skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's our view that the SEC part won't be what pushes us over the edge. 100% what we're doing is not legal, it's in our business plan. SEC won't care if investors are OK, yes. But if investors are OK, they won't be filing complaints and there will be less pressure to go after us. Not a defense! Just a delaying factor. Prosecution isn't free. Far easier to shut down ICOs that aren't operating as proper anonymous extrajurisdictional companies. They can go after us, but it's a terrible ROI for them.

But that is not what we're counting on!

Basically we asked: What if everything related to sex work was legal? What would the inevitable startup look like? With modern privacy tech, we can attempt to try it. We can ignore legal issues by operating extrajurisdictionally and anonymously.

This article discusses our technical setup:
https://medium.com/@PinkApp/pink-app-trading-latency-for-ano... - excuse the clickbait title. Please let me know the flaws you see! Latency could be a killer, but we think we can mitigate it.

The core team, people that know real-world ID, are very few. Within a few months we plan to move nearly exclusively to high-latency communication methods.

By having trustless contractors run public-facing aspects of the business, the core team's opsec attack surface is drastically reduced. We have contingency plans, so even in case of arrest or death, the system can be restored from backup. Maybe one day there will be private mature smart contracts and we can codify it. Meanwhile we'll rely on lawyers and other trusted parties.

It may sound crazy ... a libertarian cypherpunk dream. But think how if you told people that it'd be popular to send non-refundable Internet money to a hidden internet service that promises to give it to an anonymous drug dealer on the other side of the planet to mail you drugs via the US Postal Service and that people would willingly trust them and it'd all be safer than using the street ... well people would have called you crazy! Yet it's popular and darknet services do exist that haven't had their operators busted.
>"Your question is answered in depth in the documentary ..."

It wasn't an actual question it was rhetorical. I've seen the documentary, I don't buy it all. I find his sincerity questionable. Similarly his Twitter profile shows he is the President at @FreedomofPress, yet he takes refuge in a country that that is one of the most deplorable in terms of media freedom.

>"Semantics, both are entwined in case as GPG."

No it's not semantics and if you want distort it like that, both security and privacy are under assault by that same NSA.

>"Not a statement of much, if any, value."

But sighting a Hollywood movie as evidence of accuracy is? Sure, right that makes a lot of sense.
As an advertiser, it is awful when the right to be advertised (accurately) to is impinged upon.
Interesting post. Thanks.
My guess would be GTK, I'm on Debian Stretch, XFCE + i3 + firefox-esr and I have no such problem.
Everything involving huge amounts of money in China is at least tangentially political.
Proofs? or you are just another troll.
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You probably forgot to consider how much money / effort have Google wasted on projects that did not pan out. Their flagship products, like Hangouts, still have long-standing issues.

Nobody is perfect, and making a good and desirable product is hard.
> In Sweden, you might end up poor, but the poor are still taken care of. You get your medical treatment, the state pays your rent, and you are guaranteed enough income to buy groceries.

Way to propagate an ignorant myth. The US has a massive welfare state and social safety net. The average poor person in the US can typically draw $25,000 to $30,000 in benefits per year depending on the state they live in. Those benefits include free healthcare, housing, food, work training, etc. For some states, such as Hawaii, it's nearly $50,000 per year.

Just drawing on several of the most common welfare benefits programs in the US, gets you near $20,000 per year.

According to a fact check by the Washington Post in 2014, the median total individual welfare benefits package in the US was $28,800.

Let's put it another away. These welfare benefits numbers are so high, they exceed the median income in all but a few very wealthy nations.
Those plots, though. When has data ever been more clear-cut, or incriminating to the human condition.

I don't think the anti-aging research push is driven by fear of oblivion- we've found so many outlets for that already. It's about sexiness. It would be nice if the first blockbuster rejuvenation pill added years of life expectancy, but its sales will be driven almost entirely by how good it makes you look.
This is poor content for NYT, even for an OpEd
> Democracy is deciding new law based on current law following people's desires

This does not seem like the correct definition to me.

Suppose that a country is an absolute dictatorship, with the exception that the citizens may vote on the color of a bikeshed, and their word goes for the color of the bikeshed regardless of the dictator's preference for the color of the bikeshed, and that this is all enshrined in law.

This would not be a democratic country.

Democracy is based on people voting on the decisions being made.

"deciding the new law based on the current law" is not a fundamental part of democracy?

That is not to say that I don't think that "deciding the new law based on the current law" is valuable. I strongly agree that it is valuable. But it is not, I think, an essential part of what democracy is.
The Colony is looking pretty damned bright right about now.

https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0
> You never see a poor part of a country seceding

Ireland from the UK, Slovakia from Czechoslovakia, Kosovo from Serbia, the bits of Poland that were in Austria-Hungary or Germany from those two empires, pretty much every single European overseas colonial possession... Not to mention all the widely-supported secessionist movements that have failed militarily in the Indian northeast, in the Chinese west, or in the Russian Caucasus.

