skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could he sell (I'm ignorant of BTC details) to John Doe like I could sell a chunk of Citibank stock to someone? Presumably some known and trustworthy investor says he's looking to buy $xx Million worth BTC and Satoshi responds.

Then he's just another rich person, holding cash, not BTC coins that can be taken after a serious beat down.
Yet another case of Betteridge's law.
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But WheresGeorge tracks $1 bills, which probably turn over in a business's cash register and get returned to random people as change more often than they go back to the bank.
i couldn't turn the sarcasm up any more,
so i guess i'll just have to turn it off. ;+)

-bowerbird
I would like to have UndistractMe [0] for fish. However, I am not sure if it is possible to hook into or wrap command execution. You know a command has finished, when a new prompt is shown. However, how do you start the clock?

Tried posting this to the fish mailinglist, but moderation pending for weeks now.

[0] http://mumak.net/undistract-me/
I will happily sell ídentifying info about a few dozen people with a lot more net worth than satoshi....

http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/
I have been developing with rails for a couple years, though I am comfortable with python I've never touched django because I haven't had to and one thing I will say is that the rails asset pipeline documentation is something I constantly return to. The asset pipeline provides a lot of functionality but not a lot of simplicity or management of complexity. If what you wish you had from rails is the asset pipeline you are either either an expert with with rails api or you are seeing things greener on the other side of the fence.

I don't mean to insult the asset pipeline, it provides a lot. But it definitely doesn't save you hours. Out of the box the asset pipeline is great for all the things that come for free but if you are doing a lot of development in the framework you probably return to the asset pipeline documentation on a regular basis. And I consider time spent in documentation a negative compared to time finding your own solution if the API is not intuitive and you find yourself consistently returning to the docs about similar problems. And let me tell you, plenty of my fellow Rails devs have said to me they also regularly return to the asset pipeline docs.
It's perfectly reasonable. There is already an interface for recalling previous commands, and an interface for editing the command line. Combining them to issue a variation of a previous command is the logical thing to do. Having a completely wacky alternate syntax for the specific operation of "put the whole previous command in this place surrounded by new text" is a wart. It's like the irregular English syntax that you hate so much, except that in this case there's still time to fix it, because bash hasn't been around that long.
State governments get their money by taxing their citizens. They get it by forcibly taking it from people just like you and I.
Engineering Failure? Huge Blast at Texas Fertilizer Plant
As an anecdotal counterpoint, I didn't know this was an advert. I close the video 2 minutes in because of the irritating music.
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Been waiting for somebody to explain how that could be possible.
Hah, that's very cool. I came up with this as an idea for a short story a couple of days ago (except slightly more drastically, as it involved the complete annihilation of humanity on a failure condition, allowing the practitioner to drag everyone else with him into his preferred outcome-world). I'm simultaneously pleased and displeased that someone's already given it a lot of thought.
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https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/324728967917625344

60 or 70 people dead. Seven died in Challenger. I think this takes the cake.
Now someone could to step up and form a band called 'Santiago Swallow' following this micro-hype.
> Frankly, I hear so much of this "oh that'll never do anything and it just makes people disillusioned" nonsense about ALL levels of engagement ("protesters are hurting their own cause!" "it's just a staffer who reads your letter!" "no one cares what you say!") that I'm extremely skeptical of all such claims.

But there are examples of those types of protests working. Have the petitions ever done anything (other than the death star one which gave the gov't some PR points)?

The activism that happened last year with SOPA actually took effort & targeted the people who were able to act on it. Right now, the petition site seems to be handled exclusively by the White House's PR team.
Idea: to reduce littering in ATMs
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This is absolutely crazy. I will tell my professor, and hopefully we can do a case study on how to prevent explosions like these.
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Fish is not a POSIX shell and does not try to be one. In contrast, bash, zsh, and others are supersets of the original sh and backwards-compatible. Fish is not.

For example the exit code of the previous command, instead of POSIX $?, you can get it as $status.
off-topic, this _Medium_ platform seems to mangle all outgoing urls…
One could retort that technically any crime is a form of (non-computer) black hat hacking.
Harder for management to rip people off by underpaying them.
HS may have evolved into the HN of India because of Prateek's efforts but it has still retained its own identity.
Thanks for summing up the story till now so succinctly.
Right ... and US companies are always ethical, and have always been that way? Or US companies have simply been burt so many times that they know not to play loose with the truth.

