skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely value in a lot of the data collected and there's also mass confusion about what's being collected and what collection can be disabled or can't as the case may be.

I'm not trying to justify data collection and I think that certain kinds of telemetry data are perfectly acceptable to be collected. The reason I bring up comparisons to other OSes is that often opponents to Windows 10 mention switching to other OSes which aren't necessarily any better.

With regards to trust in privacy and security, I can't say that I trust Microsoft any less than others. As an enterprise software and services provider, they are in a position where their products must meet certain standards in order to be adopted. The fact that they still are implies there's at least a certain level of trust held in them, unless you're the type of person who feels all companies are in on it.

Speaking of in terms of trusting in long term commitment and support, I would say I have greater trust in Microsoft than just about anyone else. They have the best track record when it comes to not outright abandoning products. You can argue that opensource software will always be supportable, that doesn't mean that it will be supported.
At least they seem not to have blocked the Internet Archive bot, so some history may have been preserved: http://archive.is/storify.com
This is precisely what I did, so now I have a guaranteed net profit. Yes my potential earnings are lower but it feels good to be out of the group of potential "losers" in what looks to be a zero-sum game.
>(2) No more personalization.

This is the opposite of a downside. Please, companies, let me pay you to remove personalization from, say, Google search results. The upsides are basically non-existent for a consumer.
If they only allowed people to sell and not buy they'd probably be accused of market manipulation.
Man, as usual, you make some good points but summarize your position with an out-and-out strawman:

> ICO enthusiasts want to paint this as retail investors being excluded from "10000%" gains.

If this is your best impression of the intentions of token developers, I really think that you need to engage in better listening.

Obviously our perspectives differ re: the role of the state in the information age. Over the past - what has it been, three years - I haven't yet convinced you that the state is subject to deprecation by dint of the connectivity of the internet. I may yet.

But even if I can't, I really think that you will benefit from realizing that much of the crypto-blockchain experimenting is about finding ways to replace functionality of the state, or to subvert its more violent and insidious tendencies.

To use the current example, I can imagine something like MUN eventually replacing the various regimes of inspection and regulation around food service. Perhaps you gasp, and say, "how can we do that?! The streets will run with the blood of the dead from e. coli!"

However, this both assumes that the state does a good job at regulating food (it doesn't) and that a decentralized solution won't (it can). The state exacts nothing short of brutality on our food supply, from effectively subsidizing factory farms to forcing farmers at gunpoint to destroy raw milk [0]. That last event happened down the road from my partner's family, by the way.

Now, I have no idea of the impact that MUN may have had - perhaps it wasn't going to do any of the good in the world that I'm imagining. But neither do you! Neither does anybody!

I don't want the same thing to happen for GRMD and cannabis, for SPANK and adult services, and so on. These are good ideas that deserve a chance to work in the world if they can.

It's no secret that I'm working on a blockchain-driven KMS, NuCypher. And I put a lot of heart into my work. I'm very excited about what it can mean for people who want to share secrets in a key-managed way but don't want to trust the likes of Amazon and Google.

When I put in the extra hours, I'm largely motivated by the thoughts of who might benefit: Chinese dissidents who need a safe place to chat online. Medical providers who want to share records in a trustless way. File-sharing applications who color outside the lines of the stone-age IP infrastructure present in much of the world.

This is exciting stuff, and I much prefer to bring it to life without needing to constantly be in a confrontational position re: three-letter agencies. It's seriously time to re-evaluate the role of the state and make sure that we focus on reducing the violence that it brings to our world.

0: https://www.theorganicprepper.com/michigan-dept-of-agri-forc...
It seems to me that all of the changes described in this story will contribute to thwarting intermediaries and their agendas. HTTP/2 and its "effective" encryption requirement are proof against things like Comcast's nasty JavaScript injection[1]. QUIC has mandatory encryption all the way down; even ACKs are encrypted, obviating some of the traditional throttling techniques. And as you say TLS 1.3 and DOH further protect traffic from analysis and manipulation by middlemen.

Perhaps our best weapon against Internet rent seekers and spooks is technical innovation.

It is astonishing to me that Google can invent QUIC, deploy it on their network+Chrome and boom! 7% of all Internet traffic is QUIC.

