treatment of crypto currencies - https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Gen/Tax-treatment-of-crypto-c...
Kind of crazy to think how different Pokemon Red/Blue would have been if they were developed in the current age. Buy a rare candy for $1. Pay 10 cents to heal the PokeCenter. You're only allowed 20 battles in a day unless you invite friends on facebook.

Would have made so much money.
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