skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this comment and its siblings do mention methods that can, in theory, be used to launder bitcoin, it's still really difficult to do it correctly. People vastly overestimate the privacy benefits of bitcoin. In many practical cases, bitcoin is probably one of the least private ways to get payment; every transaction is publicly recorded and can easily be traced through the blockchain without subpoena, warrant, social engineering, or any justification whatsoever. This is a treasure trove for law enforcement and will likely allow them to find criminals that never would've otherwise appeared on their radar.

Some tumblers are honeypots and many are scams that will skim the top off your btc while barely doing anything to your coins' "taint" rating.

Even if one's understanding of bitcoin and practice of opsec is impeccable, there is still the need to worry about trading partners out to the nth degree; one weak link somewhere in the chain may very well lead back to an otherwise-meticulous user. One also must worry about getting discovered through some other means, like getting a computer booked into evidence and having the bitcoin wallet found and a legal order entered compelling its decryption.

If law enforcement finds out someone unsuccessfully engaged in an attempt to conceal their possession of bitcoin, that person is adding years to a potential prison sentence with conspiracy charges, money laundering, tax evasion, etc.

Bitcoin is awesome for everyday use. Anyone who wants to use it for "underground" endeavors needs to do some serious homework, and not just plunge in believing "it's anonymous currency" or "it's anonymous as long as I send my coin to a tumbler after getting it".
Nunca más odiaras el Brocoli, uno de los mejores super-alimentos – ROOSTERGNN
Please cite a source?
I'm genuinely surprised at the quality of Musk's writing and the presentation of certain ideas. He clearly insisted against copyediting, and that was probably a mistake judging by the output. I suspect that he was attempting to eschew the formality of typical press releases, but this 'Master Plan' (which is itself a somewhat juvenile moniker) feels like something that warranted rigor.
A link for the lazy, the first part of the Elon Musk series on Wait But Why:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-m...
Except for most accidents humans bring it on themselves. SDV are more like sewer pipes to me.
This is why I prefer the nonspecific "meat sack," though I'll admit mine is often more cumbersome in general usage. (Seriously: "folks" is what I tend to use to avoid this situation. Any time you find yourself saying "guys," folks will work.)
From the pictures, it's not my kind of town either --but to be fair, lots of tract housing is very uniform with slight color variation, sometimes.

I think they could have used some "reinterpretation" of Victorian, cape, colonial, etc... rather than replicate en-masse. But, like I said, lots of places are cookie cutter developments; it's not unique in that way.
This must be one of those theme accounts I keep hearing about.
>There are 30,000 motor vehicle deaths in America each year. In perhaps 30 years, fully autonomous vehicles could cut all of that needless carnage to nearly nothing.

There is a huge assumption underlying this: That computer systems would be more intelligent than humans.

I believe the opposite: Computer systems will be much dumber than humans, and increase the number of accidents if ever adopted on large scale.
The world has its first Pokémon Go dating service
digits method just saved code-golfers 20 characters.

`num.to_s.split(//).map(&:to_i)` => `num.digits`
Would you allow black people at least some moral agency? Certainly you'd say that blacks who avoid crime and instead thrive in the legit economy are responsible to at least some degree for their own success? Why would you not then hold those who become criminals equally responsible for their failure?
Don't be so dramatic. This is me every day. It's ADHD meets debt, family obligations, and dead-end job. A lot of entrepreneurs/wantrepreneurs and devs have ADHD. Can't do much about it unless I pop pills, which I'm not overly keen on doing. I'd rather find something to do that motivates me to get out of bed at 5am every day.
It seems you are drawing conclusions out of a tree from the forest.

elt0n reads books, plays music, and takes long walks by himself, but he believes the answer to life is not only 42, but also people. Think about it, do the very best moments in your life involve a book or a walk or music, or other people?

elt0n doesn't quite fit in either introvert or extrovert generalizations, but the social interactions in the tech world don't seem nearly as exciting as those outside of it. It seems people view tech as an end instead of a mean, and maybe that's where the idea of slaving away comes from.

Regardless, what do you think is elt0n's view of what humans are meant to do? Party all day and talk loudly? I would also think so based on the quote you took out of an already poorly phrased context.
Did you catch the SpaceX Launch on Sunday night? Always does the trick for me... Especially when they stick the landing! But regardless, it's a few min's where I can forget myself and cheer for the future.

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Have you familiarized yourself with the psychology of trauma and the praxis of healing? Are you a descendant of Black slaves?

Blacks who fled the South forming enclaves in the Cities of America were refugees. But unlike other refugees they never received the post-trauma treatment we give other survivors.

