skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one sounds bad, but the problem with the Howey test is that it's overly broad. Anything from presales in a Kickstarter to ICANN selling those new domain names (like .attorney) to selling tickets to a yet-to-be-arranged event could all be considered a security under the Howey test. It's just too broad and nobody knows where the SEC will draw the line. It would be good for everyone if the SEC would simply explain on what would make a ICO legit, because currently their guidance is still too unclear. It's like they want the ability to selectively prosecute anyone, not caring that the regulatory uncertainty is keeping legitimate, risk-adverse teams away, which doesn't help.
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+1

And you're just scratching the surface.
I spent 30min on the phone with Mark Vilardo, special counsel at the SEC and the guy who will call you if you all questions about ICOs.

Basically, ICOs are 99% of the time classified as securities in the US. The main exception is if the token is non-transferrable or can be returned for what you paid for it. So, if you can't make money selling our trading it, it's not a security, which defeats the purpose of an ICO.

It sounds like who the SEC goes after is subjective, but at any point in time they could bring a suit against an ICO, even gimmick coins.
Phone typos. Too late to fix. Oh well, can’t win them all.
But the Ethereum based tokens that do succeed will be a net benefit for ETH, since ETH is required for the smart contracts that govern those tokens to operate.
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Where do you plan to access it from? Do you mean server or cloud software? Have you searched google - there are large numbers of such applications.

Question has too little context, what is your interest, to build applications with it, or build it? On what platform?
Why is this a "surprise move" by Travis? It sounds like he was granted this power and now people are shocked he used it?
Volume is great for Ethereum. If you ignore speculative value, and long term savings value, Ethereum's value is pegged to the float required for its pure transactions. If they are transacting a billion dollars a week in ICOs, and the typical ICO user holds for 6 months, then that puts a floor on ETH at $24B. That's $24 billion of real value. As valuable as $24B of petroleum, so long as there keep being ICOs... even if none of them are worth anything.
I think their response is less than pretentious. I like how she says "I don't know if it's art" clearly acknowledging between the lines that there is no logical conclusion on the horizon. If she claimed it "was art" that would be pretentious. Instead, I think her response invites the question and maintains an innocence that is deserved.
this thread is kind of stale - but if you'd do so and reply (you can also email me at the email in my profile) I'll appreciate it.
Haven't seen any offical annocement for this, but it looks like they open sourced every version before the current releases
Apple Open Sources iOS Kernel
Same is true for startups, except that startup funding carries fiduciary responsibility. If you are not spending money in the best interests of the investors, they can sue you.

Current token sales waive this responsibility, but investors should demand that it is there.
The PRU in some TI chips like that in the Beaglebone give you that kind of thing. A couple of deterministic 200mhz arm cores that run separately from the main cpu. They've been used for lots of motor control projects and also bit-banging network protocols.
I'd do it caveman style and self host. Keep a tiny VM of your setup on the cloud somewhere as a failover (only have to power it on long enough to rsync).

As long as things stay small, managing hardware is usually easier than addressing 3rd-party curve-balls.
Ask HN: It's 2017, why isn't there an easy option for surround sound?
Here's what I want:

A small router-sized device that has an HDMI input, supports ARC, and can power my surround sound speakers.

Why is that so hard?

It seems odd that I'm forced to buy a giant A/V receiver with 10 inputs, hundreds of settings, am/fm radio, a microphone jack, and a headset jack.

I mean, do they really think I'm going to listen to fm radio while dancing around in my living room wearing a headset with a ten foot cord? The eighties were over 30 years ago!

All I want to do is hook up my TV to surround speakers and get the same functionality I get from the A/V system, minus the giant size and all the other features, displays, and dials I don't need.
I make a living trading BTC. I know the difference.

The OP mentioned selling in a day, not at once: «I doubt you could liquidate millions of dollars of bitcoin IN A DAY...» This is what I commented on.

