skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it seems like people already knew it was a gray area so they did it as a precaution. I don't think this SEC notice changes very much.
They aren't guilty of interference. Interference has a strict definition. A device operating in the ISM band by defition can't be interfering with other devices in the ISM band if that bandwidth is being used for communication.

ISM (Industry, Science, and Medical) is a free for all band. It is like a public good. Anyone can make a device that uses those frequencies.
I don't want football to be illegal. But I also want the NFL to own up to and be fully transparent and forthcoming about the risks of the sport.

For example, it would be great if there was a short message before each game is aired that said "the sport you are about to watch is know to cause X in players. X is an extremely painful and debilitating condition." Then play a short clip of patients suffering from X.

Similarly, anyone who wants to become a player should be required to watch such a video educating them about the risks.
SpKEX: An optimized lattice-based key exchange [pdf]
I added 'second hand social media' to my collection of interesting concepts, thanks.
The voice we hear in our head and the one everyone else hear is starkly different.
Either there were bad versions (typos, cropping, etc) of the work printed in paperback or it's talking about the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; and Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters.
Thanks. I would be interested to hear your perspective.

I agree that "value based care" is probably not the best name for a fully capitated system. (Population health might be closer, but still not perfect.) By definition the "value" of something is whatever someone is willing to pay for it. A doctor's reimbursement rate is negotiated with the insurer, so there is an explicit agreement to pay that rate for that service. And by being a member of that health plan, the patient explicitly agrees to pay whatever deductible or copay is required by the plan, based on the rate the insurer negotiated with the doctor. So in a FFS system everyone has actually agreed to pay the price that is charged.

The problem is that as a patient, it is hard to tell how much a medical service will cost before receiving it. In a grocery store, you can look at the price of milk and decide whether it is worth buying. But there are all sorts of reasons why price consciousness is harder with healthcare (for example: emergency care, lack of price transparency, agency issues). And so the idea of value is harder to measure from the patient's perspective, which is why value and price paid may not exactly match.
Artists and animators. Deviantart, Furaffinity.
You're right, but in the case of things like Storj and Sia, for instance, the ICO token is used to pay for the services offered by the network. What it really is, is a tradable pre-sale. It's as if you could trade the perks offered by a Kickstarter. I'm not sure if that would make it exempt or not, but it is an interesting legal question.
That's the risk deduced from the study of cohorts going back to at least mid-century. But it's specific to mesothelioma, not all cancers resulting from exposure. Mesothelioma seems to have a long lag time between exposure and presentation, suggesting to me that many of the cases being studied would relate back to exposure before modern occupational safety regulations.

Also, there are several kinds of asbestos fibers (broadly serpentine and amphibole), and the most lethal kind seem to be present typically as only a small fraction. Which makes it harder to relate risk (typically in units of f/mL.yr of a specific fiber type) to occupational exposures (often, AFAICT, in units of f/mL.yr of mixed fibers).

I suppose some of the horror stories about insane cancer incidences are from areas with peculiar asbestos deposits. Most of these studies I found were looking at averages of various cohorts (based on occupation, mix of fiber, etc), so wouldn't reflect those peculiar environments. Which I think is fair when comparing to CTE, otherwise you can cherry pick to exaggerate or minimize the relative harm of CTE. Ultimately there's a limit to the comparison.

But be skeptical. I'm gleaning this from some some quick Google searches and a superficial parsing of research papers, trying to create a 10,000' picture from claims and statements that are couched in very specific and narrow terms.
Your attention is now helping how the corporation want you to use your time to help them make money. It all seem like a win win but your share of win is much lower. You miss out on introspection of yourself or other matters, that's just the tip or the iceberg
Why not Ethereum?
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So, solving CVP? That's a pretty neat application, though.
A micro-version of this that really bothers me is sidewalk signs for businesses. I think if someone can take up half the width of the sidewalk for personal gain, it should be legal to take the sign.
Flashing can be a bit iffy, it being made as a Chrome extension is a weird choice. I never had any big issues with flashing, and once the device is running, I find it more stable than any of the Pis that I have, as the Pis always tend to get a corrupted filesystem within 6-12 months. They can blame SD all they want, there's something wrong with the chipset.
> or one that doesn't strictly regulate sale of securities

There's a reason why some crypto-companies (and not crypto actually) are based in the Cayman Islands (BitMEX), British Virgin Islands (Bitfinex), etc... Crypto Valley [0] in Switzerland is also gaining momentum. BTW, Fred Wilson wrote an interesting piece about this recently [1].

