skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per the complaint, Kik (a Canadian company) asked the Ontario Securities Commission whether the tokens would be considered a securities offering under Canadian law, and the OSC told them yes, so, Kik banned Canadian investors from participating in the ICO. However, Kik decided not to ask the SEC or any other foreign securities regulator their opinion, and just went ahead with the issuance in every other jurisdiction--except jurisdictions which companies are banned from doing business with, like NK and Cuba.
"That's a really extreme way to think about this."

I would argue this is probably how most CTO's think about it unless forced at gunpoint to do otherwise.
Is the hosted service going to have the global network of data centers that the generic cloud provider has? What are the chances that the unprofitable maintainer is going to stay in business? If they are acquired, what are the chances that the acquirer is going to run the service well and not just kill it?

Seeing that neither Redis Labs nor Mongo are profitable, they haven’t quite “figured it out.”
You're completely missing the point. The point isn't to stop AWS from integrating. The point is to get a slice of the pie if AWS does decide to do an integration because now, with the new license, AWS needs to come to them first and ask for a license, which I'm sure they would give with reasonable terms.
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This is funny - here in Switzerland & Germany I have never, ever heard anybody mentioning "Slack". I read about it the first time when I was reading docs & posts about the chat riot.im/matrix some months ago (maybe in connection with the Matrix "bridges") and from time to time here on HN but I never payed much attention to it.
Exactly; no one wants to live as a decrepit elderly person for centuries. The whole idea is to stop aging altogether so you're always 25-30.
Agreed on the colors, the scenes shown focused a little but too much on the dark and grim, especially when you compare to the real footage and photographs of Pripyat from the time. It was one of the most modern and likeable cities back then. They could have shown at least few minutes of normal life just before the disaster.
Most developers would prefer a 30% cut of profits, not a 30% liability of costs, I'd assume.
A refreshing perspective compared to the usual HN "it's your fault (& no one else's) that you got defrauded on Kickstarter" position.
Up to 25 cups of coffee a day safe for heart health, study finds
My guess is that it intuitively seems "unnecessary" to their scale like it won't really tip over and it is for if you actually want it not touching the floor. Unfortunately that isn't the case.
It may be worth correlating CO2 levels to the Milankovitch cycles relative to our current orbit. NASA track this, though I don't have a graph link handy. Depending on our current phase, the oceans may be about to release a lot of CO2.
Something is probably wrong with your newer version.

While I agree with you that the whole addon migration was a disaster and the wounds are healing just very slowly, I don't have the impression that recent Firefox versions had any performance issues (at least on my machines).
They're offerings run on the same clouds, often within your own cloud account or peered to it. They're providing a managed version of their software product, not building a cloud from scratch.

Vendor management is a different issue. There's always a risk but if you cant trust any companies smaller than AWS then none of this applies anyway.
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Interesting that not all trail signs at our NPs use this font exactly. For example, I wonder if this is a separate font carved by a router: https://www.instagram.com/p/BmmACyogjEe/?igshid=12jeudc1pasu...
See my comment below, referencing a StackExchange post. It lists the font the Forest Service uses for their signs.
> mix freely data and code in the same sheet

where is this unnecessary lisp hate coming from? /s
It's because for the past two decades Apple has always provided a Power Mac or Mac Pro at the inflation-adjusted $2500-3000 price point. As of now there is no user-serviceable Mac at that price point.

The people who are upset are not necessary those Mac users who have been clamoring for the mystical "xMac" for the past 15 or so years. We know that the chances of Apple ever releasing a sub-$2,000 tower (which is what the "xMac" was) is very slim. No, the people who are upset are people who want user-serviceable, upgradeable, and expandable Macs who were able to buy them at the traditional $2,500-$3,000 price points who now feel abandoned by Apple because Apple's remaining desktop offerings are the Mac Mini, iMac, and iMac Pro, none of which satisfy the expandability requirement of the 2012 and previous Mac Pro nor the user-serviceability requirement of the 2013 Mac Pro.

I have a 2013 Mac Pro and I'm upset with Apple because I don't want to buy a Mac Mini or an iMac yet there is nothing comparable to the Mac Pro at the $3,000 price point. Of course my Mac Pro is still working and I can still get a few more years of solid use from it for my needs (although I was really looking forward to this Mac Pro announcement after years of waiting), but when it's time to upgrade, unless Apple reverses direction (which I think is slim given that Tim Cook has been wildly successful from a financial standpoint), I'll have nothing satisfactory to upgrade to; I'll either have to pick a compromised Mac that is difficult or expensive to upgrade, somehow pony up $6,000 for an upgradeable computer, or leave the Mac entirely. That's why I'm upset, as well as many other Mac users who have waited for years for a Mac Pro upgrade only to be told by Apple that we have been abandoned.
Yup. There was a famous memo from Jeff that went round years ago that read something like "I want to buy a kettle. I search for 'kettle' and I get thousands of products. That sucks - now I have to comparison shop for kettles, when I don't particularly care what sort of kettle I get. Why can't Amazon just tell me 'buy this one'?"

