skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Convenient blockchain wallets, on the desktop and in the browser as extensions, will make this approach much more widely used by consumers.
In this particular case the contract holds 15% of all ether.

The fork won't be enacted unless a majority of the community agrees to run its code. That's not likely to happen except in extreme cases, like this one.
How to make big bucks hunting cyber bugs
Yeah, I know, right? I don't trust actual, qualified fund analysts to pick real investments for me, I stick largely to index funds. Yet a bunch of cryptoweenies have decided to pool their money in cryptoweenie form in some kind of insane, fragile investment club, so a bunch of cryptoweenies stupid enough to think this is a good idea can collectively vote on what to do with each others money by simple majority vote, without restriction? No. Just no.

Right now the proponent of this fraudulent scheme, slock.it, is actually urging people to spam the blockchain to slow down the rate of theft. Yet the true believers are claiming this is a "learning experience" that will make it all better in the long run. It's beyond satire.
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Data Modeling in Riak TS
I agree that the remaining scraps of the second amendment function more as an opiate than a useful mechanism. But it would be utterly foolish to further extinguish them and expect USG to magically reform - that domestic army won't be demilitarizing any time soon, and at this point the totalitarian surveillance/control state only seeks its own growth.

Crime is always going to happen. Do not believe those who promise to eliminate it if only you make just one more compromise at an emotional time - their results are plain to see.

The real modern problem we face is media, now augmented by social media, saturating us with these events. Overloading us with sensationalized hyper-reality, stripping away any semblance of context, probability, individualism, or rationalism. Nevermind encouraging follow-on crime for another's "15 minutes". But of course the media reflecting on itself would be complex, nuanced, and boring. So on to the next 5-minute tragedy entertainment we'll go.
If you've worked in third-world countries, you should realize that elections are a human problem determined by societal attitudes. Electoral fraud is not a technical problem.
Ask HN: Delegate VM configuration/troubleshooting?
I'm a freelance mobile/web developer whose company is growing to the point where I have to pull on help. One time consuming things that I haven't delegated is configuring or trouble-shooting things on VMs for clients.

I find this to be very time consuming however I am reticent to have a subcontractor do this as I'm nervous about giving root access, if even for a short while.

Is there a reasonable way to delegate this such that I don't have to worry about nefarious activity? Or a way that I can detect that someone has been doing something they shouldn't?
That depends a lot on your actual architecture and domain.

Some times, you need parse_from_file, and nothing else. Other times it's worth parametrizing everything and just assembly generic code at the top level.
Not all languages have unsigned ints (java for example doesn't).
Are there any Americans here who are able to explain why the US is so backwards when compared to European countries?

Visa and Mastercard and the banks all offer Chip and Pin services here in the UK, and have done for years.

I can understand the delay in adopting chip cards, with the ridiculously large number of terminals and cards that would have to be replaced - but I really don't see why when you're performing the migration to cards with a chip, you wouldn't implement PIN at the same time
One of the big problems I see with this issue is that the loudest people speaking up about it sometimes do it in almost absurdly apocalyptic terms, and do have more of an anti-capitalists and hardcore environmentalist vibe instead of a more science based one. This turns it into yet another politically polarized issue. But I think one should ignore the politics as much as possible and stick with the science.

Remember DDT? On one side you had Silent Spring, and on the other side you have people claiming bollocks and conspiracy and the like. I think the science is pretty settled on this one, really has been since the 1970s (eg, a metabolite of DDT, DDE, really is nasty for raptor egg shells, and wanton over-application of pesticide is an extremely poor way to control mosquitoes) but I still see things about the "DDT conspiracy" today.

Likewise, with climate change, I think the science is fairly settled to some degree. The issue here is that it's a very slow moving problem, with some degree of uncertainty. A lot of humans aren't terribly good at thinking very long term. Plus, the "easy" solution involves "giving up" our creature comforts, which contrary to the anti-capitalists opinion I don't anyone is going to want to do.

