skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped using anything from the i* suite after my first Mac when I learned that it messed up my folder structure. All my carefully organised music and photos were imported into an opaque database that gave me no visibility into how things were stored.
I don't know if I'm alone, but I find Windows 10 horrible. It consistently freezes on me for several seconds at a time (and usually when I'm doing something important), it takes longer to fully boot (background services seem to take way longer to start), it uses an incredible amount of CPU and disk in the background for no reason, the new Control Panel is impossible to sort through, and the overall UI/UX is a step backwards (IMO)--and all that without mentioning the privacy concerns. I'm really kicking myself for upgrading, because I thought Windows 7 was a really great OS. I ended up switching to Linux Mint, and have been very happy with it overall.
If Satoshi is dead or not an individual person, then who owns his bitcoin? If Satoshi is dead, then his property would be subject to the probate laws of his home country. Can the bitcoin of a dead person be recovered if they don't make arrangements for it in their will? Or will blocks of bitcoin become inactive over time as their owners die?
Forgive me as I'm a newbie to bitcoin and only ever seen it from the outside and watched a few things. I only know who Satoshi is because of the mass amounts of people wanting to know who this mysterious man really is. But my question is, why does it matter if Craig Wright is or isn't? I mean I can understand being upset that he lied about it if he really isn't for attention, but what if he is? The dude is literally being ripped apart left and right by everyone and anyone.

Whether Satoshi is finally identified or not, what difference will it make? I honestly don't understand the deafening attacks at Wright at first for being "outted" as a potential to be Satoshi and now when he says he is.
Past substantial discussions:

Six years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007750

Three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5751329
It's not that unlikely that satoshi is dead given the sudden silence. Someone like Craig Wright might have gambled on that fact.
On WhatsApp: No, messages are only delivered once.

On Telegram: Yes, you can read all history of "normal" chats.
> Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original files.

It does return the original files.

Here are two files, one that got backed up off my phone by google photos, which I then downloaded from google drive, and one that I copied directly off my phone via USB:

$ md5sum IMG_20160504_160057648_HDR*
4bcb38a2e3869b4c769301c1664f5846 IMG_20160504_160057648_HDR (1).jpg
4bcb38a2e3869b4c769301c1664f5846 IMG_20160504_160057648_HDR.jpg

The files are identical.
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Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and native clients?
I've been looking through different messaging apps lately (iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Wire, etc.), looking for one that has end to end encryption as well as native clients for mobile and desktop.

So far, I haven't found anything that meets both major requirements, everything has a drawback. I want to like Signal, but the lack of desktop clients is a major drawback (and the Chrome extension isn't quite there yet--no iOS support, weird firewall requirements).

So what are you all using? Are you happy with what you're using?
This blog is like a guerrilla offshoot from the BoE from staff who are trying to tell us we are being robbed blind by the banks.

Best one is this:

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

Banks do not intermediate funds when lending they create new money. This has interest due on it. Create more to cover the interest or die.

Please HN have a read as I see so many disheartening comments on HN about finance. It's depressing.
I got my parents an iPad mini recently and some of the contacts on my mom's phone sync and some of them don't. I am a developer and love tinkering with computers but for the love of me not figure out how to fix this.
'Just works' comes from the days of XP and before, where every doodad you plugged into your computer required its own driver disk on Windows. Even if something came with it's own drivers in that era, you'd get an installer wizard that you'd have to navigate through.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, there's a genuine point here. Especially if you count robosigning as well.
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The big deal in the UK, a few years ago, was that a person would go overdrawn, deposit money to cover it immediately but then get charged an overdraft fee by an overnight process. This fee would put them overdrawn, leaving them liable for a second overdraft fee - which would be charged the next night...

This was ruled to be illegal and banks had to set up whole departments to process return claims. I suspect this is the main cause of the big headwind.
But from the article, Ms Amber said the SW was functioning as intended.
This isn't entirely accurate. First, You can deduct foreign taxes paid, so $1B earned in the UK could would come back only in paying the difference of higher US and UK taxes. But tax systems in different countries are different, deductions are different, as are fees and such....it leads to a huge mess.

The other hard thing to reason about is where the value was added. If the IP was developed in the states, technically, it has to be sold through, so profits on it are still taxed here, to the foreign branch, where only retail profits are taxed...or something like that. It gets really messy when you are also doing R&D abroad...and you can see why tax games are possible and even necessary.
I have a VM just for iTunes.
Question towards Steve Jobs on a Cupertino City Council Meeting in 2011:

"[How do] city residents benefit from [Apple's new campus]?"

