skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be a plausible reading of the commerce clause in conjunction with the 10th amendment, but it is not the one currently in force.

In cases such as Wikard v Filburn and Raich v Gonzalez, the Supreme Court has held that Comgresses power to regulate extends to any activity which, in the aggregate, substantially effects interstate commerce. Such a test is trivially met by state laws forbidding the sale of automobiles directly from manufacturers to the public.
Spot on. Moving BTC between exchanges is a 30minute process. With sufficient cash in both accounts it wouldn't have been an issue.
I'm afraid I'm not misunderstanding you. Though I'm not trying to change your mind now either. I'll finish by suggesting you look up the technical definition of 'belief'. I haven't been discussing religion or philosophy.

Back to both sides trying to crush each other under the weight of law, I suppose. No surprises there.
I wonder if experiments have been done on this.

Limit it to the actions of doing nothing, of clicking/signing a petition, and writing a representative.

So, the question is if the likelihood of someone writing a representative is increased or decreased by the presence of an opportunity to click/sign a petition.

Sounds like the hypothesis here is that the satisfaction of signing a petition would reduce the odds of writing a representative, more than increase it. I could see it the other way though - maybe the civic engagement of caring enough to sign a petition would make it more likely that they'd contact a representative than they would have otherwise.

I wonder how the experiment could be structured? Maybe an educational/awareness web page, with a second step of an opportunity to contact a representative, while inserting the "sign-a-petition?" step in between?

There are some ecommerce people that believe that by giving buyers more-and-smaller steps to click through, it increases conversion, so who knows.
I’d love for you to invest, but I am not going to give you a “deck”
I'm not sure that people look at posting history even here, where posting is generally considered and careful.
If I had a botnet, I'd point the whole lot of them at this comment to get it upvoted more.
If this one person/entity really owns 63% of the market and their currently hoarding it, I imagine that anything they do with their coins could have a huge impact. It might be worth ~100M USD but if they tried to cash out it would likely collapse the market. Even if they start circulating those coins, if not done properly could cause huge inflation.
Reading the comments is not something I ever do anymore, except here and on Asymco. It makes you feel cleaner somehow.
StartupBus 2013 Day 5: Finals
I'm sure that if Congress really wanted to directly regulate the sell of automobiles, they can find a way to appeal to the constitution's commerce clause. I know the courts have tended leaned more towards the 10th amendment in recent decades, but they still tend to give the commerce clause a very broad interpretation.
Domain Names And Bitcoins: The Pricing Conundrum
PG himself posted a question on the origin of bitcoin. You can view the responses in the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423
> This kid was a Thiel Fellow and has spent the 100k he was rewarded (as part of the fellowship) to write and focus on education.

It's never been too clear to me what that Thiel fellow ever really accomplished. On the surface, it seems that he got his fellowship, dropped out, and has since made a tidy business out of talking about his experience. Maybe I'm being too harsh on the guy, but he strikes me as a self-help guru for the education sphere.

> I think my generation should make their own education. I personally dropped out of school to learn software, got accepted into Dev Bootcamp and will be continuing my education there. Don't ever let school stand in the way of your education.

Somewhat ironically, my interest in pursuing a full CS/EE education increased dramatically after attending DBC. Either way, congrats & good luck. I have nothing but praise for the staff there. I'm sure it will be a positive experience.
More like how to get a troll Twitter account suspended after you get too giddy and write an article about it.
You misread, it's not 63% of the market. Its about 10% of the market - 1148800 BTC
I don't think it's obvious that someone who clicks on a petition either would have otherwise sent a letter to a representative or would be discouraged from doing so in the future after the fact. Maybe engaging in small scale participatory democracy actually encourages people to engage in larger scales, for all you know.

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.

Maybe rather than tell people who engage that they're failing it would be more useful to encourage them to succeed more.
Along similar lines, Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow advises writing down your thoughts before entering a meeting as you are likely to be affected by the ensuing discussion. You can extend that logic to jobs, relationships, and any activity where you might want to observe your own bias.
From Wikipedia:

Fast Company's investigation brought up circumstantial evidence that indicated a link between an encryption patent application filed by Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry on 15 August 2008, and the bitcoin.org domain name which was registered 72 hours later. The patent application (#20100042841) contained networking and encryption technologies similar to bitcoin's. After textual analysis, the phrase "...computationally impractical to reverse" was found in both the patent application and bitcoin's whitepaper. All three inventors explicitly denied being Satoshi Nakamoto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Identity
How Diapers.com Solved the Chicken-and-egg Problem in the Early Days
Thats the million dollar question.

Satoshi invented Bitcoin and worked on it for 3 years. Sometime in 2010, just as Bitcoin was gaining traction, he* withdrew from the project and no one has been heard from him since.

