skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a lawyer or cpa but it sounds like a similar case when someone may have invested in bitcoin and immediately realized they were over extended. So they decided to reduce their position for a small transaction fee. Unfortunately this was enough to make the trade a small loss and ultimately I don’t know many people who pay taxes on losses.
Granted, but people already report ransomware to the police with little to no effect. Businesses held hostage with their entire livelihood report it and still end up paying most of the time. The resolutions come month later typically.

I'm not against the idea of trying to modernize voting or blockchain in general, but there are extremely practical and real problems that come with it which are a magnitude easier to accomplish than it is with paper ballots at the moment.

I'm sure there is a procedural medium which alleviates this but I'm not bright enough to think of it at the moment.
You're either trolling, or just being completely naive not to fear the IRS. If there is ANY agency you should fear, it's the Internal Revenue Service. They have infinite resources, and it might take a while, but they will get their money in the end.
For instance, you'd be able to create private forks in an organization without paying for the Github organization, then keep this private fork once the original membership is canceled.
> I would be worried that the IRS would claim you should have recognized a tax gain with every trade

They explicitly do consider crypto-to-crypto transactions as a taxable event now, as of the recent tax bill. You are required to pay taxes on it.
Sure. I would say that Rust and ReasonML are very alike and very different at the same time, and I'll explain why I feel that. ReasonML's own docs give Rust a notable mention: "Close cousin of ours! Not garbage collected, focused on speed & safety."

They both

- have powerful static type systems with good inference.

- default to immutability, with optional mutability.

- encourage functional constructs over procedural/imperative ones.

- ADTs and exhaustive pattern matching with great ergonomics which can be used for everything from rigorous error management to unambiguous program state representation.

- have escape hatches to write "I know what I'm doing and need more wiggle room"-code, but those are clearly visible for linting/auditing/testing, as opposed to languages that allow foot guns to invisibly permeate entire code bases because the language has no clearly discernible rigorous subset that one easily and naturally can keep to.

The list of features that make them alike can be made as long as your arm, and it's basically a laundry list of features that (once internalized in the developers mind) helps one build robust, correct, maintainable software. Sure, they're not carbon copies of each other but what it comes down to is enabling and encouraging the same semantic constructs.

So where are they not alike? I would say that the one constraint that the main differences result from is the fact that ReasonML's automatic memory management is a run-time solution (garbage collection) whereas Rusts is a compile-time solution (using static analysis), coupled with Rusts focus on raw performance. Everything else about the Rust language has (IMHO) been designed with the same sound underlying values as many other languages which encourage correctness. The differences that one notes when learning Rust are really mainly just the concessions that were necessary to make to achieve compile-time automatic memory management and raw performance.

Did that help? And as always, if I'm mistaken about anything, please correct me. I'm not a PLT person.
It's muddy for 2017 and prior years, but the new tax bill limits 1031 "like-kind" exchanges to real estate - so beginning Jan 1, 2018, it's a taxable event every time you sell a cryptocurrency, even if you're receiving another cryptocurrency in return.

The link you cited above covers this on page 4.

Keep in mind also that like-kind exchanges, if you're going to use them this year and for prior year reporting, require you to claim them explicitly on your taxes [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/11/27/tax-bills...
I feel that Alien Breed 3D was pretty ok; it didn't perform great but it was certainly playable. Weren't there a fair number of Doom-clones on the system?
>perhaps it is the case that to achieve positive change you do need to embellish

No, no, absolutely not in any way at all.
This to me is one of the most discouraging parts of mainstream media. "Old" stories get articles written about them as if they are new news. This is probably why social media has become where some people get their news.
This is typical. Most businesses don't duplicate their workflow stuff to a parallel system because database backups are sufficient.

GitHub, even with relatively recent issues and downtime, has better infrastructure and skilled personnel than most companies hosting their own instances of these services on some reclaimed box.
Quebec has done the same thing with cheap hydroelectric and aluminum production.

Instead of selling th energy for a pretty penny to the NE USA, they sell it below-market to preserve a small number of jobs in the industry since it’s highly automated.

$300 000 to preserve each job per year
https://www.iedm.org/3341--300-000-per-job-each-year-for-35-...
Russians have been stuffing boxes for years in Russia and it only came known after the surveillance camera was retrieved.
I hate to diss kottke also, but this specific article is the textbook definition of blogspam, and we shouldn’t excuse low quality in deference to ethos. I left out some of the other issues this has, like political advocacy over content.
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Look at the "Reception" area of the wiki post for one of the Amiga's famous early games, Defender of the Crown. It's a quite from Brian Bagnal's Commodore book that explains to a degree the significance of experiencing the Amiga's graphics way back when. I remember the feeling he describes, well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_of_the_Crown

Also, I saw this article pop up yesterday that takes a look at "The Amiga Concsiousness." It may help, here.

http://countingvirtualsheep.com/the-amiga-consciousness/
Git is a DVCS, this is only an issue if you use it as if it were a traditional VCS.
I think a fork is just an internal branch on the original repositoriy for the Github Servers. From a data / sys admin point of view, it makes sense, since a hard-copy of a repository (and all the git objects with it) is just generally useless.
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Please help me understand the logic of naturalness. Suppose we have one constant, alpha, approx= 1.425, and another (beta) approx=2.157 - such setup is deemed natural. And if the other constant is approx 2.157 times 10^40, it's not natural. and needs fine-tuning, right? The underlying assumption is that fine-tuning is not needed for a former setup, that is, if beta was about 0.5%, or 0.05% different from where it sits at 2.157, then we would be totally fine, Universe would look the same for all intents and purposes. I fail to see how this follows. Maybe the difference by 10^(-40) would make life impossible? how can we possibly know this?
Does that differentiation necessarily mean Bitbucket repos are immune to this problem?
mixing = multiplying, not superimposing

I know, it's confusing ...
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Also, In terms of reliability, which one is better between logstash and fluentd?

I saw logstash and fluentd is really similar, The difference that I found is just fluentd has buffering into disk mechanism, but logstash not (logstash only has the in memory queue buffering)
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> It is that at the end of a lookahead or a lookbehind, the regex engine hasn't moved on the string. You can chain three more lookaheads after the first, and the regex engine still won't move.

Omg, thank you, that is the insight I needed and now I completely get it. Internet +1 for the day.
For the limited purpose of helping another entrepreneur sleep easy, and not to offer accounting advice: The IRS has to recover ~$1k per IRSian hour to make it worth their time, for reasons which fall fairly straightforwardly from consulting math that you're very familiar with.

Consider the set of all companies in the economy which spent $15k last year on "computer hardware." How many IRS hours would be required to read all their returns, given that they are sitting in a pile. How many would, on examination, show a deficiency? How much would those deficiencies be worth, on average? What's your ballpark estimate for how long it takes a government employee to put through a single routine non-trivial work order?

Suppose the IRS sits down with a randomly selected small business for a site visit audit. Suppose they budget 2 hours onsite and 8 hours offsite for the audit. How many of those minutes do you think they will spend on that line item, specifically? Does it allow them to do more than ask "I see your return shows $15k on computer hardware. What was the hardware? Can you show me your records?"
I haven't paid for private repos (at least not for a few years) and yet I'm a member of several ... and I can fork them as needed without paying. In my case, I would expect that I would lose access to my fork if the private repo was no longer a paid account.
seems to be an example of cutting of one's nose to spite the face. This will unfortunately prove counter-productive.
If you live in a subdivision built within the past couple decades, your electric runs underground, making it quite expensive to run a second or third primary phase. You also then need a three-phase transformer, which is considerably larger than a typical one-phase. Oh, and your service will be commercial/industrial, which typically comes with demand and energy charges that can be quite steep: https://www.northwesternenergy.com/docs/default-source/docum...
This combined with the election meddling and recent assassination in the UK feels like a clear reignition of the cold war.
Thanks for the link. I think there's a lot of room for experimental, artistic, or even scientific specialty encoders. There's so much flexibility in picking out what's "important" in a signal.
We already do, a four degree and a final year project.
Can it help forensic determine if it's the same attackers behind different incidents?
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Yeah, that is the hard bit of it for sure, that's why I thought maybe you could just sum up and demonstrate the steps you took after the bug hunt was over. But an edited version would be very cool too.
"Increasing fines for the 1% can solve at most 1% of the speeding problem."

Incorrect. 1% on the income distribution is not necessarily 1% on the speed offenders pool. But I guess that is, nevertheless, an accurate thought model for "normal brain" :)
I don't think Musk would spring for LIDAR until it's under $1000. If necessary, they can then find a way to retrofit the hardware onto those who already paid for the full autonomy option (maybe tens of thousands?), and for others, they can wrap the (relatively modest) cost into any future autonomy upgrades. "Enhanced autonomy" is a $5000 option for the Model S, with "Full autonomy" being another $3000. A $1000 LIDAR system definitely fits.
> Please Enable JavaScript or use plain html

Link then goes 404.
My 2 cents, do more to try to fix the environment you're in. If you're adding the kind of value it sounds like you are, then you might have more power than you realize. Worst case scenario they push you out, in which case you're in a similar position to just leaving.

