skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I'm not saying you're wrong, on the surface it just doesn't make any sense though and it's seemingly different than what the SEC was saying as recently as six months ago. It's easy to see how if something were a security then the issuer could be required to restrict transfer, but under the framework of the Howey Test (or whatever else) what is the justification for how not restricting transfer could make an airdropped asset a security if they didn't also do an ICO or do something else to make themselves a security?

I mean clearly it could contribute to an expectation of profit, but how do the other prongs of the test get violated?

Last year I did invent a novel mechanism to allow tokens to comply with securities laws while both allowing end users to spend them as utility tokens and accredited investors to profit from them as investments, so I'm curious to see if a real market need develops here.
I think the concern is more that it is a lot easier to accidentally lose a wallet or purse (or have it stolen for unrelated reasons), rather than a targeted attack against your person for the master password.
> While it's bad that having a free web has lead to multiple entities doing everything they can to track as much as they can, it's also a great benefit to society to have free access to so much knowledge.

This feels like a false dilemma to me. Many, if not most, of the corners of the web that are devoted to disseminating knowledge are funded by means that don't involve tracking ads.

It's the entertainment corner of the web - social media, yes, but I include listicle-oriented versions of journalism here, too - that seems to be the primary engine of all this surveillance capitalism.

It's no coincidence that they also have a tendency to actively exploit the parts of human psychology that make us susceptible to addiction. Which means that, while it's true that they don't charge an up-front fee, their products do still come at a price.
> Site operators just don't want to maintain two complete copies of their password change infrastructure (one for people, one for programmable interaction)

Couldn't the former use the latter?
> Change a weak Master Password, otherwise leave it be

I wish LastPass would take this advice. They ask me to change my master password every time I log in because I've had the same one for a long time.
> So when is someone going to start a Sex-Positive Blogging Platform? These communities have always been marginalized by generic hosters - why not make one dedicated to the content? Ohhh, right..... the advertisers.

It's impossible to do that legally anymore, because these platforms will always be used by people who do sex work (whether or not they are using the platform for sex work).

As of March of this year, the criminal liabilities are so massive that there's no way to operate a sex-positive platform at scale. That's why we're seeing Tumblr and (as of yesterday) Facebook move towards these draconian anti-sex policies.
The URL changed for some reason: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/06/Rust-1.31-and-rust-201...
Ask HN: Business or non-profit approach? Please advise
I'm always concerned about all those terms and conditions, privacy policies, user agreements that we consent but never read.

The problem nested is bigger than it appears. People are trying to build legal term marketplace, or protesting policy changes. But both approaches are not appealing enough to become mainstream.

With some thought invested in this topic, I've came up with a general plot towards a solution.

- Business approach: http://social-contract.domij.info
- Non-profit approach: http://changetoc.org

It could become a sustainable business, but the possibility of a central authority being in charge of a social credit system kind of scare me.

I'd love to share and encourage the ones who care about credibility based on social contracts in the future to join the discussion and improve the MVP together.

Best wishes,
The amount of energy that is stored in batteries like this isn't that big in grid-scale terms. For example, on the night that Texas wind generation flipped electricity prices into the negative back in September 2015, their wind turbines alone were pumping out almost 11,500 MW of power. This has a capacity of 129 MWh. It's useful for grid stabilization because it can start up almost instantly and fill in the gap until another generation source which can run for more than the 90 minutes the battery lasts can start up, but less practical for longer-term storage.

(The 90 minutes capacity at full output is pretty much an inherent property of lithium battery tech, as I understand it. There's a slight capacity vs power tradeoff which can be tweaked, but only within a relatively narrow band, and the maximum charging rate is if anything even less flexible than the discharge.)

Also, it looks like there's already a small-scale battery bank providing frequency stabilization using Samsung lithium ion batteries in West Texas: https://www.energy-storage.news/news/minimal-downtime-younic...
Could you give sources to that claim that he supported censorship in the US and in Europe?
So, how is getting paid for one's time any different from being paid for the value of one's labor ? Do you think that economic theory doesn't apply in that case, and that, somehow, a person isn't going to just simply demand a huge salary that results in the same compensation ?

And how to you prevent someone from just creating a piece of software, keeping it to themselves, and then charging others if they want a private copy of it ? Are you going to demand that software developers release their code to the public, and enforce that through the state ?

What about live performances ? Are you going to mandate that performers invoice each person in attendance for their time ?
I believe you are talking about Rust the game, whereas this post is about Rust the programming language.
Like a SQLite DB? Actually, why don't we just transfer stuff as SQLite DBs. Single file, built-in schema, you can index.

I mean, HDF is super-general and stuff, but it looks like SQLite would solve all the trouble with CSVs.
Like the current surface web isn't completely and utterly controlled.

You don't need "big firewalls" and government-sponsored censorship to control information. There are softer ways [0] to press for a narrative that's advantageous to you and ways that are way less visible [1].

Note the claim how supposedly none of the "interventions" happen in the English language, just like the NSA supposedly never spied on US citizens. That statement was rooted in the Smith-Mund Act, which has since then been reformed [2] and it's been an extremely noticeable shift in the English language online discourses.

Just like language itself is a filter, anybody who only speaks English is dependent on trusting what English sources translate and tell them. While other-language sources often paint a very different, usually way less polarized, picture.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-29/the-cleaners-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
Same with all sorts of legal cannabis business related pages. I see a lot of seed companies, dispensaries, culture/meme accounts with fallback accounts and bios saying ‘deleted at 25k...’, etcetera. It’s the same situation as consumers have long faced with Facebook, Twitter, Etsy and so forth - they don’t seem to care that other people invest time and money in their accounts, which the company tosses aside so easily.
> Is there any evidence that this is connected to other political issues?

No, there isn't in this specific instance.

However, reading news for the past year did give me a overall feeling that ties between China and EU are getting closer while ties between China and US, as well as EU and US are getting more strained.
Microsoft is trying to drive traffic to Bing (and their other services). The rendering engine doesn't actually matter. Microsoft could just bundle Chrome with Windows but instead they are specifically taking the Chromium engine and putting it in an Edge shell. The only reason for that is to maintain control over the user to drive them to Microsoft properties.
There's still time to open source it. I'm confused why they don't, at this point.

Well, not that confused, I guess it ties in to Windows quite a bit and it's probably not worth it for them. Still I hope they do it.
Could you be a bit more specific? Why do you think it doesn't work? Why do you think actors are better? And why can't actors be properly implemented on top of CSP?
> Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java

Well, that's not entirely correct. I assume you mean they run on the JVM? Language like scala are actually written IN scala. The only thing that is in java is the interpreter but the entire compiler is scala.
> Edge was only available to Windows users.

And still, it was some competition to Chrome and Firefox.

> encourage everyone to use Firefox.

Which can be done while also lamenting the loss of a Firefox competitor, especially when said loss gains Firefox nothing.
I feel like I should be happy as a web dev to hear that I no longer have to support a browser engine made by Microsoft (which has been a huge pain and despite this will be a huge pain for a while due to people still using old browsers) but this feels bittersweet. It feels like we're taking the engineering out of everything because companies can make more money by not innovating.
It's because I noobed out. The old link was an old draft, this is the correct link.
That music thing is quite annoying. I can add books from Dropbox or other places into Books app but not add music from anywhere into the Music app? Long ago I heard this restriction was put in place to reduce music piracy, but over the years I’ve concluded that Apple wants people to buy music from it (or subscribe to Apple Music), and doesn’t give a damn about what users may want.
I think you're misinformed. There are plenty of people who are either fine with status quo (which is not totally equitable from my POV) or completely fine with prejudice. Few people articulate it as "I want to stop the workplace from becoming better for everyone" but the outcome is the same. I'm not speculating - I've experienced both groups first hand.

I think an even more subtle problem is people who attack ineffective policies as opposed to focusing on the primary objective, which is coexistence. In other words, people focus on attacking solutions as opposed to helping create better ones. That behavior is pervasive, insidious, counterproductive, and seems to be picking up steam.
Yes, and was ironically more standards compatible than WordHTML they use now. AFAIK they changed to WordHTML with or after Outlook 2007 [0]

[0]: https://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/wordhtml.htm
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I was watching the Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War and I recall one of white vet (from the marines I think) remembered something to the tune of "it didn't matter what color your skin was, we were all the same out there" meanwhile some of the black vets had clear memories of racism in the ranks and how they dealt with it. One guy said he told people "say what you want to say about me, but say it from where I can't hear you" and another said he recalled a black soldier blowing up his white officer's house (or room, can't remember the exact terminology).

