skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If something being suspicious is cause to believe it,

That's not what I said at all, I was talking about the reality of the suspicious acts, not the reality of their implications. But the immediate refocus to the Clintons, when nobody was talking about them, is plenty illuminating about where this will go if we keep discussing.
>France was brought up as a particular example. Also, this view point was not up for classroom debate -- you would get a bad grade if you deviated from this in homework essays.

Where I went to school there were classes that counted for a good number of gen-eds but didn't have onerous pre-reqs. They were all terrible classes were like this. It was like they were daring all the engineering students to take a class on extremist feminism and not argue.
Every person who I know has left Uber this year is at some company HN would probably agree as "better" (FANGs as backup, startups if more adventurous). So unless you're in the handful caught in the crossfire of these issues, Uber is an extremely strong brand name on a resume.
As fast as possible
Simple, have an embedded device in the ring with a tiny display that gets and displays the real time value of the wallet.
It's really not designed as a speed coding competition; that's just what it became by accident. Eric built the first edition for friends and friends of friends, expecting maybe 70 people to participate. He thought a 100 person leaderboard would be more than enough. The look on his face the next day when he realized what had happened and that his infrastructure wasn't going to hold up was priceless :)

That said, it is a fun way to learn a new programming language or to brush up on one you haven't used in a while. Stop by the subreddit and get help if you're having trouble or give some help if you're able!
Until campaign finance and lobbying reform occur, no other meaningful changes could be made. This might be a good step 2.
Stress induced asthma. I wonder if there's been a spike in reported asthma cases in the St. Louis/Ferguson, Missouri area in recent years?
You make it sound like having an open system for timestamped records with support for highly complex permissions validation with a deep audit trail that is resistant to fraud and posthoc record tampering has no utility beyond buying drugs....
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> I don't know how they'd prove you met someone specifically to avoid taxes

I'm not saying using these services per se is necessarily enough to warrant arrest. But if you're (a) not reporting taxable holdings or income, (b) using these services after alternatives are available and (c) running your mouth on forums about cashing in your Bitcoins while on vacation in Europe, you're in the easy pile.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor tax advice. Pay your taxes.
All I'm going to say is that the Internet was so much cooler before the big players destroyed everything about it that made it that way. I worked at an ISP before the consolidation--even with dialup, it was just better. What we have today is censorship and police state spying.

The problem where I live is I have two ISP choices that are equally bad for different reasons. One the one hand I have the reprehensible Comcast whom I won't do business with ever again because of how they screw people and how bad cable tv is. On the other hand, I have Frontier, the world's shittiest phone and DSL service which is way over-subscribed. My neighbor refers to it as "North Korea Internet" which is accurate. I only go through Frontier because Comcast as a company is ethically far worse.
He couldn’t pay it all, so the FCC settled for $2,360, paid in installments:

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-184A1.pd...
Siacoin with minio integration(fully integrated as of last week) allows you to have S3 compatible "edge storage" right now.
Health Care.

That's a pretty big exception to what you're talking about.

Daycare is another.
Yeah, I was thinking Janis Joplin, too. Another musician, Scott Joplin, also comes to mind.
Steam now has Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator which does 2FA codes on the Steam mobile app. It looks like it uses TOTP but with different encoding and no way to use other app. It is now required for trades and market sales, and they need to be confirmed in mobile app.
For your question in (2)... Wash trading?

Some of the exchanges have zero fees for high enough volume on some trading pairs... and if an exchange themselves are running wash trades it's not like they'd be paying their own fees anyways.
Most Linux device drivers are kernel modules, so I suppose most of the stories I have would be of the form "I needed to write a device driver for X" :-). Userspace drivers, while certainly in existence, are not very popular in Linux land.

Other interesting stories would include:

- Instrumenting certain filesystem operations (all modules share the same memory space; it's possible for one module to take a sneak peak at another's internal structures). This was back before dtrace & friends were a (useful) thing.

