skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the "code is law" principle is that it's also the version of history where a single attacker controls 15% of all Eth in existence. I think most participants probably would agree with that principle in general, but the practicalities outweighed principle in this situation.

(the fact that the creator of Ethereum was heavily invested in the DAO doubtless played a role as well... it's different when it's your money that got stolen, and he had the power to do something about it.)

Still though, people don't understand that the legal system is a feature, not a bug. A neutral arbiter that can judge the spirit of the contract and come to a decision that resolves the matter fairly for everybody... that way you don't need to guarantee bug-free code forever.

There was a post here a while back that made the interesting point that essentially everything cryptocurrency attempts to do is anti-user and the problems they claim to solve would actually be viewed as features by most people. For example, no chargebacks! But chargebacks are a good thing, if the good turns out to be significantly not as described then you can get your money back. Or - immutable history! But it's actually quite nice when the bank can remove fraudulent charges when my wallet gets stolen, I quite like having that recourse.

3% merchant fees for Visa don't seem so bad compared to the DAO hack and Solidity and all that other shit.
>>So Airbnb is holding up somewhere in the range of 50% - 100% of the vacancy rate of units in Metro Vancouver.

Which is insignificant, given the vacancy rate is a very small fraction of the total housing supply and has a natural level not affected by rental supply increases.
"Last year I was in Seattle and all I heard was complaints about all of the highrises going up as if that was what was causing the high rents."

Well, no. People are complaining about the change in their neighborhoods, of which high rents and new construction are both observable qualities.

But not to worry...if rents are truly declining, the new construction will rather quickly stop. Real estate investors are smart enough not to build into falling markets for long. They will leave holes in the ground before they complete a project that won't pencil out on financing -- just as they did in Seattle and San Francisco during the last bust.

(Edit: you guys...really. The article itself says that construction has already slowed down:

"Developers and banks that lend money for new construction have taken notice of the market cooling. While tons of new buildings are already approved or under construction now, the pipeline for future projects that exist only on paper is shrinking."

If rents decline from new construction, it happens over years of economic shifts, not because developers rush headlong over the cliff like a bunch of lemmings.)
I set all my chromecast/ home devices (9 devices) to have an assigned IP from my DHCP router (ASUS). Situation has definitely improved. But still not perfect
On a serious note, I suspect you think decentralization is a fad, and I’d be curious why you think that?
That requires either some decision making from the robot or a lot of prompting me for answer's, neither of which I enjoy. A pair of shorts on the floor? I might want to wear them later, I don't want them back in the drawer or in the washing machine, I want them there to slip on when the pizza guy comes. The box I might want thrown out instantly but I could have other plans for it.

Robots need to be able to work around humans, not make more work for them.
Phew! As the owner of https://tron.pk I literally spilled my morning coffee over the keyboard, just reading the title.
The next 20 years will be a constant stream of half broken robots and ai systems. At least until we either get them to actually work or we figure out how bad they are and go back to using people again.

It will be like setting up video conferencing, except for everything.

Your car will go to the wrong place because it failed to account for a leap second, thus breaking gps.

Your fridge will put itself in eco mode because it thinks you're on vacation from misreading your calendar and spoils all your food.

Your front door will forget who you are after you get a haircut and lock you out.

After an automatic system upgrade your shower will no longer produce hot water, because a bug results in the system using Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Your bug report is ignored for a week and after a dozen people complain you get in an argument with the engineer about whether the place you live in actually exists.

Wait. Who am I kidding... You won't be able to talk to an engineer. All support will be automated and it will be impossible to get the robot to understand your complaint. You'll just have to replace it. I suspect you're going to have to replace things a lot.

On the bright side it will probably be really cheap though.

And then there will be all the outages.

One of these days Uber is going to accidentally send all drivers in a big city to a single location. It'll be the great ai outage of 2018, the first of soon to be monthly occurrences of bizarre system failures we can't begin to imagine.

I feel like someone should write a pg wodehouseesque novel about the "smart" future.
Well, if the regulations say you can never raise the rent or terminate the lease, why bother with that risk?

http://kalw.org/post/growing-number-san-francisco-landlords-...

https://sf.curbed.com/2017/7/12/15961486/sf-tax-landlord-hom...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/empty-a...
More likely they simply need to authorize them to do so...
thats pretty funny
So dynamic vs batch processing
What I’ve learned from my tally of 757 doctor suicides
Is tron name itself a violation of trademark, or copyright of Disney? Not much knowledgable on IP laws in the US, hence the question.
In my experience, there isn't a whole lot of "winning" in scenarios of fundamental disagreement. Sides just dig in and entrench. Not much to be done there I think. My debate vs dialogue distinction is more about the priming of behavior, as you call it, in the more common scenarios that are well short of fundamental disagreement -- scenarios at risk of turning in to a contest instead of maintaining the spirit of a mutual truth expedition.
ideal case for 1... the robot rinses dishes in the sink and places them in the dishwasher, starts wash at end of day (midnight) then in the morning transfers clean and dry dishes from dishwasher to cabinets. This could be a counter mounted device (with arms) that sits above the dishwasher (next to the sink) and below the cabinets that it fills.
I got prescribed Ciproflaxin once, a fluoroquinolone, and was just told it was an antibiotic, not warned about any potential side effects from the doctor, just acted like it was just like every other antibiotic I ever took, and I was to take it for 30 days straight.

