skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My position is in line with the scientific majority. This is not new by any stretch of the imagination.

Taking issue with the assumptions used in this already established finding could suggest you either (1) don't know much about subject, (2) you have biases not from your own scientific inquiry, (3) you have drawn conclusions from your own research. There are large and well-funded disinformation campaigns, which work hard online to inject doubt into this discussion. Most certainly you aren't involved with this in any way, but it's possible you're influenced by it.

It is unreasonable for every post to be completely exhaustive, otherwise few would or could say anything. Perhaps you point out every discussion's assumptions, but if you do not then it might lead one to wonder what your deal is with this one.
> Railroads, bus companies and short-haul airlines will suffer. If you can move from your home to your destination, door-to-door in the comfort of your car, who’s going to take the train, bus or plane?

Would that be significant? Costs, travel times, risk of accidents/theft, failures, would still be much higher. Not to mention it is absurdly less efficient to travel alone in a car.

I imagine hopping onto a car to the train station, and having another one waiting for you right at the arrivals gate will be the preferred mode of travel.
I'm baffled by the nuanced analysis of the pitfalls of socialism you've presented.
The intrinsic value of bitcoins is as entries in a global distributed ledger.
Fair enough.

"As for flow, it works best when there is a specific, narrowly scoped piece of code that must be written."

But this is also not necessarily true. A state of flow is very desirable when doing experimental or exploratory creative work of any kind, not just programming. If you're doing something you've never done before but it's not too far out of reach, then you can most definitely enter a state of flow. Too far out of reach and anxiety kills the state. Not challenging enough and you don't get absorbed enough to enter it in the first place.

‎Csiksczentmihalyi's book identifies eight major components of flow:

1. We confront tasks we have a chance of completing;
2. We must be able to concentrate on what we are doing;
3. The task has clear goals;
4. The task provides immediate feedback;
5. One acts with deep, but effortless involvement, that removes from awareness the worries and frustrations of everyday life;
6. One exercises a sense of control over their actions;
7. Concern for the self disappears, yet, paradoxically the sense of self emerges stronger after the flow experience is over; and
8. The sense of duration of time is altered.

I don't think I've ever got into the flow state when just banging out a specific, narrowly scoped piece of code. It's just grunt work. It has to be done sure, but for me personally, it doesn't provoke the loss of time or complete absorption that experimental or exploratory work does.
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Not gonna happen, the depth isn't there.

Even today's $1k BTC is speculation at the edge of the market, 1million BTC as a batch only fetch about $50m worth of interested buyers.

Here is one ting I don't understand, though: suppose I am a billionaire black hat VC, and I wanted to steal Satoshi's coins. Could I invest a half billion dollars and brute force a majority-coup attack on the blockchain? Of not now what about when those $ figures are 10x? Even if bitcoin gets 100x more popular, it won't be 100x more network miners, it will be people buying BTC and trusting the block chain published by coinbase and whoever.
I would tend to agree with you: the Bitcoin client looks like the work of a developer, not that of an academic. So it would not have been created by Szabo. The author of the blog post mentions that Szabo could have had technical collaborators, so maybe he could just have been the person writing the Bitcoin paper.
For Satoshi, I suspect it might be nice to not have to pay for security personnel.
Toronto also has a 600 V DC system that is used exclusively for supplying the subway and street railway services.
I prefer Satoshi being an anonymous techie than a fallible human. Imagine Bitcoin grows 10-100x over the next few years. I don't want Satoshi's divorce to threaten the entire ecosystem.
irb says 1652 words for saying nothing. I'm not a hater or anything just let me run you through some awesome quotes:

Now here is the point that matters: Whatever is your ethnicity, race, religion, nationality, credit score, job, or social status; you are free to use, hold and transact with Bitcoins.

And which currency or asset does require nationality or color certifications??? Seriously, is this an argument?!

Today, a huge number of people face restrictions when opening a bank account. Some people are restricted access to foreign currency and can’t make international transactions. Some people may not be able to start a business because they can’t have a bank account for silly reasons related to their background or looks.

And these people are now saved by bitcoin????? Are we talking about drug, army or other illegal transactions or are we talking about regular people? Because, when you have problems with a bank it usually boils down to you NOT having MONEY!!! And if you don't have MONEY I don't see how bitcoin is going to save you.

