skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other, even if they just said he lives in his family home in California, people were going to find out all this information.

How is the argument "X was going to happen anyway so it's fine if it happens now" ever right?
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> isn't concatenating words to join their meaning a feature of pretty much every language?

No, and that's the point.

The fact that the grammar of the language allows strings of nouns to form compound nouns (e.g. a "River Steamboat Captain" feels natural to me) is unique and interesting, and shared by English. In Spanish, for example, you'd need prepositions/conjunctions to express that concept.

The fact that if you were to write this down, you'd leave out the spaces, is just a weird quirk of the written system, and independent of the language itself.
I believe most hapax legomena to be cromulent.
yeah but it doesn't mean everyone know the name of Satoshi
Doxxing? That is such a stupid term. It’s called journalism. Reporting on people with a huge impact on the world is sort of what journalists do. Of course that includes identifying information.

Sure, publishing identifying information of people who did nothing special is unethical but that can hardly be said about Satoshi. If the story is correct then this is some insanely rich dude who got rich by inventing Bitcoin which now got huge. I don’t think he needs you to defend him. (If any of this is incorrect her reporting is quite obviously highly irresponsible and unethical, but I’m assuming it is for now.)

Also, quit being so paranoid.
Hyperbole. Bitcoin is presented in some media as an "anonymous" "untracable" currency, but it's really neither.

(Repost from dead original thread)
My two favorite email marketing tropes:

1. 'New' newsletters from ridiculous SV companies that have NO reason to email otherwise. (Of course, I'm opted-in by default.) I always read it as: "hi, we have retention problems so we're going to annoy customers because business!" Buffer did this recently.

2. Nag emails about ignoring previous feedback emails: "Please give us feedback about your recent car maintenance!" No, I won't, especially since you nagged! But I will report as spam.

My ultimate wish for email is that I'm left alone. You'd think companies would realize that when they have my hotmail account.
I had a "wordpress as default" blog hosted at DreamHost and it handled up to 1.000 visits a day without crashing. More than that, and DreamHost turned it off to prevent it to impact other users.

Now it lives in a Digital Ocean's $20 VPS, fine tuned to serve WordPress and with W3 Total Cache plugin. Blitz.io tests say it could handle 80 million pages served a day. I know that's not really true, but it handles 60.000-80.000 real visits (more than 100k pages) every month without problems.
The plausible reason has been explained by pc like half a dozen times in this thread. Checkout is not the only option. You can build a form from scratch if you want customizability. Stripe is presenting developers with two options: one where they do the analysis and optimization and present you with a ready-to-go payment solution, and another where you can customize it to your heart's content. You (and others) are complaining because you can't customize the former option. This makes absolutely no sense.
I was thinking Google glass needed a task switcher. This could be it.

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Using any of his Bitcoin would attract far more attention than any dubiously sourced article though, and could risk proving both that he is Satoshi and still has access to an enormous amount of money. (For all we know right now he could have lost/destroyed all of his private keys).
They haven't presented any evidence. The Satoshi they found sounds like a plausible Satoshi but is it really him?

If he is the real Satoshi he may have lost or discarded his private keys.

Some snarky comment about how this is why bloggers aren't journalists because a "real" news organization has ethics or something.
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Why does everything, including their ad program, have to start with an 'i'? Maybe I can understand the marketing side for consumer electronics, but ads? Really?
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I see it as good investigative journalism. You don't think the single person that potentially originated a new form of global currency that's dominating headlines, and receiving the attention of world leaders is newsworthy? I'm a firm believer in privacy - but when something one has put into the world stands to have a massively disruptive force, it's worth exploring who that person is, and what their motivations are.
This is part of a larger trend where programming environments are getting increasingly creaky and complicated. Java started out simple, but it's not anymore. The web started out simple, but it's not anymore. Every so often, development environments need a reboot and I think we're long overdue.

There's also the question of whether all this increasing complexity is actually needed - not everyone needs enterprise solution platforms or scalable web application architecture frameworks. Some people just want to write a few webpages to share information with others, and browsers made it easy to get started. Just because we have some really idiotic users and the page source might contain "exploitable" things like cookie values and session IDs doesn't mean we should remove "View Source" and make it a developer-only option. (If the trend continues, I can actually see this happening in the not-so-distant future...)
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If the objection is privacy it's not right.

