skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The politicians don't set their positions based on campaign contributions. It's usually the other way around--the contributors chose where to place their contributions based on the known positions and past votes of the politician."

That's how it should be but often it's the other way around. Don't forget that most laws get written by lobbyists and the politicians are just a front for them.

There are few issues where the people in Congress have their own opinion but there are lots of other issues where a well spoken lobbyist with some cash has a big influence.

I agree that the contributions are really low. That why lobbying has a huge rate of return. You can get billions in tax breaks for a few million in expense.
Did you know that "realtor" is a registered trademark?
Just came in to say exactly this. You can complain about how banks handle transfers all you want, but at least you have a decent shot of getting your money returned if something goes wrong.

Sooner or later some court is going to get involved in a case involving smart contracts. I imagine they will ignore what the contract says and go to intent of both parties.
What do you envision for this Carfax-like system for real estate?

What info would be available that you could not see via Zillow or the MLS listing?
I'm quite torn on this one myself but for now the downsides are outweighing the good. Just the fact that it is very contentious is a big problem. It just isn't worth another possible network split or negative pr it would bring. Ethereum is trying to be a particular kind of base layer blockchain - it needs to encourage the development of non-hard fork solutions to these issues, like better auditing, insurance, etc.
As someone correctly mentioned below, opioids are not "pleasure molecules", they are dopamine uptake inhibitors. Basically, antidepressants.
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Politicians call it “staying on message.” Answer the questions you want to answer, and for the ones you don’t, answer what they should have asked. True and false don’t matter but how confidently and steadfastly you stick to your position.
I did a dhamma retreat in India in 2008. I did not notice any of the things you mentioned. I don't know whether they changed any of the instructions in the meantime, but for me it was an immensely insightful, at times painful and scary experience. Learning about Buddhist philosophy was a side bonus (although I don't remember much of it), which I always understood as imparting lessons and enriching my own mental models (why did they reach conclusion x or theory y?) but not necessarily literally true. There was no nlchsnzing back then (except for saying "Sadu Sadu" to express to oneself knes whic's compassion for all licing creatures. Maybe local versions are different despite the recordings?
Agreed. Succession is relative and a grey area, and nomenclature is arbitrary.
The performance boost with quantum was enough for me to go back. Chrome still seems snappier sometimes, but it's close enough.

One thing I do miss notably is Chrome's task manager. Being able to see which pages are spiking memory or CPU and kill or close them is super convenient if you've got dozens of tabs open and notice machine performance is becoming an issue. Is there anything like that out there for FF?
Well that made my day. A friend of mine told me this anecdote but had forgotten the relevant names for me to google. Wow.

It was also motivated by the same discussion and recipe analogy.
1) The 6% commission is negotiable.

2) In the UK, the buyer pays stamp duty (tax) on the purchase.[0]

3) You can put a bid on a property in the UK and it's non-binding (until exchange)[1]

In other words - very different markets with very different dynamics.

[0] - I forget the percent, but it's material. This effectively disincentives people from buying, making the market less liquid.

[1] - This is frankly ridiculous.

(I've bought and sold in both US&UK markets)
So Mozilla actually made some major improvements, but you don't want to try switching again because you tried it before on occasion of some minor updates?
What specific details would they have that other's don't. I don't know how prevalent FSBO is on Zillow in some markets, but in mine it's extremely limited. I'd be shocked if it made up 5% of the residential market, probably closer to 1%.

The rest of the listings are from MLS systems and they pull housing data from county systems. For that, I'd assume there is a data broker and Zillow isn't integrating with thousands of counties. If that's the case, then both the MLS and county data can be had by anyone. With that information, you'd get lot details, house details, listing history, county tax valuations and sales history.

What other data do you need?

A lot of house flippers are agents because they get the MLS listings ahead of the public and can move faster on them. I don't know when Zillow gets their MLS data, but listings almost always hit Realtor.com a day before they hit Zillow, so I don't see that as an advantage either.
I think that you are over-generalizing. VCs use a number of disparate investment theses, including gut feel and betting-the-team in a "hot" (trendy?) space. Another dynamic is funding a team that previously produced a big win for the VC firm (as appears to be the case here).

And do you have a reference for the "fantastically high batting average" of US DoD research? Are you familiar with the SBIR program, for example?

I would judge that neither DoD/DARPA nor VCs have a great batting average. But both have some spectacular wins.
What happens if there's a bug in the gene code/splicing, and a self-replicating virus causes a worse problem that it was intended to solve? (this happens all the time in pharmaceuticals already) Or because a virus was manipulated, it can then mutates in a way that in it's natural state, would never mutate? (another unforeseeable result)
I'm trying :)
If you're going to run outdated platform, at least choose Maemo :P
The future is weird.
As long as this is disclosed, it should be okay.

https://www.trulia.com/blog/what-is-dual-agency/
I've been a django developer for a decade and keep hearing from others how great their docs are. I barely ever use them. My biggest complaint is they give examples without any context. I can't look up a feature without knowing 12 other things before
And by proving here that the blockchain can be forked at will, the whole thing might as well be hosted on an Oracle database at JPMorgan Chase.
Viewpoints
How do you motivate people to actually review the code? Not just accept it.
Since Firefox permanently broke Pentadactyl, I've been wanting to switch to Qutebrowser, but Qutebrowser doesn't yet have NoScript or RequestPolicy functionality, so I'm stuck with Firefox for now.
I dunno, I seem to have many papers in pdf form on my hard drive.
Most Bulgarians eat "кисело мляко" (sour milk) every day, some mix it with water + some salt to make "айрян", which is a drink :-) The so called "yogurt" has nothing to do with "кисело мялко". I am not saying that yogurt is bad, it's just some powder milk + emulgators + sweeteners, produced by companies like Danone, Nestle etc. We have hundreds of brands, but only a few produce the "real deal"...free market, you know :-)
Social networks don't sell data like that
People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think
Mozilla made 530M in 2016 - they're a company. Firefox is is a strategical business decision. Their interest in the web is the exact same interest as Google's in the web. $$$.
Casino high-roller database stolen through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank
Waking up early is harder for kids, and there's no particularly good evidence in favor of homework. These are perfectly valid complaints.
Yeah, I hear a lot of Americans saying that they want to move to China for the human rights.

> The United States is often nearly as bad as China

I just can't get enough of that song! And I get to hear it about ten times in every discussion that includes the string "China".
This article starts with the headline, "Because everyone using Chrome for everything is a bad idea" and it's right about the need for diversity in browsers. But that doesn't mean just Firefox or Chrome.

On the contrary, for technically inclined users it's time to consider giving up on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and all the other locked-down anti-user walled gardens that violate software freedoms. I know this is a niche belief system but among the types that read hackernews more care than average.

Firefox held out much longer than most but the pressure at Mozilla to make it 'safe' for grandma (only add-ons signed by Moz) and 'safe' for consuming commercial media (DRM black box, no exceptions for research) won in the end. It has become Chrome if only in target demographic and feature prioritization. Just switching from Chrome to modern Firefox won't create the browser diversity argued for in this article.
Oh, I meant paper as a material. (And you probably got that.)
The title of the article is this:

>Trillions of Viruses Fall from the Sky Each Day

I learned in 4th grade science that viruses are parasites. Having trillions of parasites falling from the sky every day is not a good thing.

Some mental gymnastics are required to conclude "parasites are good", but I suggest that the vast majority of people don't believe parasites are good.
If I can't get my ETH back back when I mess up, then neither should Parity. If the community wants me to get my ETH back when I mess up, then Parity should be able to. I'm not providing a value judgement on whether this is good or bad. I'm saying that it is hypocrisy to let one group get their ETH back over the individual if they have enough political support.

But I see your point about the EIP process. Altering history to benefit a group of people is always contentious, so the EIP process is itself a way to do it on a public forum.
Curious, by which metrics?
I was certain this would already exist but had no source. Now that I’ve finished with that rabbit hole I liked the look of this one most - chair history is surprisingly interesting.

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/artic...
A donut chart is also area<->arc length proportional. Intuition: a donut chart is what remains of a pie chart when a smaller version of the same pie chart is removed from the center. If the two pie charts are proportionally correct, their difference must be proportionally correct.
And you can always leave your country for another country. Doesn’t make it decentralized.
Former Google CFO joined a Canadian VC firm after two years traveling the world
FWIW I find that copying morse code toward the limit of my ability (50+ wpm) results in a very peaceful mental state. Really anything over 35 wpm causes it.

Interestingly, copying fast morse also pushes the limit of the human perceptual system just as hitting a 100 mph fastball does. It's fun to play at the edges and watch the skill strengthen over time.
> If they want to change history to help a privileged group of people, they should have a generalized mechanism and process for doing so.

Maybe I am just blind and a luddite, but if such generalized mechanism and process would exisit, what would be the difference to the current government and fiat based system?