Of course, Americans prefer to imagine that political conflict everywhere is all about money rather than actually confront the idea that people other than themselves have collective identities and cultures.
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Donations go to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, not to the Mozilla Corporation, and are used for many worthy (non-Firefox) endeavors:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/

The Corporation (which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation i.e. only has a single shareholder, the Foundation) brings in revenue mostly through search engine deals, which is how it's able to pay staff to work on Firefox.

Unsurprisingly, it's a bit confusing... I think having the ultimate owner of the Corporation and the trademarks etc. be the Foundation is a good thing, even though it makes actually funding everything appropriately a bit complex.

Don't forget that Firefox is an open-source project, so contributions of time are always welcome! https://whatcanidoformozilla.org
Such a weak reason to write up an article about ZCash that it comes off as shill. Debating Snowden's skillset or motivations is a waste of time. I think he was just referring to the concepts behind ZCash, not the technical implementation. And even if it was the latter, a 140 character tweet isn't the place to state the why/how of his methodology when arriving at such a statement.
You’re only addressing half the comparison. Yes, the US has welfare, but it’s conditional and often insufficient.
There is a bit of "can't see the forest for the trees" failure in the article. AI is spearheading a paradigm shift in how we write programs. Or rather, we don't write programs. We write much much shorter programs that search the program space for programs that satisfy some desiderata.

The programs we get as the output of the search process are extremely flexible, work very well, are very homogeneous in compute (e.g. conv/relu stacks), and never crash or memory leak. These are huge benefits compared to classical programs.

So sure, backprop (the credit assignment scheme that gives us a good search direction in program space, one of multiple techniques that could do so) is pervasive, but AI is starting to work primarily as a result of a deeper epiphany - that we are not very good at all at writing code.
I tried to go get your project, but got a bunch of "unrecognized import path" errors. Looks like you're pulling a dependency off of IPFS, do I need to set something up for that to work correctly?
Interesting, If Google or another tech giant in the U.S. are investing it, would you worry about that? I remember Project PRISM did happen, didn't it ? Alibaba invested it to its own advantage by contributing back to opensource and try to get more Startups in China to use it, that's simple as that. And MariaDB is opensource and community-driven, I don't think it will be controlled.
Yes. And it’s not a problem. Reassembly can be a problem, but it’s usually not done on the router.
Zuck says that people are mad because people are sharing ideas that the other side doesn’t like but also defends FB’s actions in the German election: “We have been working to ensure the integrity of the German elections this weekend, from taking actions against thousands of fake accounts, to partnering with public authorities like the Federal Office for Information Security, to sharing security practices with the candidates and parties.”[1]

I’m very disappointed in Zuck’s intellectual honesty.

[1]https://gizmodo.com/facebook-deleted-tens-of-thousands-of-fa...
I wouldn't call this "lightweight". Every action has about a second of lag on my laptop. I know that my 7 year old MacBook is slower than a lot of machines that are going to run this, but there are plenty of slower machines out there, and I don't usually find web experiences unusable on this thing.

I've built several canvas-based interactive drag-and-drop applets that ran faster than this on my laptop. It was a pain, which was why I was excited to see this library on HN. But given how many people out there have old hardware, I would probably not use this library for anything but a personal project. It absolutely doesn't need to be so slow on old hardware.

That said, I hope it continues to develop, and that the performance improves! It certainly has a beautiful home page.
This remind me of debug a flight control problem with my son's model airplane.

We did a foam board stretch build of Model Airplane couple years ago.

https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-guinea-build

After we flew a few times, we added a servo to the cargo bay to be open and drop small parachute from it.

After than, my son kept complained that he would loss control for 1-2 seconds while the plane is in the air from time to time.

After research on the net, eventually I figure out it was the addition servo. Each servo in that air plane use about 1 Amp of current depend on condition. The 5th servo actually drew enough current that causes the remote receiver to reboot while the plane is in flight.

That was a fun bug to figure out.

The RC receiver is actually very good design which can be reboot and be operational in ~1 seconds.
Sorry just seeing this now. Both, actually.

Avi Spielman, in "Blockchain: Digitally Rebuilding the Real Estate Industry" does a terrific job addressing and exploring "aspect(s)- recording property titles- by comparing the benefits and limitations of a blockchain with those of the current record keeping system."

dci.mit.edu/assets/papers/spielman_thesis.pdfdci.mit.edu/assets/papers/spielman_thesis.pdf
Yes, that sounds like exactly the conclusions we came to. :)
This is getting fixed soon, there's a speedy effort underway to get maintainers and a real repo, or officially deprecate those packages.

