skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ones used by security experts are in the GB range.

Citation? The only multi gigabyte "dictionaries" I've seen are rainbow tables. I'm genuinely curious why you'd need multiple gigabytes when the Dictionary.com app a few years ago was no more than 200 megabytes.
So the creator of bitcoin is just trying to cash in on a Ponzi scheme, but hasn't yet moved hundreds of millions of dollars from their creation addresses?
Indeed it is. I particularly like the 'no longer contributing to the business' part, as if the work done by the original employees isn't what the current business was built on, at a discounted rate if their stock options are worthless. And as if the stock options were the only reason they're having trouble attracting quality talent.

Stock options seem attractive as a form of compensation, since the hope is that you're working for a unicorn and one day you'll be fabulously rich, but the cash equivalent is better more often than not. It's just a form of risk transfer from those who have plenty to those who hope to have plenty by dint of talent and hard work. Having been burnt, I won't do it again.
False dichotomy? Is there a reason that you believe only these two outcomes are possible?
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For the hardware startups out there, which development board or microcontrollers do you prefer for prototyping hardware products?
Intel Galileo
Particle Photon / Spark Core
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Interesting, would like to see comparison with FFV1. Arithmetic coding beats Huffman all day every day, and pixel-aware predictors are a thing.
I can't speak to stocks, but I use TA tools for some relatively ineffecient markets that just have fundamental volatility and trends. I could write my own methods and algorithms but the TA guys already wrote them for me.
I can't find the source so this is from memory; but Karp or Theil said they wouldn't ever go public and essentially can't because they are essentially a DoD contractor. While other companies notably do similar things and other contractors are public, Palantir provides a unique platform to some extent and their customer base, much of their technology and operations are secret.

It is known they will not likely go public as it would be detrimental to their business and in-Q-tel (cia vc arm) is a major shareholder. While Silicon Valley does need to rethink some of the ways they compensate employees; especially at late stage private ones, I would not consider Palantir indiicative of a typical SV unicorn
Artlav, this is an incredible project!

I have an idea for you. You mention that you want to use a webcam so that you can "overlay" this information on top of an image.

What if you could send it directly to your brain?

There is a technology called Brainport[0], which is effectively a 16x16 grid of electrodes small enough to place on your tongue. By feeding electrical impulses through these electrodes, you stimulate the nerves on your tongue. After two minutes of a "champagn bubbling" sensation, your brain rewires the senses from your tongue to your visual cortex and you can "sense" any input.

This technology has been used to give sight to the blind, balance to those with inner ear problems, and sonar to NAVY seals.

It would be amazing if you were the first person in the world to truly "see" sound.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainport
Maybe it would allow mutual funds and other such entities to invest in it?

They might have rules preventing them from investing in things that aren't traded on major exchanges.
"How many days of rain does Seattle get in a year?
About 150." http://seattle.about.com/od/familylifestyles/tp/Rain-In-Seat...

(I've lived in Seattle over 10 years.)
Even more important, Never speculate with more than you can afford to lose.
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That is precisely how I trade. My positions depend on my long-term belief in the technology, if I believe in it then the general direction of my positions will reflect that. I'll short it, yeah but I'll always have a stash.
Palantir's official reason of "improving employee moral" doesn't seem to really mesh with the conditions they are imposing on the buy-back:

> [...] employees who sell their shares agree agree that they will not compete with Palantir for 12 months or solicit any Palantir employees during that time [...] [and] agree to a nondisclosure arrangement that forbids them from even talking about the repurchase and waive any claims they might have against the company.

The nyt put forwards a reasonable idea that this is a mechanism to increase their perceived value, and I'm inclined to agree.

EDIT: the buzzfeed article [1] paints an even worse picture:

> If they [employees] get any inquiries about Palantir from reporters, the contract says, they must immediately notify Palantir and then email the company a copy of the inquiry within three business days.

[1]: https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/palantir-seeks-to-muzz...
I keep seeing this idea invoked over and over again, and it's starting to bug me. The problem with this idea is that it conflates technical decentralization and the spirit or ideals of decentralization. The latter can be betrayed or degraded even while the former is preserved. Just because the miners aren't compelled by the network architecture to implement a fork doesn't mean that there aren't social dynamics which have the effect of centralizing decisions made by those miners. "Consensus" doesn't have any inherent value or rightness. Consensus is just a majority of a group electing to do something. In the world of the decentralized web, consensus is positive only when network nodes are truly acting autonomously. It's best when this means that each node acts in self-interest, without regard for or in ignorance of the interests or positions of the other nodes. This is not what's happening on the Ethereum network. There's a huge amount of coordination. Ethereum is a network that hasn't individuated itself from a relatively small group of creators/maintainers/community members. As long as the network depends on these people for strength and stability, the miners will be biased to carry out the wishes of those people. Otherwise the miners risk losing whatever value they've accrued through their work. So yes, the fork only happens through a consensus of the miners. But it hasn't been established that the miners are capable of independent action.
Yes moreover the miners do care. About their profits. And not wasting electricity. Their best bet is to mine on the most likely successful codebase, which will be the core developer's code. Even if they disagree with their change!
This sounds like a company in big trouble and trying desperately to stem attrition and improve tanking morale.