- Real-time processing of instrumentation samples. Doing it in the kernel allowed us to avoid costly back-and-forth between user and kernel memory -- but we only did relatively simple processing, such as scaling, channel muxing/demuxing and the like. If you find yourself thinking about doing kernelside programming because carrying samples to and from userspace is too expensive, you should probably review your design first.
I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929
Prehistoric women's arms 'stronger than those of today's elite rowers'
Heh.. Yes, probably is now.

I dont know if the founders started out to make a Ponzi, but once the dollars started rolling in, I can imagine, they probably got "different ideas".

Who am I to judge, but if I was a founder of this, I would be driving my Ferrari in Thailand instead of slaving away trying to build some stupid file system. Who the hell cares about file systems :P
Shady activity on crypto-related subreddits
The prior events are still available! http://adventofcode.com/2016 and http://adventofcode.com/2015
Probably a CMS thing. printk is probably also discouraged, these days. pr_warn/info/..() or dev_warn/info/err...() should be used.

Also for anyone writing kernel code, this is indispensable: http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source
AWS Cloud9 also supports SSH workspaces :) (I work for AWS Cloud9)
I think you've missed my point, which was narrow - the stated "problem" is much better than a fiery collision problem.

Of course, there are other problems (bugs really) still extant that don't have an upside I can see - such as remaining stationary and letting another vehicle back into you from 20 ft away, out of "caution"; which I think is a rough description Las Vegas crash.

I don't doubt that AI that isn't ethical (say causes others to crash sometimes, but saves you ten seconds) could be create and might appeal to many, but I don't look forward to this development.
It's suspicious enough for a formal investigation. Hopefully the investigation is allowed to run it's course so that we can learn what happened. At this point you can neither say there is no connection nor that there is one.

That there are a very large number of very suspicious circumstances is fact. It also appears to be fact that Russia did try to meddle in the election. I don't see any problems with these claims.
Are you perhaps confusing personal computer as in "a small individual workstation" with personal computer as in "a computer not managed by the company's IT policies"? I have to download sensitive stuff to my laptop all the time, but it's a laptop I'm given a computer by IT that has to be secured a certain way and connected to their network. They don't want me having customer details or anything on an actual personally-owned computer.
To be fair, while Bitshares was a pretty complete failure, BitUSD, which sits on top of it as a "stablecoin" should be regarded as a complete success. Look at the price chart relative to dollars. [1] It only has brief and small excursions away from $1 despite being thinly traded and having very low market cap, and being backed by having a nearly worthless coin, as cryptocurrencies go.

Stablecoins are a very interesting concept. They are a game-theoretically incentive compatible way to stabilize a currency WITHOUT a trusted monopoly producer. [2]

1 - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitusd/
2 - https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocur...
There's only so many different ways of funding open source software development, and we selected one that wouldn't have us struggle for grants or VC money every other year. The funding of open source infrastructure is a huge problem. @jbenet did a great in-depth podcast with YC: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ipfs-coinlist-and-the-filecoin-... (transcript included)
I was going to say that modern phones don't have the resources to perform recognition/recording outside of a trigger phrase without an obvious hit to battery life. But then there is the Pixel 2 which can identify a few thousand songs with little performance impact. All of the wired assistants don't even have this issue.
It's invested in private firms (SS is in government securities), and it's abusable insofar as it is possible for those making investment decisions to pursue personal or corrupt agendas rather than the public interest. Except for scale, it's not at all unique in this way, every fund where managers act as agents with other people's money has this as potential abuse vector, and while many operate tolerably well most of the time, abuses are a recurring thing.
Last year I solved most problems the first time through using Perl and then later came back and used it to try to learn Rust. The second time through I started by writing test cases using the known-good answer from the Perl implementation.
What's to stop Uber from slowing the burn via an increase in base prices? People would still use Uber as long as it's A) more convenient than other transportation B) better quality rides than cabs and C) just a little cheaper than cabs.

