skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t remember what the original title of the submission was, but it was orders of magnitude better than the current one.
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I don't think the IRS fears Bitcoin. The examples in this piece are quite easy for the IRS to get around.

For tax purposes one of the key concepts in mining Bitcoin and trading Bitcoin is the use of a third party. If you have moved coin to a third party to execute a trade and the IRS audits you, it's up to you to prove that these addresses are owned by third parties.

So then you need to supply the entities individual or corporate name. If you're lying and cannot produce the identity of the exchanger, then you're going to be a world of trouble. Even if it's a decentralized exchange, you're going to need to show the transaction that execute the trade.

Even if you're doing these trades with shielded Zcash transactions (these are completely anonymous transactions) once you supply addresses A, B, C, etc... to the IRS (or the ATO in my case) and you get audited, you need to show who these third parties are.

Honestly, cryptocurrency is not an issue for the tax office, even cryptocurrency such as Zcash and Monero are not an issue.
I wasn't trying to pick on you. I've seen this kind of argument elsewhere and thought this would be a good place to start a dialogue.
Well, some parts of it are a lot more likely to fail-deadly than others. A commercial power supply that outputs 12V or whatever your servo wants basically can't burn anything.

As for bugs in the control code freezing your pipes? Well, just give the code as much care as you give to driving and you should be fine. ;)

(The serious solution to that is to have a dead simple failsafe controller that switches between on, off and auto, where auto is controlled by your crazy inventions.)
I maintain a secondary Firefox profile that I named UNSAFE for that sort of thing. Destroys all cookies on exit.

And another one for BANKING without plugins and with the correct bank URLs hardcoded as bookmarks.
She is purporting that bitcoin is somehow "worthless?" and that all of Crypto would crash if people truly understood it. The Chairman's post is simply about being responsible about blockchain and the hype surrounding it at this point.
creepysite.com

... used in their screenshot as an example, so funny that creepysite.com actually does redirect to google.com :D
While claiming the principles of Liberty for yourself (deciding what kind of "utopia" you want to be part of), would you deny that choice to others?

This is perhaps what separates libertarians from liberals, conservatives, socialists, etc.: we simply do not deny others the liberty we claim for ourselves.

If a monetary system that cannot be debased/controlled by government is available, does that not allow you to elect to create and/or join a community of similar beliefs? Or, would you prefer that I (or someone else) be able to gain control of your government, and then choose to make it (financially) impossible for you to choose your associations and/or behaviors?

Or, perhaps: does your "utopia" require others to fund it, in order for it to work? This is, unfortunately, the case with most people's personal beliefs. They require the non-consensual forced effort of others to succeed...
Was your domain recovered from a phishing site? It's blocked at my university.
And since this is HN, the download people here are most likely to want is the Developer Edition: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
A 7.9 is quite large. That is about the maximum magnitude that the San Andreas fault produces and similar in size to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Are you sure gender is determined at birth?

Edit: My comment was tongue in cheek. It’s kind of funny that not only genders are like the twin towers, but even saying that sex is determined at birth can be a sensitive issue.
Im not a rocket ship im a human , a smart one that is to be respected and not objectified. Ill work they way I want to work , if the results are not to your liking , hire someone else. Go find someone else to be your "rocket ship."
Still on Firefox 56. My crucial addons still don't work. Still wishing Mozilla made FF56 into an ESR.
Sure.

Our fee ranges anywhere from a fraction of a percent to a couple percentage points. Companies selling $100k diamond jewelry (of which we have several) vs companies selling $100 bikes have different levels of risk.

Most importantly, we typically charge 1/10 the revenue we generate for our clients: https://bolt.com/case-studies. Everyone who's signed up is 10X ROI positive. For a small single digit percent they're making double digit percent more money.

On top of the Bolt Fee, we match processing, and that's about it.
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Marginally related question: I just read https://bolt.com/team and how do you build such a large company before even launching? I mean, you have a fulltime recruiter on payroll. If you started in 2014 and stayed stealth for 4 years, how on earth did you manage to raise the funds needed to a) survive and b) have such a large team?

Note: I mean this entirely unskeptically. I wonder how you pulled this off and I think it's a positive signal about your company that you did.
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Not yet.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432531

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430793
How would your situation change, if item number 2 was no longer there. (ie, your wife became a contractor) I think that is the largest concern/tipping point for most people..
What countries are you supporting currently? Is Mexico in that list?

Didn't see a FAQ on the homepage, nor found the answer on a quick search, so I'm asking here.
I'd wager they are planning to A/B test pricing models and hence can't make a public commitment.
Did canvas fingerprinting blocking make it to this release? There were many articles saying it might or will happen and I can't find anything backing this up in the release notes.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefox+58+canvas+fingerprinting&t...
The headline is incorrect. The Telegraph article says that Elon Musk's potential payout is $70 billion, not $7 billion.

