skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
P2PFoundation.ning creator, Joseph Davies-Coates, confirms Satoshi's registered account is real:

https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zs4z2/p2pfoundati...
I was wondering this as well. I ended up skimming the wikipedia article for John Titor[0].

/* I should note that "John Titor" is a fictional persona of a time travelling man. People made fake posts on multiple forums, some including elaborate diagrams of a "time machine" etc... */

If you scroll down to the "in popular culture" section it mentions that in 2006 none other than the very "Martin Pohlman" to whom your parent poster linked attempted to patent the time machine that John Titor claims to own...

So maybe this Martin Pohlman had something to do with(created?) the fake John Titor persona... Really renders the whole thing pretty un-comical.

Your parent poster could definitely have been a whole lot clearer though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
I'm not suggesting anybody bother him at his home or invade his personal life otherwise, simply that it's OK to inquire.
Video editing software
Video clip cropping and editing software will let you set up your whole mass media, not only for video tutorial, directly into you spot. Thats usually where this wonderful time of combining mp3, video and images happens. Use movie modifying software package to be able to write youtube videos mission accompanied by a physical appearance which can be completely unique back, and after that reveal it all when using the environment.
I think the more convenient answer had to do with Newsweek going back into print, myself.
That is the most spurious logic I have encountered all week. Dorian lying about the specifics of his involvement with bitcoin does not logically imply that he must also be lying about not being Satoshi.
Interesting point. I see how that applies in your DoT / toll road example but that works because they are in a sense two competing entities. That's not the case with a big chunk of the government. For example, a highly productive patent office employee really doesn't do anything to justify the office's existence unlike your DoT worker example. In some ways, issuing a lot of patents might actually prove the patent office should not exist.
Not an American, so don't know much about your school system tbh, but what is bad about these tests?

The benefits of them (I guess), is that you can collect data on how kids are doing around various parts of the country, and maybe look at some areas where the kids are doing poorer than others to see if the education is lacking.

I don't see any downsides at all other than "my kids might get stressed" which is rather silly.

edit: just to clarify, I am all for the ability to opt-out if you want, but it seems these testings are generally disliked.
Wow, I've JUST downloaded F.lux on my computer.
Came here to read Hacker News and this is on the top.
Oh, HN... haha
You may consider investing in a natural sunlight lamp.

http://www.amazon.com/NatureBright-SunTouch-Plus-Light-Thera...
When was the last time an A-10 was shot down by a MANPAD? And what is your proof that it is ineffective against modern tanks?

I ask as an actual A-10C pilot, with many more hours flying it than you have in a "sim".
Hey Osmium, this is John from Rescale. Thanks for the code(Quantum Espresso) suggestion. We'll make sure to add it to our software library soon!
Fantastic post. I did a rough version of this for a while and it works great. One thing I didn't think of was closing the feedback loop like you suggested. Usually I did that myself through the form of a casual gift (beer, etc) but I can see your way being much more effective.

Its really amazing how well this works too. I recently made the jump from tech to advertising, and I actually built us to ramen profitable doing exactly this. The trick was a bit of pro bono work at the beginning to light the fuse.
Dorian Nakamoto denies being Satoshi Nakamoto
Whoa! I didn't realize that virtual hosting providers fall under 512(c). I figured they'd apply 512(a) (conduit provider).

Anyone have any citations for case law where virtualized hosting falls under 512(c), and doesn't qualify for safe harbor under 512(a)?
I am sure she is aware that fighting a bad law is usually a political action, and one of the first steps is publicizing the existence of the law in a way which leads the audience to conclude that it is bad and should be opposed.

In fact, I think she demonstrates that pretty well.
Fair answer.

My statement was a bit facetious in that of all of the above in that about page answer; there is nothing especially specific to "startup" people.

It seems another example of the Startup People are different from normal people" that gets mentioned a lot on HN.
Can Silicon Valley Be Saved?
You seem to be saying the opposite of what the parent comment is.
Welcome to 1998 :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_USB_Keyboard_B.jpg
Do you have a hypothesized conspiracy or causal link that you would like to share, or are you just commenting on coincidences?
A-10s have a missile warning system that is tied directly to the flare dispenser.
I wouldn't say the explanation is "poor." The article details one of the reasons behind the lack of n-key rollover. Note how the text explicitly limits the scope of the article.

> Typically, ghosting is the result of one or more of following three limitations: the hardware can't read the given key combination, the software on the computer doesn't support multiple simultaneous keys, or the communication protocol between the hardware and software limits the maximum number of simultaneous keys reported. The next section discusses in more detail the hardware design of typical keyboards that limits the number of keys that can be read at the same time.

The article also links to another page that describes the issue with USB: http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/Si...
The markets have been extremely quiet lately. I'm not sure if it's stability or lack of interest.
> The DMCA prescribes a dispute policy, that allows the accused to refute the evidence provided by the accusers.

No, it doesn't.

The DMCA provides both a safe harbor for hosts against infringement liability (the take down notice procedure) and a safe harbor for hosts against any liability they might have for taking down content (the counter-notice procedure), but neither of these procedures are strictly mandatory, they just provide a liability shield for certain liabilities that the host may have had without them.

But most hosts have taken pains to assure that they have no liability in the latter case through terms of service, so there is little reason for them to be concerned with the counter-notice procedure.
I've been using f.lux for I think about a year. Honestly I think it's just a placebo and I haven't noticed any real effect. My sleep schedule is terrible. I just feel I should comment because all of the only people commenting are those that did benefit (or at least believe they did.) The comments are not an accurate survey of how many people really did see an effect.
* Try a programming language that you haven't tried before.

* Set up a static blog engine like Pelican [0]

* Learn Ansible [1]

* Try a distro you haven't used before

[0]: getpelican.com

[1]: http://sendgrid.com/blog/ansible-and-digital-ocean/ (although this really doesn't show off the power of something like Ansible)
"Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013", by China's State Dept
Kudos to the web folks at visionext-epaper! The site looks superb and functions perfectly for me despite the fact that I have not enabled javascript for the domain. I can not remember the last time I saw a site that looked and worked so well without requiring javascript.
Taking the wallet would not attract attention. Only transferring the coins would, and that could be done hours, days, weeks, hell even years after you've finished beating Satoshi with a wrench in his basement. You could be on step "Getaway" before the rest of the world was notified that something was going on.

Stealing the fortunes of conventional multi-millionaires however necessarily involves interacting with the outside world at the time of the theft. Unless they are drug dealers anyway... there is a reason that drug dealers get hit by thieves so often, and it isn't only because the thieves know they will hesitate to contact police.

If he can no longer access the coins (either because he intentionally destroyed the keys, or because he neglected backups), then proving that to be the case would be damn near impossible. In this hypothetical case, Satoshi may very well believe that he has a better chance of making it unclear that he is actually Satoshi.
California problems. 
Having problems with the Sheriff Department. My uncle was possibly murdered and the government are hiding it. They have neglected our civil rights
New video released of Nakamoto at AP denying any role in Bitcoin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrrtA6IoR_E
wow, thank you for the personal anecdote.

If you care to respond, were you aware of your surroundings/your body/your existence, or did everything not matter in the moment?

Is there any sense of time progression? Do you remember everything right after?

Can you hear any sounds from the environment you are in? (tv, radio etc)

It seems like this is something you would want to try only after being at a point in life where you are stable, mentally (emotionally), and physically (health).

Such a fascinating topic, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Remembering Farhan Muhammad, CEO of ILM Professional Services
One of the best utilities ever. What I would do to get this on iOS devices. And if you guys feel like monetizing, throw up a donation button I'm sure you'll have transactions ringing nonstop. Thanks for the amazing utility you've created - you help us work better and sleep better.
Why does it look like 5 = 6?
oh yeah, how reputable is erowid for information, do you recommend it or is there a better repository?
I haven't seen any case law, but just looking at the text it certainly looks like VPS hosting can't be 512(a) in normal cases without an incredibly distorted reading -- the VPS hosts systems don't do "intermediate or transitory storage" of client data, they do relatively permanent hosting at the direction of the client, exactly the kind of relationship addressed in 512(c).

512(a) would apply to, say, an ISP that stood between a system hosting allegedly infringing content and those accessing it, not to the owner of the physical system hosting that content who allowed a third party to control a VM on the physical system on which the content was hosted.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
Try redshift, I find it much better than flux on Ubuntu.
What ever happened to the Parrot VM?
There is far too much weight put on a handful of tests. It can pass/fail kids for the year in courses, depending on location. And since the standardized tests, now being created by quasi-federal coalitions like C-SCOPE, are so important, everything in a curriculum is focused on teaching to the test. No exploration, no flexibility in how to teach.
It's on Cydia.
Chess 16
Introducing a chess 16 variation. This is a 16 by 16 board chess game. It has 32 pieces per side and 192 spaces open (12 by 16) verses 32 (4 by 8) in a conventional game.

It is designed to push computers.

https://github.com/singularian/chess16
Startup Employees Are Getting Screwed By VCs And CEOs, Says Industry Veteran
Two sentences later:

> Sadoway and his team tested more than 1,000 cells with dozens of alloys and salts to find one that’s commercially viable.

Looks like they can do their homework after all.
It's obvious: his son is Satoshi Nakamoto... c'mon people
I believe the problem is that schools end up pandering to the standardized tests, creating curriculum designed specifically to help students achieve higher test scores. This is bad because the tests have a narrow focus and anything not within that focus is deemphasized, or not taught at all.

Other objections are that the tests are biased towards or against certain segments of the population and that they don't accurately assess the quality of education.
This part is interesting too :

The A-10 engines were initially susceptible to flameout when subjected to gases generated in the firing of the gun. When the GAU-8 is being fired, the smoke from the gun can make the engines stop, and this did occur during initial flight testing. Gun exhaust is essentially oxygen-free, and is certainly capable of causing flame-outs of gas turbines. The A-10 engines now have a self-sustaining combustion section. When the gun is fired the igniters come on to reduce the possibility of a flame-out.
Of I post a BS blog post about how DO is way more secure and reliable and cost-effective than AWS, and how AWS is a ripoff scam, will DO take it down to stop be from embarasskng Jeff Bezos?

Or are they exercising editorial discretion?
They force teachers to teach to the test if they want to keep their jobs. School becomes rote memorization. And there's no allowance for poor areas, non-English-speaking areas, or special-needs kids.

The response to poor test results is not more funding for underprivileged schools or real reform, it's to fire teachers and close "under-performing" schools.

Standardized testing isn't used as a feedback mechanism to learn what works and what doesn't, what can be improved and what's doing fine. It's used as a weapon against public education.
If you think the A-10's an anachronism, the B-52 has been around for 60 years and is planned to be around for 30 more.
They are also manufactured in much much larger runs, thus bringing down their manufacturing price significantly.
Kusköy, Turkey – The Whistling Village (2010)
I wasn't particularly claiming it was used by a large portion of those in intelligence; my claim was that it was an overwhelmingly large portion of the uses of the term, and those familiar with it at all (and not just guessing the meaning based on the fact that it's made up of two familiar words) are most likely to have heard about it in Burn Notice (which apparently had ~5 million viewers) or read it in a Tom Clancy novel (of which there may be 100 million copies in print), if they didn't read it in a recent Al Jazeera or Washington Post headline.
Still working on the algo, but I'll make sure to post it when/if (it is, as you said, ambitious) I get it to a point of sharing!
Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look at that.
Because textbooks are an effective monopoly and the publishers put in the minimal amount of work to keep students paying $150 for introductory textbooks.

