skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is more point to being wealthy if being poor is a likely reality: the wealthier you are, the more insulated you are as well. And you don't have to be a sociopath either - humans are pretty good at looking away (how often do you look at pictures of starving people?)

Also you assume that a person who is good at solving one class of problems is also good at solving other classes of problems. This is not so.

Anyway there are solutions that are not hard, but they mostly involve putting these people under guardianship and getting them of the streets, then into assisted living for those with mental issues and some for of work program for those who are just on drugs.

The once whoes only issue is that they don't have place to stay need help too, but they are typically not the one you see on the street, because they are sane enough to sleep in cars, behave normally during the day, have a place to shower at a gym or similar, etc. I doubt enough housing could be constructed to help them, as it seems the more housing there is, the more people come there in search of better oppertunities - a potential solution (although diabolical) would be to raise the minimum wage enough that there aren't jobs for the people who can't afford to live there (less diabolically minded people would point out that it would make it more attractive to have a longer commute and that some of the people who are able to maintain their jobs would now be able to afford housing).
They will have to handle the case where the passenger doesn't exit the vehicle somehow or another. But the fact that it is occurring in an automated vehicle shouldn't make anyone worse off.
Im honestly not trying to be like TLDR, but a revision log would be immensely appreciated.
Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15481334 (2017Oct:238points,87comments)

Return of Coppersmith’s Attack [ROCA]: Vulnerable RSA Generation | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15482441 (2017Oct:142points,22comments)
How do you get access to historical here street view imagery?
> If these programmers spent half as much time coding as they did bitching about their and others' programming environments, I think they'd get a lot more work done. Not to mention, be happier with life.

Without this "bitching about their and others' programming environments" we'd still be using punch cards. The author indeed does not contribute anything "new", but it's still pretty well written and to readers who are at a similar stage in their education/maturing in a more modern time it does a pretty great job of introducing concepts the typical ruby-only developer might not be familiar with.

I could have written a very similar article 15 years ago from a perspective of a black belt perl developer who found lisp to realize that his code already was lisp. Just in perl. Would it help a 25 year old other version of me today? No. Because he'd probably be proficient in ruby and not in perl. Nobody under 35 understands rants about lwp or Moose anymore and thus does not even have a chance of getting the point without lengthy research.
This is true, but it is also not not the point I am addressing.
Radio interference from switching voltage regulators, power supplies etc. is normal as most of them work from several hundred KHz to above 1 MHz generating PWM square waves whose harmonics fill the spectrum up to hundreds of MHz and beyond. They're circuit-wise very close to RF transmitters, so it's a normal behaviour. The RF junk they produce however can be filtered out both by putting them behind good screening and by filtering both their input and output lines. This cost money though so cheap ones will perform much worse, and some of them don't employ any method at all to reduce interference.
Graphical tool for OpenStack troubleshooting
While a talented lab might be able to make yeast produce ephedrine (since Ephedra sp. do that naturally - no idea how complex that is, though, I am not biochemist), I don't think there are any organisms that synthesize methamphetamine directly...
To me that reads like you're not so much interested in fixing homelessness.
Looks like the price has raised since the article. Due to popularity maybe?
This is a problem with Parity (a company, not 'Ethereum'), and the Parity wallet service that they offer.

It's not a vulnerability of Ethereum.
You're not alone in thinking that. It works[1], and it's cheaper than the current revolving door of policies and support systems. The problem seems to be that people have a strong negative reaction to "undeserving others" getting things "for free".

[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
It's paid attention to pretty much everywhere. Down in southern California, the homeless problem in LA and Orange County gets covered pretty regularly.

I suspect you hear more about SV homelessness here because this is a pretty SV heavy forum.
Yes and yes. https://medium.com/waymo/recognizing-the-sights-and-sounds-o... Though one can easily imagine a system designed to prevent the latter.

Preventing hijackings is more complicated than that though, since an autonomous vehicle will stop for anyone who gets in its way, not just police officers. The array of cameras, lidar sensors, etc each car comes with is probably a fairly decent deterrent against that threat already though.
You may want to check out section 5 in https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreemen... too. Hope things go well.
If more people said "F* this, I don't want to live out of my car" and then drove away to someplace cheaper, business owners would have to raise wages to attract people to either stay or move to the area.

What I'm interested is why has the equilibrium been established where people who aren't making enough to have a decent standard of living choose to stay there.
This is the idea behind basic income. Basic income eschews the oversight of traditional welfare programs so people are free to spend their money on food and drugs with less pressure to pick one over the other
Can you offer some examples of smart contracts that are good ideas?
>So you wanted to write proprietary software on top of someone's GPL code,

Incorrect.