(P.S. I think most configs would survive with MELPA alone).
Ursula Burns seems like a good choice, John Thain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain) not so much...
For a comprehensive answer see Avi Spielman's thesis, in "Blockchain: Digitally Rebuilding the Real Estate Industry"

"The research to date leads to the following conclusions: A blockchain title recording system is the future of title record keeping and would provide immediate benefits over the current title recording system, with additional benefits accruing in the future as blockchain technology grows in acceptance. However, at the moment, these benefits do not yet outweigh the costs and challenges associated with implementing a prototype blockchain title registry system in Davidson County, or elsewhere in the country. That being said, steps can, and should be taken now to lay the foundation for a blockchain system."

dci.mit.edu/assets/papers/spielman_thesis.pdfdci.mit.edu/assets/papers/spielman_thesis.pdf
I'm not sure I understand what's the contradiction between those two things -- he says that people don't like certain kinds of sharing and a large corporation with a lot of cyber security experience assists a government with security while also monitoring its own platform for abuse during the election.
I can't remember which game it was that took 9 minutes to load on my 464. And typing out listing from mags to get eg an assembly graphics routine! Life was slower back then :)

It was really hard to buy one in Johannesburg. I found one importer and only one local shop that had software. ZX C64, Atari 800XL much easier to find.

Friend's father had a horror of a PC box. Little did I know...
The fact that health insurance is tied to employment in the us is just as much an argument for getting rid of the taxes and other incentives which led to employers being the dominant provider of health insurance.
> They've got 1000+ employees (in 2015 at least). I don't imagine them having more money really helping anything.

I don't follow that argument; the evidence seems inconclusive. That's not a lot of people for a software company developing multiple products (and in 2015 they still were developing FirefoxOS), including one as complex and fast-moving as a major web browser, as well as furthering other missions.

Do you know how many work on Firefox, compared with Chrome, IE, and Safari? What are the budgets for the other browsers and for Firefox? That would be evidence that would be applicable.
The ZX was cheaper, easier to pick up programming for, and had a better community around it (probably due to the previous points).

But it was, as you mention, technically much less capable. That said - I never really got the impression the communities were at odds util modern times when it became a thing.

Several people I knew growing up had both for example!

Then again, I was an Atari guy so felt they both were not up to the standard my Atari 800XL set ;)
I've been running Nightly and experienced the same thing with inbox. If I attempt to interact with it before fully loaded, inbox will freeze up for minutes at a time. Love everything else about nightly, this is my biggest issue.
I think KHTML, as a part of KDE, was open from the start?
I find myself rooting for him like I rooted for Darth Vader.
I assumed they were doing this precisely not to be under the US yoke of Oracle, Google, AWS
I am using this addon, but I'm having a hard time with it. I wish you could disable smooth scrolling when using "j" and "k"
Per https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Specifics "The core of the Windows sandbox is Google's chromium sandbox" so I'd expect it to compare favorably.
The chrome embedding is in theory cross browser compatible. Firefox nightly supports the API. It's still possible for the embedding app to hardcode to chrome (which the Google app seems to do) but the Android developer page recommends the cross browser approach
I mean I'm totally sure that the Paris Hilton coin and the Floyd Mayweather endorsed ICO were 100% legitimate business models and that these two examples were just a couple of outliers. /sarcasm
The way I see it, tribalism isn't unity. Unity, meaningful and lasting unity, that is, exists between people who are in harmony with themselves and each other. It doesn't require uniformity, it requires the absence of deformation through all sorts of abuses big and small. I don't need to know the backstory a peaceful person or animal to realize they're peaceful and be at peace in their presence. Tribalism on the other hand is people having a lot of ideas about who they are and what makes them valuable, and mutilating each other and themselves to make them seem more real and dignified. Unity is born out of life, tribalism is born out of fear, it's the ghost forever trying to make its presence known to life and failing to move even a match stick. In a nutshell.
"As long as we don't run out of PIDs."

:)
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Thanks. Sometimes I feel like the "just use X" folks don't really think about the problem at hand, not to mention how trivializing it can be. And this is coming from a Rust fan and someone who uses bindgen.
Amazon S3 is basic, MongoDB and other NoSQL solutions are a bit more complicated.
Think of it as less of a binary. It's not "scam operator" or "legitimate operator". Much more nuanced -- the stories are about the clear scam operators, but that may or may not be the long tail. And that long tail may or may not be what we want to optimize for.

One of the major characteristics of a "scam operator" is this situation: Andy runs a treatment center that only takes Cigna. He gets a call from Bob, who has BlueCross. Bob can either do private pay at Andy's Center, for $20k. Or Andy can refer Bob to Mike's Center for BlueCross Patients, where Bob can get treated for $5k out of pocket.*

If Andy and Mike have a business relationship where they refer patients to each other, and either end up benefitting, they are breaking the law.

