skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dug into this a while ago; I recall (but can't source at the moment) an eventual statement by the DO guys to the effect of:

1. their original "inject kernel into OS and boot from it that way" architecture was designed that way on purpose, so that users could downgrade kernels out-of-band as a way to rescue a bad upgrade;

2. but now they've got thousands of droplets configured that way, so switching architectures to something sensible will require either A. forcibly installing grub on, and restarting, every one of their nodes (not something people expect out of a VPS provider), or B. coming up with some sort of glue that can manage both the nodes expecting an injected kernel, and nodes that want to boot on their own, and providing a way to transition your nodes from one to the other.

Basically, it's a mess. A bit like the problems Heroku had with its Alpine stack.
It's unsubsidized by media sales, so the price doesn't seem outlandish at all.
There's also the question of obtaining his email address through a merchant he did business with. That seems like it would be borderline illegal.
Perhaps people ignored it because it isn't true? {}+{} fails, because addition of dictionaries is non-abelian and Python refuses to choose a preferred result. But bool({}) is perfectly reasonable.
Because AP is the only news service that has been granted an interview.
Classic question of identity combined with he said, she said.

I look forward to hearing the Ship of Theseus discussed in court.
It's almost as if there was more than person on HN.
Maybe what we export is already saturated here, but a technological step above what's needed elsewhere to develop the economies that need them...no amount of money can cause those items to be manufactured in the markets that are importing them.

While unsaturated U.S. market segments need cheap goods so China makes electronic items and ships them here at a lower price than can be made domestically...often using the higher end equipment we exported to them.

Also...final assembly of an item is sometimes labeled as "made in"...even if all the parts that go in aren't from there.
This has got to be a joke being played on us by _why. In a way it's the exact opposite of the brainy but eccentric cartoon foxes theme.
Guess I'll have to wait until I get home: http://i.imgur.com/hihw4Cl.png
Oh boy, this is going to end badly. Bring out the popcorn!
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_why is from the great state of Pennsylvania. While most people think of Philadelphia, it's a rather large state and there's an awful lot to it. But the phrasing, spelling, and use of certain anglicisms found in, say, Australia ("schooner" is a dead giveaway), makes me conclude this isn't _why.
How is this different / better than meetup.com?
And here's to the fond yet irritating memory of the late great inspirational asshole, Eric Naggum.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-de/ErikNaggum

"But there is still one thing that America has taught the world. You have taught us all that giving second chances is not just generosity, but the wisdom that even the best of us sometimes make stupid mistakes that it would be grossly unfair to believe were one's true nature." -Eric Naggum

"I learned a lot from talking to Erik on matters technical and non-technical. But one thing I learned, not from what he said, but from the meta-discussion which was always there about whether to tolerate him, is that I think we as people are not all the same. We make rules of manners and good ways to be that are for typical people. But the really exceptional people among us are not typical. Often the people who achieve things in fact do so because of some idiosyncracy of them, some failing they have turned to a strength." -Kent Pitmann

"The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life." —Erik Naggum

http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2009/06/24/erik_naggu...
the entire story relied on pretexting.

i'd love to see the email to the merchant, bet she didn't identify as a journalist.
I still claim that Satoshi Nakamoto is the NSA. Clearly this was one of their fall guys. Terrible people, the NSA, setting up innocent bystanders as scapegoats.
Still no option to remove the icon from the menu?
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What do you plan to do with it? There are various options available. But I need to know what your intentions are. Without this data providing help is difficult.
Question to TDD crowd - should we write test cases to test the test cases? If your test cases are always correct and don't need verification, then why do not you write code that is always correct in first place?
When you say "real office environment", you are actually referring to big corporate environment. A startup environment needs you to do much more than a structured corporate environment where you will always have somebody to bail you out. As long as you have a rock solid description of what you did at the startup, I think it would actually work in your favor in the long term.
Alas, that was the only way it ever got serious funding.
I do not believe him. There are just too many coincidences there. This is not a common name. What are the chances you find someone that has the math and engineering knowledge to create bitcoin and has not been busy with anything else during the relevant period among the "several" people that newsweek found having that name in the entire world.

He is probably scared for his life and scared for the safety of his family. And it might be with good reason. So I am not going to bother him or anything, but lets be honest: he is probably the guy.

I think the bitcoin community will help him regain his anonymity. It is in their interest that the mystery of Satoshi survives. I am sure he is a great person but the face of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto just does not seem to inspire billion dollar valuations.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "no page is likely to last more than five years," because a large portion of the Web is composed of pages that, once posted, remain indefinitely. If your site is one of them, you wouldn't want to depend on an external source for your charts, or your archived pages could be broken by a third party--which seems to be your (very good) point, so I'm a bit confused by your wording.
He has a colorable claim but no chance of winning. The founder of a cryptocurrency which now boasts of a >$1 billion market is legitimately a matter of the public interest, even if it's not the right guy.