However if it's safety, it's better to know up front than to think you're anonymous.
For better or worse, you can say almost anything you want, especially if you are a professional journalist.

"Doxing" is just an Internet term for extremely offensive behavior, but it's not illegal.
You wouldn't do the bitcoin transfer until the transaction authorizing it completed successfully. And you don't just use a single transaction that deducts the amount.

You'd use one transaction to indicate you were beginning a transfer, putting that amount in a hold state, attempt the bitcoin transfer, then a transaction to indicate the bitcoin transfer was successful or not.

If there is an error in the bitcoin transfer or after, and the second transaction is never run, the funds are still in hold whether transferred or not and can be manually corrected by checking the system logs.
Not that I think publishing his name and address was in any way a good idea, but how many US citizens from this list:
http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#tab:overall
get "robbed, kidnapped or killed" each year?
Thanks. Yes, the website will definitely be better in the future. I have been working on the tool by myself for a while and right now I just wanted to make sure that this is something people would use.
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Their money is in banks. The existing financial system is much better at protecting peoples money from extortion and kidnapping than Bitcoin is: you can either request money in cash (and get arrested the moment you try and pick it up), or you can request a wire transfer to an account you had to give a passport to open up and where the transactions can be rolled back at any time.

The fear is that it's not actually safe to be rich in Bitcoin at the moment. In theory, this can be resolved through the use of tamper-resistant secure hardware (like the chips used in credit cards): you put your bitcoins under the control of such a device and then it's programmed to only allow small "cash" withdrawals to unauthenticated addresses, and it does risk analysis and requires authenticated addresses for everything else. But no such devices exist yet.
R 3.0.3 is released
The build system rolled up R-3.0.3.tar.gz (codename "Warm Puppy") this morning.

The list below details the changes in this release.

You can get the source code from

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or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.

Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course
having a "find all references" feature is a god send. can't tell you how many time i've scripted the database to a new query window and did a manual search just to find out all the place a stored procedure is being used.
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I have worked on systems where the message queue endpoint and a database could both enlist in a distributed transaction.
It sounds like he's 'on the spectrum' - very strong commitment to the literal truth goes with the territory. As does desire for privacy, tendency to work alone obsessively on unusual projects, lack of interest in money (or in being rich, rather)...
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> "He was the kind of person who, if you made an honest mistake, he might call you an idiot and never speak to you again," Andresen says. "Back then, it was not clear that creating Bitcoin might be a legal thing to do. He went to great lengths to protect his anonymity."

Except that he used his full, real name. That is what seems so odd to me.

If it really is him though, I'm very much afraid this article just destroyed his life...
Isn't this entire article illegal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_informa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law#Califor...

Whatever. Satoshi-san can sue if he likes. The damage done in the article alone is devastating for even persecution charges.
> Isn't ACID the solution to these problems for like 30 years?

Yes, but this is bitcoin, which is so totally unlike anything that existed before, that such outdated notions as ACID aren't valid anymore. We need to start with a clean slate and reinvent all the wheels all over again.
who is the odd one out?
Autumn Radtke, President Kennedy, Andrew Jackson
And they could have done all of that without revealing his identity.
Do you realize there is not the beginning of a proof he's the original author of bitcoin?

Being good at science doesn't count.
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I don't have much knowledge of Kalman filters, but the Wikipedia article[1] claims the assumption of Gaussian error is a common misconception. A quick skim of the original paper[2] seems to confirm this.

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

[2] http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalman/media/pdf/Kalman1960.pdf
Also, if Nakamoto wishes to remain private, then it's their right to remain private.
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Can we clarify the exchange on this please, to avoid the linkbait, esp given the just posted newsweek article.
Quite an odd article for such an important (if true) expose. The only reason I think its possibly true is Gavin's vague tweet.

50% of the article deals with material about bitcoin that is redundant to anyone whose been following it for more than a day (like most here).

45% deals with "Dorian S. Nakamoto"'s family, personal background and that he's a libertarian oddball, with a penchant for math (but no other significant accomplishment within it or CS) who (other than possible being the Satoshi) has led a fairly normal, middle class southern california lifestyle.

The remaining 5% or so details a brief encounter with the man, in which he neither confirms or denies it.