Jobs: "Well, as you know, we're the largest taxpayer in Cupertino. So we'd like to continue to stay here and pay taxes. [...]. Because if we can't, then we have to go somehwere like Mountain View [and] the largest tax base will go away. This wouldn't be good for Cupertino."

https://youtu.be/gtuz5OmOh_M?t=11m1s
with the benefit of hindsight, I'm regretting not applying with Startupy McStartupface
There are various statements issued by Apple stating that they do cooperate with law enforcement when they can, and that pre-full-disk-encryption, they generally did.

That said, they sometimes go out of their way to make it inconvenient - if you want data provided on physical media, you have to supply a firewire disk
I don't see how they can say this is a feature - because it didn't happen to me. I have a huge amount of music that they wouldn't be able to match and they didn't delete any of it. Maybe this is because I'm also using iTunes Match. Your issue might be iCloud Music Library (not Apple Music).
The work was not merely backed up, but repackaged into a format that Apple is more comfortable selling in; .wav files were converted to AACs, and rare remixes were converted to the popular hit versions. The old stuff was then deleted from local storage without permission, which is intent to make these privately owned tracks an excludable good, not to mention theft.

A further problem arises when a user has a non-transferrable IP that Apple doesn't sell in his left pocket and some generic track that Apple sells in his right pocket, and Apple picks both pockets with the intention of becoming a redistributor. The user does not have permission to transfer, nor has he indicated to Apple that he's given permission, for Apple to acquire the proprietary IP and redistribute it. It is entirely plausible that this proprietary IP was never intended for sale, was a trade secret, was a nude tape, or was a classified recording.

There's all sorts of issues with Borg-style cloud IP assimilation under the "Fair Use Doctrine", and commercial usage of the IP for "backup" while simultaneously being a vendor of the IP (and competing products) make it unlikely that you could apply fair use credibly for something this expansive.
I swear iTunes used to work great. When I got my first iPod it did the syncing correctly and played music, and those were about the only jobs it had. It has since bloated more and more, I don't even open it anymore, it's awful on both windows and osx
He had promised to do the impossible -- cryptographically prove he had access to early coins which he did not in fact have. He had carefully developed two scam-proofs of this.

One scam proof was deployed on his blog where he claimed to sign a Sartre text with a key from bitcoin block 9. He carefully did not give the exact input text, only a supposed hash of the text. The hope was anyone trying to replicate would assume their problem was an incorrect source text. And there was proof that the given hash value was signed by the key. But that did not survive internet scrutiny; it was noticed that the signature came from an old bitcoin transaction. Instead of signing the hashed Sartre text as claimed, it signed the old transaction.

The other scam proof was presented in private to reporters and bitcoin developers Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. Here Wright supposedly demonstrated the ability to sign arbitrary messages using keys from bitcoin blocks 1 and 9. This scam succeeded: both Andresen and Matonis were convinced. But they were not allowed to keep copies of the evidence, to prevent the trick from being exposed. One speculation is that Wright was able to substitute a doctored version of the Electrum software used for the verification. But without evidence to examine outside of Wright's control, the exact details of the scam are still hidden.

But now Wright is out of ideas. His public-consumption scam failed, and his private controlled-scenario scam can't be more widely replicated.

So this message is his way of backing out, trying as much as possible to save face and keep open the possibility of claiming the Satoshi Nakamoto identity again later.
Yet, people still buy it. They agree to pay for a product, at a bug price, and ask for people around them to do Apple's work to setup it up for them, but for free.

And they find that very natural. Normal.

Like they found normal 20 years ago we had to help them with their MS product they paid, but for free.
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I'm sure the goal of such step is exactly this -- to leave some room for doubt. The conman was moved in a corner during last few days, it was the only logical step left. It's only few commands to prove that you really poses the original key, no need for drama, screenshots and buggy scripts.
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In principle I agree, that makes sense. In practice, we've had freeish banking for decades in the Netherlands and it's excellent. Further the other services are all decent, too, there's no real push on loans or creditcards. Mortgages are popular but the rates are very sensible (such that it's cheaper than renting atm, even disregarding the capital gains on your home). Below a short overview.

I was flabbergasted to hear about overdraft fees when I first saw them feature in social justice documentaries (e.g. Spent: looking for change).

My interest is low, but that's normal in 2016. .5% to .9%

Any CC payment I make is deducted from my checking acc 30 days later, no interest. It's essentially a normal debit card with 1 month free credit. After that it's 12-14% interest per year. That's very high of course, but it's not exploitative like a payday scheme. Further, keeping CC debt is quite uncommon here. And I can borrow up to $25k at 8.9% say for buying a car. That's pretty steep but not high compared to other countries, it's also not a very popular product. Mortgage interest is currently 2.9% fixed for 30 years.

