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I've been to their conferences, and am a member.

I agree they could do far better. I think they are doing the best they think they can do. I think the entire field got poisoned by defining itself in some kind of struggle in the 60s/70s against anti-cryo people, which is stupid.

IVF, organ banking, etc. are progressing nicely. The Russians are doing a great job on human cryo. My hope is that the Alcor preservations are still good enough today that recovery is possible, although it's likely a better preservation technique, causing less damage, might lead to a recoverable person at an earlier date (i.e. Alcor 2016 person is recoverable in 2100; RU-Cryo person cryopreserved with better technology and technique in 2020 is recoverable in 2070.)

I still think Alcor is better odds than box in the ground or being incinerated. For ~$1k/yr (membership + insurance), it's worth it to me, even if only to fund/etc. research.
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It's kinda sad this is being reported by credible journals, it's super likely to be completely false. I'm glad on HN the link states it's just a claim, and that on the economist it's phrased as a question: 'is he Satoshi?' (the rule being in 99/100 cases, the answer is no.) But I've seen otherwise.
Or donate some of the first blocks (s)he mined.
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I've handled and fired guns. I'm not opposed to their existence. I am opposed to them being used to kill people.

So, again: why is allowing sports/hunting/collecting but harshly penalizing the violent-crime aspect not a useful compromise?
> 5. Why does this program require 4GB of ram?

The biggest issue with Java IMHO , 6 not so much since deployment is automated.

> 1. Wow, I can write stuff that previously could only be done in C/C++

Not true, like at all. Every Go does can be done with Java.
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One major motivation for inline asm is wanting to use an insn which your toolchain doesn't know about (because it is too new, for instance). Inline also has to be able to handle cases like inline system call instructions -- in that case the clobbered registers are determined by the kernel syscall ABI, so it is impossible for a compiler to get them right by just looking at the asm insns.
It's weird to me that people want millions of random people controlling how content is visually presented; aka, wish the web would die already.
Not 100% convinced yet! Though Wright has impressing command on crypto, just waiting for a signature from the monkey's original key!
>we've been convinced that at least it's the lesser evil and that we should be happy for that.

I've always thought every ballot should have the option of:

[ ] None of the above, choose new candidates.
> commenters extrapolating the public policy intentions of organizations based on reporting about the behavior of those organizations

I am recounting a year of direct personal experience, no reporting is involved.
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>> Gavin supporting it is weird.

> Is it?

Apparently, not weird. From the Economist article:

"It pays, too, to bear in mind that Mr Wright’s outing will most likely be of benefit to those in the current bitcoin civil war who want to expand the block size quickly, whose number include Mr Matonis and Mr Andresen. Mr Wright says that if he could reinvent bitcoin, he would program in a steady increase of the block size. He also intends to publish mathematical proof that there is no trade-off between the mass adoption of the cryptocurrency and its remaining decentralised."
I see two big problems with algorithmic/curated feeds:
* conflict of interest between reader and (algo) curator. FB (as an example) wants reader to stay as long as possible on its site and to make the reader to regular comeback to FB, including preferring by the reader FB and not others. This is done by (algo) curator playing with our dopamine levels (read novelty seeking preference of human brains) presenting things which create 1 (stay) and 2 (comeback). In fact feed is curated based only on 1 and 2 with constantly run A/B experiments by FB. This is WRONG to reader.
* all this 'feeling connected' being 'within circle of similar to you people' etc, puts you in a closed circle of opinions/views. This cramps critical thinking of the reader. Whats' more dangerous, it distorts (humans are really weak on this) our view how world is composed. We see too much of sth, and dont see (curator removed them) things we don't agree with. We conclude how world is constructed (e.g. everybody supports some presidency candidate, because 80% of "likes" and "shares" in my stream are about him (concluded by curator because I clicked on some of them). This has WRONG influence on our learning and critical thinking and forms untrue perception of world impairing our reasoning.

p.s. sorry for my english.
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One of the better comparisons of Clustering Algorithms online. It's also worth checking out how HDBScan works: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lmcinnes/hdbscan/blob/mas...
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The article is really bad, full of ad-hominem against Alcor and cryonics and no actual argumentation. But you posted it to argue against Alcor's competence, and it does list a case where that was true.

Anyways, I don't recommend clicking, but here's the part where Alcor's competence is put into questoin.

