skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No - the actions of a bureaucrat, or a bureaucratic committee are not grounds for court decisions. A court could force them to treat bitcoin a currency, but they can't force a court to recognize bitcoin as property.
It changes things by a factor of 2, since a Gray code increment flips exactly one bit, while a regular binary increment flips 2 bits on average.

That's ignoring all the logic required to
figure out exactly which bits to flip...
> The USMS will not transfer any bitcoins until it has confirmed receipt of purchase funds from the buyer.

I wonder if you can reverse the wire and keep the bitcoins.

> The USMS will not transfer bitcoins to an obscene public address, a public address apparently in a country restricted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a public address apparently associated with terrorism, other criminal activities, or otherwise hostile to the United States.

How would a bitcoin address be located in a foreign country? Or even located anywhere?

And wouldn't anyone participating in this create a brand new address with the private key in cold storage?
They're there if you just do a little Googling. Unity Technologies, SteelSeries, Zendesk come to mind.
At the level of security where you need to be paranoid about the operating system developers, how do you know the source code Microsoft shows you, corresponds to the Windows binaries running on your machines? (Let alone to the sum and total of all binary patches applied thereto?)
It's a one time action. They're operating under what they know right now. In the future, if things change with how the government treats Bitcoin, they'll probably change their liquidation procedures accordingly.
Yes you are correct, but I'm not talking about clean code on frontend.

The user doesn't care about any code. If it works, it works.

I understand clean code is for the developer(s). That's precisely my point. You don't always need to go through a SOLID checklist with your project.

Sometimes you have deadlines, sometimes you're the only dev and you know the project will die post-launch. So if it works; you're good.

I'm not sure why this part of my original comment is confusing or controversial:

"sometimes it's a trade-off in deciding your approach knowing the lifetime requirements and maintability needs of a project which only comes from experience"

A purist push for design patterns and paradigms for every project is not based in the real-world.
I second this. To further illustrate that semantics is far more than syntax and that emotions are an inseparable part of understanding language, do the following experiment: take any word or concept and look up its definition in a dictionary. Take note of the words used in the definition and look up the meaning of those words. Repeat recursively and if you go far enough down the tree you will find that all words lead to self-recursive definitions that state "it is a feeling of" this or that. This is proof that semantics of language - and intelligence required to grasp it's semantics - is inseparable from subjective states.
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You are absolutely right. No excuses!
Sure, I mean I didn't say I actually use this test to make hiring decisions. I can just directly test lots of things like ability to code or problem solve (not perfectly for sure, but I do my best to evaluate directly the skills that can be evaluated directly). I am just making the point that there are often very highly correlated attributes that people can have, and one that is easy to test for can give you a lot of information about the ones that are harder to see.
> Also, another random oddity: somewhere in one of its built in libraries there was a function for validating email addresses. It was returning true on a bunch of very obviously bad address formats, so I looked up the source and found that all the function did was verify its argument wasn't the empty string.

My favourite comment of the whole thread.
RDDs are not obsolete. The reason dataframes are faster is exactly because they are more restrictive than RDDs. If you need to run arbitrary code, RDDs are stil more flexible.
The money doesn't appear to defend itself, and thus, boom: Default judgement.
Why would user security be compromised by NFC access any more than WiFi access or Bluetooth access? Or does Apple not provide APIs at the same abstraction level for WiFi/Bluetooth that the banks are requesting for NFC?
That's the Glomar Response. You're probably thinking of this podcast http://www.radiolab.org/story/confirm-nor-deny/
iPhones aren't cages, they're serviced apartments. You pay a bit more and you don't get a choice on the decor, but you also don't have to vacuum the carpet, put out the trash, replace broken light bulbs, or lug heavy furniture around.

Apple makes it abundantly clear that they're selling an integrated solution. Anyone who cares about this knows this. It's not strictly Apple's fault if people who want a different deal buy their product in error.
This is a great project with a very interesting goal that I'm not sure everyone (or perhaps myself?) understands.

What it's trying to do is create a more distributed version of the BGP / IP system we use to route traffic today. So instead of organizations like ARIN and APNIC that assign addresses and AS numbers (for BGP routing), you just generate your own IPv6 addresses, derived from a private key, and then it peers with whomever you want to peer with. There is no centralized step here, all you need is authentication information from the servers you want to peer with.

