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Is there really an attacker and stolen funds though?

I mean, the contract executed exactly as specified.

If the system was well designed, there would be no way to undo the results. Such a system may never exist, but the fact that ethereum can sometimes change contract results means it isn't living up to its ideals.
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I give away as much of it as possible. Mostly to random strangers, but also to friends, work and home neighbors, and some to other customers who may have a use. There are times product gets thrown out, too. Unfortunately, local food banks and shelters don't accept products like I make.
I'm really happy to hear about this. I hope this model becomes widespread and standard practice.
Most vimeo videos nowadays are sent in html5 video tags. If you're reading HN, you're probably pretty comfortable in chrome's console. Just find the video element and adjust the `playbackSpeed` variable (default 1).
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So who gets to decide that it's sexist? Anyone who feels that it is? If thats the case, I think that assuming its sexist is itself sexist, and now we're in the same boat. I'm sure if someone took offense and mentioned it to the investor he would've apologized. There's no need to turn it into some kind of political campaign and publicly mock the guy.
Why I think TheDAO is a Success
Tell that to someone suffering from IBS.
> It is unusual for a police officer to incriminate himself.

I don't know how the system works, but from what I have learnt from TV & movies, I guess took the deal to confess, in exchange for a lighter sentence.

> If Hicks hadn't incriminated himself, it sounds like there was no evidence to support Blacks claims.

We already know Black was locked up, bruised, and who his arresting officers were. I seriously doubt if Hicks testified out of the goodness of his heart.
I remember reading that the creators of the ARC format sued Phil Katz for essentially taking their original source code and rebranding it PKARC (with assembly optimizations). They claim [1] that Katz did essentially the same thing with PKZIP.

Can anyone verify these claims? I always thought it was an injustice that the original authors were treated poorly by the BBS community and treated like a big company despite just being run from home.

[1] http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html
That's a great read. I'm flabbergasted that founders don't model their expected finances. I mean, Jesus, what are they thinking? How, then, do they make decisions?

Even if the model turns out to be grossly incorrect at least you get some idea of critical factors and milestones. And, it's fun! So you update it regularly. Here we are nearing the end of Q2....
Possibly more bad questions could be closed but more importantly SO could learn to stop trying to close good questions because of technicalities.

I guess this would take a massive effort and would have to include a rewrite of the rules if SO.
Talking about UFOs strictly as such is besides the point and dodging the audacity of the claim.

This conversation is about aliens. Until evidence arises of aliens, not "unidentified flying objects", it has no business making it through peer review as a resolution of the Fermi paradox.
I so rarely get to learn new words that I've never once encountered before, but this piece had one. "Prostapheresis"

Apparently it's an archaic trigonometric method for approximate multiplication and division.
Digital currencies enable me to send $10 across the globe for less than a penny and Visa charges $0.30 - I have a hard time imagining a future where the system allows for such a large inefficient gap to remain for long.

Not saying that current digital currencies (bitcoin, etc) will replace Visa. Just that they show that this problem doesn't cost 3% of the transaction to solve.
This is one of those situations where having worked a retail job in your life can really impart some wisdom into you. Retailers often give their minimum-wage grunts this song and dance about "family" and "performance tiers" and all that- and the grunts will tell you that it takes a couple years for some people to internalize that it's all a scam to make you work harder for minimum wage.

Your employer will not take care of you. It is your job as an employee to make sure they meet you halfway.
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Url changed from http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-17/blockchain..., which points to this, which is arguably a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921900, but if people want to discuss it separately we'll leave it up.
It does have many German words.

Edit: But obviously this is still a small mistake by whoever wrote the "in the original" note.
It explains the reasons why the community should not do this. Also the community has generally updated and followed whatever the "leadership" has done so far and for good reason.

If the "leadership" decides to go this way as it appears they do, the community will likely follow them as they have done in the past.

