skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: I misread the initial post, but still think what I wrote is reasonably relevant. Had I been Satoshi (and I'm not), I would have no trouble not talking about it.

I think this is unlikely. I think it is much more likely that he deleted his keys -- on purpose. Despite the common "Bitcoin was created as a scam" sentiment, I see very little evidence of this. Satoshi appears to have just been a very idealistic person who thought that he was doing something useful. From the beginning he said that he shouldn't hang on to those initial coins because it would undermine the validity of the currency. Out of curiosity I've read through a fair amount of the original dev forum archives (I forget where they are, but I'm sure they are not hard to find -- last time I looked I found them right away). As far as I can tell, it is what it appears to be. Which is not, of course, to say that there aren't plenty of scammers in the Bitcoin world. It just seems that Satoshi wasn't one of them.
I think the point is that positive examples do exist, not that there are no negative examples.
Real-time bidding for ride sharing would be pretty cool, across any number of services and independents. A regulatory mess for sure, but as we're seeing, the extant players already constitute a regulatory mess.
Maybe a device could detect the change in radiation when a card gets dealt (moved closer/farther from the player).
I can't be sure, but it might be this: https://www.google.se/search?q=ISBN+9780201515060
> Who is going to spend 5 years writing a novel if they can only sell one copy?

Hopefully no-one. Apparently there is no value to that novel unless resources are spent protecting it.

We see today things that in a non-copyright world would not exist. But we dont see the things that would exist instead ,so its hard to know.
Unlike almost every other 3D WebGL (or Canvas) demo that gets posted on HN, smartphones were clearly given due consideration and hence this demo works beautifully in Chrome on my ageing Galaxy S6, including dragging around and using a zoom gesture to toggle viewpoint. Very impressed!
>That's precisely the sort of thing that most manufacturers don't want, because a battery designed to last effectively forever means less recurring revenue on replacements.

That's ridiculous, tinfoil hat thinking. Longer cycle life = cheaper battery = higher profit + happier consumer.
Their billions are liquid and can be used to buy protection (secluded homes, private transportation), Satoshi's aren't (in so far as he hasn't liquidated them).
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because that's like going to the pool and pretending you went to the beach. That basically ruins everything good about the internet. Who would ever buy a white-list only internet plan without a gun to their head?
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I'll give you my 3 favorites of the year:

- The Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard. The shooting of Garfield is the framing of this book. It covers a time period I knew such little about (~1880s), so I learned so much reading it. Just a crazy, interesting story in many ways.

- The Forever War, by Filkins. Sort of a series of vignettes by a reporter covering Afghanistan, then Iraq during the war. I still don't know what to think / feel about it, but I've recommended the book several times.

- Barbarians at the Gate, by Burroughs, Helyar. A classic that I put off reading for years because I thought it would be a slog (it's sort of long), but I finished in a week. I love business history / case study books, and this is one of the most famous, for good reason. If you like this also check out Predator's Ball, which I read this year. It's about Milken and the junk bond era.
Why? You're not an employee, you're a concerned citizen. You havr no obligations to vendors whatsoever. Now, I think it's nice to do responsible disclosure, and I certainly don't envy the people whose week has been ruined, but the discoverer of this bug did nothing wrong.
>No one likes to talk about that though, they like to demonize bitcoin which actually does something gold could never do.

Just playing devils advocate, but you can't replicate/duplicate gold. On the other hand I could create 21M cryptocoins on a blockchain (calling them Bitcoin2 or even just Bitcoin if it pleases). I can make them function identically, similarly or more efficiently than Bitcoin. I can create a new blockchain (network) or put these coins on an existing blockchain (say the Ethereum blockchain). How much would you pay for all 21M Bitcoin? How much would you pay me to create you 21M Bitcoin2 and transfer 100% of them to you?

You say Bitcoin is $10k because ordinary people understand why a decentralized asset is the ultimate safe haven. If that is your premises it makes little sense to compare Bitcoin to gold, compare Bitcoin to other currencies. Why does Litecoin = $100 and Ether = $500? Bitcoin may do something gold could never do, obviously, but can it do anything any other cryptocoin/token can't?

