skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So 10 people were killed and possibly loads of culture destroyed because people wanted more shiny rocks. It goes to show that as advanced as we think we as modern humans are we are pretty damn primitive.
Roku's products are in a stage of rot that is very disconcerting.

For example, despite Rdio failing as a company, Roku lacks the ability to map their Rdio button to a different function. This seems to indicate fundamentally bad practices by their engineering department. Similarly, it is possible to quickly hit the search button too fast and cause the entire Roku device to freeze. On top of all of this, there are some channels that seem to be impossible to remove from their devices.
It sounds like a lot of the issues here are very different depending on the country you live in.

Edit: No need to be so cryptic, right? Urban public schools are the top tier in my country. Affordability of housing in city centres is becoming more of an issue, but given the availability of jobs, I don't think it's a major driver of relocation.

In general, the situation here seems to be that a lot of families would prefer to live in a less urban environment, but cities make more economic sense still.
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The point was temperature dependence, not the specific made-up numbers.
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I'm not assuming they don't have any patents on React but I also have zero intention of wielding software patents so it's not something I'm concerned with.

You're correct though that if one does have aims to sue Facebook they should cease using Facebook led projects.

My main point is that the patent grant is nothing but gravy. Without it you have a plain Jane BSD license. Certainly not a worse situation.
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Speculation: It seems China is doing this to replace them all with a single government-run Bitcoin exchange:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cnLedger/status/90709502238582374...

This would allow them to associate an identity behind most inbound and outbound Bitcoin transactions to/from the exchange...

"Perfect control, classic China" as a Twitter user said.
While you do have somewhat of a point I'd correct you that it's really regulation but influence.

It's to be expected that huge government decisions can influence decentralized projects.
A shame but there's no other way of going about it.
I think the easiest way to get views into other instances is to follow people from there. You'll start getting whatever they boost in your feed that way. Being able to follow timelines from other instances would be handy though.
Well the alternative is not better for most of the rest of humanity.
Well, it might be the case that no Amazon jobs are lost as a result of this automation - but this won't mean that the increased productivity doesn't cause job losses elsewhere (i.e. in their competition both bricks-and-mortar and online).
One of the touted benefits of bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies is the fact that transactions on such networks cannot be easily censored, even though not many people experience this kind of thing directly with classic currencies. Therefore, I find it amusing that a prime example of why we need non-censurable currencies is provided by the difficulty of exchanging them in the first place.
I know multiple paralegals who are some of the best in the field. Fuck the female partners, I want more outrage about the suppression of the wages of the people doing 3/4ths the work but getting 1/10 the pay. For example, I found out firms were calling other firms to artificially keep paralegal salaries low.
> We all can choose to break laws.

With the volume, breadth, and obscurity of the federal register, I don't think it's practical to "choose" not to break laws in the USA today.

> Sounds like you think your opinion of what laws are just outweighs the democratic process that established those laws.

I certainly don't think that the "democratic process" is some sort of fairy dust that you can sprinkle on laws which are contrary to nature and to the constitution and suddenly make them legitimate. If this is "my opinion," then yes, your statement is entirely accurate.

There are democratic traditions that are more akin to what you are describing, but in common law republics, the legitimacy of the law is constrained by the limited and enumerated power of the state and is not boundless unto whatever the "democratic process" may dictate.

> Other operators chose not to break those laws.

This is entirely a semantic turn - by saying "those laws" in reference to the State (capital S) laws in question in this article, you have intentionally ignored the fact that the US Government has its own (obviously illegitimate in light of the history of the 18th and 21st amendments) laws which also proscribe this conduct.

So there is no way to "choose not to break" the laws regarding cultivating of cannabis.

> That's life in society.

If you are holding high the state of drug policy in the USA in 2017 as evidence of "life in society," I want to encourage you to raise your standards somewhat.
> then I expect the underlying blockchain technology can be regulated too

You don't even need any explicit regulation - a country-level firewall will likely fork the chain.
Lawyers have a long shelf life. Peak-career partners probably started law school more like 30 years ago. The number of women in new partner cohorts is over 1/3 (similar for new Fortune 500 general counsel).

In my view, you’ve got the causation backwards. Having a 25%-33% chance your boss or client will be a woman creates the kind of culture necessary to attract a gender-balanced pipeline. A woman going into law hoping to make partner is signing up to be in a (large) minority, but the ratio is nothing like a woman going into tech hoping to become a Senior Engineer faces.

Of course, challenges remain, as shown in this article.
One of my favorite poems, by the late great Gil Scott-Heron, "Whitey on the moon"

A rat done bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY

I think it's obviously short-sighted to not budget for advancement, but it's important to remember this disparity exists.
They work for the same company. That's a little less than six degrees.
Abuse is any use that is unacceptable to those making the determination. With illegal and prescription drugs, that's usually any recreational use at all.

