skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. The original question doesn't make sense, unless rephrased as

Why software costs so much compared to not having said software.

Edit: and now that I can read the article, DoD says software costs a lot. DoD still pays for software. Supply and demand. If DoD pays said prices, the software is worth that much.
Yeah, but if they can't get to it before you are aware of what's going on (as is the case with most asset seizures) then you can deal with the situation first. For example, a judge issues an order for you to turn over the private keys, and jails you until you decide to comply. Someone you trust that has access to the private keys transfers funds out of that wallet, then you turn over the private key. You have complied with the order to turn over the keys, and you have deniability ("someone must have seen news of my arrest in the press and broken into my storage shed...the one you guys didn't check...where the keys were stored!").
I have those, I don't think this would be a good use of that because the contacts don't orient themselves very quickly when put in and they're easily reoriented in your eye by simple movements.
The data is updated as often as every 15 minutes, though we aggregate all those changes over the course of an hour. Are you interested in only the threat data? We have been considering making it possible to query for individual fields
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tl;dr - Cloudflare used an obscure iptables module- TPROXY, originally designed to help transparent proxying, to help them bind to any port on Linux, without using conntrack.
To be more precise, it would be a problem if GitHub got an Extended Validation certificate with the organization field containing the name of the domain owner rather than GitHub itself.

It would in fact be perfectly fine for a CA to issue an EV certificate containing "GitHub, Inc." and a domain that GitHub does not actually own, but which they control because someone pointed their A or CNAME record to GitHub pages. The Extended Validation Guidelines[1] do not require domain ownership for the organization requesting the certificate, it's enough to control it in a way that allows you to complete one of the blessed validation mechanisms defined in the Baseline Requirements.

[1]: https://cabforum-travis-artifacts.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com...
I hate ycombinator comments like this. Now I need to go procrastinate by writing a tool where I can go through the YC application every quarter.
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I suppose they have even less incentive than internet service providers have to implement BCP 38 spoofing protection.

If it made business sense to do this, it would happen. Until then, it probably won't. Perhaps serving millions of robocalls are more profitable than the number of consumers who will totally cancel their telephone service as a result of them.
That’s the whole point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
No mention of tenure? Looks like Jarrar is probably tenured, meaning the bar is much higher than for a regular government employee.
Looking at the pics there looks like enough space to be able to experiment with other dev boards. I wonder if we can just think of it as a case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's the point, to keep governments from picking their preferred version of the internet. If this is the reason for Google disallowing the google.com front door to AppEngine or whatever, then Google is hypocritical because they support DNS-over-HTTPS for similar reasons. Guess if I started using a bunch of low-TTL TXT records to chat with they would stop that service too, heh.
tl;dr: Because hardware in all industries is made by poor third world slaves earning pennies per hour, and software is made by rich white Americans, mostly, and other western nations (you matter too!).

:)
I think the point isn’t so much immutability for the sake of immutability but rather immutability for the sake of keeping power out of a centralized entity. With the scheme proposed in this article, you could do things like have contract changes only be authorized by, say a 2/3 vote of token holders, or any other complex logic you want to implement in a smart contract. Of course if there is some contract that has a single individual with the power to make arbitrary modifications, it likely won’t be successful, but with decentralized ownership I think it could work.
Dup, 6 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16821807
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I just added the "Facebook Container" extension to my Firefox browser. I am hoping it will prevent most of Facebook's tracking, but I do know that it probably won't block all the tracking.
At first you don't.

But then there are 36 inch unicycles, which can go quite fast. I started with a 24' (< 10 km/h), then I bought a 29' (< 18 km/h). The 29' does feel fast. One day, I'd like to buy a 36', which would be a bit slower than a bicycle, but still quite fast. Some people ride them around the world [42].

[42] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WrGJ8A0Y1o
I really had high hopes for Clojurescript but I tried many times to get my front-end finished in Reagent but the documentation was useless. In the end I turned to React and, with the help of a good, detailed video tutorial, I had it finished in a week. Ecosystem really matters and I find that Clojurescript, despite its innovations, is still too bits and pieces when it comes to just getting stuff done. I never thought I'd give-up on Clojurescript but eventually I did.
Exactly, fuck you.
Hey, thanks. That's a great summary of the structural problems in our government that allow regressive rent seeking to overtake so many industries.

For a (slightly) longer exposition I found chapters 6 and 7 of "The Captured Economy" by Lindsey and Teles quite informative.
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"Chief Privacy Officer" at a company that wouldn't exist were real privacy to be present in their products.
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> I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.

