skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of a chicken and egg, where you don't know how much to request from the DAO, if it isn't funded. It's hard to have people softly commit (unless it is a guaranteed commitment), as they could always renege on their promise when it came time to provide money. Also, the vision seemed to be to create many VC funds to consider projects, which required an aggregation of capital.

An alternate way is having each investment opportunity publicize it, but that is a marketing challenge for each project, and may not raise the requisite amount (there may also be greater legal risks to soliciting capital from retail investors directly).

There are a lot of issues with the DAO (long before the hack), so I don't mean that as a justification for launching the current DAO, but rather a potential reasoning for that one aspect. (the bigger question is why didn't they do many proof of concepts + then restrict the amount of money collected with the first production version).
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And it sounds like we share the hope that they'll never fully succeed.
No, that would just cause a new form of corporation to arise in some jurisdiction that costs a dollar per year to maintain, that's limited to owning a single domain name.
any chance the video will be released?
Where is the BNF?
I agree the documentation needs work and I am using Kotlin in prod. JetBrains please take note!
That requires modification to every file using ES modules, and new syntax. The proposed solution only requires modifying files which do not have an import or export statement, and does not need new syntax.
Alden clearly has excellent sources inside Palantir—that much was obvious from his previous articles on them.
What is the definition of P, NP, NP-complete and NP-hard?(2013)
Two kinds of people - those who've been hacked and those who say they haven't.
A fascinating article. Thank you for posting.

Foolishly, I read some of the comments. It's sad to see so many people use the article as a fulcrum for their pet issue without having read, or at least understood, the article.
I toyed around with Sphere a bit, but RPG 6.5 was where it was at for me. I spent weeks poring over that code, and it was my first encounter with C++. I learned so much, especially from the implementation of the toolkit (tile editor, map editor, etc.). I never was able to compile it myself, though, as I didn't have access to a proper Borland C++ compiler for DOS, but that didn't matter so much as long as I could read the code and see the end result.

Cheers!
Heh I used to play CS 1.6 with my Catholic priest. He was very very good too, though his favourite game was Wolfenstein. Apparently shooting Nazis and their monsters was cathartic
Basic Income Is Already Here, It's Just Called Digital Nomadism
I definitely agree the articles related to bootloaders can be very hard to read

If you want to use GRUB and UEFI, my recommendation is follow the headings up until the end of Installation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#UEFI_systems

Then you just need to generate the config

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generate_the_main_...

The partition you're referring to is explained here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition
I agree broadly - and the current DAO was a terrible idea on many fronts, but I'll discuss one quibble in case it starts a broader discussion.

> You can't possibly create a smart contract to purchase a house, because at the end of the day the person that physically occupies the house is in the position of power.

It's likely that if something like this ever succeeded, there'd be many parties that would provide bridges between real world assets (dollars, a house, entry to an electronic lock) + real world contracts that might bridge to crypto contracts (so a trustee may hold a house under US law for a crypto title owned by others - similar to how a custodial bank holds financial assets on your behalf). You're right that the enforcement mechanism might be decoupled, but that doesn't make it worthless, as the trustee could still use the enforcement mechanism on the real world side. On the cryptocontract side, parts could be enforced like payments.

So why might crypto contracts be interesting in this case:

- There are too many parties involved and coordination costs are high (crypto contracts that millions of people collectively negotiate together)

- The adherents are international, and may prefer a standardized form of law accessible cheaply and easily to all

There are clearly an infinite number of risks - but this is just an example of how it might still be beneficial.

One other point. Everyone in this recent DAO hack discusses cryptocontracts as set in stone - and the be all, end all once published. Still, you could always inject in a party that adjudicates, but only in extreme scenarios (technically, they might have root access when a few parties with conflicting incentives agreed).

You might ask, doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of crypto contracts if third parties are involved - but there still may be value if the third party role is substantially diminished, or if previous forms of negotiation that never happened due to coordination cost now occur.

(the canonical Bitcoin example is escrow, where the two parties can verifiably escrow money which in the real world always required a third party actively involved, and a third party in the cryptocurrency world steps in only if there are issues that the two parties can't resolve and cannot take the money itself - 2 of 3 multisig).
I just realized, I haven't left any notice on this post.

This is a website I have developed, because of two reasons:

1: I hate reading news with the bad design and ads all over the place that most popular newspaper-pages propose.

2: I wanted to be able to choose what I want to read about. As for music for example: We choose playlists and only listen to music that we enjoy. Than why do I have to read about Trump or Clinton on every news related website. I am not even in the US!