>Within minutes of taking custody of the body, the bumbling Alcor team began experiencing a series of equipment failures. A temperature monitor didn’t work because, as it turned out, the batteries were dead. Shortly thereafter, their expensive mechanical chest-compression device stopped functioning. Then, having moved Suozzi’s body into a tub of ice, the Alcor team realized they’d forgotten to bring along a key piece of cooling equipment. Alcor’s after-action report, compiled from the haphazard “free-form” observations of an unnamed but “experienced” observer, determined that such mistakes could in the future be remedied by “the use of a checklist.”

> “Unfortunately,” the Cryonics report notes, “there was some confusion and disagreement regarding the ideal temperature at which to perform surgery.”
Maybe he is trying to get Nakamoto to out himself..? His claim is ridiculous.
> What does Go have?

Go generate AKA C Macros but even worse since there is no macro syntax , you have to code you own code generator yourself .
Craig Wright's proof isn't valid because he uses bash background instead of &&
I'm mainly interested in EU SaaS (because being in the EU). For EU companies - the verdict is still out - EU locations of US companies might not be enough. One reason why Microsoft lets Azure in Germany be run by Dt. Telekom.
That's actually pretty spot on. I've ran popular communities that ultimately failed because we hadn't scaled moderation. As long as your content is good, scaling moderation will be the hardest thing for any UGC site, and if you don't build it fast enough the site will either get destroyed or you won't be able to work on the product due to fire fighting.
How many articles a day about Rust on HN ? that's right, not as much as Go.
The use of & instead of && here means that openssl start running at the same time as the base64 decode command. This means that openssl could start reading from an old version of the signature file before base64 starts writing to the new one.
In Jan London people were 'extremely unfamiliar' with Uber pool and the 'friendliness' of Londoners is far from the real one of San Franciscan.
I personally ran into situation where a rider joining a pool was so not ready that she commented 'there's a man in the car' and her boy replied with 'kick him out'.
I truly hope the biggest achievement of Uber could be to change Londoners' mindset.
Ah good, so there still is hope :)
Wow. It's scary that 5 rows have such a big impact. What about the next 5? Is this science or sorcery?
As an actual liberal, I prefer the term "authoritarian liberal" to distinguish anti-free speech and 'edgy' sexist/racist left folk from liberals. And I've never understood conservatives as much as I do now.
I'm curious why there wasn't more interest in the DEC Alpha AXP. It was designed from the beginning as a 64-bit chip (unlike x86, POWER, ARM, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, and almost everything else except Itanium). It consciously avoided features (and memory model features) that interfered with efficient parallel superscalar implementations.

The Ultrix, Linux, and VMS kernels didn't run in privileged mode, but instead made upcalls into PAL code (a kind of super lightweight hypervisor).

Any insights as to why the Alpha AXP didn't get more interest after it was dropped by DEC / HP?
The proof contains some strange bash commands, using & instead of &&: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610192
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You can always reverse a password hash. It just takes fucking forever. ;)
My magstripe is demagnetized (because my phone jacket contains a magnet). I have no problem using my card (in France).
Lie by omission is a thing.

The average person will understand that sentence as "all boys", while even the least favourable interpretation of the reality is "some boys".
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You might want to try that, instead of strg a
Looks better (on most sites)
The point of this kind of law is not to make encryption disappear, it is meant to always have some reason to prosecute you if you disobey.
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Hi, honestly this feels like the conversation our team had a few years ago about Nagios. Some people were happy with pockets of monitoring servers dotted around with wiki pages full of links to get to them. It took a long time to clean that up and finally end up with a single central service.

The outbound vs inbound firewalls is totally a fair comparison. At almost every company I have worked for the perimeter security blocks all incoming ports. Most places have no outbound port restrictions, or when they do they usually always have a proxy for traffic to go out (like https for updates etc). This is what makes the design of outbound only connections considerably better (Sensu, Datadog, insert pretty much any SaaS vendor). I honestly don't know of any company who would open up such an extreme number of ports required to allow scraping from an external monitoring tool. In a large enterprise you want to host the monitoring tool as a service for other groups which means potentially in a totally different data center or cloud and allowing a small list of subnets 'in' is considerably better than exposing every single server to external access.

For the scaling I'm not sure I totally agree. There is a reason why distributed systems exist and that is to scale efficiently with some degree of redundancy baked in. Single node HA is probably the most inefficient method of scaling. It sounds like Prometheus needs to run properly on a single box for simplicity but over time needs to be broken up and made scalable beyond the bounds of a single server. Being limited to a single server in 2016, like Nagios was 10 years ago before they too started to split some things out, isn't something I'd advertise as a feature.