This is a big test for Ethereum. The DAO holders were warned clearly about these kind of issues before hand, yet some sort of collective mania made very smart people go deaf.
One would expect at least a dozen browzer plugins which change these speeds. Ive never encountered the need - i run a slow netbook and never load the videos and I run a fast-ish laptop and occasionally am prepared to load videos.
There's nothing preventing a contract from adding fallback modes that require interaction from human agents. Indeed, most of the more high-assurance contracts will probably require this.
I'm certainly not an expert on crypto currencies, perhaps bailout isn't the best word to describe a hard fork -- but neither is a bank robbery. If these new currencies are to gain the trust of those that use them, the use of an extreme event like a hard fork must be taken off the table. I understand it means there will be winners and losers but there is no magic "reset" button in life when something unpleasant happens, all we can do is correct it the best we can and move on.
Etherium just had its busiest day of trading ever and is down 25%.
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As FB has removed and reduced features, including messaging from their mobile web app, I've been using them ever less... I'm not sure they aren't alienating as many people as they're actively engaging, and in the effort to keep the new millenials, they're pushing everyone else away.
This is an interesting article about later additions to the quest to measure light's speed: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/speed-light-galilean-...
Where does the lMyQjAxMTA2NzEyNzAxNDc5Wj come from?
Consignment and second hand stores have been around for well over a dozen years.
> I feel like these founders just want to start something... anything...

Wantrepreneurship... I've been there too. Taking some time off is definitely the best cure but $1.8M in the bank is very tempting to keep diving into anything as long as you can keep deluding yourself you're working on the next big thing.
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I think they rely a lot on users reporting channels that are viewbotting. It is usually pretty easy to spot even for a human. You'll notice a channel that is for some reason pretty popular despite being some unknown person. You go check out the streamer and often times in these cases there is very little activity going on in the channel itself. Not many people chatting. This is odd if a stream had a lot of viewers.

It is hard to punish a channel for viewbotting though because you usually can't prove they hired the company to view bot for them. Because someone else could easily try to get a channel in trouble that way by view botting someone else.
It's arguable whether Etherium is a cult. The DAO is definitely a cult, with a cult leader.
Not sure why the downvote.

Unfortunately I'm too lazy to find it, but there was a post on Medium discussing this exact question.

The reality is that the DAO was governed by the smart contract. Period. That was a very deliberate choice on the part of those who organized its genesis.

Unfortunately, the smart contract they wrote contained a bug which allowed for the ether tied up in the DAO to be taken.

If the smart contract is the contract that defines the rules by which ether in the DAO may be used, then the hacker didn't do anything illegal... they simply exploited a loophole in the contract, something that people have been doing for as long as contracts have existed.
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As someone with Crohn's, I've wanted to try this since I heard about it. The problem is, with medication, my disease has been in remission for quite a while, with only an occasional flare up. So I feel no reason to mess with it.
I have to admit, I share some of the author's smugness.

The world is very, very complex.

That is why the law is very, very complex. It covers everything humans do, have done, or will do. Alone, together, in small groups or large groups. As private individuals or public bodies. With real objects or imaginary objects. In their homes, on the street, in public buildings, in private parks. On the ground, under the ground, on the water, under the water, in the air, in orbit, out to the limits of human space.

Every day people come to the courts with potentially totally novel combinations of people and events, and the courts guarantee they will make a decision.

The courts have been doing this for nearly a thousand years and are still chugging along solving new problems. This should indicate that this is not a permanently solvable problem. The law is an adaptive, dynamic system.

All of this is why, as a software engineer who once studied (and mercifully quit) law, I am sometimes bemused by the idea that bodies of law can be ignored or swept away by code.

The law doesn't see it that way and in this game, the law gets the final move.
Interesting! Do you face resistance from customers not wanting someone "else" to access their servers as root like that! How do you deal with it?

Can you share some tips on attracting new customers? the marketing aspect
Operation Aurora was motivated, at least in part, by US government spying on individual Chinese citizens.

The US does seem to care about surveillance and spying on its population.

In foreign policy and intelligence circles, surveillance of populations is referred to as "strategic listening". It allows nations to measure the effects of their propaganda on internal political movements of target countries. In the DoD, these same databases are also used in pilot programmes (MINERVA, etc) to study how propaganda can be used to stabilize and destabilize populations. It's likely the Chinese have similar research.

Furthermore, many of the individuals surveilled evolve roles of significance. During the US operation to create mass protest in Cuba (Zunzuneo) by setting up fake online social media companies, they gathered huge amounts of information on the individual citizens they were trying to radicalize.

The reason for this was because these individuals, if successful in overthrowing or altering the political structure in Cuba, become interesting targets in their own right - and now intelligence and profiling work on these new power brokers is partially complete.

We can see that China had hacked the US security clearance databases. This not only contains lists of people with access to critical systems and information - but also has compiled risks of leverage those individuals may face from adversaries (debt, extramarital engagement, etc).
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i have never read something so entertaining and enlightening!! Thank you for that.
Time to reread "Mirrorshades".

The street finds its own uses for everything.
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Yeah, I think there would need to at the very least be some sort of artificial general intelligence capable of applying the existing body of law to new situations. I.e. able to take penumbral cases and work them out in a way we would consider reasonable, which isn't going to happen any time soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penumbra_(law)
> The non-aggression principle is a central tenet in ancap philosophy which would preclude violence in most cases, however, it is permitted in self defense of ones person or property.

What if someone disagrees with the non-agression principle or uses a very liberal definition of "self defense"? If I'm the only one who is permitted to use violence to defend myself, does this mean I have to carry a weapon with me at all times (and hope the other one doesn't have a bigger gun/has hired the more expensive security force)?
Presumably he meant a specific prediction like "Greenwich will be permanently flooded by 2025" ?
And where do you think the money for the insurance will come from?
The police is funded via public money, malpractice insurance is one of the major causes why US healthcare is so expensive.
Police officers are already paid very low wages compared to what they risk, they already fail to attract high quality individuals as federal law enforcement is usually where you end up if you are both willing to serve and qualified forcing individual officers to carry insurance that can cost them 1000's each year won't help that, and even if it would happen the police unions would just bake it into mandatory raises.
Police should be held accountable for their action by the courts not by the insurance companies.
> "Only short programs have any hope of being correct"

Right, but I would not minimize the number of bytes in a program, but rather the number of nodes in AST: http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html

Here's an exercise: parse your favorite APL program into an AST, and see how many nodes it has.
You've probably thought of this but -- sample it to the next restaurant you drive past who looks like they could sell it? Back of house is always hungry, so you just need to make sure the manager or chef actually gets one, along with your business card.
Shouldn't there be a lower cost way to figure out WTP, CAC, churn rate, customer purchase journey map, etc. etc. before starting a company and having a large-ish sales/marketing team?
I'm not convinced by that argument (though I've heard it before).

This strikes me as assuming the births are planned, whereas I don't see how they possibly could be.

Enriching these countries is certainly part of the solution, but controlling population is part of the solution towards enriching them in the first place.
Developers are cheap in that they won't pay for something themselves if they have a remotely functional workaround. Development teams, however, are much less frugal about spending their employer's money to save them time and pain, and it's pretty easy to get management to sign off on purchasing something that will save their developers time, pain, or just plain make them happier.
Many of the backdoors are written into the constants and constructions of the algorithms themselves in undiscoverable ways. Constants that embed groups inside of weaker groups, multivariate systems that under certain transformations leak keying material, asymmetric transformations for which the standards body creators hold private keys, etc.

Legal compulsion of companies to keep plaintext is just one backdoor pursued.
This article borrows heavily from an article that Graydon Hoare (founder of the Rust programming language) posted a couple years ago - http://graydon.livejournal.com/196162.html
Many founders have never had to do anything remotely like running a business. Particularly when they started the company more to build something they wish existed than to make crazy amounts of money.
I've taken US credit cards to Europe (and soon Australia) and yes, they're noticeably faster there, even with the insert + PIN process.
Although technically in the criminal code, 18 U.S.C. §1030(g) allows a civil cause of action.
I work with TypeScript fairly closely and was surprised at your example, because I was sure that this already works. It turns out the type narrowing is actually special-cased on only some particular AST. You can see it working here, where "charAt" would not be allowed if it was still |SomeInterface:

http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=interface%20SomeInte...
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Nice idea. Headline message is a bit confusing. Perhaps it should be:

"Need to hire techies? We can help. Our interviewers are experienced in interviewing technical candidates. We'll make sure you only hire the best engineers."
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no semantic markup? nothing like going back to seeing style classes in markup.. ><
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Which brings up that immortal saying:

"With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
SinglePlatform did _exactly_ what this business did (centralized menu mgmt), but was profitable and sold for $100million.
My favorite is how quick Bootlicker Tual showed us all he doesn't give a shit about the principles he's been pumping to sell ethereum and THE
This is a naive solution. Try using that on windows.
in Thomas' dissent in that case, he states that the decision means that the commerce clause invalidates the 10th amendment, which is huge.
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Author here. I'm "smug" in the sense that I've made all of the mistakes of the DAO folks and many more beside. One of them was optimistically assuming that many more things could be done in an extralegal context than actually turned out to be feasible.

