skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Due to the currencies psuedo-anonimity, low liquidity and it's value in illicit trade it is far too dangerous for Satoshi to cash in and reveal himself...

- None of Satoshis coins can be linked to illicit trade because he mined them himself.

- Low liquidity isn't really a problem, the Bitcoin community is so fanatical that any coins held by Satoshi would likely sell at a premium... even without the fanclub, he'd certainly make enough to live comfortably for the rest of his life even if he couldn't liquidate all his holdings.

- The same fanclub seems quite fierce in defending Dorian/Satoshi.

- The tax situation has been official clarified in the UK. Now its recognised as a Capital Gain, US citizens can presumably come here to sell Bitcoin and avoid double taxation under tax treaty? (Possibly, I'm not an accountant or a lawyer)
Cool demonstration of Rescale; I hadn't come across them before. It's an interesting market, and certainly an underserved one (I say this as someone who's idly considered running similar calculations on high-end AWS instances and been impressed with the cost but less-so with the time it'd take to set it all up). I imagine one of the difficult things for them is getting access to a lot of the academic codes in widespread use at the moment, considering a lot are under fickle and/or expensive licenses. I don't see a DFT[1] code on your tools list at the moment; perhaps Quantum Espresso[2] (GPL-licensed) might be a candidate if you wanted to try one.

Regarding the topic of the blog post, it's a frequent source of frustration to me that a lot of these scientific tools are so obtuse to use. I imagine the set of people who could understand the physics behind them and might want to use (or just play with) them (e.g. the author of this blog post) is much larger than the set of people who are actually capable of doing so. A good proportion of my day is spent solving problems that are toolchain related rather than science related and it really is immensely frustrating.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory

[2] http://www.quantum-espresso.org
Arriving In Austin
Calif. man denies he's Bitcoin inventor
>Someone said "I dunno, he looks kinda familiar?" That's it?

That's not what she said. She said it was him. They had conversation and interactions etc to form good memory.
I'm 27 and I've certainly heard of that book - most people studying probability even for scientific applications will have encountered it. I actually recommended it to a friend about 3 years ago.
I didn't really "get" the purpose of flux for a while. I appreciated the sleep schedule reinforcement aspects of it but if you don't have a normal sleep schedule then it would seem to be less useful. That's always been the major selling point for f.lux forever, and it seemed so intrusive so I didn't use it.

However, I finally figured out the real reason for using it: white balance adjustment. The thing is, our eyes aren't just imaging sensors, they're active systems that continually adjust to ambient conditions. They do lots of things without us even thinking about it. One of the most important things they do is compensate for white balance. If you look at a white wall when the sun is shining on it during the height of daytime and if you look at the same wall during the middle of the night when it's illuminated by artificial light you will perceive it to be the same color in both instances. But in reality it's not, when lit by indoor lighting it's a very different color, but our eyes/vision system automatically adjust for the different spectrum of lighting.

The problem is that computer monitors throw a monkey wrench into this because they are independent light sources. White displayed during the day on a computer monitor is #FFFFFF, during the night it's still #FFFFFF, but this conflicts with the white balance of the environment. And that conflict causes eye strain and discomfort. At night looking at your monitor you might even perceive white to be slightly bluish, due to the conflicting white balance. By bringing the white balance of your display into harmony with the changing white balance of ambient lighting (as it transitions from natural to artificial) you get rid of a lot of those problems.

Hopefully with f.lux adding more configurability into their program they can make people more aware of these benefits regardless of sleep patterns.
> That being said, do they dump your instance if they reboot the physical server? I was under the impression that "Oh we want to upgrade they hypervisor kernel, your instance is toast", was fairgame/default on Amazon.

Nope. In most cases, you get two weeks warning before a physical host is decommissioned. I've gotten as little as 24 hours (guessing it was a more significant than usual hardware issue).