I actually see this more as a replacement for BGP. BGP is what really routes all the internet traffic around, and then the IP is like the end-point for that routing. BGP has a similar work flow to the way you use Cjdns (find peers, connect to them, get more redundant routing paths).

Why bother? Well, the IP/BGP ASN allocation process is a complicated, centralized, manual, expensive mess. I've recently acquired some IP space and an ASN and it took a long time and a lot of difficult work to get it all worked out. With Cjdns, you just boot it up, peer with some upstreams and you're ready to go. And because it uses IPv6 for the exit, it works with any application that supports IPv6, so it's compatible with pretty much everything, no rewriting is needed.

A lot of people don't like that it isn't perfectly anonymous, but that's okay. It's trying to be as fast and efficient as possible, as opposed to something like Tor that is trying to improve privacy and anonymity at the expense of performance. You can always run things like Tor on top of it if you want to do that. Anyways, we don't know if Tor is the final answer to that problem, so this allows you to solve the routing problem, and then implement protocols to deal with the privacy/anonymity problem above that.

I'd really love to see this project get more adoption, but it's going to be an uphill battle to get a large amount of the internet peering through it.

I'm not sure if this is the best way to describe cjdns, so feel free to correct me on any of this.
Looks like they have other ways of handling it with Bitcoin: https://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2016/bitcoinauction/index....
That assumes we are constrained to a single planet, and solar system. I'm not sure why once we have the ability to settle other planets and solar systems, why we would ever really be constrained by overpopulation prior to running up against some other constraint, such as another species.
Try https://github.com/apenwarr/blip - built by google fiber guys for exactly this.
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I thought Trump called him "lyin' Ted" and the zodiac killer thing came from Reddit.
>I find it amusing that the exempt e-money while targeting "digital currency".

I think this is because financial institutions dealing with fiat currencies already have significant regulations that is not intended to apply to.
:-) where are the jokes that plumbing is a hardware problem, not a software one?
One reason to pay over market value, is once you buy these coins from the US Government, the sale legitimizes your ownership of it.

That is, whatever happens in the future between Bitcoins and the Gov/Fed/Treasury, your lot might have a standing in a court of law that other lots might not.

This sale basically cleans these coins from all previous illegitimate and/or illegal transactions that they went through - whether some of these where stolen, used to buy drugs, not reported or accounted for correctly with the IRS, etc.

In a way you are getting a government issued certificate of legitimacy. And you will not have to prove anything - when others will have to prove how they acquired theirs.
I guess it's because the templates don't have to ever be parsed since they're transpiled to Go code at compile-time. It's been a while since I've used Go's template packages but I thought that they're only parsed once no matter how many times you execute it (assuming reuse of the Template struct). So to me, it seems there should really be no difference from just putting the initialization of the template in an init() func.
Looks like some ^ were eaten in that. This has the same quote, makes much more sense.
http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25392
So what do you do when people work until 11pm every night and keep showing up on Saturday? Tell them to go home?

There are teams where people are having more fun 'kicking ass' and getting things done, and have a great time with the people they are there doing it with, and frankly they would laugh you out of the building (literally) if you even for one second referred to them as 'resources'. I have seen people wander into the office on the weekend just because they were bored (including myself), or were looking to hang out and hack on some stuff. It's not something that burns you out, it's a passion for some people. The good people.

I think you have had a very limited (and limiting) work experience, to be honest.
That story was a classic train wreck in slow motion. As I started reading about the tub overflow, I thought "What? Is this an over reaction to someone forgetting to turn off the faucet? Serious water damage, sure, but could happen to anyone...".

But as I kept reading, I kept reeling back further and further from the screen... That's just crazy!
>I wonder if you can reverse the wire and keep the bitcoins.

Once cleared, wires can't be reversed without the recipient's permission. Their liquid, irreversible nature is why people use them (and not, say, checks or ACH) for high value transactions.
Rat lungworm comes from the slime from snails (maybe slugs too). Presumably you peeled the mangos and didn't eat any exposed flesh which would have been overripe and discolored. It's the unwashed raw produce in Hawaii that has a risk of rat lungworm in Hawaii. And the snails, but presumably you didn't eat any snails either, though they are large and edible when properly cooked.