They also encountered crushing discrimination wherever they went. They were shut-out of opportunities to improve their lives and the lives of their families, the effects of enslavement, slavery, terrorism, segregation, and discrimination do not disappear because a new law is passed making those things illegal. They reverberate across generations.
Ask HN: From dreaming to doing
For people who started their own business, what was the final thought that triggered you to go for it? Did you dip your toes in by starting a project as a hobby, or did you take the plunge and leave your job behind to work full time? Did you get funded or was it self funded? Have any regrets or words of advice?

Due to health reasons, I can't put in extra hours on the side , so I'm heavily considering cutting back my normal work hours to invest in a few ideas I have.

I miss freelancing and the feeling of owning a project.
The sense I'm getting from what you're saying is that this plan to create a "Zion" is like various Christian groups doing X or Y to hasten the Second Coming of Christ?

Also, if you have a minute, I'd love to hear your understanding of what the real Zion will be. (Honest curiosity.)
I agree mostly with this, but I am not sure it is all generational gap, or that large entities move slowly.

Also see my comment above about IP and copyright in reference to Zara copying an indie artist's designs and placing the patches on their clothing.

How come it is not ok when the shoe is on the other foot?

To be clear, I am sincerely asking here, since I go through bouts of taking one side then the other on music, movies, copyright, and other IP.
Dang, posted that to the wrong comment.

White people push back against black kids going to their schools, businesses, etc. Few good jobs for blacks. Eventually white people move out, bringing their businesses, and revenue, with them to the suburbs. Money doesn't come into the city, no new businesses are developed, racially-divisive restrictions from banks make things worse. Crime and drug abuse increases, partly due to the squalid nature of the resulting segregation and lack of economic stability. Riots in a reaction to all this and the biggest civil rights leader of the century dying verifies white people's worst fears and the white flight moves into overdrive.

With record low access to education, jobs, housing, record high drug use/crime, and racist authority figures/policies, what was a not very good situation becomes a terrible situation, and literally the whole society is engineered to fail, with no recourse for improvement.

Read my other comment below for reading material.
Silicon Valley Could Get Pass in Democrats’ Antitrust Crusade
I'd be interested in learning how much saving this is in dollars -- anyone here knowledgeable enough in data centre cooling to estimate this?
I can ship a BluRay disc or three pretty quickly...
Pokémon Go has created its own little, burgeoning economy
I just realized the other pill beside magnesium complement my doctor prescribed to me was an anti anxiety pill (didn't know the name, thought it was a muscle relaxant). I have to admit that it made my mood smooth, and got out of bed in a way that I didn't since a year. Damn brain.
Crony Capitalism at its best. Make threats, then watch the donations roll in.
You might want to read up on this:

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

Excerpt:

However, some historians have challenged the phrase "white flight" as a misnomer whose use should be reconsidered. In her study of Chicago's West Side during the post-war era, historian Amanda Seligman argues that the phrase misleadingly suggests that whites immediately departed when blacks moved into the neighborhood, when in fact, many whites defended their space with violence, intimidation, or legal tactics.
The business practices of redlining, mortgage discrimination, and racially restrictive covenants contributed to the overcrowding and physical deterioration of areas where minorities chose to congregate. Such conditions are considered to have contributed to the emigration of other populations. The limited facilities for banking and insurance, due to a perceived lack of profitability, and other social services, and extra fees meant to hedge against perceived profit issues increased their cost to residents in predominantly non-white suburbs and city neighborhoods. According to the environmental geographer Laura Pulido, the historical processes of suburbanization and urban decentralization contribute to contemporary environmental racism.
I think this is a smaller evolution than microservices / non microservices.... as others have pointed out, the real discussion is autonomy versus centralised control.
Well, such jumps are not racist, while using nationality and religious beliefs to discriminate people is?
It's what happens when people speak vernacular.
I ran into a bug [1] that appeared to be a deadlock triggered by rsync of a relatively modest directory with tons of small files. The only thing that fixed it was `spl_taskq_thread_dynamic=0` to stop the dynamic spawning of ZFS-related kernel threads. Rather than a memory management issue, it'd stall the copy and peg my CPUs indefinitely.

I suspect it's fixed in 0.7.0 based on some of the other related bugs I've run into since, but I've been reluctant to upgrade as of yet. Otherwise, ZFS on a home file server has been great.

[1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/3808
1 light-nanosecond is about a foot. 1 sound (at sea level)-millisecond is also about a foot.

Meaningless coincidence, but still handy for back-of-the-envelope calculations.

