skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, but not everybody has those conditions. Some people have other demands. For example, I would not be able to start a start up for a while even as a recent grad software engineer at a fortune 50 company because:

1. I have to support my mom and siblings every once in a while

2. Am saving up for grad school expenses (even with funding of tuition and such through grants and such, my mother would not be able to support me for the other misc expenses)

3. I can't do part time work as I heavily am depending on the medical insurance my employer provides (nothing life threatening, but I am using all the preventive care now that I never had access to before)

4. Am saving up for a lot of expenses such as cars and such that I will need as I am starting as an adult

But yes, in an ideal world, 50k can get you good. I don't have kids, but it would not be easy for me, and a part time job would not be enough! There is some merit in the constraint of initial conditions.

Edit: And it is not like I don't have drive. I read papers from astrophysical journals and ML journals all the time, and try to include those ideas in side projects. And I have an idea for a startup once I am more comfortable in my later 20s (after grad school).
> There's an obliviousness to the fact that they're driving thousands of pounds of steel and nobody else on the road is protected in the same way.

I think they are, they just don't care in that part of the world. I remember in Cambodia seeing the Lexus SUVs constantly almost running pedestrians and riders over, if you can afford a Lexus in Cambodia, you can afford to get out of trouble for running someone over (although most of the owners had drivers, who would end up taking the fall).
Sorry :) I didn't want to link anything that had potential for bias. Just the account with the amount. But, wow, this post blew up.
Auditing Solidity? Sounds sexy and infernal at the same time. Congratudolences I guess?
That's not true at all. Drug companies bribe prominent doctors with multi-million dollar payments to convince other doctors that drugs are safer and more widely applicable than they actually are. If you refuse to take an opioid painkiller for fear of developing addiction, you are empirically demonstrating that you know more care more than your doctor about the risk/reward profile of the medication.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/drug-companies-do...
Also, 0x1db is a community "white hat" sweep effort and not an attacker (See: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1dba1131000664b884a1ba2384641... )
Should we talk about pay in the office?
I get the sinking feeling that achieving many of these things requires being charismatic and/or attractive and/or extroverted, of which I am none.

This has not been my experience of running a software company and, while speaking for others is always risky, most of the people mentioned in that list are personal friends of mine and I think would react to "good thing you are attractive and extroverted" with gales of laughter.
I would really love to know more about how you do this message-planting and faux user activity stuff.
> If MyCompany Inc buys an EV Cert from ReputableCertVendor (and another from IrreproachableCertVendor) and issues HPKP headers pinning to the EV intermediates of those two vendors, then can't I have a reasonable expectation that those two companies will take measures to make sure they don't issue EV certificates for perceptually-similar domain names (and could I win a court case against them if they did)?

What is your goal here? Pins are per-domain (optionally including all subdomains). They wont affect similar domain names - browsers would accept a certificate from any trusted CA.
I think coinbase's withdrawal limits aren't quite high enough for this amount of cash
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They maybe don't get called "startup founders" because that implies very big business with lots of money on the table, but there are outright homeless entrepreneurs. I have seen stories about it. A quick google turns up this, for example: http://under30ceo.com/from-homeless-to-entrepreneurs-extraor...

Not disagreeing with you that "startups" -- these high growth, big money businesses -- are typically started by rich kids, basically.
Wouldn't it make more sense to design it like Haskell? or something even more strict? A little bit of extra work seems like a small price to pay to prevent millions being stolen from your wallet because of a silly mistake like this...
Byteball (https://byteball.org/ has declarative smart contracts!
Perhaps they were simply elaborating on the sarcasm on account of the fact that sarcasm does a shit job of justifying or explaining anything.
The vast majority of heroin addicts today started with prescription painkillers. Many of them went into a doctor's office and took the pill that was prescribed to them by a trusted community member with a diploma on the wall. The problem was that these doctors were frequently either directly corrupt or under the unwitting influence of false advertising from Purdue Pharmaceuticals.

When I had my wisdom teeth pulled and was prescribed an entire bottle of Vicodin, when I didn't even need a single one, that wasn't a greater issue in my life. That was medical malfeasance and a just society would execute the principal architects of it.
This might be a foolish question, but I was under the impression that if you had a strong pin/password and an encrypted device, there wasn't much they could do to get the data off the device, no? Won't modern phones (I have an Android) not allow you to see any data unless the device is unlocked? I know when I plug my device into the computer, it will only be in charge mode unless I unlock it and then switch to file transfer mode.

Do the authorities have ways around that?

