skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small team + high security standards = slow development progress

Why a chrome extension and not a desktop app? Because a desktop app is 3 desktop apps if you want to be cross platform, and since it is secure communication software, all of those edge cases that pop up in cross platform desktop application development really matter.

I think it's better that Signal takes its time and gets it right so that eventually we have a good solution. If Signal were to throw caution to the wind and hackathon up some desktop apps, then we may never have a single good option.

Signals competitors don't share it's security standards, and so it's not really reasonable to compare it to its competitors feature for feature. I expect that adding a given feature or other unit of complexity bears a higher cost for Signal than, say Whatsapp or Telegram. In the meantime, we still have the Signal mobile apps for situations where inconvenience isn't an insurmountable barrier.
Or send flowers, or even old school telegram... ?
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The direct link
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Where do you get colder winters from? I don't see that as a likely outcome. Yeah the Earth's climate is a complex system, and global warming produces complex and sometimes unexpected effects. But you can't say colder winters just "because complexity". The likely effect, unsurprisingly, is warmer, shorter winters.
Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90
My understanding is that it's the commercial viability that is really threatened, that the variety would still survive. It's also my understanding that a Gros Michel can be had here and there.
I strongly feel this power, influence, giant houses, jets, personal cruise ships etc are old generation stuff - something that grey haired Gekko will personify. The "new rich" is dramatically different and for the better. Today's centi-millionairs wants to stay anonymous, don't want to have butlers, have houses that they can manage without permanent staff and often prefers travelling first class or renting Yatch instead of buying them even if they can afford it. The new rich sets target to make X amount of money and then "retire". Their "retirement" consist of working hard doing their favorite activities and travelling the globe to sample the "regular folks" flavors. Most of them don't have desire to keep growing billion dollar business which will sip away their time and energy. They have strong political belief but have no desire for acquiring political power directly or indirectly. They are not in to heavily influencing how rest of the population shall live. They consider time to do their favorite activities far more important than keeping money scoreboard. They want to buy fashionable cloths and accessories but not those that will immediately attract attention and single them out in the crowd. They want to be physically fit and avoid having family as long as possible. They like to invest in ideas and technology more than traditional financial instruments.

I think new rich crowd will almost completely replace old generation wealthy in next 50 years or so. People who are born in this decade will have very hard time understanding philosophies and life style choices of Gorden Gekko.
Wow, as both an electrical engineer and avid amateur musician, this is pretty fascinating. The first place winner from last year is pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxr3ZWVjM4

It appears to be a very sophisticated voice synthesizer. (And of course they made it sound like a Hindustani raga singer).

It seems like most of the contestants are various electronic instruments. But personally, I'd like to see more innovation in acoustic instruments, particularly wind instruments (my bias as a wind instrument player). The not-yet-invented musical instrument I'd most like to play would be something like the Chinese Hulusi, except made out of metal like a western concert flute, a saxophone-style fingering system on the melody pipe, and adjustable slides on the drone pipes. This would allow a wind player to play melody + chords without accompaniment and without requiring a tight embouchure (seriously, maintaining embouchure for an extended period of time is really tiring).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulusi
Would you voluntarily give more taxes to your governments? Or would you rather donate that money to a charity of your choosing / research?

> the answer to the variety of problems that plague Chicago's South Side, New Orleans, or any number of troubled communities?

No one (government, private sector, etc.) has the answer to those problems. Those are really really hard problems that require the cooperation of non-profits, local governments, religious institutions, families, etc. I don't think they're expecting to be a silver bullet.
I use the same trick by blocking out my whole afternoon every day, and find that it works really well. It turns out that most meetings have no particular time that they need to be scheduled for, so this gives me maker schedule time and makes me far more productive.

One caveat is that if many people in an org start doing this it might become difficult to schedule things, in which case it might be useful for the whole company to coordinate (eg "no meeting Mondays").
The title seems misleading; from the sounds of things, these weren't "mining companies" in the first place, they were scams from the start. To be a mining company, they'd have to actually do mining. Instead, it sounds like their primary product was the money coming in from people buying their product, which is the definition of a pyramid scheme.

