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Legal contracts are not immutable like this. That is one big reason courts exist: arbitration and resolution in the event that a contract is ambiguous or illegal. If I put a typo in a contract that could lead to malicious misinterpretation, I am not free to exercise that malicious misinterpretation because of what might happen if I am takien to court.

That said, contracts also tend to have many "fail safe" and conditional provisions to handle unanticipated events and edge cases.

It sounds to me (without much understanding of how exactly contracts are programmed) like there ought to be some kind of hard-coded "laws" restricting for controlling what contracts can do. Is there anything like a legal system in Ethereum?
Having done musical theater as my main hobby for almost 8 years I can thoroughly recommend it for that exact purpose. There's something about singing with folks and sharing a stage that leads very quickly to strong deep social bonds. It's also a nice contrast to my tech friends I find.
So you want to decentralize your website
Im failing to see how what the DAO exploiter did was actually illegal.

The software IS law in the world of Etherium. There is a reason they are called "Smart Contracts", instead of "methods" or "functions". They are designed to be binding.

The DAO having a faulty smart contract is akin to someone agreeing to a bad deal. They feel cheated, but there is nothing legally that they can do.

Personally, I believe there should never have been a hard fork. The people that invested in the DAO were stupid to do so.
KeePass is moving to a new file format, KDBX 4 [1]. It includes Custom Headers feature that might enable plugins to implement URL Aliasing.

KeePassXC doesn't support KDBX yet, but they'r working on it[2].

[1] http://keepass.info/help/kb/kdbx_4.html

[2] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/148
FSF assignments have had full digital support in every country since 11/2016. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-now-offering-paperle...
I suppose you should use it today, instead of making your impression on the times long ago, and claiming Linux isn't usable because of some long gone issues.
Slack is a really nice chat tool but I ended up uninstalling. Both on my phone and laptop slack is the most resource hungry app I use and just obliterates my battery power. I was at most only connected to two slack groups and only one on the mobile app, so I was not even abusing it the same way i do chrome tabs :(
Why doesn't it work? From the top of my head, QtPass with gpg4win should work.
I grew up in a city and didn't have a back yard. I never minded it. The cool thing about being a kid is that you don't have many expectations - you accept things you see as the way the world works.
Bigscreen is the closest I've seen to working on this.
I'm wondering what all the upvotes are about? I've seen fairly decent "Show HN" submissions languish down in the 0-1 range while this one (which is being universally panned) is up to 17.

The "It's so bad it's good" effect?
That brought back a lot of bad memories, glad to hear you get to work from home most of the time now
Note that this does vary from person to person. I know people who can sleep anywhere but I personally find it very difficult to sleep sitting up. I pretty much never sleep on planes, for example, no matter how little sleep I've had or how long the flight is. So in this commuting situation I would try to sleep, but probably only be asleep for half the time and never get to the REM stage.
They don't need Mesa for that, their "worsktation" customers are using their closed driver. But if you missed it, unlike Nvidia, AMD have a team which contributes to Mesa directly.
Nice try thief! Hey guys I found him!
If you were watching a building go up in flames due to arson, exasperated by faulty construction and you knew there were people inside you could save what would you do?

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't just say "It's their own fault for living there and it's also the construction company's fault for not carrying out safety tests. Let them burn because intervening now will only let the construction company & tenants off the hook - they all should have known better."
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Actually 3 if you count SwiftForth, but everyone knows Swift means Apple's new language as realistically nobody has heard of the other two outside small niches.
Oh well... I wonder why they didnt make something like this the default.
I'm not sure if it makes it fairer, but it makes the game different.

Theoretically, the game starts as fair. All start with the same money, on the same place on the board. But since you move by rolling dice, some folks get luckier than others, with more chances to buy things or gain income.... or simply avoiding landing on a built up property. The free parking money basically puts lottery money into action. Sometimes, free parking is funded by fees (jail fees, cards, etc) and some folks just take moeny from the bank and put it in the middle.

At times, it means the rich get richer. Sometimes, the poor pull themselves up. Many times, it just makes everyone richer at different times and it takes a lot longer to make folks go bankrupt. It does give a little chance of winning something with each go around the board, and I think this is why the rule is popular.
My overall view is somewhat Darwinian, with selection based on merit rather than coercion. Overt oppression of other cultures is obviously to be opposed.
Quite a lot of those people are "into" actual communism out of a mixture of ignorance and edginess. Revolutions sound great when you're naive. And it's not actually a great number of people as a proportion of the electorate!

The key is what happens to suggestions for "good tweaks". Do they get considered reasonably and implemented fairly? Or are people denounced for even seeking tweaks?

