skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like voice communications are also possible.

https://docs.gnunet.org/#First-steps-_002d-Using-GNUnet-Conv...

Now that makes it interesting; imagine a few micro routers such as the TpLink TL-MR3020 or any other similar device that once turned on boot their OpenWRT with GNUnet extensions then connect together allowing the users to talk each other no matter where they are located.
That would be a killer application (probably along with codec2 over LoRa) for deployment in certain sensitive areas, provided the users can mask its traffic nature from sniffers.
In the Zuckerberg fan world, that IS altruism
Yes! When people want to come to your country to study advanced topics, it's asinine not to provide the easiest path to citizenship possible for them.

If they stay, you win. If obtain citizenship but return home, they now have a tie to your country. If they decline citizenship, you've lost nothing.

And from an economic perspective, they're more likely to create opportunities for those without advanced education.

Yet the historical "Are you willing to become American?" has turned into "Are you American enough to be American?"
By "short-term" vs "long-term" here, I'm not talking about how long something has been going on so far. I'm talking about how far into the future this will affect things. Breaking process so completely like this threatens long-term stability. It's not like "break process completely to ban Fram" and "just do nothing" were the only options. The WMF could have acted in a way other than in such a potentially disastrous way. If the process is producing wrong results (e.g. Fram should be banned but he isn't), you try to figure out why and make a better one, not just ignore it.
You shouldn't be getting downvoted as it's the much more accurate representation of the history that led to the rocket programmes.

As near as damn it the whole Nazi V2 team, equipment and production was shipped to the US. Wernher von Braun, the scientists and engineers, and hundreds of train wagons filled with everything they could carry; engines, components, fuel, tools, you name it.

Japan's Unit 731 got the outrageous end of war deal to get some information to the US though.
> Q: A much steeper income tax has gotten attention — some pitching even 70%. Is that possible?

> Oyer: I can’t imagine a 70% tax rate. And I don’t think we’ll see a universal basic income for a long time. These are hugely expensive ideas.

Then Oyer is experiencing a failure of the imagination as well as historical recollection. Tax rates have been that high before. Today a marginal tax income over what, 100 million at 70%--even 50%-- and there's suddenly a lot more money to build a social safety net with.
As someone seriously considering a Tesla Model 3, this would turn me off from the car entirely. From a consumer perspective, this would make the car seem more like a toy than the silent, efficient machine I expect to buy. In fact, its silence is a selling point to me.
I don't claim to see into the guy's mind, but I can imagine a power-hungry person telling himself stories about the hunger being justified by all the great things he wants to do for humanity.

It doesn't really matter whether the motives are pure or base; my point is more that the system is set up to amplify the wishes of one person with no recourse. So when the pharaoh gets obsessed with something weird, the empire must follow.
It's becoming clearer with each day that Zuckerberg has no concept of morality or humanity. Nor that other countries or people won't share the enthusiasm of his newest big project.

Coming up with a project of "we will cure all diseases" show that well, it's just some pipe dream that sounds good for the mere mortals hence why Mark came up with it. Not because curing diseases is good for humanity, but because it will look nice on his CV.

Him, together with Bill Gates, look like the kind of people who would sell their own mother to make more money.
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You've pinned a comment at the top arguing against "nationalistic flamewar" type comments. Fair enough, however your own moderating choices seem to paint you as biased in this regard. Why is there an implied double standard for those who post vs. those who moderate/admin?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20304371
Most of perceived rise in inequality is actually growing healthcare costs.

http://www.econtalk.org/mark-warshawsky-on-compensation-heal...

"Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Warshawsky shows that because health care benefits are a larger share of compensation for lower-paid than higher-paid workers, measures of inequality and even measures of economic progress can be misleading or distorted. "
really? libra is the thing that keeps you up at night?
That's your opinion, you're free to have it but calling mine "inflammatory and nationalistic" doesn't make your better.

I happen to believe (and most of our intelligence does too) that China has been studiously and purposefully stolen everything they could get their hands on for the last 20 years or so with the clear objective of gaining a military advantage. That's what a war is, and it's a very well substantiated position.

Also pretty funny you call me a nationalist, I wasn't even born in the US.
Of course, and sweet thanks! Open to ideas and contribs as well!
Tax cuts and entitlement boosts are both raises, couched in the respective vocabulary of the two parties.

One makes few friends (and attracts few votes) by pointing out that we cannot afford something.
I am not that well acquainted with Fram, and the term asshole is not precise enough; but you really do need some well intentioned assholes if you want to run wiki-style projects. The problem is that wikis are free to participate to, but not everybody is well intentioned or capable of constructive and positive participation. Those people are more harmful than "assholes", and Fram used to take care of such people from what I gather.

Edit: I did not down-vote you, nor would I do it if I could.
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Is there any alternative to factoring for asymmetric cryptography? I was under the impression even elliptic curves are based on factoring (though not a cryptographer myself). If that’s the case we would have to live in a world with no asymmetric encryption. That would be interesting.
After re-reading my comment above, I feel I need to clarify that the "But that's just me" quip was directed at the article. But even to me it looks now as if I was directing it at you, which was not my intention. Sorry for that.
They had a lot of opsec problems. There's a great story about how using "cool" codenames instead of random ones bit them in the ass.

It's nearly impossible for a bomber to navigate long distances in the dark over a blacked-out country, so the Germans came up with a radio navigation system involving beams transmitted from the mainland to intersect over the target, which the British figured out how to jam; the Germans came up with another nav system, and the Brits eventually jammed that one too.

The British knew the Germans would be trying to find yet another way. They'd learned from Enigma decrypts about a new device called Wotan. One researcher looked up the word, learned that it was the name of a one-eyed god, and concluded that the new system would use a single transmitter with a rangefinding transponder aboard the bomber, instead of multiple beams like the previous ones. Starting from there, they had a countermeasure online and ready to go before the Germans even deployed Wotan. When the Nazis realized they'd been outmaneuvered from the start, they gave up on radio-guided bombing completely, at least against Britain.
I was going to post a similar response but I chose not to after a little research. I think there is a clear difference between engineers at private industries and academics at a public university. Not sure if this is the best comparison. It seems the Trump administration was targeting academics at public universities.... which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
For desktop

old.reddit.com

or for mobile

reddit.com/.compact

Both are low nuissance and both still work for me, although I am not sure if that is region based.
I wanted to setup a headless Samba server - so after the reboot I didn't even have any way of knowing why the system wouldn't appear on the network anymore. I had to find the right HDMI adapter to see if the system even attempts to start as it was completely dead by all other indications.

And no, I'm sorry but I hate the argument of "you should have known better" - the system first and foremost shouldn't have defaults set up in such a way that not only the SSH server doesn't come up in case of an issue during boot, but the local console is entirely disabled for any access. That's a crazy default.
Don't mistake my calling him idealistic for any form of praise. I think idealistic people are some of the most dangerous and damaging people in the world.
If it was actually only a single curse word and not maliciously directed at any individual, apologize and start recording the meetings, you probably have your phone out anyway, download the Hi Q app, just let it run. That person probably has something to hide about their work habits. You don't have to trot out the recordings at the first sign of back stabbing, let them pile up and if they make a serious play to get you canned you can start to share them at an advantageous moment. I learned this the hard way. I started keeping my phone in my breast pocket if there was not a table to set it on, people who make those sort of HR reports always have something to hide or protect usually their own incompetence. You may never need them but it literally can't hurt.
No. That attitude is incompatible with Wikipedia.

It's also wrong to suggest that fram was only abusive to people who shouldn't have been on wikipedia. Read the thread and buzzfeed articles linked here: even people on his side describe him as toxic.
Were there protests when it was originally completed or were people more able to accept social commentary then vrs now? High school was considered a place of higher learning. But now they dislike any kind of critical thinking. The school board should not white wash history. They should enforce the teaching of it.
There was a time when American politicians derided the notion of having a permanent military. We're now at a 1986-esque point where we have to fight our politicians against the notion of being permanently at war.
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One existing example...

https://youtu.be/n17B_uFF4cA
We also caught every single German spy and turned them all (iirc it was all) but didn’t know we’d got them all till after the wars conclusion.

British intelligence was pretty impressive during WWII.
What about all the Jony Ive stories?
> Facebook built this, yes, but they do not have full control

Well, the Libra documents are vague about timelines and how/if they plan to move to a "permissionless" system- Instead of saying "they do not have full control" you should qualify it to say that "their marketing materials claim that even if it launches with full FB control initially, they state that they hope to eventually transition to lower amounts of control."
That's transparently false. The guy has a family, doesn't fire coworkers on a whim, stoops to pet animals in the street etc.

The moral here is you can't concentrate power this far, not that Gates or Zuckerberg are history's greatest monsters. No human being should have that level of power.
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For those who don't know them.
> I work at a non-profit and not a University, so I can't use them for free.

What’s required to qualify for an academic license? Could you split your nonprofit into a business aspect, and then a walled-off research aspect (funded by the business aspect) that by itself fits the definition of academia by which these companies judge?

Or, more simply, could your nonprofit partner with a University on R&D, with the University acquiring a license to the solver and then retaining you as a project volunteer (on loan from your nonprofit) to use the solver?

Presumably, one difference in both cases is that the output of the solver would need to be published in the form of a scientific paper, as well as being used in your nonprofit’s development.
CIDR blocks are your friend, at the firewall.
Triangular UFOs are interesting. When i was at work one day, (we work on top of a large hill that overlooks land to the horizon) I see a triangular UFO light up and fly slowly towards us. I tell my colleagues, but they are surprisingly not interested. I watched it for a while, my heart in my mouth, sweating. It turned out to be helicopters flying in formation through a very light mist.
Bitcoin uses an elliptic curve algorithm secp256k1 for signing. This would be the relevant thing to break to take control of wallets.
Subsidizing crop insurance absolutely leads to lower food prices, which the parent argues is the problem.
5) run faster than the NSA/CIA, FSB, DGSE, GCHQ/MI6, etc. Because if any of them finds you they will challenge your opsec with a wrench or with electrical wires strategically placed.
There's a bit of confusion here. The opinion I'm expressing isn't about China, or you; it's only about your HN comment.
Just for the record in case anyone digs this up on a later Google search, install the newspaper, unidecode, and re python libraries (pip3 install), then:

from sys import argv
from unidecode import unidecode
from newspaper import Article
import re

script, arturl = argv

url = arturl
article=Article(url)

article.download()
article.parse()

title2 = unidecode(article.title)

fname2 = title2.lower()
fname2 = re.sub(r"[^\w\s]", '', fname2)
fname2 = re.sub(r"\s+", '-', fname2)

text2 = unidecode(article.text)
text2 = re.sub(r'\n\s*\n', '\n\n', text2)

f = open( '~/Desktop/' + str(fname2) + '.txt', 'w' )
f.write( str(title2) + '\n\n' )
f.write( str(text2) + '\n' )
f.close()

I execute via from shell:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/opt/python3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3 ~/bin/url2txt.py $1

If I want to run it on all the URLs in a text file:

#!/bin/bash
while IFS='' read -r l || [ -n "$l" ]; do
~/bin/u2t "$l"
done < $1

I'm sure most of the coders here are wincing at one or multiple mistakes or badly formatted items I've done here, but I'm open to feedback ...
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>Cryptocurrency that scales is digital cash. It is controlled entirely by citizens. It is difficult to track. Difficult to tax. Nearly impossible for governments to disable access for person's or countries.

Why do I get the feeling like you are describing these as positive attributes? Last time I checked, unfettered money laundering, tax evasion, and buying illegal shit like hitman contracts isn’t exactly a good thing.

>It is difficult for centralized companies to profit from it.

Oh, you mean like premining or ICOs?
> I happen to believe (and most of our intelligence does too) that China has been studiously and purposefully stolen everything they could get their hands on for the last 20 years or so with the clear objective of gaining a military advantage

The US (NSA) has been stealing secrets from a significant percentage of the world population for years. Snowden showed us that. China stealing from a few corporations makes them angels in comparison. Further, the US slaughters hundreds of thousands in ACTUAL wars in the middle east over the past 20yrs to gain a military and economic advantage over the rest of the world.

Stop making it seem like China is some big bogeyman when the US has been the bogeyman all along.
How to get rid of someone that gets in your way, or you just do not like that someone? Just label him "toxic"!
I would keep it quiet, and only use it occasionally as a "last resort weapon" for breaking DRM and other user-hostile forms of security, like a digital Robin Hood. Its use would have to be very carefully obfuscated so that people would suspect other things first.

...there's probably already sci-fi around that idea, but if not it'd be a great plot.
https://old.reddit.com is the "official" version of that, I believe. Here's a pretty popular redirector extension to go to that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Scunthorpe is a common example for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I have a more realistic idea: Zuckerberg is a thief and a resentful little twerp with an inferiority complex, so much so, he even named his dumb project along the lines of the Winkelvii's crypto currency exchange. He needs cryptocurrency like he needs a biological warfare program to achieve the goals of his business, but his well founded sense of inferiority to the Winkelvoss entity he owes his good fortune to causes him to attempt to actually beat them at something.

