skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way i think about Ethereum is that it's a cloud computing platform upon which the whole world can see which program the server is running. The usefulness of this is that if you want to run a computing service that administers something of great value to others (such as a vote-counting service or a property registry), other people might be suspicious that you will use your administrative access to the server to corrupt the system. With Ethereum, the service provider doesn't have any admin access (and neither do the people upon whose hardware the program is ultimately running on); the cloud computer just runs the program you upload, and everyone can see what program that is.

In addition, it runs your service robustly, and preserves the entire history of the computation forever. The downside is that these transparency and robustness features make the service a lot more expensive than ordinary cloud computing, as well as more difficult to program on.

It doesn't really have much to do with Bitcoin or currency (except that (a) like Bitcoin, Ethereum uses blockchain technology to achieve these things; but that's an implementation detail (b) a Bitcoin clone is one of the many things you could build as an Ethereum application (c) for technical reasons you buy Ethereum server time via purchasing server-time-credits called "Ether").

As a project, Ethereum is very technically ambitious (they are not just working on a cloud computing platform, but also trying to advance blockchain technology in general, eg developing a new proof-of-stake algorithm, and eg developing a way to not have to replicate computations on every node on the network). They are trying to do a lot of new things at once, which is risky (but awesome).
Lave: stringifying all the stuff that JSON.stringify won't
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How sleep and mental health are linked in the brain
Well he moved from a different country here 2 years ago. He had a house in the south and in England but he moved here to try to make it big, and his last venture failed. He is talking to a few people to get a home right now and it looks like he will get one soon.
You don't think go build, go fmt, etc. are great? I agree there are deficiencies, but a lot of my day to day (admittedly in emacs) is pretty great.
Another downside is the size of the community. I think this is why the pi is going to be around for a long time despite not having the best tech specs around. There are all kinds of tutorials for hundreds of projects and the prevalence and availability of rpi forums further lower the barrier for entry.
I agree.

It invite only and waiting for users to use it.
It would be nice to post it once I could download and use it.
The above reasoning is shared by a large part of the American people, and this is why the homeless situation in SF and other places in the US is so ridiculously bad compared to the rest of the civilized world.
The author just probably like Leibniz a lot and prefer to make the citation in the original language of the text.

Would you have preferred Latin or German ? Leibniz used them too.
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Maybe if you spent more time with the material you would be less suspicious?
> How many homeless people have you talked to?

Quite a few. Maybe close to 50 over the years, a decent sized sample. Some of them I got to know very closely. One of them did get an SRO room (I was really close to him), I helped him get settled in. Of course, about 2 years later he was back on the streets, because he wrecked his room.
I suspect you are just hating. The fact that you immediately glom onto the dependency management issue which EVERYONE KNOWS AND KEN AND ROB ARE REALLY SORRY YALL and also try to cut gofmt and govet off at the pass, which come on, let's be real, the fact that something exists that might remotely resemble those concepts is an extremely fucking far cry from them being standard community practices which if you don't see the value of that then you never dealt with other people's C code... indicates that you know in your heart of hearts exactly how great Go's tooling is. go run, go test, go build, boom! so simple. Oh and might I mention the race detector? Fucking incredible, C never dreamed of something like that.

There are plenty of good third-party options available for dependency management (nice double standard btw since you apparently have no problem with third-party stuff for fmt/vet/lint concerns) and there is also this https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Vendor_Directories so a better world is coming don't you fret.
Design patent is such a wrong headed way of describing what they actually are. Trade dress or copyright is much more appropriate.
Four years of Raspberry Pi
What's telling is that Google / YouTube will use this technology to defend the copyrights of big media companies, but won't do anything about homemade, viral videos uploaded by individual users which get blatantly copied, re-uploaded, and monetized. If they wanted to, they could easily make it so that the "original" version of any given video was the only one users ever saw, but they don't. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
> you need an entire electorate to enact a proposition.

No, you just need an active interested group and for everyone else to be indifferent or unaware.
From the description, it sounds like a Webdriver Torso-style account that was accidentally set to public. Muddied images like from an out of focus camera, items that last only a few frames, distorted audio. All things that would let someone tune codec settings over difficult corner cases. Once the account was discovered and publicized, they deleted the account, probably with someone being chided before the test corpus was set back up on a properly locked down channel.
> The line between "skilled migrants" and "colonists" is a blurred in the earlier part of their histories, but all those countries seem to be doing well in the grand scheme of things.

I think the native peoples of those countries would take issue with the idea that "skilled migrants"/"colonists" were a good thing for their nations.

