skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! I can't remember if h3h3productions also takes Patreon, but either that or moving over to Twitch seems the common response from the people hit the hardest (while h3h3 don't upload many videos, they are quite active with their podcast!).
Can't wait for the Nathan for You episode that generated this
I'm going to hold off on this to find out if it actually holds up in court. I can just see the defense: "But your honor, she tapped 'yes' on an app before we had sex!"
> "There may be a rump of voters who’ll remain susceptible to Mercerism and its persuasion tactics,"

Having just read "Do Androids Dream Of Electrical Sheep", I see what you did there Cory.
This is probably not as useful as it might be unless accompanied by some sort of mobile phone breathalizer widget.
Awkward and mechanical is just fine if it holds up in court and defends someone against a false accusation.
They say they haven't even written the app yet. This may just be a troll.
The name of one the articles is: Cory Doctorow says fight against DRM laws is more important than his blogging

So, no, he won't change your mind about DRM because he is not in favour of it.
Apple’s China iCloud data migration sweeps up international user accounts
The wolf comparison is on point in that advertisers are evil creatures who rely on hurting internet users to survive and thrive.
Why are so many Americans crowdfunding their healthcare?
Maybe it can use gyro/camera and ask person to walk on a straight line?
Yes, Elman also worked on recurrent neural networks applied to language/text. A lot of word2vec stuff doesn’t seem too far off when you read the articles on clustering of recurrent (hidden) layer activations.
Since consent can be revoked at any time, I don't see what the point of this is at all.
CNBC demonstrated "how easy it is" to buy Ripple via Poloniex exchange on television. They also often have a "Ripple watch" counter on the screen displaying current worth in dollars.

Also an article: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/02/how-to-buy-ripple.html
>it fails the stable store of value test

...when compared to a handful of fiat currencies, maybe. It's not fair to gatekeep with top performers, in my opinion.

There are many national currencies that lack stability. That doesn't make them "not currencies". It just makes them volatile currencies.

In fact, that's precisely why Bitcoin has become so popular in those countries—particularly Latin America; Bitcoin may not be stable, but it's a more reliable store of value (for now) than the bolivar or Argentinian peso.
Should come with a coin called coinsent
It had zero legal bearing either way.
What the fuck.
Educate you kids instead of spending VC money on tech that can't fix society…
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One stark difference between HN, Product Hunt, and other maker forums is that HN is a very critical audience. It's even been specifically called out as such by Pieter Levels in his new book, Make.
I don't think anyone ever complained about their savings appreciating in value. I had used bitcoin for years to buy things online and send money to friends/family, until the fees went nuts. Now we use other coins like ZCash and Ethereum.
Wasn't there a South Park episode about that?
No, they are not. Atleast outside the US they're not. I know a significant number of people, myself included, who are experienced cyclists who have never driven a car in their life. Cycling is far more common in urban areas where driving is impractical or amongst young people who can't afford or don't want to drive.
Yes, they do hide reviews regularly - and their marketing team basically tells you if you own a business listed on Yelp with correct information. Positive reviews get hidden for non-advertisers, negative ones for advertisers. In essence when you switch from consumer side to business-owner side, the site goes from a friendly place to post reviews into a vicious protection racket - i.e. "That's a nice reputation you got there, pal. Be a shame if something... happened to it, y'know?"
I wish that was so very different than what their official team members said on the phone.
Or activate the microphone, and send the recording to a speech-interpreting API to see if the user has correctly recited "I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son, and I'm only plucking pheasants until the pheasant plucker comes"?
Not Yet™
Now we at least have futures market, which is a progress.
Once you know the location, if the process is not randomized, you can extract from that location. You may assume some things about implementation (e.g. libstdc++ or libc++, glibc memory allocator, general compiler version)

Additionally some hardening methods like stack protector make stack allocated objects stand out a lot from register values.
This site is either a good joke or poor attempt to go viral with mixed technical and socio buzzwords. Either way, I don't see how that actually might work and hold in court ("oh, I thought it was just a joke", "I pressed this button while I was drunk" etc.)
This isn’t really relevant to Atom, but... Emacs is working on this, on several fronts. In many ways, this isn’t (yet) an improvement, because what we have now are a bunch of partial implementations that mostly get different parts ‘right’. On the other hand, progress.

