skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author makes a lot of assumptions about DAO holders. I am both an ETH and DAO holder. I am pro hardfork, not because I will get my DTH back, but because 1) the consequences of the attacker having that much ETH as Ethereum migrates to PoS and 2) it's much better than eternal white hat battles to control the DTH and the drama it would bring. TBH if we could just destroy all the DTH without a HF, I would be happiest with that solution. But, of course that cannot be done. I would prefer if the HF just burned the DTH.

Slock.it was very irresponsible not to cap The DAO from the beginning. Growing pains.

I didn't vote with carbonvote.com because I didn't have to. It was clear the HF was going to win. No need to mess with my cold wallets. There was no perfect outcome from this situation, but I see the HF as the least bad.

IMHO Bitcoin could use a HF, but they can't get one due to the centralization of mining in a few Chinese companies. I see that as a negative.

The threshold for a HF will likely grow for Ethereum as the network grows due to the diversity of stakeholders and their interests. These are very early times for Ethereum, and even for Bitcoin.

Ethereum does have more scheduled hard forks coming, BTW. The switch to PoS is going to require one.
Japanese have a different concept of sacredness and sacrilege than what we Westerners are used to. In Christianity, God is inherently good -- the source of all good things -- so anything which desecrates, trivializes, or insults God is inherently evil. Note the use of increasingly obscure terms to refer to God rather than calling him by name -- "just to be safe" -- especially in Judaism.

In Japan, the kami aren't really good or evil -- they just are. Most of them are more like neighbors than lord and master of the earth. So paying them respect can take many forms, including offering them cute shrines. I'm sure people believe that if the kami were angry about it, they'd let you know.
As an aside, I've found BT's DNS to be very flaky; sometimes down (or unreachable at least) for many hours at a time. I switched to google's and never had any problems since.
It seems like a squad of crows could do some real damage to a person.

A group of crows is called a murder, not that it matters, but it fits the theme of the story a bit.
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It'll need to grow a concept of "I" first, and that's probably not very likely; there's a reasonable case that self-awareness is an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
A pizza in a restaurant, a pizza in a supermarket and a pizza delivery are all pizzas, but they're not the same product and differences in price is only one factor.
Well I don't do it any more but at the time I tried lots of different approaches, some people just don't seem to have the mental capability to handle the abstractions.
The problem with telemetry/analytics is not that they exist. The problem is, no one knows what they do, and everyone's afraid they may send something sensitive.

Give me a dialog somewhere, in which I would be able to see what's going to be sent (in somewhat human-readable format - i.e. not binary but a slightly commented source for that binary), a place to ask questions ("hey, there's a weird long hex string among the data - what does it encode?") and I'll be completely satisfied, and even praise them for doing things the smart and conscious-user-friendly way.

Well, as long as telemetry doesn't send something I consider sensitive, like an actual screenshots or keystrokes, of course.
No, you're not entitled to your opinion
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I had a financial accounting professor who would recount the quote, "Profit is an opinion, but cash is a reality."

The 10k's we would go over took a lot of analysis to understand financially and operationally if the company is in good shape based on the stated numbers.
They should speak to the awesome folks at the Open Tech Fund. https://www.opentech.fund/
Looks like something straight out of True Detective
> As close as possible and as close as profitable are vastly different goals.

Sure, if you want to set up a non-profit or p2p social network (or contribute to an existing one) then good luck getting widespread adoption.

I sympathise, in the social networking world you're bound to the low common denominator of the group you want to talk to.

As a niche user you have a set of opinions that may or may not be bourne out by evidence of majority behaviour. The majority seems to without fail opt for profit-making services because they're usually higher quality & the conditions are broadly considered acceptable.

Edit: Corrected "down-sides" to "conditions" because I don't consider them entirely negative.
I didn't make any comment on the validity of the decision, just that the 9th tends to err much farther left than the other circuits and appeals of its decisions are much more frequently successful.
Ah got it - thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense now.
Yea - the comment above cleared it up. Apparently the Cuckoo filter should have rejected the latter inserts.
Eh? IMO it's their appearance and style that makes them cute, not their violent tendencies! I never hear two cats scrapping in an alleyway and think 'how cute!'.
I know this might sound political, but I'm still curious if there are enough laws and regulation surrounding digital security.

I guess companies are catching up and implementing good enough measures to protect their users, but sometimes I wonder if there are enough incentives so that companies can really start to invest in security, especially when you hear about big credit card leaks.

Of course governments might not be really be able to make the difference between actual security, privacy and consumer rights, but I'm just talking about auditing big companies where the money stakes are high and where damage can happen easily. I mean there already a lot of security measures in the real world, and it doesn't seem there are enough efforts being made in the digital world.

