skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you and everyone else is going to love this but if you want a "smart contracts for dummies" look towards the law: thats right the very thing smart contracts are marketed to replace not only controls but defines smart contracts themselves.

So far a few states (US) have passed laws regarding "blockchains", "smart contracts" and the like. For example, seeking to avoid any legal uncertainty surrounding blockchain transactions and smart contracts relating to certain digital assets, Arizona passed HB 2417, the following on point:

- A very specific definition of “blockchain technology” as a “distributed, decentralized, shared and replicated ledger, which may be public or private, permissioned or permissionless, or driven by tokenized crypto economics or tokenless” and provides that the “data on the ledger is protected with cryptography, is immutable and auditable and provides an uncensored truth.”

-A definition of “smart contracts” as an “event driven program, with state, that runs on a distributed, decentralized, shared and replicated ledger that can take custody over and instruct transfer of assets on that ledger.”

Other states in various stages of legislation on point include: Maine, Illinois, Nevada, Delaware and Vermont.

interesting notes: Arizona also passed a seperate law restricting the use of blockchain as "fire arm tracking technology", likely a pro gun rights lobbying effort. Delaware will likely be codifying by statute the right to issue stock on blockchains. Courts have begun accepting blockchain entries as business records under the rules of evidence.
>Jurists should be professionals, not a random nobody pulled from the community.
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In the new system, professional jurists would be paid for by the courts, but not directly employed by them or the government.

Jurist are as impartial as you can get. Making someone a paid professional jurist doesn't magically strip them of all their biases. Courts are intimately familiar with this, precisely when they ask jurists "Do you think Police are less likely to lie under oath than a normal person" in voir dire because judges know that police are just as corruptible as the rest of us.

Your proposal is basically creating a system by which a lawyer cannot ensure that your are judged by a jury of your peers. The problems with the judicial system are people based /not/ jury based.

Jury duty is the one chance that citizens can make a direct action in the power of the state and you are proposing changing that and some how having the government to pay that person but also simultaneously not being paid by the government.
If your BTC is KYC'd then you're doing something very wrong...
Absolutely. When I'm following a ketogenic meal plan, my baseline endurance shoots through the roof. I can walk/bike/whatever for hours. However, I do lose sprint performance.

As I'm in my 40s, and just exercise for fun and the health benefits, this is a tradeoff I'm more than happy to make. I'd much rather be able to cycle for another 10 miles without thinking about it than to increase my pace from 12 to 14 mph. But it is something to be aware of.
FWIW, when I had a corporate job, there was an anecdote in some big meeting that a competitor had literally photocopied one of the insurance policies my company was selling. They didn't even change the font. Yet, they couldn't sell the policy as well because they weren't servicing it as well as my company.

You may think the product is almost identical, but it may not be as identical as you think.
That's because it means exactly the same thing as "unorthodox" and almost everyone simply says that. Hence the discussion - you aren't alone.
It may be parallel construction, but in a kind of cynical way we can publicly praise it as good traditional police work. It takes credibility away from demands for special or clandestine access.

When we call it parallel construction we buy into the surveillance communities marketing... that surveillance it is effective.
Well, statistically whatever the VC is saying, it means "no".
Yep. When I'm working on my resume it's a balance of trying to use the right relevant buzzwords to get past HR and enough content to get a callback from the person hiring. In my experience on the other side, HR doesn't often know that Rails implies Ruby or React implies JavaScript. Wrong buzzwords === wrong experience and not a fit for the job.
You can both expect something and be outraged by it.

Your post seems to assume the reason for the outrage is that the arrest goes against an expectation.
Which code editor are you going to keep? ShareLaTeX and Overleaf use different technology and look quite different.
Whether your denial is plausible is a matter for a judge or jury. Your credibility might be stretched if, say, the drugs were worth a lot of money, you didn't report it when they turned up at your house, you had drugs in your house when the police searched it under a warrant, and you bought cryptocurrency which you can't account for a few days earlier. You might choose to take a plea rather than rolling the dice at that point.
What would be an example of a "smart contract"?
Interesting. What do you do with your market research?
Business cycles are often a component of what is a composite function of the time series. So the time series itself might not have perfect cycles but the business cycle is usually one of the principal components of the time series, which is what I think they were referring to.