* Option 2: Andy tells Bob "sorry, we can't treat you. Try calling someone else."
I think they should get the list of ICOrating and start working on it from the worst to the least worst.
That sounds pretty odd... if you've used previous versions of Firefox on this device you might try refreshing:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...

If it still happens and you want to dig into it a little further the profiler at http://perf-html.io/ allows you to gather and dig into + share details that can help fix.
It's nice to see action like this being taken in cases so blatantly fraudulent. One thing to take note of here is that the reason why the SEC is taking action is not simply because of reasons related to tokens or securities, but instead due to defrauding and lying to investors.

Hopefully we'll see more cases like this happening to the actors that deserve them the most. I need not mention names since I think others will do that for me.
You can set Firefox as the default browser ("always use this app", not "once"), and the number of clicks becomes the same.

For instance, it takes me exactly one click to open a link from the HN app I'm using in Firefox.
search the title on facebook.
I'd like to offer clients the option to customize their sites, however. How would you go about setting that up? Would you build a CMS for multiple users on the VPS or use a prebuilt solution? I was thinking about S3 because it'd serve their sites quickly, it'd be secure, and I could build a simple front end pretty easily. What do you think?
Not on a pc right now, but there may be an option for that? Not entirely sure.
People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.
I saw that second notation in some stack overflow answer and had the same epiphany. Cute notations like this make shell scripting fun (and convenient for so many use cases).

This article is great for having both a nontrivial FIFO and a nontrivial circuit discussion in the same guide—both things for which I've had difficulty finding good self-contained tutorials.
It is not many. Definitely not "so many."
You can do it your own way, if it is done just how I say.
Oh those were pretty venture capital times as well.
I was referring to his initial assistance to Poitras, actually (which apparently involved setting her up with enhanced email encryption, not setting up a VPN per se).

So people can get jollies downvoting me for misremembering something I last read about 4 years ago, if they want. The bigger point is that the depiction of Snowden as simply a "SharePoint administrator" is clearly off base, according to multiple journalistic accounts (which are very easily findable).
All the while pretending it was only one side engaged in such tactics.
Social pressure as well. Most people are going to treat you as a piece of shit if they find out that you are gaming the system to live off of welfare so that you can create your own company instead of working if you can.
Of course it's conditional, as it should be. If you're at or below the poverty line you can draw on the most welfare benefits, if you're earning a median income the benefits you can utilize are diminished.

Proclaiming it's often insufficient is a comically loaded premise. How often? In which states? Under which circumstances? I've got the perfect response for that: it's often sufficient.

According to the OECD's numbers, the US poor live better than almost any other poor people on the planet save for those in a select few countries (eg Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia). [1][2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/01/astonish...

[2] https://mises.org/blog/poor-us-are-richer-middle-class-much-...
Both are establishment investor-friendly choices.
Anyone else tired of the constant media posturing by these plutocrats? How will this meaningfully affect the company?
In fact, it’s called the three branches of government. I’m sure what other word would go after “of.”
seems instant on my machine in chrome and the firefox beta.
you using safari?
high stakes chess move right here
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I have been thinking about this as I listen to NPR discuss Catalonia. Not being in Spain or Spanish, I think, what's the big deal, let them become independent.

Then I think about the secession desire of some in California. (I'm on the west coast of US). Personally I don't care. It doesn't really make historical sense, but whatever. Of course the talk is of the whole west coast seceding, and I live in Oregon. I don't want to secede, so that I have a problem with.

I suspect the main issue is money, but the secondary issue would be fear of a slippery slope of secession.
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And sticking 'Google service X is better with Chrome' on all of their sites probably didn't hurt either.
Designed realtime with Linux is non-trivial.

I worked on HA (Highly Available) system with Linux inside Xilinx's Vertex Pro PPC. It is redundant system with multiple fault detections and switch over if any subsystem detected failure.

There was one 250 ms hard real time requirements:
If I am a slave and don't detect the master 's UDP ping for 250 ms. I will assume the master has failed somehow, I will start action and take over control as master.

The sub-system did trigger from time to time while the master is alive and working perfectly OK.

Eventually I figured out that one of the system API was using > 250 ms time. (Forget which one now, that was > 10 years ago.) I have to profile very carefully and redesign the code to get around that API.
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How did you arrive to the $25k figure?
The Russians took out ads to depress African-American voter turnout, in Trump's favor.

The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.
There's a checkbox to control smooth scrolling in about:preferences#advanced , but I just tried both options and didn't notice any difference, neither when using the touchpad nor with j/k in Vimium-FF.
Per Upton Sinclair:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.