Suck it metric system! =)
You need to pick up problems and do them. Pick up a problem and learn the math for it, then code it, and then if you like, publish it or blog about it. You only learn a subject by doing problems. So, you need to think about the list of problems you're going to solve. Here's a starter list - make a recommendation engine for books to read for a user, make a sentiment analysis prediction algorithm for hospitals based on patient feedback (textual), make a spam detection engine for sms'es you get on your phone, make a multi document summarizer, make a prediction model for predicting whether a certain flight would be on time or not, make a bot application for your phone such that for everything you want to do on your phone you just go to that bot application and type in and tell it what to do, advance your bot by taking voice instructions, make a AI game to play tic-tac-toe - make your friends play with it and let it learn / grow it's training data and then it should improve in beating other people. If you only do these, it'll take you a few months. But like they say - "when you want to learn something, assume you have all the time in the world". Best of luck!
" in 99% of my experience the services aren't a real distributed system anyway and are vaguely organized by function, developer interest, and yes, control."

But, that's kind of the point. They're a networked system of interacting processes, but not a distributed system. A distributed system generally is a tightly coupled and coordinated set of services running on many machines for purposes of resilience or scale-out. Microservices are more for organizational scale-out. A microservices might BE a distributed system, but several interacting microservices probably isn't one (pedantically speaking).

Microservices are an evolution of how large-scale integrated systems have played out as a pendulum swing between tightly coupled systems and loosely coupled systems.

After the mainframe, into the client-server era, most non-web software in a large organization (eg. most IT back offices dating back to the 90s) were NOT built as a single application, it was built as a set of independent applications that were coordinated by something: a shared database, data extracts, message queues, transaction processors and RPCs.

Data extracts were the ultimate in loose coupling. You got an update every night from other databases, and could do whatever you wanted with the data. But of course, this led to data quality problems, when customer records or inventory couldn't reconcile.

So we moved to "a service owns its data" type situations, and wrapped them in message queues or RPCs. This is basically how something like SAP works - it's a set of modules with their own schemas that are tightly coupled through a set of RPCs and messages.

But this eventually had none of the benefits of networked modularity - everything was so coupled and intertwined, it was a mess to change and upgrade - you had to do the whole thing at once (which is why SAP upgrades are so notorious).

What makes microservices different is that we've evolved them to have truly independent interface from implementation by having the implementation lifecycle of a module be tied to the server down to the metal, so it can be completely autonomous from other services. Therefore I can upgrade/replace/scale/move these runtimes whereever I want, whenever I want. I can also place proxy or gateway intermediaries between them more easily. This is "SOA done well", in effect.

We've also evolved our practice of service interface design beyond rigid IDLs and WSDLs and schemas into more permissive, extensible, and better documented APIs or Events, along with easier versioning, but the state of the art still has a long way to go there.

Not a panacea, but on the flip side, I've rarely seen a maintainable, scalable, and easy to change networked monolith. They do exist, but required the controlling designers to be deeply talented with full control over architecture decisions, and they didn't get into analysis paralysis. But even they eventually couldn't keep up with changes, so they're breaking their monoliths up today, IME.
I am not denying that many bugs that got closed might still be relevant and reproducible. What I meant in my comment was that this doesn't look like a bad or some kind of "we don't acknowledge or care about these issues" move. Rather this appears to be an attempt at getting the bug reports into a more relevant and manageable state.
I agree completely. I may simply have had the luxury of so far working in environments wherein software fads aren't hailed as Swiss-Army panaceas. Here's to hoping my track record doesn't ever trend Dilbertesque :)
With the caveat that you end up sounding like a politician
Amazon was never a profit machine. I do think that's part of the core business, re-invest everything and more... and they turned into a giant comparable to Walmart.
Maybe I'm wrong! I admit I'm no automotive electric engineer. But they clearly have some design in mind that'll work.
Probably the biggest gotcha of JSON is that there is no equality operator implemented for it. The reason is the philosophy of postgres to never do anything if you don't do it right, and you can't compare JSON as strings because of key order and whitespace.

In itself it doesn't seem like a big deal, but you'll lose generic things that normally always work. An example would be a trigger that updates an updated_at column, by checking

IF OLD IS DISTINCT FROM NEW

This syntax normally works on everything, but will throw if a column is of type JSON.
A Google <-> Uber partnership could reveal something similar.
Tesla isn't a car company. It's building Rome. All great "startups" are not some good idea executed well. They are companies with a long term vision that generate ideas to execute that will get them there. Anyone might steal an idea or copy a product, but no one can steal a mission or a destination far in the future. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Google... all started as or at some point became "build Rome" companies.
Very true, I guess a good balance is important. One can only enjoy one's own company for so long, right?
You installed adobe reader on your Mac?

I usually don't make comments regarding other people's software choices but you are definitely doing it wrong.

Mac OSX's built in pdf viewer "preview" is much better than even adobe's reader even though they invented the format.