I would love a feedback from you guys. The design, the idea, or if the website is a good application of the idea.
Exactly. It's crappy that they are likely getting flack over this.

Chances are, it was leaked by a disgruntled employee. But the fact is that the red team started on the internal network and used tactics that would work on darn near every org these days.

Palantir is no different. The only issue is that their pentest report was leaked.
Anyone have the problem that instead of procrastination you start adding new features because that's more interesting/challenging than the drudge work that remains. So you're constantly doing a little drudge work and a little adding features and you get stuck in a Zeno's paradox of never finishing? :)
Ummm, every browser for decades has supported URL parameters. I can't believe that IE breaks with them.

Yes, large URLs are an issue, but not with search engines & access tokens, since search engines shouldn't ever see access tokens. A JWT should be lightweight — if it's big, then it's wrong.
Show HN: GitHub Auth for S3 website
Ethereum/DAO would be much less of a tire fire embarassment if the management had taken some time to learn anything about the basics of contracts and
law, instead of making it up as they go and assuming the entirety of centuries of civilization has no clue what they were doing.
Author here. Let me know if you have any questions.
We gave our kids the same amount of money toward school. One went to community college, graduated basically debt free. The other went to a brand name private school and has taken on a painful amount of debt.

The difficult advice I would offer is this: If you are not a top X% student, and the only way for you to pay for your education is to take on debt, you are making a mistake. Full stop. Find a cheaper school. Find another way, work part time and go to school part time. See if your church/mosque/community group/etc will give you even $500/semester toward school. Live at home or with a relative. If you still get gifts for Christmas, ask for money instead and put that toward books for Spring semester. Stop eating out, learn to make your own food, the meals on campus are too expensive. Find something that you can buy in bulk and sell one at a time on ebay. And of course, the best choice is to go back in time and be born into a wealthy family.

You can make it work, but you have to be willing to set aside whatever vision you have about how college should be. Take what is available and make it your own.
I'll give you the names you want for free. But you have to change your DNS settings to point to my cache servers. Or follow my instructions how to set up your own root and cache and/or auth nameservers.
Thin submarine PR advertising for a book, not honest enough to put it in the title.
And Betamax was vastly superior.
Siri, Viv and the Branding Potential for AI Assistants
>The difference is that now the "menial" jobs are almost gone, and the higher up jobs are on the chopping block. And so the first to die off will be those without power (as usual). We can come up with all sorts of platitudes about the value of human life, but in the end it always comes down to this. Welcome to the true nature of man.

This sounds so damned edgy I'm left wondering if you just read Ayn Rand for the first time. Think things over before posting for the whole internet to see!
> "We’re sort of in a hard place," Jamieson told The New York Times. "We can’t provide a lot of information about where these women are in their pregnancy. We don’t want to inadvertently disclose information about difficult decisions these women are making about their pregnancies."

Is there a point where the impending public health crisis becomes more important than patient privacy?
Honestly it's as if people have forgotten one of the fundamental principles of strategy and tactics. The attacker almost always has the advantage. Its true in the book of five rings, its true in the art of war, it's just a basic principle.

Now, thats not to say an adanced attacker still can't be defended against, but as a sysadmin who has seen the inside of companies from law firms to publicly traded big guys to the IT firms themselves... And that's that almost no managment has put forward the personell or the budgets or the culture needed to really secure things.

Hell, a family member of mine recently got a tour of spacex and was apalled at the security. If Musk and his money dont do it right or well, almost nobody is.

I've basically told people who run windows systems for business they're already comprimised most likely, and the best thing to do is to be doing hids and good log analysis so you catch it when it happens quickly... but you probably arent going to stop any kind of semi-advanced attacker.

So to be frank, it completely makes sense to me that a company like Palantir would be massively vulnerable from thr inside. The edge of the sword they live on cuts both ways. These days, its about response time and forensic afteraction.

"When Palantir’s information security employees finally discovered the intruders, they “provided a rapid network response in which they identified and mitigated” the “majority” of the red team’s actions within days, the report says. Compared with other large companies, this defensive response was unusually robust, the industry source said, based on a reading of the report."
Wow, this is sobering.

I've certainly heard it said that if you're a big tech company, you are already infiltrated by state-sponsored hackers. But since I've never seen one of these red-team reports, this synopsis provides a lot of color on how people can get around inside the network, once they get in, that I wasn't aware of (obviously I don't work in opsec).

Too bad for Palantir that this got leaked, but perhaps it can be instructive for many of us.
The title says "every parent". Explaining why the advice needs to drastically change for certain situations is quite helpful. You should not be so dismissive.
Probably. It would take a fair amount of time, though.
Just wanted to say - absolutely beautiful app. Looking forward to using this!
Bad analogy, because you should always leave a casino.

