skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might work for the "privacy" topic in isolation, but I think the GP's point still stands. Laws are much more complex than a one-dimension easy-to-hard scale, and frequently plainly contradict each other. How does your right to be forgotten square with my right to protest your misdeeds? How does stopping fake news square with protecting free speech? Right to offend vs right not to be offended?

Each nation makes its own decisions about that, with a lot of overlap but also a lot of non-overlap. And internet businesses will more and more have to navigate all that, or opt out of foreign markets. Just like non-internet businesses.
Google is literally just a company.
Why a miracle?
This was bound to happen. What many people outside of the USA don't realise is that the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) means that the IRS is very likely going to share this info with a great many other countries. However at present I don't believe the USA has signed up to the CRS.

If your tax residency resides outside of the USA, and you made a taxable capital gain, I strongly advise to report it to your tax authority.
A UUID is not always non-predictable / entirely random. For example: `NEWSEQUENTIALID()` in MS SQL Server uses a randomly generated UUID, then auto-increments from there. More info on this function's usage here: https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/125526/Using-ROWGUIDCOL-in-...
This year old article is a bit bogus though. As other pointed out, the hit on SEO came from changing from .ch to .com

Could you point to a source for this? I'm curious, because the article says:

"After that public exchange, ProtonMail was apparently informed within a few days that Google had 'fixed something' — and after that it was able to see immediately positive results"

Switching to a different domain shouldn't _delist_ a site from Google's SERPs as long as the switch is done properly...
You should try getting a cloud-connected suitcase and some underware with its own app, then we'll talk.
Most employers count hours for salaried people. Try showing up for 30 hours for a while. In most companies someone will remind you to work more. Salaried mainly means a minimum amount of hours without overtime.
That’s not how I read the comment. I took it as “inefficiencies in procedures or how departments communicate.”

But it’s true that making the place more efficient will lead to layoffs. It doesn’t have to; they could just as easily use the same people to do more, but apparently the managers don’t have any ideas for what else to do.
That movie was spot-on about so many privacy and surveillance issues we have today (almost 20 years ago...). However Faraday cages were already a pretty known trick, this guy "just" innovated with the material used.
> I can has new REAL programming language... that's _faster_ than PHP? :D

Have you tried node.js 8 or 9?

There's also duktape but I don't know what APIs does it have.

$ time nodejs test.js # second run
hello world

real 0m0.066s
user 0m0.058s
sys 0m0.009s
$ time duk test.js # second run
hello world

real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.000s

edit: duktape has a very limited API built in, and it seems one needs to add any extra function in C. It doesn't seem to have file access. Node.js is very fast to me though.
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I've hypothesised the optimum way would be to use both binary and floats at the same time after a paper I read that basically said neuron pathways are both digital and analog. Something about the analog (float) being a weight pathway indicator or something. I wish I knew more about neuroscience.
I see it this way; in the US, if a content publisher chooses to apply DRM, this provides them additional legal protections - whether the DRM is broken or not. Even if stripping DRM is "click Next" simple, it's still illegal.

Here, we're applying similar benefit to the consumer. The consumer has expressed they do not wish to be tracked. The application of a loophole does not make it okay.

Is it a little over-reaching? Possibly. But it's about time things were over-reaching in the consumer's benefit, rather than the corporations'.
I find that most of the anti-market folks think of the free market as this evil system that keeps people from getting everything for free. If we could just abolish it, everyone could have everything they want by the power of friendship and rainbows and butterflies and love.

Obviously the free market can't give everyone everything you want, but it's the best known vehicle for maximizing it.
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This has been a huge disappointment for me. Hack seemed really promising, but some of the decisions they've made really seem to have strangled any hope of there being much of an ecosystem outside a few companies that are heavily invested in it.
Not only that, but there is an implicit contract with the public, that they provide a fair and balanced search of the web. If that's not the case then you're in anti-trust land.
I don't think we should overstate (or understate) the significance of RISC-V. Without a doubt, industry is putting lots of time and effort towards RISC-V.

Everyone who manufactures electronic devices that includes some kind of CPU (hard drive manufacturers, cell phone manufacturers, GPU manufacturers, etc) -- they're all paying some royalty to someone for that CPU, even if they designed it themselves. Eliminating those royalties is a great way to get ahead because you can take $1 out of your bottom line -- if you're shipping 100k or 10 mil devices this year, that's definitely worth the design effort. It's this marketplace that is fueling RISC-V.

> ... this can be a success ...

I have no doubt that RISC-V will succeed in the microcontroller/embedded device space.

> ... realistic way out of the current IP misery with only closed hardware ...

I wonder, are you referring more to frustrations with things like Intel's ME or frustrations with devices that ship without documentation/open source software details? I fear that RISC-V will likely not change much in either space. Yes, it will lower the bar for new devices that can be fully open. And with fully open devices we could hopefully audit and trust them more. But I think change here will be very slow. The ultimate consumer of these devices just doesn't care much about fully open devices and it's extra work to shepherd open source software/hardware. I hope I'm just being too pessimistic.

It's true that there's folks like SiFive who are making boards that integrate RISC-V cores. They seem like they are ramping up to make general computer boards that would be pretty useful. But I doubt we'll see them end up in mass market desktop/laptop/server/tablet/etc devices any time soon.
And this is where the "promise" of anonymous currency/assets falls apart. Some folks might be able to obtain or sell it anonymously, but so long as these exchanges exist and given the ease at tracking coins through the publicly visible blockchain, it only takes one transaction at a broker who can be raided/subpoenaed for the government to track your assets.

Much like any other form of anonymity on the internet - it often only takes one tie between your physical and digital identity for the whole thing to fall apart.
Perhaps it is because given technical capability, I cannot understand why Amazon is even being discussed when it is technically inferior to what Joyent offers and Amazon is the most expensive provider.
If a group of innocent millionaires on death row were to be pardoned while a group of innocent poor people were not pardoned that would definitely raise an eyebrow for me and it would be worth considering that maybe their innocence was not the motivating factor
I wonder why there hasn't been an attempt at making a country where regulations are kept minimal and taxes nonexistent or only dependent on what you use.

It would probably attract a ton of economic activity. Does it exist?

edit: rephrase
And I shouldn't have to "teach" anyone how to use it. My mother-in-law (a self described "technophobe") should be able to use everything in the house the same way she uses those items in her house.

I've seen so many people (like in the linked blog) have to describe to guests which switches they can use, or how to install the app to control the lights.

Even if that was 100% local, it's still not okay in my book.
A new programmer could learn both at the same time because mostly what a new programmer is learning is programming not a language. Javascript and Ruby are more like Excel and Powerpoint than English and Italian. Ruby and Javascript are software.
If the problem could sell itself then it wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
Unless you're on reddit of course ...
I recently sold my home. I didn't take the plunge with smart switches, but I had Nest thermostats and Nest smoke alarms.

I wish I either removed everything before putting my house on the market, or excluded them all from the sale. The buyer was confused, and the Nest smoke alarms needed to be replaced prior to closing.

The Nest smoke alarms were fine, but due to local fire codes, I needed to have wifi running at inspection time and all of my smoke alarms had to be Nest. I was replacing one a year and still had a few "dumb" smoke alarms in the mix. Unfortunately, my realtor advised me poorly in this situation when I told him my plan was to take the smoke alarms and thermostats with me.
It's a long-standing and documented issue; there wasn't the will to fix it. In that sense it's “not” a bug.

It's also, well, just complicated and potentially controversial enough (significant performance decrease!) to warrant one.
In my opinion, your outrage is misplaced.

Don't hate the other players, hate the game that coerce you into paying taxes (i.e punish you) because you have partaken in a peaceful and voluntary exchange with another person.
For my part, I recognized after I got married that I was coming home and applying the same mental model I used at work in conversations with my wife: I was there exclusively to solve problems. My wife just wanted me to listen while she told me about her day. This definitely increased the surface area for arguments, because in my years I've found that generally, wives want you to shut up and listen and empathize with what they're complaining about, and not rattling off "answers" to the problems. I did have to train myself to adapt to the transition. It did cause problems specifically because of the mental model I brought home from work.
I said they are going to talk to you first. I didn’t say they are going to convict you.
>The free market is capable of regulating itself as long as there are societal rules against stealing and fraud, rules to enforce contracts, etc.

In a true free market, the market would decide that as well.
OK, so anyone who can will do their mining stuff in Switzerland with 0% capital gains taxes.
> You can still burn the witch in Europe — if the witch is called Monsanto.

Wait, so Monsanto is a person, not a company? And they've been murdered by a mob?

Oh, wait, no, just their product was licensed for 5 years instead of 15. Yeah, I guess how that's similar to a mob grabbing women and murdering them by fire.
Your information will also be shared with the IRS if you used your Coinbase account to transact with one of the "$20,000+" Coinbase accounts.
The Cayman Islands?
> If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be very hard to make it work on mobile (and even slower), and you wouldn't be able to easily create relations between notes and tags, notes and notebooks, resource links, etc.

Zim uses plain text files and folders. You can have images, tags, link to other notes, links to the filesystem...

Maybe I am not using it with enough files for it to be a problem, but I cant say that it is slow.
That's the same as it's been for the last few years. This isn't even a huge correction (yet) in bitcoin terms.
Good point, and nice username.
There's not much more going on with a physical layer jammer. That's all this jammer does. It jams the GPS carrier band so that a receiver can't "hear" the satellites.

