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HPE teaming up w Stephen Hawking's group to unlock mysteries of space and time
RIP Google Finance
I am so happy I don't use KVMs any more. Instead, monitors with multiple inputs, and a simple USB switch for the keyboard.Then I don't have to spend $200 when I upgrade monitors, just so I can switch whatever new resolution I moved to.
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If you're trying to use bitcoin to avoid tax obligations, the IRS is more than capable of coming after you.

Launder your coins? You bet they can track that.

Buy off localbitocins? Still trackable, given enough interest.

Never done anything with the coin, just a wallet.dat file? The money's no good if you can't use it, and they'll want what's owned the minute it moves.

The IRS will get what it is owed, whether you like it or not. The only real way to avoid them is to be worth so little it's not worth their time.
This URL starts off with the condition that the KVM needs to be less expensive than adding another display and keyboard, and operate at 4K. So this is targeted towards the home environment? I'd guess that RDP/VNC and the like have pretty much done away with the KVM in that environment.
>It doesn’t serve any socially useful function.

I never thought I would so heartily disagree with a Nobel Economics Laureate, but this appears to be a misguided opinion. Bitcoin drives an entire black market which enables consumers worldwide to securely and faithfully make purchases that they would be unable to otherwise make. Direct tax generation isn't the only measure of socially useful functions.
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Yes the impact was likely hit or miss without standardization. Here's a modern-day application : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARPAT
Cue?
I think we all see what you're saying- but a competitor... completely disappearing from everyone's "personal" searches?

That's slightly different, no?
What would be a feasible alternative?
> Bitcoin itself is a technology of resistance. Private crypt-currencies more so.

this. Centralization of power arguably removes risks and is "safer" - at least so long as the power holder acts benevolently. At least that's the common assumption.

However, If we are going to argue against the freedom of Bitcoin technologies and for more safety, centralization and control, we should look at the full context of human flourishing when thinking about what "safety" means. Some people will use BTC tech to do some bad things, they will avoid paying taxes, they will buy drugs, they will hire hitmen. Our societies will have to find better ways to detect and prevent this behaviour.

On the flipside though, the USA had a tax revenue of roughly 3.5e9 in 2017 and a military spending of 0.8e9 [1,2]. That's roughly a quarter of all tax revenues. If you think a large portion of that is not leading to the deaths of thousands of innocent people yearly you're dillusional. [3] We need to ask ourselves, and historically we can look at the evidence for/against, whether or not we should trust our Governments to act benevolently.

I think the benefits of more checks and balances on the abuse of power, far outweigh the negatives, which we will have to find other solutions for whether we have a Bitcoin technologies or not.

1. https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-federal-government-ta...

2. https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-ch...

3. https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mil...
Is this the beginning of a myspace death spiral ?

I've noticed a lot of younger people moving away from facebook to trendier platforms.
Instagram and Periscope? seems to be huge.
I never understood why Youtube didn't have uploaders select various categories for videos. It would do a number of things:

* allow them to demonetize / ban / block videos for abuse of categorization

* train machine learning on the various categories

It's a lot more socially palatable for Youtube to say "Hey guys, we HAVE a blood and violence category, but you didn't use it for this video. So we'll punish you for that."

Instead, we get programming videos getting demonetized / blocked for god only knows what reason. That makes people made, and is bad press.
That's not completely true. It requires a lot of electricity and computers, there are loads of new power stations in China, and loads of new servers built to run BTC.
If that is the case then it’s likely there are many private keys that are SHA256 hashes of very low entropy data.
The obvious speculation aside, Bitcoin's behaviour is revolving more and more about good vs bad money, aka Gresham's law. "Good money" (bitcoin) is being hoarded because people are starting to trust it as a long term store of value, while elastic moneys like USD/EUR/JPY are being used for paying and playing.

Most modern economists just instinctively hate good money because they believe saving is evil.

"It doesn’t serve any socially useful function."

They use the exact same phrasing when discussing gold.

(My only beef with bitcoin and blockchain is that it can become bad money in a matter of milliseconds, without any heads up. E.g. when a major bug is found. Bitcoin may ultimately just be too complex to be good savings money. Its "badness" can be hidden in a massive, single occurence tail risk.)
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Your first mistake was thinking HN might be a haven for opinions and introspection.

Schadenfreude on the other hand...
CC0 reverts to "Public Domain" in countries/jurisdictions where this is a thing. When this is not possibly it tries to legally define the closest thing possible.