I think right now Prometheus is probably filling the gap of what an industrial historian would do in a factory. It's a console you would have sitting next to the thing you were building that would provide real time measurements. We didn't want lots of individual consoles. We wanted a central large system that could hold years of historical data, as well as allowing people to query it in real time, and we liked the idea of not needing to double up on hardware costs. We're using a mix of elasticsearch and cassandra here to achieve that.
yeah the problem is not the existence of refunds, the problem is the timeframe which is highly unreasonable for a $10 application. 3-6 months okay, but almost 2 years ?
Are Q1 earning reports cloud washed?
>>would you want us to do the same for foreign governments?

Well ofcourse the wizards making magic... err software would have to ensure no other government ever will be able to access the data..

Only the Good Guys (American Government Agents) are the only that should possess the magic to unlock the wizard's text...
I don't believe he would be so naive to publish this without having checked that matter with transaction 828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe before.
If this is fake, is this some kind of ploy to flush out the real Satoshi? Or a publicity stunt?
> I think Wright is just a smooth-talking conman with some crypto experience. I'm betting he met Gavin and other (unfortunately, merely "supposed" at this point...) experts in person, talked shop for a while, then took out his laptop and staged verifying the signature of blocks 1 and 9 with dummy commands.

I don't believe that anybody with the most basic understanding of cryptography would fall for that. I don't think there is a slightest chance that Gavin would. So the most interesting part of the story to me is why did he publish his blog post.. Something made him do that, but it's beyond doubt to me that he did not take part in planning of this operation.
This.

Also, the design man-hours quoted in the article must be when designing from scratch, and may or may not be accurate. In the context of moving to a new node and iterating on a previous design, the quoted numbers are junk.
"This was a problem, because my initial packets to the server were met with immediate disconnects, and I’d now lost my main means of debugging. I banged my head against the wall for a while, then at the suggestion of a friend, decided to turn the server’s OpenSSH log verbosity way up. I bumped the LogLevel in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to DEBUG3, and suddenly I was getting helpful error messages!"

ssh server can be run with -d option for monitoring. It redirects debug messages to stdout.

/usr/sbin/sshd -d
I admit that if you postulate that all needed breakthroughs are done within 10 years, then it starts looking plausible. But as you said, that's a BIG assumption.
>tabulators & punch cards and the impact they had on human history

I think everyone in school came home with a Christmas wreath made out of punch cards. Every now and then I still see cases of punch cards offered for free.

Here is an example of a wreath:

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102667304
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I was unable to torture the inputs into verifying, despite worksmanlike effort, unless I trusted calculations made by "the adversary."

I consider the posts by others of this thread of a Bitcoin transaction with the same signature to be dispositive that he was not signing any variant of the Sartre message.

Conclusion: a) The linked blog post is pure hokum. b) I'm very clear on how he got this past generalist media but unsure of how he got it past Gavin.
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I agree. The problem is that those single character names get abused and you end up with code that consists only of them, including the function arguments, which is the worst.
Tourists have far more money to spend than local residents, since they're not staying for long. So they tend to empty heavily touristic cities from their residents. Think about it for a moment: would Paris without cafes and french people still be Paris?
>The market can't solve anything if the product is free

It can absolutely work. The product is not free. The product is our attention and internet services (Twitter/Google/Facebook) are competing for that limited supply of attention in order to sell it on to their advertising customers. We won't give our attention to them for free though, so they have to buy it by providing a service we want. If they don't provide an attractive enough service, we turn around and sell our attention to someone else. That's how this market works.
> Of course not, so they leave and go somewhere else.

Somewhere else often being another subreddit. Topical subreddits are fine. But I guess all depends on what we mean by "saving 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.

People won't stop going to topical subreddits because main Reddit is not the discovery mechanism - Google, word-of-mouth and websites linking to topical subreddits are. As for poisoning the site for average users - I think average users are the poison.
And even then, Django allows you to perform sql queries if you think you need to :)

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>If anything, the price of bitcoin has been negatively impacted by this.

Deliberately impacting the price of a good negatively is a great way to get it cheap and then sell it for more later.
Not that it's still not all documents, and already out of date:

> The documents that Greenpeace Netherlands has released about half of the draft text as of April 2016, prior to the start of the 13th round of TTIP negotiations between the EU and the US (New York, 25-29 April 2016). As far as we know the final document will consist of 25 to 30 chapters and many extensive annexes. The EU Commission published an overview stating that they have now 17 consolidated texts. This means the documents released by Greenpeace netherlands encompass 3/4 of the existing consolidated texts. Consolidated texts are those where the EU and US positions on issues are shown side by side. This step in the negotiation process allows us to see the areas where the EU and US are close to agreement, and where compromises and concessions would still need to be made. Of the documents released by Greenpeace Netherlands, in total 248 pages, 13 chapters offer for the first time the position of the US.

