skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what people are objecting to in this case.

This is not a family law judge subpoenaing coinbase for records. I've actual been an expert witness on such a court case and where Coinbase complied and gave the transaction history, for the record.

This is not the FBI or some regulator's enforcement arm investigating money laundering and having a court order requesting details of specific accounts. I'm sure they comply there too.

Nor is the IRS requesting information on specific people they think failed to report their taxes. That too would be understandable.

This is a fishing expedition. The IRS is requesting coinbase to turn over all personal information of all accounts and the entire transaction histories, with no specific basis given.

This is the financial privacy equivalent of court-order wiretapping vs dragnet surveillance. It is entirely reasonable to be angry about this.

Case in point: I bought and sold bitcoin on Coinbase at that time, as part of my non-registered sole proprietorship consulting business--I was paid by my clients in bitcoin, and purchased some on behalf of my father. As per the advice received by my accountant at that time, prior to publication of any IRS rules regarding bitcoin, I merely reported aggregate values of my own sales, not individual trades, on my Schedule C business income part of my personal 1040. Even in light of later advice published by the IRS, it's not clear that this was the incorrect way to file since it business income is handled differently. So I paid my taxes, legitimately, but there's no mention of bitcoin, or the individual trades that were made to cash out that bitcoin on Coinbase.

But, it now seems that the IRS is going to get a data dump that has my name and a bunch of bitcoin trades from years ago, and have no way of knowing that I already paid taxes on them. And, bad on me, I'm not sure I have sufficient record to prove my story, or if I do it will take a lot of unpaid work to put together. So I'm either going to get hit with an excessively large tax bill, or deal with a lot of pain and suffering and personal cost fighting this in tax court, losing a ton of my time for having done nothing wrong.

Fuck that. That's why we have due process and don't allow law enforcement fishing expeditions. False positives have a cost.
The Linux kernel just talks about "kernel mode" and "user mode" (or "userspace"). Those then map to ring 0 and ring 3 on x86, or other mechanisms on other platforms.
I thought fruit of the poisonous tree was only relevant in evidence collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
where can i find more in-depth information on this?
It's a thing that people have noise generators running while they have meetings? Isn't that annoying?
gopher://hngopher.com:70/

https://github.com/michael-lazar/hn-gopher
hmm interesting. I wonder where I could find out more.
HAL probably wouldn't work well as a trigger name: too short and not unique enough.
This points out the risk of using idiomatic English for brand names for a global company. People are going to be confused.
Stupid question: why couldn't he just turn his phone off? If all signals are blocked, what's the difference on the other end?
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Ironically, ISIS had the same problem that the U.S. did in Iraq: An inability to politically and militarily secure the territory it captured. If you can't hold the territory for the long-term, militarily and politically, you are wasting lives and money in capturing it.

Regarding the U.S.: If we talk about what 'could be' or 'maybe' or what we 'imagine', as the parent comment does, we can make any claim. Based on what the military and experts have consistently said and on the facts on the ground: It's the same plan, working as designed; ISIS' loss of territory did not coincide with Trump taking office, it began in 2016.

> ISIS also grew on his [Obama's] watch

That has no implications for Trump's effectiveness.

> we knew about it [ISIS] and maybe even allowed it grow, in order to destabilize Syria.

Starting form the fundamentals of international relations (as I understand them), as the global, status quo superpower the U.S. wants stability globally, which protects the U.S.-led international order; ISIS is a threat to global stability. The U.S. has particularly supported stability in that region, to secure the global oil supply (essential to global stability and the U.S. economy) and also to protect the region's status quo U.S.-supported power structure, based in recent decades on the Saudis, Israel and Egypt. The U.S., by its actions, clearly prefers Assad to ISIS: The Americans even have allied in places with enemies including the Iranians (including in Iraq), Russians, Assad, and even other small fundamentalist groups against ISIS.

That doesn't mean ISIS took the U.S. by surprise, however. ISIS began in Syria, outside of the U.S.'s sphere at the time, and then spread to Iraq. The U.S.'s options in Iraq at the time were limited. The Iraqi government refused to allow U.S. forces in the country (that was the deal agreed to by Bush and executed by Obama, withdrawing U.S. forces). Also, the Iraqi army may have been expected to put up a fight instead of simply fleeing when faced with what were (IIRC) inferior forces.
Yeah. Bit sad how much Ruby and Rails have fallen from graces. I'm fine with Python so not all bad with wanting something nicer than JS, I just have a kinship with Ruby.
So ship the first thing then do the second thing. You get two things from this. First, your storage system gets battle tested. Second, you get the credibility of joining the ranks of those who can actually ship quality software.
What kind of professions do you think get the most use out of your time tracker Tali?
Perth was not the first AUS city ;)
this ^

Value is value -- for sure

but Value derived from luck of the draw (e.g. Norway's current citizens banking on their ancestors settling in a land rich in oil).

