skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of something from "Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed"[1], about Brazil's new capital [2].

The new order was "visually appealing" to the bureaucrats, with housing in one section, work in one section, government in the middle etc. A lot of vast open space made it so spontaneous markets & trading did not occur (due to enforced zoning and excessive sunlight instead of using shade from buildings), leading to a lower quality of life for its inhabitants.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/d...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
Someday perhaps YC's efforts at UBI will trickle down to HN, resulting in a fair platform that doesn't extremize inequality. In the meantime, us peons are left to hijack the threads of YC Partners.
> Unregulated companies still don't care

If a company makes a mistake, the SEC first goes after the company. "Unregulated company" sounds like "no company" [1]. In that case, the SEC goes straight after the individuals involved.

[1] Do you mean unregulated or unregistered? Unregulated means sole proprietorship. Unregistered could be an LLC or corporation that just never filed anything with the SEC.
I was specifically thinking about historical methods for asbestos installation. I don't know the numbers exactly. I know that modern methods for handling hazmats like asbestos are good enough that it's basically not a risk factor. However, I suspected, based on the lack of "My grandfather got X and died" stories, that even old-timey asbestos handling protocols did not have a particularly huge rate. A visible rate, yes, but not something like coal mining sans PPE, mercury, or tritium, where the occupation effectively guarantees your cause of death. I chose asbestos because it was the most visible example that came to mind of something that had a relatively low rate but that most people would agree needed to be shut down for the health and safety of the workers involved with it.

I'll note that the "lifetime risk" numbers in the first response are almost certainly historical. I'd expect the studies he's looking to have been published around the time modern handling standards were developed, and they may have even contributed to their implementation. The symptoms also take decades to manifest, so I'd expect modern rates to be good indicators of the safety of the industry circa 20-30 years ago and nearly useless for indicating modern standards. 50 years ago probably not, but 20 years is probably still good.
Exactly, the market could not support both. Generally that is a sign of a weak market.
It they could make it sound like my voice sounds from inside my head, and not like the weirdo that other people apparently hear, it would be scary on several levels.
Much like vaccines, meat inspection, and building codes, we've forgotten what it's like without them. We (Great Britain and USA) have been making securities regulations for 400 years.

The important lesson of securities regulation is that it helps the "good" guys more than it hurts the bad guys.

When I buy 100 shares of PZZA, I want to be reasonably confident that Papa Johns is cooking pizza and not the books. That confidence, or trust in the system, reduces friction that helps both buyers and sellers of securities.
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That's an answer to someone's question, but a non-sequitur answer to mine.
No, the issue is that it doesn't matter where you are based, if you offer securities to US persons, you have to abide by US securities laws. If you offer securities to Germans, you have to abide by German laws.
Chrome does that as well until you get to a particular number of tabs, at which point it does annoyingly hide the favicon. But it's so much better than the scrolling tab bar or hidden tabs that Safari promotes to keep each tab a minimum width.
> The fundamental problem is you read yesterday's news instead of inventing the future.

Well at least you're prevented from reinventing the wheel ;)
TypeScript is typechecked only at translation time, as is reasonable for any language you would compile to JS. (I guess Elm breaks this mold, but at some great costs.) A side-effect is that you don't have any type information at runtime, for example.
Windows also does sandboxing.
Canceling an unsuccessful project can trigger a growth in profits.
Gramercy Park in NYC is an American example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park
That's an amazing project. You probably agree that it's extremely important that we own and control our own data and make it easy through OSS to manipulate and enhance it.
> with a link to some canonical thread about why the concept of security laws is fundamentally unjust or unwise

Because not everyone agrees with that position.
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Israel does not regulate sales of securities to non-Israelis. This resulted in a huge binary option scam industry based out of Tel Aviv.[1] It got so big that it was 40% of Israel's financial sector. It became a political embarrassment for Israel. "Because this industry gives Israel such a bad name and inflames anti-Semitism, we must uproot the phenomenon." - Israel's top securities regulator. A law change is coming, and most of the binary options operators have already fled elsewhere. Cyprus and Bulgaria are popular.

[1] http://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/binary-options/
I don't understand how the third is like the other two examples -- you seem to be implying it is, but I don't see it.