See for example this "smug" post that I was (correctly) critiqued for 868 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155644

Note the comment here re: "this guy does not understand how the world actually works": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155872

With the updated forced learning curve on the legal system actually works over the last two years I've learn that a lot o what I previously viewed as cruft in the legal system is actually the complex adjudication of edge cases similar to what we see in well architected and executed software tests.

Missed div by zero can bring your whole system down. Forgetting the right clause in a contract can in a multi-million dollar deal as well.
I dont know what TV editing workflow is like, but 25h doesn't seem outrageous to me. I would budget 2h of edit/mix per song when producing an album. I'm sure there are many who spend way more than that.
Not at all. Can you tell me which part made it come off that way? I'd like to edit it.
I have thought of it. Still, thank you for the good suggestion. The reason I don't do it is logistical: until I'm in a larger facility I have limitations on production, and I make certain I don't create insurmountable complications on my end for supplying my customers.

>Back of house is always hungry....

True, but maybe even more potentially valuable is that getting to eat something other than what they usually eat makes the "new" product seem even better. This was learned as we often give away products to the food establishments where we pick up our lunch.
only if stare decisis means nothing to them.
The GNU Coding Standards document has some advice on exactly this:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manual...
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> Actually, a bug was exploited.

That's called a loophole in a contract, and folks exploit those all the time.

You're on the receiving end, which sucks, but based on the rules of the DAO, you have no recourse.

The entire presupposition, when putting money into this thing, was that the code was the contract. Period.

If you failed to audit the code to find the loophole, you signed on to a financial arrangement without fully understanding the nature of the contract.

If you don't feel you're qualified to evaluate the terms of the contract, maybe we've just discovered a reason why "smart contracts" aren't such a great idea after all...
What are they trying to get at here? A bit too subtle for me.
Sadly, you missed the pun
> according to the DAO’s own legal contract

Why does it even matter what's on the DAO's website? They don't control the DAO, and you don't need to have gone through the DAO website to have invested in the original offering or in the spot market afterwards. What legal force would their website have anyway?
As far as I understood it though, ancap wouldn't forbid any of the corporations that did profit from the war. (Or, in fact couldn't forbid it as this is the whole point). So what would prevent those corporations from engaging in the same war propaganda that the states did?
>to fully vet their candidates and only promote them to companies who are a good fit. It seems that finding one of these could be a win-win. Just like on the hiring side, I don't want to waste time dealing with carpet-bombers.

"fit" is in the eyes of beholder. Hiring these days seems to be very capricious in nature, basically a domain of chance like a roulette, and thus it is subject to the same statistical approach of carpet bombing of every possible wall with spaghetti, i.e making the highest number of lowest cost bets.
So how does slack, square and shopify do it with their SMB products?
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"DAO, I closely read your contract and agreed to execute the clause where I can withdraw eth repeatedly and only be charged for my initial withdraw.

Thank you for the $70 million. Let me know if you draw up any other contracts I can participate in.

Regards, 0x304a554a310c7e546dfe434669c62820b7d83490"
If TheDAO is a success, what would a failed DAO look like?
Can Twitch force the defendants to give out information about it's customers?
I'm likely going to be a software engineer after graduating next year with a degree in math, cs, and economics, but I am also vaguely considering going into law (whatever that means, I don't really know) could you share why you say mercifully and what drew you away from it please?
Or you can ask the cabby if he has a USB port in the car. I always charge on the road.
For those looking to know more about how the DAO will actually interact with the 'real world', I'd suggest reading the Bloomberg link too -- Matt Levine is an excellent writer with a history on Wall St. as an M&A lawyer and an I-Banker, so he definitely knows what he's talking about.
Url changed from http://www.vg247.com/2016/06/17/valve-offers-vr-developers-f..., which points to http://www.pcgamesn.com/valve-vr-funding, which points to this. The latter article seems to have the clearest title so we took that.
I think it makes sense for there to be a police malpractice insurance that's priced at a per officer basis. However more decorated officers with more experience, training and less wrongdoing in their career should be insured at a significantly lower cost. This would provide a financial incentive for police stations to be more stringent in terms of recruitment.
Excellent, you're a great example of how this stuff should work!