skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the parent is a luddite for questioning very emphatic and rather baseless claims. The strawman you build is unwarranted IMO.

Household computers were a thing in science fiction long before they were possible and I don't recall anybody doubting you could eventually transmit movies over the internet in a reasonable amount of time.

Then you continue with the usual hand waving when people point out weaknesses in the bitcoin architecture. Because the last thing we want is for the hype to die and the speculation to crash, am I right?

>If you want to keep middle men in between most things that we could potentially do programmatically, thats cool. I'm on the hype train.

You can do things programmatically without using the blockchain. Actually nowadays I'm pretty sure that for the vast majority of transactions online no human is the loop.

>- low tx rate? not for long

What makes you say that? If you think about segwit/lightning and friends I'll wait until I see them working in practice. I'm still skeptical that these solutions will manage to reach high amounts of transaction without losing the decentralized nature of bitcoin.

>- high computational cost? Security feature. Makes fraud/hacks very expensive. If you think energy conservation is more important, other chains don't have this cost (proof of stake)

You make it sound as if proof of stake was actually a thing. Has any serious blockchain successfully implemented PoS at this point? I know many people are talking about it but it's still very much theoretical as far as I know.

>- high node storage cost? mining fees & block reward more than outweigh this.

I don't understand this argument. Nodes and miners are two different things. If you do serious transactions on the network you should run a full node. Are you saying that people who run full nodes should invest in a mining rig to offset the cost? What if they live somewhere electricity is not cheap enough to turn a profit?

>- no way to reverse transactions? feature. you can always add arbitration / escrow

Yeah by using a... trusted third party. How would you scale this? Well, I can think of a way, you could set up organization who would take a small fee to act as trusted third parties. With a high enough volume of transactions these organizations would have a low incentive of cheating for any given arbitration since loss of trust would mean the end of their business and they could be sued. They could also offer loans and other things the blockchain can't provide on its own. You know, like a bank.

>If you go the traditional route, you will always have a company in the middle, taking their cut or selling you out behind the scenes.

The bitcoin network takes its cut as well and these days it's not exactly cheap. And what do you mean by "selling you out behind the scenes"? Privacy issues?
Google Pixel 2 vs. Pixel 2 XL
> The Senators are beating up on this CEO for a security breach that happened under his watch -- suggesting he ought to be fired. For the OMB hack they were the ones with the power to fire the CEO of the organization responsible, i.e. the President. Did even a single one of them call for impeachment? Did any senators resign for thier lack of appropriate oversight?

Katherine Archuleta was in charge of the OMB during the time of the hack, lawmakers _did_ call for her to be fired, and she ultimately resigned due to the breach.
> 1. Edge case leaks 87% of tokens to a dedicated hacker. Sorry?

The level of code safety in smart contracts is abysmally bad today, Ethereum didn't further the state of the art with EVM/Solidity (quite the opposite), and this needs to be fixed before any serious business can rely on a DApp.

Smart contracts are like aerospace engineering, not like iStore apps development; delivering slightly buggy code, written as fast as possible, by easily interchangeable developers, doesn't cut it. It's worse than for aerospace actually: when you design a plane, your opponents are the laws of physics, which merely don't care about you. When designing a smart contract, hackers are specifically after you, and statistically, some of them are smarter than you and your code.

> 2. I locate and bribe/extort your main influencer/s

How is it different from the current practices of bribing executives and misleading shareholders (naively supposing that shareholders need to be mislead in order to pass bad, narrow-sighted judgements)?

> There are so many other fun problems with code-as-immutable-law for human institutions.

Indeed!

> It's concerning that none of these are even remotely addressed in the Colony literature

I take Colony as an experiment. As hinted above, I think you'd be a fool to bet your livelihood on some Solidity code. I don't think we're able to foresee which of those problems matter, nor the compromises which best mitigate them. Like in code optimisation, you need to measure before acting; Colony will meet those issues, will try to address them, and may or may not survive the process. Whether the lessons learned benefit Colony 2.0 or another project raised from its ashes, it's hard to say, but in the great scheme of things, it doesn't matter much.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the second-to-last line[1] is for, either - it just lists a directory.

[1] https://github.com/johnpaulada/microsoftmlserver-docker/blob...
That would be just too succinct. They have got a whole paragraph on Legal and Acceptable Use. https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#terms-of-service
PyEcore: a framework for building MDE-based tools in Python
Getting into Other People's (Scala) Code
It's a moral failing to be engaged in the collection of personal data of this type and scale without having a solid, well articulated, well communicated, robust and redundant plan for managing security and mitigating the impact of security issues.

It's an ethical failure that this industry has so many examples of above.
They followed up on that question with another blog post: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly...
Its far harder for western societies to contend with the fact that they are creating the terrorist threat by their own actions, than it is to just "blame religion" for the problem.

