skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they track you? Some other companies who sell digital downloadable products insert your name, address etc. into the files somewhere.

Selling downloadable digital products strikes me as a bad business model. Bad for either the companies or the consumers. DRM is bad since it won't last forever. When the company goes out of business, "your" products will no longer work. Personally, I don't like tracking either. What if my computer gets hacked, stolen or that I simply forget to securely wipe a disk before throwing it away - will the company who sold me stuff blame me for pirating, if the files end up on some pirate site? On the other hand, if a company does neither DRM nor tracking, then they're very vulnerable to piracy.

Seems to me that rentals/streaming is a better business model. Would it be better if publishers like No Starch Press sold time-limited access (like say 5 or 10 years) to a website where you could read the books? Of course, dedicated pirates would be able to pirate that, but it would be inconvenient for ordinary people.
Well now we know where all of your errors are coming from. Regrettably, you've learned a lot of bunkum, that you now have to un-learn.

The source of that bunkum, or at least the source that you've pointed to, is a canonical example of how rubbish turns into gospel via Wikipedia. It started out, in August 2005, as an intentionally opinionated rant written by someone who didn't supply xyr name, who clearly didn't know the subject, and who pointed to entities that didn't exist at the time in question as xyr authorities.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DCEThreads&oldid=...

Other people came along and tried to take the opinions out and leave the facts. But the underlying problem was that the facts weren't factual at all, and were as warped as the rest of the rant was; and no-one with any actual knowledge of the topic, or research ability, has touched the article significantly in eleven years.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DCEThreads&type=r...

And in the meantime, people come along, believe Wikipedia uncritically, and regurgitate a load of old tripe.

Here are some of the things that you have to learn in place of the un-learned junk:

* There were such things as threads in 1991. There were such things as threads in 1988 when Dave Cutler started on "NT OS/2" at Microsoft. There were such things as threads in 1987 when OS/2 version 1.0 was announced. And indeed in 1983 in VAXELN according to Dave Cutler.

* Threads are not RPC, DCE RPC or otherwise.

* The design of Windows NT threads pre-dated the existence of 1003.4a draft 4 (dated 1990-08-10). By years.

For far better things than Wikipedia to read on this subject, see:

* Inside Windows NT. Particularly page 92 of the 1st edition.

* Cutler's own Windows NT Mutant Specification, written in 1989.

* Mark Russinovich's writings on the subject of Windows NT and its VMS heritage.

* Any good book on OS/2 version 1.0 programming that details the threads API.

* Michael Yam's 1996 Dr Dobbs article on porting his wrapper class library from DCE to Win32 threads.

* Any number of books on the subject of DCE, explaining the two quite different things that are DCE RPC and DCE threads.
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"Questions about Mr Wright’s academic degrees arose because he had listed so many on a LinkedIn profile which has since been deleted, and because some could not be confirmed. He now says that the profile was a “joke”—to “take the piss out of myself” and to keep people from bothering him. “No one took me seriously, which was great... His doctorate in theology, however, remains a mystery and Mr Wright does not want to talk about it" [0]

For once Nik, I tend to agree with you. The above line is a line from the Economist that points to deception. Is that Doctorate a technical PhD? [1] What matters most is a demonstration of the ideas in code and then discussions with bitcoin peers. You don't need a doctorate on your CV to show this.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve...

[1] "His doctorate in theology, however, remains a mystery and Mr Wright does not want to talk about it" ~ http://www.drcraigwright.net/about/
Here's the preview for relevant section for the TTRIP with regards to the Internet:

http://www.ttip-leaks.org/agamemnon/doc4.pdf

The actual preview function seems to be broken, it only opens in a tiny iframe.
In practice, yes. In theory, no. Some tourists are allowed to reclaim some VAT when they leave.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/taxfree-shopping
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Unless I'm mistaken, there isn't dupe protection.

edit: looks like I was wrong.
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ORM are good writing simple queries and prevent navie mistakes, like misspelling columns. And also narrow the chance of certain attacks, like SQL-injection.

And Django has backdoor for you to use raw SQL.

It is not a bad thing if not being abused.
Pre-announce and donate Block 1 to the red cross or whatever.
Bye-bye K5.

It was awesome knowing you in the beginning, then hell as it turned to a troll-fest, then fun for a few more years as it turned into a weirdly tight-knit community that abused each other for fun.

I have two IRL friends from there now...

But I won't miss it.
I don't see why he would go through all that trouble with the blockchain when he could just send an email with "'sup all, I'm Satoshi" and sign it with his PGP key.
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IANAL and the essence of that text escapes me even after several minutes of intelligent gazing over it. Could someone summarize it in non-legalese for the rest of us ? Thanks
A lot of your posts show up as [dead]
Just remember that The Economist a few years ago published a story on Steorn's Perpetual Motion machine.

You don't go to The Economist when you want hard hitting investigative journalism - you go The Economist when you need investor money.
GQ about Wright/Nakamoto
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> SQL is a very high level language (may be even higher than Haskell minus the great type system of Haskell).

I have a solution for that :)

https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/haskell-opaleye/
It would seem more expensive to police this adequately, prosecute, collect the fines, etc. I'm not sure your plan could ever have ROI.

That's forgetting the impact on the life of people who actually live there in the short term.
There were (at least) two distinct subfactions of trolls. One were the purely destructive, who'd started out on slashdot posting goatse and gnaa vileness. This faction has basically continued, in spirit if not in personnel, to be the pro-abuse faction wherever things are discussed on the internet.

The other faction were people fed up of what they percieved as groupthink, who ran a much more subtle and 'traditional' trolling campaign culminating in the foundation of Adequacy.org . I still refer people to their great general-purpose essay "Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics".

http://adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.9.12.102423.271.html
> Creating new meaning means disturbing the universe. By sciencing the shit out of it, as we have discussed several times before.

This text is utterly self-indulgent bullshit.

> When you’re ready to play god for your own amusement.

What did this guy smoke

... and why is this in the top 50% of HN?
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The article has its points and it is always interesting to analyze those specific readibility and rendering analysis. It helps to understand the choice made by interactive map platforms through static image and dynamic controls.

Justin O'Beirne knows what he is talking about. He has worked for Apple Maps and he also created other interesting and really precise analysis in the past.

http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/google-maps-and-label-rea...
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I think a lot of people would consider Paris without the French heaven :)

Jokes aside, a lot of holiday spots are popular regardless of the lack of locals. Paris without the French might not be the Paris you know and love, but undoubtedly it would still be popular.
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Guess the only way he can really prove he is S.N. is that he transfers cca. million bitcoins to himself for everyone to see ;) ...Wanna see that happen, lol. (most probably S.N. is a group not a person).
What about references to resources not on the stack? Heap pointers, file descriptors?
>Someone ELSE can come it, charge less, and get all the customers to go to them instead.

Except there are huge entry costs, and all that theoretical ROI disappears as soon as you enter the market, because the existing monopoly starts competing.

To make a profit, you need some advantage over the them, like efficiency, innovation or goodwill. If all you can do is exactly what they do but at market price, well... they can do that too.
I think the media can only blame themselves.

They are clearly driven by agenda, and biased, and misinformed. The example about Cologne just describes the fact that as the media have been very reluctant to report certain facts for well intended reasons , they have lost a lot of credibility.

Also, maybe we could skip voting all together and just use allotment to assign the parliament, drawn from a pool of people with high scores on (say) national tests, no criminal record and over a certain age...

That was the definition of democracy from the beginning, and I'm starting to think that it won't be worse than the current plutocracy, or maybe even better, and probably a lot cheaper.
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You can reclaim VAT only on goods, not on any services.
Patrick, Gavin is just a person and as fallible as any other person. If a long con is being attempted, everything may appear to be right. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Time will tell.
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I like that idea.

Alternatively, such threads could not be hidden completely, but only be reached via a separate link. That way, the discussion would still exist, but would not consume growing space on the original discussion site anymore.

(In addition, it would still serve to bind the people who insist on wasting their time in that corner. On the other hand, that would still be a pity. I assume that some people who wasted their time in that corner would otherwise have engaged in the remaining insightful discussions.)
Interesting point about OCR. But isn't bypassing it as straightforward as taking a partial screenshot, which is simple in any modern OS? At which point it is so simple that it doesn't make much sense.

Although this story is full of mysteries, I'd let this particular bit slide. Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice, as they say.
Note that in his bio on his site it's:

"He has a Doctorate in Theology and has submitted his completed thesis for his second Doctorate in Computer Science."

It can be interpreted "second Doctorate in CS" and "second Doctorate, but this time in CS," and based on the rest of the claims, it's the second. The original phrasing on the site is exactly how a good conman would phrase it. Which doesn't prove anything but adds to the other red flags.

