skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC Chairman released a statement this morning about cryptos & ICOs. There is a mention of how an ICO can fall outside of the securities designation in the memo.

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...
The majority of states (comprising the vast majority of the population) have little to no restrictions on municipal broadband. Here in Maryland, for example, there is no such law and the governor is actively promoting municipal broadband. But few municipalities are pursuing that option. I'm not aware of any states which have laws "favoring incumbent telecoms over ... Google fiber, or other market entrants." Can you point to anything specific?

> If "deregulation" advocates were actually serious, they would have pursued those actions first.

They did! Two years before Congress deregulated the industry in 1996, it made it illegal for local governments to grant exclusive cable franchises. Then in the 1996 deregulation, it required non-discriminatory access to utility poles and ducts.

The biggest impediments to deployment these days are at the state and local level: permitting requirements, onerous franchise license terms, etc. Congress could (and in my opinion, should) completely preempt these things, but that's a hard sell. Municipalities use these franchises as a vehicle for all sorts of social agendas ("wire up public buildings!" "wire up disadvantaged neighborhoods!"), and as a revenue source (taxing 5% of gross revenue). Google got most of these things waived in Fiber cities, but it was a move strongly opposed by the public-interest types: https://techliberation.com/2012/08/07/what-google-fiber-says....
Show HN: High Volume Thermal Entropy from an iPhone
It's hard to say what to improve without more details, but contract work should be high paying because of the uncertainty. Could be issues with your resume and/or interviewing skills. For the latter, you could try interviewing.io. Almost everyone underestimates the amount of practice required to get good, and they procrastinate until it's too late (just like with networking). Also sounds like you're a generalist, which will work against you.

I have a career course that should give you a ton of ideas to help, see my profile for details. If it's taking you that long to find a job, there are some fundamental issues with your strategy and tactics.
The first page loaded super-fast for me, when I went into the "Explore" area I felt overwhelmed with text that seemed well-written and was meant to be good documentation and also explain the value proposition but I just wanted to jump past the tutorial and start analyzing.
How do they pronounce D-flat?

While we're at it, are Dis, Fis, Gis and Ais the other sharps?
Seek = "already happened"?
Yeah, it's great news for me too. Earlier this year I tried setting up VPNs so my droplets could speak to each other in isolation. Knowing that I don't have to worry about that will be a load off my mind.
Could have named this post: Pat yourself on the backpedal
Especially in light of today's massive price jump for LTC. I was initially happy to see that, but thinking further on it makes me nervous.
CryptoZombies Ethereum Course – Learn How to Code Solidity
Using Z3 to solve a simple logic puzzle
Years ago, I tried the same thing on ham radio - made an antenna from a piece of wet string and tried to call cq.

It worked a charm, though I had to continously wetten the string as I applied RF power to it.

(21MHz ground plane antenna; eased the top end of the string through a hole pierced in an empty beer can, suspended it from a tree and filled the can with salt water.

Losses were huge, so antenna was easy to tune. Not the best of radiators, though, but I did work twelve or thirteen countries with it.

Cost of string and beer - $4.

"Antenna this end is the proverbial piece of wet string - literally. Back to you." -Priceless.
but did they not make any statements implying an increase in value? why would you have participated in ETH ICO if you didn't expect an increase in value?
I can't decide if this is good or sad.
The laws exist for a good reason, and it's because historically many folks with insufficient means lost their shirts due to such scams. A judgment was made that between restricting such risky schemes to those with the means to handle that risk ("the rich") and letting people lose their shirts, restricting such risky schemes was the lesser of two evils.

And I tend to agree.
> A 10-year exercise window is really a direct wealth transfer from the employees who choose to remain at the company and build future shareholder value, to former employees who are no longer contributing to building the business/ its ultimate value.

This is an investor bias toward recency that is ugly to see laid out so clearly. Work, foundational work even, only has intrinsic value if it happens between board meetings. On top of that, it's presented as a kind of wage-earner on wage-earner theft. Incredible.
Being Portuguese, I too am in favour of geographic indications.