Substitute "recreational use" for "abuse" if it makes you feel better about the semantics. Then we can dissect the finer points of "recreational". An LEO told me his use of wine wasn't recreational because he only used it socially, not for the effects, whereas recreational drug users are always using it for the effects.
I agree. That would be the easiest to do. But in a country as big as China, underground will always flourish despite strict penalties. Even then the punishment can be heavy handed if they perceive crypto currencies as an existential threat to the regime. People forget that Chinese government is the largest and probably last such dictatorship in existence today. It is easy to forget with all the capitalism sugar coat on the top :)
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You need to show income to justify your hobby?
You're going to encrypt publicly accessible sensitive data with a 9 digit number ? This is not even close to the current level of security. You don't get to make millions of guesses when some dumb website or clerk requires your SSN to do something.

To decrypt data you get to guess over and over again. An SSN would be a terrible key for that.
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All bubbles have money coming in from somewhere. The Keynsian "Animal Spirits" concept is almost as much B.S as Marxist "Productive Forces".
If your example is true, the subject paralegals know exactly why they have standing to sue.

Law firms tend to avoid breaking the law pretty well, though.
Other than the pain of being rejected (or rather the lack of validation), where does this reliability problem manifest?

Elite tech companies have no problem with the current implementation of technical interviews.

Engineers whos skills range from Great to Mediocre don't have a problem finding a job.

Software quality has generally improved or stayed the same.
One-party communist state opposed to free-market financial innovation.

In other news, water is wet.
I submit that, for example, the explosion in creativity surrounding blockchain tech is evidence that the model embodied by these entities is no longer relevant.

And that these sorts of developments are tantamount to entry into a different age (the "information age" is the typical vernacular) which has a different set of norms than the industrial age did.
Previously, if you bought a Plus, upgraded the storage you also hit the $1000 mark quite easily.

Apple can't do much wrong: removed the audio jack did not hurt iPhone sales. The new mac book pro, ridiculously priced, a very 'particular' keyboard, was the fastest selling laptop ever.

If you see the reactions on let's say, The Verge, on any post regarding new Apple products - it's insane.

So I think Apple is still in a very comfortable position to keep on doing this artificial pricing for the time being, and for the foreseeable future as well - and get away with it. Their tandem of hard & software, though much flawed, still seems to be worth the premium price for many people.

They have me because of OSX but I won't stand another crappy laptop of them anymore.
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I hyperbole of course. But in my experience friends from Menlo are much likelier to visit SF than people from SF are to visit Menlo.

Also Caltrain on the weekends is just 1x/hour which is very annoying indeed.

And hey, I’m always on the lookout for a good excuse to go visit NYC for a weekend. I don’t find nearly enough of those.
My friends and I have dealt with Facebook before in various capacities, and I can tell you that they play DIRTY, and if it comes down to it, they won't hesitate to use the aforementioned PATENTS license in their favor against you.

I know many stories like this; Facebook M&A meets with the founders of a promising company under the guise of a "we're about to acquire you" only to have Facebook copy their companies and then follow up with Facebook's lawyers knocking on said startups' doors to shut them down.

As such, I will not touch Facebook with a 10 foot pole, and I strongly recommend, from personal experience, that you do the same with your company.
EDIT: OK, I think I see what's wrong with this analysis: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp/blob/master/spec/service....
They do include Z1 in the data they pass to KMS decrypt. This is because they have XORed the ciphertext with Z1 - so now in order to recover the initial ciphertext back (i.e. the cipher text you can decrypt with KMS to get R back), you need to XOR with Z1 again.
So even if you get D from the database, you can't decrypt it unless you have Z1, and if you were trying to brute-force it, you would need to call KMS for every attempt with the Z1 for this attempt.

Original comment:

I am not any kind of crypto expert. But I agree with you.

I think they should be XORing with "AssignedSecret" (not "EncryptedAssignedSecret"). Then in order to compare password hashes you would need to decrypt the "EncryptedAssignedSecret" using KMS. (using the terminology in the description of the algorithm here: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp/blob/master/docs/encrypt...) (EDIT: you actually cover this approach in the GH issue, and point out a problem with it).

I think there is another approach like what the OP proposed where they should be using some portion of the scrypt hash (either Z1 or Z2 or just the whole thing) as part of the encryption context passed to KMS. But this seems a little more complicated to me. (EDIT: You also mention this as a possible solution in the GH issue).

I think there's also an approach using the GenerateDataKey API : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/APIReference/API_Gener...