If you can get higher expected returns with an increase in risk, you should probably go for it with the money you can spare, as long as you can spread the risk around multiple fields.
> the client uses the refresh token to get a new JWT

What's the point of using the JWT then? If the refresh token lasts for longer than the JWT, and you need to send it periodically back up to the server to auth the user, why use the JWT in the first place?
You can design wide or deep with abstraction. Repeat similar code or abstract it out and branch down. Both introduce complexity. Possible to have too many abstraction layers.

https://plus.google.com/+aerotwist/posts/1QhcnQizuPc

Convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons.
Algolia Places – Turn any HTML input tag into an address autocomplete
solving the same problem: synchronizing application data between user devices.
Nothing surprises me with the government anymore. The DEA wanted to continue building a drug case, so they didn't give Fedex information that they would have used to immediately cutoff service to the suspects, which would have tipped them off that the Feds were onto them. That's certainly their right, but they can't then turn around and prosecute Fedex for not acting on information they never had.

This was nothing more than a shakedown attempt by the government. There is little doubt that Fedex was approached with numerous offers to make this go away in exchange for a hefty fine. In this case, Fedex should sue for malicious prosecution and be awarded both compensatory and punitive damages. I wonder if Fedex shareholders might have a claim against the government as well, as this looming trial had to have damaged the stock price.
> Why can't the NS servers of the registrar (GoDaddy/Namecheap/etc.) themselves provide that resolution (ycombinator.com == xx.xx.xx.xx IP) ?

They could. Any name server along the chain could just answer the question if it knew the answer. It's a matter of configuration whether a certain domain is delegated to a different nameserver. And that doesn't end at ycombinator.com. The nameserver for ycombinator.com could delegate subdomains to further nameservers, and so on.

> After all the registrars are assigned for that specific purpose, aren't they?

No, their job is to enter their customers' data into the registry's database, that's it. That is, who the owner of the domain is, and which nameservers it should be delegated to. Some registrars also provide DNS hosting, in which case their customer can choose to have them provide the DNS server that's put into the registry's database for the domain to be delegated to.

Also, the DNS doesn't just map domain names to IP addresses. You can have as many subdomains and hostnames below some domain, each pointing to different IP addresses, and you have other information in the DNS, such as which server is responsible for receiving emails for some domain name.

And in particular, none of this information is necessarily static, or even global. Large websites might have multiple webservers, and when one of them fails, they automatically remove its IP address from their DNS server so the clients only try to use the ones that actually work. Or others run DNS servers that return different IP addresses, depending on which part of the planet the request came from, to direct clients to a server that's geographically close. All of that is only possible because the responsibility is delegated to their own nameserver that they can program to behave however they want.

Also, no, not every request goes to the root servers or the com/net/org servers. Your computer, for example, asks your internet provider's DNS resolver server for any names it needs to look up. Now, your provider's server caches responses. So, if you were to go to ycombinator.com, for example, it wouldn't start at the root again, as is already knows which nameservr is responsible for ycombinator.com, as it has already looked up news.ycombinator.com in order to load this page. So it would ask the nameserver that's responsible for ycombinator.com directly. And that's also the main reason why it's built the way it is: The delegation combined with the caching distributes the load to the many individual name servers of each domain instead of having all the requests hit one central server.
Yes, because you can not make one exception otherwise it will be used all the time to circumvent patient doctor privilege. The old saying, "give them an inch and they take a mile" is exactly this case.
Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them
Yep! But his is not like an autoimmune disorder (e.g. type 1 diabetes). It's more like an acquire disease (i.e. type 2 diabetes), for which we fully understand how to prevent and alleviate, but somehow do not implement the necessary measures.
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“unusual suspects” costumer acquisition channels
For true out of box thinking, I thought of asking for your thoughts on unusual lead gen channels for fertility services (aimed that individuals/couples unable to conceive naturally or already undergoing fertiltity treatment? Thanks! maja@opionato.com
> 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.

Then maybe he should stand up for the interests of trades workers. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/mike-rowes-dirty-job/
What sort of tests don't you end up writing? I ask because I work in both dynamic and static languages, and find myself writing very similiar tests in each case.
I don't think the project was canned on technical grounds, but more on project management grounds. The project ran for several years with no real deliverables or deadlines, and management inevitably had to question whether the project was bearing fruit.
What if we did the same with names in general? If someone wanted to be brador on HN, and you didn't out-bid them, they were to get your name. Oh, and your real name, too, of course. If someone pays enough, you have to get a new name. And a new telephone number. And a new house. And anything else you own, really. If someone offers more money than you have, you are forced to sell at that price whatever you have. What could possibly go wrong?
Was that a historically accurate representation of the spacecraft designer's German accents, or was the movie gratuitously racist?
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> Even most landscapes on Earth (reality is "procedurally generated" by the laws of physics) are pretty boring.

