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Delib – A simple Ethereum framework
Over the last couple of months I created an Ethereum framework called Delib for DApps and contract management that’s simple and fun to use.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/delib

https://github.com/DeStore/delib

It was created while developing a decentralized file storage platform on top of Ethereum and IPFS. Because I was new to Ethereum, I was able to relate to people inexperienced and design it to be extremely easy to use. The framework contains a promise based library that provides the core abstractions needed for building DApps on Ethereum.

It sets apart from other frameworks due to its wide range of customization. One of its most novel features is its ability to let you automatically estimate your transaction gas costs for contract deployment and methods.

It contains a command line tool that allows you compile, build, deploy, execute methods, get, and watch for events. You can write smart contracts and then instantly test to see if its methods work. This lets you write contracts really fast.
Early-mid 2000's kid here. I roamed without second thoughts: Explored forests, cities, trespassed on forsaken enchanted lands and everything in between. I admit there has been stark differences in outdoor activities; but this isn't a "it's too dangerous for Johnny to go outside" scenario, it's a "Johnny is too glued to his iPad 8.0 to enjoy going outside" scenario.
St – A simple terminal implementation for X
This Ebell guy is insane.
Nice plug for gitlab ;).

\0 is an insanely useful separator for this sort of thing and yeah, it definitely gets messy. I'm working on a similar project that uses clojure/chef to read proc files in a way that causes as little overhead as possible. \0 makes life so much easier used. The best example I can think of off of the top of my head is something similar to:

bash -c "export FOO=1 ; export BAR=2 && cat /proc/self/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | egrep 'FOO|BAR'"
FOO=1
BAR=2
You can still do this at hardware stores in the US. You put your nuts and bolts in the plastic bag and write down the price and quantity and then they add them up at the register. I was really shocked as a teenager when I realized they just "trusted" you to do it correctly.
I think the point of the article is that, societally, we are perhaps too focused on children's safety to the point of depriving them of some perfectly harmless freedom. The argument is not, as you seem to interpret it, strictly geometric. In the 20s, the world was far less safe for children yet far more independence and agency was required of many of them. I'm sure not every shoeshine or newspaper boy was engaging in these activities in their ethnic ghetto.
One thing lacking though is a view on the evolution of the area between the times of the great grand father and the son. How did the urbanization evolved ? I remember 25 years ago, aged 9/10, when I was living in ( really ) rural France, I was riding by bicycle at least 10 kms around, walking in woods, building tree houses.
And up in the thumb, too.

Edit: But not in Ann Arbor, the purportedly safest city in the state... Go figure.
Yes, you can definitely find places where kids still play by themselves in the US! But it takes work and the regional and even neighborhood-level differences in kids' behavior are enormous.

We used to live in suburban Washington DC and I didn't let my kids out of sight of the house.

Now we live in suburban Denver. We cared about play a lot so we used it as the main criterion of where we bought a house. We drove through neighborhoods on Saturday mornings until we found one where kids were out riding bikes and playing without adult supervision. We found a neighborhood that was both well designed (pools, a network of walking trails away from roads, school in walking distance) and full of people who were culturally supportive of free-range kids.

If you want to find or help to foster such a neighborhood, I recommend the book we used, "Playborhoods": http://playborhood.com
Haha, was wondering if this was by Adam Kelleher. I've been to a few of the meetups he hosted about causal inference. Really smart guy.
I was thinking about this the other day. Ironically this is the safest time in all of history to let kids do this. Crime is historically very low and our kids want to carry around magical devices that lets us know where they are at all times and contact them instantly.

This should be a golden age, yet we've turned it into jail. What gives everyone?

Edit: And by "what gives" I mean literally, I live in the US and have children ages 7-12 and I don't let them do these things solely because I'm afraid of government busy-bodies. Not crime, not injury, not abduction. I'm frankly and bluntly afraid of the limitless power a bored bureaucrat will help himself/herself to over my family if given the slightest reason. That's what gives for me anyway.
Isn't that a chicken-and-egg problem? IMO if a society treats people like responsible adults they'll rise up to the task. The question is of course how to transition there. I can't say to have any recipes, but I'm reasonably sure that taking away civic rights is counterproductive. Maybe try to get one electable political party that makes it their thing to protect and even expand citizen's rights and allow for more self responsibility? I don't like the Libertarians for some of their antisocial ideas, but at least that's where they seem to have gotten something right.
Awesome story! I was hoping that the original article would have included some of your uncle's sketches of the parts he was replacing. Would you happen to have any drawings of his you could share? He sounds like a tremendously talented individual.
Do you have a contact email?
I wouldn't describe this as fake news at all, but I'd say that one person's view on a video they have watched isn't comparable to that dossier, which was (apparently) compiled from numerous in-person visits and interviews. Not to mention, reporting on the dossier always clarified that it was not verified, while this opinion piece is making broader conclusions.

