skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article gives one answer: Satoshi owns lots of bitcoins. The article mentions 1.1M BTC. At the current rate this is about 500M US$. I think lots of people are eager for this amount of money. Finding out who legitimately owns this money could have a large influence on the exchange rate of bitcoin. Also if these BTCs would be "let free" this could even destroy bitcoin - a lot of power.

Also the more philosophical argument: At the moment there is a large controversy in the bitcoin community about whether the blocksize should be increased or not. If we found out who Satoshi is and can provide evidence what blocksize is nearer to Satoshi's "original vision" this could change the balance of power in the Bitcoin community.

TLDR: It is about money and power.
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Don't forget the 11-finger tap.
Are there not cases where blocking if there is insufficient entropy is the correct thing to do? Particularly if we're talking about important random numbers like long-lived private keys.
Homebuilt Relay Computer
I wish HN had downvote post button (similar to downvote comment), all this "Who is Satoshi Today" soap opera is getting boring already.
The problem is that being conservative and precise isn't enough. You and I can both be conservative, but disagree on the specifics (given an ambiguous spec, for instance). A permissive receiver of both our data now has to support both sides of our disagreement forever.
Taxation Is Theft. NO ONE will take my money without my consent to sponsor millions of LAZY people. There are dozens of countries without taxes. You will not get a penny from me.
The whole article seems exaggerated, Though the CPC prices have been rising at a very fast pace, there is a possibility they might get corrected in future.

On the other hand, the amount of money/funding in the market and a considerable amount being spent on advertising as its one of the easiest paid method to get traffic on your site.

Facebook on the other hand is bullish on mobile traffic, also since it being a relatively new the CPC's are cheaper there., but i dont think they have much more control as to who sees their adverts, fake clicks and profiles are everywhere.

The only area where both Facebook and Google are not market leaders is the programmatic side of advertising. Since it is so fragmented, there have been a lot of smaller players (trading desks and DSP's) taking advantage of that. Since these are relatively smaller companies they dont have such sophistication of fraud detection as google or fb leading to people gaming the system and loosing trust in them.
Maglev air hocky is where it's at.

(Not sure that is a thing but it should be).
Then don’t operate in the country.
Read the note at the end of the article...
USA = COMMUNISM
U.S. Anti-AIDS Abstinence Efforts in Africa Fail to Prevent HIV
GitLab CE in almost any environment with more than one team (say uni course with many groups doing projects) would need ldap group sync.
I don't think that provides a satisfactory explanation. Plenty of people have a lot of X, and nobody gives a shit.

Who has 6% of the total gold?

Who has 6% of the total rice?

Who has 6% of the total 56K modems?

Maybe this is Bitcoin's version of identifying the 0.01%.

It's somewhat ironic, because I hear and read all this fluff about the anonymity of Bitcoin and how attractive that is, but everyone's just dying to out Satoshi.
Depending on what you're looking for, there's usually only two you need: MSDN[0] and TechNet[1].

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/library
[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/library/default.aspx
isn't that for template authors?
Agree. Actually I'd already be happy if they stopped moving stuff around for no reason. I get "This object has moved" or worse "This object no longer exists" or just a redirect to some generic "Download Windows 10" page all the time on Microsoft documentation sites. :(
The DSPs I've used address a lot of the concerns here -- fraud, what sites show your ads, etc. on top of what they do for optimizing spend, targeting, remarketing, and making your life easier. However, the article is treating the DSPs are a leeching intermediary. As long as the intermediaries are adding value, their existence isn't a negative and many of the intermediaries the author mentions aren't necessary.
Another example of a change made at time of construction that compromised the design and wasn't caught is the Kansas City Hyatt walkway collapse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
Do you agree that human's use of fossil fuels caused global warming? We only know that they're correlated, right? It was a singular event without a control that we discovered by analyzing historical data. A lot like this article's subject.
The Tesla Powerwall has 6.5 kwh = 23.4 M joules.

Gravity potential energy = mgh. Suppose pool is 10 meters up, then you need 239,000 kg of water = 63K gallons or 8400 cu ft. This is a huge pool: 29 ft. x 29 ft x 10 ft.

You could use the city water supply: borrow water through a turbine at night, and return it during the day :-)

Or have pool up very high, for example on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean:

http://inhabitat.com/crazy-home-carved-into-a-coastal-cliff-...
Exploit samples: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/04/imagemagick_exploits...
Video of the thing running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8DavnWmr1E
Hate speech has always been a violation of Facebook's ToS. The "deal" with Germany was simply that Facebook agreed to be better at actually enforcing their own terms.
The corollary is that you consume an API that charges you Bitcoin. You don't notice right away, but something goes wrong, and API returns bad or null data for thousands of requests, meanwhile you are still micropaying Bitcoin. You ask for a refund, but the company running the API doesn't respond to your emails.

