skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i by no means implied it was totally useless - only that I need to see more than one forum thread.

There is a difference between the theory of programming, and actual programming. One is a science, the other involves a good deal of engineering and creativity. So while at a theoretical level there are concerns - it does not absolve engineering from addressing them. It is for this reason (and many more) that I do not take a forum post with a few replies as authoritative, on a forum i've never even heard of.

If you can't provide additional resources, thats fine. But lets be clear: i'm not interested in a pissing match. I'm trying to understand. I am yet to see anything yet that gives me pause surrounding ethereum smart contracts, aside from things I've already held concerns over (like the revocability issue) but which do not represent showstoppers for me.
It appears you have misunderstood my argument. The atom-minimap extension you linked is not the autocomplete-python extension discussed in the parent thread. I have not used the atom-minimap extension and didn't make any comments on it — I use Sublime. My comments are about the autocomplete-python extension.

I think you're overlooking the diagram linked above which shows enabling the Kite engine is an opt-in button click.
The CEO also states that it is opt-in in the article: "Most users who install autocomplete-python close the engine selection prompt, which results in not getting Kite or its benefits," [the CEO] said in an email.

https://outline-prod.imgix.net/20170721-QVaxMDgDwdZ1TBufCdq4...

As I stated above, I beta tested the Kite product early on and have used it in Sublime through a similar add-on. I am not a current customer / user, but I do make my own dev tools. It was always completely transparent to me that they are sending code to their server to run a cloud analysis platform. Based on that, I still maintain that the community is massively overreacting to something that was made explicit upfront.
A Blockchain Solution for Identity? – Humanizing the Singularity – Medium
From my personal experience as a native Slavic speaker in other countries, this doesn't work well across groups - i.e. if my language is East Slavic, and my interlocutor speaks West or South Slavic, we can't really get far; certainly nowhere even close to 60%.

But, yes, with English being the de facto standard, these more localized attempts are becoming redundant - you want to know English anyway because you want to talk to more people, and once you know it, you might as well use it to talk even to people whose languages are related to yours.
I don't know why you think they want trains, but they're likely to move to self-driving trucks, just like Uber.
Transactions on Ethereum are atomic. If something throws, everything rolls back.

There's one well-known exception, which is that if your contract sends ETH to another contract, invoking its fallback function, then a throw in the callee just means the call returns false. So in that particular case you have to check the return value and rethrow to make it atomic; this sounds crazy but in some circumstances you don't actually want to throw. The compiler gives you a warning if you don't check.
Very cool project and great writeup! It seems like every week I learn about a new Google microservice (Google Sunroof here).
With how much people hate the sound of their own voices, I think that would backfire on the advertiser.
I was thinking about not having relationship lines or even the concept of "relationship" at all. Relationships don't have any meaning concerning family nowadays, only kinship has.
The other day I saw a woman on the subway spending almost 5 minutes trying to take a flattering selfie.

It was pretty sad.
Achingly left wing. You seem to pick and choose which social problems to acknowledge based on your political agenda.
Around 2003 I was a chief technical architect at a startup. We had to secure access to the products and I realised I had no clue. I read Security Engineering by Ross Anderson and was hooked. Went on to do a Masters in Information Security while still coding, and gradually moved into the security field.

I still spend a lot of time with developers, currently doing a lot on integrating security with continuous deployment and agile projects.

I was talking with a developer recently, who said he loves coding, so that's why he does it for a living. I replied that I also love coding, and that's why I don't do it for a living!
>What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ?

Should a debt ordered by a court due to deliberately taking actions that harm another be treated differently than a debt occurred through a consensual transaction? If so, could the courts be given more power to seize resources (not just money) from the one owing the debt?

There are a lot of things that I would consider immoral to do to recover a debt that results from a consensual transactions that I wouldn't view as immoral to do to recover a debt incurred by criminal actions.
If Social Media Is the New Smoking then I'm smoking 12 packs a day. HELP!

Seriously,there is truth in this statement. People are sinking into their phones and computers and we all think it's amusing. Living peacefully in a society is hard enough when we have to learn to deal with one another. What will happen when we lack those abilities because all we need to do is interact with our technology? Red lights need to be popping up all over the place.
"better helmets" only mean you take bigger internal hits.
> I have no idea why you are italicizing types of logical fallacies.

If I were to guess, it is because it it is a term from a foreign language, in this case Latin, not because it is the name of a logical fallacy.

There exists an orthographic, or perhaps typographic practice in English to italicize words and phrases borrowed from other languages, like à la carte, du jour, sine qua non, ...
If they were the same people, the technology would be rather pointless.
Still haven't had a better development experience than Flex with the CLI compiler.

