skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure. As I replied to someone else, this is a fallacy in equating government regulation with the will of society. They are not always equivalent.

Of course they're not equivalent; the will of society is itself full of self-contradictions and instabilities. No specific social process is the same as "the will of society". Are you saying government regulation isn't part of the will of society, though? The government is certainly significant part of society. What makes its processes different from others?

> Societal rules when you break them down are obvious to people and reflect how most people live their day to day life. It is typically when the basic societal rules are first voided in favor of something else, that government regulation is considered. In such cases it makes more sense to just restore the base societal rule.

I agree. Lets repeal the Inclosure Acts.
Maybe don't steal from your neighbor by dodging taxes?
> You can mine with the same equipment you use to transact (something with a CPU and memory and internet access). Is it expensive to do so? Yes. But it is possible

That depends on the definition of "possible".

Most people wouldn't be able to mine a block within a million years, which i'd argue means it isn't possible
I'll entertain this. Let's start off with this: can you provide any specific examples of these civilizations?

To give you some prep, the next question I'm going to ask is what the quality of life was like for the average individual in those civilizations, including the usual metrics: healthcare, access to food, access to running water, etc.

One step further, if you provide answers for these questions, I'm going to happily show you why it's extremely difficult to extract the incentives for developing these quality of life improvements from capitalism without designing an economic system that looks like it.

Then I suppose you and I will debate whether or not capitalism is perfect, which will be a red herring, because that was never really the point.

Deal?
Can you use a regular AMI on the bare metal instances?
And yet the tally sticks were still burned.
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It’s not a metaphor, it’s a figure of speech. “Axe” and “slash” are synonyms for “lay off” in American English.
I don't personally have a wireless printer (mine is networked though), but I've noticed that all of my non-techie relatives have bought a $50 HP in the last 2 years, and somehow they all have it hooked up to WiFi as the only connection. The printers must also implement AirPrint, because they show up on my Grandma's iPhone when she tells an email to print.

Printing photos directly from an iPhone was solved for everyone else and I barely even noticed it happening because I still print from my laptop.
Thanks for the link.
I believe that the projects I will contribute to wouod be C or C++ because it is what I like the most and the hardest, although Python or JavaScript could be fine too.
I will probably try to make some minor changes to little projects with a low number of contributors.
Show HN: Read Later – a simple extension to sync links across chrome desktop
Or change the title if you still can
I think it's fair to say that many people lose perspective when it comes to their wallets.
while we clearly won’t have a chip that can do things remotely near what a human brain can when the numbers are at parity

That seems hard to say at this point. Certainly quantity won't be the sole determining factor; but quantity combined with behavior and interactions might mean that on-a-chip neurons function better than human/animal brains.
What industry is this?
Regardless of whether you use Coinbase or your own wallet, Bitcoin and most other cryptocoins are not "anonymous" as it would be traditionally considered. See "A Fistful of Bitcoins Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names" [1].

The original bitcoin whitepaper doesn't mention anonymity or privacy anywhere. What it does show is a partition between identities and transactions. Transactions can take place without ever naming an identity. But we've learned in the meantime that this partition is not sufficient, in practice. All it takes is one transaction where some part of your identity or personal information is disclosed (shipping address, e.g.). From there, the transaction history could be followed to determine where you got the money from (strip club, silk road, etc). Having multiple independent addresses mitigates some of the impact but it's not enough to describe it as "anonymous".

Case in point: "Stealing bitcoins with badges: How Silk Road’s dirty cops got caught" [2]. TL;DR Chainalysis followed the transactions on the ledger.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2714846-A-Fistful-of...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoin...
And it costs you $10 per credit agency every time you need it.
Duty-free goods have special dedicated legislation in most countries, I assume in the US too.
Yes Deployment Manager. I can't remember now. I looked at it when I needed to automate something and found that I couldn't do it. IIRC it seemed too limited in its capabilities.

The GKE auth thing is so bad to the point we had to roll back from using service accounts to using normal API keys because there was nowhere in stack driver to add a service account key file. So the choice was either lose all our endpoint monitoring or just switch to API keys. When I opened a support ticket about this the support guy seemed incompetent. He literally couldn't understand what I was saying despite repeating myself 3 times in a way I struggled to make any clearer. It wasn't worth the hassle.

I'm running a gRPC/REST service on GKE with Endpoints and to add a new credential I needed to add the key to the service.yml file and update the endpoint. There's no way that scales. I can't wait to use AWS IAM for this instead. We had to backtrack and give out API keys instead of having anything better.

Follow this tutorial for what I was trying to do before going back to just normal API keys: https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/grpc/authenticating-...

It's like GCP services weren't designed to work with each other. Just a hodgepodge of services that are fine if you can run CLI commands, but as soon as you want to get an ops team involved who want to do everything through a UI you're screwed.

Oh, and I can't tell you how frustrating it is for the k8s alpha clusters to just vanish on you. I'm a big boy. Let me decide when I want to kill an alpha cluster because, you know, I might know better than whichever engineer put that 30 day limit in.

Sorry for the rant, but as you can imagine I'm done with GCP and can't wait to head back to AWS land.
These are two completely different things...

WAMP is a Windows web development environment; it is a simple way to install / run Apache2, MySQL, and PHP on your Windows machine for local development.

Heroku is a deployment solution which packages an app’s code and dependencies into virtualized Linux containers that are designed to execute code based on user-specified commands.
I suspect that eventually this kind of thing will start being specified in the conveyancing, and the lawyers will take the accounts through their custody just as they do the keys and deeds.
Aha yes the server has been retired - but the underlying principles were documented in a paper and there are quite a few implementations out there.
State often limits who can unionize. For example in argentina, police and firemen cant unionize. In the us maybe the military cant ( but the can in argentina!)

Second some jobs are easier to unionize than others due to geographicalities. Farmers in the us have below minimum incomes. Their effective unionization has no limit on how much wages they could get. But because its impossible to be cohesive with small numbes and large distances it doesnt happen.

Unions form successfully by their capcity to limit supply. Anything that can be imported breaks unions. Anything that cant helps them. Thats why teachers, cops, garbage and transport are unions in the us, but electronic manufacture isnt.

Hope this is enough!
Wow, this sounds like a desperate attempt to put positive spin on a losing case.

> we were proud to accomplish two important victories for our customers.

> First, the government vastly narrowed the scope of its summons.

This was already their previous "win":

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-irs-update-ed9c966c7747?s...

Repeating this over and over again means there weren't many positives from this decision.

> Second, the quantity of data we must produce for the approximately 14,000 customers who remain in scope has been significantly reduced.

And what is this "quantity of data"? Are they stripping PII or transaction information from the data? If not then knowing the user information and transaction information is enough for the IRS.
Maybe in the same universe the overuse of VT control codes has led to command line to be actually line based.
You also need to graduate from a recognized top university or have to get really lucky.

Whoops, now you have some hundreds thousand of student loan.

Unless you studied abroad in a country with free education.
People are ready to move on, Myspace lasted about 6ish?
years before becoming overshadowed by Facebook in 2008, and I would consider Facebook becoming the default Social media site by 2010. Users desire a new platform.
I was under the impression that the effectiveness of Dazzle camouflage was debatable, if not outright ineffective? There were no standardized patterns by which they could be studied for their effectiveness in WWI, and by WWII when such schemes were standardized, they were rendered moot by rangefinders and radar.
Laws against stealing and fraud are not the same as regulations that only allow one or two politically-favored entities to lay cable.
AFAIK it's rebased onto Firefox 38 and there will be another rebase in the future based on Basilisk release (should be similar to Firefox 53-54)
Could blockchain be used to replace/side step aging mainframes written in COBOL? I'm not expert in the legacy systems or in blockchain but my understanding is that the reason transactions in traditional systems take so long to complete is that the COBOL mainframes are still set up to do batch processing. I wonder if using a (regulated) blockchain to record and process transactions could work to replace or enhance the legacy systems to process transactions in more realtime.
Answer: Don't do that.
Serious question: what is HTBQ+?

Googling doesn't seem to turn anything up.
Can we stop the marketing hype and call this what it is ? A complete loss of this case?

Also, I couldn't find information on how the 20k $ was calculated. Is this based on the amount of money in? Or the amount of money after selling ?
Just installed (https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/releases/download/v0.10....) on Windows 7. Went straight into Options to see what's what...noted that geo-location of notes is on by default and wasn't able to switch this off. I know generally where I am when I take notes...I don't need this on by default. Uninstalled.
Have really enjoyed this the last couple years! Wish that this would open at a more reasonable time for the east coast folks.
Question about triplebyte: What if you’ve only been learning for a few months and want to know where you stand on the learning curve? If you take the test and flop how long do you have to wait before taking at Again?
Yes, I suppose that does seem like an interesting solution. But it seems like more trouble to go through than it's worth. Not to mention that if the new owner is sufficiently paranoid, then maybe they wouldn't trust that changing the password is sufficient to remove your access. So it would be all for naught.
Sooner or later Google will probably regulated akin to other "utilities", at least in some jurisdictions.
Highways have tolls and mobile phone plans have data caps. Unless that was your point, then whoosh I guess.