Amazon's choice arrived years after my tenure at the big A, and I'm not sure it's directly connected, but it definitely helps solve this problem.
For anyone interested, there is an annotated copy of the SEC document nicely done by Katherine Wu athttps://www.katherinewu.me/writings/2019/6/4/annotated-guide...
> the very specific assumptions of the blog post.

Those assumptions can be encoded by the borrow checker, so the user of the library doesn't have to be concerned about them. When writing a library, you can lean on all the assumptions you want, so long as you don't share that burden/responsibility with the user.

People use mutexes daily, most of those people likely have no knowledge about how the threading cooperation works in the kernel or the fact that the kernel assumes that you are in a user-space thread.

> This kind of code should NOT be encouraged.

Most lock-free code satisfies that constraint. Lock-free is like crypto: unless as a learning exercise, writing it should be avoided. It always requires many eyes and fine-tooth comb reviews.
For your hypothetical to hold, you’d expect to see some providers with near 100% market share. (You’d also have to assume Comcast builds and maintains infrastructure to millions of households in areas where it has no market share.) Who are they? FiOS’s market share is 40% in its footprint. AT&T’s fiber is around 25% now, hoping to reach 50% by 2023.

The only other way to get your math to work out is to assume that only a very small portion of Comcast’s footprint has no other cable/fiber competitor.

As to your cell situation—what mechanism do you think creates this competition-limiting monopoly? And why doesn’t that same mechanism apply to say my house (in the DC exurbs), where all of the big 4 have a decent signal? (Or the majority of the country, where at least three providers have coverage?)
It's a brutal space to operate in and seems to be getting worse all the time. Investment capital is scare. Product copies are rampant and hitting the market faster and faster to the point I even sometimes see copies reach store shelves before the original. Suppliers are increasingly consolidated and manufacturers can be hostile to little guys who need delivery schedules.

Anyone who finds success in such a market has my respect and the fact the Limor has managed to not only succeed, but thrive in such an environment is a testament to how incredible she is.
I have no idea if molten salt reactors are as awesome as this website represents them to be, but I thought the following point was interesting:

"light water reactors can use only about 4% of their available energy."

They're comparing with 1960s reactors designs, so maybe more modern water reactors are more efficient. But, it's still amazing to me that there's that much more energy that we could potentially harness from the fuel.
to own a house in mountain view.
I didn’t think 20% time was still a thing?
They don't "enforce" it, but all the code written by the two largest contributors always has it. Its a startup, so those two contributors wrote the majority of the codebase.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of the “footprint” based calculation in the 2012 CAFE standards.

https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/new-cafe-stand...
Because such a tax would be regressive that it would be beyond stupid to attempt, even at half that amount. Already government regulation, taxes, and fees, affect the poorest among us. Those hiked cost to register your vehicle, obtain a license, renew plates, and such, all hit that segment the hardest.

You want a carbon tax, put it where it belongs, tax vehicles that return less MPG and priced beyond average car price purchases of the middle class. That Vette over there, bam, 10k extra. That Ferrari, 50k. See that lovely Audi S5 sport coupe, tack on another 10k there too. Tax small planes, tax motorcycles beyond a certain CC and size, but never tax the fuel. To encourage a change in what is an acceptable method of transportation means taxing what you don't want more of, not punishing those who are least able to withstand it let alone are not causing it.
Your argument is "well maybe they won't be secure tomorrow and you're invested". Ok, but they are secure now and that's more than pretty much other major tech company. Yeah there's lock in with Apple, you don't think there is with Google too? Apple is worst I'll grant you but no one's innocent. Hell Microsoft had to pay 10s of billions for that kinda shit on the 90s. And let's not even get started on Google or IOT where they stop running the service and you're just SOL.

Apple give me privacy. Find a company that doesn't and doesn't have lock in and I'd switch in a heart beat but based on simple economics I doubt that's gonna happen any time soon
Siemens to build focused energy powerhouse and further boost performance [pdf]
>Slowing the decline for people who are in at least moderately good health who can enjoy life is of course a good thing. But in poor health, with no prospects of improvement

This is a really silly and non-sensical line of reasoning. We're talking here about achieving biological immortality: stopping the aging process. This would necessarily require understanding human biology and cellular processes at an extremely detailed level, in order to modify them artificially to stop aging altogether. (Most likely, this will require periodic treatments, much like we currently go to the dentist every 6 months for a cleaning.) If we have the technology to do this, people aren't going to be in poor health with "no prospects for improvement": the anti-aging technology or treatments are going to change that.
They are a very visible industry so they get used as scapegoat as the city fails to provide basic services to its population.
You forgot "Actively encourages search engines to track which pages users click on in search results"

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-firef...
> For a fee starting at $49 a week, users can leave text, voice and video messages with counselors who respond five days a week. Customers can pay more for live video chats.

