skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The journalist is a former lawyer and Wall Street banker[0]:

> [Levine] has worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He spent a year clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and taught high school Latin. Levine has a bachelor's degree in classics from Harvard University and a law degree from Yale Law School. He lives in New York.

If you want to understand finance and law from the perspective of an expert in both who also takes an interest in tech, I would highly recommend going back and reading his articles[1]. He's a very prolific writer on Bloomberg View and has previously written several articles on Bitcoin, Ethereum, the blockchain, and related topics[2,3,4].

0: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matth...

1: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matth...

2: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-17/blockchai...

3: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-23/bailout-f...

4: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-31/complianc...
Tarte lights, camera, flashes statement mascara
We like to pretend Ethereum and Bitcoin are controlled by the code, but they're not. They're controlled by their communities, which decide what code to run. That's how it's always been.
That seems very unlikely to me. Nobody is going to put on a VR headset to kill time at work, which is what Facebook is. (There was an article posted here recently that says most videos posted on Facebook have subtitles instead of sound, because people won't even put headphones on while using Facebook.)
Ask HN: Should I quit my highly paid startup job at a failing startup?
I work for a well-funded startup with no traction (no users and no revenue). The company is over 9 months old, and I'm well-paid. The product is a SAAS web/mobile app. Should I quit my job before the company runs out of money? Why or why not?
> Digital currencies enable me to send $10 across the globe for less than a penny

Yeah PayPal is pretty nice
Heh, had a feeling you were, couldn't prove it fron the username alone.

Her constituents also include even more people Google has ruined the lives of or put out on the street. But they don't pay her the way Googlers do.

As a Googler, you may lack the perspective to evaluate Google's behavior fairly. Presumably, you get paid drastically more by Google than Anna Eshoo. As to my point about Googlers being pretty much the same as Google direct, here you are defending their investment in Congress.
they should instead be giving up on big government which is undermining capitalism. it is big government that is holding them back through over regulation, over taxation, and playing political favorites. the same big government which has dumped hundreds of billions into education ever since the DOE was created with no improvement, the same big government which has expended trillions in its war on poverty with no improvement.

it might be nice to have capitalism again
cyarvin: But more broadly, it's very difficult to invent a system like this if you need to commit to reusing the abstractions of 20th-century programming. A reused term comes with all kinds of assumptions. Sure, in some cases it's possible to retcon the system back into "normal" language, but a mismatch should be expected. A good example is the homoiconic state of Hoon/Nock. In basically all other languages, even including Lisp, the set of data available to an expression is not a first-class value in the language -- it's a "scope" or "environment" or some other secret mystery meat. In both Hoon and Nock it's a single, ordinary value -- the subject.

In mainstream Lisp dialects, that first class value exists: it is the lexical closure. You might not like the indirect "API" that it gives you to the environment (namely a function, which you have to program yourself to do what you want), but that's what it is. Your function can contain logic to inspect variables:

;; CL
(let ((a 1) (b 2) (c 3))
(lambda (which-var)
(ecase which-var (a a) (b b) (c c))))

If we bind this to f, and (funcall f 'a) we get 1, and so on; we've given the mystery meat object a method for looking at some of the accessible values.

There may be some object representing an actual environment. That is very dialect specific. Common Lisp has macro-time environments, so a macro can manually expand a sub-macro in the correct scope.

In the TXR Lisp dialect, you can do this:

1> (make-env)
#<environment: b7653e3c>
2> (env-vbind *1 'a 3)
(a . 3)
3> (env-vbind *1 'b 2)
(b . 2)
4> (eval '(+ a b))
** (expr-4:1) unbound variable a
5> (eval '(+ a b) *1) ;; pass in the env
5

In principle, any dialect could have this. I think it's just not considered that useful in the Lisp world. For one thing, compiled code may want to use an optimized representation of the environment. A compile function could take an env also, but that env would likely be copied and transformed into something else (that no longer shares bindings with the original env object).