While you're right that most likely much of the world will adapt, there may be some pain points. We have so much infrastructure built along the coasts right now that could be affected by sea rise increases, for instance. Same with different weather patterns -- for instance, what's San Francisco going to do if climate change starts slowly, over time, affecting the Sierra Nevada snowpack they depend on for water?

The developed world, of course, probably can come up with some solutions for this; honestly I don't think the changes will be a complete disaster there. Poorer nations, might be another story. I'm not sure they are as able to cope.
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What do you think money is?
Ok, but meanwhile there are a lot of innocent lives being ruined as homes are destroyed and civilians slaughtered at the hands of a brutal dictator and his Russian accomplices. Unnecessarily destabilizing regions because we don't like a regime is one thing, but using our military prowess to help threatened peoples defend their lives and political freedom is quite another.
Have they written about their experience with Holacracy?
Free Trade Is Dead
Difficult to do. Cold start time is slow on the free plan because they have to start a "server". They don't need to do this with the paid plan, but then again, you're paying for uptime of a server. Serverless don't need to do this.
Looks like illustration 12 got replaced with a repeat of 10 at the end, the file is there and matches the text: https://deis.com/images/blog-images/kubernetes-illustrated-g...
YEah ! I love that book. I wish companies paid artists to collaborate with their technical writers to deliver engaging content tutorials in graphic novel format.
I think in terms of memory stimulation --->

text + (color + emotion + narrative) > text

The Greeks could memorize incredibly long speeches because they set up such weird memorization queues with bizarre imagery/stories to trigger passages from one topic to the next. Narrative inside technical documentation could leverage this as well.
see http://ontology2.com/book/chapter1/part1/not_stupid.html
The major players in the fossil fuels industry are all net tax payers. If I'm understanding the summary from the linked paper, it's saying that they're not taxed enough for the satisfaction of the paper's authors. Thus they are being "subsidized".
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Up until about ten years ago, the general approach was to find and prosecute those who were responsible for the Holocaust i.e. made decisions that caused or prolonged it, or those who actively participated in atrocities.

For example, the Eichmann trial was controversial at the time because he was involved in transport and not the camps directly even though he was a colonel (it was also controversial for a number of other reasons).

That approach changed to include those who were present but with no evidence of direct involvement. The Demjanjuk conviction gave confidence to prosecutors that this was a viable strategy. Given the age of the defendants, there's been a certain amount of urgency to accelerate these prosecutions.

I have some reservations about this change of tack. It plays to a narrative that the prosecutions are vindictive and a sign of desperation. With the spread of neo-Nazism in Europe, making ex-Nazis and SS appear as victims seems very risky to me.
Nice introduction to Riak TS!
This is like a match made in heaven for Activities in KDE Plasma.

http://cukic.co/2016/02/08/heavy-activities-setup/

Now if only Firefox AddOns/Extensions would be able to properly access DBus, this would allow for a so much better Linux integration (storing passwords through org.freedesktop.Secret, opening URLs in the appropriate container from KDE Plasma sessions instead of random switches to another activity where a Firefox window is found, global media playback states/control for web video/audio as org.mpris.MediaPlayer2, powermanagement inhibitors through org.freedesktop.login1, etc)
I'm developing a similar UI project based on Vue which costs me more than three months: https://github.com/airyland/vux

You may like it too :)
Credit cards compete with other forms of payment, like cash. Making credit cards harder to use makes people shift payments to other forms. Implementing PINs is about balancing the costs of fraud against the costs of shifting those payments. If you cut fraud by X but you lose out on Y > X revenue due to reduced credit card use, it's a net loss. Card companies here apparently think that Y is indeed greater than X.
Oh buzzwords...

