skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really confused. So Slock.it (DAO) made their "customers" sign a contract/terms that contradicted their marketing of the DAO. Because the marketing takes precedence the contract would likely be declared invalid in a court. Usually when a contract is declared invalid it's because it tricks the customers and benefits the creators of the contract, but in this case the invalidation seems to benefit both.

However, what if I actually read the contract and only became "a customer" because of the content of the contract?

It seems weird if it would be my responsibility as a customer to verify that they didn't advertise the content of the contract is misleading ways elsewhere.
Uhm, STFU. Geniuses = good. Sexism = bad.
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You are describing a traditional, organically grown local business. And absoulutely nothing wrong with that, but quite different from the Dishero situation of needing to find a viable path to an exit or at least the next round.
See, all of these "you won't have to carry a card ever" schemes that involve tapping a phone seem to not care that people have other cards to care about. Why bother with all of this effort to move payments onto my phone (which has a battery that dies), when I already have a wallet with my drivers license, public and private health insurance cards, my public transport payment card and my swipe card to get into the office?

The problem is not that a phone is fundamentally better for this stuff, the problem is that you're yet to be provided a card-based alternative that works well.

For transactions under $100, card payments in Australia don't require authorisation (I'm unsure if this is a legal requirement, or if it's just a de-facto standard that most of our banks have adopted). You just wave the card and you're good to go - the payment processes using the same mechanism as tapping a phone so it's just as fast.

It's actually more convenient in most cases as many places don't have their credit card terminals right in front of where you're served, so the cashier has to walk over to a terminal. With a card, I hand it to them and say "just tap" - they handle the rest while I wait and talk with whoever I'm with (or check my phone if I'm on my own). With a phone, I'd have to walk over to the terminal, wait for the cashier to key in the pricing and then hope that Touch ID won't stuff up while I hold it near the contactless reader. I also can't check my phone while I'm doing that, because I need to use it to make the payment.

Tapping cards works so well and is so widely supported that I was able to live just fine with a near-destroyed debit MasterCard (and zero cash) for nearly six months a few years ago. The plastic was coming off and prevented it from being inserted into a terminal, but by 2012/2013 our retail sector had such widespread support for contactless payments that it didn't matter. For the purchases over $100 I made, I tapped and then entered my PIN.

Despite Australia being the highest users of contactless payments in the world (per capita, of course), Apple Pay has had a very slow launch here. It only works for Amex (which no one uses as no one accepts it due to high fees), and MasterCard/VISA cards for one of our big four banks. The banks aren't interested in dealing with Apple due to extra fees that Apple wants to impose, and consumers aren't pressuring the banks or Apple to make a compromise because the current experience is already good enough.

Maybe there's something "magical" that I'm missing out on, but I really don't get why phone-based payments are being so widely hyped. It's already a solved problem.
And even ignoring Facebook I think Oculus actually has more employees than Valve at this point.

Zuckerberg mentions the number in this stream, I think it was around 700 or so employees, but can't remember for sure:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/137176-watch-mark-zuckerberg...
I've definitely seen people use terms like "the man!" and "this gentleman here", so "lady" doesn't seem all that special to me.

Isn't the reason "the black CTO" sounds so bad is because the situation is even more charged?

Charged to me means that people are on edge, potentially feeling unsafe, and are ready to make various assumptions in reaction to something that would normally be considered fairly benign. Such reactions may very well be justified, but that doesn't mean the overall situation is somehow normal.

Black, lady, German, etc., are all just factual descriptors. It is the additional meaning that we assign to them that may make these descriptors sound bad. I do not believe that asking people to walk on eggshells around terms like "woman" and "lady" is a move in the right direction. That may even generate extra resentment. I'd rather change how people think and act. I don't think it's a great thing that people are afraid to say "the black CTO". A better world is not one where nobody acknowledges things like gender or race, but a world where those things are not grounds for diminishing a person.
Plus they are still allowing you to sell on other stores and platforms like PSVR.
good video series straight from Google Developers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb7rzMxHyOk&list=PLOU2XLYxms...
Interesting from a practical perspective; I hope that ideologically we exercise enough restraint to prevent this historic circumstance.

Perhaps that is only a reasonable hope for values under $50-100M USD.
Climate change has made the first new US nuclear reactor in decades a big deal
I sincerely hope you have also learned that writing “smart contracts” requires a suitable programming language.
That's great info, thank you! (:
Oculus makes you click an "allow outside sources" scare-switch to use it. The switch has no security purpose like on Android, because if you run an executable and already get through Microsoft's code signing prompt, you are already owned regardless of which way you toggled the scare-switch.