There have been many attempts to discover the real identity of this person/group/company/government but to no avail.

I believe the focus of this new analysis technique, whilst interesting in its own right, was done for the primary purpose of trying to identify Satoshi. The analysis technique purports to show that certain bitcoins were generated by the same person/computer. This information may assist the tracing of historical bitcoin transactions to their original sources. At the top of the tree is the 'genesis' block - the source of the very first bitcoins. Its reasonable to think that Satoshi mined this block considering he invented the system.

There is a thread in the Bitcoin forums[1] discussing whether the initial blocks (up to around 50) were mined by an individual or a group. There is heated debate about what, if any, facts can be concluded by analysing the early blockchain events to discover how many (and what type) of CPUs were involved in this early stage.

Satoshi appears to have political motivations (he references distain for bailouts and fiat currency): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

The Bitcoin story would make a good movie script.

*he/she/they/...I

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.msg1843782#ms...
Lying is lying and not disclosing links is lying by omission. It's all personal preference but my line in the sand is pretty clear. If you eat to be ignored and derided, let someone else find your bias and kickback. Be up front and you will get a reputation for it. That's my 2c.
You changed the text, thus ruining the results, or at least, making them worthless with respects to measuring the success rate of the puppy.
Nice work! I think the "see pricing and plans" button should be located elsewhere. The first call-for-action button should have a clear benefit for the users. E.g. "Try our learning tools for free" or "Get a free trial" and with small letters for example "no credit card required".
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Wouldn't Satoshi have spent at least some Bitcoins? Testing the system, or encouraging early economic activity?

Although maybe this entity represents just one of the mining machines controlled by Satoshi.
One guy has an anecdote, then another guy has an anecdote.
Unless it was actually analyzed as part of the whole, its all speculation.
Not really the same thing. That you created an account just to say that makes me wonder if you are in fact a 'shill' yourself.
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If Satoshi attempts to spend his coins, this might reveal his identity. Which in turn would increase a risk of kidnapping/blackmailing/torture/etc from anyone willing to get a share of his stash. Same applies to his heirs in the future. My guess is that he may have deleted all the keys to early coins traceable back to him, just to avoid temptation.

He could have mined a lot of cheap coins in 2010-2011, though, so he's probably not without a big reward.
Makes sense. If what they want to do is index people.
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That one (and similar guides) really helps. When I started out programming and went to IRC for help people frequently pointed me to those tutorials. When I started to follow the gist of them, I got friendly answers all the time.

This goes both ways: If you're and expert annoyed by this moron who can't even state his question properly, point him to this tutorial and leave it at that.
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Now that someone's identified these coins people will watch them very closely. It's gonna be very difficult for Satoshi to ever get their millions out of the system.
trivia: vi hart is child of george hart. i guess awesome runs in that family.
IF you had the right hardware.
It's easy to do. There are a lot of jobs in the area. I'm getting contacted multiple times per week by recruiters.
The first transaction was to Hal Finney, as a test. But if he tries to buy something pointing to his physical address, it would help a lot revealing his identity. Even buying drugs on Silk Road, since they are delivered by mail to your door.
[doc] Housing for those displaced by West, Texas Explosion
Google doc of homes and rooms available for victims of West, TX explosion near Waco.
GigaOM Conference Hones in on Digital Content Dollars
Seatposts and rims seem to be easier to transport and hide in transit.

Common wisdom is a seatpost gets you about $10 which helps towards one's daily fix.

Actually bike theft around here falls into two categories -- high end that are shipped out of area quickly and low end which are chopped up and "recycled" for a quick buck.

Lots of the chop shops have been found of late due to a community effort to try and clean things up.
> I still disagree that bond prices are good forward looking indicators about the health of a national economy. From January to September 2009, yields on Greek bonds actually fell almost a point--by your criteria, seeming to indicate strengthening future prospects for the Greek economy. Instead we all know what happened next.

I would definitely not say that low eurobond yields on Greek debt is related to strengthening prospects in Greece. But rather an expected likelihood that Germany and the ECB would bailout Greece at terms favorable to bondholders.
It's Comcast and Century Link here, but I am so ready for them to be disrupted. I'm just 10 miles too far away. :(
OFFICIAL HOTLINE: 254-202-1100 is the official resource phone number at Hillcrest Scott & White in Waco. Please keep this line free unless you have loved ones in West, TX.

BLOOD DONORS TOMORROW: Hillcrest Scott & White in need of blood donors, but is asking that people wait until 9am Thursday due to currently being overwhelmed. Also the Carter Blood Care Center in Waco will be open & accepting blood donations starting at 9am Thursday as well.