According to crunchbase they're basically owned by a private equity firm now (which is rarely a fun place to be) and are raising something like a billion dollars a year -- which basically appears to be around what their operating costs are (employee count of that year * $250k/yr).

They're either not bringing in any real revenue, or growing at the rate of revenue. Multiple raises per year (of weirdly different values) indicate frequent requests for more money.

Are they growing or are they dying? Either way they aren't doing it through revenue, and they're not going public so the financials stay very hidden.
Not at all. Dollars are required to be accepted for all debts, public or private, within the United States.
It absolutely has. The vulnerability was detected with a vulnerability scanner built in Wallarm. As for detection of attacks, in many cases, it's much easier to identify the attacker when he runs several requests than to stop only one request with a ready-to-use 0day exploit. And what's even more important, you need help to fix vulnerability unless attacker discovers it and find the way to evade WAF
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He wrote it...
I would argue that people with those crazy LED headlights are even worse. Since I often work late, I get the pleasure of being temporarily blinded as a white dwarf passes by at 45mph regularly.
All is not friendly in the shire, remember this post from a few years ago?

https://www.quora.com/When-will-Palantir-go-public
Or MS has fuzzed it, it was terribly productive, and they fixed the bugs without confessing how they found them.
> Bright light, especially blue light makes your body react like it's daytime.

You're preaching to the choir. I'm well aware of the melatonin-reducing effects of blue light, but the streetlights are a drop in the bucket compared to phones, televisions, and tablets. The one time I actually want to have my melatonin levels suppressed is when it's late and I'm operating heavy machinery.
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High acquisition cost, low margin businesses are really hard. This is why it'll take another decade to dethrone craigslist.

All these businesses are great ideas with great solutions, the problem comes down to an unsustainable acquisition model.
> I live in a country with backwards financial laws; no PayPal and ridiculous credit card regulations. Bitcoin has been the only way I could purchase stuff/ pay for books/servers online.

What country?
The main issue doctors are alarmed about is how the increased blue light affects circadian rhythm and not the fact that we're exposed to it. Our bodies interpret blue light as a signal that it's daylight and we should be active. All sorts of biological processes are tied to it. Significant blue light at night screws the entire system up.

Focused blue light can improve alertness and other functions. That's why light therapy has seen some significant successes in treating seasonal affective disorder, some forms of depression, and other disorders. But there's no free lunch involved here; you're more or less manipulating your circadian rhythm, and eventually, those periods of increased alertness are effectively offset. With the light therapy and SAD example, that's exactly what you want to do: you're effectively telling your body that it's daytime, you need to be active instead of sluggish, and winter is just trying to screw with you. It should help eliminate oversleeping (common with SAD), but that doesn't mean you suddenly need less sleep. The same thing would apply here as well.
Anybody who thinks this offer is meant to benefit employees isn't looking much beyond the surface. The fact that it includes a release of claims, a noncompete clause, and an NDA is a solid clue that this move is intended to benefit Palantir and not employees.

Edit: forgot noncompete clause.
But what's your point? Ethereum is not decentralised because... there are social dynamics? What do you want to do about it? The protocol is decentralised, the technology is completely agnostic to anything but the will of the majority. Of course there will be social dynamics and people will discuss things and read things and coordinate and influence one another. That does not invalidate the whole thing.
When you feel the need to be "brutally honest" about something, STFU.

If you feel the need to offer unsolicited critique, STFU.

If you feel the need to announce the stupidity of some person/thing, STFU.

Don't gossip.

You need to learn how to live in a bureaucracy and function. If people are telling you to your face that your toxic in a formal setting, the consensus is that you're an Asshole.
All investing is speculation.
As long as a sizeable majority of LED streetlight in current usage have the blue color temperature (currently, as far as I know all, or almost all of them do), that's an acceptable approximation.

In any case, the original article's title mentions white LED streetlights -- so I guess making that clear in the title here might help.
> I don't see the emergence of any new 'superpower' and America will likely remain the only 'superpower' in the classical sense, but it won't be as powerful as it is today - relatively speaking.