But hey, I could be wrong. Maybe he's doing it because he's an idealist and wants to help the Africans.
- Facebook does not control Libra, it is 1 of 28 (will be 100 by 2020) companies (several are competitors) that do. Facebook developed it and will definitely have the largest wallet deployment (at least at first, likely for a good while), but they don't have a structural advantage in governance or validation over any other member company, and anyone can develop wallet apps for Libra.

- Validators can take transaction fees, as most cryptocurrency nodes do, but we're likely talking very tiny fees. The primary money from Libra for members comes from the underlying basket of asset's appreciation, which members get dividends of as pay back for being part of the network. The REAL money is in the massive economic opportunity that could be built on top of a successful Libra though.
The Trump trade war is far from over
One really annoying thing about using an English-based UTF8-capable programming language with some types of non-English content (e.g. if it's in Serbian) is that you have to switch between keyboard layouts constantly. Sooner or later you end up forgetting to switch back and you start writing your code in say, Cyrillic. And let me tell you, Cyrillic letter A looks exactly the same as Latin alphabet letter A, but will happily break your javascript in the craziest possible ways, like 2 vars not being the same even though they look exactly the same.
The 28 all need licenses from Facebook, which means Facebook retains the control. It's decentralization theatre, and the ulterior motive gets Facebook much closer to being it's own soveigrn superpower than it's stated objective
Sure, but do people in general use them?
FB has written marketing materials saying that they would like to have less control over Libra, but it's very vague around timelines. Clearly, their incentives are to maintain as much control as possible while making generous statements about how they hope to have less control in the future, to derail as many regulatory attempts as possible.
> How can they sell ads to people in emerging markets, Facebook's fastest growing userbase, if none of these people can buy the things they are advertising?

https://trendwatching.com/trends/SACHET_MARKETING.htm

> In Brazil, fast moving consumer goods giant Unilever sells Ala, a brand detergent created specifically to meet the needs of low-income consumers who want an affordable yet effective product for laundry that is often washed by hand in river water. In India, Unilever successfully markets Sunsil and Lux shampoo sachets sold in units of 2-4 dollar cents; Clinic All Clear anti-dandruff shampoo sachets at 2.5 rupees each; and 16 cent Rexona deodorant sticks. In Tanzania, Key soap is sold in small units for a few dollar cents.

They'll sell it, they'll advertise it.
Are you doing this solo or do you have a partner? My experience as a single dad is that I can go entire days without having a single conversation with another adult. My adult friends aren't too interested in hanging out parenting. They are also demanding enough that I'll get zero time to do anything I wish to do while they're awake.
They are all part of the same plan. You can't let your enemy infiltrate your academia, it's just bad strategy.

If China in the future decides to behave like any normal country I don't see an issue with having cordial relationships again.
So, your craptocurrency, run by Chinese miners and exchanges, is less scary? Gimme a break!
This is awful. Apple's making their OS _objectively_ worse for nothing but bizarre 64-bit purity.
Yes, Scala also supports named parameters, though there is still risk when we don't use it. A while ago, I actually made a Scala compiler plugin (https://github.com/GIVESocialMovement/scala-named-argument-c...) that enabled us to selectively enforce which method required named parameters.

Anyway, Lilit brings IntelliJ's awesome features to your browser, directly on github.com (i.e. within pull request) :)

Please let me know if you are interested to try it with your Java repo.
Which statement are you saying demonstrates why people shouldn't take quantum complexity theory seriously?
If people can't buy things Facebook wants to advertise in certain markets, that sounds like an affordability problem more than anything.

If Facebook is really trying to grow further, it certainly sounds like some bean counter's idea to go with "let's try and extract advertising revenue from people who have no money to spend", that is to say, it doesn't sound like it will end very well.
No, they do not have full control from the start. Even in the current permissioned model.

The 28 (will be 100) member companies do (or rather a majority vote of them do). But Facebook itself will not have full control, from the start.

This is really important and something the media keeps getting wrong. Facebook isn't dumb, they know no one will trust something they control right now, so they made it so they aren't the ones in control.

They likely will be the biggest wallet app though, which is significant. But they still can't single-handedly change the rules of Libra, they need a majority of the Libra Association members to do that.
Related (as they were influenced by the Cherokee writing system) and similarly interesting: Canadian aboriginal syllabics [1], which are unique in that the shape of the character determines the consonant, while the 90-degree rotation of the character determines the vowel.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics