skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devil's advocate, this guy might be adept at deception because he's deceived people regarding his pseudonym for many years. (Just a thought.)

I don't know, Nic doesn't know despite many words to convince you otherwise, you don't know, we all don't know. I choose the fun explanations and wait to see if I'm right, with the completely reasonable position that I, nor anybody else, cannot possibly know if the theory is correct with the data available.

The alternative is getting upset about it and smashing keyboards, which most folks seem to be doing. Who cares? Seriously, why does it matter? He is or he isn't. Wait and see.

To me, Gavin Andresen's position on this is the fly in the grand conspiracy ointment, and it's funny how all of the theories involve Andresen being incompetent or compromised to work around that problem. I saw people start referring to the possibility that one of the highest folks in Bitcoin is autistic and easily fooled by a con man, and I was just laying in bed last night reading it and shaking my head. This thread is doing it, too, discussing a person they've never met and how he's lost his senses or accepted payment to lie.

Giant mess. John upthread is right.
Lighters are not forbidden. I was told to toss out all but one when coming back into the U.S. from Canada, once, but that's about as far as it's ever gone. I travel a fair amount and almost always with one or more lighters.
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They didn’t – they didn’t hand over the IP addresses that were requested.
I flew SwissAir first class in the '90's and they actually handed out branded Swiss Army knives to passengers on the plane... The good ol' days.
Maciej is consistently excellent across his every project, and Pinboard is a great product I use every day, albeit with some rough edges. I'd be really excited to see what he could do with this fellowship. I fully expect I would be delighted, one way or another!
How long will polling be open?
Well since you asked... Build a website that teaches kids to code in python by creating simple games. All the python should be written and executed on your server so the students don't have to setup anything. The site should include a simple 2d game engine framework that more experienced programmers can develop tutorials for. I was going to build it myself but go for it if you want.
Couldn't you also apply this argument to everything? The client turned on full disk encryption 5 years before this arrest because he wanted to make it difficult for anybody (including law enforcement) to read the content of the disk.

I think you could just argue that you didn't want the disturbed and/or wanted to save some battery.
The US government funds tons of public research.

(almost all governments are in women's vaginas if you are talking about abortion; there are few who wants to to be completely unregulated)
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> It's not that nobody does them, it's just really hard to get a conclusive result that applies to everyone.

Exactly. The research is starting to show that individual reactions vary dramatically.
You ever feel a tension between your username and what you write?

I thought creative compliance with the letter of the rules would be welcome on a hacker website.
> Whatsapp is "too big to fail"

What a terrible analogy.
> except that you clicked "publish" somewhere on Google or Apple uploading interfaces.

At which point you agree to adhere to their laws and regulations.

A famous example of someone operating legally under local law, but who got prosecuted for having merely a website accessible in another country, was Kim Dotcom.

That’s the current state of international law, either lobby to change it, or accept it, but don't ignore it.
> I think obese people fit the definition of addicts.

Most, in fact, do not.

> Most of the time, other addictions are fought by pushing awareness on the person, forcing them to recognize they have a problem and that they need to change.

That's not particularly true. Some addictions are managed through medical interventions, and those that are addressed through counseling usually start with the addict coming to the realization and seeking treatment, not "pushing awareness" on the addict.

> I don't hear much "you were born this way" or "that's just what your body wants" for other drugs.

Actually, recognition that problems with substance use (whether or not they end up in actual addiction) often originate in clumsy attempts at self-medicating real conditions and that finding alternate means of addressing those underlying conditions is important in enabling people to manage substance use problems is, as I understand it, quite important in modern substance use disorder treatment.

> Is it because other drugs are always viewed negatively, whereas food is a pillar of life under normal circumstances?

Plenty of drugs to which one can be addicted are not "always viewed negatively". That's really only true (and only loosely in that case) of illegal drugs, which overlap with potentially addictive drugs.
I voted for 2. Just don't vote for all of them.
The same problems you cite for node.js are the reasons why a lot of devs love node.js.

