skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool concept, would be interested to see it in action. It's probably something I'd use a few times but would only use regularly if it showed interesting videos within the first few tries. Music is easier because it can be tuned out in the background, while videos demand almost 100% of the viewers attention. So if you're asking for that much attention, you better deliver =].

That said, please refrain from the animations in the website's content. Although it's trendy to have scroll-initiated animations, it really bugs the shit out of me and makes me feel like I'm being treated like a toddler.
I was thinking it's perhaps promo for blockr.io ? But, it is interesting because it's a transfer of coin worth over 110 million dollars USD (with today's conversion rate anyway).
I clicked on the question mark next to bitcoin days destroyed, which explained a bit more about why his is interesting other than the volume -- looks like these are coins that haven't been touched in a couple years.
I'm pretty certain iOS users on HN are aware of the inherent limitations of their devices. It's also easy to give examples of where the closed nature benefits users but it would be tedious to list them in every discussion.
180,000 BTC moved, 143 million bitcoin days destroyed [1]

tldr: huge amount that was untouched for a very long time got moved

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed

edit: plot twist http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zsjnu/i_believe_ka...
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Dorian Nakamoto: I Am Not the Creator of Bitcoin
"Time's running out to get your free TrackR free!" needs some editing, in my opinion. :) Glad to see more action around trackable objects, each further step towards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime is interesting for sure.
This is not like carrying a passport, phone or computer at all.

I can be tracked without my knowledge - somebody just needs to plant a minature tracker in my laptop bag.

Edit: The issue is that everybody tracks everybody, not like with Tile or Chipolo - where you only track your own tags with your own smartphone (ie: you need to be near your tagged items to track them, which makes covert location tracking of persons hard).
Ah yea, I didn't think about that. Thank you.
Wouldn't want to confuse the user with references to non-microsoft-sanctioned documentation.
118M USD and no transaction fee paid! Is this likely Satoshi moving his coins now he has been identified? I really hope he is ok and being out does not lead to any harm or distress for the man.
This wouldn't prove anything one way or another but if it turns out that Dorian was in New York in the later half of 2011 (presumably he would have flown since he lives in CA and thus flight records could probably show one way or another), that would be pretty convincing circumstantial evidence.
That's a lot of bitcoin days destroyed.
http://www.renoise.com/blog/crippled-chords-without-full-n-k...
What is old is new again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano
‘Train’ working-class kids to be more middle-class? That’s what happened to me
He wouldn't exactly go out and tell people he just sold all their messages and address books, though, would he?

The message he wrote, was a message he had to write to keep customers using WhatsApp
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The transaction displays "Coin days destroyed", which is an indication of past transaction activity. When you haven't spent 20 BTC for a day and 5 BTC for a week, there are 20 * 1 + 5 * 7 = 55 coin days destroyed. This particular transaction has 143,132,916 (!) coin days destroyed; at least some of 180,000 BTC spent today haven't been spent for past 143,132,916 / 180,000 ~= 795 days, just over two years, as per the pigeonhole principle.
Well, there are 3 Tu-95s on the Google Maps link in the top comment.
Yes, finding relevant video is the goal but there would be lot of hit and miss in the beginning... I guess having manual quality control over the machine selected videos may add value... will keep that in mind... thanks for the comment!
>Bitcoin is a flash in the pan fad.

Huh. I swear I've heard such comments before..

"This internet thing isn't going to go anywhere"
-- Most companies, early 1990's

"No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame."
-- CmdrTaco, the original iPod release

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
-- Prentice Hall editor, 1957

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."
-- Linus Torvalds

Keep a bit more of an open mind, hm? Things have an interesting way of catching on.
That's interesting. I don't have much experience with it, but when I've seen similar stuff it looked like an anti-pattern to me. Why should developers need to learn your specific wrapper on top of a popular 3rd party component? The internal thing is most likely not documented as well, and common problems don't have answers on Stack Overflow. It requires extra work to use additional features of the library.

I'm similarly wary of convenience libraries that provide marginally simpler APIs on top of standard libraries.

I'm not convinced it's a good idea. I wish I had your experience. Any good reading material?
LA gangs contain a lot of people of which at least a few will be clued up on Bitcoin. And quite a lot more will be clued up now Dorian has hit main stream news.

Also a few desperate out of work in heavy debt old IT workers might do something stupid.

But I would be mostly worried about the mob. Italian and Russian mafia is reputed to create a large part of their wealth today by online scams and phishing, so they will have people that are fully aware of Bitcoin. And have no qualms visiting people or their relatives to chop off a few fingers.

After all I don't think the Silk Road and its compatriots was run by innocent people...
To answer my own question for anyone else, DisplayLink still doesn't support colour calibration so F.lux cant be used on a second monitor that is connected with a DisplayLink. Only monitors directly connected.

From F.lux - "I have a DisplayLink USB monitor adapter. Is there a way to make f.lux work for this display?
DisplayLink has no support for color calibration, so f.lux can't make changes to DisplayLink monitors. Unfortunately, you can only use f.lux today on displays that are directly connected to your computer. (e.g., it usually won't work over remote desktop either.)"

http://justgetflux.com/faq.html
Yes, couldn't find a acceptable setting on my Nexus 4.
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In the high school computer lab, after I showed my friends how to disconnect from the Novell network so our instructor couldn't watch what we were doing, we used to play a very good Street Fighter 2 clone. I quickly learned all about keyboard ghosting and used it to my advantage to block my opponent from blocking my attacks.

When I tried the same tactic on my computer at home, I discovered it didn't have the same problem. The chords that were unrecognizable at school worked just fine on my keyboard at home. I surmised that the difference was in how the keyboards detected the key presses.

Over the next few days/weeks I wrote a program that could actually inspect the key queue in memory and mapped out the chords which would fail. I could actually map out what appeared to be groups of keys that caused this problem. I did the same thing for the keyboard I had at my house and while there were some combinations that would lock up the keys, I found that it could handle many more simultaneous keys.

Maybe it wasn't so surprising that the next year I started my EE degree?
Which is funny to me because I remember playing Asterax on my Quadra running system 7.1 or something, and my friend Reid and I yelling at each other "stop turning! I need to go forward!" or vice versa.

Nowadays I can't imagine buying a keyboard that shares the same technical limitations. I would consider it ... I don't know, disrespectful to my 12-year-old self, that 20 years later I'd still be dealing with the same dumb problem.
For anyone else who is equally confused about this statistic as I was: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/845/what-are-bit...
I hope we're not witnessing Satoshi Nakamoto being forced at gunpoint to transfer his Bitcoins here.
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I'm not sure if this is a joke. None of us have done any work on this for years (yeah, somehow I'm a maintainer for it).

I've gotten go to run on baremetal systems since then, and there have been other operating systems attempts (not to mention rsc's original kernel in go).

What exactly are you looking for?
Have you tried denyhosts?

I've always been installing denyhosts but I have not compared the two.
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"at the fag end of the great British state grammar school experiment"

I didn't know the word "fag" was used in this way in the UK. What does it mean in this context?
Definitely not, Russian moves confirm it.

Any idea if the partial reunification will happen?
US Only.. :(
that link points to a google ad at the bottom of the page
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Ask HN: What's the largest website hosted on Digital Ocean?
I was wondering what is the largest website you know of being hosted on digital ocean?

I am wondering if it is just small websites which use it or whether larger sites are making real use of the service.
'Fag' in this context is a colloquialism for cigarette, the 'fag end' being a cigarette butt. The implication is the crappy end of the cigarette.
Without looking it up my recollection was that python 3000 and perl 6 would target parrot. I recall hacking on parrot back when it was new but now i doubt anyone I ever worked with uses perl6. Plenty of good reasons for all this. Language adoption requires stability or the appearance thereof.
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Snapshots + rdiff will get you the reassurance you want.
but this is an actual product and tile is in production =)
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Depends on what you call 'reasonable', but the answer is likely 'no'. The 'Air Quality Egg' was a kickstarter project a year and a half ago, but they failed to produce a calibrated device. Measuring particles is doable, it's the calibration that is the issue. Most of these sensors don't show useful measures for air pollution, although most claim they do.
So first of all some background: I grew up during the fall of USSR. Our family had little liquid money, but my dad had a 386 computer (this was early 90s) provided by an American firm. My parents told me to never disclose that fact to others for a simple reason: people will assume we have far more money than we actually do (386s were not cheap!, most of my classmates had Sinclairs, Elektronika's, and XTs), we'll suffer a home invasion, and -- this was very common in former USSR republics in early 90s -- torture in search of that money that we don't have. When you hear stories of people being tortured with soldering irons and blow torches on regular news, you tend to become immensely paranoid about sums much smaller than $400mm and concepts much more technical than Bitcoin (as in, differences between various makes of processors!)

The criminals don't think "Bitcoin, the neat crypto-currency, let's hack his network and steal his private keys if we can!". Criminals think "wow, this guy has something that can be exchanged for $400mm, let's hold a clothes iron to his (or his mother's!) feet until he gives it to us!".
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Might be a clever reference to Smalltalk VMs? ST had SOAR VM, and now RoarVM
I remembered correctly, someone had already done that:
http://lattejed.com/first-five-and-a-half-minutes-on-a-serve...