> the developer couldn't be swayed by money,

Incorrect. We made the request on the basis of legal advice to avoid licensing trouble. These are real things that happened on a real project. The idea that lawyers are never involved when using GPL'd code is a fantasy.

In any case, the reason the developer refused is because there were multiple contributors on the project, and it would have created a headache for them.

>so now you are bitter about it?

Incorrect.

>Talk about entitlement.

So rude. Wow..
We can't simply assume that removing those regulations will result in a disaster. Look at the actual data. Find, the regulations which limit the most building - maybe they're not even safety related. many parts of CEQA for instance does nothing to help the environment but has prevented huge amounts of housing. And for those that are safety related, maybe there's a way to alter them or at least get rid of them just temporarily until the homeless emergency has been mitigated. Anything is better than leaving people out on the street - in any case, that's not a decision you or i should make, but rather the people it affects.
I think I've found my new religion.
There are quite a lot of 360 consumer cameras you can just plug into your cell phone. Quality is still so-so, but it's getting better.
I agree with this guy that having to use a mouse is often a chore and inefficient. Google search used to have a feature where you could hit tab after a search and it would auto select the results in order, but that seems to be gone. We need more features like that. Keyboard control supremacy will come back, it is inevitable.
There is an equivalent with Ethereum. When millions were stollen from the DAO they hard forked the currency to take it back. That's why there is Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. Some people didn't approve of forking to correct a bug in a high profile crypto contract. I've been wary of Ethereum ever since.

There are bound to be many more incidents such as this in various cryptocurrencies. There are now thousands of them. But it would be ignorant to dismiss the technology for a lack of understanding it.
I think you're right. It was probably a good bootstrapping strategy at the start to get good designs into the system and also some marketing benefits from promoting top designs from contests. The more I think about it, contest-driven marketing is likely not sustainable - contests are more of a novelty and very hard to keep fresh.
Replace your driverless car with the driverless metro in Copenhagen, where you're only likely to see a metro employee in the busiest stations at peak times.

Danish society hasn't yet collapsed. I think you're overstating the issues.
That's incredibly insightful. The way I see lots of people charge their phones, you have a long cable so you can continue using it when it's charging. with the wireless charging, you have to leave it locked in place while it charges at 500ma for hours. It's neat at starbucks where I can pick up a quick extra few percent on my battery bar, but otherwise pretty useless.
The article has a quote that says exactly the opposite, btw.

> “Most homeless people I know aren’t homeless because they’re addicts,” said Tammy Stephen, 54, who lives at a homeless encampment in Seattle. “Most people are homeless because they can’t afford a place to live.”
As such, ETH is probably a "buy" right now.
No, only when they come out with fly-by-wireless planes.

(also, when I first wrote this, I was half-kidding until I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire#Fly-by-wireless)
OK, so lets forgeet the hit-and-run scenario for a moment.

How fucking shitty are ATM cameras or shop cams? (Ive designed hospital systems, btw - and they have less cameras than you think)

I can tell you that I have never seen a conviction of any ATM robber/murderer in my life -- thats not to say that ATM cameras havent worked, its just that its not widely publicized.

but the UK is not the US (anymore) -- and while your UK surveillance network is massive by comparison, I am advocating against self driving cars becoming the next level of surveillance.

to your last point though, police body cam vid is an interesting thing;

They typically produce about 16GB a day - which then needs to get slurped off the device - stored locally, then transfered to [end-location] - now if we talk about CJIS Compliance - this basically means govcloud and it needs to be stored indefinitely (or per the municipalities policy, which usually is about 5 years+++)

but going through that data is the hard part... and the problem scales pretty quickly.

Just do a wiki on "how many police by city in the us"