TBH, one of the big stumbling blocks is that a lot of the most adept Emacs hackers simply don’t do much of the sort of ‘IDE-grade’ stuff, so in a real sense, they don’t understand what they (and Emacs) are missing. (Fair cop: I’m largely in this boat myself.)

For example, Emacs has had dynamic adaptive customizable electric hippie completion for longer than there has been a publicly released Java language, BUT many (is it still most? My experience is old) Emacs hackers just never did the sort of refactoring that made people tolerate Eclipse — and that was over a decade ago.

One more thing: if you are interested in lisp, can stand to see C code, and are interested in LSP, look at Emacs-devel.
I guess this might work with celebrities or so, but according to the continental law system this app should not hold up in court.

If it did work in court, that would be a dangerous experience.

I would be crazy to write this, but I can't imagine how in the middle of intercourse someone would be able to stop it if they already signed their consent.
Which this will absolutely not.
> While you're protected by law, litigating any offenses through court is nearly impossible in reality. LegalFling creates a legally binding agreement, which means any offense is a breach of contract.

Supposedly this isn’t just about recording consent in some irrevocable(?) manner, it’s about making it easier to sue people by putting what you consent to in a contract.

It’s not clear that this would make the problem of one-persons-word-against
-the-other go away, which is so problematic in current rape prosecutions.
While I don't agree to the general sentiment of the article, gold and oil barrels were never really considered currency. The question becomes: is bitcoin currency or a commodity?
In current milieu, consent can ostensibly be revoked AFTER the deed is done.
Visit the Highlands of Scotland and you'll definitely find wilderness. The Cape Wrath trail is probably the best indicator. Also places like Beinn Eighe, where the remains of a crashed Lancaster bomber from 1951 are still scattered about as it is was too remote to retrieve them at the time. In 2008 a climber fell during an avalanche only to have his fall broken by a propeller.
When I first saw bitcoin I loved the idea because for once we had a shot at a currency government couldn't print.
I think the simplest makefile is not to create one.

echo 'int main(){}' > a.c && make a

The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
I wrote a brain dump about my thoughts on that here: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/437/on-real-world-crypto...

tl;dr is "I'd say the problem is in the reaction, not in the published analysis."
Good job guys!
NSA Morale – Schneier on Security
From the FAQ:
> Can I still change my mind?
> Absolutely. "No" means "no" at any time. Being passed out means "no" at any time. This is explicitly described in the agreement. Additionally you can withdraw consent going forward through the LegalFling app with a single click.

Then what's the point?
This makes getting the consent through this app meaningless. The partner can still claim "I said No after I consent in the app" or "I passed out after I clicked consent in the App" or "I was too drunk when I clicked consent in the App".

All using this App does to me is it give the other side one more evidence that I had sex with her. So now her "I was rape" has more weight.
No still means no, regardless of whether this app was used, so what exactly does it do?

Also they say this is “legally binding”, but in reality it’s just a contract that could be fought in court like any other contract (including a drunkenly written note on a napkin), and not one that has been fought many times and has an accepted resolution (like copyright or a mortgage).
The plan to plant trees as outlined in the article is wrong. That's not to say planting trees at all is wrong. As you say for flood defence it would seem like a good idea.

Re wildlife, yes they would need to be controlled if trees are to take root. Sheep and trees aren't natural bed fellows. I'm not a making a man vs nature argument here; support is necessary in all manner of ways, in some it means taking a hands-off approach.