As a black guy from a military family (though I wasn't in the military myself) my folks for the most part told me they tended to deal with racism quickly and quietly by pulling someone off to the side and either explaining what was wrong to them or fighting them (I have uncles that did one or the other). I think that is kind of how you have to deal with it as well as a lot of other problems in the military because of social pressures towards cohesion. I say this to say that maybe you didn't see it as much when you served because you never did anything to warrant a stern conversation or confrontation yourself and your fellow soldiers or sailors nipped it in the bud before it became a problem within ranks. But that's just my speculating because, again, I've never been in the military, but my uncles, cousins, and great grandfather were and talked about their experiences.
Probably they are doing it on purpose, cripling web-based apps/PWA experience forces user to install app from AppStore.
ummmmmm what?
Or it's another sign of BNL understanding that folks don't math well and would just ignore the e6 altogether, just paying attention to the 10 or the 99. That little six there is just for those nerdy accountants that care, so its smaller, and the accountants wanted an 'e' there, but why bother wasting ink on 'e's if all of them are an 'e'?
The Rust "edition" flag is set on a per-library ("crate") basis, not per source file. It basically just controls a few small differences at the parser level.

I'm really happy about the ability to mix older Rust 2015 and newer Rust 2018 code in the same project, and the tools for automatically migrating code to the 2018 edition. It took us like 3 hours to migrate a large code base at work, and I think I needed to file a bug report about exactly one upstream library. Everything else was seamless. And we can still use all our Rust 2015 dependencies.
Huh? Currently in a "first past the post" voting system every district has a lot of votes that are lost. If a candidate wins with 51%, then 49% of those votes are lost. Gone. Poof. And gerrymandering exploits this by creating a lot of these districts, let's say that likely results in 60-40%. Those 40%s are lost.

One way to solve that is to bundle districts, because if you bundle 10 such 60-40 districts, then you should end up with 6-4 instead of 10-0.
Funny you say that as the party currently holding power in France is center-right relatively to the political landscape in the country. Maybe your ideas of what's right, left, and far-right/left might not be as accurate as you think they are.

Also far-left and left are obviously different no matter the baseline, so conflating the two is pretty simplistic (and wrong).
That's an incredibly short-sighted attitude. No web developer who remembers IE6 would cheer a new browser monopoly.
Please provide a source of all the preschools that have been shot up in america.
In the good old days pre-iOS 4 Apple wouldn't implement the "swipe down from the top of the screen" to access settings because there was no easy way to discover that the action was possible... [1]

I do think that part of the early choices were quite rational, but the spirit of "ease of use trumps everything" got somewhat watered down over the years...

[1] and I used Cydia hacks to get that feature (well, almost, you had to swipe horizontally). There's often a contrast between ease of use and assisting power users.
Personally I think it's trying to hard to be cool. I'm all for making a calculator look cool - but this presented the data in an unclear/unhelpful way. Would be better if it was simpler/clearer.
I have tried using Firefox mobile on Android, but didn't enjoy it - it suffered from sluggish UI interaction. If it was technically on a par with Chrome I would consider going to make the effort to migrate.

Firefox has never been bundled with a mainstream OS, mobile or desktop, as far as I know, it's always been something that people sought out. I think since you can install it on Android, if it's any good it has a chance of success.
In their defense, they did specify it being the second.
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> instead of people following a web standard, they'll follow what's Chrome-compatible

The browser vendors taking the lead over standards committees is how we got this far into HTML5, especially including Apple's/Safari's decision to ditch flash, and the WHATWG actually moving us forward vs the W3C.

Unless Blink has a history or an expectation of deprecating serious functionality in the future, is it really so bad if websites follow what's Chrome-compatible instead of 'a web standard'?
nice. looks better than other efforts i have seen.

i don't see a way to access the actual hn comment page of articles though.
Honest question: what is the population of committers (not contributors) on Chromium? Is there any significant number outside of Google?

Is Chromium de-facto controlled by Google, or more community driven?
> Uber has a global operations, is in multiple streams of business and has diversity across business lines

This can be a reason why one would be more interested in Lyft. Uber seems like a distracted player who's losing money on many other markets and businesses, not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars on self-driving cars (and flying cars?!). Lyft is much cheaper (15B valuation), while Uber is much more expensive (120B?). If I invest 1B in Uber, my money would vanish in 1 quarter (yes they're losing 1B/quarter). Those 1B dollars would be split to invest in flying cars, uber eats freight bike/scooter, battles in India Middle East. On the other hand, if I invest 1B in Lyft, I'm sure those 1B would go towards gaining market shares in the US which is by far the most important market for the two players.