Flexible mixed-economy capitalism seems to be pretty stable. Capitalism that's blind to inequality produces an increasing long tail of disaffected victims with nothing to lose. Hence the rise of kick-over-the-table politics, epitomised by Trump.
There's a quote from John Carmack that heavily influences my take on OOP and DRY programming in general.

"A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in."
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional...

As long as ethereum contracts support stateful OO contracts, they are bound to run into these kinds of bugs.
duplicate of yesterday's post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14811321
This is adorably naive hacker thinking.
I can't find a link but there was an article here recently where researchers had concluded strong relationships contributed to better self control and thus had a knock on effect on health.
Yes this exactly but also heard that there was a fight one day in Dreisberg? He said he saw John Wheeler with a usbstick. He went to the Dutch and that it all got a bit tense. Did GRU then accuse Mikhailovich with passing information to the CIA? Poor guy.

Interesting about the Equinox DPI 'cache' too.

http://nos.nl/artikel/2181605-deze-data-blokkendozen-zorgen-... (Dutch)

Is there a bottleneck there similar to Cornwall? Spies huh!
Anyone else thing it's dodgy as hell that he offed himself in custody? Surely with all the assets he had, he'd have a pretty comfy lifestyle behind bars.
> I've heard about vulkan for quite some time now, still haven't seen it used widely.

It's recent, so its usage is gradually growing. Unity engine now supports it, with Unreal and Cry on the way. Once major engines will have it, it will implicitly be used in much larger numbers.
Pay for marketing. Take a marketing course. Read Marketing books. Also look at why your customers are churning.
Yo dawg... (I had to google the spelling of dawg)
But it is only a local definition. Some other legislative body might make a different one.
the reason im not an emacs kind of person is that it comes with too many goodies. it becomes too complex. i have no need for org-mode and if i need a psychiatrist i can use a real one. including git wont help much. its almost as complex as Eclipse the way it is now. including some fancy git interface will not help matters.

so vim it is. if it does not have functionality i need i download it (or write it myself, easy enough). its a shame emacs is such a hodgepodge as i would definitely like to write new editor functionality using a lisp.
Yeah, fixed it. Thanks.
I would be wary about basing too many decisions based on HNs advice (or any other internet forum for that matter). Although you find some jewels sometimes, HN comment section is famous for typically having cynical comments, and you'll find that over the years a lots of tech that later became big were considered "hype" or plain bad here, from stuff like ruby on rails to VR to Deep Learning, to name just a few.
With crypto currencies there is the additional aspect that for a lot of ppl this is a sort of religion with money involved, so comments and submissions can be very biased or downright nasty. By reading certain cryptocurrency forums or publications you even risk getting a very distorted version of the real story due to mountains of disinformation and an echo chamber effect.
Ed is the standard password manager.
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Legacy publishers aren't innovators. They are too lazy to think out of the box. For me it's forget Bethesda and Blizzard. There are more than enough developers who are worth supporting on Linux, and who are making good games.

But if you are really so desperate to spend money on those who ignore us, Wine is improving all the time, and now already approaches decent DX11 support, so even games like Overwatch are now playable in it.
Sorry - yes Slashdot. It is awful nowadays, but I started there. Somebody should tell them.
I'm not a gamer by any stretch, but is Portal really an indie game?
Maybe you weren't adjusting your portions correctly. You can't just eat the same things you did before, in the same proportions, but with 'no carbs' and expect to be getting enough calories.

As an example, take Panda Express. In the past I've gotten Chow Mein at 500 calories, and then put Beijing Beef at ~500 calories and Orange Chicken for ~500 calories and I'm at a 1500 calorie meal (yeah, it can get insane).

But I went there recently, got Mixed Vegetables for 80 calories, Mushroom Chicken for 180 calories, and Beef and Broccoli for another 180 calories, and my total calorie count for that meal was only 440 calories.

1500-440 calories = -1060 calorie difference for a SINGLE meal, that I paid the same price for, and it at least appeared to be the same amount of food. But the calorie count was vastly different. And yes I felt hungry again after only a few hours.

So you'll either have to get bigger portions (like double meat, or get an extra side that you'd normally skip) or keep some low carb snacks around to help get you to the next meal. And yeah, that does mean it tends to be a more expensive diet than others, at least if you don't start cooking at home more.
Why is the idea eventually going to be a reality? I don't see any data proving your assertion.
I did it for family and industry experience.

For 2 years I commuted from central Virginia into DC. Would wake up at 0300, arrive in DC around 0500, go to the gym, then head into the office around 0700. This job was near 100% travel as well, so I would be in the DC office for a day, then another city for a day, etc...

I calculated that each week I was only at my house from Saturday at 0100 - Monday at 0300.