I thought it was weird when the information page that came with the pills said "do not exercise while taking this medication and for at least a month afterwards", as well as a long list of side effects.

I took the first dose, and the very next day I started feeling tingly neuropathy in my extremities. I kept taking the medication for a few days while being worried about it, and it started spreading to other parts of my body. I started reading anecdotes online about how Cipro destroyed people's bodies, snapped tendons (especially the achilles tendon, one of the weaker tendons apparently, hence the don't exercise warning), and has side effects that last for years afterwards and getting even more paranoid about it.

Day 7 I start feeling the tingling in my face, and that prompted me to call the doctor. They got me on a non-fluroquinolone for the rest of the 30 days.

I have had periods of neuropathy on and off for years after that, including in my face, for the past four years since. It seems to have become less frequent recently though, finally. Mind you, this is after taking only 7 pills total four years ago.

It's so dangerous, and pretty much every doctor I've told this too since have been surprised that it could cause such problems.

FDA had to issue a warning (unfortunately after I was prescribed), telling doctors not to prescribe it for minor infections, and saying it had potentially permanent serious side effects, involving tendons, muscles, joints, nerves, and central nervous system: https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm500143.htm
Self fill bathtub? That's a good one. I have a "smart" self-adjusting faucet that can be set directly in temperature.

... but I can't live without a washlet (electronic bidet/toilet). I have come to the conclusion that dry manual wiping is out for me, because in the end it just smears a thin film of shit all over. The washlet is nice - the seat is warmed, water is warmed and it dries me "hands free". It's an amazing yet unassuming robot.
Consumer Reports (Jan 2018) did not have a high opinion of dry eye medications, https://www.consumerreports.org/vision-eye-care/dry-eye-symp...

"However, both drugs are expensive and can cause side effects that can worsen eye irritation and discomfort—Restasis in up to 17 percent of people and Xiidra in up to 25 percent of people. "Judging from the clinical trials data, the benefits of those two drugs are not that much more than the risk of adverse effects,” says Marvin M. Lipman, M.D., Consumer Reports’ chief medical adviser. “Their use should be relegated to a last-ditch measure, when all else has failed.”

Yawning can stimulate tear production: https://iristech.co/yawning/
From the video:

> I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work that I do.
real name is tronix. and its chinese anyway
Could you have an inner layer of tungsten to seal the plutonium, and an outer layer of titanium to avoid poisoning the host?
Flat panels differ in one very important aspect though. A CRT monitor achieves its refresh rate by briefly illuminating phosphors on the surface of the monitor, and relying on human persistence of vision to achieve an image. The CRT monitor is only actually illuminating a single pixel at a time, and simply scans the surface very rapidly. So, increasing the refresh rate on a CRT monitor has a very visible impact on the smoothness of the image and the visibility of any flicker.

Flat panel monitors may only have a 60 Hz refresh rate on average, but each lit pixel is illuminated 100% of the time. The refresh rate dictates how long each pixel takes to change to a different color and affects the smoothness of motion and video, but a static image on a flat panel display should have no flicker at all.

(Assume for a moment that the flat panel's backlight has no inherent flicker; some flourescent backlighting suffers from this, but it's unrelated to the display's refresh rate. I'm also glossing over some of the finer technical details in both kinds of tech.)
Long story short, My understanding is that it is the idea that web apps would no longer charge for their services directly, but would generate revenue for their decentralized society of which they own a percentage of. Like a farmers co-op. The implications of this have created many new tools and libraries. But hey, take my words with a grain of salt, I am the guy lookin for others to chat with about the subject cause I’ve been in my cave for the past few years, I don’t really know what it means to other folks yet.
If any group controlled >50% of the network and also was willing to use that power in a way that would diminish trust in that same network then they'd very quickly end up with 100% of something worthless.
Nope! Trademarks are granted for a specific use cases or industry, movie titles can't be copyrighted .. they are only protected by MPAA(Motion pictures association).. and MPAA only can regulate Movie names, video games or toy lines are however... See https://www.applebank.com and get amused by their Apple logo.. they did the fruit depiction right
Just think of the appalling number of propositions she must get every day, what with being a nerd dream-girl and all.
that is a great idea, you could also have it watch over one side of a double kitchen sink and pick up and clean any recognizable item placed within the half of the sink
I’ve found the wireless vacuum (eg Dyson) to be even better: you just pull it out, vacuum, put it back. It’s more powerful than a robovac and, without cord fussing, incredibly low overhead.
Well, it depends where you live. In Buffalo, you can get self-storage for around $25/month, if internets are to be believed.
For anyone else interested in the subject, here is another paper you might like:

Economic Origins of the Mafia and
Patronage System in Sicily (2009)

https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-03160...
I wouldn't have thought so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_command

I _think_ the TRON franchise was a nod to the TRON command in BASIC, which predated the name.
You know what I want? I never want to mow my lawn again.

I try really hard to burn it when it gets hot and dry, but the percentages aren't working out.

Failing that, I'd like to have a roomba that rakes my leaves.
How’s the suicide rate among evangelical Christians? Southern Baptists? If you tell young people to shape up or be damned, some will implode, especially LGBT youth, people struggling with addictions, atheists, etc. Sadly (imo) Mormons are like many other Anrahamic religions (and others) which make life very hard for a significant portion of the population. I also don’t believe they’re somehow different or worse than any others. They have strengths and weaknesses like any large group of humans.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/155/5/413/171404

Not compelling, especially when you note that suicide is only one metric, violence against others being another, and so much more. Most of all though, I didn’t say they were wacky in particular, I said that they were wacky as are all religions. I don’t see them as materially different from any other religion, except in some cases, age.
I’m a huge fan of Heroku (PaaS), AWS (IaaS), as well as Intercom (SaaS). Heroku has helped me scale infrastructure and hosting easily, while Intercom has been a huge help with user retention and onboarding (my main usage is for new/existing users, not leads). Other SaaS products I use that I enjoy are Raygun for error reporting, and Papertrail for storing/accessing logs.
If you Google "warehousing apartments", you'll see quite a few stories.

Remember that renters can block your ability to convert the property to something else, as you can't instantly evict them, so the value of the property can be higher the more empty apartments there are.

In cities where there are businesses on the bottom floors, and apartments above, they sometimes only rent out the business spaces, as they lack the same level of legal protection from short term evictions.
You misunderstand the point. It could easily just have a rack that it deposits cleaned items on, that could slide out like a conventional washer. It's something that I've thought about as well.
Because it is contradictory. Sure, in a vacuum where there's infinite land available and no rules, supply would meet demand. In a vacuum Antarctica would be a great vacation destination with amazing views of the ocean.

In reality Antarctica is freezing cold and difficult to get to. And in reality there is a shortage of places to build new housing at an affordable price in either location mentioned.
The problem is that it's virtually impossible to write a "correct" program in Solidity, there are just too many pitfalls that are literally trivial to run into.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212

It turns out that having a language designed by a 17-year-old who knows some Javascript might not be the best idea in the world, who would have thought?

The language needs to be thrown away and a more proper one implemented, plain and simple. Solidity is unfit for purpose.
If someone gets a hold of your lost phone, without the secure enclave, rooting it is easy with physical possession. Whereas with a secure enclave, physical access with a locked device doesn't give the secret away.
Long Blockchain is backpedaling on it's “blockchain” promise
Dude...

I read this and I wonder if you will understand what I'm saying when I tell you that it is specifically BECAUSE proponents like you fuck themselves up beyond comprehension that I consider whiteboard tests to be a massive red flag when I'm interviewing at a company.

Your career should be a source of service, joy, growth and challenge for your entire life.

Don't destroy it for yourself (and others!) right at the beginning.
> Is tron name itself a violation of trademark, or copyright of Disney? Not much knowledgable on IP laws in the US, hence the question.

Copyright would apply to the actual film, script, perhaps other elements. For the title, I believe this would be a trademark issue. Whether it is enforceable here is beyond my knowledge. I tried a quick search on the status, but didn’t see the info I hoped for in the top several hits.
Titles can't be copyrighted. Words can be trademarked, but they aren't exclusive. As long as there is no risk of confusion, then the same word can be trademarked by different people for different purposes. Think: Apple Computer vs Apple the record label -- it wasn't an issue until Apple Computer started getting into the music business.
The other TRON that's vaguely related to computers is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
i highly appreciate you explaining what was meant by intrusive as I was wondering what it meant and i was pretty sure I wasn't going to get good results asking Google considering how intrusive tends to map to things of a more illicit nature c:
If it’s going to go somewhere, why compete to give away tax breaks Amazon doesn’t need? It’s on par with competing to get a sports stadium.
This is cool.. I remember last I did something in C I needed a hashtable and had to write my own.