This principle has been established many times by people who were mistaken for criminal defendants (not always defendants with the same name), including the Boston U student who killed himself shortly before the Boston Marathon bombing.
Because when writing a recursive function, the zero element is generally the base case.

if x:
<destructure x, recurse on subparts>
else:
return <something>

This applies to (natural) numbers as well--'destructuring' usually means decrementing the number.
I am actually from PA too, but Pittsburgh.

Yes, I agree that it's EXTREMELY unlikely that this is _why.
This is not a common name

It's a common Japanese name, like "John Smith".
Ok, I'm sorry but there are some serious inconsistencies here.

Leah McGrath Goodman said that after she asked him about BitCoin he promptly stopped emailing her. The timeline is unclear, but it seems like this was before Goodman contacted his family members. Why would she contact his family members if she was directly talking to him and they could blow her pretext of wanting to talk about model trains?

This strongly suggests that he knew enough about BitCoin to be chased away by the question. He uses English and American spellings, just like Satoshi's mailing list postings. He has a computer engineering background.

When she came to his house he said, verbatim, exactly what happened with BitCoin - "I'm not involved in that anymore." And something to the effect of "That's been handed over to others, I have no involvement with that anymore." This, if it was said, strongly suggests to me that this is in fact Satoshi.

Given that this would be catastrophe for both the journalist and Newsweek if it turned out to be wrong, and they must have seen some compelling evidence if they went forward with the story - I'm skeptical about Dorian Nakamoto's denial here.
One answer is: because we could! Previously the setting you'd want right before bed looked totally silly at sunset.

But the more interesting answer is: we made a model after measuring dozens of panels with a spectrometer. The science isn't totally clear on this (it's clearer with super-bright lights), but it's our best read of what you actually need to wind down on a cross-section of current devices. Some of the new LED panels are pretty effective at stimulating melanopsin.

Overall, you can reduce a lot of circadian stimulus by dimming really far, but assuming you're working at a moderate level, you need pretty warm colors.

Really though, we can only do so much with displays, because if your lights are pretty bright in your bedroom, it doesn't matter what we do. So we'll probably have a large number of users choosing some less intense settings just because the room they're in doesn't match.
I don't agree but you made me laugh
aaaannnd now he is not

https://twitter.com/byandreachang/status/441687863222996992

https://twitter.com/byandreachang/status/441687863222996992
According to the original Newsweek article, Dorian S. Nakamoto is not Japanese, but Japanese-American. He has lived in the US since age 10.

But actually, what makes you say the creator of Bitcoin ("the real Satoshi") is not Japanese?
Yes, yes I was.
He (the banker) didn't get rich by just holding the keys, he got rich by getting involved in new tech early (credit default swaps, mortgage backed securities, stated income loans, MERS, etc.). In fact, he helped build something he believes will change the world (easy credit for borrowers, safe high yield investments for teacher's pension funds). Never mind that these innovations lead to a housing bubble, a global financial crisis, the borrowers bankrupt and the teachers eating cat food in their retirements, the banker and all his accomplices think he is a cross between George Bailey and Albert Einstein.

The banker blows a housing bubble, Satoshi blows a bitcoin bubble. I would concede that so far the housing bubble has done far more damage, but if bitcoin "succeeds", that could change.
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It's not a very good metaphor at all, especially when the story first appeared online, and was (edit: possibly)debunked by a massive news corporation that has been in print for decades. If it turns out this guy isn't Satoshi, it's just plain good reporting by the AP. As for Newsweek, that would be it, I think. They'd be a laughing stock.
Either kick someone's ass or become someone's bitch on the first day; there is no other way you'll be able to make it.
Based on other investigative efforts people have undertaken, the kind of level of complexity Bitcoin has in its underlying code-base shows that there might have been more than one person responsible for Bitcoin. It's unfortunate this has happened to a guy who is not related to Bitcoin at all. Pictures of his house, location, his full name and even going as far as documenting that he's between in and out of jobs over the years was uncalled for in my opinion.

Do editors and journalists not read what is being published? Feels like we've all been transformed back 7 to 10 years ago where this kind of "investigative journalism" was prevalent and hardly investigative at all. NewsWeek either need to put up some conclusive proof or retract everything they've said and give mr Satoshi an apology.

