skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In game digital assets is an interesting hypothetical. Whether or not it satisfies all the prongs of an investment contract analysis is less important than the overall size of the market. I think if blockchain tokens were doing daily vols similar to Team Fortress 2 hats, that the SEC would have never felt the need to comment. But that's just conjecture not anything you could hang your Team Fortress 2 hat on :)
The question for me is: why US? He is a Russian citizen, the company is based in Bulgaria, servers in Russia, legal HQ in Cyprus and all the services operated from Seychelles - arrested in Greece. The MtGox hack affected a Japanese company. I'm not debating the nature of the crimes, etc - I am just wondering, when does it become a US case?

I can get the "there were US customers" - but why not Europe? Or Japan? Or Russia? Or Australia? I'm sure BTC-e had customers from all over the world (and money laundry is pretty much a crime everywhere).

So, when does it become "you have broken the US law and you are under arrest"?. Does it work the other way around too? If you start a gay social network in US, can Russia come in (the first time you are flying in one of the Russia's partners territories)
and say "you are breaking Russian gay laws, you are under arrest"?
You know, this isn't a question of philosophy. We're not reasoning from first-principles. You might consider looking to the googles for an answer as to which nation-states currently ban alcohol, and then consider what commonalities they might share.

I'll save you the first half of that effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_alcohol...
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> If you start a gay social network in US, can Russia come in (the first time you are flying in one of the Russia's partners territories) and say "you are breaking Russian gay laws, you are under arrest"?

Yes.
OpenBSD's been at it for awhile..

Yes, CVS; .. on top of which they invented read-only anonymous source control: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf

Of course you're free to use the, far more recent, GitHub mirror: https://github.com/openbsd
The problem is that a frightening number of people don't bother to write the half-dozen obvious wrappers around this, and stdlib doesn't provide them either:

struct buf { uint8_t * base, size_t size };
It's not their worldview that's being threatened in the case of climate change...
I all honestly, we can not allow a gene-gap.

Forget racism, what happens when a country can actually make it's people "better" (faster/smarter/live longer/stronger) by significant margins?
Technically, I'd suggest the answer is yes. But there isn't enough money involved to warrant regulation or for a tax department to do the diligence to collect. Valve paying corporate tax on the hat sales is good enough.
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I am a newer OpenBSD user, so I encounter roadblocks/papercuts quite frequently. What I like about the OS is that the problems are all easy in retrospect. I never struggle with the same issue twice. For instance, the first time I booted OpenBSD, I was met with the following prompt:

boot>

What am I supposed to do here? Does it require some weird incantation in order to load the kernel? It turns out you just have to hit enter.

The OpenBSD install script really is quite simple. I'm not sure I would call it easy (simple ain't easy), but it's certainly straightforward and setup is usually just hitting enter a bunch of times. You only encountered trouble because you tried to fiddle with it and got frustrated.

Another huge benefit of OpenBSD compared to Linux is the incredible quality of documentation. Missing or outdated docs are considered a serious bug. To address your issue, let's look at the docs: https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION

It looks as though if the installation target is smaller than 8GB, it won't create a separate partition for X11. That's useful to know. Additionally, you can specify your own partition template using the -T option.

It might be cool to see a graphical project like GhostBSD built on top of OpenBSD, but I have to agree with the curmudgeons that the text-based installer is pretty fantastic as-is.
> Monthly Active Users 2.0 Billion

Just as a reminder of how insane this is, the population of the entire world is 7.5 billion.
Recompiling the games into html5 would be far easier if we had source-code to reverse-engineer to create a translator with.
Interesting, I have been using BTC-E for a while, I had no idea this sort of thing happened. Was it knowingly assisted by someone at BTC-E, or did BTC-E just act as a dumb machine?

BTC-E was one of the eastiest ways for me to change BTC and LTC in day trading. Are there comparable websites with small fees? I'm not interested in buying with fiat money.
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Regarding your point on ETF you're correct. ETFs are a low cost option in the long run and are ideal for retirement. But that is primarily true in developed markets currently where it is difficult for most managers to beat the indices. In India atleast for now actively managed mutual funds are providing more returns than the index. As our markets develop we would converge with the trends of the developed markets.

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Ether tokens have a clear use-value. They don't provide holders with any passive income from profits earned by a common enterprise. I am not a lawyer, but in my opinion, the idea that they're securities is ridiculous.

This is a good analysis of how US securities laws relate to tokens:

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf
Yes, they're not going to take anyone's word without backup. They want to stay in business to. They'll tell you exactly what they want.
The atomic age came without the world or our species ending.
> It makes me wonder what a UI language/system would look like if it were designed from the ground up to be declarative. Would it end up just looking a lot like React?