I agree with you broadly, though. To me, fake news has absolutely no mooring in reality whatsoever and is pure clickbait - usually without political motive beyond getting angry people to click.
I really like proteus from labcenter electronics. It isn't as pretty as this tool (by a million miles), but it can actually simulate microcontrollers and even full-fledged ARM processors.

You can construct an arduino, as in drag it together in an editor similar to this one, run the USB port emulator on your local machine and run the arduino IDE against your simulated circuit, and program stuff to control servos or relays.

They've got such drivers for USB, serial, parallel (if you install a version of windows ancient enough to support parallel ports) and ethernet if memory serves. No wifi though.

I loved developing like that.
I thought that using a non-inertial reference frame just introduced a "fictitious force"?

Is that not the case?
Read the stories about how he wanted to work on the Occulus version of Minecraft, and how focused he was on making sure he could do that. There didn't appear to be much caution there, either.
I would be curious to see this compared with SHA-384, and across multiple languages.
How many US jobs are created by funding one US founder? I can't imagine why the number would be all that different.

Of course, with few exceptions, most of us in the US aren't more than a couple of generations away from our immigrant roots.
Thing is, it's not a conspiracy group's effort, nor was it a witch hunt (which is looking for something that isn't there).

They (and many others) were pointing people to police if they found anything out. The pictures were all over the internet and it's impossible to keep your ID hidden once your face is out there for the world to see.
That's how I saw it. I did recently discover PA's PPC looking into various implementations of the architecture that might be salvageable. It was quite impressive. Still better specs on 65nm than the Rocket RISC-V that's on 45nm:

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

EDIT: Funnier is it was used in a desktop for Amiga's (AmigaOne X1000) before acquired by Apple. Had to hurt what little ego the Amiga people had left.
OK, somewhat less skeptical now. I'll read up on this. Thanks.
I'm not trying to measure bias, the statement that I am challenging is that fox news has been moved to the left by the addition of other sources which are to the right of Fox news. This is only the case if the definition of unbiased is "average".

My reasoning is as follows:

Partisan bias is a type of bias. If there exists a way of presenting information without any bias, then it presents information without partisan bias.

if such a method exists, then we do not need to measure news sources relative to each other in order to talk about what qualifies as non-partisan. This means that partisanship is a static quality of a piece of journalism, i.e. any method you propose of measuring partisanship should always give you the same answer for the same piece of journalism.

If you interpreted fox as having a far right bias in 2004, and don't notice any particular change in their reporting, then you should interpret them as having a far right bias now.
Even neighborhood roads are larger and faster- the street I grew up on in the 80's is about half the width of the street I live on now (2000's construction), and was short and straight compared to the wide sweeping arcs that seem to be in vogue in newer neighborhoods.
Yep. See, for example, 4am's cracks of the Apple II software collection (https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am), done half for the sake of preserving old games, but also half for the sake of discovering (and documenting!) the many kinds of anti-piracy measures that went into them.
As a side note, there are some cryptocurrency project using half of the sha512, since it's faster and using a 256 bit hash saves spaces.
My statistics professor once told us that statistics are a shadow of the truth, not the actual truth itself.
I'm sorry, I don't see either of your thesis' supported by your citation. Neither the crime rate in the USA compared to medieval European rates, nor the crime rate in the USA historically compared to now, is worse. Are we just reading the same data completely differently?
Run the Jewels just released their latest album entirely for free, and hit #1 in sales anyway, so
In about 1978 I designed my own keyboard. The unique feature it had was that the key positions were used as address lines into a ROM, and I was free to assign any character to any key I wanted. Shift/Ctrl weren't required to be at all related to the base character. Today we take it for granted, but back then it was radical.
... and the staff member hovering around the self check out area.
The killer feature is stupid easy forking and sending pull requests with the one interface.

Found some tiny project that does almost everything you want, but has a tiny feature you can implement easy? No worries, fork, add it.

Even if it's never pushed upstream, it's easy for someone to find and perhaps use themselves.

I do this with things like zabbix templates/scripts and docker containers that are 99% what I want.

