Oh good pick-up. Only the correction was May 2013. But no update, i.e. no new information that refutes this hypothesis, is if anything an indicator that this isn't "old news" and is a promising hypothesis that has yet to gain currency (pardon the pun).
Yeah I wish the HN mods didn't change my title. Saying it's from 2011, or that the mystery is now reopened, doesn't do the article justice. It provides highly compelling evidence for the exact identification of Satoshi Nakamoto, most of the tech public is not aware of this hypothesis, and the oddity of the responses in the May 2013 update, if anything, suggest the story really has legs.
Really? I thought it was already established that the Hyperloop is a vactrain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain). Using small cars (say, six passengers) accomplishes the "leaves when you arrive" and putting solar panels on top of the tunnel accomplishes the storing energy part. I wonder what the alternative would be and what its advantages over a vactrain would be.
Corrective upvote since you answered half the question. XD But yeah, I wonder if Bose's consumer-level reputation of having no competitors that are both better and cheaper is deserved. Hopefully Eikenberry can answer that.
Could you please list those better quality and less expensive alternatives for my edification? :) Especially active noise-cancelling headphones that are better quality and cheaper than QuietComfort. The Audio Technica ATH-M50s mentioned in this thread look like a pretty good less expensive alternative if you don't need low-frequency cancellation, but I'd love an affordable pair of active cancellors for flights.
Their reputation in the US, as far as I've observed, is that they produce the best designed (in the UX sense) and highest quality (in terms of sound) audio equipment in the consumer price range, albeit at the high end of that price range.
As others in this thread have stated, their reputation online seems to be much less positive. There seem to be two main groups of people who contribute to that less positive reputation: (1) those with expertise in audio equipment who state things like Bose doesn't have nearly as good range of sound as professional equipment and (2) those who don't provide an explanation beyond "Bose sucks" (analogous to the anti-Mac vitriol that was widely seen until the late 2000s).
stonemetal presumably labeled the latter group as "audiophile hipsters" because their behavior appears to be the result of thinking it's cool to criticize products that are popular among mainstream consumers but which they believe to be deemed inferior by experts.
Aspects were not the feature they touted as the reason to move. That would be decentralization. But the parent post said there were literally no features besides privacy, and I wanted to point out that that isn't strictly true.
Not nothing. It offers aspects, which allow you to group your friends into different categories so you can easily choose who to share what content with. Google found them useful -- at least enough to rename them circles...
Very true. At least prior to the cloud model (back when companies sold proprietary executables), a software industry limited to F/OSS applications would have meant innovation only came either from personal projects or from trickling down from a big patron who had financial incentive to release the software to the community (e.g. Sun and Red Hat). With proprietary software, innovation was much more market driven and, therefore, more common. You have to weigh that gain in innovation with all the problems it brought or intensified (proprietary file formats, the greatly increased potential for spyware/rootkits, DRM, patent trolling, etc.)
I remember asking my high school's one-man IT department this exact question, and he said that the school needs someone to sue in the event something goes wrong.
Makes sense. I guess I never associated the ideomotor effect with spelling, and I still don't see how that would work, but I guess it does. Do you happen to have a background in magic/mentalism?
The latest as of May is that suicide is much more likely than foul play. See the last paragraph in the introduction on Wikipedia (beginning with "A different picture"):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Shane_Todd
First of all, I don't mean to insult you or your expertise on the subject. I know very little about autism spectrum disorders and nothing about this "facilitated communication" debate.
However, that Daniel's parents are unconsciously inventing his written voice and, therefore, inventing virtually everything we know about his cognition seems to be a huge assertion to make with very little evidence. The article says the parents would "hold his hand while he spells" (emphasis mine). I could see parental bias (a la ideomotor effect) playing a role in guiding the subject when the answer is one choice out of several discrete options, but it seems impossible for that kind of placebo effect to play out in spelling words, where the sequence of letters would have no meaning to the parents until a word or morpheme was already complete or almost complete, let alone sentences. Has research indicated that facilitated spelling can and, as you suggested, normally does just result in the parent talking? I really hope the answer is no...
I'd imagine the effect of open-plan offices on productivity greatly depends on the nature of the company and how the company operates. If a company mainly produces software in a non-mission critical domain where, say, a 5x gain in productivity is more valuable than a 1.5x gain in reliability, they're likely to have very short release cycles à la agile development. That kind of operation relies heavily on communication and collaboration within and across teams, so an open-plan office is likely going to be much more productive. If you don't have a collaboration-based development strategy, I'd buy that open-plan offices might often make employees less productive, but even then there will be multiple factors at play.
The following seems a lot more likely. From Wikipedia:
Fast Company's investigation brought up circumstantial evidence that indicated a link between an encryption patent application filed by Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry on 15 August 2008, and the bitcoin.org domain name which was registered 72 hours later. The patent application (#20100042841) contained networking and encryption technologies similar to Bitcoin's. After textual analysis, the phrase "...computationally impractical to reverse" was found in both the patent application and bitcoin's whitepaper. All three inventors explicitly denied being Satoshi Nakamoto.
This is a highly contested subject in linguistics and very much not definitive like the article makes it out to be. There are many languages where mama does mean mother, but there are many languages where it does not. In some cases, you get the opposite. In proto-Old Japanese, for example, papa meant mother. In Georgian, mama means father and deda means mother. I don't know enough about the mama/papa topic to comment further, but a quick Google suggests that this paper is somewhat well regarded by at least some people:
No clue if this will fall through like the talks with Apple, but it would be awesome if this app became more widely used here in the US. I've heard there are enough users in Israel that drivers can get up to the minute details on traffic, road hazards, cops, etc. on any major road. If Facebook integrated traffic crowdsourcing into everyone's phone, many places would get enough users for this to become viable practically overnight.
That "some reason" is, as other comments have said, to only get responses from the most gullible marks. If you're gullible enough to respond to a typo-ridden email from someone claiming to be a Nigerian prince who just needs you to pay him a small fortune now in return for a huge fortune later, you're worth pursuing. However, that logic doesn't apply here since the phishing attack was targeted. That's why the email did not have deliberate typos. However, unlike Nigeria, Syria isn't an English speaking country, which explains the awkward phrasing in the email's one line.
Countries whose primary gun control measures are currently at the point of sale will have to decide pretty soon if they're going to ban personal 3D printers or resign themselves to the fact that as in the US, the average petty criminal will have access to guns.
What I find most interesting is that the dawn of anatomically modern humans is actually visible on the 4.54 billion year timeline of the Earth. 200,000 years out of 4.54 billion might only be about 1/23000 of our planet's history, but that's also a whole 1/23000!