It’s interesting that there is a huge highlight these days on Privacy; and yet there is no mention of economical freedom.

There's a clear misunderstanding of bitcoin, currencies, the economy the world and the universe as a whole...
I agree with your point in general, however I think the catacombs were built because the early christian's were lower class social outcasts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Rome#Christian_cat...

What's that about cricket, stiff upper lip, jolly good? I'm curious.
The difference, I think, is that the majority of elevators today rely on mechanical systems for control. Sabotaging a mechanical system in secret is a lot harder than sabotaging a computer-controlled system that is networked to the rest of the world.
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Can we find code written by Szabo and see find if the style or certain idioms are close to Bitcoin 0.1?
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If he/she dies their heirs will want to liquidate their estate. This event by far will lead to the largest flood of BTC on the market. Look for a big crash 0 to 40 years from now.
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His analysis is pretty terrible. He seems to have made up the method on his own without consulting established authorship attribution scholarship.
Wouldn't BTC lose all value if there was a majority attack? Because surely such an attack would be quickly detected.
Everybody found this address. It is a private key with the value of 0. You'll never be able to get that 0.01 BTC.
When you say prevailing wisdom, are you referring to the prevailing wisdom from the Keynesian viewpoint?

What would be an example of the "wide range of issues" that policy-controlled inflation helps prevent?
Pretty much everyone has come to the conclusion that Satoshi is probably not Japanese. He has seemingly native command of academic English, and nothing about him suggests Japanese influence except the pseudonym.
I agree there the two phrases are not independent, but the joint probability of both events is mathematically guaranteed to be lower than the probability either event alone. As we add more phrases (events) to this distribution, it becomes exponentially less likely to be someone else.
A commodity is only worth what someone will pay for it. It would be impossible to offload 1M BTC at the market mid (currently $962) so it seems ridiculous to value Satoshi's bitcoin wallet at $1B.

The market isn't sufficiently well developed and doesn't have sufficient depth to support transactions of that size. Combine a lack of liquidity with the fact that BTC have no intrinsic value, and that the market has shown itself to be vulnerable to price shocks in the past, and I would value 1M BTC at significantly less than $1B (probably not even 10% of that).
Probably for similar reasons why you need a commercial pilot license. If you're going to be doing it for money, you should have more training than someone just going to wal-mart and picking up a drone. However, as such a training regimen has not been defined yet, the FAA has decided that it's safer just to say it's off limits for now.

Personally, I'd love to see more effort into setting up such a commercial program, as there are a lot of dangerous jobs that could be made safer through drones. For example, there are dozens of crop duster accidents each year where someone's injured or killed. Pulling someone out of the pilot seat, and onto the ground can make that job a lot safer and more accurate. But, we can't get there until we do the studies to figure out how to do such safely.
This is a good detailed guide but I think I'm missing something here. I can't quite formalize it but it has something to do with this:

> You may be wondering how we'll go about adding Axises to our graph, but here be dragons, so I'll leave that aside for the moment.

Uh, OK...having axes (and labels) is pretty integral to many charts and is pretty trivial in D3. If Angular is to replace much of the data-binding in D3, as the OP proposes, then I think there has to be less ad hoc hacking of Angular things to do what's relatively easy in D3. This reads more like a guide of how to get D3 (or rather, SVG charts) in a situation in which you cannot really use D3.
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What's the technical reason why this address is unusable? Can it still receive money?
Whoa, talking about going overboard. I'm implying no such thing.

What I am saying is that if you're investing into bitcoin it's intelligent to know what you're getting into. Satoshi currently controls around 12% of all bitcoins. And even with the maximum number Satoshi will control 7% of all bitcoins.

This is huge potential to disrupt the market and knowing what the person or people who are Satoshi might do has a potentially huge investment impact. Hence the reason that people have the desire to know who Satoshi is.
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I'm guessing this has something to do with your username, so what is the better unix? BSD? Minix?
It seems like these cars will have to be operable in both the manual and self driving modes. Otherwise the car will become much less flexible.

