skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone raises chickens from eggs; pays for feed and cares for them until they are full-size, and then sells them, he has to pay taxes on that income, even though he already paid for the food and the upkeep. There's no double dipping here.

You can find an accountant who can give you advice on how to account for the cost of mining the bitcoin to reflect your effective cost basis (or wing it; the IRS has reasonably good instructions for this sort of thing).

If you go to Newegg and buy stuff, you are obligated under US tax law to pay the capital gains taxes based on the fair market value of the products purchased. If you go to a bitcoin meetup and sell with cash, you are still obligated to pay taxes.

Your legal obligations are clear; whether you can commit the perfect crime or not and get away with it is another matter.
Who are fact checkers and what do they do?
Ubers Shady Competitive Intelligence Unit Revealed in Court
This works remotely as well (although not through SSH, obviously).
At least on my account friends don't seem to be engaging nearly as much as they used to. There are like 3 people who are driving conversations but it's pretty dead otherwise. I have tried to stop visiting the site after a recent article here said it was a DoS on the brain.
> and we're not going to get a third without government influence

Sadly it is government influence which limits you to two, requesting more action from them will certainly only make things worse.
Same here. And follow notifications.

I think I personally like the like notifications on Twitter though to gauge what resonated with people. Though I do keep the push notifications off so it's more of just I review the notifications timeline every day or two.
5 year old: "Daddy, what's that??!?!??!"

Me: "A drum solo"

Two minutes later: "Daddy, I want to play drums!"
I don't get the love for Laravel. Things like validation, specifying validators in strings like it's 2003 grate with me. Symfony's a pain in the butt for over-engineering things (DataTransformers are a good place to start) but at least it's well thought through.

What are the reasons to love Laravel?
I live in Montreal and don't know anyone who bought one or speak to their phone. Might be a cultural bias or just an anecdata as stated above.
There have been a lot of attempts with varying success. Places like Monaco, the Bahamas and Dubai have close to zero tax but still regulations. Hong Kong was a successful example of low tax and light regulation.

Probably the biggest way of avoiding tax and regulation these days is to be multinational. Then no one country can really control you for better or worse.
Electron, no thnx.
That's great to know. I found how awesome Notes had become in Sierra, and now have hundreds of notes - this is an app I use every single day multiple times a day. But I don't like the new offering of MBP's and wanted to move off the mac ecosystem, so started work on something just as easy to use and as secure as Notes, coupled with sharing notes. It's just a mobile first web app hooked up to firebase with nothing making it to the server that hasn't been encrypted on the client first. Shared notes will require users to share a password, unless I find a better solution.

But if iCloud Notes is just as good, maybe I'm wasting my time. I trust Apple's security, and Notes really is exactly what I want as a dev (their limited markup is nearly as useful as markdown, and I love that it is limited to a few choices).
People keep saying this but it is very possible to stay anon while using Bitcoin. It's just complicated and people are lazy.
You are right.

I didn't phrase it correctly. What is algorithm independent is the theoretical performance bound for a given data complexity.

Sure, not all algorithms are the same, but the best performance that can theoretically be achieved with a given iid sample of a given size is algorithm independent.

So yes, a better algo can get same performance with less data, but limit stays the same.
> A relational database is a graph where nodes are called entities and edges relations.

No, it's not. That's a common rationalization of the term by people who have zero knowledge of relational DB theory, but a relation is answer of entities, not a relationship between them; do, in this graph interpretation, “relation” isn't the right name for an edge, as it names a set of structurally similar nodes. An edge is a “(foreign key) relationship”.

> The role of a primary key is to provide a stable, indexable reference to an entity. You have two ways to construct your primary key: either as a semantic key, or as a technical key.

Why is this piece inventing new language when there are existing, widely recognized terms? This is the classic ”natural key” vs. “surrogate key” distinction.

> Also, serial is a 32 bit integer.

There are good reasons to avoid autoincrement, but that's not one, it’s just a reason to use bigserial instead of serial.

> If you don't have mutable state, then you don't need a technical primary key, and you can use a semantic key.

Even if you have mutable state, you can use a natural (“semantic”) key instead of surrogate (“technical”) key so long as the identifying attributes are immutable (which, if they are genuinely identifying, they logically must be.)
Well, a traditional gold mining operation has to pay taxes on the literal gold they take out of the ground and sell on the open market.

They also had to pay taxes on the equipment that they used to mine the gold, and probably taxes on the people they had to pay to manage the operation.

So it could be seen as 'unfair' for someone who mines information to get a pass and only have to pay some of the taxes that a precious metal mining operation pays.
Reminds me of China's van Goghs: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6013920/ (2016)

Awesome documentary
Where did you read I proposed any scheme at all, dude? Saying something looks like a PR shield is a problem now?
Some property disclosure forms are now requiring that these items are documented. Example:

http://transitionrealty.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RE-Pr...

