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> "OK, he knows how to reverse a Bitcoin address into a public key, and picked a good address for the purpose."

Yeah, but I can do that. Can it be my turn to be Satoshi now? It's specialized knowledge only insofar as you need to have read how to do it and understand enough to write some commensurate code. This is widely-published stuff. It doesn't take a Satoshi or even an expert.
You are supplying potentially very interesting information... could you please point to sources?
If you enjoy this type of video essays about cinema, I highly recommend "Every Frame a Painting" https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
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Or deaths due to people driving instead of flying.

"Increased delays and added costs at U.S. airports due to new security procedures provide incentive for many short-haul passengers to drive to their destination rather than flying, and, since driving is far riskier than air travel, the extra automobile traffic generated has been estimated in one study to result in 500 or more extra road fatalities per year."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automo...
None of my searches showed Hedy as a mathematician.In fact, though I agree the story of frequency hopping radio is fascinating, the invention required little or no mathematical knowledge. See my book at robsbookshop.com
Yes, there absolutely is: packet switching is vastly more efficient than circuit switching.

Almost all of the good things of the PSTN directly equate to circuit switching; almost everything that sucks about VoIP: packet switching.
In the early days, back when you could mine ~1 bitcoin per day on any old GPU, I mined some. I've since sold all the ones I mined. I've used several exchanges over the years, but most of the btc I have now I've bought with dollars from my bank account, primarily via Circle. I've paid btc for some goods and services but never sold a good or service for btc.

Unfortunately I never really made a full-throated commitment to btc so I'm not a bitcoin millionaire. :(
You should try to find and validate your idea and business model (unless you plan to just build users and sell the platform).

I don't know where in the word you are (looks like London?), but some places offer seed funding for validating business ideas.

You'll probably do better contacting the London startup scene, a quick Googling shows a lot of resources:

http://startupguide.fastmail.fm/

http://www.up.co/communities/uk/london/

http://www.tech.london/resources

Worst case scenario you can sell the tech itself, or it's a good showcase of your skills (pretty decent return on 500 pounds either case).

Going head to head with other social network heavyweights is a tough proposition - you have to think hard and discover what exactly is that Grado does better and delivers value to users.

Why would I want to use Grado instead of Reddit, Twitter or whatever? More importantly: there are already lots of comments and submissions in Reddit and Twitter, how are you going to compete with that?
More rather, people arguing on the internet are moreso what the average person is "like".

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
For the record: http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/c/nc0
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They're just as bad at identifying actual "weapons": I flew to South America with a layover in Miami a few years back. Got past TSA without any trouble on the domestic leg, then I had to go through again for the international leg.

The second time through security, they said they saw a blade on the x-ray.. turns out they were right. I forgot I had left a multi-tool in my bag.

Thankfully, they just trashed it and let me continue on my way. The story still flabbergasts me, though.
> May be there's less violence, but the amount of suffering has skyrocketed over the years. A more than significant amount of people are dependent on tranquilizers and anti-depressants to make their life bearable, because for them it has become mundane and meaningless without.

Citation?
I haven't heard of anyone who is dependent on tranquilizers or anti-depressants (well, apart from the Internet from people with clinical depression), so it can't be that common.
For those who dominate.
The ATM is a bunch of inventions combined into one unit. One person saying they invented something so complex seems absurd.

"Goodfellow accepts he didn’t invent the concept of a cash-issuing machine, “but I did invent a way of doing it. When people talk about the Wright brothers, they didn’t invent the concept of flying, everyone was trying to do it – but they did it and got the credit for inventing the aeroplane, so I think I should get the credit for inventing the cash dispenser.”"
Check out this classic movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046072/
They did exactly that at MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul), almost literally.

They recently consolidated the checkpoints from 4 down to 2. No one knows why, but they did. Security immediately went from 30 minutes to 2 hours. They blamed everything from funding (which they received $91 million more than they asked for in 2016) to people's bags (which somehow changed overnight). When the local government and our fed reps complained, one of the people they sent to respond was a promoter/marketer specifically for pre-check.
You can drop "around the country". Your nation or any other nation's national borders do not make free and unimpeded travel any less of a basic right for all people, in all places.
And the title is given by the submitter and is misleading.
What on earth makes you assume I'm not already using those things?

I'm actually skeptical that you're using those things on any sort of regular basis: if you were, you'd surely have come across their limitations by now.
There's more to it than that. Bitcoin has many eyes watching the commits so a commit from a bad actor wouldn't get very far.

Secondly the devs come to some form of consensus and Gitian build is created and signed. https://gitian.org/.