Meanwhile you can of course argue that letting systems being insecure can become an asset if your "computer agency" can benefit from it.
Why sadly? Is there any meaningful discourse - AT ALL - that's been upended by Twitter "censoring" posts or banning users?

If they never have impeded on peoples abilities to have meaningful conversations and exchanging of ideas, then what exactly is the problem? If all you want to do is fling poo, go to the zoo (rhyme unintended).
another great use case is dependency injection as seen in https://larsjung.de/ghor/
So can mouse poop, but it's extraordinarily rare so no one really worries about it, well no one sane. Err present company excluded ;)

http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/

It's rare enough that individual cases end up on TV.
What you are saying is definitely true. People in third world countries made over the past many bad decisions, and I think that is mostly due to the lack of education, and an absence of honorable ruling class. But still the west is playing a big role in that matter too. those countries are still maintaining bad influence over their colonies or areas of interest. Draining at the same time human and financial wealth crucial for these countries to rise as decent nations. Mallence give an interesting talk on that matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pvNp9gHjfk
IMO there is no reason to think that is the case. If you feel comfortable doing all in JS it sure is a fitting choice. But for example also Rails comes with real time functionality these days.

I still strongly believe there is no right or better in the web, just different approaches for the same solutions.

If you are not yet fully focused on JS, but have no idea what else, just pick a community you think you would like to be part of. (This for example disables me to use PHP, JS & .NET)
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So, you just want to explain the error further? Wonderful. RFC2616

> the server SHOULD include an entity containing an explanation of the error situation

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The 3-digit status code tells consumers (1) the status category (success, redirect, client error, server error) and (2) a more specific status within that category. It does that in a way that doesn't require me turning to your API docs every 3 seconds.
Nice Wall•E reference there
>...who I wouldn't trust with ten cents.

Interestingly the entire point of bitcoin, for example, is that you don't need to trust anyone at all.
How many bytes do you need for one single pixel?
This quickly went to you say this, I say this. These are very interesting statements, it would be nice if they were supported by citations.
Are there any academics here who could shed light on who is considered more intelligent - a Crow or a Raven?

I am aware Ravens are known to mimic sounds more than Crows, unless I am mistaken.
The only trouble I have with what you've said are in your examples for cash basis vs. accrual. Even on a cash basis I have to depreciate capital goods over time. The capital asset still has value regardless of my accounting method, so in a sense I've converted the cash (an asset) into a machine (another kind of asset). I still expense over time under the cash method because I'm representing things like wear and obsolescence rather than showing the commitment to an expense vs. the actual settlement of that commitment.

I think it's easier to demonstrate on the revenue side: if I sell a customer something and give them 30 days to pay, under the cash method I don't record the sale until I actually receive the cash whereas under the accrual method I record the sale when I invoice the customer: in the cash basis Accounts Receivable is basically a non-booking account and under the accrual method Accounts Receivable is an asset account. (Note I'm ignoring issues of deferred revenue :-) ).

I do think your definitions are sound.

Note: there are some U.S. tax rules about the first $X yearly capital purchases being immediately depreciable each year (though it's a relatively small amount).
We've updated the story - did some more investigation. Definitely looks like it was Telecity.
The success of an operating system depends on the availability of other applications. By extra focus on developers they are hoping to grow the ecosystem.

At least that's my understanding of it.
How so? You can cross the street at any time you feel like it, with zero risk of being hit. In my experience they are vastly more pedestrian-friendly than crosswalks. What problem are you thinking of?

The overpasses at lujiazui are very popular with tourists who want to pose in front of the pearl tower for a photo. Try that in the middle of a street.
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Thanks for this. My approach would be to phone the company directly, and have a chat with HR or the person responsible for the job opening. I believe that'll give me a first advantage over others and a bigger chance to get a foot in the door. After the phone call I'll send him/her an email which functions as my cover letter with resume in PDF attached.

Based on your and the other comments, I think a list of skills is 'required', but might be meaningless without context (as in, where did you apply this)
Well they own exchange to home. Since unbundling it's a bit fuzzy as most of them have their DSLAM in the exchange and pay rents for space in exchange and run virtual over BT's backbone and so forth. But at least it freed up a lot more competition. Hence Sky asking for Fibre cabinet unbundling recently.

If it was A&A or Zen's chairman quoted there'd have been no need for snark. ;)
Well done, i hope you made some €€€ on it...
Here we go again. There has already been countless discussions on HN about why Slack has raised instead of IRC, see (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541) for instance.