So politics will probably pull the "your complaints are all addressed in the still secret parts / were changed after the leak, we pinky-swear" card.
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It was kind of an illustration that it didn't make sense. I mean I can understand targeting teenagers vs adults but as a 52 year old I watch / read much the same stuff that I did as a 25 year old. I think the whole thing that they are targeting under 40s rather than 'adults' is kinda bollocks.
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I quickly scan the book it is suggested "Walnut" but I didn't grasp why, or how E is "secure" somebody can help?
It's not about economic benefit, it's about equality: if you have a major form of income not being taxed, you're effectively giving preferential treatment to that person versus everyone who gets taxed.
I agree that it seems extremely absurd Bitcoin experts would fall for that.

I'm very interested to see how this story develops.
> However, many of the later RISC architectures do share one annoying flaw. Immediate values are constants embedded within the instructions. Sometimes these are used for small values within expressions, but often they're used for addresses, which are 32-bit or 64-bit values. On PowerPC, as on SPARC and MIPS, the mechanism for storing 32-bit immediates can only encode a 32-bit value by splitting it across two instructions: a "load high" followed by an "add". This is a pain. Sometimes the two instructions containing the value are some distance apart. Often you have to decode the address by hand, because the disassembler can't automatically recognise that it is an address. This design pattern turns up on almost all RISC architectures, though ARM does it differently (large immediates are accessed by PC-relative loads). When I worked on an object code analyser for another sort of RISC machine, I gave up on the idea of statically resolving the target of a call instructions, because the target address was split across two instructions, one of which could appear anywhere in the surrounding code.

> The x86 system for storing 32-bit/64-bit immediates is much nicer. They just follow the instruction, which is possible because the instruction length is variable. Variable-length instructions are not usually seen in RISC, the Thumb-2 instruction set being the only exception that I know of.

Hybrid way, that could be the best of both worlds : https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-computer/blob/master...

On a few words, it uses a bit to know if the literal would be bigger that could normally stored on a instructions of 4 bytes. If it's true, the next 4 bytes is the literal value.
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Nice.

What first revealed me the hidden complexity of SSH was typing this during a live SSH session:

~?

Which show you the SSH supported escape sequences.
Good catch! My thoughts: I imagine the post with the information that's easy to verify, it would have numbers (and files) that could be easily copied, not images that need to be OCR-ed or retyped. So why images? Only to postpone the moment of the verification or the rejection of the claims. Only somebody who wants to postpone that would come to both to the idea of using the images and attempting to make the saving of the images harder. The goal is also supported by having the rambling post, unnecessary references, unverifiable old text segment. So the post's purpose then isn't to prove something but to be a stumbling block long enough for something to happen, like completing some nice media contracts, maybe? And he can later sell that event even as "How I tricked BBC to write 'His admission ends years of speculation.'"
They said "quantum computing", not "quantum mechanics". You still need to know which operations are suitable for speedup.
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The beeps correspond to actual keypresses, so you can’t fool the skimmer by pretending to touch multiple keys.

The keys on ATMs I've used don't actually move much, so you could put several fingers on the keys at once and press only slightly harder with the one you intended. It might confuse any PIN pad overlays too, which by design have to activate with less pressure than the real switches so as not to arouse any more suspicion.
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Agence France Presse (AFP) says in English "Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright on Monday revealed himself as the creator of the virtual Bitcoin currency to media outlets..." which in French becomes "Bitcoin: le véritable créateur de la monnaie numérique est Craig Wright".

This translates as "the actual inventor of the virtual Bitcoin currency IS Craig Wright", conditionals or precautions be damned; and it's printed as is all over the French press this morning.
The #2 and #3 stories are both links to ttip-leaks.org. The only difference b/w them seems to be the presence of a "www" in one case. Doesn't HN dupe detection handle something as basic?
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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but isn't tourism derived income already taxed just like any other income?
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It's just silly to tax the good thing (tourists), just because some of them misbehave.

The correct solution is to fine bad behaviors (littering, public nuisance, overserving drunks, etc.) and instituting fees for operating businesses that directly contribute to the problem (for example bars, liquor stores).
Well, well, your critic was not really worded with a high level of eloquence, but in any case, it's not like the bitcoin community is known for taking any kind of critic anyway. The downvote button always ready for those that don't follow the true path of Crypto and welcome Bitcoin in their hearts as the true mankind savior.