As for lack of trees in some areas, that might be for a good reason. Not every bit of land is suitable for woodland. Where it doesn't take root, it's a hint. And where it takes root, I would ask how you come up with a figure of hundreds of years.
You should remove the media logos, they are just linking to random articles.
As a european, this actually makes sense to me. We've recently experienced a surge in discussion regarding consent.

For example, Sweden plans to put verbal consent into law sometime this year: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/20/sweden-to-move...
Create evidence for your future Bitcoin predictions
> It's only dynamically typed languages with WEAK typing the ones that give "dynamically typed" a bad name. (In)famous examples: Javascript and PHP. Perhaps your experience of dynamically typed languages has been with Javascript?

Javascript, exactly.

I have to admit, Python have already been mentioned here a couple of times, so it seems that I have to try using it in some big project to get more experience on the matter.
I swear I read a joke about a "blockchain consent app" a while ago
This is for monero:
https://www.projectcoralreef.com/all-stores/

Nothing huge, but something.
To get even more speed, you might want to checkout running rsync in parallel, for instance with http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/parsync/ . I found this to work best to exploit fast uplinks (such as 10GB/sec) and also exploits hardware parallelism if the sender and or reciever has uses distributed file system.
They even go out of their way to explain how their app doesn't actually solve that problem in the FAQ.

IMO they come close to something interesting with the "sexual preferences" matching bit - I'd imagine if they focused more on that aspect of the product they could eventually come up with something that maybe Tinder or Grindr etc could buy.
That would be so cool to have for Org mode, a version of emacs that runs in the browser where you can cloud-edit your org mode files.
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> would likely break a popular WhatsApp feature that allows anyone to join a group simply by clicking on a URL

I think this is false, I wrote that on the Wired thread, but here's a way to fix it:

1. when you create a joining link, it creates a secret uuid

2. this uuid is shared with the rest of the group

3. if Alice joins the group, every uuid created is shared to Alice (except the one Alice used, if Alice used a joining link)

4. when Bob attempts to join the group via the group id, if Bob does not have a known code Bob is refused

5. if Bob uses a known code, Bob is accepted and everyone deletes the code

This does not prevent different participant views to be created, but this is already a problem in WA anyway.
That's exactly what i said "only one of" not "the only".
Honestly, coming from a Ruby dev environment of all things, I have been really impressed Visual Studio lately. Never thought I'd see the day.
The Dutch people that I know (and I’ll admit its only a handful) can be very very direct in conversation. That includes areas around sex and relationships. Before rushing to judgment, this _might_ be more culturally-alligned to it’s home country than e.g. the UK or US.
Do you know what's happened to China's sex ratio since it became possible to selectively abort female foetuses? If some hormone were found to be associated with men becoming same-sex attracted, the commies would probably put it in the water.
This was what Google was thinking for their little 25MPH bubble car. The one they discontinued in 2016.[1] The great thing about a 25MPH speed limit is that slamming on the brakes deals with most problems. You don't have a stopping distance long enough that you have to steer out of them.

Good idea, still too expensive per unit. Votage has a huge upfront cost spread over very few cars. Plus human drivers, which means "it doesn't really work yet". This is a "can we get market share before the money runs out" play. It worked for Uber. Things like this will be in retirement communities everywhere around 2025, once the sensors are in volume manufacture and cheap.

When I was working on self-driving (2005 Grand Challenge) I saw two initial use cases - this one, and airport rental car pick-up and return. Both require only slow-speed driving in reasonably controlled environments, something which can be made to work. Neither is yet economically feasible.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603126/google-puts-the-br...
yea, they have to mine it...
Absolutely right -- that's a fatal flaw.

It's good that we're thinking through these issues, but this app is not The Answer.
Not sure this is a problem that an app can solve.
A language that everyone used would be great.
This may sound like heresy but I seriously encourage checking out today's version of Visual Studio.

I dev on Ruby and I am a hardcore Sublime user, which is about as far away from Microsoft-friendly as you can get, and I have been really impressed by it.

Their app store is advanced, and crucially they allow Visual Studio to be setup with key bindings that match Sublime's, meaning switching over is really easy with almost little to no need to learn new macros. IDE's like Visual Studio can allow you to do code and class refactorings that make Sublime look like a joke.
In that case, wouldn't it be more profitable for Bitmain to keep what they make and mine coins themselves?
> These bugs are not big deals

Entirely agree here, these are UI/UX bugs sure, but attacks? Come on...
None of them are nothing else than classic fiat debit Visa or MC cards. They just make an API call to exchange some gold or crypto for cash at point of sale. Merchant still gets paid with fiat from the "gold" card.
The patches on RedHat 7.4 have impact on performance and capacity for a Load Balancer type of workload, see https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg209193.html
It allows for software to send and receive payments without signing up for a bank account.
>It just keeps popping up, someone finally thought to weaponize it.

Someone published its weaponization, you mean :)
Take a look at microsoft's napajs: https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs
ICYMI Dave Chappelle did the non app version ten plus years ago. Nathan For You is over for good.

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jwmvxd/chappelle-s-show-love-c...
CNBC has little shot at ever being a trustworthy news source.
Fox is mainstream media as well
I do remember that statement. I even still agree to the basic conceit of the first article I read on the topic a while back - I want to say it was an editorial on the Escapist.

"Gamers" as they were in the past, have been pulled into the public eye. The mass popularity of E-Sports and Let's Play and Twitch & other streaming services means that in general, everyone is a gamer. It's not a separate language or culture with esoterica of its own. Whether it's your mother who plays Candy Crush & Farm Friends on Facebook, your "hardcore" buddies playing the newest Doomclones and Dotaclones, the hordes of Minecraft & Minetest players, mobile gamers, etc., games - and gamers, are everywhere and everyone. The "Gamer" as a separate being unto himself has basically died. He's now just another nerd.
Taking that further: assuming good faith on the part of your sexual partner, perhaps this also has a role in forcing you to have an upfront conversation about your preferences and what you enjoy.

The whole sign-here-to-consent-to-sex thing doesn’t seem like a workable thing in and of itself to me either.
I see a lot of value in Bitcoin, but strangely enough, I can see that value without looking at Bitcoin at all. Confused? Let me explain the non-obvious reasons why I think Bitcoin has a fair chance.

(I've been following Bitcoin since it was at $1, so I had a lot of time to think about it ;)).

1. I don't expect my kids to ever carry around wallets or keys when they are older. Everything will be in their smartphone. Passport, pictures, credit cards, VISA card, car key, key of house, etc. There is nothing there that couldn't (technically) already be in your smartphone.

When doing payments, I expect them to just physically hold their phone close to some shops terminal, or when doing personal payments, send it over chat.

2. What is the value of Dollar or Euro's nowadays? (I thought a lot about this, but think to have a proper answer). The value is in the network, just the same as with Facebook. In US, every shop supports Dollars, so it has value there. In Europe, Euro's, so that has value. Same with Bitcoin, the new technology might instigated it, but in the end, it's the network of people using and supporting it that give it value.

3. The world is bigger than the industrialized countries alone. Dollar and Euro might be considered more stable than Bitcoin, but not all currencies are like that. For a recent example look at Zimbabwe.

4. (A) A bubble occurs when people think something has more value than it actually has. (B) People think the numbers on their bank account is the money they instantly have available. (C) Fraction reserve banking multiplies money so that the number on your bank are not actually money that is available instantly.

5. Which do you trust more: (A) governments and banks or (B) math and algorithms?

6. A global currency would be very convenient for people who travel a lot.

Of course, there are still a lot of questions too.

1. How will government legislation treat cryptocurrencies in the future?

2. Will some cryptocurrency ever have a stable enough price (such as gold), so that goods can be expressed in it?

3. Will some app make it simple/easy/convenient enough and have a big enough network so all people can agree on starting to use it for making and receiving payments?

