skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Human brains process it absurdly well considering there's nothing really built-in for it.

That's unclear. The sheer bitrate of reading suggests that it might tap into some deep structures -- hacking some parts of the visual and speech systems, if you prefer.

I don't click on HN video links because I find video slow and frustrating way to learn almost anything. Text is so random access -- you can skip over boring bits re-read hard bits, luxuriate in the really wonderful bits...all of which is hard in video. And in fact because the visual channel is so complex, I find reading more multimedia than video -- it's hard to feel cold when watching someone march through the snow, though a well written book can make me shiver with cold, even on a summer day.
If every mistake is going to potentially cost $120 million then you might want to rethink your strategy.

I want decentralized blockchain based organizations to work, but haphazard attempts like this are only setting the technology back.

Honestly, it seems like you are willfully in denial about its failure.
That is definitely some neat engineering and manufacturing. The downside is how much landfill waste is created.

It's also interesting how we've been using the same principles with cloth diapers for a long time using cotton, fleece, wool, bamboo, and plastic covers.
> Picture says a thousand words

It might have been better if you'd supplied some of those words, because that picture doesn't appear to me to indicate anything on the way as major as the Dalton, let alone the Maunder, minimum.

> As the Sun ages [...]

Yeah, oddly enough that isn't what I was questioning. You made two claims that are just flatly wrong. (1) That the sun is going to go supernova. Nope, not happening. Wrong sort of star. (2) That increases in the sun's temperature on its way to this alleged supernova are "what alot of the global warming fear is based on". The sun's temperature and luminosity aren't going to change appreciably on a timescale shorter than many million years.

> The IPCC were hacked and exposed.

What?

(Are you mixing up the IPCC with the UEA CRU? The two are entirely different, and the hacks didn't "expose" anything to speak of.)
The DAO Vulnerability
Sadly, no.

First, it would not be void ab initio.
Past that, your issue is that the express terms of the contract appear to allow that, so you will lose regardless of whether that was a good idea for you to do :P

You could argue breach of good faith, etc, but not unjust enrichment.
Like restitution, unjust enrichment is a theory of implied contracts.

You can plead it and breach of express contract at the same time, but you can only recover for one, and you will not recover for unjust enrichment if the court finds an express contract.
PHP is awesome, have you experienced Powerbuilder? :)
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Wow how have I not known of this. Is it new? I've been here forever and never noticed that.
In the same vein I don't think it's as much capturing millennials as keeping up with them. It's impossible to predict every upcoming trend, but if they keep themselves nimble through acquisitions and trimmed product offerings they can ride the coattails of instagram/whatsapp type companies into eternity.
They do exist but they don't work for commission.

I've worked with some amazing recruiters who would only send me people that were at least in the right ballpark. But they were all in house recruiters who had a salary and were not evaluated on how many of their candidates were hired, but instead on how well they sourced and brought people in for interviews.

So I guess my advice to you is, if you can afford it, bring someone on full time, in which case they would be more of a bizdev person for you than a recruiter.
There's composing in a lightweight markup language, then moving to something heavier-duty. HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, whatevs.

The lightweight language is an authoring tool, but it shouldn't get in the way of full expression as needs be.

(Markdown allows integrated HTML, though not all Markdown implementations / uses provide that, particularly online Web tools. Which are horribly inconsistent, IME.)
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Maybe they can make an expansion pack with two new options. 1) Increase Mental Health Care, and 2) Pass Reasonable Gun Laws.
isis agora lovecruft wrote a nuanced post[1] on this. From my outside perspective it's not about Tor but about preventing harm to the community. In the end hacker culture was always about doing interesting stuff and less so about selling or presenting it. Everyone will do fine, I guess. I for one would prefer "bad" talks with lot's of technical merit instead of more show. I don't have an opinion about the accusations as someone standing on the sideline but I think it's only fair to respect their decisions.

[1] https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-forest-for-the-trees....
Hmmm you bring up a good point, having a file based provider type might be useful as the last fallback.

Also, the tool already supports fallbacks, so if a provider is offline or what have you it will try the next provider in line and so on.
the parameter is `playbackRate`
Yes, 'DannyBee has met a significant number of Googlers.
I want to understand the mindset and ideologies of people who think DAO is a good idea. Holding this belief is correlated with a lot of other ideas in particular, strands of right libertarian thought, and a heavy emphasis on technology and technocracy (i.e. government by technical expertise).

