skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of this sounds like reasonable advice. I will warn however, that if you go to the Chamber of Commerce, be prepared to have a lot of people misunderstand what you do (no matter how you frame it) and to get a lot of time-wasting inquiries wanting you to fix their Windows problems for peanuts, even if what you do is, say, graphic design. Likewise, my experience with things on meetup.com has been terrible. It felt like mostly desperate people all trying to connect with anyone at all, and nobody who actually needed a service.
Microsoft got burned badly on misclassification, but amenities had nothing to do with it: their contractors effectively were employees, with no material difference between FTEs and contractors in terms of how was work delivered and what expectations were. (I've done a very little bit of contracting work for MSFT, FWIW).

I'm not surprised if MSFT overcorrected after that shitstorm.

But for what it's worth, my understanding is that v-badges at MSFT still get access to facilities!
The act of using a mixer alone is not money laundering.
Here's a good post about why not to use Dash

https://medium.com/@omiros23/evans-and-dash-s-scam-story-add...
For C#, Framework Design Guidelines by Cwalina & Abrams. Very clear and concise pointers for well structured and easy to read code. It's a little out of date now though, wish they'd update it to a third edition.
I'm on the 4.11.9-1-ARCH kernel, but same Firefox version. I'm only able to reproduce with the Zotero addon enabled, are you using it too?
I've had a few rides with such drivers. Generally they are older and want to continually experience the world, so they drive so they can talk to people about their life experiences. It's one of the cooler and more positive byproducts of this rapid change in the transport economy that has had much media coverage of negatives.
But even if you leave it in, everything is still protected in hardware, and in addition, malware can't trigger a physical presence button push...so, it is in fact significantly less secure...
It's also really disingenuous to deny that criminals benefit from privacy tools. We can acknowledge that criminals benefit and are, perhaps, the largest "customer" of privacy tools without invalidating the argument that those tools should exist and be legal. Not being realistic about it is also harmful to the privacy cause.

His comment isn't equating privacy and criminality, it's acknowledging that some, if not a majority, of the profits of his service came through being an enabler to criminal activity. He's being realistic on the subject, you're the one who isn't.
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In addition to being wrong about the massive cost differential, this disparagement also ignores the fact that U.S. longevity hasn't kept pace for decades:

https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...
I forgot to update to 10 during the free period and I don't feel like paying $100 since windows 8 still works fine.
What's the difference between Halium and Mer? They both seem to be similar projects.
Do a lot of services allow you to refund money to a new account?

As I understand it, bitcoin doesn't track coins so much as it tracks the funds associated with account numbers. When you have "dirty" coins, it's really that people know an account (say, A) has illegitimately gotten funds (say, $x).

A tumbler functions by taking $x from A, transferring it to the tumbler account (say, T), and then transferring it on to other accounts (eg, B1, B2, ..., Bn) in various amounts that total the input ($x) minus some fee. Something like:

(A, $x) -> [T] -> [(B1, $y1), (B2, $y2), ... (Bn, $yn)]

In order to use a service as a tumbler, you'd need them to a) keep secret what you bought from them (ie, the difference between $x and $y) and b) allow you to transfer the funds out to a different account number than the one that sent the coins in (and ideally, a few such numbers).

It would seem like any legitimate business would hand over that information when requested (or subpoenaed).
Business news sources tend to be clear headed, because they are in the space of news you can put a dollar value on, and hence will pay for to make more accurate. That doesn't make them perfect, since they still tend towards an editorial agenda favoring "business as usual" power centers over disruptive forces, but I don't feel like I'm being fed outrage most of the time.
I find the BBC and the Economist good for this reason. They are/seem a lot less biased than U.S. stuff through some combination of higher standards and that they'd rather manipulate the emotions of Europeans than Americans (and I am an American).
>"Money laundering" as it is understood today only emerged in the 1980s during the war on drugs.

Nonsense. From wiki: "The term "money laundering" is said to have originated with the Italian mafia and such criminals as Al Capone who allegedly purchased 'Laundromats' to commingle (or mix) their illegal profits from prostitution and bootlegged liquor sales with legitimate business sales"

But furthermore I don't think it needs to be argued that people have been hiding money from governments since there has been money and governments. It will always be an implicitly illegal act regardless of the existence of specific statute because you are in the end avoiding taxation.
Imagine a world where the street taco vendor that accepted your money gets you bank transaction history since you opened the account. That's bitcoin. Privacy is important because wallet anonymity is really the only privacy you have, and once it's gone there's no getting it back, and it's retroactive. Mixing services add a buffer.
Money laundering is just a "make my life easier" card for prosecutors. By itself, it is not harmful at all. Maybe tax evasion is harmful, but don't conflate the two. It's disgusting that we've let people get away with promoting this idea of hiding your money, seeking privacy, is somehow wrong.