The threat of chargebacks disciplines the market to provide reasonable customer service.
It could be argued that if Satoshi is a person, and that person created Bitcoin on equipment provided by a workplace, during work time... and if those first 1 million bitcoins were mined on equipment owned by a workplace...

Then depending on the legal jurisdiction of that person...

* The employer have a claim on the IP and the initial licence was incorrect

* The employer have a claim on the bitcoins

* The employer could have a claim on any core patent that arises

This is just from a UK patent law based view where it is repeatedly made clear to employees not to work on side projects or other things on work equipment and time.

So there is a potential legal risk, if it's determined that Satoshi was working on this using his employers resources.
Might be a fad but I love mine, I have a spinal condition that makes standing for (most) of the day much less than painful than sitting. (so I built myself one to solve all the usual problems, 21sq/ft of space, goes high enough to be suitable for non-midges, completely and totally stable, in hindsight I might have got carried away a bit http://imgur.com/a/H7fxb - the chair is in the process of been replaced with a stool (that I'm also building))

http://imgur.com/a/H7fxb
There are so many players in the market for chat, the only goo reason for someone using imessage on android will be to chat with people on iphone's and mac.
What are you setting your AC to?
> censoring

Classifying a recipient receiving a message containing exactly what the sender sent as 'censorship' just because they don't auto-link it is taking the word to new heights of rhetorical meaninglessness. Dodgy and scummy, sure. Mildly inconvenient for the recipient, definitely. Censorship, no.
Not yet, but it will be in a few days.

I wanted to see if there was any interest before getting it to publish-able grade quality.
Just an anecdote: Our friend in New Orleans had his wife's second baby delivery. They went to the same hospital and doctor as the first normal delivery.

She was given the wrong medicine in the epidural. She went into a coma, the hospital flew her to a specialty hospital in Denver to recover. Almost a year later she is still paralyzed from the waist down. Her life is ruined, her husband has two babies to take care of and an infirm wife.

The amazing thing is that the state of Louisiana has a $500k limit on malpractice! (Set in the 1970's) Plus he will not get the full $500k. In spite of their clear error the hospital will not just settle out of court. Instead if they pay out through the court system they only have to pay $100k, the rest comes from the state patient compensation fund which has $900 million dollars stored up. So my friend will get $350k and medical care for his wife.

This is called keeping costs down in the state of Louisiana. And this was affirmed in 2012 by their supreme court.
Bolt.cm seems like it would fit your usecase. Just use one of the JSON extensions for it for the JSON output.
I thought this article was poorly researched and the conclusions don't follow from any of the data presented. The narrative is basically just a disgruntled "old man yells at cloud" screed. Then I saw this:

> This is a re-run of the online advertising crash of the early 2000s, when the proliferation of banners and pop-ups destroyed any value these ads had (and led people to install pop-up killers, just like with ad blockers today). It took one Google to come up with contextual advertising to bring the market back to life.

What is the author claiming here? Really? The dot-com bubble was due to advertising? Huh? Perhaps he means something completely different, because the real dot-com bubble had everything to do with actual online businesses, a ton of credit, startups, and vapor. It was not about advertising.
What? It is true. We know that processed red meat definitely causes cancer. It doesn't cause very much cancer - the risk is very small.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2015/57130...

Your link starts with hyperbole (no one is being told not to eat meat)

Why are you telling me that talc is legal in eu? That just agrees with my point that eu does not ban things that we know are dangerous.
How long until prisons start charging room, board, and security fees that just coincidentally amount to the UBI payment?

For "true" criminals, I believe that's economically fair, but it raises terrible questions about incentives for the guy caught with a joint.
sure but the UI is generally written to be a horizontal layout.
Yes! You'd buy visual studio, it would come on 6 CDs but only 2 of them were VS. The rest was MSDN docs.
The curious case of cold emails and delivery rates
Okay, so this is kind of what I've been assuming.

So, why would discovering the real-life identity impact the exchange rate? What exactly would be different if Satoshi stepped out on an aircraft carrier with a big "Mission Accomplished" banner today?

I find the philosophical argument fascinating. It's like a bunch of Antonin Scalias arguing about the need for a strict constructionist view of the Founder's vision, to then find a foothold for draping it around their own subjective views for legitimacy? I had no idea shit got this real in the Bitcoin world.
Every interaction I've had with the Ruby core team has involved rudeness on their part.

I understand that Japanese culture is really different and that as a country they've really had horrible things done to them over the last hundred years that are inexcusable to say the absolute very least.

