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ifelsehow··on Binance.us opens for US customers today
That's 26% of US states, but potentially much more than 26% of the US population (have not computed, but Texas, New York, Florida and, to a lesser extent, Washington all have large populations).
ifelsehow··on Project Oak – Meaningful control of data in distributed systems
FWIW - Keystone is going to be one of the core components of the Oasis project [0].

[0] https://www.oasislabs.com/

ifelsehow··on Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
Check out David Mellis (of Arduino fame)'s "IDE" for collecting and training classifiers on gestures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nDCG4vkFP0

ifelsehow··on Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
As @jwr says, there are different paradigms in Lisp, such that you would never really write code like this.
ifelsehow··on Someone had set up a Wikipedia page about me
> Ringleader of this fierce and foul-mouthed circus — one of them called me ‘a k * * b’ —

I'm American. What does k * * b refer to?

ifelsehow··on Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
Will this also apply to data URIs? Thinking of the recent data URI phishing exploits [1]

[1]: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-u...

ifelsehow··on One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light
Hi, I experienced some auditory sensation for a few videos. The police sirens were particularly vivid - I imagined a series of rising tones quite involuntarily. The description of this sound as coming from "inside your head" is particularly apt - it is not an auditory hallucination, it's more like something I am imagining involuntarily. Interestingly, what I imagine is the same every time I watch the video.

In retrospect, I have experienced this phenomenon everyday, but never thought much about it.

ifelsehow··on Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future
> The most important concern is that Signal is a silo [...] you have to connect to OpenWhisperSystems servers to communicate with other users.

You can run your own private Signal service with OpenWhisperSystems' tools [1].

It's also worth noting that Signal - as a protocol - could easily be federated. (As others have mentioned, Moxie has chimed in on why the app is centralized [2]).

If confederated messaging is important, why not use the existing Signal protocol implementations, (including the X3DH key exchange, ratcheting protocol, etc), which is all F/LOSS, and has already been widely reviewed (as the article mentions)?

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java

[2] https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

ifelsehow··on The Signal protocol for Node and browsers
I find the following in Chrome:

> window.crypto.getRandomValues

// getRandomValues() { [native code] }

> window.crypto.getRandomValues = function () { return "aloha" }

> window.crypto.getRandomValues()

// "aloha"

Not sure if this is the case in all browsers. `window.crypto` certainly should be read-only.

ifelsehow··on DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
Reposting imglorp's comment on the root of the comment tree, as it's buried currently. This should restore service for those desperately needing to access Github etc ;)

> ....point your machine or router's DNS to use opendns resolvers instead of your regular ones: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

ifelsehow··on WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client
how does the webtorrent team respond to criticisms of sequential downloading in torrents?

while i personally believe folks should mirror & seed torrents regardless of how others consume these torrents, i'm curious about the developers' perspectives on this issue

in any case, this desktop app looks very slick, thanks webtorrent team for all work pushing webrtc and torrenting forward