In short: Slack is what you get when you have a team managing an IRC server with all the nice plugins and bots and building a single UI that does everything. You can spend your time setting up the same thing, or you can go to Slack.
Likely there's a small mountain of trackable and connected data in Twitters datacenters that they can act on.

But this is a private company with their relevant terms and conditions, and not a court of law. They are therefor not required to publicize private company data.
Perhaps a more serious point is that a single power failure (in one data center) can have such a wide impact.
Because it was. This and ubuntu repo was not working on my PC during BT outage, other sites worked. After BT sorted it out I didn't have any problems. I asumme that it was the issue with some BT connection between me and dropbox server
The confusing words you hate are pretty much standard terms in every earnings press release ever written.
That blog post simply shows that Ron Jeffries failed to understand the core problem of "how to solve Sudoku puzzles" (or lost interest before he succeeded, which explains why he spent so much time on the data representation aka "bike shedding" or "yak shaving") and is no indictment of TDD, which is not a magic elixir that allows you to "organically" solve every possible problem.

> horrible, terrible software architectures

1) Need an example. 2) There is no evidence that the architecture would have not been even MORE horrible AND terrible without the TDD involvement

> needlessly solidifying the architecture prematurely

As all code (whether "test code" or "tested code") is wont to do. Perhaps the fallacy here is considering test code as a separate, "optional" entity in your codebase instead of as an integrated proof of it working as advertised.

> willing to bet the bug reduction ... comes from thinking about the requirements

Still not an argument against TDD. If anything, that's an argument FOR it. The difference being at the end of the day, you have a working proof of the satisfaction of your requirements.

Whiteboarding and TDD are not mutually-exclusive. I don't think that TDD at all implies "not thinking about the problem" nor does using it turn a crappy programmer (who would tend to choose terrible designs over better ones) into a good one. I think you are still constrained by the skill of the programmer no matter whether you use TDD or not. As TDD is just human-produced code, like all code.

NPM could have had lots of fresh out of college monkeys work on it for all I know. It certainly wouldn't surprise me. You're right that TDD won't fix being an inexperienced programmer, but that's not an anti-TDD argument, that's an anti-inexperienced-developer argument.

Lastly, you failed to address the other arguments I made in favor of using TDD (note: there's some conflation here between "unit testing" in general and TDD specifically unfortunately)
I don't think so, because if he claims "the code" is everything and even if the judges accept that argument, then the logical consequence is that, if "the code" allows for a hard fork, then the hard fork is "the code" as much as his attempt to drain funds.
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I had a lot of fun writing this one! Especially part two (to appear soon), which is about huge single-color images...
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The infuriating this is that whenever this happens at BT, they say nothing about the cause and nothing about how they will prevent recurrence. As a BT Infinity customer, I've had a total loss of internet several times over the last couple of years and never any feedback from BT afterwards.
The Turkish government needs to do this because the population generally has quite anti-US sentiments, and they are already vulnerable as the coup showed. Continuing to publically stand with the US would be politically very dangerous for them.
This is great! I'll just let this evolve a bit, and wait for broader community support, and then I'll happily replace bash by this shell!
I would be interested, but the way it's set up is kind of tailored to the way my friends work. It would take some time to make it more generally useful. I think there other platforms out there that do the same thing in a more generic fashion.
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It might mean the opposite.

GAAP rulea may dictate they book the revenue over the life of the OS to better match liabilities in the form of updates. MSFT want to book all the revenue now as an "economic reality".

It sounds like they're also claiming restructurings of their phone hardware division was a "one time charge" and removing those expenses, again, to better represent the "economic reality".
Should he be responsible for his follower's actions?
One way to do escrow is with 2-of-3 signatures. If both parties to the transaction sign, the escrow agent doesn't have to get involved. On Ethereum it's easy to implement as a smart contract that lets the escrow agent choose who gets the money, and pays the agent a fee for the service (but nothing otherwise).

Participants aren't necessarily anonymous; if you're buying from a known vendor and having something shipped to your house, neither party is all that anonymous. People are working on adding verified identities, for people who want them.

Ethereum hopes to do away with mining by early 2017.
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I am new to the workforce, but landed a job where I will be working very closely with a billionaire on the Forbes 400. How do I make the best of this, and stand out?
First, write your application for the job you're looking for, or at least interviewing for. Also write it for the culture of the team. The language of the job specification should have plenty of hints there, since a hiring manager (aka, whoever will be your manager) probably wrote it. Blog posts, too, if available. This doesn't mean parroting back their language, just try to figure out what makes them tick.

Apply selectively. Construct a narrative about your career that shows an inevitable trend towards the exact role you're looking to fill. Employers are generally looking for someone to shore up a skills gap, or augment an existing team. The job spec generally makes this an open book exam.

Really, the biggest thing is figuring out what sort of role you want, and trying to see your career through the lens of the person hiring for that role.
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That's actually a clear distinction. How did you separate the technology (programming languages, tooling) from the practices (TDD, agile)?
And when will someone show them PostgreSQL's ltree[1]?

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html
Thank you for the feedback. I like the idea of lifting the cap for number of dimensions. I hardcoded a limit of 4 to handle the standard XYZM, but the implementation could technically handle around 20.
I wonder what the other NATO members would think of their anti-US stance.
Here's a different perspective, which I will admit in advance is kind of ridiculous, but it makes me think...

Why are humans not considered to be a part of nature? I think it’s because we consider ourselves to be more intelligent than other animals/organisms and therefore assume it to be our responsibility to actively protect nature. However, this is based on our own moral standards, which were created by us, likely as a result of our ability to empathize.

A human eating an apple and discarding the core seems pretty natural to me (though it’s not, by definition). If this has an impact on the wildlife population, then perhaps it was “meant to be”.

Going out of our way to preserve nature seems more unnatural. Nature should have no expectation of our intelligence, so perhaps the human-caused destruction of the world is itself natural.

Then again, perhaps our increased intelligence is natural, so going out of our way to preserve nature is natural.

As you can see, I basically have no point here. It’s just an interesting thought train that I felt like expressing.

Of course, this argument could be extended to just about anything that a human does, including pumping oil directly into the ocean, which is why I’m not actually trying to argue this point.

I guess what I am saying is that if humans are left unregulated, nature seems to find a way to restore sanity. An example of this is the over prescription of antibiotics which has led to a decrease in their overall effectiveness. It seems like nature will always win in the end.
The black market is a false dichotomy. Either you need the money for your work, then negotiate a reasonable price, or you don't, then disclosing it for free might actually helps someone not to be lowballed by BigCo the next time.

There really should be a bug marketplace, instead of one side having all the power and paying pennies.
Substitute women and POC with other demographics. Does his status as a human being change?
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it seems to come down to two main points, as far as consumer tech companies go:

1. GAAP says that revenue from a software service subscription (e.g. cloud service) can only be counted as revenue once the service has been delivered, not at time of sale.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ea-to-ease-non-gaap-usage-a...

http://www.grayboxpdx.com/blog/post/revenue-recognition-for-...

2. Equity-based compensation is accounted for as a cost.

http://mercercapital.com/financialreportingblog/equity-based...
There are already laws and regulations on sponsored content. The recent PewDiePie et al. fiasco even made it to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086047
The DAO is dead. The ether is going to the token holders, not to the DAO contract. Hopefully people have learned their lesson about putting so much in one big convoluted contract.
I don't know about uWSGI, but here is what it says at httproxy.org

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Python code must be deployed under CGI to be vulnerable. Usually, that’ll mean the vulnerable code will use a CGI handler like wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler

This is not considered a normal way of deploying Python webapps (most people are using WSGI or FastCGI, both of which are not affected),
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I think that shaving is a symptom of a weird mental illness: why would I want to remove the marks of adulthood & maturity from my body and look like a little boy instead of what I am, a man?

It's weird to me that shaving isn't seen by society as something restricted to a few deviants; rather, it's almost universal among adult males.
I just finished reading last Chomsky book and that kind of post tastes so differently now.

For example, that sentence is really strange:

From the American perspective, Turkey has never been fully committed to the war against Islamist groups in Syria.
What seems to be missed in this analysis starts here:

> That worked as long as P&G’s other advantages in technical superiority, advertising, and distribution held, but were they ever to falter, it was eminently viable to sell cartridges for less and still make a healthy margin.

For Dollar Shave Club there was no real technical superiority, and AWS disrupted the distribution. Is drafting off of others' technical innovations replicable? Sure, but you're not alone. AWS is a resource now available to almost anyone. Are "viral videos" replicable? Hardly. DSC hasn't even managed it themselves.

Until someone disrupts creative direction then the kind of disruption referred to in this article is a long ways off.
That might work if you got referred to the company, of if you talk directly to the person who you'll work for. My experience is that HR essentially treats your resume as a checklist, like a first filter.
Given that the supposed signature isn't even in a valid format, it's unlikely to be the hacker.
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I bought an even-older-fashioned straight razor for $75 very nearly fifteen years ago, and it's still working just fine. I've spent more on strops since then.