Line 183-184
"Are there any items or systems on the property connected or controlled wirelessly, via internet protocol (“IP”), to a router or gateway or directly to the cloud?"
What's the capital gains tax in the US? I seem to distinctly remember it's far lower than a bricklayer's income tax. So, arguably, taxes on bitcoin speculation are not a "fair share" only in the sense that it's still too low.
A blog I started on Neural Networks and Probability
Just use the terminal client then.
How AI and Eye Tracking Could Soon Help Schools Screen for Dyslexia
If a US citizen lives somewhere else how is he supposed to pay taxes to the country he lives in? Only to the US usually? Double tax treaty? I bet many countries do not like that. Just asking out of curiosity.
We may be listing ours soon, and if we do I'm even swapping the LED bulbs for whatever's cheapest at the store. They're only about a year old and the house will sell for zero more dollars if I leave them up.
Experiment Velocity vs. Learning Velocity
Yes, I know that; we even corresponded privately. However, call to authority does not magically validate Amazon, nor does it magically invalidate my points. Nothing Brendan wrote contradicts the points either of us made.
Magics That Rails Decorator/Presenter Gems Do to Make Your Type Less
I worry that Soon there will be no real investment in "professional" software, the type with a learning curve that makes us more productive rather than more ad-addicted.
Awash in Artificial Light, the World Gets 2 Percent Brighter Each Year
As i stated above, it might be an anecdata or a cultural bias as I live in Montreal.

While i do believe that's interesting, I don't understand why that would be Mozilla's job.
So it might be that bitcoin is rising and rising ever more not just because owners are bullish on future development but also because some of those who are not are disallowed from selling? Best store of value ever, backed by inability to sell.
This is actually pretty close to what I already do; I've found writing org capture templates cumbersome, so I just have templates in the org files and I cut and paste and then edit as needed.
Your fallacy is in equating government regulation with the will of society. In most cases regulation is a result of powerful lobbying (which is not to say that society does not demand some of the regulations codified by government).
The IRS won't share a thing, because the CRS doesn't apply to the USA -- they aren't participants in the AEOI.

The USA have FATCA, so the IRS receives this information from all other countries.

Most other countries will be sharing information with each other through CRS (which was modeled after FATCA), but they won't receive anything from the USA.

Why would the USA share? The have nothing to gain as they already receive all the info they need (through FATCA), and only to lose through sharing.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: the USA are the last big tax haven.
To counter this a bit, I would rather run an Electron app than be greeted with this as the default interface: http://www.qownnotes.org/var/bekerle/storage/images/_aliases...

I'll take an app that uses a bit more resources over something that looks like an IDE instead of a note-taking app any day.

Currently using Inkdrop[0], which is not open source (but subscription based) and has a rather basic Android client, but it's cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, Ubuntu and other Linux-based distributions), has a pretty intuitive interface (as in, doesn't look like an IDE), backs up its database to my Nextcloud instance, and supports dragging and dropping images.

[0] https://www.inkdrop.info/
I suspect until there's a meaningful way for business executives to be extradited for violating another country's consumer protection laws, there will not be an adequate way to penalize corporations for international misconduct.

Functionally, a company's max losses for violating a country's laws is loss of assets and business in that country, is it not? For an international corporation, very few countries have the ability to hold them to any sort of meaningful penalty, especially when a company like Google can simply withhold service to that country until the country begs them to restore it. (See Google News in Spain.)

I find the current case involving Google in Canada interesting: After losing a right to be forgotten case in the Canadian Supreme Court, the highest law of that jurisdiction... Google filed (and 'won') a case in the Northern District of California to injunct it's ruling. ...I don't know about you, but I don't believe a US court can invalidate the Canadian Supreme Court's order... so doesn't that just put Google in contempt of court in Canada?
Uptake nabs $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics
>Architectural offices that still use cad

Out of curiosity, what is the modern alternative to CAD used by architectural offices ?
OK, once: "Coming features All: End to end encryption" is implemented then I'm up for giving this a try. The plain text format and markdown support is good features.
Proposition 13 was advocated by that noted socialist Ronald Reagan, when he was governor of California.

[Edit: not 14, 13!]
Monero and dash both have fairly good privacy built into the protocol [1] [2], although monero suffers from large transaction sizes and dash suffers from centralization as a result of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)#Privac...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(cryptocurrency)#PrivateS...

Disclaimer: I have no monero or dash, but I do have various other cryptocurrencies.
The alternative is to do things off the grid, so to speak - meet people in person, exchange funds for cryptocurrencies. Actually that might be a small side business idea.