Its much easier to do your own research and find the best module to solve a particular problem you are having then to shoehorn into some larger monolithic framework.

Also its a lot more fundamental then that - Node.js has prolly the fastest iteration cycle for any platform out there since its so easy to create your own module - it leads to some sort of Cambrian explosion of innovation and experimentation.

EDIT:

Also OP seems to think callback hell and async programming is bad. The important thing is those things are problems for python/.... too !

Its just that python doesn't have a good programming model to even begin to address those concerns.

JavaScript at-least tries to say - "hey this is a problem we need to deal with - concurrency is a issues we all face "

So when devs complain about callback hell - its just that they have never tried to use python to do async in a neat way.
Unless, of course, he predicted that we would conclude that someone with such poor evidence must be attempting to hide in plain sight, and is in fact a fraud. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
For all the comments on here about how unfair the author was, there sure is minimal feedback on the problems they highlighted.
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When he mentions PGP Nick refers to the four month old fraud by Wright:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w027x/dr_craig_st...

Which was also "good enough" to appear "technical" and "valid" initially to some.

So it's really time for the quote of one famous thinker:

"I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!'"

The shortest summary of the current Wright's hoax is by Kaminsky:

"Yes, this is a scam. Not maybe. Not possibly.

Wright is pretending he has Satoshi’s signature on Sartre’s writing. That would mean he has the private key, and is likely to be Satoshi. What he actually has is Satoshi’s signature on parts of the public Blockchain, which of course means he doesn’t need the private key and he doesn’t need to be Satoshi. He just needs to make you think Satoshi signed something else besides the Blockchain — like Sartre. He doesn’t publish Sartre. He publishes 14% of one document. He then shows you a hash that’s supposed to summarize the entire document. This is a lie. It’s a hash extracted from the Blockchain itself. Ryan Castellucci (my engineer at White Ops and master of Bitcoin Fu) put an extractor here. Of course the Blockchain is totally public and of course has signatures from Satoshi, so Wright being able to lift a signature from here isn’t surprising at all.

He probably would have gotten away with it if the signature itself wasn’t googlable by Redditors.

I think Gavin et al are victims of another scam, and Wright’s done classic misdirection by generating different scams for different audiences."

https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/02/validating-satoshi-or-not...
More like "my apartment is 90 degrees and it's not even June"
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But why would Wright pay Gavin? What did he expect to gain?
I sort of don't understand your problem. If you forget to return a value won't the thing consuming the Promise just get undefined as the value (and perhaps throws an exception expecting the value to be something other than undefined)?
Flying out of Louisville, I saw the same story with the guy in front of me - except it was a clip for a pistol and he was livid because this was his return flight, meaning they missed it in Miami (I think it was Miami). I'm glad the SDF TSA caught it but it definitely didn't inspire confidence overall.
A trial for what?
Note: this is a satire account.

However, Zynga appears to have approximately 0.9 billion in cash reserves and their property is probably worth somewhere in the 400 millions with a market cap of about 2 billion, meaning it's surely not worth more than x1.5 of its own building.
> "No one knows a way out of this mess."

Create and promote news outlets that represent the interests of the people. This also gives a platform for non-corrupt people to run for office. That's one potential solution I've found for the problems in my own country. Do you think it would help in Brazil?
To expand on that, it looks like there is already some software out there to facilitate building overlay journals:

http://arxivjournal.org/rioja/
Oh ffs, here we go again.

Yes, the signal protocol and signal's implementation are both open source, but you have no way to actually verify that WA has actually implemented the protocol correctly and securely. Sure you could do some basic packet analysis but this wouldn't tell you about the presence of any remotely triggered backdoors.

The only way for you as a user to actually verify the security is by reading the source and compiling the software yourself, or reading the source and verifying the signature via reproducible builds.

