skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out Economist's write up. Lots of detail. Not just the 5 minute video.

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

HN sub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609708
I guess they're ready to sell off delicious.com domain. They're probably gonna kill the rest of the site at some point.

I was a delicious user for 5+ years. Last update (single page JS app) worked well and I had no complaints. Now they've gone back to the old design because it uses less resources or something. Too bad nothing with it works well. Bookmarklet is unusable and the site itself looks like it came from 2005.

I'm so glad they came back up so I can export my bookmarks and move elsewhere. After being down for a week and being unusable for close to a month, I've had enough of them. Their new management killed the site.
and Gavin Andresen confirms http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi
It has been pending since last month; it's an Australian application and we're planning on also applying for international patents in countries like the US within the next 12 months. Generally Australian patents take at least a couple of years to be reviewed.
Everyone loves democracy and freedom of speech until they get to be in charge
> No. If you publish something that's incomplete or doesn't have all the right dependencies listed, etc, it's not really of any use.

Again you're creating a false dichotomy which is just fundamentally false.

Even if you only published half your code—to the point where it doesn't even compile—that's still helpful.

In the status quo, I have to write your entire code from scratch.

If you published what you have, I would merely have to debug the issues and figure out what the dependencies are.

I don't understand why it's so hard to understand that some code is better than no code.
A lot of the default sub-reddits are weakly moderated, and so very vulnerable to brigading, bullying, harassment, and boundary pushing. You see a lot of carefully crafted racism and "anti-sjw" posts in the default sub-reddits, for example. Bit by bit, drop by drop, they apply a consistent pressure. The mods of those sub-reddits are too dumb to figure out what's going on, or just don't care. Unfortunately, all of this slowly drives away people who are sensitive enough to care, or just ordinary people. For them, it's not worth it to "fight the good fight", is some dumb sub-reddit worth that cost? Of course not, so they leave and go somewhere else. This is a slow dynamics problem, and the "good" parts of reddit aren't strong enough to save the site.

Realistically, if reddit itself does nothing then it's maybe a 50/50 chance whether or not these forces eventually poison the site for average users, and people just stop going there. For most people these things aren't super noticeable, yet, because they're still not the dominant aspect of the site, but they've driven away who knows how many people, and continue to do so, while the racists, homophobes, and misogynists still have their little clubs on the site. Some of the worst sub-reddits were banned a while back, but many horrid ones still exist. And the people who spend their time there spend their time posting and voting on other parts of reddit as well.
Turn your scripting language into a code generator
For anyone who loves PIZZA
Mossack Fonseca alternatives will gladly arrange gradual liquidation into a Caribbean trust, to allow eventual retirement to a cheap island with pretty girls and piña coladas without salt.
Of course he wants to be left alone: he didn't pay taxes. Also of course there is no real public proof as he's not Satoshi.
My VPS at OVH lost IPv6 connectivity four days ago... No one seems to care...
The borrow checker is predated by Cyclone and other work on region systems. Rust added more polish, but none of the basic ideas are new.
Craig Wright says that (the late) "Hal Finney was one of the engineers who helped turn Mr Wright's ideas into the Bitcoin protocol", according to this article.

However, in Hal Finney's "Bitcoin and Me" post, Hal says he mined the first block in 2008, then turned the miner off, and then heard about Bitcoin again in 2010 and transferred his coins to a cold wallet. But he doesn't say anything about working on the protocol. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#ms...

Interesting story there. Either way – RIP, Hal.
True, I was hasty / poor proofreading I'm sorry. Thanks for pointing that out!

However my main point is still true: today commercial and non-commercial applications have quite different needs and thus different economic drivers.
Edit: (Sad that I submitted the long story yet original submission was just a snippet but HN mods change the submission.) That's not fair.

Not full story. Just snippet.

Full story (HN Sub): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609708

Direct: http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve...
Apparently you already get what you pay for.
Maybe, provided we don't have the situation akin to that in which a friend of the writer Charles Lamb was explaining how "I could write like Shakespeare if I'd a mind to . . ." to which Lamb responded as quickly as his stammer would allow:
'Y Y Y Yes, only the mind is lacking'.
"tl;dr" doesn't mean truth, it means it's a succinct summary of what the article claims.
The solution to all problems is let your users do it.
For what it's worth, capnproto's RPC protocol is based on this. (https://capnproto.org/rpc.html)
Saudis Heed an Oil Warning from History
Satoshi
Link please, 'dis gon b gud'?

EDIT: This thread breaks all records of butthurt downvoters not only in this branch but also in general. Wow.
He wouldn't owe any taxes. At least, not any income tax. The coins were worthless when he first mined them, and so there wouldn't have been any tax due.