The real irony is cryptocoins and blockchains couldn't even exist without gold, because it is a necessary component in the machines that created bitcoin, that hosts blockchain nodes, mines, hosts wallets and facilitates transactions.
money laundering is legitimising illicit profits but disguising them as legitimate income. none of the examples above fits this definition.actually, it is the opposite - protecting your legitimate gains from illegitimate actions of government.
I had an interesting experience recently. I ordered a cheap $20 multimeter from Amazon (which was highly rated on EEVblog), which was shipped from China. Interestingly, the Chinese seller shipped me a single little worthless plastic packet of heat-shrink remote control covers (which somewhat humorously I can imagine totally being a thing in Asia, heat-shrink-wrapping all the remotes in plastic, sort of like a couch in plastic). This was what the tracking number package was for, and so I immediately hit my bookmark to chat with an Amazon rep to report fraud. I went through all the motions, they refunded me the amount, I left a negative review. But then that night, I got an email from the seller saying "That was your free gift, the multimeter should be there soon" and indeed, the actual multimeter showed up the next day, albeit with another tracking number. The multimeter was definitely shipped from China the same as the garbage package (via epacket, the subsidized, dirt cheap, glacially slow shipping method), so the seller had to have shipped the stupid garbage package at around the same time as the actual product I ordered. Other reviews mentioned the exact same thing ("They sent me garbage, but I got the thing in another package").

I've spent time thinking about what kind of fraud they're committing, because it doesn't make sense to me why they would send the garbage package with the tracking number from my order -- which screams fraud -- but then also send me the actual thing I ordered. They're sending two packages to the same address, but it doesn't make sense why, since they're obviously not committing the most straightforward kind of fraud ("We shipped the item, you can see the tracking number", which incidentally, only works on eBay and not Amazon).
I heard a rumor that it will hit 1 trillion dollars. It sounded legit.
Are we going get every other bitcoin price milestone on the frontpage now?

Earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796503

Then two days ago for 9k:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15782222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15786821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779933

at 7k:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15609264
Anyone have thoughts on exams that require a passing grade to serve in Congress? I.e. demonstrate certain levels of knowledge in order to participate in certain conversations with new bills listing requirements at top thereby eliminating the ability to vote if that Congress person has not met the minimum?

I realize this may be a bit off topic but my thought is that if more people in Congress (or other agencies/departments/commissions) understood technology they may behave differently, same goes for other areas.

Thoughts?
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We do not yet have chatbots. What we do have are publicly-facing undocumented nondeterministic command line interfaces which expect the user to guess the right commands. This interface further insults the user by pretending to be a person.
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I'm not clear on the the details, but if you wanted to look in to it a lot stems from their "Tether" crypto currency which is supposedly backed by real US Dollars, but many suspect that they created new unbacked "tethers" to buy and bid-up BTC.

In a sense people are worried that they're literally making up money on the promise they have US Dollars so they can buy up BTC and sell it to maybe regain the missing USD? Unclear.

Need to remember that this is the same place, I believe, that was "hacked" and they spread the losses across all their customers if their costs were actually lost or not. Details have been hard to come by which is where the suspicion seems to have really started.
iOS 13 and Android 11 future killer feature: When the user leaves work, turn off all email notifications as well as any notification from a non-family contact (including the addictive red "1" in the corner of app icons on the home screen).

Turn it back on whenever the user is back at work or at 9 on the next weekday.
Agreed. Just asked my wife, “What’s Bitcoin?” and she replied, “What? Sounds like a game. I’m trying to work.”
Currency is currency because it transfers value efficiently. Outlawed currencies are not very efficient at transferring value. Fiat (lawful) currencies are more efficient by default. The digitization and decentralization of currency allows for the introduction of a non-fiat, hard-to-outlaw competitor which is more efficient than fiat in many contexts. Maybe not all contexts, but enough to give it value.
AppSync has comprehensive Auth functionality including both AWS IAM and Amazon Cognito, plus FGAC capabilities for you to implement custom rules: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/security...
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But if you have his private key you still need to convert the Bitcoins. This isn't easy to do anonymously, as can be seen with Alexander Vinnik's arrest. If someone actually robbed Satoshi and let him live, he'd probably alert the world and the wallet would be watched like a hawk. And even if he's dead or unaware of the theft, a lot of people will notice of Satoshi's Bitcoins start being transferred.
Realtime capabilities in AppSync are controlled by the developer with an event-based model using GraphQL Subscriptions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/real-tim...
Oh, you're stateless? In that case you should be able to get in to many countries on a humanitarian/refugee visa right?
Add a few examples of known / easy-to-grasp algorithms: sorting, processing of a stream / tree / graph, a concurrent interaction, some easy parsing, etc. A few examples on which your language shines, shows some of the key features that make it different and worth learning.