When that happens, you can just stop the instance, then start it again. That moves it onto a new physical host. If you don't do it in the 14 days, Amazon does it automatically. No loss of data, and just a few minutes of downtime if your startup scripts are OK.
How does {1:"A"}+{} = {1:"A"} imply that {} is no longer a zero value? 1+0=1 makes total sense...
Hey man what are some cool things that you recommend I try with a VPS :) ?
The owner of the site is looking into it — https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zs8fi/i_am_nicola...

The username checks out, has an OTC rating, and has been on bitcointalk since 2011. Completely trustworthy, lets see what they say.
same. I wish I knew it before
Japan: 'Bitcoin isn't a currency'
It's easy to take good hardware design for granted. Suddenly that Das Keyboard I've been eyeing doesn't look so expensive...
I'm awaiting an harassment case from Mr Sakamoto against the press in the next week or so. Either that or a name change.
This is a link to a yahoo news scrape of a bgr.com story about a tweet about a picture. Seriously?

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/439577697606701056
The school system in America isn't getting better it's just becoming more and more kafkaesque over time. It's amazing anyone manages to eke out a real education out of the system as it is.
post what you saw about the surroundings on live tv
m && m.what? document.hello.to.value = m.what :
a.com.send({what: document.hello.to.value, where: 'magic' });

Urgh.
F.lux never worked for me. (Ubuntu 12.04) Cool idea though.
In (modern ES5) JavaScript is easy enough:

new Date("10/11/2014").toLocaleString("en-us", { month: "long" });
Hmmmmm. Assuming the post was made by the actual Satoshi...

Dorian Nakamoto is Satoshi:
This is an attempt by him to throw people off his scent, which would be foolish and desperate since chances are the millions of eyes focused on him will find more concrete proof than the Newsweek article, rendering the posting moot.
Almost guaranteeing the drama will continue, if not whip it into a larger frenzy.

Dorian Nakamoto isn't Satoshi:
An attempt to absolve someone of harassment. Noble, but not wise, since now he will have to continue to disprove serious accusations of his identity, or else innocent people will be harmed again. And the corollary, if he does not publish a refutation people will assume it's tacit agreement.
People will continue looking for him.

It's late and I know I didn't think of everything, but I can't see this being a winning move by Satoshi in any scenario.

My personal theory? Dorian was a member of a crypto group that eventually gave birth to Bitcoin, but he was never part of the implementation. Maybe he thought of the original math/idea, so they named their pseudonym after him in his honor? Probably not true, but fun!
Yahoo: Destroyer Of Startups
That still does not follow. It proves that he lied about not knowing what bitcoin is and it proves that he had bitcoins. Those two facts do not prove that he is Satoshi. It is not obvious.

Here, I'll give you an alternative explanation:
Dorian was an early bitcoin adopter or otherwise had a small number. When reporters started asking his son if he was Satoshi, he realized that that would damage his reclusive lifestyle if people thought he were Satoshi. He thought that telling the truth, that he knew about bitcoin but wasn't Satoshi, wouldn't be believed so he told a lie to preserve his reclusive lifestyle.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7358532, my reply a to a sibling comment.
I hope Dorian is Satoshi's actual brother and they're just fucking with the whole media.
This explanation is poor. The keyboard controller and interface are crucial. NKRO is possible, but can it can be flaky over USB. There are many variables involved.

Want to learn more? Hit the geekhack forums (search for NKRO) or geekhack channel on freenode.
Obviously the Level3 CDN should be behind Cloudflare! Or so half the HN posts would have you believe.
Wish I could say the same about my Logitech keyboard... Sometimes it gives up after 3 keys, other times after 5. It seems to be totally random.

I also wonder if there is a problem with the diagram. Sometimes when I was pressing 10 or more keys, the enter key would turn on.
If that quote wasn't entirely fabricated, I suspect the officer was responding to a statement that identified Dorian as "Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin".