The sad part is that the more fancy header functions and tricks that gets added to a library like this, the closer you are to reinventing C++ :)
I really don't like the authors shoehorning a linear model into this work. I perceive it as an attempt to give the article an undeserved veneer of statistical/mathematical rigor.[1]

I think their hypothesis would be much better supported by typical social science approaches, such as citation and quotation of primary sources and comparative study.

For example, how does the Sicilian Mafia compare with the Camorra (Naples) and 'Ndrangheta (Calabria)? Did these organizations undergo a similar expansion during the same time period? Were their origins and expansions rooted in similar phenomena?

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-o...
OnePlus Checkout Hacked? The Dangers of On-Site Payment Processing
AI bot beats humans at exact match question answering in a first for machines
Being a landlord is a serious job with serious legal requirements.

Tenants can also be surprisingly good at destroying your property and they have a surprisingly large amount of legal rights.
Mr. X by Carl Sagan (1969)
Really? No one gets the joke?

sigh
I was thinking about this recently. I think this type of consolidation starts to make sense if you think of software as mathematics. A formula gets devised, iterated upon and refined, adopted, and then finally built upon.

It makes more sense to adapt a standard formula to a given use case than it is to derive a custom formula from the ground up. I suspect the reason why its not the case for software is because of copyright and IP laws.

Likewise, I expect mathematics wouldn't have advanced as much as it has had there been IP laws enacted for mathematics. People would too limited by the licensing terms for their Leibniz™ and Euler™ formulas to be able to be able to build the next step.
The context here is that the company called Long Island Iced Tea changed it's name to Long Blockchain and promised that it "is shifting its primary corporate focus towards the exploration of and investment in opportunities that leverage the benefits of blockchain technology" [1].

One of these investment opportunities was to sell $8.4 million shares to buy 1000 Antminer S9 bitcoin mining machines [2]

[1] http://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/long-isla...

[2]
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/long-island-i...
Well, a decent chunk of people living alone are probably renting, so that changes the whole appliance-purchasing dynamics already, but to directly answer your question - yes? The increasingly common dual income family has more income than a single person, and furthermore benefits from the ability to share certain costs efficiently - how would that not result in higher purchasing power?
Succinct Data Structures (2005)
Typically, how you might "prepare" for interviews in other industries is...learning about your potential employer.

It has always shocked me that people don't instinctively think that doing this is an absolute necessity for every single job interview. I have very often been met with a totally blank look when I've asked candidates what they think it is the company I'm interviewing them for does, even when phrased as nicely as, "Tell me a little about what we do and why you'd like to work for us" - surely not a hard question, you would think!
The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari
Lots of anecdotal experience in this thread about how bad Chromecast is so I'd like to offer my opposite:

Chromecast has been one of the nicest additions per dollar for my home. It has been working well for me for a year or so. I even used it today (for the first time in a week or more) while cooking and it worked like a charm first try.

The only real problems I've had with it, I switched hardware, but used the same SSID and it was confused as all heck. To its credit, though, so was my "Smart" TV. I gave up and just used a new SSID and everything worked again without all of the weird-ass problems.
Why do you assume that future AI couldn't handle this issue in the same way people handle this issue, by things like asking questions to check that it got the intended meaning?

If your response to this is "but the article didn't mention anything like that", that article was obviously just outlining a high-level vision. Just because details weren't mentioned in the article doesn't mean they therefore could not possibly be handled in some fashion.
The condos usually end up on the rental market assuming they are not sitting vacant simply as a place for rich foreigners to stash their money.
Where I live there is a rather large temperature change between summer and winter (usually 60 K, sometimes higher), and during the summer I definitely feel the need to eat less calories. However this may just be an emotional response rather than anything biological.
Because limitations imposed on a medium such as Facebook doesn't limit my ability to speak in private. That's how I see it.

It could be argued that Facebook should be infrastructure.
Source on github: https://github.com/artpar/languagecrunch
is that quote relevant here?
It's also worth noting that rents have been declining in hot US markets since (at least) Q3 of 2016. The trend is nationwide, and owes more to macroeconomics than to construction in a particular market:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cities-see-apartment-rents-...

http://www.businessinsider.com/rents-are-plunging-in-the-mos...

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/03/rent-prices-show-signs-of-ca...
https://github.com/artpar/languagecrunch
Isn't it still the case ?
Added docs on the bottom of the readme.

https://github.com/artpar/languagecrunch
Did your mom go to Stanford?
I thought it's well known that jeans don't get dirty.
It's the propositional calculus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_calculus
Step 1: Don't connect it to the Internet.
Here's one for (decentralised) meshnets: https://reddit.com/r/darknetmarkets.
I look forward to the day nuclear powered sustenance becomes a fad diet, and accidentally creating immortal zombies whose minds have expired before their bodies.