skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intuitively I think what's happening is we got that productivity bump around 2000 when most jobs incorporated computers, but we haven't figured out how to actually make people better.

Computers have made it easier to compose and share and read writing, but it's still just as hard as it ever was to go from brain to keyboard and from screen to brain. Computers haven't done anything to reduce the mental effort of understanding what other people are thinking.

So what's happening is we're using computers to help with all the non-thinking stuff. We got a bump when we grabbed the low hanging fruit (spreadsheets, networks, email), but we're seeing diminishing returns on everything else (chat, entertainment, portability). Computers helped to increase productivity when they replaced manual labor, like how electronic spreadsheets replaced literal giant sheets of graph paper marked up with pencil and eraser by people wearing long rubber gloves. They don't increase productivity when they warn us about a pothole in the road ahead.

Everything that people added to the world was the result of thinking and computers have only gone so far towards helping with that.
The attackers claim (assuming that's who wrote the message) that he merely took advantage of the contract as written is at first reading a plausible one. To change a contract after it has been written and executed and to try to 'undo' a done deal based on actions the contract and its context fairly explicitly ruled out prior to the execution would seem to me to be against both the letter and the spirit of the contract.

I get why everybody is upset, but this was pretty much bound to happen. Security of this kind is an all-or-nothing item, you have to get it 100% right or it might just as well not happen at all. So all this backpedaling and fixing does absolutely nothing in my view to strengthen the concept.

The only way forward would be to declare this version a total loss and to do a reboot with a better core and then to see how long that one will stand up.

Rinse and repeat until one really stands (by then confidence will likely be quite low) and accept that it could still go down at any point in the future.

A bit like the Monty Python sketch about the castle built on swampland.

Anything less will not do, either the contract is all there is or it is pointless.
50 million Internet dollars. He needs to sell them for real dollars, I believe.
My opinion on the issue is in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927994

I don't see your point. Maybe not exactly a strawman, but certainly a false dichotomy

I also believe that those who think not being charitable is immoral and shortsighted should be actually helping instead of commenting on news items
They are hoping that refusing funding will put pressure on the EU to change its harsh stances. I don't think it'll be that effective but that's what they're going for. Yes, in the short term they will suffer for funding.
Then display both the price, plus all the applicable taxes upfront.
Has Uber really reduced the number of jobs for taxi drivers? If that were the case, then it would mean the average number of medallioned taxis in service (either carrying a passenger, or driving around looking for a passenger) has gone down. Is there any evidence that this is the case? Or is it just that medallion owners get a lower cut from taxi revenues now?
I'm surprised the discussion isn't focused on the 3% fee, it's almost not discussed. Think about that, that's 3% of all retail transactions for electronic processing. And their not even liable for charge backs, that's paid by the vendor.

Another thing to realize, most credit cards have some kind of reward program that amounts to about a 1% payout. That's coming out of the transaction fees, which if you do the math is actually being paid for by the merchant. If the fees were 2% there would no longer be rewards programs. I find that interesting. The retail world is being taxed to pay the credit xard reward programs of their customers. Makes you think a bit doesn't it ;)
Except when it's 100%, then everyone universally agrees that that represents indentured servitude, or outright slavery.
Please, god, no. What are we maximizing across, clickability or contribution to civil political discourse?
Say you are a non-profit that helps drug addicts, should you take money from drug dealers?
Ready and with $50M to defend himself?

I have no idea how you get actual money out of it, but if he does get it, that's a lot of money for lawyers...
> If they want they can get what we have in their own country, they need to make that possible though.

Oh trust me, they're trying. Western imperialism and colonialism has a habit of getting in the way though.
France also has a very bad track record in the Maghreb and lots of people who lived under French rule or lost people in their parents' generation are still alive. Given that France did not do much to make up for that, it is understandable that there still is a lot of hatred and they thus are an easy target. Concentrating a large, poor and badly educated 1st and 2nd generation of immigrants from those countries in neglected suburbs also did not help....
A fork doesn't deprive the hacker of anything. In a fork scenario, the hacker keeps 100% of the Ether he obtained, without interference. Every smart contract has been honored in full. It's just that everyone else has decided to start using a new cryptocurrency.
A lot of the rapid shift in migration policy has been caused by the increasing prevalence of the view that a lot of refugees will never fit into "polite society". Reference the various sexual assaults across European countries by roving gangs of young men used to very different cultural mores who aren't assimilating culturally.

If the choice comes down to protecting refugees or protecting your own society and the more vulnerable people within it, and that's what it's looking like to a lot of people, then your choice becomes obvious.
2.4x sounds incredible to me. I can't hear most lecturers at a speed faster than 1.6x.
> Allowing them to choose which country they want to go to will end up burdening the richer European countries as they will undoubtedly be the final destination for most migrants.