It's probably worth noting that Korea "chaebol" (conglomerates) can be a little odd. They have a lot of power over the local government and media, so they end up thinking they are invincible. They are sometimes said to be very shady, at times.
What makes you say it's just a myth?
Switch banks. Go to one that will e-mail you a receipt as an option and learns your preferences for frequently-accessed options. "Deposit check, mail me the receipt with images". "Withdraw $40 cash, mail me the receipt". Both are buttons I can get right on the PIN screen.

Yep, instead of hitting OK, I can just tap a button which will log me in, do the transaction, spit out the card, and do whatever I asked it to do.
No "developers of bitcoin" have disputed Sergio's findings.

The 2 persons who are disputing Sergio's findings (gmaxwell and DeathAndTaxes) are the minority. I personally agree with Sergio, I understand his analysis technique, and I have read his previous supporting arguments.

gmaxwell was for example making incorrect claims, saying you would need 50+ computers to mine at ~5 Mhash/s (average hashrate throughout 2009) because CPU and code at the time was not optimized. I proved gmaxwell wrong by benchmarking an early version of Bitcoin and showing a 5-year old $200 4-core Phenom was able to do 5 Mhash/s. This validates Sergio's theory that Satoshi could have very well represented the majority of the mining hashrate with a single computer throughout 2009.
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Yes it will be a lot less than 30k unique visitors but don't take the 1 million+ alexa rank too seriously. In this case it probably just means that a lot of their traffic are non-technical users that don't use the Alexa plugin. Just installing the alexa plugin in their own browsers could get their alexa rank to 700,000. Just speculation from my experience.
That's a really poor article, just pictures and no facts.

BBC w/ ongoing coverage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22195495

CNN w/ ongoing coverage: http://us.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/texas-explosion/index.html?h...

The casualty reports are all over the place, sources are saying anywhere from 2 to 70 killed; 60 to 200 injured. Nearby buildings and homes destroyed. There is a nursing home right next to it, fate currently unknown. Regardless, a real tragedy.
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> Unless Warg had any experience with this platform or some sort of inside help, I highly doubt this allegation.

He has knowledge and experience with z/OS.

And in the general case, I totally agree with lawnchair_larry. Also, if there is a big enough incentive to find security flaws they will be found, even in rather obscure systems.

Though that doesn't make him guilty until proven otherwise.
Thanks a lot - it's really appreciated!
A certain segment has been raiding for copper for a long time. An old building I worked in in downtown Sacramento was flooded because someone stole the copper water pipes on the next building over -- shooting water into our building. This was back in like 2008/2009.
Der, why did they filter naughty words in the client?
It somewhat feels like there's some political purpose behind the choices. Kansas, Utah, Texas - all big GOP strongholds. Hmm.
Lobbyists earning their money.
I do run the site, and you can email me at lexsebro@stanford.edu if there's anything else you want to add, or to continue the conversation privately.

Yip - I need to add a favicon, and I've been playing with the amount of content to figure out if shorter pages convert better than longer pages - the jury's still out on that one. Each content section is meant to answer a question that people asked themselves when looking at my site and talking out loud.

I always appreciate advice - thanks for taking a second to look things over and give me yours.
"If Satoshi attempts to spend his coins"

I recommend Satoshi to spend his coins by depositing them to a Bitcoin ATM and withdrawing cash - this should be completely anonymous :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU3vht4LTZI

Edit: Or he can use one of the bitcoin "mixer" services. Or send a fraction of them to an online wallet, and withdraw (most online wallets just mix all their users' coins). Or he can create transactions moving coins around, pretending they are being spent from user to user, until he spends them one time (and the recipient sees a chain of 100 transactions between a block presumably originating from Satoshi, he would simply claim he received them through someone else). Etc.
I believe its not difficult to find Satoshi Nakamoto. However admitting that you found this person/entity would likely put you in danger. So there is no motivation for the people who might know to speak up.

I believe that most large governments do know the identity.
It's a propaganda piece, not a commentary.

It's brilliant because it is framed as if this is some kind of informal experiment, which is all that is needed to tap into the insecurities of women that have self-esteem issues. Even rational women will be affected by this (just as rational men would be should it be targeted at men).

The brilliant thing about this advert is that it captures the audience with intrigue, and then breaks down the "facts" while at the same time telling women to really feel more beautiful than they think they are. What this does is it gets buy-in from the audience so that when the advert proposes soap and cleanliness to further the idea of beauty.

In one study[0] about persuasion, it was found that when you try to advertise or sell a product, making statements or representing a world view that the audience can agree with first will make them more likely to agree with you when you then pitch them the product.

As for the "honesty" of this, a real study is posted elsewhere in this thread that points to the contrary.

[0] http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/10-0352%20The%20R...
Now if they could bake them like this, I could see that fad taking off...
This entry made me smile. First, the title with its language caught my eye. Then, as I reached the end of the line and saw the domain name, my tired and sleepy face broke into a full-bodied grin.

fish is my most-favorite tongue-in-cheek technical blogger ever. He doesn't blog too often, but they're almost always very useful (and very witty!) gems.

(Hint: you can find out who he really is by reading far back enough.)
I'll try to make it.
It's hard to enforce one's rights under the Equal Pay Act without knowing if there's a salary disparity.

BTW, it's not like this knowledge makes things significantly worse in the workplace. Government employee salaries are public, and where I live now (Sweden), all salaries are public. The newspaper even publishes each year the top wages in the local area.
They didn't -- the list was sent from the server, because "this list might need to be updated dynamically, in case someone on the Internet managed to think up a new word for sex."
I think most people don't care about karma farmers, but I think you'll agree that karma farmers' submissions often increase the noise rather than the signal.
I suspect that a lot of people mostly don't want to confront potentially unpleasant truths about how their employer values them in a relative sense.

Probably a self-confidence thing as much as anything.
I love how cable news now is juts basically youtube videos looping over and over and amateur photos because they have zero in-field reporter budgets. Opinion and talking heads are far cheaper and people watch anyway.

Cannot wait until corporate news loses all power.

As far as broadcast news, why exactly are we giving them airspace?

But they are thrilled, just incredibly relieved, they have something else to talk about since they ran out of facts about Boston two days ago. I mean it's not like any hope for national gun control was completely thrown out the window today.
Coworker pay is irrelevant. The contract is between you and your employer.

I've seen people tie themselves in terrible knots over this. It's a losers' game. Instead of getting organised and creating the life they want, they take the lazy option and get caught up over what people in their immediate context are doing.

When you apply for work, you need to have a good idea of what you're worth in the broader market, and what kind of work environments you'd like. Having done that, look broadly, negotiate thoroughly, and get something that works for you. When you're not happy, make new arrangements.
Regarding the HR comment, the Fair Labor Standards Act forbids employers from forbidding employees from discussing their salaries.
and all this time I thought "shat" was being polite
And they say topology is useless!
Job market is just like any other market - governed by supply and demand. Currently, it is not efficient. In fact, not even close to being efficient. This is because, a key characteristic of an efficient market is perfect sharing of information.

This is why ending Salary Secrecy is a good thing - for both the employer and employee. It might seem that the employer is most affected (as the article suggests), but that is not always true. If there is an equally talented person who is not paid well, someone would eventually make a better offer. He would take that offer thinking that his current company would never pay that well.

While tweeting your salary might be quite unlikely, most employees today don't mind sharing their salary details with their friends. It simply helps to understand what the market demand is and improves efficiency of a broken system.
There's no way those ATMs are stocked with enough cash for him to withdraw even a small percentage. I guess he could withdraw some every day, and probably live quite well on that income; but coming back to an ATM over and over wouldn't be so great for anonymity.
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Since everyone's saying Satoshi can't spend any of these bitcoins without revealing him/her/itself, my question is why can't Satoshi convert the bitcoin to USD in a numbered swiss bank account? Is there no way to make a sale like that today? And if not, then what's stopping there from being a way to do that in the next few years?
Who Is John Galt?

Considering the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin, the people it attracts and who most likely funded the creation of it, this inevitable question and its alluding nature is a laugh riot.
I don't understand. Choose points (0,0) (0,1) (1,0) (1,2) (2,1) (2,2). What line contains three points?

Diagram:

_OO

O_O

OO_

e: oh, not a point in the original set, any integer point. thanks!
Yeah but couldn't they just do the filtering in the server itself? Just like the Zbody hack?
The list sent was supposed to be used by the client to filter. What I think the OP is suggesting is that they should have just filtered server side not client side.
"It's better for you to be kept in the dark about co-worker's salaries. It is better you be ignorant of it. Knowing too much is a 'bad habit'. It's none of your business. Just sit at your desk and code. It's better when you go get your yearly raise that your management chain holds all the cards and information, and that you are ignorant and isolated."

