skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my guess is the precision, dexterity and energy cost of finger / hand / wrist movements make them more effective than using a mouth.

An example would be complex poses such as the "gun" shape with a hand as opposed to "pouting" your lips, there's so much opportunity to finely tune the motion from open hand to gun shape but it's more linear with pouting. However I'm not sure where or how the "thinking" part would play into this, eg physical muscle movements vs intention of muscle movements.

And there might just be too much noise and involuntary mouth movements that would make it impractical (eg, breathing, swallowing), plus the fact you'd look like a psychopath mumbling to yourself.
> I don't think that would work with literature, because modern literature often makes allusions to earlier literature.

I think the article's idea is that people engaged by the current book will be motivated to look up the references.
Can you elaborate on your reasoning for saying this? (Below what you chose to quote.) At a guess, your reason for saying this is that you consider doing an ICO to require extremely sophisticated expertise in "cryptocorrencies or tokens".

Like if I had said "We don't have anything to do with cryptography or any expertise in cryptography. Should we roll our own cryptographic protocol?" Then the answer is "Then no, you should not."

Are you saying the same thing? If we're not experts in ICO's and crypto currency (if indeed it has nothing to do with our business) then we should not be doing anything with it? (i.e. is it only appropriate for companies that are specialized in it?) Please elaborate if you can. And thanks for the response!
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I explicitly don’t trust influencers because all they have are their followers. They often have no credentials or real achievements or original thoughts, so why should I trust them? Especially given that their entire goal is to get people to follow and like them?

I see this pattern a lot in coder twitter. The people with big follower counts that are always tweeting about their amazing coding and love of software development are not the ones building stuff. Even if their feelings are genuine, the excessive self promotion is quite ugly and makes me doubt everything they say. They are not people I want to trust or follow or listen to
Right, but the article is talking about ICOs, not cryptocoins in general.
>I was hoping this might be based on or mention Geoffrey West's new book, Scale, though it's neither.

This was my immediate thought as well -- but by mentioning Scale you must also link the excellent review of it by Freeman Dyson(!):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/10/the-key-to-everyt...
You have a good point, but that doesn't make this proposal any more viable.

>given the current state of our media I'm more than happy to see any idea trying to change the game.

Sounds like an intuitive statement until you really think about it for a second. Then, you realize that it's a reckless and possibly dangerous approach to problem-solving.

If you start down the solution path by asking the question "how could things get any worse?", then it's very likely that you'll find out.
No, `Result` is more like the `Either` monad.
And then when you rip it, you have to go through the trouble of either setting up a Plex Server to stream the content (which I've done) or putting it on each device.

Just another FYI: If you buy DRMd movies by Disney or three of the other four major movie studios, from either iTunes, Vudu, Google Play or Amazon and link your accounts with Movies Anywhere, they will show up as purchased movies in your other libraries as if you purchased them from the other services.
Russia Today is propaganda. You couldnt find an article from a legitimate news organization?
Im thinking more along the lines of changing off of qwerty to dvorak. Theres an initial barrier to usage, but thats fine, if it actually resulted in something (significantly) better. With dvorak, there are power user converts, despite whatever benefit being minimal.

Your many mouse example fails in that learning it doesnt actually lead to significant benefit, so ofc it'll never see converts; but if it did, if it was actually better than the three button mouse, then the initialization cost is overriden by the long-term benefit, and it remains possible for it to succeed.

My point is primarily about the initialization; if this tech's only substantial negative is that it has to be trained to function correctly, and its benefit is substantial, then there remains a path to success. That is, the training step (alone) does not necessarily kill the technology.

I can't think of any good examples off the top of my head
> Ethics is never a question of goals

Not to be nitpicky, but to ensure you don't actually try to use the phrase again...that's exactly what ethics are about.
Apple has been selling TV shows by the episode since 2005.
Is it still a greyzone? Yes. Has the grey gotten lighter with a personal opinion on the SEC site? Also yes.
> Specifically with history, contemporary topics being skipped over is not only common but an incredible disservice to humanity. Many schools spend months on Columbus but only 1-2 weeks on the entire post Cold War era. Which one is more important for future voters to understand?

Contemporary events are often thought to be outside the scope of "history":

History depends on perspective: We don't know the consequences and thus the significance of many events; what will happen with climate change? The consequences of the Iraq War and 9/11? And also we are emotionally lost in the trees and can't see the forest, so to speak.