---

Here is a list of locations open for shelter for the victims of the West explosion:

Texas State Technical State College in Waco
Blair's Cove Apartment in Waco
Gholson ISD
Gholson Baptist Church
Latham Springs Inn
Aquilla ISD
Alliance Auto Auction on I-35
Sykora Family Ford in West
Abbot Community Center
La Vega Veterinary Clinic - taking in small animals for the night

Pharmacy at the HEB on Woodway is open and the Home Depot in Bellmead has reopened tonight for anyone needing to buy supplies.
That's not different from all the hardware that bears the inscription "ENGINEERING SAMPLE - NOT FOR RESALE," other than the fact that they're promoted to a larger public (read: not developers that have drawers full of obsolete engineering samples). Some of that hardware is not the same hardware than the retail version and is essentially obsolete as soon as the retail version comes out, due to a different BOM between the sample and retail version and the fact that the manufacturer does not want to support the prototype version with updates.

It doesn't make any sense for Google to restrict the resale of the retail version, but at this point in time, Google Glass is not a product that is generally available. If they keep that restriction for the retail version, now that is news.
L Ron Hubbard
Exactly. Anyone who gets a payment from Satoshi with any identifying info (including "meet at midnight on a bridge"), would be tempted to sell it to gangsters for at least $10M.
I'm honestly a little surprised to find another Lehite here. We could have a two-person meet up. :)

On a side note, I added my name/zip code to the request page. Anything we can do to let them know there is demand further north is good.
I'm thinking of how is this any different from your standard "hey I got rich suddenly" situations (startup exit, a large contract as an athlete, etc)? Bitcoins themselves are hard to trace / anonymous, but once they are "out of the system", they will be in a regular financial institution and the situation is analogous to your regular internet millionaire.

I guess the thing is that he ows such a large fraction of the Bitcoins out there that he can't conceivable liquidate all his Bitcoins in a reasonable amount of time, thus exposing himself to a certain time period where he is known to have a large sum of Bitcoins that are by nature anonymously transferable to a kidnapper?

IMO such threats depend largely on where he lives. If he lives in highly affluent areas, then the typical security precautions and rich neighborhood surroundings used by fellow millionaires should be sufficient protection. There are plenty of "rich people" in the world who get by just fine without being kidnapped. Just wander over to your neighborhood Silicon Valley rich neighborhood, and you'll bump into plenty of 8~10 figure people.
Maybe having lots of money indicates that you have achieved self actualization by solving your most sophisticated needs ?
C = Some People

C ⊆ A
It's a ridiculous one-sided advantage to suppliers of labor if we keep our mouths shut. Perhaps by speaking "that which must not be spoken," we can make salary decisions more open and fair across the board.
Google doc of homes and rooms available for victims of West, TX explosion:
https://docs.google.com/a/willroman.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=...

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OFFICIAL HOTLINE: 254-202-1100 is the official resource phone number at Hillcrest Scott & White in Waco. Please keep this line free unless you have loved ones in West, TX.

BLOOD DONORS TOMORROW: Hillcrest Scott & White in need of blood donors, but is asking that people wait until 9am Thursday due to currently being overwhelmed. Also the Carter Blood Care Center in Waco will be open & accepting blood donations starting at 9am Thursday as well.

---

Here is a list of locations open for shelter for the victims of the West explosion:

Texas State Technical State College in Waco Blair's Cove Apartment in Waco Gholson ISD Gholson Baptist Church Latham Springs Inn Aquilla ISD Alliance Auto Auction on I-35 Sykora Family Ford in West Abbot Community Center La Vega Veterinary Clinic - taking in small animals for the night

Pharmacy at the HEB on Woodway is open and the Home Depot in Bellmead has reopened tonight for anyone needing to buy supplies.
Selling alcohol in violation of state liquor laws is one of the few ways a private individual can violate the US constitution.
Quoth the 21st Amendment:
"""
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
"""
Party game: substitute "any gun owner" and "shoots someone in the face".

This argument can be used against anything: Any man is law abiding until the point he starts beating his wife. Therefore we should have surveillance cameras in all houses...
Some context:

This blog post is written by Sergio Demian Lerner who has found a number of minor security vulnerabilities in bitcoin's source code.

His method of associating blocks to Satoshi's identity has been disputed by several developers of bitcoin.
> Welcome to the New World, one in which companies are retaining control of their products even after consumers purchase them.

