skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations, you made a few working radios with the most basic feature set.

Now make a radio that works in sub-zero and 100+ degree temperatures, survives water, dust, and firearm exposure, being dropped dozens of feet, is resistant to broad-spectrum jamming, can handle secure encrypted communications with a large set of ever-changing participants, has a range of dozens of miles and days of battery life, is of a size and weight portable enough to be carried by a soldier for hours or days alongside their normal gear, and which can be field-repaired by a soldier with a few days of training.

And those are just the high-level requirements. It's a lot more complicated than a CRUD app, which even a non-programmer can do in an hour.
Nah, he's pretty on the mark. I'm lucky to make it into the repeater ~15mi down the road from me(50W on both side) because it's not at the top of a mountain. Unless you're talking HF(which he covers) you're basically still constrained by line-of-sight.

More power just pushes you through small objects(trees, buildings, etc) depending on wavelength.
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Docker Cloud Ends Cluster Management Services
Good time to short FB in the short term. Makes me wonder if anyone knew about this before hand also would have the same idea.
Closure of Cluster Management Services on Docker Cloud
unlink(1) is indeed in SUSv2/XCU5:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/unlink.html

I couldn't get my hands on SUSv1/XCU4. It's supposedly available here:

https://publications.opengroup.org/c43x

But you have to log in to download, and I gave up upon seeing account creation form with 16 required fields.

"Open" in "The Open Group" is a bad joke.
> How many other venture funded start ups exist to provide a societal benefit while making only a modest return?

YC has a non-profits program. https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/

I don't see any indication that Promise is going non-profit, though.
Reddit is -> that way
This shifting of responsabilities (and, mostly, blame) is exactly what I've come to expect of Uber and it's kind.
By "it's kind" I don't mean evil people but rather anything that might describe itself as "Uber for X".
This is why I'm so happy about developments like in the UK [1], which forces Uber to assume responsibility in this kind of situation.

Responsibility to the customer is something that should not be delegated IMHO.
If you sell someone a TV set including installation and the person installing it fucks up, you deal with the company who sold it (and it's their reputation on the line) and if they want to, they then deal with their employee/contractor. Why should we settle for anything else with Uber?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/10/uber-lose...
I love this idea, but how much id education going to be included in promise? Almost every incarceration program with a low recidivism rate has education at its core yet I only see a mention of job training above. Perhaps you'll have other education opportunities you'll be offering that you have yet to mention?
Occasionally. But mostly just for deals for places I'm likely to go to anyway.
That's better than what I thought you were doing, dividing by 2 years or a 2-week pay period. But I don't think it makes sense to adjust for overtime here anyway. Would an $8/hour retail worker say, "I don't want to work overtime for the holiday crunch. Those extra hours are like working for only $8/hour after adjusting for overtime"?
Creating a modern full-fledged "game of your dreams", even if not AAA, can take years if not decades when you're going alone. People join development studios so that they actually have the chance of finishing a project in a reasonable timeframe and so that they can focus on one or two disciplines.
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Excellent work moving the ball forward on your vision here, Justin! I'm happy to see the paywall come down and you making the 3,400-something app ideas free to really spur people to take action. I also like the idea of the momentum tracker.
Most of the outstanding token supply is still held by the Stellar Foundation to be distributed. In my books, that means that it's still pretty centralized, but much less so than other ICOs or early coins that seem like outright scams.

The most charitable interpretation is that Stellar is on the right path to decentralization.
You don't seem to understand that leaving earlier to do something is different than leaving later to do the thing.
This is a great point -- it should be required to be at least not-for-profit, if not non-profit.
I'm not here to judge how you self-identify politically. I'm here to debate the idea that Facebook and Politifact and Snopes (for some reason? Does anyone actually take them seriously?) and everyone else is biased against the often-maligned center-right, but there's some conspiracy where no one can talk about it unless they're far-right which of course no self respecting liberal would believe. And even Spotify is pushing liberal playlists, and Twitter never bans David Brock's bots, and everyone is out to get those center-right guys instead!

The idea that the mainstream media is biased against conservatives is an argument that just won't go away. At some point people who read the NYT or WSJ and say it's far too liberal may have to accept that their definition of "center" is skewed. And people can make mistakes or have opinions without there being any inherent and insurmountable political bias involved.

I apologize for assuming you were conservative, I didn't realize you identify as a liberal. It was a judgement based on the fact that you're claiming the very-much centrist mainstream media is too biased toward liberal news, and Facebook is too biased towards liberals with the very-much centrist mainstream media outlets, and YouTube is too biased against center-right figures without mentioning they demonetize controversial left-leaning channels, too. It sounded exactly like many far-right extremists I've talked with in the past, and again I apologize for that inference.

