skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JK Rowling never denied writing the Cuckoo's Calling. When The Sunday Times broke the news on July 14, 2013[1], she said “We can confirm the story in The Sunday Times was correct, and it was not a leak or elaborate marketing campaign to boost sales. It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name.”[2]

[1] http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Arts/articl...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/business/media/rowling-boo...
What features does f.lux have that are not in redshift?
Tell HN: Working on a Bitcoin project? Cowork in Menlo Park this Sat
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Engineers/events/169847172/

I've run a few small hackathons, but I know that many people are starting to work on bitcoin projects of their own!

So come and join, we'll order Chipotle (on me).
The best tool I've ever seen. Thanks for providing this.
Szabo didn't have reporters camping outside of his house. Besides, Szabo is a ghost anyway.
I used to use black terminals, then went to white due to most webpages being white. Switch from black terminal/emacs to a white webpage was just too irritating. (sometimes painful)
Isn't it convenient that, right when there's a minor cascade of failures in Bitcoin related things, a journalist from Newsweek just happens to figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto must be?
Poor guy just wants to be left alone.
"The whole reason geeks get excited about Bitcoin is that it is the most efficient way to do financial transactions."
Lauren Y is a sock puppet account used by Cedric Beust. Primary account activities are promoting his own blog and criticizing Scala, pretending to have worked with it for several years in production before finally deciding that the language is not production ready.

http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/1sdmdq/sockpuppet_acc...
Should we change our beliefs based on this post? Based on Dorian's denials today, isn't this post just as likely in the world in which Dorian is Satoshi and the world in which Dorian is not? I don't have a strong belief one way or the other, but this doesn't seem like good evidence.
> I am not Dorian Nakamoto.

Is there any way Satoshi could prove this statement? Apart from revealing his identity?
Could this explain how moving from my less thick curtains has made me very tired? I used to just wake up at the rise of the sun and felt refreshed no matter what, but now it seems like I never get any good sleep.
So this guy has had a stroke and cancer.

Does anyone care the stress might kill him? I guess not.

How about we leave him alone.
At this stage, given the conversation about possible hacking, what would constitute definitive proof that someone is actually Satoshi Nakamoto?
Midnight UTC is zero's all the way down. Seems false to me, but I'm from the land of C. This seems to be in line with some low level hardware or common assembly practice across many languages.

Everyone is talking higher echelons of consideration, but what effect is there on generated byte code or in fitting within the virtual machine's tight pants?
How about some Star Wars examples for some balance, please?
Something something turtles all the way down.

When you write a unit test, you are writing code that expresses intended behavior in a different way than the original implementation. The probability of making exactly corresponding errors (i.e. the implementation is wrong but the test incorrectly checks it and erroneously passes) is lower than the probability of making errors in the original implementation independently of any tests. If your test is incorrect, chances are good that it is wrong in a different way than your implementation, and ideally this will trigger a failure that will lead you to recognize your mistake and fix it.

If you do not feel that first-degree tests offer enough confidence in the correctness of your code, then by all means write tests for the tests. But that many will find this idea absurd demonstrates that the cost/benefit ratio diminishes the more meta you get. (EDIT: Especially since integration and other tests also help contribute to the confidence that the code is correct.)

Alternatively, if your unit test is so similar to the implementation itself that corresponding errors (between the implementation and the test) are likely, then it is probably a poorly written test and of little value.
A realistic solution would be for them to be rotating which pulls the line taught and when released he would seemingly fall. However, I don't think that's shown in the actual visuals as they would have to be rotating fairly quickly or the cord needs to be really long for that to be a significant issue.

Anyway, just looking at the previews I saw a enough holywood physics to give the thing a pass. The way the ISS was destroyed looked cool but the physics was terrible.
This does not prove that he is not Dorian Nakamoto, it only tells us that he/them is still alive.
Unit tests suck if you are not writing proper testable code to begin. If your classes and objects are not written to be separate from each other to a decent degree any change has widespread effects.

When you are properly componentizing your code, then while refactoring the innerworkings of classes without affecting their method footprints, unit testing becomes and invaluable tool.
For some equivalent of a big animal (where big is something like than a bug) I think that it's necessary to have oxygen molecules. I'm almost sure it would be possible to detect them escaping from cracks in the ice. So probably the biggest thing there is a bacteria equivalent.

There are alternative weird metabolisms that don't use molecular oxygen, but they are used by bacteria. Also the eukaryotes can do some metabolic steps without oxygen, but these steps don't produce too much energy and they are mostly used as an emergency energy sources.
Is flux "compatible" for people with day job and doing side projects after hours? You want to be sleepy when it's time to sleep, but you don't want to be sleepy when you're working on your exit ticket from bigco.
Here is is PGP public key: http://bitcoin.org/satoshinakamoto.asc
They could hold up Dorian and ask Satoshi to post something requiring his key, although that couldn't discard the possibility of Dorian having instructed an acquaintance to do so in case of emergency.

