skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I just tapped on my Skype notification, and Skype had died (restarted when I switched to it), but left the notification up.

This behavior makes me miss Skype calls from my mother.

Skype behavior is really the worst of all worlds.
The computational power to attack the network grows significantly faster than the price of Bitcoin (and this is pretty much guaranteed to continue, by design). Attacking Satoshi's coins would be among the hardest, because you would have to attack the very earliest parts of the Blockchain which have tens of thousands of blocks protecting them. Half a billion dollars wouldn't come close at the current difficulty level.

Further, performing this attack would invalidate all Bitcoins created after that point (which is the vast majority of them), so the Bitcoins you stole would be worthless.
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The usage of "-our" vs. "-or" will not tell us anything because any author attempting to conceal his identity would obviously be aware of the perceived differences in usage. So it's essentially irrelevant.
Yeah, but what are people who learn English taught?

For example, the books in my Bavarian school seemed to slightly prefer the British English spelling (but the vocabulary always also included the American English spelling and later on we were reading lots of American and British text intermixed) and for tests the teacher always told us that she didn’t care which spelling we picked, all that mattered to her was that we were consistent (i.e. use either only British English or only American English).

I always picked American English but the preference of the books of British English screwed me up somewhat, so I will sometimes mistakenly use both variants in one text. For me it would consequently not seem obvious that someone using both variants is a native speaker who tries to fake another spelling variant.
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I agree that his methods are not rigorous enough to complete the argument, but it is going in the right direction. This is why it would be great to have confirmation from a few more textual analysis methods.
Or you could exercise some control over your own life and not pay attention to Youtube, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Reddit, etc.

Life is so horrible because work consists of reading Reddit instead of physical labor. Where's my flying car?
You can't "steal" anyone's coins, you may "take back" the coins you have sent someone with enough power, though.
> How is a small team of programmers to know that you will be able to collaborate with them effectively within the space of an interview ?

Isn't my github profile enough proof to show that I can collaborate with people?
Also, as I pointed out in my recent comment: Eran Hammer, (creator of OAuth and Hawk) presents a new way to hire engineers. He suggests the concept of a 'Homework' wherein prospective employees are presented with a problem/bug that they are actually facing in their product.
One of my acquaintance from Mozilla also pointed out that he was hired in a similar way.

> 2. What exactly do you mean by "competitive problems" or "puzzles"? What is off-limits?

For me, competitive problems are the kind problems for which interviewstreet/codechef etc are known for. At times, they involve the kind of problems which a developer is not likely to face during his time at the company.
For example, being a web developer, I don't think that there will be a time when I need to write a string matching program from scratch. Wouldn't questions related to scalability/databases/some selected data structures make more sense for such a profile?

Don't take me wrong, I am not against questions involving string matching/sorting/kernel concepts, all I am saying is that they should be asked from those who are really going to face such problems while working.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828411
It would be a great boon to BitCoin to know the identity of the creators.

Particularly if the unmasked progenitor(s) proved that they had actually destroyed the early Coins, that would help stabilize and legitimize the currency.
Firstly sorry if my comment was harsh, I get you're the author. I didn't meant any disrespect.

Many countries have currency restrictions. While you can hold foreign currency in paper format, you can't do most of the transactions as you'll need a bank account or a middle men (like Western Union).

How are you planning on buying bitcoins since no one, as far as I know, is going to pay you in BTC. You still need a middleman to get access to that currency and the most secure way is via exchangers that are accessible via bank-accounts (coinbase, mtgox, e-btc, etc.)

Discrimination is also prevalent in banking. Just because you didn't have issues, it doesn't mean discrimination doesn't exist.

Sure it exists, between poor and rich. There was always in mankind history this strong discrimination. But I don't see any specific examples of other kind of discrimination here, I can't come up with any and you're not helping me either. In which cases, you have the money/assets, but you can't buy USD/EUR/Gold/Bitcoins???

[..] That's like saying if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.

If you have money to hide, I'm pretty much sure that the people you are going to turn in order to hide them are bankers. So if you HAVE the money, finding privacy is not that hard, there are many WS giants[1] involved in money laundering for ages. Only the IRS does not know about it.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/19/us-jpmorgan-whale-...
You seem unaware that most of the world has no access to the usual money channels of the first and second worlds.

Universal access to international transfers is a massive deal. Even for those who already have it, as the world will have widened for them as well.
What ever the system they have, it has a lot in common with Socialism. It sure is not free market capitalism.
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>Whatever is your ethnicity, race, religion, nationality, credit score, job, or social status; you are free to use, hold and transact with Bitcoins.