6-8 months of savings is okay, but might not be enough especially if you haven't yet gotten traction when applying to new jobs. Burn out is bad, but the desperation that can come from a long job hunt as your savings dwindle can be a different kind of hell.
Not at all. A negligible increase in total cost compared to the amount it costs to build a house. You can search Home Depot's site for models.
>enable local companies to steal intellectual property and undercut western companies

We can't blame China for the disadvantages our intellectual laws place on us.
Let’s fix the good old command line
Even small changes can have pretty big consequences ... for example, some hypothesize that climate change may have had a role in the "Arab Spring" that started a chain of events that's still unfolding in the middle east:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/201...

"“The Arab Spring and Climate Change” does not argue that climate change caused the revolutions that have shaken the Arab world over the past two years. But the essays collected in this slim volume make a compelling case that the consequences of climate change are stressors that can ignite a volatile mix of underlying causes that erupt into revolution."

TL;DR climate change contributed to changing agricultural conditions, which led to increased migration from rural to urban centers, which was a "stressor" that probably contributed to an already volatile situation ... the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back (pun not necessarily intended).

So yeah, a meter of water level rise would change a massive amount of coastlines ... which would result in population shifts, which would result in economic activity changing, which could result in ... we'll see.
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There’s a simpler argument in favor of high-powered facilities, but in geopolitics it is hypocritical, bestial and misanthropic: better physics facilities provide strength to intellectual backbone of your nuclear deterent, keeping it reliable, competant and accurate, so things really work if they need to.
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Indeed, but don't underestimate the value of buying time, especially when it's measured in centuries. That gives us time to transition our economies away from fossil fuels, time to develop more efficient agriculture and industry, perhaps even the holy grail of clean energy - fusion power.

In theory it also buys us time to migrate more slowly away from the coast, or deploy carbon sequestration technologies, or build sea walls. All of which may get easier with more advanced technology. But I don't have much faith in humans doing that if we move the consequences further out into the future. We're so collectively short-sighted as a species.
> a Secret Society of French Woodworkers...

One of my great grandfathers was a Compagnon (couvreur: slater). He made a table with a single piece of slate of 2m diameter and maybe 5cm thick, on top of a medieval column marquee (taken from a church that was being renovated). The table is in my garden, it's beautiful.

As for the society, there has never been anything "secret" about it --- maybe some specific rituals, I'm not sure, but the fact of being a member is very public: it's actually the whole point.
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Let me guess. This article doesn't count as politics, either.
But the QC is terrible. The interconnect cable had connection issues, keys are often 'stuck' (not physically, just keeps repeating until I press it again), etc.

Ages ago I had a Matias keyboard: https://jakeseliger.com/2007/10/18/product-review-matias-tac...

Never again.
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Ask HN: Will a MOOC certificate impress entry level Python employers?
Will it make a difference to employers of entry level developers if you have a MOOC certificate? Is it worth pursuing for this aim, or will they be interested only to see what a potential employee has built?
> The law is shoddily drafted, considering “keep” and “retain” are usually synonymous.

It's a doublet. These are in general very common in laws, though this particular one doesn't appear to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_doublet
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Ah, thanks for pointing me to it. I still find the behaviour unintuitive, but at least it is documented somewhere.
“So, Vinuth, will it work this time? Huh?”
I would guess that it's stored and dealt with using a basic "copy on write" strategy. It's functionally a copy, which is all that usually matters. This may have been an oversight.
Which is why I don't read or watch those news orgs.
Any chance you have an ETA?
> it's another example of the same physical process

That's an analogy.
> the people, who value privacy of themselves and of the others

The problem is that privacy is not the only thing we care about, and the balance between different needs is a complicated political problem - which is exactly the kind of "soft", people problem which complexity a typical software engineer would underestimate.

Turkey is becoming more and more authoritatian, indeed. However, they're also sharing a border with ISIS and there's a lot of terror activities in the region. Fighting such threats always leads to increasing influence of the military and secret services, and their new capabilities will be used both to fight terror and suppress citizens.

These things are a double-edged sword; any simplistic view on this is inadequate, regardless of whether it's positive or negative.
That is true. I'm sorry, Richard Stallman, please forgive me! I always call it GNU/Linux, I promise!
Transfering files (mp3, photos, random stuff I am transfering between laptops, esp. when not connected to the internet) and charging.
But that's new with the new tax bill. It wouldn't apply to 2017 taxes.
I know that this is the total transactions and not profits, and the numbers are way, way off. I have a local copy of all my trades, of course, and they match perfectly with the transaction history available on GDAX. But the numbers that Coinbase reported on this 1099-K are completely wrong. They literally put the wrong numbers in the 1099-K. And as one would expect, dealing with Coinbase support is about as much fun as being set on fire. I fear that Coinbase is going to end up costing me a lot of time and money because of their botched accounting.
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If I'm correct, I believe you only pay taxes when you realize the gain. So if you never sell you'll never owe taxes? Can someone confirm this?
Are there any software projects of that size that are clean and well-structured?

