skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has any wealthy or powerful persons finances ever been leaked before (outside of the Panama leaks)? Or is this just popular political position to make regardless of relevance to reality?

There is a very big difference between the security of peoples financial and tax records compared to say... some 70yr olds private email account stored on a poorly secured home server. Not to mention someone like Putin would likely have layers of shell companies and layers of diversions where it wouldn't be of much use.

People like to pretend Wikileaks can hack and leak anything, and it's merely a political descision for them on who gets hacked. But they are merely a platform for leaks, publishing almost exclusively either opportunistic hacks (Manning leaks) or low hanging fruit (personal email servers) they recieve from other people. They don't direct a network of hackers to do their politically motivated bidding.
Yeah, I got to the first "this isn't her real name but that's what journalists do..." and rolled my eyes. I thought that was a one time thing, but it continued. I'll look for a summary in the comments here.
True, but video games of that era eventually got boring; not to mention you had to coax your parents into finally buying you another vs downloading from an infinite library. I can remember my friends and I collectively getting bored of playing video games and deciding to go outside. At some point, most kids ended up outside, so there was a desire to go out and play.

The only time I can remember my parents having to tell us to go outside is when we lazed around the house in our PJs too long on a non-school day.

Today, the opposite is true. They want to be on their devices for both entertainment and social interaction. Yeah, parents have a say, but it's a constant fight.
I recommend speaking with an accountant familiar with these matters. I am not one.

Generally an S-corp is a pass through entity (LLC's are similar). This means that profits (both cash and increases in the book value of the company) are not taxed at the corporate level and instead distributed to the the shareholders (either in cash or as the increased value of their shares). Because LLC's provide greater flexibility in terms of salaries and operating procedures, they are generally more common than S-corps for new businesses.

The difference between an S-corp and a C-corp (usually incorporated in Delaware) is that profits are taxed at the corporate level rather than being passed through to the individual shareholders. Cash profits may be distributed as dividends to the shareholders, however, the dividends will be taxed for each individual receiving them. This is what is often called 'double taxation'.

An S-corp/LLC and C-corps are different types of financial instrument. An S-corp/LLC primarily provides returns to shareholders via annual/quarterly cash flows. A C-corp primarily provides returns in the form of capital gains...i.e. by increasing the value of the equity (raising the share price).

The lower tax rate for capital gains versus ordinary income and the growth that deferred tax liability provides (equity is not taxed until it is sold) are among the reason C-corps are attractive to passive investors such as Venture Capital.

Again, talk to an accountant.

Good luck.
> I would happily bet $10,000 that AES will not be broken in the next ten years.

What are you talking about: http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf

You'd lose the bet so hard. Don't take anything for granted. Even the most supposedly secure and widely used primitives should be scrutinized and are subjects to constant attacks.
It's a (large) niche market with specific needs that aren't met by traditional dating sites. Why is building a product to cater to those needs bad or wrong?

If I'm a Muslim and I want to date/marry a Muslim and there are a lot of things I have to solve for as a result of that, it makes a whole lot of sense that technology help me solve for those things.
I actually agree.

Unless done perfectly, whitespace with syntactic meaning languages are quite annoying.

If I had a nickel for every time I had a tab vs space bug in Python when I was first starting to code.
> TV gets boring (or there's nothing on), the one NES game you got for Christmas last year gets boring, but there's always something new within easy reach on the internet. It's much harder to get so bored you want to do something else.

I think the notion of video games getting boring might be weird to people who didn't grow up with consoles like the NES, but it's true. I'm sure plenty of people went nuts for games back then and played them all day, not just one odd day in a while but all the time, but for most an hour or two of Mario or Doom or Commander Keen was about all you could take, then you'd wanna go ride bikes or something.

It seems to me that this started to shift around the 16-bit console era, and got way worse quickly in the late 90s. I'm not entirely sure why. I think part of it was that games started to be tuned to be more "fun"/addictive, especially by toning down difficulty and allowing endless increasingly-low-friction lives/continues. Now, of course, they've gone farther than that and have tuned them to be consistent low-dose dopamine delivery services. It's creepy.

And yeah, then there's netflix and such. It occurred to me just the other day (I'm dense) that my kids will have no idea what it means to schedule TV-watching around when something airs. No clue what it means to miss an episode something and just... miss it. To not have the option of watching cartoons (or whatever) right this second because there aren't any on, and there won't be until tomorrow. Now you can always catch up, binge-style. With $30-$40 in subscriptions (or a torrent client) You can watch just your favorite shows and movies 8hrs/day for weeks on end without running out of material, even if you've got fairly specific or refined tastes.