There are surely other forms of revenue they can spin up too, but this seems to be pretty straightforward, especially in markets where they have already decimated local taxi firms.
Yeah fortunately. I was just thinking the other day how terrible life was before Bluetooth enabled sous vide.

This has got to win HN today for the most HNist of comments. ;)
I wouldn't expect Uber to want its employees working from random personal computers instead of company-issued and -owned ones. Why would you have company information on your personal computer?
Yeah, it's not so much a diagnosis of this particular case as it is a pithy vignette on the expectations people have of Google and the reasonableness thereof.

But again, you are acting as if there is a definitive answer to the query [secure email] (which is one mentioned at the top of the article, and what inspired my comment). Among the results - after a healthy block of ads (and since this is an article from 2016, Protonmail) - I saw a page about setting up Mozilla Thunderbird, Hushmail, and numerous blogs/articles about eg "The 5 Best Secure Email Solutions". This is not to say there wasn't a problem back in 2016; I just mean that on a broad query like [secure email] with probably dozens or hundreds of good results, not seeing one in particular is not really a red flag that something is wrong to me, the way not seeing ProtonMail for the query [protonmail] would be.

Meanwhile, people immediately jump in with accusations of "Perfidy!", assuming that Google must have Done Something, and simultaneous with that demands that Google Do Something, and complaints that it is hard to get Google to Do Something whenever you find such an obvious problem.

And from the inside, you just sort of have to laugh-cry whenever this comes up, because (despite some fraction of techies wanting Google to act like an SQL query on the web) you are intimately familiar with the legendary Algorithm as an immense, constantly mutating series of heuristics running on inputs which (being from the web) are frequently garbage. You debug queries constantly, and while very rarely there is an obvious, correctable data problem or bug, you are really working to identify "loss patterns", large numbers of queries that are wrong in the same way for the same reasons. Your job as a ranking engineer is to then try to correct these loss patterns, knowing that when you do you'll be creating new, smaller loss patterns. Smaller because you spend years of your life evaluating your changes to make sure they are creating fewer problems than they fix.

And though you spend all your days carrying baskets of pebbles from the valley of losses to the mountaintop of good answers people crowd around you to point at a particular pebble lying on the ground, declare it the most important pebble and demand you put down your basket and carry it to the top of the mountain first, cradled gently in both hands. And each person in the crowd points at a different pebble, demanding the same thing.

</rant>

(No, really, it's a very rewarding job with challenging work and they treat you pretty good here; if you're interested in the problem, I encourage you to apply. There are a lot of pebbles left.)
BitShares currently uses pegged assets like bitUSD. These assets use BTS as the collateral. Price of BTS fluctuates, but the pegged assets remain stable due to short selling/margin calls.

...but I'm not a trading or financial expert.
The genesis of hardware protected modes in x86 devices go back to 1982 and the 80286.
> Cryptocurency integration and identity within IPFS could have been done without a new coin

I don't think thats a fair claim to make. There are many attacks on 'pay for distributed storage' that Filecoin addresses. Take a look at [the paper](https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf), in particular section 3.1 where we discuss sybil attacks, Outsourcing attacks, and generation attacks. We cover a lot of cases, and build in incentives to continually increase the amount of available storage and push down the price-per-byte. If we thought it was possible to properly incentivize data storage on ipfs without building a blockchain, we would have done so.
How about driver bonuses? Would those count as expenses, pr as the difference between gross bookings and net revenue?
I know sometimes (especially in new markets) Uber let drivers keep 100% and then add bonuses on top of that.
"controlled expenditures through higher pricing and "friendlier" demeanor"

- Assuming this refers to Lyft, Lyft's expenses compared dollar to dollar are on-par if not worse than Ubers - https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/unpacking-lyfts-projected-...