If he were to sell the coins now, he might incur a capital gains tax, depending on where he lives.
I really don't want to just bang the 'exponential progress' drum but you're probably not accounting for it enough with these examples. The ubiquity of computers and phones isn't just a consequence of the theory underpinning them being developed into industrial applications, but of the myriad related ways that industrial engineering, society, and the economy had to develop to support and necessitate their existence. Those last two were indeed probably the most viscous factors in the way of technological progress, up to this point, more so than the science and engineering challenges involved, though they are clearly all interlinked.

Now, however, it's probably the case that the scientific and engineering challenges are the biggest hurdles - we already have the society and economy hungry for more computing power. Assuming the necessary breakthroughs can be made to make quantum computing a reality in the next 10-15 years (obviously a big assumption, and not intending at all to sweep that aside, it could take decades, but just let's make that assumption) it's not at all difficult to see how it could rapidly find its way into production and then ubiquitous industrial application, and 20 years then does not sound outlandish at all.
Funny to go back and watch this panel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvQTwjVmrE&feature=youtu.be...
Yes. Gavin assisted Economist's write up:

"Still, as far as we can tell he indeed seems to be in possession of the keys, at least for block 9. This assessment is shared by two bitcoin insiders who have sat through the same demonstration: Jon Matonis, a bitcoin consultant and former director of the Bitcoin Foundation, and Gavin Andresen, Mr Nakamoto’s successor as the lead developer of the cryptocurrency’s software (he has since passed on the baton, but is still contributing to the code)." [1]

[1] - http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve...
Why is it the norm that employees even need to pay cash to buy their options? Why don't companies set the exercise price to zero?
Or if one must have a non-zero exercise price - why isn't there a way to do something like a "cashless exercise"? (i.e. buy your vested options by selling a small fraction of them back to the company).
The truth is out. Thanks to Donald Trump.
Some time ago I read this:
https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...

Not sure how effective this is, but if this is true then Satoshi has been awarded most of the bitcoins.
Seems more like Rust is the new hipster target if i count the recent hn posts about it...
> I guess researchers really are so incompetent with software that they think code which requires debugging is useless.

So published papers are held to a high standard -- filtered through editors and peer review -- while publishing code can be half-assed at best? I still disagree; if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right.
Last time around, he peddled fake proof. A deliberately backdated PGP key trying to look like Satoshi's. The key also reported being created on a date when the software it was created with didn't yet exist. (Keyservers will happily accept keys that claim to be generated in 1992. Some publications that ought to have known better still accepted it back then, until it was pointed out.)

Still looking at the page you posted in the edit, but not yet convinced.

edit: Sarah Jeong of Motherboard summed up the objections last time: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-prob...

Wright goes into a long post explaining public key crypto - to me it looks intended to bedazzle more than inform - but as far as I can see he does not produce a signature from any of the genuine keys associated with Satoshi.
Lots of text. Where's the signature?
Sslh would give you this ability, if you're prepared to shim an extra program infront of your daemon; http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml
Gavin Andresen says he's verified that Wright is Satoshi. If this is a hoax, a lot of people are going to wind up with a lot of egg on their faces. :)

http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi
My story, 'Electronic Taxi Dispatch, v1.0' was the last to post. I saved my diaries and stories about my adventures in the taxi, I guess I should buy a domain of my own.
Here: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...
That's a great analogy, I'm totally with you on this one.

ORMs are painful, I only use solutions which help me reducing the amount of boilerplate code to map data to domain objects (Dapper being a great example in .NET land), but I really prefer writing my queries and seeing them at a glance (however ugly they may look when inlined) without having to actually run the app. Plus, SQL produced by things like Entity Framework is not really readable with all those "extent1", "extent2" and so on.

In addition, ORMs tie you to the lowest common denominator so if you want to take full advantage of, say, jsonb in PostgreSQL you're out of luck.

I mean, in principle they're great, and they will theoretically allow you to switch database engines but, according to my limited experience, that is not such a frequent occurrence.

The thing is, they come with too many hidden costs, and I never bought the "no need to know any SQL" argument to begin with, as I really think a decent command of it is part of the fundamental abilities of a developer.
> EDIT: Well nevermind, here is the public cryptographic proof: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif....

Really? That just looks like a much too long (targeted to journalists) description of ECDSA signing. Where's the _actual_ signature?
IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNhdG9zaGkuCgo=
Often the CEO is so influential they get to pick the board, especially if the CEO is also a large shareholder.

Even if they're not in as dominant a position they can pressure out the less desirable members of the board and install those that are more sympathetic.
Ask HN: What is happening with Apply HN?
The deadline for Apply HN submissions was April 27 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627), looks like new applications are not coming in, but the voting and commenting is still live. The main link https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn is showing random list on every visit and not a ranked list.

Given the small overall numbers on votes and comments – is this YC experiment in this execution considered a failure? Can we expect another iteration on the next YCF?

And what about startups that have submitted their ideas – has some of you received useful feedback or growing interest on your project?
I'm working on a new language that has inline assembly and I pretty much just copied GCC's syntax[1]. Do you have any specific suggestions on how to do better?

[1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/zig/blob/master/std/linux_x86_64...
I built a startup on £500, now what?
After the crippling failure of the last startup (Lynker) I needed a new project to get into as a sort of rebound. At the time was at the time playing around with this idea of a content discover platform based a mockup for a new social network I found on dribbble. I started messing around with some code before I knew it I had come up with the prototype for what is now known as Grado. I fed it to a few friends and found that I got a decent response. People liked the idea that content on the platform was based on merit in a similar format to reddit rather than which of my friends 'liked it' and as one friend put it ‘I had succeeded it getting rid of all the social noise’

So I continued to develop it while working as a freelance dev. I gave my self a deadline of 5 months and I was more or less broke I had a budget of only £500.

Long story short I did it in 4 months on less that £400 and launched it on the iOS AppStore. (it can be downloaded from here if your interested https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grado-the-worlds-noticeboard/id1090719110?ls=1&mt=8)

I started this project as a bit of fun but I seem to be on to something, the app now has around 100 users without any promotion what so ever (I know thats tiny but it’s a start). The problem is I am a product guy and have no idea on how to move forward. I have been looking into raising a seed round and hiring a co-founder but I known nothing about either. My question is for you good people is what now? What advice would you offer to somebody in my shoes? Should I move forward, if so how and what should I focus my time on?
Something is weird. He provided a message and a signature, but there's nothing in the message to indicate that he signed it himself, or when it was signed. It could have been signed months or years ago and there's no way to prove otherwise.

He needs to sign a message provided to him right now - or otherwise show ownership of coins in early blocks by moving them around.

Edit: He apparently haven't even provided a valid message/sig, so the whole thing stinks.
I read that. He doesn't give the message that is signed (just the digest and a screen shot of a small portion of the file). Without the actual data, this can't be verified.
What makes you think that? Anyone who worked on non-compliant software who lives in the US (or in a US-friendly jurisdiction) would likely be found liable, and fined and/or jailed.
It's near the beginning of the post.
I'm 35 and I thought this article was spot on, it sounds a bit nihilist the way he puts it, but the great upside of this view is that you can pretty much ignore culture whenever you feel like it. It is after all just the byproduct of all those meaning games.

I don't think culture is produced only for under 40s, a lot of it targets families, frightened grannies, and so on. He's right that people tend to fade out of the public eye as they get older--everyone stops giving a shit about you unless they have a specific reason to.

I didn't understand the snarky/cynical undertone. When you're young you think a lot of dumb stuff matters. You eventually realize it doesn't and start to chill out a bit. Thank god for that, it feels good!
> 'IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNhdG9zaGkuCgo='.decode('base64')

> ' Wright, it is not the same as if I sign Craig Wright, Satoshi.\n\n'
"generally EU is the over-regulated side"

We usually call it consumer protection here and most of EU citizens like the way it is.
you are right probably YMD won't feel natural unless you are a programmer.

We say 14th September 2014. The most natural thing to you is the way you'd say your birth date out loud (regardless of language).
Craig Wright claims he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Of course, I'm aware that work on region systems dates back to the mid 90's, which is why I called Rust's borrow checker an “innovation” (the first time a product form factor or feature successfully makes it into a market) rather than an “invention” (coming up with a product concept that didn't exist before).
Aha, that must be what I am!
Not if you want to make money though or have any real control of the direction of your company though, apparently.
> At some point, every available square foot of roadway is filled with a car. AI can help limit the amount of extra space taken up by air, but that will only moderately increase the number of cars that it will take before traffic hits. That number of cars will be reached, easily.

The thing to keep in mind is that AI can limit the extra space between the cars as well as increase the speed those cars can safely travel. The cars will spend substantially less time on the road because they'll be going faster. Double the speed and you've converted a 60 minute commute into a 30 minute commute, doubling the number of commuters the roadway can support even if you don't adjust inter-car distance art all.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609619.
That seems oddly bad for being by Google and their skilled engineers. It's really just about factoring in your speed and distance... We've done this sort of thing ourselves in our apps. :/ It wasn't obvious in theory as for what parameters felt "just right", but these insights came soon enough after just a few trial runs in different speeds.
On the contrary, and as I already said, in some fields it appears that it is. Moreover, as demonstrated, those services do not require all of that extra layering. Indeed, it actively breaks functionality.

Ironically, MariaDB is not one of those fields, and your chosen example is actually a counterexample. The push in MariaDB is to use systemd's "notify" readiness notification protocol and actually get rid of the wrapper shell scripts completely.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/un...

* https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5713

* https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/26

* https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/83

* https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/20c2ae39db3dd0ec4c3...

As in MySQL and PostgreSQL.

* http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=65809

* http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1aQnE5-0003Cj-CN@gemul...

* http://postgresql.nabble.com/PATCH-better-systemd-integratio...
All that's needed is a single signature. Everything about this is absurd. It just seems he's clearly exploiting this to gain some fame to promote his company.
Yeah, the best thing would be if he signed a news article that didn't exist, and couldn't have been predicted until very recently.

EDIT: Or maybe the latest bitcoin block.
Again? This was debunked months ago when he first tried to pull of this stunt.

Remember, it's easy to prove you're Satoshi by either

* Signing a message with his PGP key http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/satoshinakamoto.asc

* Signing a message with one of his early Bitcoin address keys

Edit: apparently he did the latter, quote article

> Mr Wright said he planned to release information that would allow others to cryptographically verify that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Wonder why it takes so much planning.

Edit2: apparently he signed something

http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...

Gavin Adresen also is convinced: http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi

Edit3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609707
New Stories Plotted on Maps
You should lookup the Rothschilds sometime.
پکیج تور کیش ویژه مبعث در هتل های ۵ ستاره ورود ۱۷ اردیبهشت ۹۵
Are you referring to

> IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNh
dG9zaGkuCgo=

It's just a base64 encoded string.
possibly agility and nimbleness
Well given the Bitcoin's community dire need of his key figure he's ought to jump through hoops. I don't see what's the issue with proving his claims.
The message isn't provided.
That's just a base64 encoded message.
Intel had to work their ass off to get them out of the ditch they dug for themselves when pursuing insanely high clock speeds in the Pentium 4 era.

This heat problem can be solved if they make it a priority. Until now they've been able to get away with ignoring it as new nodes have kept them competitive. If that changes, which it is, a new approach is required.
It's the perfect capitalism: private profits, public loses, and then blame it to the non-free market.
Those StackExchange answers are awesome.
> Still, as far as we can tell he indeed seems to be in possession of the keys, at least for block 9.

That's some crappy wording. We are going all these lengths (crypto and stuff) to then be uncertain: "seems". "at least".

Concrete proof is required.
I wonder if they will revoke the keys that they have compromised.
In hindsight is seems obvious Meyer was not the right person, but it didn’t seem too bad at the time. I've not met her not have real inside information but my impression is she is a super smart attention to detail type person. This is great for someone 'optimising' a business but that’s not what Yahoo needs. Yahoo needs (or needed) vision and reinvention. They probably needed someone a bit maverick. Maybe someone that has been a founding/creating force in several (to show repeat-ability over right place/time) mid-size successful start-ups that rethink/create a new industry and give them a chance to play in the big leagues. It would be risky but Yahoo largely faces a long decline without some serious redirection. Optimisation of the business will only slow that.

...and I acknowledge this comment is extremely opinionated off limited information.
We merged (most of) this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609611, which was the first submission of the story and (now) points to what looks like the most substantive news article posted so far.
Lenovo mobiles
Examining Fintech Funding Activity in Early 2016
His proof has been shown to be fake.
The message is the Sartre quote at the top of the post.

Edit: No it's not.
The computer game is terrible. Avoid at all costs unless you like clunky, buggy, frustrating, outdated juvenile games.

It's almost certain the makers of the game did not expect the target audience to know about the Tarkovsky film. I was expecting an intelligent game with something approaching the atmosphere or aesthetic of the film, but it's not. Far from it.
Actually there's a lot of words that mix onyomi and kunyomi. For example, 親身 "shinmi" (relative): both of the characters have onyomi "shin", but 身 uses kunyomi reading "mi" in this word. Other examples are 見本, 強気, 親分, it's more common than you'd think.
Yes, I would like to see such a thing also.
I was a bit surprised over the slow speed given the reasonable specs of the Apple Watch. Then I realized it was running on top a software emulator, and the disappointment turned into amazement.
especially considering that Berlin is not so interesting for tourists anyway :)
The BBC article stated that Nakamoto was after Tominaga Nakamoto, and Satoshi was a secret.
Python for S60
Sign something, or GTFO!
> A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well

It's not that far off from real world USD (if you limit it to the US, and extrapolate for number of users) where 16,000 families making up the richest 0.01% control 11.2% of total wealth
Tourists would at most spend $267 for the seven-day JR pass.