skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'When I was little, there was a game we used to play. He would say, 'Pretend the government agencies are coming after you.' And I would hide in the closet.'"

Whether or not the report is true, it was worth reading just for that line alone.
I suppose the difference is that most people with a reported $400 million don't keep it in cash at home. As I understand it, Bitcoin is more like cash in that possession is ownership.
Did Parker create the napster software. I recall Fanning wrote napster and Parker helped fund raise.
Somehow you've mistaken life for a courtroom where we all need to meet the same standard of proof. I don't care what your burden of proof is, the preponderance of the evidence to me says that this is the guy. Now if Newsweek comes out and retracts the fairly unambiguous quotes we saw earlier I'm more than happy to change my views.
BRB, having another child.
Speaking as an "elder" (Yikes!) - do ask questions. Worst case, you'll learn something. And most people who have been coding for a while are happy to explain things, because we know that it a) might help expose problems we thought we had covered, and b) makes sure that there's one more person who knows how to do things, and why stuff is the way it is.

If people get upset that you "dare questioning them", they're usually not as competent as they'd like to be seen. Treat them as volatile, and if you have questions where you're unsure, ask instead an experienced person you do trust.

But never, ever, rubber-stamp code you don't understand.
Kristi from Braintree here. Happy to help. Just sent you an e-mail.
SPOILER WARNING, I guess.

I can't imagine an astronaut praising the "physics realism" of the "buffeted by the wind in space" moment that caused the death of the male character. His momentum had clearly been completely stopped by the tether, but instead of rebounding back toward the other tethered astronaut (as had happened multiple, more realistic, times earlier in the movie), some unknown force kept pulling him away until at last the tether came loose. If the setting were terrestrial the force would be inferred by most viewers to be the drag of a moving fluid such as wind. What similar force exists in space?

I don't complain about the presence of unrealistic space plot device in unrealistic space movie, but there it is.
No. You're confused. You think the story about Parker's wedding isn't irrelevant. Fine. But that's not what this story is about. Here, it's just an irrelevant potshot.
IT's not trespassing to go up to someone's front door, otherwise the mail wouldn't get delivered. You can step on to the curtilage of someone's property, but you must leave if you are asked to do so - although nothing prevents you hanging around on the street in front of the property in hopes of getting an interview. If this becomes onerous, one can get a restraining order, but courts are cautious about handing them out to journalists engage din legitimate news gathering.

In short, they feel like they can get away with it because they can legally get away with it.
It's also full of bitcoin, which has been crapping all over HN for weeks now.
Not concretely, and many of those early blocks are mis-attributed.
I was surprised the cop mentioned in the article knew.
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Well, there isn’t openly violence from the hackers, but three exchange has been hacked recently (that we know of), leading to at least one suicide… More importantly, such public heist seem to have been able to merge in the mass too fast for anyone to track them: that comes off as a step above a suitcase of unmarked bills. And, yes, it does happen: South Americans, in general, but the order of magnitude of the amont, and the lack of security makes it possible.

It’s hard to assess the actual risk: cartels haven’t necessarily been associated with cryptographers, but Silk Road made a connexion, and home-made submarines have proven a track record of adopting innovation fast and efficiently.

The sliver of risk, no mater how thin, seems not worthy of openly naming the person, as opposed to offering close-up photo and a third party confirmation that the details appear consistent.
You were posting in the other HN thread, there were plenty of angry people in that one.
So should we give up now?
> No-one uses Go in the real world.

YouTube uses Go for some very high-qps and mission-critical stuff.

https://github.com/youtube/vitess is in Go and sits on top of YouTube's MySQL databases. There are other as-yet-not-open-sourced systems written in Go that perform similarly-critical roles.
I talked with a NASA engineer in 1998 who was working on the planned Europa probe, and hoping it would be funded enough to include a lander and not just a Europa orbiter. Sad to see how little progress we've made since then, and how arbitrarily the cause advances.

Even more, it's continuously sad to see how arbitrarily NASA's space missions, and overarching goals and strategies, in both robotic exploration and human spaceflight, fluctuate almost randomly with the whims of incoming and outgoing congresspeople and presidents. Space exploration missions by their nature have a longer timeline than the terms and attention spans of elected officials. NASA has no real chief executive but a board of directors with 536 people on it, all of whom have dozens of more important priorities, none of whom has expertise in its operations, and almost all of whom don't have the qualifications to be a substitute science teacher in middle school.