For example, the price of commodities does depend on the growing season (which is predictable) but other factors which are not cyclical so that the price itself is not easily predicted.
Neither have contracts.
That's what was confusing me as that's how I replied. Good info all around. :)
I highly doubt anyone looked at it or cared. People were most likely on there to buy drugs. Do you think they turned to their friend and asked "hey do you mind looking into this website and comparing the PGP keys with me? I just want to be sure!"
That sounds nice, justifying why you expect your distribution to be the sum of other distributions, and not another operation like multiplication takes a lot more work; in some fields (e.g. finance), it's completely wrong.
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If anyone has the Pocket browser extension installed, they'll notice that Pocket automatically adds some featured (and maybe personalized?) stories to a new blank Google Chrome web page, right below the search field.

I used to think this was obnoxious. Then I started clicking on the articles. Now, I like this feature. It surfaces articles that I otherwise might have missed.

So I could see this working with Google, if they do it right. And perhaps they should offer a way to turn it off for users who prefer a simple UI.
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His ego does seem completely out of control. Safarik seems to take himself way too seriously while simultaneously treating other people with little regard
Society doesn't want to consider certain transactions to be legitimate.

Allowing a marketplace for murder or human trafficking (or the other nefarious things organized crime gets up to) allows the most efficient and effective bad actors to prosper, as markets are designed to do. But society doesn't want bad actors to prosper, it wants them prevented from acting badly.
>They would need to be sufficiently detailed that someone could verify if you are following each one.

Sounds like a spec
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The emissions on a Kwid are far lower than those on an American car.

And the Kwid would probably injure yourself and anyone driving with you... but, there's a version with ABS and Airbags, so the GP has a point.

https://auto.ndtv.com/news/renault-kwid-1-litre-variant-to-c...

Edit: by the way, I owned a Maruti Alto, and now own a Renault Twingo. I'd say it's surprisingly safe.
Have you ever tried recruiting subjects for a short-term social sciences study? It's not easy! Now do one for 80 years... Damn near impossible!
So a good story teller who can weave physical items into a cohesive narrative. Shouldn't these folks work for Disney and not the justice system?
DungeonScript, a first-person version of PuzzleScript
It's not "the" blockchain. There's not just one of them. Putting the word "the" in front is like saying "The Database". Let's all learn how "The Database" works. Silly right? We say "The Internet" because there is indeed only one internet.
This is ridiculous. Prediction markets are as susceptible to distortion and lies as any other mechanism. Recall the debacle of Intrade and the 2012 election.
I wonder if you can offer a pair of online dictionary definitions that illustrates what you see as the difference in meaning between the two words. (I bet you can't)
How and when to ask people to leave a review for your app?
What logic do you use to ask people to leave a review for your app? I mean is it the number of times they have used a certain feature or something else? I just wrote a blogpost that details the logic of how and when we ask users to leave a review for our app. http://captaindanko.blogspot.com/2017/07/asking-users-to-leave-review-for-your.html
I've been skeptical of FBI profilers ever since they declared that the Unabomber had attended college or trade school but not graduated. [1] It turned out that he had a PhD and had been a professor.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mixed-Success-for-FBI-Age...
> and it's documented and clear and implementable

As someone who has actually looked at implementing it... no, it's not, by the standards of modern web specs. That's part of the problem with it. The other problem is that its creators ignored a whole bunch of best practices for web API design...

Anyway, the FIDO thing (or an approximation of it, which was the best they could do given the quality of the spec) is what Chrome shipped and what they've been trying to backpedal from since.

If you want the gory details as far as Firefox is concerned, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platf... for the discussion about whether to implement FIDO U2F in Firefox. Note that it's about 6 pages of posts, at least the way google groups shows it to me... The posts from Ryan Sleevi (representing Chrome) are particularly interesting.
Gurdjieff gives a definition of "atom" as the smallest amount of something that evinces all of its properties.

This is an information-theoretic view, and it allows us to speak of an "atom" of water, an "atom" of ice, and so on.

The property "alive" while not meaningless cannot be limited to a set of matter/energy configurations. There is no "atom" of life.

This would be moot except that you are alive. You are [part of] the life of the Universe. You can't actually fix a boundary between you and it. The Universe may not always have been alive, but when you became alive it did too.
Surprisingly, no.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1143010...
I find this perfectly credible because almost exactly the same conclusions were stated by Putnam in the classic _Bowling Alone_ [1]. A couple of pull-quotes from that,

> Dozens of painstaking studies... have established beyond reasonable doubt that ... [t]he more integrated we are with our community, the less likely we are to experience colds, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, depression and premature death of all sorts...

> ... the positive contributions to health made by social integration and social support rival in strength the detrimental contributions of ... risk factors like ... smoking, obesity, elevated blood pressure, and physical inactivity.

> ...as a rough rule of thumb, if you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year in half.

