skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One that didn't teach us anything.
The problem with the Gretzky quote in this context is that in hockey, you don't lose points for missed shots.
> nearly a thousand years

I'd guess because it's the approximate age of the recorded English common law, which is the main basis of the American legal tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_law#Common_law

(not that that is the first court or legal system in human history)
Agency is such a ridiculous argument that's been used to promote exploitation for ages. Black people just choose to participate in sharecropping, Chinese women just choose to bind their feet, women just choose to be prostitutes who get murdered at 4 times the rate of the next most dangerous jobs. It's only in retrospect that we view these as atrocities

And to pretend that this is some vacuum that athletes are making this decision in is ridiculous. Allowing steroids in competition means that you have to use steroids to compete. Were you capable of making these types of decisions as a child? Do we allow children to harm themselves or do we condemn it? Should we allow adults to do this when there is a very clear external factor that motivates them?
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Stumbled After Secret Truce with Investor
If it's at all useful, here's the polygons for all the countries as of last January: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daveross/offline-country-r...

Could be handy as some sort of fallback when one of your providers isn't available. That repo has the code to reverse geocode from a lat/long combo.
Darwinistic Pressure in the Land of Cryptocurrency
As someone running a bootstrapped small business that lives and dies on cashflow while we try to reach larger success that statement struck me as crazy.

It would be fun to spend some time working in a venture backed company since it's so different from the reality I operate in currently.
I appreciate your effort and sentiment, but it would be nice if the awful eyesores of ads were not plastered all over the page.
Thanks for the reviews, that's quite helpful. I'm taking Andrew Ng's course again, and really enjoying it. I understood most of it the first time, but having linear algebra and calculus is a huge help this time around.
Is it just me, or would this going to court would be the worst case scenario for Ethereum?

I mean, if the "hacker" wins, then it shows how impractically dangerous "code as contract" can be - you better be damn sure it's correct.

And if the "hacker" loses, it invalidates code as contract completely. The DAO claimed the code, and only the code matters. But what the DAO claims doesn't mean shit if courts say that is not true. Your whole idea is now just bullshit.
Sacrilege! Pamplemousse forever.
Until now publishing content has had limitations.

Now anyone can publish as much content as they want, however irrelevant, and that is becoming a problem: proliferation of irrelevant content (irrelevant from the perspective of the reader).

So I think the next challenge is to just be able keep content concise, relevant and affine to your interests. Twitter took a stab at that, but it's not there yet.

Having a machine to filter and produce summarized versions of whatever endless feed you are reading, as well as remembering seen entries (a bit like Snapchat) is the next frontier.

Another key issue is selective ignorance, biases and such. Only exploring stuff related to your interests can trap people within a detached state with respect to reality.
The reason to let the attackers get away with the money is that it would show Ethereum is what they say it is: a secure way to execute smart contracts. If you don't allow it to happen, then it's just another boring human organization with a few powerful people calling the shots, and everyone who uses it as a platform for smart contracts will wonder if theirs is the one that crosses the invisible line and gets rolled back.
A side project DAO no-one cares about? Perhaps it's better to view this in non-binary (success/failure) terms.

TheDAO has after all, captured a significant amount of momentum, interest and capital.
Fixing the filter bubble
You can definitely compose a zip file "on the fly" and stream it out. The central directory at the end of the zip file can be determined from all the content already streamed.

The only wrinkle is that each entry has a header which typically states the compressed size and checksum. Either you have to compress each entry content in some temp buffer or file to figure out the compressed size and checksum, then write out the header and compressed content. Or you write out the header with these fields zeroed, then compress the content on the fly and write it out, then write out a data descriptor with the compressed size and checksum.
You may accuse me of a lack of imagination, but I don't understand how Asterion's story is supposed to be conveyed by him.

Taking him at his word he shouldn't be able to write, and it would be most fitting if his story were just an internal monologue but the "footnote" about 14 meaning infinite disallows that possibility.
My favorite is "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".
Still makes me smile to read it.
Is Trading Psychology Really Necessary
In a 25 year career I concluded they basically don't exist. 99.9% are professional salespeople - commission driven, and nothing much else matters.

Understanding that clarified much of the cliche recruiter behaviour. Your needs are secondary to their commission and sales funnel.

The couple of exceptions who were truly professionl and mde real efforts on the candidates side were in one case a guy with some dev experience too, at an agency that also had an IT division. The other was an extremely niche firm, tightly focussed on a specific area of banking, started by an ex developer.