Also, a minor nitpick: Temple City is part of a community that's directly adjacent to Los Angeles—people have heard of Bitcoin there.
Thanks! This is pretty cool, but I was looking for something with guided exercises more than just a sandbox. Any other ideas?
Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Electronics
> libuv, the core of Node.js

It really amuses me that most people know libuv via Node.js. The library is the single greatest innovation of Node.js, having failed to achieve thread safety, and it's now powering both Julia and Rust. For many, many years, there was libevent, and then libev, and finally libuv—the event loop runtime finally hit production grade. If you know anything about Node.js, you should know libuv; javascript is pretty useless without asynchronous event processing.
Dorian == Satoshi [1]

It's a desperate attempt to mislead.

[1] Here is Dorian making an in-person bitcoin purchase in July 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354326
The weakest link in software security is often people.
Many Soviet vehicles and aircraft weren't of great build quality so they tended to have training vehicles that would be used by many crews until they fell apart, and vehicles reserved for combat.

This aircraft was built in '87, by which time the Soviet economy was in serious trouble and training was at reduced levels. The Bear always projected a scarier image than was reality.
Yeah, I turn it on every night for some bedtime reading.
Gmod Funny Moments Video
I don't follow your logic to the same conclusion you do.
Libertarianism will look like a "coherent political philosophy" only if you're a young white kid from an affluent family.

Or, anybody else.
I'm going to have to echo whichdan's sentiments in that working remotely will separate you from the networking and social side of things. You need to have something else in mind (hackathons, meetups, other social type things) because you don't have the social aspects of work if you choose #2.
Provide your users with a contextual onboarding
Libertarians view of government is, 'I want to be allowed to do whatever I want while everyone else is restricted to doing what I want them to do.'

No it isn't. You're either badly misinformed, or trolling. That is nothing like the libertarian viewpoint.
I thought the cornerstone was everything is public & can be verified?
It is even more fun to head over there and get a tour through the graveyard. Actual pilots of some of those birds give the tours and they know many of these planes very well.
You may have already seen it, but this thread was posted earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7355882
First step, stop calling yourself a mid-level developer. Startups want you to dive in, not second guess yourself.

If you can pass muster, it doesn't matter what you think of yourself. Change your point of view, give it a shot, and just see what happens. OK, if you can't get hired, then maybe you prove your own thesis, but it's worth a try.

The other option is to just start your own startup.
A lot of non-technical people use Firefox - somebody had to introduce them. If it was just about IE not being good and tabs, why not Opera?

Mozilla had (and still has) a lot of people spreading the word - the Spread Firefox campaign was very popular, as was the crowdfunded New York Times ad: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...
you mean you'd have to cut off the roof to mount it?

http://i.imgur.com/CFtOzAD.jpg

;)
I'm personally rooting for Dorian = Satoshi, but yeah, I wouldn't trust three-year-old eyewitness testimony of a mother identifying her son.

Definitely a "pics or it didn't happen" situation.
Try talking to any self professed libertarian about free movement of labor.

Just about every self-professed libertarian I know (and I know a lot) support total freedom of movement of labor. Many of them actually oppose the very idea of nation-states and national borders in general.
Beds and keyboards are deserving of discrimination. Personally, I adore my das keyboards.
> In Colorado, kids are required by law to test. The “refuse testing” option on the enrollment forms? It’s “being phased out” because it’s “confusing.”

Then the option isn't confusing at all, it's quite clear. What's confusing is this: Why was it there in the first place?
I'm not sure if I'd say that it's the Python community that has encouraged that practice.

I think it's more likely just a bad habit that some people may have picked up when using PHP or JavaScript, and mistakenly continued using after moving to Python.

PEP 8 (http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-reco...) is quite clear about this:

"Comparisons to singletons like None should always be done with is or is not, never the equality operators.

Also, beware of writing if x when you really mean if x is not None -- e.g. when testing whether a variable or argument that defaults to None was set to some other value. The other value might have a type (such as a container) that could be false in a boolean context!"