I've had to do the same. I sometimes get three calls and voicemails per day about business loans. I'm pretty sure they got my number by scraping the LLC filings for my state :\.

I wish I would of used a Google Voice number rather than my cell.
In the US we just had congressional hearings over Facebook.

While Zuckerberg walked a fine line and performed as well as anyone could under such situation, I was left disappointed.

He (more or less) took a beating from congress without ever pointing the finger back at them, or at the telecom industry, or the NSA, or anyone else who is breaking trust and downright abusing existing platforms and ignoring privacy.

Robo calls are straight up scams. They're on the rise, and they're not being given any attention. This is indeed hopefully the first domino to fall, that will bring this to an end.

For those interested in these these scam calls, there's a guy on Twitch (live right now) who streams reverse scamming
these centers and taking up their time.

https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga
> I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.

I have considered enabling a feature that blocks all calls unless the caller is in my contacts list but I am concerned about missing something important.

Any thoughts on this?
Sure, but electronics and other industrial uses for gold are a small percentage of its demand. The demand for those two are 9.1 and 6.2 percent in 2017, respectively, according to Statista. The same stats attribute more than 50% to jewelry.
Do we have to refill founder info section while reapplying to YC or just startup info and progress ? Didn't keep backup of founder info.
> Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla. In general, anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication. We don’t want people to have to memorize a glossary just to function at Tesla.

I'm guessing "HTTP" is exempt.
What does raising $133M mean in this context? Is this money that "seeds" the currency? Or is it actually money available to the founders to run the business, make hires, etc...

Basis reminds me a bit of Tether - hopefully with a bit more transparency around where the money actually is.

I think the crypto wars have a long time to play out - but I think ETH wins out because of blockchain externalities.
People criticize Facebook (and others) about doing too little about Russian and other propaganda. But if we want to think about why FB does that, we should study the image in the mirror.

The same people are highly active and effective on HN. Every discussion of Russia or China is dominated by the standard propaganda talking points: 'there's no evidence of X', for any X; and 'the U.S. does it too'.[0] As a result, on certain issues HN discussions are propaganda (expressed civilly, to stay within the rules) and no substantive discussion takes place on probably the most important issue in the history of the IT industry. The purpose of propaganda is exactly that - not to persuade but to paralyze.

HN's main response, AFAICT, is to ban users from saying that any comment fits the propaganda profile; this rule perversely protects the propagandists and it shuts down people who oppose them and want substantive discussion, all in the name of keeping things 'civil'. It's capitulation to the power of the propagandists - they won; just cede them the ground in order to avoid the unpleasantness of a fight. Again, the outcome is propaganda expressed civilly and no substantive discussion (and the discussion that exists is boring, meaningless, and endlessly repetitive). I'm not saying it's an easy problem; I'm saying we should look in the mirror in order to understand Facebook.

[0] For example, currently there are 4 top-level comments in this discussion, all of which fit that profile.

EDIT: Some minor edits
Finally! Nice to see more PG support.
Any news about PostgreSQL 10 support?
This is simply not true. There are plenty of beginner-level JavaScript tutorials and resources out there, but the same could be said of any language. JavaScript libraries du jour like React and Angular are certainly not aimed at beginners, nor are popular tools of the trade such as Webpack and Babel. The focus is on allowing experienced developers to create production-ready web applications, which is exactly where it ought to be.

I’ve been programming in JavaScript for nearly 15 years now, though, and there has been a near-constant push from the community toward better programming practices during that time. Given how far the language has come just in the past 5 years, I’d say they’ve been pretty successful in that regard.
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The 5$ is what you pay for being at that place and with people. When people drink at home, they rarely pay that much.
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I agree with selfish vs. holostic, less so with short-term vs. long-term. You could have someone doing the long con and in my book they are just as greedy as the short con. Better at deferred gratification perhaps, but just as greedy.
I agree. I receive at least one a day. It's more frequent than spam mail. I'm sure there is a viable business venture to basically make "spam assassin" for telecom. I've gotten to the point where I don't trust anyone calling from a non-local exchange that isn't returning one of my calls, because for the past 8 months 90% have been scam calls.
Something that is typically 30 or 60 dollars reduced substantially in price as one finds in a Steam sale is a very different value proposition from app store pricing, where the prices are always a few dollars generally speaking.

