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Ask HN: Sites using Metamask?
I'm trying to maintain an awesome here: https://github.com/johnhenry/awesome-metamask/ and I'm wondering if anyone has any resources to add?
Cables are cheap, but require maintenance.

An alternative way to imagine networking an area is running fiber into the area then having a mesh network assemble itself building to building in town/city whatever. This has the added advantage of greatly reducing the power costs of the overall network for local communications.
> having more kids than adults (population growth)

Good news on that point is that the number of children in the world already peaked several years ago. The continuing population growth is now being driven solely by life expectancy increases. Growth in lifespans in developed countries seems to be running out of steam, so once developing countries have caught up we would expect population growth to stop fairly soon afterwards.
It's happened to me in both Arizona and Nevada, just from being in my pocket while walking around at an outdoor public event.

Take out the phone to take a pictures -- Nope. Warning message.
That's mostly right, the theoretical limit to the amount of information you can carry over a channel is set by the bandwidth and the channel signal to noise ratio. See the Shannon Limit [1]. I should add, however, the lower frequency you build your radio to operate on, the narrower your channel usually is. Antennas and filters tend to only be well matched over one or a few narrow frequency bands. These bands of good impedance get smaller as you go down in frequency, logarithmically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem
> "it doesn't matter if he's right, it's illegal to talk about it."

I never said it was illegal. I said it was stupid to do it at work. There's a lot of things that while not illegal, are stupid to do at work and will get you fired.

> his opinions were nowhere near that extreme and are basically just "women have statistically different interests than men." He never said the women in tech were less interested or capable or should be treated any differently.

His opinions demonstrated that he holds biases against women and minorities, and he thinks the company is doing the wrong thing by hiring more of both. Whether those biases are justified by his "science" (they aren't) or not, is neither here nor there, he's a walking legal landmine. On that basis alone, it would be perfectly justified to fire him.

Now, should he be able to express his opinions? Sure! Talk to your friends at a bar. Find people you think are like-minded and discuss this. Better yet: find people you know to hold the opposite opinion and discuss it with them. Don't fucking spread something company-wide and then complain when you get fired.
I attended Bertrand Meyer's lectures, in particular his last Software Engineering one. It's one of the least useful lectures I've ever had at this university. I also bought his book which I'm also not a fan of. So, yeah. Also, Eiffel is like 10 times slower than Java for even the most basic algorithms. If you want to learn software engineering, learn from kernel engineers and not academics who have never programmed something that is used in most people's daily life.
Restoring a Bricked iMac Pro Requires a Second Mac and Configurator 2
I don't think it's clearly maladaptive. We age and die because it's adaptive to do so. It's possible we've retained a predilection for developing huntington's because it's energy efficient to have some grandparents die.

I'm not arguing that this is necessarily the case, but it is not clearly maladaptive.
Amazon to pay 100M euros to settle Italy tax dispute
Whatever you experienced is very unlikely to be caused by this add-on. The add-on only initializes if you manually dig into about:config and enable `extensions.pug.lookingglass`. Otherwise, it just starts up once at browser launch, checks that preference, and shuts itself down. (https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33...)

If you're able to consistently reproduce the issue, please let me know.
So, its just a document server that can be run over multiple computers? I was expecting something peer to peer. If I understand correctly, you can think of this as a dropbox that you can self host?
Minder vlees eten gezond maar wat zijn de beste vleesvervangers?
What that driver did should be treated the same as pointing a gun at someone's head. It's a threat of death.
> Edward Snowden’s NASA spying revelations

ಠ_ಠ
Stopping fraudsters by changing products
Damn, I was hoping nobody would notice that.

I mean, good point. I dug a bit farther and found this document which discusses the design in some detail:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040919073530/http://www.cs.col...

It looks like MP1 has 32 subbands and works on 12 samples each, which results in a frame size of 384. MP2 works on 3 groups of 12 samples for each subband, resulting in 1152 samples.

Of course this just punts it to the question of why 32, 12, and 3? To which I can only answer: quick, look behind you! <runs away>

At least the mystery numbers are smaller.

But seriously, I'm at (beyond) the limits of my understanding of this stuff, so if anyone with more knowledge would care to chime in and explain those, I'd be most interested to know.
> Every fatal accident due to driver intoxication, negligence, or road rage is dismissed by judges and juries alike

Do you honestly believe there's even a shred of truth to this?

Vehicle accidents where people get hurt typically result in pretty severe punishment if there's even a hint of some performance impairing drug (e.g. alcohol) or malicious intent involved.
There is a really cool use of clustering with these scatterplots to do color quantization (i.e. reducing the number of colors).

If you want 16 colors, just find 16 clusters and their centroids (e.g. let k=16 for k-means clustering). Replace each pixel with the closest centroid. Then, your image is quantized (and can perhaps be stored more efficiently)!
>If you try an Impossible Burger without knowing it's plant-based, you wouldn't notice it's not meat.