Pretend we are writing a fable in which a sorcerer always gets what he wants.

Consider what happens to a soul which always gets what it wants.

- Emily Bludworth de Barios, "Packages show up on the lawn it is astonishing how they appear."

From:

http://www.forkliftohio.com/index.php?page=freight-31
Edit: seems to work fine, even used Facebook to post link (privately), and they apparently didn't trigger the deletion. Looks good.
I have an ancient unlimited plan with AT&T and honestly I don't care if they cap me so long as I can still stream music at high bit rates.
Hmm, scp is pretty easy to use. If you can ssh to a host, it should work.
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It honestly feels like some of the mods are on a power trip. Some claims questions are dupes of unrelated question (presumably they didn't bother reading them), vote to close within seconds of posting etc.

It used to be great to be part of SO. No, any time I ask a question I wonder if it's going to survive...
Java fell into a disrespect among much of the younger crowd to a considerable degree - in contrast to the almost universal excitement about it some 20 years ago.

But I still find it an amazing, very well-engineered, extremely versatile platform that works on large machines and tiny microcontrollers alike and is easy to extend to new devices!
> If Facebook’s goal was stop Snap in its tracks, it’s largely succeeded with Instagram Stories. Snapchat’s monthly active user growth rate has plummeted from 17.2% per quarter to just 5%...

Does HN think that these two events are even related?

From my experience, the content I get via Instagram Stories is mostly from people I don't know but follow whereas Snapchat is still where most of the interactions with my friends happens. The products have similar features but the audience, especially being public-facing, is totally different in my experience.
You may need a friend or partner of some sort to finish stuff together. Make your effort accountable to each other.

Doing things alone almost always have that kind of risk.
> A while ago there was a Kaggle project to solve certain conjectures on prime number theory. Seriously?

I've seen a surprising number of Kaggle projects setting (or claiming to achieve) objectives that look impossible - things like extracting complex insights from such short signals that they apparently violate the pigeonhole principle.

The worst demonstration was looking at the results of a college class with "do a Kaggle project" as the final task. It was painfully obvious that all of the 'best' results were either extreme overfitting or fake data science (that is, using a strong algorithm to start and getting no gains from training).

Which means that many of the soon-to-graduate students had concluded that good data science meant getting strong results, not producing reliable and novel insights. It felt a bit like a software-centered version of what social psychology has been suffering from.
There's a separate Stack Exchange site for software recommendations:

- https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/

But I'm with you – if anything, even more extreme – the SO model handles 'subjective' questions just fine.
Some people might not understand this because it's better explained by simply experiencing it. It's an equally valid mindset just as the article's mindset, and just as equally valid as not having sex until marriage if that's what you choose. It's also very similar to fetishes -- experiencing it is just too different from watching videos or demos.
So you're grandfathered into some plan? What's the price now? It looks like the unlimited plans are now £28 - £32 a month. That's not much different than US budget carrier plans.
There's a pretty reliable way past the WSJ paywall, which many here use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA

OK, setting aside the snark now, there is quite often excellent discussion here of paywalled articles, even when the vast majority cannot read the article. There are several factors that contribute to this.

1. The people who have read the article often include enough context in their comments for others to make meaningful contributions just from that they see in the comments.

2. There are a lot of smart people here who often take articles and comments as launching points to go off on very interesting tangents. That's often the most valuable part of the discussion.

Probably the majority of the HN discussions I've marked as "favorites" to save for future reference are because of comments that really have little to do with the article.

3. If it is actually an interesting article, other sites will either have their own coverage of the topic, or will write articles about the article and include plenty of quotes. A little Googling usually finds those, and they provide enough to let you jump into the comments if the topic is actually one where you need to be familiar with the article to handle. Some of these other sites start covering the story within an hour of the initial publication at the paywall site.

Googling "millenials and TV antennas" and asking for hits from the past 24 hours shows that sfgate.com, motherjones.com, and boingboing.net picked up the WSJ story.
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> Frankly I should think that many Muslims would find this entire notion offensive.

Many people find anything offensive, but I don't see any particularly good reason to think there is anything particularly deserving of it in this concept.

> Just because someone is Muslim doesn't mean they (a) necessarily want to find a muslim partner

I would think that even Muslims who do not want exclusively to find a Muslim partner would recognize that there are Muslims who do wish that.

> IMHO in many traditional societies young people want to shake off the controlling habits of former generations and such an app would actually be a concrete step backwards.