This was on HN a while ago: https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/money-laundering-is-f...

As far as this being the "point" of cryptocurrency, it's rather silly to suggest the point is to massively increase traceability in transactions. Maybe that's just a limitation of Bitcoin.
No.

People want to support Veteran business owners.
IANAL, but from reading for a little bit, it seems to vary and states have their own laws.

There's some discussion on Wikipedia here[2] of unauthorized piggybacking (which does not even require hacking the network), with a few examples of actual instances.

In St. Petersburg, 2005, Benjamin Smith III was arrested and charged with "unauthorized access to a computer network", a third-degree felony in the state of Florida, after using a resident's wireless network from a car parked outside.

A third-degree felony in Florida seems to be up to 5 years. In some states it is up to 10 years. Another person got "a fine of $250 and one year of court supervision".

If it's unauthorized access to the computer of a government or financial institution (or "which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication", which can be interpreted very broadly), then the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would apply[2]. From reading about the sections regarding "trespassing", punishment can be a fine and 1-5 years imprisonment (first offense), or up to 10 years (repeated offense).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#Unite...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Attorneys have a reputation of charging $600 a visit, much like the hospital bills one is trying to escape.
Not really. CNN has gone the way of MSNBC (i.e. liberal, one-sided, pretty much echo-chamber). HN is the same way when it relates to political news (i.e. liberal, one-sided, pretty much echo-chamber). Fox News is, well, Fox News. NPR is, well, for the most part, the Fox News of the left. So on and so forth.

In a world of two echo chambers (The Right-wingers and The Left-wingers), it's up to you to make up your mind. You have to visit all sites and KNOW that you are getting the one sided alternative facts that best support their specific agenda. Then you MUST realize the world is never really Black and White, and MUST come to your own informed conclusions.

Every site has their own goodness. I find interesting articles in each of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Braitbart, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, etc. etc., but you have to sift through 99% of one-sided junk.
Trump does not like Bezos due to his ownership of the Washington Post. I would like to hope this does not affect the final decision.

As another poster said, in regards to the Democrat raising concerns, she is attempting to leverage a national story for votes.

Taken as a standalone purchase removed from politics I see this as a potential boon to many; with the chance for Amazon to leverage it's many expertices to provide lower cost higher quality food to people who otherwise could not afford it.
I agree with you on the creators' rights thing.

It seems unwise of the game maker to purchase a music license that expires. Though, I suspect it was a calculated risk, and that they believed potential sales this late after release weren't worth paying more for. Alan Wake was released seven years ago.
You don't have to "stay up to date on pop culture".
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No.

People want to support LGBT business owners.
No.

People want to support Jewish business owners.
There was plenty of documentation, and what I was trying to do was along the lines you mentioned. My problem was that if anything there were too many different moving parts in the software and too much documentation. Individually it was quite clear what each part was supposed to be doing. Collectively, it simply didn't work: messages weren't reliably sent or delivered, sometimes generating various kinds of logs or error messages, other times silently as far as I could tell. The hard part was trying to pin down which part of the system wasn't set up properly, and I simply didn't have and couldn't find the knowledge to solve that problem within a reasonable amount of time.

Given that fundamentally neither email protocols nor mail store structure on a typical Linux box are particularly complicated, and that all of the software I was using was well established and reputable, it was an exceptionally frustrating experience. Someone with more skill than me would surely have installed the relevant half dozen or so packages from the distro, edited a few configuration files to set up the remote mail server details and identify the local processes to each other, and had everything working within a few minutes. Unfortunately, without that knowledge the sheer number of options and possibilities was overwhelming and I never got that far. What I really needed was a one-page HOWTO for the most simple use case and a setting for each package that said "don't try to do anything clever or unusual", but what I had at the time was literally hundreds of screens' worth of detailed parameters and config file options, each written according to the conventions and assumptions of their own package.
No.

People want to support Muslim business owners.
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Oddly the name Dick is spelled and pronounced just like the slang term for a man's penis in the English language. You would think that would offend American puritanical sensibilities but the name is quite common.
this is pretty stupid and blatantly false.
Does that still hold true now? When I lived in Buckhannon, WV, our local "grocer" was a Walmart, and you needed to drive 15 mins on the interstate to get to it.
Traditional payment methods can't do certain things, like send money to someone in another country for a fee of $0.05 in a matter of a minute, or make a payment on a website without disclosing to them your personal details.