And last year he claimed he has "a couple of Doctorates."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvQTwjVmrE&t=2m10s
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The submitted link has the "http://" replaced with "uhttp//". Here is the correct link:

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/comcast-offers-fiber-speeds-coa...
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> At which point it is so simple that it doesn't make much sense.

Isn't overriding the right-click in the browser even simpler? All of this is just to win the time.
The big question mark for me isn't Wright, it's Gavin.

Wright has presented a bunch of bs, no definite proof, and has seemingly not wanted to sign recent or new messages with his PGP key. For all intents and purposes, he's got zero credibility.

Then Gavin comes along. A person who worked with Satoshi the longest, communicated with him the most, led the project in practice for years, is a computer scientist and well balanced guy overal. He's not perfect but he's got a lot of credibility in the community and for good reason. And he spoke personally with Wright, and is completely convinced, both by the things he heard on a personal level, as well as proofs, neither of which he disclosed.

To me that's just bizarre. It's like Trump saying he'd be a great president and Obama meeting with him and saying he's the real deal, it'd just wouldn't happen.

Gavin apparently knows stuff we don't, and apparently it's proof, and apparently at the same time Wright chose not to go with that but to show a lesser proof which turned out to be bs. What in the world is going on?

edit: possible explanation, although I find it unlikely: Gavin was hacked. It's not my concern, but the core devs removed his commit access as a precaution which I think is sensible, so they're concerned Gavin was hacked.

The reason I don't this it's likely Gavin was hacked is because there was no play here. i.e. we didn't see Wright e.g. say 'I'm Satoshi, and I'm going to sell all my coins', thereby causing panic that hundreds of millions of bitcoins flood the market and crash the price, allowing someone (him/hacker) to buy cheap coins, get uncovered, and sell when the price reaches normality again. They'd easily make millions. But that didn't happen. And it should have by now, because within 24 hours (or realistically, an hour) a hacked Gavin would phone up other core devs and spread the message he was hacked, wasting the window of opportunity of the scam. So the fact we're not seeing a play here means there was no reason to hack him (or squander a hack), unless it was all set up as a big joke which doesn't look sensible either.
First page: "Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to: ... (b) require a Party to compel any enterprise exclusively engaged in the broadcast or cable
distribution of radio or television programming to make available its broadcast or cable facilities as
a public telecommunications network."

Which means, if your cable company is in monopoly somewhere, you cannot have any regulations to force sharing the network to foster competition. This is basically just going against what is making Internet great in most Europe. Just right on the first page. Ouch!

Update to be clearer: "public telecommunications network means telecommunications infrastructure used to
provide public telecommunications services;"
It seems, we either have someone lying or a SHA-256 collision.
Craig Wright is not Satoshi: he doesn't understand selfish mining
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I noticed that recently, the comments no longer wrap to screen width. I now have to scroll horizontally for most comments. I am using Android 6.0.1 latest Chrome.
I don't understand this FAQ:

> None of the chapters we have seen reference the General Exceptions rule. This nearly 70-year-old rule enshrined in the GATT agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO), allows nations to regulate trade “to protect human, animal and plant life or health" or for "the conservation of exhaustible natural resources" [1].

as point 2 in agriculture states

> In this regard, nothing in this Agreement will restrain the
Parties from taking measures necessary to achieve legitimate policy objectives such as the
protection of public health, safety, environment or public morals, social or consumer protection, or
the promotion and protection of cultural diversity that each side deems appropriate.
It's worse than that: contactless payment has two modes, and one of them just lets you read the magswipe track 2 data (including card number) through the contactless interface.

https://www.level2kernel.com/emv-glossary.html#MSDmode
But where's the "profit" part?
"And it works on real problems, like combating human trafficking"

well since he put it that way, why not?!
> why he chose a weak verification message

So far, he hasn't published the verification message in full, and no signature either. The ones in the blog are dummies.
It's all an elaborate ploy to force the real Satoshi to manifest themselves ;)
The lua library can already affect the surrounding C state (either through FFI with LuaJIT, or having a lua function call back into C code), so I don't see that as a real argument.

Unless you are allowing arbitrary code execution, you are likely the one passing in scripts to the interpreter - these sorts of interactions should be well documented by the lua scripts themselves...and I don't recommend allowing arbitrary lua anyhow - os.syscall and friends say hi - need to block access to those carefully. Thus, we have two situations - either you know and trust the code not to do unexpected things (or to do them in an expected manner :) ), or you've set up your lua environment in such a way to disallow such calls, and it doesn't matter.
Many friends of mine have been or are OVH customers due to their low price and all of them say the support is just awful.