Traditional HTTP over TCP and traditional DNS are becoming a ghetto protocol stack; analysis of such traffic is sold to who knows whom, the content is subject to manipulation by your ISP, throttling is trivial and likely to become commonplace with Ajit Pai et al. Time to pull the plug on these grifters and protect all the traffic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551
> The solution is obvious - tag/categorize the videos, according to very strict rules, let the advertisers decide which tags to serve. Allow the publishers to dispute the tags

Tagging would use the same ML model that youtube is current running for demonetization, so there will be error as well.

Problem here lies with the expectation, it aims with recall not precision. In other words, false negatives really hits Youtube's image, twice already this year. People only needs to find a handful problematic videos with misplaced ads and claim Youtube had some major problem, which might not be case behind the scene. Yet each time it becomes major media parade on bashing the company and result in an exodus of advertisers.

If the goal is to eliminate false positives, which means less tolerance and stronger censorship, it will hurt a lot of innocent Youtubers, regardless. The crisis lies however with Youtube's model, if they cannot do a good job, no matter by algorithm or by human, managing the balance between quality and quantity of videos on their platform while keeping the advertisers happy and assured, it is just a matter of time, Youtube would ultimately degraded into our era's little television.
Expect Fewer Great Startups If the FCC Kills Net Neutrality
For one, there isn't a market where you can buy and sell them; usually the developer decides on the price, and you can't exchange them back into USD.
Why do you not consider paper to be an asset?

Pretty much anything that can be bought and sold is an asset. Yes, that includes notebooks and paper.
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No one mentioned this specifically, but as someone who's dabbled in animation a bit...

Power lines are fantastic for selling depth / perspective. The poles are long and slender vertically as are the wires horizontally. When you parallax, it's a nice way to have a mid-ground layer that doesn't obscure too much of the background and naturally pokes up above shorter foreground elements.

Not saying the other thoughts re: theme etc aren't valid. Just something else to consider.
To your point, IPv6 has been around 20 years, the whole time we know we're running out of IPv4 addresses and adoption is still around 20%.

However, the high turnover for mobile phones has allowed more aggressive changes to the networking stack. Perhaps this, in addition to IPv6, would make something like SCTP easier to adopt widely?
The tax law only required it for ISOs. Companies were doing it for Non-qualified Stock Options as well, mostly because they could get away with it.
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This is giving their grants far too much credit.
> And you are not going to get rid of the old requirements and ersatz business logic by rewriting, which is one of the good points the article make.

"Why doesn't it do this? The old system did it."

Because when we were prioritizing stories, you said it wasn't important so we left it out.

"Oh! Well, I absolutely MUST have that!"

SMH.

Oh and of course with rewrites, you have the Architecture Astronauts designing the "one true system" that will be able to handle absolutely any CR that comes down the pipe. Um, sure, dude. Whatever.
This thread's audience is obviously a 'developed nations' one.

From our perspective yes, Crytpo's use case as currency make absolutely no sense
(yet), we tap our Visa card to pay instantly with no fees and no fraud liability, hard to beat.

As a store of value however there is a very strong use case in the western world. Of the top my head, it is estimated that 10% of our GDP is in off shore havens, think about that infamous 1% moving just half of that 10% into Bitcoin ..

I digress..

If you venture your mind a little outside the borders of our empire and think about the 'unbanked' parts of our planet, entire populations whom live under poverty for the sole reason that they do not have access to the equity and efficient markets directly.
If you look there, people are DYING for something like Bitcoin and other crypto's.
There is absolutely no reason an African farmer to have to sell his Oranges to Europe in Euro then buy it back from there (Sell Euro to local currency) for local use.

Currency is an abstraction, an expression of a market, just like language is.

Here we tap to pay and need everyone to protect us from fraudsters, pornographers, money laundry , <insert your favorite horse man of the apolocyple here>, in other parts of the world , that far out number the western world in population, they don't care to be protected by the above because quite frankly the price they pay for that 'protection' is insanely oppressive governments that use the above to legitimize the oppression.

It is exactly in those markets where you start to see a VERY stong use case as both store of value and currency for crypto and it is exactly that market that will drive the world's demand for good UI for crypto that will eventually usher in mass adoption.
Most countries have securities laws that are similar to those of the United States.

It's arguably easier to be in compliance in a single market of 350 million people, then in multiple markets, each governed by their own laws.
Answer to headline: Nothing. We should follow Estonia's lead IMO.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/estonia-the-di...

