skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever been to some old manor or library with hundreds of weathered ancient leather bound books...I always wonder about their contents... (usually they are under lock and key)...Cotton case law now seems a perfectly reasonable assumption.
But it's impossible to prove that a smart contract (or any contract, for that matter) is in compliance with the law until it goes in front of a judge and all possible appeals have been exhausted, and that's what matters here.
I wonder, why the black hat didn't drain all the money and left it for the white hat group?
You can't bundle those with an extension and get it published on release.

They only function for prototyping things and hoping mozilla will bless them eventually.
Reuters maybe? They actively try for neutral coverage.

edit: But yeah, organizations of people with biases can't be perfectly neutral
Perhaps they have in mind a target market that's not advanced at business as you...?
Vi siete mai chiesti quanti Megapixel ha un occhio umano?
Majority of regular users (who do not care or even know about any kind of online privacy, open web, net neutrality etc.) I interact with go to google.com, write down e.g. "facebook" and then log in! They don't even know they can use url bar for searching (let alone typing xyz.com directly). It makes my blood boil every time I see that. I try to explain, they usually just don't care to listen/understand. Coming from other thread about Firefox marketshare, it's mostly this kind of users that kill the open web and help billion-dollar walled-gardens prosper. There are billions of them.
I suspect you're correct, despite any assurances to the contrary. And any bias might not even be by design but rather just a result of the biases of the people who make the feature.
For me, the compelling feature of Firefox over chrome is that using Firefox portable, I can avoid company policy and configure proxy to bypass bluecoat filter.
Avast Acquires Piriform
Farming startup that literally raises money is kinda fun.
Are you asserting Szabo's original smart contracts idea "is terrible and misconceived", or Ethereum's implementation "is terrible and misconceived". The latter, I would have to agree; hard forking as a response to these kinds of security holes is neither sustainable nor scalable, and I'm very partial to mechanical proof-based designs and implementations as a result.
Or a great example of how things fail when producers and consumers don't use the same language. If you don't understand the language your consumers are speaking, you are not going to produce what they want.

So next time some one tells you their computer is broken, don't reply saying it appears to be in one piece.
Boats isn't the right scale. The right scale is toys that go on a boat.
Wait, we are talking push-bike here, right? Because subsidies for electric motorcycles should totally be a thing.
Testing Our Theories About “Eternal September”
Frustrations of a Software Architect
Christopher Nolan on why he will never work with Netflix
Any given state actor will have full control over some networks. It's fair to say that any given network is fully controlled by at least one state actor, possibly more. It also stands to reason that each state actor has many more networks they can passively listen to. [EDIT: clarity]

Ultimately, if your threat model is to protect against the actions of a state actor who likely does not have active control over your network, but might be able to passively listen, then ubiquitous encryption helps a lot with defense in depth.

A more mundane case is free wifi at an airport. Someone can set up a hotspot with the same SSID and act as a MitM, but it's not undetectable. Here, encrypting application traffic is just one solution, and not necessarily the best one, but you shouldn't be relying on only one layer of protection.
https://phys.org/news/2014-05-two-stroke-scooters-super-poll...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247506/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1083467...
Just to add:

Usually royalties do go down after expiry in contracts.

Contracts also usually cover a lot more: Support, documentation and other guarantees.

This means there's a few businesses out there, that even after patent expiry still choose to renew their license.
i find it difficult to believe anyone could believe that the negative health effects of obesity and cancer in particular are under-reported
How to 'size' your platform for live video streaming
Do you have a link to read more? Has it been solved? I sometimes buy these for road trips and I would like to avoid drinking mold.
Fetishization of commodity. The marketing and packaging is designed to tick those "satisfying consumption" boxes in peoples brains.
But... start ups still pay engineers salaries that dwarf teachers, retail, and many other industries. Should people in those industries not have kids? Are they being irresponsible by not making 6 figures?
Definitely true! There are software developers in every demographic. We (Codementor) just hoped this may be a good jumping-off point to compare salaries across cities while taking into account taxes, costs, etc. Family benefits, healthcare, and the costs of raising a family change things, you're right.
And not everyone uses git, unfortunately.
Mostly universally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
And even then, absent the existence of Tesla, similar money would be spent on a competing vehicle anyway.
What is the solution to this opioid epidemic?

As an outsider not well-versed in this topic, my guess is that the root cause here is hopelessness, struggle, and boredom caused by poverty and unemployment.

The solution then would be to employ people and give them a sense of purpose, or at least get them out of poverty.

I'm a huge proponent of a universal basic income (UBI), though I'm not sure that a UBI would fix this problem. Thus it seems as if some sort of government jobs program may be necessary. Giving people meaningful well-paying jobs in science and technology would do wonders in getting people off these ridiculous addictions.
>It seems like many people on HN are for free speech as long as it's speech they agree with.

