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jhildings··on Ask HN: How can we get people to read submissions before commenting on them?
Having a good headline, as opposed to the clickbaits being popular the last 10 years or so
jhildings··on SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities
Not really, this has nothing to do with ICOs but Bitcoin fork drama and BCC
jhildings··on How to learn machine learning in the simplest way?
Be a machine :O
jhildings··on What is an Initial Coin Offering and How Does it Work?
You can trade most pairs at EtherDelta which is a decentralised exchange on the blockchain https://etherdelta.github.io/
jhildings··on Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
The reaction releasing a new software? How is this a contradiction to your statement? The old chain still exists
jhildings··on How to Get Hired at CircleCI
You know that basically LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit or Github are "crud apps" right ?
jhildings··on How to Learn Solidity: The Ultimate Ethereum Coding Guide
>much more than the mob rule of the Ethereum crowd.

Also known as "miner consensus", same for all crypto currencies including btc

jhildings··on What does $100 Ether mean?
Can you provide a solution to force all miners to run the same software forever? Exactly
jhildings··on WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone
Quite a bad name, considering there is already an IM client called status for Ethereum https://status.im/
jhildings··on Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
Vitalik, one of the devs of Ethereum

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

jhildings··on Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
This is one of the books I hear about every year and people always find useful and not outdated. Time for a read I guess
jhildings··on Time to Dump Time Zones
No it's not, especially when you are talking about non complete hours(Half past three vs 2045)
jhildings··on MacBook Pro
Might be a OK solution if it was not that OSX continuously losing Bluetooth connection, the mouse paring when switching mouse is buggy or you want to play computer games at all.
jhildings··on Ask HN: What is your best programming joke?
The best things with UDP jokes is that the punchline can
jhildings··on Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
Sounds extremely boring to be honest :p
jhildings··on Deconstructing the DAO Attack: A Brief Code Tour
It's a very interesting combination of a lot of HN related subjects. Like networking, cryptoanarchism, decentralisation , computer science and scaling problems, cryptographic solutions and finance platforms.

What not to like about reading about news and opinions about this ? I find the current obsession with deep learning/AI here much more uninteresting

And also, just read the first word of the name. HACKER news, which is very self explanatory

jhildings··on The DAO is effectively on hold to decide whether flaws exist and how to fix them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfu...
jhildings··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
once a month is not that much...
jhildings··on Bye – Why I'm leaving Medium
A medium post about leaving medium.

Nothing more to say

jhildings··on Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts
But still, the thing is that regardless of who is right there is a bias in the most comments, including yours. This is the conflict that is bad it itself
jhildings··on Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago?
Maybe because they didn't learn to write proper headlines explaining the content of an article ?
jhildings··on Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology
On a side note, a manga that also takes up this subject but is set more far in the future is Battle Angel Alita , that is about a cyborg with a human brain

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

jhildings··on Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology
This one is nice but a bit short and sometimes slow

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

"Serial Experiments Lain (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン Shiriaru Ekusuperimentsu Rein?) is an avant-garde anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series is influenced by themes such as reality, identity, and communication,[1] and it demonstrates them by using philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature, and conspiracy theory."

jhildings··on Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum
How would they prove that a certain person wrote it ?

And also, what if someone publish the code of someone else, who is responsible then ?

jhildings··on WINE 1.9.4 Released
Noooo Winamp!
jhildings··on WINE 1.9.4 Released
and Steam, but that also might be game dependant i guess
jhildings··on How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
Stealing would imply that they no longer are in possession or in control of the content, which of course is false. Copying illegaly however, yes
jhildings··on We Need a Better PC
Well if the tradeoff is to use a lesser OS or desktop environment compared to for example Fluxbox then it could be worth it ?
jhildings··on We Need a Better PC
A pity that the WM totally sucks and does not even support themes or configurable behaviour
jhildings··on We Need a Better PC
One thing that sucks about the display is the "glossy glass"-style which makes it very sensitive to sunlight or strong indoor lightning
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