Quoting the relevant bits of the ruling:

35. Second, contrary to its stated reason for existence, no mining actually occurred through ZenMiner’s ZenCloud interface. Though customers paid for equipment that they believed they were directing to mine in various pools available through the ZenCloud interface, and also paid for hosting services, very few pieces of the mining equipment purchased by customers actually existed in a ZenMiner datacenter. Most customers paid for a phantom piece of equipment that neither GAW Miners nor ZenMiner owned. Ne ither GAW Miners nor ZenMiner was directing customers’ computing power to any pools at all, much less the ones customers believed they were choosing.

37. Cloud Hosted Mining customers were entitled to request that the computer equipment they had purportedly purchased be sent to them, but neither GAW Miners nor ZenMiner owned that equipment to ship.

49. By October 2014, GAW Miners had oversold Hashlets to an even more extreme degree. It had oversold altcoin-mining Hashlets by at least about 100 times its computing capacity, and bitcoin-mining Hashlets by at least about 5 times its computing capacity.

50. Though GAW Miners built a data center that, by November 2014, contained significant computing capacity for mining bitcoin, it made no increases to its computing capacity for mining altcoin.
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IIRC there is a section in Horowitz's book that covers this during the doom days of Loudcloud.
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Interesting. I'll have to look at this in more depth when I'm off the phone. It does seem a bit over to top.

I've been toying with a similar idea that would focus only on static libraries and would handle binaries as an optimization. Just being able to specify "fetch zlib, protocol buffers and libjpeg" and build them for me would simplify many of my C projects.

The only coherent way I could think of to manage architectural differences was to force a single build tool that understood the important compiler flags and version incompatibilities.

Building from source solves a lot of problems but somehow even today it still takes forever to compile certain projects (looking at you, grpc).
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Those things sound tooling related not runtime related (which Adobe was talking about).
Perhaps there needs to be more studies done on the effect of gravity and human health? Conversely, are there other things in our air (pollutants) that are in fact causing slower aging when on Earth?
What alarms me is how important privacy has suddenly become, despite a distinct lack of actualization on the "nightmare" scenarios we keep hearing.
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Can confirm that your link works, but the current link in the HN submission does not. MODS, CAN YOU FIX THIS? :)
1. place of front page right now... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10658787
And for those potentially dangerous Mac apps that need to touch your home directory or essentially become a key logger, I'd want them to be as watched by Apple as possible. Keep them in the Mac App Store, with a strict permission / entitlements model.

That's what I've never understood about the Sandbox policy. Those apps will still be shipped... they're just another level removed from Apple's oversight. And it's not like iOS, where not allowing those apps ensures that 99.9% of users will never ever see those apps.

Gatekeeper helps with this to a degree, but why not just allow them in the Mac App Store?
Ralph Nader wants car industry to hit the brakes on self-driving cars
I like the comment from petero:

Perhaps the effect is due to lack of grounding.
Some sub-cultures of Australian society use: "youse" as the plural for "you" when addressing more than one person. For example: "Youse guys are late". Here there is a double plural "youse" and "guys" for one group of people. Also "guy" is generally considered to refer to men, but in this context "guys" is gender neutral - the group of people being referred to can be composed of both men and women.
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Here in Vietnam I see at least half a dozen different kinds of bananas of all shapes and sizes every time I go to the market. Most taste better than American supermarket bananas too.
Precisely my sentiment as well. It's possible that the articles on this site give a narrow view of what's happening there, but I doubt it. I can't help but feel as if I forever missed the opportunity to live as an adult in that vibrant and thinking city I once knew in my youth.
> The lede: residents of Louisiana, Minnesota, and New Hampshire (and New York next year) are not able to use their drivers licenses for various purposes, including domestic air travel, due to the failure of these states to require proof of residency for their issue.