Bullshit. My mother has tried to pass that product as a hamburger and in a single bite I spat it out and asked her what the hell was wrong with the burger - it has a very un-burger-like aftertaste.

I'm 99% sure people who think the "tastes like meat!" replacements taste like meat have damaged or weak taste buds and literally don't know what meat actually tastes like to many people. Like how a red/green color-blind person wouldn't know what red/green actually look like for most people.
FCC Votes to Dismantle Net-Neutrality Rules
Am I the only one concerned at the "Push button to win vote with spambots" approach that affected both the US presidential election and Net Neutrality? That combined with the millions spent in bribes feels so much like our government is based on voting by bribe dollars, instead of, you know, the citizens who live there.
Vox on MacOS does this by default. Very simple/fast/small music player.
The main problem I have with geometric algebra is that it's an alternative framework to express exactly the same things. Some things are expressed or derived easier in G.A. e.g. the Kerr solution of General Relativity, electron Zitterbewegung, etc. The problems with G.A. as I see it...
1) It's a specialized tool that does not generalize well to simple everyday physics problems. Don't get me wrong, I like G.A. and learned it from Hestenes' papers almost 20 years ago. I just don't see the point in trotting out G.A. to solve certain problems or illustrate some theory any more than I would abandon Gibbs vector calculus and insist on doing all calculations in 4-vector notation using field tensors and differential forms. I wouldn't even want to use it to teach differential geometry. Once someone knows these subjects I'd say go for it and learn G.A. It's actually very easy once you know the more conventional stuff.

2.) I don't know how things are now but in the past G.A. had the feeling of a cult theory. Unlike most cults, this one had substance. The problem learning the material first with G.A. is that you won't be able to understand other papers, books or solved problems of others. You'll be dependent on using G.A. and unable to make sense of Goldstein or Spivak.

3.) I'm all for alternative ways of doing things. If you have time to burn there's a "Bird Tracks" method of doing calculations in Lie algebras which is very different than the traditional Cartan matrix, Dynkin diagrams. I advise you to avoid learning these topics the first time around in a weird mathematical language. After you know you're way around these topics go for it.
Sorry. I always forget that you shouldn't wrap a link in quotes.
So, if you restrict the domain of inquiry to the things that science best studies (causes and their origins) then science is the best to study it.

The point was that there are other domains.
I have been without access for 4 hours now. I have been with Capital One 360 since they were formally ING Direct and this is the first major outage I have experienced with them. Other than today, I have had a wonderful experience with their web and mobile apps. They say they haven't been hacked, but there is no ETA on a fix and no information into the nature of the outage. I was able to use my debit card, so I assume the sky isn't falling - but unnerved to say the least.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry
What chat apps use separate windows? The only one I can think of is Steam.
Glad to see the idea of unique-per-site emails getting more traction.
www.abine.com Blur first did the same thing years ago (along with phone number & credit card number), but doesn't matter which one you use - just use something, be it Blur, Bulc or your own system.
I think I was clear in my post that I agree that giving free ID to everyone is the preferred solution. The issue is that whenever laws are passed requiring voter ID, the law doesn't tend to come hand-in-hand with equally strong requirements on ID availability.

There have been a lot of attempts to use it to gain partisan advantage, so why would the democrats support it without guarantees it won't be used for that purpose? After you have had your wallet stolen three times, you get pretty wary of the guy going "please just put your wallet here", but refuses to promise he won't touch it.
Sketch 101 – new free email course to learn Sketch
It's probably also doing some kind of interleaving along with forward error correction, and would need to collect a few frames before it can start decoding. There's a section on interleaving under convolution coding in the spec, but it looked pretty complicated and I've got no idea how stations are usually configured.
His revelations were instrumental in driving people to seek privacy-friendly search options.
Commit Go Code with Joy and Confidence
You can say that about all agriculture ever even more than you can about GMOs. We understand exact, precise genetic changes that have a much higher standards of testing than all of the genetic changes we've made to food using traditional techniques (mutagenesis, cross-breeding, selection) which modify dozens or hundreds of genes in highly unpredictable ways. We should be careful about all agricultural changes in a way proportional to what changes we made in the system, and not classify using modern science as always "too scary" to rely on.
I didn't come here to spread doubt, just to +1 with my experience. I have had other transactions with them go okay, but when this one went wrong I realized how absolutely abysmal their support is.

They stole my money and I'm being downvoted for it, ha!
> An idea not being acted upon is not dangerous.

A gun not being fired is not dangerous. A deadly virus that is contained is not dangerous. Ideas are seeds; action is impossible without them. All you're doing is pushing the responsibility one step further; instead of preventing the spread of ideas we have to prevent their effects. Now instead of dealing with the cause, we have to deal with the symptoms.

