andersriutta

> Perhaps something similar to Nix throw in the mix, but more specific to a Python project.

Any examples of how Nix itself doesn't do what you need? One example I can think of: Nix doesn't support Windows.

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#python

Yeah, they replaced the "Bitcoin proof-of-concept system" [0,1] with BAT for "blockchain-based digital advertising" [2].

[0] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1036724148146384896 [1] https://brave.com/faq-payments/#previous-bitcoin-wallet [2] https://basicattentiontoken.org/

Initially, Brave was set up so a user could add bitcoins to an account and set a monthly spending target. Then Brave would split up that monthly amount and send it to sites based on how much time the user spent at each site. But as far as I can tell, they discontinued that model, and now they also sell ads.

In the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact [0], the USSR cozied up to the Nazis with a plan for dividing up the countries unfortunate enough to be located in between them. In 1939, the USSR launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Finland.

The question of how Finland should have responded, especially from 1941 on, is a valid topic of discussion, but this discussion must be based on fact, taking into account the context of Soviet aggression and the lack of options available to Finland. Limiting yourself to what was known at the time, what would you have advised Finland to do?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

I'm trying to figure out whether node2nix [0] could help avoid package name/version hijacking vulnerabilities. Node2nix can convert a package-lock.json file to something called a Nix expression [1], like this [2], where each dependency has a checksum. The purpose is to make the Nix expression deterministic so that each Nix package is reproducible.

[0] https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/about.html

[2] https://github.com/svanderburg/node2nix/blob/22d0c19575ecd19...

Edit: fix link formatting

The author says it works both ways [0] (e.g., this test [1]), but I don't see a test with Python calling async JS.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14596163 [1] https://github.com/tbodt/v8py/blob/3c727584df684540ce30f2572...

This allows for calling synchronous JS functions from Python but not async JS functions, right? PyExecJS [0] also doesn't work with async JS, but Js2Py [1] might.

[0] https://github.com/doloopwhile/PyExecJS/issues/20 [1] https://github.com/PiotrDabkowski/Js2Py/blob/05e77f0d4ffe91e...

This blog post [0] is possibly related. It's dated March 12, 2015 and is about Google Code shutting down and how to migrate code to Github.

[0] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google...

This is good to hear. Before the announcement, I was starting think it might necessary to migrate some of my projects to hapi: http://hapijs.com/

I've been seeing quite a few Rx-based libraries coming out, like Cycle.js (as you mentioned) and Yolk, which is "a small library built on top of Virtual DOM and RxJS": https://github.com/garbles/yolk

OpenID Connect [0] is "an interoperable authentication protocol based on the OAuth 2.0 family of specifications." Note this is a different protocol from OpenID 2.0.

[0] http://openid.net/connect/faq/

From the study: "[I]t is possible that migration flows could be a potential mechanism behind this effect. ... However, we do note that we found evidence against a migration explanation in Study 2."

But Study 2 appears to have actually looked at the relationship between GDP per capita (on a country-level basis) and number of international friends per capita (again on a country-level basis). GDP per capita between countries seems like a poor proxy for social class between people within the same society. Even if people in rich countries have fewer international friends than do people in poor countries, does that really indicate my rich neighbor is likely to have fewer international friends than does my poor neighbor?

Edit: looks like zopppo already pointed out this issue before I refreshed.

We're playing around with related ideas here [0]. It's understandably slow-going, because it's a hard problem to make a system 1) respond correctly to highly-specified custom queries, 2) easy to use and 3) scalable/performant.

[0] https://github.com/Mec-iS/mild-QL/issues/3

"JSON schema seeming to finally gain traction"

Could you describe this further? Are you referring to http://json-schema.org/ or to more general efforts to bring typing to APIs, like GraphQL?

Can you give any examples of this coming from "SJWs"? Little confused by that specific part of your comment.

(Full disclosure: contributor) We went with transforms for the svg-pan-zoom library [0], but it's interesting to compare using transforms vs. the viewBox [1].

[0] https://github.com/ariutta/svg-pan-zoom/blob/f84567bae1b80ac... [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg589508%28v=vs.85%...

Looks good. If I can make a feature request, it would be great to see something like the Flickr Commons + GitHub for vector graphics, where people could release their work with a permissive license so others could search and reuse it, with the option to collaboratively improve it.

Highland is a great option, even easier to use than Caolan's previous library Async.js.

Re: Highland vs. RxJS, RxJS operates at a lower level interface [0]. As a plus for RxJS, Reactive Extensions are available for multiple languages, not just JS [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/_ericelliott/status/551814104231723009 [1] https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/...