"Public Domain" in particular means that the author distances themselves entirely from the work and all the rights pertaining to it. You don't need to credit them, I believe you could even claim it as your own (that'd be ethically dishonest IMHO, but legally fine). Second, the author also distances themselves from any responsibilities regarding this work (such as accuracy, fitness for any purpose or safety).

From what I've learned about copyright and IP law (extracurricular course next to my CS education, highly recommend if you get the opportunity) and reading, it's especially these last two points that are sometimes (in some jurisdictions/countries) difficult to get rid of or distance yourself from, as an creator. They don't always allow it. For instance (someone correct me if I remember this wrong), in the Netherlands a creator cannot fully distance themselves from the right to claim "I created this". Meaning that ghost-writing is contractually not possible and relies on the honour of the ghost-writer to keep their mouth shut. It's a bit of a vague thing and we didn't delve too deeply into that example. It's generally a minor thing.

Same goes for whether a creator can ever fully distance themselves from any responsibilities over the work they created. I can imagine some jurisdictions may not allow that either. I'm not sure how that works in NL (was not covered in the course).

Anyway in this sense, CC0 is a lot like the WTFPL without the profanity, I guess :)
Seems to me content creators who get upset at their treatment by Youtube have made a serious mistake; they believe they are Youtube's customers. They are not. Neither are the people watching the videos. The advertisers are the customers, just like most other Google services. You are the product. If you don't like it, you need to switch to a platform where you are the customer and the provider cares about you on that level. Google never will.
I would still make a backup, just in case
> The anonymity of bitcoin is a design artifact, not a feature. Think about the opposite problem -- how would you design a cryptocurrency to not be anonymous?

Speaking in terms of cryptographic assurance, Bitcoin is not anonymous. When we're talking about blockchain technology, we're talking about byzantine fault tolerance and consensus algorithms. It's not productive or meaningful to talk about anonymity outside of the context of cryptographic assurance, because you're introducing reliance on non-determinism in human behavior. That's no longer a quality of the protocol, it's a quality of the individual's caution and identity hygiene.

Stated another way, in order for Bitcoin to be anonymous, it must be anonymous by default, or have such a meaningful feature that can be "turned on", so to speak. Cryptographic anonymity is fully possible, and we have it with Zcash. But you don't get there just by divorcing your offline activities from an online public/private key.
Things have changed quite bit since this article was written. Here's a more recent look at Dafen: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-village-60-wor...
Last year IRS reported 800 people reported BTC holding and paid taxes on it. I know at lease two people that transferred their money in to BTC before filing for bankruptcy to side their assets.

Hopefully laws can put in place for proper taxation.
There will always be a problem because people promote for vanity and status as well as economics. You can't get more human than that.

The next 5 years will be tech companies panicking and trying to impose social control vs. people becoming more aware of when they are being manipulated by other users (and censored by platforms) and opting out of platforms entirely and/or moving to less controlled platforms. Internet media will be seen like smoking and candy bar consumption are seed today. Some people will eat candy bars every day because they don't care about their health. Others will choose to be healthier and it will happen by increasing awareness rather than heavy handedness.
>Thanks to Coinbase’s efforts, more than 480,000 customers’ records were preserved from disclosure.

If you think they're giving up, you got another thing coming.

Reliable exchanges mean eventual taxation.
I'm not so sure anyone should follow this considering the recent shens over bitfinex and tether.

Tether is supposedly tied directly to USD. Their website says as much and claims transparency through audits. There hasn't been a single audit that has been independently verified.

Right now there have been nearly [800m tethers minted](http://omnichest.info/lookupsp.aspx?sp=31). They are minting them at an alarming rate as seen [here](http://omnichest.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgW...).

This is of course circumstantial. I just thought I'd share as I'm stepping back from the markets as a result. @bitfinexed on Twitter seems to be the loudest voice on this topic.
Seems like it is a lot like precious metals in that way, a hedge against inflation. Except there are likely a lot more people who will happily exchange bitcoins versus gold, especially over the internet.
I uploaded a video yesterday that's already demonetized. It's part of a series to write an RSS feed reader in Python (specifically the part about adding static files to the server).

Tags: python, rss, feedparser, feed reader, news aggregator, flask, css, static files

It doesn't seem "controversial" to me.
>I vote liberal

So, you're the worst type of person in the US. You want high taxes for everyone else, but you do everything you can to avoid them for yourself.