I don't think this conversation is going anywhere productive and we're getting dragged from the original topic, so I'll just finish by re-stating my point that if everyone is biased against your completely centrist and moderate viewpoints, your viewpoints may not be as centrist and moderate as you thought. This applies to both sides of the aisle.
How likely would you be inclined to use a service that aggregates comment threads nationwide?
There are some somewhat reasonable docs at the bottom of https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/unsupervised-tutorial.html

I really should do a blog post about it or something.
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Whatsapp messages are only encrypted while on the pipe. The local database on your phone isn't. I know this b/c I have r/w messages to that DB in order to make a hacky API. The app I built needed root privileges but in the newest version of Android it can be done w/out root. Can FB or Messenger apk read that DB? Yes. Can any apk installed on your phone read that DB? Yes. Can it post the data to a web service? Sure. Do they actually do it? I don't know.
This is a tough question. I have been a criminal defense attorney and was the co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights that has worked hard to bring change to the criminal justice system-initially for juveniles but now for adults as well. We understand the concerns and there is no magic answer but we come from a place of wanting to get people out of jail and keeping them out. That is our goal and that is what we will work towards. As we said, we will go for the least restrictive means possible, but if the court requires an ankle monitor for them to get out of jail, we will provide that. If we don't, companies who care nothing about the individuals being incarcerated will continue to get these contracts.
That example was my understanding, glad to be corrected.

> At any rate, the point is that if someone who has been charged - just charged, not convicted

Agree completely. But if we are not making some estimation of the possibility of guilt and possible behavior by a guilty party given freedom then what is the point of ever denying bail? We deny bail because they might be guilty, and if they are it might not be safe for them to be released. We're not saying that they are guilty, but conceding that it might be negligent to allow them freedom before determining their guilt.

> the fault lies only on that person and that person alone

I'm certainly not trying to absolve the perpetrator, but certainly from an ethical point of view at least (IANAL) you have to admit the possibility of negligence.
All of this is speculation without a shred of evidence behind it, but even if we postulate that all of this is true, it is irrelevant with respect to the contents of the article.

If you wanted to raise a point about the article, do so, and you'll see that others have also made the point that there's nothing particularly shocking about the NSA "tracking down" Bitcoin users without being downvoted, because they managed to make the point without making emotion-driven unproven accusations.

If you want to get your points across here without ending up getting comments flagged on a regular basis you might want to consider sticking to the point, and not making accusations like in your flagged comment and this one without actually presenting evidence (and your links do not present evidence).
Are there any updates on the status of SDF as a non-profit? https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/17500-a-stellar-story/ suggests their tax exempt status is at least unclear.
> Typically, no.

Typically it will get you pulled over. Obstructing the flow of traffic is a thing.
Thank you for correcting me on this -- I had this completely wrong before!
Whether the video will be released may also depend on her family’s wishes.
Orbitz Hack May Have Compromised 880,000 Credit Cards
Debugging Kubernetes (using GoLand IDE)
But if you're not aiming for orbital velocity the earth's rotational speed doesn't make any difference -- the relative speed of start and end points are the same. It doesn't take more fuel to travel west than east because of the rotation of the earth (jet stream sure, but if rockets are affected by the jet stream there's something seriously wrong)

Disclaimer: my entire picture of orbital dynamics comes from KSP
That was so much fun :)
Ask HN: How have you dealt with taxes (U.S.) and algo crypto trading?
For those who have algo traded crypto currencies in the last year or so, has the tax burden (U.S.) been too unbearable to make it worthwhile? The IRS is one of the most powerful and terrifying government agency, so I am having fears that may be unfounded. I plan on talking to an tax authority of some sort, but wanted to get some feedback from the community who've been through this.

Here is my dilemma:

I have promising code I'd like to start trialing, but when I do the math, it only makes money assuming no taxes per trade, which I haven't factored in. That's because I can't grok the taxes, and how they will be calculated.

Given my naive understanding of how it is supposed work, it's possible even though I might gain fractions of a bitcoin by end of day, I could owe the IRS thousands of dollars I didn't make.

Here is a toy scenario (numbers are fake to keep it simple):

1) 10:00 am: 1.0 BTC -> 1.1 LTC (trade 1 bitcoin for 1.1 litecoin)

2) 11:00 am: 1.1 LTC -> 1.2 BTC

3) 12:00 pm: 1.2 BTC -> 1.3 LTC

If the value of BTC, is $1000 at 10 am, then rises to $2000 at 12 pm, that is a gain of $1000. By buying the LTC at 12 pm, it seems I would owe taxes on the "gain" in BTC of $1000, even if I only gained 0.2 BTC ($400). As I understand it, the taxes are owed based on the relative gain in dollar value, not on absolute bitcoin gain.

