skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The/a litmus test: does _why use stock photography, stock anything or do work outside the sphere of totally original and mostly/entirely cartoon infused? He was/is the unique collage king ( sensory overload + pioneering humor ).

This blog is almost entirely cookie cutter.

The story of how the domain name originated is not _why's style - he rarely if ever had anything approaching a sincere self-narrative, much less anything even close to "explanations" of why _why did X.

A wordpress blog? Could _why actually sleep at night with that existing even for a moment?
Oh, sorry. Wire services often will update their stories multiple times, especially if the news is timely. That gives their subscribers (especially newspapers with early print deadlines) something to work with, and the promise of more later. It also can carry bragging rights, important in inter-newsroom rivalries, about being first to publish.

I've worked in newsrooms with direct AP feeds and I've seen as many as a dozen writethrus with major AP stories. On the internal feeds, at least, they're marked with version numbers and a terse explanation of what changed.

I'm mildly surprised that AP hasn't published a writethru on their own website. It's been over an hour. Perhaps they have on their direct feeds, not sure.
Cryptography is learnable by anybody. Maybe not practiced up to state-of-the-art standards by just anybody, but to say that's unreachable is bad form. I'm an art major turned software developer who has been reading about cryptography and paying astute attention to cryptography articles here (as well as trying to objectively gauge the comments), for the better part of the last half-year. I'm not saying I'm good at it, but to say that I can't comprehend a hash function, padding oracle attacks and public-key cryptography is pretty dumb. The beautiful thing about cryptography is that, theoretically it's nice and simple - the less moving parts that add up to the more robust system, the better. The problem lies in real-world implementations, as it always does with theoretical -> real systems. If I, as a liberal arts major with only a few years of practical software (and thus tangential computer subsystems of hardware) experience can grok the basics no problem, then surely an electrical engineer with years of practical experience can understand it too. Creativity knows no bounds - sometimes the right circumstances and accidents lead to an idea that actually makes perfect sense.
My theory: Dorian thought the reporter was asking him about his past at the defense contractor. Doing work for a defense contractor sometimes gets you crap, so maybe he was trying to distance himself from that, like, "No, I used to work for a company that did potentially evil for the government, I'm no longer involved with it". I know some people who did work for defense, and they're not very open about it.

The reason why he thought the reporter was asking about his work at a defense contractor vs. bitcoin? Plain ole' miscommunication... Leah perhaps presented herself in an unconfident, possibly suspicious manner like she's out to get him and the guy's like "nope, not gonna get into this". And to be fair, English is this guy's second language.
The law is not executed on some sort of Turing engine. It is guidelines for humans to interpret real-world situations.

I encourage you to post what happens when you do this and explain your theory here to a judge. Having seen what happens when somebody tries to outsmart a judge in his own courtroom, I promise it will be memorable.
_why is largely responsible for the success and relevance of Ruby to every level of person, entirely approachable, easy to access mentally and retain, totally engaging, and yet 100% bizarre and akin to doing engineering on psychedelics.

He spent 66% of his talks intentionally avoiding the topic he was asked to speak on, and yet that 33% was worth more than 100% of most other talks. He transcended programming. See deluge of Wikipedia links attached.
He's speaking like an Australian, he mentions Sydney in one of his posts, he's on a domain that is now using name servers registered to an Australian company (as aaronbrethorst pointed out). I don't think this guy is trying to be _why or actually is _why, unless _why suddenly came back from out of nowhere with a new fetish for all things Australian. As an Australian, I'd like to think this is a possibility, but I have a feeling I would be disappointed.

I suspect the "if you’re reading this blog, there’s a pretty good chance that we know each other already" bit is intended to be interpreted as him not thinking that anyone other than those already acquainted with him would care or know about his blog. Self-deprecation is a fairly typical Australian trait, by the way.

Most likely possbilities in my mind: this is all simply a bizarre coincidence, as has already been suggested. Or... well, he is starting a software company apparently, so assumedly he's in our industry, that makes it somewhat more likely that he knows the history of the domain. Maybe he has unwisely decided to try and grab some free attention by taking this domain name knowing full well its history. I hope it's not the latter.
It would really be a shame if it was closed source and not maintained.
I was deliberately discussing the whole library ecosystem you could well be right about the stability of the core of Ruby.
The denial going on is because there is no proof (thus your invitation to a bet). I find it hard to believe (read impossible) that Newsweek was the first person to have thought of looking through public records to find him.
Could Satoshi Nakamoto be Satoshi Nakamoto?
It could be improved, but no crypto will ever 100% work due to human error.
That was quite the skewering.

Please [/shamelessplug] critique the potential of http://spawnsong.com as a music streaming service.