Please do actual liberals a favor, and don't tell anyone you're a liberal. You're not, and we don't want our genuine attempts to improve the world to look like we're just self-serving thieves.
Up to like $800 or something, unless I'm confusing it with yet-another-limit in the tax code.
Show HN: Real-time stats of ICO smart contracts
Yes, typically when testing web applications, you have a second instance of the application running on a different machine than the production server, configured to run against a different database server as well. The exact details of how to do this well depend on how your application is written and its requirements.

If all you want to do is functional testing of the application by yourself, then it is OK to deploy a copy of the software on your desktop along with a test database. I do this for the application I work on, and when I need to test against MSSQL, the Express edition is good enough.

If you need to do load testing or integration testing or other more complicated forms of testing, you usually try to duplicated the expected production environment as well as you can. This may not be possible, so you may have to make decisions about what's most relevant and simply accept those tradeoffs.

EDIT: Don't worry about CI or anything else that fancy and complicated for now. You may not even need it; that depends on your team and how often your application changes. Just for now take the simplest steps you can until you get this basic stuff figured out first.
Google needs to be investigated and broken up.
Its beyond time for an investigation and regulation of Google from the united states government.

Other countries are already starting work against Google.
The power Google wields over the general public warrants severe investigation at even the hint of abuse of power.
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Would have loved a straight on close up of the board. The PCB routing at high frequencies is always interesting to see.
Mining precious metals takes a lot of resources also. Should we stop - as even governments like to hold precious metals in their portfolios?
Not to mention it's the best-funded behavioral economics experiment in history :)
Would you make the same argument for companies that have monopolies? They achieve above free-market profits, so why the "free market" passion?

If you think of labor as a commodity, unions are simply a monopoly of labor. Everyone wants a monopoly of what they sell, and freedom of what they buy, this is no different.

I would be very hard pressed to find a good union case that didnt provoke some sort of restriction on other workes, either by wage fixing, protectionism or supply limiting.
Try without the word "news", perhaps?
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Yes there is definitely a way to praise alternatives without railing against the current discussion topic.

Some may appreciate being made aware of another technology; unfortunately this specific example reinforces the importance of marketing and pursuing mindshare.
Perhaps "news"?
> Maybe I'll post more tomorrow, if anyone is still around.

I can only speak for myself but I will definitely be around to read another post if you write one.

The design is fascinating and I'm very excited to see a new language that combines functional, relational, and reactive elements.

One design choice that I'm particularly interested in is your choice to fix the set of possible values in a way that supports generic value introspection and orthogonal persistence. There are clear benefits but some costs include possible obstacles to abstraction / modularity and also extensibility. I'm wondering how you see these trade-offs.
I mentioned one use case - which is very similar to a batch, I agree, therefore there is no real difference there with Fargate/Batch.

However, you don't have to execute only batches with it, you can also run a temporary service within a specific VPC - with the biggest advantage that you don't have to resize/manage your cluster.

For example, you could set a Cloudwatch alert that, reached a peak of 80% of CPU, spins up a bunch of instances for a specific image with Fargate and keeps it alive until the CPU goes down to 60% (there it can be stopped). This way you don't have to worry about optimizing your autoscaling in ECS, because sometimes peaks happen in a matter of few seconds and it could be the case that you have not enough EC2 instances running, because lots of containers are running and they are spinning up in parallel. With Fargate it's like having an unlimited amount of EC2 instances running in your cluster... (which you pay for but certainly less than if you really had such EC2 instances always running)

Let's try to think about it from another point of view: you could also try to use Fargate to execute all your services, but then you would get the following features already implemented:

- autoscaling

- HA

- maintenance/cluster management

However:
- you don't like how AWS does autoscaling, because you notice that many times the nodes are under stress, and you would like to use a different strategy, or maybe you have computed your own autoscaling algorithm which is great and lets you save a large amount of money with it

- HA is trivial for you to implement, because you already have a lot of experience with it, lots of CloudFormation scripts, and well, so far it worked like a charm, so why would I want to switch now? the platform is really functioning well, no need to switch to another technology

- maintenance is not a problem for you, because your ECS cluster is small and easy to manage

Maybe in such cases, yes, you don't need Fargate after all. Keep your ECS cluster and don't worry about that.
Tools like Patreon can help fill this gap.
It seems like the "well, all startups do bad things, Uber is just in the spotlight" crowd has dried up a bit...
This is extremely disturbing. I'm a recent convert to ProtonMail and I am not going back to the free, ad-based email world. Google and Facebook are not companies I trust any longer. DuckDuckGo, ProtonMail, Signal are.
That's so last year, it now: LGGBTQQIAAPPK

more coming soon

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I'm wondering if "flask" is getting flagged (as in relation to alcohol.

