skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Couldn't you use the cost of operation?" - that's pretty inconsistent with other IRS rules... you probably need to convince the IRS you're mining bitcoin as a business with the intent to profit with all the proof that entails, and then it's likely deductible as a business expense, not a cost basis, similar to how margin interest is not part of your cost basis for buying a stock.

See "Basis of Assets" https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p551.pdf and "Investment Income and Expenses" https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf

None of that covers cryptocurrency directly yet, but looking at how more traditional investments are treated can inspire you to try to do your taxes in the spirit of the rules to avoid likely problems.
A perfect but quite useless miniature staircase. “How will it scale under a heavy load?” Sounds familiar.

Maybe these staircases were just the highly polished crud web app of their time.
At that time search was not working, had bit ugly ui, no indicator for current page and etc. Even it's duplicate, this time people actually saw it correctly. So sometimes trying things again is a good thing :)
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Mine has a "hold button for 5 seconds" type override - don't know if that's universal though.
If an image containing illegal content is sent to the browser of an unsuspecting user, does that constitute a breach of the law? If a CDN goes rogue and suddenly starts pushing out child porn then is every person whos browser cached that image now guilty? What if they didn't even know it got cached? A very grey area with these sorts of things.
She's a hero if someone says she is, and that's all there is to it. I think she was a brave, selfless person in doing what she did, and I'm glad that the US got its ass handed to it in this way. American military crimes are heinous, and the entire nation is doing nothing effective about it. There are millions of people suffering because the American public are too cowardly to confront their own military.

So by sticking her neck out and releasing the Collateral Murder videos, she is most definitely my hero.

(EDIT: s/Damage/Murder/ - this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0)
Cruise control on both of my cars is closer to "set throttle" than "set speed". Neither will increase throttle to keep speed when going up a hill for example.
That's the point elefanten was conveying: "at best, she's no hero and only someone that made a reckless mistake".
Or the owner attempted to flash his own ECU and messed it up. Granted, this is more common in the rice-burning crowd than the Benz driving crowd, but there is still some overlap.

Edit: Just saw that the driver was an "amateur car racer", which exponentially increases the chances that he re-flashed his ECU.
> Break the monopolies

Can you explain what makes Youtube and Github monopolies when both have competitors in the market?

> Force them to respect my rights, similar to the government.

What rights do you think you have that they are violating?
I'm skeptical:

During a tense time of waiting and praying, Xue, an amateur car racer himself, tried opening the car door slightly to help slow the car down, which slowed to 60km/h, but nothing else could be done

If the car was trying to maintain 120kph, I'm skeptical that opening a door partially (or even all the way) slowed it to 60kph.
Adrian identified as bisexual, not gay.

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This is complete nonsense, go into any car without starting it and pump the breaks.
Thanks for the clarification. To whit, the few retail equity US and Canadian trading platforms I've used (Schwab's, Interactive Brokers, Scottrade before they became TD Ameritrade, Questrade) also do not provide an explicit feature that purports to calculate capital gains, so Coinbase seems to be exhibiting feature parity with equity retail exchanges. Coinbase and other retail equity trading platforms do provide an easy to calculate gains/losses made from your trades, but as we are both saying, gains/losses shown in the accounts may not necessarily correspond to the actual capital gains at the end of the year in certain situations.

>>This is a solved problem, cryptocurrency is not special. If they have the cost basis they can tell you, if not, they can leave it blank.

We're in agreement - this is a solved problem that the retail investor or their accountant needs to calculate manually via aggregation of the entire lifecycle of the asset(s) to properly account for capital gains (or losses).
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I would like to see a better source for this, but this point is explained in the post, saying the driver opened the door slightly, managing to bring the car's speed down to 60km/h, which sounds weird too, but I sure have never tried.
> Shifting goalposts here- thread-parent said "I want their fork of my code to go away too," not "I want their fork of my code to no longer say 'forked from' on it".

in this context, those mean the same thing. if you copy the code it's not a "fork" in github terms.
That's a shortsighted view. As the saying goes, "you can have the free apples, as long as I own the orchard". At some point, there will be no more free apples, and you have no idea how to farm
I haven't used G-Suite in years so I can't really compare it, but I use Excel online (via Office 365) to collaborate in real-time on documents with other employees all the time and it works great.
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Discussion of the story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16589412.
I sort of have the opposite reaction. These days it seems like people are so eager to trot out one of these phrases with a "look-how-informed-I-am" attitude, whether or not it's genuinely applicable.