Also, functionally an eTextbook with a clickable link to a video is the same as an eTextbook with a built in video.
Whistling as a form of language
Changing humanity? Bitcoin fans are fun. :) look at all this drama and just convoluted jibber jabber. Do you really see bitcoin being taken seriously by very serious people such that it will bring about this libertarian revolution or whatever is meant by "changing humanity?" Even those loafer phrased "existing financial hegemony" ... I think bitcoin people take themselves way too seriously.
It's fascinating that an entire language could be constructed with something as seemingly simple as the whistle.

More to read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
I use a Model M and sometimes encounter ghosting. Some types of gaming are worse than others. For example, while playing RTS or MOBA I do not encounter ghosting while playing FPS I encounter it on a regular basis.

This is because in RTS and MOBA while you might be rapidly hitting your keys you should be hitting them in succession, not simultaneously! In the FPS on the other hand you might be trying to walk forward and right while crouching and reloading, which requires four keys to do. This would cause problems for my keyboard.

Programming is more like the RTS than the FPS in this respect. You may be hitting a lot of keys, but the combinations are more likely to involve modifiers such as CTRL, ALT, or shift rather than a combination of letters.
> I wonder what the environmental impact of "liquid metal" batteries would be

Keep in mind that in the use case these batteries are designed for, they would largely be replacing coal, oil, and natural gas.
But some of us are mode Bitcoin than others
except that's a false dichotomy

one format can support both lossy and lossless images and use better compression between frames to achieve 10x better results for animations than animated pngs without visible loss of quality
"When
Is a hyper precise millisecond timestamp of when the message was created.

It is 17 digits long, which is 4 digits longer than the normal new Date().getTime()"

Is this serious? I can't find any assignment of "when" in the code.
And why would you expect hyper precise timing from js?
And if it has four more digits wouldn't it no longer be milliseconds?
I can think of very smart people who could be classified as overweight of obese, such as Gabe Newell, Linus Torvalds, or Steve Wozniak - so that makes me a bit suspicious. On this topic though, I do notice a significant drop in cognitive ability or "mental sharpness" from eating certain foods which have a higher GI. Have been experimenting with this lately, and I had wondered why after lunch time I wasn't able to focus as strongly as in the morning (I usually skip breakfast or eat light).
Really neat. But I tried it at 600 WPM, and it can't center it fast enough, it will pop over from the left. Becomes very difficult to use at higher speeds.
It's not just that one expression, but when done in addition to the previous suggested answer. That is, what is the type of the values in the summed dictionaries?

If {1:"A"}+{} == {1:"A"} then the type of each value is unchanged from the input list.

If {1:"A"}+{1:"B"} == {1:["A","B"]} then the type of each value (or at least each shared value) is a 2-element list.

If both are true, then no one can write sane code which knows how deal with the sum of two dictionaries.

That is, the insane code has to have checks for if one of the dictionaries is empty, and if so, do one thing, otherwise do another thing. In which case, why is this definition useful?

Therefore, either {} is the zero value, or dictionary summation produces lists for the resulting values, but not both.
It's okay for you to be wrong about something.
When developing Flash games this was a personal hell. Many keyboards are unable to process Up+Left+Space, usually meant for shooting at northeast. In this case one of the keys is simply ignored. Worse yet the other directions work, so you get a hard to diagnose bug.

The users end blaming you for their character deaths and the overall experience is frustrating. The best solution I found was to use a different key for shooting, such as left Ctrl, 'a' or 'z'.

If you ever wondered why you can't use the large button on your keyboard to trigger the main action in a game, blame your keyboard manufacturer.
It’s practically dead:

http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2013-February/0...
Discount it however you want, her testimony is a form of evidence [1]. To say there is "no evidence" is simply and flatly false.