Like Port, or Madeira. There is no such thing as Champagne in Portugal. We too have sparkling wine, but we could not call it Champagne if we wanted.

Unfortugnately, we now have CETA. So if things go wrong, Canada will be able to export to the EU many protected products not included in CETA's (largely incomplete) Annex 20.
Did you try Angular 4 + TypeScript? I recently switched to it after years in React and that's amazing, google really did it right this time. After using it for a while I don't feel any need in any additional tools.
For whatever it's worth: if you're using a standard TLS stack --- Amazon's, or a stock OS distro's packaging of OpenSSL, or OpenSSL built from source, or Golang, or even at this point Java's TLS, which had this bug a few years ago and now has been pretty well tested --- it is vanishingly unlikely that you have this problem.

The things you want to test are sites behind middleboxes and sites with custom TLS implementations.
The SEC is one of the US's best institutions. It was created in 1933/34 as a reaction to investment/banking scams that led to the Great Depression.

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [1] IS the best thing that ever happened to US markets being trustworthy, looking out for smaller investors and the meteoric rise of our markets since 1934.

Yes it is a layer or wall for innovation at times, and have failed to catch all fraud/scams at times, but overall people should be glad the SEC is there to make sure people aren't being taken left and right on investments. The only people that are usually dealt a blow from the SEC are scammers/sketchy investments. Even if some financial innovation is delayed or harder it is always better to be trustworthy than not. The SEC makes US investments trustworthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Exchange_Act_of_193...
The valuation is what it is, and eventually it will become more clear what the "real" value is - way higher, way lower, or about the same. Until then, everyone is making stuff up.
No, you have to wait the year.
LTC has many advantages over BTC. Namely faster transaction times and waaaaaay lower fees.
Is there a database of leaked passwords somewhere? I would simply enforce that your password is not in the leaks? Probably would capture the most common 100k passwords anyway this way?
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> Bitcoin does not use RSA, instead it uses elliptic curve cryptography based on the curve secp256k1. Our attack cannot be directly applied to that. However if you transform a quantum key exchange to a supersingular Isogeny you can attack post-quantum RSA and thus apply our attack indirectly to secp256k1.

Can someone translate this? I don't understand how this attack would apply to Bitcoin even if it did use RSA since there's no server accepting or rejecting messages based on a private key.
> That's what Ethereum is for. It's completely public and can't be tampered with, so you can check exactly where the money is going.

Except the page admits there will be a delay of a month before the proceeds go to the EFF, and that transaction is NOT on the blockchain, as the wallet is "sold" and the money is, perhaps, donated to the EFF. So you can't actually check.
I probably can't say a lot due to NDA, but does it make sense to you that AWS or Google Cloud can't scale to the level of Uber, such that Uber has to build their own datacenters and write their own Lambda equivalent?

Further, does it make sense that you'd rather buy hardware up front to scale for Halloween and New Years instead of being able to dynamically surge your infrastructure?
Technically isn't this what adsense does? Sell ads + give some to creators?

If they don't give it to creators...the creators won't promote them.

They need the evangelists.
Ερωτικά Καυγαδάκια Και Πως Να Τα Αντιμετωπίσετε – ESCORTS – ESCORT ATHENS |
For context, this is Adrian Kennard's blog. He's the CEO of AAISP (which I'd highly recommend for UK residents, they're extremely ethical and transparent; although I would not recommend their mobile service for different reasons).
How so? It's very fast and you can abort if you do it wrong.
That's not really true. When someone self-identifies as a "Leftist", it's actually not (usually) being used to describe opposition the right, but to place themselves on the left as being further left than liberalism (i.e. identifying with Marxism, socialism, communism, anarchism, etc).
He never went back to PHP and most of the article is spent on extoling Go, so the title intentionally misleads. I feel jipped!
Phishing Cyber Security Awareness Quiz
Phil Schiller Says iPad Pro Can Both Supplement and Replace the Mac
Oh, wow. How did you manage to interview Hideaki Anno?