Our space program would be light-years ahead (maybe even literally) if it were just given its annual funding in a single block grant with a simple mandate to further the exploration and settlement of space, period, full stop, overseen by a real board of unelected technocratic experts, and with any specific direction from Congress forbidden.
I'm surprised you say that you pick them over Linode, because Linode seems to have the features you mentioned were missing at Digital Ocean.
caveat: hiring bonus is taxeable, so you can't expect to net 60-65 percent; reimbursed relocation expenses aren't per my understanding

so the company has to boost the hiring bonus by 2/3 to get you to where you would be otherwise
Totally second this. I don't have much to add to the discussion for now, but wanted to say thanks! :)

Will tell my friends about it too, particularly those in the city :)
Would love the hacker news community's thoughts on the subject too!
Counter point: We, the team, agreed on a coding style for a reason.

If you decide to not stick to the style, you're essentially saying "I don't care"/"I'm sloppy". It's a red flag that there might be other issues. It means you don't care about sweating the small details.
You are attacking a retired engineer who lives a zen-like life in a suburban McMansion, after a brain accident because he can get “whatever [he] want?” Really?
Agreed. Especially compared with the silly amounts of money invested in apps.
More often than not the unit tests will have assumptions about the design in them so they will actually stand in the way of refactoring rather than facilitate it. If you have class A with unit tests this is basically a design decision reflected right there. If having class A is bad design fixing that requires dealing with tests + class A and the tests are a hindrance rather than help.
Do you have any data on conversion rates? I imagine they would tank through the floor if you're asking a customer to turn over their online banking credentials.
"Reverse Polish notation" - was this originally Hungarian notation before some layer of "fact checking" ruined it? I have no idea how one would program using RPN.
I'm going to skirt the ethical questions being asked, assuming everything done to get this information was legal and such and the accuracy of it lives within the bounds of journalistic integrity (of course none of that necessarily makes it ethical, but like I said, circumventing that question for now).

All that said, by the number of reactions I'm reading here I get the impression that in the Bitcoin world someone with a significant amount of wealth has to fear for their life? What is the difference between Satoshi Nakamoto and any other individual of significant wealth, i.e. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Rupert Murdoch, etc. While I don't have any exact addresses or other information about these people on hand, I'm sure I could get it rather easily.

The emphasis I keep seeing is on how he has $400 M of "pseudo-untraceable, digital cash" and assume the concern is something along the lines of it would be more difficult to extract that much from Bill Gates if you attacked/kidnapped him and get away with it vs Bitcoin, which you could theoretically extract the keys guarding the coin from the victim and quickly transfer out to other wallets without much issue.

So, the gist I'm getting, is that in the world of crypto-currency if you get wealthy ... man you better watch out because people are going to be gunning for you to steal your coin by force if they ever find out where you live. Live In Fear. If this is the great future of finance you all envision, then I really wouldn't want any part of it.

*Side note, I really don't believe any of the above but given some of the responses I've seen I think we need to take a step back and examine the conclusions that would result from some of the statements being made.
The problem with this is that the tests become obstacles in the way of refactoring the code.

I'm not a TDD stickler or anything, but tests are what make refactors even possible. Will tests catch all the issues? No, but they will make sure the part you refactored still interacts properly through its public interface.

If some tests have to be changed that is even better because those tests hopefully contain corner cases that have been caught and tested for over the life of the original code, and will force the person doing the refactor to think about those issues.
I don't think you need to be 150 to “gather information”.
The newsweek article itself claims that Satoshi tried to hide his identity.

He never posted any personal information and used an anonymous japanese registration service for the bitcoin.org domain, payment in cash. An unlikely effort for somebody who doesn't care about anonymity.
Ah yes, the first amendment. The right to trespass given only to journalists.
If you hate your job you should quit asap. End of story.
IBM actually has a really cool product for live streams of large datasets. Its called infosphere streams -- http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infosphere-stream...

If they dont want to become "just another AWS" they'll have to start integrating some of these features in order to get devs to switch ...
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I left an abusive working environment. High turnover places exist. The American business press likes to tell oppressed employees to take their torturer's perspective, to become one with their abuser, to act with the supreme, Zen-like indifference of the Buddha and meditate their personal Hell out of existence.

The year I left, 16 people out of around 30 left, 8 after I did. I didn't have a job waiting for me, but it was a tremendous relief not to be constantly hectored in email at all hours, seven days a week. Continually having work boundaries tested is not for me. The chronic mistreatment was bad for my hemorrhoids, I informed them. (I don't necessarily believe in taking the masochistic high road in all cases.)
I'm an automation specialist, and have been trying to automate myself out of a job for the last 10+ years now.

CAW is right - work has been shifting - geographically as well as technologically. I have found that does not slow down my work at all.