You may also not feel comfortable with your bank or government knowing all of your private financial interactions. There is no reason to blindly trust your bank or government to that extent.
Agree on both those fronts, if you're not careful. Still dp influenced my coding more than any other book to date, which was the original question.
Upvote this one: https://aka.ms/c6od8k

(Yes, that's a terrible feedback/issue, but it's the closest one I've found).
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A lot if the advice in these books has become widely accepted, so if you might not find that much new in them if you've already worked at a tech company for a bit.
Try using wire services such as Reuters and AP for 'factual' news. Most news outlets get their news from these places and then add their own flavour to it.
Can you cite a source for that claim?
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Ever sit down and figure out the cost of taking your own vehicle: amortized cost, maintenance, extra expense of gas (versus driving EV) when you're not on a road trip, things like that? I'm not saying it'll come out to 400 Euros, but it ain't free.
Extension version with similar functionality: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keyless-u2f/bhgbpf....
Works with Mac + Windows. Amazing to see more soft solutions for U2F.
> totalitarianism and capitalism aren't at all mutually exclusive

Well, too much further discussion along these lines will turn into a semantic quagmire. However, you can draw a spectrum where "individuals decide for themselves" is on one end and "a central power decides for everyone" is at the other. In that viewpoint, capitalism and totalitarianism are at odds, regardless of whether the central authority is an officer of a government bureau or a corporate one.
"We won't allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs"

I guess we should spin up the weaving looms when the next recession hits?
Businesses don't want their books to be public. Could even be an SEC violation if they leaked certain info through the blockchain. Some kind of greater anonymity will be required for business adoption, but that could mean something off-chain other than a mixer.
I could, but the object of the exercise was to be able to fetch the mail to a local server and then access it from any device on my network (including potentially from a mobile device via VPN). I also wanted to do things like spam filtering and automatically filing incoming mail according to various rules, the same as I'd do with a standalone mail client, and sending all outgoing mail via a system that could keep copies. This is well beyond the scope of running something like fetchmail on its own.
Do you know if you can roam with that SIM to other countries?

Outside the EU?
I've been thinking about this recently, and there are few cases where anonymity on the internet is a positive. Let's take Hacker News as a case-study. The open registration system without email verification or any sort of verification allows users to comment and act without retribution or fear of being called out. While I support strong security and encryption, generally being anonymous on the internet promotes negative behavior.

Anonymity on the internet causes people to act inappropriately, troll, comment offensively, conduct fraud and illegal activities.
I've only tested on Sierra, so I'm not terribly surprised that this doesn't work. Would you mind opening an issue so I can help debug? https://github.com/github/SoftU2F/issues/new
NPR and Fox are such that you can still select a decent subset. Sometimes (less often) NYT and Breitbart have decent neutral content.

Fox doesn't try to push the tradcon agenda on every show, so you can just choose not to watch the O'reillys and such. Then there are things that they can't really mess up, like uncut interviews with specific people. I think Tucker Carlson, regardless of his opinions and how they jive with you, does a great job of giving his interviewees enough rope to hang themselves.

These days I tune in to Dave Rubin's Rubin Report for neutral interviews with people of widely varying opinions. For pop culture style "news" with less fear-mongering, there's always Phillip DeFranco. There are quite a few interesting political commentators with various viewpoints on YouTube. I've been watching styxhexenhammer666 recently, he seems to have a good predictive grasp on global politics centered around the U.S., he's often right.
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Some people need to use bitcoin to avoid capital controls, prohibitively high transaction costs or other obstacles. Just because you don't think it's useful doesn't mean no one does.
Well a: he could work with LE if he felt this was some strong moral point, and b: LE saying that is definitely lying. There are other services, and there's now more solid ways (e.g. Monero) to hide cryptocurrency. So it's super unlikely it was just his service providing a totally unique thing and without bitmixer.io oh no criminals would just give up and return their sex slaves.

What about people writing secure messaging services? "This terrorist attack would have been prevented if it wasn't for your encryption!"
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"This is ludicrous!"

When US citizens en mass realise they pay three times as much as a country for healthcare that other western countries do, maybe it will change.
> I don't care about if a bunch of for profit businesses lose money.

> What I care about is consumers and low prices.

