skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrency was never been anonymous without expending a fair amount of effort to keep it so until very recently. The entire chain of every transaction ever is kept on a publicly accessible ledger for most implementations, how can you have any expectation of anonymity in that case?
They aren't supposed to be. But for now that's how they are being treated by the userbase. There is definitely a huge gap between the original intent of these cryptocurrencies and how 95% of people are using them.
Combined with some othe rpersonal info it can get you registered for the UK online tax portal etc
They are light (at an A5 form factor), have a very good paper quality, and covers with textures that fit comfortably in the hand; they also fit comfortably in my pocket.

(there's also some with hardcover, but I find them too heavy)
It's a weak conspiracy theory: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/protonmail-isr...
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Technically, united states still taxes worldwide income. There is some credit, but still...
>>Random distribution seems like it would be better for write performance - it means that inserting multiple new values and rebuilding the index can happen in parallel rather than having to coordinate the auto increments. It also naturally has the right properties for sharding as and when you get to the point of needing that.<<

I'm not sure what you mean by "inserting new values and rebuilding the index can happen in parallel." In most storage engines using clustered indexes, writes that append to a b-tree are faster than writes that insert somewhere in the middle of a b-tree so there really isn't any rebuilding of the index required in the former case.

>>On the read side it shouldn't make any difference, as there's no reason the rows you want to access at any given point should have any correlation to when those rows were created.<<

That depends entirely on the nature of your workload. There are plenty of common workloads such as sensor data or log entries for which the common read patterns are very much correlated with the order in which the rows were written.
If I understand it correctly they would have to provide a photo with your face that FB hasn't seen before. Still rather easy to obtain for the determined.
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Org is really just a text format, like Markdown, and the core format hasn't changed in ages. So I don't think there's a sync problem here with respect to the applications themselves.

The more likely pain-point is that on one device you have extra tools/configuration set up (e.g., org-latex), but these tools aren't available elsewhere (such as in orgzly). But I assume that this is a given for orgzly users: they probably don't expect they can do everything that org-mode enables in Emacs (like producing PDFs via LaTeX). They just want to do basic edits, and don't want to lose data when the document round-trips between Emacs and orgzly. (I don't use orgzly, but I assume that safe round-tripping is a feature...)
Many politicians still believe that secret backdoors are the silver bullet to the encryption "problem", after how many experts keep saying security and backdoors are incompatible?

I don't believe it's nearly as black-and-white as you would make it out to be. There is a middle ground where our industry has a responsibility to not only "give the facts", but also provide guidance, especially when explicitly asked for.
The bigger issue is where you are going to be protected by the government in event of hacking, owners disappear with the money, etc... (presumably you are not keeping your wallet locally tattooed to your left...)
I strongly agree with you.

Comparing the pricing of Fargate to EC2 is the same as comparing the pricing of EC2 to bare metal. It is more expensive, but it is also more convenient, and is easier to scale up and down.
I agree with most of what you say.

There is intrinsic value in bitcoin. The two more important questions are:-

1. Can that value be measured?

2. Do the people buying bitcoin know the reasons behind why they are buying it? I think not.

I know so many of my friends who own bitcoin and they have no idea what the hell this thing is. They just bought it as it’s growing up in value. These are the people who would sell it when the value goes down and we all know how that ends...
>any user who bought, sold, sent, or received more than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin in their accounts between 2013 and 2015.

Your own account needs to have had $20k worth of bitcoin, not simply interacting with someone else who does.
But with Proof of Work arms race, your chances of hitting the lottery are very low now.
His analogy isn't perfect with all respect to bitcoin, but it is for that explanation. And transaction fees doesn't really matter when it's used as long term value storage for a significant amount of money. The small transaction fee is basically irrelevant.
This is a net good for bitcoin and all crypto currencies isn't it?

I mean the IRS is treating it the same way that they treat other securities, isn't that what the majority of the bitcoin community wants? Just some clarification as to exactly what bitcoins tax situation is and now we are getting it.

I mean at this point if you traded bitcoin and didn't pay taxes on your capital gains, that is 100% on you, you can't claim ignorance at this point.

This, more than CME and CBOE futures, though those are important, and more than a sane way to store them without having to worry about lost keys or being hacked, is what institutional investors really want before they get into bitcoin.