The taxes could easily wipe out any gains, or worse, cause me to owe money I didn’t make. I can’t decide whether even to test the code, as I fear accidentally incurring a high tax bill.

1) Are my fears unfounded?

2) If I make thousands of these tiny trades per day, could I potentially owe more in dollars than I virtually gained, or am I seriously mistaken?

3) In practice, I’ll be trading other currencies too which are not traded against the dollar. How have others estimated the dollar value of such currencies at the time the trade was executed?
> intuitive is something that shouldn't even be in the same zipcode as it.

That's the thing, though. It's very different to non-modal text editors, so there's this learning 'cliff', where you get frustrated by how unfamiliar it is.

However, when it comes down to it - the neat thing about Vi is it's a re-imagining of what a text-editor is. Non vi-like editors essentially derive from the metaphor of a typewriter. You have a cursor, the print head, and you enter text there. You can use your hand (mouse) to change where the print head is pointing. You can highlight sections, as if with a pen - copy and paste stuff, as if you were using scissors. These functions are displayed a bit like the extra functions of one of those late-model electronic typewriters, where you could press a key-combination to get some neat functionality.

The nice thing about Vim is it accepts that editing text on a computer isn't like this. When you edit on a computer, you jump into a pre-existing text, mostly, adding or changing. So, for this reason, it has lots of functions for accurately manipulating sections of text, like words, or things between brackets, or sentences.

This kind of functionality is pretty standard for a good editor, but I think the thing Vi got really right is organizing these functions. The problem with having lots of functions is that they're hard to remember. So Vi structures them like a language.

So in the end, I think it's more intuitive than other editors. It doesn't work within the context of an outdated metaphor, and, it structures the functions that allow it to surpass that metaphor in a way that makes them extremely easy to discover and to remember.
I look forward to the day when Power 9 is less a dent than x86 is to my wallet. I'm serious, I do want a Raptor Engineering Talos II, but it's not within my current budget for easily accessible hardware.
Right now they are being incarcerated. We believe having technology that supports you is better than being incarcerated.
Great set of libraries for front end developers
https://www.ada.gov/archive/qasrvc.htm

Q: I operate a private taxicab and I don't want animals in my taxi; they smell, shed hair and sometimes have "accidents." Am I violating the ADA if I refuse to pick up someone with a service animal?

A: Yes. Taxicab companies may not refuse to provide services to individuals with disabilities. Private taxicab companies are also prohibited from charging higher fares or fees for transporting individuals with disabilities and their service animals than they charge to other persons for the same or equivalent service.

"A driver-partner CANNOT lawfully deny service to riders with service animals because of allergies, religious objections, or a generalized fear of animals."

https://accessibility.uber.com/service-animal-policy/
Using Airbnb as a reason why your idea doesn't matter is like using Bill Gates as an argument for dropping out of college. The idea is super important; in Twitch's case, the process of getting to that idea was putzing around with something terrible for a while. Ideas do matter and you're not doing anyone any favors with this quixotic reductionism.
> It's not a net win if, for example, someone is let out on bail because Promise calls them a low risk and they rape someone.

That's literally the definition of a net win. You do your best and things get better, mostly. It doesn't mean perfect
Doh, nobody assumed they "invented" anything. I did assume though that even the average Joe would be able to understand that what they are doing here is applying the concept at a different level. I'm sorry, I thought you would get that.

Find this "Promise extends the scale and effectiveness of community supervision by balancing human touch and technology to improve long-term outcomes." http://joinpromise.com/#how I can't find anything like that on Wikipedia. Can you help?
What sort of conditions do you all see as triggering a “step up”.

Based on some court-associated Drug Replacement Programs in the South, my perception is failure of the subject to pay fees on an ongoing basis might trigger a “step up”. In the court programs I referenced, you either show up every day with $25 for your dose of Suboxone or go back to the slammer.

Please elaborate on your fee structures, how they are paid, and as I originally asked, what are the interactions between fees and increasing enforcement?
I was talking about the tactical radios discussed in the article (2km range).

If you want the radio to let you watch video feed from a drone above, show a map with locations of other soldiers, or update Facebook status via satellite link, that may be a bit more work.
Just for the sake of everyone reading this, I'd like to point out the The Federalist is a far-right publication that until recently had a section devoted to "black crime" and just a few months ago published an article defending a politician who was accused of the sexual assault of several underaged girls.

I would take their claims of bias with a grain of salt.
> I think intuitive is something that shouldn't even be in the same zipcode as it.

The Vi keybindings and command set is largely self-consistent and follows common patterns. So while it might not be intuitive to someone unfamiliar with it, it becomes very intuitive once you grok the core patterns and concepts. There have been plenty of times I have strung together sets of commands and only noticed afterwards that this was technically a new behavior I'd never invoked before.
Note no support for ATI gfx cards.
https://www.constantcontact.com/features/event-marketing/eve...