Sounds exactly like Reddit
Yea if they gave you the choice not screw yourself over, then you wouldn't be able to get screwed over by Google </sarcasm>
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It's all about marketing and perception.

When I moved North my first year Salmon fishing in Alaska I watched as Northerners through back hundreds of pounds of Chum Salmon, because it's soft, mushy and crap, they said.
It's commonly called Dog Salmon because the locals only keep it to feed to their sled dogs.

A couple of months later I was in Vancouver, and was more than a little surprised to see Chum Salmon for sale for about $25/lb. It was labeled as "Highly renowned for it's soft, pink flesh".

Convince people something is good, and when they have little or no alternative, they'll go for it.
Avocado, salmon, and tuna taste really good. Are they trash then? What a stupid conclusion to make.
"...who firmly believed that the terser your code, the faster it ran. The author crammed multiple side effects into a single expression, used ternary operators like they were going out of style, and generally believed that run time was proportional to the number of semicolons executed, and every variable killed a puppy."

How does one go about countering that mentality in some rule of thumb fashion if at all possible? Could a disassembly illuminate identical push/pop operations on the memory stack as explicit intermediate variables would? Maybe a simple intermediate result expansion timing profile side by side the terse code's profile?
Well put. The emphasis in this title is on the I.

A startup path has some unusual/extreme features (eg high risk, gatekeepers or gates...) that make it a poor fit for many/most people, even if it's a good fit for the above reasons. It would be great if we could get some of that flexibility to create your own niche, outside of Capital-S Startups.

For a relatively shallow example, consider the whole open plan debate that re-opens periodically on HN. Some people want X. Others want Y. All insist they are many times happier and more productive with the right setup. It's clear from looking at people's home office setup that individuals will put a lot more time, effort & money into a work environment that they control themselves.
Mozilla have recently released Firefox Focus, which is a stripped down, privacy enhanced version of the browser. So it seems they are somewhat aware that they need to be targeting privacy conscious users.
"Show me a benchmark."
Considering how powerful, famous and charismatic he was, I think, makes one consider that maybe it was Churchill who was being insulted, not the socialite.

"Would you sleep with me?" "Maybe for a million dollars..."
Cotters.com.au/registered-designs/
Is a Patent Attorney required for filling a patent application?

I have researched an idea and thinking of patenting it. I have googled it and found out how to file it online. So should I file it online or should consult an attorney. The attorney would cost me money, but online filling won't cost much. But I'm not finding it safe to fill it online. I told this to my friend, he stays in Sydney so told me to refer [Cotters](http://www.cotters.com.au/registered-designs/) to register my design. Can anyone please suggest me what to do?

I'm very confused...
My bet is either you're actually good at CC level algebra, just don't know it yet (say, bad at notation but good at concepts - try reverse polish notation then), or you're not programming, but putting code together using automated tools.
what a nice paradoxical typo
There are lots of different languages targeting EVM. The (IMO) most promising so far is https://github.com/ethereum/viper
Five ways to build a $100M business (2014)
Unless some parts of your data happened to be replicated across multiple shards on that same hosting company's hardware. Then you would have a partial loss of data.

The bad thing is that you would not be able to hold them responsible.
Perhaps your children and grand-children will be less thankful. Your data will stay around.
This web site looks like a good dashboard! Although, I'm not up on the technical details of everything going on here, so some of it is confusing to me, because there's not as much background as I'd like.

I've spent some time reading around, and here is my guess as to what the site is describing:

Behind the scenes, achow101 (https://github.com/achow101) is running four Bitcoin clients:

* `Bitcoin Core` is running the client from https://bitcoin.org/en/ (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) (https://bitcoincore.org). This client does not support Segregated Witness, and it does not support larger block sizes (so blocks larger than 1 MB are ignored).

* `UASF (BIP 148)` is running the client from https://bitcoinuasf.org (https://github.com/UASF/bitcoin). This client supports Segregated Witness. This client does not support larger block sizes (so blocks larger than 1 MB are ignored).

* `btc1 (segwit2x)` is running the client from https://segwit2x.github.io (https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin). This client supports Segregated Witness, as well as changing the block size to 2 MB (blocks larger than 2 MB are ignored).

* `Bitcoin ABC (UAHF)` is running the client from https://www.bitcoinabc.org (https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc). It supports blocks of <8 MB in size (initially defaulting to 2 MB). This client does not support Segregated Witness.

As I understand things, right now there are two events which have hard-coded dates:

* At midnight UTC on August 1, the `UASF (BIP 148)` client will fork, in that it will start ignoring new mined blocks which do not support Segregated Witness.