Could you elaborate?
> second-hand social media

Thanks for this term.
There is simply a massive difference between the theory of democracy and its actual implementation. Your personal autonomy is restricted by the government, massively, period, generally for everyone's own good. They decide what and how much medicine you can put in your body. Whether you can gamble, and where, and on what, and how much. What drugs you can take. What speed you can drive. Whether you must go to school or not based on your age. Which food you can buy at the supermarket. What you are allowed to see on television. Where and when you may protest. What behavior is allowed in public and what is not. What speech is considered 'free' and what isn't. What machines you may operate and under what circumstances. Which financial transactions you may or may not participate in and the terms of those transactions. The type of home you build and it's specifications. Which countries you may or may not enter and under which circumstances. Whether you are allowed to work or not. It's just the way things are.
This could have been prevented if they had hired someone to test designs against potential hacking during prototyping but I don't believe that it would have been worth the money. Unless someone knows exactly how to put the magnet against the gun, they can't beat it. Everything is vulnerable to some risk and I believe that this gun is sufficiently well designed to prevent most if not all would be threats.
Of course. Anyone that scams should be punished. That does not require introducing a license for engaging in some consensual activity, and prosecuting anyone that does this activity without the license. This fearful attitude that will sacrifice the liberty for the promise of security will leave you with neither.
I don't do a lot of social media as such, but I waste endless hours reading and commenting on Reddit, HN, Rock Paper Shotgun, and so forth. I feel like it actively makes my life worse, but I can't stop.

I can never tell if these articles are talking about me or not.
How much paid use does Storj or Sia have? Very few, if any, have bought into these tokens to use the underlying service. It's mostly "expectations of future profit", especially considering many of these tokens is described as having no use. The idea seems to be that useless tokens can not be considered securities, which seems as likely as a cop must answer truthfully if he is a cop.
He's suggesting that arguing whether SEC law being just/constitutional/what have you. Regardless of your position, is largely off topic for these posts.

It would be better to just link to the argument somewhere else than derailing this one.
Eh, but on the other hand, the tax payers are the ones who keep voting in governments that do not hold members of the police force accountable (and who hired policemen that do this to begin with). Such is the beauty of democracy: as long as there is no deception involved (and it doesn't seem like in this case, there was), the voters get exactly the government they deserve.
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Except he implied that the link should have a significant bias. Also there is a collapse button.
For the internet, there are some tools for this. I find it very helpful to decide ahead of time how many minutes a day it's acceptable to waste on "addictive" internet sites, and then use extensions (StayFocused for Chrome is very good) to block them after that amount of accumulated time has passed. Helps by taking away some of the need to exercise pure willpower, without completely excluding entire parts of the internet from you.
Esp8266 based wifi switches can be had quite cheap (sonoff is one of the brands)
Thanks for the feedback! I'd love to clarify.

1. We're looking for any information that will convince us that you're likely to complete the project. Academic background is merely one type of proof. A Github profile is another. Or recommendations from peers. Or a record of running marathons. You get the idea. We're open minded.

2. We funded a neural network to generate puns in the last batch. Non-conventional creativity is fine! At the end of the day, the project has to be useful to some humans. Even if it just makes them laugh.
Well, add Cargofone to the list.

The one I remember, though I can't for the life of me remember it's name, was operating around Benelux, mostly Belgium, France and Netherlands.

The truckers I knew mostly used it to find nearby matches for return trips (so they don't make a return trip empty). I don't know what happened to them.
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> Because an ICO can be created at no cost

Except the cost to the participants who later have wasted money because the ICO contract was exploitable...

At the current rate major losses are as perceptible as all successes. Maybe the industry needs some externally imposed speed bumps from SOME authority until folks can get their acts in gear?
Important info from Steve Blank on Hacking for Defense here:
https://steveblank.com/category/hacking-for-defense/

Steve's dedication to direct public service is impressive, and sets a high bar for other Silicon Valley leaders to reach.
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To add to your post, lattice attacks (LLL/BKZ/etc) are becoming even more prevalent in cryptanalysis as they are the best known attacks against next-gen cryptosystems like NTRU, or anything based on the Learning-with-Errors problem, which includes schemes with "fun" properties like full P/poly homomorphism, attribute/predicate encryption, etc.
I'm very much referring to Brett Baier. He's hosted Special Report with minimal controversy over the last 8-9 years. I would add Chris Wallace in if not for the fact that his primary hosting duty is Fox News Sunday, which is Fox's Meet The Press competitor and a talk show.
>Your personal autonomy is restricted by the government, massively, period, generally for everyone's own good. They decide what and how much medicine you can put in your body. Whether you can gamble, and where, and on what, and how much. What drugs you can take. What speed you can drive. Whether you must go to school or not based on your age. Which food you can buy at the supermarket.

These restrictions violate people's basic rights and are to the material detriment of society at large. The more of a regulatory burden is placed on an industry, the more dysfunctional, bureaucratic and nepotistic it is.
You interfere with my right to personal autonomy by bankrupting yourself throwing good money after bad in stupid investments, leaving yourself destitute and in need of additional public services.

Or do you also intend to claim that the poor should be allowed to die on the streets as punishment for not being rich?
Also off facebook for about five years. I've said it many times, it's surprising how little I miss it. Sort of like junk food, it tastes great but surprising how little you miss eating it when it's gone.
It looks like Convoy started far before Uber [0] and Uber has been trying to catch-up to Convoy. I wouldn't believe what Uber says.

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2016/greylock-leads-16m-round-deman...
Can you elaborate on the details of these laws?

For example can Israel's Securities Authority retroactively go after companies by classifying ICOs as securities? Or in this case, ALL securities can still currently be sold by Israeli companies to foreigners?

Also, what are the rules for Cyprus and Bulgaria? Where do you get the information about their popularity and their applicable securities laws?
Seems like a very broad definition that would place science, religion, and this comment within the sphere of art.
I still think emphasis on a word or syllable is important here as there is far more information than you realize being conveyed with inflection.

Consider:

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = Me, no one else

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = Nothing can stop me

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = On my way; got distracted

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = In case you doubt my intent

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = I will not be juggling it

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = The ultimate ham sandwich will be mine

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = Not turkey, not roast beef

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = Between two slices of bread is what I do
Anyone who still uses XP doesn't deserve to have compatibility. The time to move on was years ago.
I was hospitalized for a few days and didn't have access to my cell phone.
When I was discharged and handed my phone...I didn't even want to turn it on. Never gone back to that impulsive behavior since.
> Being that token sales are international, it would seem there is absolutely nothing illegal about opening a company in that country and offering securities. Even if the owners of the company are US citizens.

Actually the US regulates companies that so much as offer securities to US citizens. Try getting an account with a forex broker that's based outside the US and you'll see what I mean. The CFTC doesn't limit itself to US companies.

I haven't seen the same attempts being made on other kinds of securities but the framework is clearly there as the CFTC is using it.
Complaining is fine. I merely asked for something actionable in his complaints. I seemed to have upset him, so I asked what he'd like me to do.

I provided, I think, actionable information in my complaint above (that's not to suggest that Microsoft reads or cares what I think about Paint 3D, but other developers are here, and if it prevents even one from making an application that changes someone's defaults without permission or makes an application that can't be uninstalled using the usual channels, then I would consider my complaint productive).
It's the reality of news headlines. Publishers have to have extremes ideas in their headlines. It did not say "will" it said, "may" It could have easily said,"Sperm count drop 'may lead to bigger testes." or more permissive women or women with harems and on and on. It would all have the same affect. News as a business sucks, they always have to have a got you for you to read the article.
More or less yeah. But I worry it will take a pretty big change in direction before we can get something as crazy as types in the browser. To be fair, I would have never guessed browsers would be able to implement the current standards to the degree that they have.
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Interesting, that it will still survive in browsers till 2020.
Co-incidentally, today at A+E Networks, we finally migrated all our web properties to HTML5 video playback.
Flash ads were terrible, a blight on the web. But Flex is so much more structured than any JS framework I've used. It wasn't super pretty but it did the job.

RIP a major Flex project I support :(
No one has a right to force you to support someone who made themselves destitute. You're using one infringement of personal autonomy to justify another.
Silverlight was available on Mac and Windows, and Moonlight was available on Linux. Again, the plugin itself didn't have to be open-sourced, the format was, which is why Moonlight worked.
I'm not sure how it would be any different than existing expiration dates for OTC medicines, food, dairy, etc. In the case of medication, it is most likely to become less effective over time rather than toxic.
To me this is very exciting. I'm already working on my own home digital assistant modeled as NeNe Leaks from the Real Housewives to add personality to otherwise boring conversations with a robot. I've been looking at various style transfer techniques, and having something a bit more plug & play will help me focus on the more unique parts. I predict that we'll see more celebrity voices used as conversational interfaces become more common.

Part of the complexity is going from 'context-free phonemes' to actually modeling personality. Having some way for the voice to know how to embed emotion, and ideally contextually from the sentences themselves. NeNe is an interesting example as she adds so many non-verbal sounds to her dialog (bleeps and bloops and eye rolls that she translates into affected speech). That's part of what makes her NeNe, and a big part of the entertaining value. Pursuing that is what will bring style transfer to the next level... total personality emulation. I fantasize about basic animatronics that can move her head side to side, twirl, and literally give eye rolls.