A joke, right? After Amazon's removal of books remotely from Kindles and all those iSomething from Apple, Glass is far from being the first one.
As time goes by and Bitcoin becomes more widespread, it gets more expensive. Can you imagine a guy today with 5% of economy in wealth? Also, even if it is not economical to steal from him, there is usual level of paranoia that many crypto folks share.
I guess what you're overlooking is that there is little financial incentive to do this. No one makes money revealing fake identities; the money is in making them.
I'd feel much better if they explicitly forbid users from wearing this eyewear around children, in public toilets, beaches, swimming pools, shop changing rooms, or anywhere else its use could be utilized to fulfill a perversion (this assumes they have the camera). So basically, probably means they can just wear them at home.
I've had pain in my finger tips for over 3-4 years now; I haven't done anything about it.
I do notice, a couple days away from the computer entirely takes away the pain. But that is extremely rare in my life.
The pain can get pretty bad sometimes -- it comes not just from typing, but also from clicking my mouse and rolling the mouse wheel(!).
Excellent rebuttal. You had me convinced at "n".
That's probably a better way to put it. I guess the point is that EMH doesn't apply to BTC for some of the same reasons it doesn't apply to cars--both cars and currencies get much of their value from utility that's unrelated to the income flows they generate.
Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, Texas
Opinion......
For those who didn't click through to the article, this video is crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA

The explosion happens at 0:29.
To put it another way - any potential future competitor to UNIX will have to include UNIX, via a POSIX compatibility layer.

But that won't be enough, because of all the extensions to POSIX. So you really need a Linux compatibility layer (which we see that FreeBSD, for example, already has).

So, if you want to make a better UNIX, no matter how good your idea is - you have to implement Linux as well, in addition to all your great ideas. At that point, maybe your time would be better spent working on Linux directly.
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This equally true for a bunch of YC companies, like AirBnB and Dropbox, where the technical challenge is in dealing with scaling, but the actual innovation is in the product.
I agree, but I've been berated in the past for linking this. Maybe it comes off as a bit harsh?
Once you start getting into the thousands of volts, it becomes very dangerous. That stuff will arc through the air and kill you. There is a reason why we use a hundred or two volts in consumer appliances.
Makes me wonder: Is computing universes with a computer all that different from simulating universes with imagination?
The issue I see here is that people were asked to submit entries to this contest because Google was trying to get product testing information from people who would actually use it... and in interesting ways. This guy is being disingenuous (and a douchebag IMHO) if he tries to sell it on ebay before he even has it in hand. He gives ethical consumers a bad name and should be taken out of the closed beta test. This is just like all the people/companies who mass purchase concert tickets the millisecond they come out and resell them at 1000% face value because of "free market" blah blah, but actually they created the artificial demand and increased the price by speculation.
When a bomb goes off we blame a bomber.
When a gun goes off we blame the gun.
Lead dev here. Reading the comments is thrilling and makes me even more excited for the official fish 2.0 release, which will be in a few weeks.

For me, the as-you-type suggestions and syntax highlighting make fish feel active and responsive, providing instant feedback. I've also had a great response from casual command line users, who love that features like git tab completions just work, with nothing to configure.

It's going to be a fantastic option for command line users. Meanwhile the action is on the github page at http://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/
Before watching the video, switch off the sound.
Great. Now I have the urge to dissect bagels at 2 AM :)
Ok, so what are your perceived advantages of knowing your colleagues salary?

We also follow this so-called "taboo" in our office, and everything is peaceful. There is a rule to not talk about it, but it is not strictly enforced...if one really would like to reveal his salary, he could; but it seems that there just isn't a motivation to do that.
Why?

It's just construction theft. Stealings not great but it happens, no reason to get depressed about it.

Not like they were looting straight after the storm or any thing, perhaps that might be depressing but looting in natural disasters is just a myth. A strange myth people cling to, I can think of happier fables to believe in.
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Seems like such a system would just make it more exciting to game.
The 3 Types of Startup Founders Investors are Looking For
It’s official Apple now sucks.
>Actually Congress cannot pass a law regulating it per the 10th amendment.

As bradleyjg points out, the Supreme Court copy of the constitution doesn't seem to include the tenth amendment. Between the commerce clause and the 14th amendment Congress can do pretty much whatever it wants.
Why were the laws enacted in the first place?
seems like twitter itself should have significant financial incentive to do this
Satoshi is a smart. I would assume that if he/they wanted to remain anonymous and still get some money out of bitcoin later on then he/they are probably mining to multiple wallets.

Not sure what the motive is to continuously mine with the wallet linked to block 0, but assuming there are multiple Satoshi wallets in the picture it may be to divert attention away from the wallet he/they are actually spending money with.
I think a much more likely explanation is that the creators wanted to develop a cryptographic currency that was sound enough to become wildly popular and, in doing so, to let early adopters (i.e. themselves) make a ridiculous amount of money. I say adopters in the plural because Wikipedia suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto is three people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Identity
As I said in the second part of my post:

> It's almost like a release valve so people feel like they're being democratic without even really doing anything at all.