The entire rendering system of OSX is based on postscript so it flies.
No, it's a totally wrong apporach. It's your work that you are paid for, and nobody is ought to make your work for free.
I'm a huge fan of public transit. It is of limited utility in land-use patterns typical of modern American cities, or, far more so, suburbs.

If you can take a vehicle directly to your destination, or a short walk from it, things works pretty well. If you need to transfer, even once, you can easily double trip time (consider a typical commute is ~20 minutes one-way).

Scheduling transfers with shared-roadbed (e.g., bus, light rail) systems is all but impossible.

Prior to the creation of early transit systems (horse-drawn omnibuses, either wheeled or tracked), few cities had a cross-section of more than 1-2 miles, as 1 miles is about a 20 minute walk. Streetcars (horse, electric, steam) extended that based on their average speed, typically 5-15 mph, with a 5-10 mile commute becoming possible though still usually less, and those commutes forming along rail lines, hence a hub-and-spoke city layout (see for example Chicago). Dense grids such as New York's were unusual.

Personal (or small-ridership) vehicles can go directly point-to-point, and make longer, flexible-route commutes possible (I'm not saying this is a good thing, merely a fact), though requiring parking, chauffers/cabbies, automatic vehicle control, etc.). In an interesting parallel, one reason there were so many horses in late-19th-century America was because of railroads. You had 30-60 MPH transit along fixed routes, but limited movement within cities or towns. So horses, wagons, and coaches to get to and from railway stations for goods and people. Petrol-powered automobiles replaced horses before they substituted for trains, though railroad use was already in decline by 1920 (rising one last time due to fuel rationing in WWII).

Upshot: there's a place for public transit, but almost certainly only with massively revamped land-use within urban and suburban regions.
No, and yes. If I leave a location, I am so incredibly not-responsible for what happens to it after I'm gone. If you think otherwise, I suspect you have some cause-and-effect bits in your brain that are irreparably damaged.
If you s/guys/folks/ in that comment and think it sounds like a politician, I'm quite intrigued by who your politicians are. Kill this thread and don't reply to me, though, we are super off topic.
Solar offers even longer time to payoff/profit. It's a long term bet... even longer than Tesla's current profile IMHO.
No, but it at least makes it more detectable.
If that's the case, I'd argue we're conflating software development management with software engineering execution. It's illogical to assert that utilizing microservices implies entirely forgoing centralization.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+die+in+car+c...

1.3 million people die every year. This very well may be on that scale.
China to ban ad blockers?
Is company-to-company, highly tailored product advertising considered spamming?
I think that's still two OOM too little.
I think Zara's intimidation tactics are despicable.

That being said, and as I have written elsewhere, I am not so black-and-white on copyright and IP.

A lot of people called for the end to old business models of copyright and IP rights when it comes to 'greedy' music studios, Hollywood movies, and other IP vehicles.

Then in reverse logic, they think an indie artist has copyright or IP rights. I understand the emotion of the individual against the big bully corporation, but I am still personally struggling with the morality of copying or buying a pirated DVD, and turning around and saying she deserves her share due to those same laws many others violate.

How does that work ethically?

Most likely it was a low-paid designer out of thousands who copied the work off the internet, who will now lose their job, Zara will be fine.
> getting the bug reports into a more relevant and manageable state

What means that somebody got them into the unmanageable state, in the first place.
I know what you mean about SUVs and trucks feeling safer and more comfortable. Objectively however, their handling characteristics and weight distribution (particularly the very light rear weight in pickups) make them quite a bit less safe in terms of what they will do in a high speed evasive action situation.
A technical founder’s review of API experiences – Trello
Not very soon, there are better places for Solar Panels than roads...
Amazing that you were able to get a stable, well paying job as a convicted felon. I would imagine that would be very difficult.

That's one of the worst things about the war on some drugs in my opinion, it creates a social underclass with a massively increased chance of reoffending.

Good luck with everything and thanks for telling your story.
When people talk about AI, the topic invariably turns to things like "truck drivers and other low-skill jobs should be scared!" I think the reality is the opposite. I think that anyone whose job is to do mid-to-high skill work with numbers should be scared, because you can automate their jobs without solving the messy problem of getting computers to move big physical objects around.
It's really annoying to see people still recommending Python 2.7 for new users/projects. If security updates really do stop in 2020, then we have 3.5 years until any deployed software written in Python 2.7 is useless, as it will be insecure.
You have it backwards.

I believe you are referring to twitter being used to silence a dissenting opinion when you said "that policy", in reference to Nero. I actually think it's the other way, the bullying sent toward the SNL actresses' way, the sexist and homophobic comments, those were actually meant to silence a dissenting view, someone those people did not like.

Stopping bullying is a good thing. No good comes from bullying someone you don't like.