skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very interesting situation. Fundamentally, there is no reason he shouldn't be willing to sign an additional message. If he is the crypto expert he claims to be, he should understand the perfect legitimacy of such a request. So either:

a) He can't sign it.

b) He is really that petulant and petty that he "won't keep jumping through hoops", even when those hoops represent completely reasonable and trivially fulfillable requests. Which itself doesn't really seem to match the temperament I would have expected Satoshi to have, though i'm certainly no expert on the man.

Something is wrong here. I'm not unconvinced, but i'm suspiciously reserving judgment until he signs a second, unpredictable message.
He didn't sign a message "Craig Wright is Satoshi", which would be the proper way to prove this.

The signature he has could come from one of the signatures the real Satoshi has created.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609707

The signature came from a blockchain tx.
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Don't forget Amdahl's law though. You might be able to optimize away the reaction time with good AI, but you can't optimize away mechanical factors like engine failure, tire grip, and road surface friction. This affects the maximum speed and traffic density just like a human's reaction time.

This means that if one car in a densely packed column fails (blowout, engine seizure, ...) then the car immediately behind it is still subject to its mechanical ability to avoid a collision (swerve into empty space or brake to a hard stop at speed) no matter how fast it reacts.
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Excuse me? That single attacked paper was the intellectual blanket for an unprecedented victory march of the Austrian school after the financial crisis and the recession.

I agree that from a purely academic point of view this is nothing big to worry about, but this paper played a completely outsized role. And the authors stood by and let things run their course, without any attempt to reign in or moderate the debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
c) He is deliberately leaving some wiggle room.
Lacking a G+ account, I vote for Rust :)
Docker ID: kodemon

Gonna be nice to get things started!
I the oddest thing for me is that Satoshi spent all this time hiding and then posts a huge blog to prove it's him.
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Why must everything be taxed? Tourist taxes seem to me to be among the most ridiculous. Tourists bring in economic activity which provides far more value than the tourist taxes collected. Taxing something results in less of it; why a city would want to reduce tourism is beyond me. It isn't like tourists are not paying VAT, transport taxes, etc. The business owners that sell to tourists are making more money, which is also taxed and leads to them hiring more people and buying more products.

However leftists love feeding the government even if it is a net loss for economic prosperity. They want to tax everything without understanding that taxes reduce economic activity.You certainly need a minimum level of taxation, but it's a religion with many people. Next time you rent a car, have a look at the various taxes. Then calculate how many taxes the car company is paying for that euro of revenue. The same transaction is ultimately taxed each time to money touches someone.

As far as subletting, that should be handled between the landlord and the tenant: that's a private contract and the government ought not have any say.

If there's a problem with 'drunken neighbors,' then that also should be handled contractually between the co-proprietors of a particular building.

Government intervention isn't necessary for any of this.
This is a hoax I think. And also Gavin supporting it is weird. The Signature in the blog post, is, in fact a signature from this transaction: 828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe

Relevant Reddit Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hf4s2/craig_wrigh...
Not really. The original Satoshi client only ran on Windows.
Imagine, Java is run on your phone's SIM card. Enough?

On other hand, on truly constrained embedded systems where real time is essential, no GC-based language has any business, no matter how GC is good. Even C++ is sometimes avoided.
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> or have any real control of the direction of your company though, apparently.

Here's the secret: you never have

If you push your company in a direction that gets you no customers you're done

It's like a boat in the wind, if you're good you can maneuver using the sail and in a way go against the wind with some limitations, but you're still dependent on it
"Mr Wright does not want to make public the proof for block 1, arguing that block 9 contains the only bitcoin address that is clearly linked to Mr Nakamoto (because he sent money to Hal Finney). Repeating the procedure for other blocks, he says, would not add more certainty. He also says he can’t send any bitcoin because they are now owned by a trust. And he rejected the idea of having The Economist send him another text to sign as proof that he actually possesses these private keys, rather than simply being the first to publish a proof which was generated at some point in the past by somebody else."

Sounds extremely dubious. Especially when he's presented fake proof before.
Sending even the tiniest amount from one of the early chunks of Bitcoins would be closer to proof.
In many countries with chip & pin you can only pay online using your debit card with a security token generator and your PIN code.
And, as an academic myself, we should force people to save and publish their matlab scripts.

That is not to much to ask, but the academic system is full of perverse incentives. Doing good, robust work looses to good looking, quick and dirty all the time.

We need funding bodies to require publication of all these details, and we need to structurally combat publish or perish. Hire people based on their three best results, not on h-factor or other statistical meassures.
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Well NOP does nothing on one ALU, SSNOP does nothing on all ALUs.