Frame it this way -- would Saudi Arabia be as wealthy as it is today without Oil? Do you think their social and political structure would have produced equivalent wealth as their oil companies?
The biggest is invocations – as more skills crowd the platform, getting Alexa to recognize our invocation is getting unusable.

Training for our specific pronunciation isn't available on Alexa. Our app is called Tali, pronounced "tally", and to get it to work now you have to say "Tay-lie". Whereas Google Actions can be trained with custom pronunciations.

I should also say that Dialogflow is magnificent.
Sure. But compare with Flywheel, which has less than 50 employees and produces a perfectly adequate app. Infrastructure is also much easier at small scales. And as you point out, this is pretty easy to outsource. That means that that Uber's engineers are not making much of a mote.
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Good tip! IMHO, I always recommend the Miniconda installer over the full Anaconda installer, except for absolute beginners who would struggle to understand basic concepts like environments or the PATH environment variable, etc.
As a student team we made an autonomous racing car in scale 1:10 for a competition (Carolo-Cup).
During the controller tuning we observed that the car would cut corners and therefore leave the track, which would of course lose us points in the competition.
So we simply increased the speed until the car drifted enough due to inertia to get it back in track.
In the end we could only drive properly at full speed.
Also they could maybe stop literally giving away free money.
My monitor has a KVM built in...

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-34-ultrasharp-curve...

It has two USB ports that can go to two different computers, and then in the settings you can set it up so that when you switch from one input to another it also switches what the USB devices are connected to. There are 4 USB ports total on the monitor, and they switch from one device to the other.

It's great, instead of being a separate box, it's built into the monitor. It's neater.
Cloud9 was the name of the IDE before AWS bought it in 2016[1]. They just wrapped it under the AWS umbrella now with tight AWS integration/support out of the box.

[1] https://c9.io/blog/great-news/
This does not meet the requirements of a modern workstation by my or the original article's requirements. This is limited to 1080p. We're looking at 4k as a minimum.
> The best bet for Uber right now would be to close up shop, return the money to their investors, and cease business.

That's kinda funny. I'm sure you know it will never happen. We're talking about billions in countries all over the world. Get out of an Airport in London, Melbourne, Auckland, Atlanta, Vegas .. you can get an Uber.

That combined with their questionable ethical track record (which I don't think has really turned around since they symbolically hired Eric Holder's company to do damage control).

If Uber does fail, it will do it gloriously and colossally.
Pretty much. Here's an expanded, but still very simple way to think of the way this noise jamming works:

- A GPS receiver needs a signal/noise ratio above X dB to get a lock

- Higher gain antennas, more sensitive receivers, and higher powered signals add to the numerator (good)

- Antennas with smaller sidelobes (often a consequence of a high gain antenna or nulling antennas), and better signal processing reduce the denominator (good)

- There is a pretty good S/N margin when using a modern receiver with a good antenna in open space

- Shadowing reduces the signal strength and thus reduces the numerator (bad)

- Multipath effects increase noise, and thus increases the denominator (bad)

- Jamming increases noise, and thus increases the denominator (bad)

- Jamming can be improved by cranking up tx power or using a higher gain antenna (or both)

- In open space, a jammer must overcome the entire S/N margin by itself. GPS systems are so highly optimized (very good algorithms) and have such a big S/N margin that you can often get a lock just by putting the GPS in a hole and that nulls enough of the jamming.

- In a city, shadowing and multipath eat into the S/N margin by quite a bit, so the jammer doesn't have to do as much. Sometimes the urban environment is so bad that GPS can't get a lock even without a jammer.

- Jamming strength decreases with the square of the distance (or 2x when talking in terms of dB, which are logarithmic)

- The margin reduction by the shadowing and multipath benefit the effective distance by the square of the reduction (or 2x when talking in terms of dB)

- So any natural jamming benefits the jammer by allowing it to operate much further away or operate at a lower power. There isn't much you can do to reduce natural jamming like multipath or shadowing other than moving to a different location.

edit: grr, I hit tab and enter before finishing.
I don't think the CIA wants to let bloomberg get away with using bitcoin to terrorize Americans. If bloomberg is trying to play Wizard of Oz with bitcoin...the Americans will cheer when bloomberg buildings become targets of terror.

Bloomberg: Bitcoin is big and scary! Watch out! Too big to fail!