Built some of the first web based AR engines with it and alchemy. Built giant, 80"+ touchscreen, trade show interactives with it that nobody had a clue were Flash unless you told them. Was able to port just about anything to iPad with Air for Mobile and actually build IPA files on Linux.

All they needed to do was cross compile to HTML5 and barely anyone would be using Angular or Bootstrap nowadays.
React: Dynamic Headers for SEO
> Social networks, contrary to smoking, are built on the very nature of human beings: being social animals.

Bullshit. After quitting I still went to the smoking area at work just to hang out with the people that were taking a break there. Especially when it was completely accepted smoking was considered very social, like grabbing a beer together still is. The "hey let's grab a smoke" is what I miss about smoking.
I installed LeechBlock to limit me to 15 minutes of Reddit every day. At first, I was hitting it with my morning coffee. These days, I rarely use the entire 15 minute allotment (although I did today).
High performance GPU servers for machine learning
Querying the blockchain does not cost anything, just making changes to it. Otherwise, verifying transactions would be a recursive cost. I could be wrong though, but pretty sure since it's distributed reads are free, writes are where it costs.
If their income isn't enough, can you invoke the 13th Amendment (in the US, where most the bad cop stories come from)?
Note to bystanders: Trump mentioned Gard on Twitter; he's clearly being invoked in the context of the attempted Obamacare repeal. There is a very large industry invested in convincing people that healthcare that doesn't arbitrarily bankrupt people is a bad idea.

This is why people are talking about Charlie Gard and not, say, Maatthew Stewart http://theweek.com/articles/666799/how-american-health-care-...

(Does anyone track suicide rates linked to medical bankruptcy? That's got to be the ultimate negative outcome.)
> Where a format didn’t exist, we invented one – such as with Flash and Shockwave.

Cringe!

Adobe bought Flash and Shockwave along with Macromedia that invented them 10 year earlier.
Or a 'high performer'.
How does a RAA ( so far Dharma INC) grants initial credit worthiness to new borrowers ?
> if its so passive that I can barely detect it happening, all power to them.

So you don't care if people are manipulating you, so long as you are unaware?
Yes, we are going to record it. But the publishing is up to the speaker. I will post the link here if it happens.
Box releases memsniff, an open-source memcache traffic analyzer
"Living peacefully in a society is hard enough when we have to learn to deal with one another. What will happen when we lack those abilities because all we need to do is interact with our technology."

Being wrapped up in social media might serve as a way of pacifying society. When unemployment is rising due to automation and policy, give the masses shiny websites they can spend all day on and lots of computer games, and then they won't get together in real life much and riot. William Gibson envisioned such a future in his recent novel "The Peripheral".
>Consider how Facebook for instance has influenced the social problem.

In what ways?
Ask HN: What websites should have a comment section?
Which is precisely what TinyOS does.
Craft beer has had huge uptake in recent years.

You have to wonder how much of it's perceived authenticity is, well, authentic and how much is manufactured.

So while your particular brand of craft beer might not spend one dollar on advertising, it's benefiting from the general upsurge.

Apparently there is a book about it. Except:

In The Craft Beer Revolution, Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery, tells the inside story of how a band of homebrewers and microbrewers came together in one of America's great entrepreneurial triumphs. Citing hundreds of creative businesses like Samuel Adams, Deschutes Brewery, New Belgium, Dogfish Head, and Harpoon, he shows how their combined efforts have grabbed 10 percent of the US beer market...
Multiple people in one place can still be completely wrong. Concussive events are what matter when it comes to CTE; many of them occur without physical contact to the head just as impacts to the skull may not have concussive effects on the brain. What matters is sudden acceleration, not contact to the head.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995699/

[2] http://www.uwhealth.org/sports-medicine/clinic/concussion/11...
Along the same lines, http://journal.kennethreitz.org/ is highly recommended.
It's way more than just async callbacks. For example, you may be using a lazy sequence abstraction, with high-order functions like the usual map/filter/reduce, but with a deferred implementation (i.e. they're only applied, and functions passed as arguments are evaluated, when the next item is read from the sequence). If you create such deferred sequences inside a loop, they will again capture the mutated counter.
And you don't have computational efficiency issues with NNs?

We're also ignoring the benefits of a posterior distribution, which is useful for understanding the data-generating process.
Did you know? Facebook stores what you write into the text box even if you don't send it.
But surely "we" includes Macromedia, if Adobe itself included Macromedia after the acquisition?
Helmet technology has improved but not at the rate that humans have improved weightlifting/training. You've got bigger people running faster into collisions (and as we all know, momentum = mass * velocity).
Coin cells are common in marketing of microcontrollers and the like and as such is somewhat a mark of reference. There are also a good amount of devices (eg BLE beacon trackers) where AA or AAA would be too large. But if you can, use larger batteries :)

Coin cells aren't the best for this kind of system. When the current is a few tens of mA (CPU + transceiver), even for a short while, the coin cell battery internal resistance goes up, lowering the voltage over the terminals. This means that as the battery gets older, the risk of a brown-out reset of the SOC increases, even if there is still capacity to run a load with lower current requirements.

You could to some extent reduce this by using capacitors to reduce peak current over the battery, but caps have leakage current too, so the actual lifetime could be less still. Damned if you do...
Weird place the City. I remember being there for an Oracle course once, and there were people crammed into a small park some wolfing down their lunches, some quaffing booze, and in the midst of this an obviously suffering overweight exec type being bellowed at by his personal trainer to lift kettle bells in between shuttle runs.
Would effect does speeding up news propagation have, if not for promulgating unsubstantiated speculation?
How can you create a simple working Chatbot in 2 hours from scratch
I've wanted something to completely, uncompromisingly block all Internet and software time wasters for a long time. I.e. quit cold turkey, once and for all.

Short of an UEFI-implemented solution (which itself would create problems like total control over your hardware), there's nothing out there that can't be bypassed. And no company is going to do that when the Internet addictions are bringing in billions.

Best way is to treat it at the core, of course, but that's not going to happen, either.
Social Media: Promotes cancerous growth. And it smells bad to boot.
It's one of the most significant ways people get news these days: http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/26/news-use-across-social-...
This is very familiar. There's nothing we can do except keep trying. Most of the time you don't even make any mistakes to learn from, you're just not one of the lucky ones.
Are you surprised that there are more things we do that are both bad for our health and difficult to give up?
By open I mean that they require no additional navigation or credential, other than clicking on the correct tab.
Mushroom Networks Debuts App-Centric Tunnels for Channel
If you care about OSS and Community
I often wonder if social media is the reason behind the dismal productivity gains we've seen in the last decade.

I think this is a really well thought article. I can sort of see the equivalent of The Insider in 20 years time, with Zuck at a congress hearing saying that 'social media' is not addictive.
Minimum salary is $450,000$ / year and average career is 2.66 years. So most people are making at least 1 million today. https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/03/01/nfl-careers-shortened-two-...

The problem is not so much the NFL IMO, it's the 4 years of collage + 1-4 years of high school before that. Means most people get hurt without any real benefit.
Obviously there are parallels in other creative fields. The money thing was a big part of what almost ruined music for me - not only wanting to make money from it, but actually succeeding at making some money from it (which was somehow paradoxically even worse than wanting to). Looking at it as an art, that you do for enjoyment or fun or the heck of it or some other reason or no reason at all, is important.
The Filecoin ICO might break records
You make some solid points, it all depends on the battery I guess.

As you've noted, a 3.7V Lithium Ion battery (which is 4.2V when fully charged) would waste a lot of both voltage and current (excess current typically runs with higher voltage) if feeding a battery directly.

But for a 3.3V part, you really want to be running a LiFePO4 Cell, with nominal voltage of 3.2V. The chemistry itself provides you the maximum efficiency, as opposed to building devices to convert a 3.7V part to 3.3V.

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Compensating for the flaws of a slightly mismatched cell or battery is one approach. But I have my bets that selecting the proper battery to begin with is the optimal approach.

In any case, I think I can agree with you that using a standard 3.7V (4.2V when fully charged) battery on a 3.3V circuit... it probably would be most efficient to use a pure Buck Converter. 3.3/4.2V == 78% converters would gain you energy early in the charge, while near the end of the charge... 3.3/3.6V == 92%+ converters are still a net benefit.
That's disingenuous. Adobe didn't invent Flash, they bought the company that did. Adobe's strategy is based on them having resources to acquire, not create.
It's customary in some contexts to italicize "loan words". The terms for the fallacies come from the Latin. Ergo...

As for your second point, I think it's pretty clear from both my comments and their context why I'm pointing out those fallacies. That said, in the case of "non sequitur", I was actually referring more to the literary sense of the term — "Where the hell did that come from?" — than the fallacious "does not follow" sense.
I think he means for the micropayment. For that system to be viable it would need Raiden or some other payment channel system.
Maybe. Another poster brought up the impact that having a lot of private land conditionally open to the public could reduce demand for actual public land, which leads to less places where certain behaviors (those that are allowed on public land but which are banned on the private land) can occur.

Imagine someone who built a bunch of private parks all over a city that were open to the public, to the extent there was no demand for any public parks, but who decides to add a clause that no group activities related to sexual orientation (parades, protests, rallies, etc.) were allowed (of any orientation, so there was no discrimination issues).

