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I was surprised by that bit too. Doesn't seem to make sense -
with those prices payment isn't an option for most victims.
The point is to reward prisoners for being functional and using their time constructively. It's important to give prisoners every chance to become habituated to a normal life.
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Absolutely !

For squared loss almost every theorem you want to be to be true are actually true. In a way its dangerous because it sets up bad expectations (* no nerd pun intended).

A result that holds for squared loss but not for others is the SVD as a low rank approximation of a matrix.

*Expectation minimizes the squared loss
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It can't probably get better than this.

Handset specs @ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/reliance-jio-feature-phone-launched/articleshow/59695466.cms
Not a great one but probably a good starter phone for the millions who don't have access to the internet yet. On top of it, it is effectively "free".

The handset is available after a security deposit of Rs 1500 (~$24). The amount is refundable after 3 years, or when the handset is returned.

Users can choose to pre-pay for the mobile services at the following rates.

Rs 135 (~$.25) per month
Rs 54 (~$.90) per week
Rs 24 (~$.40) per 2 days

All plans come with free unlimited voice calls within India. Although not mentioned in the news publications, there could be a Fair Usage Policy cap of 1GB per day on the data, as seen with other Jio plans.
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"Eventually"? Stolen credit cards are much bigger thing, and for much longer than cryptocurrencies.
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If I have to do MNIST with my custom images (either for training or inference) (png), what steps do I have to follow in here to get it working ?
There are ways to acquire assets without putting any money down yourself, so definitely possible, though not very easy.

An example: say you acquire a company worth $10m and have no money in the bank. You could pay 50% of it in stock ("you'll be part of an amazing growth story, and the $5m stock you get today will be worth $50m in 5 to 10 years") and then go borrow $5m from a bank (or go through an equity investor) to fund the other 50% of the acquisition price. But often you'll need a binding LoI to get a loan.

Doesn't always work, but if you're someone who is well connected then it's quite doable. I've seen it done.

Another person that comes to mind is David Baazov: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2014/12/01/the-king.... He aligned things well and put deals together, and ended up making a ton of money because of it.
The kind of person who's risk-averse enough that they'd pay extra for a better contract engineer is probably not the kind of person who's using smart contracts at all. And buying contracts is lemon market, which is only really solvable via regulation - but its biggest fans are regulation-averse people.
Whilst appearing even handed, in practice the article fails to mention a single reason for Stallman wanting the copyright assignment. I don't know what his reasons are, but he does tend to have thought through these issues carefully.
It's not half thought out if the answer correctly solves the problem, even if inefficient. Rather, it's the attitude of finding a working solution first, and then making it better, rather than the attitude of perfectionism ("I'll take a lot of time to find a great answer"), which the blog post talks about as well.
So like org mode and other packages they want to include magit in Emacs. Just got bigger but magit being such a great package I think they should do it. Hope the copyright assignment happens and FSF does it.
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Your Whig history of an ever progressing political system is not accurate in my opinion.

I've written this comment before, and I'll repeat it as it's relevant to your comment:

Societies have gradually grown more unfair as the political system has strained under their growing complexity. According to political scientists, the average voter has an extremely limited understanding of what their government is doing. The typical person's understanding of economics is similarly extremely limited.

This opens the door to manipulation by demagogues and special interests. The growing control that government exerts over society, seen in everything from the emergence of a mass-surveillance system of unprecedented scope, to the number of regulations on the books, to the percentage of GDP made up of government spending, is not healthy, and needs a counter balance in privacy technology that empowers the individual and limits the Kafkaesque tendencies of collective society.
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I see a pretty obvious contradiction here. You would think that the respect of ancient cultures that motivates such excavations would motivate the protection of those related and endangered cultures of today.

And if the only reasonable claim on a piece of dirt is sovereignty, not to mention that that sovereignty been placed back in the hands of aboriginal elders, the sovereignty alone isn't enough justification to go digging for the past - it would seem that curiosity is part and parcel of a respect for culture.
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The biggest problem, is that password managers give layman false sense of security and by doing so, they are putting him in much bigger risk than he was before. Most advertisements are basically implying "Use password manager and you don't have to worry about losing your accounts". This is wrong on so many levels.