Having also had experience of dealing with agencies and recruiters from the employer side I ended up having no idea at all of the attraction of using them. They didn't save time, they didn't achieve any better candidates, and some were basically dishonest.
You don’t have my permission
If someone coming to this thread is looking for a recruiter in Ireland or the UK, I have two people I have been meaning to write recommendations for:

Michael Diver <mdiver@softwareplacements.ie>

Julietta Contoguris <julietta@campbell-north.com>

As an American who was looking for a visa-sponsoring job abroad, they were both super helpful, communicative, non-pushy, and knowledgable.
> So who gets to decide that it's sexist? Anyone who feels that it is?

Yes.

Everyone gets to decide whether things are sexist, whether and when that's a problem, and whether another person having different opinions about any of that should effect the way they act towards that person.
More compression news!: https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd declared its format stable a couple days ago, getting a step towards 1.0. In the example there, it's a little denser than gzip -1 and a lot faster, and includes entropy encoding that uses finite state machines (and that I don't truly understand--maybe there's some similarity to lzfse there). It can look at your data and construct a static dictionary, which sounds cool for tasks like packing a bunch of 4kb database pages.

(https://github.com/google/gipfeli is another compressor aiming at that general space ('fast but not Snappy/LZ4 fast'), but I don't think it caught on much.)
So basically, Facebook is buying out devs? Surprising practices...

I remember when I had to decide on a Samsung monitor over an Asus monitor because Samsung had the exclusives I wanted.

Wait...that didn't happen because that would be insane.
Indeed, this is a common misconception for some reason. There are many games, especially those from indie developers, where Steam simply acts as a light wrapper for launching the game. You can literally copy the game files from your Steam folder to another PC and it would work fine.
The speaker spoke in a roundabout way diluting her meaningful content with cliche after cliche. I think he point is nice though: aim for calmness and be honest with your team, not the allusion of happiness.
A mysterious object just made a dent in one of Saturn's rings
If I break my credit card (which is actually quite hard) I get a replacement. If I break my phone I better hope that I had a warranty.
what are you speaking of in particular?
If it's merely fortunate that this might be dealt with safely then that should strike you as a bad thing.
This is definitely a thing that exists for top-tier engineering candidates in the financial space, but there are very, very few of them.
And 3 of them are already out! Ouch!
But that's a tautology. Everything is a success until it isn't, even if it was designed to fail it succeeds in doing what it is designed to do.
While you're driving, mid-air refueling style. Better make the link-up all in the same lane, though.
Arguably this taught (reminded) us that DAOs are mutable at the whim of the community majority.
I have done some (small-ish) projects with API Gateway and Lambda. Lambda itself is pretty nice. The API Gateway is a pain, and has a lot of rough edges. Especially if you need to do anything other than standard JSON in and out. I’ve spent way more time than I’d like to admit futzing with mapping templates and models to try to get stuff to work the right way. And then dealing with errors from the Lambda function in a sensible way is a headache all its own.

I generally really like AWS and I use it for a ton of stuff, but I very much welcome competition and innovation in this space.
What are people's thoughts on the Udacity Machine Learning Nanodegree versus Coursera's Machine Learning?

ETA: Am flexible, but I'm particularly interested in strengthening my Linear Algebra, and prefer to use Python.
Good lawyers don't write overly complicated contracts, and they don't speak in legalese. The concepts covered within the contract might be complex, but the writing itself is deliberately readable. Complex things are brittle. Clear, well written contracts are more likely to be interpreted correctly by all parties if something unforeseen happens. Contrast this to the alternative - writing a contract by enumerating every possible outcome, hoping that you don't miss one, knowing that if you do, every party will argue for the interpretation that's most favorable to them. The adversarial aspect makes things that much harder.

Contracts in something as flexible as Ethereum strikes me as the ultimate in fragility. There's a great use case for anything that looks like a smallish FSM - formal methods will yield something very usable and provably correct. Being able to do that on a system with a state space the size of Ethereum + The DAO - yea, we're a ways away from that one.
Facebook is funding game development through its Oculus publishing arm to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Part of those publishing contracts include a clause to keep Oculus published titles exclusive to their store for some duration of time.

To speak to your example, no monitor manufacturer is funding the development of games to play exclusively on their monitors as monitors are largely a commodity at this point.
CA Auditor Releases Blistering Report on $28M CalVet Computer System
Yes, a soft fork means consensus (majority) among miners. The developers (of Geth, Parity, cpp-ethereum, etc.) can propose the changes, but it's up to the miners whether to adopt them.

Note that the Ethereum mining community is considerably more decentralized than e.g. Bitcoin.
Re [2], are we reading the same study? "Based on the available data regarding efficacy of FMT and relapse rates with standard antimicrobial therapy, we elected not to perform a placebo-controlled or active standard-treatment comparator trial."