Shifting globally will be replaced with a lot of automation. A lot of lower tech jobs were temporarily shifted to countries with cheaper labor. I've got news for you, if your job is simple enough to be performed by cheaper labor, then it's simple enough for a shell script. After our company shifted 10k+ US help desk jobs to India, a year later I created the automation that put the 15k Indians out of work (payback is a bi$%^).

Now, I work for a cloud based company. The technological shift now means that automation I had to create from scratch to automate the build of a system has become much more common place. AWS, for example, has API's to interact with their services, build new servers, monitor, etc. There's Chef, Knife, Ansible and a million other tools to perform tasks. You still need someone who understands the underlying technology and principals, as there are gaps between what the automation does, and what humans are capable of. There's also gaps between pieces of automation.

There's talk of programmer jobs being automated. When I hear that, I think of the contrast between developers that use WYSIWYG editors or IDE's, versus developers that code from text editors or VIM.

Sure, in MS Visual Studio, you can drag and drop complex elements into a GUI layout, and they'll work to a certain extent. The code underneath is proprietary, fugly and filled with unnecessary bloat. They try to put everything in, in case you need it later. And of course, as a developer, you have to understand how to hook them all together and make it work. It's not magic, and not even close to automation. At best, it's assembly line production. There's less consideration over performance and efficiency of the code - all they care about are the widgets.

A developer who uses text editors becomes much more proficient, writes leaner, better code, and understands the processes behind the widget much better.

If you're a developer, you'll likely always be in demand. If you're worried about automation taking your place, I'd advise becoming the automator. You will never be short of work.
I did read the article. I was just pointing out that the poster's original statement seemed to exclude prime integers -- well, unless the empty product is a product of primes.
That's awfully optimistic..
That's educational, surprised I didn't know that one.

"in mass" seems to still make sense though in plain english

What is funny is in the legal dictionary "en masse" is described as "in a mass"

http://thelawdictionary.org/en-masse/
How can I take you up on that bet?

This is the first time I've seen reddit (since it's become a mainstream phenomenon) be more reasonable than hacker news.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zpuer/the_newsweek...

> The pieces laid out fit pretty well.

What pieces? That he's kind of odd, according to his family? (if you were to take my family, which is fairly normal, 1/2 of us think the other 1/2 are odd). Who doesn't have an odd, reclusive uncle or two?

That he made a vague, difficult to interpret statement (and proceeded afterwards to completely deny any connection between himself and bitcoin)?

That he's "libertarian" according to his estranged daughter (though the following quote doesn't sound libertarian at all to me):

> Then Dorian also wrote about “being tired” about another issue: “I’m really tired of having the JACL, et al. requesting or getting $100K to millions in government funds for Japanese American monuments, about the camps or any other issue. Those money should be send on the JA’s practical needs and growth for the new generations. More dollars should be funded for startup businesses, business education, nursing services (yes, forget Keiro with high self salaries) and all they talk about is executive orders, camps, never about the betterment of JAs on their current living conditions or betterment of young ones going out to the world of business, competitions, financial education, etc.

That it was written in Newsweek? Here is an actual quote from the article:

> Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name.

What a shoddy piece of journalism. The authors of the Federalist Papers (Madison, Hamilton and Jay) used the pseudonym Publius. At least that name is really distinctive, in that no one was actually named that, unlike "Satoshi Nakamoto" seems like a common enough name for (also according to the article) there to be "several" living "Satoshi Nakamotos".

EDIT: I expect to get a lot of up votes now thanks to this :) :

In an exclusive two-hour interview with The Associated Press Dorian S. Nakamoto, 64, said he had never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago.

Reached at his home in Temple City, Calif., Nakamoto acknowledged that many of the details in Newsweek's report are correct, including that he once worked for a defense contractor. But he strongly disputes the magazine's assertion that he is "the face behind Bitcoin." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BITCOIN_FOUNDER_DE...
And the free market plus the Bill of Rights plus tort law could punish Newsweek if they're wrong. See my tweet about legal liability:
https://twitter.com/declanm/status/441711365888040960
Choosing between two job opportunities 
Recently i've been restarting the job search. I've been generating a lot of interest and I guess you could say I have a happy problem. I'm a front-end developer who is also a talented designer in my mid 20's.

I have two job offers and would like some advice about it from some fellow nerds.:)

1. Big fortune 100 company with really cool people from Apple and Microsoft who jumped ship and now work here. Not your typical big company environment has a startup vibe with full fridges, open office, pool tables, standing desks etc. Is a 6-month contract only with potential hire afterwards. Mainly working with HTML/CSS and jquery. None to little design work.