Also important to note - the encryption would have to apply to any external expansion SD cards or else they can just remove the card and copy the data.
Sarcastic or not, "contract by code" and "lawyers are obsolete" are, in reality, major selling points used by Ethereum evangelists. The OP's post gives an opportunity to discuss this.

I did not assign any assertion or position to the OP, only followed up on his thread about the potential ramifications that ETH backers seriously advocate.
For the driver and passengers; not necessarily for pedestrians, cyclists, or mopedestrians/motorcyclists.
Its actually smaller. At minimum you have to be a naturalized or native born citizen of the USA for many jobs in the US Government. For the NSA, add the requirement of having a current clearance or the time to get one (worst case years).
CNN's app was flooded with negative reviews last week
My point is, types which specify low-level details about data size and representation but not the semantics of which operations are actually sensible to use on them and which types can be meaningfully used together are not really types, in that they don't make programs any easier to read or write.

I also deny that autoconversion weakens a type system. For example, if you have a data type which holds a person's height, it is utterly uninteresting what units it's in most of the time, and it can save a lot of trouble if the runtime or compiler keeps track and converts automatically if you try to add a height currently being stored as inches to one currently being stored as centimeters, or adding centimeters to fractional centimeters rounded to the nearest millimeter, for example. There are any number of purely mechanical autoconversion tasks which can and should be done automatically and which don't change the type, in that they don't change which operations are valid for the value. And that autoconversion still wouldn't make adding height to age any more sensible, even if the two values were truly indistinguishable at the machine code level.
They might have a significant amount of money in ETH themselves and the overall success is beneficial to them? Pure conjecture.
Strange my update was 1.8GB?
More like "malware app that user installed to type continue at all such prompts types 'continue'".
I don’t believe you have a compelling argument, any biological organism has a degree of unpredictability, but with a series of molecular checks and controls, it becomes predictable, almost deterministic. Think of how the brain works, how you have billions of cells acting the way they “should”, and acting in a predictable way allowing you to perform daily tasks. I agree we have a lot to learn and that some mistakes might be made, but that’s what testing and clinical trials is for.
Well, side projects are different. I wouldn't really call them start-ups. I'm talking about a VC funded start-up or a start-up whose goal is to eventually be VC funded. You have to be all-in on that kind of thing or you will not be successful. That is so much the case that it is actually written into the Terms Sheet (funding contract). Usually, it says something like "100% of professional/employment activities".

It's not as important to be in SFBA as it used to be. But, it is still a major factor in success. I consulted for a start-up that had to move there despite not wanting to just because the potential employment pool was so poor in my area (Boston). In SFBA, $40K/yr to $50K/yr is probably not enough to cover just rent, taxes, and utilities. You still need to worry about food, transportation, health insurance, etc. And, you'd have to convince other people to join your "start-up" that was only a part time hobby for you. Attracting the first employees is one of the hardest parts because that is when your ability to cover their paychecks is most uncertain. I imagine it would be very hard to do if they see you're not all-in and absolutely convinced the company was going to be successful. And, who the first employees wind up being is one of the most risky parts... hire the wrong people and you're done.

I know a lot more people that founded a start-up and did not do well than I know people that did. The stories about the failures are usually not that bad (but some are terrible). A joke among that circle of friends and I is that a start-up is basically a really really expensive job application to a more successful start-up that someone else pays for.

I encourage people to apply to YC. Because, I believe entrepreneurship is good and the people I know that did well did very well. But, be honest with yourself - Do you have wealthy parents/a wealthy spouse/close friend? Will they support you while you get back on your feet? If so, for how long? That's a discussion you can have with them and get a verbal commitment before you just go for it.

I had a good long-time friend, that I was supportive of, start a start-up and fail. He wound up sleeping on my couch for an extended period of time. We're around the same age... I have health insurance, a pretty fat 401K and IRA, a vested pension, an emergency fund, and a lot of seniority at my job. He does not have those things.

As you get older, the choices you make now will look like they were very very different choices. Don't romanticize them- really think them through.
Except the "code is law" meme is a view that many crypto anarchists actually espouse.
I wrote this a few years back on living out of two bags for 11 months:

http://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

A lot of people commented that they were hoping I'd mention what was in the bags. So the next time I took off, I did a video instead:

http://khanism.org/perspective/return-to-minimalism/
I don't really know his story but I think Jan Koum grew up poor. Apparently he signed his FB acquisition papers on the door of a welfare office where he (or his family?) once collected checks.

https://twitter.com/khanoisseur/status/606285374068039682?la...
Neat, I've never heard of the lava lamp wall before. That's extremely interesting. For anyone else that is interested in how it works, I found this explanation on Reddit from /u/kaihatsusha:

"Really good encryption relies on perfectly random / unpredictable numbers.