Putnam was surveying a large number of studies, not just the Harvard one.

[1] Putnam, Robert D, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community; https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Commu...
This isn't a proof but if you want to understand it, these slides are alright: http://cs.brynmawr.edu/Courses/cs380/spring2013/section02/sl...

I recommend reading them through, but slide 39 is the tl;dr.
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My point was that I have never seen any evidence that such an idea was ever called Lisp. Even the 1960 paper differentiates between the functional programming theory and the language Lisp being used to explore that theory. If we're bundling all the theory leading up to Lisp under the "Lisp" name, then why stop at McCarthy? Church's lambda calculus was definitely purely functional.

As for McCarthy's original conception of Lisp, in 1979[1] he wrote: LISP also allows sequential programs written with assignment statements and go tos. Compared to the mathematically elegant recursive function definition features, the ``program feature'' looks like a hasty afterthought. This is not quite correct; the idea of having sequential programs in LISP antedates that of having recursive function definition.

1: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node4.html
That is good to know. I just deployed BBR on some pilot virtio backed VMs yesterday and I missed this.

As far as I can tell the Actual Hardware I'm running my other BBR pilots on are doing the right thing.

File under: BBR - still a gotcha or two ;-)
Then, Taleb is a jerk when someone tries to pin him on one of his wild exaggerations.

Even as a quant Taleb was prone to smushing over details to push a narrative. In the 90s already Derman was enabling Taleb into claiming the Black-Scholes formula was an interpolation algorithm already known to option traders and served basically to justify using the risk-free rate as a drift (price trend) parameter in accordance to the "economics establishment". But (as noted by more than one response in the literature) making a different assumption on the drift (or even the distribution) -- i.e. leaving the "Black-Scholes world" and merely interpolating two world-states -- you're left with calibrating a stochastic discount rate that gives put-call parity. But hey, not that technicalities should get in the way of a good story!
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I disable most notifications. Basically everything besides sms and e-mail (and only for some accounts that tend to get 2-3 messages a day). The ones that remain activated tend to be reasonably urgent, and the apps that receive them are the ones that I'd like to start as soon as the phone boots and keep permanently in memory. Or at least, I'd like my remaining notifications to be able to wake up the apps they belong to.
Thanks for the clarification though I'm still a bit fuzzy on how this works, perhaps you can unpack it for me.

Using your example, lets say there are 100 positions and 1000 applicants but only 35% of the applicants are female. Is your company inclusive if you hire 50 females or is your company inclusive if you hire 35 females?

If the answer is 50 females would it not stand to reason that those 50 females would earn less than the 50 males because they were the best 50 out of a pool of 350 competitors and the 50 males were the best candidate out of a pool of 650 competitors?

Or would the goal be to hire the best 100 and that should end up being roughly 35 females that are equally qualified and therefore earn the same?

Hope that makes sense.
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i got to know Götz and spoke to him about his time 'in the field' at HARC

you can look at your complaint from at least two perspectives

first, he is german and english is a second, or possibly third or fourth, language

as the saying goes 'there's a perfect german word for that', but in this case Götz was able to find the perfect word in a second language

second, one of his favourite revelations from his time at HARC was the inhabitants', and i argued many 'creators', nearly obsessive, nearly detrimental, preoccupation with 'naming things'

every new idea, every new prototype, every new function, every new variable needs a name and Götz would watch as the team labored over 'what to call it'

a practice that fascinated Götz and when he recalled it to the room and those of us who had been there confirmed the same preoccupations he erupted in glee

so to call out Götz for naming something exactly as it was meant to be conveyed i think would engender in him a pride of assimilating this ritual
A dishonest libertarian, what a surprise. Everyone, even Republicans, agrees that Trump is an anomaly. Liberals didn't like Romney, for example, but they didn't believe he was simply incompetent and incapable of basic governance in the way they do Trump.

It's an almost childish view of the world to think that the fact that sometimes your side doesn't win means people should or will abandon faith in the ability of government to provide services. The very point of democracy is that you accept that sometimes you're not going to win.
Toomuchtodo:
I posted earlier in the thread about a friend who bounced back after brain damage following a cardiac arrest.

The time when I didn't know the extent of the damage (would my friend ever wake up) was terrifying. The thought of a decision I might have to make as "next of kin" was worse.

I feel for your situation. I'm sure you will do the best thing you can do. Happy to chat - email is in my profile.
Ask HN: What's the best architecture for a websocket api?
I haven't find a definitive answer for a java/c# websocket backend api.
You're referring to the square root of the second moment about the mean. The short answer is yes, it's always useful, provided you have an estimator.

