skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this person is the Real Satoshi, why are all forum posts except the ones bitcointalk.org about model trains and Royal Danish Cookies?

Dorian seems to have fragmented his online activity under a variety of nicknames: so far people've found "ShtenDoji", "schten", "Schten Dohkji", "WagumaBher", and "ssshupring" (and I'm not sure if that's a complete collation of Redditor findings). Most of them have been linked either by him forthrightly mentioning Satoshi, or are variants of others. We could easily have missed years of programming activity. So it's not yet a strong argument from silence.
The current Algolia search does this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=DNSSEC#!/comment/sort_by_date/pref... author:tptacek
Did you read my post? This is my daughter's idea. I actually have 4 kids (age 5, 7, 9, and 19). My wife and I go on dates weekly so I'm confident I fit the target market :)

When we lived in Oregon we used a sitter service that would send us one of a handful of sitters. I liked the model and my daughter is interested in something similar (with a tech twist).

I am protective of my kids but I am not a helicopter parent (my wife is). My kids are social, friendly and naturally trusting. I don't teach them to "never talk to strangers".

You're completely entitled to your own views/processes wrt childcare. Just don't assume everyone feels exactly the same.

I fully understand the main issue is trust. BUT I think that's the same issue startups like AirBnB have to tackle.
Fairy chess piece
The way this is written doesn't sound like _why at all to me.
If it helps a bit: Satoshi Nakamoto sent all emails over Tor, connected to Bitcointalk over Tor, and paid through the nose for bitcoin.org registrar & hosting services on Anonymousspeech.
> Disable until sunrise

Thank you F.lux! The one feature I really hoped you'd add.
MoarVM
Personally I believe C is the best language to develop in. Anything you write in C can be easily used in any other language you care to use; this characteristic is not true for any other language you could name.

There is nothing wrong with developing security-critical code in C if you're an experienced C programmer and know what you're doing. The GnuTLS programmers were neither experienced C programmers nor knowledgeable about security; they should not have been writing security-critical code in the first place. And no one should have ever believed that their code was trustworthy.
Facebook's HHVM (HipHop VM) compiles webpages into native machine code that can be executed directly on the processor. People often confuse HHVM with HPHPc, also made by Facebook. HPHPc came first; it was a converter that converted all the PHP files in a folder into individual C++ files. In other words, you would end up uploading the C++ files to the server, not PHP files. Facebook abandoned HPHPc early on for multiple reasons (it was actually developed by a single developer as a tool for one-time use to convert all of Facebook's existing PHP files into C++, back when Facebook was considering rewriting the website in C++ for improving performance). While the idea for HHVM was loosely based on HPHPc, the approach is much different. HHVM is a standalone replacement for the PHP engine. It has almost 100% support with the native PHP language, up to PHP 5.5, and even (intentionally) reproduces the various bugs in the PHP language, to maintain compatibility. HHVM only replaces PHP, not Apache or anything else in your stack. It is really, really easy to replace it via their FastCGI handler.
I find that humor works here as long as it is also insightful, or paired with some useful information. A joke purely for a joke's sake doesn't generally do too well, depending on how serious the topic is or discussion is trending and how good the joke is.
We could perhaps consider treating this man as a human being worthy of dignity and basic rights, but this story is just too wild and 21st century
One of the two articles also had it use a British spelling on one thing. _why is known to be American.
I feel Airtime was an unnecessarily large failure and in my opinion tarnished Founders Fund. Doesn't mean it directly had to do with his departure, but it is important.
Wordpress? Really? (not that I dislike WP; just that it doesn't fit his M.O.)
I had the same issue, but I disagree with the "unusable" part - it definitely was very usable and I felt serious improvement in my sleep schedules. Yes, I had to postpone it regularly and I'm glad to try new version, but the old one was very useful too.
Facebook and Instagram announce new tules on gun sales
Mavericks (or the drivers it ships with) is locking the window server for 50-100ms every time we touch the color table (10.8 was awesome and didn't do this). We've reduced our frame rate to compensate (it's better in this version), but it is noticeable when we do fast animations.
Out of the things you just listed, I don't think the Republican party supports _any_ of them.
Mars has been very well explored. Titan just recently got a drop-in probe. Except for maybe Venus (which presents logistical challenges that would likely make a lander mission impossible) Europa is by far the most interesting place in our solar system that hasn't been extensively explored.