[1] That's a quote from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony
Stories like this make me so glad I'm homeschooled. Even though I'm in Canada, and homeschooling for me just means taking all of my courses online, I am continually thankful that I am not forced to be a part of the public school system. At least I am able to take courses that are designed to teach, and not to prepare one for a test. Indeed, some of the courses I've taken didn't even havtests or final exams, but instead projects that demonstrated the knowledge and skill that you acquired through the course. I find that a much better indication of how I did throughout the course and what areas I need to improve on then any piece of paper that has been 'standardized'.
> the event loop runtime finally hit production grade

The event loop has been production grade for a very, very long time, via kqueue, completion ports, and poll/epoll. Plenty of software takes advantage of these interfaces. Having a good cross-platform userspace wrapper is just icing on the cake.
All you people talking about violent crime .., I mean, what, do you think the Bloods and the Crips are following the world of bitcoin? I think the bigger story here, much more interesting than whether this person is Santoshi, is the kind of sociological story of nerd obsession with and belief systems about Bitcoin.
I proactively opted my kids out of these bullshit tests too; by never sending them to government schools in the first place. What a total waste of 12 (of the best) years of your life...
I'll look into this. I didn't test it at higher than 400. I imagine this is just some terminal oddity, but at the same time, the fact that the ridiculous ANSI codes I use work is an oddity of its own :)
The author is slow, and a lawyer.

While I was reading the first page, I was screaming, your kid is smart, thus "IT MATTERS TO YOUR KID'S TEACHERS".

By the second page the author somehow figures it out after posting on Facebook and getting tons of comments from friends that explain it to her in excruciating detail. I would not hire this person as a lawyer ever. I have no idea why she wrote this article.
I just witnessed proof that I NEED flux - I turned it off to download this update, and it felt like my eyeballs were stabbed with a blue knife. The difference was shocking. I don't know how I ever lived without it.
You can get it on iOS if you jailbreak :)

It's in Cydia. It is the #1 reason I wanted to jailbreak iOS7.
I'd like to clarify some things that are not clear in the post. I am finding a lot of value in the CS courses I am taking in their rigor and the way they are changing how I think about problems. I also feel like I am in the company of some incredibly smart, talented, and driven people. I feel awfully fortunate to be in the position I am in. This all said, I also think that being able to build hackable and scalable projects is really powerful, and that the education I want meshes these areas together- instruction directed towards the theory as well as with the projects.
Well, you're just taking that it is not logically imperative that he be Satoshi as a counter argument. I think if all is true that it is a pretty interesting coincidence given that, despite people think here, Bitcoin was not a very common thing for normal people in 2011.

But anyway, this eye witness seems a bit odd for other reasons.
+1 for take the job offering more money.
[Peter Griffin] "See Meg, these are the questions."
Too true. I depend on hacker news for many things, but being secure is not a bet I'd put money on. There are ways of making more provable claims in either direction--unless it's either attested multiple times in the past (so as to be difficult to doctor) or it's cryptographically signed or there's a convincing prosecution, I don't think we'll be confident about it.
Dorian Nakamoto explains how he was misquoted
I had the exact same experience. I didn't realize how much I am used to it.
Hmm, how about creating the whole string and then printing the whole thing instead of in chunks? Idk.
The reporters that camped outside of Bernie Madoff's house were assholes too, the way Madoff tells it.

Being an asshole =/= unethical. Make a real argument that it's unethical.
I appreciate this response a lot, especially the last sentence. My takeaway from it: Search out those things that you can't find on the Internet. Believe it or not, that sentiment really does offer a new way of thinking about things.
I like how they mention keyboard manufacturers using the term up to as a way to deceive customers, and then in the next paragraph mention the same phrase when referring to the Microsoft keyboard.

'Another marketing strategy is to state that the keyboard allows "up to" some large number of key presses.'

'Microsoft's SideWinder X4 features multitouch technology that allows it to detect, and report ANY combination of QWERTY keys, up to 17 keys.'
This is just link bait for advertising.
The US manufactured that image for its own purposes.