If I'm talking about the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" in daily conversation, I'm just gonna describe it like Crichton does in the quote, since naming it properly is going to result in having to explain it anyways, and the whole thing just comes across as being a bit self-important.
The fact that it was able to be remotely controlled is exposing it to a whole world of bugs and hacks
These topics are discussed in greater depth in Kasparov's book, "Deep Thinking".

My view of the book: Very well written (and occasionally engrossing), well thought out, and strikes a more hopeful/reasonable tone that anything else I've seen on the subject.
That's not typical for cruise control; even cars in the 80s with cruise control would increase throttle uphills.
Airbus became a big user of Google cloud some time ago. Airbus made a presentation on last Google Cloud Next how they migrated core technology systems for satellite imagery storage and analytics to Google Cloud.

Google Apps are a logical extension, as you can use same accounts for Google Cloud and email. There are some benefits of the integration - e.g. export BigQuery result as Google Sheets. They also had a CTO poached from Google.
Ran into some styling bugs on the website (notice the content is cut off with no horizontal scrollbar) https://imgur.com/a/J1jqu
where is all the hate for rich people coming from?
This is not surprising at all, and it's been a long time coming.

It will be more interesting when the IRS starts trying to get your electric consumption data (assuming people aren't using solar panels, and/or live in a jurisdiction whose electric companies don't have to hand over such information about their customers to another governmental body) because more people are mining (inflationary) cryptocurrencies and trading that for other "assets" without going through 3rd parties like Coinbase (i.e. needing to upload any forms of government ID).

I wonder if this is the kind of stuff the G20 finance ministers will talk about at their upcoming meeting[0], though I kind of doubt it.

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relat...
I suppose if you do write a thousand ransom demands some of them are bound to work
> It's not that hard to keep a clone of the repo and upload later after the termination of the business rapport, either as a private or a public one.

that's not a github fork; and as they said, it's not really a 'security strategy' (mostly it's a bit of accounting).
Actually, if the cruise control system had some how locked up it would make sense that the throttle was set to some fixed position. Any changes to the aerodynamics of the car would effect the speed at a fixed throttle.

That said, this really is just low quality sensational spam.
That's not cruise control then, it's... 'throttle hold'? Even the cruise control on my 30-year-old Toyota will vary the throttle as required to maintain the set speed.
I’ve been pretty bullish on cryptocurrencies for a number of years, but it has to be acknowledged that it’s not if there are externalities, there are legitimate real world externalities that need to be considered. The article says that some residents of Plattsburgh have seen their electric bills go up by $100 or $200. Many of those residents will not see significant offsetting benefits.

Plattsburgh, New York as of the census of 2010: “The median income for a household in the city was $28,846 … About 13.6% of families and 23.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.0% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over.”[0] The income levels in federal poverty guidelines [1] are pretty low so there are very likely a number of households in the city that are above but near the guideline. However, it isn’t necessary to get bogged down by federal poverty definition to acknowledge that some folks are going to have a hard time with unexpected energy bills.

For a while I worked as a manager of a program that helps low income households with their utility bills. I can tell you from experience that if a fixed income senior or low income family were to suddenly receive a utility bill that was $200 higher than they were expecting, they would face serious hardship. Even as a somewhat comfortable working family with two incomes, my household finances would be thrown into a bit of disarray if we suddenly had to pay substantially more per month for electricity and I wouldn’t be too happy as rate payer if that increase came with no benefit for me.

The utility can’t just decide on a new rate schedule and start billing it, they have to go through a process. The process for setting utility rates is typically a protracted and expensive affair. I am not as familiar with rate cases in the eastern states, but per the NY State website it looks like it takes about a year [2]. If folks can’t pay their utility bills now, it’s not going to get easier.

City leaders see that their neighbors are having a difficult time so it seems reasonable to put a hold on mining activities until they can come to an equitable solution. It is unfair to other rate payers if they are being asked to effectively subsidize mining activities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattsburgh_(city)%2C_New_York...
[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/18/2018-00...
[2] http://www3.dps.ny.gov/W/PSCWeb.nsf/0/364D0704BEEC5B7D852578...
How old is your car? Cruise control in every automatic transmission car I've owned (dating back to the 70's) will use enough throttle to downshift the transmission and maintain speed on any freeway hill.

In a manual transmission, then sometimes it needs a downshift and any use of the clutch switches off the cruise control.
I've never seen a cruise control that worked like that. Set speed or min/max speed and the tachometer is nailed.
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I think he was very clear that his approach had nothing to do with the security of the actual code.
FWIW, this happened to a friend's Ford explorer with faulty electronics, self driving cars don't have a monopoly on automobile malfunctions
Right, but surely every engineer working on safety-critical systems would be aware of that, right? There are mitigations available, that I guess I naïvely assumed would be in place for a system that could end up killing dozens of people if it went wrong.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent people are put in danger, really in harms way, because of the American publics' reticence for reigning in their military masters.