Or news, because you know - "fake news"
Yeah, but I suspect that the recent bad publicity is the truly damaging part.
Ah I expected the pastebin to just be the list of addresses, not a full wwriteup.
Is your argument that unions are effective against monopolistic companies?

Maybe, but it's an approach of looking into the abyss.
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Amusing quip, and perhaps characteristic of certain classes of HN comments, but it's important to distinguish between the claim that something ought to appear in the search results and the claim that the results ought to conform to my personal preferences. Relevance w.r.t. subject matter is not the same as relevance w.r.t. a particular person's preferences. By analogy, sampling a population to determine the statistically favorite ice cream flavor is different than asking for your favorite ice cream flavor.
Without a duplicate Earth to utilize as a control in any experimental setup, it is very difficult to determine whether any given technology improvement came about because of a specific historic factor, or in spite of that factor.

I think you are making a reasonable assumption that theoretical systems that allow for concentration of capital result in greater technological advancement than theoretical systems that tend to diffuse capital. But the real world is complex and messy. Living people sometimes behave in ways that are surprising to the economist.

It is very difficult to "design an economic system". You either have to devise an incremental path to it from the old system, or march people to it under the threat of death. If you're really going to ask someone to compare historic civilizations with the modern global civilization we have now, you're probably going to need to make some adjustments in order for that to be a fair comparison, instead of one implicitly biased to your own point of view.

I'm not certain it is even possible to do that for a comparison between a pre-industrial civilization and a post-industrial civilization. What we can say for sure is that it hasn't always been this way and therefore it doesn't always need to be as it is now.
Who is Karlaplan? And why choose Google Docs to share information which Google may dislike and remove?
> One of the things that fascinated me was the ability for someone to create private keys from just about anything using Sha256

I'm also fascinated by this. For my next Bitcoin Treasure Hunt [1], I've been coming up with a lot of puzzles that involve private keys. It's so much fun to think about different ways to encode them. My first puzzle wasn't too interesting, but this one should be much more fun.

[1] https://formapi.io/blog/posts/bitcoin-treasure-hunt/#bitcoin...
I think it’s funny how people here bemoan the big, bad, centralized government while conveniently forgetting that like five private Chinese companies could easily collide to alter the blockchain tomorrow and nobody could do anything about it.
A 97% reduction from the original request does seem like a 'partial' victory to me. IRS asked for all users data it seems and they reduced it to only users with $20k in transactions with a particular timeframe.

The original proposition by the government may have been totally ridiculous and over-reaching. Maybe the IRS never fully intended it to work. But I'm not so sure that's the case, given the US gov's liberal sweeping up of data. IRS also has a history of getting what it wants.

But as far as tangible 'wins' here I believe you would have to be dumb to have trusted Coinbase to protect your privacy. They have always been very obviously corporate 'straight-edge' service and very willing to follow every financial rule in an effort to be fully legitimate. Given the amount of capital they raised and their US residency this is all not surprising.

So I'm kinda surprised they weren't already handing over every users information... that's a win in my books. But obviously I've viewed them with very low standards.
They offer both free and paid accounts.
You don't have to go that far to justify demonetization. It's a way to encourage higher quality content in contrast to low quality clickbait and sensationalism. That's good for the users and also in Youtube's long-term interest. On a side note, that's not censorship at all, neither hard nor soft censorship, it's just a kind of automated editorial work.
those structures costs tens of thousands of dollars to setup as well as maintain. your taxable revenues must exceed the difference in effective tax rates versus the structure(s) maintenance costs in order for it to make sense.

"easily" is not the word I'd use for that. by my calculations your annual taxable (aka net) income would need to exceed 300,000 (USD/EUR) before you see a break even point.

plus there is the risk (did your accountants and lawyers set it up correctly? will the laws or regulations change next year? etc etc)
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Bitcoin would be circulating way more if more services and online stores, e.g. Amazon, PayPal, simply accepted it as just another currency. Rejecting it as payment method because it's not circulating is just circular logic.

I have been spending plenty of mBTC in the stores (shopping, flights, hotels) that accept it such as Overstock, Abitsky, Destinia, etc. and my experience there has been way more comfortable than shopping with credit cards or even Paypal.
I love the line about "hurting Uber's reputation", as if they are the sterling example of honest and ethical company.
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