We've been discussing Google BigQuery as serverless lately. It's a nice succinct way of saying "fully-managed" + "no-ops" + "no resource deployment" + "seamless scaling" + "separation of storage and compute" + "deployed regionally" + etc. Some customers talk about BigQuery as "Data Center is the Database". So these buzzword help describe what BigQuery is and how it is different from other analytics services and technologies.

In any case, if a buzzword helps get across some meaning, sure, go for it. Folks just get carried away :)

(work on BigQuery)
Since I can't edit this comment anymore: I left a comment on the Talk page of this article [1]. Are there any climate scientists on HN?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Africa urged to invest in Science and  Technology to promote development
As is the increased population density to make any kind of HyperLoop/high speed train/slow speed train/fixed route transportation effective beyond simply transferring money from tax payers to shysters.
Woah - I didn't expect it to be this in-depth. Awesome job.
It's a giant pain in the ass to code Bitcoin. In a few years, all of these kinds of attacks will have been tried against various Ethereum contracts and it will be hardened and still easy. It will still be very cumbersome to code Bitcoin.
And the self-policing of its users is the force that makes that happen, not the opinion of the admins.
Author. AMA.
Why would that be different at later stages? Bitcoin grew more centralized with time, not decentralized: The miners with the most powerful equipment also have the most ability to become even more powerful.

Why is that different for Ethereum?
"u" is a terrible variable name in that context also.
Mathematica is one the most useful tools for this kind of experimental programming. A minimum implementation can be a single REPL line (if you prefer FP style). That's one line from blank page to "play audio"; it's hard to understand how enabling it is to have such shallow barriers to experimenting, it's like cheating.

ListPlay@ Flatten@ NestList[
0.996*#& /@ MovingAverage[# ~Join~ {First[#]}, 2]&,
RandomReal[1.0, {80}], 100]

https://i.imgur.com/aIufLHn.png
I agree. For me, Asciidoc hits the sweet spot as it seems to have much of the simplicity of Markdown, and with the AsciiDoctor/DocBook toolchain it has the publishing power of RestructuredText.

But its tables beat both hands down. You can include a csv file with some headers or micromanage merged cells, alignment and such.
American consumers aren't responsible for fraud on their credit cards (technically only up $50 or something but in practice not at all). That means that they don't care much about security as compared to the inconvenience of having to remember and use a PIN.
The Road to Utopia (podcast)
Nope, but it doesn't surprise me. I found bitbucket's markdown so limiting that I gave up on it. I suspect they'd rather have their users on Confluence instead.
We should just call it ES15 and ES16.
The fees for credit card transactions are roughly four times as high as fees for debit card transactions.
>We hope that releasing the source code and pre-trained models are beneficial to the community.

Translation: Google beat us and there's no point keeping this private anymore. ;)
He's expressing his concern for the politicalization of the climate issue. It's the same concern that one might have had for the "war on poverty" in which the clout & organizations surrounding the issue become more important than the issue itself.

He's also expressing concern for wealthy individuals concerning themselves with "climate change", but don't have the capability to make a direct, observable impact. He thus raises the question: "If we can save 10 humans now, is it worth worrying about saving 100 later?"

This is a deeply philosophical issue that deserves thoughtful discourse, but it seems you've devolved it into a battle and put intent behind his words such as "you criticize the behaviors of climate change activists" that probably don't fairly represent his.
Contracts can be upgraded if they're designed that way. You can have a wrapper contract that just calls out to other contracts, where the addresses of the other contracts are updateable. You can even make the callee run in the context of the caller, so all the data is held at the caller, which calls an external function that manipulates it.