So look at these numbers:

```New York, New York	42.3	36,228	60.0	51,399

Chicago, Illinois	43.9	11,954	48.2	13,135

Los Angeles, California	24.6	9,850	31.7	12,692

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	40.2	6,313	50.9	7,995

Houston, Texas	22.2	5,182	28.4	6,632

Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia	55.1	3,753	63.9	4,352

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Nevada	20.9	3,326	30.5	4,855

Dallas, Texas	24.8	3,279	29.0	3,829```

So imagine, 16GB x 36,228 X 5-years of data.... and you want me to search back and find SELECT* from BCD WHERE OFFICER==X AND DATE==Y etc....

ALSO! Guess what - we know how many police in LV were on cams - So at 16GB a DAY PER officer we have 3,326 body cams from AXON collecting ~16GB a day - so from the vegas shooting there is alone we have 5.3TB of bodycam data to potentially be processed... reduce by 30% for off duties at the time, then reduce by another 30% to assume that they all didnt respond, then reduce by another 10% for those that werent wearing them... etc etc... so basically we should have around 1TB from that day alone in body cam footage...
> “How about for us people who are serving these tech people?” Saldana said. “We don’t get the same paycheck that they do.”

I don't understand this attitude. You expect the same paycheck as someone who has invested a lot of time and effort to make it in a very competitive field?

She also lives in an RV with her '3 adult sons'... 4 adults should be able to come up with the money to rent at least an apartment even on minimum wage.
As a League spectator you don't really need to understand the combat to understand the meta. I mean when watching baseball you can't really tell much about a specific pitch, it's just the outcome you care about. Team X killed Team Y, that was good for Team X is enough to care.
Not a Java developer by any means, but I wanted to say this looks like a very clean and well thought out design.
>We all like to think we are above manipulation

I never could understand why people have such a hard time admitting that a literal TEAM of PhD owning Psychologists who have spent their entire lives designing ways to trick and manipulate you could possibly be successful. That'd be like saying Ford couldn't possibly build an engine better than the one you hacked together from plumbing parts, just because you can't fathom the concept of people being good at their jobs
Can general public attend these sessions?
Rent? I am pretty sure that would cover a mortage in plenty of places[1], which is less than 500 usd month[2] over 30 years. But even if it was not, we generally buy things where they are cheap, not where they are expensive - that naturally brings up the local price.

[1]: https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/ten-homes-under-100k-eas...

[2]: https://www.dollartimes.com/loans/mortgage-payment.php?lengt...
Destiny 2 is published by Activision, who also happen to own Blizzard, so Destiny 2 ending up on Blizzard's store isn't much of a stretch.

It remains to be seen whether Activision/Blizzard will open up their platform to independent third parties.
> Netflix/Amazon/HBO still has not dropped everything that Harvey the Stain makes money off from its catalogs.

For what? Hasn't being fired from his company, etc, stopped Harvey the Stain from making money anyway? If not, make that happen. It's stupid to drop all movies he produced; I'd probably cancel Netflix if they did that.
Which is what the title, and the actual article say.
I’m not very familiar with Prop 13, but can speak for situations in Oregon which seem quite different. Maybe prop 13 is why.

Quickly surging economies create active markets which encourage owners to sell, renovations to happen, and old tenants to be removed for the purpose of raising rent. In Portland in the past 3-4 years, there were quite a few studies done on how this happens and how it is especially risky in places with less families because those left without housing suddenly often have no place to run to.

Going back to your point about Prop 13, the Portland issues I just described seem to be recovering by a lot in the last 6 months. I am pretty sure it wasn’t necessarily because of new building though, because the new building in Portland is nearly all luxury condos.
Except on their Android app store.
That may be the case where you've done your work, but it's directly at odds with some of the information that's being presented in this article. For example:

> “I’ve got economically zero unemployment in my city, and I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing,” said Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. “There’s nowhere for these folks to move to. Every time we open up a new place, it fills up.”
I agree that mental health plays a huge role, but housing prices impact the healthy and sick, and if you're living on SSDI it can be hard to find a place to live in any city on the west coast. Section 8 waiting lists are miles long and the majority of new housing development is in the "luxury" segment. My dad had to leave Portland because he was living on social security and could no longer afford to live here and also eat.
But it shows a clear lack of simple fact checking.
How many arrays in Python do you know?
Whats your deal with putting people in jail, and why would you assume no on will be punished if something goes wrong?

Obviously there will be repercussions for accidents, but we don't know what they are or how it will play out.
By Predicting Seizures, AI Could Be a Life-Changer for People with Epilepsy
Actually Rosneft is alleged to have given 19.5% of its shares in exchange for reducing sanctions against Russia. And by alleged I mean that's what the Steele dossier alleges [0], and 19.5% of Rosneft was sold to a yet to be named buyer in November of last year [1]. That's billions of dollars that a Russian company allegedly spent on the election.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisat...
> Rape->turn over recordings of vehicle interior to police.

Well, Uber may have some difficulty complying, but I'm sure their competitors will be fine.
I didn't get into Bitcoin to get rich
If you live in that town and work for Disney you probably think it's working just fine.
How did you do this? Did you write a Js script to scan the block chain using web3?