And to give you an example of how you had to calculate things:

There were, if my memory serves me correctly 6 pipeline stages on the 5k numbered 0-5, plus instruction prefetch which was numbered -1. You subtracted the stage in which the instruction took effect from the stage in which a subsequent instruction needed to see that effect, and the result was the number of intermediate stages that all ALUs would need to go through.

Worst case scenario would be if you were modifying RAM that would be read as an instruction; it wouldn't take effect until stage 5, and instruction prefetch was stage -1 so you needed to make sure all ALUs were busy for 6 clock cycles. In theory you could do the math to figure out the scheduling for each ALU, but I just dropped 6 SSNOPs in there, since it was a code path that was only hit during loading of a new process, 6 wasted clock cycles was not a concern.

Note that this is unrelated to interlocks, as any Modified Harvard Architecture will require some sort off synchronization when changing the instruction stream. However, most ISAs have a single instruction that stalls the pipeline and discards any prefetched instructions (e.g. isync on Power). They added one in later revisions of the MIPS ISA as well.

Another fun thing was that there was no interrupt-safe way to disable interrupts, as the interrupt-enabled bit was in a word-sized register along with other values that could legitimately be changed by an ISR. This was also fixed by later revisions of the ISA.
I've been an OVH customer for a long time (years), and would never bet my company on such an offer.

OVH excels at offering lots of resources for a cheap price, but they are awful at support. Think of any horror story and I've either seen it happen firsthand or have heard about it at their forums. Examples:

- One-month back-and-forth with support about a clearly missbehaving hard drive (2MBps sequential transfer speed)

- A whole week of lost "virtual rack" (private lan) connectivity.

- Failover IPs (ip's that you can move from server to server, touted by OVH as a failover solution) stuck in netherland (routing to /dev/null because of some issue) for some days

- Extremely slow High-Availabily NAS speeds for a cuple of days. Afer those days I migrated off that service and never looked back.

At this point, I only hire dedicated servers from OVH. Furthermore, my strategy to deal with any issue is simply to rent a new server, test it thoroughly (important! OVH should do it, but they really don't), migrate everything, and don't renew the old one. In my own experience, this leads to far less downtime and headaches than trying to deal with OVH's support.
I agree, in a twisted way. On the one hand, I like the idea of ORMs in general. But on the other hand, I never really trust them and tend to write my own SQL, unless a framework like Django pretty much makes me use its ORM (to be fair, the few projects I built on Django had a sufficiently simple data model to make the ORM rather painless).
Do you have any reference to their de-duplication system?
He's talking about the ordering, not the content. Even a carefully curated list of followers will be resulted in a timeline that's destroyed by Twitter's bizarre attempts to drive your attention towards the paid content that's forced on you.
Lol, no. You have not seen a SHA256 collision. One has never been found, by anyone, ever.
That is an actual engineering job. A colleague of mine used to work as a research programmer at cmu. This is what he was doing.
I think the biggest difference is that those 16,000 families aren't just sitting on dollars that are stuffed into Scrooge McDuck vaults. Their money is invested everywhere and is part of the economy.

In contrast, Satoshi's coins are currently outside the system, and adding them to the system would cause a whole bunch of instability.
It was a joke on multiple levels. The founder was Rusty. Rusty -> rust -> corrosion -> kuro5shin. The second level was that it was a reference to Neal Stephenson's Sno Crash character Da5id character. The pseudo-Japanese and l33t-speak spelling was did give it a a cyberpunk flair.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=...
It's always amazing how much shit people will put up with as part of their daily routine.
>The real Satoshi would have chosen a different proof

How could you know what the real Satoshi would do?
Craig Wright Revealed as Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Good luck trying to zoom in/out interactive map while driving motorcycle at 150 km/h.. I stopped using Google Maps for navigation years ago. I'd like to hear Google's explanation for their maps design decisions, because in my eyes (and all people I've talked to about this topic) they look spectacularly bad. I literary haven't encountered a single person that would say: "Google maps are cool" or "Google maps are getting better and better". Most of the times discussion about maps/navigation ends in sharing experience about alternatives. Lately I use Navigator on Android; it's simple, but gets the job done and as a bonus, supports offline navigation.
There's a huge difference in illiquid assets (most of that 11.2% is real estate, stock, etc.) and currency that is at least presumably intended to be liquid.
Yes, absolutely. He apparently goes to great lengths to "prove" that he is Satoshi, but when asked to sign a new message, answers "I’m not going to keep jumping through hoops."

Um, what? Signing a new message is a minuscule jump through a very large hoop, not something difficult or cumbersome or time consuming.