PEP 8 is more representative of the actual Python community's views than the mistakes of some programmers who are more accustomed to certain languages that are not Python.
We've been testing the Chromecast, its hard because it's a fairly limited device. However we do have things working on an iPod Touch which works quite nicely taped to the back of the TV. We're going to continue to work on optimizing the Chromecast and will do a posting if/when we get acceptable performance.
Softimage final release announcement
Is Satoshi saying he's not Dorian evidence of anything? That could also be a ploy to try and throw off the scent, as much as it might be Satoshi trying to save this random sap.

This reminds me of the knights and knaves puzzle for some reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_and_Knaves
Still pretty crowded when the benchmark is resolving it with a radio beam. Part of 1 degree for geosynchronous. Tracking satellites in lower orbits also tricky. A few miles separation when they're 90 miles away is cutting it pretty fine, when its a moving target.
I disagree.

Warren Buffet's personal income tax rate is not a competitive sport. It only affects his take home pay. I could kind of see your analogy holding for the taxes his company pays because they have to compete with other companies. But I believe Buffet is arguing for a higher personal income/capital gains tax rate. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-...
Stephen Wolfram's new programming language: Can he make the world computable?
Navy will deploy first ship with laser weapon this summer
Sweet! I mocked up a pretty similar idea during a General Assembly class a couple months ago. Glad somebody with more motivation than me actually implemented this! http://jchendy.com/imdownfor/
http://www.daskeyboard.com/ All keyboards should have a couple of USB ports built in, that's a great idea.
That is not a source. That's a random comment on the internet.
I'd love to hear more about it. If you'd be willing to talk a bit, shoot me an email (on profile).
Furthermore, it's known that Europeans make errors in recognizing Asian faces.

From 1987:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3627925

Ten European subjects made significantly more errors in recognising Asian faces than European faces

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/16/6/440.short

Koreans who grew up in Europe recognize Asian faces much worse than Koreans who grew up in Korea, and Koreans who grew up in Korea make mistakes in recognizing European faces.

It's called the "Cross-race effect":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

OP seems to be American so I'd wager that his/her wife is, too.
nope works on windows too.
The amount of silly garbage in this thread is astounding. I thought you HN folks were supposed to be smart. Anyone here actually fly A-10s? Or been on the ground and had one support you?

No, the plane does not slow down when you shoot the gun.

Source: I have almost 3000 hours in this plane. Flew today, actually.
Fun Fact: The standard USB keyboard protocol can't handle more than... 6? non-modifier keys being pressed at the same time.

IIRC, to get past this, all you need to do is emulate a hub with fifteen or twenty keyboards attached. Then you can press every key at once!
How Fat May Hurt the Brain, and How Exercise May Help
Some people can't stand bad acting, I hate bad physics. I think it's the same basic issue. When a movie shows something that's close but off it simply breaks the suspension of disbelief. It's probably got something to do with the uncanny valley where talking stick figures don't cause problems, but the more realistic the setting the less wiggle room you have.

I suspect most people have similar pet peeves. I remember watching a action movie with an ER doctor once. They had the same sort of reaction but with the long list of injury's people would end up with. Or how many tech people get offended by computer techno-babel in movies.
Please!

Give us your address so we can send you money.
You say "good memory," but there's no evidence of it. The post said "recognized him," though there's a bit of priming (A NEWSWEEK COVER STORY!) to encourage that process along: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354326

Memory is highly fallible. Eyewitness accounts are highly unreliable even after a shorter period of time than three years. The burden of proof is properly on the Dorian == Satoshi folks.
Apparently Meetup.com started out with this usecase in mind but evolved into what it is now.

It just doesn't evoke this sort of usage anymore.
Most journalists carry handheld audio recorders for this very purpose.
In which cases are such keyboards necessary?

I use a $3 one (which I bought to replace the one I used for over a decade) and I've never had such issues.
I use this keyboard for coding and gaming, not just for common tasks which require low performance.
"Simplicity" is not measured in terms of key presses or characters.

The "if timeval:" case may contain fewer characters, but it's less explicit. Being less explicit opens it up to greater ambiguity. Ambiguity is a form of complexity. Complexity is the opposite of simplicity.