Also, aesthetics do play a role: if your language is excessively hard to parse, or your examples contain a lot of copy-paste, etc, it might be a legitimate turn-off. It may be worth tolerating if other features are great. E.g. something like computing a convex hull of 2D points in APL or J may look terrible for an untrained eye, but you can nevertheless notice that it's like 40-50 characters total.
Hedge funds, family offices, etc.. $250M isn't all that much. Arrington is trying to raise a $100M crypto fund, Novogratz is raising a $500M one.
Ignoring the fact that this is never going to happen, it also is a unrealistic expectation. Not everyone can be a expert on everything but has to trust their colleagues and staffers on how to vote on some issues.
I agree. We used this architecture in Apache CouchDB, and it can also be seen in the Lucene fulltext index.

The only downfall is needing enough free space to perform the copy.
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I heard pretty much the same bs when it hit 5k. And now, oh boy, when is it going to hit 100k now.
DynamoDB is just one of the data sources that you can use, and any of them can be used for Realtime data with GraphQL subscriptions as well as authorization schemes:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/tutorial...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/real-tim...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/security...
I'd like to see Bitcoin gain more utility as a payment platform. I'm hoping that CME's plan to offer futures contracts gives merchants the stability they need to offer products priced in BTC online.
We would probably use this tomorrow (replacing self managed Rabbit MQ instances) if celery/kombu supported ActiveMQ. Might be the service that generates the volunteers needed to add ActiveMQ support to Kombu. (Not ruling out attempting this myself either).
> I wish Bitcoin was as decentralized as everyone says it is.

I'm trying to cash out some of mine and I've been downloading the blockchain for four days now. I had to buy a new hard drive before I could even start. I've read that it takes over an hour to do a transaction now, although I'm not yet in a position to verify that. If you look on the btc related subreddits nobody recommends using a proper client as Satoshi intended, it's all about accounts on websites offering a service that could reasonably be described as "banking".
totally agree knowing unix stuff is really handy, but mac has all that stuff there too. all it's missing is X and custom window managers (and you can even run that, if you really want to).
You'd need to get it while you had a chance (see China, Japan, Korea making massive volumes and for a while a lot of the price gains). Once it all freezes up then all you can do is work/trade/exchange for the BTC or USD from those who have it just like it probably always has in situations like that.

Except now they can't literally come take the USD nor can they freeze in-country or off-shore banks so if that's a real scenario for you BTC is a pretty nice deal.
Bitfinex controls Tether, a single source cryptocurrency supposedly backed by and pegged to the US dollar. The market cap of Tether has risen $188 million dollars to $678 million in one month:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

If Tether is what they say it is, this can only come from investments of US dollars. Ie nearly $400 million dollars of investment in one month.

On November 21 Tether announced a hack in which they lost $30 million.

Bitfinex is extremely likely to be insolvent at this point. Users are complaining of an inability to withdraw funds on Reddit, and Bitfinex's Twitter has a days old announcement of a supposed DDoS attack, with no updates:

https://twitter.com/bitfinex

https://www.reddit.com/r/bitfinex/comments/7g8cp3/eth_withdr...

Tether has been traded on other exchanges for other cryptos, meaning that these other cryptos have been inflated by purchases with fake money.

This is a good outline of the scenario I think is about to play out:

https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/11/26/the-bear-case-for-crypto...

Bitfinex'ed is an anonymous Twitter and Medium account that is explaining the Tether fraud much better than I can:

https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed
Which is why it is exciting that Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA are part of the Alliance for Open Media.
I vividly remember when it crashed down from around 900 a few years ago and the /r/bitcoin subreddit literally had suicide hotlines pinned.
+1 vote for Heroku.

Re: spending a little money, Scaleway has some the cheapest servers I've seen & would consider using. 2.99 Euros (3.54 USD as of now) for a server w/ 2GB of RAM & 50GB of storage is a pretty solid deal (if it works well, and I haven't heavily used it). Pricing info at https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/.

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Derivative work is still infringement.
Where did you get that the statue is a memorial to the struggle of Korean women? It depicts women of multiple countries. The problem of comfort women wasn't restricted to Korea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women#China
It's legally recognized, in some places, as a currency and is not backed by anything physical. What more do you need?
I have theory regarding "underestimated the populist movement" - Anything which is highly publicized and talked about whole day gets stuck in people's mind. And if that something is portrayed as taboo people get more attracted to it.

I think it is in everyone's favor to ignore and not give credence to things like these. There is an article on how Finland has been able to achieve this:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/why-is-finland-able-to-f...