If you ask a computer to pick a random number, it can really only apply a predictable but complicated calculation on some other number. It may appear random to us but it isn't random to someone who can perform the same calculation. It's like stacking the deck in Poker games.

In computers, "entropy" is essentially a measure of chaos; a bit of information you can get from something that is truly unpredictable.
So the idea here is for a video camera to digitize a physical, chaotic phenomenon, like lava lamps or fish in an aquarium or a busy city sidewalk. Use the digitized photo as the core of the random-number generation proceas.

And then two computers could use the same secret random number to seed their encryption; only those who know the secret number will be able to set their Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring to the correct setting (except in modern days it's hundreds of rings with quintillions of positions each).

In the Cold War, we would do the same thing by measuring moisture in the clouds or drawing numbered balls out of a lottery tumbler. Some crypto programs ask the user to wiggle their mouse for a few seconds to generate entropy. Make ONLY two copies of the data and those two people can communicate secretly."
You're right on the facts, although I don't quite get why you ridicule this idea as a "sense of justice and moral righteousness" with only the "appearance of fairness".

A system of laws devoid of all ambiguity and emotion isn't even possible, let alone desirable, because at some point these contracts have to come into contact reality, and the humans in it. And these humans happen to be, well: human.

I guess there's an ideology at play that would love to change humans to fit within their neatly arranged algorithms. And if that means some grandmother loses her house because she signed the wrong smart contract when buying cat-food, there'd be a lot expressions of sympathy on Twitter, but she really needs to understand that it's just not possible to do anything about, because principles etc etc.

Here and there, some of these people may, very privately, consider it a feature of the system that others less intelligent than them sometimes happen to die on the streets because of that one Saturday morning where they didn't audit all 500k lines of brainfuck in that contract for chinese takeout.

With less snark: the idea of ambiguity or emotions as being something negative is a somewhat naive view of reality, somewhere on the spectrum between Star Trek's ideal of Spock and the social darwinism of Ayn Rand. It's most often seen in the currently popular misunderstanding of how judges should behave, and how journalism supposedly used to work.

For an example that maybe is a bit less inflammatory than anything about journalism, check any recent threat about the Google vs Uber lawsuit: the presiding judge is almost a legend for his diligence in learning the technology in the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit a few years back. Yet people criticise him for a lack of decorum whenever he uses language that doesn't pretend to be a robot following an algorithm: "This judge is clearly biased! The contract clearly only says $50,000, and there's no law that gives him the authority to say those are USD. When the defendant says it means Canadian Dollars, it's he-said-she-said and undecidable"
If this is a project inside a big, established company, it should be relatively easy to move horizontally to a separate project (perhaps no longer as lead engineer).

If it's a relatively small company, then it sounds like there's some issues with management and the board. Might be time to start interviewing at other places.
Penicillin :: invading diseases (bacterial/viral/fungal)

CARs (& protein biotherapetuics) :: human diseases (misregulation/cancer)
You're saying you could declare "I now have $30 million in assets" on your IRS forms and it wouldn't trip any alarms?

I mean, I don't personally know which alarms would be tripped, or what effect that would have. But that just seems so unlikely.

It'd be fascinating if this were true, though, so any info would be appreciated.

Re: coinbase, it'd be foolish to use them because they have a history of disabling accounts for any reason they feel like. A friend of mine had their account disabled, so I know firsthand this is true. Also it's unlikely they'd send you such a large amount of money unless you were a business in good standing or had a long history with them. (I'm just guessing, though.)
and can't handle chemo

He said he had chemo to suppress his immune system before he got the new one.
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Right. It will take time, but eventually Solidity (or some other alternative smart contracts approach) will likely be very trustworthy and secure.
How long is the lease for? I really don't know the space that well but I would imagine it would be hard to get a premium for a one year lease. If its true that the major value add the lease is the one thing of value.

If you look at it from the buyer's perspective, they would be paying you for a job that pay's roughly 90k per year.