Environments as first-class values are bit of an antithesis to the compiling of efficient lexical scopes. This is not out of ignorance; the Lisp world made that choice way back when for some good reasons. (Those reasons are neither forgotten, nor unquestioned).
I think you could get rid of capitalism and the same problems will occure just in a different format. Human nature .
Do you anticipate your company running out of money any time soon? Is it possible that your company will turn around before it does? Does it pay enough in cash (not stock) to make it financially viable to keep working there? And most importantly, do you enjoy working at your company?
But that was not the proposal. The DAO proposed that you allow the code to have it's way with your money.
That's like saying that hierarchy will always be around so being dissatisfied with it as a concept is like being dissatisfied with gravity (in feudal times). There are matters of degree. Genuinely curious: feudalism is to hierarchy as ? is to capitalism.

I think maybe some people think feudalism : hierarchy :: capitalism : markets.
Yes, for almost everything online, I prefer text: programming tutorials, the news, discussions like this on Hacker News. Imagine if each reply here had to be an uploaded video of the member talking.

For some other things, I prefer a video: how to cook something, how to repair something, how to tie a tie, an interview with a person whom I admire. Even then it can depend on my mood, and if I'm in a hurry I am like, "Oh, just cut to the chase, or put it in a one-paragraph article."
I like working there. I don't know the exact runway, but suspect it isn't too long. I think it may be hard to find another job that pays as much cash.

I kinda doubt it will turn around, but I suppose I could be wrong. How can you tell for sure?
Android on servers, like Linux? SmartOS on Arm servers would probably make a lot of sense, given that Samsung might then have a vertically integrated infrastructure: mainboard/chipset, cpu, ram, ssd and software all made by Samsung for Samsung?
The U.S. should probably restrict companies from complying with Chinese IP laws until they respect ours.
Lots of countries have their own homegrown payment processing networks with low, fixed or zero fees. (examples include EFTPOS in Australia/NZ, EC/Girocard in Germany, Dankort in Denmark). These are often co-branded with VISA/MasterCard for use online or outside of the country.
I think the Occam's Razor to this approach is that if everyone is perfectly happy with the contract then nobody would be upset when $X disappears from the DAO since it is operating as intended. The fact that people are upset clearly means the contract was presented to them with the expectation that either this cannot happen, or should it happen, they will be reimbursed.
This is the first legal argument that I've read here that actually makes sense.
> the others cannot by definition (according to legal and social norms).

Your argument could equally be used to justify criminalizing gay sex as long as it happens in a country where it's illegal and people generally don't like it. But really I'm not talking about sex but about sexuality. That's just what goes on inside people's minds. We aren't even tolerant of that. It's not a crime to be attracted to children but it's certainly ground to be abused by otherwise moral people.

I'm not comparing fish with Chinese. I'm comparing one group of humans with another. You could choose Americans and Chinese. How is it that we can ban members of one group from working for money but not the other? Of course this sounds ridiculous seen through the lens of current culture, but that's my point. We're so immersed in our culture that we can't see its hypocrisies.

We think it's wrong for employers to advertise "Irish need not apply" but today employers advertise "work permit required" and to get a work permit, you're not allowed to be Irish except for some special cases.
Looking forward to reading this! The author, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, wrote a book I really enjoyed called "Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career" — https://www.amazon.com/Make-Art-Money-Lessons-Creative-ebook.... It's full of interesting insights about Henson's approach to not only his art but also the business that enabled him to sustain it. Big fan of Borges, so hoping this is equally great.
Bullshit. Americans are doubling down on Capitalism. They're taking out way more debt in order to take a chance at "making it big" a.k.a. a middle class job and a home.
I hadn't considered it that way, so thank you for a second point of view. I had been thinking of capitalism as the 'natural state' or lack of power being applied.

My best shot: Feudalism is to hierarchy as usury is to capitalism.
Give back tens of millions of dollars for what? Karma?
StackExchange itself has one such as site: programmers.stackexchange.com. That's about programming-related questions different from StackOverflow.

There is also CS StackeExchange for those open-ended questions that are in the area of theory.

Personally, I recommend good old Usenet. comp.programming newsgroup and others.
Can someone tell me if the view in "Flash Boys: Not So Fast" is accurate on IEX? In "Flash Boys" Brad Katsuyama says some ridiculous things, showing he doesn't know how exchanges work. In fact, the entire book is basically complaining that they can't trade large blocks without changing the price.

Is IEX actually doing things in good faith or are they just playing off of people that are scared?
This legal theory, if true, destroys the DAO. Because the loophole in the contract wasn't fine print that nobody read, it was the entire premise upon which the contract was signed : The code IS the contract, and nothing else. If the contract now has to be enforced in court by human judges the entire DAO is worthless, and nobody should give it any respect whatsoever.
Or, you know, to encode the contracts in an unambiguous, verifiable language.

Nevermind, let's just use JavaScript because it has the biggest available developer base.
That's still utterly irrelevant to the article. Unless your claim is that the increased workforce participation from reduced discrimination today inherently leads to a "war on stupid people". Otherwise it's just a nitpick on a small point that doesn't detract from the article and invites off-topic comments like mine.
That's absolutely fair. I was thinking of opposition to capitalism in pretty stark terms before you brought this up. The kind of Stalinist everything is centrally planned kind of totality.
Not an excuse a study being garbage. Many fields with studies based on people are flooded with absolute crap based on researching undergrads. This is no different.

If you can't spend the effort to get any kind of reasonable sample, your work doesn't carry any weight.
The article doesn't mention "45 sales people" for Dishero, but for the previous company of their "VP of sales". Curious about the number for Dishero tho.
How so? I don't see any diminishing returns. Pay a living wage for good work, forever.
>Why do you keep using drugs and firearms in your examples?

To use examples where people can quickly grasp the law and not focus on the facts, which have a tendency to muddy the waters. But lets dive into the muddy waters:

>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."

Say Apple Pay updates their terms tomorrow and they include a new provision that says Apple or another Apple Pay member can take all the money from all your accounts connected to Apple Pay. Like everyone does you agree to the update without reading the terms, and next thing all your money is gone. Whether or not you know it even mighty Apple Execs would be facing criminal charges with that kind of activity.

As it relates to the DAO creators, I think the big question is if they knew or should have known the software was vulnerable to the extend investments might be lost. Factually I think they knew, as I understand one of the first DAO proposals after funding was investment for the creators themselves so they could create a security framework on top of the DAO from known attacks.
Agreed. I don't look at this and think "mediocre success", as they described it. I see failure.
The natural state seems like people taking from outsiders and sharing amung their inner circle. Capitalism needs a lot of outside influence to keep going.
That's not doubling down on Capitalism. That's doubling down on a jackpot economy. The two things are very different.
Can you elaborate on how QE and inflation is a direct wealth transfer from poor to rich? Do you mean that QE funds upper class purchase of assets with cheap debt versus inflation's havoc on lower income savings/purchasing power?

And isn't QE ultimately beneficial to the poor, in that it's funding labor that would otherwise go unused during a recession (for example)?
The statement "men have higher quantitative reasoning ability than women" seems to only take into account one side of the bell curve.
I'm imagining netflix's chaos monkey as king kong boarding the ship and wreaking havoc on the boat and its crew.
It is mostly complete BS. They can't even begin to stop the numerous ways that HFT and sophisticated traders can play with the market, and are putting substantial road blocks that will actually decrease liquidity and increase complexity at the exchange level for basically no reason because of reg NMS integration.
Ethereum Miners Should Fork
Interactive Optimization Examples
https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming maybe?
It's profitable to farm with LEDs in a former NJ nightclub
About a dozen
I've written a longer post about this: http://vessenes.com/point-counterpoint-ethereum-miners-shoul...
Robots, swarming drones and ‘Iron Man’: Welcome to the new arms race
J has a large number of tutorials ("labs") included in the IDE. They're fun and easy to follow.
> a known malicious actor

Isn't the entire idea of trustless systems that everyone is assumed malicious?
I may blog about it sometime.
It's impossible to tell for sure - if you could, there wouldn't be any failed startups... People would leave the moment they knew it was going to fail. You know more about your company than anyone else, and you seem to think it's going to fail.

In my opinion, you should do what makes you happy, even if that means working at a failing startup. That said, you should definitely keep your eye out for other jobs, but don't act on any job offers until you find one you think you would enjoy as much or more than your current job and pays the same or more. You don't want to be stuck out in the cold if your startup fails, but you have plenty of time to look around. Don't rush into anything.
Some of the lawyers in here are making highly dubious arguments. This is an area no one has expertise in, yet.
Free Code Camp's forums exist specifically for discussing programming-related questions - literally anything related to programming, open source, or getting a developer job: http://forum.freecodecamp.com
Is there anything like Q that is open source? J seems kind of similar.
Podcast: Is it time to get rid of the Air Force?
That is very annoying; luckily, it's possible to use %h and other variables to embed the remote host name in the file name of the key. Definitely useful to also have IdentitiesOnly set to avoid the automatic attempts, though.
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I don't know but I suspect my definition of capitalism and yours are different. From my perspective if I have a goat, and that goat has kids, and I trade you one for some seeds we have a functioning, but tiny, instance of capitalism.