Which is false. They are able to use them for all purposes now (except for Minnesota, non-enhanced driver's licenses), because while the Phases of real ID prior to domestic air transport are in effect, all of those states -- and many others that are not fully compliant with Real ID -- have extensions [either granted after review, or shorter extensions while an application is reviewed] into 2016 to allow their licenses to be used for all purposes.) Minnesota (which also offers Enhanced Driver's Licenses which can be used for all RealID purpose and as border-crossing documents) and American Samoa [0] are the only jurisdictions that are out of compliance with Real ID for normal ID, and which therefore can't be used for RealID covered purposes which are in effect (domestic air transport isn't in effect yet, so IDs from those jurisdictions can still be used for that purpose.)

If DHS schedules Phase 4 -- which it has said it will not do with less than 120 days notice, and no earlier than 2016, and only after review of current readiness -- then licenses from jurisdictions (mostly states) that are not compliant and are not covered by a granted extension could not be used for domestic air transport, just as they can't be used for other RealID covered purposes (mostly access for federal facilities, with an exception for access for the purpose of applying for benefits) now. But it seems unlikely that they will schedule Phase 4 until all jurisdictions are ready, anyway.

[0] http://www.dhs.gov/real-id-enforcement-brief
The super feeder (linked in my original comment) is amazing, high quality, really strong, so far I'm very happy with it.
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No offense, but if the only thing you do on Hacker News is complain that people don't hire you, you're probably a bad candidate.
It seems they started as a mining operation, then pivoted to sell shares or futures called "Hashlets". The scam started when they oversold these Hashlets and advertised to customers to use a cloud service instead of their physical mining rigs.
Where do you live and work, instead?
This is actually a retread of a story from 2009:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
The issue was literally that the gear would pop-up and start switching around the order of the icons in random order. It wasn't even consistent. Some users had it on Yosemite others didn't.

Surely it should be possible to turn of the spinning gear without having to turn of the security measures.
Anyone know the author? I have the @koonscrooks twitter handle and want them to have it; they deserve such a delicatessen. Tweeted to verify: http://twitter.com/koonscrooks
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Since when is wealth synonymous with comfort?

There are people in America who are within the top 1% of global wealth but struggle to feed themselves, or to keep themselves healthy, or to shelter themselves, etc.
Did you actually read the results of the $100 million going to Newark instead of blindly believing the media? Probably not... #uninformed.
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This is a surprisingly clear and articulate explanation of digital currency mining and how it was used to mask a ponzi scheme by over-issuing securities against it. Well done SEC.
There's a Paul McCartney song about it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ErrZ-ipoE
This is a weak example, because obviously it should be a one-liner:

return sin(degrees*PI/180);
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Can they? I am not convinced that most (any?) adults can give informed consent for any of these datamining services.
dmesg -T

Has been available for years to print out human-readable timestamps. Check to see if dmesg is an alias to that on your system. Also, -IIRC- dmesg has printed system-uptime timestamps with every line since at least the early 2000's.

One caveat: the times printed by dmesg -T will be incorrect if the system has suspended to RAM or disk.

Check dmesg(1) for more info! :D
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If you have the ability and luck to make a billion dollars, you probably have a bit more skill than the average Joe to determine where that money should go...
> Nope. Born in Yugoslavia (communist/socialist), raised in Slovenia (ex-socialist)

Okay, top 5%. (*I'm not an American, though I too have moved here.)

> Next question?

"How hard is it?" You tell me.
Siemens technology boost for evolving Asia Pacific companies
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Power Spectrum as a Random Bit Generator
The Bitcoin world seems to have an awful lot of incompetent fraudsters. This particular one is surprising, because I don't see how they thought they could get away with it; the scheme described in the SEC complaint is one that would be guaranteed from the start to unravel, and the perpetrators weren't anonymous.

What they did was, they sold shares in a Bitcoin mining operation corresponding to hashing power, and kept selling long after their actual mining equipment had sold out. They then used the revenue from those sales to buy Bitcoin on the open market, and misrepresent those purchased coins as newly-mined coins for withdrawals.

Seriously, how could they possibly have thought that would work out?
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> within the top 1% of global wealth

> but struggle to feed themselves

Wealth means assets. If you can't feed yourself you do not have assets and therefore you don't have wealth.

There is extreme lack of poverty in the U.S. (not complete, and compared to all countries). There is no reason for anyone to go without food.