Though, perhaps the blame still lies on the whole city for not keeping their public parks.
The+best+sunscreen
+1 well worth checking this tool out. Saved me a lot of effort setting up a GCP Kubernetes deployment two months ago. So far it has been a matter of set it and forget it.
Today I'm going to answer cynism with cynism:

> will social media become the new smoking?

No. Smoking produces cancer, that makes some people really worried. It is even worst if you are pregnant.

> Will browsing your phone anticipating the next notification become a dirty habit that others will shun you for?

No. Unless there are other more cool ways of social media. If you are still using My Space, maybe you already feel like this.

> There are a few instances where it works well but for every 1 nugget of goodness that there is, there are 4 nuggets of bad.

Supported by which data?

> I know I am sounding negative here, but it is the truth.

Ooooh, it's the true. Duh.

> I always feel better after interacting with someone face-to-face.

Me too. Social media doesn't exclude the possibility to have human interaction unless you are in a 90s movie connected to a VR headset. If that happens, you are trapped in "the computer world" and lost for ever.

> social media will never feel like a true genuine connection.

Because it is not. Reading a newspaper doesn't feel either as a "genuine connection", but keeps me up to date with the news. Sending a mail doesn't feel either as a "genuine connection", but I get my job done.

> While naive to believe so, I have to hope that when my son becomes ready to consume the social media lifestyle, by then it will have been a passing fad and ostracized like the cigarette packages of today.

Or he can be educated to understand for what is useful, and for what not, and what are the risks. Abstinence education doesn't work.
I removed social media from my life years ago because I found that it wasn't helping me in any way whatsoever. I'm not sure I would go as far as to declare it a social epidemic on the level of smoking, yet it's hard not to worry about (what seems to be) the growing fixation young people have on their social media lives [1] over their real life. I genuinely wonder what it's like to grow up as a teenager in the social media world we live in today.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/teenage-driver-li...
>It's time for Congress to legislate the rules of the Internet, and stop the ping-pong game of regulations and litigation

Sure. Great initiative, but yet once again the request places the interests of the end users in the hands of organizations that have dramatically different incentives than they do.

You wouldn't field an inquiry into Flint's broken water supply without consulting with the citizens who are expected to drink the water itself.

Still, better than nothing.
The tech isn't quite here yet but payment channels would be a good solution.
Sounds like every opinion you held both before and after 2000 are extremes. Some nuance might be healthy!
Benefits, costs and disparate racial impacts of confrontational proactive policing
For me it was that the mindsets of Elm and Elixir were very similar. Create small functions that accept data, and emit data, sometimes create a message with some data attached to it. Using pattern matching is very similar between both languages for matching on message types and shape. Also both languages share a nearly identical pipe operator, which influences the building of very strait forward function pipelines for transforming input or data into responses and output.
IOTA and Python – A Beginning
I guess my feeling could be summed up with... if you're going to be on an unpopular system, expect a less-polished experience. When Windows took up 90% of desktop marketshare, and the rest was squabbled over by Mac, Linux, etc., the fact that Flash supported them at all should be seen as a blessing.
I totally get it but, and I had this mild disagreement with my wife recently, what if I'm on duolingo learning Spanish? What if I'm checking my investments or making a trade? What if I'm texting with a friend who just lost a loved one? You can't make assumptions about what people are doing on their phones all the time. I spend too much time on my phone, but a lot of it is useful and productive. With that said, I'm firmly in the "I need to stop doing the unproductive things that I do on my phone" camp.
It is if deep down he knows the Internet has fucked him. Maybe he looks back and thinks about all of that colossal waste of time he wanted to use for something else. And then he gets into the games and on Reddit and forgets everything. It's exactly like heroin (not the Wonder Woman type), the cycles are just longer.
Well presumably the risks are much less after 1-3 years vs 10+.
Same here. "I learned to program with old ActionScript and wrote my first game as a kid (that actually taught me OOP and laid good foundations for JavaScript which" ... was way inferior to AS3. AS3 was based on ECMAScript 4 that was later abandoned by JS vendors. Until TypeScript came along JS was horribly inferior to AS3.

I will be forever glad for AS3 and the Flash ecosystem.
If we accept the article's premise (which I think I do), whether we click on the ads or even see the ads is irrelevant, though, isn't it? The need to get those ads in front of us changes the way publications write, edit, frame, and promote their stories.
Exactly. Tala's a great analogy insofar as developing world microfinance faces a lot of same challenges Dharma will likely encounter -- namely the lack the of legal recourse for defaults.
I broke my phone about a year ago, and it took a few days to sort out a replacement.

In that time I went through exactly the same process I did when I quit smoking. I became aware suddenly of all the time, all the gaps, all the moments that I had filled with a quick look at my phone.

And once it passed - elation, freedom, seeing the world with open eyes and a clear head.

I was sad when my new phone arrived, and looking back I wish I had found a way to stay clean.