* At 12:20 UTC on August 1, the `Bitcoin ABC (UAHF)` client might fork. I say might because the fork will be triggered by someone mining a larger-than-1-MB block (the "trigger block") on or after 12:20 UTC. (1 MB is the largest block that the `Bitcoin Core` and `UASF (BIP 148)` clients will recognize). At that point, `Bitcoin ABC (UAHF)` nodes will treat the "trigger block" as valid, and the fork has occurred.

Also, there is another event which may take place, depending on various conditions:

* If—sometime soon (before midnight UTC on August 1), and for a long-enough period—enough people indicate support, then the `btc1 (segwit2x)` node will fork with the `UASF (BIP 148)` node (in that both nodes will start supporting Segregated Witness). Sometime after that fork, the `btc1 (segwit2x)` node will fork off into its own fork, which will have support for 2 MB blocks.

And of course, there is one event which will happen at some point:

* `Bitcoin Core` will release a new version, adding support for Segregated Witness, or for a different block size, or both. `Bitcoin Core` nodes, when they upgrade, will then join one of the forks.

Anyway, I _think_ that's right, but this has gotten really complicated, and I'm trying to skip over the specific details, and the rationale (since, as tempay mentioned, that's been discussed recently).

If I misunderstood something, please let me know!
An interesting topic, although the article could use some proof-reading. Or perhaps it was Google-translated from Czech?
No Man's Sky-Like Mobile Game Morphite Coming on September 7th
I'm confused. Did Gavin Wood write the code for the Parity wallet, forgetting that he had created a language where function visibility defaults to "public"?
Not saying I like the current climate at all but TV stations and newspapers have always had their own bias and "newsfeed" so to speak. Is it really easier today than before to surround yourself with news that lacks credibility? There's always been junk newspapers and junk TV news channels.

People need to develop their own critical thinking skills and not rely on e.g. a specific newspaper they believe to have standards to do their thinking for them. I mean do you personally have an issue with identifying inaccurate news stories? If not, why not? People that want to believe obviously made up news are going to find some way to get their fix of news like that whether Google or Facebook filter it out for them or not.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I wouldn't put too much weight on the quality of life index (except for the factors it takes into account). We just included it to give some context outside of earnings, but of course, it is limited in scope. I also would be hesitant to use it to say City A is "twice as good" as City B, but just that City A is ranked higher than City B.
> Bitcoin disabled most of the smart contracts op codes for a very good reason.

Bitcoin is also stuck in the past. Yes, Ethereum breaks things, but for me it's not about the money but about the technology stack. We're too early in the process to have the luxury of being able to stop innovating.

If I want to play with cool state-of-the-art technology I use Ethereum. For financial transactions I use my bank and/or Transferwise. Haven't quite yet figured out why I'd use Bitcoin for something.
The mantra of the millennial is more like "Sure I might have no job prospects, no money, no home, a ruined environment, and a boss that treats me like crap .... but it'll be better once all the selfish old people die"
Smart Inbox for Notifications, 0.16 released
http://www.cotters.com.au/registered-designs/
If you like this story I suggest you take a look at the book "One Jump Ahead" by Schaeffer for a lot more in depth view!
All the article is telling me is that American dealership experience must be incredibly shitty. We bought a brand new VW Polo here in the UK(and Polo is the cheapest VW car you can buy here), on the delivery day it was waiting for us in the dealership wrapped in ribbons, my partner got a massive bouquet of flowers, there were cards saying "happy new car day <partner's name>", and two sales assistants spent a lot of time with us showing us every bit of the car. That sounds pretty similar to the experience described in the article, minus the religious parts.
I agree; the right-wing press lacks high quality journalists. Journalists seem to happen to lean left a whole lot more.
Fitting the Support Vector Machine Cost Parameter
I am amazed/not amazed that they write financial applications in this language (and do not have the common sense to not do it).
Nope! There's no way. Funny, that.

(Same goes for Google's new-ish "share location" feature of Maps. Want that? Then you'll have to share and record you location for all apps. And you have to hunt into settings to re-disable it EVERY SINGLE TIME. It's a feature! Basically a Trojan horse for Google's "record everything" business need, but less immediately threatening. A Trojan gnat, perhaps.)
Long term FF user here. I still use it as I stand behind the independence, but ...
I have found FF speed and stability gradually lacking. What was once a fast and lean browser has turned into a behemoth. Of course, part of it is beyond their control as it seems more and more publishers only QA on Chrome nowadays leaving FF behavior in the 'hope and pray' category of UX. I'll stick with it for now, but saying I'm at the verge of switching wouldn't be far from the truth. If it were not for the ideological, I would have switched to Chrome long time ago.
Someone's loss is anothers gain. That money didn't disappear, just got reallocated. And if spent ,will generate economic activity. It's certainly a hit in the trust of the core dev though.
See previous recent discussion of indoor/vertical farming (1).

As discussed on that thread, vertical/indoor farming is great for leafy greens, but much harder for other plants.

See this video [2] - "Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet: Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, has studied plant growth in controlled environments for most of his career. Here he presents the results of his analysis of the environmental effects of Vertical Farming/Indoor Agriculture (September 2015)".

A copy of the slides can be downloaded here (the link shown on the youtube page is dead - correct link[3]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347288

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw

[3] https://cpl.usu.edu/htm/research/publication=15787
One advantage I heard is the lights in these vertical farms only emit the wavelengths plants absorb while solar panels absorb across all wavelengths
In theory sure, but cancer affects you within month or years, while viral or bacterial infection hit you in hours or days.
Agree to it or not, all B2C companies want to maximize the time you spend with them and therefore, will push everyone for consumption rather than creation.
Speed height capsules- how to grow taller naturally?
The IRS has this interesting FAQ on their webpage

> https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html#en_US_2016_pu...

Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity.
You seem a little more confident than me but otherwise we are fairly alike. Maybe the desire comes later in life?
People who think they understand AI don't understand AI. Which I think is a big part of Elon's point. So criticizing Elon this way is rich.
Once you do actual programming instead of guess work, it does. Try evaluating performance of anything without algebra. Or without statistics.
What is the current ICO valuation for Filecoin?
It's a small company. I'll start looking elsewhere, thanks for the tip.
As state by other commentators it was an open standard. However the main issues other vendors faced were Adobe's control of the standard (no TC39) and the use of patents in the technology (compression etc).
Inacceptable! Unfortunately "designers" nowadays feel more like self-loving "artists" rather than problem-solving engineers - we need better education!

"Inventing a plastic bottle in 2017" - this could be joke, but the ignorance behind it makes me angry.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782/tab-pdf

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/4/140317
To be more fair, they didn't ask me to.
Yeah it feels like there has just been crazy pressure from day 1. We've churned out what I would call an amazing amount of features for a team of 2 engineers + 1 designer, but nothing we produce ever seems to be enough.

I'll try and find examples of other "near misses" and see what we can do.
Sure. That’s totally a valid position.

I think there’s a middle ground though - and Google is far far on one side of it.
"Here are our coding guidelines. If you don't like them, the door is over there."
> The solution then would be to employ people and give them a sense of purpose, or at least get them out of poverty.

The jobs are gone. Now it's time to stop marginalizing and treating jobless people like parasites. This would help more.
I'm betting that sjobs would not have approved this
Probably that ctrl+q is the historical cross-platform standard for quitting. Also you may have missed that not all keyboard layout are QWERTY.
A whole host of Single Dealer Trading platforms from major banks delivered on the web via flash (and Flex).

Quite an ambitious achievement for a simple animation tool.
Will Uno ever be open sourced?
I don't report directly, but am being pressured by the business owner to "have something in the market" by next Tuesday, and figures for when I expect the business to be profitable.
Then we’re dealing with a very different thing and the conversation is therefore different?
> ... the States' representatives that have these problems back home appear to be taking it very seriously.

Rather, "several" out of 52 GOP senators are taking it seriously. Or do I misunderstand you?
It seems like you started a telenovela, more than a startup...

When everybody is betraying you and being false, it might be that you are the a-hole
Before: Mt. View cinemas with pre movie recruiting ads with sign on offers of a new car.

After: Ads for used routers and switches and office furniture.
I'm not sure I follow. It sounds like you're blaming blogs and online media for the decline in credibility of newspapers.

Newspapers aren't credible anymore because they continuously make the conscious decision to run bullshit stories full of twisted truths in the pursuit of sales, as they have always done. The only reason they had any credibility before is because people blindly accepted what they said without the tools to verify it.

They've had the same amount of journalistic integrity as they've always had. I.E plenty until there's a buck to be made by forgoing it.
What I want to know about Google's news feed priorities is what possessed them to think it's a good idea to completely overtake the Play Newsstand app?

To access a magazine subscription, you must open Play Newsstand, click on the Library icon now relocated to the bottom (as they've culled all options from the hamburger menu), then scroll down every single news feed source to which you are subscribed (I believe there are defaults as well), just to get to your most recent issues.

I spend about 10x more for magazines on Play Newsstand than I do on Play movie rentals & android apps every year. Yet the options for automating downloads, selecting the type/quality of download, verifying library content, etc are amateurish at best. You cannot even read a magazine using Google Chrome in Linux.

I also have almost a full year's worth of a subscription that doesn't even show up. When I called support, they stated it was a known issue. No refund and no attempt to fix. $70 down the drain.

But yeah, my news feed is so much more important than the household $500/yr on magazine subscriptions.