skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. My first programming job was doing Flex stuff (Adobe Air desktop apps in an enterprisy way) and after that I did tons of Edge Animate work (in an environment where things needed to run in IE9 at best). I am glad those helped me to kickstart my career, but modern JS libraries, frameworks and paragdims are so much ahead what we had then I can only wonder if I have truly forgotten something really magnificient.
This letter might have been written by one of the guy in the original Macromedia team.
The word seems to be used in both contexts in the Buddhist Pali canon, at least from what I can tell.
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I've done this in a few ways. I go backpacking in the wilderness where there's no reception, and there's this Buddhist monastery I visit in San Diego where they ask you leave your phones in your car (it's a LOT better that way). I'd like to do a no-screens day once a week, unfortunately working in tech right now makes that difficult.
If I didn't appreciate the GPS in my smartphone so much I'd totally just use a Nokia 105.
I believe that also applies to most UNIXes and UNIX-likes.

<rambling>

I really like that terminology though, it makes quite a bit of sense. When you witness a crash(you are not part of the crash, you were simply witnessing/interacting with the thing that crashed. You are not necessarily harmed), it is not like the whole world is falling apart. There was a crash, it is horrible and now you have to save what you can. This applies both digitally and in real life. Think crashing a drone or watching a plane crash. You rush to the scene and call for help, but you are not harmed.

Now when the OS fails, it stops everything and can potentially result in significantly more data loss than a standard application crash. Much like when a person is in an accident involving a vehicle. It is no longer just a crash, it is now a panic. When you end up in an accident you don't think "oh ya that crash" you think panic, not the word, the feeling.

</rambling>

Sorry for the rambling on, it kinda just happened. But ya that terminology is great.
Flash player might be dead, but that doesn't mean $THIRD_PARTY_LIBRARY that it uses isn't still being profitably licensed by its original developers. Or maybe the player uses a library that Adobe have a perpetual binary license to, but the original company that owned that library went bust a decade ago and nobody knows who owns the copyright on it now to allow a relicense. Open sourcing things does have a cost, and a big chunk of that is in running down these legalities.
I wish we could take the best of AS3, ESNext, and TypeScript, and make it into one WebAssembled language...

Well okay. That's insane. But there's a part of me that wants to know how far it would go.
On the contrary dude, I don't think you've gone deep enough. To dismiss the parent comment on some vague existential bemusement seems near insidious in intent.

At the risk of derailing this conversation into semi-unrelated philosophical conversations: Why is it you would prefer 2 to 3?
I can see all of your points, and they're valid, but...

> Yeah, I don't think that is true, at all. Dharma is a concept and you've listed books (or close enough to books).

When someone labels something as cultural appropriation is not a matter of whether it is a true label or not, what matters is that some number of people from that culture consider it to be cultural appropriation. If they do, then it's a problem and the project owners need to decide if they'll change the name or not.

At the beginning of the project, there's no large cost to changing the name, so I'd change it if it was my project.

That said, coming up with names is hard. I've been told I'm good at it. Not sure if that's true, but here are three alternatives: Lifeline, EthereaL, Enablr, Xtension. The Dharma project owners may use any of these names to rename their project for free in perpetuity, if they wish. Post here if you do though, because otherwise I have ideas for several of them (not ethereum loans, or even loans).
Those two things are not mutually exclusive. All other things being equal, I'd rather cite the NYT than Fox News. That doesn't mean the scale of bias isn't the same between NYT and Fox News.

With regard to quality of reporting I think the gulfs really lie in the outlet/format. TV/cable news is worse than traditional/print news. Daily news is worse than weekly/monthly, etc. When you're reporting 24 hours a day you've gotta sensationalize a lot of shit to keep people watching. If you only print once a day, not so much. Once a week, even less so.

I've gotten to the point now that I usually try to avoid the TV and daily print news altogether. If it's not important enough to make it in a weekly newspaper, it's probably not worth knowing about.
We've been working on it publicly for over a year now. Have you had a chance to try the new HTML5 based #vsphereclient? 6.5.0b: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/03/first-vsphere-clien... or the Fling: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client
You don't need to throttle to maintain reliability. And you can get similar speed guarantees by balancing the available bandwidth across active users.
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Yep, we launched one:

https://cargofone.com/en/

Money helps, but it isn't the only thing.
This response, "is the US a free country?" is a thought-terminating cliche.

It doesn't actually contribute to the discussion, it just derails it. "free country" is too vague to be meaningful; we have our freedoms curtailed in big and small ways all day every day. Wanna test this? Go ignore traffic lights. Go walk into someone else's house. Traffic laws and property rights are acceptable constraints on freedom, but they are still constraints on freedom.

Please, if you're going to contribute, make it a useful contribution.
This makes me sad.

The internet used to be less "flat". Every website was interactive, animated, had sound, had dimensions to it. Everything was a theme park. Maybe you had to learn a new UI every time but I was amazed a lot back then.

I learned a lot of programming with Action Script, it wasn't the best, but it was easy to get into.

I did my fare share of animating, just because it was so easy to get into. Xiaoxiao was just amazing to me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw4wzwYeZ0Y).

I did my fair share of games as well, there were so many of them and publishing a game on internet had never been so easy. Orisinal is beautiful (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/).

Now where do people find such mini games? On mobile. The big mini-game market has shifted and we now have to pay, we now have to download each game individually.

I understand Flash has had a bad track of security vulnerability, but the internet used to be magical, it's the end of an era.

As methodover says it here:

> The tools for 2D animations and games in Flash are far beyond anything else out there from a creative standpoint. There isn't a product on the market that comes even close. Everything now is too technical, too specialized.
Study: US is slipping toward measles being endemic once again
+1, I have another project on payment channels, coming soon
Note that only the sensor runs for a year on a coin cell. The wireless mesh router nodes are not mentioned.

Somebody has to be listening when coin-cell device wakes up. If the listening device is always on, that's not a problem. That's not feasible for low-power nodes. If listeners are only powered up intermittently, getting someone to listen requires some kind of synchronization system.

I have a simple outdoor thermometer which contains a solution to this problem. The sending unit goes outside, for best results sheltered but not near a wall that leaks heat. The receiver goes inside and has an LCD display. Both sender and receiver are battery-powered, and get over a year on two AA batteries.

The sender wakes up every 30 seconds or so and sends blind. The receiver wakes up just before each expected transmission. When you replace the batteries, you have to replace them in both units, and when the receiver is first powered up, it stays powered for a while until it's heard the sender a few times and is in sync.
Your first sentence is just a long way of saying "you are wrong and I need offer no counter evidence because I am right"

WRT your second sentence you are clearly so deep in your own cognitive bias you can't see anymore. I'd enjoy seeing such a study. I've seen plenty of reports about stuff that happened in the past century that were obviously now misreported by the mainstream press at the time.
"Immigration wasn't all great. Throughout US history, it led to lots of turmoil, displacement and heartache." Get a grip on your self. It was never good for the natives amricans. Anyway, the current issues of the country are not immigrant made. That's a fantasy fox world view.
BOOM! the game just changed...

> In light of the facts and circumstances, the agency has decided not to bring charges in this instance, or make findings of violations in the Report, but rather to caution the industry and market participants: the federal securities laws apply to those who offer and sell securities in the United States, regardless whether the issuing entity is a traditional company or a decentralized autonomous organization, regardless whether those securities are purchased using U.S. dollars or virtual currencies, and regardless whether they are distributed in certificated form or through distributed ledger technology.
The costs don't end there, though. Other than preventative care, you're also covering the first $6k or so in costs, though the insurance company will negotiate them down for you from the initial insane levels to something merely causing headaches and indigestion. I've yet to pay more than $6k per year, so essentially I'm paying the remaining 20k for the benefit of others. Not even when I broke my ankle a few years ago did the (negotiated) bills total up to more than $10k or so.
Because many of the people who could make $100k doing software could make several multiples of that doing something like finance, and be in a more respected profession to boot.

Whenever the salary question comes up, people are always quick to compare it to the country at large. But that's not a valid comparison; someone who would be a qualified software engineer isn't deciding between that and being a retail clerk. They're deciding between going into that or something like finance, where they can make many multiples of what they could as a software developer.
Actually Macromedia didnt invent it either. A small company called "FutureSplash" had a software called FutureSplash Animator. Macromedia bought it in the late 90s
More like 12-13% then since half of the total 24% is from Land Use Change and Forestry (according to the 2014 numbers)
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OK obesity I can see, but smoking. Haven't men's smoking rates in the countries measured declined over the time period?
Not all H1B is "low end"." There is H1B use and there is H1B abuse. They are not comparable. I work with some extraordinarily talented people on H1B visas who would absolutely not have an US replacement if they were not here.
In some cases using WiFi makes sense, for example if you've got a mains powered device such as a camera, smart plug, or similar. However z-wave really comes into its own with remote battery powered devices - a properly configured motion sensor for example will easily last two years on a single 3.3v lithium battery. That's despite waking up every few hours to report its presence, and probably transmitting the presence of motion, temperature changes, light levels, and other data points far more frequently.
Making Audio Plugins (2015)
Didn't the DAO hack happen because someone found a way to make an "atomic" transaction fail without full rollback?
Incompetence is different from malice. The FCC should do more to get manufacturers improving WiFi congestion and improving power supply cleanness.
Right in the article. Crowd-funding starts this Fall, for "less than $1000".
Subvocalisation. Your own voice speaking quietly in the background to something else. Ideal for consumer indoctrination.
Block the app in the phone. I did just that, and don't want to look back ever again.

I didn't close the account because it's actually useful for some situations (found a lost dog last week and need to post about it so I can find the owner). But other than that, it feels awful to log back into Facebook. I left messenger installed because of the same reason I have whatsapp. It's actual chat, not posting pics or whatever (and I don't care about the "status" that some contacts share).
Here are some things I've do (or still do)...

1. Turn off notifications on your phone. How-to on Android [1] iPhone [2]

2. Turn off all global notifications on your computer. How-to on Windows [3] OS X [4] Apple Watch [5]

3. Set up a Calendar event to check email and keep your email client closed. For example, before lunch and again just before you end your day.

4. Never reply to an email immediately and never be the first on an email chain to reply.

5. If you want to avoid any real-time email back and forth during your day, respond to all emails at the end of the day. That way you won't read any immediate, real-time, interrupt driven responses until tomorrow.

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[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/204187/how-to-disable-app-notifica...

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/206516/how-to-manage-notifications...

[3] https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-all-no...

[4] https://www.howtogeek.com/244892/how-to-change-how-os-x-grou...

[5] https://www.howtogeek.com/275101/how-to-completely-disable-a...
I guess my feeling could be summed up as: bye, flash! We in the Mac/Linux sphere won't miss you.
$4.99 a month seems a bit steep for what looks like a very basic UI with no features like multi-user editing or photos or anything other than a node-link builder.

It's still a nice UI for the primary task.
This appears to only applies to ICOs that offer something that is like a security, such as the DAO, not voucher based ICOs like Primalbase or Storj

EDIT: Added appears to since IANAL
Bear in mind that while what he said is correct, there are other concerns on an assembled board, as opposed to the bare chip. Arduino has a voltage regulator that is always consuming current. The Power LED is always consuming current. You should be sure to set pin 13 (the indicator LED) as an output and turn it off, since even as an input, there will be leakage current through the LED. The other active components on the board have their own quiescent current levels, etc.

You can get an AVR device to run on a coin cell for months or years (I have a design that does just that). You'd have to modify an Arduino significantly to do the same.
Jupyter Magic for Cell Completion Alerts via Browser Push
Most of the time, they didn't kill eachother.
Tree-style tab and middle clicking means that you can have a hierarchical record of your browsing when researching. Middle click three to five tabs from a search, middle click from each tab when reading through on the first article for any interesting subarticles, then when you get to the bottom you have a visual record of your path to that point.

To make things even better, when you're done with that research point you just kill the parent level tab and the children all go away too.

Tens of tabs is pretty typical in my workday and improves my productivity vs. fewer tabs and forgetting how I got to a tangent.
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Man, this sentiment is so disturbing. Is this something people find desirable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3lXEH80Nw
> If you don't understand your stack fully, things can get bulky and expensive fast.

Ironically, software really does fundamentally suffer from the same problem too. It just so happens that today's hardware is so powerful relative to most use cases these days that most developers don't run into those problems, until they try to scale (or they scale successfully, but as a result of the success now have the money and incentive to start caring about formerly tiny problems)
Good. This should help bring some sanity and accountability. they were both quite needed
I think that's a caching issue
It does matter because we have no idea what the world will look like when we do get to a point where we know it's 10-20 years away. Right now we're not even close to there yet and so it's mostly fear mongering.
There was no doubt in my mind this was coming.

Still waiting for them to come down hard on a company as an example. In this article it says they won't bring charges in this instance, meaning The DAO, however; if you have taken part in an unregistered sale of securities recently as a U.S. "company", you may want to seek legal advice on how to proceed right away. Maybe a deal can be made with the SEC for "ICO"'s that have occurred recently. Or you may be advised to leave the U.S., which may be the best option.
Depends. Some members are known to be experts (as in: you can see right on Github what they actually do) in some areas so they are quite good primary sources. Sometimes people argue and provide links to support their point of view. But often you have neither and then the voting system plays the role of the distributed trust you mentioned.
What could "the appalling paperback editions" possibly mean?
I recall studying free will in Intro Philosophy class, and Hobart [1] had a good argument that free will vs. determinism was a false dichotomy stemming from a misunderstanding of what it means to "choose" something.

His argument, paraphrased for the layman (he wrote in fairly impenetrable terms) was basically:

Say that we do have a deterministic world, where human action is the result of each human being continually processing stimuli, rationally (or emotionally) evaluating it, and then deciding on a course of action. The meaning of "choice" is this process, and the meaning of "self" is all the hidden machinery that lets us go from a stimulus to a course of action. People who believe free will and determinism are incompatible are implicitly positing that there's some entity outside of this process of weighing alternatives and choosing one, but there is no evidence for such an entity and no need to invent one. Rather, our common-sense notions of choice are completely compatible with someone having received a bunch of sensory inputs and then used the internal circuitry of their brain to decide on a course of action, and our common-sense notions of self are compatible with different people having different dispensations to make certain choices under various circumstances. And we can make moral judgments based on our evaluation of whether the choices another makes will be helpful or harmful to our interests.

Interestingly (and this is me adding to the theory after 15 years of life experience), this perspective seems to mirror psychological development. I've found that as I've gotten older, I tend to settle into my own skin. When I was young, it was like I'd frequently "pop out" of my self and my actions and be like "who is this person?" As I've gotten older, it's more like "Yeah, I'm me, and I make the best choices I can with the information available to me, and ultimately I'm responsible for the consequences even if they don't work out." It's like there's less of a divide between that automatic stimulus -> processing -> response cycle and my objective perception of my life.

[1] https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mnat/~ball0888/oxfordopen/hoba...
They had reached out.
I've never smoked (cigarettes) but I have often envied that a smoker could go and just sit, alone at the bar say, just a moment of peace and calm, and it wasn't weird that there was a guy there just staring into space, because he was "having a smoke" and that was an activity in and of itself. Or on a park bench or just anywhere. I sometimes fake playing with my phone, just so I can do it.
> rounded corners

I don't see this as being a flash thing. You could do that in paint, photoshop or fireworks or ...
This is very interesting insight! May I ask which software or service you use to keep track of your family tree?
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Actually, a tool that compares texts from different sources on the same topic and ranks them on different criteria could be interesting, i.e. assertion, logical fallacy, emotive language, inclusion/exclusion of key details; very off the top of my head.

Additionally - over time you could build up a nice corpus for one source versus another source.

I guess you do see studies examining bias every now and then, but the whole thing could be automated and ongoing.
Look at the beating the market gets right now (as of 13 minutes after the news were posted).

https://coinmarketcap.com
You have to be very modest for that $1 mil. You would probably get a 900 sqft home :D
Yes and no. It was nice to have support for that whole community of animations and games, even with crappy performance. And we could get to the godawful interactive-restaurant-websites where framerates didn't matter. But the existence of a terrible Mac port helped fuel its adoption as a web technology (versus something like ActiveX where you were Windows/IE only). Without that, maybe those restaurants would have stuck to HTML like they should have to begin with.

Especially on the video side where people stared to pick FLV as a format, we'd have been much better off just getting an MPEG in the QuickTime plugin, probably with better frame rates and definitely not crashing my browser so often.

As a portable web application platform, I suppose it was better than Java and I'm glad to have gotten access to those. But honestly that was a pretty niche use case.
Most serious football players never get paid millions of dollars, or are treated like a living god. They do get the injuries, though.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/latest-crime-statistics-rel...
violent crime up 3.9% in 2015 though still down from 2011
Interesting - Presto-As-A-Service is hard to do because of the way it handles permissions / auth. With an inherently shared resource like a blockchain it becomes a lot more feasible.