But just like any country, there are people with great people skills and people with no people skills. The Ruby core team lacks people skills. Whether it is a result of cultural problems that are a result of terrible things happening there, I can't say, but it really does Ruby a disservice.

All they need to do is listen and consider, but they don't, really.
I've found bolt.cm very nice to work with. Joomla is basically the most frustrating CMS experience I've had.

Disclaimer: I'm on the bolt.cm team.
Hover over an image and watch it change the layout.
In fact, this is probably the only reason, but a pretty significant one.
Well, shit. That's pretty heavy. I suppose I would want to remain anonymous if I was concerned about that scenario.
No they don't. They just have to not explode.
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It's not so much as another dB layer, but some async compatible dB layer.

Most database libraries don't play very well with non blocking code. In fact nodejs dB libraries were specifically designed for this.

Building async frameworks is not trivial - http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/advanced.html#async-support
I don't give a hoot any more.
The API is open for everyone. If you want a feed with each and every post from your friends and the pages you follow, you can build one yourself.
The Real Food Innovation
Apple Nabs Nest's Former Head of Technology
San Diego to become largest U.S. city to run on 100% renewable energy
I like how Docker crowd seems to be undereducated about what packaging systems
can do for dozen years already.

- If something not packaged by distribution is needed, one can just create own package.

- If something is packaged, but in wrong version, most of the time the package can be simply rebuilt.

- If a required library is fscked up, doesn't cooperate and needs to be put into a virtualenv, whole virtualenv still may be put into a package.

Installation and deployment is then a breeze, pulling all the dependencies
(including C libraries), and not compiling everything over and over again.
Moreover, deployment is repeatable, which means a developer may install
project's dependencies and work on the code directly from git workdir.

A side bonus is immunity from another instance of left-pad farce, where
inaccessibility of one single tarball hanging somewhere in the internet broke
down whole build process.
> Fun fact: since Linux has no built-in DNS caching, most of the DNS queries are looking for … itself.

This is wrong in two ways, and isn't factual at all.

First, the cause of the queries is nothing to do with whether DNS query answers are cached locally or not. There is no causal link here. What causes such queries is applications that repeatedly look up the same things, over and over again; not the DNS server arrangements. One could argue that this is poor design in the applications, and that they should remember the results of lookups. But there's a good counterargument to make that this is good design. Applications shouldn't all maintain their own private idiosyncratic DNS lookup result caches. History teaches us that applications attempting to cache their own DNS lookup results invariably do it poorly, for various reasons. (See Mozilla bug #162871, for one of several examples.) Good design is to hand that over to a common external subsystem shared by all applications.

Which brings us to the second way in which this is wrong. A common Unix tradition is for all machines to have local proxy DNS servers. Linux operating systems have plenty of such server softwares that can be used: dnsmasq, pdnsd, PowerDNS, unbound ...

One of the simplest, which does only caching and doesn't attempt to wear other hats simultaneously, is even named "dnscache". Set this up listening on the loopback interface, point its back-end at the relevant external servers, point the DNS client library at it, and -- voilà! -- a local caching proxy DNS server.

* http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

* http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache.html

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

* http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html

I run server machines that have applications that repeatedly look up the same domain names again and again. Each runs a local dnscache instance, which ameliorates this very well.
IBM makes quantum computing available in the cloud
> If you are operating under the same business model it's not scary at all.

Total hogwash! It's super scary. Variable costs are something you keep to an absolute minimum in a business. A fixed price API (at least for a certain number of calls) is attractive precisely because it is not taking a chunk off your top line.

You want fixed costs to be low as well, but at least your revenue can grow independently so marginal costs decrease with each additional dollar you earn.

> It could sell unlimited or quotad amounts of api calls for a fixed price.

If you are an API provider, it is a great deal to offer fixed pricing. First, you have a more predictable line of revenue. Second, if you are a small player, you are not as exposed to fluctuations in demand. For the latter case, that means you don't need a lot of cash on hand to even out cash flow issues.

> There is no reason for these two to be the same company.

This is a classic middleman business. As the API provider, you need to make sure this does not happen, unless you are having serious sales problems. You'll just get the squeeze as the middleman eats your margin.
Chrome Beats Internet Explorer as Most Popular Browser
Why in the world would a "low emission zone" require a specific age instead of a specific amount of emissions?

Even if we assumed that every engine put out the exact legal max from when it was built, that wouldn't exactly line up with age, and that's a terrible assumption to begin with.

In fact this policy actively discourages making an engine that's efficient enough to meet regulations 20 years down the line. Total waste of money.
Everything makes sense if I'm Satoshi Nakamoto. At least for today.
Curious Padding Oracle in OpenSSL (CVE-2016-2107)
I am just searching for Servers which have a GPU (linux/windows, CPU, RAM doesn't matter). Is this so difficult to understand?