The New York Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/business/dealbook/tesla-e...) lists the potential payout at $55 billion.

Either way it's a lot of money, but if he can succeed, he will certainly have earned it.
I see it as hopelessly yelling at kids to stop walking on your lawn
"SEC Chief says looking closely at public companies pivoting to Blockchain"
> Bitcoin is not anonymous.

This is true and massive mistake on the reporters part.

However the overall concept of the article could be easily applied to coins such as Zcash and Monero that do have anonymous transaction methods.

In my comment [1] I argue that even then, these types of trades are not a concern for the IRS.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216069
I believe that scaling would be quadratic; but yes, more features (variables) isn't always better.

However, you can't know which features carry information until you collect and analyze them. For a problem like fraud -- where "expert" input probably would not allow you to figure out which features you need ahead of time -- it was almost certainly more reasonable to gather all the data and then, after the fact, perform feature selection[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_selection
If you had bitcoin before the fork, you'd have some of the fork, right?
How do you access something like that?
I'm with you here. Did no-one else do robotics in CS?
Assuming they integrate the technology tightly enough into the core of the engine could this potentially serve as a sort of "DRM" where you can, by setting a single flag in the UE4 editor, make the given entity or subsystem remote, and thus never exposing the actual guts of the system to the users? If so, I guess that this might enable a new way of integrating proprietary middlewares which are otherwise very hard to get your hands onto.

I think that if their technology also allows for dynamic scaling based on current/projected demand this could potentially save a lot of money since, at least from my limited experience of running various game servers for ~thousands of people, 70% of the time the demand is between 10-20% of the peak demand.
If you fail, it tells you you were wrong (some red text at the bottom) and gives you another challenge. I think it will sometimes just give you another challenge for more data, but it won't have red failure text.
Bolt.com has a huge history, including video-sharing that may have gotten it on those types of lists several years back.

We've had it for close to 3 years though.
> The burgers are picture-perfect

Yep definitely going to different In-N-Outs.
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Material Science really.
Not sure why insider trading would be a thing. What information would affect the price? Most aren't based on anything substantive.

Front running and pump & dump are pretty easy currently. That's not a fundamental thing though. More of a fact that the cryptocurrency environments, especially exchanges, tend to be exceptionally opaque. Somewhat ironically.
For those of you looking for competitive prices with servers in the U.S., take a look at SSD Nodes—a bootstrapped hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. I'm the founder and CEO, so I'm a little biased, but we're offering 16GB of RAM plus KVM for a price that's more than competitive with Hetzner, and have clients posting excellent benchmarks, like 1.1 GB/s throughput and 480K IOPS[0].

Check out our pricing:

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The approach I use here is to not see Bitcoin as a currency, but as a money sending service like Visa. The incentive to buy BTC is that one wants to use the system. How much is the usage of the system worth? It is the transaction fees. They reflect what people are willing to pay to use the system.
Depends on your browser, but for example, in Chrome, you can set your default search in chrome://settings/searchEngines for the omnibox search. Mine is:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&filter=0&num=100

You could easily add the verbatim parameter as well.

Nothing similar for safari?
This is great! I have been waiting for an extension such as this which: (1) is seamless, (2) doesn't break the web, (3) doesn't require too much tweaking, and (4) is offered by a company I trust. Mainly in order to install on friends' and family's devices who aren't tech savvy – this appears to be exactly that. Thank you. Love the UX (sans below), nice touch integrating with ToS;DR.

Feedback: The "enhanced from X to Y" is not perfectly clear to me. I'm guessing you're saying "we were able to upgrade the rating to Y from X". Correct? The badge seems to be showing the upgraded rating rather than the "actual" rating – this is not what I expected. I expected to see the privacy grade of said website, not the grade received by blocking scripts and/or redirecting to https.

Question: Will the extension for Safari be available from the Safari Extensions Gallery[1]? This would be even better, avoiding (said friends and family) having to "Trust" the safariextz and get the disclaimer that it isn't from the gallery. (I currently only see your old search extension in the gallery, will they, perhaps, be merged?)

[1]: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/?q=duckduckgo
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>But the chosen city would win even more if they were to cooperate.

Right and the 19 losers are cooperating why again?

>Sure, the cooperation would quickly break down

Good job undercutting and highlighting the faults in your own argument. If you can figure it out in two sentences I think there's probably a few people directly involved who this is obvious to. So since cooperation isn't viable in your own estimation, might as well try to win.

