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The difference is that to participate in an acedemic setting you need to come with facts first.

This, extremely low, bar "elitist" as it may be is necessary to provide at least the bare minimum of protection against bad actors. People unwilling to change their view poison the space for all participants. The pursuit of an unmoderated ideal is a false one.
Moleskin also make grid-paper and non-ruled notebooks.

Personally I have seen the light and find that Moleskin paper is not the best. I switched to using Japanese paper. I'm left handed and Japan needs fast drying pens and paper.

Here is a quick link to some of the brands I like with graph paper. https://www.jetpens.com/Pocket-Notebooks/ct/1668?&f=9e1b4fde...

I just got a few of these and I am really happy with the quality of these. https://www.jetpens.com/blog/leuchtturm1917-notebook-guide/p...

Also the Whitelines app with this notebook is really a great idea. You basically take a picture and the grey background is removed and you have just your writing or drawing.

https://www.jetpens.com/Leuchtturm1917-Whitelines/ct/4346
Absolutely. Flickr had a pretty good system.

I think the reason YT avoids this is for fear of monetization loss as fewer things get exposed to wide audiences so there is less "vitality", and YT loses advert potential.

If they cared about users and creators, they'd take a page from Flickr.
When you have riots over right-leaning moderates like Ben Shapiro, I think it's clear that there is a free-speech problem at universities in the US.
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The Jacob person you're quoting was demanding money to not expose such information in an 'extortionist' style attempt... and he did take the money and he did keep quiet. He wasn't some good-guy whistleblower, he took advantage of his inside knowledge after he was fired for personal gain. While then rejoining Uber after the fact and continuing to work there.

In that letter, likely written by his attorney who also got $3 million, had a clear incentive to twist the narrative of using an app like Wickr to make it seem as malicious and damaging as possible.

Uber also went to federal prosecutors with his letter to preempt him from using it for further personal gain. They didn't try to hide from it.

I'm not saying it wasn't used for malicious purposes but I'd take those allegations in the letter with a grain of salt.
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In which case the court case is just a form of marketing and not intended to stop full and retrospective reporting?
From tax a perspective, they dont care, its your responibility to keep track of your profit and loss. To me that sounds like naive investing, even though I do the same thing.
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Bikeshedding this some more because HN is for bikeshedding...

I am toying around with the wacky heresy that Karl Marx (not Lenin) was right. Capitalism will evolve into socialism.

It would be a form of socialism we haven't seen yet and that would have been technologically impossible in the past. Capitalism's role is to develop the technology, wealth, and infrastructure to enable it... as Marx said. Tech titans, startuppers, hackers, and VCs are in this view actually communist revolutionaries of a sort.

The new socialism would be fully decentralized, consensus based, anti-fragile, nameless, leaderless, borderless, and viral as hell. It would just take over by viral attrition. Later on historians would be like "wow, we now have a completely new social paradigm."

My read on Marx's original speculative idea was closer to that and quite far from the USSR. The USSR was like the ancient Egyptians deciding to build social media based on this vague wishy-washy futurist idea of what that is but without any of the tools or core innovations. They would have ended up with something that basically didn't work and in no way resembled Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook. Without the core enabling innovations they would not have been able to even imagine those, let alone build them. The apparatchiks and politburo of the USSR could not have imagined distributed consensus operating at global scale. The tools to even think about that didn't exist. They basically tried to force-fit the goals of socialism using the methods of fascism with predictably awful results.

I also think many capitalists of the Randian/libertarian school will see this as capitalism and not socialism since it will retain capitalist elements or at least entities and institutions that outwardly resemble them and fulfill the same functions. There will still be money, fund raising, capital gains, corporations in some form, etc. That's fine. Names don't matter. It will be nameless and formless.

Edit: I still see Bitcoin as version 0.1 alpha of something much more significant. I am more interested in what version 2.0, 3.0, or 4.0 might look like. I think Ethereum is version 0.5 beta. Version 1.0 will be something that somehow ditches the expensive boat-anchor of proof-of-work, resolves transactions a lot faster, and is way more secure and powerful.

I also do think Bitcoin at the moment is a bubble. Something being a major innovation and a bubble are not mutually exclusive. In fact most major innovations lead to bubbles when they first start climbing their hype/adoption curve.
Left here, not unfathomable or particularly surprising. You don't need to go back to Clinton to find a Democratic president who expanded border security and cracked down harshly on illegal immigration; Obama did the same thing, despite all the rhetoric that the Democrats want open borders and lawlessness. What's weird is how negative a reaction things like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals got, seeing as it's just a milder form of H. W. Bush and Reagan's executive orders to prevent ICE from breaking up families in the 80s and 90s.
I don't know what is about PHP. Objectively it's a nice language and the direction it has taken with version 7 looks very good. But somehow I don't enjoy it. C#, C++ or Rust motivate me to explore new approaches and are stimulating but I don't get that vibe from PHP. It just feels like tedious work.
That’s a lot of description about campuses in general based upon one anecdote

As a counter anecdote, a small campus I worked at in rural Pacific Northwest, a liberal bastion right?