Thanks for the advice.
I happened to be (unfortunately) watching the coverage on CNN. Sanjay Gupta...a DOCTOR said

"just about any chemical you can think of is at some point in a fertilizer plant"

When you have nothing factual to talk about, ratchet up the fear to keep the viewers on baited breath.
The line segment described by (0,0) (2,2) goes through the integer point (1,1).
If there's enough financial incentive for services like Klout (http://klout.com/home) then presumably there are two subsets of the people targeted, one who want fake followers to be counted, one who would love to be able to show "I'm legit!"
You chose 6 points, and there are 3 line segments among them containing (1,1).
Its only a matter of getting used to. If you have been doing this, and you think your competitors are also doing it, after some time, you will (conveniently) forget that it was wrong to begin with.
The list was maintained on the server, but filtering was done in the client. That's why it had to be sent to the client on every log in.
I think the question might be better put this way:

Pick 5 random points on an infinite plane. Draw lines between all of them. One of those lines will contain another integer point. Prove this is true for every set of 5 random points.
That's cute. Quite the shadow of the doubt you have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_electronic_surveillance_pro...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

But move along, nothing to see here!
It is shocking how much they burned through. $900,000 per vehicle sold (at a $70,000 invoice price)!

Thing is, if the government thought like a VC and figured its loans to Solyndra, Fisker and Tesla as strategic investments in an alternative energy future, then would 1 for 3 look as bad? I don't know that it does or doesn't, but certainly the arguments against bailing out Fisker and Solyndra and blowing a lot of tax payer money are the same as for not bailing out Tesla, which I think (and I may prove to be wrong over time) is looking like it could become a significant win for US industry in the long run, and probably well worth bailing out.

When you consider the sheer volume of dollars spent on Detroit's auto industry and the fossil fuel industry these numbers look much better in perspective.
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s/KDE/CDE/ ?
really!!! keep me posted brah!

>Please read the comment guidelines.
It might be true on a OS that lacks a good file notification API. Haiku on the other hand has a very good notification system, so the package manager will step in and take care of unpacking, mounting, managing and download dependencies. Same for uninstalling.

Here is a good description from the developers: http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmadia/2012-08-20_brief_summary...
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Given how explosive nitrogen compounds are (they all want to turn back into N2 gas, some of them more badly than others), I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
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Gaaah, I hate Quartz's site design.
quote: "Finally, there are two things that I would change. First, you can't frame the photo before it shoots. When you say "ok glass, take a picture," it just takes a picture without a delay. The camera obviously has very different optics than your eye so I found myself taking about three photos to get the one I wanted. "
I think you missed the part about "we know you are clean".

Both banks and bitcoin business regulate themselves mostly arbitrarily. On top of whatever rules they have to follow.

Then we are basically subject to competition, and banks have a limited amount of that. This places most of the power on their side and against the user.
Best guess is blatant disregard for safety procedure, like Chernobyl.

This comment sums it up, http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cktrt/fertilizer...
I very much doubt you'll get a useful answer. As you can see the person is hung up on a black/white/pedantic point of the use of the word lie up top. He won't be satisfied by anything less than absolutes.

While some were truly evil, I tend to believe that Bush wanted to believe it enough that he convinced himself of it. The human mind is a subject of its own.
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And Erik Demaine is the son of the prodigal Martin Demaine. It seems that some mathematicians are good at communicating their passion to their children.
Perhaps they did filter messages on the server as well. The client side word-list could be used for display purposes only, so if the user typed a censored word, the client could update the display with that word redacted and without waiting for a round-trip to the server.
A good insight on tools and services in the Twitter ecosystem.
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Hopefully this causes some heads to roll: "West fertilizer plant said in report that it presented no risk": http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20130417-west...
If you're going to spam the system, why not just use Win32 API's and control their client like a zombie instead of trying to play the cat and mouse game reverse engineering their protocol?

You can send instructions to manipulate the client and have it do what you want almost as easily as you could if you knew their protocol. And that's without all the cat and mouse headaches.
I'd be interested in seeing compile times. In a talk posted recently Rob Pike seemed to be kind of emphasizing #include inefficiencies and bytes read by compiler to bytes of source input ratios for C/C++, and how was better at this.
Of course. He would travel around the world, from city to city, to hit all the ATMs worldwide over his lifetime without ever running out :)
This is a really sad event for the locals considering Waco is a rather small town of about 126,000 people, the plant hired a lot of people. I think the saddest part of all of this is the comments on most of the news articles you read about the explosion (including the one linked). People are drawing all sorts of conclusions from it being related to the Boston bombing incident to it being an attack by North Korea and arguing over trivial-political nonsense that doesn't even relate to the story.

The explosion is probably one of the scariest things you'll ever see, imagine being within a mere few hundred metres of the explosion and the amount of G's that would be emitted, for survivors who were close by I couldn't imagine anything more terrifying. My heart goes out to the locals in Waco and those who've lost family/friends.
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