>but that is why the federal government should decide on such benefits

Unfortunately that proposition doesn't appeal to everyone, so good luck there.
The trends in the article don't impact people like you much -- but they have a huge impact on these Uber drivers and Postmates runners, and there are a lot more of them. Your situation doesn't generalize to the wider population.
In fairness, with https it's less of a mitm opportunity... Still an issue, though.
Companies go public for all sorts of reasons. Facebook went public because it was almost being forced to by the SEC because of its size. Microsoft went public simply because other employees who were mega-rich like Gates wanted to cash out...stock is up 132,000% since the IPO. Hermes went public because of family in-fighting...stock is up 11,430% since its IPO in 1993.

Amazon is a good example because they aren't hostage to the capital markets...they are not consumers of capital, though their reported profits are pathetic in comparison to their market cap. Bezos hasn't gone on an earnings call in...I don't know, maybe forever.

When your business doesn't need to raise money, you have a license to run it like a private company. The vast majority don't, but there are reasons for that, too.
Facebook to hand privacy controls to users ahead of EU law
Won't using ToS;DR alienate smaller services that are not listed there? I only see reasonably big sites on their site.
Yeah, at best Bitcoin is pseudonymous (through mixing or obfuscating through exchanges). But really, what person committing tax fraud or other underground activity wouldn't just use an actual privacy focused crypto such as Monero (as you said)?

When reading articles like this I substitute "Bitcoin" for "Cryptocurrency" and it makes more sense. The public has just recently normalized Bitcoin and so that's what they write about. Give it a year or so and they'll catch on.
Not necessarily. Developer is the beta channel, after all, so many of us use Firefox stable as our primary. I use my various PortableApps.com packages to run separate channels without impacting each other for testing sites.
> Nobody set out to cause a long-lasting, destructive conflict in Syria.

That's precisely the point. Nobody set out to cause long-lasting, destructive conflict in Iraq as well.

Furthermore, in Iraq there was a multinational coallition allocating hefty amounts of resourses to ensure a clean politically advantgeous outcome, while the war in Syria would be, according to that conspiracy theory, at best a covert operation leading to a drawn out conflict.
Seems like the OP is making enough money that it wouldn't be a significant issue - assuming the OP is living within his/her means. It's the 3rd point ($$) that differentiates the OP from the vast majority - as far as I can tell.
I don't understand people who are conflating the search for HQ2 with Olympic bids and sports stadium bids. The Olympics are most likely a one time thing for a month, although in the future I could forsee it revolving around qualified sites, it takes a lot to convert facilities used for the Olympics into regular infrastucture (see Atlanta and LA).

Stadiums I think overall have a better impact, as they can create or revitalize an economic area, provide longer terms jobs, and sports teams provide back to their communities.

Amazon is on a completely different level. They will bring thousands of skilled workers, and generate trillions in economic activity. HQ2 will stand for a long time, it can completely change the trajectory of a city. There are many many issues with bringing Amazon to your city, home prices and infrastructure to name a few -- but isn't this a problem you'd rather have than not?
Cyclist here. A lot if drivers will be rude (or worse) to me on the road because of the sort of things you said. Based on most objective studies I've seen there is no real difference in the fraction of cyclists and drivers who regularly break the law. They break different laws, but I'd say drivers break the law in much more dangerous ways (e.g., speeding). Cyclists running red lights is a problem, but I can only think of a handful of times in my decade of cycling when a cyclist didn't check for oncoming traffic before going through a red light. In contrast I can think of more times off the top of my head when drivers blew through red lights without looking (most were obviously distracted), but that's to be expected as there are many more drivers than cyclists. Anyway, it seems to me that the fraction of drivers who are bad is about the same as that for cyclists, so someone's mode of transportation is not informative about whether someone's law abiding. Saying otherwise is not justified.

You can find a lot about these studies via Google, e.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=comparison+of+cyclists+and+d...

By the way, I follow the law to the letter. Doesn't get me any more respect on the road, unfortunately.
Well, it doesn't work for cash transactions, so there's that. To clarify, with cash it's an honor system dependent on social norms. In most countries in the world it's failing badly, hence the term "black economy".
> States set what insurance can allow.

Why? From my perspective the whole problem with healthcare and insurance is these are way far from a free markets. Wouldn't it be better if the insurance companies would just look at what people want and offer just that for the prices that make both sides interested?
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Amazon Associates is one way DDG monetizes. Not sure how much revenue that brings in, but would love to see some stats on this.
> I'm working at a college where students are restoring a Detroit Electric from 1918. The car is in excellent shape, electrically, mechanically and visually

Having worked with ME students in the past I can say with confidence you won't be using those adjectives to describe the project when they're done with that.