People should be aware that password managers are just glorified notepad file with one password. And after attacker compromise password manager, he not only gets your passwords (lesser evil), he also gets all information about your accounts (huge problem). This is a pretty big deal. He doesn't need to search where you are registered, manager will tell him everything he wants to know. Possible damage is massive. Even if you reuse one weak password everywhere (worst case of password security), he doesn't get that amount of information after successful attack.

And I really doubt you actually need "200 unique passwords/passphrases each with 100+ bits of entropy".
Btw, do you know why password needs to have high entropy? It's not to stop attacker from brute-forcing login page (nobody is doing it in 2017), it's to make it harder to crack password hash, in case he gets it.
There is no point in using extremely strong unique passwords on accounts you don't care to lose. Even worse, by using 200 unique passwords with passmanager, in case attacker gets your one master password, manager will tell him about every single account you have. By storing a lot of info there, you are just increasing amount of damage you will receive after being compromised.

The whole system security is as strong as the weakest link in the system. It doesn't matter, if every single password is unique with 100000+bits of entropy. All it's around your one master password.
Smart contracts are not laws of nature, they are contracts. I totally agree you could come up with a few examples where enforceability would be a practical impossibility, but that's also the case with standard contracts.

Just like the Arizona law I cited restricting use of smart contracts for "fire arm tracking", the law could restrict smart contracts in all sorts of ways to protect the public. Examples:

-drafters of smart contracts must be licensed and bonded/insured

-parties to smart contracts must purchase insurance to coverage sufficient to cover losses in full

-criminal liability when marketing materials are inconsistent with the smart contract itself (see: DAO)

-just like many contracts, deeds, trusts must/can be filed with the state...the states could require the same of smart contracts

Now I understand such laws undermine the purpose/intent of many smart contract opponents, but my point is judges/legislature are not powerless insofar as the laws of nature.
There simply aren't enough engineers in Seattle, especially what I will call "startup" engineers. You're competing against Amazon, Google, and Microsoft (Facebook to a lesser degree) and the engineers in Seattle tend to prefer these established companies over startups. A large chunk of the Bay Area engineering community won't work at Amazon (Facebook and Google are another story) and came there to do startups. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy of course.

I worked at Twitter when we opened our Seattle office and we were trying to hire maybe 50 engineers the first year. This was before the IPO, trying to hire the ideal skillset for the area (backend) and it was still hard. Meanwhile we had more than 50 offers a week in SF.

The employee base is just so much bigger, it's no wonder companies feel like they have to have offices here.
http://machinelearningmastery.com/blog/ has some good tutorials on time series and ML in general
Much worse in fact, since the entities in power have no oversight, were not elected, and have no obligation to anything but increasing their own personal wealth.
I'm sorry I haven't use Windows for a while but there latency, as you call it, is much better on Linux/MacOS based machines than on iOS. Switching between windows without waiting, multitasking all those, and more, things are much better on computer.
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so the scope of smart contract in your definition can only cover areas not already governed by traditional regulatory system / laws. Imho that doesn't cover a lot.

or laws will have to be adapted to grant values to them. But then it isn't much different from today's contracts.
I think they used the kind that you can just buy and prop up next to your garden door or whatever. (Except they apparently put it to the side of some random road, effectively creating a new address not tied to them.)
What's the fairest distribution of the recovered white-hat funds:

- return them exactly as they were, with the unlucky people completely losing funds

- distribute them back among everyone based on the % of total funds that were in their wallets
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The individuals are doing that choosing when they choose not to preserve certain parts. They're going to abandon the parts in favor of alternatives that work better. The abandoned parts will no longer be passed down because they lack practical value - but they can be recorded.

Trying to preserve a static and separate cultural identity is pointless when knowledge, technology and our environments are changing quickly. At best the efforts are well-meaning and harmless. At worst, they present as a fetish where post-colonial guilt tries to turn the West into a zoo of distinct cultures.
I don't think they're that similar? I dislike C++ because of its large amount of unsafe constructs and huge number of special-cased language-level features; I like Scala because it's the most practical language I've found for writing safe enough code and because the core language is quite small, with many features moved out into libraries or patterns of combining simpler features.
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No, thank you.
The smart bet IMO is out of the US altogether. Eastern Europe (and Moscow/St Petersburg), China, Brazil, Argentina.
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> Either all of the significant contributors to Magit must sign papers with the FSF (with code from the holdouts being replaced), or an entirely new Emacs interface to Git must be written.

False dichotomy: GNU Emacs can simply not ship with a git porcelain.

Most Emacs users I know typically have dozens of packages installed from MELPA; I don't think most users mind having to install an extra one. If an acceptable agreement regarding copyright assignment cannot be reached, I would really prefer that the status quo be maintained.
not really low cost at $69 compared to other alternatives, though most if not all alternatives doesn't have FPGA
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I can't reproduce it in wood but I'd love to be able to 3D print a copy. Very nice!
I don't know enough about Ethereum to know whether or not that is technically possible, but I believe it's technically possible with Bitcoin. I think the common misconception of these technologies is that trust is eliminated. It's not, it's simply distributed - you have to trust that the majority miners will find it in their own interests not to steal money from your wallet. I am not saying one way or another whether this state of affairs is 'fine', just pointing out the reality.
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You can also just sell gpu and get one that works with your setup. Not ideal solution, but it depends on your priorities.
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If it were to be accepted into Emacs itself that would only be the beginning of the story.

Right now Magit is hosted on Github and anyone can contribute by just sending a pull request.

If it were part of Emacs you'd need to use the FSF's collaboration tools which have a higher barrier of entry, and if you're a first-time contributor with a non-trivial contribution you're going to have to wait days/weeks as your copyright assignment papers make their way over snail-mail.

I've contributed several (trivial) patches to Magit, zero to Emacs itself, and would likely have contributed zero to Magit if it had been an FSF project to begin with.

I think the FSF has gotten their priorities seriously wrong. The package is already licensed under the GPLv3, they're wanting to subject everyone to a more onerous contribution process to guard against the edge case of someone ripping off one specific Emacs package and the FSF not being in a position to have standing in court if they wanted to sue them.
Thats what they said.
You could say the same thing about home routers with that argument then, which are often under patched, and apparently require grey hats to act.
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This "issue" has been fixed with the pass extension 'pass-tomb' that keep the whole tree of password encrypted inside a tomb

See https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb
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Could you explain how it differs from Keras ? I've looked quickly at the blog intro and examples and it looks very similar to me.
I don't agree, you cannot expect to handle millions of dollars with those tools in the same way you don't write mission critical software in bash.
How does this compare to other popular solutions? Specifically, KeepassX / Keepass2 which are the most common solutions I've seen most Unix / Linux users employ. Can we objectively state which one is a better solution?
The contract execution is only going to work if all parties bound by it agree that the execution is the full extent of their agreement.

For instance, if two people who have no business to reside in 168 Park Avenue make up a contract in 'the real world' that the other can go and occupy 168 Park Avenue then they will find - probably not to their surprise - that their agreement will not work, regardless of which medium it is conveyed on.

Smart contracts are a tool for those situations where you believe present day law is going to leave you stranded or in a situation that is legally ambiguous. I do not believe their strength lies in areas that are already properly governed by existing law.

Now you could argue that that is all of society as we know it right now, but in international commerce there are quite a few legally gray areas that are now patched over with mechanisms such as escrow and various other instruments. But those are only 'worth it' when the transaction amounts are larger than a certain minimum.

So, in short, you are absolutely right, if you use a smart contract in a situation where a regular contract would suffice it will not change anything. All the parties to the contract are known, the whole thing has immediately verifiable effects in the real world and 'might makes right'.

But in situations where the participants would like to remain anonymous, in situations where both parties would for reasons known to them rather avoid dealing with lawyers, the law and associated mechanisms smart contracts could become an enabling device.
I think the article author assumes that the fact and the reasons for the FSF insisting on copyright assignment for its software are well known. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html has the answer, which basically boils down to "it ensures that there aren't going to be any awkward problems if the FSF ever needs to legally enforce the license."
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My apologies, should be fixed now.
I use Dashlane and have enough friends that still don't but I can convince to try it that I haven't paid for it in 3 years of use, not sure what that says about my friends (or me) but I find it to be terrific.
Thanks for the report, should be fixed now.
> Offtopic: Lean's effort seems strange to me. Usage of C++ as its implementation language gets me really nervous, I feel doubt in its reliability.