You can put together such a jammer from a lab signal generator and a microwave power amplifier that can cover in the GPS band. You may have to tweak the signal generator to get a suitable wide signal. GPS is not a narrow, but a wide-band signal. This helps receivers to reject narrow interference.
"Use UUIDs as primary keys. They can be freely exposed without disclosing sensitive information, they are not predictable and they are performant."

When have a primary key ever been sensitive infomation ? And why would they be predictable ?
And Columbus never did pay him...

> On his famous 1492 voyage, Columbus had promised a reward of gold to whoever saw land first. A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana was the first to see land on October 12, 1492: a small island in the present-day Bahamas Columbus named San Salvador. Poor Rodrigo never got the reward however: Columbus kept it for himself, telling everyone he had seen a hazy sort of light the night before. He had not spoken up because the light was indistinct. Rodrigo may have gotten hosed, but there is a nice statue of him sighting land in a park in Seville.
Article doesn't mention this but if you're exposing UUIDs to users, it's nice to base62 or base58 encode them.

E.g.

uuid v4: de7013fb-658e-40a0-9c02-d23080b57fdb
base58 : tt7Udwi9Tx9VE1ze7HDBxi

Here's a lib I wrote in c++ for doing this, with python and erlang bindings, https://github.com/cieplak/uuid
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I would consider it to devalue the home. I don't ever want that kind of thing in my house but, even if I did, I'm not going to trust anyone to properly transfer whatever cloud access they have to things in my home, so it will all have to be removed anyway.
On Android, I use Dropsync[1] to make certain Dropbox folders behave more like on desktop and synchronize in the background. Works great with my markdown note files and also ensures my notes are always available offline.

(1) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dr...
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Bitcoin is not much of an anonymous platform. And anyone using it expecting anonymity is bound to end up disappointed.
>Some folks might be able to obtain or sell it anonymously...

This is wrong. Anyone with access to the equipment to use it, can obtain it anonymously by mining it. The fact that people choose convenience over security is not an inherent problem of cryptocurrencies.
What does any of this have to do with mining?

Miners would pay income tax, not capital gains...
I work in adtech.

Google have recently rolled out a 'global tag' to replace the 'floodlight' tracking code they usually use, this was last week.

[1] https://support.google.com/dcm/partner/answer/7570440?hl=en
Qt5 is much nicer, but still a pain. QML is even better, just too coupled to Qt. Unfortunately you have a point that there isn't a better cross-platform native GUI toolkit.
This would certainly be the world's longest running pump and dump scheme. It could certainly be a bubble but I don't think it fits the definition of pump and dump.
Currently:
- The browser is generates revenue with next to no cost (although employees etc. and that changes, but hopefully a better product means more users) from search engine revenue. They pay quite a bit as well, depend on the search engine some reach between $70-90 CPM.
- Although there's no direct way to measure, assuming we can woo the current user base, there's around 50K active a day using the default search engine from what I'm told
- Brave, Vivaldi etc manage to keep a decent user-base being based on Blink and a basic feature set.

I speak with the users almost every day, am always transparent with them and some users have been using the browser for years. There always seems to be people looking for 'something else'.

More importantly, I have a voice that gets heard by the users as they're very involved with everything - loyalty which I think is something money can't buy. I have received funding before for a spin-off, so I don't think it's an impossible situation.
I disagree. You are mixing together two categories: legitimately bad content (like the scary kid videos) and content does not fall in line with Google's political stance. As an advertiser you are targeting a very specific narrow population anyways and it is super easy to exclude your ads showing up in videos that you do not approve. And just a counter example to your point:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facebook-halts-potenti...

This was in production for god knows how long.

"Feel free to start your own video platform that doesn't have Youtube's current corporate advertisement pressure."

Well I do not use Youtube as much as I can. I use alternative video content providers. Anyways, this argument is silly at the very least.
> I know that I can probably do them in 10 minutes in Python

Then you are in the absolute top tier of the people competing. Either that, or you probably belong in this subreddit https://reddit.com/r/iamverysmart ;)
The garage door opener works when you push a button. The furnace works when you change the little numbers on the thermostat. If it doesn't work, you call a garage door or HVAC company and they fix it. I think most people are barely aware that these things even have manuals, let alone actually sit down and read them.
Because currencies are not stocks.

