skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kite is plainly a bad actor. Sublime and GitHub/Atom should be taking steps to permanently remove them and the things they're infecting from their respective ecosystems

We now know of 3 different popular addons they've hijacked in various ways to snoop on code and to build up their business.

If one company is doing this, it makes me very concerned what else is going on, and what else is coming.
> As to the models, when the models failed to predict reality, they should have been thrown out.

What models have failed to predict reality?, all the models have failed?

> Of course I don't have any proof, because the internal deliberations are not public, the code for the models is not public, and the revisions to the data and models are not public.

Really?

> Frankly, I'd be very happy if they would release the source code for the models so we could see what a clusterfuck they are.

So, you don't have any proof, you don't know that the IPCC models have been aligned with reality but you claim that they are a clusterfuck.

I think that you didn't look very deeply, or perhaps, you deep only on some sites that are not very scientifics.
They already have places full of mercury naturally: cinnabar mines.
Mercedes Benz is the most important auto-maker, technology wise. It was basically the inventor of the automobile and probably the manufacturer that has put forward the most amount of technology in a car; the amount of "firsts" they have is staggering. But they are also perfectionists. A true Mercedes owner demands nothing less than a perfect product from Mercedes.

Thus, i am completely sure they are working heavily on a purpose-built Electric car, and that it will only be released when they feel it meets their high standards.
Probably because this is a public relations article, they expect it to be copied a lot.
But it's only for searching after you've already navigated to a search engine, right? You'd have to be extremely slow at peck-and-hunting for it to save you much time (especially as search strings are so short) - and in the video you have to click "submit" to even do the search (and then presumably navigate normally with mouse). I can't see many instances where this could be worth it. Maybe I'm actually too young to see why it's useful!
So, for someone not following this particularly closely -- what is next for Theranos?

I know settling with Walgreens was a big goal of theirs, but I don't remember if that was the end of their legal troubles. Similarly, they mention their investors, which makes me wonder if they have issues on that front as well. (eg, did they lie when they sold shares?)

Even after the settlement though, they probably have a huge pile of cash -- and at least some investors are willing to let them try something with it.
>People are mainly talking about places like /r/coontown or /r/fatpeoplehate.

You'll note the examples of OP were about people of color/muslims/women/gays, not fat people... So I don't think I'm being dishonest there.

>I would argue the vast majority have no problem with those discussions as long as they are argued honestly.

I did mention that I am a moderator on a national sub (150,000 users), and these examples are sadly not made up. We have some people who are adamant about those things and constantly bother us. Maybe they're trolling, in any case they are constanly saying how much our community stinks, is racist, homophobic, yada yada (this community being, as indicated many times by surveys, mostly made of young leftists men).

One user even regularily sends compilations of the "most disgusting comments" which are absolutely not sulfurous, and another has a sub dedicated to it.

It's probably a minority, but a rather vocal one. And you can't say things that are not 100% favorable to these topics without having people saying how anti-X you are.

So yeah I probably read OP's comment in the light of what I see everyday in our modqueue. Which is people calling out others for things which I definitely don't read as "x is bad". Honestly, you'd be surprised.

And most of all, in my experience, people who call out others and think it's a legitimate attitude are not the most pragmatic ones on these topics.
Despite having a higher hashrate than expected, the price of BCC is crashing towards 1/10 of a bitcoin. The network effects and name recognition of Bitcoin are too strong.
There's been talk of it, but it hasn't been built yet.

It's more likely to be a part of RLS than rustfmt.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released
There are two incompatible "kinds" of bitcoin now because people disagreed about how to scale the technology.
What keeps Kite from taking over another package?
Ultimately, in mathematics it is important to understand why something is true; simply knowing that someone (or something) "says so" is never good enough.
Block 478559 found
Having "permission" is not an applicable defense to a federal criminal charge, the law supersedes some random person (i.e. a LinkedIn user) saying "oh yeah, that's okay."
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Does this mean Coinbase wallet holders have officially missed out on the fork?
As someone who missed the Bitcoin boat, I admit to having to read up to figure out what was going on here.

From what I read, Bitcoin Cash is an alternative cryptocurrency like Ethereum, but based on a change to the original design of Bitcoin algorithms, which increased the basic block size of the transactions. It seems this was done to increase transaction performance.

Also it seems there were competing proposals in the community about how to accomplish the goal of increasing transaction performance, "SegWit2x" and "BitCoin Cash" - and the folks who started the BitCoin Cash fork didn't agree with the SegWit2x strategy.

Anybody else more in the know, can explain it like I'm 5?

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Are people exploiting this via some sort of arbitrage or whatever to try to make money again? It seems risky?

EDIT: Removed quotes around the word "fork".
Why would it look "wine dark", whatever that means, and not green? If other cultures describe blues as just different shades of green, why would Homer describe it as red - or maybe black?

Also, if the literal translation is actually "wine face sea", not "wine dark sea" [1], are we really sure we have any idea what this means?

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They have removed the file already https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen... but I wouldn't be surprised if they compromised more plug-ins and we just haven't found out yet
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It means that Coinbase is currently sitting on a bunch of bitcoin cash that they don't currently publicly plan to distribute (Though if they do add support for cash, they will distribute it, apparently)
Not to take away from the tragedy of the story, but could we please stop it with the buzzfeed like titles?
In fact, I'm sure there's an AI sort of a challenge in there somewhere.
That's not what he's talking about. For example, today, it is much easier on social media to share left-wing opinions than to explain the drawbacks of, for example, positive discrimination or massive fundings for [insert minority here].

Maybe that's what you want – not be aware of those drawbacks. But those people who are censored still exist, are more rejected, and they can't confront their ideas, so they derive towards extremism. Now you can't hear their demands, you get surprised with their votes (hello Trump voters) and they keep being racists (or insert minority here).

Extremism isn't a birth defect. It's a reaction to circumstances. Go visit 9Gag. Under anonymity, huge numbers of young people have very pronounced hatred towards minorities and SJWs.

I'd prefer seeing this debate happening on Youtube and public spaces than excluding them than not knowing where they are.
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> The universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction.

Well said. What makes me a bit sad is that generations of scientists and engineers poured their sweat into building chips, network and a giant incredible infrastructure and what we cheer to is a site with gifs.

I want technology to solve more pressing needs, millions of people commute to work and pollute the environment even tough we have all these internets. And so much else is wasted. Why cannot we have a nicer world - the tech seem to be is here?
Most fascinating to me has been Coinbase's position throughout this.

Which was essentially they are treating the new Bitcoin cash as a shitcoin, aka not supporting it.

They took the position that if you want your "free" Bitcoin Cash, move your BTC out of Coinbase.(1)

This led to the inevitable service decay & delays that CoinBase has become well known for in the bitcoin community whenever leading up to a high volume event. (2)

And yet their internal PR team has given somewhat measured responses that "if Coinbase decides to support Bitcoin Cash in the future, it will distribute the balances that accrue at the time of the August 1 fork." (3)

The article w/that nugget goes on to state that when Ethereum split "Coinbase eventually let customers withdraw their share of the new currency, known as "Ethereum Classic," even though it still does not allow it to be bought and sold on the Coinbase site."

Seems like a risky bet not to just say something closer to "Hey if Bitcoin Cash is a thing and worth more than 1% of the original BTC we'll support it. If it's not at the end of 90 days we'll give you a way to take it out either way."

Judging by the volume of concern and disdain from newbies in the Bitcoin forums a lot of people got woken up by this event and what it means to have your decentralized currency controlled by a central authority.

(1) https://blog.coinbase.com/update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-...

(2) http://bitcoinist.com/mass-exodus-from-coinbase-spawns-12hou...

(3) http://fortune.com/2017/07/31/bitcoin-fork-coinbase/
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Faster than typing would be great. What's not so great (or so fast) is trying 3 or 4 times by voice and having to go type it anyway because the accuracy's not there. Sooo, like my old-aged ancient geriatric friend in the parent, I too still preferentially go to the keyboard, since I figure I'll probably end up there anyway. If it's a social situation I usually preface the typing with some variation of "All right let's see here..." which sounds like I'm trying to figure out something hard or ask something of the Great Oracle, but really it just means "I'm about to type."

Maybe once speech recognition advances a bit more...
that was beautiful.
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Answer: because most distributed systems are operated by a single entity and don't need to solve the trustless consensus problem.
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Wasn't the fork scheduled to happen ~7 hours ago? Why did the first block take so long if the hashrate is high enough to produce 4 blocks in the subsequent half hour?
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I could have said "two people", it would have not changed the situation not much, I guess.
But management likes it, so there's still a lot of money in video conferencing.
Is WEBrick Webscale?
Basically yes. CB has said that they won't support the coin.
Or ice skates, sand flowing, etc. (https://xkcd.com/1867/)
I really don't like the idea of having to wonder if the next plug-in/editor/IDE/etc I use is compromised by Kite or any other shady phone-home companies.
This is a good overview:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy#Argu...

There's a bunch of political reasons on both sizes as well.
And now waiting for the other shoe to drop: FBI doing parallel construction with evidence obtained through that illegal NSA surveillance.
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Actually it's 348 bytes.

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Yes, that's the idea. :)
> You seem to have a problem with my observations because they make you feel bad and you feel alluded to. This isn't my problem, if you feel like it doesn't apply to you and your circles, you do you. I know people that fit those cartoonish stereotypes. It's not meant to be a statistical overview, just a possible trend Canadians could be sliding into.

It's not a personal reaction as much as the fact that you're overgeneralizing enough that it changes your fundamental point; upon that being pointed out, you basically changed the subject to multiple unrelated things.

> In my posts I've related what I've observed living in Peru and Canada.

I'm sorry, but this claim that you're only speaking of what you've observed where you are is bullshit.

In your last comment, you claim that Silicon Valley as "an assisted-living community for people in their 20s funded by venture capital" is an apt descriptor. This is exactly the kind of overgeneralizing I'm talking about, and suddenly hiding behind "no no I'm just talking about the people I've seen in my part of Canada" is in direct contradiction. You're just over-extrapolating your own personality and those of your acquaintances to a region a thousand miles away.

This isn't just pedantry; your point changes pretty substantially when you change from claiming that this reaction to increased leisure time is widespread vs a potential pitfall. Your assertion that you can't wait for this "craze" to end only further contradicts your newly-narrow claim that you're only observing a possible pitfall.

> I also do not understand at all that little hobby list you made. I could make a similar one, as a Japanese learner boxer who likes board games, reading, and hiking. I still find time to cook and clean.

If you're having this much trouble following the conversation, I don't see the point in continuing. The point of this (incomplete) list was to help you through your bizarre confusion between the entirely-unrelated concepts of the hedonic treadmill and having more leisure time (which is why I put the dollar costs next to each activity). It's great for you that you've reached the boundary of interesting things to do with your free time, but it's pretty odd to look down on those who have found more things that interest them. My list wasn't even close to complete; it just consisted of a sample of my cheapest hobbies since that's the point I was trying to make.
TLDR; no, but it's way faster than you ever would have guessed. Also WEBrick is Ruby's built in webserver if you didn't know.
For what it's worth, we didn't remember. There was no upside to keeping it there.
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It's been an obvious win for a long time. If Chinese miners want to delay propagation, they can just do that.

The other complaints about expensive nodes are unfounded. Just downloading existing blocks is still very feasible at 8MB even with data caps.

This could have been prevented by going to 2 or 4 megs years back, avoiding the stupid arguments and providing real solid experimental data in the process. It'd have alleviated some of the congestion, too.
PacktPub, and a number of other 'tail end' publishers have editors who scour the web looking for posts related to books they want to publish. They wanted "Flask by Example" so asked me if I'd be interested in writing it after finding my blog post on Flask.
That's like $80k worth of data transfer. Also, how can you afford to store all of that unless you have gsuite?

Edit: I was mixed up. I was thinking of what it would cost SoundCloud to transfer all that music. I guess storing it would be much cheaper...
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There is a polyfill written by mozilla devs that port the browser namespace and promise based api calls over to chrome if needed.

https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
Here are some comments:

- When I search for "the universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction.", I see few options and a lot of empty colored boxes which I assumed was empty - but they were loading. So maybe it's better to put a spinner?

- It can be very good if embedded inside FB or Reddit. So a focus there would be better. FB embed (edit- FB shows it on the timeline without a need to click away) worked for me.

- Slight customization of font color, stroke and size could be good - maybe as an advanced setting. But simplicity and defaults are good.

- May I upload my own photo and make my own gug (or whatever).?
That's like saying shooting yourself in the foot only hurts the first time. But, it's probably not a major performance issue in practice.
Firefox tries to minimize breaking API changes, but there have certainly been plenty of them. While avoiding API changes presumably made the switch to multiprocessing more difficult, it didn't stop it; they made the switch. The fundamental problem with extensions and multiprocessing (at least from the perception of someone who wrote FF extensions) is the obvious one: Rather than having everything for all windows in a single thread, now you have them in different processes; communication goes from literally nothing to IPC.
Hmm. I guess this might justify the Erlang/OTP approach: shipping a "platform" or "distribution" release that contains your core packages/stdlib—along with a bunch of other, seemingly "extraneous" packages that you also take responsibility for—bundled together as your language's SDK.

Unlike a huge stdlib, a "distro"-style SDK is still factored into packages (in Erlang terms, "applications"), that can be included or excluded from any given release of your project. But it's all released monolithically, and comes as one big package. Probably helps a lot with getting legal sign-off for using the relevant packages. I wonder if that's why they (still) do it?
Well, if we're having some bike-shedding fun:

let (a, b) = c[..16..];
Although it could have been coincidence, it does seem like Google is making a statement with the temporary suspension of Peterson's account that these initiatives are clearly targeted at users posted politically incorrect content.
I'm not going to endorse copying over package managers on the grounds that copying makes it easy to get away with violating big companies' legal procedures on the use of third-party code.
And then there's that guy from the CodeGolf StackExchange.
Two points, first if you abandon the system for something else then you have to solve all the original problems again making the first system more or less useless. Second, even just 2 transactions / month * ~7 billion people is a lot of data.

PS: USD actually operate on a 3 tiered system that works well (Fed, Banks, cash) but doing the same thing in a *coin seems like just giving up.
> As an anecdote related to this, there is a law that came into force in the UK in 2009 which made illegal drawings showing fictional characters who appear to be under 18 engaging in sex

So you're saying that watching most hentai is borderline illegal in the UK? That's crazy.
Would you please not do this here? It takes a problem and makes it worse.
Yup. You'd probably like the first footnote if you haven't already read it.