Beneath that though, i think there's an undercurrent of something that feels like misanthropy: a strong desire to replace political human beings interacting in order to resolve conflicting interest, reconcile conflicting experiences and pursue common interest with purely economic agents that interact with each other through free (read: mechanistic) markets and algorithmic contracts.

It feels like there is an unspoken need to be able to tell every human being who has a problem "too bad", and a need for a societal structure that is maximally ""rational"" and unassailable by human political action.

Obviously this would be a strawman if i said any particular person or group specifically held these beliefs. It's an amalgamate of various ideas I've seen pop up in the same places at the same time. Call me a skeptic of any thought that leans in this direction.
Humans lived without guns for vast majority of our history. So obviously, yes, we can live without them.
It's not misconception. Requirement to setup some proprietary software just to download your games makes Steam DRM no matter if it's enforced after download or no.

Currently everything needed is reverse enginered so you can actually download games using open source tool, but I pretty sure this is forbidden by Steam EULA. Even if we all know Valve will unlikely enforce it it's still gray area you don't want depend on.
Lack of patent examiner familiarity with the industry, history, and the state of the art is traditionally considered a weak point in the system as a whole. Supposedly when writing the patent claims you're supposed to do a search to make sure you're not conflicting with other patents and that there is no prior art, but this is often used to word the patent in such a way to avoid the prior art from invalidating the patent, or use differences with the prior art as support for the uniqueness of the patent being applied for. Unfortunately, patent examiners are traditionally illequipped to accurately make an assessment, and the patent applicant is allowed to make adjustments to address the issues the patent examiner found. I remember there was work on getting patent examiners to be more familiar with the areas the patents they are examining/approving are for (technology, software, or business, for example), but I don't know where that stands today.

However, IANAPL and IANAPE.
It's quite possible to have too many deaths from both. However, it is also the case that the currently blaśe attitude about the (marginally) more lethal one is incongruous with the currently alarmist attitude about the other.
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The idea os needing my extremely unreliable and expensive phone that I don't have money to replace to make payments horrifies me.
But there should be a way to write a "letter of the law" agreement, too, where people can actually rely on the rules. There should exist a sufficiently strong disclaimer that anyone agreeing to it will get summarily rejected from a court saying "you should have known better". There should exist agreements where someone giving their word is ironclad and irreversible.

These would be great to make people sign at gunpoint!
Defense Secretary Ash Carter Releases Hack the Pentagon Results
Nothing yet, but if the funds get released to the hacker(s), that would trigger a few criminal statutes I can think of.

For example, imagine a world where I solicit a bunch of investors money under contract. In the contract I included a provision, no one read, that says any of the member can simply take all or part of the groups investment funds. Then that 1 member who actually read the contract appropriates ~$40M of my investors' money. Sound similar enough? Well there is nothing magical about the DAO or the non-DAO contract that would protect me or the member who appropriated the money from liability, civilly and/or criminally.

What are the potential crimes that could be charged? theft, criminal misappropriation, breach of trust, fraud, conspiracy, computer crime, securities fraud, and/or wire fraud. Now I am not saying all these would be charged and if so found guilty on all counts, but as a defense attorney they roll off my tongue.
The "power" of a short story rests in its ability to imply interesting things that your imagination can play around with.

When you read the original story of Theseus and the Minotaur do you ask yourself the same question? Is the story less powerful because it couldn't be true as written?

The Apollodorus Bibliotecha is real compendium of Greek myths written in the 1st or 2nd century AD. The first section of the first book is the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. The House of Asterion is the same story told from the Minotaur's perspective.

The fact the the story itself includes the meta-fictional footnote implies this isn't the "original" and that the person writing this isn't the Minotaur himself. Borges like to play with this conceit in many of his stories, e.g., "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote." Don Quixote itself uses the same conceit, i.e., that what you're reading is something found and transmitted (and possibly altered).

So, to start, it might be worth putting up this story and the story of Theseus and the Minotaur side-by-side. What are some differences?

For example, why does Borges have the Athenians sending nine people into the labyrinth rather than seven? Borges wrote extensively about Dante and the Minotaur is in Dante's inferno, so it wouldn't totally surprise me if there's some connection between the nine people who get sent in and the nine circles of Hell in the Inferno.

etc. etc. etc. Peeling back these onion layers is why a lot of people enjoy reading Borges.
The ability to dismiss any grievances with "tough luck" for one. A mechanistic system that engulfs and defines human activity rather than being defined by it, another: it is immune to politics. Just guesses from me; i don't think blockchain tech addresses any aspects of society that i personally find problematic.
I liked the turn of phrase "Capitalism, in other words, holds less appeal in an era when the invisible hand feels like a death grip."