Americans: CIA, please deal with this problem

CIA: KGB, uh, going to need a little help here

KGB: no problem

::kaboom::

Americans: THANK YOU CIA, THANK YOU KGB, BURN IN HELL BLOOMBERG
> green-on-black CRTs

Any source for something like this that is usable on a modern computer? I did a bit of eBay-ing and everything was ancient/incompatible and megabucks.
There's a lot of talk about data confidentiality, but I would argue that the data you could get from any one endpoint would be useful for reconnaissance within its own peer neighborhood, and not much else, but I welcome use cases where I'd be wrong.

Additionally, downloading a client without getting the public key for the server won't help you - you can't just connect to any server you find. The author then links to a KB article about generating a different key than the one he would need anyway.

Relying on any vendor's documentation for proof of anything is the first mistake this author made. Giving himself an out by not actually trying any of these things, or weighing drawbacks against the benefits, means this is little more than speculative clickbait.
If your app is hosted on github, it is not really distributed. And Ethereum is extremely limited as a database.
Your recommendation on non-congested roads is vague and I don't think your recommendation for congested roads conflicts with my critique of js2. Certainly, it's often impossible to see 200 yards ahead on various stretches of the highway, so any reasonable driver will be violating js2's advice if they follow yours.
Automatic Number Identification (ANI) is not the same system as caller ID. ANI is used for billing purposes and is harder to spoof than CID. Caller ID uses in-band tones which is why it's so easily spoofed.
they could, but again: then they aren't an internet-of-things device. They could do cool things, but without an internet connection it's not IoT. And the internet connection is the selling feature for most IoT devices.

I can turn my dumb non-internet connected thermostat up if i'm at home, the interesting thing about a Nest is that i can turn up the thermostat before i leave work and the house will be warm when i get home. The internet connection is the value-add. If you don't like internet connected devices that's cool, but IoT devices can't have the same feature set if you remove the internet connection. the call-home is not useless. If you want to argue that certain devices don't need an internet connection, that's fine. and in many cases i'd agree. but arguing that the whole class of devices that is defined by being connected to the internet doesn't need an internet connection is pretty silly.
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You have to understand human nature though. Most people are more or less followers. They will do whatever a strong leader tells them to do--unless it's something clearly, blatantly wrong or illegal--and they will rationalize it.

If Uber had ethical leadership, there would be no worry about any of the technical talent, and they would be the very same people.
The web clipper is Evernote's core product. It hasn't been replicated commercially or in open source successfully.
That is only half of the equation though. They also have to open their books which may complicates some of those issues.
You've got a pretty novel definition of slavery.

Perhaps. FWIW, my definition of slavery is that the value of your productivity is owned and controlled by someone else, not you. I see the movement towards basic income as the promotion of a world of poor people in chains.

Money grows out of power, not the other way around. If money alone created power, lottery winners would all promptly take their place in the halls of power. They don't. Most wind up bankrupt within 5 years.
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Anyone who bills in small increments, has their hands busy, or is on the go.
I think the responder is correct that FOTPT is not applicable here, but I wonder if there is an analogous legal concept for the product of a stolen good.
It's unfortunate that it makes your videos out of date, however you chose to depend on cloud9. You could have used any other dozen non cloud based editors out there.

Definitely a lesson to everyone to be cognizant of their dependencies.
Indirectly. You get paid for committing code, after all.
This was fun. Thank you for sharing. I found myself sufficiently distracted.
Oh here it is, git-buy-drugs.
I've only used KVM switches on the desktop. Try to think outside your own experiences.
https://stratisplatform.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WIKI/overv...
I assumed he washed the bag first.
Simple enough solution to your first question: place the device in a clean sandwich bag, then place that sandwich bag in the Twisties packet.
But how does it compare to, say, Codenvy.io + a $300 touchscreen Chromebook?

Cloud9 isn't the only cloud dev environment out there.
Thanks, we just added the missing “documentation”.
Hindsight is always 2020.
I sometimes download them and play them with VLC at 90% speed so my note-taking and diagramming can keep up. Either that or I just pause repeatedly. If it is review, I’ll play at 1.5 or 2x though.

I wish online video platforms had a 90% option because it would make it more enjoyable for my wife to watch history videos with me.
I left it out because this is a separate rant. Cliff notes:

- Backup is per-website. Every new registration requires you to e.g. print a slip of paper and store it in your safe/friend's house/secret drawer.

- Each website has to implement their own backup flow. That's extra cost, hurts adoption, and some don't even bother with that.

- The PIN is extremely low-entropy, which requires absolutely perfect rate-limiting. As soon as the attacker is able to side-step the rate-limiting (which has a large surface area), the OTP is useless.

- The PIN is vulnerable to shoulder-surfing and surveillance. Can you type the PIN faster than the attacker that's using OCR?