The explicit "is not None" check may require more typing, but it's far more explicit and exact. That means it's much less ambiguous, and thus less complex, and thus exhibits greater simplicity.
I hope this works out, but it bothers me when inventors use slick lines like "If you want something to be dirt cheap it needs to be made of dirt." It suggests to me they've been spending more time polishing their TED talks and investor presentations than in the lab.
No, the media usually writes the articles. Just ask DPR.
Do you know if this is achievable on the nexus 5? I really don't want to upgrade without it
Surely a tenured Associate Professor of Law has a better idea of how to fight a bad law than just throwing her hands up in the air and saying "I wish there was more I could do that just opt out of testing"?
Why Can't We Have Hoverboards?
Our every intention is to leave Zite running until we can build something at least as good at Flip. I know it's sad to lose a product you love (it's sadder to lose one you've built), but I'll try my hardest to make it up to you.
Stephen Colbert RSA/RSAC QA Q/A Question and Answer after Keynote Address
Well yes. Of course 30mm rounds are effective against tanks.
It's simply a matter of how MANY you throw at the beast. At 3,000 rounds/minute you can hit the tank up real good.

Secondly, not every enemy has the latest tank. In fact, most potentially hostile nations (speaking from the POV of NATO) do NOT have modern tanks.
Do some A B testing on yourself to know for sure.

In my opinion however, lack of sunlight when waking weighs heavily on ones ability to rise in the mornings.
come on. you are hanging on evidence best generalized as "someone on the internet said someone they know says they recognize him".

by these standards, the Newsweek article itself seems like sufficient evidence.
> Since we're talking ethics, rather than legality, do you believe it's ethically sound to post someone's personal details, and then make (possibly false) claims about them that may compromise their safety?

I don't think it's ethically sound to post his address, license plate information, city, etc. Especially since it leads to crazy media car chases and other sorts of paparazzi-style insanity that I wouldn't wish on anyone, let alone a guy who just wants to be left alone.

I'm also partial to arguments based on safety. It was one of the many reasons I was opposed to what Bradley Manning did, for instance.

However the risk to those affected by Manning was much larger than the risk to Dorian, and in any event I can't remember many people on HN saying before not to post stories about rich people since the unwashed thugs might stick a shiv in them and rob them.
Microsoft used to make some really good keyboards. But about 8 years ago they started making junk. The last MS keyboard I could actually type on was the Wireless Multimedia one (now discontinued).

Keyboards in the last few years have had:

- Mushy key feel. I can't tell when I've actually done a keystroke.

- Keys that are hard to strike (need to press on them just right, or they hang up or don't register). This is particularly bad on the wider keys.

- Keytops too close together; I mash multiple keys.

- Embarrassingly bad features: Function-key lock is the classic one here. Let's not talk about the 'diamond' arrow keys that have occasionally appeared.

I'd buy half a dozen "Natural" keyboards with decent Cherry hardware running the show, ESC in the right spot, and no wacky features. I don't even need a numeric keypad. I'd pay more money for some remapping (though just about any 20 cent microcontroller will have enough EEPROM to do this).

Whaddya say, Microsoft? Care to make a good keyboard again?
> The internal electronics on the SideWinder X4 use a variant of resistive multitouch technology. Each key has a screen printed resistor in series with its switch. This allows the internal electronics to read the state of each key switch independently for very large multiple-key combinations.

This is pretty vague. How exactly does this disambiguate which keys are being pressed?
Yes.

http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear...

http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear...
Sorry, maybe my reaction to the post title was so visceral I didn't read the finer points. My concerns that I wrote down were actually my wifes concerns, they always seem to have the final say in who takes care of the kids if both parents aren't around. I'm sure my level of trust will improve as my daughter gets older but at this age (2) I wouldn't leave her with anybody for her sake and for the sitters sake.

With respect to AirBnB and car-sharing schemes and the like - there's an order of magnitude difference in how much I care if my house/car gets trashed vs something happening to my daughter. Sure I care in the first case, but I personally can see tech overcoming that.