You changed the topic and started talking about selling all at once, which would of course eat a bunch of bids. However even doing this wouldn't "crash the market." The order books are deeper than you think. It's hard to find examples, because it's plain dumb to market-sell this much in one order. But I found a ~1150 BTC sell on Bitstamp around 3pm on September 13 and it barely moved the price: https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg5zig1-minzczs...

It would eat even lower bids on exchanges with less volume/thinner books, but still wouldn't crash the market. For example some idiot sold 1200 BTC in two market-sells of 600 BTC each, 30min apart yesterday on Gemini; and although it ate all the bids from $4100 to $3400, twice!, it didn't "crash the market". Other exchanges didn't react. Subsequent trades resumed exactly where the price was before ($4100).
> Nothing in the comment you replied to clashes with that. At all. The actual point, which stands unmoved, is something for which both Russia/Ukraine and Turkey/Kurds are mere examples.

Except they really are all different situations. Turks and Kurds are completely different ethnic groups with different languages, origins and history. Kurds are closely related to Iranians, not Turks.

> Why would they have to? They gained independence 1991. That's the most significant bit, no?

Because there's revisionist history which states Ukrainians and Russians are different ethnic groups. They're not. They've shared the same history and culture for over a thousand years, they're the same ethnic group. Yes they're different nations now, but they're not different peoples.
> I personally think any democratic government should allow for succession.

You know, this makes sense on the surface, but when you start to think about the details, the trickiness of the situation becomes apparent.

Ok, so we are going to allow seccession. Well, how big a group does it have to be to be allowed to secede? Can I secede as an individual, and make my house an independent nation? A neighborhood? A city? A county? A US State? Each level is going to have its own problems.

Ok, lets imagine we agree on the minimum size we will allow to secede. Let's say we are in the USA, and we decide a state can secede.

Does it require a simple majority? 2/3rds vote? 3/4ths? We have a constitution for a reason, to protect the minority from the majority. We have decided the majority can't do certain things (like establish a state religion, or ban the practice of minority religions), but do we allow a secession vote to be an end-run around that idea? Could a majority just vote to secede and create a new nation that doesn't have the protections for minority viewpoints?

How do we even do the vote? Do we vote as individuals, or do our state representatives make the decision?

Ok, suppose we set decide an individual votes, and you need 2/3rds to vote to secede. Well, who gets to vote? Let's imagine it is Texas voting to leave; does Joe, the guy who moved from California 3 weeks ago get to vote in the secession? What about the guy who moved there 3 years ago, but lives a quarter of the time in South Dakota? What about people who own houses in Texas but live somewhere else?

I think a big part of this comes down to the fact that once you are a single nation, there is no longer a clear definition of who would have standing to secede. I don't need to request permission to move to a different state in the United States, I just do it. The entity that can make the decision to break apart is only the entire country; if Texas wants to secede, it would have to be as a decision the entire country makes together, since that is the unit of sovereignty that exists.
Toronto professor frustrated by car traffic comes up with a family bicycle
> No thanks FF, I'll try again in another decade.

You should hope that you'll have the option to do so in a decade, or maybe by then we'll all be getting extorted by Google after they've strangled the open web to death.
Here's OMX, the Swedish stock index:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EOMX?p=%5EOMX

vs the S&P 500:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/chart?p=SPY

SPY still seems to be doing significantly better over the last 5 years.
I think last time I saw a Xerox product was about 2009, around the time she became the CEO.
There is no reason to assume that building new housing requires tearing down affordable units. That's the point of using the word "adding".
Wrong Headline.

