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Easy to spoof. Pinboard is listed as dead, though the healthcheck url on their site is Pinboard.im, not Pinboard.in

I don't have a document on hand to support my claim, but it's alluded to in the header of the document you linked:

THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN LAST UPDATED IN MARCH 2015 AND SOME SUBTLETIES HAVE CHANGED SINCE, ESPECIALLY CONCERNING REVERTING ETHER TRANSFERS IN CASE OF OUT-OF-GAS.

Based on my understanding, your bullet points are valid excluding the first one.

> But critically, some but not all of the code's actions are rolled back.

This is not true - the actions within the contract are rolled back. You do, however, lose the ether committed to paying the gas cost (cost of execution).

That value is pegged to the value of Ethereum, whose market cap right now is $1B. If $150M worth of Ether were dumped on the market, the price would likely plummet.

Labels might make you "dumber", but there's a huge tradeoff: you can arrive at a conclusion a lot faster. Of course in a discussion you wouldn't just jump to the conclusion, which is why labels fail in the situations Graham described.

A DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Participating in the governance of a DAO can happen from anywhere that can read/write to the blockchain, and the rules are autonomously enforced across all participants because they are encoded in the blockchain.

The DAO is a DAO specifically designed to raise money for other DAOs. The unique thing about it over other crowdfunding platforms is that voting rights are implemented in an Ethereum contract hence enforceable with no central authority.

Perhaps the primary reason is accessibility. Onion addresses are not easily memorized. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

I believe this inconvenience is minor, however.

Ah yes. What's curious is that uBlock doesn't block the mobile ones as well!

Your stream doesn't feature ads? Mine is chock-full of them on desktop web.

I feel like bumpy.business might be a more appropriate name for a site devoted to startups :)

> > I think it's time people talk about these things publicly

The strategy is deterrence. This is similar to how the justice system "makes an example" out of certain cases by pressing extremely harsh penalties. So while this effects Jeremy negatively, he is not the target here.

What you are referring to is a "slug" [1] which adds another searchable dimension to the content. This appeals to marketers trying to add searchable keywords to boost discovery. Not having one won't affect HN since "everything's present" in the forum. For instance, if you google the title of your post it is ranked #1 in the search results [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL#Slug

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Ask+HN%3A+SEO+impact+of+HN%2...

I experimented with this [1] using GPU acceleration. Last I was working on it, phones required you to manually enable WebGL in the browser and even then I couldn't get it to work on mobile. I shelved it, though I probably could have gotten it working.

[1] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/excredo/hashrate.html

Given how infrequently HN updates their markup, I don't think such extensions will break very often.

Google's API translates a sound sample to text. DeepGram's API uses the sound sample to search other audio.

Facebook has the data to make a solid prediction market. That should be their new biz model - they'll still exploit our data but they won't be degrading our user experience with ads.

0. Arrived at site

1. Entered HN URL

2. Entered email reluctantly

3. Checked email, nothing received

4. Started writing comment on HN, frustrated

5. Checked email again, still nothing

6. Posted comment, disappointed

This broke a number of builds that depended on the (previously) published modules, here's a GitHub issue showcasing that: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/issues/4

Earlier, he claimed he would use social engineering to unlock it, not some technical hacking [1]. Much more believable in my opinion. But the timestamp on the parent's article makes me skeptical that that proposal stood much ground.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-san-b...

Culture means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. There definitely needs to be a mechanism for capturing the energy from a company that a candidate can experience at their leisure. An onsite isn't good for this due the stress of an interview, Glassdoor isn't good due to its bias toward negativity, social media is in the right direction but corporate social networks are usually closed off...

...Perhaps a corporate slack channel that candidates are invited to join?

...And I was hoping it would be. No big security updates here, it seems.

Alcoholism is only a symptom of the problem. He clearly has lots of pain that needs to be addressed. You need to get his family or maybe a close friend informed. If nothing else, take it to HR. It's not an ordinary coworkers job to offer counseling on such a troubling matter. Also, his competency as a functioning alcoholic shouldn't have any influence in how to deal with this situation.

The depressing aspect is the accelerating fragmentation caused by more custom protocols entering the game. Supporting them all as the space grows will only get more cumbersome.

> it makes it easier to access (can read papers on the net rather than going to a library) but that's about it.

I disagree. The text is indexed and searchable.

> the meaning of the papers isn't addressed by that.

I agree. I wonder if starting with research papers that have lots of symbolic logic (e.g. math proofs) would be the easiest starting point for a system like this.

This is the right approach. Like what OCR does for digitizing volumes of literature.

This sounds hilarious. I would love to hear some stories!

To phrase the dichotomy more simply...

One type of ad is about recognition.

The other type is about solving a problem.

To me, this largely boils down to CPC vs CPM. It will be interesting to see how the market evolves to embrace (or discard) these different types.

Good point, I need to provide better context. In my hometown, there aren't a lot of opportunities, and a significant portion of what's there is service / labor. So by staying in my hometown, I'm implying that a lot of them are working unskilled jobs.

If you try using your browser's scrollbar their js fights back too...