Of course, one of the goals of cryptocurrencies is to not have to go through central organizations at all. Not converting your cryptocurrencies back to fiat, and not storing them on an exchange will be the best way to dodge taxes. Pretty sure that if you hide your keys well enough, the IRS and co cannot prove that you have any assets in cryptocurrencies as long as how you acquired them can't be traced.
Background: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2488493.0
Relatedly, Google refuses to list my personal site (spinda.net) for reasons I can't discern. It only shows up if one searches for the exact domain itself, and even then as a bare entry with no description. I've tried submitting the URL through every avenue Google offers for recrawling—no dice.
Well based on personal experience, or should I state a certain politically active relative who I need to ping about it.

It will be an interesting experiment co opted quickly to drive a specific political message. As in, they already use a mailing list to control reddit's political subs so a site like this is just another avenue to explore. any site where commenters have the ability to move into moderation positions or more is instantly corruptible and will be.

that is just how it is, PACs and related have realized the value and therefor they are assigned minders or whatever term you want to use to direct the conversation/etc the direction desired
How Nvidia Research Is Reinventing the Display Pipeline for the Future of VR
... for databases that have a native UUID type. MySQL doesn't, and the choices are either store them as strings or store them as non readable bytes. Not the greatest options.
Lets focus on the fact they were never told about the tax. Would you like to lose your home because of a tax where notices were mailed to the wrong place?
jackvalentine didn't propose anything, just stated a fact. You should ask politely before trying to put things in people's mouths.
Wow, this is awesome. I booted up an Ubuntu 17.10 live and was able to quickly update a bunch of Logitech Unifying Receivers I had sitting around using "fwupdmgr update".
Google doesn't believe the case for avoiding an Orwellian dystopia has any merit either. They want to track all your activities they possibly can, laws and consumer expectations be damned.
More anti-Jewish sentiment...
literally unviewable for all the popover content.
The anonymity of bitcoin is a design artifact, not a feature. Think about the opposite problem -- how would you design a cryptocurrency to not be anonymous? Bitcoin implements the simplest identity scheme possible -- possession of the private key will allow you to transact. Whether you hold that private key, or a group of people does, or the private key is just based on the final clue of a treasure hunt.
(Unlike Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc, most enterprise software is insanely arbitrary one-off stuff that essentially exists as hack for $megacorp to avoid teaching their non-devs any programming.)
I have IKEA Trådfri (which is ZigBee-based). While the hub does connect to the internet for software updates (using ethernet - no WiFi, and no WiFi password to update), there's no "cloud" component. You can't create an "IKEA account", even if you wanted. If IKEA went out of business tomorrow, my switches and bulbs would keep working. I like that approach a lot.

It would be perfectly feasible to leave the IKEA hardware in the house if we were to move.
This does not say when bitcoin will crash or how to make money from it.
While I agree that there are morally legitimate ways of mitigating tax, I also think there are morally illegitimate ways. IMHO Apple and Google are going about their tax affairs in a morally illegitimate way.
https://localbitcoins.com
> If you go to Newegg and buy stuff, you are obligated under US tax law to pay the capital gains taxes based on the fair market value of the products purchased. If you go to a bitcoin meetup and sell with cash, you are still obligated to pay taxes.

I recently bought a GTX 1080 TI with USD

Amazon wanted to charge me 7%.
Newegg charged me no state tax.

Which do you think I went with?

Like our president said.

> "I'm smart for not paying taxes." - The president
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/donald-trump-federal...

This is also why people shop in Delaware. I wonder how many of those people reported their purchases to Pennsylvania.
> Wow, I hope this is rhetorical. No, you never give anyone your password for anything.

Well assuming it's a unique password, not connected to other accounts and you've deleted any sensitive data, why is this so obviously not even an option to you? Sometimes deleting an account is a ginormous pain and it saves some trouble for the buyer.
This is such a tired argument. Do you really want a pay-as-you-go system for the internet or roads or any other public good? I sure don't.
There's no need for a Faraday cage to be grounded.

A car forms an acceptable Faraday cage to protect occupants when struck by lightning even when isolated by its rubber tires, and a plane can be struck by lightning thousands of feet from the ground and still protect its occupants (though the lightning will still damage electronics if they're in the current path through the machine).
The web interface actually lets you do one thing you can't on iOS - create nested folders.
It took me a long time to get this right too. I came across this amusing page and realized I wasn't a bad person, because there is a lot of truth to this.

specifically, #39:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/tash/rules/rules.html
Insider threat – Chemours employee steals trade secrets
This article is pretty clickbait-y - their 2 "recommendations" are to short bitcoin or buy puts in bitcoin. Doing either isn't usually recommended for novice investors when dealing with reputable S&P500 type stocks, let alone a cryptocurrency in the middle of a mania. Following either recommendation could be a great way to lose your shirt.
BIM (Revit, Archicad and others. Even Sketchup is a BIM software nowadays).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling
All I can say is, write to your senator and find out. All officials elected to offices at or above the (big) city council level will have constituent-service staff.
I think it also does handwriting recognition so your handwriting, if legible, is searchable.
it only is abusing if they push their products before others, if you fail to rank highly in search results whose fault is that?

are we going to use the IE solution, but instead now force it on providers whom you have to voluntarily choose over another to provide selected results? who gets to choose who appears?
So what would be some real use cases?
> A bit of a faff - and possibly annoying to the new occupiers to not be able to easily set the heating until they've moved in, configured the WiFi, and registered for an account.