Elon Musk instructed me to elicit bad feedback, and man, do you know how to give it.
Yep, that's largely true, though I'd say there's a very very big difference between understanding hash functions and public-key crypto and designing, coding, debugging, and deploying a system like Bitcoin.

The number of people who could do the former would be pretty much every freshman CS student who took the relevant classes. The number of people who could do the latter is a far smaller fraction.

In any case, the burden on proof here is on Newsweek. I don't believe, given the evidence we have, that they've met it. Strong claims require strong proof.
Missed the part that doesn't exist? Yes.
Surely someone is signing off the hosting bill (even if it's one line item among many)?
Satoshi Nakamoto says he is not Dorian Nakamoto
I think that the author means is that Harvard places a high value on "perfect code," when "just ship it," is closer to the mantra of the startup community. Goes hand-in-hand with "do things that don't scale," which is another bit that follows the same ideal of "get it out the door."

I don't think that there is any reason to rush in University though. Take time, learn the fundamentals. There is plenty of time to corner cut later.
Very little code that expects "A" or "B" would be equipped to handle ["A","B"].
'discovery' of Bitcoin creator
There are laws specific to electronically stored fiat currency. They don't automatically apply to World of Warcraft gold, spaceships in Eve Online or Bitcoins.
The Real Satoshi claims he is not Dorian
I'm also a happy user of Spreedly (via their subscriptions product which is now owned by Pin Payments, IIRC) and can verify that Dan's exactly right about how easy swapping out a gateway was. When I moved from Paypal (their I-can't-believe-it-isn't-a-gateway product) to Stripe it was literally 30 seconds of data entry in their admin screen and zero lines of code changed.
"I am not Dorian Nakamoto." – Satoshi Nakamoto
The real Satoshi responds: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
I assume he's referring to the fact that you have to write Braintree-specific code (if you choose not to use Spreedly). And if you later decide to switch gateways, you have to do that again. So unless you're convinced Braintree is viable in the long term, you might lose out on the savings you get now with the time wasted doing a rewrite.
It would be a useful test for a dependency injection framework ;-)
I am not Dorian Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
AP's writethru with more details is now up: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b...

Key excerpt:
He also said a key portion of the piece — where he is quoted telling the reporter on his doorstep before two police officers, "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it" — was misunderstood.
Nakamoto said he is a native of Beppu, Japan who came to the U.S. when he was 10. He speaks both English and Japanese, but his English isn't flawless. Asked if he said the quote, Nakamoto responded, "no."
"I'm saying I'm no longer in engineering. That's it," he said of the exchange. "And even if I was, when we get hired, you have to sign this document, contract saying you will not reveal anything we divulge during and after employment. So that's what I implied."
I don't have a link to it so I'll paraphrase what I remember:

A bunch of programmers were endlessly arguing back and forth about how to do such-and-such to emacs on the gnu-emacs mailing list.

RMS derailed the argument by pointing out that there were just a few people in the world who know the code well enough that they could actually just sit down and solve the problem themselves without discussing it with anyone else, and they were all very busy.

But all the bike shedding and social chatter about what to do, how to do it, what to call it, and what color to paint it, by the people who either can't or won't actually do it themselves, is just distracting and wasting the precious time of the few people who can just solve the problem themselves without any discussion.
Had you tried this tutorial?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-u...

I had used it to setup a test server and had no issues -- FYI, the date on the article is today, but the original article has been available for a few months so perhaps the article has been updated.
Unit testing along with every development methodology d'jour is that it fails to account for the fact that some devs are good and some, quite frankly suck. There really just isn't any way around it. Unit testing does solve a subset of development problems. It also creates a whole new set of problems when managers expect perfect software because it was tdd'd. They most important trait I've seen in good developers is a deep understanding of the problem domain in which they are working. If you don't know the how and why of what you are doing nothing can save you.
Here's the HN thread of his infosuicide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106

A decent Slate article about his disappearance: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/...
Hahaha...well played!

This guy, whoever he is, is definitely one step ahead of the rest of us.

Anyone with a modicum of intelligence would know that it's effectively impossible to remain truly anonymous in this day and age. So what do you do if you want to be left alone? Either you make sure you have enough "insurance" that no one would risk messing with you, or you play the system against itself: leak just enough information to lead people down your trail but not so much that the trail can't equally plausibly be denied. It's all rather reminiscent of Vinnie "The Chin" Gigante's decades-long ruse of feigned insanity to avoid prosecution.

Side note: I think the last high-profile anonymous figure that managed to remain truly anonymous for any length of time was "Deep Throat", and he did all of his talking pre-internet.
Is f.lux good for my eyes?
I actually saw your website earlier, after reading tlb* 's predictions on his website which linked to yours.