Admittably, I am astonished that after the DAO mess this smart contract thing is still alive. You can either have code as law, or you can have law as law. Not both. And obviously "code as law" was something these people did not like, so what on earth there is left for smart contracts?
Pwall – A lightweight universal cryptocurrency paper wallet generator
The crabs are nocturnal the birds are not! The footage shows it was in the night
yup

ff4life and all that but dev tools def slower
What's FSOB? Was it just a typo of FSBO (as in for sale by owner)?
> Whatever we call it, we still need a use case for full trustless crypto. The reason you find many cryptographers skeptical of Blockchain as a major new technological framework (Internet 3.0!) is that many of us have tried to pitch and develop trustless business models before. And all of the use cases we had in mind have consistently been better served by more centralized, higher-trust alternatives. So we look at Blockchain with a feeling of “we’ve tried this before, and it’s not clear there’s anything sufficiently new to make users want this.”

Is there a reason this argument isn't getting wider airplay? Always felt the same way. Interesting to have it validated by someone who sounds like he's been around the block (pun intended).
While I'd also prefer something with more verifiable and with more expressive power as well, it's pretty wrong to suggest that "procedural" is somehow not what will come of any code that relies on OO. Monads sequence code too.

And while I think most smart contract languages are bug-ridden disasterpieces, it IS possible to test them thoroughly. The problem is that most folks in the blockchain space, particularly contract author's, simply have no experience dealing with the difficulties of distributed, public facing systems. We see these problems over and over again.
Except the majority of the Ethereum community being ideologically opposed...
Legal contracts also have mistakes in them, and companies and people get wrecked for millions of dollars.

http://www.duhaime.org/LawFun/LawArticle-151/Famous-Attorney...
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Because he is not all that bright. Eth is a shit show of scammers and used for little else
A relevant earlier EIP, which I assume this conforms to:

> Provide a standardized format for Ethereum Recovery Proposals (ERPs), which relate to recovery of certain classes of lost funds. Individual ERPs will follow the same process as any EIP, but will be formatted and evaluated in a standard way to ensure consistency and transparency.
It is much easier to read code that is written consistently, and it's much easier to contribute to code when a style guide is available. This isn't "pushing an agenda". And what's wrong with collective ownership?

Code review shouldn't involve bikeshedding about whether braces should go on the next line or not. It should be about design decisions, clarity of expression, algorithm complexity, etc.
> - Pocket integration. Dive into about:config, turn it off, lather rinse repeat on every device and every fresh OS install. I have about a dozen.

This always bothered me, especially after it became hard-coded into the project. I used to do the same as you to remove it, but now I use Waterfox which rips it out at the source.

> - Bookmarks sync well (yay!) but don't always retain the same ordering on each device, which gets a bit confusing. I can work around this easily enough, but it's not quite as smooth as the same feature on Chrome.

I have found that if I give it about five minutes after syncing, my bookmarks tend to line themselves up according to the last fully synced install. This is important as I put all my bookmarks on the bookmarks bar arranged by folders and subfolders, and muscle memory gets thrown off if I don't give them time to sync positions.
One way smart contracts could still prove useful is by changing the position parties are in prior to any lawsuit.

Suppose we agree that in two weeks, you are to pay me $1000. Then suppose that some dispute develops between us as to whether the payment is still owed in full, so you refuse to pay.

If we merely had a standard contract, I would need to sue you, and the burden of proof would be on me to show that I am entitled to payment of the full sum.

If we had a smart contract, the payment would execute automatically, and you would have to sue me, and the burden of proof would be on you to show that you are entitled to recover the sum.

So even in a world where a smart contract has the exact same effect on legal duties as a standard contract[1], it could still let parties reallocate counterparty risk. There are of course other mechanisms for reallocating those risks, like escrow services. How smart contracts compare to those seems like a great area for economic and legal research.

[1] A doubtful proposition, since parties to a smart contract have manifested some intention to be bound to at least some extent by the mechanics of the smart contract platform. A court will have to consider that as a factor in discerning the true intentions of the parties.
Also at a big 5. We've found that skipping reviews causes more problems than it solves in emergency situations. It's really tempting to bypass the process because you're sure you can fix it fast, but this mindset results in more missteps in aggregate.

If a couple minutes really makes that much of a difference you should probably page multiple people in from the start of an issue.
Yeah, but the real question is how do we pronounce GIF?
I have the same issues/annoyances as you.

Also, for the past few weeks, I set up a few Linux desktops. When you install Firefox Quantum alongside with the pre-installed Firefox ESR (most of mainstream distros has it) and enable sync, your bookmarks will have a higher chance of being incorrectly synced and your history (if you chose to sync it) will probably be at FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR/places.sqlite.corrupt

A simple fix is to close Firefox and

$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/YOUR_PROFILE
$ mv places.sqlite.corrupt places.sqlite

I'm still trying to find the time to prepare a proper bug report.
Yeah, and I doubt the judge will be impressed by arguments about immutability, especially if the lead developer of the smart contract system has a history of suspending immutability to help his friends...
Yes. However, that's a recent development. Mozilla apparently overhauled the entire DevTools stuff. It's not even feature complete at the moment and it's really f*cking terrible.
The concepts of reputational risk and feedback in decentralized governance
Just to clarify for future readers, "classical" here presumably does NOT mean Classical Chinese (文言文).
one point is rarely enough empirical data
Sorry, commented on the wrong article...
GPDR: Why Consent Management Is Merging into Identity Management
> The problem is, if smart contracts are subject to human governance, what advantages do they have over any other kind of contract?

I would argue that they are actually worse, because they are subject to the whims of individuals like Buterin who are effectively accountable to no one. In the real world you have judges, you have juries, you have clearly laid out rules, and there exists a well defined process of how legal issues will be handled.
Do they have to sell the data for Zillow to figure it out? I assume at a certain point you get enough data from enough sources to make those inferences yourself.
I can't see any way of defining pleasure, in an objective way, without it being part of motivation. "Reinforce the recently followed decision paths" sort of thing.
Public git repositories are not behind a sign in page. You can see the content of a public get repository with a simple GET request to the webserver.

That was not the case here.
> I've always thought of streaming as a doubly wasteful model where you lose battery life along with data.

Exactly! I was a streamer too, but then I switched to flip phone. So now I think I'm even hipstery than you.

Basically, no music for me except good old fashioned radio. And London Grammar on YouTube.
It seems like most people in this thread don't understand that this is just a proposal made by the firm that lost funds and there is very little indication that it will be supported either by the Ethereum Foundation or by the community at large.
> Right now this sharing is only true of information. The most liquid and sharable resource.

I don't want to hijack the discussion with well-worn issues, but even information isn't legally sharable in large part.
I'd rather not live in a world where people can take money out of other people's bank accounts without going through due process first. In your example, due process happens at the end of the dispute rather than at the beginning.
The only real fact you cited isn't actually any sort of advantage for sourceforge over GH [1]. I don't think sourceforge has an open backend or any iota of accountability given their history of injecting malware.

And I have no problem with a project not wanting to use github for this reason either - everyone is free to roll their own, or use something else, but the point stands that SF isn't exactly a better alternative for those reasons and most small projects should just end up on github because that's where a lot of OSS development has coalesced anyway and at least github has a been a decent steward providing free OSS project hosting.

1. "and the fact that GitHub is a closed source backend under control of a corporation that's accountable to no one"
I think "smart contract" is a bad name for what it truly is - a program that runs on the blockchain. I tell programmers to think of smart contracts as programs.

An Ethereum smart contract (program) may be useful when applied to a problem currently solved with a legal contract. But not necessarily.

MakerDAO[0] is a project that achieves a token (Dai) that is termed a "stablecoin" as its value is soft pegged to $1 USD. It was launched in late December and has been very successful thus far. Maker achieves this with a series of smart contracts and operates entirely within the blockchain. MakerDAO is the type of project that is unique to smart contracts and is not possible without Ethereum or similar technology. These are the types of projects you should consider when analyzing the longterm technological capabilities of Ethereum. Imagining a world where paper contracts are replaced with Ethereum smart contracts is a misconception.

[0] https://makerdao.com/
I work for a tiny 2-man project and we need to save all the time we can, so we don't code review. We actually have an unofficial policy: all code that is directly user-facing (web design for example) is handled by me and all backend stuff is handled by the other guy.

My previous company worked the same way though, and it was a real company with funding and customers. It was another tiny startup (essentially 4 person engineering team) and the work was cleanly divided: one person did the entire iphone/android app (react native), one person did the website, one person did the backend and one person did the analytics. For an established company this would be a nightmare -- we had tons of bugs in production, usually reported by our users. However, having a really clean separation of duties made it extremely efficient in terms of management, because everyone knew that if they wanted something done on the mobile app they just asked the guy who did the whole thing, he knew the codebase thoroughly and could fix or add the change almost immediately, then would work on the next task on his trello board (which almost nobody else even looked at). We essentially had no management (CEO was constantly gone looking for more funding) so this organizational structure was a huge boon, and allowed us to push out huge features in 1-2 weeks. I think that if we had a full time QA person this really could have worked well, and by "well" i mean "we could have done the job of a ~15 person engineering and QA team with only five people."
What is the generic mark? Real estate agent?
Sure, I got it, just letting you know I lost touch long time ago. :)

Thanks for the remark.
The loss of the word 'meme' was unfortunate imho. For cryptography, we can always say simply 'cryptography,' instead of 'crypto.'
Oof. My first day back on HN in a while. Forgot how tough the crowd is around here!
Wouldn't a place like Zillow have first hand knowledge? You can sign in with your facebook account, for example. Linking your account will give them your public profile, friend list and email address.