In the long run this is a very positive event for bitcoin adoption by the masses, and more importantly for speculators, large inflows of institutional money.
You want both dumb and smart, or better automated systems.
Cryptos were never anonymous. They always showed the entire transaction log to everyone. Only a matter of time before you have to pull it out to do anything with it in the fiat economy, at which point your activity can be tracked backwards and attributed to you.
These days mining crypto is not a feasible option for the vast majority of people.
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I take notes like this:

vim ~/documents/notes
If you use auto-incrementing IDs as both primary keys and account identifiers, which a lot of web applications do, it might be possible to identify admin and employee accounts because they're more likely to have the lower IDs. A recent Steam hack relied on this to allow bypassing the approval process for Greenlight[0].

[0]https://medium.com/swlh/watch-paint-dry-how-i-got-a-game-on-...
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I've seen that plenty of big companies lay off people with the left hand and continue hiring with the right - usually for different teams on different locations.

I'm not as enthusiastic to work in one of those megacorps as I once was, and yes, if they decide to do a layoff round next year you could be affected, but I guess that at the very least you'd have one year of employment there.
The internet was anonymous only because it was obscure. The Man barely knew it existed, and couldn't be bothered to figure out how to track people.

Just like other types of security, anonymity through obscurity is a bad idea and only works while your obscurity holds out.

Cryptocurrencies are going through the same transition. Initially they seemed anonymous because nobody with power cared about them. Now that's changing.

If you care about being anonymous, take steps to ensure that it works even if The Man starts looking.
I think Zim uses a two level approach, storing text files but also keeping an index database for doing full text search.
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.

You should always do that! And if you are intelligent enough you can create easily structures so that everything is legal (like the big guys [e.g. Apple, Google] are doing). It only depends on the place where you are living how easy this world wide company structures can be set up.
Make it a fee-and-dividend program and the poor would come out ahead.
The problem with super-minimal environments like Duktape, PicoC, Lua, mruby, TinyPy, etc is precisely what you describe: there's no batteries-included behavior.

I am seriously considering acquiescing to the performance impact of Go build times (yup, it's slow, who woulda thunk) because of the sane-batteries-included nature of the language.
I wouldn't call the criterion for a good paper "never reports anything inaccurate" as news are written by humans and humans are fallible, but rather "is able to admit mistakes and will put effort into clarifying rather than covering them". Also I would criticise the term "not reporting anything bad" - that could also be interpreted as not reporting anything that could speak against the government, for example. Instead I would recommend "acts according to some set of morals" as a criterion - in Germany we have a "Press Code" that every journalist learns and that is also being observed by the German Press Council.
Another note: I think there cannot exist such a thing as the one perfect paper, because there does not exist one perfect opinion or viewpoint. The purpose of a good paper is to bring that into account: To picture different, maybe yet unseen perspectives on a problem. A set of high quality papers with different focuses existing alongside each other is a good thing for the same reason.

One paper that does a great job in my opinion is "Die Zeit". I am not familiar with the American media landscape and thus a equivalent, however.
It isn't mentioned in the article, but from the order:

"and, where counterparties transact through their own Coinbase accounts/wallets/vaults, all available information identifying the users of such accounts and their contact information"
so that we can have nice things like roads, a power grid, environmental protections, etc.
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The problem is that you cannot save everything the same way you can save money or gold.

Food you consume has to be produced. We can't just produce a lot of food in one year and then store the excess for 100 years until you finally want to consume it. The food is gone. Your deflationary currency is worthless if you can't buy anything with it.
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This was inevitable and a good thing.

Crypto has been extremely risky because there is no sure-fire exit strategy. Now that reliable exchanges like coinbase are popping up, and playing by the rules, that risk is going down drastically.

A reliable exchange means much less risk, and one of the ways it does that is accurate reporting. That means accurate reports to you AND the IRS. If you want a reliable market, that market has to play by the rules.
this is interesting. I get the FX angle, but what if you never convert your BTC to USD? in that case your profits are not "realized" and so long as you pay for stuff in BTC how can they possibly calculate your gains
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Communism's been tried and gets stuck at military dictatorship

Of course it does. It has to. You're compelling people to engage in behavior they don't want to. That "to each" unavoidably requires "from each", decided by people no better than others, denying producers the full fruits of their labors, and blessing the idle with those fruits. Superior productivity becomes intolerable (as "inequal") and thus suppressed. The only way to enforce this unnatural state of affairs on people is thru threat of force leading precisely to military dictatorship. It's unavoidable.

Capitalism, however, lets people work out what is mutually beneficial without being bossed around by uninvolved strangers. Yes, some become powerful and persuade trade, but people always have the option to not - nobody's going to get fined, jailed, exiled, or killed not buying Brand Mega products. I've seen many massive corporations collapse - nobody died in the process, everyone had the choice to not associate with them.