And you are free to be traced through the system. I bet that there is a way already to trace persons behind transactions. All exchange markets can be forced to give information. All information inside system is open.
Well obviously it is not perfect. OP was just introducing the idea.
>>Even if we agreed with the statistics, the "one in a thousand" would be relevant if we had some other reason to suspect Szabo. He could simply be that one in a thousand who matches.

Except we aren't dealing with a massive amount of people who may use those phrases just a couple of people. If we already have reason to suspect something and we are given independent persuasive evidence this should be taken together to make it very unlikely that our hypothesis is not true.

The great thing about textual stylistic analysis is that everyone has a specific way of communicating that can be identified unless one takes steps to actively hide it. This happens in all languages and can usually identify authorship regardless if someone tried to copy someone else's style.
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Ironically, though it is true that there are powerful arguments that a socialist country can't efficiently calculate prices due to nonconvexities in production constraints, the same exact argument also refutes the efficient market hypothesis.

Think of it this way: if you're going to be using computational arguments against central planning ("there is no way to do the planning in a straight mathematical form"), you've got to remember that you're really just talking about an algorithm that computes a set of prices. Markets implement such an algorithm by breaking down a economy into parts that are only weakly coupled, and solving the pricing problem within that particular market. There's no technical reason that a central planner can't do the same. The central planner faces the same issues with nonconvexities as the market does, but you can at least match the same set of prices.
The problem in the U.S. is that the labor unions control rail, and stifle all innovation.
Wow. Thanks for responding. You rock.
I am only certain of one thing when it comes to bitcoin, the creator(s) are not Japanese.
Another very complete tutorial :
http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html
Just a few weeks ago the FAA released its roadmap for new UAV regulation where they discuss some of their plans for regulating commercial activity: http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/media/uas_roadmap_2...

Lots of people have been waiting years for this, and are still waiting for more detail, from drone startups (check AngelList to see how many have started in the past year) to guys wanting to sell aerial photography services.
Mice Inherit Specific Memories, Because Epigenetics?
Ask HN: Paying for Spotify as a Canadian?
I'm trying to get Spotify premium as a Canadian. No PayPal, and my VISA is Canadian. Any ideas?
Per this article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/tension-and-wo... there were three other bidders: IBM, QSSI and Computer Sciences Corporation.

All I can say is thank god CSC wasn't chosen! And to the extent CGI Federal retained some of the qualities of the civilian part of AMS the company bought, again, not an obvious bad move (I worked for a short time in a national security part of AMS, which went to the American firm CACI because foreigners couldn't own it).
Finney had the technical chops, Dai had b-money, and Szabo had the economic knowledge.

They've each done a lot of misdirection to the other two in order to draw attention away from them.

This lets them each say "I am not Satoshi Nakamoto" and not be lying.
Don't worry. Just don't play the puzzle geeks' stupid game and work for someone else. You can find a job without solving code puzzles.
Seattle man wore clothes with holes,clipped coupons leaves $188M to institutions
If you think cheap drones for consumers won't be abused, note there are many thousands of incidents of people purposely pointing green lasers at aircraft in the USA each year.
Though it's worth mentioning that Ansible is supported as a provisioner out of the box now, you can actually use vagrant with any configuration management system you can imagine; just set the target ip to 127.0.0.1, ssh port to 2222, user to vagrant, and ssh key file to ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key.

(Thats for boxes set up with the default configuration, obviously it would be a little different if you were running a more complex system.)
I feel like this article could have been expanded on some more, as I'm not entirely convinced.

Isn't there currently an inherent bias in bitcoin towards affluent, tech-savvy users? Has the author tried to purchase bitcoins recently? Unless you find someone that will trade for cash, or happen to have some sort of ATM that will trade you and will accept the background check that it will probably perform, you will likely need some sort of bank account or previous approval from some sort of authority to purchase bitcoins.

That's been my experience thus far, but I'd be curious to hear of examples that make it easier for users who don't necessarily meet some of the usual requirements.
Yes it's very early stages I'm looking for feedback on how to structure the course.

No I don't think so, I just want to an informative resource from what I've learned.
Isn't it against copyright to transcribe an article to audio? Think about it, if it wasn't, then what's to stop someone from creating a cheaper version of Audible.com?
It would have given the other party power.
I can't wait for the drone delivery businesses to pop up.

Food from across town, delivered hot in 15 minutes. EBay now: now only $.75 per delivery thanks to near zero human delivery labor.