You are being short-sighted then. Come in, drive the others out of business, then feel free to raise prices with no competition. It has happened multiple times before.
Yeah why not recommend Monero, another cryptonight coin, which has way more traction and is actually used on some "illegal" sites? And has hardforked a few times to continually improve privacy?
This is a brilliant idea to use as a third factor. Instead of TOTP or the hardware U2F key, just create keys for all your browsers. That way, you're more protected against phishing, but still have a way to log in if you lose your keyfile.
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> I often refer to most computer programming as "digital carpentry"

Then perhaps it is appropriate that at at least one company, Hughes Aircraft, the union that represents programmers is the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

That odd situation came about because a whole bunch of union carpenters worked on the Spruce Goose. After that project was shelved many of those carpenters went on to other jobs within the company, but kept the UBC as their representative. As Hughes expanded and also acquired other companies, UBC continued to represent them. In the '70s they made a big effort to organize the rest of the workers, and the result was the UBC ended up representing the majority of Hughes Aircraft workers even though almost no actual carpentry takes place there.
This is a reasonable guess at how encryption works, but it's also flawed. The key you need to crack on a Wireless Router isn't the key that's used for actual encryption of data, but rather the key used to set up that encryption in the first place.

Basically, your keys are used to handshake with the access point, and then exchange a new set of temporary keys for the duration of your connection. These temporary keys (which are exchanged during the handshake, and encrypted by something which involves your original keys) are then used to encrypt user data.

Because the data are encrypted with new keys for each connection, and those keys aren't based on the original keys in any way, knowing the plain text version of the data you're trying to decrypt doesn't help. You might be able to recover the temporary key, but you can't use this by itself to join the router, and the key is thrown away when that user makes a new connection. (These keys are also usually quite large, random, and very resistant to brute force methods anyway.)

HTTPS works similarly, and it needs to, because many (many!) websites start with the plain text "<html" which would make it trivial to brute force the keys offline otherwise.
Doesn't SatoshiDice send back your win to the same address (chaining off the previous output, so they can do it immediately)? Or has it changed?
Horse and buggies too, think of the carriage and whip makers!
You don't launder to avoid taxation, you launder to provide a plausible legitimate excuse for your criminal income, usually paying taxes in the process.

It's usually highly illegal because it involves falsifying records, including those filed with tax authorities (and because the purpose of that falsification is to conceal another crime.)
Then watch TV shows from the 80s. You aren't entitled to free stuff from hardworking people. Or from anyone else.
It would be a good thing to have these workers be full time with benefits (or in an equivalent union) but even if google, Facebook and all the tech companies did this you'd still probably not make a dent. I think it's criminal that we don't develop housing and even allocate some of the coast for it.
But what if it were done on behalf of a super PAC that just happened to be in favor of his campaign?
>you actually do have to wait several months for treatment if your issue is not "urgent", the definition of urgent being unknown.

Surely even in the actual best in the world, waiting for something that is no urgent simply makes sense and is the only way it can function. Do you expect a hospital to have 5x as many beds and staff as is often required so you can have instant surgery on your non-urgent problem? (i.e. knee replacement)

Of course you wait a little bit while they schedule it in, otherwise it would cost an insane amount of money to have all those resources waiting around for your non-urgent problem.

My experience with "urgent" problems has always been instant in Canada - my broken nose, my brother's separated shoulder and broken legs.
Even when I went in a week after being hit by a car I waited all of 5 minutes before a doctor saw me.
$1700 a month would be £5,440 a year per person.

The NHS costs about £3,500 a year per person.
I watch Vice News through HBO, high-density domestic and international news during the week.
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It's more than just two companies. Many, if not most, registrars offer this as an option when you purchase a domain.
Yep, and in the Win10 Creator's update you can even do WIN+SHIFT+S for an ultra quick snip directly to the clipboard.
Where do you draw the line?

One terrorist attack that was enabled by Signal? Should Signal then be destroyed?

Draw the line and we can debate that.
So how do those offshore online gambling companies work then? Do they all have KYC type records or are there some places where they don't?
I'm not sure how NPR and Fox News can be compared in good faith. Yes NPR has a liberal bias, but for the most part it attempts to reasonably source its articles and publish a journalistically accurate news report.

Fox News is not a news channel. They have one or two news programs mixed in with "entertainment". Sean Hannity is not news, but entertainment pretending to be news[^1].

[^1]: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/14/1620475/-Fox-News...
Yeah, I suspect that with dogs that overbreeding is a bigger issue. We have a Bernese Mountain Dog, they don't have a good health profile, for example all the "large chested breeds" are at risk of "bloat" or gastric torsion. If this isn't caught quickly then it's fatal (blood supply to the stomach is interrupted). This is something that happens through artificial selection for size, i suspect that it is rare in wolves.
https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856?lang=en
"And by the way, I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals like WannaCry, but still completely private & fungible. "

And aren't private transactions like 5% or so, making them very visible?