This campus was swarming with traditional values students who want to strike down gay marriage and cut all taxes

And I found them much less open to being reasoned with than extreme liberals who think nation states are social constructs (since they don’t exist in physics, they kind of are human social constructs? Not judging them, just pointing out a potential point of reference for viewing them that seems valid)
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Sounds useful, but so scary from privacy point of view.

All of your sounds can be recorded by hacker, even if you decide not to buy Alexa you still may ended up in staying in hotel with Alexa for business.
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Sure, it's exactly what we're talking about. The IRS says less than 1000 citizens claimed Bitcoin appreciated capital gains, but Coinbase has 14,355 US citizens who transacted more than $20k. Surely there are a few thousand people in there not reporting their appreciated gains from Bitcoin sales.
Tax evasion is unlawful, tax avoidance is your civic duty.
> And to top it all off, the biggest thing driving their valuation recently, self driving cars, appears to be in serious jeopardy, can anyone make a credible case of Uber having self driving fleet in the next 5 years?

Uber currently sends teams to major cities all over the world to build maps for self driving cars. They outfit cars in those cities with 6 figure camera rigs and enable 'passive collection', where maps are built over the course of normal rides. After that they actively collect any missing pieces and move on to the next city. They've got teams in C / D level cities (which I won't name because I don't want to ID anyone but are the international equivalents of a Baltimore MD or Miami FL).

They are not positioned as well as say Tesla IMO but they also aren't just sitting around waiting for something to happen on this front.
Does Uber risk losing the Waymo trial by default, and not only suffering sanctions along the way, because of this evidence tampering?
Which software projects have proven to be the most maintainable over many years?
I'm looking for some examples of codebases that have managed to be very maintainable for many years. What kind of initial (and continued) design decisions were made? I would especially appreciate it if I could get suggestions for more in depth readings about each software project. It would also be nice to see projects adressing a range of problems and domains.
Isn't that the whole reason why they ask for identifying information? Hardly news
So now we're putting always-on amazon microphones everywhere in our companies too?

How exactly are companies going to be ok with private, trade-secret conversations? How about confidential meetings? How about Amazon competitors? How about employee law about potentially being eavesdropped on, all day?
250k may well be an average, but not the type of average that matters. The few high-pay people warp the average. They will not be culled before an IPO as doing so will reduce confidence. Uber needs to keep its headliners. They can only cut from the plebs costing in the 50-100K range. So either they need to fire 4x as many people, or a cull won't solve the problem.
Solid game theory on both sides. The Demonitization bot and its shenanigans are well known in the Youtube content creator community. They know they aren't fooling anyone and this data is going to be "out there" along with countless anecdotes from content creators who reliably upload content only to have it get "demonetized" during the most profitable portion of a video's lifespan. (the first 48 hours)

If Google pulled the doc they'd likely get a lesson in the Streisand effect, and they likely know not to try. Posting it on Google docs is actually smart bait by the author in my opinion-- intentional or otherwise.
Not for no reason does Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism [0] refer to cryptocurrencies as "Prosecution Futures"

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That was absolutely not the original vision.

The original vision was that they would somehow be a profitable concern as a taxi company despite the total lack of barrier to entry because, um, reasons. That they could create an app that was hard to compete with. In all fairness, it wasn't super clear seven or so years ago that there would be so relatively little innovation in the app after the core business of hailing happened.

Then, they would expand into being a logistics company. They used to talk about this all the time. Taxi -> logistics, Uber for things. Uber Eats was supposed to be part of this, and they did a bike courier service in NYC that was supposed to be part of it and several other experiments.

Then, when self-driving tech came along, and they were probably thinking like mid-2020's (hardly anyone in 2010-2011 believed that self-driving would go as fast as it did), their vast profitable concern would be well-positioned to get even bigger.

That was the original narrative. It wasn't hidden, they talked about it a lot. As little as about two years ago, their redesign was heavily concerned with positioning themselves as a logistics company.

But what happened is:

1. They've never been more than razor-thin profitable in certain very favorable markets as a taxi company, and obviously overall are grossly unprofitable as a taxi company.

2. Nobody in the entire world wants their logistics business. The only company who would be even remotely interested in it is Amazon, and Amazon laughed and said, "Nothing about your taxi business makes you well-suited to do logistics, we'll just build our own version kthx."

3. So now they spun up a self-driving car program out of nothing a couple of years ago and have desperately pumped cash into it. Hoping that they can somehow catch up with companies that are both substantially better-resourced than they are and who have multi-year head-starts on them, or, more cynically, that they can play some kind of pixie dust story into an IPO and dump their losses on dumb money.
I had this idea a few weeks ago. I think it would sell, but how do you tie the ring to the bitcoin effectively?
The thought that government won't want to make a profit off broadband is possibly not correct. Government may and probably will see it as another source of revenue. Along the lines of toll roads.

For example, here in New Hamsphire the state has a monopoly on liquor sales (but not beer and wine). So effectively when I buy my Scotch I am buying it directly from the state and the state makes the profit. It is a huge revenue source for New Hampshire.

To that point, however, the state Liquor stores have a huge selection. Better than any private one I have ever seen. And they are actually cheaper than man states with private stores because the tax is built into the cost instead of tacked on at the end like at a private store.
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Could not agree more. I updated my DELL's BIOS and TPM Firmware and it was a breeze! The same goes for my Logitech Unifying receivers (they had some security issue).

And I can see which difference it makes. I still have not patched my other laptop, because I need to extract the image from a Windows installer put it on a USB stick at a specific path (which I always forget...) and then reboot, reboot again because I did not interrupt the boot fast enough, run the update.
This is what I got: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XRDS1CG/ref=oh_aui_deta...

It seems to work fine although I haven't used it a huge amount.
Thanks for replying. Sorry if I was throwing too much vitriol and no personal affront was intended.

I had a real bad day yesterday... my customers were freaking out about this particular issue. I recall doing some enterprise Mac rollouts back in the Tiger days and you'd see alot of changes as support for things like AD evolved.

Apple has really good communications and documentation around iOS, which comes through in the iOS Security Guide, which is probably one of the best examples of that type of documentation. That hasn't been the case with MacOS, and its mysterious evolution, which feels pretty capricious from a customer POV at times. End of the day, I get paid to turn money + labor into answers to business problems -- Mac has turned into a wildcard for me, which saddens me as I love the platform.
You know what would be great for learning probability? A set of easy problems (graded in difficulty) and their answers. There are many introductions in text, but the best presentation would be one where you also play with the notions, and initially this must be easy enough.

It's like the difference between supervised learning and RL. In one you just get a dataset, in the other you get a playground - a dynamic dataset where you can explore and test hypothesis.

Selecting the problems requires real flair, it's one thing to understand the subject, and quite another to understand the usual pitfalls and stumbling blocks of students learning it.
Interesting. Maybe YouTube needs to adjust their algorithm for that category or something.
I thought this was about the demonization algorithm that youtube comment bots use to cyberbully people.
>> That being said, if I was ever to leave home automation hardware behind, it'd be a "if you want to pay x on top of the already agreed upon price for the property, I'll leave it", where x is the cost for me to just buy new modules for my new place.

If you live in any major urban center that request would likely get laughed at since the value of your depreciated hardware likely wouldn't even count as a rounding error on the purchase price. Some buyers might even want a discount on your selling price because of the extra work they'd have to do to get rid of the gear.
You can already be recorded by a hacker. Your phone can be hacked, it's always on you. In a meeting room, the phone of any individual is enough. The conference computer can be hacked. Any individuals laptop can be hacked.

This is just one more item in an already long list. It's not particularly special.
Sure, but then again Google is like 30% of the internet (if not more in traffic, if we add YouTube in the mix).

And even more important than 30% perhaps, culturally, business-wise, etc.
And another contributor (Mario Limoncell) works for DELL.
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The tiled WMs also have this after a fashion.

Honestly i get the feel that MS i looking at how devs like to do things over at _nix, and looks for ways to import that into Windows to attempt to entice said devs.

After all, Windows these days can tile windows, have a build in desktop switcher, has gained a _nix cli and related toolchain, and now will be getting this.
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Doesn't a diamond ring lose value once it is sold, though, in terms of re-sell value? A ring worth one bitcoin is not going to lose value once it is sold (aside from market volatility).
Ultimately the determination is still made by the machine learning process, so you're describing extra work to provide an interface of dubious value that will be used more to misrepresent video content than to provide useful signals, and it seems that customer support related to this would increase dramatically.

I think Google relies overmuch on questionable ML in most areas, but in this case, the alternatives are either ridiculously expensive, or easily exploitable.
Yes. I like transparency and I would like to live in a world where the products I consume don't assume and give me the choice of what data is sent on the back of my actions. In this case because the option was binary it was assumed I wanted geo-location data being sent. Let's consider the scenario where the data store containing these notes and their associated metadata was breached and owned. You then have the potential for learning additional facts about people which wasn't their intended choice. If you chose to allow for certain data to be sent then ultimately the onus is on the you. Because you want as much metadata attached to notes doesn't mean everyone does and therefore we should be given the option.
> nations are a completely artificial social construct

But if nations aren't simply social constructs, what are they? Is it the word "artificial" that is so surprising?

