skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then we should limit who people can vote for, since voters are so easy to manipulate into voting against their own interests. The basic principles of liberal democracy assume that a person has an absolute right to make decisions for their own life. These kinds of restrictions are unconscionable restrictions on the right of free people to their personal autonomy.
They somehow think "Intel Inside" marketing strategy worked (not that Wintel monopoly happened) and they think that they can just "Intel Inside" their way into any market, and somehow make Wintel-like margins even in b2b markets that are fully commoditized, not need to put out competitive parts or reduce adoption costs with things like documentation.
I would not count on them not applying this retroactively. The DAO is safe (along with Bitcoin and Ethereum themselves) but everyone else is not. I've heard interviews with some ICO people and it's clear that they know what they're doing is legally questionable. They're doing it anyway because of the obscene amount of money on the table. The SEC will not look kindly on these people.
The two companies kind of merged and Adobe continued to employ some of the original members from the Flash team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Lynch_(computing)

https://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation
Status prohibited US citizens from participating in their ICO and they still raised $100M.

Anyone tech savvy enough to contribute money to an ICO is tech savvy enough to connect to a non-US VPN before doing it.
Then almost no company would seek that "seal of approval", the regulations would be worthless, and just about every US Citizen would be worse off.
Yeah, there are outlet malls near me (http://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-supporting-two-outlet...), that resemble a traditional city in some ways, except the fact that there are no people living above the stores... so no multi-use vibrancy... just chain stores and food courts.
it's not just US persons. Germany has securities laws, France has securities laws, etc. I mean that German equivalent of SEC can go after those selling securities to Germans without following German securities laws
That doesn't match up at all with what the above commenter claims Elon has said.
Do you let your kids play football?

Honest question, bc at the end of the day, beyond all scientific studies, it is parents who will define which sports are popular and actually played.
Silverlight was not open source though and it was not cross platform either. Having Silverlight/.Net and Flash/Flex/Air open sourced and competing would have been great, as a copmpany I would have made money from the IDEs and tools, why you need to keep it proprietary and then kill it.
Interesting. Do you know why they were doing this? Just in anticipation that the SEC would crack down?
A bit of tangent, But i am in the market for the Software that Convoy and CargoFone are building. We have our own FT, LTL and Final Mile Carrier network. We have negotiated custom rates with them.

What i am looking for the Software service through which i send Orders and get updates from these Carriers.

Is there a solution like that out there?
I've always found the notion of compatibilism untenable as the problem is deeper than 'the hidden machinery that is in the process of weighing alternatives'.

The problem to me is that that machinery does not exist. It's not there, how can something (anything at all in them most extreme sense, a human, a 'system', an AI an animal the hidden machinery in the human brain, a bunch of particles or whatever) 'choose' when there's no alternatives? Real hard predeterminism implies that there's nothing to chose at all. Doesn't the theory of conservation of information tell us that information is never created or lost, so that on a grand scale, basically nothing is happening at all? All information that existed at the big bang is still there, and always will be. There's no place for hidden machinery to make more, or make choices. The 'result' of that choice must have existed/been known before, because otherwise information would have been created at that magical 'choosing' moment.
This is the biggest letdown of Flash being discontinued. How can an artist distribute interactives as a single file now? How can a gallery site host user-uploaded interactive animations without allowing its users a platform to inject arbitrary javascript? (At least .swf provides an attempt at sandboxing.)
This is a serious question to the lawyers on HN. In your non-advice way, can you tell us your opinion on the following?

So given that now we have a serious precedent for considering all ICOs aa securities, what are the steps a company needs to take to make sure their ICO is legal under US LAW??

1. Does it need to register the ICO somehow? If so, how exactly are the securities registered?

2.!What regulations apply now? Do the 1933 blue sky laws apply and Regulation D and the usual exceptions - including JOBS act crowdfunding provisions - apply?

3. Can anyone buy the ICO or does the company now need a private placement memorandum?

4. And even so, isn't the secondary market for the tokens constitute "transferring" of securities? What does a company need to make sure all that is legal, short of fulfilling all the reporting requirements of a Public company?

Basically what happens now to all the ICOs done so far by companies like Brave? What are they going to do?

Look at the title of this article and tell me - is it accurate?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/05/18/want-to-ho...
How familiar are you with the history of securities laws? Do you know why they were drafted?