Previously there was no easy way to do this - I'd have to set up an entirely new sourceforge/google code/etc account, which is a lot more effort.
Isn't it self-evident? It harms their standing and reputation, in being cast as in possession of wealth they are not morally entitled to. It's defamation.
I think if you are ideologically opposed to Trump then you find it tough to accept something like this. Please also note that HN by nature tends to be more on the liberal spectrum. Like everything else, it is a bit of everything. It's Clinton complacency with Trump's strong messaging + democrats backstabbing their own voters by sabotaging Sanders. Being someone from marketing, it is easy for me to see that "MAGA" is much catchy & better slogan than "Stronger together" (what does it even mean?), it is difficult of any American to argue against MAGA vs. Stronger together since you will be considered "unamerican" & nationalism is currently a theme globally. Trump kept things simple and easy to grasp. If you read Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky's work, he basically appealed to our system 1 minds which prefers shortcuts and jumps to conclusion.
(which does not mean that people who does this are somehow bigots because we all do this all time, in fact living would be really difficult we were ultra rational and thoughtful about everything)
I believe they settled it by paying some royalties on Commander Keen.

A lot of times Carmack just wants to get shit done. At Oculus he has worked on both the Minecraft code and the Netflix code both for VR clients, both (I believe, I know for sure for Minecraft at least from some talks) with MS and Netflix retaining full ownership of the code.

Maybe they have some "off the record" agreements to avoid anti-trust--Minecraft still hasn't officially come to Vive.
I think your weariness at seeing a claim which from all evidence appears true not backed up by "empirical evidence" is a bit self-indulgent. I've met many N American adults whose own childhoods align with what the article says and almost none who said they had a shorter leash than children do now. I've seen more children taking the metro by themselves in Japan in a one week visit than I did living the US for three years. It's also undeniable that social workers taking children from families due to them having been unsupervised is something that the state barely had resources for 100 years ago even if, contrary to numerous historical accounts, it had the will.

No, I don't have statistics on exactly how far away the average 9 year-old was allowed to bike in various years. History books also don't come with a stack of empirical evidence to back them up. At some point, you have to either accept them until seeing more compelling conflicting accounts or dig into the sources and do the research yourself.

If numerous anecdotal claims and published accounts isn't good enough for you, then the onus is on you to provide a more convincing argument in the opposite direction.
"Trump's huge unpopularity right now shows..."
After watching what happened with the election, I don't think it's safe to say Trump is unpopular. Sure the mainstream media and loud social media voices say so, but that looming "silent majority" are still silent. Assessing his popularity among those willing to speak only tells us how popular he is among that group.
Honestly, I'm completely flabbergasted by this. Five backups, and NONE worked properly? Who made this? The S3 bucket was EMPTY? Has no one ever tested any of these backups?

It's not just the impact, which is fairly sizeable in it's own right, but it's the HUGE oversight on their part and the fact they tried to pin part of this on PostreSQL?

Credit where it's due; their report/transparency were good if a little unprofessional, and something I'd like to see more of from other companies.

Putting on my BOFH hat, this is what happens when you let Devs do operational stuff.
> He believes in companies that pay dividends, yet BH does not

No, he believes in companies that correctly value the capital they employ. He's happy for a company to use its profit to repurchase shares or expand its business so long as it's likely to achieve a good return.

> He is a folksy family man that has two wives

I would hardly call his actions 'duplicitous'. My take is that Buffett and his first wife Susie grew apart. Susie wanted to separate from Buffett but she still cared for him, so she hired Astrid as a housekeeper and looked the other way when Buffett and Astrid fell in love. I don't understand why they did not officially divorce, but Buffett remained very close with Susie and was happy to leave his fortune to her when he died. Of all the failed marriages, this one seems to have the happiest outcome.

> He is a big Democrat and believer in equality, and yet during the Washington Post workers strike he was working very hard with Katharine Graham to deliver the newspaper and counter the union's efforts.

It's perfectly coherent to believe in civil rights yet feel that some union demands are unreasonable. As a counterpoint to the Washington Post strike, look at Buffett's 1985 comments about the BH textile mill [1]:

"In contract negotiations, union leaders and members were sensitive to our disadvantageous cost position and did not push for unrealistic wage increases or unproductive work practices. To the contrary, they tried just as hard as we did to keep us competitive. Even during our liquidation period they performed superbly."

Buffett clearly cares about his textile workers:

"Could we have found a buyer who would continue operations, I would have certainly preferred to sell the business rather than liquidate it, even if that meant somewhat lower proceeds for us. But the economics that were finally obvious to me were also obvious to others, and interest was nil."

[1] http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1985.html
I guess I just don't understand the point of the article. To me it seems an indictment of current parenting modes, based on the amount of geometric freedom allowed a very small subset of the population in comparison to the amount of geometric freedom allowed another, different very small subset of the population.