Despite the fact that his best works are anime TV series, I always thought Anno was one of the best filmmakers alive. His works in the 90s are absolutely amazing, particularly Evangelion and Karekano. He is a complex artist on many sides; formally he is the first (and mainly only) modern anime director: he uses the long-shot substantially less in favor of close-ups, which are just harder to use (almost anything can be OK-explained by a long-shot, while close-ups are pretty limited semantically). Aesthetically he is very original, with how he plays with music (Haendel in Evangelion 22, Beethoven in Evangelion 24, Bach in the "sex scene" of Karekano) or my favorite aesthetical treat, the use of text.

Love and Pop, and then Shiki-jitsu were a very promising start for him as a live-action filmmaker... but unfortunately, it looks like personal issues got to him. In the 90s there was a trio of Japanese filmmakers with similar approaches and amazing talent: Hideaki Anno, Satoshi Kon and Shunji Iwai (who is also the main actor in Shiki-jitsu). For different reasons, none of them seems to have used their whole potentials.
In the early days there was less interaction but it's getting pretty seamless now.

It's the same kernel underneath so it's not really two parallel systems.
Note to self. Remember to bring this if you ever travel in time to the past.
A good pen tester is a rebel and has an instinct to rowhammer machines, run strange software, etc.
Reverb Opens New Vinyl Marketplace, Reverb LP
At least they are finally coming to grips with this fact that has been obvious to every sentient person on Earth who does not work at Twitter for at least five years now.
I was actually thinking that there should be something that "mind-maps" different branches of a tweet thread. The normal UI gets confusing fast.

The problem in general is a bit tough - since it's a little "choose-your-own-adventurey", but this is an interesting concept. Nice.
Authentication mostly. The lack of which is the major reason why the majority of us are still typing passwords into boxes in the browser and send them over the Internet in contradiction to best practices. Doing away with that would potentially solve a lot of problems, like phishing, but also replace cookies. Meaning it would be much harder to track users across the Internet threatening not only the revenue of major player but also their dominance since being able to handle security issues is a major advantage for them. So instead of fixing the problem at the source, we have security people recommending password managers and the EFF making cookie blockers.

Essentially every geek I have ever talked to support standards, decentralization, community efforts etc. Yet, here we have the company that has more influence than anyone else over the Internet almost single-handedly designing the protocol.
> It is the ease and convenience to which we have become so accustomed that keeps us from choosing more private (but also more clunky) user experiences.

Often true, but this is a bad example:

> Sure, you could turn off your geo-location settings for a taxi app so that it stops tracking your every move, but the hassle of having to manually enter your current location every time you want to use it may feel like too much of an effort to be sustainable.

"Tracks your every move" and "needs you to manually enter your location" aren't the only two options. You could have "summon a taxi" button that transmits your current location to a given service one time.

The crucial thing is that the user should have control of what they share with whom. That's what privacy means.
You should think about which fiat your likening it too. Its more liquid that certain fiat (Venezuela) and can definitely be used to buy things.

It's not being used to buy things because its a deflationary currency which along with an adoption curve means it's more advantageous to sit on it.

The adoption is definitely increasing the value of it, its a more liquid gold to me, but like any other currency or asset the value is derived from the trust and value that people put in it.
> I thought Windows was to move to .Net even and MS backed out in the end.

If you bother to read Joe Duffy's postmortems, and talks he has made about Midori, you will get it had nothing to do with technical issues, rather internal political wars at Microsoft.

Also Microsoft did not fully backed out, the outcome of Singularity became the MDIL compiler for .NET on Windows 8.x.

Midori influenced async/await, TPL, .NET Native used in UWP and the new low level language features on C# 7.x.

> If the creator of a language says it's not a systems programming language, I'm not sure how it can be argued by outsiders that it is.