But the issue here is that if you plan to sell "tokens" to US nationals, you now know that you must play by the SEC rules. That or you shouldn't offer them to US individuals. Nothing rare about it, for instance CFDs [2] are financial instruments banned in the US, but traded without problems in the rest of the world. My guess is that ICOs will be like CFDs, offered around the world, but not to US citizens.

[0] https://cryptovalley.swiss/

[1] http://avc.com/2017/07/jurisdictional-competition/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_for_difference
Whoops, I totally didn't notice that was missing from the list.

That being said, while Apple hasn't explicitly said they plan to remove Flash from desktop Safari, they've implicitly signalled it -- they've already got features in place which make it often only load on demand.
The SEC cares about U.S. citizens. If you marketed and/or sold to a U.S. investor, you are now under the SEC's jurisdiction.

There are countries you can go to of course, but not many left. Grand Caymans... Switzerland is no longer a safe haven from U.S. jurisdiction either.
For some reason this page gives Firefox a fit, and that is with multiprocessing enabled...
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I have one deployed on Digital Ocean (http://blog.mclemon.io/fedora-jupyter-on-a-linux-remote-usin...) but it's just not as convenient or quick as a local python repl for quick calcs and sums.
javascript... i like it because it is the wrong way to do it and it feels so good.
I wouldn't say that it is getting replaced with wifi. But z-wave is definitely getting replaced by Zigbee, 6LoWPAN and Thread. (all of which aren't compatible with z-wave's proprietary hardware.) Also the entrance of the long awaited Bluetooth mesh, will have interesting effects on the market.
There are unregulated exchanges, usually small.
I'm struggling to understand what the use-case of this is, both from a borrower and a lender viewpoint? Who would use this and for what?
Ah perfect. Yes the base cost is free so that should work. Thanks!
The Raspberry Pi will be easier to layout than an equivalent ARM SoC that needs external RAM.
Maybe not all that insane, but TypeScript is already essentially what you're describing.
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tplink and belkin wemo both make WiFi switches and plugs.
Your not really missing out on anything, but you are missing out on the chance for your mind to wander. Daydreams are the start of your next great idea.
This is happening more and more recently, because the US is only signing treaties (even unrelated ones) if they require that countries allow governmental data to be outsourced into the US.

This is getting very scary, and I’m starting to feel like we should stop doing any interaction with the US here in Europe.
Every one of these scams that have imploded, including the DAO itself, have had participants crying out for interventions. That should speak volumes about the amount of consent involved (and indeed the sophistication).
Smart gun beaten by dumb magnets
It's fine to tell people about your related project, but it's not fine to hijack the thread with comments about it, so please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14852088 and marked it off-topic.
Is there some way we can just replace these kinds of threads with a link to some canonical thread about why the concept of security laws is fundamentally unjust or unwise? This discussion really has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
This entire problem's solution already exists with malpractice insurance.
A Docker Abstraction That Handles Container Security
I was thinking about that comparison of inanimate risks to animate risks and I think the key difference is that one has the power to increase in frequency by sheer will. The other not so much. One creates a victim, another prey as I've read recently @ https://www.city-journal.org/html/lightning-bathtubs-and-ban...
I agree. This is why the "counter-argument" doesn't make sense. It assumes that it's not preventative (so it's a negative effect?). Might as well let them carry on?
That sounds like addiction to me. A lack of stimulation causing restlessness.

Counseling and meditation help me with this, but it's on ongoing struggle.
Aren't censuses usually published?
If you are looking for an inclusive gender-neutral variant, "ass" is probably the best. Although I tend to avoid such language in general as it comes across as immature and detracts from an otherwise valid argument. I'm all for freedom of speech, but I'm also for inclusive language. My satirical response was really just to draw attention to that.
The SEC should show that it protects everyone's rights and not just large firms with piles of cash to pay to them and to pay expensive lawyers. Otherwise we have to assume that this is largely about trying to tax things.

The way they can do this is by making a real effort to update their technical, documentation, and regulatory programs.

Is there a straightforward way to do an Edgar filing that doesn't require a bunch of training? Is there a web page that clearly lists the requirements for these types of securities in plain English?

How much do the company registrations and filings actually cost? What is the basis for these costs? Because an ICO can be created at no cost. Are the excessive fees due to a lack of modernization or streamlining of the processes, or they simply bribes that line officials' pockets and protect the incumbent firms from poorly funded startups?