Not free, and maybe overkill for a "small" event....
How do you distinguish a population that "thinks more critically before they act" and one that lives in constant fear of social backlash? They're two sides of the same coin!

An intellectually free society is one in which one doesn't have to think critically about the potential social and economic ramifications of every remark. It's a society in which people can pitch inchoate ideas, receive feedback, and iterate on worldviews.

That we're increasingly living in an intellectually unfree society isn't the fault of "corporations" and their citizenship. Instead, it's the result of a push toward controlling people in the name of 'fixing' society and preventing 'harm'. History tells us that down this road lies only death and blood.
Does this mean Promise is paying the cash bail for those awaiting trial? Or is there a lower rate negotiated? What are the qualifications for release (i.e. who gets chosen to get their bail paid over someone else)?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/280914/monthly-active-wh...
I don't know about that.. those are probably the people who it's way harder to influence, or even not possible. It's not worth their time. Focus on the.. I don't know.. 70%? who doesn't care if ads are flying across their screen, it's easy to influence them.
zuckerberg has been unloading stock.
But that means that every cryptocurrency is centralized, if I buy enough of it, which makes the term meaningless.
If by "somewhere" you mean "everywhere." JTRS was fun. (Although, CORBA wasn't that bad.)
Hi Michael. I appreciate your candidness and openness to accept counterpoints. How would you evaluate a startup that’s only a couple weeks old, however close to shipping a prototype but probably won’t have time to get users by Sunday ( YC deadline ). It’s an idea that could generate a billion jobs and hence we feel it’s better to get YC support than try to grow it slower with a revenue model. Should we apply anyways or wait to get traction and apply late?
(1) Current Deep Learning tools are still pretty bad; Tensorflow was a huge advance but people hate it.

(2) Differentiable computation has many other applications.
That's nice, until someone decides to prune certain functionality from future versions of the library because they are not needed for Deep Learning. Or until someone decides: hey, we can replace this floating point computation by a fixed point computation, because it doesn't matter for any kind of Deep Learning anyway.
Asking someone to show up is not an "imposition into the private life of individuals".

You call it a demand, and seem to believe it has some kind of legal force, but it does not. They're asking. They're asking firmly, but they're still just asking. It has no more legal force than if I were to ask.

> Suggestions that "well Parliament can make things very difficult for him" whilst probably true should be given utmost contempt. Parliament should uphold the Rule of Law and not threaten people, even if it can.

Parliament is the source of law in the UK. The way parliament can make things difficult for him is to make law. Nobody is suggesting they should threaten people, but it is their job to e.g. consider the impact of how businesses threat their users and if appropriate to pass laws regulating it. If Facebook when given an opportunity to present their side to parliament decides not to take that opportunity, they should not be surprised if such laws does not take their views into account.

Zuckerberg should be happy to be explicitly given the opportunity to present Facebook's side - they need not extend that courtesy. They could instead simply make their decisions without hearing Facebooks side of the story at all.

> I can't see any reason not to simply demand an officer of Facebook with executive powers be in attendance. Perhaps specified to be the person with management responsibility for data protection.

A very simple reason is that they may not believe said persons would be able to offer the same input.
or buy the dip for the long term
Paul Graham explored why different fields --- like math, art, and engineering --- all use the word "beautiful," http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Ask HN: Request for comment on my project description
I will be launching my crowdfunding campaign soon. Can you please look at my project description and tell me if everything is clear? Are the rewards clear? Thanks.

Project description is on GitHub at: https://qwaitwhat.github.io/

Obviously it is a very personal project. And it is my firm belief that this is the most logical next step in the evolution that started with bitcoin. I will be happy to answer questions, particularly about my conclusion that without complete anonymity on my part, this next step can not be successful.

Thanks in advance for reading.
To be honest, it looks too hard to use. Not sure if somebody like a yoga teacher would be able to manage it.

I'm probably looking for a Meetup.com alternative but not so buggy and mismanaged.
The suggestion was a jab at another HN hype story, from yesterday.
> Agree completely. But if we are not making some estimation of the possibility of guilt and possible behavior by a guilty party given freedom then what is the point of ever denying bail?

Bail, or it's denial, is principally about the risk of the accused not showing up to court, and thereby escaping legal process; the type of crime is also considered, but again that's mostly (but not entirely) because it factors into risk to the process (both motivation to avoid process and risk of violence directed at witnesses, etc.)
Note that these pages are not served via https, and neither is the donations page[1] which contains links to Paypal.

This has been pointed out from time to time on the openbsd "misc" email list but I've never seen a good explanation for why these pages are not secure.

[1] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Their efforts are aimed at pre-trial detention, aka jail, not incarceration, aka prison.