Every con artist in history has claimed that their mark knew what they were getting into.
Raspberry Pi simulator from Microsoft
I would say the international increase in obesity and all of the health problems it creates is the new smoking TBH.
I would say there's plenty of drama in already-regulated markets, wouldn't you? I think the OP simply meant this particular flavor of drama.
> Even if you personally make good decisions if the market for good products is not big enough the addictive products will be all that's available.

Nothing is all good and nothing is all bad, but rather allˋs a shade of grey.

My way of solving the addiction Problem is to get rid of the dark stuff by putting a box on all shady and only letting it through in a controlled manner so only light comes out at the end.

The box is like a teacher, assisting and guiding. Not limiting but supporting with anything I want done.

I am unable to find a better metaphore.
This is not a sentiment that can be proven wrong. It's a statement on basic rights.

And history shows that attempts to control complex industries with cookie cutter rules imposed from on top create the most dysfunctional industries in the economy, namely finance, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare.
Maybe a better example would be a concert ticket, beanie babies, or baseball cards.
> but if I hacked into it and took the 1s and 0s making up your balance, well, there's no question that's a crime.

It's a crime of computer / network intrusion. Not a crime of property law (you can't own a record in a database as property, and therefor I can not steal your property).

> if you're abusing a fault in the code, that's very clearly fraudulent behavior.

Another way to put this is that you are using the contract in a manner how it was defined by the author. Compare with a misconfigured web server showing open directories of files, or a robots.txt with a typo in it (ignore: /adminn). What is a fault and what is a feature? Who decides this? Solely the author of the contract? The parties involved (who splits the ties)? A majority of 3rd party volunteers? If everything is decentralized and open to anyone, whose computer network are you intruding/disturbing?

> doesn't mean that it doesn't fall into existing laws

If law was a software product, we are definitely a few pull requests behind its intended use. Look at how long it took to update authorship/copyright laws with the evolution of the internet, and how ugly things are when wrestled into the old framework of: I create it, I forever own it.
We aren't allowed to murder people either, but for some reason, most of us don't consider that to be the antithesis of liberal democracy.
Wasn't referring to any particular technology when I referred to "incognito", just my attempts to keep Google out of my life.
I don't know about you, but I don't find that I'm missing out on anything by pulling my phone out when I'm waiting for my car to warm up. I don't think I'm wasting time because when I start getting bored with a movie that I'm watching, I pull out my phone and check my messages.

I don't miss the ten minutes of watching the news before leaving for work that has been replaced with ten minutes of Facebook. Maybe reading a novel for an hour after work is a better use of my time than reading Reddit for an hour, but maybe it's not?

I'm probably not super typical with my social media consumption, but I only use social media to fill the time when my kids are doing their own thing, my wife is on something, and I don't really have time to engage in some activity.

I get that social media is new and alarming that it's such an integral part of our lives, but maybe we need to step away from these hype grabbing headlines. What's the difference if a 10 year old is posting on Instagram, to a 10 year old in the 80s with a Polaroid? If kids talk on snapchat instead of over the fence in the backyard?

Again, I want to stress that I'm not saying we shouldn't look into the negative effects of social media. We certainly should. But we also shouldn't assume these things are bad because people with poor impulse control are ruining their lives.
If you don't mind sharing, where did you grow up? Was it a political influence that resulted in the lack of ads? Was everything state-run as a result?
Should not the individual be held responsible for making a poor decision? Taking the stance that we should be protected from every possible bad thing that can happen is a recipe for economic disaster. Especially when the one offering such protection is the one that manipulates us the most.
>Layout of high-frequency electronics has many gotchas

I listened to this mantra for about 15 years but its like anything else that "looks hard" it becomes obvious after doing it.

RF design rules are well documented and pretty straightforward once you get past the smoke, mirrors and doom mongering. All the good RF subsystem manufacturers have white papers, dev boards and fully documented layout design guides for their chips and low power ISM sub-systems under 20dBM are more or less bulletproof.

I have made several commercial designs, my first ones were just copy/pasting the gerbers off the dev boards (I did not even need to buy the dev boards as the gerbers were downloadable for free) all these worked fine and even several dBM of transmission loss due to bad RF or enclosure design is not actually a game changer in most short distance/low power applications.

My first designs I actually understood very little, now I have all the toys to do proper RF design and understand it much better and so long as you read up on the basics there is no reason not to try too. Seriously it costs $15 for a PCB delivered worldwide these days so you can afford to experiment or tell your EE/intern to do it and dont be too surprised when it works.
Oh man this is so cool, it is amazing how accessible things are compared to few decades ago!
Submitted https://sheetsu.com 673 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251686). Hit home page and stayed in the 2nd position for couple hours.
I got 12,715 visitors in a week when it was submitted from HN only. A lot of them being my first users. HN was kind of a perfect audience for the early version of my product. Many great people with awesome feedback.

