skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addiction is quite a vague word, and gets mistreated. It isn't a good word when we're considering whether continue with a particular behaviour. Instead, we should just be looking at whether something has a negative impact on the individual. Smoking is generally thought to have a overall negative impact on a person, and those around them, mostly as it significantly increases their chance of death. To some degree it's possible that someone who spends their whole day on Facebook wouldn't have time for more important activities, and would see some bad outcomes there. But those people aside, using facebook has a lot of very beneficial social effects, such as allowing friends who don't see each other very often to stay in contact. I think the effects of using Facebook are a net positive.
This. Thank you for presenting your argument in a much less combative way than I would have.

There are basic survival and social pressures at play, protection from harm and corrupt law enforcement is a primary motivator for people to join gangs. Drugs are a means to an end in terms of literal survival, ie having a roof over one's head and food on one's table. Isolation from society due to social, economic and logistical/geographic factors is isolation from the things that society tries to offer: protection from harm and ability to make a living.

People in gangs are under no illusion that they might be on the path to great wealth through their actions, because they understand the state of their community and the status of their senior members: poverty ridden/unsafe/neglected and in jail/dead/still in the same place they've been.

It seems as if this author has some preconceived notions of the motivations behind gang membership and decided to regurgitate them.
Do we really need to dox this guy?
I honestly prefer the mystery to remain, but therein lies the challenge for those whose noses twitch at a good mystery and a show of intellectual prowess that is demanded to unmask a supposedly ghost-like figure.
The original developer is most likely the person that mined the initial block-chains and is most likely owning a fortune due to the ability to market successfully that particular mining-validation algorithm to the world.
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The attempts to pin Satoshi on to one person strikes me as odd. In other threads on HN, everyone agrees the work was well done, like a peer-reviewed academic paper of sorts, but then nobody seems to entertain the idea that it might be, say, 2-3 people with Nick or someone else just being one of the team.

Are there solid reasons for discounting a team of researchers, post-docs, or something similar?
It's important because whoever Satoshi is controls a significant number of bitcoins [1]. This gives them a large ability to affect the market for bitcoins and is a potential risk if they ever choose to do so. I'm sure for many people, they'd like to protect their investments into bitcoin, so knowing the identity of Satoshi is important to them.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/bitcoin-mints-its-first-bil...
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He analyzed only the white paper. There is some more text written by Satoshi in the emails [0] provided by Dustin Trammell.

[0] - http://www.dustintrammell.com/files/Satoshi_Nakamoto.zip
> I often hear that researchers don't want to limit access to the paper, but feel they have to, to publish and progress.

I have published in several ACM conferences and this is how I feel. I much prefer USENIX's policies.

> and that while its easy to say 'make it free', it costs money to run an organisation that manages publications.

The actual research is funded by the government or in increasingly rare situations, private companies.
Reviews are volunteer labor. Post-review editing (what they used to call 'typesetting') is done by the author. Putting up a PDF somewhere costs more or less nothing. So yes, the essential parts could (and should) be free.

The actual money goes to printing paper (who cares), subsidizing conferences (an event where you hang out with your friends, and then give your speech to an audience of people waiting to give their speech), and subsidizing other ACM stuff (inappropriate for the taxpayer to incur this burden).

Until the ACM makes our work free to those who have paid for it, I will not be a member of their organization. I will publish in their conferences (you have to...), but I will never link to or reference their 'official' copy.
It baffles me that some people still support socialism.
Fist-bumping while Rome burns
What is the purpose of 'Satoshi' remaining anonymous/psuedonymous at this point?
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Ha, as a long long time vim user, it didn't even occur to me that people meant "how to exit vim". I honestly thought there are people out there, trying to quit their vim-addiction :)
I think eventually we will find out who he/she is. Satoshi's wallet is holding 1M BTC right now, so close to a BILLION US $ worth of value. Would be interesting to see if it keeps rising, and goes up 30-40x from now over time if satoshi could end up being the wealthiest individual in the world.
I prefer the IEEE's code: http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