What are we talking about here, expense wise? $5 billion over 15-20 years? Totally worth it.
Agreed Dwolla is one of my favorite startups. Talk about upending an industry! I recommend this TWIST episode if you are wondering why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFeSgN1cQhg
Not dramatic - having your screen turn orange at 6pm is unusable. I'm going to work until 11 or 12pm. Let met set it so I start winding down an hour or two before I go to sleep. It does decrease the contrast of text, making it harder to read.
They missed the most important one, practice. It might sound like I am being snarky or stating the obvious, but like any new task at first you will be slow at code review and it will take up "too much time". Its a skill, in some situations, its not really too much code to review once you have gotten good at reading code. Everyone can do with being better at reading code too- traditionally people have been better at writing their own new code realtive to their ability to reading and grok their teammates code- and that doesn't scale well.
But that's kinda my point, we don't know that, anymore than we know an all meat diet is okay for us. Most of the "science" around nutrition would only be acceptable in theoretical physics and paleontology. We're starting to see nutrition studied a little better, but it's the past half decade where we seeing actual science around nutrition, and we'll need at least a couple hundred years before we can say with certainty what is best for human longevity. Until then, we're guessing.

We think cholesterol is bad in excess, and conventional wisdom dictates, that since eggs are high in cholesterol, that eggs should be avoided. Except, the body doesn't metabolize much if any dietary cholesterol, and instead it's the cholesterol that you synthesize that's dangerous. There are some interesting observations with high fat dairy, which actually reduces cholesterol instead of increasing it. Again, conventional wisdom is demonstrating itself to not be correct. Calories in, calories out sounds good on paper, eat less, and you will lose weight. But this also is proven incorrect over and over. I have seen this in studies, and witnessed it first hand with a girl I was living with who was trying to lose weight. She would eat a fifth of the calories that I would eat, and would gain weight, where I would chow down on meat, fats, and green beans and lose weight. What does appear to be apparent is it's easier to maintain a healthy weight if you never gain weight in the first place; essentially your body attempts to return to it's heaviest when calories are available. Many new studies show that the war on salt is based in bad science, and it may not have as much of an impact as we thought. So is a little haiku the answer? I don't know what the right answer is, but I know it isn't that simple.
And knows the name of the creator of it offhand, and a concept of the creator's holdings?
> didn't really say anything at all

I guess we've reached the point in the argument where you've decided to go Flat Earth Society on us. For the record:

"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."
Indeed, just tried it out and it will be great for amateur astronomy uses. (red light = doesn't hurt your night vision as much)
I'm an American, but I often spell it "colour" because I read a lot of British writing.

That said, this does not feel like _why, really.
That doesn't mean much though. Every Japanese kanji used in a name means something on its own. Since they're used in names, they all are technicially "interesting". When people tell other people their names in Japan, they will often say how it's written in Kanji specifically to point out those distinctive meanings.
I was excited for all of fifteen seconds, I'm pretty sure this isn't _why (definite lack of character in the copy), I also don't think _why would be running his website on WordPress (Yeah yeah, easy to setup, easy to host, etcetera) but _why liked building things, that doesn't really end.
$ whois whytheluckystiff.net

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: WHYTHELUCKYSTIFF.NET
Registrar: SAMMAMISHDOMAINS.COM LLC
Whois Server: whois.sammamishdomains.com
Referral URL: http://manage.snapnames.com/customer
Name Server: NS3.CERTIFIEDNUTMILK.COM
Name Server: NS4.CERTIFIEDNUTMILK.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 04-mar-2014
Creation Date: 19-feb-2014
Expiration Date: 19-feb-2015

Hmm, certifiednutmilk.com?

$ whois certifiednutmilk.com

# uninteresting details elided

Registrant Name: Domain Admin
Registrant Organization: Privacy Protection Service INC d/b/a PrivacyProtect.org
Registrant Street: C/O ID#10760, PO Box 16 Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator Note - Visit PrivacyProtect.org to contact the domain owner/operator
Registrant City: Nobby Beach
Registrant State/Province: Queensland
Registrant Postal Code: QLD 4218
Registrant Country: AU

Between this, Wordpress, the writing style, and the frequent use of the word "mate" makes me think this isn't _why. Unless he's being unusually odd.
Looks like some random brit decided he was finally going to get around to making that blog he'd always wanted and just happened to pick whytheluckystuff.net as his domain, which was conveniently expired.

He's currently staring at his analytics page in disbelief. "Wow, my writing really is that good!".
> I wonder why he doesn't outright deny it all, current and past involvement.

This may well be what he's done in his 2-hour long interview with the AP reporter, an article on which should come out very soon, according to https://twitter.com/JoeBelBruno
I hope so, they deserve it.
What if this elicits a response from the real _why?
What kind of mathematics goes into computer graphics?
I think it's Satoshi Nakamoto.
Nakamoto denies Bitcoin involvement, flees to AP offices
_why's site is not back up. whytheluckystiff.net is back up. This is clearly not his work.

The new site blows, and whoever set this site up is a dumb asshole.
Likewise. As with a pomodoro ending and the bell rining, the sun setting on PyCharm stops me working. All sorts of chemistry going on.
Slashdot is collecting questions to ask during a Theo de Raadt interview
This seems to mimic OS X's "Auto-Layout" approach where you define layout by specifying constrains between pairs of elements.