Examples:
1) immediate unplanned stop at a yard sale
2) drive "off road" to get around an obstruction
3) dealing with unstructured parking situations
4) avoiding emergency stops in unsafe locations
5) driving through puddles (is it 2 inches or 2 feet deep?)
6) etc.

And for some significant transition period the road will be populated by both manual and computer driven cars.

How does the hybrid system work? Won't many people take advantage of "dumb" cars. How would you drive if you knew many cars were computer controlled. Would people figure out how to "game" the known computer driving rules? I don't pull out in front of cars that are too close because the human might not stop and hit me. Maybe I don't worry about it if I know the computer is in control of the other car.

Long haul freeway driving does not seem too complicated. But what about high density suburban and city driving?
> I have never seen anyone shying away from any real work because they "hate anything practical".

I've never shied away from things that
are practical. My Ph.D. is essentially
in some applied math, that is, for me,
the practical and money making kind.

But what you mention is a common
remark on Ph.D. degree holders
and sometimes true.
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Yeah. I mean, I'm quite interested from a personal curiosity point of view, but considering that they're probably currently living a reasonably ordinary life, to out them as a target for kidnapping in order to acquire the vast stash of bitcoins, just seems like a really mean thing to do.
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Damn, really bummed I missed this live :/

Also, I wonder what it's like being a correspondent/reporter/presenter whose job it is to produce content specifically for foreign-language viewers.
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I can't seem to play with any of the graphs interactively. Is that intentional? Also, this site completely hi-jacks my 'Back' button.
if GDP grows such that the smallest subdivision of one bitcoin (called 1 satoshi) becomes too expensive, extra decimals are added. So instead of making new coins, the existing coins will be subdivided in smaller pieces.
If you had half a billion dollars, it would be much more profitable for you to mine bitcoins.
Whether this works or not lies largely in the way the Bitcoin software developers pitch their change. For example this cut would be much less directed if you invalidate bitcoins that are older than 3 years. Independent of the Satoshi coins I would favor something like that to clean up lost bitcoin accounts and to shorten the block chain that needs to be cached by all clients. I think Bitcoin is still young enough for such adjustments to work.

The difference between cutting the Satoshi stack and the Crawfurd v. The Royal Bank case IMO is that in the latter invalidating money in active use greatly threatened the viability of the currency whereas in the former the money is just lying around anyway and its existence is a threat to the stability of the currency itself.

For real fungibility with bitcoin we need to add real anonymity, something like zerocoin or some bank like structures that provides huge scale money laundering (in the way this currently works with established money). At the moment bitcoins leave behind such a huge paper trail you can hardly describe any coin as equal to any other, except those freshly minted.
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No one would dumb enough to ruin their own fortune by trying to liquidate it all at once, so no that's not going to happen.
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Like Nick's blog?
"Are there solid reasons for discounting a team of researchers, post-docs, or something similar?"

Yes, if you read the Bitcoin whitepaper that Satoshi originally sent out, and then compare it to the work done by teams of researchers and postdocs. Here are some things to think about:

1. Bitcoin can be attacked in polynomial time. This is a sharp and very extreme break from the typical expectations we have about cryptosystems, yet Satoshi did not devote any time to this in the Bitcoin paper.

2. The security analysis presented in the Bitcoin paper assumes a specific attack strategy, without ruling out others or even mentioning the possibility that another attack strategy could exist.

3. The security goal of Bitcoin was never clearly stated in the Bitcoin paper, and there is no clear threat model.

4. Almost none of the related work was mentioned, not even to distinguish Bitcoin from that work. Digital cash has been extensively studied by cryptographers, but that mountain of work was not mentioned at all. Bitcoin is a multiparty computation system meant to operate on a massive scale, yet at no point did Satoshi mention the even larger body of work that has been published on secure multiparty computation. Satoshi did not even mention the various ways that distributed systems can be attacked, which are presented in the unmentioned related work.

These are not signs that experienced researchers are behind Bitcoin. From where I sit, these all point to Bitcoin having been the work of a cryptography enthusiast, probably a high school or college student with some extra time on his hands.
In London the easy bits of the 'swiss cheese' were tunnelled through first. Hence North London where the easy clay is in greater abundance has the earlier and more extensive tube trains (and more expensive house prices).

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So yes, anything is possible given money, however, geology still gets in the way.
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