You might think that American lives are worth more, but I happen to think that childrens' lives are worth more - of any nation - than any American.

Or have you forgotten the innocent children that were murdered in cold blood by Americans', as revealed in the video that Manning brought to the light? They mean nothing to you, right, because .. they're not your team?
Agreed. I don't think any modern car works on a fixed throttle.
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Which is and always has been a downright awful and dangerous feature. Going up a steep hill? Put the pedal to the metal so we can fly past other cars at 65 MPH.
You can always look at the 'from' link for a site (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=atlasobscura.com) and from there to the submission lists of submitters (click on username, then click on 'submitted'). Most of these ones are submitting from a wide range of sources, which is the desired behavior.
That's interesting, in the sense that it might explain a software failure, but it doesn't really explain why this wasn't failsafe anyway (given the possibility of a non-flashed ECU failing) nor why remote access was possible. I guess something doesn't add up here.
Depends on the car; a VW with automatic transmission has a "speed set" cruise control, the car will change gear and vary throttle at will to keep the speed; won't brake though, except by downshifting.
It more so applies to the tens of thousands of people who knew about these various crimes and did nothing.

Snowden is a better example of how to handle responsible disclosure than Manning, however.
FWIW, it was in the Daily Mail too with more detail. That probably still falls under the general category of "sketchy sources" but there are enough specifics it's not obviously totally made up out of whole cloth. But I'd put a lot less faith in any of the details.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5509373/Horror-ride-...
I genuinely, sincerely don't care how CTS acted.

I think attempts to profit off stock swings caused by vulnerabilities are silly and based off a misunderstanding of what really causes stock prices to move.

But even if they weren't, I wouldn't care.

There are three things you can do with a vulnerability that I have a problem with:

1. You can actively exploit the vulnerability to harm people (or knowingly share it with people who do).

2. You can sell a vulnerability without due diligence to ensure it won't be used to harm others.

3. You can lie about having found a vulnerability.

Other than that, have at it.
You say that and yet people are letting self-driving software on Android phones control their vehicles. I don't get it either.
With a gasoline car, you can in most cases drive to the next gas station, and get enough fuel to get to the hospital within 1-2m. With an EV, you have to wait. Did I overlook something?

The scenario of an empty EV battery is not that unlikely. Eg you forgot to charge when you returned.
I mean, you could even do git peer-to-peer via ssh. Each person sets up sshd and a bare git repository, add it to their remote and now they can push to each others "ssh" repositories and then fetch from it when wanted.
No one is trying to make that argument
So carburetors and no abs or traction control?
So what does that solution mean? Are you supposed to visit /999?
>Also questionable is the idea that MB would be able to remotely control the vehicle when every system other than the throttle had failed.

None of these things failed per se, they just weren't under user control.
As of 2018 it's now statute that it's not a like-kind trade, for 2017 it's still uncertain.
That page isn't loading for me, but he was not the Magus behind the famous Fate X AOL prog. I actually talked to that Magus and several of his friends a few years ago [1]. I'd heard Lamo claimed to be Magus, and maybe he went by that handle in some cases, but he was not the author of Fate X.

[1] http://patorjk.com/blog/2012/05/03/cracking-magus-fate-zero-...
For an individual, it’s a detail. At scale, real money.

With 150 million tax payers, if they had a $10 cut off everyone underpaid, that’s a potential loss of $1.5 billion, over half of the annual national parks budget. Not so weird.
When writing about past well-known events, it is probably best to give both the names people went by at the time and their current names. You need the past names because those will be the names on documents from the time of the event.
5 to 10 years? I think you're vastly overestimating the time it takes to do such a move. Maybe 5-10 months.
That's not what the OP is trying to say, though they have a hard time coming out and saying it, and their reply to you doesn't help matters.

Instead, what they are saying is that you should 1) use a specific version, and 2) host that version in a location you control. This way, updates don't impact your build just because you clamp to the latest (which is a moving target). Also, if they happen to rerelease a tag which worked for a previous build you made and now doesn't, you are still pulling in the same thing.

Basically, if you depend on something, host it yourself. Otherwise, you are asking to be bit by this.
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The effect would be to hopefully have the election rescheduled. In this case actually catching the people isn't necessary to make the attack useless because the final goal is to compromise the election which can be prevented without trying to break the ransomware or find the perpetrators at all which is why reporting it to the police usually does nothing. Also the stakes are a lot higher than the usual ransomware so unless the government itself is trying to break the election the police have a much large incentive to get involved.
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I did not say that. That's a straw man. If you have the same problem as Facebook it is useful to consider the same solutions. No one is saying that all projects have the same problems as Facebook

You can still technically version a graphQL API just the same as with REST. I haven't heard of anyone having to do this. In practice you add new fields and stop using old ones incrementally.

The biggest benefit is a front end developer can mock up a new UI without waiting on a new backend endpoint. You can a/b test many variations of your UI without a plethora of ad hoc end endpoints
2009 Pontiac and a 2013 Fiat, so relatively modern.

Couple of possibilities then, I suppose:

* They do work towards a set speed, but I'm too impatient and reset the cruise control before they achieve it.

* Cruise control operates differently on cars with manual transmissions. I've never actually observed cruise control behavior in an automatic because it's been broken on the automatics I've previously owned.
I'm rather surprised someone on hacker news could not have heard about Chelsea Manning in the past few years. (Or even just on the internet, really.)

If you have any interest in artificial intelligence and automation or their effects on society at large, I strongly recommend her Op-Ed in the Times last September [0].

Like her or not, she's a big figure in cybersecurity, freedom of information, and international politics. I thoroughly enjoy and benefit from what she has to say.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/chelsea-manning-b...
Are you serious? Basic animations were super easy to figure out in Google slides, whereas I still stumble in Powerpoint.

Perhaps it's because there's less functionality but I'm only making slides for internal consumption, so it just has to hide/show the relevant info.
These aging eyes have configured all my CLI work (which is most of it) to use amber on black.
"Hi, I know this is a thread about someone's passing, and I'm gonna let you finish, but unless you adopt my preferred method of reasoning on this tangential, hot-button topic that I haven't even given you a chance to properly discuss, you're an abusive person.

The polite thing to do is to think and talk the way I'm telling you to and move on with your life, because otherwise, you're a monster."
>So the truth is that people are using electric heaters instead of gas/oil based heating systems, and they are somehow blaming it on bitcoin mining?

what?

>What if the bitcoin miner (or any high-wattage business) sets up their own 1 MW solar array?

Why would a business that moved to (or set up in) Plattsburg to take advantage of the 2¢/KWh rate build any sort of energy production?
If you like this sort of thing and find yourself in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago has a room of 68 fully-furnished miniature rooms all in different period and architectural styles. They're pretty impressive and kids tend to love them also.

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Wow, some of them even have tread wear patterns. Now that is some serious attention to detail!
You must've not used the AWS or GCP CLI tools before... the commands are all very verbose with lots of mandatory parameters. There's really no way to avoid long commands.
I've never been in a car with a push-button ignition that would let you turn the engine off while the car was moving. Too easy to bump the button.
The story is sketchy and if true as written I would have by now expected the major networks to have it on front pages -- with a catchy title this is a sure way to increase views.

But to me that idea that opening the door slows the fly-by-wire car is not outlandish. In fact, this (and unbuckling for a few seconds) were first thoughts I had on how I would have tried to break out of the stuck fly-by-wire mode or at least activate a safer "limp to safety" mode.
You're really describing a more general issue with traditional cruise control and one of the reasons I rarely use it, especially on roads with any amount of traffic. Cruise control encourages you to keep to a set speed even when that makes you deviate from keeping in the flow of traffic.
So in NCFETs there is something called capacitance matching which is basically the value of the negative capacitor compared to the value of the positive capacitor.

When you have different values, then you can get NCFETs, and in different values, you get FRAM.

In FRAM you get states stored in the polarization of the atoms in the ferroelectric layer.
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That isn't true. There are many models with no mechanical linkages for the breaks.
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For most uses, Docs and Sheets "work". It is extremely easy to create a basic collaborative table or document. So long as you aren't stressing the sync features, everyone is on the same page.

Where G-Suite suffers is in the random features that a small segment of power users swear by. The keyboard shortcuts aren't the same as what people learned in Word/Excel. There are many incompatibilities and rendering issues with the Excel and Word formats. But these concerns apply mostly to advanced users; for basic documents, letters, lists, and tables, G-Suite in 2018 works well
I don't think "clockless" is apt, asynchronous, sure, but the gates are still, well ... gated, as far as I can tell, e.g. in the arm amulet research. There's no central clock, yes, but it's still time discrete, I guess.
No. One way to convince yourself of this is that regexp capture groups must properly nest: /())(()/ is invalid for example. Regexps famously cannot match balanced parenthesis.
A name is a label (think C pointer) to a specific person. So yes, Lamo did report the person now known as Chelsea Manning. It was the person that was reported, not a name. Names in themselves are almost entirely inconsequential.
Sorry, I meant justification as in the typesetting sense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justifie...

This is something TeX is _very_ good at. Word, less so.