Always thought it was a great idea, because I always make predictions and wish I could prove I did so to friends/enemies ;)

* trevor blackwell, yc founder/partner
Not really. It would NEVER be certified for US commercial operations as the US FAA does not have a reciprocal airworthyness agreement with the Soviets[1]. FAA certification - required for commercial use (but not experimental, which is how old warbirds are generally operated these days) would take years and probably $100M+, fi the FAA would ever even consider it.

[1] Ironically, we DO have such an agreement with Poland, so in some cases (but not the TU-95), aircraft built in Poland have a path towards approval for US ops that those built elsewhere in the USSR wouldn't have.
Reminds me a bit of the Guillaume affair [1], which led to the resignation of the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt after it was discovered that one of Brandt's assistant was spying for the communist East Germany, and Brandt knew of it. The spy Guillaume was sentenced to prison in West Germany, but was later exchanged with East Germany for Western spies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Affair
Who the hell says "nah, $100,000 to $150,000 isn't nearly enough money, but I'd get into software development for $200,000"? Once you reach 200k you might run into a backwards-bending supply curve: you pay engineers so much they just retire early and you have fewer engineers in the long run. So while I would never complain about a pay raise, I also don't think it has much to do with the shortage of engineers.

And don't even talk to me about "$100,000 isn't that much in the Bay Area". Even in the Bay Area software engineers easily make double the median household income.
Probably not worth your time to save ~$1,500 unless you use an abstraction layer like Spreedly or you're really short on cash.
I don't think that means much, though.

Hypothetically speaking, if I were both Batman and Bruce Wayne and someone outed me as Batman, of course I would say, as Bruce Wayne, "I am not Batman."
Show HN: You guys are great
Yep. I did a back of the envelope calculation once, and I think it was something like a thousand cubic miles for every satellite in low Earth orbit.

Alaska would look overwhelmingly crowded too if you drew even a tiny fraction of the population as small visible people on the map.
Probably "remote data centers" in this context
Thanks dude, working on it and I'm really happy with the core after two years of building and testing. We've just finished building our own data centre, a nice steady influx of customers are buoying us up, and we recently hired two new developers to fix up our various front-ends. It's definitely looking more presentable by the week.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto

he comes out of hiding
There's a new trend I've noticed recently in the software industry behind research driven development.. there's another link on the frontpage about reading software by a startup called Spritz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/27/spritz-reading_n_48... that has somehow managed to get >300% improvement on reading speeds just by taking eye scroll out of the equation. I'm excited that we've reached the point where we've started questioning the fundamentals of our user interfaces, and I'm surprised how easy the switch over to this next-gen of design has been. I expected the process to resemble the painful switch from Querty to Dvorak, but it's been more creative than that.
Religious thinking and science are contradictory thought models. Believe in both and you are a hypocrite. The fact that someone sees no problem doesn't mean there isn't one.
How common is the term "lucky stiff" in Australia?
> super-expensive interplanetary probes happen, or not, without any scientist input whatsoever.

I think that's an exaggeration, no?
Non-Traditional Work is the New Tradition
It is remarkable that there was no such denial when Nick Szabo was widely outed as a likely Satoshi in tech blogs and the press a few months ago: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo...
I am going to say the same thing in a different way:

"The satellites in the image are not to scale, and this makes the image misleading."

Was that so hard?
The real Satoshi just denied being Dorian Nakamoto:

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian on a forum he hasn't used in years.
Reminder: You're Doing It Wrong (2010)
That is specific. You cannot believe in imaginary beings and so simultaneously claim that you also believe in science. Doing so just indicates that one is a complete hypocrite.
Didn't realise we have put that many satellites into orbit.

If you had asked me out of the blue how many sats humans had launched I would have guessed a couple of hundred.
The Windows version is already ahead of the Mac version in features.
Take a look at the writethru. That's it.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b...
Cheap, color, holographic video (2013)
Real engineering projects every day use software—I don't think you can realistically draw a line between the two, even if there are different auditing standards.
Way too obvious a troll. I give you a 1/10.
I don't think most westerners even associate anything particularly problematic with a prepended "the". It's used in "the Netherlands" for similar historical reasons; like the Ukraine, the Netherlands was a descriptive term for a certain region before it was a sovereign state (the Ukraine meaning the borderlands, and the Netherlands meaning the low countries). Whether it's retained or not when the region became a sovereign state seems more or less arbitrary.
No, actually, there IS a platoon of elves with millions of eyes, carefully scanning all of the open source the code for bugs, meticulously going over it line by line, building rigorous test harnesses, feeding it every input imaginable to probe its weaknesses, and writing up reports describing every quirk flaw they detect in it. And then not fixing it.