Maybe. But the trend towards privatising military force could end up accelerating USA's slide down in terms of military power. If we are indeed moving back to the "normal" (historically speaking) "neo medieval" world were military force is generally mercenary and not national standing armies - coupled with the commodization of advanced military technology - the world could radically change quite quickly.

Maybe the USA won't be able to pay its contractors - and China and/or Russia can? Maybe China will restructure the PLA as the world's biggest military contractor?

I don't really think you are wrong - but it can be tricky to predict the future. Perhaps especially the sudden stumbles we seem to make every so often as a species back into new dark ages and decent into chaos.
I just don't understand why people keep repeating that
Indeed. I'd be curious which employees (if any) were included, and why.
Not hugely known, but he also had a consulting firm: http://tofflerassociates.com/
They should still get props for the rate at which they were able to recruit from Stanf/MIT/Princeton etc.
Like ideonexus says, Vinge for sure. You might also try Minsky, particulary Society of Mind (http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/index.html).
Then they failed. In the same way as a startup that raised $x in VC and after burning through 50% decided that it didn't work and give the money back would be considered as failed.

Investors invest because they expect a certain return. Doesn't matter if it's VCs investing in startups or LPs investing in VCs.

In case you're wondering if they would have to give the money back: Technically, they don't have all the money. VCs 'request' money over time from their LPs (they do 'capital calls').
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Perhaps not the most neutral source for information. I found their summaries of paywalled articles to be a bit... misleading. They'll sell you Swarovski crystals and Himalayan salt lamps though.
Surely then we could use blue-white LEDs on highways an in commercial areas where most of the driving time is spent and warmer colors in residential areas that are just the last minute or two of the drive and are where people are trying to sleep?
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Hey, admittedly I responded without reading your blog post. Sorry about that.

In my defense, I've spent a lot of time on /r/ethereum where a lot of people think that 51% of miners are capable of changing the protocol.

Could you elaborate on the issue, I take it you're referring to this

> In a proof-of-work blockchain, nobody rational would follow a fork with less than 50% of the mining power behind it because it would be vulnerable to attack by anonymous miners unless there were also a change in the hashing algorithm that required an investment in different kinds of hardware.
Even when it screws up those levels for hours after you get out of the car?

We could mandate that people driving at night must drink at least one cup of coffee per half hour, and it would make them be more awake in the short term, but it would be a terrible idea for similar reasons.
Whatever the reasoning, it probably was justified in a similar manner as http.sys is justified (which is a ring 0 HTTP server Microsoft ships with IIS).
Seems as though the story has been spiked. Kind of disappointing from YC, considering they promote learning from failure.
Alternatively: A market can afford to be 'wrong' for longer than you can afford to bet against it.
oh yeah ... the concept definitely has lots of unanswered questions :P

> I'm not sure I follow, if they take their 20% equity (to put into the next property) they wouldn't be entitled to receive any rent from the next tenant.

I think maybe I wasn't as clear as I could have been ... what I mean is 20% ownership here. So when they "leave", they're not removing that value from that property. They maintain ownership of that "20%", and reap the rewards until their share is ultimately bought out and dwindles to zero.

The corollary to that, is that they wouldn't have to take the value in order to finance their next tenancy ... if they could find another place to enter into the same kind of agreement, they simply move in and start paying there.
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It's not that much of a joke, more of a curiosity, if you choose to look at both words from a certain angle. I realize that their etymology might be different, but in the end of the day their spelling has become close and the concepts they denote have also developed certain commonalities.
One of the many hats that I wear at my day job is optics designer. An issue is that the white LED is a particular thing. It's a blue LED coated with a phosphor that absorbs some of the blue light, re-emits it at a broad range of longer wavelengths, while also passing some of the remaining blue light through.

The blue is special -- 473 nanometers -- due to the solid state physics of the semiconductor.

There is indeed an ongoing search for white LED designs that produce less glaring blue without sacrificing overall efficiency, but counterintuitively it's a hard design problem. People also want warmer light in their houses, so the problem is not limited to street lighting.

The safety regulations have a special place in hell for "retinal blue" light. As it turns out every wavelength from UV into the IR has a set of weighting functions for estimating the overall hazard exposure. It's possibly a rare example of a truly science based regulation.
If I were in your shoes, the first thing I would do is take this review as a signal to look for a new job. I would consider seeing a therapist as well.
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The Mac App Store should have solved that problem, but they have severely neglected it, both as a software component and a business service.
Definitely it is, but what outcome would you prefer and why?
Remind me
It's because all the security guys (as we're) troll a lot and always skeptical (reasonably!) about blackboxes
Google has a library called libphonenumber[1] that does phone number parsing, namely for Android. Just a heads up. It's got ports in a half dozen languages, and the names and platforms are similar enough I mistook this title for a C port at first glance.