A meme like "immigrants are the source of all our problems" is a dangerous idea, because of the actions it can directly cause. Preventing its spread is just good mental hygiene.

Cults are another place where ideas are most certainly dangerous; but this time for the individual. So is any religion/ideology people are willing to die for.

Most ideas are not dangerous. Also, I might be completely wrong; if I lived in Galileo's time, I might be claiming heliocentricity is a dangerous idea.
Did they ever say that information they store on their servers is solely owned by the user that generated said information?
Analogue video signals are absolutely compressed (interlacing, PAL, NTSC, SECAM). It's just not as efficient as MPEG-X combined with hyper-aggressive modulation schemes and forward-error correction, channel-capacity wise.
Norway has a nationwide network of warning sirens that was built out during the cold war and that is tested regularly that could be used to convey a wider range of critical messages without the need for a radio receiver (during my childhood we heard these very regularly, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the test frequency was reduced significantly and now they're only tested twice a year).

However with the rise of the internet and decline of the printed phone book, which used to be distributed to absolutely every household, and that listed the (small) set of warning patterns the sirens would use (that included e.g. warning about air raids), they've now reduced it to only one signal to avoid depending on people to remember them:

"Important message - listen to radio"

...

I wonder how exactly they'll resolve that with a diminishing proportion of the population having "radio" that's independent of internet access being up.
Your argument is equivalent to saying that ISPs can "outsource" email to third-party services like Gmail and Outlook. That is an awfully stretched interpretation of what it means to "provide" or to "outsource" a service. ISPs do not need to coordinate with third party DNS servers to have their customers use those servers, any more than they must coordinate with third party email providers.

There are plenty more falsehoods in the order. The order states that DNS is analogous to a gateway server that translates addresses and not analogous to a directory service. The order claims that transparent caching is a critical aspect of ISP service that users have come to depend on, and dismisses comments pointing out that numerous modern web standards break transparent caching. The order states that the service an ISP provides is a "multi-user computer server" through which consumers access the Internet and ignores the fact that most consumers receive public IP addresses and are technically connected directly to the Internet (and that, technically, it is possible to host edge services using a broadband connection, even if doing so is rare). You can go read the order if you want more examples.
I had a situation where the coin balance was displayed as 0.0, but I could trade / withdraw by typing in the number I was supposed to have.
Brockhampton is reinventing the boy band with DIY art and raw energy
With better land use patterns you wouldn't need to walk that far. I can walk to dozens of restaurants without going more than half a mile.

Even single family house neighborhoods can have a decent selection of restaurants and grocery stores within a short walking distance if we get rid of the stupid zoning rules that strictly segregate residential and commercial uses.
Imagine if Wells Fargo closed an account without notice or explanation after a customer had a few normal deposits and withdrawals.

You don't have to imagine.

https://consumerist.com/2017/08/21/feds-investigating-wells-...
You are right, of course. I completely forgot about that fee, and apologize for the misinformation.
Does a solution to the Riemann hypothesis render RSA encryption obsolete? [pdf]
> Now the code contains the ability to go fetch arbitrary code behind our backs and run it against our will.

How is that not what automatic updates are?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926309
this has many of the misfeatures of yaml, like ambiguity of values.

{
a: 5
}

is that "5" or 5? with JSON it's unambiguous.
Introducing Vireo: A Lightweight and Versatile Video Processing Library
Whelp, there goes the PNW.
How much of this is driven by Monsanto and how much is driven by individuals with worries of a Mathusian crisis, or who have concerns about nutrition deficits among the global poor, or who see the effects of climate change on Syrian agriculture and want a tool to counteract that?

The reality is that we’ve always tested agricultural technologies in production. Sometimes with tragic results. But imagine you could control early 1800s European ag policy. Knowing both the Would you introduce the potato? Knowing the history of famine in 1780s France and the history of famine in 1840s Ireland, what policy would you set?
My account is over 3 months old. They took my money and successfully gave me my tiny bit of ETH and BTC, but for some reason my litecoin transaction is stuck in the ether.
> In my opinion, it doesn't really matter since the code is coming from Mozilla - they're building the whole browser, so they could introduce functionality anywhere. If someone distrusts their add-ons, why trust their browser at all?

An appropriate response here would be to decide that you no longer trust their browser at all.

It's hard to quantify trust exactly. I'm fine with trusting the partly-closed-source Google Chrome build, including the proprietary Chromecast, Hangouts, etc., plugins, because I believe that the people writing them are generally reasonable. I don't have a good formal proof that they're generally reasonable people, and I never will - that's why it's trust. If they start installing marketing gimmicks, certainly they have the technical ability to do that, but I will lose my trust that they're reasonable people.