It'll be interesting if from a legal perspective Dorian Satoshi has a case against NewsWeek considering this has already gone to print. If it causes Satoshi's life to crumble, make it hard for him to get employment, subjects him to harassment from armchair Internet investigators and whatnot, he might have some kind of case. But having said that, this would mean if it went to court, he would have to offer up access to info that NewsWeek and others don't have and if he is the real Satoshi, it would come back to bite him.

The real question is, if this is the real Satoshi, why isn't he using his incredible stash of Bitcoin to live a little more comfortably? Hiding in plain sight perhaps. Just let the poor guy be. Nobody should be subject to this kind of speculative journalism. It's the Boston bombing situation all over again.

Edit: the real Satoshi responded to his original announcement here, his first communication in 5 years: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour... — a simple one liner.
> "Tradecraft" is a general word meaning "the craft-knowledge involved in a trade"; it just isn't very well-used out of a few specific contexts.

I don't understand the relevance of "trade" to this discussion. It's just craft, or craft-knowledge, if you prefer.
> having someone knock on his door, and having the police escort them off his property.

That's the worst that will happen to him.

Oh wait, people have reason to think he has est.~400 million in bitcoins. But it's okay, I'm sure he'll recover from this (https://xkcd.com/538/) kind of trauma, too.
I’d recommend using the ISCC-NBS system of color designation in cases like this. You’ll have to convert your colors to Munsell color space, and then use a lookup table to get the associated name. But it’s a pretty reasonable system.

Ideally you could get some kind of actual color measurements from clothes directly, instead of relying on (often very inaccurate) digital images, but maybe the’s too much to hope for.
See my comment above re: potential liability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7357827
Your typical synchronous servlet container (Tomcat, Jetty, etc.) all maintain a thread pool and dedicate a single thread to each request for that request's lifetime. These threadpools can easily hold hundreds of threads on every-day hardware (vs. something like forking unicorn where 8 Ruby processes consumes quite a bit of memory).

This works well for many workloads. It allows a straightforward blocking-IO model, but you don't typically worry about a few slow requests bogging everything down (which you do if you only have 4-8 unicorn processes). I'd say in many apps, the database becomes a bottleneck before the pool runs out of threads.
Bitcoin Is Very Vulnerable To Inflation
My point was that salaries are an expense taken before companies pay income tax, which was contrary to what the parent post guessed.

Reasonable salary guidelines are a completely different matter, and I never meant to suggest that a $10MM revenue company would have a single employee who made $10MM. That example is just some pedantic nonsense you made up so you could feel smart, while you were actually just a moron who misses the forest for the trees.
Even better would be to take the full data set of all the survey responses, and use it to generate the partition of CIELAB space, instead of just using the single set of coordinates per name that Randall generated from those. But it would be more work.

Edit: do note they’re using a more complicated distance definition such that a straight Voronoi diagram in CIELAB space is not quite the same as their result. But the difference is so slight as to not matter, so your suggested solution would be substantially better than theirs.
I've been tracking this but haven't found a fix yet. There is sometimes a beachball if you interact with the menu item immediately after launch. I'll keep looking.
I'm reminded of the time the AP said that a Boston U student (who we now know had been dead for several weeks) was the likely suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, blindly regurgitating the rumors on reddit.

It turns out they were wrong about something far worse than claiming that some guy created Bitcoin. And yet, the AP is still around today...and is now being cited by the tech community as a paragon of journalism.
>Seems like the "pretty rational" behavior of keeping women out of the water fails to account for "unclean" men and animals as well.

I really doubt that they'd let a guy bleeding out everywhere do much of anything either. On a fundamental level, blood has a strong association with injury and sickness for what I think should be obvious reasons.
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Man called Bitcoin’s father denies ties, leads LA car chase
Does YC do it?
"Local ephemeral stores are retained unless you terminate your instance"

That sentence makes no sense to people with no AWS experience. But if you give someone with Linux experience secure shell access to a DigitalOcean server they can hit the ground running.
Imagine this: Dorian Nakamoto was a former DoD contractor working on classified project and was not Mr. Bitcoin.

A woman started (from his perspective) stalking him, emailing him under false pretenses, phoning him, calling his son, and then showing up at his house in person. He called the cops to keep this stalker (again, from his perspective) away from his house. She yelled some questions at him from a distance and he might have thought she was asking about DoD work. "No longer involved and cannot discuss" is a reasonable answer. As well as: Don't come back.