It's just to lower adoption of anything outside of the limited Oculus store environment.
I've been building something like this in VR.
That's an uncivil comment.

Class, note the level of civility here. It is also well known that traditional men and women are more civilized. The stats carry on for ages. "Sexist" areas of America even have lower crime rates.
In an economy where work is increasingly automated, those humans who can do things which machines can't are finding themselves more valued. That seems expected, and I am not convinced it is indicative of any problem or unfairness.
Kingspray was releasing in a couple weeks for Vive and has been "mysteriously" delayed until around the supposed timeframe of the Touch launch. Giant Cop was even already pre-sold on Humble store with Vive support and then the support was pulled back and it became an Oculus timed-exclusive.
I don't understand why the investors would not take the $1.8M back once the idea they invested in was shut down.
My god, I hate coding videos. There is nothing more frustrating than a command-line Linux video. A.) I cannot copy/paste what you typed into your terminal into mine from a youtube video. Give a decent transcript with the steps enumerated.
And what if it wasn't printed in very fine print, but was actually a main selling point?

I probably wouldn't have experimented with the DAO if I knew it wouldn't be ruled by its source code, like the terms clearly stated when I "invested" in it.
> Men have higher quantitative reasoning ability than women. The truly magical men that should be in control of our society are being shouldered out by very intelligent women.

Dear God, I never thought I'd read a comment as blatantly sexist as this on HN, but here we are. In one comment we have a theory which posits:

* America is in decline because "traditional men" are being attacked by a deliberate feminist takeover.

* "Genius men" (which arise through natural means) bestow the lesser gender with the ability to reason, and therefore any "genius women" are the direct result of their fathers.

* Said "Genius men" are actually being targeted in a systemic fashion, with the end goal of genocide.

I'm very sure you consider yourself among these elevated men who are under attack, in which case I can only hope your theory is true so the world is spared the presence of like-minded fools.
Aren't the blog post and the journalist both non-lawyers? How do you decide who is right. They both make good points.

"eviscerated" seems a bit too strong, when two non-experts are arguing on the internet regarding any topic.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1274952/Men-ARE-br...

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/04/the-sexodus-part-...
Don't Use Java Assertions
As I see it, the world, and america in particular is worshipping the culture of the intellect to the extreme, forgetting other innate and arguably more important human qualities.

As philosophers like Jacob Needleman have said before, there is a line of knowledge and a line of being. If one progresses too further ahead from the other,it becomes useless and even harmful. We see examples everyday of people that are really smart but can't treat others like humans.

The canonical example is a great coder that is a total jackass. There is a dire need for empathy, now more than ever...
It's invaluable. Additionally, voice recognition to give a text transcript (as they do now for automated subtitles) would be even more useful to me, as I can read even faster than 2x spoken.
How do we know it's encrypted in a way they can't see?
After reading, I wouldn't necessarily say he's 'gaming' the interview. It sounds like this guy really expanded his programming knowledge, wrote a ton of code, and learned to solve a wide array of problems.

If anything, it's a guide on how to learn everything you'd need to know to be a junior developer.
What country, may I ask?
I never tried it at 2x speed. I will give it a try when I find an appropriate vid. Thanks to those of you who responded to my post, it gave me some good info.
> How often do adult women actually share clothes?

I've seen my wife share clothes with her best friend in the last week. (They have similar size/tastes and frequently shop together.)
Wasn't there some RSA authentication fob you could attach to your keys a while back? It generated keys like Google Authenticator and worked without internet thanks to the magic of RSA.

EDIT: RSA SecurID[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID
Not so much when you live in a manual labor driven economy, like the US was for a very long time.
No matter if you put in hours of overtime, poured your hart and soul into your job, all of that is null and void on the whim of the owners.