SEC has not charged with fraud rather than with violating anti-fraud and registration provisions. Since almost no ICO implement anti-$FCRIME provisions, even honest ICO can be charged similarly.
https://github.com/dtrace4linux/linux

I... haven't tried it in ages. I've no idea if it works. It used to crash my system easily, but maybe now it's fine.
It's called that in the US. We're talking about Europe.
> pretty girls are basically mini celebrities

It only lasts a few years, at most..
Broken in SAMSUNG S8 chrome: https://pasteboard.co/GMHO2oY.png
Why is the SEC so fast to target initial coin offerings but terrible at actually reining in the financial sector. To be fair I don't know a ton about the inner workings of the street, so maybe I've just consumed one too many movies/articles/whatever but it seems like the SEC is a just handing out slaps on the wrist over there.
Dumb idea. Great idea however, for anyone wanting to hide an ICBM on an airline though. I’m sure North Korea would endorse the idea.
MacBookPro7,1 (mid-2010) in Chrome! It's definitely slower than new computers, but usually I don't have trouble with nice JS libraries unless a page is drowning me in tracking software. Just tried it in safari, and it was equally slow (subjectively speaking).

Let me give Firefox Quantum a whirl...

EDIT: It's actually usable in the newest Firefox! Still kind of slow, but significantly better than Chrome or Safari. But I stand by my earlier point: I'm probably not a total edge case, and if I were designing a tool designed for the public at large, I wouldn't assume that all or even most of my users are on recent, well-maintained computers running recent browser versions. I know people outside of the dev world who (shudder) still run OS X Mavericks and haven't installed a single update in years. People like this will probably use your app, and unless you want them to think it's trash, you have to make it feel snappy.
My impression was that the control console is probably coupled too tightly to the control system, that removing and replacing it with something modern wouldn’t be feasable or worth the effort.

I find it unlikely that they need to see all those dials at once, but without a modal system to switch between data views they need to show every data point. On a modern system you could achieve the same by having views specific to each task, and an alerting system for when a data point for that task goes out of range.

Here is an image from a modern Austrian steel factory run by 3 people - half of the screens on the top row are just showing CCTV images:

http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/25/1498153350-699054458-1.jpg
Welfare is capped at a maximum of 5 years, and unemployment insurance - which you don't qualify for if you quit your job -
is capped at even less. Meanwhile student loan payments pile up and can be used to garnish your wages and social security.

The Scandinavian countries clearly have far more generous social safety nets.
The iOS kernel is not open source, just the macOS version of XNU.
As usual it seems to be an issue not of the size of the regulation but the quality. Although in many areas Sweden has a lot less regulation than the U.S. - you don't need a license to be a hairdresser, taxis are mostly deregulated, etc. It seems all the time I hear about things that are micromanaged legally in the US that are just dealt with by common sense in Sweden.
> The thing about illusions is that we generally know that we are being subject to an illusion.

Citation needed? I did my undergrad in cognitive science, and while my knowledge of illusions is very limited, I never came across anything to suggest that we have an innate awareness of when our perceptual system is being tricked.
You don't know the inner workings of the street, so why do you think it's fair for you to say the SEC is doing a terrible job reining in the financial sector?
Australian Bird Dips Its Dinner
I don't think you realize how hard it is to get benefits in the US if you're not already in the system, and especially if you are an able-bodied male.

Were I to quit my job tomorrow, I would not receive unemployment as this goes to only those who lose their job through no fault of their own.

Health insurance, even with ObamaCare, would be based on my last year's income taxes. Thus no health subsidies - 100% out of pocket.

Welfare is probably similar in most states. Section 8, the same. So unless I had a nice stash in the bank, I'd be homeless.

The one exception, I believe, would be SNAP benefits. So I guess I wouldn't starve.
Equifax has a widely deployed root CA – was it breached too?
Equifax has a root CA widely deployed which dates back to 1998. Given that they can't seem to secure their data, should we worry about them being a certificate authority like this?
Within minutes of using Pingdom's tools I got email spammed
From which end? FWIW, Quantum seemed to fix it. There doesn't seem to be a "bug," just stuff that used to be slow in Firefox. I think people understate how much faster Chrome had been for certain real world workloads.

Of course, the app is being improved too, but apples to apples, Quantum makes it better.
Brendan used to be Mr. DTrace User. (Not Mr. DTrace -- that was bmc, ahl, and mws.) But the world isn't using Solaris or FreeBSD, so I guess he moved on like most of the rest of us Solaris diaspora. Still, every time I see one of Brendan's blogs I know, deep down, he must miss DTrace; I sure do. This video doesn't help me feel at home with Linux, but it's a resource for when I need to trace something. Mostly though, when I have to debug something on Linux, I do it the pre-DTrace way, which is to say: the hard way.
How long has this been a thing? This seems huge, but I don't spend enough time in the iOS ecosystem to tell if this is just how it's been for months/years
I don't know if there's any one location for all the Rust code; it may not make logical sense to put the MP4 parser written in Rust right next to the CSS engine, for example. I believe that https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev is a mirror of the repo in question, and so we can use Github's search function to find every file that it detects as being a Rust file: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/search?l=rust (which finds 3,274 Rust files, 6,701 C files, and 22,722 C++ files).
Here's the site for:
ReCoin - https://101recoin.com/en
DRC - https://drc.world/en

Couple of things which are noticeable first up are:
a. ReCoin at least attempts to appear legit by having a "team". DRC doesn't even do that.

b. While some (most?) ICOs do not have a convincing reason for using ethereum or blockchain, this one takes the cake. The only reason for using blockchain is..well because "blockchain".

c. The sidechain is called "Altcoin" for Recoin. DRC doesn't even get that mention. On looking through the whitepaper for DRC, there is a mention of the sidechain but nothing on site. So DRC site looks like a rush job when compared to Recoin ;)

d. Quite a lot of coins avoid SEC by kinda of ensuring they are not shares in something but paying for an unreleased product. They also try and mention that coins don't have an explicit real world value. But DRC and RECoin do neither of these.

e. These guys are based out of US, so quite easy for SEC to take action too.

Devil is in the details. It will be interesting to know how the complain landed on SEC's desk.
Yes, exogenous demand is the central question in the housing debate.

That's one of the uses of a model, to think about one aspect of a process at a time.
You're a shill account and it's obvious.
That limit exists because the game is more of concentration than typing. To improve typing skills, you can try http://play.typeracer.com/
All big ICO's are through Switzerland and only allow accredited US purchasers if they allow US at all. SEC will kill the next decade of technology companies and let the EU take it over unless they issue clear guidance like the Swiss. You can apply to FINMA for $15k CHF and go through a standard process to be a verified token. Would love that in USA. After Brexit, expect more ICO's in the UK as well (Funfair is a good example) as they try to do anything possible to boost their economy.

Fact: crypto currency will be a mechanism for fundraising startups. Either deal with it or stick your fingers in your ears.
Was there something new in here you found interesting? This site is posted quite often:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=opensource.apple.com&type=stor...

The most recent time was just a couple weeks ago, there was a large discussion along with it.

The most interesting thing to me would be if someone would highlight all the patches Apple has added to these packages.
I'm pretty sure Darwin has been open source since forever - at least since 2003 according to Wiki. This is the first time I've seen it on GitHub rather than Apple's internal open source microsite (https://opensource.apple.com/)
Most of those countries have roughly the same three branches, don’t they?
The author confused DMA with mmap(). The confusion is in the second part, when referencing the first. Whatever, it's braino.
You are right in that just voting does not a democracy make. But in the same vein, restricting communication and organization of groups does not immediately a dictatorship make.

The current status is complicated and a failure of politicians' ability to do their job, but the fact is that trying to split the country unilaterally is currently illegal and wrong from at least some very sound points of view (another comment put it very well: Catalonia is as much of the Andalusians as of the Catalans).

So the government is now forced to stop this - they would otherwise be letting Andalusians be robbed. It is their job to block the referendum. It was also their job to avoid this situation by creating avenues of dialogue though... So in my opinion their next task in their job is to resign.
This only dropped 2 days ago
Well, at least future candidates know that they no longer need to spend billions on their campaign and can just spend a few hundred thousand on targeted Facebook ads instead.

> The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.