Fortunately those richer countries are better equipped to handle that burden (because they are rich).

This is a complex problem and I really do not have any 5 minute solutions (I wish), but processing taking long seems to me a problem that is mostly caused by the receiving countries, not by the refugees.
Yep. Human brains are made to see faces in clouds - and patterns everywhere. Because its the only way for that little brain to function. In reality nothing is the same unless it's identical (not a copy - but the exact same thing, maybe seen from different angles or at different times). We like our clever analogies, and they serve a purpose, but even when making them it's best to be aware that it's a product of our brain and to always be ready to question if it actually serves the intended purpose. Even if you can use a specific analogy in one context doesn't mean it's useful in another one. I think it's okay to make such analogies - as long as everybody including the person making them is aware of the shortcomings and that being able to make one is a very, very low threshold, given that it comes from brains that see animals and human faces in floating water vapor.
That's one (perfectly valid) way of looking at it.

An (IMO equally valid) way of looking at it is that the EU is not 'the enemy' but rather someone you hoped was your ally. But now they're acting against your mission, in a way you feel is unacceptable. They've changed and you can no longer stand with them. In that situation, disassociating from them (with no regard for the tactics) is a sign of integrity.
You might enjoy the SELinux Coloring Book then, https://github.com/mairin/selinux-coloring-book
That's the thing though, how many android phones are on mashmellow? A very small percentage.
There is a proof of concept that attempts to allow Crystal extensions for Ruby: https://github.com/manastech/crystal_ruby

That said, it's just a proof of concept. It'll probably be a while before it becomes robust enough for regular users.
Well, the attacker is welcome to try to get a UK court to injunct me against adopting a fork. How far do you think he'll get with that?
I don't know if you can call the easiest to crack DRM scheme out there "good".
There seems like a pretty obvious distinction here. Sports brings people together because it's something we can all understand quite easily and it's entertaining. Actors do the same thing. As do musicians. Nerds help improve our lives but do you expect wall-to-wall TV coverage of someone coding the latest app? Most viewers wouldn't be able to understand what's going on and even for most coders it wouldn't be entertaining. When it comes to the awards you've mentioned - they're setup by the very organisations the winners work for. It's not like the world is recognising someone for an achievement. It's their employers and colleagues.
> it sometimes surprises me how few of the "non literary scholar" crowd have read his works

He's long been seen as compromised because of his collaboration with the Argentinian dictatorship, and sort of swept under the carpet a bit. The more times passes, the more he's judged (and hence taught and promoted) on his works rather than his political choices.

I love him, although sometimes you really need context to appreciate his work... like his continuous use of literary references that are half-real and half-fiction, or his love of an Argentinian "far west" of old that is pretty unknown outside South America.
signature fails to validate here:

$ helpeth verifySig 0xaf9e302a664122389d17ee0fa4394d0c24c33236143c1f26faed97ebbd017d0e 0x5f91152a2382b4acfdbfe8ad3c6c8cde45f73f6147d39b072c81637fe81006061603908f692dc15a1b6ead217785cf5e07fb496708d129645f3370a28922136a32
Message hash (keccak): 0xaf9e302a664122389d17ee0fa4394d0c24c33236143c1f26faed97ebbd017d0e

node_modules/helpeth/node_modules/ethereumjs-util/index.js:403
throw new Error('Invalid signature v value')
Many legitimate companies take advantage of poorly written contracts for monetary gain. The terms state the DAO's code is the contract. It's just as if he was a lawyer or analyst, who did his due diligence, carefully reading the contract and finding a (legal) loophole. English may be imprecise, and a paper contract could be challenged in a courtroom, but with smart contracts, there is no need for a court, since the contracts are governed by the laws of physics (the VM).

When the stakes are real and consequences real, more money and smart people will be attracted to the platform, and over time smart contracts will become more robust. Without real consequences, what is the incentive to participate if the rules can change when they don’t always go in your favor?
The vast majority of refugees aren't committing sexual assault. If you care about reducing sexual assault, supporting domestic violence shelters and education (e.g. programs like http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/prevent...) would be much more effective than reducing immigration. Most sexual assault occurs between people who already know one another, not random foreign strangers.
I know a few people who still do "box moving jobs", and who are on good pay. But like you point out, I can't see it lasting.
Why is the EU the only responsible for refugees? Why not other states? Why not Russia, the Gulf states, Japan or the United States? It is getting tiring the bashing against the EU.

The EU is getting refugees at the rate it deems convenient, if some other state is worried about the situation in Syria please take refugees, but please stop labeling the EU as evil.
I'm curious where one could actually place this volume of short sales on ETH if true.
I visited the region (eastern Sichuan, Tibetan plateau) in 2006, and played counterstrike and diablo 2 against monks at the local internet cafe. Very surreal, getting shot in the head by a monk.
> Boo-hoo. I live in Sweden. We have taken in huge numbers of people.