I used my resources to produce more resources, you did too, and we exchanged in a way we both considered to be in our best interest (Or we wouldn't have done it).

If I'm way off base I'd love to hear.
A pub
He's not nearly talented enough.
It is very astounding to hear someone describe walking to work as a luxury.

I don't know what that says about our society.
Show HN: Decentralized Anonymous Court for TheDAO
FFS, it's on the same line of code. The variable is live for a single expression. This is style wankery at its absolute worst.
They do? Global poverty is at an all time low. Things only the 1% had 10 years ago are now in the hands of almost every single individual, information no one had access to 30 years ago is now available to everyone in milliseconds. I'd say capitalism is doing just fine.

The problem is that capitalism has been so successful that everyone feels entitled to its gains instantaneously. Because of global trade wealth can easily become concentrated because market expansion pushes up capital availability and equity of people who have it. Most people in the top echelon of wealth hold it in stocks. That's why when we have a crisis (like 2008) the wealth gap collapses.
Simple Software Defined Networking
This looks amazing. I understand the temporary nature but it would be awesome if it was up longer.
That was a genuinely enjoyable read, thanks.
I think I heard her use Nazi concentration camp guards as a metaphor to describe the potential bad behavior of employees. That was a strange talk.
As financial is a good point to consider, IMO, you should also consider more about management. How good they manage company? How fast they execute something? Are they good in doing business and have experiences you trusted?

If they're keep discussing all the time without taking real execution or they can't make conclusion fast enought. It might make sense that they will run out of cash before figured out a way to survive.
The original headline is better: How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” Of Palantir
Linux plus CP/M plus assembly equals LASM
I disagree. American society has always had something of a love-hate relationship with intelligence, and there have always been examples like _Big Bang Theory_ venerating intelligence ('Sputnik moment' and astronauts, anyone?). Intelligence correlates with success cross-culturally and over time, so that's not in question.

What is in question is the 'increasingly'; the only evidence offered, aside from anecdote, is that the returns from education have increased. This is inadequate. The research literature I'm aware of (http://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection#iqincome-bibliograph...) shows that intelligence has consistently been correlated with SES/income/occupation and it's not that clear it has been increasing at all. Particularly relevant is Strenze 2007, "Intelligence and socioeconomic success: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal research" http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intelligence-... who says:

> Several studies have investigated changes in the association between intelligence and success during past decades. Although Herrnstein and Murray concluded that “ the main point seems beyond dispute ” (1994: 52) and some studies have found support for this point ( Murnane, Willett, & Levy, 1995 ), there are still serious reasons to doubt that the importance of intelligence is or has been growing. Neither the meta-analysis by Bowles et al. (2001) nor the review by Jencks et al. (1979) found any clear trend in the correlations between intelligence and success. The same conclusion was reached by Flynn (2004) and Hauser and Huang (1997) . Breen and Goldthorpe (2001) found that the association between intelligence and occupational status in England is, if anything, declining

Strenze's own meta-analytic results using ~44 studies are on pg13 Table 2, where the correlation of intelligence with education/occupation/income over the 20th century show no clear pattern of increase or decrease:

> The influence of the third moderator variable, year of success (i.e., year of the measurement of success), is analyzed in the third section of Table 2 . Year of success ranges from 1929 to 2003 in the present meta-analysis. Judging by the sample size weighted corrected correlations ( p ), there appears to be no historical trend for any one of the moderator variables: correlations with education and occupation remain more or less stable throughout the period under study; correlations with income fluctuate more but without any obvious direction. Quite surprisingly, if unweighted and uncorrected correlations ( r ) are observed instead, then the correlations with education and occupation exhibit a declining trend.

So, if American society 'increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth' and 'as recently as the 1950s, possessing only middling intelligence was not likely to severely limit your life’s trajectory', why are the more intelligent, if anything, less likely to be successful when we go from 1920 to 2000?
Streak (YC S11) is hiring a back-end tech lead – build autopilot for salespeople
That's every cryptocurrency ever though.
Pieter Hintjens GitHub contribution history (pacman art)