In my own experience, when I was consulting a company with a physical server on OVH and opened a ticket... Well, you know when you open a ticket, you don't know when they will be answering.

Also, they have an awful ipv6 setup: https://otacon22.com/2016/02/21/two-hosting-providers-ipv6-s...
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>> In future, he explained, the blockchain could become so vast that it could keep track of every Visa transaction, every stock-exchange transaction, every bank transaction and much more. “We could even create an individual account for that tissue”, he said, pointing to a paper napkin on the table. <<

Quote from OA. Would this not short circuit any form of privacy? Or would various agencies and individuals still have to show that the various 'napkin accounts' that make up one's daily transaction count belonged to the same person?

I'm less concerned with the identity of Nakamoto and more concerned with the shape of the future!
Honestly I think when communities become large, it's the moderates who lose. I'm regularly downvoted into oblivion and most of my opinions are moderate-left. It doesn't matter how much you support Sanders, try pointing out that just saying "Fukushima" a thousand times isn't justification for deriding nuclear energy and you'll quickly find your comment straddling the bottom of the page at -500.
And Gavin's Bitcoin commit access just got revoked.

I wonder if he was hacked, or if they think he's gone rogue. Or if they're just doing it as a precaution.
Speaking as a complete outsider, Wright is coming off as a fall guy, and Andresen has been convinced to go along with the ruse. It's very much like they're protecting someone.
It appears to still be a work in progress. My gut feeling is they are not sure what to do now.

I am very happy YC ran this experiment. It is the only firehose access I have come across to the VC pitch stream. It really is enlightening to know what people are trying to fund raise.
I also would guess that for 95% of databases it would be enough to just run a query/performance analyzer and follow the advice it gives you.
C came from the B language, which itself came from BCPL. In that way, the next true successor of C will have to be P, and sure enough, we have something going on here: https://plang.codeplex.com/ :)
k5 was the first place where I realised that trolling was a hobby for some people, that I encountered the knuckle-dragging form of misogynism that has now come to the fore on Twitter and social media generally, and where I realised that long-form writing in a forum-structure could have a home.

I loved k5 when it was good. But when it was bad… man, it was really bad.

I will remember it with a sense of fondness, but given I only checked in on it twice in the last 4-5 years shows how little I'll miss it.
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What I find fascinating about all of this as a normal techie, not a crypto specialist, is whether he is Satoshi or not, the idea of "Satoshi" in all its guessing will be bigger than Craig Steven Wright, or I would say even the real Satoshi if he came out and proved it. We romance our notions of who is behind something to the point where that notion is too grand to be filled by an ordinary (pretty smart) human being.

Only Craig Steven Wright for sure, and possibly the real Satoshi, knows the truth. Whomever it is, he can cash out to the tune of $450 million!

Fun being on the sidelines here, but I do have a heavy intellectual, emotional investment in the idea of Bitcoin, and I hope it carries on.
At least with GNU as you can use %r1, %r2 etc. as an "intrinsic part of the syntax". Which means you can't use a register name where an immediate is expected.

However that doesn't fix the gotcha with r0 being special, that is specified in the ISA. In fact it's that way precisely so you can load an immediate without needing a separate opcode.
Ones I subscribe to are /r/headphones, /r/pbsideachannel, /r/buyitforlife, /r/lowlevel, /r/asmr, and a few others.
Note that he didn't really sign that Sartre quote, either.
So business groups and lobbyists for companies like IBM, Apple, Google et al. are deeply involved in the US side of negotiations (far more than any public interest groups).

Then on the EU side, business groups and lobbyists for companies like IBM, Apple, Google et al. are deeply involved in negotiations to the detriment of all public groups.

So this is really lots of big US companies negotiating with themselves on how to screw over Europe.

This is a takeover attempt through the backdoor.
If you call their phone support, they’re far better. They actually reply instantly, help you step by step through things, are even able to provide you with information right away, and fix things.

I’ve only ever used their phone support, so I can’t say anything about their online support, though.
Bitcoin Core developers appear to believe that Gavin's computer may have been compromised:

https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/727078284345917441

> FYI, @gavinandresen's commit access just got removed - Core team members are concerned that he may have been hacked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609707
Might be time to come up with a new euphemism - hard to be a minority when you are a member of the majority.