As for my bank account, I pay about $15 a year for it. There's no costs to depositing or withdrawing money, putting it in or taking it out of a savings account. I mostly bank via an app on my phone, and payments arrive in minutes or hours. I don't pay anything for the shared acc with my gf either. For the CC I pay an extra $15 per year or so I think.

Now if this was a new startup in a growth phase where it's burning cash and offering free services, sure, but this bank was founded in the 1880s and has had roughly this pricing scheme as long as I can remember.

All in all I think I've paid maybe $250 for all by banking in the past 10 years.
Why is there even an argument? It is not rocket science to produce a signed message with a key, the reference software can do this trivially. Until that is provided I don't see why anyone should entertain the possibility. Anything else is just theatrics.
I'd be happy to donate some time or money towards migration.
Talk about scary! I managed to unintentionally delete all photos in my aunt's iPad. All I wanted to do was disable iCloud backups. And I am a postdoc in a CS department.
Cool! I obviously didn't know that. So that use case is probably quite common in Japan (if the other factors line up, but I don't see why they wouldn't, frequently).

In the US and Europe having your own, dedicated place to put your car is probably more or less weakly coordinated with owning a car (maybe less in the US, where at least in some places owning a car is more of a requirement?). Just because being able to afford a car is probably weakly coordinated with being able to afford your own spot. But this regulation should make that even more so in Japan.
I wonder about this. It's seems like the most likely scenario. But... from my understanding Satoshi made appropriate effort to pass on the Bitcoin project before he disappeared. So unless he was leaving to commit suicide, I don't think he _has_ to be dead. (he == she == they)
Might this also be a problem with dealing with big a provider?

If this were a much smaller smaller company you might actually get to talk to someone who can do something i.e "let me see what files we uploaded from you... oh we'll send you a link...". With larger companies you usually talk to "explainers", or people whose job is to explain to you that you are screwed rather than explore solutions to your problem.
Bitcoins can only be distributed if you have the private key for it. If satoshi dies and leaves the keys for his heirs, then its just a normal asset. If the keys are gone, then that money is unrecoverable, just like burning cash.
BBC has now written Wright's "backing out" of providing proof:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36213580
'I'm being deported for finding my Swedish job on LinkedIn'
Is the website image steganographic?
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> we want to note that the sample of the present study probably is not representative of the US as our study is restricted to the specific sample of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers and has a relatively small sample size for an online survey.

I guess one can publish this kind of bullshit in Psychology journals.

There is a crucial difference between experimental economics, and psychology. In economics experiments, participants get paid based on their performance. In this context, that would translate to one's payoff being determined by how well one distinguishes between bullshit and mundane statements.

When people get rewarded the same regardless of their responses, things tend to get dominated by people who are there to do the bare minimum, and get paid.

My gut feeling is that it is far more likely for participants who do not take the survey seriously to report supporting those Republican candidates. After all, participants also live in the same world, and they bring in all sorts of baggage which this study does nothing to control.
The only sort of confirmation that I could find on that claim was that the original address was unused for over a year so was then available for registration by a new user, this was then used to allow a password reset on another account. I believe this was the gmx and vistomail accounts.
I agree, but you're the 1% with technical understanding. Most others don't recognize those options.
is this suppose to be a catchy title? I did not understand your reason for title after reading the post? was that user from India? anyways you can find people making (silly) mistakes all over world...
Source for this?
As the author of one of those jaded comments, I'm worried about this possibility now.

I believe someone (healthy) close to him should take some care of him for a while. Regardless of his online identity.
BoE are very old establishment. I think taking text on a BoE blog that it will be free speech is not realistic. Like the BBC they will be with you right until it matters. Then you are on one side of the fence and the establishment are on the other with the BBC/BoE next to them, grinning.
Lie with dogs, you get fleas. I have zero sympathy for those who fall prey to closed ecosystem BS like this, including my own wife. People just don't listen.
I agree going without prototypes or PSD can be a fast way to grow - that's how our company built it's initial MVPs and became profitable in the first place. The PSD's and pixel perfect prototypes come in handy when the non-engineering parts of the company are so intimate with customer's wants, they are very precise about the requirements (especially to fit in an existing market).

Hmm so, it looks to me precise prototypes are good for precise requirements, while vague requirements are better when engineering is also customer development, and customer requirements are not known precisely yet.