This is just my $.02 but I think it makes sense to hire someone to run this full time. For 90k + free room and board I would imagine you could find someone very competent to take it over. You would get the profits and likely make your business more marketable.
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Ethereum's original sin
You might be happy to know that macOS 10.12.6 (released today) says it "Improves the stability of Terminal app".
Looks like macOS 10.12.6 (released today) says it "Improves the stability of Terminal app".
i know that you're not really serious when you generalize against all of us crypto simpletons, but anytime theres a stupid amount of money on the table people are bound to rush to pick it up. and that means mistakes.

the work being done on public blockchains is unlike anything else done before. You don't have he luxury of keeping your db behind a vpn running on a vm platform secured and maintained by the worlds largest companies. These engineers put themselves out there, waaaaaaaay out there to try and make shit happen. And they mostly do good work. But if banks and major retailers who have huge budgets can get hacked, of course we can too.
Exchange as much as possible via Shapeshift (accessed via Tor) and other exchanges that don't care about KYC to Zcash, Monero, and BTC. BTC is not anonymous but it's unlikely that BTC transactions are blocked and it will allow to convert to other currencies later on. Once you got Zcash and Monero you can anonymously convert to BTC and cash out via Coinbase. Make sure to only move small amounts at a time, so that the exchange can't block all of your funds.
It would be against the interests of Google for people to subscribe/pay for articles rather than searching through Google News for ad-supported articles.

It's against Apple's interests to do anything that isn't device-specific and the same could probably be said about Amazon & Kindle.
Precisely. Code reviews and software quality assurance aren't just corporate redtape, they can save your rear.
You should check out Tahoe-LAFS, but Tahoe-LAFS does RAID-style striping and parity. So you can spread bits and pieces of a file on 5 servers, and require that minimum 3 servers need to be active to retrieve your file, for example.
No censorship, files are not held by any specific organization, etc. Basically the same reasons why someone would prefer torrents over web hosting (e.g. megaupload).
Cars are generally faster than scooters. If everyone else is driving a scooter too, you're much less likely to get hurt in a crash, or to have a crash, because the energies are much lower and the speeds are much lower (low speeds make it easier to avoid crashes). Also, momentum is a real thing. Getting hit by a scooter at 10mph isn't nearly as bad as getting hit by a truck at 10mph.
Likely related to the feeling that Windows 10 resets file associations is that Windows 10 changed the way this data is stored and restores the default value if the registry keys are manipulated directly.[1] As a side-note, I don't think any of the major updates have reset my browser choice, but I have gotten an irritating pop-up suggesting that I should try Edge.

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=...
My favorite smack-talk so far is "Dunning-Krugerrands".
If you can build a Dropbox clone that is faster, cheaper and can hold your files longer than one single entity ever could, wouldn't you chose that one instead?
I think it is a good rule that if our country is having a problem, we should look at how other countries handle the issue and see if they are doing it better. It seems pretty clear just about every other industrialized nation handles health care better than the US.
You may have, but that's not why people who used and were fans of Netscape switched to IE voluntarily. While IE was adding CSS support and other consumer friendly features, Netscape was more interested in Communicator, the enterprise suite.
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Ignoring the fact that he was responding to a post that was sarcasm, if we really stop to think about it, how many people are judged by their peers and how many are judged by people who are the furthest from it?
Just looking at this language, it makes me feel like we are going back in time in regards to readability and ease of use. I understand that security and provability of contracts is more important in these cases, but one can dream!
>until RISC-V goes through enough evolution and market success to achieve parity with then-contemporary devices, sometime around 2035 I'd guess...

RISC-V just refers to the ISA, right ? An implementation by a vendor may still have ME/PSP like stuff, just like the x86 ISA has nothing to do with ME/PSP.
One could argue that if it's for internal tracking, it doesn't need its own domain name.
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Disabling the ME / PSP usually breaks booting. It would require stripped down open source PSP / ME firmware anyway to bypass it during boot.
That was amazing. The Mexican car just vanished.
Yes, you're right. Opioids are a good choice for short term pain. They're a good choice for end of life pain. They're a poor choice for long term pain, although they serve some use if carefully prescribed. Weirdly, the US prescribes a lot of opioid medication, and prescribes it for people with long term pain.

Some of this is because the VA said that untreated pain was an injustice, and said that pain should be the "5th vital sign". That was pretty disastrous. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924634/

Lots more information from England here: https://www.fpm.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware
I know - call me dislexic...
Isn't this exactly what encrypted ram is for? Insecure DMA access to all of memory isn't such a big deal if the contents are encrypted.
Here is a figure that illustrates the process for the CARs in the article (which is slightly different than OPs, but similar in result):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480367/figure/...

Essentially it has 3 parts:

- Extraction of tumor to test against.

- Extraction of immune cells, to which a genetic therapy is applied that grants them a new tool to home in on the above tumor.

- After testing the immune cells against the extracted tumor, reimplant the 'upgraded' immune cells.