It seems bizarre to say we're optimizing for the economic success of the landmass and not the people currently living in it.
I have really apprehensive and mixed feelings about this... on the one hand part of me feels that it's about time, and maybe the right time to bring Xamarin's tooling into the fold... their cross platform tooling for VS has been great, and .Net via mono has seen some integration of MS's new .Net core codebase where appropriate.

The paranoid in me acknowledges that outside of MS Office, they've pretty much never kept a non-windows client project alive for more than two major releases. I wouldn't mind seeing the VS Code codebase become closer to what VS proper could have been, and seeing more cross platform support in that regard. I do like what they've been working on in Azure services and integration, just hoping the teams don't come in just to die in a year or two (Managed JScript, IronRuby, IronPython for starters).

I'm honestly hoping for the best, but that hope is definitely tempered.
Instead of trying to put out the "twitter trashfire" How about avoiding using such a crummy social network?
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> There is Daly City and Colma and Millbrae and so forth down to San Jose

Sure, but then the city better start spending some billions to improve the infrastructure and public transportation: BART is a joke by modern standards, slow and dirty; the Caltrain is even worse with its diesel-powered locomotives like it's 1899.
> Any person with a brain knows that Russia won't invade any country.

...like Ukraine over Crimea.

Of course they won't invade Finland or Estonia or Poland or Latvia or
Lithuania, because the treaty says NATO may intervene (though it's not
guaranteed).

But we still need some international millitary force for stabilization
US-or-otherwise invaded regions.
Dependency Inversion Principle is more apt a term, I think: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62539/what-is-the-depende...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle
Way too complex stuff for a minimalistic service like Twitter.
Yeah, that was quite a bait and switch there from mandrill. Very disappointed in them certainly when you consider that mailchimp templates integrated into Mandrill are pretty much purpose-built for marketing emails.
Omega is an amazing number. We know it has a digit in its binary expansion that is 0 or 1, yet it is impossible to formulate why. It is impossible to come up with a train of thought that explains it. There is no explanation that can be written down on a piece of paper.

So we are left with the weird conclusion:

1. It has the value it has for no reason.

2. It has the value it has for a reason that is impossible to formulate.
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You're applying an absurdly narrow definition to the term "serious media" to support your false and equally absurd narrative. Congrats, you got your points.
I think "Twitter's missing manual" was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment than a descriptive headline. As someone said above, the point was to illustrate how complex and weird Twitter has grown.
One data point: I tried submitting "His Girl Friday", one of the most famous movies to have fallen into public domain, from the copy hosted on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/his_girl_friday

As soon as it was finished uploading, I was notified that a copyright owner (Sony Pictures, which I guess owns the remnants of the defunct studio that produced His Girl Friday) had issued a takedown notice. Amusingly, a minute later, I received the usual "Congratulations, your video is now on YouTube!" email that you get when successfully publishing a video.

After getting a takedown notice, you have the option to dispute it, which I did, providing evidence that His Girl Friday is indeed in the public domain. A short time later, I got a note saying that my dispute was rejected, and that I could choose to fight it -- but that the decision would be up to the rights holder (Sony). However, if the rights owner chose again to deny me, my YouTube account would be penalized and I could possibly lose uploading capabilities.

I didn't really care enough to fight it (though I've kept the screenshots and emails to document the process)...anyone else get to this stage and succeed (or fail)?
I am closing down Express 5.0
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They're called weeaboos.
Honestly, part of me wants such a bill. As a big supporter of F/OSS, I think this could result in the creation of properly open phones running software beyond the control of US corporations. An open os running on standardized handsets could moot the entire debate. Users should be able to examine code and select from a variety of operating systems, even compile their own from source as PC consumers have done for years.
Another good resource discussing abuse of DMCA on YouTube is Jim Sterling's rant on the subject: https://youtu.be/d9mTOq6mP2I

What the EFF article doesn't discuss deeply is that YouTube doesn't provide much assistance when a YouTuber counterclaims; which is particularly odd since YouTube has inventive in keeping their content creators happy.

Lax copyright enforcement one of the reasons Blip.tv was popular (and the site Doug Walker used) until its closing. Now, YouTube has a functional monopoly in video hosting (No, Vimeo does not count) and no reason to play nice.
I'm not sure whether shameless self-promotion is frowned upon here, but I wrote a manifesto on this topic: http://www.tradeoffs.press/product/user-friendly-urbanism-ag...
It's now easy to find reviews on amazon for many wifi dongles specifically mentioning rpi compatability. And they just work.

Im sure you could still buy something unsupported if you didn't do your homework, just like nearly anything.
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If you move a block of code to a place just after e.g. a loop, it isn't clear whether it should be inside or outside the loop, your editor cannot guess this. You still need to tell it at what level the new code should be inserted. And if the end of the loop happens to be nested further, the ambiguity is exacerbated.