The difference between being charitable and naive is a thin one.

> Sweden is also far from becoming like Syria.

Let's hope so. And while I agree most of the "news" on the Internet about Sweden are crap, Sweden has an important gender imbalance and increasing problems with violence

Also nobody speaks anything and pretends it doesn't happen because "it's racist". Like: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/11/swedish-police...

> then most of the other EU countries fall far short of the limit you are concerned about

Portugal and Spain are looking for more people but it doesn't seem anybody wants to go there.
>> "Fortunately those richer countries are better equipped to handle that burden (because they are rich)."

I agree, but if you let people choose where they want to go and they mostly pick one of the rich countries it'll become unsustainable for them too which is why I think an even spread across the EU with countries taking in a share based on their wealth would work best.

>> "processing taking long seems to me a problem that is mostly caused by the receiving countries, not by the refugees."

True, I think the bureaucracy around it is a big issue. Refugees are probably lacking in a lot of documentation though (for obvious reasons) which can't help. That seems like something that should be common and obvious enough to authorities though that they can find other ways to verify identity etc.
I don't quite understand the page, but the costs to enter are so high!
At least in the US, you'll want to be careful with these views as an employer or manager. At least some cases of depression will be classified as a disability under the ADA, leaving your company open to a discrimination lawsuit if you make employment decisions based on it.

(I've read the ADA, but I'm not a lawyer -- this advice could be completely wrong in practice)
And yet MSF was founded in France.

Oh the irony. It hurts.
Yes, because it is my heritage. My family history made it happen, and many families around us. I am a child of my mother and not a random baby thrown on a random spot on earth, I carry the burden of maintaining or improving the quality of life for my kids.
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Doesn't mean that I do not wish that everyone in this world can have what I have, and I support helping others.
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There are ways to come here and join our culture, enrich yourself etc. It does require work though, and if you are not willing to do that then what are you really doing for yourself?
Most male student there, can get a scholarship from the school, about 200-500 USD per month.
Exchanges deal with a great amount of volume.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EthereumWiki/status/7439059896828...
You could say literally the same thing about wealth. Are you saying people are not entitled to their wealth just because they happened to be born into it?
This whole ordeal has made me look at cryto currencies in a less optimistic way I guess, it's all Utopian this Utopian that, freedom freedom this that, until people realise that in the real world things are not as perfect as they imagine.
Thanks to your comment I just tried out Asciidoctor and 'it's absolutely beautiful. It's insanely easy to install on OSX/Linux systems. I can see myself using on some of my pet projects.
That isn't seeing value in PHP. That is stating that he values things other than language enough to use something he finds terrible.
All of them? Who else has broken almost like typeclasses other than scala?
The prestige angle is really important as a factor in why people go to law school.

I know parents who have worked every hour God gives so their son or daughter can be a lawyer - they see it as a route for their kids into the middle class. It's a shame, I feel the legal education system is benefiting from their ignorance of how bad it is out there for graduating lawyers.
> The vast majority of refugees...

Having met many refugees I can say this is absolutely true. The vast majority are lovely people.
If you feel that way, why not also let everyone know the profit margin as well, and put that separately on the tab? So everyone can know how much profit goes to the business owner?

These things are politically motivated, and do not serve the consumer, who simply has to pay the full cost of doing business.
It doesn't matter, if that what's required the DAO is dead. After all, if it needs the courts then one of the major principles of it appears to be broken beyond repair. Which may have been the whole point of the attack.
It sounds good, but I say as an Air Force vet, it's not going to happen. The military rewards loyalty over everything else. The only way to get it to tolerate the failure inherent in experimentation is to go to war.
While it's sad and I'm tempted to cry human rights, try building anything like that in UK or probably most developed countries without planning permission and they'd be straight on you.
Incentivizing companies to resist automation seems like a terrible idea that would make everyone poorer, including the "less brainy"
Austrian and Danish people may freely enter Germany under the Schengen Agreement.

If you are referring to refugees who enter through those two countries, you are ignoring that these countries are also not initial ports of entry into the Schengen Area.

But I generally refuse to follow that line of argumentation: Having the initial ports of entry bear the responsibility for all new refugees is only a fair thing when you are not one of them. Neither Greece nor Italy have the capacity and as long as we are playing hardball international politics in the countries refugees come from, we have to take responsibility for the results of our actions.
Ah - so the only countries that should be expected to take refugees should be those immediately sharing a border with them, right?
OP here, I forgot to mention that I also have an RHCSA and ISTQB foundation level certificates. I am aiming for RHCE in 2 years when the RHCSA would expire anyway. I also have practical experience with linux, virtualization, small enterprise in-house solutions. Though this is not on my resume, as I do it on the side and not in my current employment.