'A tenet of the Estonian system is that an individual owns all information recorded about him or her. Every time a doctor (or a border guard, a police officer, a banker, or a minister) glances at any of Piperal’s secure data online, that look is recorded and reported. Peeping at another person’s secure data for no reason is a criminal offense. “In Estonia, we don’t have Big Brother; we have Little Brother,” a local told me. “You can tell him what to do and maybe also beat him up.”'
omg, i <3 love this... esp cool that you included technical details like the amount of rotation caused by glass slabs.
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Hello HN,

I have a background in marketing and I have done more and more web development recently - including PHP.

I could not find a book generally recommended for those who want to really get better at PHP and therefore I am open to suggestions.

Some info:

The equivalent books in other languages would be:
- Effective Python, Brett Slatkin
- Effective C++, Scott Meyers

I am aware of "PHP the right way" but I am looking for a more in-depth resources with examples.
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There’s an assumption being made that the SEC has a vastly different way of looking at investor protection than securities regulators in other jusrisdicions. I’m sure there will be some regulatory arbitrage going on, but if an ICO is a security it doesn’t make it automatically illegal, it just means they have to follow rules established that are mostly there to legally bind the organization to disclose information to investors and follow certain governance standards.

Some jurisdictions also don’t require normal stock offerings to follow rules as strict as the SEC does. It doesn’t stop the US from having many of the largest stock markets in the world, and a very high level of public participation in equity investing.
True, but right now this is the better approach because you can access the DOM, and presumably make use of Javascript's garbage collector.
Point being, lots of companies offer options on the 4 year vest, 1 year cliff in order to keep great employees. If the end result is that mediocre employees end up hanging around, not motivated, then it works for neither the employee, nor the business.
Bitcoin has any fee you want per transaction, from 0 to all the bitcoin you control. The more you pay in fees, the more likely it is to be included on the blockchain sooner.
There's value added to canned air at least.
So anybody who wants to shoot up the place can be sure to avoid checking in with all their guns in their briefcase.

Can these detect disassembled guns? I doubt they can understand the signature of the sum of parts.
There's a lot of imagery from Jewish traditions as well. (Besides the obvious Lilith connection, there is a giant Tree of Life in the opening credits!).
What is the practical difference between a de-personalized Google and just DuckDuckGo?
To put this in perspective, Token Report analyzed its database of ICOs and found each one that currently uses similar language to Munchee; or, promises returns to investors. https://medium.com/tokenreport/token-report-whos-been-breaki...
This is not relevant to the on-disk filesystem, just how the OS handles files.

The philosophy is also flawed: open a file, then create a hard link to it. You now can't delete that hard link (because the file is open), even though you just created it. This is not a problem on POSIX because it correctly distinguishes a file name (represented by a directory entry) from a file (represented by the inode).
The Simpsons isn't a genre like anime so ... apples and oranges.
I agree with you on that regard fwiw. I've wondered whether a company will tell me what the liquidation preferences and antidilution clauses for its preferred shares are, since that also comes into play pretty significantly wrt evaluating the value of ones equity offer.
DOCSIS 3.0 supports 38Mbps per channel, which is in the table on wikipedia. Not every modem is capable of 1.2Gbps - The fanciest modem out there is 32 channels, which gets to your theoretical 1.2Gbps. If you have a 4 channel modem and expect consistent speeds of more than 100Mbps, you are SOL.
Zero to power zero
more than deserved, she's definitely this year's hero
I'm going to fork your thin air, and create "Thick Air" with the only difference being the blocksize of the available air

It'll be able to handle 8x as much air transfer as yours and have a minority following that will always bite at your heels
> The way you paint it, people would be stupid to use Go. However, thousands of very talented developers use Go everyday. How can you explain this disconnect?

Billions of people hold staunch religious beliefs, yet this doesn't mean they're stupid or mentally handicapped.
> For example, if Google was to deploy its public DNS service over DOH on www.google.com and a user configures their browser to use it, a network that wants (or is required) to stop it would have to effectively block all of Google (thanks to how they host their services).

Which will result in all of Google being blocked by schools, businesses, and entire nations. Which, as Google is relied upon more and more, means less access to things like mail, documents, news, messaging, video content, the Android platform, etc.

Thanks.
previous similar HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7519827
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Some colleges cost this much and still have terrible food and no air conditioning (in most lecture halls/classrooms).
> Go obviously isn't.

You can use atomics and syscalls and even assembly in Go to have complete control over the system in the same way that you can in C/C++. It's definitely not trivial to bypass Go's memory model and get raw access to memory, but you can do it if you want. I'd say that Go discourages you from doing so, just the way Rust discourages the use of unsafe memory access even though you can if you want.
Our system is already structured in a way to incentivize actually reinvesting and doing stuff with that money instead of adding it to one's personal hoard -- think that but enough to actually be effective
That typically isn't air (80% Nitrogen 20% Oxygen) but a liquefied compressed gas such as 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane. They're very handy for cleaning things, especially computer heat sinks. Much more portable and cheaper than an air compressor.
Erroneous comment referring to legacy tax rules. I've edited it away for clarity.
Ya know, your comment might leave something to discuss had you left out the “clickbait” part. Instead it leaves me impulsively want to downvote. But, hey, happens to the best of us, so let’s move on. I suppose it depends on one’s gender to some degree. Musk is the epitome of “boys and their toys”, because nothing he’s done has had any impact on my life yet (well, except the oodles of dosh made off TSLA). Bezos? Eh, modern day Sam Walton that impacts the lives of more than a few, but in the end a retailer. But if you’re female, I could see how one might view the Fowler situation as “good, maybe I’ll have to put up with creepy men just a little less than I did last year.”
I don’t accept the author’s trade-offs. I can have plenty of gratification and personalization on free services like reddit, HN, and Wikipedia, all under semi-disposable pseudonyms which accumulate data, but which I don’t feel threaten my personal privacy much, if at all.

It’s Facebook and Google’s fussiness about real names and identities (and desire to become something akin to ultra-invasive credit ratings agencies / the next Equifax) that’s the new part about commercial surveillance, and that creates these trade offs.
Paradigm: Online store management becoming a lot more like infosec threat MGMT
But not the hacky routing :D please, libraries > frameworks
I heard somewhere that they keep some of each digital currency on hand to help with price stabilization between when you buy and when transfer is done.

So like, you buy not from someone selling, but from Coinbase's stash, who then buys to refill from someone else.

No idea how accurate that is though, maybe someone can back me up or correct me here
SEC compliance comes with extensive fees, delays, and a century of legalese. Coin offerings do not have to fall in the tens of millions of dollars. It's a practical way for smaller startups to raise small amounts of money. For instance the first company that started Musk's rise was Zip2 - and it was started with money that was in the 5 figures. A coin offering instead of angel investors could have been an interesting option for a similar company now a days. For companies on this scale, having to hire a legal team to ensure compliance is a significant burden.

How much do you think this will end up costing companies to comply with? Ultimately we'd all like to have 100% honest ICOs. But you have to balance the cost of compliance with the expected results. Many ICOs already block American investors and that was before this. How will this effect the rates of scams? How will this effect the rate of perfectly up and up ICOs that are not made available to US investors?
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The grandparent is saying that if you run plain Ubuntu directly on a device, Ubuntu (or really, the Linux kernel) might not have drivers that work reasonably well for some hardware on that device, while Windows most certainly does have decent drivers for that hardware.

When you run Ubuntu on top of windows, windows replaces/emulates the Linux kernel - at least the part it needs to run the subset of Ubuntu that windows currently can - this emulation provided to run Ubuntu is done on the interface between the kernel and userspace, it is not done on a device/driver level.

Drivers are OS specific, the drivers in question here are either windows drivers, which works only on windows, or they are linux drivers which work only on linux. (Noone is writing drivers for windows which could also work on linux)
No fees? Visa and MasterCard are making off like bandits as we move from cash to card.
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Not sure who "The powers that be" are, but anyone can propose and contribute to IETF standards. They are called "Request for Comment" for a reason.
Fast food and others. Plenty of chefs pile on the salt.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/au...
Absolutely, but it's up to the board or whatever functions similarly at a university to make that decision. I'm not laying out an algorithm for president's inflated salary just explaining what i see to be the reasoning behind it. Like most things, compensation isn't a reflection of absolute truth but of what one can argue to be reasonable. I'd imagine you could take the increase in endowment and compare to the average schools increase across the same time period or some other such metrics, if one were so inclined.
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There have been many comments from creators to this point.

The christian imagery was primarily to give it an exotic feel; just like many SciFi shows in the US borrow heavily from eastern traditions.

Here's probably the most often quoted interview answer on the subject, from Kazua Tsurumaki:

> There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.[1]

1: http://web.archive.org/web/20020622231224/http://www.akadot....
"Still" seems a bit disingenuous when considering the current trajectory IPv6 adoption is on. [0] Yah it's happening slowly, but it does seem to be pushing ahead.

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html