It spends more time on the nature of the work, and less time covering every possible base someone on a committee thought was important.
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"Colour" and "favour" are predominate in every English-speaking country except the U.S. (eg: Canada prefers "colour.")
If bitcoin is successful in the long run then Satoshi will become extremely rich, maybe one of the wealthiest people in the world. I think it makes finding out who it is more than mere "voyeurism". Imagine if some extremist group hides behind the Satoshi sockpuppet for instance. At that point I'd say it's unlikely but far from impossible.
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Give this man his privacy.
"Satoshi Nakamoto was a highly skilled computer scientist"

Nonsense. If you actually look at Satoshi's work, he was almost certainly an amateur and a cryptography enthusiast. That some software is popular is not an indication that it is the work of a highly skilled computer scientist; here is a simple and obvious counterexample:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Kernel
Gender is the grammar layer above sex. Sex informs gender. Gender is not a purely social construct out of nowhere. In English, there is the ternary, but it is defined as without the male/female. People generally don't like being called it though. Even if they have a special snowflake prounoun such as xer which they prefer the rest of the world can't know this and so it is fair and reasonable to call them what they look like they most identify out of the binary. Or we can just stop using pronouns altogether, even in industries largely of men, because we wouldn't want to make it seem like women can't take part in them (even when there is nothing stopping them). I'd be fine with that. Men don't exist anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAuqkqxk9A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
Granted, I got my physics degree 20 years ago. At that time, there was actually a lot of frustration in the physics community about the lack of preparation for industry jobs. So I'd hesitate to speculate on why (or even if) the situation has improved. But I will anyway. ;-)

I think that physics students aren't always "monogamously" in love with physics, so much as we're intellectual omnivores / opportunists. I was in love with math, electronics, and programming. But I ended up at a college with no engineering school, and the people who seemed to have the most fun playing with toys were my physics profs.

But as a result, my ability to roll circuits and sling code with the best of 'em was still marketable in 1993. Today, I see a trend towards hiring people with more formal skills in their job areas, such as CS and EE degrees for programming and electronics design. And I see more emphasis on tools (IDE, CAD, etc.) than on knowledge of fundamentals.

As an aside, it's worth noting that the public image of physics is the Theoretician, but most physics students are Experimentalists.
MarkLogic is an XML document store like Oracle is a CSV file store.
We store compressed trees. We require memory - like all databases - because we actually have rich indexes.

Why? Scaling by requiring massive servers is Oracle's story, not MarkLogic. We scale out on commodity servers in a cluster just fine. However, we do not magically create more capacity when adding additional VM's on top of over-subscribed network and storage systems.

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Imagine having your car drive off and park itself somewhere. You don't even need to know where.

And there are wider and more fundamental social benefits. City centres will become pleasant places to walk in. Cleaner air, less noise and less chance of being run over. Another example, children will play outside more, rather than being confined indoors as they increasingly have been.
Interesting, he had good points about such a heavy vehicle in snow and the large amount of torque that can make for dangerous winter driving especially in a rear-wheel drive vehicle.

I had to look up what the 'cold weather spec' package is and seems to be just creature comforts not different engineering/design to increase efficiency in cold weather.

My concern is at -20C in January with a metre of snow, heater on full blast, spinning the wheels as I plow through snow and slush with aggressive studded winter tires how much will that 400km range drop? Even just warming up the interior (a common thing) in the morning and scraping off the ice off the windows before going to work in the morning. My current vehicle's mileage drops in half in the winter due to all those conditions.
Clearly you need to see this: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Submitted and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6307393
Clever idea.

Care to open source the generator code?
How does this relate to knowing who Satoshi is? Are you implying that Bitcoin investors should pressurise or threaten Satoshi in some way? That is disturbing...
Clicked link, searched for airworthiness, came back to comment.
I suppose. But do their personal interactions before matter?
While researching on this topic, I stumbled upon this post:
http://hueniverse.com/2013/02/hiring-engineers-a-process/

The point of 'Homework' really intrigues me. It actually ensures that a candidate has the skills to contribute to your product. IMO, it is a far better way to judge than programming puzzles.
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"It's illegal to use drones to make money." Any specific reasoning behind this?
No, he's arguing for setting aside time and space both for flow and for team interaction. Did you read the part about "team hallways"?
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> Manhattan is no picnic to dig a tunnel thru

That's an understatement. It's solid bedrock. Great for skyscrapers. Really bad for tunnels.
Agreed. I'm a big BTC supporter in action, not just words. But I have the same issue when introducing someone new to BTC. "The creator is anonymous? WTF!!" It seems to be a need that humans have to put a face to an innovation.
Historical curiosity, mainly.