However, the skin of mangos contain trace amounts of a toxin similar to that in poison ivy/oak, and some people can react to it in their skins--though not life threatening.

There are some things in Hawaii which can kill you. If the article author had taken the same bite from the be-still fruit (Cascabela thevetia), she'd most likely be dead. A couple of others too: castor bean (ricin) and black-eye Susan beans (can't remember the exact name). They're all plants that were imported as ornamentals and are now spreading invasively. Edited to add: some native plants can be dangerous as well: all parts of the taro plant must be cooked to get rid of oxalic acid cristals which will severely irritate your mouth and throat.

The author of the original article is truly a Darwin Award seeker, something about tropical vacations make people leave their brains at home--they take the tropical paradise meme far too literally. Though I guess we now have an accurate medical paper on the effects of the manchineel.
Edward Tufte might call it chart junk. It reduces the information to ink ratio. I generally get by just fine by choosing good names, so I don't need extra type checking beyond the standard duck typing.
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Ultimately, Airbnb is just a trap. Hotels already have economy of scale working for them. They bother to pay for insurance to protect themselves from things like this, and have the ability to bill you directly if you cause damage.

Anyone renting out space on AirBNB and beating a hotel's price is probably either - skipping out on things like insurance (which will eventually bite them, cf this article), skipping out on quality of accommodations, or otherwise shorting /themselves/ out of what the market would pay for that space. The few exceptions are things like niche locations that are very near to a particular destination (e.g. a university) that has a predictable if low-volume draw that doesn't justify a full-scale hotel.
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Congrats Naveen! Very nice work
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen

I've been obsessed with productivity and mindfulness ever since.
Reminds me of the "I have a black friend" argument.

>"It’s probably truer to note that a significant segment of the population isn’t accustomed to reading, or thinking, at an adult level"

This claim is ridiculous. There is no way you can construe this as anything other than racist.
For dating, I recommend Tinder. You can explicitly say you're new to the area and just wanna make friends (they might think you're lying).

You can also go to meetup.com and find stuff you're interested in.

Bars are fun, I guess, but usually people go with groups so meehhhhh.
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It is not amazing how much a company can make on an irrational market pushing full steam ahead? Oops I meant the sharing economy.
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there is a type checker available: http://mypy-lang.org/
Are you catching up with 3D printing weekly blogs from Stratnel?
Apple couldn't really be more disingenuous here. This has nothing to do with user security and everything to do with squelching competition. Competition for them, not for the banks. The banks just want to compete and Apple doesn't want to let them.

This is exactly why I do not own an iPhone.
>> an acquire-hire.

For $350 million is not an acquire-hire.
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Yeah, I don't really understand the anger about this. Financial institutions already have significant regulations. It's not clear to me why the digital currency equivalent institutions shouldn't be treated similarly. If the only argument for digital currency is lack of regulation, it seems that people should be pushing for decreased regulation on financial institutions instead. An end-around regulation just because we're using digital currency as the go-between doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

Big caveat, I haven't read this bill or about this bill enough to know if it goes significantly beyond the regulations for financial institutions. If so, clearly, that's different.
That's a false equivalency. Apple being a closed platform is not an excuse to allow the banks to form a cartel.

If you don't like Apple, you can use Android. But if every bank in Australia decides what you can and can't do with your phone when making payments, where will you go?
I believe the master key sharding he mentions based on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing and has actually been implemented(though I'm not sure if it is at the scale he implies) here https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/seal.html
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Yeah but if the adserver is a black box that's managed by the ad network I would have thought the website could pass the liability on to them (and state this in their ToS somewhere)
www.airbnbhell.com

My 2nd experience as a guest was with a horrid cockroach infested and moldy rental that was supposed to be a "Deluxe Executive Retreat". From that experience I learned that AirBnB really doesn't have a mechanism for dealing with issues. It's a huge PITA to get their attention let alone getting them to take any action.

Like many online services they lean towards covering up issues.
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I actually don't mind advertising. I think it is fair in return for free content. But I have problems with the way many sites do it, because:

1. I don't want autoplay videos (annoying)

2. I don't want animated gifs (makes it hard to concentrate and read)

3. I don't want to be tracked as I browse the Internet (privacy)

4. I don't want malware (security)

Number 4 is particular really gets my goat, because I feel that websites are being civilly negligent by not taking any effort to screen what is being sent to visitors.