There are lots of public goods that are much more heavily subsidized; gas, electric, water, law enforcement, fire, military...
I love org-mode, though I struggle with emacs itself. Can you give me an example of how you layout your weekly org mode so that it interacts with beorg well?

I've used the format for a year where each day was a heading:

* <2016-12-12 Tue>
Task1 with notes if needed
Task2

and it does not work great with beorg.
The Quentin in the comments is the chap behind the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, for those up on their Internet history.
The other day I stumbled upon this project:

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

It's a federated tube that uses ActivityPub and WebTorrent. I think this platform should be invested in and creators should consider moving. The interests of YouTube and its creators will never be entirely aligned.
If Uber is found to have stolen trade secrets, how large is the judgment against them likely to be? Is it based on some multiple of the cost of the research that produced those secrets? Or the market value of those secrets?
The Little Schemer Will Expand/Blow Your Mind
The internet is almost entirely run by the private sector...
I think you're right. It at least means its being taken seriously. And I think it bodes well for civilization in general if it's not just some underground hideaway of value, but actually contributing. Beyond just paying for roads, taxes and some of the loopholes present are a general effort to keep exchanges of value moving. At least that's the intention... so that things like this don't happen:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Hmm. The original founder of Autodesk still lives in Neuchâtel, Switzerland: https://www.fourmilab.ch/
Ironic that they're using Google docs platform to publish the research. Maybe the censorship effect is not advertent?
It seems to be a variant on LGBTQ. Except I guess with "Homosexual" replacing "Lesbian and Gay".
Judge Alsup questioned why Uber would pay so much to an employee making bogus claims. “To someone like me, an ordinary mortal, and to ordinary mortals out there in the audience — people don’t pay that kind of money for B.S.,” the judge said.

Uber’s rationale for the settlement: It would cost less to settle with him than to fight him in court. Also, Mr. Jacobs’s claims could hurt Uber’s reputation, Ms. Padilla testified.

I guess it's open season at Uber now? All you have to do is send them a letter with bogus claims, and they'll pay you millions? /s
You make a good point. Would those steps actually lead to cost savings? Driving a truck and delivering packages requires less specialized skills than maintaining the fleet. How do delivery companies handle maintenance on their human-driven trucks? It is contracted out? If the company can run three trucks per staff member vs. one per truck, wouldn't the savings be worth it? Are they going to pay this new staff member 3 times as much as a driver?
If you feel the global challenge is out of reach, you can setup a private leaderboard for you and anyone you give the 'join code' to, localizing competition and points to your own circle of "AoC" friends: http://adventofcode.com/2017/leaderboard/private
I know that europe has collaborative uniones and they have shown very different results. I have yet to study the german transport case.

The unions in america and Argentina are more similar to italian and spanish unions which are rent seeking and confrontational. In argentina, unions have constitutional level protection, and union leaders have pseudo diplo powers( they are harder to arrest for ex). The result is very rich union leaders and all industries where unions exist have terrible employment and costs
I had assumed Coinbase needed my SSN because they were reporting to the IRS. If they aren't reporting to the IRS, what in the world are they using my SSN for?!?
That's rather lazy. I don't think you know what the word "serfdom" means if you're using it to describe a modern country such as the United States.

If you want to take your labor off the farm, so to speak, then go ahead. But you're going to have a very difficult time enjoying as much fruit from your labor your only currency is your own time, with no common economic structure.
Lost time on conference calls costs businesses $34B a year
Done! :) Cheers buddy.
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This is something I have been wanting for a while a note taking app with a terminal app and syncing... unfortunately installing all these tools from an unknown source makes me a bit leery.
There's no point making it a secret, once someone looks at the GPS logs his would have gaping holes in the logs compared to other workmates. You can hide where you are, but you can't hide that you are hiding.
Hey @akavel the difference is that the system will not build ML models for your account and will not learn from your edits and categorizations. Give it a try and maybe it’s enough for your case.
You don't have to go through Coinbase or any other electronic exchange. It's just that, like many things, it's more convenient so everyone submits to it, and therefore the government, voluntarily.
I'm using PostgreSQL's UUIDs as primary keys (and foreign keys) in a Phoenix application (a JSON backend to a React frontend). The only painful moments are:

* Typing SQL queries in the development database.

* Trying to remember which record is which by looking at the UUIDs. Often the first two characters are enough but it's a lot of random noise.

Inside the program it's all the same. No apparent performance penalties so far, but we don't have much data.

I used slugs in Rails apps not to disclose numerical ids from public URLs and data. There is no need to do that with UUIDs. However, if this were a server rendered web app I'll probably still generate slugs and use them in the URLs. UUIDs in permalinks are just too weird to look at.
Why is the argument silly? Any "solution" to this that I can think of would be awful.