But the truth of the matter is, we are creating the conditions for terrorists, every single day - by delivering our own form of terror: the (Imperial) Coalition forces currently demolishing Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan/Yemen are, indeed, terrorising entire populations in the rush to be the most efficient war-fighting machines on the planet.

If you want to stop terrorism, its quite simple: stop letting your governments get away with murder. The way they do it, is couch everything in secrecy, while we the citizens decide that ignorance of the war our societies are waging is worth the luxury and decadence those wars provide.

POP QUIZ: do you know how many people the state killed, in your name, today? Yesterday? Last week? Until you start paying attention to this statistic, citizen, you cannot cry when the terror comes home to roost.
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28 cores sure, but they run a base frequency of 2.50GHz. For $1469 you can have the i9-7940X 14 cores at 3.1GHz probably more suitable for a workstation.
If you’re willing to give it the space needed I’d definitely recommend The Unconsoled[1]. It’s by quite a long way the best description of dream state that I’ve ever read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unconsoled
Horrifying. What can an ordinary person do about such a grotesque miscarriage of justice, when it's backed by powerful moneyed interests and the local "justice" department is fully on board?

>Before CAAIR, McGahey had no interest in drugs. Now, he says he can’t live without them

That's some "rehab".
You seem to think your second point means people should be less concerned? Creating laws that criminalize "normal" people and let the government punish people "they don't like" is literally the stuff of Orwell and Kafka.
> but just for reference's sake, here's a snapshot from Oct 2004

How meta! If obviously doesn't recurse, but it would have been neat if it had at least one extra layer of recursion. Because if there were any items that were uploaded and later removed due to legal issues, we could have accessed them through the archived archive.org! :D
> Typing in a program from a magazine or book was always a crapshoot unless you really understood and could change the program simply because of the large number of different dialects of BASIC.

The books I remember from my childhood largely countered this by putting asterisks next to certain lines of a listing:

* For ZX Spectrum change to ...

* For C64 change to ..

I still, vividly, remember the covers of the books I borrowed from my local library. Now available for free here (scroll down to "Usborne 1980s computer books"):

https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...
Citron Calls Shopify's Business 'Dirtier Than Herbalife', Values Shares at $60
That is correct. Instead of the west uplifting the world, we are instead abetting the worst and least common denominator for human rights all for money.
Yes, it should be! I blame it to sleep deprivation! There is no way to change it is there ?
Correct. It's basically the "Xerox" or "Kleenex" of portable toilet in North America.
How Eye Tracking can enhance your performance in F1 2017 PC game
Sshuttle is very cool. But it only does TCP and UDP. (no ICMP)
That would be my choice of title, too. I considered writing exactly such a thing a few years ago, but realized that I am almost certainly the wrong person to do so, since I use the algebras but not the design patterns that approximate them.
Yes! Down with Terrorist Toast slathered in pedophile peanut butter! The true menace to society!
Noise pollution is a bigger hurdle, battery density is improving but we have not figured how to tune off the noise feedback from the whirring blades
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
No ECC support
Just a few words about the project, PyEcore is a Model Driven Engineering (MDE)
framework written for Python 3. It allows you to handle models and metamodels
(structured data model), and gives the key you need for building MDE-based tools
and other applications based on a structured data model. It supports
out-of-the-box: data inheritance, two-ways relationship management (opposite references), XMI/JSON (de)serialization, notification system, reflexive API...

There is two projects that are connected to PyEcore: pyecoregen (https://github.com/pyecore/pyecoregen) that provides a framework for code generation based on Jinja2 templates (model-to-text/m2t), and a WIP project to integrate PyEcore with textX (https://github.com/igordejanovic/textX) to provide parsing/AST to model (text-to-model/t2m)

The project is inspired by EMF, the Eclipse Modeling Framework, and tries to be
compliant with it through terminology and XMI format. The goal is to make a full
MDE environement for Python (data modeling, model-to-model, model-to-text and
text-to-model transformations) while beeing interoperable with EMF-Java through
XMI so EMF-based tools can be used if needed.
This is just preposterous. Is he really trying to suggest that the UK is carrying bravely on with its own regular - one happens every 20 years! - mass shootings...? Nobody, statistically speaking, has guns - end of story!
I had a 2015 Pixel for about 6 months; originally used it just using ChromeOS and it was great in every respect for everyday use (screen in particular was fantastic), but I couldn't find a suitable solution for using it for programming in Python - all the web-based solutions weren't as good as Pycharm which I've been using on my desktop at home, and while I'm not a professional programmer, I am spending a fair bit of time doing it as I learn/improve - particularly when I may not have constant internet (such as on a train), so I wanted another solution. That led me to put GalliumOS on it...