Couple a drone quad copter with a google self driving car and we've got the makings of an excellent robot slave industry.
From http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20121022-the-quietest-place-o... :

"Group tours of the labs are available a few times a year and include a brief stop at the anechoic chamber (call the lab for details). But the facility has had so much interest in the 45-minute challenge that the founder Steven Orfield is considering making that option available to the public within the next year, and is working with the Guinness Book of World Records to establish an official record for the longest time spent in an anechoic chamber."
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The cricket and such are explained in the Burke segment I posted. "Sound mind, sound body" movement growing out of the German spa tradition.
Okay, fair enough. That would make a sort of difference to me, but not so much at this point...
To add drama to the bitcoin discussion. If someone finds a name then we get to talk about an arrest record, read interviews with an ex spouse or neighbors, get to discuss his or her political positions and personal motivations, perhaps nefarious!

People aren't interested in a name. They want a story. It'll be like E! For HN. Just look at how snowden himself garnered as much disscussion as the activities he revealed.
The "Bit gold" post's date, and only the date, had changed in the Oct 17, 2009 wayback machine crawl, though I couldn't tell you whether that means anything or not.
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They're definitely targetting other things than users. I get "snoring, smoking, hiccups, coughing".
I don't want a computer driven car.
This is really no more of a change then telephoto lenses.

Cool as hell, but a flying security camera is hardly revolutionary.
true. As a grad student I did get a salary. You know what it was? $11,000 per year...
Thank you for building this. As weird as it sounds saying this out loud, you've made the world slightly better.
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Ask HN: How can my company sponsor visas?
I run CPAP.com. When hiring we often find that the most qualified candidate's application is dependent on being sponsored by our company. We want to open our hiring process up to this pool of people but want to both stay inside regulations and keep the process lean.

Has anyone put together a tutorial or primer on this for hiring developers and marketers?

I googled around as I wrote this and have included some resources and my comments on them.

A lot of gov-speak. Hard to see how this translates into my specific situation.

http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/E2en.pdf

A nice overview, but I want to hire developers and marketers. What kind of visa is that? Interviewing non-visa candidates works for us, we do it anyway, but how many interviews is enough interviews? Also, it says apply early. I'm guessing on Jan 1st the giant google/microsoft/amazon hiring machines send them all in. How much of a chance do I really have?

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/sponsor-employment-visa-10445.html

A hat tip to these folks for the depth. If we go down this road, I will be checking our process against their FAQs but I don't find this helpful for building the process itself.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/for-employers-how-sponsor-immigrants-work-visas-green-cards

This is nice but the "click here to download a timeline" link is both blue and not a link.

http://www.jnolanlaw.com/empworkvisa.htm

Any stories, tutorial/blog links or professional recommendations are appreciated.
Physical labor was great because you didn't have to work then go to the gym separately. Left more leisure time.
I don't support all the effort people put into identifying this person. They clearly want to remain anonymous and being publicly known could possibly be bad for them. And knowing who it was makes no difference.
To add to this: The "official blockchain" is the one with the most computational work expended to create it.

A 50+% attack operates by rewriting history back to a certain depth in the blockchain by providing a new chain of blocks with more computational work, back to a certain point.

I think the bitcoin devs also put in certain "checkpoints" just to be even more certain... i.e. blocks that are "officially permanent" (which also makes all prior blocks in that chain "offiically permanent").

Maybe someone could tell us about that.
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If your aim is not to be identified, I can understand keeping your mouth shut about matters of opinion, especially if you hold distinctive opinions you have given out in public before. One of Ulbricht's reported failings [1] was talking about Mises and the Austrian School as both Ulbricht and DPR.

Keeping your anonymous persona's mouth shut about history, politics, economics, sociology, art theory and human nature is good 'opsec'.

[1] http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/10/09/it-was-dpr/
...or you could use Emacs viper-mode and get lisp support in vim in lisp.
haha, indeed. I guess I must be the first to do that!

As a side note, I heard rsync.net have ipv6 too, and offer a special HN discount! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6766478
Could you expand upon the feasibility and the benefits of proving you had destroyed earlier coins?

I'm not calling into question what you say, just curious as to what you mean.
Darktable is broken in fundamental ways and the devs are stereotypically F/OSS hostile to bug reports about simple UI fixes and usability tweaks that haven't been state of the art for a decade.

It's the standard F/OSS model of "open source replacement for commercial software" that has some list of features nobody but nerds cares about and is completely unusable for day to day work. It's sad.
Repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation.
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Please read carefully what Nick was interested in: http://szabo.best.vwh.net

Theory of property, origins of money, methods of protecting rights, origins of joint-stock companies. Almost every article is a motivation for building Bitcoin. And Nick is not just some economist, he is a capable programmer with knowledge in cryptography too. Do you know anyone else who could understand all these long-term aspects of Bitcoin and could carefully build a practical system over two years which most of the economists and most of the engineers would immediately dismiss for tons of "shortcomings"?

If it's not Szabo, it's someone who is very much like him.