Shameless plug: a small side project I did with my team at nodeSWAT [1]: CMify [2] - a web service to easily generate your ansible playbooks. Somewhat naive so far, if there is interest we'll extend it.

[1] http://nodeswat.com
[2] https://cmify.com
Coin-cidences! Hohoho!
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Their value when last moved was bellow 1 million dollars.
Try http://hn.premii.com, it has a really good tablet interface.
In one line how is DO?
For those wondering...

"Bitcoin days destroyed for any given transaction is calculated by taking the number of Bitcoins in a transaction and multiplying it by the number of days it has been since those coins were last spent."
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This is what Google Earth would look like with live video
Ask a soldier or Marine if they'd make that trade. Dead now or dead much much later?
In theory. I'm sure this amount would be able to draw the price down quite a bit.
Pandora for videos? Interesting. Seems like it would be difficult to generate relevant recommendations as there is not as much metadata on videos as there is for music (least I don't think there is). Would almost have to rely heavily on a per channel type thing then per video I would think. Anyways, I ramble.
tl;dr: I would try it.
Why is there no transaction fee?
You're a punny guy!
>Less possible rumors in the room

I think you meant something different, but I'm not sure what. murmurs? noise?
Is it just me or have some people been watching too many movies these days? Are there ANY examples of this having happened in the US, with BitCoin, ever?
Medieval monks copying manuscripts had jobs that were essentially "sitting in front of a box all day":

http://www.studenthandouts.com/photo_gallery/Pics1/MiddleAge...
News story about a cloud hosting provider?

Here's some dissenting opinions about them. Half of them have some sort of merit.

Disclosure: I have a vested interest in their direct competitor.

Seriously, man? You point out some valid things but this post doesn't really serve a purpose.
No, Satoshi would know how to implement proper pagination.
Somebody sent me $5 through Paypal once for https://grepular.com/blog/. I also had a few people send me bitcoins back when they weren't worth very much. And I've had about 38 flattrs too. My blog has been around for about 4 years. Needless to say, I don't do it for the money ;)
interesting assumption, are there any particular reasons you think that was Satoshi (other than the media buzz) ?
Yet another cloud offering with "NSA inside".

I'm so desperate for an alternative that I would rather put my data in North Korea if they had a cloud offer.
Ask HN: How many Hacker News readers/commenters have six-pack abs?
I'm your typical adult male with a one-pack ab (you know). Just recently joined a gym.
I guess not.

I think that point is that cancer is very hard to cure because its cells revert to the basic software of life, the ancient one, which made everything we know today and without which life is not possible, hence it can't be removed. So cancer is another form of life where different species of single cellular life evolve in its microenvironment. I say different species because most cells forming cancer have different genetic characteristics because of extensive aneuplody.

The authors argue, tho, that Warburg effect (reliance on glucose for energy instead oxygen) is consequence of reverting to ancient genome. I wouldn't put it that way - I bet that cancer cells rediscover ancient genome rather then revert to it, because, we know that cancer cells do not behave uniformly and behavior and physical characteristics change even from layer to layer inside same tumor.

I would expect that given such scenario the only way to fight cancer is physically removing them. Most of the things we know about cancer are in line with this - immunotherapy, strengthening the immune system to recognize and physically destroy cancer cells is currently most promising strategy and other things that are not compatible with life development make a difference - caloric restriction for instance or folate removal.
awesome stuff :D Thanks for this. Will definitely look into some of that in more detail.

Another tricky part of skin detection is false positives. ie, what if the actual product is that color?

Some things I've noticed and will be taking into account are:
Skin areas tend to clump around the same locations in photos. The product is usually the focus and skin is near the edges.
Product types also tend to share similar photo layouts.
So with that, skin color in those zones score higher.
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Why does this post matter at all?

A. This account was hacked and it doesn't matter. This scenario might be uncovered if ning.com discovers a breach.

B. This is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and s/he is trying to clear Dorian's name.

C. This is Dorian Nakamoto and he is trying to clear his name.

We can never distinguish between B and C, so I don't see the value of posting such a comment, and I'm pretty sure that the inventor of Bitcoin would understand this as well.
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How to deploy an application from Travis after a successful build using Capistrano.
I'm guilty of several of them ;-)
And the Oscar for the most cryptic hyperlink on Hacker News goes to...

Oh. Another fascinating article about Bitcoin, the internet phenomenon that is to cryptography what Ayn Rand is to philosophy.

I'd happily pay for an option to display Hacker News without any articles that reference Bitcoin. I figure I'd get through the feed in half the time...
As opposed to speak authoritatively on a topic with ZERO experience beyond a Wiki page?

