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> Suffice to say Nakamoto did have a change of mind and did do something world-changing about it.

It's not clear he actually changed his mind though, at least not since young adulthood. His daughter grew up being told to imagine a government agencies, with the correct reaction being to hide in a closet from there. Nakamoto's views certainly appear to be long-held and consistent.

The "change" that occurred was related more toward having to experience inter-bank transfer fees while buying model trains from the U.K. After all as late as 2001 he was working for the FAA.
No matter where I go, the prices don't get any better than they do in OVH. A 240 GB SSD (2 X 120), quad core, 32 GB RAM, unlimited bandwidth for just $60/month?
+1 - that's the way to live your life.

I have a massive vegetable garden but not enough to survive off completely as we're in a London suburb so we concentrate on growing the expensive stuff (and potatoes because once we planted them they just keep coming up every year).

Can't do chickens here - too many foxes.
>No fee to contest: We charge 25% of the fine if you win. You have nothing to lose.

Except that you are assuming they are better at contesting tickets than you.
That actually used to be the proper way to refer to the country in English, but has since fallen out of common parlance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-merriam-webst...
The owner of Poloniex posted details of the bug here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580
Owncloud.
The plural of 'paparazzo' is 'paparazzi'.
It's not only about extremes.

For one, if you are paying taxes (and otherwise accepting that you live in a republic where you don't get the exact set of laws that you want), most people would feel somewhat entitled to benefit from the use of those taxes, which includes government jobs (or state funded research).

What would be hypocritical is arguing specifically that your own entitlement is more worthy of government support.

I see no hypocrisy in partaking in benefits, while arguing that no one (including yourself) should have to pay for them and no one should benefit either.
For better or worse, if you create software that plays a key role in a tectonic shift in a massive industry (Napster) and later become president of one of the fastest growing and most impactful companies of the past decade(Facebook), then the things you do are inherently newsworthy.

But, to answer your question (for better or worse again), it seems to me that what he does primarily is start and invest in tech companies. And at least once, get married in a forest.
I agree that it's harder to have sympathy for him as a result. However, nobody deserves to have their rights violated* because they made a simple mistake. If you forget to lock your house or car, you don't deserve to have it broken into. If you drop your wallet for a moment, you don't deserve to have it stolen.

*If you don't believe in a right to privacy, substitute "be harassed by strangers" or "have their and their family's safety compromised". Even outside a framework of rights, some things remain inappropriate and wrong.
Yeah I have to second BitTorrent Sync.

It really shows that they have experience transferring big files over the internet (via P2P). With Dropbox I often only get 100-300 kb/s upload, BitTorrent Sync maxes out my connection. Download is a similar story.

And with encrypted secrets the server part is easy too. (Obviously you've got to trust them, but I'm writing this on OS X so...)
Ask HN: Are my options legit?
As part of my offer letter, I was given x number of options vesting over y number of years. I was never given a stock options agreement to sign and the offer letter does not contain the strike price. Are these options legit without signing an options agreement? Whats the best way to proceed with this?
I'm confused. Why? Are we talking "I didn't do anything wrong" tickets, stuff that is unfair but hard to fight?

Or is this about "I park wherever I want and try to avoid the consequences"?

So far it seems that most of the customers are of the latter variety. While I understand the motivation to act like an asshole, this service empowers .. assholes?

We're regularly discussing if free apps (downward spiral) or free content (adblockers) are okay. But free parking is fine, right?
Hopefully not! We're trying hard to focus on making the whole team improve and learn and apply best practices, and not on pointing fingers at the last one in the leaderboard.

You have a point, though. We'll try to prove you wrong ;)
I agree. iptables is horrid.
The reason why he had ended up in a toxic environment is the key. Change jobs and you'll find you're in the same situation a year later, but with different people and different schemes. Change your mind and you'll find you might not need to change jobs at all.
An open letter to photographers (Getty have not made your work worthless)
Maybe ADA SPARK?:

http://senier.net/libsparkcrypto/
This makes a lot of sense to me. SQLite has the reputation of high reliability and thorough testing, maybe there is a lesson there.

In my opinion the value in testing is verifying what an interface should do, not how it does it.
"The plane was manufactured in 1987 and has been flown 454 hours and 24 Minutes of the estimated 5000 hours it is capable off."

Anyone know why there is a 5000 hour limit?
Judge Rules in Favor of Samsung Vs. Apple
Thanks, that wasn't there a few hours ago.
Bitcoin Is a Protocol. Bitcoin Is a Brand.
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put it on Pawn Stars
454 hours of flight time seems low for a military plane built in the 80's. That is not very many flights from the Soviet Union to off the U.S. coastline.
You also have to look at the problem from the kids' POV. Remember, they are humans too. They (indirectly) have a say in this.

You could drop a 100.01% trusted and vetted teenager on my doorstep but if the kids don't click with the babysitter (or worse) then it's a traumatic experience for them and, subsequently, for us when we return. That's not worth the convenience.
Web app for exploitation of vulnerabilities in edge devices
What Losing the Passion Feels Like
I watched this recently and really enjoyed it. Definitely check it out if you are into the genre.
> If it's still solvent and operating when you retire or become disabled, then you can expect to receive benefits similarly

That's now how it works. The reason you get those annual pamphlets from Social Security Administration is to know exactly what you're entitled to. It's highly dependent on your rate and consistency of contributions.

> or decide to fund your retirement yourself, you don't somehow magically get back the money you contributed

Not sure what you're saying. When you reach proper age, you're entitled to Social Security payouts as long as you've contributed into the system the way that was intended. A lot of people fund their own retirements through 401(k), annuities or personal savings, that does not disqualify them from Social Security.
Yet another cool thing in Javascript. Once you understand the power of Autolayout in iOS you don't want to go back to the old way (and in iOS7 you almost can't). Once this matures and people understand it (constraint thinking takes a while to puzzle out) I think it could simplify a lot of web design. Of course, anyone that refuses to turn on JS can't see anything. But that's almost pointless these days anyway.

Looking forward to it maturing.
The title and page seem to imply that parking tickets inherently are something which need fixing. As if their very existence was a blight upon the world.

If you agree, might I suggest you go into politics or perhaps traffic planning?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration
Sounds great! My 0.02c from having had some (tiny bit of) exposure to the press:

- it's great if your story fits in some bigger story/theme that they write about.

- it's great if you have numbers that relate to the bigger story that others don't have (so they have to mention you to use that number in their story).

- make time anytime for the reporters, they're busy.
Yes, yes, the site needs much more. Released only a couple weeks ago and probably needs a big fat "BETA" or something.

More language features, docs, demos, etc coming soon. Right now works down to IE11, and we will work our way further down, but once we get precompilation of a static GSS layout to raw CSS (difficult b/c must account for every possible screen size), it will be bullet proof on any crappy browser!
Actually, I think that's what differentiates the Profit from other similar shows. About 50% of the time (so far) Marcus determines that the ownership is unethical, too incompetent, or just too difficult to work with that he decides not to help them. Still makes for great TV.
They can charge to fight a ticket.

Boston does that:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...

In Boston parking tickets are not about doing something wrong, or trying to curb behavior. They are basically a backdoor tax on the residents.
agreed. But again, this depends on how old the kid is. For my 3 week old, it probably does not matter that much as long as she is fed on time along with diaper change etc. For older kids however, it totally matters that they like the babysitter
I have a 4 and 2 year old. Would not use a babysitter I did not know personally. We have one sitter we absolutely love. It's because she takes an interest in what our kids like. She looks for bugs in our back yard because that's what my son likes to do. She lifts the rocks that are too heavy for him.

We used another sitter that was highly recommended by a close friend and didn't continue to use her because it was evident that she didn't really take an interest in getting to know our kids.

I think we lucked out with our preferred sitter but in all honesty I do t feel like settling for anything less. I hope we won't have to but I can't say we'll always have such a good sitter available.

But the idea of getting a sitter we don't know and haven't had a friend recommend sounds like something we would not be comfortable with.
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"Up to 50% of tickets are dismissed when challenged."

There is probably a high number (half according to them) of tickets that get dismissed because of selection bias. Tickets [that have been] challenged are probably challenged because they have a good chance of being dismissed due to reasonable issue. Challenging more [random] tickets will probably cause this number to fall.
I find now that is not the only one, the other rebel is even stranger, it seems that it still stands against the intervention and still working for the network:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knr6VrREZbk

Hmmmm, I have mixed feelings about this.

At least on this issue RT is obviously biased, but then it has covered at some point some interesting stories, but then I am biased too.
Rainy Day Style
Interesting, that's contrary to what I've heard from multiple sources (and pretty much all literature about the subject that I can find) about S-Corp distributions (again assuming you are being paid a market salary that you would hire someone at to perform similar tasks).
Can you not be added to a team of the said organization ? Or is it that github is not allowing team members of organizations to participate ?
The reasons they show in the screenshot seem more like the former. "Meter broken", "Curb paint faded", "Missing signs". But I don't see how they can contest those things without proof, and getting proof seems like it would be rather expensive. Pay one person to go out and take a photo and your profits are gone.
The best part of this listing is that they accept "Cash in person".
Suggest HN : tablet compatible layout please
Hello there,

Stuck on an ipad for a couple weeks, reading HN is quite horrendous. Why not a simple yet responsive-ish layout? Pretty please.
meanwhile, back in the real world, gifs and apngs are staying exactly where they are.
Colleges aren't the only ones at fault. They are part of the equation.

I'm also saying that the tools available to the student are weak or outdated.
My first job as a teenager was IT for a babysitting agency run by my school. They employed former students as the babysitters. It was very popular but when they tried to scale it beyond the school it failed. Basically parents were willing to trust that the school knew its former students, but not willing to trust people recruited any other way.

Personally I would use such a service, but you'll have to work damn hard to show you've vetted people carefully.
Journalist Behind Bitcoin Story Speaks Out
You are curious about something different than I was about Knock to unlock. I was wondering how they detect the knocking and not get false positives. I started working on a project that recognises knocks/taps (just incase anyone else comes here and is curious about this part!) https://github.com/Jonovono/Tapadoodledo
what about referral incentives?
The problem is that whatever their job happens to be is never a nonessential function. The goal posts are constantly moving.
I wish we wouldn't upvote stuff like this. The guy clearly bullied a random Google employee in a private chatroom into commenting on a subject that was totally irrelevant to his work, and then turned his comments into a biased character assassination post WITHOUT even telling the dude he was writing about him.

It sure seems like the author went into the chatroom looking for a story, and got the THINNEST of all possible stories ("Random Google Developer Has Opinions") and, in an effort to turn it into real news, colored it in the most negative way possible. It is profoundly terrible journalism, and the motives behind it are so ugly. This is not something that we should endorse on Hacker News.

The only story of relevance here is that Digital Ocean has a line in its TOS about not allowing "harassment or embarrassment", and they will enforce it if you do indeed harass a guy.
Probably before the next round of maintenance.
How to Get into Venture Capital – An Update
great! thanks for digging that up.
The maintenance service costs at that number of flight hours probably exceeds it's economic value.
I get this impression too, have since the first services of this type appeared around 2 years ago.

Yes, it can be used to easily dispute bad parking tickets. But the reason it works is that an office somewhere is pumping out boilerplate with your name on it at a faster rate than the courts have time to deal with it — this is the reason so many tickets get dismissed, because our court system is already so overtaxed that it must decide rather peremptorily on minor topics like this.

In other words they're basically doing a paper denial-of-service attack on the courts, which as they do not have the capacity to do all these hearings, simply default to halving or nixing the ticket. Personally, I think it is vile.
Why Is Hotel Room Service So Expensive?
weird that it doesn't say they're open for a bitcoin price.
It's not literally true, and not 100% true in any sense of the phrase, but I interpreted that as meaning that part of how you perceive your job comes from within; it's never just based on a cold and objective evaluation of the work environment.

If you're not predisposed to make the best of a bad situation, then every bad situation you find yourself in will seem like a dead end. In reality, some bad situations may even be opportunities for growth and change, instead of just being barriers to overcome. If someone has a particularly nonconstructive outlook, just about every situation might might seem like an insurmountable dead end.

To quote Sarah Silverman, "when life gives you AIDS, make lemon AIDS!"
This story was already discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340908
It's possible that you are responsible for your crappy situation. But it's also possible someone is harassing you and THAT is why your environment sux. It isn't the victim's fault that they are being harassed. This may not have happened to the guy who wrote this. But lets be more open minded and empathetic about the many causes of crappy work environments.
> ... this has the potential of freeing us from the horrible disaster for layout that is CSS, and giving us a sane replacement, without waiting for browsers or the W3.

I said this exact thing when I threw together my attempt at solving the problem a month ago[1]. (Except mine used a physics engine to simulate springs.) I am now cynical about a JS-based page layout engine approach being adopted at all. There are just too many people who, after mastering CSS, believe it is the only real, performant, and compatible way to do things.

[1] https://github.com/Jared314/physics-based-page-layout
Is that just for fallback and also tooltips?
oh that's a good point! I need to edit that into the original post :)

I've found that in B2B you don't want to "pay" for referrals and that people are more likely to make them when they feel like they are providing value to their network without any selfish incentives.

Once in a while someone will ask for it and it's up to you to decide if you want to give people a discount or something else for helping you close new business. I personally think that's reasonable when asked but wouldn't offer it upfront.
I haven't spent any time looking at Go because I'm pretty satisfied with Ada, but these libs do smell a bit like the Ada time handling functions which only get better through each ISO revision. Not handling dates like POSIX is nothing new, but it some of us just haven't been exposed to it. Of course, Ada would never guess at a format. Blasphemy. The more you know™

http://rm.ada.cx/05/RM-9-6.html
http://rm.ada.cx/05/RM-9-6-1.html
http://rm.ada.cx/05/RM-D-8.html
American tourist vs British soldier. Try to watch this without laughing
I don't know about America, but in Europe, this is not how things are done. Rentors need those homes. Landlords, by definition, don't. You should always err on the side of rentors, which is exactly what European courts do.

> Nobody signed a contract with these people promising to let them live there forever.

No but they agreed to something stronger than a contract called "Rent control". And before you say otherwise, if you read this law, it specifically states that it overrides contract provisions. Since we live in a democracy, those landlords agreed to this.

> And if they were so concerned about their ability to continue living there indefinitely, maybe they should have worked harder to ensure their position?

Ah the mafia argument. As if this is anything but money grabbing through threats. As if there is any amount of money that would leave these vultures satisfied.

> These people have no excuse.

Look I am normally pretty right wing, but make this statement to my face and I'll be the first to start throwing bricks through your window. It's that simple.

Btw : do I get to throw you out into the streets the second you are less economically valuable than me too ? Fair's fair after all.
yes, the HTML of the dialog can exist as direct child of body, or wherever, and then be aligned to any element...
Won't cities adapt to fight this the more tickets are challenged? They'll say something like: "Oh, this same attorney is fighting hundreds of tickets? We're going to require more evidence to reverse these tickets".

They'll put up walls and/or make something about this service illegal.

And yes agree that many people will abuse this and fight every ticket regardless of the validity which will cause cities to push back like I mentioned above.

Seems like a tenuous business model.
At some point, it was decided that 'The Ukraine' referred to the Soviet state and 'Ukraine' to the free country.
Heka v0.5 Released
Well-written article. I can relate (I often zone out at social gatherings that I don't exactly know if I could skip out on, which is most of them).

Amazing how much bike-shedding is going on here.

Or perhaps not.
The software they're going to run is one that was used prior to the iPad at a ground basestation around the gate.
It does not appear work in IE9/10 yet:
https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/5ee9a304678365bec6...

from their github page:
https://github.com/the-gss/engine
You should have an automatic code formatter / checker if possible. Plus code linter. Automate everything if possible and make build fail in case of discrepancies. Then there'll be no discussions like that.
DigitalOcean lands $37M, plans to add PaaS features
neither of us is qualified

That kind of thinking is how we got the government sanctioned food pyramid. I'd rather think for myself, thanks.
The aluminum skin and wings fatigue.

It's more a certain number of takeoff and landings rather than flight time. After that the metal is too weak and unsafe.

Each time the cabin pressure changes the skin moves. Each time it takes off or lands the wings flex. They probably flex during flight as well.

First link I found: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/04/aircraft_fati...
Care to elaborate, or are you just throwing mud?
Banter Debuts Anonymous Social Network Focusing On Interests, Not Confessions
Positively brain-damaged.

It's not like unit tests are a magic bullet, or applicable to every situation, or nowhere deserving of criticisms, but both the criticisms and recommendations here seem poorly founded at best and frequently harmful.
Curved smartphones
I think this is a really great way of enticing new startups. Yes it's to get them more business, but for once it actually brings a good benefit of $1400+ for startups.

I would use Braintree for things like this.
could this be happening because of bad video drivers? gss uses css transforms to speed up rendering and a bad video driver can cause a browser to automatically switch down to software rendering of 3D transforms.
very cool, shame you can't stream them via syslog or scribe or something though. would love to just pipe it straight into kinesis.
Yes, but we have laws that specifically recognise existing currency. Is their applicability to bitcoin entirely clear?
Book review: Magento Search Engine Optimization
Seems like a direct commodification of what this Wired article outlined http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupi...
I wonder if this service will also raise eyebrows like the methods described in the above.
This is what I thought. He really knows how to get in on the ground floor of things.
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It's not at all hypocritical, as long as he pays that new higher (but minimized-by-army) tax burden, should it actually go through. That's like saying an NFL cornerback who liked the old "push out" rules shouldn't try to push receivers out of bounds before making a catch, as is permitted with the newer rules. You can argue for different rules while playing the game with the rules that are actually on the books.
"it's newsworthy because it's Sean Parker"

Newsworthy to Techcrunch? Anything related to a "celeb" in this business to Techcrunch would be newsworthy. But I would say this would be of interest even to the WSJ because it fall under infotainment.

Likewise, something involving a top commenter on HN would be newsworthy to HN. But not elsewhere. Maybe maybe to some blogs if there was a good story to tell.

Something about PG would be newsworthy on HN, Techcrunch, and if it was particularly unusual, say if PG was detained in Mexico, it would be newsworthy in many places whereas if it were you that was detained, it probably wouldn't be.

So the question really is in many cases to what extent is someone a celeb in a business that "normals" care about. Or important enough that normals might care about it (like if a top guy at Volvo was arrested for drug dealing that would make the news almost certainly because many "normals" know about Volvo).
Have you got a source/more detail on that average figure out of interest, that's way higher than I expected. Is it mean or median?