I've recently converted a couple of applications to Auto-Layout and I don't like it at all. If you add too few constrains the layout is unstable, elements get 0 sizes, and all kinds of weird things happen. If you add too many constrains then it suddenly becomes a fixed layout.
With notes (this worked for me, and I imagine it would work for others):

Treat the notes you took in class as a rough draft. After class, revise your notes into a final draft. This way you can reorganize the ideas, simplify example problems, and fix any spacing issues or spelling mistakes. This helps you learn the material since you are working with it while it is still fresh in your mind, and makes studying much easier in the future.
Man, it's a good thing HN didn't fly off the handle and start obsessing over this man and try to invade his privacy using the excuse that NewsWeek started it and that makes it okay.

That would've been pretty embarrassing.
One thing to consider here though is that often times when you realize splitting up a function will make it easier to test, it's because your implementation sucks and is doing too much and too tightly coupled. I mean realistically how would splitting up a function make testing it easier unless the function is already complex and performing multiple tasks?

You can certainly argue that some of the clean code folks do a lot of needless abstraction that makes it harder to work on code, and I think that's true at times. But at the same time, a 200 line method doing 19 different things is also quite hard to understand and modify, and the reason testers want to split that method up is because it's really hard to understand and has too many possible outcomes.

I don't like to overly abstract things and I try to strike a balance here, but I can say without a doubt that I've never found it harder to understand and work on a single class with 20 methods that each do one thing (with descriptive method names) than I have a method with 200 lines of code doing the same 20 things. And the former is much easier to test as well.
This is the Room Where the Internet Was Born
This is his domain expiring and some random other guy putting up a blog. Probably has no idea who the original owner was.
For the uninitiated, can someone please provide context?
And you'd be wrong for a good number of representatives. I suppose I should have also added "Small Government" and "less taxes" which is what the republicans are at least ostensibly for.
as others suggest, it may not be malicious, could just be someone who doesn't know/care who _why is and just registered a free domain.
I'm not sure, but I've come around to realize that it's always worth installing and configuring fail2ban just for the reasons you mentioned, if nothing else. I have a demo server that, for a while, was being hammered so hard by ssh brute-force bots that it kept getting knocked offline. I installed fail2ban and no more problems since. I personally can't recommend fail2ban highly enough.
His "contact me" form may be a source of further amusement.
What about the article that was posted earlier today about the shop keeper who had this Satoshi visit his store and spend bitcoins? If that was true then it would breach this guys claim that he only learnt about bitcoin three weeks ago.

Edit: link to previous article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354326
It requires additional dependencies because HHVM has to emulate most of the core PHP extension functionality to be compatible with PHP, for example 'mysql_query', etc.
Artificial intelligence to decide who to email next
> Most importantly, the team that developed it has moved on to other work and it hasn't been restaffed.

Isn't that right there an example, or warning, or admonition, or something, suggesting that you not use external services for essential features? I know that no page is likely to last more than five years, but there are going to be many pages that outlast services like this.

Or am I missing the target use case?
You wouldn't lose customer data if you left Braintree:

https://www.braintreepayments.com/landing/data-portability-p...
I moved from a dark to a very bright apartment, and it fixed my sleep problems, except during winter (where there is little sun, as I’m from Scandinavia), to fix that, I try to spend the darker months on the southern hemisphere.
From oxforddictionaries.com[1]

Kudos comes from Greek and means ‘praise’. Despite appearances, it is not a plural form.

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kudos
I would like to argue on the possibilities of him not being Satoshi Nakamoto. Other than having the career, which could profile him as the likely Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin inventor, the article build up him to be one.

I am going to argue against the most convincing statement:
"It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

As someone who has engineering background in CS field, he will be aware of the Bitcoin and a peculiar case of having similar name (He is Dorian S Nakamoto). Thus, he will be a bit more interested in it(People with unique name can share that sentiment) and know enough about the Myth of the disappearance of the Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin inventor. We(including him) all know the kind of disturbance we will face if we were identified as mysterious Bitcoin Inventor. There is also a cloud of uncertainty over legality of Bitcoin. I don't think the news about Silk Road with Bitcoin and the FBI issue will help either. For him, he has to be more weary since he shares part of the name. So when this privacy invading journalist come knocking on his door, he pull the Bitcoin inventor act saying that he relegate the task to other to shoo her away thinking it will be over. An easy way out, he might have thought. The fact that he cannot disappear like the Bitcoin inventor did not register in his mind at that time. He could have been pestered by people about Bitcoin before, just like the journalist started asking him about Bitcoin in the middle of model train email exchanges. He is the real Dorian S Nakamoto. He cannot deny his name but he is not a mythical Satoshi Nakamoto. If you were an introvert, how would you react in that situation? You most likely shut up just like he did. Around these assumption the journalist build up the theory that Dorian is the Bitcoin Inventor.