Do you believe this to be insufficient? What would tie the room together in your opinion? Do you reckon that applying for remote work in the US and other Anglophone territories would be more successful? My ultimate goal is to move in 2-3 years, and I am more than willing to put work into my portfolio.
The EU is the closet first world region. And they are signers to the convention.

Arab world is helping...havent you heard about the huge refugee camps in Jordan?
What do you think the thousands of engineers that work on these products are doing? You realise that there's a lot more to these products than the web interface?
the hashrate chart.... ? the recently mined blocks perhaps?

what they wrote was only BARELY hyperbole, barely.
Personally I don't think they are entitled to it but my point was that the reason they have it is through luck of being born into it.
I think that is pretty obviously what he is saying.
I'd substitute 'wealth' for 'intelligence', and it goes much further than just American society.
I don't it's fixed, I find the last image to be the same as the 10th.
I think the argument is that the price to the consumer doesn't change yet consumers changed their habits anyway.
The west is not guilt-free, but it is not at fault for everything. If that were the case we would have seen great improvement after the western colonies didn't get in their way. (or are we in the way of their great victory in killing all others?)
You're stopping just short of claiming genetic superiority here.
Profit margin is a private personal manner of the business owners, and sales tax is a matter of public records and government law.
Their infighting does not help either. If they were united as a people it wouldn't be so easy to outsiders to meddle in their affairs.
Like raldi says the bit about walking on water is what would cause the double-take, but have an upvote for your healthy skepticism which I always appreciate.
Yes, wording can be twisted. But the other side can mount the legal argument that this was not the meaning of the original contract. From http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/trialevide...

Strict construction might be the appropriate
approach if we lived in a society where language
was so formal, standardized, and known that every
contracting party would use precisely the same
words to describe an agreement.
Sending money is not a viable long term solution. You must let them move to where they can make money themselves.
Market leaders ? not really. They beat the competition with the oldest trick. They offered a good enough product for the cheapest price (ehm ehm for free).

I do not think these products should be free or offered at the expense of my privacy. Sadly most of the people do not feel that way.

Google is in many ways a cancer on the market (anyways most of the big companies that do it the same are like that).
FB:NSF? I get the abbreviations, but honestly i'm having a hard time deciphering this one.

Flash Boys: NSF? Please elucidate.
And the only reason you are part of that family is luck. A Syrian refugee didn't choose to be born in Syria at a time when they would have to face civil war at some stage in their life. I think if the tables were turned are you had to flee to Syria your opinion would be vastly different.
Anecdote, so place as much weight on this as you wish.

I was working in a Starbucks in North London and sat next to a businessman. He started advising his wife/fiancee's distant family members on the phone who had travelled to Greece.

He gave them detailed instructions to (1) destroy their passports and forms of ID, (2) claim to be Syrian refugees fleeing from a war-zone and spend a couple of days rehearsing their stories.

He also gave them useful advice about the pros and cons of different country's refugee processing systems.

There are obviously many migrants genuinely fleeing war-zones (and it is understandable that many others wish to escape oppression/ poor economic situations) but self reported origins + reasons should be taken with a pinch of salt. Many applicants know that claiming to be from war-torn Syria guarantees a successful asylum application due to the Geneva Convention, whilst admitting being an Afghan economic migrant complicates things.
You are probably right, people are dying in their thousands to cross the med because they want some more cash ...
You know all the empty cities that China has built to keep people busy and their economy from collapsing?

I keep thinking the EU and middle-eastern countries should pay China to house immigrants there.

Better than a horrible refuge camp?
Oracle seems to disagree:

http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-google-generated-42-bi...

But while we can't take Oracle's statements at face value, how do you know Android isn't making Google money? It's also likely that without Android, Google's revenues would've declined a lot faster.

Even if say people would've still used Adsense/Admob on iOS or other mobile operating systems, look what Apple did - it allowed adblockers on its platform. Google doesn't allow them and Chrome, which is the dominant browser on Android doesn't support extensions, so no adblock there either.
Your account has been active for 5 years. You should be aware that racism and non-constructive comments are not really acceptable here.
Japp, troll.
Big Data Comes to Game of Thrones
So you agree that most of the EU countries are not near the limits that you are worried about, yes?

Then why aren't they taking more refugees?
Pentagon-sanctioned hackers home in on 138 security gaps
Of course not. But when you have "refugees" demanding to be allocated in a safe country and not another safe country then you can't help but question their status as a refugee (i.e. someone seeking safety).

http://news.sky.com/story/1557225/refugee-its-germany-or-not...