In our company we have 1.5 designers and 5 in engineering and we're good with maintaining the prototypes. The designers have to do other non-digital stuff like print media too...Maybe our web applications are mostly CRUD's with permissions so it's easy to maintain?
It's a suicide note.
Also pressing is the method for turning "route strings" (I call them "sinatra paths", I'm not sure where they actually originated) into a regex

/foo/{bar} or /foo/:bar => re.compile(r'/foo/(?P<bar>[^/]+)')

https://github.com/pyGrowler/Growler/blob/dev/growler/router...
It's quite a battery killer as well. For a simple IM app, you lose hours of battery life.
I understand this, but there's also the dimension where his actions, whether true or not, are also damaging other people (Gavin's reputation is on the line).

We'd all be more worried for him if he wasn't so blatantly causing harm to other people's reputation.

Obviously he could suffer from severe mental illness, which combines elements of harming others and self harm, but as a society I think we should worry more about the person being harmed (ex. Gavin).
>My minimum was connection

>Maciej is clearly brilliant and quite witty and knows how to build and direct a passionate following. Pinboard is unique and I’m glad it exists. More opinionated software should exist in the world. Even though we couldn’t find rapport together, I sincerely wish him and his startup the very best.

I find this a little confusing in that it seems to conflict with what I had taken as the entire purpose of the experiment. If not trying out people who have positive attributes who others seem to like that you don't connect with then honestly, what's the point of this?

Everything HN readers know about choosing successful founders comes from reading material written by you guys and seeing your results in action. The facts were never going to be radically different in that our primary criteria would be things like "company name has lots of strong letters" or "that guy has a power beard", no the things discussed in the comments were stuff we've read from VCs and are effectively regurgitating. Nothing revolutionary there.

The true value I thought you were going for was to take the bias of "do I connect with this guy" out of it. But instead you say you think he's great, companies great, but just don't connect with him. You don't need us to be able to find great people with great ideas that you do connect with.

You've taken a system that would remove your own intuition bias, and then created a step at the last minute where the only apparent intent appears to be to introduce that bias. :/

I sort of hope this is just a polite "this isn't a business decision. It would just suck to work with this guy and I'm successful enough to not have to do things that suck for money", in which case fair enough.
That sounds like a good step in the backup strategy.
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Sorry, I don't understand this comment because I can't tell if you're disagreeing with me about anything.

> GP said that the use case does not require locking, but in PgSQL (which was mentioned) or Oracle, it does.

Right, it does in a typical RDBMS, but not in CockroachDB. The definition of an isolation level is defined in terms of what interactions are possible between concurrent successful transactions. Locks, or the lack of locks, are an implementation detail.

> The default transaction isolation level is not serializable. ... Also note that two successive SELECT commands can see different data, even though they are within a single transaction, if other transactions commit changes after the first SELECT starts and before the second SELECT starts.

I agree. If you set the isolation level to "serializable", such anomalies aren't possible, even if you don't use FOR UPDATE.
But other people have posted here and said they enabled Apple Music and their music was not deleted, so clearly this doesn't happen under all circumstances, and this wouldn't be the first time a technical support representative was wrong. This is a pretty extraordinary claim and I'm not really willing to believe everyone loses all their local music when they turn on Apple Music without more data to confirm.
I expect as well as being borrowed many times it's also happened many times.
Human nature, often, does not add up.
Am I missing something? Why would you want to use an alternative app for Telegram on Linux? Their own app works a dream for me.
That's a bit of a stretch. The early iPhones 'just worked'. My Mac used to 'just work'. All was groovy in my Apple life as 'recent' as ~2011.

I wouldn't say my Mac 'just works' anymore, nor my iPhone for that matter. And this is commented on a lot by a lot of prominent Apple bloggers, to the point that it does get responded to by Apple SVPs (see Marco Arment and Phil Schiller)

EDIT: that said, my mum gave up the PC when she got an iPad 2, and was even happier when she got a hand-me-down iPhone 4S. She finds both slow now, but still won't go near the PC anymore. For her, the Apples still 'just work'.
> When the Dorian Nakamoto stuff happened the real Satoshi put out a statement saying he's not Dorian. That wasn't that long ago.

My read on that is that Satoshi felt sorry for the hapless Japanese-American guy with tech media showing up at his house.

In contrast, Craig Wright asked for this.
I smell a lawsuit.
I think it follows the typical modus operandi of large part of the Bitcoin community:

1 - Propose flawed argument.

2 - Insert pink unicorns.

3 - When asked for proof, don't give it and instead claim this is exactly what's best for the world but that we are too short minded to understand it.
These are some great questions. Given a long enough timeline, it's possible (probable?) that nearly all private keys will be lost. It's funny that Bitcoin seems to have built into it its own demise: mortal people.