Where you get the key and the key's cipher text back from KMS and store that, and then you have to use KMS to decrypt whatever you encrypted with the key.
Actually, it wouldn't be as outrageously expensive as I thought -- some sites say an acre of rainforest can be bought and protected for $10/acre. [1]

The entire Amazon rainforest is 2 million square miles or around 1.2B acres. So you could buy the whole thing for around $12B. Or about half the price of building a wall between the USA and Mexico [2] that many people see as unneeded and unwanted.

[1] https://www.rainforesttrust.org/10-for-1/

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-wal...
Are you kidding? Society/quality of life is SIGNIFICANTLY better compared to 100 years ago.
> especially when there is a satellite streaming down blockchain

If a satellite link can bypass government controls, why has it not been used by Google, FB, New York Times and numerous others banned in China?
It's not so bad if you look across all Amiga-related development.

Is the PowerPC hardware for OS4 expensive? The high end devices like the X5000 certainly are, but entry level devices like the A1222 are coming out soon, and are priced around £500, which seems like a level many hobbyists would feel comfortable with:

https://www.generationamiga.com/2017/02/10/preview-amigaone-...

It's also possible to run OS4 in WinUAE, so it's possible to try out OS4 before buying new hardware.

For an even cheaper route, the other two next-gen Amiga-related operating systems, AROS and MorphOS, offer cheaper hardware options than OS4. MorphOS runs (aside from a few niche devices) on PowerPC Mac hardware:

http://www.morphos.de/hardware

You can easily get a working PowerPC Mac for less than £100 on eBay.

AROS is even cheaper still, as it's open source and runs on standard x86 hardware. You might spend a bit of money on a supported network/sound/graphics card if the devices that came with a PC aren't fully supported, but otherwise it's essentially zero cost to get into.

With regards to the Amiga IP, things are looking up, the rights have mostly been acquired by Cloanto now, which is one of the few companies actively supporting the Amiga:

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2017-04-00033-EN.html
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I have a little familiarity with such systems. Revenue generation is defined not only as the revenue the individual lawyer collects from their clients, which is relatively straightforward to calculate, but more significantly as the business the lawyer generates for the firm - by being a 'rainmaker'. Calculating who gets how much credit for a new client is much harder, and much more prone to biases both unconscious and intentional.

A lawyer, like an IT professional, has only 2000 hours per year to bill; you can't increase that number more than marginally. But you can generate far more billable hours for your firm by bringing in new business; a large corporate client could keep many lawyers busy for their entire careers. I know of lawyers who were poor at practicing law but they were highly paid partners and it was well-earned: They brought in far more than 2000 hours for their firm.
Am I really reading a comment advocating for culture genocide because of an assumption that our version of "society" must be forcibly imposed on other people?

And this is being discussed in good faith? Am I in real life right now?
> If you did this with a camera

Yeah I've always felt like speed cameras should have been the "disruptive technology" for speed bumps but we're lagging behind for some reason, instead choosing to penalize everyone using the road.

How often are speed bumps not doable at the speed the street allows, e.g. having to go 15-20kmh over the bump in a 30 zone, or more extreme, 5kmh in a 50 zone when they want you to watch out for drunk pedestrians during events when said pedestrians aren't there (or drunk) yet/anymore...
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Humanity benefits from continued mining, deforestation, and development of the Amazon rainforest? Sure, some humans (and corporations) benefit, but is there a benefit to humanity in general?
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Yes, you're absolutely correct. So the takeaway would be not to bring software patent litigation to Facebook's door flippantly. A thing I'm absolutely in favor of.

I can't believe I'm defending Facebook though. A company who's data-mining practices completely creep me out. I definitely try to reduce the reach of their tentacles into my life but in this case I see nothing to take issue with.
It is also possible that a component of Bitcoin's value is transferring money out of China, in which case prices may start to reflect this decrease in utility.
A landlord is taking a tremendous risk by letting you rent.

Things renters can and will do include not pay rent, incurring several months (or worse) while being evicted, trashing the house.. if they behave badly or just can't quite keep up with timely payments and you have to rollover to a new renter that is pretty expensive, too.

This isn't to say credit scores are perfect, but they are so effective a predictor of conscientiousness, insurance companies rely on them to predict someone's likelihood of a car accident - on average, they work.
If those new Nokias start being sold in my neck of the woods (Western Canada) I think I will pretty much just stop bothering with smartphones and just go with that compromise.

If I'm being honest with myself, I just need a damn phone and an ok camera. The rest are frivolities.

I can just continue using my table for the rest.
Colonialist attitudes are still the baseline. They may often be barely-acknowledged, perhaps even unconscious, but ubiquitous.
Yep, still doesn't get better than OSX.
In my experience, i donate to projects, which i use often/or build upon.
> It seems like you're assuming that there's a decent chance that FB doesn't actually hold any patents on React.

That's very likely actually. Patents are public; people have searched around for obvious concepts and phrases involving the virtual dom, synthetic events, etc., and nothing has been found. (There's also nothing novel in what React does, so you'd kind of hope there'd be no patents.)

> This seems unlikely

Why do you think Facebook having patents on React is likely? (Come to that, why is it any more likely than them having patents on the tech behind, say, Angular?)

> and is contradicted by what the author wrote (indicating that popular React alternatives may also infringe FB patents)

IF a patent on, say, the virtual DOM exists, then Preact, Vue, etc., will all violate it. But it seems fairly clear that no such patent exists. So the author is quite right; popular React alternatives almost certainly use just as many of Facebook's patents as React does...it's just the number is probably "zero".
After struggling for months to get off of some random opt-out spam list from MailChimp I just opted out of MailChimp all together. They offer zero support for those getting spammed by MailChimp customers.
That would be especially nasty. Even if you survive the winds and don't drown in the storm surge, there would be a threat that ordinary hurricanes do not pose: burns.

The ocean temperature necessary to support a hypercane is high enough to cause third degree burns in around 10 minutes and second degree burns in around 20 minutes.
If these projects are covered by Facebook patents, it doesn't matter if their license has a patent grant since they don't own rights to the Facebook patents.
Nothing except the land it sits on...
Do you really think comparing interactive web apps, which require a bunch of complex di-directional traffic, with a blockchain, which just needs to be routinely copied from a uni-directional source, is fair?
They didn't advocate genocide...
Because to verify a blockchain entry, you only need to download it. To use G,FB or NYT, you need two way traffic (actively sending out a request). Verifying independently this way is important because you wouldn't know if the government has forked the chain otherwise.
Not easy to find a video of how it works on the site, but here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRHphB-YqN8

Here are three problems I see:

- it has electronics and actuated parts - will be a maintenance issue

- it can be overridden remotely - yet another thing in the city to hack for fun or profit

- there's a distance between speed measuring zone and the bump zone that's big enough the device might react confusingly in dense traffic
Bitcoin isn't decentralized.
> What's the evidence?

You quoted the article, so I assume you read it. It states that "… the gold miners went to a bar in a near the border with Colombia, and bragged about the killings." Also, that "[t]he indigenous affairs bureau conducted some initial interviews in the town…"

In this case, the evidence appears to be a report of public acknowledgement of the crime and statements given in private interviews.

Perhaps you were asking about the content of the interviews, but you didn't specify.
Not excusing the price, but people these days spend multiple hours a day on their phones. Phones are as important as cars for example. How high prices can go ? Even higher imo

People are ready to pay for expensive cars for a better experience and higher "social standing". Phones are not that different in this regard
I didn't say there wasn't money coming in.
I have a Roku 3 and don't plan on buying another. They plastered ads all over the home screen.

Luckily I'm in the Apple ecosystem, so I've got a good backup option when this one dies.
"According to the IBM System Sciences Institute, fixing a production bug costs 100x more than fixing a bug at design time, and over 15x more than fixing a bug at implementation time"

For most common software bugs, a design-time fix would imply a significantly heavier, verification based design and specification process. Comparing this cost to implementation/production bug fixes doesn't seem straightforward.
The Chinese state does not need money, not even "billions" - power and influence are much more important, and exerting that influence to gain control is much more valuable than any amount of money unless you're talking in trillions. And even then...?

There is no "win" for China (the state) by letting its population freely speculate and trade in crypto that they don't control... much better to shut it down.
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He said "cultural genocide":

Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements which make a one group of people distinct from other groups.
Funny how Uber didn't fix that but instead put new drivers in another Debt., Uber sub prime car loans.
China plans to ban sales of fossil fuel cars entirely
Love her fuck all attitude. She's gained a new admirer today.
For $1,000 can it be durable as well as good looking? How about a serious IP (Ingress Protection - dust and water) rating?
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I gave my mom $1000 from my crypto gain
Two things I had to explain: What is crypto currency! and Why Federal reserve is doing nothing about it!
...God bless Litra coin.
It isn't crossing a threshold. The old iphones and their "affordable" price tags was crossing a threshhold. Apple was dipping their toes in the middle-america Market in order to grab market share. And now they're returning to what they've always sold, overpriced gadgets aimed at a specific niche demo.
This assuming that "standing to sue" is equal to justice, which it isn't
Why can't one just buy BTC in yuan and liquidate it in another foreign currency?
From the developer's comments on YouTube there was a previous Luigi model that someone had crafted with custom tools but they'd left the project and thus the Luigi model hasn't had as much work done for it.

There's also additional challenges where they have a limited amount of game RAM to work with and so additional textures and models are tough to fit in.