Considering that people with mental health issues often don’t have a lot of money, I’m not sure what market they’re targeting with a price point of $200/month. That’s more than a student loan or cheap car payment!
Credible as National Enquirer alien autopsies.
Hurt them enough so that nobody will try the same again, not just kik. But then again, bankrupting them isn't the wisest choice, if they pay enough taxes and their offences isn't too severe, it would be better to have them around employing people and paying taxes and wages vs it doesn't exist at all.
As someone in America on the "highly-skilled migrant" visa/green card, I can guarantee you that even that is not straightforward here. It's exactly as stress-inducing and risky-feeling as every other US visa, just with a slightly higher chance of success if you fulfill enough criteria.

So even this is a noteworthy point of distinction between NL and here.
Kin definitely isn’t a scam. My company has implemented Kin into our app with over 10 million users and many other apps have as well.
An alternative and pretty useful point of view is: optimizing for 100s of tabs essentially creates new use cases that weren't possible before.
this is not true, you can get a No Action letter from the SEC upfront.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-action_letter
> "...and they can't all be monopolies at the same time."

semantically, that's true (since mono- implies one) but that doesn't mean that they can't all exert monopoly power in the same market and be an oligopoly. each establishes unfair advantages in the same market and stifles competition, like effectively excluding new extrants, for instance.

monopolized markets aren't simply defined by the number of dominant players, but rather by how fair and competitive the markets are. while market share is an often-present characteristic of monopolists, you could have one player with 60% market share that doesn't have sufficient market poewr to raise prices. and higher profit margins resulting from undue influence over a market (with or without significant market share) can be the telling characteristic of a monopolist.

in constrast, (asian) night markets seem to be a paragon of competitive markets, where there will be 29 competitors for the same product all lined up in a row.
That's a pretty strong argument against regulation then, given what a terrible consumer experience it is.
Floor kick: Upward movement of a Tetris piece when it rotates against the floor
Over the weekend I fell into a wiki-hole about the Gopher protocol [0]. I’d heard of it as a sort of weird predecessor to the Web as we know it, but what I didn’t realise is that it’s still fairly active. There’s a network of community maintained servers keeping the non-commercial spirit of the early Internet alive [1].

It’s also easy to set up and run a gopher server. It took about 30 mins to get going on my raspberry pi, including setting up dynamic dns and port forwarding for remote access.

As gopher sites are just a collection of plain text files, they’re fast, clean and minimal.

As well as new cool stuff like above, rediscovering and repurposing older tech could be another way of diversifying the monoculture of the current Web.

Was thinking today how cool a combined Gopher browser/server/editor app could be. It wouldn’t look much different to the one above...

Oh yeah, it’s also possible to browse HN from Gopher. [2]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29

[1] https://sdf.org/

[2] gopher://hngopher.com/
SEC Enforcement Letter: Nov 16, 2018.

https://www.kin.org/wells_response.pdf
Because Big Tech siphons ad dollars from traditional media? I'm being glib, of course, but I can't help but wonder if that isn't one big reason.
A factor may be availability and not wanting to overload a choice.

Let's say you are way down in list, and pop up to be the Amazon Choice. That drives real sales increases. They might look at how many in warehouse local to you. Persons A, B, C put in cart - they slow rate at which AC shows up until they get a sense of whether all those will become sales or some will expire from cart etc.

Amazon has some places that feel like they have softer consistency guarantees. Ie, something shows up, but with some time passing things like price might change even while in your cart etc.
I think there is an issue where Google Hangout meetings created a long time ago don't support Firefox, but new meetings do.
State Machine Pattern: A Pig in Lipstick
I'm guessing this still uses locks, but at the CPU/cache level instead of inside the algorithm.
>I've had years when my Emerging Markets index fund lost half its value, and I know friends that basically lost everything in the dot-com bubble.

Losing half of your investment's value and the dotcom bubble are nothing compared to crypto losses for some unfortunate investors, unfortunately.

Plenty, if not most of the cryptocurrencies out there... are down >95% from their peaks in late 2017/early 2018.
The full list is available from the Android play store page (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wowlabs.fl...):

> 22 languages supported, including: English, Spanish, Français (French), Deutsch (German), Русский (Russian), 简体中文 (Chinese Simplified), বাংলা (Bengali), Dansk (Danish), Nederlands (Dutch), Ελληνικά (Greek), हिन्दी (Hindi), Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Italiano (Italian), 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean), Polski (Polish), Português (Portuguese), Svenska (Swedish), Tagalog (Filipino), ภาษาไทย (Thai), Türkçe (Turkish), and Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese).
I updated the original comment. It's pretty clear.