I would argue that that's a failure of the thermostat. It absolutely needs to have a dumber fallback mechanism, not just for new residents, but for the current ones. (What if my internet goes down? What if the cat pees on my router?)
or your mobile phone

Well, Radim is looking for a mobile app, so I'm assuming there's one around.
I had an interview recently where the founder asked me if I was ready to work 100 hours a week on an ongoing basis.

I laughed.
> I get that the cities don't want the poles along the road loaded down with a dozen different cables,

There's plenty of space on the poles. Cities don't let companies build fiber because of politics. It costs nothing politically to vote to deny an application for a franchise. Most voters just don't care about it. But grant a franchise on non-restrictive terms and potentially end up with new fiber being built to rich neighborhoods but not poor ones? As Google learned in Kansas City, now you've stepped on a political landmine.
this exists - localbitcoins.com
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/four-facts-about-bartering

Barter Income Barter dollars or trade dollars are identical to real dollars for tax reporting. If you conduct any direct barter - barter for another’s products or services - you will have to report the fair market value of the products or services you received on your tax return.
In case you're not kidding: LocalBitcoins.com has been doing this.

Although you still have to be careful, as one trader found out [1]. His was a little more than a "small side business," though.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/localbitcoins-trader-pleads-guilty-...
Coinbase should have to follow the same rules as everyone else. They are a commodity exchange, plain and simple.
Not an app, but I have used ifttt recipes for this in the past, where I call the number and leave a message, then receive an email with transcription and link to audio in case the transcription was bad. Then I was automatically tagging those emails in Gmail to be able to go through my notes. The IFTTT number was saved in my contacts with an easily pronounced word. So when driving I could tell Siri "call Bender" and then not have to worry about any launch/navigation etc, just start talking
Sega cuts full-year profit forecast by 54.5 percent
> not be able to easily set the heating until they've moved in ... the epitome of "first-world problems"

Staying warm is a first-world problem? How out of touch can the author be? That's a basic need.
My thoughts on how blockchains can help business. Inputs are welcome
Not all things I read on the way are worth taking notes of.

But the work related gems I find will be mailed back to work with keywords.

For gems that are related to personal interests I have other knowledge base dumps.
Google's PR monkeys hard at work I see!

I find it very, very hard to believe that HN readers would vote such a comment to the top.
There's no FUD in that comment.
Another commonality of these countries is that they have a valuable exploitable resource within their borders which allows for them to fund their government through the nationalization of that resource.

Unless the libertarian utopia/dystopia referenced above were to nationalize the economy of it's residents (not likely) I don't see a way for that government to nurture productive commerce and protect that commerce at the same time.
All good points.

> C ABI only appears to be simple in OSes that happen to be written in C.

I'd say that C is the only language that (mostly accidentally and non-standard, for the reasons you state) provides a simple a (relatively) stable ABI.
We are talking about US federal taxes, nothing to do with Britain.
> Amazon wanted to charge me 7%. Newegg charged me no state tax.

You're legally obligated to remit that sales tax to your state Newegg didn't collect, and if you don't you're breaking the law.

Avoiding taxes is legal, evading them is illegal.

Edit: Announcing you’re evading taxes in a public forum that will eventually be archived just seems like a bad idea.
The fact that it was for ads and not for a more legit app, makes me bias against them. Normally, it wouldn't matter at all. There's an app, it doesn't work in safari for some reason, and you figure out a workaround.
https://www.coindesk.com/localbitcoins-trader-pleads-guilty-...
Do the next resident a favor and burn it to the ground.
Might as well link directly to the source: https://pastebin.com/jCDFcESz which really I think should be the article URL anyway (the tweet just links here too). Very interesting find!
> I've never really understood the desire to use the button on the display to turn off monitors - does allowing the monitors to be switched off by the OS not solve basically the same problem ?

Right now, my monitor is in my bedroom. If I let the OS shut off the monitor, it still shows a little white pulsing light to show it's in sleep mode. That's really annoying when I'm trying to sleep.
I think you are confusing your animus for selfish rich people with what it fair. Property taxes on that street were $14 year per home I believe. When you depend on your HOA dues to pay them [and the HOA apparently hired an accountant to actually pay them], you probably aren't going to notice a discrepancy.