Rookie mistakes aside, what you do for grades has little overlap with what you do to get a good result. Every college engineering project has this problem. The things you'd do to deliver the best result possible with the resources you have are not the same things you'd do if you're optimizing for grades. You do dumb things run a simulation to prove you can and check the box when in reality you should just over-build it and spend the time on part of the project that's gonna require a few revisions to get right.
> People don't get a say on which race or gender (edit: sex) they're born as. That's partly why race and gender are protected classes.

The basis of protected class is more visibility and history of non-germane discrimination than innateness, which is why religion is a protected class.
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Any updates on U2F support with major sites? Google, FB etc.?
> hack your hamster brain and trick it into working harder

If you need to 'hack' and trick yourself into being productive, try find another line of work or just take a break.

I'm not knocking this approach - all of us are wired differently and this method may squeeze another line of code out of an under-stimulated brain - but there's something decidedly anti-'flow' about conditioning sips of coffee around how often you save your code.

Instead something like the Pomodoro method, 5 minutes of play at the end of every 25 minutes of work, might be more effective with less mental overhead: don't trick the hamster. Cede 15% of each hour to him/her while the rest of the time is work.
* Permanent until the central bank chooses to contract their balance sheet at some point in the future.

Perhaps a better way to describe it is that a pump and dump strategy has a transient effect on the value of the asset in question, whereas a central bank increasing the money supply has a persistent effect on the value of the currency in question.
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Meh, my wife does the same thing if I'm doing something on the computer late at night. I get the "I thought you said you were coming to bed in 5 minutes?" treatment. Hell I might even joke about getting in trouble for it. In any case this is clearly not a tweetstorm where she's laying out her argument to change minds, it's just a rant. It would be interesting to read her views in an article.
No, it isn't? Those are the prices for two providers that aren't even close to lowest-cost providers in the space. They compete on service, not price.

I can get .9 to 2.0% (depending on the industry of my business) off the shelf from at least 6+ sources.

And that's before any interchange rebate programs, volume discounts, or specially negotiated interchange waivers past a certain fee per quarter.
Good question. It was actually pretty insane.

In payments, the MVP bar is high and we built like 4 companies in one (payment processor, fraud detection co, checkout platform, + more). So we had to raise a bunch, hire world-class people, and write code for a couple years before launch, all the while convincing investors that we weren't going to be another stealth-disaster-company. We then landed close to 100 customers while totally in stealth.

I'll be writing blog posts about how we did it -- from fundraising to recruiting to sales. It was 100 times harder than I ever imagined. But, it's made us stronger than ever.
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So someone falsely claiming order not received is not covered. You don't cover friendly fraud.
The creation of exchanges for purchases and removal of preexisting conditions as exclusions made it much more possible to buy insurance outside of group plans.

I contracted for a few years and it was impossible to get insurance at a reasonable cost because of an extremely common health condition that’s never caused complication in my life. So I was only able to get insurance through employers.
That's generally been the case anyways, otherwise you open yourself up cheating since a local host can/will manipulate state.

You can do some checksumming but largely state moves too quickly to make it more a deterrent than a full solution.
I highly recommend reading the rest of the thread beyond just Linus' complaint. This isn't about Meltdown but Spectre which impacts all CPUs with speculative execution. I believe these patches apply to AMD too even though Intel engineers are posting them as they appear to be generic x86 code. Not only is David brilliant at defusing that situation, he provides quite a bit of context to clarify confusion for external readers while correcting Linus' potential misunderstanding of the patch too. The "moronic" patch Linus is complaining about is to fix Skylake that still is impacted by a potential exploit even with the though the other less ugly fixes fix the majority of chips. David even agrees with the unfortunateness of the whole situation & says he's OK dropping that last patch if Linus wants because the Skylake vulnerability is less clearly exploitable. Ingo provides a follow-up suggestion about a potentially cleaner & simpler way to fix just the Skylake issue which is great & the whole point of how RFCs are supposed to work. So not only does it look like Linus' may have overreacted, it didn't even move the conversation along in any way (angry responses rarely seem to).
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Please put the install links at the top.
According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895 it's in 58 but wasn't added to release notes because it's disabled by default via the privacy.resistFingerprinting about:config setting.
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What happens if you're flagged for fraud? e.g. on a recent talk by a different company, the presenter said that buying Pepsi implies a slightly higher percentage of fraud than buying Coca Cola. What happens if I, a legitimate customer with a real, non-expired, not-overcharged credit card cannot make a purchase because your system flags my transaction as fraud?
I mean, fine, if you consider being a jerk to a group people just because <arbitrary justification>, I guess there's nothing left for me to say.

I'm not sure why "don't be an asshole to whole groups of people" is so controversial, though.
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