For people wanting to see a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwAzU5ji-CM
Gold is used to make physical things, like jewelry and electronics.
What? It seems like you are just changing the subject here? I thought you disagreed with the idea of my grandparent post, but it seems that now you want to say that bitcoin is a fiat currency?
Yikes, thought we learned that implicit implicits are a bad idea.
And in the same vein, does this encroach on some use cases for FPGA?
Copying GC is actually very compelling for the right use case (and in fact was part of the standard JVM GC model until it switched over to G1GC). It's particularly useful when you have small, fixed sized objects (hello there cons cell!) and low survivorship (hello eden space!). In the right use case it also helps performance because it increases cache locality.
This whole place has lost its collective mind on the subject of crypto.
I was just able to reproduce it in 10.13.1. I had to click submit twice.
The article doesn't even answer the question; it just lists obvious alternatives.
Is this confirmed though?

Were they using ARM? ( Proberly, but may not be in everything they use )
Are they switching over from ARM?
Or simply moving their inhouse controller to RISC-V?

The one time license fee were suppose to be a lot cheaper if you are shipping in billions of unit.

Because if they are switching from ARM, I think of it as ARM being lazy and not winning the battle they ought to win, purely from a business perspective.
It also means you can have a much dumber allocator, which is particularly helpful if you do a lot of allocations that never survive long enough to need to be moved.
Honestly that kind of extra feature was a bit of a hindrance when learning Haskell. Always felt like I was learning the wrong style no matter which style I went with.
Would you please give a practical example for your last point (graph databases)?
Surely even with parallel programming being notoriously hard to get right it's most probably easier than FPGA programming.
It's total bullshit when people say that all the countries without central banks were the ones being attacked by the US military, north korea has a central bank, Libya has had a central bank continuously since the 1950s.

The fact that this type of fake news is so heavily proliferated and believed damages the ability of working institutions to keep their legitimacy.
> In the case before the court, Timothy Carpenter’s cellular provider supplied investigators a record of his smartphone’s whereabouts. The pings placed Carpenter in the vicinity of several armed robberies in Ohio and Michigan. Now behind bars, he is asking the justices to find this a violation of his Fourth Amendment right to be safe from warrantless searches of his private domain.

What is this bullshit?! Next a guy will murder somebody in the woods and return home in a bus. And the bus driver cannot tell the police he saw the guy on that route at such time? Have people gone insane over "privacy"?
That is an interesting argument. These guys are selling financial products that are explicitly not pro bitcoin (yet). If they see value in bitcoin then they would probably pump them. That is most likely too soon. In a few years you will probably hear that bitcoin is a hedge against global instability. It might be rational for oil to trade in bitcoin. It's also a big way for the Chinese to get money out as well as the Russians. North Korea has nothing to lose with bitcoin unless it pisses off the Chinese and Russians.
I'm also going to really recommend putting images on Amazon S3 (or Google's equivalent). If you get a good library to handle this, you can also get nicely resized thumbnails as well.

When using volumes, you are are going to constantly have to deal with mapping and rebuilding these as you grow. S3 is just set and forget.
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Those companies no longer exist so the stock value==0.
I'm ok with Edge and Bing being the default "web tab" providers for this new tab functionality, but I'll be instantly changing it for a different browser and search engine. If it's not possible to change this I'll probably ignore tabs entirely until it is.
Well.. this story directly provides an answer (potentially) -they get an additional marginal ranking benefit inside some market appraisal score because they double their international successful completion count, for low marginal cost of posting negligible weight content to you successfully. The benefit to them is fraud, but not against you: its against the ranking engine inside some digital marketplace like alibaba. You are an unrelated third party who validates (by accepting) delivery. Since you don't know if the package is shrinkwrap "free gift" or the $20 meter, you accept. Are you willing to monty-hall reject the random package :-)
IANAL, but there have been laws on the book prohibiting bartering in any substantial amount for a while. Of course, the IRS is not going to chase you down for swapping with your neighbor, but large scale "bartering" is definitely frowned upon. What's to stop people bartering a yacht for a house and avoid taxes?
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One should view with great suspicion any limit on anyone's access to government. Limits are easily bent to suit the will of whomever is in power.

If Congresspeople aren't doing a good job, it is on us attempt to convince our representatives to change their minds. If that fails, it is on us to vote them out, and to convince others to vote in superior candidates.
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Congress is becoming a non factor. The amount of pettiness and partisianship over the past few years had made Congress into the de factor weakest branch of government. Most of Obama's legacy was executed via executive order and guidance given to executive departments, a year into the Trump administration and we are seeing the same thing.

The other big decisions (gay marriage, citizens United, etc.) are being made by the courts, and despite the fact that Congress has to confirm judges (which is less daunting now that the judicial fillibuster is removed) Congress has become so partisan that you can get anyone confirmed with 50 Senators (+1 VP for a tiebreaker).

We have so many pressing challenges ahead and we need new laws for this country to adapt, it's disheartening to see that Congress is not up for the task.