Maybe I have more fringe beliefs than I thought I did.
It can, but the notion that ignorance can triumph by force is not the fault of the universities. What is their alternative? To pander to people who believe that Islamic terrorists are a greater threat to them than the ladder in their garage, that being gay is a conscious moral choice, and that tax cuts stimulate economic growth? Conservative backlash against science and mathematics is a consequence of the increasing availability of data directly contradicting most of their core intuitive beliefs. That they're choosing to shoot the messenger is not the messenger's fault.
Yes, it gets complicated and takes diligence to keep accurate records. It will be interesting to hear audit stories. Fortunately, unlike conventional financial institutions, crypto exchanges often provide APIs to help customers automate these things. Here is GDAX's reporting endpoint, for example: https://docs.gdax.com/#reports.
Once you learn how to use Eagle it's great. When Autodesk bought Eagle and changed it to a subscription based sales model that required an Internet connection I started trying every alternative I could find. I've found nothing I like better in the price range.
United Fruit was also "just a company" but it could topple governments and influence politics.

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All internet connected devices in our home are identified by a special "home" email, and info. No personally identified info -- just house identified info (of course not with the house address!)

I wonder how many license agreements I did not follow by doing this?
> Switching to a different domain shouldn't _delist_ a site from Google's SERPs as long as the switch is done properly...

Is there any reason to believe ProtonMail did the switch properly? Maybe Google's fix was just to manually correct for ProtonMail botching the switch?
Here is something simple. You don't get to decide what BTC is for tax purposes. That is decided by whatever country or countries you are tax resident.

If, for example, they decide your transactions are a deemed disposition an an asset, you owe capital gains tax on it. It really is that simple.
It would be in your interest to conceal the problems that your house has, in order to compete with the ignorance offered by everyone else. While this would benefit humanity, nobody would do it.
I don't know that it is to avoid any programming, but the point is pretty well made. Most of the internal enterprise software I've worked on was intended to follow insane and arbitrary policies that wouldn't stand up to scrutiny as a public product.
Yeah, I think they'll have to be on a faster cycle to justify the their new licensing scheme vs the old perpetual ones.
You could, and sometimes people do actually do this. But that means admitting to the cocaine. You would need to find a rare situation where the statute of limitations for the illegal goods issues has run, but you are still wanting the deduction. A few generations ago people did sometimes pay taxes on totally illegal income, albeit without itemizing where it came from. They did this so they couldn't be charged for tax evasion. They had paid, just with some paperwork errors not listing where it came from.
Bitcoin is a poor solution to the problem of transferring money: it's slow, power-inefficient, controlled by an oligopoly of miners, and vulnerable to scams.
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If you're working in a terminal, all you need to take notes is vi or emacs. No need to complicate things.
Forex traders do on their positions when they realize a gain or loss. So yes.
One interesting use of MDI was in the early Opera browser, that carried forwards into Opera 12.

And Vivaldi has inherited some of that, in that you can create a tab group, and then have that group tiled inside a single view.
I'll be damned if Uber isn't a required case study for business school students in the (near) future. They are fast becoming the Enron of this generation.
While we are at it. Has anyone tried Dropbox Paper for note taking?
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The same way they're okay with all of their current audio and video conferencing equipment?

If we're going to hypothesize that any device with a camera or microphone can watch you at all times, why aren't people afraid of Cisco?
I'm sure the IRS will be happy to answer your question for you. The more complex is the scenario you get yourself into, the more you open yourself to getting shaken down by the IRS.
Frankly their change to a subscription model caused me to look for alternatives to the one product I use from them; Eagle CAD. It's really ticked a lot of people off.
In which universe do you live in that Shapiro is a moderate?
When looking at SNAP vs UBER, I think that this negative publicity will stop that first positive bump. Each negative scandal after will hit their stock hard, along with each quarter report. I do agree it will happen, but I think most everyone will see through it.

Given their burn rate and their IPO scheduled for 2019, they will still struggle to get there even with the incoming round. At this point it's hard to find any winners besides Lyft.
> Colella is now apparently living the flexible work schedule life in full—NPR reports he is now working as an Uber driver.

and being GPS tracked more intensively than ever before. oh, sweet irony :D
Networked isn't really the right term. Hardwired fire alarms are the new requirement. They just have AC power with battery backup and an additional wire that triggers all the wired alarms to go off when one goes off.