Also, history depends on having lots of information, much of which isn't available for a long time (declassified info, memoirs, archives, other things later revealed, etc.).

Finally, arguably history is studied so we can learn from it, not act on it.

I think the topics the parent brings up are very important, but arguably they belong in another class.
Didn't the post you are responding to say that? I suspect you didn't read past the example.

The problem comes because you have to either use a single error for two parts or deal with a tough explosion of types. No?
I read a blog post a while ago from a camera tripod company that was talking about this.

Apparently a lot of people even sent in emails along the lines of "I don't usually use a tripod, but I totally would if you sent me one for free".

Of course, the post went on to say that they don't send them free tripods, because it would benefit nobody. The photography isn't going to magically start using a tripod because they got one for free, and the company wasn't going to get very good exposure from a photographer who has no experience shooting with a tripod.
VESA is suprisingly good with Haiku. Since most GPU manufacturers have ignored Haiku, the community has spent some time getting the VESA driver as good as it can get, and it is very respectable. Most users will not be aware that they are running VESA, since Haiku still less laggy than it's contemporaries.
Apparently for many, it works in exactly the way you would think - see http://tagthesponsor.com/
Surely, those opressed where pure of heart and ideology? Communistic, noble natives.

Not some warlord ruled bands, constantly fighting one another like afghani triebes, opressing there females like the aborigines. And these social structures where of course created by the great nemesis of the authors- the white men today, as they where back then.

And surely the slaves escaping to managed villages of theire own in the swamps did not just recreate tribal africa, with its great accomplishments, like constant refugee waves and warlords.

There should be at least acknowledgements of the grey areas of history, before releasing a propaganda piece.
Amusing example, since my phone's autocorrect seems quite often to increase my cognitive load.
These books always reminded me of the Dungeons and Dragons manuals...
Reminds me of the legend of a guy who realized his job was so unaudited and lacking in responsibility that he got a second job... at the same company.
Sure, if i don't like the terms of distribution I don't get the privilege to have it. If society doesn't like the terms, the company doesn't retain the privilege to sell it.

Plenty of people do work which is not properly compensated. I don't get to set the terms of the sale of my intellectual property, as I work in an industry where this has little worth.. and I am an employee.

This is all about power. The power to set prices, the power to use propaganda to change peoples morals, the power to change the law to criminalise minor contract infringements. And as such I get to say, whenever and wherever i can get away with it, fuck their power.

For the very, very minimal amount that's about the sale of the fruits of labour of the creatives and workers producing this entertainment.. Well I wish there was an easier way to compensate them that didn't involve also paying off the distributors.
Very insightful; thanks.
Your credit score isn't enforced by the government either, but a poor score (for reasons that may be beyond your control) will still prevent you from getting loans or credit.
Interesting that Russia used to have their own Wikileaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaltai_Boltai
The Asians are now systematically denied entry to the Academy and you are supporting it now.
> Put another way, if whites took a pay cut so they made the same as blacks, $1.6 trillion of national income would disappear, a number comparable to the total income of the entire top 1% ($2 trillion).

Isn't this how that is expected to look if the difference is due to elites? The total difference is equal to the amount made by the elites, almost all of whom are white. And that's assuming the "elites" are only the top 1% and not e.g. the top 20%.

Or look at it from the bottom side. The population of white people who make less than the median black person in the US is larger than the black population of the US.
So do DRM-free stores like Bandcamp.
The East German auto manufacturer Trabant made cars with panels made from cotton, wood pulp, and glue (similar to fiberglass, but with wood fiber). I don't remember which USSR manufacturer it was, but there was another car with cow hides for body panels.
Nick, it sounds like you mean-well, but it is very difficult to imagine how linking what is essentially the right to make a moral judgment to one's ability to pay for that right will turn out well.

>We are also working very hard to ensure that our tokens are distributed to parties that are going to use them in good faith

If you have the ability to determine who would use them in good faith, then why do they need to pay for the privilege? Also, this implies that those who would explicitly use them in bad faith may still obtain influence. And, where does this leave the people who would use them in good faith but cannot afford to buy them?