So, why did I do this? There are a number of reasons.
1) Money. Where I live in Virginia there are no information security jobs OR they pay 60K. The amount of money I was making allowed me to pay down debts and provide a nice lifestyle for my family.
2) Housing. If we were to live in DC, we could not afford a house, so we would be stuck in a 1300SF apartment. Nice if your single or have a significant other, not so much fun with a wife and twins. For the same price of this 1300SF apartment in DC I can afford a 4000SF house where I am currently at.
3) Industry experience. I knew that by working at this organization in DC it would legitimize me as a security professional - I would be able to get out when I needed to and find another info sec job.
4) Landscape. No offense to DC, but it is flat and ugly. I live in the Shenandoah valley - the scenery alone gives me great joy.

I now work near 100% remote. I have to commute once every 6 weeks or so into our corporate office (about 4 1/2 hours away), but it allows me to be home for 5 weeks with the kids.
Without the sacrifice earlier working out of DC, I would never have landed in the role I have now.
You gotta love the hooded figure with overlay of CSS + HTML snippets. Hackers give me the chills!
But then why connect it to SQL and Redis?
No, polished as in a functional browser integration and mobile app. For example, 1Password can fill in specific apps on iOS whereas I haven't found a KeePass app that can.

Small things, but "polish" nonetheless.

Have used KeeWeb and it's great.
Some of those people work on the train, and then spend 8 hours in the office. Madness. It could be palatable if you work for 2 hours on the train, 4 in the office and then 2 on the train again. Or you spend your 4 hour commute sleeping.
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You acting like those inmates didn't put themselves there? Oh I feel so bad for them that they made the choice to break the law.
I have something against dbus. Bout the protocol and the implementation are very much over-engineered. The protocol at least has an excuse.

In the desktop things, that wayland aims to do, dbus is useless. (actually i don't know what it's useful for at all, other then quickly hacking some object oriented (gui)client-server desktop program)

I do recommend reading the dbus protocol (the protocol, not the API).

Sorry to sound negative but "modern linux" now means "desktop crap", and it is all crap. Freedesktop.org (the linux "desktop" "standards" authority) has gone from "ehh, passable" to "complete crap" in the last... idk 5-10 years (the "desktop" quoting is because it has gone pass the actual desktop problems).
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Still, Processing as a web language?
I haven't had much time to follow the story or look into ether so sorry if this is a naive question but I keep seeing this "white hat hacker robbing the remaining wallets" and haven't see yet anyone mentioning what are they going to do with what they stole?
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This couldn't really be stated any more clearly[1]; well put. I'll only add that this is true for any variety of abstraction, natural language included. Abstractions encode the biases of their creators[2]. The 'power' of an abstraction comes from the set of things that are easily and concisely expressible; its primitives. However, this is balanced by the truths that are no longer easily expressible, because the encoding doesn't allow for it. There's a certain intuition that semantics and abstraction are tied tightly in this sense; you don't can't really convey what something means unless it's concisely expressible in the abstraction you're using. Slang, idioms, calculus, etc.

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[1] and yet, I guess I'll just babble on adding more words anyway...

[2] be they mathematical concepts, programming paradigms, or cultural norms and quirks.
Regulatory agencies or any centralized governance becomes a target. This is why constitutionally no such authority was ever given to the federal government to institute such agencies.

Saying there is no meaningful distinction is truly disingenuous. Like saying there is no difference between a fresh apple and a rotten apple. Obviously there is and there are reasons as to why the different states exist. One state is extremely beneficial and the other state is not.
I don't think I misunderstand the issue.

> The Emacs maintainers would not have to maintain Magit

That's not true. They would have to maintain it: deal with bug reports, deal with breakage due to upstream API changes in Emacs core. They wouldn't do feature development.

I used to contribute code to org-mode, so I know how this works. The magit team will make periodic releases, at which point the magit code will be copied over into the emacs code base. From that point on, the emacs maintainers are on the hook for any bugs or other problems occurring with the version of magit that they have included into Emacs. They'll have to deal with/triage magit bug reports received via the Emacs bug tracker.
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> Lastly, if they'll fork for one bad contract, why not fork for all bad contracts?

Conceptually, they would, it's just that DAO was an exceptional case.

a) The amount was really large.
b) Ethereum ecosystem wasn't mature enough (and yesterday's event proved that they can take a hit like that and survive).
c) DAO had a 30 day lockdown of the hacker's fund, this is something which allowed for a hard fork to be possible.

The last is really important. Once hacker gets your money out of the hacked contract, no hard fork is feasible. The DAO essentially created a situation where it was impossible for hacker to get the money, nor for the white hat hackers to get the money. Both could have created a script, where hacker would move his funds to a new child contract, and the WHG would follow him to the child contract (thus essentially rendering him unable to get his money out).
You are promoting illegal activity.
>>it's better than working inside in a factory, it gives them skills for when they get out.