This thread got cross-linked to some forums where ACTUAL COMBAT VETS frequent. You'd be wise to ask your questions of them instead of talking out of your ass.
Furthermore, for those of us who aren't quite sure how the blocks and ownership work at this level, what about the other transactions of the 289321 block? What does 289321 signify, and what about the 29,999 BTC transaction listed here?

http://blockr.io/block/info/289321
well, not me, that's for sure ;-)
This is great, both as actual content and advice to (beginner) programmers but also as "link-bait" in the best sense of the word, i.e. content that is very likely to gather a lot of inbound links.

As a very active Stack Overflow user, I immediately start thinking about how many questions that are going to get links to this as comments. :)

Well done, I hope it helps although I guess the supply of beginner programmers won't dry up over night.
This is the only realistic comment I've seen regarding the ning post. Everyone is just going on about how we got the wrong person, while in fact it tells us nothing. Thank you.
Please, no reddit-style pun threads :)
The general consensus on MtGox heist (and most others happening recently) is that they were stolen bit small chunk, and hidden keeping them separated: whomever is behind it is has taken the habit to avoid detection, making that transaction an unlikely candidate (but it’s not absurd to think counter-psychology would…)

In addition to being a large amount, this appears to have been immobile for a more than two years. With the events of the past two years, it’s hard to believe anyone with that large sum has not handled them in any way. A likely explanation after yesterday supposed revelation on BitCoin’s presumed pseudonymous inventor, is that it is one of his personal wallets. Mining coins started as much easier computationally, and it appears one actor did a large chunk of that early on, earning him or her the largest stash of BitCoins.

I personally doubt it would be an under-assuming personality, and would rather consider some of the project more vocal early proponent, too happy to have a name with a discrete personality to match that could be used for a mysterious founder myth, and shed away the attention.
Like people forced to give their riches at gunpoint ? Just watch the news ...
There have been examples with much less liquid digital goods, like in-game items.
A forum account linked to Satoshi posted today for the first time in several years to say that his identity was not that of Dorian Nakamoto. Plenty of people countered that the account could have been hacked, controlled by a site admin, etc. and have asked for further proof in the form of movement of some of the true Satoshi's stash of bitcoin. This could be that proof (or something else entirely).
Now I'm completely novice to Bitcoin but could tracking the the destroy days weaken it's anonymity?

Here we see a large volume with a large days destroyed which now allows a theoretical link to Satoshi.
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Jesus christ, is it so hard to not pay attention to things that you don't care about? 90% of what shows up on HN isn't up my alley but I don't post some overly dramatic bullshit in the comments of every one.

If you'd pay for it, why not pay someone to make it, if you're too lazy to make it yourself? Ultimately, who cares?
The block numbers are sequential, a new block is mined every ten minutes. A movement of 30k isn't very rare.
Every programmer is.

Also it is missing the classic "yes yes, I'm aware of that problem and if people stopped telling me about it then I'd have time to fix it"
No IPv6 is fairly serious. As is censorship to the point I wouldn't feel comfortable using them in case I angered Big Google at some point. Their general lack of HA and resource shortages make them look like amateurs.

So what if I use Linode? I don't work for them. I use two other providers as well. My 'vested interest' in them is limited to my VPS there running. I don't get a discount for pointing out DO sucks and Linode don't ban me if I speak ill of someone they like.

PS. Is a VPS host really a 'cloud hosting provider'? That term makes me think of overpriced individual services that aren't a self contained system, like AWS/EBS/their hosted databases.
And the Oscar for the most cryptic hyperlink on Hacker News goes to...

That award should be highly coveted. It is Hacker News, after all.
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Interesting, I tried it out right before so as to not make any false claims, but I was using the mobile site and those options weren't there.
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I'm actually wondering the opposite: why should there be transaction fees? I thought Bitcoin had no necessary transaction fee.
Fees are optional. If you don't pay a fee, the transaction takes longer to get the confirmations, but it eventually goes through.
The standard miner software prioritizes large transactions and old coin, no fee is necessary here.
Impossible; Bitcoin wasn't originally written in Lisp.
One thing I like about Bitcoin is that it's stories are more exciting than any movie or video game.
Within the EU, there is essentially zero cost for any cross border trading at all, you can move your stuff freely between countries, and money transfer is also essentially free, especially within the euro zone.
$118,000,000

Quite a large transaction (and with no fees)!
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I'm not in support of banning Bitcoin news, but with titles like this, yeah it kinda is hard to ignore them.
Would you be willing to pay in bitcoins, though?
> However, because this requires printing a circuit board with over a hundred diodes, it is relatively expensive.

So we can stick millions of transistors on an integrated circuit, but a hundred diodes? Too difficult!
Fear mongering at its finest ...
someone's bought a new laptop, made a new wallet and transferred it.