I switch between C and Python quite frequently. With C, I just type the code, and let my editor manage the indentation, which it can do perfectly without any help from me. With Python, I find that I spend a lot more time thinking about the formatting itself, especially at the end of block, because it's up to me to get it right.

I fail to see how the _lack_ of a closing brace _improves_ comprehensibility. What Python has done is removed a helpful indicator, and put more of the responsibility on the programmer.

I'm happy to type that extra character in C, because it helps lower my cognitive workload so I can focus more on the problem I'm trying to solve. The closing brace doesn't mean anarchy, or make the code harder to understand later.
Ad blockers don't just look at the domain name.
Just because a video is fair use doesn't mean that youtube has to host it. It is a reasonable business decision for them to make to just block all of it.
"The Rubaiyat" [1] by Omar Khayyam [2] has numerable references to wine.

Omar Khayyam was one of the great Islamic Scientist-Scholars and a famed son of Khorasan.

[1] http://classics.mit.edu/Khayyam/rubaiyat.html

[2] http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/‘umar-al-khayyam-omar-...
> the mentally ill make everyone (especially those homeless who have fallen on hard times) less safe.

Statistics please.
Note that that issue makes perfect sense, and the odds of it affecting you are very very very small. I've written a lot of go code, and have never been affected by it.
I fully agree. Social, like security, is a process, not a product.

I'm still convinced that most of Twitter's problems would not exist if they had written an RFC instead of a business plan.
> Every time the topic comes up, people from across the country start commenting on SF's homelessness woes. I live in SF, and consider our homeless situation unique. There are lots of mentally ill people, who have been hanging around for many years, thanks to good weather and generous people (and the easy availability of some drugs). Most of these people are NOT your typical "lost my job, lost my apartment, and hence am homeless" types. Many of them are so mentally ill that putting them in a mental institution is the only option. They simply cannot take care of themselves.

Pretty much every coastal county along the West Coast and Florida has this "problem". It is not some unique snowflake SF problem. Yes, it may be 2-3x more common among the homeless but that isn't enough to consider them as anything other than people in need of help.

You are simply factually wrong about the "uniqueness" of your problem by any reasonable measure.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-homeless-natio...

> Los Angeles city and county have the most chronically homeless people in the country, and nearly all of them sleep on the streets, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department.

http://www.samhsa.gov/disorders

> According to SAMHSA’s 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) (PDF | 3.4 MB) an estimated 43.6 million (18.1%) Americans ages 18 and up experienced some form of mental illness. In the past year, 20.2 million adults (8.4%) had a substance use disorder. Of these, 7.9 million people had both a mental disorder and substance use disorder, also known as co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.

https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San...

> The most frequently reported health condition was drug or alcohol abuse (37%), followed by psychiatric or emotional conditions (35%).

Homeless people are more like to be disadvantaged groups. [e.g. Poor people with one or more disadvantages, such as mental illness]

http://healthsciences.utah.edu/utahaddictioncenter/healthcar...

> 8.1% of the general population are illicit drug users of 1 or more times a month

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-con...

> Adults (ages 18+): 16.6 million adults ages 18 and older3 (7.0 percent of this age group4) had an AUD in 2013. This includes 10.8 million men3 (9.4 percent of men in this age group4) and 5.8 million women3 (4.7 percent of women in this age group4).

Similarly, it isn't surprising that a good chunk of them have used drugs/alcohol as any addiction is a disadvantage economically. However, the general population has those problems too to a substantial degree.
Your experience seems very weird to me. But I don't have enough data to know if it's atypical. I graduated not too long ago, but my school had many industry veterans as teachers, not pure academics, and sometimes they'd tell stories, one of which included formally proving to an interviewer during a whiteboard interview that the interviewer's expected answer was wrong. Besides that, the school (like I thought many colleges these days) put an emphasis on helping students get hired post-graduation. Additionally students themselves would practice whiteboarding each other, and I occasionally brought it up with friends in rants about how stupid the whiteboard hazing culture is.

Bad students or bad schools, it's really surprising either way they can be that bad.
At the moment, no, you're the first person who's asked :-). It is however a pretty simple REST api, which would be easy for us to document. The main things you'll need in the client are TweetNaCl, scrypt and an implementation of our slight simplification of cryptree [1]. We have Java and Javascript implementations (though the Java isn't quite up-to-date).

[1] http://boga.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/res/Docs/wuala-cryptree...
>Do you have any proof he had decided to take this course of action before he took office when he was making campaign promises?