Edit: I understand that FX trade is not tax free. What I am saying is that we should tax crypto like we tax (or don't tax, depending on where you live) other currencies because that is what they are.
You can get a lot of the export features (pdf, html, ePub, LaTeX, docX) with markdown if you just use pandoc [1]. Pandoc’s description from their website is, “If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife... Pandoc is free software, released under the GPL.” It truly is an amazing program to me. I use it all the time for my school assignments. It’s a command line tool and for the most part you can write ‘pandoc -s <input-file-name> -o <output-file-name>‘ and it will guess how to convert it based on extension. I do my markdown editing with visual studio code, because it has a previewer that also supports LaTeX math mode in the markdown (vs code does the LaTeX math mode through KaTeX.) Pandoc also supports latex math mode in markdown so I can export math related assignments to pdf and such quickly.

[1]: http://pandoc.org
> Sure, more might go back to the government in the form of a tax

Right, so we agree that this effectively reduces the amount of money the USFG spends on research; 5-2 < 5-0.

> but that's more reasonable to me than the university taxing the government for the privilege of paying them to do research.

We can debate about the extent to which the federal government should support education and research, but let's stop bullshitting for one damn second. Removing tax incentives for government-funded research is exactly equivalent to reducing NSF/NIH funding. This is literally a basic arithmetic fact.
The internet initially was an anonymous way to access information. Now its the least anonymous as corporations, ISPs, government and ad agencies watch what you do.

Crypto currencies used to be anonymous too, wont be long before everyone is watching your wallet as well.
Because I like living in a civilization.
Mining? This is about buying bitcoin on an exchange and using it like a security.
I found Project Euler really helpful for learning new languages, I imagine AoC is similar.
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> do we hand over all the cloud passwords as well? Or do we factory reset everything and let them go through the dull process of setting up new accounts?

Wow, I hope this is rhetorical. No, you never give anyone your password for anything. Yes, you absolutely let them go through the dull process of setting up new accounts.

> When I move into a house, do I want to spend the first day looking up manuals online to try and work out which buttons to hold down in order to claim the devices as my own?

shrug, yeah, why not? That's the kind of stuff I would do anyways. Moving into a new home requires all kinds of "oh, ok, that's how that works" kind of discoveries. "Hmm, the breaker panel says '#5: kitchen' but that one also apparently has the garage lights. But not the garage door opener, for some reason."

> not be able to easily set the heating until they've moved in ... the epitome of "first-world problems"

I will concede that this is truly a PITA and a drawback of modern life.

Computers are so cheap that we can "afford" to put them everywhere. Hopefully the next generation of these devices will have sane fallback/factory reset modes that behave like their ancestor devices until they've been setup/enabled.
It is not about the right to appear in Google's search results. It is about abusing market dominance to put competing businesses at disadvantage. There are also other running/solved cases/investigations against Google.

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.cf...

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm?fusea...
Because the electricity, roads, laws and communications which support your monopoly money currency need to be funded.

If you want to go make a million dollars, more power to you, but you also need to pay your fair share like everyone else.
That is what containers are for. On SmartOS a container is used to constrain resource limits of a zone, but if a zone is using less than the limits it’s more efficient in terms of hardware. However, if one is not using this technology, one is forced to hard partition with virtual machines.
I recall running across c2 a few times .. there was also everything2.com from 1998 which was/is a community wiki with its own engine, and kuro5hin.com from 1999 which was wiki-ish as well
Not much - automate as much as possible and enjoy the freedom, but be available when the crisis strike :-)
First of all, bitcoin is more like gold than a currency.

Second, forex traders (and gold owners) have to pay capital gains taxes on any gains.

So, what is your point?
Funny, that's the exact problem we have today. Only instead of the government blocking your "free speech", it's Google, or Facebook, or whoever's platform that free speech occurred upon. It's also the behavior we can expect to see with the Title II restrictions removed from ISPs, with nothing on the horizon to replace them.

But don't worry, only governments can impinge on your free speech, so it's totally OK that Google and their ilk revoked your DNS. /s

> In a free market its competition which lowers costs.

What competition? For most of my hometown, we have two options, and we're not going to get a third without government influence. Low costs - hah. They're raising their prices (in concert with each other), because they know you don't have a choice.
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As part of this restructuring they are closing the European HQ in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, that's ~230 jobs. [1]

We have our offices next door and I feel sorry for them.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/software-shock_autodes...
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Capital gains are capital gains. It doesn't matter how you made it.
We are not talking about "any kind of behavior". We are talking about whether a private company whose business model is to provide internet search results should have the right to decide whether to exclude certain content from those results. You can make an argument that entities like Google and Facebook have too much power, but I don't see the argument that compels such companies to include X in their service based on whether its "fair" or not.
How stable and usable is LineageOS on Fairphone 2? I also have one and am intrigued to try it.
Somalia maybe?
Free advice: don't try your hand at FX trading until you've spoken to your accountant. Profits from FX trading aren't tax free.