You could find one answer to that question in Elm[1], and indeed it does look a lot like React. Although it generally handles exceptions by never letting them happen in the first place :)

[1] http://elm-lang.org/
I don't know if you're out of touch and I don't believe my usage is typical but I get lots out of facebook.

First of, messenger is my most common form of communication with friends and family. I use both the messenger app and messenger.com

The next biggest concrete use is event planning. Pretty much all my friends use facebook events to plan their events so I get invited to the event on facebook. I probably wouldn't not get invited otherwise. That's not because my friends aren't thoughtful, rather it's because it's the path of least resistance. Create an event, look at your friend list, add everyone you hope will come, done. Also if it's an open event it makes it easier for friends to add friends.

I also found out about tons of activities. If a friend is going to or has shown interest in an event facebook will often show that to me so I found out about several activities I wouldn't have attended otherwise.

Friends also directly accounts events they're promoting so I find out about those. A simple example, the Tokyo Indies (indie gamedev) meetup is announced on facebook (among other places but I don't use those other places)

Then, even if I were to ignore all my friends my mother and my sister post semi-regular updates.

A few things that help though

1. I've aggressively unfollowed tons of people. Anyone I don't really care about. Anyone I probably won't see again in my life. Anyone who posts too much (except my sister). Anyone who posts too much political stuff (just don't want to frustration). Anyone who used to be kind of part of life but no longer really is.

2. If FB shows me something I don't want to see I always tell it "hide post", "show me less of this". Their algos suck unfortunately but it helps a little

3. I'm running FBPurity to filter out lots of inane posts. Any "so-and-so commented on" or "so-and-so replied to a post" or "so-and-so was mentioned in a comment" and lots of others.

I will say the more FB tries to tempt me to interact the more I think I'll eventually have to quit. The latest is the popups for comments. I get that it would be useful for people but it's just such a distraction for me I want it off.
People often don't realize that if you fly through US airspace after violating certain US laws as non-citizens, you will be apprehended through an emergency layover coordinated with the carrier. That's a contributor to why US federal three letter agencies constantly ingest passenger manifests.
yes! great idea. Also quick observation, Flash is so hard to get rid of because it's still a very useful tool. We're lucky to have had it in the 2000's
iirc they rejected deposits from any American bank accounts and specifically said they won't work with German or US residents or citizens.
I use ZoL for my home-server (5x3TB RAIDZ) and couldn't be happier, never had an issue too. The features really spoiled me compared to other filesystems/volume-managers. The only issue that irks me is that I can't resize a pool after it was created, can't add new disks, can't remove one (without risking parity).

Recently I tried running a simple BTRFS SSD Mirror for only a single KVM virtual machine, I thought compression would be neat since they are just two cheap 120GB SSDs and I wanted to have a spare if one of them gave up the ghost.

At first everything was great but after I ran a btrfs scrub, and it found ~4000 uncorrectable errors, my VM was broken beyond repair and had to be restored from backup.
The SSDs SMART data was fine, there weren't any loose cables, everything worked great, no reported (ECC) memory errors... I have no proof but it seems that BTRFS just decided to destroy itself.

I have since moved my SSDs to a ZoL mirror and (after running scrubs every two days for two weeks) had no further corruption, silent or otherwise. To me, this means that btrfs just isn't stable enough for production use - while ZoL is.
There's likely to be a government mandated recall if your car "spontaneously" explodes - some designs are so poor they fail to meet entirely reasonably regulatory standards. Burying the lede in the fine print is not a get out of jail free card for obvious reasons.
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But why is the job growth there?

I'd say it's because our postwar experiment with living far away from each other failed. It was a bad idea and it created spaces that were unpleasant to live in. Those of us who were born in such places, and have a choice in the matter, are getting out.

Certain skills are in high enough demand that people with those skills get to choose where to live. We choose places that don't look and feel like crap. We choose places that lots of other people choose. This makes them expensive. The arc of human history is towards urbanization, and those of us with in-demand skills are its primary agents simply because we have the most choice in the matter of where to live.

Of course it doesn't help that the places we choose believe they are already full.

I just watched this and it was electrifying: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
I guess that makes sense. I was just confused for a bit because I wasn't sure if the height was in in thousands of meters or miles (but if miles, it was odd in comparison to the kilometer distances). I looked up Mt. McKinley and converted the foot rating to meters to confirm that it was indeed thousands of meters, but the process got me wondering if page was mixing locale formats, or whether the my assumption that it should have been a comma to separate the thousands was wrong.
It can't be good for attracting new contributors.
What if you decompiled the binary to c and __then__ compiled it with emscripten?
When all your tooling is built around source repository X, and you understand how it all works, and you understand its quirks and how to avoid them, and you have demonstrated repeatedly the ability to hit release target dates consistently year after year, what then is the sound rationale to switch to source repository Y, and spend the considerable effort to change everything, just so you can keep doing what you are doing now?
Something can be useful and a security, according to the SEC. They published an Investor Bulletin yesterday saying as much:

"A virtual currency is a digital representation of value that can be digitally traded and functions as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value. Virtual tokens or coins may represent other rights as well. Accordingly, in certain cases, the tokens or coins will be securities and may not be lawfully sold without registration with the SEC or pursuant to an exemption from registration."

From: https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/al...
On NLP side, many subfields tend to run annual shared task competitions, e.g. SemEval (http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2017/index.php?id=tasks) or TAC (https://tac.nist.gov/) for semantic analysis, WMT (http://www.statmt.org/wmt17/index.html) for machine translation, etc etc.
Gene editing(modifying) to make someone faster than bolt and who knows what. Future is very scary and exiting.
Not buying it at all.

How does the announcement of Kite Enterprise (twice!!) fit within the supposed "apology"?? It has absolutely nothing to do with either project.

It's ironic actually. Within their "apology" they are doing the EXACT same thing they are apologizing for: sneaking in some more advertising of their products.

This is one disgusting company.
One of the biggest lessons I learned early in my career.
I agree with your second point completely and a lot of big tech companies already passively record your conversations.

Given Alexa as an example, I might have signed away my rights of all my conversations to Alexa when I first signed up for the app and the product. But Alexa would never be able to prevent other users who are not the owner from using it. I wonder how they deal with this legal grey area.
You're not understanding how comminging works here.

Say I'm shady seller X, I'm sending in fakes to FBA (lol). Yes, I'd like to sell "Product Y."

I'll list Product Y and enable "commingling," and send in fakes.

Now when Amazon sells Product Y, Amazon will choose an item from it's shelves in a warehouse. Since shady seller X said "commingle my inventory" Amazon may choose the product(s) shady seller X's sent from it's shelves.
I don't consider WebRTC over-engineered at all. It's not a trivial protocol, sure. But doing p2p sessions over today's Internet isn't trivial.

Yes, if you just consider a client-server model where the server has a public, routable, non-firewalled IP, then you can do away with ICE/STUN/TURN, and it gets simpler. But that's not what WebRTC was designed for.

The SDP stuff might seem a bit arcane, and I would agree with you, but it's a widely-used telephony industry standard and there are libraries that will generate/parse them for you without you needing to do much.

Bona fides: I've implemented server-side WebRTC in C++ and Java. Was it trivial? No. Was it ridiculously difficult? No.
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In this case the "arbitrary filter" was filtering applicants to a university for very basic math knowledge, so I think assuming that it's correlated with success at that university is not very far fetched.
not really. it is an alternative to C and cython for extension development.
I love xkcd, but I'm getting sick of seeing that one.
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The "why" is just "because the DoJ made a case before Europe or Japan". The "how" is just extradition. Greece was willing to extradite him to the US to face these charges. The US would do the same with Greece, though not with Russia as we lack an extradition treaty with Russia (and probably not to face a charge that would be a clear first amendment violation anyway).
Those are Islamic countries. Do you think there's a reason the prohibition was made? Do you think there might be a reason it stuck?

Alcohol is also frequently prohibited on Indian reservations. Why do you think that is?
It's all fun and games until that little bit of jQuery turns into a lot of jQuery.

Sometimes you don't have much of a say into how big things eventually get and sometimes things get a whole lot bigger than you initially imagined.

Good organization helps but still, as a jQuery fan myself who has gone through this a few times recently I've started to realize there may just be a better way. Particularly throwing more than one dev in the mix. Going through someone else's tangled box of electrical cords is no fun at all.
The true purpose to open sourcing Flash is archiving / making it impossible to never be able to revisit Flash sites which are a huge part of internet history, e.g. NewGrounds and other sites.
Germany does.
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A family forces you to think about priorities greater than just meeting the deadlines at work.

A family can be stressful OR rewarding.

For me, the family gave me a reason to leave work at a healthy hour. It gave me a "success" when the business was failing.

It kept me from being social isolated by the business.
You mean something like The Internet Bug Bounty?
Excellent! I have a soft spot for openbsd as a workstation os. Will give it a try again once this hits a release.
Ether does not represent any "other rights" that would put it within the definition of a security.
Because all money transits through US banks? (to a first approximation)
Any port in a storm, eh?
This is different because it concerns a government, but as long as the CEO doesn't go to jail for IT breaches (Sony,...) and grossly negligent IT decisions (British Airways), nothing will change with data security.