Here's an analogy: I trust a small number of my friends with keys to my apartment because I think they'll make reasonable use of that access. If they decide to show up at 3 AM with a keg and three tubas without telling (let alone asking) in advance, I technically have no grounds to complain that they abused their access - but I'll certainly not be calling them friends any more.
Audio compression doesn't work that way. It doesn't use keyframes.
A very major threat to RSA encryption would be a solution to the Riemann hypothesis. If a solution is found, prime numbers would be too easy to find, and RSA would fall apart. Undoubtedly, much more sophisticated algorithms than RSA will continue to be developed as mathematicians discover more in the fields of number theory and cryptanalysis.
what article? all i see are comments ... nice juicy comments
Introduction to Downshift and Glamorous in JAMstack Radio #23
I wasn't sure what bird is that, so I googled for "tukee bird". Google says "Did you mean: turkey bird", but it shows me pictures of toucans. I'm confused.
Bandwidth or not, how can you pay for retail junk with something that may go up 2x in value in the next few hours? Or down by as much.
Except the allegations all have no proof, despite being investigated, and meanwhile voter suppression has happened, repeatedly. Courts have forced states with voter ID laws to reopen DMVs, for example, where they were closed in predominantly black areas.

You are also completely ignoring the core part of my post, where I say there is literally no issue with requiring ID, provided you ensure that everyone has easy access to it at minimal cost. If you want to require one, require the other - it's hardly a big ask.
No, the science said there’s no physiological difference between the male and female _brain_. Big difference there, chief.
Varies by jurisdiction. Requiring traffic in both directions to stop once a crossing pedestrian has left the lane and then aggressively enforcing it with fines is a great way to get the law changed.
I'm running Firefox via Debian, and I intend to continue running Firefox via Debian - I trust that the outcry in the Debian community would be so huge if the Firefox maintainer (or any other maintainer) allowed this sort of code from upstream through.
"Lasers can't even penetrate our navigation shields. Don't they know that?"
It's a shame so few registrars support hardware tokens [1] since those would be better still.

[1] https://twofactorauth.org/#domains
The spectrum used by FM/UKW radio really doesn't matter. It's not particularly wide, neither supplies much bandwidth.

I frequently listen to a classical music station using a radio from the 80s and the audio quality is very good, apart from the noise floor I'd call it almost close to a 128 kbit/s MP3. I know because I own (CD) copies of a whole bunch of recordings the station has in their inventory as well.
The other option is to re-instate line sharing. This would allow competition to immediately enter the market, with much fewer tax dollars spent. You would pay slightly more for competition (to cover the line rental) - but I would pay more to not have to deal with Comcast, even in the absence of the NN issue.

This completely side-skirts the rule that disallows states from making their own NN legislature.
Right. I trust my browser vendor to send me automatic updates without me reviewing because I believe that's net good for my security. I'd prefer to live in a world where I don't have to question that.
Life Without Power in Puerto Rico
For a canoe you're sitting relatively high in the water, check out the Coracle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle

For bonus points, its also known to have been in common use in the British Isles.

They could have just been using this as a basic rudder?
Actually you can build a simple FM receiver with the same parts you would use for a simple AM receiver, if you are willing to accept a fair amount of distortion. It would not be great for music, but would be OK for receiving news or weather or emergency instructions.

One way to do this is to use something called an "FM slope detector" [1]. The idea is that you have a tuned circuit tuned to slightly above or below the carrier frequency of the FM signal. As the FM signal frequency moves around, it also moves nearer and farther from the center frequency of the tuned circuit, which means the output of the tuned circuit rises and falls. The result is that the frequency modulation of the FM signal gets turned into amplitude modulation of the output of the tuned circuit.

You can demonstrate this if you have one of those cheap SDR dongles. Tell your SDR software to decode as AM, but tune to an FM broadcast station, and then start slowly moving the tuning up, and you'll find a point where the broadcast becomes quite intelligible.

[1] https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/radio/modulation/...
I knew 1997 sounded too late. I don’t really miss Usenet, but I do feel nostalgic sometimes.
It really doesn't matter.

For those who are concerned about the privacy and are mindful enough to care about the privacy of others, putting any information on anyone else's computer (like Google's servers) is a leak. You don't know what is being done with those data, intentionally or not. And that would be the case regardless of whether or not the software is free/libre---it's being sent across a network to a destination you do not control.

Of course, information is leaked all of the time. Depending on the software that you use, your (generally, not you specifically) address book on your phone might be available to numerous remote services, and that is directly parsable by third parties, and directly tied to you and your contacts. It's up to you to consider your threat model. mynewtb's threat model is different than yours.
Lots of Poor School Districts Do Pretty Well, but We Don’t Know Why
Being serious is quickly becoming a lost art. I don't know if the majority of the userbase really enjoys it, but I can't wait till the current fashion of treating your users like 3-year-olds blows through.