There maybe some other good reasons for knowing his identity. If, for example, Satoshi was employed by some State Intelligence agency (or had ties to the mafia, or terrorist groups, or ... ) would that make a difference? Maybe, maybe not.
Probably softer than the motion of air particles on the eardrum means the lowest-level brownian motion of air molecules in the absence of sound.
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Two of your beliefs about English are demonstrably wrong, in a good way. First, singular "they" isn't a recent construct: it goes back at least to Chaucer and never fell out of use. Second, it has never been "an established point" of English grammar to use generic "he"; that one was a prescriptivist construct, introduced by grammarians in the 18th century, most prominently by an author (and entrepreneur!) named Ann Fisher as well as by the perhaps aptly named Sir Charles Coote.

You'll find many sources on all this if you plug "singular they" into HNSearch (or Google for that matter), but this article is good on Fisher: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-....

The point is that singular "they" is actually more authentic and more historical English than generic "he" is. That's why I said you were wrong in a good way: there's no conflict at all between inclusive language and good English, and never has been. The language has had an answer for this all along; it was generic "he" that was the interloper, and this was at least partly for ideological reasons—the British parliament even passed a bill in 1850 mandating it! So the ideologues and outrage addicts have been at this for a long time. They just switched sides at some point.
Did you even read the article? That statement is prefaced by "According to what seems to be a widely accepted origin story of Bitcoin, ...", meaning that's what many people assume.

Then right after, his thesis is to contrast that: "I would argue that Satoshi is actually Nick Szabo himself, probably together with one or more technical collaborators"
Politics, eh.

I also wonder why Brits have to pay the BBC over $200/yr even if they only want to watch ITV (or any other channel, all funded by advertising)
Less wasted of 3d space for parking structures, parking lots, etc. is a huge one for me.
There are two giant economies that border NK, China and Russia, that do not economically embargo NK. But as is always the case with socialist workers' paradises, it's always the fault of external villains that they have any remaining problems at all. Surely it can't have anything to do with the internal policy of forcibly transferring decision-making power from the people to the political elite in Capital City.
This is consistent with my anecdotal experience. People talk about Facebook as something that gives no satisfaction, but they do anyway.

Facebook also has some extraordinary benefits, so it's hard to quit. I meet more people when I travel, I've made new friends in town, and I met my favourite author as a result of his Facebook presence.

But that's 1% of my time on Facebook. The other 99% is pure waste. But something about it makes it very hard to go in, take care of what I intend to, and leave. I don't have the same trouble with most sites.
And? Has owning a fortune by become a reason to dox somebody?
The style of writing is different in technical papers. You would need to compare it to the purported authors informal cryptocurrency writings which may not exist.
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From a limited experience with either of their writings, I don't think it's Szabo. I've read a lot of Satoshi's emails and Satoshi's writing style seems at the same time less academically formal but also more technical. Nick Szabo's writing, at least on his blog, seems less technical but more academically formal. Nick Szabo also seems to heavily discuss history and historical concepts. I do not see a lot of technical content on his blog. Satoshi seems to have a greater command of - and focus on - computers. This doesn't rule out the possibility the Szabo is some kind of Newton-like polymath who has command of a vast quantity of knowledge, but it seems more likely that Satoshi is more technical-minded than broad-based in his knowledge, despite being very smart. They might use a lot of the same phrases and idioms but this could just be a function of the fact that Satoshi was heavily influenced by Szabo. Regardless if they are writing about the same topic they are likely to use a LOT of the same words and phrases, and it might be more useful to filter out any words or phrases that are specific to the topic at hand.
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he is one man that can destroy the market in one click.