I need to play around with some "remote rendering" via paraviewweb but can't use my own hardware.
Cute quote by Dijkstra that shows he hadn't quite figured out reality yet. So, correctness is your goal. That means you'll have to specify the behavior, safety/security policy, and prove the two equivalent. The implementation, both source and binary, will have to be shown equivalent along with proven free of language-level issues. Finally, you have to do that on triple, modular hardware [1] that's rad-hard w/ similar rigor in its lifecycle. Or use run-time checks [2] for each algorithm that can correct errors probably also on TMR or rad-hard board. Let's not forget the custom circuitry for RAM that works [3].

Darn, Dijkstra or not, you still need some kind of runtime checks and protection for correctness. :)

[1] http://www.rockwellcollins.com/~/media/Files/Unsecure/Produc...

[2] https://galois.com/project/copilot/

[3] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html
What if you could accelerate videos just like you accelerate a MINI COOPER S?
Damn you. :p
Seriously what's with all this bitcoin propaganda on Hacker News these days?

Is this kind of stuff even interesting except to the few people that have money invested in bitcoin?
I would like to have a realistic looking robot-wife with IQ >= 160 (like Ex Machina), because I don't like women and their small talk. Women are SOOOO obsolete.
Why would the amount of time we consciously remember something, and this alone, define it's value?
It is clearly obvious that Craig Wright will be accused of identity theft by many if he really provides the crypto proof he announced yesterday.

Too many people prefer to think of Gavin Andresen as a complete idiot easy to fool with some stupid tricks or even a fraud one can buy, rather than to accept Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto. They also think about Craig Wright as a complete idiot who gives false proof easily debunked in a matter of a few hours, when he never ever stated that his discussion of "Key Verification" was a proof of anything.

So if he is who he claims, which is something I don't know, then he has good reasons to try to proof it far beyond a signed message. The signed message, if it appears, won't settle things for him. Many people will just say he had the keys stolen.
This is a nothing article. It looks like a professionally researched paper, but it is just a bunch of opinions without evidence. The graphs look like they could be providing evidence of something, but they don't back up the authors opinions in any way.
Of course I would like to see specific tests that covers everything about this vulnerability. I see now that there are more problems than the one mentioned in the article.

But the link submitted to hackernews specifically mentioned "magic bytes" which is the file type problem. I think Paperclip is not affected on that one.
Hiring vs. Buying IT for Your Business
Moore’s Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor
A used car salesman who you spoke to once at a party and who knows a couple of facts about you which they refer to in every damn sentence.

"Hey so last time I saw you you talked about nail polish, I've got a friend selling some... Did you want cheap tickets to a nail-painting seminar? There's a nail & manicure kit on Amazon!"

Only it wasn't even you at the party, it was your friend that did one Google search for nail polish months ago and now you're forever The Nail Polish Guy.
"lijfarts" (body doctor) actually ;-)
If I understand it correctly, it is like that directly. Cars have to have a certain environmental standard for the zone.

Taxis/hire cars are exempted, so the only thing limiting their emissions is the fact that newer cars have been build to meet stricter standards. Black cabs are allowed to be older than other hire cars, so they were build to weaker standards. The age limit does not exist primarily for environmental reasons, but because standards increase it has the side effect of limiting how bad taxis are.
That's arguably an implementation issue rather than a more fundamental issue. I.e. it can be fixed, and we all know that Google is not going anywhere anytime soon.
I can't help but point out how ironic comments like this are.
Doesn't matter if you did a good job documenting and proving that you didn't use work equipment. I remember a speaker once telling an audience something like don't even use the same brand pens or notebooks purchased by your employer to jot down your ideas and stuff.
Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for "buy nail varnish".

Google and Facebook both have the problem that their business model is predicated on having thousands of small advertisers bidding on ads. That's what they leverage to generate profit. In any market that's dominated by a single entity that smaller companies won't compete with for ad space, both Google and Facebook lose the ability to make money.

When the majority of people who want to buy nail varnish bypass search entirely and go straight to Amazon, Google and Facebook have a huge problem. The same is true if developers go straight to Stack Overflow, people looking for rooms go straight to AirBNB, people moving around cities go straight to Uber, etc, then Google and Facebook will have no one to sell ad space to any more.

I'm not about to suggest Google and Facebook are doomed; they both have talent enough to think of ways to meet these challenges. I would however suggest that they are not too big to fail.
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Yeah! I loved getting those MSDN discs in the mail and seeing what was new.

I have to say I miss the old VS6 MSDN days. It was so much simpler then with just a bunch of help files.

It is crazy that today documentation is still such a weak point. I just want clean documentation that I can format how I want (user style sheets) with lots of solid example code.