It was a solo attempt at the beginning. Right now there are 5 of us working on it and building a business around it.
Re: FV -- I admittedly have a surface level understanding of the entire subject matter. If you have any good primers and / or resources, I'd love to hear them.

re: Pact -- sounds super cool. I look forward to reading the white paper. Would be happy to scan the drafts if you'd be interested in sharing too

re: SEC -- just saw that too. I wouldn't say I totally disagree with the decision -- by Howie test standards, a governance token like DAO is functionally a security. Whether that jurisprudence will extend to grayer-area app coins and such is the real question.

At the moment, not planning on a token sale. Largely because of the concerns you've alluded to.
> Find collaborators

take a look at The Recurse Center

www.recurse.com
RESPectful APIs
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Nothing pisses me off more when I am talking with someone and they take their phone out to check a notification or people using their phone during a conversation or meeting. Once someone pulls their phone out, I stop caring about the conversation, meeting etc... While cigarette smoke gives me a headache, I would actually prefer someone pull out smoke as I know they are still engaged in the conversation or meeting.

Social media in my opinion is an oxymoron.
So the base subscription is free? And they're just paying when new leads are generated?

From the payment provider's point of view, you essentially have a free subscription with misc charges each month. So using Stripe, you would just sign up a user to your subscription plan which would have a $0 cost.

Then at the end of the month when you're reconciling the billing, you create a charge on each customer equal to NEW_LEAD_COST * COUNT
Serious question: Do you know any countries AT ALL that have no securities commission, or one that doesn't strictly regulate sale of securities, while at the same time the country allows formation of a company?

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. Then you have the company pay YOUR company as its main supplier, as opposed to its parent.

Is anyone on HN familiar with such a country?
That's my mistake. Here is the article I meant to post:

Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/opinion/charles-blow-blac...
There is no (useful) innovation in the ICO space. I would even want to argue that is makes a lot of innovation hard or impossible.
Good Job! It really help me with my new start up.
I'm more interested in the process leading up to college, your work ethic definitely makes a difference there but your opportunities when you are younger affect whether you ever even go to college and how prepared you are once you get there.

How did you write those scripts and websites, did you have a computer growing up? Internet access (what little internet there was to be had then that is)?

I'm not trying to take away your achievements, but I think this kind of thinking is a big part of what is wrong with how we make public policy. We see things in a very narrow way (just human nature) and we generally have a hard time empathizing with other people and their experiences. I think if we could get over that and stop romanticizing the exceptions and start understanding better the average experiences of people in our societies, maybe we can make better decisions that allow more people to succeed.

By the way working full time through undergrad and grad school would have been tough, I ended up taking out loans myself (partly so I could enjoy the experience a little more and not work all the time, only most of the time) so kudos to you for pulling that off. I'm not sure I want everyone to have to go through that (if even they could have done that, not too many people can make $75/hr even as professionals let alone students), but there is nothing wrong with taking pride in having done it yourself.
> I’ve learned a lot, but what’s the point without application?

An entertaining hobby? People who do archery for a hobby don't bemoan that they've spent another Saturday shooting arrows at targets without making a cent, and that their club dues are just wasted.
DAOs and the JOBS act for sure open up opportunities for crooks to do some "boiler-maker-esque" stuff. I cannot disagree with that. And I do not doubt that gullible people can be hoodwinked by bad people. I would say that fraud and property theft can be handled on a case by case basis. That protecting hypothetical gullible crypto enthusiasts at the expense of the entire industry and putting up huge legal barriers to entry is the wrong move.
This is why my facebook is entirely memes. I'd much rather look at lame captions poorly matched with cute cat and dog pictures, than see yet another 'My life is better' post.
Want to go insane on this. Turn your phone off during work and on dates. It's a huge new level of focus and clarity.
They are a significant percentage of H1Bs, but not even a majority of them.
The very next two sentences: "The observed premium increase reflects unsubsidized premiums. Insurers receive the full premiums each month, regardless of whether they are paid by the individual or the federal government (IRS 2014). Thus, although the data reflect premiums received by insurers, individuals likely faced smaller changes in premiums after taking the subsidy into account."