There's really no way to prove (a posteriori) without doubt that someone is or isn't Satoshi, unless there was an encypted message left by him (a priori) saying "My DNA is (...)", to which he provides the key.
Ask HN: Interested in building "A Dark Room" clone in AngularJS?
Anyone interested in building a hybrid-clone of the game "A Dark Room" http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ using AngularJS?

I have been working as a Software Engineer for quite a while now, and recently I've come across AngularJS and love it.

I also loved the whole game concept and minimalism of the "A Dark Room" game and would like to learn more about AngularJS while doing something fun.

I already have several ideas, but it will probably be more productive to work with someone else with a similar interest.

Let me know what you think.
Even more interesting: look who signed Satoshi's key on April Fools Day of last year[1].

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

(ignore the signature from today, anyone could have done that in the brouhaha following today's disclosures)

Based on that, it looks pretty clear to me that Dorian Nakamoto decided to "latch on" to the Satoshi Nakamoto founder's myth, either as a way to boost his reputation/ego or as some practical joke (or both!).

That or Satoshi the Founder is trolling us all.

1. Originally noted a few moments ago by mpfrank on bitcointalk.

EDIT: Duh, it's fake. Obviously, it's possible to set your system clock back. I was so intrigued I wasn't thinking clearly, even after I pointed this very "attack" out during the Ed Snowden GPG affair. Sorry folks, maybe if it were timestamped in the blockchain.
I deployed HHVM on a production site as a test, and without changing a single line of code, on average, I saw nearly a 60% decrease in page generation time from the standard PHP binary. Incredible.
Thanks for that info, but my question was about the source code of Softcover itself.
This is why I always carry a small notebook in my back pocket. And pens.
There's a good write up (in Russian) here: http://habrahabr.ru/company/vkontakte/blog/214877/

As HHVM is more performant than HPHPc, it's a more relevant comparison. Even then, it's not entirely apples-apples since HHVM supports (almost) the entire language, whereas kPHP seems to only support a subset. Doing so likely lets them make a lot of performance optimizations you couldn't make otherwise.
It doesn't mean I agree with that method. But it's at least internally consistent and I can respect the ideology and politics from it.

I happily think that my taxes help buy the civilization I enjoy. I actually believe the concept that government is not some impersonal monolithic bureaucracy, but is what Lincoln enshrined as "by the people, of the people and for the people".

When the IRS makes a mistake and gives me a hard time I don't think "GODDAMN IMPERSONAL IRS SCREW THE GOVERNMENT", I think "some poor schlep looking at tax returns all day screwed up." I think this might come from the area I grew up and live in, where practically every 4th or 5th person I know is employed in some capacity by the Federal government. So I personalize what it is and understand that it's not a mechanized black box.
One of the greatest risks is integration issues. Trying to square your experience with everyday life. I have experimented with DMT approximately 20 times over many years. It feels like skydiving through time and dimensions.

After 20 minutes you feel 90% normal. It's like having the most intense profound dream. You can have a fleeting sensation of wanting to return to the experience. But it is not addictive in my opinion.

Joe Rogan's given some eloquent descriptions of it. When he says it's like meeting God in a universe full of love, he's being literal. It feels natural. There's a sensation of an intelligence understanding force communicating with you. Making sense of it can be extremely challenging. I'd caution against doing it if you have any hesitation.
You should not respond to lauren Y. This is a sock puppet account used by Cedric Beust.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7358238
Ah thanks. Not entirely sure of the police hierarchy in America.
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People are concerned about the origins of something that has the potential of changing humanity (for better or worse) and dethroning the existing financial hegemony. I feel bad about all the cameras being shoved in his face, but there's nothing wrong with people inquiring.
Random property-based testing is useful for that sort of thing, as used in the QuickCheck library (most popular in Haskell/Erlang but there are ports to pretty much every language in existence). One property you could use for your example would be to have a simpler, slower reference implementation that you trust and test that it produces the same output as the one you've written. This isn't a verification but is very effective at snuffing out bugs.