Well presumably you got paid. I'm not sure what else an employee has a right to expect beyond that.
In a real meritocracy you would expect gender imbalances anyway, because of statistical phenomena such as these. Funny enough there are few comments on the gender imbalance of more females in nursing than males. Regardless of whether it comes down to stigmatizing of the profession (possible given the higher end of wages in nursing meaning the incentive should be there) or if it has to do with some distribution of talent, it's not commented on, despite being consistent with a universal application of sexism logic vs a particular application for just one gender.
I remember being tauntingly called "College boy" senior year by a few classmates. Small town, lots of poverty, majority of my classmates never studied past high school. I didn't react much to it; I felt sorry for them, really. They came from homes that not only didn't stress the value of education, but resented it. And that was the atmosphere these kids grew up in... for the first 18 years of their lives! Every time I think of that I appreciate the fact I had parents who told me I could do anything, if I just prepared myself in school. I wish every young person had that kind of support :/
Linking Breitbart and the Dailymail is... well, exactly the sort of thing I expected you would do.
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Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?
StackOverflow is about solving people's problems. Is there a place with less strict rules? Where do you go to ask more open-ended questions?
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I agree, the inability to do homework would itself be a little bit of a red flag for me, beyond the quality of the homework.
That's because they hit squarely (no pun intended) on a pain point with a clearly better solution.
The Ethereum team is intimately involved with the DAO, one of whose goals is demonstrating that Ethereum can be used for at least one useful purpose. To say there is a lot riding on it is an understatement.
I always sent emails in plain text mode. I hate the idea of sending an entire html doc for a simple text only job.
Is there a way to specify the hashed key fingerprint (or a just-long-enough subset of the key fingerprint) instead, as you try to authenticate to a specific host?

Or an interactive key selection on the command-line? With a 'Remember my choice' option. These could be relatively easy UI enhancements for a command-line SSH agent.
Not sure what an honest Ponzi scheme is, but obviously not only would a contract for a Ponzi scheme be unenforceable, but Ponzi schemes are also criminal.

I'll give real world examples that go both ways:

1. Parking garage tickets: they include tiny little print saying the garage won't be liable for lost or stolen items from your car. Generally if your car is broken into those will be enforceable and the garage won't be liable.

2. Sky diving contract: include tiny little print that says if I die as a result of the companies negligence, they won't be liable and/or I waive my right to sue. Unenforceable, you can't waive negligence. (think about a skydiving school forgetting to pack a chute, someone dying, the family suing and losing, because of a defense that the deceased waived out negligence in the contract).

Lets look at a potential negligence claim against the creators of the DAO code.

1. By creating and soliciting investment for the DAO did its creators the investors a duty? If yes go on;

2. By creating code that allowed ~$40M of investors funds to be taken, was their a breach of that duty? if yes, go on

3. Did the substandard code result in damages to the investors? if yes go on

4. Can the investors prove monetary loss? if yes, you have a good civil claim for negligence against the creators of the DAO for the damages.
your argument is a tautology. in order to be illegal, the act of withdrawal has to be theft. In order to be theft, it has to be contrary to the meaning of the contract. Then you circle back to "of course it's contrary to the meaning; it's theft!"
I don't think the comparison with drugs or other illegal activity is appropriate. It's not illegal to sign a contract to give somebody money in exchange for something. Nobody has signed a contract to conduct illegal activities like drug trades.

If we sign a paper contract that includes a clause giving me permission to withdraw money, and the contract also explicitly says that only the letter of the contract should be considered and not its intent or spirit, why would this be considered theft if I decide to exercise this clause?
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Here, I responded to someone suggesting Google's top people were hopefully innocent of this issue. I provided the direct evidence, quoted from the article, that it is not the case.

We can suggest that until a ruling is made, or a settlement agreed, that they may or may not have broken the law. But we can rule out the suggestion of a 'Rogue PM' quite easily. As SDC claiming Larry and Sergey were present, if they weren't, would quite quickly derail their case.
Why do you keep using drugs and firearms in your examples? Those are the illegal parts, not the buy / sell contract.

There's nothing illegal, to my knowledge, about writing a contract that explicitly and provably says "If you push this button, the corporation will give you all of its money."

If the contract instead said "If you illegally provide drugs / firearms, the corporation will give you all of its money," - of course that's illegal.
You're being downvoted, but I heartily agree. I would have no trouble paying only for the "good" content, things I will like or know I want or feel a need to read. I really think some form of microtransactions are the way to go here. This is simply one article that is, to quote another comment, a "dead horse", and not something I'd be inclined to read. Had it been an article on, say, some breaking news, or interesting financial news even, I'd happily pay and continue reading. Blanket subscriptions are the new cable t.v. channel bundles. Even though you want 3, pay for 219. Perhaps they could offer both?
I'm a huge fan of Mike Rowe. He's done some amazing journalism with "Dirty Jobs" and his mikeroweWORKS foundation is terrific. He claims that unconditional encouragement toward intellectual dreams does not help most people, and argues that more kids should be pursuing professional trades.

This overlaps with one of the better suggestions from this article. In general I think these are hit or miss, and maybe too academic, but the problem is a real one and it's not going to go away tomorrow. People have this notion that robots will just replace all manufacturing jobs next year or whatever, but as usual it's a lot more complex and subtle than that. And it's a cultural problem as much as an economic one.