[1] https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber
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Big presence at CMU career events, too.
Lisp is not a functional programming language.

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ill agree nothing is zero risk. But there is way safer stuff than DAO
How about being able to build taller buildings in order to support higher population densities in major cities?

Most cities in the US have all kinds of zoning regulations that prevent cities from reaching higher population densities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11918230. For example, there are quite a few livable cities in the world supporting > 15,000 per sq km, most cities in the US hardly reach half that amount.

This is definitely not a free market phenomenon; I am pretty sure that in a free market (or even a market with rationally determined, not NIMBY based regulations), there would be increases in population density of major cities in the US.
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Many of us find it obscene and a bit ridiculous that this easily-manipulated sham for the foolish-minded is even mentioned on HN. Having worked as a software engineer since 1991 -- with a CS degree from UC Berkeley no less -- I cannot think of a single serious-minded peer who takes BTC seriously, all computer people too.

I find it questionable that, just because the U.S. Government has been duped to allow this ETF -- while simultaneously doing everything in their power to undermine BTC -- we somehow must suffer to find BTC held up as a legitimate medium of exchange.

It's really not. It wasn't several years ago when everyone was told "soon it will be accepted everywhere cash and credit cards are" -- and it's not now a legitimate medium of exchange.

Some one(s) will eventually recognize BTC for what it is: a purely speculative gamble, and not a legitimate or safe means of exchange.

THIS IS THE U.S. GOVT. -- 3 years ago:
https://gigaom.com/2013/05/14/homeland-security-seizes-funds...

THIS IS THE U.S. GOVT. -- 9 months ago:
"U.S. government is calling bitcoin anything but a currency"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/08/25/the-fede...

Many of us who read HN fully believe that touting or merely holding up speculative gambling indulgences is just not appropriate.

If you like, have a look here for just a small history of victims of BTC, and keep well in mind BTC is not accepted in lieu of cash, credit cards, etc., so the argument 'regular money gets stolen too' doesn't wash, because BTC has no practical utility as a medium of exchange, making it illogical for anyone but a gambler to 'invest' in it:

THIS LIST IS 2 YEARS OLD
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337
"To achieve that kind of speed and resolution, the [Connectom] machine draws 22 megawatts of power"

Can that be right? The average large US hospital uses only 2.1MWe on average.

Source: Table H6 of https://www.eia.gov/consumption/commercial/reports/2007/larg...
(57 billion kWhe annually for 3,040 large hospitals)
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Exactly. Take the 300%+ return . Get out of the game ahead. Doubling down is risky.
I can't go back and ask that woman, but my wife nearly did the same and was in fact in computer science.

My wife: was capable in computer science, got through 3 years of a degree before kids interfered, was mildly interested in career prospects but very relieved to realize that I could fully support her, was mildly interested in the subject matter

Had my wife taken another year to become pregnant, she'd have graduated. That would put her in your statistic as a woman who graduated but didn't end up in the field. As it is, she's in the "women who drop out of computer science" group, usually assumed to have been pushed out somehow.

Actually graduating and having a career was kind of a "Plan B" thing, although my wife wasn't quite as deliberate as that other woman.

I met another woman who dropped the career about a year after graduating in computer science from a near-top school. She went on leave to have a baby, then simply stayed home. She didn't need the money, so why be away from the adorable little baby?

These women don't have the values that you evidently have. They aren't being pushed out. They are being pulled away by things that they value more. They don't have to comply with your value system.
Out of curiosity, how do you buy bitcoin?
Why should they "get props" for duping graduates into wasting time joining their flailing business? That sounds like a trick, not a benefit.
Wouldn't Founders Fund $ signal better than Accel money?
Her blog shows her as a very curious young person who is not only meddling in programming but also in history, politics and 3d-printing :)

I had to laugh hard when reading "Pour construire sur 3DSlash, il suffit de savoir jouer à Minecraft." [~ For constructing in 3DSlash, it's sufficient to know how to play Minecraft.] That's the right attitude!
That seems like the right answer to me. I still think the streetlights make very little difference compared to the time that the average person spends looking at a screen, however. In my experience the only time I'm looking at streetlights are when I'm in a car, or walking to one. On the other hand I probably average three hours a night looking at a screen.
Actually, that isn't quite right. All the negatives you mention should push you away from investing in stocks only if you think that other investment options under those scenarios would do better. But why would they ?
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