Steam sales feels like you are getting a "deal" so probably helps trigger impulse buys. Mobile platform App store pricing doesn't have this effect really, even if prices are always much lower. App stores have also never had something comparable to the precedent set by retail store game pricing, which the game industry has enjoyed and maintained (arguably there should be more outrage at this, given the large reduction in manufacturing and distribution costs Steam should theoretically be able to provide). App stores also grew in an age where consumers were much more used to "free" ad-supported services on the web.
That actually would be a productive way of solving the problem, if limitedly. That'd make me fall much more into the neutral camp on it.
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It's gotten to the point where I don't even answer the phone anymore unless the number is in my contact list - it's starting to cause issues at work, because I occasionally get calls from coworkers (or even my boss) from numbers I don't recognize. This is long since past the point where something needs to be done.
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You can't modify smart contract code once it's been deployed, period. Ether that's locked up in bugged out contracts is permanently lost.

This post describes a strategy for writing contracts that proxies the actual implementation of the contract to another contract. If the contract needs to be modified, a new contract is deployed and the original contract is set to point to the new contract.

Edit: I misread your comment. There has been a discussion over of a possible hard fork in order to recover lost funds, but that's not what the author is referring to in this post.
Yeah, they're almost certainly using CloudFront.

notriddle@DESKTOP-IIQA1VP:~$ host souqcdn.com
souqcdn.com has address 46.137.109.63
notriddle@DESKTOP-IIQA1VP:~$ host 46.137.109.63
63.109.137.46.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-46-137-109-63.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.
Regarding Tether, you can be rightly suspicious but it's not just the exchange run by its corporate parent that you can trade it for a dollar on.
Please do - but how would you go about doing that?
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Could i form a shell company with other windows buyers, whos only purpose is to give us the weight and leverage to permanently opt out of the windyOzz buisness model?
>The original runtime was about 60kb in size, that's still unreasonable to add to a library.

In which planet? Not only will most frameworks and standard JS libs dwarf this, but the average web page size has upped to ~ 3MB these days...
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Someone should crawl (with permission) and torrent it - stopping thousands of people crawling this site with who knows how little bandwidth or data transfer quota.

(This should also ideally have been done by the person who first published this thing on the public Internet, but here we are.)
Does attrs support type hints? I didn't see it in a quick skim...

One thing the stdlib implementation has going for it: better naming. attr.ib() is not exactly crystal-clear.
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions
Yes, that is true: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/999
I think you misread the OP: they are saying that Python is like a statically typed language in which every value has the type Any. That has nothing to do with strong/weak typing.
Well, maybe something like an ethereum on-chain dollar ETF and a decentralized oracle for determining the exchange rate, which is built out of bonds that allow people to get leverage against the underlying ether currency in exchange for providing collateral for the ETF. The problem with such a construct is that (1) the people providing the collateral will insist on high fees and (2) the amount of collateral provided will need to be limited for enough people to participate, so the design would always have a risk for a "broken peg" during extreme fluctuations.
> Most of the design tolerances of the Model 3 are already better than any other car in the world.

Really? The Model 3's panel gaps are quite well-known among car owners. One example from Munro and Associates: https://youtu.be/QCIo8e12sBM?t=394

How can Elon say this with a straight face?
Another vote for freesound. FS' licensing is also much more reasonable
Doesn't annoy me.
I've considered it. Important-but-not-emergency calls would theoretically go to voicemail where they can leave a message. I would worry about missing calls that really are emergencies though. This is why I haven't done such a thing.

Perhaps there would be an override if they kept calling back.
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All state transitions are forever visible in the blockchain. Since addresses can be set dynamically in Ethereum, it's possible to update the contract addresses which make up the business logic pipeline. This sort of pluggable design is not a requirement, and some contracts are completely immutable.

Decentralization and immutability are entirely separate subjects. The security benefits of decentralization are not lost just because pipeline components can be altered.
Oh I thought the proposed expectancy was 30; 40 is more plausible. Also, a third viable child produced by 20 indicates a fairly rosy local situation. Every viable child would have nursed for at least two years. Infant mortality was much higher. Menarche took place later than in modern humans. Famine was more common.

One might think that would simply mean that fertility was lower than I'm proposing, but if you look at what paleolithic humans did that is simply impossible. On foot, they occupied every part of every continent save Antarctica. That required fertility significantly above replacement.
Since I won't have time to read this book for at least several months - what are those colonists able to spend their newfound wealth on? Goods that will have to travel from lightyears away?
The domain is more important, I think; i.e. you can hire a web dev to work with almost any language/framework, but you may not hire a Django dev for a statistics heavy project written in Python.
Peace is war.
Slavery is Liberty.
I am 64 and am approaching the date I can enroll in Medicare. I am getting 30+ robocalls a day at home and a handful at work and on my mobile phone trying to sell me medicare supplemental plans.