That argument starts to fall apart when you think about it: The skills they are gaining are only applicable to an industry that is unsustainable outside of slave labor.

Luckily, most people don't think about it and just take what they read at face value.
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I went to one of their showcase events where the students show projects and bring resumes to meet potential employers. The amount of progress the students made from "never done this before" to show day was really impressive.
Agreed.

For all the hate that lawyers and judges receive, they are as good as mathematicians at coming up with (or at least recognizing and choosing) concise and simple definitions.
I thing GP might have implied the reverse. SQL is to databases what JavaScript is to the web.
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This is crazy. We made the choice to live in the city. We have a townhouse with a 300-square-foot backyard, a 20-minute subway ride to the office or a 15-minute bike ride. Friends choose the suburb, have I don't know how many square feet backyard, a bigger house and a 1.5-hour car commute. I don't know how they do it plus all the time spending maintaining this big house and backyard.
Also if it will be included, it may suffer from the same problem as standard library packages from many programming languages: very rare updates. For example, https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/StdlibGem.
The abusers are not the issue here, the parent is questioning whether possession should be illegal in all cases, especially if we are talking about a victimless crime. Photoshopped adult porn to make the actresses look young, for example. It's a good question. However, I expect that no politician is brave enough to ask the question for fear of getting precisely the criticism you just demonstrated. So the discussion will remain theoretical.
> He's not the maintainer of the project

RMS' opinion is taken very seriously in emacs development community.
There are no limits in a real world economy on agreements, contracts etc between actors. Monopoly is a very closed system and in no way represents a real free economy.
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That's true in terms of many Linux systems being locked down to normal users (no installing in /usr or even /usr/local). But emacs extensions install in your home directory. I've never heard of a system where users couldn't write to their own home directories.
So you are saying that people who run a piece of software with a certain configuration option set to "yes", are breaking the US law?

> agree to sell the assets of FooCo to BarCo for $1

This is where your analogy breaks. The classic chain was not sold to the forked chain.

It would be more comparable to Alex & Beth getting together and creating new company, copying all the books & records from the old company (that were public domain), minus Casey's balance. Without buying the old company. Customers of the two companies could go to any company at any time they wish, except for Casey, who is not a customer of the new company. That would be legal in US?

There are a few other issues with your interpretation:

- Coins do not represent shares of a company. There's no stock.

- There's no voting: At most, the miners probably have voting power with their hashrate, however as the linked article stated, a soft-fork was impossible to do, so even the miners could not vote.

- Hardfork was not a vote. Even if you said "Yes" to the hardfork config option, you could still go back and say "No" to play with the classic chain at any point in time. (Refer to the screenshot in my OP)
Also in the law, a thief can be compelled to return your property even if it was your own lack of security that allowed the theft to happen. Technically the thief loses his plunder, but according to the law it was never his to begin with. If we argue about whether the thief lost anything, we're just playing semantic games again.

Also in the law, a suitable majority of voters and/or their delegates can change the law concerning the return of stolen property. They can even change the definition of theft if they want, or even change the Constitution. They're the (super-)majority after all. No amount of code or technology can ultimately stop them from having their will. Even the protections you mentioned only exist because some group of people who are more numerous than Alex and Beth have decided that they don't like freezeout mergers.
If you have to have an analogy it's like comparing a tadpole and a frog.
From the article:

"Like other players in the edge inference market, Movidius is looking to promote and capitalize on the need for low-power but capable inference processors for stand-alone devices."

Sounds like this is targeted at inference only, given the specs, that seems like a reasonable conclusion, right?
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Zuckerberg really has all the makings of a president.
The question is: is it acceptable to you?
I think you're confused about the definition of a monopoly. Most monopolies or cartels rise organically but then achieve such a dominant position that it becomes impossible for upstarts to challenge them.
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> service-workers / fellow consumers (people at the grocery store, etc) are anonymous to you

But they don't have to be anonymous to you, that's also a rather new and urban development: The expectation that nobody should "bother" anybody else unless they already know them or have some business reason to do so.

In smaller communities, everybody knew most of their "service-workers" even outside of their service function, that wasn't something out of the ordinary it was pretty much normal.
Yes maybe... and also the percentage Linux systems with nVidia GPUs running not in a SoC Application (e.g. Car Infotainment) or in a Supercomputer is probably less than a percentage point.
Totally agree with Freak_NL.

For video player, definitely VLC.
The US seems to be experiencing more and more instances of "desperate" people in all senses. Desperate for jobs, healthcare, food, shelter, happiness.