Second of all, personally I think if Lyft failed and the stock dropped by half. Some other dominant players would look to acquire Lyft. I'm thinking about Google's Waymo One plus Lyft's network. Apple seems to have a lot of cash to burn also, and they're also developing SDC. On the other hand, Uber's share price has to drop more than 10x in order for it to come close to a reasonable acquisition price.
I suspect the rise of Electron apps, including Microsoft's own applications like Visual Studio Code, are actually driving this decision. Effectively within Microsoft, Chromium has already won over EdgeHTML for desktop applications.
Well, what do you expect? the more money you raise, the more money they earn. Kickstarter isn't better, they allow campaigns to put a staffpick logo in their description even though there was no staffer picking that campaign. They are both as scummy IMHO.

https://petapixel.com/2018/10/17/if-you-backed-a-meyer-optik...

They allowed the same business to run multiple campaigns concurrently, opening new ones when the old ones were not even fulfilled. Turns out these scammers were using new funds to fulfill old campaigns and since a ponzi scheme always collapses...

I could go on and on like this with Kickstarter.

I studied their business model a bit, and came to the conclusion that these businesses are actually B2B with the appearance of B2C. These are marketing platforms,selling marketing services to you,
paid by fees and the client is you, the project creator, not the backer since they successfully claimed they have zero contractual obligations toward backers. But backers are still billed by Kickstarter, at no point the project creator issues a bill or is forced to issue one. This is extremely clever from a legal perspective and it is what sets them apart from ebay and likes. But what are backers billed for then? that's the most interesting question, they they are not billed for the good they "backed"...
There are none. https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...
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Safari is full of porn and by that same measure so are iOS Chrome and iOS Firefox. I'm pretty sure Twitter is full of porn too. DMM, a porn company has an iOS App as I think do several VR porn companies.
Wow a new Microsoft web browser for the Mac! Haven't seen one of those in 15 years.
You're "reality" doesn't match the historical record how FVEY agencies work. Programs like the NSA's BULLRUN[1] or GCHQ's EDGEHILL are well funded ($B/yr) target individuals, companies, standards committees[2], and anything else that serves the purpose of preventing or compromising encryption.

One well documented[2] example where individuals were "tasked" (spy on) directly is the compromise of satellite ISP Stellar:

> The document lists "key staff" at the company. The document states they should be identified and "tasked." "Tasking" somebody in signals intelligence jargon means that they are to be targeted for surveillance. In addition to CEO Christian Steffen, nine other employees are named in the document.

The shock on the IT chief's face[4] when he saw his name in an NSA document...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_%28decryption_program%...

[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12...

[3] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/snowden-documents-...

[4] http://www.spiegel.de/video/chokepoint-the-moment-stellar-le...
For actually solving issues live, Python makes the most sense.

But be prepared to read a lot of solutions to problems written with for loops, do-while loops, and other constructs that are not pythonic and don't translate as well to pythonic code.

In a way it's good, because it forces you to re-implement the algorithms in a way that makes sense to you, thereby increasing your chances of actually learning and retaining the information.
https://status.o2.co.uk/
That’s Curious. I tested my route from home in East London to my skiing destination in Morzine France.

Diesel, ‘van’ - Seat Alhambra.

Once I had provided my correct MPG (I get about 47MPG on long journeys in France) it suggested my 2016 Diesel produced less carbon than an electric vehicle.

Which doesn’t feel quite right.
I mean literally ask them to start these FBA shops. Are cartels prohibited by Amazon? How hard is it to get away with it still?
What a headline reader.
If your product is inferior, what do you do until you can make it better? Shut down your company?
No question about it there is a huge range of companies out there, some it's not an issue for.
The links,
- Non-profit approach: http://changetoc.org
- Business approach: http://social-contract.domij.info

Twitter Trend,
#changeTOC: https://twitter.com/hashtag/changeTOC?src=hash
You are not bound to the laws of Australia in the UK. Foreign nationals in Australia are. That being said, this is coming to the UK too.
I think you are missing the forest for the trees
cool. is that like one bus line?
This is not a rant, it's a long well thought and insightful blog post, you might disagree, or he might be completely wrong but it's no rant.

Besides, the main point is that the UGLY reality is that the only relevant browser/engine is Chrome.
You can reason through it with existing evidence:

1. It can be reasonably agreed that (as of 2018) becoming a billionaire with a successful (profitable; influential) business empire is the peak of business success.

2. Women encounter more prejudice/sexism in business than men.

3. Becoming a self-made billionaire is more challenging as a female than a male.

4. There are both male and female self-made billionaires.

The conclusion is that women can be at least as competent as men in business.
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