- Typing a PIN number (that has a timer!) adds friction and mental angst.

- And I may be wrong, but as I understand all devices have the same level of trust. If your phone is stolen, it's a race to revoke the thief's codes before they revoke yours. Ideally you should have some "master secret" in your safe/friend's house/secret drawer, that is able to revoke any and all devices because it's the safest secret you have.

- It's only suitable as a second factor, not primary. You are probably also using passwords, which adds a whole lot more security and usability problems.
With all due respect, it kind of sounds like you put all of your eggs in one basket. Even if c9 wasn't bought, it's a bit short sighted to rely so heavily on a single service that has plenty of good alternatives.
More of an addendum than a correction, the Akasha project is an ETH & IPFS project that looks interesting
https://akasha.world/

What can you do with Akasha from the FAQ
"You can publish, share and vote for entries, similar to Medium and other modern publishing platforms, with the difference that your content is actually published over a decentralized network rather than on our servers."
There are also a few docker based installation options for self-hosting too. I created one as well to run the container as my local user to not muck with file permissions https://github.com/msumpter/docker-cloud9-ide
At work, we have at least the first 30 racks with good 'ol VGA KVM's (no IP) and tray monitor/keyboard/touchpad, despite at least half of the servers having IPMI. Ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

And no, no one needs 4k where a KVM belongs (which is in a server room).
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You only need one example to the contrary to rebut an assertion of never.
LOL if Uber disappeared tomorrow you would get the same driver in the same car on Lyft or another app and the day after that would have forgot Uber ever existed.
That's cute, but here's a funnier way to say it:

http://www.owensworld.com/jokes/men-women/boyfriend-50-upgra...

I prefer humor, but it's obviously not for everybody. Also theres a slightly different version of the one I posted above on this page, but I couldn't find a directly corresponding one for women's version. If you do please share- I'd like to forward it to my wife.
Very interesting situation they are in. Part of me wonders if the negative press coverage is driven in part by the investors losing confidence in management's business acumen (vs ethics / culture), and using the press to push travis and others out

TO my understanding (probably not a full understanding), Uber's business model to date has always been predicated on subsidizing cheap fares and wages that at least keep lots of drivers around. The idea was at some point this would be sustainable and the subsidies would go away. It is unclear now whether such a point exists

Uber could cut costs, ie massive layoffs, but imagine what that would do to its talent base. Who would stay at uber amid massive layoffs when the hiring market is so strong?

THey could try to improve unit economics by charging higher fares or squeezing drivers further, but it is unclear how much more they could squeeze drivers, and if fares rise materially, a lot of their business goes to lyft or goes away entirely.

i rarely used uber when i was in NYC or non-SF places in CA. in SF uber might still be viable because public transportation is so terrible, but in many other cities uber could disappear and people wouldnt miss it all that much
Your situation isn't that uncommon; there are probably many existing Tesla owners in a similar situation who find the supercharging system works for them.
They’ve printed a hundred million usdt this week. The price is heavily manipulated with wash trading on kraken. It’s a house of cards that going to collapse at the first breeze.
Thank you! that means a lot :)
(thread fail sorry)
Your definition of slavery pretty neatly matches capitalism, I hope you notice ...
Why does it matter that there's no single centralized group who does the marketing and controls scarcity? Bitcoin's entire selling point is that those kinds of things can happen without centralization!
Probably most of there losses are explained by markets they are trying to develop and also expansion into areas where they do not yet have drivers. I can't imagine the cost would increase too much going forward - it's essentially the same as the cost of delivering pizza, and pizza isn't too expensive, and riders can pool, so it should be below the cost of pizza to deliver a person. And once people start giving up cars for Ubering, pooling will become much more efficient.
Suprised to not see ncurses mentioned anywhere yet. Not sure it's an exact match but it's well supported in the same ballpark.
Is it necessary to you that the display actually be disconnected from power? I use display port on most of my displays and don't have the issue with simply turning off the monitor. But, that's because the monitor doesn't REALLY turn off. It just goes into an ultra low power mode. If that satisfies you, perhaps you need to get a different monitor is all.
Server room KVMs are still going strong. I used them pretty regularly for a small in-store server room.
So you're telling me there's a way we might demonetize "kinder playtime", "hailey's magical playhouse", "funtoys", and "toys unlimited"?

THAT is a noble cause! Gimme the sixty-five. I'm on the job!
Think cryptocurrencies are just waiting for George Soros to make a GBP-like move.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
And how does that increase the price?
The problem though is that they led the way by breaking down all the regulatory barrier to entries. Whats to stop anyone from starting a ridesharing company tomorrow?
Well, it could mean "Queue them up" as in "make a line".
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