In general and in spite of precautions you describe, it has the distinct feel of buying access, which is not something of which the world, and certainly journalism, is in short supply.
Not true, a lot of banks still use z/OS and Cobol, and you can make a good living with those skills.
nice. there are similar packages for other eco systems like node.js.
it makes sense that go gets its own.
Got a link to that? Sounds amazing.
Hedonic Treadmill
This is so funny. Because this was how teacher disciplined us in high school. We had to copy a document for several times by next day where it got shredded in front of our eyes.
I think my brother getting me into cars and my subsequent delve into bimmerforums in the late-naughts is probably one of the big reasons my interest in Facebook started to wane around the same time. My interactions there were largely based on technical questions, but the humanity and humor contained in those interactions were so much more genuine, and indeed, kind, than anything I've seen on FB/tw/insta. I would be really interested in helping out on a project to archive all the knowledge on those types of sites.
Is the code a reference to the 3DO game system from Panasonic?
Because if you don't run a full node you need trust and if you need trust, you can simply use a credit card. This whole crypto currency thing is so stupid because nobody can answer me these very basic questions.
Bono being an authoritarian? Cmon.
Hey, nice site, I was looking into API's and such for my simple site: http://feed.football what API are you pulling that data from and how did you hide the key on the front end?
Your anecdote about forums really hits home. I went to a small, private elementary school with a class size of about 30. We were the only friends we had. When I was in fourth grade, I created a forum for my classmates to use when we got home and couldn't communicate with each other in person (this was before it was standard for kids of this age to own a mobile phone). It was a hit. I made separate boards (aka subreddits) for things like sports, video games, and even just general chat. It was a huge hit in my class. I had people begging to be moderators and asking for improvements. Delegating the moderator title was serious at that age, as everybody wanted to feel like they were contributing to our forum. I felt like a CEO of some fourth grade startup.

In a weird way, reflecting on this, it really says a lot about who I am as a person to this day. Thank you for influencing this memory to come out of my repository tonight.
That's true but the idea that we can create distinct categories based on skin colour is incredibly misguided. Also, we haven't been living apart for quite a while now. See this article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-gen...
Simply put, influencers who don't have credentials or achievements may not be the right influencers for your business.

Finding people who are well-respected in their space, actively create high-value content for their audiences, and can find ways to organically share a brands message are where the real value lies. Combined with trackable promotions, this can be very effective when executed properly.
Anna Delvrey tops them all, at least in ambition:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/my-misadventure-with...

TL;DR socialite of unknown authenticity (but definitely real confidence woman) scams a bank, luxury hotels and restaurants, private air charter company, and the author of that article out of several hundred thousand dollars. Did not get the $20M she was hoping for, though.
From someone who doesn't know anything about wireless technologies. Is there any chance 5g will break the walls that prevent real unlimited data?

If not, what must happen in order to allow everyone use Netflix on their phones without wifi?
So because information content is not the same as food, it’s ok for corporations to be artificially advantaged and consumers to be artificially disadvantaged? And consumers aren’t allowed to consider the moral implications of the arrangement? Or what it incentivizes companies to do? Or whether their ability to consume content is limited by regulatory capture?

I am not convinced by your reply because it tries to flip it around and blame the consumer (the victim of regulatory capture and ISP monopolies or oligopolies) just because the thing they are being deprived of “is not food.”

No part of this is related to whether something is a human right — that’s completely unrelated.

The problem is why should I, as a consumer, agree to accept a worse life in any way, even a minor way based on what is convenient for a corporation acting to ensure regulatory capture and ensure monopolistic or oligopolistic conditions within which it can unilaterally control what a consumer is allowed to consume.
> People with different hair colors, or heights, last names, pet types, and sibling orders on average don't have identical outcomes.

There aren't massive systematic factors working to negatively affect specific slices of those population groupings. It's not a good comparison.

That's not to say that Harvard's approach is necessarily the best way to tackle this issue. But it's very difficult to argue that there isn't an issue at all.
Anyone go on pcpitstop? Used to love benchmarking my custom computer rig and chatting it up on the forums.
Useability. Netflix is so much better at their apps and website than anybody else I have seen.
Genuine question--what would make this not embarrassing for you? Is it the separation from the main campus? How they are segmenting orgs?
"Even a broken clock is right twice a day"
Always used Garys Mod Cinema servers for this
“Writing lines” was (perhaps still is) a common punishment in British schools: copy something out 100 times then the teacher would tear it up in front of you with a big grin on their face. Not sure it actually taught anything other than “don’t get caught next time”.
You hit on something that I really relate to. It used to be that I could say, "I'll see you online later." But that doesn't mean much now.