The larger a codebase grows, the less tractable it becomes. Refactorings are harder, more expensive and riskier. Also, more developers means more attack surface for inconsistencies and crappy code of someone unmotivated.
Sold. There's an English translation on Project Gutenberg, under the name The Golden Asse. I'm going to give it a look.
If you declare taxes, you have very little to fear. If you use potential loopholes, be aware you might need to consult a tax lawyer and go to court. But again, if you are aware of this, aside from your final legal bill, you have nothing to fear.
It absolutely constricts you. You being funny?

>> unfortunately, confidence isn't a perfect signal.

>I think that's a major understatement.
>There's the Dunning–Kruger effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

"major understatement"

People rank themselves very well. They don't rank "spacing" all that well but they rank absolutely accurately.

For a "major understatement" I would expect it would be so bad they rank incorrectly which is NOT the case (as per stated by your wiki link, Dunning–Kruger could be wrong)

People rank themselves in the order they should be accurately. (With variance blah blah blah)
This scenario seems contrived to me. You'd have to have an emergency immediately upon the termination of a trip during which you'd completely exhausted your battery.

You can run out of gas in an ICE car too, and then it's even worse because you need to go track down a gas can instead of plugging in. The simple solution, of course, is to never fly that close to the Sun.
Could the IRS do me a solid and send me what the capital gains on my crypto currency are? I'll pay the taxes--I just don't want to have to calculate the taxes.

I know, I know. Intuit and H&R Block refuse to allow that to happen, but if we could stop prioritizing entrenched industries, that'd be really nice.
I like to add the lookahead:

grep -oP '(?<=...)pattern(?=...)'

The caveat however is that the look{ahead,behind} pattern has to be of fixed length.
When the car needs to go on a tow truck you'll want a steering wheel.
Are you planning on also looking at Rust on the front end?
Not quite. Firstly, retail is not a huge loss maker like people make it seem. Amazon has shown in the past that it can make a 6.6% margin on retail (which is fairly huge). Even right now North American retail makes about as big a profit as AWS, losses are coming from international retail.

So in the end you can imagine Amazon being something like 6-7% margin on retail (that's not assuming any technological paradigm shifts like fully automated warehouses, amazon owned banking and payments, fully amazon owned logistics) and 25% margins on AWS.

On top of that you have a fast growing ads business that is destined to rival Google and Facebook (if not displace them) with fat margins, and a big chunk of the smarthome/IoT market via Alexa and AWS.
Just yesterday on HN I was recommended of git-ssb.

I think it's time.
Right, but I'm saying GitHub could allow you to keep accessing those cloned repos if the upstream repo was disabled as long as you switch to a paid plan. I.e. they could treat it the same way they treat your own private repos when you go from a paid to unpaid plan.
That game should not have been banned.
I guess the detection of the Higgs boson is already a great thing! That was the missing part of the Standard Model. Now that theory is complete -- within its limits/Energy scale. Too bad that the many years before the LHC there was an ever increasing backlog of theory to be tested against experiment. Damn, Physics has so much in common with Software Development... ;-)
Energy efficiency has been a big factor, but an even bigger one is the energy-intensive heavy industry fleeing from the developed world to china and other places where power is cheap and plenty. Countries like Germany that kept their industry at home face extraorbitant prices. I think they pay close to 30+cents/kWh.
I'll be quite happy to pay them $11. :) Here's hoping that's all it would end up being.
I actually like that definition. If it's causing harm to customers - prove it. Efficiency is not a crime.
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Even if they have great infrastructure, this article is evidence that they can still take you down at any given moment if they so much as feel like it.

You need those database backups.
They could give you an option to make it public, if this is the concern.
> "A couple people I knew came through the jail, and they say they got meat maybe once a month, and every other day, it was just beans and vegetables," Qualls told Sheets. "I put two and two together and realized that that money could have gone toward some meat or something."

That's hardly "starving".

This article title is sensational and should be changed. It serves no one to misrepresent the truth, especially in a world dominated by hyperbole and sensationalism.

Edit: Those downvoting me, what about my statement do you disagree with?
Nixon was barely a conservative. He gets a bad rap due to Watergate but really he was one of the most liberal Republicans elected to the presidency.
In the alternative case, a company who terminates an engineer can't prevent them from accessing the code if they've forked it. This is a"problem" with git, which GitHub has tried to solve for its paying customers. Whether or not you agree... GitHub has worked like this for years.
I can't stop looking at it. I am going nuts.
I think he was referring to operating costs.