But you are right that testing does not verify the correctness of code (unless you are writing something like a boolean -> boolean function), but often property-based testing is a stepping stone to verification since there is a quicker feedback cycle between write code->find bugs->fix code->repeat than the equivalent write code->fail to prove it works->wonder if its broken or if you just don't know how to prove it.
Since we're talking ethics, rather than legality, do you believe it's ethically sound to post someone's personal details, and then make (possibly false) claims about them that may compromise their safety?
No, I'm Spartacus
Video of (Satoshi) Dorian Nakamoto
This is going to become a real life Death Note-style affair!
The Dolphins come out ahead on that one...
Eh do you think it is an uncommon name and scared for his life? Are Bill Gates or Warren Buffet paralyzed with fear?
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His known PGP key. Alternately, a message signed by one of the first mined coins and/or movement of coins from those coins would be at least strongly suggestive that it's him, although it probably wouldn't carry the weight of his PGP key.
I'm assuming that a page has a life, I picked five years. The implication being if your page isn't going to last long, it's not that big a deal if you rely on an external resource. But if you're one of the few (or the many) that are going to last longer than the expected life of one of these ephemeral services, you shouldn't rely on it. That's as opposed to paying for the services of, say, an established, paid and hopefully long lived CDN or similar.
TFA is pretty thin on info. The "$500/kWh" goal seems to come from Musk's battery marketing rather than something inherent to this technology. And the technology itself isn't even hinted at. The description of "earlier versions" seems to imply a chemical reaction like regular batteries. However, speculating based on "liquid metal", maybe they've identified a metal with a melting point around ambient temp (or ambient temp of a sufficiently insulated vessel)? With high enough specific heat (typical for metals anyway), it could soak up energy by melting, and release it by freezing.
What does this mean? Dorian may or may not be "Satoshi", but was definitely involved in Bitcoin?
Ever since playing: http://clickingbad.nullism.com/
i've wanted to make a clone of it using some js framework.
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This is strange ... Really ... But I thought I'd say, have you ever thought that some people may have succeeded in being "anonymous" or hidden by the simple that you have not heard of them?
I might be reading this incorrectly, but it looks like the Dorian Nakamoto key was created in 2008? Can that be forged?

http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear...
That's fake, look at the URL via google cache, it wasn't there a couple of months ago: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
Be curious all you want, but doing this to anyone who is not some kind of public official is wrong.

Even worse, what if it really is not him?

Anyone who has been through that kind of illness deserves to be left the heck alone if they want to be.
How did John Titor sign it in 2001? The Dorian S Nakamoto signature could be time-faked also.
Lol at the John Titor reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor (for the uninitiated)
It doesn't even prove that unless and until it can be proven that the real Satoshi Nakamoto is the one who posted through that account.
The smarter news apps are, the dumber they get
I know you may not mean this ... But, it is interesting to think of being "accused" if creating Bitcoin as "slander."
The article doesn't have any specifics, but the group has been publishing in this area for a few years: http://sadoway.mit.edu/

It's an electrochemical cell - I know some people who've worked on the project and IIRC some of the main benefits are lower material cost / kWh and improved lifetime as the liquid metal "electrodes" don't degrade the same ways solid ones do.
He could create an algorithm that doesn't rely on trust...
CEO in apparent suicide was Bitcoin fan, had other issues, too
The "real" Satoshi Nakamoto coming forward after all this time just to say he isn't Dorian Nakamoto seems kind of suspicious to me. It's not like Dorian Nakamoto is the first person to have been accused of being Satoshi.
As you think about this, consider the impact that plugins, that your JS doesn't know about, and how they play with the entire runtime of the browser.

Also, I find this blog post somewhat less than amusing in general about how browsers work: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/postxss/
I suspect it works much better on non-AOLED screens. In lieu of it, I use "Screen Filter" to turn my brightness down way below what I can normally.
that's with all the generated PEG grammars in the compiler. build w/o the compiler stuff, which should be handled node.js side anyway, will be approx jQuery's size.
You're crazy if you don't use flux. It's incredible. You'll sleep better, get less headaches and it helps with eye strain. My only regret is that I can't get it on every computing device I own.
One possibility is indeed that Satoshi is trolling us hard. He may actually have based his pseudonym on this guy... but that's playing a dangerous game, as this is in fact one more datapoint to honing in on the real Satoshi.

A number of blackhats did this around Lulzsec time. They would adopt a second-level identity -- and drop very, very small hints to make people think they're some person X. Person X being a person the blackhat in question just chose randomly by, oh I dono, cruising around the web where people talk about IT security... choosing an interesting person, learning about them by googling around, and eventually starting to play that person (or rather, play that person playing to be anonymous). This was one of the suggested strategies in the helpdocs wiki, advertised on the irc channel where lulzsec members usually would be. But since Dorian is kind of an old guy, the real Satoshi would have had to know him in real life (hence my saying that it'd be a dangerous game for Satoshi to be playing).