This fact alone is indefensible, smells of fake and should be enough to dismiss the claim.
>Java is actually very memory efficient, all things considering

That makes me wonder about your universe of things to consider. Java's terrible memory usage was set in stone the moment they decided not to include structured value types.
Most of the factors are much too short to be the result of broken/badly initialised PRNGs. The exceptions claim to belong to alice@example.com and txn@ti.com, and the TI ones aren't actually PGP keys at all - one is the 512-bit firmware signing key for the TI-83+ calculator which was factored the hard way a while back and another is a key someone's created sharing the same prime, most likely as a way of mocking TI. Other than those two pairs of obviously-fake keys, the rest are most likely just the result of keys being corrupted somewhere in the process of being uploaded to the keyserver.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609611
And the string starts with space and ends with two line feeds:

" Wright, it is not the same as if I sign Craig Wright, Satoshi.\n\n"
Should the children of flagged/dead comments be hidden by default as well ?
ORM are bad if you look at things from a DB perspective.

If you're an application developer you've seen what happens what the code dissolves to if developers are rolling their own queries all over the place and doing manual model to object mapping. ORMs have appeal in environments they provide tooling on top and where developers are expected to know how to use them (Entity Framework, Django admin). In other situations like Clojure I would just use something like yesql.
They are doing right what London is doing wrong with the so called golfies that rent an apartment and are there only in summer with their supercars.
All I remember was the annoying use of the word "USian". It always felt too much like a slur on that site.
> then posts a huge blog to prove it's him.

He was forced to. He doesn't want to be public, and he wishes he didn't have to be.
Maybe he didn't fool Gavin. Maybe somebody forced Gavin to release that statement.
Whilst I am a fan of systemd, vdev is quite an impressive project that has been incorporated into the Devuan project.

The design document can be located here:

http://judecnelson.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/introducing-vdev....

Amongst some of the interesting things about this are:

* vdev allows per process hardware filter
* new front-end file system called vdevfs
* ACLs have been added to vdev for fine grained permissions
* aims to be cross-platform, apparently there is a plan to port this to OpenBSD
* better handles containers - the design document explains:

"There are multiple device event sources. When it comes to containers, the kernel isn't the only source for device change events. In particular, an administrator outside of a container running vdev must be able to control the events the contained vdev can observe, for security purposes. As such, it must be possible for vdev to receive synthetic events from non-OS sources, such as another vdev instance, or a control tool."

Overall, this is very forward looking and really quite impressive! For a project that the developer (Jude Nelson) is largely doing in his own free time it's ambitious in scope, but what's more - substantially written!

The GitHub repo is here:

https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev
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Fake Proof: Craig Steven Wright
Biology is related to medicine, but not researched quite the same way.

Medicine certainly has it's own issues, but they're working on it:

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

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2159894...

I mean really, the Churchill quote about democracy applies here as well: the current way of doing research is the worst possible way of doing it, except for all the other ways we've tried before.
Heh, this is where this gets embarrassing... of course, they are common. They are so common that you end up losing track of them, hidden in plain sight. Looking them up, I now discover they even have names: 湯桶読み(yutouyomi) and 重箱読み (juubakoyomi).
"He also says he can’t send any bitcoin because they are now owned by a trust."

Well, the trust could create a new address, and send btc to itself. This above all makes me not believe him.
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. I can reproduce this behaviour in Chrome. I don't have the best eyes and occasionally use the same trick to increase legibility.

The myriad subtle ways in which designers of "rich websites" break accessibility can be quite frustrating. And most of it is completely unnecessary - the article would still be an amzing read if it were a classic article with standard scroll behavior.
That's sort of the usual explanation: Shareholders see that Facebook is more popular and profitable than Twitter, hence they put pressure on Twitter to be more like Facebook. The problem being of course that no one needs a second Facebook.
The difference is that that wealth isn't cash hidden in a secret vault, but various assets that are already accounted for and an active part of the economy.

The closest real world analogy I can think of would be that if all the unaccounted for physical US currency that is floating around outside the US all of a sudden returned 'home'.
https://www.quora.com/profile/Frank-Blu/log

The owner of the profile of the person who answered your question (whoever he is) seems to have changed his username from "Craig S Wright" to Frank Blu on Dec 12th 2015.
He also seems to have deleted, on that same day, every post he made on Quora after Dec 11 2014.

The titles of the questions on which he posted revolved a lot around cryptocurrencies, cryptography and supercomputers, as well as finance and economics. Some example of questions to which he contributed are:

"How large will the Bitcoin blockchain be in November 2015?"
"How would I estimate the cost of setting up a 100 Tera-Flop server at my..."
"Why is gold considered so precious and why does it have such high prices..."
"Are there better uses of stimulus funds than others?"