Of course I'm not able to say this from firsthand experience, having had little difficulty in school, and having accumulated enough skill with computers to find plenty of good work. And I can't really call for some given change before understanding more about the people in worse situations. I did go to a trade school though and more of those sounds like the best idea so far.
I think there are enough people playing EVE who would be more interested about what it would do for them in-game, that if it were something that could be discovered by more than some lone genius with an epiphany, it would come out quickly.
> If signatures don't have to match a previous signature, then what is the point of entering the scribble in the first place?

Here in Japan traditionally identification for things like contracts and bank transactions is done with a seal (custom-carved rubber stamp). A lot of foreigners who move here think it's absolutely bonkers, since what if someone stole it? Isn't it really easy to clone?

Many banks here let you use a signature instead of a seal though, and some foreigners opt for it. They usually switch to using a seal after they have to re-fill a form 4 times in a row to get their signature to match the one on file, since they actually verify the things here!
>And what if it wasn't printed in very fine print, but was actually a main selling point?

Fantastic legal point. For example, I once sued a car company on behalf a client based on the claims from the promotional materials which were inconsistent with the contract. Of course the car dealer defended on the four corners of the contract, but we prevailed because the court found the promotional material to be enforceable notwithstanding the contract. Now keep in mind that was a single judgment in a single case, it is not controlling precedent.
Not just you -- video is a real time medium, a 3 minute video takes 3 minutes to watch. Text is at your reading speed, and also a lot easier to index.
It really is that simple. Empathy is key.

But this type of philosophy has to come from the top, and if a founder or management team is even a little psychopathic, then I feel like there's really not much you can do (but maybe I'm wrong here, and people with more experience can chime in)
Always good to see 100% completely neutral rulings from local arms of the Chinese government that are unconnected to personal interests and otherwise without blatant conflicts of interest.
Not too hard to be intelligent when you have a monopoly on the means of knowledge transfer (books) and the time to persue leisurely learning.

But it all changed widespread literacy. To steal a quote from Hilbert, "No one shall expell as from the paradise Guttenberg has created".
You bring up an excellent point that historically underrepresented minorities have gotten a bad deal. I wonder what kind of criteria could be used to decide if this case was similar.
It is still very much DRM, no matter how much people are okay with it.
Target VISAs switched to chip and pin recently. I assume related to their data leak.
Intelligence is a perfectly fair criteria by which to judge a candidate, as in most jobs it will have a direct effect on the candidate's ability to perform their duties.

If an employer over-weights intelligence to the exclusion of other criteria, like work ethic or social aptitude, then she may wind up with a candidate deficient in some other important area to her own detriment.

It is important that everyone, regardless of their abilities or what they can offer for society, have access to certain basic standards of living. But it's absurd to suggest, as the author does, that we should hobble economic output just to favor creating meaningless busy work over automation. If that's important to us, we should just offer a basic standard of living directly.

If intelligence isn't a valid/fair selection criteria for job candidates, then there is no such thing.
TIL integrity and work ethic are sexist or racist.
I'm just tired of hearing, "but we didn't know working conditions were so bad!" from US owned businesses. You damn well should have.
RSA is the company, the RSA algorithm isn't involved in this product. It actually uses a TOTP [1], a variant of HOTP.

Here's the famous Blizzard authenticator in the manufacturer's original branding [2], from a competitor. There are others like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_A...
[2] https://www.vasco.com/products/two-factor-authenticators/har...
I mean... five thousand years would be what, the Code of Hammurabi? Cities of refuge, eye for an eye, and all of that? I don't think the average person had access to a court, at least, not one that anyone in the last millennium would recognize.
As someone who has had the statistically rare opportunity to be the only man on a software engineering team I can see this explanation reflects my experience.

I took so many fewer days off than the team average that I tended to get assigned the most vital work.
It makes a valuable point that our popular culture that we think makes us "civilized" is really just a sham and we're no different from olden-days racists and homophobes but with a few extra rules applied. We're very careful not to abuse people because of their race, religion or certain types of sexuality, but for all the non-taboo classes of people, the gloves are off and we're no different from slave owners who justified mistreating blacks because they were sub-human. We can't call people niggers but we can call them retards. We can't lock up homosexuals but we can lock up pedophiles and zoophiles. We can't deny jobs or voting rights to women but we can deny jobs and voting rights to foreigners.

We really aren't any more moral than we were 100's of years ago, we just fool ourselves into thinking we are.
I'm in the same boat, I didn't enjoy the writing at all and could not progress very far.