But really, I think it's just a very funny coincidence. As others have pointed out, Satoshi Nakamoto is not that of an uncommon Japanese name. Too bad Dorian got dragged into all of this. He seems like a sweet old man, with a great sense of humour ("I want a free lunch", wonderful) and an awesome hobby (model trains are fun). I'll buy you a lunch Dorian!
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It would be very difficult to rob Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and get away with it. Their money is mostly in the records of various banks, brokerage houses, corporations etc. It would be very difficult to steal that without being immediately traced.

It seems much easier to steal bitcoin. None of the significant bitcoin thieves have been caught thus far, and we are talking large sums being stolen.

Regarding his name being uncommon, I have to admit, I know little of Japanese names or how common they are. I trusted the Newsweek article which suggested the name was very uncommon and they also kind of suggested that they checked all the Satoshi Nakamotos they could find on record. But of course they may be wrong.
We tracked it down to the system telling us a display was both added and removed in a single callback. (Reported to Apple.)

This new version mostly avoids this bug, but there are still cases where it will appear briefly. We now fix it within a few minutes by polling the displays.

Unfortunately, polling the online displays frequently uses more CPU & results in making MacBooks wake up much more slowly, so while we have a "bulletproof" fix we haven't been able to use it. Hopefully we'll be able to have a 100% solution soon but this build is a considerable improvement. We'll spend some more time testing and see if we can do better before it's out of beta.
I recently became interested in hardware. I have some experience in machine learning and computer vision. I am planning to set up a robotic arm that connects to a webcam and that can perform simple task like picking up an object and move to a new location. It could then perform some more complicated task like solving the Hanoi tower problem, physically :). All in all, this is a weekend/hobby kind of project.
People who commit suicide are just placing a huge value on external things. It's understandable I think, although also sad obviously.
I met someone starting a similar company, the hard part is recruitment.
You can get twilight on android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...], or redshift on linux (flux is also available, but redshift is more functional). I think f.lux is available for jailbroken ios devices, as well.
On the current version on windows* it doesn't. Any differences in blue or green become completely invisible.

*3.10, and I don't see a non-mac beta link
I hack electronics as a hobby, and I'm am constantly amazed by the incredible prices of even the simplest screens. I can buy a Nexus 7 that includes a CPU, RAM, video card, SSD, wifi, a battery, and a 7" touchscreen for the same price I can buy a 5.6" non-touch screen at 720p [1]. And no, that doesn't include the battery or any of the tablet hardware. That's just the screen.

There's literally no reason why displays need to be as expensive as they are when a normal person wants to buy them, seeing as how Apple and Google et al have no problem sourcing them for much, much, MUCH less.

[1] http://www.adafruit.com/products/1666
Well spotted, I edited my original post and upvoted yours (feel free to downvote mine).
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Oh wow I totally fell for that. Good troll though.
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"I have an A-10 with this stain under the cockpit. I've tried scrubbing it with soap and water, jet fuel, and degreaser, but it stays there. Does anyone know a better solvent?"

I was expecting something like that from the title...
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He's the first person to be declared definitively to be Satoshi Nakamoto by a news piece in a major publication, not just idle vague speculation on someone's blog.
That's what I was thinking: admin of site. If it it is Satoshi it could be Dorian lying.
That sequence of tweets reads like something out of Snow Crash.
All we need is 33 bits. We can probably knock off 6-12 bits based on what we know so far.
Our "classic f.lux" mode turns off all the wake time scheduling, so you can just use sunrise/sunset. But if you can pick a time, our super-warm colors are available and will help a bit with scheduling.

Back before I had a toddler who wakes up early every day, I didn't wake up the same time every day, so it would have been a really hard question to answer for me too.
All this reminds me of when bozos start talking about "convergence" in the technology sphere. The US: doomed by middle management.
Not sure about Sprig, but Seedbank hits all 3 of those and has for the past two years.

https://github.com/james2m/seedbank
I am not Satoshi Nakamoto
Holy crap, get over yourself. Bitcoin is a flash in the pan fad. Maybe eventually there will be a cryptocurrency that's worthwhile but bitcoin having the "potential of changing humanity" is utter bullshit. Also, your argument is completely ass-backwards. It doesn't matter how important the issue is, means are just as important as ends.

Look at it this way, consider some other examples. Finding out whether or not someone is a pedophile is extremely important, therefore throwing around baseless allegations is warranted regardless of the impact it has on someone's life. Stopping terrorist activity is important and lives potentially hang in the balance, therefore torturing someone on the basis of limited evidence or limiting people's freedoms or discriminating against people because of their race is justified. It's all variations on the "won't somebody please think of the children!" argument. The seriousness of the issue does not and should not change the importance of protecting an individual's privacy, their rights, and their assumption of innocence.

If you thought that your neighbor had the secret to curing cancer that doesn't give you the right to break into his house and beat the shit out of him until he told you what it was. The privacy of Dorian Nakamoto is a slightly less serious issue but it's still important.