His earliest activity on the site is the creation of a topic called CSCSS, on Jul 30th 2012.

https://www.quora.com/topic/CSCSS
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$13.5mn is just the initial market we think we can get by targeting early stage companies in these sectors for job recruitment only (excl. potential future revenue streams such as crowdfunding).
Really?

While talking in a context of a specific post, written by a male?
true, at least in x86 16-bit just notice the limitations and special uses between ax/bx/cx/dx, etc
In Canada this is by default.

If you swipe your card at a machine that supports chip it will be disabled until the next time you use the chip.

However, if the card reader doesn't support chip you can still swipe. Essentially all machines support chip now. Only vending machines / parking meters still use swipe.
This is plain untrue. As explained in The Economist article, this Wright guy began approaching a (well-known and respected) author about writing is biography months before the first outing in December. There would be nothing to tell in his biography if he's not Bitcoin's inventor.

He may be or not be Bitcoin's inventor (I strongly suspect he isn't) but in both cases he really wanted to be known, at least starting in mid-2015.
I remember that story.

I never posted anything on k5 though (seemed too hard/complicated to bother with), but I read it a lot and commented occasionally.

Even the trolls were quite clever and good natured there for a while before they got outnumbered by run of the mill stupid trolls spilling over from slashdot.
Maybe Gavin's acct was hacked?
No, you can't. Or better: implement cyber ware and or implement computer chips to enhance the brain. Or be a cheaper workforce.
It's unfortunate he didn't touch more on the DEC Alpha AXP. It was designed from the start to be a 64-bit chip, unlike most 64-bit ISAs in use today.

Sure, it took them a bit to be convinced that single-byte loads and stores were worthy of dedicated instructions.

It was designed so that most of your kernel code wasn't actually running in a privileged CPU mode, but instead make upcalls to PAL code, a sort of super lightweight hypervisor that emulated how ever many of rings of protection the kernel needed. (Ultrix and Linux needed 2 rings. VMS ran on another set of firmware that emulated more rings.)

It was a nice clean design that was running at 500 MHz back when Intel could manage 200 MHz. Its memory model was more friendly to parallel execution (and less friendly to compiler and JIT writers) than the x86 memory model, forcing weaker consistency guarantees out of the JVM memory model as a result.

It seems a shame to me that the architecture was never revived. I'd like to hear more about its quirks and flaws.
I strongly disagree. The IC and PCB analogy is not accurate. The equivalent would be saying that computer scientists should not need to learn about ion traps and SQUIDs, and I would agree with that. Quantum algorithms, on the other hand, are just algorithms, albeit ones in which you are allowed an extra operation. While now may or may not be the time to introduce this into CS courses, quantum information processing will only become more important over time, rather than less. The argument about them never superseding classical computers isn't something that there is any real support for, except that it is hard to build QCs at the moment. The same could have been said for classical computers not that long ago. It's not clear from your answer whether you know this or not, but quantum computers can perform classical computation. So, this is like in the 40s saying that there would always be a roll for human computers or mechanical computers, while now we would think that was a ridiculous position given at how good we have gotten at making ICs.
No, journalism is in an even worse shape than we expected.
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Besides what others have already said, there's also the fact that the US families have no real incentive to flood the market with dollars or control price fluctuations. What are they then going to trade with? Pesos?

You could, however, control prices if you controlled 5% of Bitcoin, which you could cash out in USD or EUR.

There is no alternative to USD or EUR - at least not one that is widely accepted.

There IS an alternative to Bitcoin
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Yes, the AmigaE compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen.

There's a 'portable' version available for several platforms.

http://cshandley.co.uk/portable/
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I found a citeable reference[1] to back up your statement about Rusty being the original author of Scoop, and have updated the Wikipedia article accordingly.

[1] Wikipedia is quite strict with how cites are referenced, and unfortunately, I couldn't take your word for it!
Just a minor point but it really weakened the article for me: The photo at the beginning purporting to show a skimmer sitting in front of an ATM in fact shows a standard ATM without a skimmer.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/angusf/4450137156

Then the 'keypad overlay' in the second image is just a photoshop of a keypad.

Fortunately, the rest of the article was interesting enough to outweigh these issues. The best advice contained in the article, for me, was that interfering with ATM skimmers and camera modules can result in direct intervention by the criminals who may be watching nearby. The best strategy is to leave it alone and alert the bank immediately.
Any link that's not under paywall? I would love to hear the arguments.
> So strong there are countless articles on the net about "How we moved from X to Go..."

Writing about Go is a great way to hit the front page of HN. I once saw 5 articles about Go on the HN front page at the same time!
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