If anyone wants to work on this with me, give me a ping @azinman on twitter. I've currently been thinking about this as an open source project, but still holding out options as I continue development. I've got a ton more ideas she's integrating into with my bleeding edge smart home, far more than just personality emulation (including what I believe to be a breakthrough in passive context-sensing.. the real key to making the smart home actually smart).
Zuckerberg and Musk are both wrong about AI
I've been running Home Assistant (the software in the blog post) for a little over a year now. (started out on a raspberry pi, upgraded to an Intel NUC recently for more power, and to do more non-home-automation related things on it)

It's by far one of the most well-managed community-driven open source projects i've ever used.

All of the "components" are just small-ish python programs that contain mostly "glue" code, and they are required to use 3rd party libraries to actually implement the real work. This spreads the workload out across many repos in terms of breaking changes and help, and makes it much easier to contribute back to (you aren't contributing to a massive monolithic repo, you are contributing to a small 200 line python library with 20 stars on github, much less pressure!).

Because of this architecture layout, anything that has a python library that can be consitered part of "home automation" most likely has it implemented already. In my setup alone I have:

* chromecasts

* 2 different smart TV brands

* many zwave switches (run through a vera, not using zwave directly)

* many zwave door/window sensors

* multiple ip cameras

* a wifi thermostat

* a few IR controllers for "dumb" IR devices

* phone/device tracking (which keeps all the data stored locally)

* usps/ups/fedex package tracking and delivery notifications

* network speed monitoring

* have-i-been-pwned monitoring and notifications

* weather

* a 3d printer's completion percentage

* a google home

* an amazon echo

* ups runtime monitoring

* multiple esp8266 based sensors and switches for various hacked together things

* and more that i'm probably forgetting

And all of it is processed locally (when possible), stored locally (in a postgresql database), secured via TLS, available on any browser anywhere, and on a server I maintain and manage (with the help of some automations I created in hass itself). And speaking of automations, it's python, so they are basically unlimited. I have an automation that will notify me on my phone if it will start raining at my phone's current location before I can get home, and only while on my motorcycle.

It's not perfect (it's pre-1.0 software, so there are still semi-frequent breaking changes, and configuration is mostly manual still via yaml files), but it's been a such an amazing experience.

Home Assistant is the reason why I love IoT.
Flash on Linux was discontinued in 2012: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250784/for_flash_on_linux_the...

Even back then you had to do hacks to get it to work. But after that it became very hard to get anything to work. Eventually someone came out with a service called pipelight that I used to use that would allow you to use windows only plugins in Firefox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight. It worked great until I didn't need it anymore.
You're still not there yet. Replace "canonical thread about" with "link to a debate about".
I an not sure that is binding on the company. Can you find a source for it in US securities law or SEC memo?
I truly hope that human drivers' "right" to drive at whatever speed they want is forever trampled by regulatory burden.
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And also failing on the Arduino bit (Galileo's IO timing was too slow to use with many commonplace sensors)
You don't have to sacrifice configurability to get the power benefits. Send the data transmit-only, but every few days have a receive window.
I doubt that food companies let their canned beans sit for 3 years to figure out if that August 2020 expiration date holds true.
According to friends in the business:

- hard to make money
- people work too much and sleep too little
- various abuse by trucking companies

For a more methodical analysis - USA Today did a piece a month ago:

https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc...
It should auto-collapse threads like the one upthread about whether the SEC is fundamentally unjust.
Can you show me the losses vs successes?
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Please expand on your thoughts and include more details!

your comment is very packed, and your replies are even briefer.
I would assume YC, Greylock and others have wide access to deals and have many opportunities to invest. Knowing how VCs operate I am assuming that they looked at the
top companies in the sector before deciding on this company and teams.

It seems like several companies have tried to go after this market with technology, but Convoy has the best backers and most momentum. I wish them the best of luck!
I think the payout for these activities is the honing of your skill set.

Some of those projects still have potential (Zookeeper) to earn some ROI.

I would, instead of giving up on all of these, pick one that you think has the most promise, and develop it until you have a solid prototype.

Your market fit doesn't always come immediately, it may take you years of focus and stress.

What Mizza says is very true as well, you are an artist. So I think you should build your masterpiece.
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This has always been a vexing problem in TTS. Going from context-free to contextual. First the machine will need to actually be able to model it's own intentions, and then figure out how to verbally do that. Difficult problems without solving hard AI. Easier if you can pre-determine the world/responses, as most "conversational interfaces" currently do.