And your tax dollars are paying for all of that work. And you can be sure those elves have known about those bugs for years.

And those bugs have caused many unfortunate consequences. So it's just not wise to go around giving people a false sense of security in order to promote your brand.
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I have delved into the theoretical side of computer science, learning about lower-level languages such as C, experiencing faint tastes of web programming, and more recently, an introduction to the beauty of recursion in functional programming languages like OCaml... but I know I haven’t experienced that “hacker” oriented style of programming that I was hoping for through Harvard.

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I agree with what you're saying completely. Sometimes people like to think intellectual pursuits are only for the highly intellectual, instead of those that happen to be interested with a different mindset than those in the upper tax brackets of IQ.
> I also think it becomes a problem when you're doing these smaller code reviews as the blog post is recommending; if you're doing bite sized chunks of code, it's really easy to lose context and overlook things which might be performance bottle necks.

Absolutely. In fact not just performance bottlenecks but other things too. Worse still is if a commit is not a discrete fix, then you have to review a set of commits, possibly editing and re-editing the same code, together.

Additionally I imagine I would have less trouble with a single 100 line commit than I would with 100 one-line fixes. Context tracking has overhead.

the single best rule is not to worry about size of the commit but ensuring that the commit is self-contained and tested (generally, not necessarily perfectly) before being committed. Commit things so that they are discrete and reviewable chunks and worry less about size.
Are there any precedents for content remediation working? 
If google has lowered your search rankings, like content farms after the Panda update, is there a precedent for fixing the issue?
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China doesn't care about ideology. It cares about having a buffer state instead of US troops on its borders.
"Earlier versions used molten magnesium and antimony, separated by a layer of salt, to store and release electricity"

This sentence implies that they changed type of medium. I scanned article, but have not seen claims of any other materials.
Help: Creating servers, databases, queries.
Alright, so as of now i have a decent understanding of html, css, javascript and sql.
I have made all the html and css files for my webpage, and in there there's a registration form.
What i want is to create a server in my own computer(mac) on which i want to have a database that interacts with my webpage. When a user fills the registration form, i want it to interact with my server and the information be saved in the sql database.
My questions are: 1) What should i use/read/learn to create my own server with a mysql database on my computer (without using a hosting service and already knowing sql)?
2)How do i "link" my webpage to my server so as they communicate?

I've heard about MAMP, apache, php... no idea what i'm looking for.
I'm delighted for all potential US customers to get such a nice deal thrown their way - nice one Braintree! Too bad the offer doesn't extend to Europe, but I can appreciate the complexity in setting up something like this world wide.

I'm currently in the process of going live with two sites using Braintree, and everything has been great so far. Excellent Python API, documentation and extremely quick, knowledgeable and friendly support.

My previous payment provider experience has been with Cleverbridge, Digital River and Paymill...and so far Braintree has managed to surpass them in every single way. YMMV but for my use case Braintree has been a great fit.

Keep up the good work!
If GSS requires 3D acceleration to get good performance, I'd say that it needs some serious optimization somewhere.

Adding another slow layer is not really helping anything: by the time you have browser-C++-overhead + DOM overhead + JS interpretation/V8/SpiderMonkey overhead, adding another layer on top of this all is really not wanting to make me develop on this platform.
This is astonishing, especially after the movie Gravity. I didn't know we have so many satellites up there. One thing that always keeps me alert is the amount of space litter. My friend said Gravity makes him lost interest in space travel and this image has stopped me ever wanting to go up there. Despite the distance between satellite, they eventually will become useless and many are destroyed in the space due to security reason.

Kudos to people who work on space mission, getting the right window and right path precisely is really difficult given the amount of litter and traffic we have right now...

I would be interested in getting a map labels the ownership of each satellite and what each of them does. I suspect there are clusters, based on country and companies. I'd like to see an interactive map like Google Map and Google Earth looking at Earth and satellites.
The original version of HipHop also compiled to C++. Very slow to compile C++ actually. HipHopVM is the one that compiles it natively, it's a successor to the original.
Okay, then what about

{1: "A"} + {}

Should that return {1: ["A"]}? In which case {} is no longer a zero value.

What about

{1: "A"} + {} + {1: "B", 2: "Z"} + {1: "C"} + {}

In any case, your suggestion would break all existing code. Based on all the StackOverflow and python-list questions, most people expect one or the other value, and few want the two-element list containing both. (And why a list instead of a tuple?)

Guido chose the current behavior because there is no clear-cut winner. "Refuse the temptation to guess."
This sounds like a sales opportunity for WPEngine or Flywheel.
_why so serious?