4. Will lightning network and/or sidechains be enough and a good solution for the limited payments per second?

Final conclusion: In the end, it will all come to which payment system will have the network. If people want to get payed in Dollars because everybody else works with Dollars, that will have the network. If people want to get payed in Bitcoin because everybody else works with Bitcoin, that will have the network. Is Dollar/Euros Facebook, or is it MySpace? Who can tell? I think nobody at this point. But it is fair to say that fiat money might be Goliath and crypto might be David. Only time will tell.
Honestly, the strongest text editors are those that integrate with an IDE that also syncs with your runtime.

The kind of debugging and refactorings you can do in that kind of set up are mindblowing, and it took me years of doing it the old vim/sublime/atom way before realizing this.
1. when you create a joining link, it creates a secret uuid

2. this uuid is shared with the rest of the group

3. if Alice joins the group, every uuid created is shared to Alice (except the one Alice used, if Alice used a joining link)

4. when Bob attempts to join the group via the group id, if Bob does not have a known code Bob is refused

5. if Bob uses a known code, Bob is accepted and everyone deletes the code

This does not prevent different participant views to be created, but this is already a problem in WA anyway.
> What if it just stays a niche market for 50 years?

That would still be a collapse, just a silent one. Niche market means that everybody has on some subconscious level accepted that a large stack cannot be liquidated and plays along by "hodling" so that they can continue feeling rich. This is what is eventually happening to most collector's items: trading volume drops faster than the price and before you know it, there isn't enough trading going on to regularly call out an updated market price. The last occasional buyers will happily buy at close to the price from the last time there was an active market, but potential sellers are not even trying to sell in bulk, knowing how little money they could expect. It's less frustrating to just forget about it than selling for a dime.
Not calling YOU as a whole person an idiot... Just saying that your single post there was idiotic, yes.

Feel free to be offended about exactly that, but please not about anything more.

Otherwise you are basically offending me by indirectly saying I'm an insensitive asshole...
In short: How to test Vue.js + Laravel API? Just test them separately...

Now if you mistakenly change something in your API and not in the SPA, your tests won't catch that.
Agent based economic simulator in unity
Merchant still gets paid in his local currency even when you pay with a foreign visa card.

The merchant sees his favourite currency, the customer sees his favourite currency, and all the exchanging goes on behind-the-scenes. I don't see why a bitcoin or gold debit card is materially different to any other foreign debit card, from the perspective of either the merchant or the customer.
Not the number of miners but the average time it took to mine a block.
messages are already encrypted in the group chat, but there is another problem I didn't think about (see other comment)
This is a wonderful subject, memes and group think, I would say everyone feels like they are part of an minority/snowflake community in some of their views. Memes just makes it easier to get that feeling.

So it is not possible to have these discussions without the out-group interpreting your remarks as snarkiness. Handling that is hard, FUD is one way to handle it, compassion another. Social interactions are hard.
You can also start with simpler things, like drawing 3D graphs of equations, rendering and shading 3D shapes, and plotting Mandelbrot sets. For me, that was fun and visual, with simpler math. Example of sin(x)+cos(y) : http://maxima-online.org/examples.html
Indeed. The mess we're in is one of crap upon crap.

I wanted to use a CSS framework the other day, and I all but had to rip the project apart manually just to get the files without them stuffing a heavy build tool like Gulp down my throat.

All of this... just to get some !@#$ing CSS.
So why is this a surprise? The experiments on identical and fraternal twins were done decades ago, and there just isn't any doubt that genes influence sexual orientation. Nor is there any possibility that they determine it: many gay men and lesbians have straight identical twins.
All this can be done better as a non distributed system.
any feedback is more than welcome!
Now with chinese news, too (http://spidr.today/?c=cn).
The accuser could also state he/she was coerced into pressing the button. In fact, that's what has been reported in many of the recent accusations.