Doing this is a tradeoff. On the one hand it lets you fix bugs and vulnerabilities, on the other your users have to trust you not to abuse your power.
The main blocker and main reason why I don't recommend flow when entering a new team, is that they don't provide windows binaries: https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/6

The fact that I can add TypeScript to any project's workflow by simply `npm install --save-dev typescript typings` is a massive advantage. The tooling around typescript is much better as well (typings + definitely typed for example). With TypeScript 2.0, I'm not sure I'll have any reason to use Flow anymore...
Sure, but do they need to? Let's accept that HFT vampires steal a bit of the value I wanted to get. But my value is not in trying to be a HFT, it is in (ostensibly) calling that GOOG will go up or something. How does HFT screw me over in that regard?
Some of the performance sensitive new Rackspace (likely eventual OpenStack software) are in Go from their Austin (not San Antonio) office.
You struggle to even do that. You can normally prove that some code conforms to a version of the specification that is explicitly formalised, but in practice, a large number of bugs are specification bugs and that will only increase the more you are forced to formalise the specification.
Russian Track and Field Team Barred from Rio Olympics
How would you modify systemd unit files for each user of your public cloud? How would you manage the sockets once you have more users than sockets on a server?
All the more reason for the credit card companies to insist on implementing PINs, right? Since they're the ones eating the fraud.
Honestly though I'd rather enter a PIN than use a dull piece of plastic to make an unreadable signature on a feedbackless screen. I punch keys all day but rarely write by hand.
Snail mail DOS attack
So I'm going to be traveling for a few days, and I want my snail mail held by the post office. I found that the USPS has an extremely convenient website for stopping mail: https://holdmail.usps.com/holdmail. I entered my name and address, and requested that my mail be held. Done! There's even an option for having accumulated mail delivered at the end of the requested period.

Isn't this way too convenient? Assuming they are doing some validation (name against address), I can stop anyone's mail, for an arbitrary amount of time, as long as I know that person's name and address. Seems ripe for abuse.
Oh, I have an excellent blender (a Breville). I was more expressing the problem I see with poorly thought out "smart" added to machinery - systems that will become unusable due to bit rot or connector conspiracy in far less time than they otherwise should.
Kudos to Matt Butcher - The man always had a fantastic ability to distill information down to its most essential and consumable form.
Why do you need jQuery for such a simple plugin?
That can't be the reason for the difference because (roughly) the same applies to the European market.
No, it's the merchant that eats the cost, they have to return the money from the fraudulent payment.
Network effects. Same reason Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter can suck, and yet not be displaced by technologically superior products.
How to recover from burnout while still doing work?
I've been a developer for about 10 years now. I've been working for two small companies in this time, in both cases feeling we are trying to build something together but ultimately failing.

In the last few months I've started a bootstrapped startup, together with long time friends that I've worked with before, the fate of which is highly uncertain right now.

In the mean time another project came about that produces a lot of money but also requires a lot of programming.

The problem is that I'm feeling very unmotivated, even by the money (at the time we reinvest all the profits) and I find it very hard to have anything done. I feel that for years now all I've worked on was thrown away and had no satisfaction form seeing the product being used. I'm sure there are other factors contributing to this such as skipping on exercise and sleep since working on the startup and being assessed as mildly depressive to begin with.

One solution people recommend is to take a couple of months off to recharge and reassess things but I'd like to avoid this as the other project has the real potential of generating a significant sum of money.

What alternatives do I have and how can I deal with this?
What about contactless? PayPass/PayWave/Apple Pay is accepted universally here in Australia. Doesn't that make it easier for customers to pay?
Very interesting! Looking at the papers and going to read them. Any specific papers you'd recommend?
Medium open sourced their hiring process
I was in attendance for a conference presentation a few years back that O'Rielly was moving to writing books in an asciidoc editor which would be converted to (x)html5 for easy conversion to PDF and ePUB.

I wonder if that thing ever took off. Previously, it was said, that they were working in docbook (XML)
What makes you think 3% is low? Why isn't it high? Seems like a huge chunk of a transaction's cost to me.