Aside: I suffered a spell of C. Diff and wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. It is by far the worst suffering I've ever had to endure.
are you a student and/or can you pretend to be one? http://www.timestored.com/kdb-training/free-student-access

or http://www.dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm and be a student to get a free (educational) dyalog license
> A "well armed militia" might've made sense in the initial years of the USA's government, but it doesn't nowadays. You know they have tanks, airplanes and drones, right?

The Syrian government had chemical weapons and everything else, yet people with small arms still held their ground.

Have you been propaganda-ed much? A war currently running that tells you the BS behind this statement. But you still said it?

Humans are not monsters. The military will not drone bomb their own people, day in day out. That will cause them to mutiny if anything.
IMO, This post just has a click-baity title with almost no information within. TheDAO is a failure. There are a few of the other Ethereum DAOs like Augur, Digix and Maker have invested a lot of effort over the last one year and haven't launched yet to iron out issues like these. They didnt need to learn such expensive lessons. Maker Market contracts were hit by the same bug and they handled it very elegantly three days back.

TheDAO was convoluted from the beginning(code, incentives, purpose), and a lot of us within Ethereum were highly skeptical too but when mainstream media started covering it, our voices got drowned.
I mean I don't think they ever literally did any testing on the usage of their website. They have some nice settings for using their website, but they don't have a landing page for it so they allow you to have lots of great functionality in searching for food, it is about useless.

Not only do they not show them at the start, they also have absurd and odd defaults on the ones that would be most generally useful at the start
For example:
The distance setting starts at infinite distance instead of the 5, 10, or 15 increments they have.

This would be a great app if they just had you go through the settings each time you started using it, as they have lots of details, like times, ambience, payments, and whether alcohol is served.

They could even expand this to if you logged in they could list the settings you used previously or you could save some as presets for going out with friends or something like that.

It is clear that it had potetntial, but I think they didn't have a clear idea of the service they wanted to provide at the start and got too bogged down in both the implementation and problems to recognize the things that made them want to do it in the first place, along with the investors that liked it.

But ok fam
That’s for you to find out – I saw a link like this once, too, and built an extension for myself after discovering how and why it works – have fun ;)
I am bicoastal (SF & NYC). Building up Seattle too. Will shoot you an email.
Tables in RST are far more difficult than in Markdown; you have to essentially draw the table you want.

In both, it is difficult to have a block of code with one line in bold, or italicized for emphasis. (The same seems to hold for asciidoc.)

Which is why I eventually gravitate back to HTML. (See https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook as well - full disclosure: I have done writing for O'Reilly.)
Except that it isn't powerful people calling the shots. It's powerful people making suggestions, and then the shots being called by the network participants. There is nothing happening here that is contrary to the ethos of smart contracts or decentralized governance. If any sort of fork is accepted it will be because a majority of miners thought it was a good idea, not because Vitalik said so.
You probably didn't mean it this way, but your comment seems to suggest that plagiarism occurred. I think you meant to say simply that the two articles are similar in theme.
Newest photo of Pluto revolutionizing scientists' understanding
>Just because rules are dumb and you are smart, that doesn't always mean that you get to take advantage of them.

Then they rules are a sham. They are meaningless. If the "rules" in a contract are just vague suggestions, then the contract is basically useless.
You're not dreaming. Outsourcing sales is nothing new. I've seen a lot of failure with this approach. If the cost is low enough and you're not too picky, it's worth it, but if you'd like Clojure work and someone keeps finding you Scala jobs, you're wasting . At that point, you may as well either bring it in-house or do it yourself.
Have you thought about adding vacation rental listings? I'm in the vacation rental space on the backend at http://ownerrez.com.

I hear a lot of customers clamoring for the old school pay for listing, get inquiries via emails method, particuarly after the big guys in the space are stumbling: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/homeaway-vrbo-service-f...
> Instead, Libya's arguments take the form of: We didn't really mean what those contracts said. We didn't understand them.

[...]

> What JPMorgan did was explicitly allowed by the rules, but that doesn't mean that it was allowed.

This seems like both the biggest feature and the biggest bug of our legal system. On the one hand, the court system exists to adjudicate cases that aren't clear-cut, and often establish precedent in the process. On the other hand, that makes it extremely difficult to construct a system where all the rules are clear cut and have "let the buyer beware" all over them, and not have someone "cheat" and ask the court system to reverse a result that didn't go in their favor. Heads I win, tails the court system might say I win anyway.

If you want a contract where the "spirit of the law" prevails, write it that way. For example, the electricity regulations mentioned in the article could have been written to say "if you find way to arbitrage this and produce infinite money, you're wrong; this is governed by the spirit of the law as interpreted by $governing_body".

But there should be a way to write a "letter of the law" agreement, too, where people can actually rely on the rules. There should exist a sufficiently strong disclaimer that anyone agreeing to it will get summarily rejected from a court saying "you should have known better". There should exist agreements where someone giving their word is ironclad and irreversible.