We just let the home phone roll to VM now. I don't answer the work phone and only my mobile phone if I know the caller. Grrrr.
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Yes, a user can sign multiple blobs. One construction is this: we agree on some genesis state (no block rewards are issued in this protocol). Call a transaction pre-valid if the transaction is signed by the oracle. A transaction is valid iff it is pre-valid, it is a valid state transaction (valid signature, enough balance etc) and if the originating account made no other pre-valid transactions during the same hour. Then you get finality after 1 hour (every user can agree on the set of valid transactions, and an account holder can finalize a valid transaction after waiting at most 1 hr), and no account can make more than one transaction per hour.

You can modify the rules of the protocol to be slightly more complicated to relax the "no more than 1 tx/account/hr" rule optimistically.
$91 million of Polkadot ICO funds, Gavins ICO. Gavin a cofounder of Ethereum, and the creator of Solidity.

So its more like the cofounder of Ethereum lost $91 million dollars in his own wallet, using his own smart contracts, using the language he wrote.

I am against the proposal to undo the deleted multisig wallet contract. Everyone makes mistakes, some are worse than others. You can never learn if every mistake can be undone.
I'm against the death penalty, but I'm willing to re-evaluate the position.
Also, AFAIK you cannot add methods to NamedTuple, making it much less flexible than data classes.
Part of it is that their are legitimate reasons to spoof CallerID such as when a company wants to set all outgoing calls to show the main company name and number, even when the call originates from a direct inbound dial line. Carriers could block calls from numbers that supposedly don't exist or dial out--and I believe some are starting to offer than as a service. But if they spoof as a real number, that won't work.

I suspect a higher-level issue is that illegal junk calls fall into the mild annoyance category for most people. If the average person was getting a hundred calls a day to the point where they couldn't use their phone service, something would happen.
Alternative: https://outline.com/EV6FPg

http://archive.is/https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018...

Internet Archive doesn't yet have the page, though eventually it should show here:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/s...
Injecting a delegate into an otherwise vanilla smart contract doesn't seem like the hard part of creating an upgradeable contract. The hard part is coming up with a consensus model for agreeing to the change. Bilateral agreement doesn't seem strong enough, let alone unilateral agreement.
Except that this is a common behavior for "Russian Trolls". So common, that an old account getting compromised and starting to engage with people in Russian is very likely to start spreading Russian propaganda at some point.
That doesn't account for buying it alone. The truth is you are buying a drug or chemical reaction to make you feel different.
This guy doesn't give Bitshares enough credit.

His review from 2014 may hold water in a low liquid scenario, but even for a mildly strong market, it's always been a better alternative than, say, the magically backed world of Tether.
Set default ring tone to silence. Create separate ring tones for people in a contact list or people for whom you must pick up a phone.

I have been using this for 3 years. No issues at all.
de Grey seems like a great guy; he's a fantastic speaker, I generally agree with his vision of humanity, and this proof is impressive. I haven't attacked his character, nor do I plan to.

With respect to his work on resisting human aging, he hasn't produced anything of value.
A distinction without a difference.
Emacs? yes. Terminal work is enjoyable on the pi.

PDF? PDFs and the web will be laggy unless you set up a compositor like Compton to speed things up. There's enough GPU power in the PI to set up decent 2d compositing with transparencies.

Videos? I wouldn't count on it because youtube videos are still choppy for me. Even after a ton of work, I still get light choppiness on 320p video. I haven't tried local video files yet, though I assume local files might perform better than web videos. I mean, gifs and webms play smoothly without choppiness, so why not mpv video?

One of the biggest flaws in the raspberry pi is the USB Micro port. If your USB micro cable is broken and unreliable, then your PI will get extremely slow and may even crash a lot due to the flickering power supply. Your pi won't tell you what's wrong either, which makes troubleshooting a pain until you figure out that the lightning bolt icon on your screen means power problem.

If you like linux and tinkering, I would highly recommend you get a pi. Just don't expect a pi to work out of the box. Most distros are so bloated and the pi is so limited, that you have to trim everything down for the pi to be even remotely enjoyable.

If you wish to send me a download link to an example video file of yours, I can play it on my setup for you and let you know how well the video performs.
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Author here: We had implemented this using redux before and then moved to the new context API. This pattern of passing user information in a standard way is very cool for reusability.