Frankly, at the point, I often find myself hoping someone will resurrect Gopher.
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An important thing to realise about the Australian banking market is that we're already a world leader in the adoption of contactless payments using our credit cards. (And unlike the US, our floor limit is $100, which covers almost all transactions. When exceeded, most terminals just prompt for your PIN.)

I'm sure Apple Pay is great, but with an entire continent already familiar with tapping their credit card, tapping a phone doesn't seem like much of an improvement.
What's crazy to me reading this is not that someone left the bath running. It happens, all the time. It's why you carry insurance. And yes, if you rent out your house to 3 different people at once, the odds of this happening is dramatically increased.

Typical leases provide for the owner to enter the premises in an emergency. Clauses for valid trespass I'm sure are quite different when you are sharing just a room of a house. But typically the rule is 24 hours notice, exigent circumstances prevail.

Here's where things get fuzzy. The owner terribly violated the renters privacy. Taking pictures of her bed, of her personal items, of used Kleenex and condoms holy shit, that is terribly wrong. Oh yeah, then they were posted on the Internet. That is a huge lawsuit right there. A flood, however, is certainly exigent circumstances. Owner probably has a right to enter the room to assess safety and make emergency repairs. Owner does not have any right to rifle through personal items and post pictures of it all online.

Now, most leases have clauses disallowing illegal behavior or running a business out of the space, legal or otherwise. In that case the owner can move to evict the tenant. But they cannot break into their room and post pictures of it online. And since it appears she kicked her tenant out, I assume the rental fee will be refunded.

The real point of all this is that accidents happen, and bathtubs flood. Owner did the right thing by calling a professional cleanup crew, although I would call the insurance company first. If there is no insurance policy for the owner, good god that is going to be very expensive, and I'm really sorry it happened.

But shit happens, and flooding a bathtub by accident is not illegal. Hell, it may not be even cause for eviction in some jurisdictions. What I don't get is, where is the woman while the owner is breaking into her room? Did she flee, or was she kicked out? If that happened to me I would be on the scene doing everything possible to help minimize the damage and get things away from the water. Maybe the picture was taken days later, but how could she have left all her stuff like that? I'm confused about this point.
It also helps that if you're seeking it out, you're going to be a lot more motivated than if it's compulsory education.
I get that the sexual nature of the experience elevates the dissatisfaction, but that wasn't really the big deal.

Remove that and what do you have - an accident. Arguably quite careless with the phone but anyone that was verified could have made that mistake.

AirBnB could do a better job with helping to protect hosts, but bottom line - you should NOT rent your home to ANYONE without insurance. Your home should be owned by an LLC too ideally.
> as far as i know it doesn't even introduce changes to the language as it uses comments

That's not the case. See for example https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#type-definition-sy...
Freeman Dyson actually had another way to escape the heat death of the universe: by taking advantage of it.

As the universe cools, the noise of the background radiation will diminish. Dyson posits that this would allow us to build an analog computer which uses less and less energy as time goes on-- it could run forever on a finite store of energy.

So even if the universe "ends", we might be able to build a computer which doesn't.
Blind auction. Everyone makes 1 silent bid, highest wins.
If Western films make it through, it's not hard to imagine Korean educational DVDs getting in.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/22/north-korea...
Honestly it's he same in most places but it's still convenient not to have to worry about your wallet.
So renter forgot to check if the renter had been verified and had a valid credit card on file, blames airbnb for not making it even more obvious than it already is how to check verification of a potential renter.

OK.
Totally agree! We are not looking to make the state run only by a platform.
But we believe there should be an option in our political system that's more open to participation with real impact.
We don't want all the parties to be like us, we don't even wan't to have a majority ever.
We just want to have the option to vote directly and make our voice matter much more than today.
Technology is what allows systems like the state to run, we should update our Civic Operating System!
It's not every bank, you can use ANZ.
Nothing is stopping you from doing something stupid like this though:

func AtRuntime(writer io.Writer){
templ := template.Must(template.New("blah").Parse(templateText))
templ.Execute(writer, someStructhere)
}

Though most sane devs would put the template parsing code in init()