I don't have Go in much high regard, but it certainly can be used for systems programming, and is being used as such today, regardless of what the anti-GC systems language crowd thinks.

"G.E.R.T : Golang Embedded Run-Time"

https://github.com/ycoroneos/G.E.R.T

"Fuchsia TCP/IP stack", all network requests go through it.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/2xuYHcP0Fdc/tKb1P...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/netstack/

"Fuchsia disk management utilities for file systems"

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/thinfs/
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/kdb+/

Another useful intro to the language
Wouldn't be surprised if this was an assassination by the Triad

Edit: Thanks Apocryphon for the correction
Msys uses Arch Linux's package manager of all things
It's not an emulator. The NT kernel really does support the necessary system calls.
Can we be clear that the law does not restrict "risky schemes", but rather "schemes that refuse to follow disclosure laws"? There are thousands of publicly traded companies and a lot of them are batshit. What allows them to trade without SEC molestation is that they (a) register, (b) publish audited financials, and (c) follow the SEC's rules about promotion.

The difference between a restaurant review coupon ICO and a pink sheet biotech firm isn't risk. Both will almost certainly fail. The difference is that the ICO refuses to publish audited financials, and demands the right to shoot Youtube videos extolling a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to 9x an investment.

That's what the SEC is protecting retail investors from.
> AFAIK, J. Michael Straczynski was the first person to get a successful arc-based television series on TV, with _Babylon 5_ - the pilot aired in 1993.

Would you consider Twin Peaks (1990) to be arc-based?
Would Susan Fowlers blog have blow up the same way if Uber handn't supported Trumps immigration ban.
Can anyone explain why these two arrangements are not equivalent? They seem to both cause same phase shift and reflections, but the first one causes the photon to pass to the right, and the second - to split.

https://imgur.com/a/OkEQY

https://imgur.com/a/Byo8E
future repo?

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers
In my region, commercials were shown for evening shows/sitcoms. I forgot the name but pens and jrking were mentioned as part of the teaser. This happened more than once. So, I don't think they realise...

I do not allow anymore, as this is seen as a spoiled kid with too many toys/attention in our house. We rather focus on having toys that last, like Lego. The way this is portrayed is subliminal as the kids are unaware of it being sponsored. The real show or review element is hardly there.

Although, some stuff I easily allow, like coilbook, super simple songs or race grooves or some stop motion videos...
Which implies it shouldn't be too hard to sneak in a gun if it doesn't look like a gun to the scanner.
This perspective is... naive. When accredited investors became a thing it may have started as a paternalistic "protect the poor from themselves", but now it merely serves to limit the supply of investors (read:rich) to a relative few who can dictate more favorable terms to those seeking that capital (read:poor).

When the primary determination is whether you already _have_ money, rather than education, professional history, earning potential, or a history of demonstrated ability to make informed investment decisions... it becomes extremely difficult to argue that its anything other than an artificial class barrier.
This law effectively allows rich people to do things that poor people can't.

You're still not getting it. The law does not stop poor people from investing in a private company. It simply prevents the company from advertising its stock to "poor people" unless the company registers with the SEC and demonstrates at least a minimal level of financial controls. A company can sell its stock to poor people as long as it does not solicit them. This is why employees and friends/family can buy stock of private companies.

I will repeat again for emphasis: there is no law that prevents "poor people" from buying private company stock.
I would pay the same that I would pay to avoid being robbed on public roads: a small but reasonable amount in taxes to support law enforcement and safety, or as much as neccessary to leave and move somewhere with safe roads and the fundamental principles that create them.
How the right kind of trust made me $60,000
No, that's a problem too? Why does everyone respond with "oh so you think payday loans and subprime mortgages are OK?"