To clarify, supposed we lived in bizarroland where the transation fee was 7%. bizarrologicallee could post this very same comment, but as "if they had a trust, credit card processing fees would be 15%, not 7%"
Why don'd Facebook, Google and potentially MS, Apple, etc. set up a yearly tournament for the world title of 'Champion of Go'. This is similar to F1 races by the car manufacturers.
Technical writing at its best. I wouldn't say the fate of the giraffe is something to envy. Just look at the final post-namespace picture.
The idea is to consider anything in the first round. You can be more creative that way. Writing it down makes you do more than just think about it and dismiss it. Then you have to come back and review the list which gives it a second chance. How many great ideas just come and go because we don't dig deeply enough on them?
We run an open, technology focused Slack community at (https://TechMasters.chat / 1000+ members) and recently we got "attacked" by G2Crowd, they had some intern join the group (registration is open) and then went through the profiles of each member, copying the emails then proceeded to email them unsolicited offers for reviews and feedback in exchange for gift cards.

luckily, we're based in Canada, where anti-spam laws (CASL) apply.

we proceeded to contact them in social media / email to ask them to cease this activity and delete the collected emails.

they fought back at first, claiming it was legit and only would put emails under do-not-contact list, we did not accept that, again citing CASL laws, their actions were in clear violations. they stopped responding to our emails.

We have proceeded with a legal consult and have further contacted their legal representative for further action.

G2Crowd has been extremely un-cooperative, and seem to clearly lack understanding of laws and legalities outside of the US.

(edit: corrected some typos)
The good news is that upgrading all these terminals to chip will make chip-and-pin a simple matter of a software update.

I don't know if it was a matter of profit so much as fear of customer alienation. First they get customers used to using the chips. Then they can make them use pins later.

The biggest hurdle will be past once all the chip terminals actually work. It's crazy how many vendors were forced to install these things before the processors were even able to process chip transactions. Most small vendors in this area of the country still are not able to accept chip cards despite having the newer hardware. Thus they are now liable for fraudulent transactions on swiped cards because their processors cannot get their sh*t together.

But once that debacle is resolved, chip and pin should follow as a matter of course.

Frankly, I too wish they had just ripped the bandaid off. After having spent a couple weeks in europe, it is idiotic how many restaurants in non-tourist towns have to scramble to find the one terminal that can print a signature slip for their American guests.
Nice but wouldn't have hurt to throw in a simple little story, like "The Mange guide to Electricity". I already had a good understanding of electricity/electronics when I read that but the narrative created this fun refresher instead of the usual dry books you read on the subject.

The story helps me ground topics. It's weird but very effective. I highly recommend it if you are playing with Arduino/RASPI and want to go to that next level. Actually, I can't think of one subject that wouldn't be fun to learn with a Manga guide (they already have lots of them, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Physics).
Ah, good point. I guess this circles back to Home Depot's complaint then. All the merchants would have to band together somehow to insist on Chip-and-PIN.
As a for-example, we were implementing this stuff in the days before MySQL had ACID transactions (back when they bragged about how much faster they were than other databases, handwaving over the cost others had for implementing transaction logs and rollback). The DBA and I tried to get Sybase in, but the Sybase sales rep, unused to startups, quickly offended the CTO with vague pricing. He was an open source purist and wanted MySQL.

I cannot begin to explain how much extra code we had to write to deal with the lack of transactions in MySQL! Sybase would have saved us a ton of time and risk.
This is hacker news. If this was some code rather than in meatspace and you trusted a single client to modify a turning complete config file for everyone else you'd call it a massive security vulnerability. I don't understand how having humans involved changes that. Yes, they probably have good intentions but has that assumption ever worked out in human history? If it's not used today for something nefarious, it will be used tomorrow.
The stolen coins are unspendable for the time being due to the design of the contract.
I found installing on OSX fairly pain free. Homebrew and a bit of Ruby's gem got me everything.
IDEA-based IDEs has a nice support for reStructuredText, I use this PyCharm feature almost daily.
The iPhone is assembled in China, but all the really complicated parts (screen, radio, processor, ...) are made elsewhere.