Allowing people who don't share their open attitude toward dating he opportunity to have a dating forum that supports their preferences does not prevent those with open attitudes from pursuing more open venues, which are not in short supply.

Christian Mingle doesn't stop Christians that whose dating interested isn't religiously restrictive from using any of the vast area of open-preference dating apps in the universe, the Muslim equivalent would be no different in that regard.
One thing that I neglected to say was that it was during the time I was on parole when I was unable to get a job. I got a job immediately after I got off parole. In order to meet parole regulations, I enrolled in school (two years in state university) while working part time on jobs having nothing to do with my skills. Once I was off parole the requirement of having to disclose my felony conviction was no longer. I applied for a job, checked the box that said I had a prior felony conviction, was interviewed and never asked about it. Got the job as a software developer.
Wouldn't 25% deter possible investors? I was thinking of asking for 10% and settling on 5% because I want the company to succeed.
Check out Dat: https://datproject.org/install.

We do NAT traversal but also connect to local peers over multicast DNS. Command line client should have a local or offline option to restrict only to local peers soon.
It's quite a famous quote, I think it was the chief data scientist at LinkedIn who coined it originally.

There is real value in being a "statistical programmer" but that value can't presently be seen past the smoke and mirrors.
The only kind of person who would say that is a na—Sorry. Never mind.
That wouldn't work for much of the South where summer usage for a house can easily hit 100 kWh/day for air conditioning. The hottest part of the day usually starts at about the end of the prime solar hours. Plus you'll want massive overcapacity of your batteries as deep discharges drastically reduce their useful lifespan.
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Tesla is the Apple equivalent for cars. Consumers see the Tesla brand as innovative and high quality regardless if it's true. Even if other manufacturers make a Tesla equivalent, that's like iPhone vs Android. It's a status thing for many, and for that alone I'd bet on the Tesla brand.
> Are you trying to say that BTRFS is supposed to compete feature-to-feature with ZFS?

Not entirely. Btrfs was designed with benefit of hindsight, so one would expect for the features they did choose to implement, that they would be superior in both design and implementation. Sadly, neither are the case except for a few minor exceptions.

> Btrfs doesn't make a distinction between a Clone and Snapshot, they are one and the same with a flag.

Yep, and this is one design choice which on the face of it is straightfoward and convenient, but has the side effect of being very inefficient. Because ZFS snapshots are owned by the dataset, AFAIK there's little refcounting overhead; you're just moving blocks to deadlists based on simple transaction ID number comparisons. If you modify a block and its transaction ID is greater than the latest snapshot, you can dispose of it, otherwise you add it to the snapshot deadlist (and also add the new updated block). If you delete a snapshot, you do the same thing: for each block, if the block transaction ID is later than the transaction ID of the previous snapshot, you dispose of it, else you move it to the previous snapshot's deadlist. No refcounting changes except to decrement for disposal. You only start paying the overhead when you create a clone. This makes ZFS snapshots very cheap, and clones a bit more expensive. Btrfs is always expensive as far as I understand.

Your particular uses might not take advantage of this, but it's something to bear in mind.

> Tell me more how I can mix disks of differing size in RAID on ZFS

You can have pools with vdevs of different sizes (I have one right here). It doesn't make sense to have different sizes within a vdev.

The need for cobbling together different sized discs appears to mainly be something needed for tinkering and testing. No one is going to care about this for production systems. It's a neat feature which few people care about in practice. I'd rather they had spent the time on making the basic featureset reliable.

> > some operations can be performed like snapshotting, but not deletion
> See user_subvol_rm_allowed mount option, available since Kernel 3.0

Nice to see some option for this. It's better than nothing, but it's not really equivalent. ZFS has a fine-grained permissions delegation system which is inherited through dataset relationships, rather than coarse capabilities.

> And BTRFS doesn't require it's own separate cache that is apart from the normal filesystem cache.

Not a particular concern for me; it's well integrated on FreeBSD, and it's not a problem in practice on Linux nowadays IME. Do you have a specific problem with the ARC?
if I'd had a tumbler, my number one priority would be to add code to detect those coins and keep them (redirect to my wallets after the mix).

it's not like the owners will be able to complain. not even in forums to lower your cred.
All identities are beliefs, as are all concepts of race; an identity tied to a concept of race is absolutely a belief system.

> Dating app for Mormons or Atheists would be a more appropriate analogy.

Of course, both of those exist, too.
That's what I thought at first but as I kept going I ended up enjoying it more and more as it was so blatant at poking fun at terrible hacker/script kiddie tropes.