I asked Newsweek's editor in chief a few hours ago about any recording: https://twitter.com/declanm/status/441713108763951104

No response.
It is impossible to create a three dimensional color space in which Euclidean distance corresponds directly to perceived color difference. There are dozens of papers on this topic, for anyone who wants some fun evening reading.
It makes me wonder how many people saw "Satoshi Nakamoto" and tried to talk to this guy before the reporter. Surely she wasn't the first. People have been wondering about the identity for years.
Totally to scale, right. Satellites are the size of countries now.
The new stepped changes and options including "Working Late" should help a lot.
To say nothing of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, whose price tag was $16 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter
I agree as much as one can. Unless there are outright fabrications in the Newsweek story, you really can not then start denying his role after he seemed to be admitting it. The chance of a random guy just admitting his role, being eccentric and really smart in this area and then later denying it -- and then not being the guy behind Bitcoin, seems implausible.

That said, if the guy wants his privacy, we can afford it to him, and if the only way to do that is to pretend he isn't the founder, so be it. So that is how I am going to interpret these denials and those agreeing with them.
If that's the same one I tried, it doesn't actually work the same. It works by overlaying a transparent reddish color over everything, effectively "redshifting" whites but also (and unlike flux/redshift) messing up black (black goes from black to red-tinged black).

This was very noticeable for me because I have an AMOLED screen, so going from black to red-tinged-black actually made my phone brighter.
Could also be interpreted:

1. Dropped all contact when it was clear the person had misrepresented themselves and thought he was Satoshi.

2. Called the cops when this stranger came to his home to persist in this line of questioning.

3. Reporter says he said this, but also the cop just happens to be familiar with bitcoin and quip something appropriate. It could easily be a paraphrase of this man saying he's no longer involved in the govt projects we know him to be involved in, and he has no connection with them.

Why didn't the reporter record this exchange? Seems elementary when you're ambushing the guy. And has no one contacted the cop involved to see what he said or knows?
>I don’t buy that as an excuse for why there aren’t any intensive courses on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Objective-C, HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

For the same reason why there aren't any intensive courses on Windows, ASP, or GNOME. Because technologies come and go --- nowhere more so than in software --- and those left standing are the ones who grasped the fundamentals of their field, not the ones who blitzed their way through a Node.js hackathon. The former are the innovators, the latter are the guns for hire.

All the things you mention can be hacked in under a week by a motivated student. If your objective is to hack (and that is entirely fine for many purposes), you don't need a traditional college course to do so. In fact, I would argue that is entirely antithetical to the essence of hacking!

If you're a Harvard student, you have an amazing opportunity to learn the truly difficult subjects with some of the best people in the world, the kind of stuff you won't learn in two hours in an online tutorial. Take advantage of that; for everything else there's the internet.
Ah, but how many cases involved that particular California law being invoked by the plaintiff?
Tell HN: Level 3 CDN is ddosed
Update 7:-

Level 3 CDN technical teams are continuing recovery activities across the network, we are currently monitoring there progress and will continue updating you on an hourly basis.

Update 6:-

Level 3 CDN technical teams continue recovery activities across the network, at the moment we are entering what is hoped to be the latter stages of recovery and we will continue updating you on an hourly basis.

Update 5:-

Level 3 CDN technical teams continue recovery activities across the network, at the moment we are entering what is hoped to be the latter stages of recovery and we will continue updating you on an hourly basis.

Update 4:-

Level 3 CDN technical teams continue recovery activities across the network and are working to stabilize the CDN and return traffic serving to normal.

Update 3:-

Level 3 CDN technical teams are continuing recovery activities across the network to stabilize the CDN and return traffic serving to normal.

Update 2:-

Please be advised that Level 3 is experiencing a network issue that may be impacting your CDN services. Our SecOps team identified a large
scale DDOS attack targeting CDN. The attack was isolated and mitigated within our SecOps team within 30 minutes.
Our teams are now involved in cleanup activities to stabilize the CDN and return traffic serving to normal. Further measures are being implemented
across the network to protect against this type of attack in the future

Update 1:-

The CDN NOC responded to a significant increase in requests on multiple servers, which is impacting CDN services for customers

in various markets. The CDN NOC is working with Operations Engineering to isolate the fault point and implement necessary actions

to restore services.

Start time of the issue is record as 17:50UTC
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Absolutely - I think he should be given privacy. Those are his wishes.
Apologies for dupe posts, was getting HN errors when this went through.
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It's cool that this new storage system is 1/3 the cost of current battery technology, but I wonder what the environmental impact of "liquid metal" batteries would be. The article says one of their prototypes used antimony, which is toxic, with effects "that are similar to arsenic poisoning"[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony#Precautions

Lithium-ion batteries, at least, "contain no toxic metals"[2].

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Environment...
Higher resolution images:
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> People then started demanding the transaction ID so they could try to track down his wallet.

All of the top comments in that thread[0] specifically asked not to publish the transaction id, but some people just want to interpret things the way they want to interpret things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354326