The article is very clear that the term capitalism wasn't defined in the survey, so "What do these category-based questions really tell us, then, about the allegiance of youth to ideologies? Nothing." Instead, it says to look to the policy question to get a sense of what young Americans think.

My interpretation - young Americans reject neoliberalism. But as the article comments:

> “Neoliberal” has gone from a term that describes an advocate of specific economic and political policies to an insult hurled indiscriminately on social media.

Err, blush.

The end is also nicely put:

> You do not need a survey to ascertain the plight of American youth. You can look at their bank accounts, at the jobs they have, at the jobs their parents have lost, at the debt they hold, at the opportunities they covet but are denied. You do not need jargon or ideology to form a case against the status quo. The clearest indictment of the status quo is the status quo itself.
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As long as you use my definition for 'reasonable', I'd press that button.
And according to you, where programming jobs are now ? in USA ?
That is correct. However, the vast majority of those were not mass shootings and involved handguns rather than "assault rifles".

In terms of what we could do to get that number down, there is probably more evidence that aggressive stop-and-frisk would do more to reduce that number than banning assault rifles(see NYC experience).

However, even if there is evidence that stop-and-frisk would reduce the number of gun murders, there are still serious Constitutional issues mainly in that the vast majority of people stopped are innocent. In the same way, the vast majority of guns and gun owners will never be involved in any crime. Thus any tightening of gun laws will affect far more innocent people than actual criminals.
Thanks for the response. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle!

Every time I see people complaining about how "HN as gone to shit", I check to see how long they've been a registered user. I'm not the most veteran HNer, but I've been around for about 6 years now, and if anything I think the quality of the site has tended to improve ever-so-slightly over the years, though I feel that it tends to fluctuate a bit. There was also a noticeable boost when you and your crew took the reigns as mods (I don't mean to ass-kiss here, I really feel that way). I sometimes wonder if I missed out on some sort of Golden Age of HN...
Not true, both chip and contactless are signing a challenge with a secret that doesn't leave the card.
"ETHEREUM FOUNDER VITALIK BUTERIN IS PRETTY MUCH ALL I'VE GOT, SORRY."
>Contracts that include illegal activities, such as theft, are unenforceable.

I was referring to contracts and crimes generally to highlight the concept of contracts being per se unenforceable.

In another comment I do include theft too, but further add other potential charges: criminal misappropriation, breach of trust, fraud, conspiracy, computer crime, securities fraud, and/or wire fraud.
Facebook. They bought it so that can have a display which guarantees ad views and consumer tracking.
I think a good way to fight them is to use IP reputation services like http://getIPIntel.net since the vast majority of bots will be on hosting IPs or compromised systems.
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Bill's videos are consistently some of the best stuff on YouTube, in my opinion. Even the early, super corny, stuff was great.

Their series on the Harmonic Analyser was especially interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5...
Palantir got owned by pentesters
That's a really interesting idea, using a virtual economy to field test something like this. I was thinking about how you'd do that and actually attract attackers by having some value, using something like EVE where people are willing/wanting to do it anyway in game might work.
Having authored texts in nroff, groff, HTML, DocBook, Markdown, ASCIIDoc, and LaTeX, as well as numerous proprietary formats and word processors, my considered view is this:

Let authors use the fucking tools they know and prefer.

Organise common text through translation tools. Pandoc is fucking amazing.

Formatting for final production is a separate task.

(Not without some irony, I'm reviewing a set of guides and commentaries on productivity and creativity in a few other tabs....).

When you are writing your most important task is to capture the gist of what's in your head onto a tangible medium. If that means fucking Messinian marble and diamond chisels, so be it.

The marginal productivity gains for someone already proficient in a tool are low in switching to something else, relative to domain knowledge.

The challenge is that you're then stuck with high-level, vs. low-level definitions and tools. Which is where the whole "what do I use for creating my documents" question ends up at.

Systems such as HTML5 (the semantic elements, not all the canvas and DRM crap), or LaTeX, or DocBook, are hugely useful here because their definitions are largely semantic. You write the structure, not the style.

After that, so long as a tool or language can produce ingestible input given an author's output, that's fine.

And, frankly, by the time you're worried about specific low-level structure, use a dedicated tool which provides that. My experience with LaTeX was that it was actually _amazingly_ simple to use for basic creation -- it gets out of the way. Paragraphs as linefeeds, rather than HTML's incessent <p> </p> pairs, helps immensely. For more complex structures, you can go back and add what's needed later.