As long as Uber can keep the cost per ride lower than other competitors, it just needs to wait for the burn to end faster on the competitors side before turning break-even.
> +As the American right-wing moves further right and further way from participating in consensus reality, it should be no surprise they are increasingly less welcome in spaces dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

The two clauses in this sentence are contradictory. You are claiming that conservatives are stupid because they reject the herd mentality.

Think about that.
It may be worth looking into what AWS has to offer. Their IoT offerings seem to be pretty solid.
> never managed to ship anything after getting multiple multi-million-dollar golden showers.

It's more then just linking hard-disks. It is really hard to build the incentives and market part. Read for instance about our operational prototype from 2014, "Towards a Peer-to-Peer Bandwidth Marketplace", https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-45249-9_...
As a moderator on the subreddit and coworker of Eric Wastl, that'll never happen because we would die. It's set up so that puzzles unlock at a time that Eric is awake and able to respond to any issues that may arise.
@jbenet has discussed funding for open source infrastructure in-depth in a YC podcast back in June: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ipfs-coinlist-and-the-filecoin-... (transcript included)
All the data is anonymous, though: the only identifying info we're sending them is an internal Customer ID.
Nations are artificial constructs, I’m not sure how anyone could argue against that. Immigration controls are part of a “got mine, screw you” tribalism mentality that, in contrast, is quite natural. Even chimps in the wild have been observed to take anti immigration stances.
Run avg 1mi/day, typically 5mi one/twice per week.

Play capoeira on avg 1-2 times/week, 2h classes.
Yes, I wrote one a long time ago that exposed basic counters from the ARMv7 PMU to userspace -- where they are normally not accessible unless used through perf_events. This is because perf wasn't available (I think the shitty old vendor BSP I was using couldn't support it for some reason) and it's relatively costly (perf_event_open is a whole syscall + another syscall to `read` off the event info) -- I just wanted some basic cycle timings for some cryptography code I wrote to see what worked and what didn't.

Even though it has some annoying gotchas (such as the fact ARM cores can sleep/frequency scale on demand with no forewarning, meaning cycles aren't always the most precise units of measurement), and is very simple -- this thing ended up being mildly popular. Even though I wrote it years ago, someone from CERN recently emailed me to say they happily used it for work, and someone from Samsung ported it to ARMv8 for me...

(I should dust off my boards one of these days and clean it up again, perhaps! People still email me about it.)
You are clearly not in touch with poverty. Poverty is about stress, not being able to have a cheap cell phone or a Nintendo. It is about being able to pay rent, to not worry that if you get sick you'll be out on the street. Cheap goods don't fully help. Sure luxury items like cell phones are cheaper, but rent and food remain a significant portion of the budget.
How is Filecoin fundamentally any different from Bitcoin?

Filecoin gave a deal to their buddies
Bitcoin and Ethereum were premined

Both are variations on a Ponzi scheme where early 'investors' benefit from latter day victims.
I'm still wondering if bitcoin is currently and possibly being used to launder money.

I guess bitcoin exchanges are not really regulated in any way.

Or maybe more drug resellers have found a way to sell drugs online using bitcoin, meaning drug users are buying bitcoin en masse, inflating the price.

One possible way to launder money, would be to find a way to convert dirty dollar bills to bitcoin at a higher dollar price.

https://i.imgur.com/DocUl2S.png
The discussion is more one of he principle of whether a dominant market leader is allowed to use its position of dominance in the market to influence that market or not. It’s hardly “left and right” to debate this as being right or wrong.
If you look at the NetBSD kernel source https://github.com/NetBSD/src.git, it doesn't look like there are any real and substantial Lua kernel modules.

$ find sys -name '*.lua'
sys/modules/examples/luahello/luahello.lua
sys/modules/examples/luareadhappy/happy.lua
sys/modules/lua/infinite.lua
sys/modules/lua/test.lua
sys/modules/luasystm/test.lua
How long does this remain so though? Is there a point where it starts to look bad (like why didn't you leave earlier?)
Honestly if they need to make money, they can lay off a ton of staff, and license their logistics software to a lot of companies. It wouldn't be what their game plan has been, definitely a severe pivot but they would be a money printing machine for years to come.
This sort of formulation is extremely common in all kinds of news reporting. Journalists frequently have recourse to anonymous sources - so frequent that there are strong journalistic ethical injunctions against exposing such sources.

Deep Throat was 'a person familiar with the matter'.
I agree, we are at the point where this should be done. To update an old saying: "A stricture by a nanny-state in time saves nine."
Apologies all.
Increased competition. Lyft is burning through money at an unprecedented rate to catch up with Uber given that they smell blood this year and investors ala Google are willing to subsidize the burn. At some point, this has to stop but 2017 does not seem to be the year.

Source: Lyft pushes back profitability after increased burn - https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/unpacking-lyfts-projected-...
As far as I know, the best way to get bulk data is using the Hacker News dataset on BiqQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news. It's updated daily as of earlier this year.
IKEA are one of the outliers in this space unfortunately.

Last year I bought some Osram Lightify bulbs, as here in Europe they are compatible with the Hue hub (which like Tradfri also works offline). I also got their own hub to update the bulbs, and it is absolutely useless. It says it is connected locally, but still it takes seconds for the bulbs to change state, and usually in a group only some of them change. The same bulbs paired with the Hue hub work perfectly.

It is WiFi only, and I‘ve had it randomly lose the connection and need to be reset. I haven’t tried it offline, but I imagine it’s not going to work.

I only got smart bulbs as I wanted to be able to change the colour temperature and brightness, they are just connected to dumb switches. Tradfri seems superior for this now, as their controllers don’t even need a hub to control lights.
> Cooperation beats competition.

It's hard to think of greater scale of cooperation than what happens in the free market

> What would those SIGs defend?

Without even getting very creative: obscure routes to place lines, brands of hardware, companies to outsource installation/maintenance to, subsidizing of higher up core internet infrastructure, acceptable and unacceptable internet content, subsidizing internet content (since what good is the "right" of internet access if you don't have the "right" to certain content). This is just scraping the surface.

> Not everyone competent work for money. Maybe that will weed out the sociopaths from C-level positions, at least.

You're right but not in the way you think. The sociopaths are drawn to positions of power.

> I'd love to know your reasoning behind this.

Virtually every government department has armored vehicles, SWAT style teams, etc. Just a cursory google search reveals that even many local school districts now have armored vehicles, grenade launchers, etc.

> Which cuts costs because they are already doing it and there is no increase in their workload.

As stated previously, any cost savings possibly imagined are greatly outweighed by the bureaucratic machine created.

> It's completely understandable to be throttled in peak load times and enjoy more resources off-peak.

Turning the internet into the commons means there is no "off-peak".
If you enjoy Matt Bruenig's writing, check out the [People's Policy Project](https://peoplespolicyproject.org/), which he heads. Matt's a fantastic writer in the space of social issues and economic policy.
> Google Authenticator is better, but still has fatal flaws.

What flaws do you mean?
Legal Concerns for SaaS Companies Going On-Prem
> Who on earth would actually spend any Bitcoins right now?

Huh? Every bitcoin bought is a bitcoin sold.
For most assets, you only pay taxes on the gains when you sell the asset. If you buy stocks, for example, you only pay capital gains if you sell the stock.
What cheese can tell you about international barriers to trade
But even when college was relatively "cheap" back when I attended in the mid '90s, there was still a great disparity between the privileged wealthy kids and the rest of us. The privileged all got access to jobs and fast track to management. The rest got el zilcho. College is pretty much a waste of money now if you ask me. My nephew is looking at $45K a year just for tuition. He could just start a business with that capital instead. He's not privileged and connected enough to get anything out of higher education except he might meet and marry a higher status female.