I've also got a cheap Acer chromebook (which got me started on the whole ChromeOS trip), which I'd already put GalliumOS on and found it pretty usable overall - indeed almost 'throwaway' because of the low cost secondhand (I paid £60 for it in the UK).

GalliumOS was generally pretty good on both machines - giving access to Linux software which was generally easy to install, but the issue on the Chromebook was the battery life/power consumption and management; it seemed to be running the fan a lot, and went from the usual 8-10 hours on ChromeOS for the Pixel down to maybe 2 or 3, which kind of defeated the object of having it.

During this time I got a MacBook Air at the right price secondhand, and that has taken over as my main 'browsing/mobile use/learning Python' machine, so I put the Pixel back to stock and sold it (amazingly for more than I paid for it).

If there had been a native Python IDE for the Pixel I would have kept it - it really was a high quality piece of equipment - but alas I didn't find a solution that I was happy with (and certainly not one that made use of the Pixel's true power and quality).
I had the same great experience when my Nexus 5X had a boot loop. I have Google Fi and bought the phone through them. My phone died and next day I had a new phone. Great online experience too.
I don't really care if they share my "western liberal values" because I sure as hell don't share their beat-down, slave-like eastern values! They want to be drones, fine, but we aren't going down to their level.
Yes for compiling that appears much better.
and whatever inspector we would have to deal with and we should leave an envelope with a certain amount of cash, and he told us what the cash amount should be for each inspector. And how to do it all!

Bill: He was one of those guys, after you shake his hand, you want to go wash.
Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor (2016)
Or Elixir
Also, that you have reduced 1984 to a neat metaphor is a failing on your part, not Orwell. The man wrote hundreds of pages on the effects of totalitarianism. As did hundreds of other writers.
I did this for a few months, sort of. I used the Secure Shell Chrome app[1] to connect to a server where I do my actual work. It worked about as well as a Macbook did for the same purpose - side-by-side Chrome and ssh windows.

It was fine for building and testing web app changes. I used Chrome Remote Desktop to test with Firefox and IE. It was fine for building and testing Android apps but only when I was physically next to the remote workstation to plug in a device for adb. I think there might be some weird hack to tunnel adb over ssh through your Chromebook, but I never got that to work.

It was a bit more cumbersome to get personal and work Chrome profiles running on the same monitor. You can sign in to multiple accounts at once, but they're separate desktops. However, you can right-click on a title bar for a "move to other session" option. A ChromeOS PM showed me that trick; no idea how a user is supposed to discover that.

The other things I missed on ChromeOS were 1Password (the Chrome extension relies on the desktop app being present) and BetterTouchTool (for programming additional trackpad gestures and remapping mouse buttons).

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
I'd go for the Threadripper 1950X if that is a requirement then 16 cores, 3.4 GHz, ECC support all for under $1000. Intel doesn't really have anything that meets those requirements at a reasonable price.
Why Okra Vegetables Got a Lot to Offer for the Well-Being of Your Health?
Marketing fluff for their own product that talks about "the new dimension"
added to TV. Garbage.
How is this even legal?
So I've been thinking about this and your other responses in this thread, and I think I've figured out where our viewpoints differ, fundamentally. I think many people, yourself included, want to do more with an editor. That's your motivation for using vim, and so you pursue customization, advanced features, and relentlessly minimize keystrokes. (That's a plural you, by the way. I'm speaking to everyone advocating a bells-and-whistles approach to learning vim.) I want to emphasize that there's nothing wrong with this -- it's a perfectly valid frame of mind, but it's just not my frame of mind. In contrast, I want to think less about my editor. That is, I want editing text to be as automatic as touch-typing. I want for there to be as little friction between my mind and the screen as possible, so I don't want to learn new things about my editor any faster than I can incorporate them into the set of things I can do without thinking about them. As a result, I'm sure there are people who've been using vim for two weeks who know more features than I do after 20 years.

Anyhow, I'd be really interested to know if you agree with this characterization of your outlook.
On my Acer c720, alt-backspace acts as delete. Not sure if that's ChromeOSes doing or the keyboard firmware.

I've gotten so used to it that I had to make my windows machine do the same thing!
I submitted this 2014 essay from Ishiguro, but no point in having 2 separate threads for the same Nobel Prize news/discussion.

Thought some folks here would be interested in how a famous novelist does "crunch" weeks". In this 2014 op-ed for the Guardian, he describes how it took 4 weeks for him to create his most famous novel, "The Remains of the Day":

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/06/kazuo-ishiguro...

tl;dr

- Had the first chapter written the previous summer, but made no progress on it for about a year.