Markdown offers a wide set of capabilities with the option of fallback to HTML, which again is powerful and a good option for composing.

And there's value in simplicity.
Debugging poorly written or convoluted K programs is much more complicated than debugging equivalent C/C++/Java/Python programs.

It's decent for prototyping though, although I bet most people would prototype just as fast or faster in Python.
As another commenter mentioned, would it have been appropriate for him to direct a question to "the black CTO"?
I'll have to disagree, as I think you're taking the concept of DRM way too far.

The fact that you need a client to download your game is not DRM, but it is inconvenient I suppose. DRM comes in when you cannot distribute your purchased game freely, and you're limited to a set number of PCs or installs.

Still disagree? Let's look at GoG, the standard DRM-free game store. You need to login before you can download your games, correct? Would you call that a form of DRM? The difference between logging in and downloading a client is negligible in this day and age imo.

If you don't agree with any of the above, then I'm afraid that the way you think of DRM-free gaming is only achievable through piracy.
for me, opportunities + i give a shit = happy relationship; Lets work on awesome, compelling problems together, and if (as an employer) you enable me giving a shit, we'll have a happy relationship.

Like, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", if you're solving an interesting problem and I'm on-board solving that same problem, we'll both work in a way that enables us solving that interesting problem. The bit about Emergency Services really resonated with me.
Can you be specific about which crime you think is at play in this situation, and then search the Internet for "model jury instructions [that-crime]", and come back with the one that would invalidate this contract?

If you fix a lottery or something, it's pretty straightforward to work out the deception/misrepresentation and reliance involved to build a fraud case. But here, the DAO's whole purpose was, "send us currency and it will do whatever the code tells it to, and only that, subject to no other rules."

Again: that's kind of the point of the article: that the DAO was constructed in such a way to make problems like this unrecoverable.
Writing perfect, bug-free code is merely the first hurdle when designing a smart contract. You also need the code to cover all possible situations correctly. It's here that smart contracts run into the mess we call the 'real world', and there's no proof of correctness that covers that. Smart contract creators need to be perfect programmers, but must also take their programming blinkers off and consider actual usage too.

For example, a few weeks ago, there was a news story about an ethereum prenuptial agreement : http://www.coindesk.com/prenup-ethereum-marriage-obligations... : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1MEGeLr7lWiNEE2U2lGdGFvSm8...

Ok, obviously a dumb idea, and not serious (I hope?) But take just one of the contract terms: 'It is stipulated that both the parties should spend at least 100 minutes every 10 days on a date-night'

As someone in r/buttcoin wrote at the time: "In the last ten days, User 1 spent 5 nights at home, 1 night in a wrecked car and 4 nights in Lakeville Hospital. Date night clause has been broken. Marriage terminated."

My point is that coding is the least of the problems with a smart contract. There needs to be a way to handle unexpected circumstances. In the real world, courts do that. In smart contracts, you're out of luck.
Nothing to see here. The only people affected are other exchanges who get more competition
Yeah, but that's slock.it (not the Ethereum foundation) who were the same ones who found a similar bug in their code elsewhere are just plastered over it while claiming that there was no risk. They have a history of being cocksure about their programming, and didn't even think to take a quick look at the rest of their code. It's unsurprising that they're being scuzzy about this too, and I think the Ethereum community is pretty fed up with them at this point :P
Personal attacks and name-calling aren't allowed in HN comments.

You've posted quite a few uncivil comments to HN, unfortunately. Please don't do that anymore.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>If you were doing the rewrite for a more modern language to attract more contributors, it might be worth it.

Can you explain how a relatively less mature and less widely adopted "modern" language is going bring more contributors to MRI?
I think only like a half dozen of the 2 thousand Steam on Linux games actually use the Steam DRM as well, even titles that use Steamworks DRM on Windows.
For me, one of the biggest draws over the official client are that it opens links in my OS default browser, not just Chrome. They used to do this, but have made changes so that links only open in Chrome. There's a smattering of threads on this issue with no response from Google or the Hangouts team.
> You're also talking about systems 20,000x larger than what The DAO contract was [1].

It sounds like the contract was underspecified.

In my experience, the basic core logic of a system's usually a pretty small part of the overall codebase - the edge cases and error handling tend to be the bulk of the code.

This tends to be the case in legal contracts, too - 100 pages of boilerplate to make sure the two pages of contract are air-tight.
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Posts without URLs get penalized, so you should repost this using one of those two URLs, then add your text as a first comment in the thread.
Maybe this add-on might help: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profileswitch...
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