It's remarkable that premiums didn't rise more under the ACA, despite how many new previously-uninsurable people were covered.
You can find several.

https://www.redfin.com/city/17151/CA/San-Francisco/filter/ma...
Very smart people are scammed and conned all the time.
Certain types of fraud are still likely to garner more attention, particularly when there's a dedicated law enforcement organization tasked with it.
The "problem" is that front-end styles/look-and-feels change so often that many places feel they need many layers to protect themselves from future front-end style changes so they can have the latest whizbang UI/UX. While this generally works, it creates extra busy work in managing and debugging layers and the interaction between them. Separation of concerns means managing the pathways between the separate parts: it's not a free lunch.

The most productive dev tools I ever used had tight integration between the business logic, UI/UX, and the database. Very little code got a lot done. But, the tight integration meant it was harder to switch database brands or UI/UX styles.
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> I remember being told that Al-Qaeda used this mechanism to exchange messages

I don't think that was ever confirmed. Niels Provos and Peter Honeyman went looking for stego content "in the wild", examining over 2 million images, which was a lot at the time. Their search came up empty.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/detecting.pdf

Edit: Apparently they did find one image, created as a demonstration for the ABC News story. http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/abc.html
> The SEC's Report of Investigation found that tokens offered and sold by a "virtual" organization known as "The DAO" were securities and therefore subject to the federal securities laws. The Report confirms that issuers of distributed ledger or blockchain technology-based securities must register offers and sales of such securities unless a valid exemption applies.

> The agency has decided not to bring charges in this instance, or make findings of violations in the Report

So they aren't going to bring charged to the creators of The Dao. What about the other dApp's based in the US that have already ICO'd (BAT, Augur etc.)? Also, if a company successfully files/gets approved by the SEC, does that mean that NASDAQ can now list tokens?

AFAIK the SEC only cares about securities sold in the U.S. I'd imagine this incentivizes a lot of Token issuers to leave the U.S?
The basic principle of liberal democracy is that we have an absolute right to personal autonomy unless we violate other people's equal right to the same.

Making it illegal to offer a digital token for sale to other consenting adults, without approval from a central authority, is unconscionable.

Before endorsing yet another law that restricts our right to engage in voluntary interactions, consider this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci...
When every side project is wildly different and requires learning considerable new skills, there's clearly something else going on besides unenjoyable work just to bootstrap a business.
Isnt JS/ES approaching this? + the native stuff
then don't engage in anything, just be still for a couple minutes
> Perhaps successful people do wake up earlier, but does that mean that the average person will become successful by doing so?

We're always trying to emulate traits of those we respect and want to become: be a jerk like Steve Jobs, swear like DHH, start your business in the garage like Apple, spend up all your money pursuing your business like Elon Musk, drop out of college like Bill Gates, etc. Pretty much every single example of success probably has numerous counter examples, but that doesn't prove or disprove the value of it.
I was thinking a part time marketing job would be an ideal gig for a woman who's looking after young kids, has experience and wants to work 5-20 hours a week on something interesting to keep their eye in. I'd look in those circles.
Websites like this inspire me to start my business.
I also recommend you Collapsed.co
From the application:

> What's your background?
In particular anything that would help convince us that you're actually capable of finishing your project.

> Project description:
Describe your project, including: where you got the idea, how you think others might use it, and how it is new/different/better than what already exists. This is the main answer we use to judge applications.

These questions make the grant seem like a Catch-22. The people who are skilled enough at machine learning/deep learning to receive the grant would be able to be employed at any relevant company for their research.

Thanks to modern machine learning/deep learning tooling, the educational bar is much lower for more creative projects (e.g. Show HNs) which would have more necessity for the spare resources. But from the application, that's not the sense I'm getting.
Indeed they do: http://www.seahawks.com/video/2015/06/11/2015-seahawks-tackl...
Minor correction, BEAM is just as old if not a couple years older than JVM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine
Of course. We don't restrict the rights of the entire population to engage in voluntary interactions to preempt crime. We punish actual criminals to deter other would-be criminals, and leave everyone else to be free.

We don't require a publishing license because someone might use their right to free speech to libel someone else. We punish the libeler.
> What's the point of even having a country if citizens aren't prioritized over non-citizens?

For jobs? We're talking about welcoming immigrants into the country to work. My opinion doesn't extend to every possible way that a nation can prioritize its own citizens. If, for instance, there's an American citizen involved in some incident in another country (plane crash, terrorist attack, unjust arrest, etc.), of course I expect the USA to prioritize that. I also expect the USA to prioritize its own economy, infrastructure, education, etc. (although I think that is for the benefit of all legal residents, not just "citizens").