Does it really matter when he decided to take this course of action? I think what matters is that he did.

>I'm under the impression that the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies are extremely good at drumming up scary daily reports which wear down any president's resolve.

That's no excuse, it doesn't justify his actions. Obama was selected from a country of 300 million people to lead the nation, it's perfectly justifiable to expect for him to be above being manipulated by "scary daily reports".
And here he is, step by step turning the US into an Orwellian police state (God, I wish this was hyperbole).

Also, I seriously doubt the NSA has been bugging Obama for permission to hand over their data to various LE agencies.
Where I'm from, you're eligible to vote in municipal elections if you're a lawful permanent resident and have resided in the municipality for X years. Citizenship is required for all the election levels above, but local politics is shaped by the people who actually live there. Which I think is pretty nice.

I was surprised that in the US, citizenship is required for voting at any level! I can see how that was an attractive policy when the US was originally settled and there were no H1-b visas or 10-year green card wait lists, and being a US citizen didn't make you tax liable globally. But now? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
My sentiments exactly, why don't you post the motherboard article instead of trying to build ad revenue for genius. Thanks.
This is a useless attitude to have: the porn industry is not a unit, and doesn't move as a unit, it moves or forms where it is possible and profitable. If you make raw milk illegal, raw milk commerce will go underground. It's nothing personal, and demanding loudly that it stop is like telling gravity to stop.
The technical answer is it's complicated.

SMTP is chatty. Even when you use PIPELINING. It tends to send way more packets than HTTP. And while you can open one connection and send multiple mails through it, the likelihood of your client library doing that is pretty low, sadly.
I think Twilio separates itself from the others in that it offers a clear, understandable service and value that's easily compared to more fixed non-virtualized offerings.

The value that Twilio provides is much more clear to me, than say SalesForce, for example.
Using them as livestock is fine, but I can't stand how dogs are skinned alive. That action has no place anywhere. Sometimes I wish I had no future so I could dedicate life to stopping the people that do those kind of things and kindly repaying them in a reciprocal manner.
Thanks for a great product. I like how you guys timed the release with the even of the Mailbox shutdown. I continue to document issues on Github and really appreciate the responsiveness.

One thing I'm afraid of is that N1 is developing new features and immediately pushing them too strongly in the UI. Despite all these new features recently, the app's Preferences haven't changed much. Before continuing to push hard on even more new features, it would be great to focus more on the experience: bugs, customizability, design, and extensibility.

Bugs: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues It's hard to quantify but there seem to be pending issues that have been around for awhile.

Customizability: As I mentioned, the App Preferences menu has been pretty static despite new updates. If I want to hide certain features from the UI, it should be as simple as doing so from here rather than doing it directly in the code (which is possible and much easier than any other client out there).

Design: The ability to import & create own themes is great and makes it very usable. That being said the default themes have very little contrast and have too little white space. In addition, the new icons for Send later, insert email template, insert link tracking, and enable read receipts aren't very clean. Against a gray background in the Light theme they are hard to distinguish as button since they are just icons. Also, with their sketchy design style they add too much detail to support fast twitch reactions necessary for an email workflow.

Extensibility: Although each theme is managed separately, I'm curious to learn how the community of developers stays on top of upcoming & new releases with regards to quality and timing. In addition, I haven't much change in the encouragement of plug-ins. I haven't seen new plug-ins recently.

I understand it's all about the community and I'm one of them. Hopefully this post is more constructive than offensive. Feel free to reach out for any clarifications or justifications. I'm a diehard user and recommend the product to everyone who struggles with email.
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>They usually don't sue anyone, and make a fortune.

Such practices do not appear profitable.[0]

Perhaps that's because the article is dated, but mass P2P lawsuits being unprofitable is congruent with their decline in recent years.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/10/music-industry-ex...
I don't disagree with your assertion that people complain, and I don't disagree that when people complain the police should look into it. I don't agree on massive dragnets going after thousands of people in the name of fighting crime who might be only peripherally involved with the situation.
Hi, I'm the author. I submitted this yesterday, but I didn't even get 1 upvote, so I'm glad to see it here today as I think it is a very important topic for discussion. Feedback from the submission on Reddit has suggested that this article is too long which I now acknowledge. I'd be happy to hear any critiques you have.
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I think this is an interesting question: is it worse for him to have made promises he never intended to keep, or for him to have gone back on his promises after he was elected?
I think that the former would probably be a worse indictment of his character, but at the end of the day the result is the same from the outside.
You must be thinking of St. Louis and Flint, MI…

That, plus I hear Detroit is bouncing back a bit. The homeless would probably become jobless, there. A slight improvement, I guess.