I'm skeptical.
answer : Andrew Jackson, he is the only one to survive an assassination attempt for trying to take control of the currency away from the government
Hold on - are you sure this article wasn't XSS injected by meat eaters?
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"Among those aged 50-65, those who ate a high protein diet were 74% more likely to die during follow up than those who ate a low protein diet (hazard ratio (HR) 1.74, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02 to 2.97). People in this age group who ate a high protein diet were more than four times as likely to die from cancer during follow up than those who ate a low protein diet (HR 4.33, 95% CI 1.96 to 9.56).

The results were similar once the researchers took into account the proportion of calories consumed from fat and carbohydrates. Further analyses suggested that animal protein was responsible for a considerable part of this relationship, particularly for death from any cause.

However, the opposite effect of high protein intake was seen among those aged over 65."
The second part should be possible to solve using transfer accounts where the btc is stored temporarily while working out the transaction details. Everything would then be reversible until the transaction is finalized.
Are you just trying to embiggen the cromulence around here?
> Bitcoin's pseudonymity is law enforcement's dream come true. A state actor would merely have to obtain the identity of one key in a series of transactions on the blockchain, and would gain far more information than any informant could provide.

This is true. Bitcoin transactions has already been used as evidence in Sweden. In 2013 bitcoin transactions were evidence in at least 6 drug cases alone.

(Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=ru&js=n&prev=...)
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Problem with using id is that it has no knowledge of type information. Xcode wont be able to autocomplete. This in contrast with using the var keyword in C#.
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I go shopping at around midnight. There are less people to want to stab then plus you get some crazy bargains. Got a whole 1.5Kg beef sirloin joint for £1 and had steak the next day :)
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> The problem appears to have been more straight forward than any of that. The actual transaction system was a different system from the order entry/webs system. It ran orders in serial after a delay using some kind of message passing.

I'm thinking that they had both issues. If the system let you submit multiple withdraw requests (totalling more than your balance) then they definitely weren't checking at request submission before queuing them for later processing.

> Obviously you can't have a SQL transaction that spans multiple applications, so SQL transactions wouldn't really work in this case. It was just a straight forward mistake: orders could be placed before previous orders were finished executing.

XA transactions allow you to have transactions across multiple services. The most common use case is a database and a message queue. It's nowhere near as simple as dealing with a single transactional resource but it's not that uncommon in the finance world. I've used them quite a bit and they're really convenient. Getting it right from a dev-ops perspective is a bit pretty tricky though as you need to really understand how the transaction manager itself works and make sure it actually runs.

> Transactions wouldn't actually work with bitcoin in this case anyway. eg, transaction 1 checks balance, deducts amount, does BTC transfer, and then commits. Transaction 2 does the same, but the commit would fail as transaction 1 has already modified it. Transaction 2 can't actually roll back though - the bitcoin transaction cannot be rolled back.

Yes you can't have XA transactions with bitcoin as it doesn't include any concept of rollback. What you can do though is guarantee that a transaction is only run once and re-submit it if it failed to send. If you can uniquely identify a bitcoin transaction[1] then you can guarantee that you don't send it out more than once. Just add in a significant delay (couple hours? a day?) before any retries to ensure the transaction has been merged into the block chain.

[1]: And not by just using the transaction hash because we all know what can happen with that: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_Malleability
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know. I would have thought "Find References" and "Quick Info" would be the most underused features and maybe I should take them out.
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I always assumed it was a real dude, since only a certain type of westerner would use a Japanese pseudonym, and that type of westerner would have chosen "Kenichi Kusanagi" or something similarly ridiculous.

[To be clear, I had also assumed that a Japanese crypto person who wanted privacy would have used a western pseudonym.]

But yeah, it almost seems like the crypto community didn't really want to dox Nakamoto, even if many of them could have.
Most of the guys here have more experience with text processing but we are expanding into image processing. I think we could definitely detect hair colour but it isn't that useful for Lyst. Gender identification on the other hand...(watch this space)
hey please feel free to add to the list if I'm missing something. I don't want to prematurely judge them, no one benefits from that really -- if you know something I don't, educate me
If you want to email the Newsweek editor and let them know your disapproval, the address is letters@newsweek.com.
Teaching students how to get into the ballpark of the right answer and reject obviously wrong ones increases their understanding. It's an important skill and there are adults out there who embarrass themselves by failing to do it (for example http://www.buzzfeed.com/charlesclymer/5-things-more-likely-t... ).

Same thing for taking a reference work (e.g. a formula sheet, a wikipedia page) and figuring out which piece of information you need and applying it.

Remember, I'm not asking if the tests could be better. I'm asking what you do to make test scores go up without making understanding go up.

I'd be at least moderately convinced if you could even show me two teaching techniques, A and B, where A is superior for test scores but significantly inferior for understanding.
That's what paper wallets are for.
First:

This is a private board, we are guests here. Even boards dedicated to discussing free speech regularly regulate the speech on their board because they need to keep peace. It's a big Internet, and you can make your own space.

Second:

I don't know how the people who run HN have ever claimed to be special free-speech proponents. They probably think, like most Americans can be shamed into thinking, that the government shouldn't punish you for speech, but aside from that I'm not aware of them, say, calling out other message boards for regulating their content as "censorship."

Third:

Unfortunately, once a general-purpose journalism piece lists your information, that's usually where claims of "doxxing" end.
Flagged as a troll, if you're genuinely suggesting what you write, consider that we can desire dissemination of public information or of government & corporate actions without believing individuals have no right to privacy.
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Are these unskippable? Maybe people will finally put down their iDevices more frequently and do something else when they realise they're being fed adverts like what they would do with the TV. I hope.
If you read the article, it suggests that the police officer is told that the person is Satoshi Nakamoto and the officer exclaims:

"What?" The police officer balks. "This is the guy who created Bitcoin?"

I can accept that the man on the street would have heard about bitcoin, but to know the name of the person who did the original work on the currency? That just seems a bit unlikely.
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It’s not the first time this comes up in a popular internet discussion, the website is pretty famous. I suspect they know about the issue.
I don't know about Target because they were one of the few major retailers we never sold to, but most of the rest run at least parts of their business on IBM mainframes. It was very common for us to work on integration projects between Windows or AIX boxes at stores and data centers and the mainframe(s). I would never claim that mainframes are fuckup-proof, but they generally are much better protected than the Windows / AIX boxes. It wasn't uncommon for us to be able to get any of a half-dozen IT guys with sudo / root to quickly make any change we needed on an AIX box, but then to make a change on a mainframe we'd have to set up a meeting with multiple people and discuss the changes. We fought one losing battle over extending a record format: "We haven't even recompiled that code in 7 years."
Because it's simpler/lazier than alternative.
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Was he "put off"? He seems to have consented to the interview, and to have posed for a picture.

Having interacted enough with bad members of the media [NB: there are also good ones], I'm not so naive as to think that there's no way they could have persuaded him to do it with lies or bullshit or empty threats, but without evidence for that he could have just said "I don't want to talk to you" and left it at that.

EDIT: I've re-read and might be changing my position. He didn't actually consent to any in-person interview. It was very very clear he didn't want to talk in person. So where did the picture come from?
> Ken says that the "i" stands for "Internet", but also
> represents the product as a personal and revolutionary
> device ('i' for "individuality" and "innovation"). [0]

Sent over the internet, personalized, sent tp personal devices. Seems to fit.

0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#History
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Rick Falkvinge mentioned this earlier as one of ostensibly two Mt.Gox-linked suicides so far:

http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
There would be an easy way to protect his well-being: Crash Bitcoin so that it is worthless.
What does the second sentence here even mean?

"A handful of marketers wrote checks for up to $10 million to become iTunes Radio launch sponsors last year. Those advertisers are already familiar with Apple-run full-screen video ads -- albeit ones limited to the company's streaming music service."
Yeah, sounds like artistic license to me.
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In 2010, that was still their primary branding. Nowadays they would probably call it Apple Ads.
It had better be real, because the entire story hangs around the unprovable observation of that vague admission. Otherwise this is a story about harassing a shut-in and his family.
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Hi clive,

Thanks for the feedback.

Lacklustre is actually correct.

Cheers,
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Or worse, you "self-XSS" injected it while in a fugue state.
This looks like a great plugin, but I couldn't help but think about the fact that I am grateful that I don't have to work in SQLSMS anymore.