Check out Chebyshev's inequality.

Just don't start talking about it to your pointy-haired boss. You'll get fired.
Or, complying with the CIA's guidelines regarding capitalization:

"On writing".
What's the humidity there though? In much of the Southern US, we get temps well above 100 with very high levels of humidity. Even with hydration it is dangerous.
Exactly, be miserable so the next generation can do it too! People raise children in total poverty all the time dude, I'm sure you're going to be fine.
That's certainly a point among a number of others one could make, but it wasn't the point of the GP, which was that the risks involved with having the government manage anything are reasonably characterized by a Trump presidency.

If Trump serves as a cautionary example of potential governance issues in the public sector, he serves better as a cautionary example of potential management issues in the private sector, given his long career there.

There are better ones, of course. If we're picking tail events like Trump, one might just as well say the risks of having the private sector manage retirement funds are accurately characterized by the various market failures surrounding the 2008 crash (which were, however private, hard to avoid the effects of even with a surfeit of personal choice).

On top of that, since you wanted to talk about personal choice... of course there's choice and accountability in public institutions, it just works differently: you have to select management cooperatively, and the collective decision might be different than your choice. That really has a fair bit in common with a number of private sector retirement vehicles (which are likely enough selected by your private employer), but there are others which are more individual and it's nice to be able to take your ball and go elsewhere. But even there, you don't necessarily get a clear signal when someone whose competence is as limited or anyone whose incentives are as misaligned with yours as Trump's are gets involved with your retirement fund's management. In fact, I'd go so far as to say in most cases you'd have less scrutiny and fewer journalistic resources to turn to in order to make that assessment than you would in the typical selection process for public office.

Now what you often would have are claimed/recorded rates of return. But since we're thinking about that question, maybe we should talk about how a typical 401k compares to returns for Social Security:

http://www.jameswrussell.com/?p=81
Because they don't transmit your encryption password.

Authentication is not done by sending them your encryption password, but instead the derivation of an SRP static secret (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...) from your password (PBKDF, XOR'd with HKDF of the entropy-boosting pepper that they call the "Secret Key"), and performing a session key exchange handshake, basically like a (non-ephemeral) Diffie Hellman. They then encrypt all future communications (inside of TLS) with the transient session key.

This gets you three things in one swoop:

- Authentication of user

- Authentication of the server (if the remote server doesn't have the stored RSA counterpart of your derived SRP static secret, the exchange can't complete)

- An additional encrypted tunnel independent of TLS, so transport security isn't reliant solely on TLS (Cloudbleed, etc). (The contents being moved around are encrypted yet again)

And:

- User doesn't have to remember a separate password.

- The password and pepper never touch the network, only (non-reversible) session tokens do.

- Having access to traffic inside of TLS (corporate or malicious TLS endpoint interception, for example) still gets you nothing.

There are valid criticisms of 1Password, but you're literally criticizing them for something they've gone out of the way explicitly spent engineering hours solving in a way that not many services have even bothered thinking about.
I am actually sympathetic to your position, though I don't do illicit drugs (or any drugs). But, you would need to up your game if you really want to argue your case on HN. I can think of several good arguments, better than "Why do you care if I get high when I get home?", but this is probably the absolute worst place to have that discussion. You would also need to do a better job of picking your battles. I think neither of us did a good job with that in this case.

Best.
I don't mean it to be cynical, it's just my experience that a lot of data gathering in the social sciences (my experience was in education) makes terrible assumptions, often implicitly, the worst being that the variables are IID. And it's very obvious from the publication that the number crunching is some cargo-cult approach they probably learned from their mandated semester or two in research methods. (Okay, that last bit was cynical!)
Does he float? If he sinks, he wasn't a witch.
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MicroPython is still fairly new. Cython has been used for C-speed for quite some time.
The juries may have been watching a lot of "Lie To Me" type of series.
Apply on your site or getting candidates you are interested in to actually interview? If you want the 'ideal' engineer, you need to identify them and go after them.
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i was fortunate enough to get a tour of HARC from Götz

after the tour he asked me what i thought

i explained the place looked like my 'play room'

he pressed me, 'what does that look like?'

'an ideal, a sort of messy utopia'
What I don't understand is: why isn't the responsibility of the browser?

The browser can verify who am I, likely in a more rigorous way than a password.

The browser can already handle interaction with the server on behalf of the user.

Sure, the user flow would need to be sorted out (e.g., to confirm the user's intent), but it seems much better than the current system we've been using since the days of .htaccess.