(And yes, you always have the option to buy some cheap seeds, buy some cheap land, and go live off the land yourself. That's basically how I grew up.)

"Large monied interests" do NOT turn into "dictatorships". Any worker who doesn't like the work/pay exchange can walk away. Any customer who doesn't like the product doesn't have to buy it. (The strikes you reference involved wanton physical disruption & destruction; obstructionism, vandalism, and violence gets met with likewise.) However, in communism: mutually beneficial contracting without state sanction gets one jailed; walking away from communism gets one shot.

And yes, there will always be a need for "from each". Food doesn't grow & harvest itself in, no matter how automated. Buildings don't construct themselves. Work will need doing by humans. There will always be something for someone to do, so long as the state doesn't interfere. And ONLY capitalism will bring the price of food/shelter/etc down to the point that one need work very little to earn those basics.
I like the idea of an app with integrated notes and todos, and love that its open source, but this is really lacking in the todo department. No drag-and-drop reordering and no deadlines/grouping by date makes it pretty useless for anything approaching a decent workflow.

I've tried pretty much everything and still haven't found anything with the features/ease-of-use/good design of Wunderlist (which is still lacking in features, and has a fast approaching EOL). Considering todo apps are the modern version of hello world I would think we'd have a lot of good options (or does that reasoning actually mean there are a lot of half-baked options?)
It was on there previously
You can do the exact same thing with bitcoin. Write the write the recovery key on a piece of paper and bury it in a box.

The advantage of bitcoin is you can encrypt it and store it offline in as many locations as you want.
Rig the Nest smoke alarms to start the fire for maximum irony.
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If you would like to make that exchange in person, using a currency of your choosing, then I don't see a problem with your argument.

However if you want to use the Internet, which was subsidized by and developed using research by U.S. and E.U. governments then my counter argument would be that you need to pay the toll of the IRS or whatever other government you reside within.

If you want to start your own nation somewhere and build your own inter-continental communication network then by all means feel free to fund that effort by whatever you deem necessary to achieve that end.

Taxes are needed, however begrudgingly, to fund a government which maintains a civilized and peaceful exchange of commerce. There are no examples I'm aware of where a lawless no-mans-land has resulted in anything more than a region dominated by warlords.
If i actually lost a little can i use it to offset something? :-)
Good radio stations still honor these unwritten requirements.

Also, "Eruption"/"Running with the Devil", too.
I guess that's a feature it offers, but like most people I've used it solely for crash reporting.
POW relies on self-interest, though.

For example, if you own the most of a particular POW coin, it is not in your interest to corrupt the ledger because you will suffer the loss of faith in the currency worse than anyone.
How innovative! Older chat "apps": ICQ, IRC, talkd, WinPopup always separated "Publishers and Creators" and my friends! Furthermore, there was separate device for consuming "Publishers and Creators" called "TV".
I started the Selenium project at ThoughtWorks, fwiw. That could be used as a data point for whatever conclusion you want to make. :)
Yeah, by 1535 Dürer has published Applied Geometry which contains a detailed geometric description of how to for capital letters. I’ve been down this rabbit hole in the past!

http://pollrobots.blogspot.com/2013/10/of-just-shaping-of-le...

http://pollrobots.github.io/BlogCode/durer.html
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Ah, I didn't know that, thanks. In those cases you're probably correct that it's illegal to put up such camera without obtaining a permission. Though I don't think it's the law about "Kränkande Fotografering" (roughly translates to "Offensive Photography") - which is the law that makes it illegal to put up secret cameras in a home - that you'd be violating, but rather some other law that regulates surveillance cameras.
except that if someone pulls the plug they disappear while you can still make teeth out of gold :)
No millions spent on lobbying, no propping up their cable business on the back of their ISP actions, no cost for their exclusivity deals with networks... Comcast has a lot of overhead in addition to their personnel and ISP costs.

Also worth remembering that while their profit margins are in the 10-15%, that 10-15% represents billions of dollars.
This really reminds of the essay "Technologies of Control and Resistance"[1], which has really shaped my thinking over the years.

Bitcoin itself is a technology of resistance. Private crypt-currencies more so. (Cash too) But as long as you have to go through central portals (like Coinbase) to access the rest of the economy, the government will lean on those central parties to regulate you indirectly.

Central parties are technologies of control.

[1] https://blog.elidourado.com/technologies-of-control-and-resi...
If you are American the answer is no... Americans are taxed by way of citizenship. The only way out is to give up your citizenship and that's not easy.