>Congress, the antitrust enforcement agencies, and most economists have all reached the conclusion that a patent does not necessarily confer market power upon the patentee. Today, we reach the same conclusion, and therefore hold that, in all cases involving a tying arrangement, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant has market power in the tying product.
What you described is testing.
As mentioned for a few other articles, it may be worth correlating CO2 levels to the Milankovitch cycles relative to our current orbit. NASA track this, though I don't have a graph link handy. Depending on our current phase, the oceans may be about to release a lot of CO2.
I would argue that from my experience generalization is not welcomed at all. I'm a founder for 3 companies (in order of starting: ran its course, successful exit, wound down). I have a huge array of skills that I have learned but because I've been a founder and kind of have to have been involved in everything my skills are too general.

What's worse is that there seems to be a real push back against serial founders who are looking to transition from founding companies to working for another company. I've A/B tested my resume with changing my latest startup title from Founder to Product Manager and even though the job requirements state extensive startup experience required, being a founder gets rejected for not having the relevant experience, whilst being a Product Manager I get to the next round as my experience matches what they are looking for.

All in all it's becoming a rather depressing affair.
Exactly, customers want services that solve problems, not software that they have to operate.

Clients rarely care what backend is actually running, which is why the clouds can offer the same APIs like Postgres and MongoDB backed by their own custom software.
If you sell a security to a U.S. Citizen then the SEC can come after you no matter where in the world you're based.
>Visit a nursing home, and you may find yourself pondering that perhaps medicine has by and large given us many more years than we know what to do with already.

Instead of that, try visiting some universities where there's still some elderly people working as academics. Or try going to a classic rock concert where guys in their 70s are still playing on stage, sounding just about as good as they did decades before. Obviously, some people don't just give up when they get older, and keep doing the things they enjoy.
The guy certainly made his mark, and lived in interesting times. I enjoyed this book, reviewed here, on Pacioli and that era:

https://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2012/12/double-entr...
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> And to top it all off, the article includes zero suggestions for improving the admittedly imperfect measurement. Comes off as just a hit piece.

It's really easy to fix, but just more work.

How about the actual number of homes that can get high speed data? The ISPs already know this to the single address, because when you go to their website to sign up, they tell you right there if you're qualified based on your address.

All they have to do is be forced to share that database with the FCC.
One day, someone is going to write a fantastic magazine article about what happened to Valve.
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That just isn't reasonable. It damages the wall. Many people have basement heat, which means a 3-inch gap. Either you make a huge hole for a toggle bolt and then lose the hardware forever, or you have to find a stud. Lots of people are incapable of finding a stud. People want to move furniture for vacuuming. Renters aren't supposed to drill holes in the walls.

The reasonable solution is weight in the bottom, but that is either expensive to ship or the customer must provide it. A slab of lead would be great. A water tank is an interesting solution.
> I am not going to live long enough to read all of the books I want to!

The day that thought first came to me was a dark day! Another of Weinberg's heuristics [0]: Read books only after three people have recommended them. It's a quality filter, tuned to the kind of people you associate with, and to reducing the number of pages you'll have to digest.

[0] From a message on the SHAPE (Software as a Human Activity Practiced Effectively) online forum, which may be long gone.
Which ones are you missing?
Firefox 60 was the first release with official Group Policy support [1]. Starting from version 64 you could also configure Firefox for macOS using configuration profiles [2].

Both the ADMX templates for Windows and preference .plist for macOS are available from GitHub [3]. The full list of configurable preferences can be found on SearchFox.org [4].

As of Firefox 67 there are quite a lot of settings that can be managed now. Certainly enough for Firefox to be deployed in enterprise environments.

There was also a really interesting talk at MacADUK 2019 by Mike Kapley on the work Mozilla has done so far to support enterprise deployment [5].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433136

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/...

[3] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

[4] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone...

[5] https://youtu.be/jB_5h4ihih4
That direct link to the image doesn't seem to work.
Accountable is a good word for it. Accountability can't be shared, while responsibility can be.

BTW, I had to look up RACI matrix as I've only ever heard of it. Is this a popular project tool at the moment? Do you use it?
My understanding is that the YB-35 flying wings had difficulties with stability along the Y axis, part of the reason they weren't suitable as bombers (for dumb bombs).
It needs to be slow, because each core will need to coordinate with all other contending cores.

No matter what, the system must ensure all cores in the system have a coherent view of the cache line in question. So there must be communication involved.

For example in MOESI protocol [0], it's not enough to have the cache line in exclusive state, you need to have it in owned state. So the core needs to broadcast to all other participating (contending) cores.

You can simply saturate CPU internal core to core ring buses. Even worse between CPU sockets (multiple separate physical chips), because there's rather limited capacity to carry the coherency traffic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOESI_protocol