skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those quotes are extremely suggestive that he was indeed involved in Bitcoin--so suggestive that it's clear that either they are fabricated or he is not being truthful in the newer interviews.
NewsWeek either need to put up some conclusive proof or
retract everything they've said and give mr Satoshi an apology.

This has been my problem since the story broke. It's just like a good conspiracy theory; the circumstances are all there to make the conclusion possible, even plausible. But there's not enough there that would hold up in a court of law.
SQLite gets it in part from very rigorous coverage testing. See https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html if you haven't already.
In the contact page there's the following:
> I don’t know why you’d need to contact me through the web. After all, if you’re reading this blog, there’s a pretty good chance that we know each other already.

That seems very unusual for anyone to say. If the blog was not set up by _why, it is set up by someone trying to deceive everybody. Moreover all the mysterious domain and bizarre content and language could be _why trying to do exactly this.
They do for some devices. Contact herf for details.
Facebook's offer to pay for neighborhood cop is approved by Menlo Park
So far, testing Digital Ocean, the ability to spin up a new VM in 55-70 seconds, clone over one of my own "snapshots" created on a lower cost VM and configured to perfection, test it for 5 minutes to an hour and then destroy it with the comparible reverence of used toilet paper, has been extremely invigorating and ridiculously useful.

Messing with VM configuration for half the time rather than directly testing during that time and destroying well before the metered hour seems like a practice from century ago in terms of advancement, after what I just experienced when testing Digital Ocean.

And they detected in my 4-7 sentence questions that I was unsure of their platform and gave me incentives to spend the time to try them out, and it made all the difference. I did spend a few hours trying, and I am impressed. Now, all that's needed is the long term testing process with extremely respectable numbers to start with, even before jRuby/Java warmed up completely.
What If The Key to Making It Big Is Starting Small?
Another possibility is that the Newsweek reporter was overly
convinced she was right, and ignored inconsistencies that disagreed with her premise. We don't have audio of the exchange where Dorian Nakamoto allegedly quasi-admitted to being involved in Bitcoin. I could be wrong, of course, but misquotes do happen.
Apparently there was a car chase (kind of) involved:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/06/satoshi_n...
The name Satoshi Nakamoto has appeared in The Good Wife, CSI, CSI NY, NCIS, NCIS LA, Big Bang Theory, Blue Bloods, Almost Human, and Scandal at some point in the last year.

So I'm pretty sure the name is no longer a tech community secret.
I bet they haven't been sitting on their hands about this :-)
> random brit

Aussie.
What about Linux?

The "f.lux: F.A.Q." page only has a broken archive.org link. When I tried using xflux, it was consuming inordinate CPU cycles.
Favorite VM name ever.
No amount of assertions in production code can replace assertions of unit-tests; assuming the unittests are designed to try all known common & edge cases.
OMG she didn't identify as a journalist?!?1?!?

That's it, it's a slam dunk case Newsweek is liable for bajillions of dollars. He sure didn't act like a secretively paranoid inventor of bitcoin.

I bet newsweek would love to see his entire email history. He should probably sue them so he can see that email to the merchant and newsweek can read his entire email history, as well as subpoena various other people for their private emails with satoshi. This will be a winning legal strategy to protect his privacy.
Depending on the number of people in the room, it might not be that unlikely for 60% to be above the global median, either. If there are three people, 100% are going to be above the median, 66% are going to be above the median, 66% are going to be below the median, or 100% are going to be below the median... All of those is more "dramatic" an outcome than 60%.
FWIW, Mac dev. here too, seeing the same issue in 10.9 with my app (beachball when interacting immediately after launch.) Haven't been able to track this down yet.
Full discloser: I'm a founder at Cloudtenna.

AeroFS is a great option for file-syncing. Compare public file sync (Dropbox), private file sync (AeroFS), and traditional network file shares (CIFS/NFS).

Can you risk files in the public cloud? If no, you're limited to just private file sync and traditional network shares. And this is where AeroFS can shine.

You may already have a network share. Its secure. But its a pain to access remotely (VPN) and mobile devices are not compatible at all. So you may choose to migrate your files into an AeroFS Private Cloud so you can sync files instead of browsing files via the network. Syncing files to your desktop gives you offline/remote access.

I'd argue the most secure option is probably leaving data where it already is. If you already have a file server, with permissions and such thats already vetted secure. Cloudtenna adds mobile file access to your on-prem file server. No need to migrate files to a new storage platform.

My blatant pitch aside, AeroFS is right solution if you want to replace mounted network file shares with file sync. Cloudtenna, instead, is good for adding the web/mobile access features of Dropbox to your existing network shares.
I wish it didn't make my dark themed vim look really bright. But great for browsing and not working.
Or:

sudo ufw limit ssh
sudo ufw enable

To automatically rate limit connections -- see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uncomplicated_Firewall#...
Funny, I remember a few months ago, an IBM employee at our Ottawa JS meetup explained how he ported Node to PowerPC.
Texas school offers first-of-a-kind data center engineering degree
Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto on p2pfoundation.ning.com
AP almost certainly audio recorded it (at every news organization I've worked for it would be standard practice). But that doesn't mean they'll post the audio, or that there was video.

Also: they'll do a writethru soon enough.
By accepting implicitly the facts presented by the article as facts, you are doing something called "privileging the hypothesis."

Say, for example, that there's an article about a "scientific study", claiming some strong conclusion (e.g. "pig hair cures diabetes.") The article goes on to say that the study has one data-point and no control-group (which is to say, basically, that it's an anecdote.)

To still even consider the study's conclusion as possibly true is to privilege the hypothesis. You didn't have any facts before. You don't have any facts after. And yet, your default has switched from "assume pig hair has no special properties whatsoever" to "assume pig hair maybe has something with a vaguely-medicinal use in it." You've updated on zero information.

Just as much as publicizing such a "study", it's irresponsible to put such journalism--sophistry, really--in front of other people, where it could possibly infect their defaults. Not everyone catches these things. Most people only read the first paragraph or two of things, and come away with impressions. These impressions, especially in the case of really bad journalism, can be directly opposed to the impressions they should have taken.

If we are a community here, then we should want to help one-another avoid bad journalism, and more importantly, avoid becoming swayed by whatever the bad journalism purports to report. We don't all need to think the same thing--but supporting a story just on the basis that other people support it, leads to pig hair being "signal-boosted" into notoriety.
I think the atom.zip is being updated continuously. Today I finally got my invitation and it gives a different shasum too. File diff shows the Info.plist of my newly downloaded version as of 2014-03-07 is:

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>0.69.0</string>
Ask HN: Are there any good resources to practice SQL?
I need to prepare for an analytics interview. Does anyone know of a good resource to practice SQL querying/database design stuff online?
Must also point out:

Lance Armstrong and the members of the US Postal Service team denied using performance-enhancing drugs for more than a decade before finally confessing.

JK Rowling denied writing the Cuckoo's Calling for months.

The Duke Lacrosse Stripper changed her story at least a dozen times before finally admitted nothing happened.

JJ Abrams claimed that Star Trek Into Darkness wouldn't be about Khan for months.

IOW, unsupported denials mean nothing. The Newsweek story may not be right, but it at least has compelling supporting evidence that it could be right.

(There are more examples; these are just the ones I remembered off the top of my head.)
Textbook case of repulsively inane "journalism". Newsweek senior writer Leah McGrath Goodman was assigned the task to write a juicy story by outing the Bitcoin inventor. Here's how she went about it, as a diligent professional: starting from the assumption that Satoshi Nakamoto was literally his real name, she went scouring a database that contained the registration cards of naturalized U.S. citizens (for the record, Nakamoto is the ~400th most common Japanese name).

A Satoshi Nakamoto then turned up whose profile and background offered a potential match (as he used to be an engineering contractor and had shown libertarian views in the past), if you were willing to ignore a lot of facts (such as his less-than-native mastery of English). She then interviewed the man's family, fabricated a few quotes implying involvement with Bitcoin, and published a clickbait story destroying the man's privacy.