Let's throw a counter example on another platform. Most American talk radio is conservative. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2015/07/13/why-all-t...) IMHO the reasons for this are largely demographic oriented as specified in the Forbes article -- consequently, liberal specific talk radio has not done as well as a business model since, say, the 1980s. Conservative specific talk radio has.

It's pretty easy to Google grumbling from liberals about Clear Channel being conservative and crowding out liberal talk and whatnot. These arguments seem as silly to me as the arguments about the political stance of Google (which I also think is more driven by business dollars and cents, not explicit political lean).

At any rate, what's the solution here? Force Clear Channel to host liberal political talk via government decree? That would be about as awful as forcing Youtube to monetize conservative videos via government decree.

The only arguments that make sense in this direction to me is that American radio, in effect, is a monopoly. It might be difficult to start a "liberal specific talk radio" format even if there was a solid business case for it, because the airwaves are dominated by only a few corporations. (I would argue that this actually played itself out more in the world of music -- a lot of music never crossed into the playlists of corporate radio or MTV, because of various reasons. Which is why Napster was so heavily embraced by many once it showed up.)

Likewise with Google / Youtube: I would be much more receptive to arguments along these lines. If they became a defacto monopoly (I don't think they are there yet, but this is a danger these days), only one "content policy" would exist. And that definitely would be a problem.

Hence why I think the real issue here is keeping the web open and competitive.
Not the author here, but my guess is that it's named after the composer since the software deals with notes.

Also, though Scott Joplin's ragtime musical style has a lot in common with some very informal music, his own approach was more educated, sophisticated, and precise. Every note was in its place for a reason, and he was known to prefer his pieces to be performed exactly as written. So you could say that compared to the people who came before him, his notes were more organized.
Culture is performance. Pondering on the artifice of social relations is timeless.

The interesting part is what happens once enough people become aware of it. A total glamour killer. Every day there seems to be so much talk about dangers of social. Would be an interesting strategy for Snapchat to amplify this conversation and position itself as an alternative.
This might be a little tangential, but as interesting as the idea of a smarthome is, I'm not sure I'll ever buy into it. I've never tried it, so can't speak to the benefits, but on this topic I'm always reminded of how my mom decided on buying a 2004 Honda Civic in 2008. She wanted manual locks and windows, to minimize the possible failure scenarios, and I can understand why. Sure, it's a pain in the ass to manually roll the window down, but she'll never have to worry about it going wrong.

Moving out of a smarthome seems like a pain. I can imagine in the future that smarthome companies will roll out better authentication and setup processes, but in my paranoia I can imagine too many security issues that will arise. I don't want my home to be a gateway for breach in another dimension. I'm okay to turn the light on myself when I enter a room, set the thermostat, and water my own plants. I don't see a need for improvement there.
Must be a reference to this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/HBTQ
http://jillsoffice.com is a pretty good option for outsourced phone support.
Reach out to your network/friends, find someone in your target market that can be an early adopter.

If you don't have anyone in your close network you can start reaching out by email to distant connections you might have or try to connect with someone who writes articles, has a podcast that you are a fan of that would be a good fit.

If you approach people the right way it's easy to get connected with 'internet famous' developers.

What stack/framework are you using? Get involved in that community right away. Write articles, go to meet ups. Contribute to the framework. Become part of the community. You'll be able to meet potential early adopters and get to know the community where lots of potential future signups could come from.

Have your early adopters use it and report back with feedback/suggestions.

You can also setup monitoring for when they login, when they get alerts to see how much they are using it, how much value it is providing for them.

Good luck with your SaaS.
Correct, in Sweden we call it HBTQ+, and "Karlaplan" is a location in Stockholm. Seems likely whoever wrote this is from Sweden.
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Because say you remain with say 40k/y (instead of 80k/y) of value in the principal in addition to reduced compounding.
Headline is pretty misleading. The full quote is "On the surface it looks like you covered this up"
> The Ayn Rand brigade is just getting slower with age and untreated mental conditions.

Please don't say things like this. It doesn't help.
This is frankly incredible the more that comes out. Paying someone 4.5M in 12 months and then saying everything they claimed is false is some Olympic level gymnastics. I think this level of cover-up is bigger than many reasonable people who thought Uber was guilty expected.
When I installed smart stuff in my home I kept the originals. When I sold earlier this year I switched everything back out before I listed it. It was worth the hassle to me. No one pays extra because the Nest thermostat is installed vs $30 basic. And I’m going to want to install another Nest in the next home so...

I haven’t installed any smart outlets but I would consider doing the same. Most of these jobs are super easy, and if you can’t handle it a $20/hr handyman certainly can.
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