In recent cases, how would fees and filings have actually protected anyone? Does the SEC have technical staff or software capable of evaluating Ethereum contracts for validity or safety? If not, how does their regulatory effort provide any benefit, except as an opportunity for them to collect a type of tax and make it harder for startups to compete with large firms where SEC officials have friends working?
This is wonderful news. The ICO world was a disgusting mess of ignorance and pyramid schemes.
> AFAIK the SEC only cares about securities sold in the U.S.

Or to American residents. The Treasury also claims jurisdiction over securities transactions done overseas using U.S. dollars.
But can't their securities commission also pass such a resolution?
Religious people tend to keep their heads down in STEM communities anyway, because if they make too much noise, they'll be asked to provide evidence, which is antithetical to the very premise of religions. It's a STEM-community thing, not an HN thing.

> I could say that the growth is fear correlates (as described in the article) with decreased engagement in organized religion. How would that go over? Would people appreciate a new kind of thought and a new diverse perspective? Or would they groan and roll their eyes?

Well, you're begging the question there by framing that concept as 'new diverse perspective'. It's not that at all, but a tired, conservative perspective. The idea that people have lost their way because they've lost their faith and are now suffering for it is not even remotely new or diverse. So you would get groans and eye-rolls, which you would interpret as being against 'new, diverse', but which was actually against beating a tired old nag.
Head gets hit repeatedly. That's the most complex and delecate organ in your body. I don't know live appendages that can take hits repeatedly without any long term side effects. Money talks in the NFL, so as long as that gets passed around, they are not taming it down unless the govt steps in
I guess it played a role in getting html5/css3/web-standards features up to speed

The Adobe Flex thing had lot of css3 features early. Funny to see how 'easy' it is to release specs and implementation when you are the sole owner of the tech
> The SEC cares about U.S. citizens

Residents. Noncitizen American residents are protected by the SEC. Though even that is a leaky boundary [1].

[1] http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2017/04/11/proskauer-rose...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Do not take legal advice from my Internet comments.
https://github.com/pixelspark/catena
Ask HN: Anybody know why news.discovery.com reroutes to rebelmouse today?
I generally used http://news.discovery.com as a relatively innocuous non-https link to trigger a connection prompt for public WiFi.

Today, however, that link reroutes to the "RebelMouse vs. WordPress VIP" spiel page at rebelmouse.

http://www.discovery.com still stays at Discovery as expected (www as opposed to news).

At first, I thought this (Starbucks) WiFi was co-opted (or I was intercepted by a surveillance router, like a Stingray), but I get the same result on LTE/WCDMA mobile.

This behavior never happened before today or late yesterday.
I was watching a YouTube video of a popular Ethereum blogger and he mentioned that one of his acquaintances was charged with tax evasion for not reporting his cryptocurrency income. This person thought he could just pay what he owed and be done with it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. Once they catch you for tax evasion you'll pay whatever you owe in addition to facing tax evasion charges.
It's interesting that LightGBM was initially promoted as being more accurate than XGB, but that claim always seemed marginal at best and was hard to reproduce.

Other investigations show the same thing about training speed though, eg https://medium.com/implodinggradients/benchmarking-lightgbm-...
Great talk, enjoyed it. Maybe because it's exactly what I wanted to hear. Hopefully it's a good idea.
Oh hot damn!

I've been waiting on API access to manage certs for a while.
That source has some good points , but it too does not dispute the statistics. Just explains some of it.

The one statistic it gave that disputes for more daily activity was for children under age 5, for certain activities, and only for black fathers that live with their children - not on the whole.

Very bad cherry picking and bad reporting.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf
What then about anonymous artists such as Banksy? Many of the artists we today view as great, such as Van Gogh, were in their time neither respected nor enjoyed financial or, as you offer, sexual benefits from their art. They still pursued it, often into abject poverty and early deaths.
If Valve decided to fund the creation of Team Fortress 3 in part with exclusive pre-order hats, would that now violate securities law?
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There is the small matter of geology, following have to be considered, for example:

-Rock type

-Groundwater flow

-Tectonic activity

You can have a whole career as a geotechnical engineer. There are genuine and difficult problems that require consideration if your tunnel isn't to collapse after a few years of use. I don't think these problems magically disappear with new technology or going deep enough.
Oh, I just got downvoted, unsure why. I was thinking that it's a pretty neat tool to integrate with Facebook. As your primary goal is to build your family structure, you may want to share it with your family members (and maybe have them help building the tree).