2. Small 30ish person company SAAS service company and would be totally 100% remote. Would have potential to use some new javascript frameworks like Angularjs and test-driven development with also about %30 percent of the work being design. Pays a bit lower then job 1 but is permanent.

My problem deciding is job 1 I feel would be a good learning experience, working with other people better then me and having a big name on the resume. Job 2 i'm going to be able to actually make some more decisions and not have as many people to lean on.

Before this i've mostly been a solo dev slogging through whatever needed to be done back-end, front-end, design etc. If you were personally in this position what would be your thought process to deciding?
The most important thing is that China supports NK for ideological reasons. Sure, China would prefer a communist regime that isn't quite as well suited to parody, but it'll take whatever communist regime it gets for propaganda and ideological reasons.
I see from your site you're hiring for various positions, but currently all of those are listed as NY only.

I spent seven happy years working remotely as a system administrator, for a company listed in some of these comments, and wonder if this is something you've ever considered?

I know that payment issues and similar might complicate things, but I'm surprised there seem to be essentially zero remote-working positions advertised for a company that will have round-the-world clients/users/customers. (i.e. You're liable to get issues, tickets, and monitoring alerts round the clock.)
They ran this promotion before too. I tried to use it but later was told I couldn't because I'm a 3rd party payment aggregator. The trouble is they never said TPPA couldn't participate anywhere in the promotion. I felt tricked. I continued to try to set up processing with them as a TPPA but it was this long drawn out and manual process. The CEO ended up contacting me to apologies and see what the problem was. He told me they didn't disclose the TPPA restriction on the website to make it "simpler". After many phone calls with them I was never able to get set up. Stripe just came out with Stripe Connect and I was up and running in a matter of minutes. Not to mention support at stripe has never been so bad that the CEO had to contact me. In fact I think stripes real edge is their excellent support. I would never use anyone but stripe after seeing how bad it can be. Note I have no affiliation with either company. I'm a Chicagoan and want to see Chicago companies like Braintree succeed but boy what a poor job they did. Definitely not with $1500 IMO.
Not really, you could really want to work just for the betterment of mankind - but the money are a necessity, and sooner or later everyone realizes that (which then makes them look stupid/hypocritical).
That would suck, but I think what makes Rdio the best of the bunch is it's people-powered discovery system. I don't use the Stations feature and it would probably do just fine without it.
Except that I also work in the private sector as well. I have both private and public clients. It's MUCH MUCH worse in government. Also if you're seen as wasteful at a large company you're more likely to be shown the door.

The larger the organization the more room there is for waste within its ranks. No organizations are larger than the government.
I totally agree, great article!
You are confusing their entitlement, a psychologically concerning lack of proper upbringing, respect and human decency, with rights. I could fill your inbox with abuse, threats and sickening images arguing it’s my god-given privilege — you’d still wonder why on Earth I would feel like ruining your life like that.

And as pointed out, you are wrong about to whom the First Amendment applies to.
Ihat's why I listen to soundcloud exclusively. The artists there have very original material and you can see the music they are liking, playlists they are curating, and general community engagement.
100% agree. The problem is # of tests and test coverage are measureable. Good design isn't (at least not in the short term). There is something to the argument that thinking about testability helps with design but in practice this often does not help.

Yet another problem is there is never time to throw away and build something new. In the life-cycle of most companies/products the available time decreases as a function of time since now you have customers, you have bugs, you have a fatter organization to feed, etc. The time to get the design right is the beginning and you have to do that fairly quickly...
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Unit testing is supposed to help you design better code. It's a design process that helps you find where you might be tightly coupling things. Are you mocking an external library? Ok, but how? Are you mocking the library directly? Hmmm, maybe you've lashed your code too tightly to that external library. Maybe that means you need some intermediate layer that you do control, so that when Braintree gets bought by Paypal you can change your payment processor by changing the middleware you built.

A unit test tends to expose those tight couplings so that you and your team can decide if you want to keep going down that road or not.

"If it's too hard to test, maybe you should look at the design." Best advice I ever got on TDD.

It's a tool, not a dogma. Use it like a tool to write better code, and get regression tests as a side effect.
There are good work environments and bad work environments. I've seen both, and it does make a difference.

If it really is a bad environment, you probably can't change or improve it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a bad environment.

Sometimes, finding a new job is the correct answer.
It's rare. It happens.

The point is, words might not be the best way to capture your insight. You have _something_ in your mind, and it doesn't always translate into few words. To quote Blaise Pascal: "I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."