The moving parts is kind of the whole point, but yeah.

I hope and predict that these disasters become million dollar lessons on what kinds of autonomous functions you can trust with money, and what "security auditing" actually means, so that in a couple of years, given that the notion of a smart contract is actually useful, people won't put funds into bad, faulty logic.
>I managed to learn to read and write before my compulsory education began.

>Using this rare and mysterious ability I incurred about a dollar fifty in late fees at the library and became very well educated.

>with compulsory education everyone was afforded an opportunity to learn to read and write,

I have enough respect for your intelligence that to expect if you're here, you're aware of the vast educational chasms between the privileged and unprivileged. Basically, I'm confident you're aware that your experience is not necessarily the norm for every American. With that in mind, I'm curious why you still maintain such high expectations for tax code knowledge, especially considering all the evidence to the contrary of American financial literacy.
But vim/emacs are ancient, and even Blender is from the nineties. I would say the situation is pretty bleak if we need to rely forever on these ancient beasts because we can't make good software anymore.
wouldn't it be more humane to try and treat their mental illness than enabling their homelessness?
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So here's what happened: Parity used to have a normal multisig wallet, where every user deploys their own contract and each one is a full copy of the code.

They decided it'd be nice if people could have a lower transaction fee when they deployed a new wallet. So they made one master contract that has all the code. Now when you deploy a new wallet, what you actually deploy is a stub that forwards function calls to the master contract, using a "delegatecall" which lets the master execute its functions in the context of the stub contract.

However, they didn't think through how they might want to change the master contract code in this new situation. In particular, they didn't remove the selfdestruct function. Self destruct is perfectly sensible when it's your own contract that you're not using anymore, but it's not so great when it's shared code used by lots of people.

They also forgot to initialize a function setting contract ownership. Someone came along and made themselves the owner, then called the selfdestruct. They posted about it on github, apparently unaware of the full impact of what they'd just done, which was to destroy the code used by all the stub contracts deployed since July 20. Now those stubs no longer have access to functions for withdrawing the ETH they contain.

This master/stub design was also the root cause of Parity's previous multisig hack. Apparently they didn't get a clue and pay for a fresh round of external audits, which I think would have easily caught this problem. In fact, at the end of a post-mortem of the previous hack, published on July 20, they complained that they lacked funds for such things:

https://paritytech.io/blog/the-multi-sig-hack-a-postmortem.h...
Yes I did, bad assumption
> I don't think Google (or NSA) datacenters have enough storage to keep up with that volume of nationwide photos.

If you keep taking pictures of the same things over and over, you get a really high compression ratio.
Not to mention that you have the option to throw out the old data.
Hi, co-founder here.

Yes it does have a kick to it. It's made for performance (is > 98% ketone & water) not to be the most delicious thing ever.

The writer's response here is totally legit -- but we've also demo'd with pro athletes, Navy SEAL's, etc. and they just knock it back, no big deal!
Totally off topic in this thread, but I also have two of them I use for dev machines (one at home and one at the office), and I love them. Both run linux perfectly, all hardware supported, they're fast, powerful, quiet and low-power.
> He doesn't know what he means.

I'm pretty sure he does.
Web components are the answer for creating composable templates.
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Yeah. For me in 1983 loading something meant 5 mins waiting for the cassette to play through. Switching to a different program meant repeating the process again.
Ask HN: Are these founders trying to screw their investors?
Looking for more opinions. Two years ago did a small seed with other investors I trusted. The note had the usual three conversion and repayment clauses.

1) Minimum discount of 25% on share conversion in the event of a Series A.

2) Repayment of 3x the investment if acquired before a Series A or maturity.

3) At maturity the holders may elect to convert at the valuation cap or the principal plus interest is due.

The note is maturing in less than two weeks. Elections must be made before 5 days prior.

None of the investors I know have been asked for their election. But the founders say they have a 50% majority to convert. They're refusing to provide the schedule of holders, identify who has elected, or provide contact information for other holders, until Friday. But the elections must be in by Monday.

Are they actively trying to prevent discussions between holders? I feel they have unsophisticated investors they've convinced converting is in their interests.

They have not tried to raise a Series A for two years. They have now said they plan to raise a Series A after conversion. The company has less than a quarter of the amount owed on the notes in the bank.

I cannot work out how it is not in the interests of the holders to say "We want our money back or alternatively we will allow you to extend the note by 6 months to do that Series A". That way our notes convert on the favorable terms.
You're right that it's not a vulnerability of Ethereum. It's representative of a weakness of Ethereum and it's language which makes mistakes like this bug a lot more prevalent.

It's sort of how like a "use after free" bug in a program written in a non-GC'd language isn't a vulnerability of the language itself.

Languages encourage or discourage (or even eliminate) lasses of bugs based on their design. Etherum's is particularly bad in this regard.