We are in agreement then that Clinton campaign was on a whole 'nother level.
In places like Hong Kong and Singapore this is not his right and their mentally disabled are much better off. Much less revolving door, less stigma, less crime, more family support, etc.

Just because we do something one way doesn't make it the best way.
> In Spain every single adult of average or slightly below average intelligence knows they have the right to say whatever they want.

As smug as you are, you're wrong -- Spain doesn't have freedom of speech as Americans understand that term.

For example, from Wikipedia: "justifying the Holocaust or any other genocide is an offence punishable by imprisonment in accordance with the constitution."
Thanks both. I was relying mostly on the existence of the SIDStation some years back.
Because things like the financial crisis of 2008 happened? Because as far as I know the SEC hasn't introduced any sort of uniform fiduciary standard for financial advisors? While I don't know the inner workings of the street, everything I see seems to point to the SEC not doing enough to penalized well-established players, and is allowing a culture in which firms do their best to not get cauhgt/apologize for transgressions rather than follow the law. Maybe it's just that my news sources are biased, but I try and vary them and pick generally considered good publications (when it's written form at least).

It seems objectively difficult to find anyone that's going to say the SEC is doing a great job at reining in the financial sector -- so my question stands, why are they doing such a good job at reining in ICOs, using tech that's barely understood by the general populace (though it's probably easy to spot how scummy they are), and in an absolutely new regulatory landscape?
This is correct. xnu/Darwin, libDispatch, the Objective-C runtime, and many other components have been on opensource.apple.com for years.
I had been using exclusively Firefox for five years until six months ago but I prefer using Chrome now. Poor documentation, tons of telemetry, shady deals like Pocket or Hallo.

You can make Chrome more private and secure then Firefox with few command line options. Or use ungoogled-chromium.

do shell script "open -n -a 'Google Chrome' --args --incognito --disable-sync --disable-reading-from-canvas --disable-voice-input --disable-system-timezone-automatic-detection --connectivity-check-url=" & quoted form of url204 & " --disable-remote-fonts --no-referrers --disable-physical-keyboard-autocorrect --no-pings --enable-fast-unload --enable-media-suspend --enable-offline-auto-reload-visible-only --use-simple-cache-backend --aggressive-cache-discard --disk-cache-size=100663296 --proxy-server=" & quoted form of proxy_url

Checked Firefox 57/58 but can't confirm any visible performance gain. Documentation is lacking. And Firefox 57 has at the moment 58 extensions compatible. And it still has Pocket buil-in.
The Mach kernel has been open source since it's inception IIRC. The Apple extensions are real, but not the majority of the functionality.
Help with the paywall?
> The classical explanation for this is that men are attracted to fertility while women are attracted to status.

Then why don't young women prefer older men, who are more likely than men of their age to be more distinguished and accomplished?

Maybe women prefer partners they can relate better to. Why is that not less plausible than this unjustified cynicism?
Fast? How do you figure?

I never understand this kind of logic. So if x agency is bad at following through some it's stated objectives in some cases, it shouldn't even attempt at trying to complete it's objective in other cases too?
I think it starts even sooner than that, with the confusion of abstractions and reality. Ralph Waldo Emerson described it in "Blight". Another thing that comes to mind is comparing "using science for this stuff" with a drunkard searching for a key near a lamp post because it's dark everywhere else, even though he knows for a fact that's the one spot it's not located. We're already restricting human thought to abstractions more and more, the asylum is already being run by the insane, so I think we're going to meet whatever we'll cook up more than half way comfortably.
Which will in turn largely get rid of health care benefits for employees. Problem solved!
It's easy to recognize a cat 95% of the time. I can write a program in 30 seconds that will recognize a cat 95% of the time. No, wait, this just in! My program will recognize a cat 100% of the time! The program has just one line:

Print "It's a cat!"
Hey so that was my first reaction, and then I thought better of it -- there's no way something this big could happen and not send ripples through the hacker (not cracker, hacker)/programmer/tech community.