Not only is this unfounded, it's unreasonable. I can interpret "reliability" in two ways:

1. The tool crashes a lot

This isn't true in practice, and it throws an exception with about the same frequency that Isabelle throws an ML exception, for me. I haven't observed any segfaults but they do happen sometimes (and are usually fixed quickly, Leo is really awesome). Lean is written in pretty principled C++.

2. You don't feel safe trusting it when it says it proves something

Any tool worth its salt in this space satisfies the "de Bruijn criterion" -- can have a small, independent checker. In this case, Lean's kernel is the calculus of inductive constructions with a non-cumulative hierarchy of universes, and there exist independent typecheckers written in Haskell <https://github.com/leanprover/tc> and Scala <https://github.com/gebner/trepplein>. I have an in-progress one written in Rust as well.

Meanwhile, Lean is quite fast, the metaprogramming is lovely, and there are some really awesome tools in the pipeline.
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Thanks!, should be fixed now.

It's targeted for any REST/Json based api. (reading or writing)
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Completely voluntary to work there though, of course.
I've been using this for a while and am very happy. Especially the ability to use a private git repository for synchronization of laptop and desktop makes this convenient.
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I "hope" it will be better, its working now!
> should strive to use the most economical bytecode available to perform each task.

This is why I criticized the VM design as well as the language.

Yes, much effort went into making "cycle counting" as simple and straight forward as possible.

But I don't see any comparable effort doing the same for safety and correctness. (Apart from providing crypto primitives by the VM, which is neat, but only the tip of the iceberg in terms of language design.)

> It's also quite hard for programmers to reason about performance or complexity in most functional languages

This is true for Haskell, but "most" other functional languages don't suffer this issue: SML, OCaml, F#, Rust, etc.

Also note that lots of effort already went into creating lambda calculus variants where performance is especially easy to reason about. However, dismissing functional langauges as a whole already demonstrates that none that the research played any role in the design of EVM and Solidity.

In case you are interested, here is a nice starting point about the state of the art of 2014: "Structure and Efficiency of Computer Programs" https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/secp/secp.pdf
Sorry about that. It's fixed now, any feedback would be appreciated.
You think there's been none of that in 65000 years?
> A few hours before it was supposed to be released a few members of the community found a bug with the implementation that opened a denial-of-service attack vector. This soft fork was designed to blacklist all the transactions made from The DAO

In particular, blacklisting DAO operations means that one can broadcast transactions that perform huge computations but just before running out of gas, perform a DAO operation. This huge waste of resources by miners cannot be compensated if the transaction cannot be included...
But what are the criteria to make a link Spoopy? It would be great to see what the link I just tried to check fails on exactly. Perhaps if my website was found to be Spoopy, I know what I can do to fix it?
Can't recommend the Mandelbrot book highly enough - he was a student of Paul Levy, and he wrote extensively about why Gaussian is not a good choice to model financial time series.
If you reuse them, then it's not a one time pad any more, is it?

Yes, it's well known that two-time pads are very vulnerable in ways that one time pads are not.
It was, but never low enough to make it the whole way without boats. There's a line called the "Wallace Line," dividing distinct ecological regions of flora and fauna. No matter when migration happened, they would have needed to cross seas.
Emacs does not need to bundle Magit (or most other packages for that matter). What it needs is better package manager - built in!

As of recently, I'm an Emacs user (long time Vim user, just wanted some change) and I still have not completely comprehended how MELPA works. If anything should be more closely built in (and documented and standardised) to Emacs, package manager should. Everything else is better placed into outside packages.

If we look at Python world, here and there we can find discussions to include some library into stdlib and there are good reasons not to do it. Yes, batteries included is cool at first but it's no wonder that pythonistas say that "stdlib is place where packages go to die". We can think the same of Emacs and its package system.
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One way to help mitigate that is by tiering releases. Rather than deploying an app that can potentially accept millions of dollars on day 1, it can be purposely limited to lower amounts and slowly increased over time as the codebase is iterated and time-tested. Apps that have been around for decades with few changes are significantly safer than new apps. Of course this is not perfect (ie heartbleed) but I think this methodology will become standard in ethereum.
Yeah, maybe Magit is also the killer app for the 'package' system as well.