Well at least, Dorian Nakamoto got a free lunch out of it.
It's still easier to un-reversibly steal large $X in BTC than in USD, in most of the ways people store large amounts of the respective currencies. Stealing from your bank acount involves more people and more moving parts and thus more risk (and large transfers are watched).

I agree there's (hopefully) a good chance his BTC are in cold storage in a safety deposit box, or something. People fail to do that with BTC more often than people fail to put millions of USD in the bank, though.

Actually, I've been wondering if he didn't withdraw from BTC because he was embarrassed about having lost the private keys to his early accounts... :-P Not that I really think that likely, either.
celebrity photos are huge, huge business. sites pop up all the time trying to monetize papparazzi shots and hosting providers have to deal with all sorts of fallout from anyone with a vested interested in the intellectual property or famous name.

these people do not give a shit about the streisand effect. they are going after their money.
> The editorial staffer, who had “super-administrator” privileges on Forbes’ WordPress publishing platform...

facepalm
Img Wall
The real satoshi claims to not be Dorian Nakamoto
I wish it was a very elaborate prank by the real _why but I'm not holding my breath.
Hmm, I don't like this update. I don't want flux to be on my schedule. My schedule is bad - that's why I use flux. The point of it is to help regulate my own rhythm, not reinforce my bad habits.
> And in my head I'm thinking — "wow...you spend how much on your coffee EVERY DAY, COMPULSIVELY, yet you scoff at a complete body of work someone is selling to you for $5?"

Yeah, but, I don't know many people who will harvest, ship, and roast coffee beans just for fun.

I'm mostly just thrown by everyone casting this as some insane race condition, some producer lunacy that's confusing irrational consumers.

Maybe consumers are the smart ones, and they're sending a deliberate signal to producers. Maybe we're saying, "Hey, we have distraction mostly covered as a human problem. And there are a lot of these other human problems to work on. If you're smart and can pitch in other places where we have greater needs, where it's harder to attract talent because the fields aren't as inherently rewarding, then we'll toss you better returns. (If you can go without good returns, then no big deal, just do what you love.)"

I don't think markets are always (or even usually) rational. But if we're pitting today's game prices against the monopolistic rents charged by consoles a couple decades ago... I don't first assume today's prices are the irrational ones.
Review: A tale of three Lenovo Laptops
Hmm, you're right about the blacks, but it does the trick for me. Definitely doesn't seem brighter to me, the blue-white brightness is far more wakeful.
Would be interesting to see in an animation.
My criteria for whether a tool building species is really intelligent; Have they successfully avoided creating and extensively using a close relative to C++. (This reflects an afternoon battling boost, smart pointers, dynamic casts etc. etc. etc.)
wha? that's insane.
The LA Times talked about how reporters were chasing Nakamoto, and had a link "follow the chase here."
Bitcoin is certainly easier to trace than dollar bills - I'm not confident about "a whole lot easier". But few people have the kinds of sums Satoshi purportedly has in BTC sitting around in any liquid asset in their home. I certainly hope Satoshi doesn't, either, but it's significantly more likely that he can move tremendous amounts of value without involving intermediaries (and thus more risk) than it would be for really any other individual.

Of course, in this case, I hope the bitcoin network would resign itself to coloring those coins, if Satoshi was extorted out of his coins.
This could well be the case. I've seen it happen before including in newsrooms I've worked in: A reporter feels too confident in her story and starts to ignore contrary evidence. Her editors don't perform sufficient independent verification. Everyone is caught up in having an exclusive. In this case it coincides with the magazine's relaunch, ratcheting up the pressure still more.

Also you might have a bunch of English major editors saying FAA engineer == computer engineer with significant cryptocurrency domain expertise. It's all the same, amiright?
This is the best "He is the only person I have ever known to show up for a job interview and tell the interviewer he's an idiot - and then prove it."
I'd recommend Redshift on Linux

http://jonls.dk/redshift/
"I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
A+++++ Speedy delivery. Well packed. Top notch. As listed. Great value. Good communication. Would do business again.
All 56 of Facebook’s New Gender Identities Defined
64 year old post stroke retired government security contractor with a paranoid streak who doesn't want to talk to a reporter in any way shape or form to the extent he called the police as soon as she shows up and the evidence she wants us to take as an admission that he is whom she thinks he is is a couple of sentences of dismissive talk about no longer being involved in "that thing".

I find it had to believe that was actually the admission she made it out to be, considering the lengths the real Satoshi took to remain anonymous, it just doesn't make sense that is the venue he would choose to voluntarily rescind his until now well maintained anonymity.

Taken altogether all we have is a collection of completely circumstantial evidence coupled with plenty of things that suggest he is not the real Satoshi and the sole final admission is supposedly hurriedly made in an offhand manner direct to a reporter whom he clearly does not want to have anything to do with.
This is the only app I have to jailbreak my iPhone and iPodtouch.
Jackdb.com - I recently used it to play with their sample db and teach basic SQL to my MIS class. Worked out rather well.
The real Satoshi Nakamoto verifies: he is not Dorian
http://www.patentgenius.com/assignee/TheEchoNestCorporation....
This man has had a stroke and cancer.

People need to leave him the hell alone.
That's why it seem you get to set your ideal schedule with a wakeup time.
These new features are only for the Mac version?
A releated question:

I need to adjust the brightness a few times every day just to match the ambient light.

Are there any better solutions?

I don't use the laptop display as the watching angle is not healthy. I use dell displays.
Schools like Harvard should have a major (or at least a concentration) in Web Development. Without that, they're missing out on setting up thousands of students for success.
"We have a rolling one-year contract with you. It's just been renegotiated..."
yeah dude sure....you know how many people make this pledge every day? esp. after a tragic event or seeing a friend lose a wife or a job or financial security or succumb to drugs or something?

you're going to find very quickly its much harder to change then it is to blog.

best of luck tho...and I mean it...I'm not a hater
What am I using to login with my bank? Yodlee?
Real Bitcoin founder verifies he is not Dorian
{1: ["A", "B"]}?
Looks like an Aussie domain squatter. Flagged.
New version has "working late" mode. http://puu.sh/7lImw.png
From the comments by author:

> The final outcome might also be better if we do it ourselves rather than give everything away.

Yeah, that pretty much allows for negating everything above.
The proof is the fact that we have just gone through two historically tragic, enormous, and terribly stupid security holes, each big enough to land the space shuttle on, either of which could have been easily caught by ESR or anyone else simply shutting their mouth and reading the code.
No, it won't work; I'm a security expert
No, it won't work; I'm not a security expert
Yes, it will work; I'm not a security expert
Yes, it will work; I'm a security expert
> How can I take you up on that bet?

Might I suggest http://longbets.org/ for this? To make it legal in the US, the money ends up going to a charity of your choice, but it's a great way to put something on the record.

Note: Shameless promotion for something I wrote code for.
Are you thinking long term enough?
I've found that more often than not, this is because those who are constrained to smaller budgets tend to be personally invested in the success of their business where return on investment is of critical importance (i.e. small business owners).
For those of us that aren't journalists, what's a writethru?
Oh and the he flatly denies that it is in a two hour interview directly afterward, to boot. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BITCOIN_FOUNDER_DE...
I used to work entirely remotely, and six months ago started working at a hundred-person office in downtown Boston. It has been, without a doubt, the best career move I've made, and I've made a lot of friends in the process. #1 sounds like a hugely better deal if you can handle the uncertainty of not being hired permanently.
Thanks! It's exciting and kind of scary at the same time. Hope you like it (once it ships!).
* if every satellite was 10,000 times bigger than it really is.
I agree that it probably isn't him, but the site is so ridiculously bad... it just might be.

It does make me sad, just because if he let his domain go, he probably isn't coming back. I did see that it had been parked as recently as a few weeks ago, so it probably did get swiped up.
Nice! How can end users be confident their username/password for their banking site will be kept between them and their bank? (I'd be reluctant to enter those anywhere other than the bank's own site.)
BlackBerry changes approval date for BB10 app incentives, enrages unpaid devs
If humans are good at anything, it's litter.
Probably more like $15 to $20 billion over that span (accounting for inflation, cost bloat, unexpected b.s. etc).

Still worth it. I'm hoping our technology for traveling the solar system, and the robotic systems to explore it, will get cheaper and cheaper on a cost per unit of result basis (meaning the nominal cost will rise as expected, but the value we receive from our technology will rise much faster).
Working remotely may have a small effect on future interviews, but it's negligible -- you can just focus on your work ethic, since you would have been able to produce design/code without someone eyeing over your shoulder.
Well, who enforces tort law? The guys with the guns stealing the money from all of us. A government strong enough to suppress the free press is strong enough to oppress the liberties of us all. Etc. etc.

Calling Newsweek 'trash journalism' to shred it of press protections won't do either, as otherwise that would put Wikileaks at risk.

Even if the conclusion of the article is wrong I don't see how you introduce legal liability in the face of the Peter Zenger trial, as long as the facts presented were true (or reasonably believed to be true).

Talking to one's relatives and co-workers is not a crime, after all (and how could it be otherwise; should the government regulate who we can speak to?).
This is a great idea. At my last company a lot of us played basketball at lunch a couple times a week but since moving to SF I haven't found anything like that yet, and after work I'd rather lift weights. I'd be very interested in some bball games during the work week at lunchtime.
People halo around the most visible artists. The various services promote the most popular artists, because that's what their audience wants. As the model shifts from a lean forward (I buy music that I like, so that I can listen to it) to a lean back (curated, data/discovery) model the top line hook for fairly un-engaged music consumers means that they discover less new music and hear more of what they expect to hear. Which is exactly what happened to radio, for exactly the same commercial reasons, over the past couple of decades.
Does flux "broadcast" it's color changes anywhere that would be scriptable? For example, using a dark terminal theme gives the wrong effect in darkroom mode. (90% of the screen is red). So I'd love to be able to script the changes and adjust that (and potentially other) settings. Or maybe a plugin architecture? :D
The Analyst of Random Things: Google and Politicians
My first thought was wow! My second thought was, wait a minute...

The image certainly shows there are a lot of satellites floating around Earth. But "crowded" is a relative term. There are many, many miles of space between those satellites.
Stephen Colbert RSA/RSAC QA Q/A FULL Question and Answer after Keynote Address
I can attest that I have no idea who this _why person is.

The internet and the world are larger than this tiny community known as HN. Just because they may be a big fish in a small pond doesn't mean the rest of the world knows, or for that matter cares, who _why is.
Flickr is ditching Gmail and Facebook logins
Is this stuff mac only?
"there seems to be some sort of disdain for the inelegant style of cut and paste hacker programming ingrained in the startup community"

Wait, what?
Satoshi Nakamoto's P2P foundation profile makes a reply
Satoshi Nakamoto: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
Interestingly, it seems Satoshi just spoke out to state that he is not Dorian Nakamoto: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
From the Wikipedia article in another reply:

"Jonathan is _why, he is fine, and he just wants to be left alone."

Why aren't we leaving him alone?
It's obvious that a) it's not him, and b) the new owner it's a dickhead. Nobody will just "come" with that name as some good hearted people have suggested.
The blockchain is visible to all... of course it would attract outside attention.

But only if Nakamoto were actually able to spend it! If he's not able to spend it then he can't hire security I guess, but that would also put him at much lower risk of being burglarized for goods he can't give up. The important thing would seem to be making it clear he doesn't have access (that is, if he doesn't).
Satoshi Nakamoto: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto".
REAL Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
This is great! Unfortunately I won't want to watch the inevitable hiding that is coming next week with others. COYG!
I'm also using a lot of dark themes (terminal and others), any quick way around this? They get really bright using darkroom.