I really don't understand the business decision process here. If they just copied Signal with OSS/FOSS code and reproducible builds they would just win outright and tech people wouldn't have anything to complain about. The value of the service is the network anyway -- why care so much about the client?
the feedback is: stop expecting javascript to act like python
Supposedly Whatsapp has less than 100 employees.
fwiw, many people don't agree with the "for sustainability" argument.

Increasing blocksize is actually a negative, because it lets people continue sending low-value transactions that they wouldn't actually pay for. It externalizes their costs to the entire network, making verification harder, etc.

When the required fee makes your current uses of btc unprofitable, either send larger amounts at a time or use a sidechain, etc. The fee is a DoS-prevention mechanism.
Vote for all applications you approve of ("approval voting"). The only wasted ballots are no votes and all votes.
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They are in the Apple and Google app stores, you mean to say.
My cousin just got sent back to Europe this morning for no specified reason and was given 90 seconds to call his family before being ejected from the USA. Just on vacation and going to house sit for my mom.

Still waiting on him landing so I can get more details. What a dumb world.
Really, just learn to use callbacks properly. Well, wait, actually, you should skip that and start getting used to using promises instead--a big improvement. Well, I mean, until next version is ready, and we can start using async/await...until wasm makes better thought-out languages available.

Despite the sounds of this, I do like the idea of having an experimental platform with which to gain experience using wildly different approaches to the wildly changing world of web apps. I don't take it for granted that old language concepts will turn out to be the most useful for the web platform.

So, I'm okay building a website for the PTA or ceramics club with this, and I'm very interested in the experiences of others using a wide variety of technologies and approaches, but I'm not sure Node.js would be a sensible foundation to build a business on.
> A. C. Clarke _Superiority_

This fits the Tiger Tank vs. T-33 in WWII. The T-33 had very good firepower and armor. The Tiger was superior in both those regards. However, the T-33 could be more easily produced, dealt better with Russia's muddy seasons and winters, and was far cheaper to maintain.
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To become a telco, in the first place you need to comply with all of the laws to be allowed to operate. In the case of the US, this is CALEA, and every phone company should be able to provide a backdoor that allows the agencies to follow court orders and tap phones. Brazil has similar laws for the phone networks.

The problem with the attitude of the Brazilian courts in regards to Whatsapp is that they are not a telco. The abomination that is the Marco Civil, which is being used as a justification to enforce the court request and says data should be retained by companies for one year, does not help.
I agree with your overall point but not smartphone part. The systems I'm seeing certified for DO178C, etc and defense are usually PowerPC boards with 1-2 cores. PPC always smashed ARM back in the day. So, some are probably better than most smartphones. Just not the highest-end.

Which is fine because you're right: they don't need them. I'll add the older nodes were more reliable, too, as it was trivial to get chips to work vs deep sub-micron. I'll take old-school, fault-tolerant chip over modern ASIC any day if ny life is at stake.
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> JavaScript in general is in a huge influx of updating at this moment

Isn't that the case basically all the time? Which is a perfectly suitable reason to avoid it at all costs except for the bare minimum required for front-end..
> A year is awfully short to be chiming in with advice for long-term weight loss.

How about nine years? 2007-03-28: 192lb; 2016-04-30: 153lb. I hit 160lb in late September of 2007 and haven't been above it since, typically fluctuating these days between 150-155lb. I did it by simply eating less and paying more attention to hunger signals. If you want to be sure you're not overeating, track calories in and your weight using something like MyFitnessPal. Weight loss is possible; CICO overrides everything.
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And he says if he gets the Turing award or some other ACM award, he won't be accepting a cent.

The sentence doesn't make sense and he sounds like David Brent from "The Office".
> The US has a massive GDP per capita but there are 30 million people struggling to survive without even healthcare.

Relatively few people personally need healthcare at any given time.

In comparison to, say, clean water, food, shelter, education, and physical security, which actual third world countries seem to still have serious problems with.
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