Also, depending how you want to grow, fb login is typically the most successful one.
Honestly (as a former football player) I find this opinion to reek of pseudo-academic snobbery. You know why football is such a popular sport? Because people love football. More importantly, people love playing football. I understand that not everyone sees the appeal of the sport and it's their right to have their own preferences. But to simply dismiss the passionate pursuits of hundreds of thousands of players across the globe as some engineered gladiator battle by the upper class is absurd. There was football before there was television. If the NFL shut down tomorrow and televised broadcasts were banned, there would still be football. You can condemn the exploitation of players' health in the NFL without creating these gross overgeneralizations of the sport.

Moreover I think it's offensive to imply football is this caste regime as if the rich people are watching the poor people play. Football pervades all income levels. Your rich prep high schools still have a football team. Ivy league schools still have football teams. If anything it is an equalizer because your rich suburban prep school guy lines up next to a dude that grew up in the inner city all the same. And their standing in the team, along with compensation, will be dependent on their performance as opposed to race or economic background. Where else in society is there this level of parity?
I have been off Facebook for about 5 years and recently just got off Instagram about 2 months ago. I can't believe how much longer my battery is lasting lol.

The big kicker for me quitting was that if I became the slightest bit stuck on a task at work, I would reach for my phone and get lost in the instavoid.

Since I quit I have been much more productive and also noticed I don't habitually dive into social media when I become bored.
Trying to protect everyone all the time from everything quashes innovation. I've lost money in ICOs. I lost money in the DAO, too. I'd lose that money 10x over again to prevent the SEC from squashing this nascent space like this.
I'd think that they mean "appalling paperback editions" purely in contrast to "fine uniform and collector’s editions".
People forget that once upon a time, radios didn't need batteries at all.

Even up until the 70's, companies made speakerphone amplifiers that didn't use any electricity at all. I have one that I use with an iPod, and the sound fills two very large rooms.

Once "transistor" became a marketing term, every industrial design started with a battery, instead of finding creative ways to actually solve the problem first.

Man, I'm old.
Well, I used AS3 and Flex while it occupied a useful niche and at the time it was SO much better than the web platform.

BUT, AS3 was not a great language. The VM was pretty slow (that GC! I'm sure you game devs optimized the hell out of it with object pools and all, but still, modern JS VMs could run circles around Flash's), the static typing was extremely limited: you could only type "Function", not the actual arg and return value types; type inference was non existant, Vector was invariant, etc. Let's face it, Adobe wasn't the best at language design.
Typescript is today so much better than AS3 ever was.
The SEC exists to prevent fraud. It's about people having a choice between truthful investments. These companies are allowed to operate as they claim they are with relatively little oversight. What the SEC regulates is a company claiming they will use investment to do X and then the company does Y or keeps it for themselves. Which is also known as fraud. Like the DEA (an example of something unjust), Secret Service, and ATF, the SEC is a specialized branch of law enforcement.

What these personal choice fundamentalists forget is that lying is wrong. And when you lie about what you are going to do with someone's money, that's a form of theft, e.g. fraud.
Yeah, at one point I stumbled upon the portfolio of a dev who does their interactive content and loved it.

I have so much appreciation for people who have a good sense for design that is intuitive/effortless for the user. Especially in this case, when it means cutting the learning curve that a user experiences when they are presented with a bunch of new data.
that's a great characterization, that essentially human behavior is inherently more unpredictable than natural phenomena/behavior.
Ok so my example was obviously too simplified

Users a b and c all at some point search for information on products
x y and z. Many users, many products.

User d comes along and has previously looked at product z and is now searching for product y. It's now worth putting product x in the "you may also be interested in" segment. It might land a sale, it might not. That data can then be added to the pool to decide if they should show product x to people who search similar products

Why bother at all if they didn't purchase? You don't know why they didn't purchase. Maybe they were shopping around, maybe they were price matching, maybe they just don't have the cash right now.

It's machine learning, not if statements.
This changes nothing to most of the ICOs, most of them have information that they do not offer their tokens to US citizens.
Because not everyone agrees with you?
When my Chrome tabs crash unrecoverably it's a huge relief! Tens or Hundreds of things I wanted to read later, but weren't truly important. Too bad, but now I can use Chrome comfortably again.
And companies shouldn't feel emboldened to scam left and right.
up in heaven, Steve Jobs is smiling a bit more than usual today :)
Minimum salary increased relatively recently. About a decade ago you could find NFL benchwarmers on not much more than 50k.