Other countries have different rules that apply to their citizens and also to residents.

Generally speaking I think it's far better too focus on making the money more than mitigating the tax.

So while I believe there is no moral obligation to pay more tax than legally required, you would have benefited from the tax of previous generations so why should you have a free ride?
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Hello guys, as a student and amateur developer, I know that I'm not a very good programmer yet, but a lot of people seem to recommend contributing to e.g. github projects to get better at it. How can I know if have the knowledge or expertise to contribute? What if my commits aren't good enough? They probably would reject them directly, but I want to see what the experienced people here think about this.
depends on country.
Google can have search one of two ways IMHO:

As visibly and rigorously impartial as possible, with little to no regulation (which means no SJW filtering and no ProtonMail filtering)

What they seem to be doing now, which will result in more pressure for regulation.

You don't have a right to appear in the results, but, people have a right to expect impartial standards are applied.
It's in "Adopt" and they say it's their "default choice" for FE frameworks [1]. Also, the "Trial" details for Angular mention "Most of our teams, however, still prefer React, Vue or Ember over Angular."

If a technology is consistently listed in a section, they remove it from the radar, which is mostly focused on changing trends.

[1]: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks/...
Probably Nineteen Eighty Four. I read it my senior year of high school and it really made an impression on me... even now, 20+ years later, that sticks with me.
My pet theory is they've optimized hard into local maxima for engagement and profitability, at the expense of long term retention
I think you could spell it out more clearly that the various three-letter agencies in the USA are quite interested in suppressing information about getting-popular systems that thwart their snooping.
I just send an email to myself.
If it's something ongoing, I'll leave a draft open for a few days.
How fast is a hello world in node.js to you?

I forgot to mention my formerly favorite language: Python. It's _much_ faster than Node.js in startup and relatively basic things. Node wins on almost everything I make, though.

$ time python test.py # second run
hello world

real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.000s
Nice, looks like it was around about same time as Quinn - https://web.archive.org/web/20110805131134/http://www.simonh...

Did you ever hear from TTC?
Because those who have the power will always tax those who haven't, for the simple reason that it is much easier than gainint the money via voluntary exchange.
Actually in some cases yes, check legislation of where you are and talk to an accountant
That promise is only satisfied if you can transact for real value with the anonymously-mined currency.

Both mining and transacting are impossible (or at least very difficult) for many people/in many areas. Mining requires too much gear/power. Transacting for most goods with real value without de-anonymizing the currency (converting it to fiat and associating it with your name) is also extremely difficult without money laundering or access to a no-identification-required, crypto-to-physical-cash ATM-style conversion point.
And that's why the more pop-oriented tunes have a so-called "radio edit" which skips the intro. Take, for example, Tim Deluxe's "It just won't do". This[0] is the dj-friendly club version. This[1] is the radio edit.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Gw78LeYk8

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfluyMiVuTs

[EDIT: fixed the first link]
I use tasker to sync orgzly every one hour.
Why do you think DPI isn't cheap? You're aware you can use Snort to drop packets based on SNI at 10gb+ with commodity servers, yes?
Yes all the currency exchanges around the world (at least the reputed ones) do this as a part of their operating country's AML policy. The exchanges are required to report the transactions which raises a flag to the operating country's central banking system too.

AML rules can be complex, but it also has trivial rules like if the occupation of a person and the amount of the money he exchanges do not make sense, the transaction will be flagged and reported to the central bank. The transaction will go through, but will be reported to the central bank using a webservice or as a monthly report. Its upto the central bank to investigate it further.
Serfdom. Be thankful for what the system has provided you by giving us the fruits of your labor.
They will, but the cost to do so increases by several decades.
What is seen as fair is a very subjective question. I would prefer not calling it "fair share" because taxation is very complex and depends hugely on how good you are at gaming the system.
Indeed. Big banks using blockchain technology as a distributed ledger of stock ownership might have nothing to do with bitcoin.
> If you rear-end a vehicle that's established in your lane, it's always your own fault, no exceptions.

Of course there are exceptions. There are any number of well-established circumstances that, if proven, place responsibility on the driver in front.

It is not legal to suddenly panic-brake to a stop, for instance, without exigent circumstances which make it necessary to do so. If a driver causes a collision by doing so they bear liability. There are any number of insurance scams that are thwarted by such exceptions.
also depends on your country. In some countries bitcoin are entirely illegal, some have no rules at all (that means grey area and also no taxation) and some consider it as capital gains which needs to be taxed.
The technology advancement allowed the concept of a concept album.