Thirdly, the miners decide whether to build the blockchain based on the newer version of the software.
it even says "depending upon how one adjusts the data,"! Like the one figure isn't truth and the other one a blatant manipulation used to reinforce ideology!
https://github.com/patio11/wrightverification
You also have to squint really hard to think that standing in the security line for half an hour or missing your flight is an effective protest against waste.
Why? Voyeurism? The government would surely be interested in absconding with the assets at some point, but that is their function. What is our interest in such things? Sure, whoever it is might flood the market, but that could happen whether or not we know the identity.
I want to say it was first introduced by either BMW or Mercedes.

I've seen Porsche races on TV where you can see a strobing effect, although LEDs sometimes look strange on video
They're trying to transfer a large file by 3:00 PM. They used to have an ISDN line, and now they have a 56k modem. If they used to be able to transfer it starting at 2:00 PM, now they'll start the process at 1:00 PM, and it should still get done. You trade bandwidth for time.

Show up earlier, and if they process everyone earlier, everyone will get through in time.

Of course, this does not help you get to your connection on time.
> This is probably the most important takeaway

although this is important, I can't see how you reach the conclusion that

> But consumers win

from that. you see, the EU negotiator also said :

> "In #TTIP, we will not agree on anything that will imply lowering of protection. Full stop."

also, we can conclude from the leaked documents (both these and older ones) that the US proposals in some fields differ wildly from the current EU regulations, and I can't see the US giving in to EU demands on all of these (like GMO's, chlorine chicken and less stringent environmental rules).

so, with these powers combined we can conclude that further negotiation is useless, and TTIP is dead. so why are we still negotiating ?

fear is that a compromise will be reached somehow, and the EU citizens draw the short straw (I say that as a concerned EU citizen)
Using the USDA supertracker here (https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/bwp/) with the following data/assumptions:

Weight: 295 lbs
Age: 46
Height: 5 feet 10 inches (average height for US male)
Work activity: sedentary
Leisure activity: sedentary

The normal maintenance calories come out at 3117. Less 800 is 2317.

That is still enough to eat well and feel full, in my experience.
What if he chose to play to bait the real Satoshi out of hiding?
Taurus is more generic than Locust. Taurus doesn't perform load testing by itself, but it can delegate it to a number of actual test executors (JMeter, Gatling, Locust.io, Selenium, Grinder, ApacheBenchmark, etc).

Another difference is that in Locust you define tests in Python while in Taurus you define tests with simple YAML syntax.

In addition, with Taurus you get nice graphs and ability to execute tests in cloud, independently of the executor.
Long working hours and wealth is not as strong of a status symbol in European countries. Being there for your kids as a father, being well-rounded with many interesting hobbies and having lots of spare time / vacation is relatively more important I think.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA (2015)
You can use a filing cabinet to quickly solve your paper storage problems, but it knows nothing of the type of papers your are stuffing in them.

When it comes time to retrieve your papers, you need to have had them organized in a fashion that makes it easy to look them up.

You're the only one that knows your data and how you need to look them up, and it's up to you to decide what goes in a file folder, how to label them and sort them.

You kind of need to know ahead of time how you are going to look your files up, otherwise you are going to have a hard time finding them.

RDBMSs are like a toolset of best archiving practices implemented digitally and comes with data integrity and a query language built in.

Some different types of storage may look sexier, but come with trade offs. In the end you have to live with your tool choices.
Not too many in silicon valley can claim that:

... He adds: "I have been like a kid in a candy store. I have lots of investment money and full political support."
That sounds like how AMS works since a year or so. I managed 4 minutes from sitting on the train to being after security (I timed it :-P). This includes: getting off the train, walking to security and opening up my backpack (no clue why it went off and they spent maybe 45 secs to verify this).

Unfortunately this is not as quick anymore because more of the security people have now been diverted to do border checks. E.g. Ferry to England, highway checks, etc. Less people, bigger queues.
In the US, they are slowly rolling out chip+signature--which is no better.
Looks nice! Just two things:

1. Where did you get the data from? I saw the Github link but, at least to me, it's not clear where the artist links come from.

2. Clicking two artists does not seem to improve the matches. I would like to select an artist, then click another one I like, and another, and get better and better matches to my music taste. It currently seems to be a simple visual representation of a single author and three related ones; showing the previous artist is just eye candy.
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The airport contracts wee with the TSA. US airports can contract with private security as long as the procedure is TSA-approved.
I agree with you there. Nowadays the identity points to a single thing without any notion of time, in the perfect world it would point to a set of things with their respective dates (and the database would have operations to deal with that).

If you want to get philosophical you can argue that in the real world everything mutates, even the identities. Heck, you can even say that the identity comes out of the value (the river is just on your mind, there's only water flowing). But in our digital/fuzzyless/mechanic computing models those abstractions are just unrealistic.
I used to post there when I was a lot younger. I'll miss it, but only its early days. It had decayed so much that it should have been shutdown a long time ago.

I used to see some kuro5hin usernames I recognized on Metafilter, but for the most part I think they've left that site (or been purged, you can never really tell).
I don't really go for reddit either for similar reasons. It's not so much the left/right thing, just the general lack of maturity.
Ask HN: Server-side web framework in Swift/ObjectiveC?
I know this has been asked before, but hoping for a more current review by HN folks.

Are there any good emerging Swift web frameworks, especially micro-frameworks, to keep an eye on? Objective-C even.

As a Swift app developer it would be neat to be able to just write a few API endpoints in the same language.

Here's what I've found so far:
Webappkit (ObjectiveC)
HTTPkit (ObjectiveC)
Kitura (Swift)
Perfect (Swift)

Perfect seems to be the most loved so far.
It's funny you mention this, but Reddit was always this way. Nobody remembers this now, but two election cycles ago, Reddit was the Internet epicenter of the Ron Paul reLOVEution that was about to take over the world. That's when I got tired of Reddit.
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Also, if you're not police, you shouldn't be taking evidence of a crime for your own homebrew investigation. Call the cops and wait there until you see them dismantle the skimmer if you're so concerned about others.
Asked, said no: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-02#1460859
> while married couples often make work-and-home decisions as a unit, the cultural expectation that men be the top providers proves to be an insurmountable force

So it's not just coming from the men.
I think the original plan was that the TSA would set some rules and make the airports comply with them, and the airports would be responsible for doing screenings. Somehow that got warped into government agents doing the work.

Why is it 'unthinkable' to let people enter a plane without a security check? We let people get on a bus without a security check. If you're worried specifically about someone taking over the plane and crashing it into a building, you can protect the pilots separately from the people.

International flights are a little different, because someone already needs to verify a passport. Even there, I don't think the security checks are actually necessary.

I'm definitely opposed to classifying this as a 'funding issue' and giving the TSA even more money.
For me the Devil is in the behavior. Why would Satoshi go about proving his existence and identity is such a convoluted matter? Simply signing the genesis with a message and posting it pretty much anywhere (bitcointalk, /r/bitcoin, here) for people to verify is all it takes. Not a rambling blot posts full of screenshots and some back-alley interview. This is exactly the kind of 'slight of hand' that a conman utilizes, not a cryptographer of Satoshi's caliber.
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> The USD and the Euro are backed by the fact that the government will only accept payment in those currencies

But how much of it? This will stop the value from going to zero, but what's to enforce a specific exchange rate between dollars and other goods? Is it just the fixed price of postage stamps? (I'm actually inclined to agree with you but this is one detail I haven't worked out)
Which is similarly why a diet high in carbohydrates can lead to your body storing more fat. It's easier for your body to turn the carbohydrates into energy than it is to turn the fat into energy. So when it gets both, it stores the fat for leaner times (less energy abundance) and turns the carbs into glucose for energy. It seems like the more we learn about high fat low carb diets, the more it seems that our body was built to use fat as its main energy source.
Because most people like stories more than data.
The social safety net is also different. You are less likely to be overwhelmed by medical bills later in life in most European countries for example
> Most of the factors are much too short to be the result of broken/badly initialised PRNGs.

How do you reason?
Worse how? How can it be worse than a government that isn't run by the people? I'd rather the government doesn't get anything done than the current situation where the government doesn't get anything done and the only focus is on getting re-elected and raising money. Considering that representatives in Congress spend more time raising money for re-election than anything else by far, I can't see how it could be worse to have the actually do the jobs they were elected to do and swore an oath to do.
I've experimented quite a bit with how I eat, and gone through extended periods of fasting. To me, the "real" hunger, the debilitating one, only lasts so long. It feels like once your body is entirely relying on itself for food, it just goes away.

The "other" hunger seems to come with boredom or other emotional variations though.

Unfortunately I have never done those thing more than a couple weeks at a time, but I can talk about the opposite. My "natural" weight (where I end up if I only eat when I'm hungry) is too low, and even if I'm super lean at that weight I don't have enough muscle, and end up having back / knee problems.

I have to pay attention every day to eat a little bit more than I feel like. It is a big effort, and sometimes I'm just not up to it, but I'm not sure how it compares to dealing with hunger.
Not really, but I also put in a sub-40 week and the only thing that matters is that I get my work done.

I'll make the Work-Life Balance > Compensation choice every time.
If that was your entire comment, I would have downvoted you, not because I thought you were wrong, but because you didn't add any information and didn't contribute meaningful to the conversation.
"But Money can reveal the UK government" ?
Well, the effect is that the airport needs to open earlier in the AM, so anecdotally it just shifts the entire dance an hour earlier. The problem with saying "everyone come 2 hours early", is that now, if you show up 1 hour early, you have traffic from later flights. Anecdotally, when I've flown on evening flights recently, the security line is 2 minutes long (because nobody is showing up early), whereas the 6am line takes an eternity.
I've posted about my science fiction magazine side project here before, and you all have given me great feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469135

I just started a blog for the magazine, to keep readers informed about future plans and to eventually give some 'behind the scenes' stories about the making of the magazine. As always, please let me know what you think!
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While I won't speculate whether Gavin is Satoshi or not, it does seem to me like it's more likely that Satoshi would continue participating in bitcoin under a different name rather than quitting altogether. It's hard to stay away from online communities that you're invested in, but one might want to push the "reset" button on their reputation, which is something the internet uniquely allows one to do. I believe it's plausible that Satoshi's beliefs in decentralization and consensus caused him to shelve the BDFL mantle so that his ideas could compete on their own merits.
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It would seem that Windows and Apple implementations of RSA/PGP do not live up to standards. If you use either products you should probably check your keys.
Zimbabwe had both tanks and taxes, but their currency still went to shit.
Comment from Gavin Andresen on reddit:
https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_pl...

But it could be that his account is compromised.
Not a gaurantee. Literally my first time through security after I got PreCheck, I was randomly beeped by the metal dectector and told I could either go through the scanner or opt-out and get a pat down instead. I opted out, like I've always done and got yet another pat down. Since then, I've had the metal dectector randomly beep a second time but was only asked to swab my hands to check for explosives.
Skype-open-source2: Call to donate
-SNIP-

Missunderstood parent poster
Hello,

I am Efim Bushmanov skype reverse engineer with first publish of original work on reversing skype client at June of 2011. And i almost done work on create open source version of "Skype Network Compatible" client.

Some info about me:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/03/skype-protocol-c...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611299
http://github.com/skypeopensource/

And now I need some help from community. Thats why i do donate call.

Feel free to ask question about current state and any tech question. But, i will be prefer, if possible, not disclosure much, for reason ms-skype dont ruin my work too early by do some changing protocol again.
But you feel free to ask some technical details or general question at all of how skype work.

You can read more at:
http://skype-open-source2.blogspot.ru/2016/03/call-to-donate...
My objection to precheck is that I question how effective it really is. Not to dive into another controversial topic, but it reminds me of proponents of gun control who think that background checks will solve mass shootings. Passing precheck doesn't stop people who appear to have a normal background and doesn't stop people from being radicalized after they get precheck. Perhaps a better solution would be somewhere in the middle? All travellers are subject to precheck type screening (shoes and belt stay on) but go through a more thorough electronic background check prior to each flight? Or our society could have an honest debate about about the risk of terrorism and the most effective ways to stop it...
But it will be discussed in the public once it is finalized and IIRC the U.S. Congress has 60 days to pass it.
> What is the value of uncovering who Satoshi is? Or rather what is the value of being considered Satoshi?

Getting the officially stated opinion of the project's founder and rightful BDFL on controversial issues like blocksize.
Isn't every current presidential candidate against TPP and TTIP? Except maybe Kasich, I guess.
Especially seeing how the signature part is copied from other subkeys and pasted into place. Quite the magic rays.
I like to imagine Krugman and co pacing around their offices wondering why Bitcoin hasn't completely crashed - with the occasional murmur of "deflationary" and "libertarians" and "no it can't be".
And do you trust them linking to your bank account to perform the withdrawal? I've never dealt with Coinbase before.
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I'll concur with this. I have been practicing one meal/day for almost 3 years now. I think it took my body over a year to really adjust to all the benefits. Now I realize I have some big eating days, some small eating days, I mostly crave healthy stuff and I let the rest take care of itself.
Very bottom of the page

> Copyright Date.now()
Maybe I missed something. What's the big deal if Wright is Satoshi?
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Here's an academic paper that investigates this approach (screenshots towards the end), along with end-user experiments:
https://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/101186/0009...
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Why is it that fat cells never go away but your muscles will start catabolizing as soon as you stop drinking protein shakes ?

Are there any studies on this or is it more bro-science ?
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They have no plan what to do when that happens? Do you start the line at your house, pick you up in a prison van and deposit you in the airplane after 24hours? Anything that creates a choke point creates an incentive point.