You can build systems that incorporate human judgment and reversibility on top of such an ironclad rule-based system. But the reverse isn't true: you can't build an ironclad system on top of a system where anyone can cheat by saying "no fair, I lost my money and I didn't really mean it" to a court.

Sometimes, people find it comforting to have a "soft" system backing them up that will look at the human factors involved; for some systems, I do too. But in some cases, you want the comfort of knowing that you can rely on the rules as stated and not someone saying "actually, now that I've lost money I don't like the rules anymore, give me my money back".
That just means that a majority of miners can be swayed into breaking the whole thing by a few people at the top.

That's what power looks like. A few people decide and many people willingly make it happen.
Really secure your SSHD and piss off the NSA
You can't have the same actor both flood the markets to temporarily drive down the price and control a major stake of Ether - it's an either or proposition. In the first case, assuming the move was purely malicious rather than self-interested, the price dip would likely not be fatal to Ethereum, but it would suck for a bit. The more likely move is sell-offs in chunks at price highs, as this would maximize profit which would seem to be the motive here so far. In the second case, the actor still doesn't control a majority, Ethereum's disinflationary nature erodes at that percentage stake at regular intervals, and they are incentivized to act positively wrt the Ethereum network to protect the value of their sizable assets.

I think it comes down to a matter of time preference. People who want their money back now or justice for the wronged aren't acting in a way that is seemingly interested in the longterm health of Ethereum. They just want what's best for them whether money or the gratification of revenge, and they want it now. The best longterm thing for Ethereum is for the investors to eat their losses, and for the appropriate amount of risk aversion to enter the ecosystem. This will create massive, positive incentives to create ways of reliably building and vetting future contracts. IMO that is better long term for Ethereum than the short term gains of a hard or soft fork.
I remember sitting in the audience, when he used the line.
"..to anyone thinking the NSA is not watching you."
(Turns on his phone)
"Now they do."
He was great in that way. And probably still is.
Charismatic. And a catchy speaker.
A Entertainer.
And a great public advocate for the TOR-Project. Well now he is that no more.
Well the larger then live they are - the deeper they fall.
Still.

So what do you do when the Great are also not good? Hate and Rage for their ability to fool you? Or just accept that he served a useful purpose and forget about the person.
In TOR lives something of the anonymity and anarchy of the old internet on.
Which was and is a good thing.
Beneath this mask, there are ideas Mr.Needy, and ideas are bully-proof.
...and that seems to happen every couple of years. Again, they're not prepared.
Salt recipe author here .. Feel free to ask anything or throw comments ...etc. I hope this is helpful to some of you.
A company usually needs to be growing YOY in order to reliably return a 20% profit. Unless it's a protected monopolist, or a comfortably ensconced player in a stagnant market. (In which case it's ripe for competition.)

It is entirely possible to overprioritize growth. Doing so can lead to overreach, spiraling costs, bloat, and loss of focus. But at least some growth is often required just to maintain a stable return.

It also bears mentioning that ther are many possible factors driving growth, some of them endogenous and some of them exogenous, some of them cyclical and some of them secular. It's very hard to speak of the blanket term "growth" as being particularly meaningful, in and of itself. We need to be specific.
The real infuriating thing as a Vive owner myself is that Facebook paid off a bunch of Vive compatible games and made them retract the compatibility. Completely scummy.

There was a massive drama incident about it on /r/vive about this as well.
In terms of mass shootings, if you look at Mother Jones there have been 472 deaths since 1999 due to mass shootings. According to the CDC, from 1999 to 2014, there were 486 deaths due to dog attacks.

This site is purely an emotional response. What is dangerous is that many of these appeals to emotion can easily be deployed to advocate for such things as banning encryption software, and more pervasive monitoring of all electronic communications.
Oh yeah for sure! I have seen so many people like this. It is pretty obvious when you enter a streamer's channel and it looks like they just started yesterday and have no one talking in chat yet have a couple thousand viewers.
IEX Group Gains Approval for Stock Exchange
>By definition! If the code could be hacked, the code allowed for the hack

wat? can't people just realise it was a loophole and hence unacceptable?
> I think I am getting old and starting to understand how my parents feel about technology.

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

- Douglas Adams
And that nobody knows how to write secure code.
That often happens with inner circles. The higher you climb, the fewer positions are available on the next rung up the ladder. And once you reach a certain rung, you are pretty much always fighting political battles just to stay where you are, let alone climb any higher.
Sounds like a case of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjust_enrichment

In regular law there's actually a way to say "that's not what I meant and you knew that's not what I meant". Prove it and the law is with you.