- Even though he couldn't write that year, he did a "substantial amount of 'research'" about British life/politics/servitude of that time period. This is what led to his 4-week "Crash" session being productive:

> he decision when to start the actual writing of a novel – to begin composing the story itself – always seems to me a crucial one. How much should one know before starting on the prose? It’s damaging to start too early, equally so to start too late. I think with Remains I got lucky: the Crash came just at the right point, when I knew just enough.

During the 4-week "crash", he had a dedicated study in a house he recently moved in; his previous 2 novels were written at his dining table.

His process during the 4-weeks was not at all structured (in the traditional sense):

> Throughout the Crash, I wrote free-hand, not caring about the style or if something I wrote in the afternoon contradicted something I’d established in the story that morning. The priority was simply to get the ideas surfacing and growing. Awful sentences, hideous dialogue, scenes that went nowhere – I let them remain and ploughed on.

Note that he didn't finish the novel in 4 weeks. But he did reach the critical mass to make it a complete idea and story:

> I kept it up for the four weeks, and at the end of it I had more or less the entire novel down: though of course a lot more time would be required to write it all up properly, the vital imaginative breakthroughs had all come during the Crash.
Image Music Text is a fantastic read. It was one of my required readings at University, but would recommend it to anyone interested in Structuralism. My favorite essay was The Grain of the Voice, it expanded the ways that I thought about how I write music and how a listener interprets it.
Because you can easily read and understand the code.
I've been cringing at nearly every comment in this thread using the word as a noun.

90% of the capital A processes I've seen are actually the degenerate cases of Scrum where the company has simply encoded crunch-time into a standard practice.
I had one of the 2012 Samsung ARM Chromebooks, then when its battery started to die I replaced it (earlier this year) with an Acer R13 (also ARM).

For development I mostly only need git, ssh, and emacs. So I use the cli-extra target from crouton for an Ubuntu command line.

Occasionally I need to run something graphical so I have a 2nd chroot for X windows.

The R13 is nearly perfect as far as the hardware goes - high-resolution touchscreen, 12+ hours of battery life, trackpad and keyboard are the best I've used (better in my opinion than Macbook Pro). The processor is 64-bit and it has 4GB of RAM, which is usually plenty.

Software is another issue. Most of the time if there isn't already an Arm64 binary, compiling from source works. I view claims of "cross platform" with total suspicion nowadays.

One thing I miss is hardware accelerated graphics in crouton. ChromeOS supports it but the driver isn't open as far as I know.
It just stops working and I cannot enter any text in the editor area anymore, even though all keyboard shortcuts and the terminal area still work. Enabling/disabling the extension fixes the problem, until it occurs again. I've disabled neovim mode for now, so far this seems to help but time will tell. Interestingly there is at least one bug open in the vscodevim issue tracker for the exact same problem, but it's closed because 'it hasn't been possible to reproduce this for a long time' :-/
Is it audiobook-able, or does he play with the structure of the text?
I agree, there are lots of catastrophic events that can occur randomly. That's the ideal situation for real insurance (as opposed to what we have now). But statistically, most people use insurance for what amounts to either routine care, or care after they've neglected their health. And in the case of the poster I was replying to, he is basically giving up his agency and expecting society to make him whole.
If you let me know your mail address, I can send you the research with graphs.
So? Why? What pays for the trouble of running constantly before a steam
locomotive (rolling release; stop for a week or two and your system breaks
apart on the first update)? Because I'm totally unconvinced that "Pacman runs
circles around apt", especially that I know APT quite well.
Possible, maybe Easy? Not really. You have problems of homelessness, problems of enforcement cost, problems of beneficial ownership.

If a man is living in his ex-wife's house as part of a divorce settlement, and there's a 90% mortgage on the property, who should be paying? What's going to happen if it isn't paid to each party? Could a bad actor exploit this situation?

In terms of sheer complexity, Land Law is probably second only to Tort Law.
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Undocumented migrants are treated just about the same at the five mega-processing plants. Amputations without access to workers’ comp. are common.
Google’s Search for the Sweet Spot
Oh no, jobs are not standardized. They workers doing those jobs are interchangeable.
Somewhat off topic, but what about open hardware platforms that are really friendly to hacking around on the hardware?

Is this just a thing of dreams?
Well I'm in favor of felons voting. And you're right, legal liability in this case is on the Trump campaign and not the Russians. https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/9156859002140... Depending on the severity of the "meddling", America could impose sanctions on Russia, and it certainly won't help the diplomatic atmosphere when discussing current sanctions either.
Or non-significant early cases where the stakes aren't too high and rulings that will lead the path to precedence can vary.
This is probably one of the first Ethereum projects along with Augur.

Back in 2014, I remember talking with the founder about this project in the original Ethereum Forums when it was only an idea. I was also interested in self-organisation and decentralised management in a blockchain (Holacracy, etc). Glad to see he's come so far and still believes in his idea.