The second the law changes, CEOs will make it a personal matter sound decisions are made.
No don't shut them down. Just make sure they're not jobs where people are struggling.
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There is little lost by a high complexity requirement. Just generate some random gibberish and let your browser remember it.
Those taxes are a cost of doing business in the state - akin to the rent on a property. If nobody wants to rent your property at your asking price, you can let it sit empty and get zero, or lower your price and get more than zero. You are not "forgoing" anything by lowering your price in that case. You never had that revenue to give up in the first place.
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Yeah, I also helped out with this. It's a good starting point but is by no means conclusive. Debevoise's franchise argument is wayyyy offbase and is subtle legal marketing BS imo
Interesting claim but I'm not quite convinced based on the data presented. They considered the hypothesis ('myth') that increased popularity of running is what's slowing down the average times by looking at 100th-finisher times and nth-percentile times, but this does not control for an increased number of _races_ being held each year to accommodate all the extra runners.
Disk setup https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html

With the actual installation instructions https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html

And how it does the auto https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION
Wow, just wow. These perf improvements are great. ASIC accelerated filesystems is just crazy

### Performance

* ARC Buffer Data (ABD) - Allocates ARC data buffers using scatter lists
of pages instead of virtual memory. This approach minimizes
fragmentation on the system allowing for a more efficient use of
memory. The reduced demand for virtual memory also improves stability
and performance on 32-bit architectures.

* Compressed ARC - Cached file data is compressed by default in memory
and uncompressed on demand. This allows for an larger effective cache
which improves overall performance.

* Vectorized RAIDZ - Hardware optimized RAIDZ which reduces CPU usage.
Supported SIMD instructions: sse2, ssse3, avx2, avx512f, and avx512bw,
neon, neonx2

* Vectorized checksums - Hardware optimized Fletcher-4 checksums which
reduce CPU usage. Supported SIMD instructions: sse2, ssse3, avx2,
avx512f, neon

* GZIP compression offloading - Hardware optimized GZIP compression
offloading with QAT accelerator.

* Metadata performance - Overall improved metadata performance.
Optimizations include a multi-threaded allocator, batched quota
updates, improved prefetching, and streamlined call paths.

* Faster RAIDZ resilver - When resilvering RAIDZ intelligently skips
sections of the device which don't need to be rebuilt.
Your first sentence suggests that you disagreed with my previous post, but your rationale very much supports my point. Spending 125-250K on a job that only exists for a year is markedly worse than paying a comparable amount for a job that lasts many years.
Euclidean geometry games are hardly what people do in the real world, but if it floats your boat:

https://www.euclidea.xyz

I don't think after playing 20 or so levels I was much smarter for it. It turned out to be a bunch of rules that were extremely limited. You do begin to appreciate trig much more.

If you are being given a geometry subject test and are prepared for it, this is fair game. If the question is just given out of the blue as a brain teaser, then no, the university is not mining useful signals at all.
Exactly what I said. Jumping to conclusions.

This sounds very similar to the kind of advice that gets normal people hooked to drugs and destroy their lives.

No one it's immune to the ups and downs of life.
"Watson specifically brought up the trend towards single-page web applications, which Node.js excels at, and Rails has yet to fully adopt."

I'm considerably less bearish on Rails than this article. My go-to stack, especially for prototyping and rapid product development, is a Rails API and a React Frontend or React Native mobile client. There's a gem for every common problem that I'm going to run into, and this setup "just works" for 90% of what I need to do, which is some flavor of CRUD mobile and web apps.

I feel like I've given Node an honest chance, and it definitely excels for real-time and high-performance apps, but for a basic web app, development feels slow and cumbersome.

Is there something that I'm missing about Node? This article mentions it being great for SPAs. What makes Node better for an SPA than a Rails or Django API-only app? And if there is something that makes it better, are there frameworks to make Node development for basic CRUD apps more productive? I tried Sails for a bit, but found it kind of lacking.
BabelNet http://babelnet.org/ or Open Multilingual Wordnet (http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/omw/) might be interesting for you.

However, the prime use case of WN is as an verified inventory of machine readable senses, providing structured information about the semantic attributes of the word by providing the semantic links to other words/senses. Wictionary will tell you that a word is an adjective, but it doesn't tell a machine what does that adjective mean, how it relates to other adjectives.

E.g., the wiktionary entry on 'corgi' has a few sentences that mention that it's a type of dog, but it's not structured enough for this information to be used, and if you just extract it yourself without manual verification then it won't have high accuracy; WN, on the other hand, has an explicit structured link (hypernym) between corgi and dog. (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o2=&o0=1&o8=1&o1=...)