I guess what I'm saying is, its a pretty ridiculous article that doesn't line up with reality now or then.
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No one should be unfairly denigrated. Your class based narrative doesn't justify treating people unfairly.
Let's Let the Commander in Chief Lead (1987)
This is also why I am looking into more analytics work in Go. Uniformity of performance across different data analysis processes.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't have such a public registry. Some of the legal system in the US are very foreign to Swiss (and probably most continental Europeans for that matter), for example the way court proceedings are published and the accused can be named in the media before conviction. In almost every case, Swiss law enforcement and their corrective measures are meant to be that - corrective, not revengeful. This can sometimes lead to bad results (with quite a few people getting angry when crimes go with no or only light punishments), but overall most people probably think it's better to go too soft rather than too harsh, because the latter makes the government into a bully that everyone needs to fear, which people really don't want (and which a very active direct democracy hopefully somewhat protects against).
Good news for Apple and overall progress, but sad news for those of us in the Hackintosh community. Apple's support for Intel CPUs is really what enabled the whole movement to get traction. I really prefer to see Apple moving toward standardized vs proprietary hardware options.
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> and maybe it is true that it's dangerous to let them roam around far away unsupervised?

...and maybe there are unseen benefits that outweigh those risk factors? It's true that in the past few years childhood mortality has lowered, and that the highest risk factor for anyone up to age 44 is "unintentional injuries;" however, other statistics may be more troubling.

For example, the teen suicide rate was steadily declining throughout 1985 to 2000, but since then, there has been a steady uptick in the suicide rate for children under 18. It's the second leading cause of death for people 10 to 34 in the united states, out-ranking even murder and cancer for these groups.
6 GB? Your laptop is probably not running optimally, because 2 GB of address space has just 64-bit bus, 4 GB has 128-bit bus.

You should ensure both memory modules are same size (say, 4 GB or 8 GB), otherwise performance can suffer noticeably.
I don't have a dataset at the moment. I would have to build one. I was thinking of about 200 images in the dataset with 100 of text and 100 of non text. Would that be big enough dataset for transfer learning? Please let me know if there is a dataset you know of that I could leverage

I'll follow that tutorial. Thanks!
When I was 12, I rode my bike three miles to the bus stop where I hitched it to the bus and rode from a small town in San Diego down to the El Cortez Hotel where Comic Con was being held. I paid my own way, stayed for about 7 hours, then rode back home. I can't imagine being allowed to do that today...
Pipelining support is optional. It's up to the client to back off if its attempts fail.

8.1.2.2
Clients MUST also be prepared to resend their requests if
the server closes the connection before sending all of the
corresponding responses.
That's good to hear. Some of the things I hear from the UK sound at least as authoritarian as the US, so I thought that CPS has similarly harsh measures - apparently it's not that big of an issue?
AOT native results in slower runtimes for applications with one simple
exception: startup time. In every other case a modern JIT compiler like the
JVM will win due to gathering information and layered compilation.

That's not necessarily true. JIT compilation is severely constrained in the amount of analysis that it can do for the simple reason that JIT has to be fast. Fast enough to not noticeably slow down the app. Meanwhile, an AOT compiler can take all the sweet time it needs, and roam all over the program in order to discover optimizations.

JIT compilers work very well on untyped languages like Smalltalk because the compiler can discover the type information at runtime, and then pre-compile the types that it sees most often. But that's not really that useful on the JVM, because Java is typed, as are most other JVM languages, with the exception of Clojure.

Most funnily Microsoft was heavily advertising AOT with .net framework 1.0
but in general switched to dynamic profiling and optimization in later
versions of .net. (System assemblies that everybody uses during startup are
AOT compiled using ngen, however)

Actually, with .Net Native, Microsoft is back to advertising AOT.

http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html
Maybe in the suburbs. Here in New York City kids are expected to make their own way home by the fifth grade. And take mass transit to school by themselves by sixth. I'm not sure if it's safe, but plenty of kids manage it themselves. My eight year old is eagerly awaiting the day he can walk home by himself.
I see where you're coming from. But I won't weigh someone's politics when determining if they are a good American or not. Politics are too complex to interpret good and bad, but giving money to tech ventures is decidedly good for our economy.
No it doesn't work that way. It's a nice theory, but I've been a mod on a national sub for a while, and I've been on forums since around/before slashdot.

You can very easily overwhelm the signal with noise. The plethora of independents means nothing if only a few of them get heard.

Matter of fact, with some pushing, you can have one "independent" dominate a large portion of the channel. At some juncture the network effect takes over and the process becomes self sustaining, you just need to play on people's/your target markets biases well.

This is a people problem, and people are getting way too good and understanding and manipulating the biases of other people.
French apartment untouched for 70 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323297/Inside-Paris...
Is there any evidence that that correlation is causal? You could just as easily point to any of the other myriad things that have changed since then.