I will mention that with the number of footnotes Marco Arment's little in-place footnote pop-up script he uses on his blog and Ben Thompson uses on Stratechery would have been appriciated. I forgot how useful that was compared to 'true' footnotes on long articles with lots of them.
> Instead I've made up some answers that I'll never tell anyone else.

You should make up some answers like ighe9Chik9oorooy. That's what I do.
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I recently tried to send a file to a small group of friends on Facebook. After uploading, it rejected the file because it was a video with a copyrighted song playing in the background.
An interesting element to this is how resistant some people are too using torrents for legitimate purposes, even as a backup mirror.

It's something we've come to embrace in the Linux world. Much faster than a single server and saves bandwidth at individual sites. Surprised this pragmatism hasn't reached the rest of you yet.
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For one, I think they were right about TV. And as a millennial, I think there is a significant moral decay happening. Our culture seems to value self gratification and meaningless BS above all else. While the more empathetic political inclinations of the young might mask that, when we'd actually have to be the ones responsible for making the world a better place, it seems we'd rather play video games, watch Netflix, do drugs, or hook up with strangers we meet on the internet. I suppose you could use environmentalism as an argument against having children, but that doesn't apply to adoption. We aren't raising children. The proportion of people who are these days are generally less well equipped for the job, and the percentage of single parent households continues to rise. Statistically speaking, this almost guarantees a downward trend in terms of mental and social health. Maybe what I've seen of the people that live in my city and stats about this type of thing aren't telling the whole story, but to me it seems like there's a measurable decline that's happening. Or at least an increase in selfish behavior, even if that change is just due to changing cultural expectations.

Edit: As far as the internet goes, kids watching a bunch of porn on their phones alone has already been demonstrated to be causing significant problems. There are high school boys with erectile dysfunction! Last month, teen vogue published an article on how to have anal sex. This seems to be a rather disturbing trend to me.
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Our tool lets you use the same P2P method for Remote Desktop access and link sharing (mblok.io). I saw a lot of these tools come up when WebRTC started out, however, they are limited by file size and are really unstable.
Just tell people it was to stop the terrorists or the pro-choice activists or the libtards and suddenly you'll find vast swathes of the population in favour of it.
I found it funny, but that's okay that's why everyone has a different favorite comedian.
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What features are you referring to specifically?
Except this is something the pilots should have known about in advance. You always check the NOTAM's (Notice To Airmen) before plan your flight.

This site doesn't let me link to the search results. But search for SFO and you'll see plenty of notices about the runway closure. https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html#/
I like magic-wormhole for this:

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
A satire page that reviews HN's weekly top posts in a very condescending manner (the humor to me very much welcome but you may be put off by it)
I can still login to mine.

I remember my brother's, can't remember his password, though.
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People often think of the electronic-nature of their cars as Tesla's key advantage.

Other elements factor into share/debt cost analysis:

1. Culture — They appear to still have a startup "let's solve the problem" mentality

2. Distribution — There are no networks of dealerships taking a cut

3. Marketing — They don't need to pay for it at all right now

4. Legacy — There are no pension funds and other obligations on them

5. Environmental icon — There is a lot of political support for them

Tesla is still high risk, but they have a big potential upside.

Contrast with e.g. GM:

1. Old-school Culture of "if you build it, they will come"

2. Mandatory dealerships

3. Big marketing costs

4. Pensions are underfunded and they have a huge inventory buildup (and defaulting subprime leases are mounting)

6. They have a lot of political support, but it's not for environmental reasons

That's pretty cursory, but illustrates a few factors besides just the product.

Tesla's burn rate is a marginal-risk long factor, if/when they get past their manufacturing bottlenecks.

[edit]: Newlines.
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> By 2025, the world’s base of cumulative installed storage capacity will reach 52 GW, IHS Markit says, up from around 4 GW today. Last year, 1.3 GW of grid-connected storage was deployed globally, and this rate is poised to accelerate to 4.7 GW a year by 2020, and 8.8 GW annually by 2025.

GW is not a unity of energy storage capacity. It's a unit of power.
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Ya, for Dat[1], we had a WebRTC implementation and it was unreliable compared to our other clients. We are hoping other in browser p2p options get developed, e.g. https://github.com/noffle/web-udp.

[1] https://datproject.org
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A rigorous and ideologically alternative viewpoint is expounded in Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber, a professor of anthropology with a leftist bent. PDF freely available here [1]. It is longer, being a book and all, and emphasizes anthropological evidence and models, being written by an anthropologist and all.

[1] https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf