skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely bullshit, and I regret being on both sides. I used to do coding screens, but I feel like some moderate knowledge of syntax and a decent education is enough to skip the rest. The whole cargo cult of coding screens came up during the 00's when Google made it look important, and you're correct that it's largely an exercise to convince the team that they're special.

Software engineering is the science of avoiding coding! And the code that these elite teams produce is often pure shit anyways.
I began using Ghost for a personal blog (on a micro AWS instance) a few months ago, and I'm very happy so far. I also "import" my Ghost articles to Medium - so that helps to get views while helping me maintain control of my publishing.
Are you not conflating two separate issues here?

How is letting you install your own OS helping with improving privacy?

In today's world can you really decouple hardware and software if you want strict controls over data and hence privacy?
Does the story really change when you add that?
I'm not trying to be cynical here, but what is the difference between this and following hashtags that interest you on any other social media platform?
There are people who have lost the key to wallets. For most of them, that is the same as not owning the cryptocurrency, but a small number might get lucky and remember where they put it, or remember enough of it to eventually recover it, at some point in the future. I haven't looked in detail, but do the rules address this scenario?
OK! We've updated the link from https://altcoinreport.co/irs-warns-taxpayers-to-file-cryptoc....
CommonSearch https://github.com/commonsearch/ was a project to try and build a search engine where you could "Explain" (in the SQL sense) the result, based on Common Crawl. Open Source and transparent. But it did not seem to have gathered much enthusiasm. Which I find sad.

If you have some loose change on you.. a bit of processing on 71TB of data.. and you got yourself an index precisely like you want it.

Anyway, without "some" NLP no search engine is going to be very useful.

You need to know how to tokenize.. at a minimum. For many languages, this is not as trivial as it is for English.
What if I bought 1BTC at $10, then I bought 1BTC at $200, then I bought something with 1BTC when BTC dropped to $100/1BTC? Which BTC was used for the purchase- the one I bought at $10 or the one at $200?

It sort of kills the use of cryptocurrency as "currency" in the US. Imagine if in the end of the year we had to report every dollar transaction (e.g. buying a coffee and a bagel), trace how you earned that dollar and calculate capital gains/loss.
A couple of days coding around RocksDB or LMDB would allow you to write one yourself.

I'm not mentioning LevelDB on purpose because it doesn't allow you to have several processes writing and reading to the store at the same time, which really sucks if you want to separate ingestion and projection services, for example.
Or we could honor the fact that if a guy buys a domain he owns it until he stops paying.
You report transactions. So if you lost your keys there should be no transactions
Our (used to) lighting division is selling a product where we use our LED-lights to track phones indoor. Always thought it one of the coolest applications of our tech. Using the fact that we can control LED frequencies invisible to the human eye but visible to a phones camera to pinpoint devices and provide indoor navigation [0]. Accuracy was tested to be 30cm (when combined with a few other factors).

[0] http://www.lighting.philips.com/main/systems/lighting-system...
Mua két sắt ngân hàng acb ở đâu – Pearltrees
Sure you do, in the inverse form of a braking slower car in front of you; its relatively the same thing either way, direction doesn't really matter. and when its a sudden change, it really feels like the ahead car is coming to you

And ofc bike-red lights dont look anything like car red lights, so the association doesnt really matter outside of teaching, and presumably quickly picked up even on first-time encounter on the road
I did the research a few months ago and don’t remember the details, so sorry if this is vague.

There are certain criteria that are required for something to be treated as a split and IIRC coin forks were really iffy in this case. The usual case in a stock split is that you get either more of the same security or something of similar likeness (a non voting class of shares in the case of the google split), which is arguable in the case of crypto.

You could argue it’s a split to save money and if you had a huge amount in BTC at the time of the split it’d be worthwhile. My tax savings were going to end up being trivial so I went with what was “safe”.

Edit: noticed your comment about Apple stock “moon”-big. If we’re reporting the fork as income then it’d be income at the value at the time of the fork. So if you had one BTC then the BCH income would be $277 or so and that would become the cost basis going forward. I didn’t have a lot of BTC so the actual tax cost was very low. If you’re holding thousands of BTC at the time then the story would be different and you’d be incentivized to argue a different tax treatment.

Apologies for the wordiness here!!
Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL
But the ISP does not follow me from device to device, doesn't (for home providers, anyway) correlate me with location info, and generally knows far less about me.

I'd rather Comcast didn't touch my data, but no, in the end I would trust them with it far more than I would trust Google or Facebook.
If I thought that a file manager would steal all my data, I'd never install it. On (most) desktops there's no easy choice: apps will have permissions, but you might be able to sue the author for illegal access if they took all your data.

On mobile, suddenly, it's: lol, you gave it away!

That makes little sense. Yes, we should have better sandboxes - but we still have very few (none) usable general operating systems with Internet access that are "secure beyond trust".

Absurdly, I'd be more confident in a typical Debian install with thousands of programs from "main", some running in the kernel - than a typical Android device.

Because of presumed incentives for the volunteers/employees working on debian and the various upstream projects.

This is 99% about trust and incentives and 1% about capabilities.
I don't understand how anyone can look at this story and think that we live under a "rule of law". Our rights and freedoms are only available to us if we're willing to pay top dollar for them. To the tune of $3M in this guy's case.

If we really want to believe that justice is available to all, we need to push for universal legal insurance, something akin to Medicare, so that everyone can afford their day in court against a MegaCorp that's trying to muscle them out.
It does make it hard, yes, but that’s what the IRS expects.

Edit: easiest thing to do as a workaround, imo, would be to build tax reporting into wallet software.
> During the 1990s, scientists became interested in the French paradox – the now discredited observation that heart disease rates were low in France despite a national diet high in saturated fats.

I joined a local Toastmasters club over a year ago. Last week we had a speech from a member who grew up in France, found his way to an engineering university in Florida, and now lives in Arizona. His latest speech told of how he's lived "the French Paradox". A few years ago he went home to visit family. His aunt squeezed his cheek and sweetly said, "You've become a fat American." The rest of the speech was about how this motivated him to return to his old French eating habits -- 5-course meals, small entrees, dairy, desert. He lost 50 pounds. One of the key points he raised was how he makes an effort to avoid most unsaturated oils.

There is no French paradox, because the French are correct to take food more seriously than Americans. That some scientists think there is a "French paradox" just shows how confused they are. IMHO, Ancel Keys' work was really just junk science [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys
You mean a law against non-consensual psychological experiments? Yes.
Wow! I gotta say, this looks fantastic. Thanks for the link!
I want a service that uses machine learning to read me Dril tweets in Jack Nicholson's voice. I don't ask for much.
Something with a the functionality of facebook and the commenting system of reddit would get me on board. When you get into a discussion with someone under a comment they posted on CNN you literally have to check in periodically to see if they replied and if two conversations get going on the same thread the're just layered in chronological order so things get really confusing. Facebook seems to actively discourage discourse. Just leave a comment and go away.

I also like how Mastodons feed just shows everything posted by people you're following in chronological order. I don't need a custom algorithm to decide what shows up in my feed when unless it's an algorithm of my design.

Also facebook has broken a lot of its features on mobile browsers to try and force people into installing it's apps. I don't want facebooks crappy apps on my phone so I have to force the desktop page to load to view private messages, but that breaks the website completely so I have to reload the mobile version of the site m.facebook.com while forcing desktop mode to be able to read private messages from the phone.

I would say that during it's rise to market leader facebook was the most user friendly social networking site, but the whole thing rattles and the tires are getting bald now
i still add meta keywords in the hopes of some day they'll be used by search engines ...
> You can use a droplet or AWS free tier, you'll just go offline in the "just in case" situation that your site gets hugged to death

Cloudflare in front with aggressive caching? What you're generating essentially is a static site, so it's safe to do that. If your S3 static site gets hugged to death, you won't go offline but you will pay an unexpectedly larger bill, so you should be setting up Cloudflare in front either way.
I see this form of argument a lot:

Companies have an {obligation, fiduciary duty} to maximize value for shareholders, therefore they have no choice but to do horrible things to {users, customers, the environment, civic institutions}

Presumably, decentralization, federation and open source will eliminate the profit-maximizing corporation, thereby stopping all the horrible things.

The problem with this reasoning is that it only addresses one side of a two-sided transaction. The corporation doesn't transact with itself. The other side of the transaction is the user.

What if every user was willing to pay $5 per month for a "clean Facebook" without ads, without surveillance, without psychological profiling, without selling private data to malevolent third parties?

If every user paid $5 a month, Facebook could continue their current business with the best computer science talent and a global network of data centers.

If every user paid $5 a month, Facebook's shareholders would do fabulously well.

But of course, that's a ridiculous proposition. Only an infinitesimal number of Facebook's 2.2 billion users are willing to pay for the service.

Since a social network only has value to a user when all the user's friends and family are also on the network, a Facebook that only has a few people willing to pay won't be very useful.

Advocates of decentralized social networks need to explain (1) who will pay, and (2) how to get enough users to make the network valuable to a typical user.

Until we figure that out, we're stuck with social networks that are free for users, monetized with advertising, and regulated by the state.
iOS isn't more granular, it just defers permission requests to the app rather than the app store. In proper practice that app then only asks for permissions when the user is performing an action that requires them, which at least helps the user to understand why they are being asked. Android has now shifted to this model too, but as always, old versions of Android persist.
In Volvos case the system is called City Safety and is only active up to 50 km/h (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_safety)

However there might be other systems which break automatically for cars, in the case of a sudden traffic jam for instance.
Look into commoncrawl.org which provides a free web index which you can query against. Now that cloud is available, you could in theory download the index and load it into Google's big query or AWS and run your experiments.
I think you misread my reply. I'm bringing these things up because Ghost can do them.
I hope Apple follows up on this by actually lobbying for a GDPR bill to be passed in the US.
Roadmap to Bitcoin Developments
intext:MYSEARCHTERM is what Google taught a few years ago when they had a "google poweruser web course" thing. My understanding is that these days it either doesn't work consistently or makes Google think you're a spambot and will shut you out after just a couple searches.
> Exchanging one token for another — for example, using Ethereum to purchase an altcoin — creates a taxable event. The token is treated as being sold, thus generating capital gains or losses.

Which is absurdly difficult for the average person to account for. If I buy 60000 XRP for 4 BTC, what is my cost basis? Do I have to keep track of how much those bitcoins were worth on a different exchange with Fiat pairings at the moment I traded on a pure crypto exchange? What if I don't have that data? How is that calculation supposed to account for actual liquidation costs if I liquidate to pay my taxes?
Discussion from yesterday (over 20 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667709
Fair enough if you meant the purely legal/policy sense rather than the actual people involved.
> I second the author that we need to host our own website and data, however finding an audience is really hard in post-Facebook world.

I think many of us wants even further back than the golden years of blogging: we want back to before "blogger" was a profession, back to when we put things on Internet to share and get feedback.

IMO "Finding an audience" is something you need if you are going to milk advertisers.
Worth mentioning that there exists a $5MM lifetime max that any individual can gift before paying taxes.

A common misconception is that you have to pay tax on every gift you make, but as long as you’re under that $5MM all you have to do is report it.
iOS had it's own issue, where Path uploaded a user's entire contact list without needing to ask permission for it. That was a wakeup call for Apple, and it should have been for Google too.
Compelled to use FB Messenger when WhatsApp is available? I don't think there are many people who have FB, but not WhatsApp.
I recently switched to Hetzner Cloud, which offers significantly more at lower prices. For about $2.50 you get about the equivalent of a $10 droplet. Only downside I can think of is that they don't have servers in the US (AFAIK) and I think they don't have a DNS panel.
The signup promotion in 2016 was for 5000 or 6000 lumens. Historically it looks like in 2016, 6000 lumens would have been worth five or ten bucks. So I guess that should be reported as income back then although it approaches being a rounding error.

At some point, stellar converted lumens to stellar. Anyone know if that would be considered a taxable event? Did that change my basis?
The Truth Wears Off (2010)
Theory:

1) Medium has SESTA/FOSTA concerns.

2) Medium constructs a broad, but also shallow/naive, search for warning terms.

3) Since darkweb pornographers accept cryptocurrencies, all crypto-related terms are included in the search.

4) One of those terms is "decentralized," which is also a property of Mastodon.

5) Mastodon gets auto-banned.
Mainly because they’re taking advantage of google not enforcing the 1tb cap on single accounts.
But I would be more concerned about the privacy of the iMessage content on an Android device than on an iOS device.
This has been a problem for me driving for years. Driving thru non-interstate highways in the middle of the desert, you're usually restricted to two lane roads, which have lots of dips and turns which block oncoming visibility. There are also people passing using the oncoming lane.

At night this can be pretty dangerous, and you can easily be blinded, as many people run with the brights on and don't notice an oncoming car is there until too late.

My personal technique for not getting blinded is to watch the yellow line on the right, lowering my vision and turning it away from the bright headlights of the oncoming vehicle, while still giving myself enough visual reference to hold my lane. Once the car passes in a couple of seconds, I can go back to looking at the road normally. Not looking directly at the headlights helps return my night vision much more quickly.
A list of accounts that I haven't interacted with in a long time, so I can decide whether or not to unfollow them and keep my timeline clean of content that doesn't engage me.
You could have said this same argument about Wikipedia vs Encarta back in 2000.

An open source, distributed social network doesn't need many servers and can be built by volunteers, so you don't need VC funding or a monetization model. Just get everyone to host and share their content and the content of their peers.

It may be like Linux and never be fully mass market, but that's totally fine by me, I share different content with my geekier friends than with my non-technical family anyway.
PS. I just edited- I think it's hard to calculate even in principle?
Facebook owns WhatsApp.
4-Step Guide for Converting Leads with Quiz Funnels on Facebook
Here is a list of company softbank has invested in:
Ola, Grab, Didi Chuxing, 99.

https://qz.com/1187144/softbank-not-uber-is-the-real-king-of...

Softbank/Saudi Arabia is going to control the global taxi market.
The company has been called Nissan since 1930's. Even if some of their cars were called Datsuns.
Not that it would probably ever apply to me, but I'm curious if that's per "individual gift giver - giver receiver" pair? Or is it the case that it's solely per individual gift _giver_? As in, would receiving a $500 gift from Bill Gates (who presumably has met the $5MM lifetime threshold) be fully taxable? Just random Sunday curiousness. :)
I'm pretty sure that was already against lots of TOS, and if it was illegal porn....already illegal.
Most thinking people hate them. Everyone at my job believes they wouldn’t would be able to pass the interview again for a job they’ve held for years.
What happens when your DDoS-protection reverse proxy deems your words wrongthink and drops you, allowing anyone with $50 to flood your server? What happens when your registrar drops your account and steals your domain name so that you can't transfer it elsewhere? What happens when you get BGP blackholed? And what happens when all the modern-day puritans on Twitter approve of these actions?

What happens when the oh-so-responsible Twitter crowd decides that the above actions are mandatory under some CS "code of ethics" they made up? What happens if they can back up their words with an industry blacklist?

You're screwed.

We have a massive society-wide problem with censorship and moving to small-scale private infrastructure won't help.
Paywall. Can someone provide a summary?
openjdk website has binaries, http://jdk.java.net/10/
> If I buy 60000 XRP for 4 BTC, what is my cost basis?

For the BTC? The USD value at the time you bought them.

> Do I have to keep track of how much those bitcoins were worth when I traded?

Yes

> What if I don't have that data?

You can get the transaction date via the block chain or your exchanges reporting and then lookup the USD value at the time.

> How is that calculation supposed to account for actual liquidation costs if I liquidate to pay my taxes?

Liquidating to pay taxes is another taxable event. That’s the same as if you did this with equities.
Plan to dramatically increase development would transform some LA neighborhoods
You have to keep track of the fair market value, in USD, at the time of exchange. When you liquidate to pay your taxes that would be another taxable event so you may need to liquidate more to make up for that.
And if your gifts are less than $15,000 per year, you don’t even have to report it. So the vast majority of gifts are not supposed to be taxed or reported.
Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition[1] build two games (shooter/platformer) in 6502 Assembly Language for a Commodore 64 emulator. Some other similar books are Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C[2] and Making Games for the Atari 2600[3].

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692980652/

- [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545484759/

- [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541021304/
The Girl Who Lost Her Way
Individual gift giver. So lifetime max per person! Not too shabby.
Guardian is a lovely newspaper. I particularly like the Long Reads, almost always interesting. They have a mailing list for that, and also a weekly news one, both just full of nice, useful content.
> Apple loves privacy and hates freedom. It sure looks like the only thing they actually care about is their financial interest.

Hates freedome how? This statement is overbroad.

In a nutshell, I would rather support Apple as they're primarily a hardware company that has stated their privacy interests align with mine. As opposed to me supporting an advertising company that happens to sell phones and produce a mobile operating system that seems tailored to do the opposite.

The fact that I can't install my own OS is entirely tangential to the overall company goals of Apple versus Google or even Samsung. Focusing on a phone platform to behave as if it was the PC platform of the 80's reminds me of the for want of a nail proverb.

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

Focusing too far down on "freedom" from the gnu perspective will just put us into territory we can't cover at all realistically right now.

Besides which, I just want to use my phone, not spend endless hours fucking around with it to install all manner of stuff.
FYI I removed my comment because I don't want to get targeted by the biggest killer of small business in the US.
Tim has watched War Games apparently.

iCloud exists but facilitates storing only core data and otherwise is a sync mechanism.

Social aspects of iCloud are what's "missing" so even a large breach wouldn't result is 100x users being exposed.

The most galling part of the FB failure was that the people breached weren't the ones who installed the misbehaving app. And society at large paid for it.
I had experimented with Python libraries for both speech recognition and speech synthesis a while ago. It was very basic stuff, but fun:

Speech recognition with the Python "speech" module:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-p...

Speech synthesis in Python with pyttsx:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-pytho...

Check out the synthetic voice announcing an arriving train in Sweden (near top of 2nd post above).
You should be able to choose the windowmanager at login once youve installed it like that.

Its probably a menu in the top right corner of either your username 'tile' or the screen, depending on your login manager
The technology behind this is very cool, but has been out since 2015. For example, one of their features is that it can illuminate pedestrians crossing the road. Some searching shows Mercedes is adding this technology to some of their upcoming cars [1].

I am so excited about tech that can make driving safer.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17086792/mercedes-smart-di...
Normie trading platforms are required by law to report to the IRS. That's how.
Would have to be per giver, otherwise it would be trivial to avoid (want Dave to get another $1m, either give $2m and have the taxes taken, or give $1.1m to Joe Bloggs, who gives $1m to Dave and keeps the rest.
I just finished re-reading the Ring yet again. For the first time I was able to get beyond the story and "see" Tolkien's writing skill. Impressive.