Anyway, I am pissed at the NewsWeek on violating the privacy of individuals(Dorian S Nakamoto and Satoshi Nakamoto) who wants to be left alone.
Street Bump: App Automatically Tells The City When You Drive Over Potholes
A change to Vine content rules
The shop keeper on the other side of the country that once had an Asian man come in about three years ago and buy two crepes without giving his name or letting his photo be taken?
Joe and I just submitted the app to iTunes -- been a long few months coding & designing, looking forward to feedback.
_why wrote a very popular guide to Ruby, and was a major figure in the community before mysteriously disappearing, taking a lot of his work with him.

He reappeared briefly last year, then disappeared again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
https://web.archive.org/web/20090813201826/http://poignantgu...
Can someone explain to me why this is causing such a stir?
_why would never write an article called 'setting up my own software programming company' or use the phrase 'Maybe it would’ve been easier and safer to just stick out the 9-5 and work my way up the corporate ladder in the hope that I got promoted enough to be comfortable after a while…'
His Wikipedia page will help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

Essentially he wrote a very popular Ruby book and was considered a big name in that community. He had a particularly interesting style of writing, but what immortalized him among the wider tech community was his sudden disappearance online, the search for him, and arguments about whether he would want to be found.

It was eventually discovered that he wanted to be left alone.
I would like to take this opportunity to also deny that I had anything to do with the development of Bitcoin.
So is there any way to verify either account, beyond nudging the benefit of the doubt in the company with higher journalistic integrity's favor (AP)?
I actually like the Linode guys. They have been around for quite some time, and solid as hell. They don't have all the hipster devs talking about them as much, but I think they are more viable than DO.
Really depends on what your app is doing and how critical it is to a business. For a complex application that has been in production for years, whose original developers weren't very talented and now are long gone, and your business relies heavily on customer satisfaction and bugs can cause lost customers and thus revenue as well as potentially exposing protected data, tests are absolutely critical.

On the other hand, a hobby project used by a few people or internally at your company where bugs can be discovered in use and aren't usually a big deal, eh.

And of course, there are a lot of levels between the two extremes...
Theo has earned my respect and the right to be as much of an asshole as he wants. The important things he's so good at doing often require that of him, so it's not counter-productive or self defeating.

I also have a tremendous amount of respect for RMS, and forgive his personality quirks, although I'd never want to work for him. Unfortunately, a lot of his personality quirks and ways of communicating are self defeating. But more importantly, his beliefs are totally logical and consistent and well thought out, and he sticks by them. It's his priorities and his way of communicating them that people have problems with.

He's also got a brilliant sense of humor, that a lot of people just don't get, and take offense at, when he was just trying to make them think. But at the same time, he's incredibly easy to wind up by mentioning Open Source Software. But I think he's in on the joke and it's just a theatrical performance, like Saint IGNUcius.

My Emacs Hacker Boss from UniPress Software and I ran into him at a scifi con, and my "Evil Software Hoarder" colleague asked him "I heard a terrible rumor about your house burning down. Is it true?" He fired back without missing a beat, "Yes, but where you work, you probably heard about it in advance." We all had a laugh and no offense was taken: he's got a sharp sense of humor and he's quick on his feet!

Here he is being a total dick, by chastising someone for posting a baby announcement (who is now 21 years old) to a mailing list about having dinner on the other side of the continent as he was on. But he's fucking brilliant and hilarious and makes some excellent points that are totally consistent with his beliefs, even through he wound everyone up and was repeatedly told to fuck off in various ways, which he took in stride.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html

"You people just have no sense of humor. I thought the original message was pretty funny and made a few good points (if it didn't, nobody would have been offended). I guess it's a shock for smug self-righteous breeders to learn that not everybody in the world thinks babies are cute and special. -Wayne A. Christopher"

"Finally, someone read the message as it was intended to be read. -RMS"

"I'm somewhat surprised by the idea that a mere message from me could torpedo the happiness of parents. I'd think it wouldn't even come close to doing that. Not that I wanted to do that. The most I thought it could do was to discourage the posting birth announcements. -RMS"

RMS is like William Shatner, in that he's in on the joke, and can have a good laugh at himself, and at least he isn't the mean kind of narcissist. To extend that metaphor further than I should: RMS = Captain Kirk, Theo = Spock, ESR = Harvey Mudd, Microsoft = Klingons, and Free Open Source Software = Tribbles.
AP: Man Denies He Is Bitcoin Founder
If by fallout you mean tons of revenue, then I agree.
For more on his reappearance: http://words.steveklabnik.com/closure and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWHVceDbFo
Noooooo. Zero chance. I mean, it's very cool that your daughter is thinking about this stuff, but I would never allow a stranger to watch my toddler.