Do you actually want to go back to a time before the SEC. That's how you get a Great Depression.
Welcome to capitalism. If it has a name it has a dollar sign. If it can be sold it will result in a race to the bottom until everything is exploited and sucked dry
You forgot that your first tweet should be: "So, I'd like to talk today about threading."
Man, Coinbase is having major scalability issues... They should hire Peter Lawrey: https://www.todaysoftmag.ro/article/1618/low-latency-fix-eng...

Disclaimer: I am not Peter Lawrey.
There's a technical reason for this. The Internet2 project spent a lot of time and effort working on things like prioritized traffic to deal with congested links. They found that it was easier and more cost effective to just add more bandwidth than it was to design and roll out protocols that would deal with a lack of bandwidth.

For more info, read this: https://www.webcitation.org/5shCiXna8

A noteworthy quote:

> In those few places where network upgrades are not practical, QoS deployment is usually even harder (due to the high cost of QoS-capable routers and clueful network engineers). In the very few cases where the demand, the money, and the clue are present, but the bandwidth is lacking, ad hoc approaches that prioritize one or two important applications over a single congested link often work well. In this climate, the case for a global, interdomain Premium service is dubious.

"Premium service" in this document refers, basically, to an upgraded Internet with additional rules to provide quality of service for congested links.

(I'm not personally claiming that all these conclusions are correct and that they still apply today, just that there's some backstory here.)
Mobile Safari seems to lack that option, as least as of iOS 10.
Ha! ...and Facebook's?
That's where net neutrality comes in, so you don't have to convince ISPs not to throttle your streaming service.

Also, I'm having trouble imagining a small streaming service getting into the ISP business in order to reach a couple thousand people when they can reach hundreds of millions through the internet.

A small ISP getting into the streaming business to provide local content is less outlandish, but still seems rare; I think that's a reasonable price to pay, particularly given that the status quo makes it prohibitively difficult for small ISPs to exist at all, in many places.
Can they see through leather?

Yes, yes they can.

What do you think they then do to your much thinner skin?

This isn't rocket science.
Fair enough :)

My own biases include that I often hear people implying that someone with a carry permit is more likely to use a firearm in a crime than someone who does not. That saddens me, and I do my best to try and challenge that idea (gently, in a professional manner) whenever I can.

It looks like I jumped the gun a bit here :)
coinbase is just an exchange, or a way to buy/sell crypto. once you own crypto, you no longer need to use coinbase. coinbase never advertised itself of being decentralized
The DAO hack itself wasn't the problem (in this context) -- the problem was having to deal with a network that does hard forks at a whim in a way deliberately constructed to favor a small group.

I agree that Parity was merely an application on top of ETH, but it was widely used and indicates that users can innocently get snagged by something like that.

>If I make a vulnerable website it's not nginx/Django/Postgres's fault.

If nginx/Django/postgres/PHP have defaults and syntax that make it extremely easy to open up vulnerabilities, then yes, that is a strike against them, and a valid reason to build on a less flaky platform or wait for them to iron that out.

>The reason Ethereum hasn't taken over the dominant position yet probably has more to do with Bitcoin's superior brand penetration.

Or they're people like me, who were excited, then saw the nasty warning signs.
So, this doesn't have the best translation to English, but it's probably the most useful Japanese perspective on why Evangelion was such a revolutionary work for its time. It contextualizes the series as a cultural event and shows how Anno compares with the other convention-breaking directors of that era.

http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic018/intercity/higashi_E...

Keep in mind that Azuma has his own slant as something of a pop philosopher in Japan, but I think he nails exactly what made Evangelion a surprise and a trendsetter.

Let me know if you enjoyed the article—I can post more links on useful reading or you can PM me for more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...

As I understand it, the endpoints test a range of frequency blocks (or "bins") and only use the ones where there is sufficient signal-to-noise. This is dependent on line conditions.
Probably because groups of hackers and anime nerds have a fairly large overlap, esp for those who grew up in the 90s/00s. I spent many nights as a teen watching classic anime (Robotech aka macross, etc) on kqed (bay areas pbs station).