Instant messaging was engaging. It meant that I was sitting there, actively logged onto AIM with my status set as available. Now, with present-day alternatives on mobile, that level of presence seems like it's missing.

Others are always available but not. I could receive a reply on Messenger immediately or in a few hours. It definitely goes the other way, too. I may reply immediately or not. People are always available for conversation but conversations seem harder to have.
> we’re talking about breaking away from the British Empire, who spent the next hundred years or more oppressing millions in India, China, Africa and Ireland.

And America has oppressed millions of _its own people_ for ~200 years. I don’t see what your point is.
>Pretty amazing the degree to which average U.S. citizens were all being directly mind-hacked into hating and mistrusting our own government

What's amazing to me is that anyone ever trusted our government given its endless littany of deception since (at least) the Woodrow Wilson administration. Every US citizen faces far, far more of a threat to their freedom, their privacy, and their safety from domestic agents of the police state than any force outside of our border.

What's truly amazing is how otherwise intelligent people are so easily brainwashed by the DC/CIA media establishment into thinking that our many problems originate from some foreign boogeyman instead of right here at home.
The linked webpage says this changed happened in Jan 2018. 2018, not 2019. No one even noticed the difference. So I don't think there were many chromecasts using it. I use chromecasts, they are still showing pretty pictures.
Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities
It seems remarkably clear that his own status and wealth were his primary motivation.

Nothing in the article made any sort of case for a more complicated explanation.

Had his career trajectory continued upward he would merely be a footnote regarding a successful general.
The price is going to come down.

Kinda like the glut of oil reserves in the world. Everyone knows the time of internal combustion engines is drawing to a close and so they are trying to sell every barrel they have before barrels of oil become worth pennies.

Once enough people have asteroid material in orbit, the material cost will drop as sellers try to recover any value out of the market.
I guess the CDC does this in good faith but for military, zombie scenarios are a way to prepare for civilian uprisings without explicitly naming it. Easier to make a "zombie plague preparedness" exercise than a "Trump supporters take arms when their president is impeached".

Zombies are a local inside enemy that allow training on the domestic territory. Hard to name a fictional enemy that would not make headlines otherwise.
That's a pretty good comparison, actually
On a modern system (Windows 7+, Linux wth GRUB 2.0 bootloader) all of the drawing is done without the VBIOS; the VBIOS is just used to set up the mode.

The VBIOS is a 16-bit x86 application, but it does not run on these systems in vm86; reason being that mode is not supported in 64-bit long mode.

When the VBIOS does execute, it never does from Flash. SBIOS copies into system memory first.

Source: I’ve worked on VBIOS
But once there is an ICO then whatever it is it continues to be, right?

It obviously impacts the initial value of a coin if it can't practically be used as currency because future trades have to be treated as a regulated securities instrument.
The following company offers mainframe access for $125 month. http://maintec.com/mainframe-access.html

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I looked at these guys a few months back, just like you down the zOS/ Hercules rabbit hole. I lost interest and moved onto other things but never followed up with this company so I don't know how good they are.
A high school friend told me the same thing around 1993-1995: you have to shuffle it seven times. He said he read it in Wired magazine. I've tried to find the article a few times since, but never been successful.
America has been way more benevolent even under its darkest years than the British Empire ever was. Ask Indians and most African countries what it was like to live under the British Crown.
I would guess what you really want is to achieve something/create some project that will make you as respected and well-known as Jeff Dean. Your current day job is highly technical, but you're not getting the 'fame' or glamour that you want.

To get to that level of hype (not necessarily technical excellence) you'd have to find companies on the cutting edge of DB/systems/ML research.
>Black american culture has been pretty self-destructive these last hundred years. Look at rap music videos, thug culture, single motherhood statistics, etc.

I suspect you would hesitate to judge the entirety of white american cultural progress on e.g. Kim Kardashian, sporting event riots, and Nascar.

For anyone interested in a less monolithic assessment of black american culture, this is possible. https://nmaahc.si.edu
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