Strongly disagree! I truly feel sorry for you if you can't see beauty and spectacle everywhere you look in nature.
Well, in NYC at least, they are neither illegal taxicabs nor gypsy cabs, but fully licensed livery car services that follow all of the rules therein (no street hails, drivers are livery licensed, and uber operates licensed dispatch locations).

I'm not the gp but I think transients, as defined as, "people who do not intend to be resident in this location for more than 30 days", works just fine.
There's no BNF, this is not a language spec or full grammar, it just describes an addition to the existing grammar to denote a module.
So much nostalgia. I made a 6502 computer from scratch in the middle 90s.

I wire wrapped mine. I did not finish in one evening!
One important thing to note is that as of today's data, the CDC is not reporting any locally acquired cases [1] in the States (though that does not apply to US Territories). It is possible to infer, though certainly not conclusive, that the current pregnancy-related cases are either due to travel-related or sexual transmission, or possibly local if the pregnancy is in a Territory.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/united-states.html

Stay safe everyone.
I wouldn't put it past those monks to live in orbit ;)
For some reason I completely missed that show, it looks great. Thanks!
I admit that the analogy I have used may not suit everyone's taste, and I apologize, but, as always, reality trumps imagination: turns out, there exists a version of UNIX for Z80 called UZI: http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html.
Just the right size to turn into our first starship?
Rather than reiterating a lot of what I've said previously, I'm reposting my greatest hits from previous discussions on this topic: hope that is okay.

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The US rarely uses metric in it's popular culture. Weather reports are in Fahrenheit, movies almost always use miles and pounds. By any measure of cultural output that you export that I've seen (and Australia is a huge consumer of your popular culture) you do not use metric.

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In Australia we started metrication in 1971[1] with 1974 being the effective tipping point when all road signs were changed.

Being born in the early 70's, I have a rough understanding of imperial measurement units. I can roughly understand if something is a few inches or a few feet, but can never remember how many inches in a foot, and have no concept of relation between feet and miles. Miles I understand as a bit over 1.5kms. The only length measurements we tend to still give in imperial is a person's height in feet and inches. The concept that over six foot is tall, and under five is getting to be short (for men at least) has such utility that it's stuck. Official documents will use metric though, usually centimetres.

Weight is similar. Kilograms rule, except when talking about the weight of newborns which will still often be given in pounds and ounces informally. But give me anything else in pounds and I have no idea (very frustrating when that happens in movies.)

Similarly Celsius rules. I know 100°F is a hot day, but wont boil an egg, and 0°F is colder than a mother-in-law's kiss, but those are rough approximations, and anything between those two I have to convert.

Gallons is a foreign language.

However all the colloquialisms such as giving an inch and taking a mile are still common.

And yet somehow despite all this, the world continued to spin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Australia

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Just an interesting aside, measurements in construction are almost always given in either metres or millimetres, never centimetres (at least in Australia.)

So that would be 914.4mm and 1219.2mm respectively (or 1.2192m I guess).

The wisdom of this was explained to me by my builder father that metres and millimetres are orders of magnitude far enough apart that you can usually figure out which is which without too much difficulty in a specification even if they are not annotated properly. Centimetres fall close enough to in between that it can be confusing. Plus only using two standard units of measure (one for small stuff, another for large) is less potential confusion then using three.

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Now if we could only stop anybody using m/d/y date formats...
Gosu: a pragmatic language for the JVM
I don't know why you've been downvoted, but anyone who disagrees with you needs to explain in what situation it would make sense to have two different functions or files with names differing only in case.

I upvoted you.
I wonder how big this number has to get to light the fire under Congress's ass.
Why at all? Because Thiel is an investor in Palantir? I googled a bit to try and something that relates Gawker and Palantir beyond that.
Self hosted version would make this much more appealing since all of that calculation would be done in real time on your own devices. I agree this would be ideal. Why do they need the data in the first place? What makes that data good for anything other than marketing?
In a similar vein, there is https://shop.keyboard.io/ I pre-ordered one earlier today to replace a TECK.

I agree that most of the keyboards on this list are not ergonomic at all. Most are simply mechanical keyboards.