skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone elsewhere made a great point that I'm wrestling with. There are totally legitimate uses of friend-data for an API client, such as a custom news feed.

Apps on Windows have access to pretty much everything. There are legitimate reasons for that. It could be abused.

When a Windows app misbehaves, abuses the trust the users have placed in it, we don't blame Windows. We blame the app.

Why then, in FB, in the same situation, have we mostly blamed FB?
Netlify CMS solved the problem you described.

https://www.netlifycms.org/
I thought you didn't need to unless you sold. If you simply buy or receive, that also needs to be reported? I have some of those stellar/lumens from when they awarded them for free for signing up back in 2016, but have never sold or transferred them.
Facebook is the new AOL. It’s got everything old people need to be happy on the internet. It’s even the color blue!
Nah. EPOS wasn’t our main business - or even competence! Got dragged into it because we could do the backend...
It's just co-incidence that they align on this issue, though. They care about user privacy because they happen to make most of their money by selling hardware, not ads or data. But ask them to open up that hardware and let you install your own OS? That's a no. Even something as simple as letting your preferred mapping software be the default.

Apple loves privacy and hates freedom. It sure looks like the only thing they actually care about is their financial interest.
That's how much a soul costs these days. Millenials love dark rituals and demonic tutoring..
It's far more than that in the end, but yes: mode switching is a spot where you need whole-system management of the resources. The XFree86 binary couldn't easily make assumptions about what someone else was doing.
I would assume it would be treated like a company spin-off.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052115/why-are-some...
Literally in the first sentence:

> report their cryptocurrency earnings
What happened to the Freedom Box? I think that is the only promising solution to online data tracking. Most problems could be solved if everyone had a small personal server so that developers could deploy online applications that store the data locally.
He is not even mentioning Latin America which is one of Ubers biggest markets. Maybe because it doesn't fit the story?
Can someone explain how a "property payment" is reported and taxed:

"A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property."
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-reminds-taxpayers-to-report...
EURUSD
Nope. If you mine cryptos or receive them as income they’re reported as income. You also have to report gains if you spend them or trade them for another crypto currency.
Gobolinux is also mostly powered by shell script (i think you may find the odd python and compiled code in there for performance reasons).
No one even considers that Medium might be right and we might be better off without Liberapay aka Gratipay aka Gittip. May I remind you of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7844457
Yeah, that makes sense. But that's not going to be very accurate. That will be accurate at the tuple space, but not down to the nearest centimeter in X Y coordinates or anything like that.

Plus, if there is any mass between the marker and the tracked device, that will throw off readings. RSSI measurements are really only good for open air measurements or if you have characterized all the materials the rf passes through.
That’s Apple cared only about issues like this. In the slightest is too narrow.

Plausibly they care for many things and trade them off.
The point is there are tons of cloud hosting / self hosting / hosting over tor... Do you think piratebay would have survived a medium take down if they centralized through a service like that.
Because the Internet wasn’t created for trademarks. People can have the same name as a trademark, which likely goes back much further before the trademark was created.
They're a scrappy startup, and don't have much legal firepower.

And if your project becomes big money, they may sue because they are still struggling to get by and you aren't.

So I think your impetus to turn it down is the correct one.
"No", respond taxpayers.

How do they intend to record this?
What matters is whether or not you target users in the EU. If people in the EU use your services in spite of you taking no action to target them, then GDPR doesn't apply.

HN probably would not be considered to be targeting EU users because it is an English-only forum based in the US that does no marketing towards EU users. If they added a German-language forum, then they would probably need to start following GDPR because that would be interpreted as targeting users in the EU.

This is based on CJEU's interpretation of previous regulations[1]. Factors that they listed were:

> Use of the language of a Member State (if the language is different than the language of the home state);

> Use of the currency of a Member State (if the currency is different than the currency of the home state);

> Use of a top-level domain name of a Member State;

> Mentions of customers based in a Member State; or

> Targeted advertising to consumers in a Member State.

[1] https://www.wileyrein.com/newsroom-newsletters-item-May_2017...
Yes. Most of the interesting parts of modern graphics drivers are loaded into the X client process these days, anyway. Whoever wants to render something talks directly to a thin kernel interface with the X server out of the way except for some high level management stuff.
I had a bad experience but with mods last year. I was banned to posting in the group. The same kind of posts I used to publish for years suddenly converted in off topic subjects. Obviously these where posts where something around security (e.g. Windows hooking) was involved.
The problem with the idea of going back to a distributed internet is that it directly contradicts the primary thing people in the #DeleteFacebook rant about: Privacy.

The only way to ensure that your content doesn't get reshared without your permission is to create a tightly locked-down walled garden. If you're really worried, you need some sort of DRM too. And if you're really really worried, you need global laws that ban software that breaks DRM.

You can't have private, distributed data. You have to pick.
For me devops is summed up thus:

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...
>lus, if there is any mass between the marker and the tracked device

there are no markers so there is no attenuation happening in that way.
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Treat it as if you sold the crypto for USD (and pay capital gains). So if you bought a crypto for $10, the price appreciated to $110, and then you bough something worth $110, then you have to pay taxes on $100 of income. It’s the same place you repot capital gains for equity (I don’t remember the form number)
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. Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather not plan for failure in the event of success.

Part of the value added in SaaS like Ghost(Pro) is that the infrastructure needed to deal with traffic spikes is built-in. There really ought to be a pricing model along the lines of "I really don't expect this site to get much traffic at all, so sell me a cheap plan for day-to-day expected usage, but just in case something I write happens to go viral, I pre-approve a charge of $100 (or whatever) to deal with the traffic spike, and in case there's new sustained traffic then I'll of course upgrade to a more expensive plan which covers a higher expected rate of day-to-day traffic."

Edit: let's put it another way: if you're publishing something to the Internet, it's because you want other people to read it. You therefore want other people to actually be able to read it in the rare but foreseeable circumstance that it becomes popular. If you didn't care about that, and you were really just writing for yourself, you'd just keep an offline journal.
I don’t think the reward from heroin is in any way related to the struggle of aquiring it, whereas the reward from the other examples largely comes from overcoming the struggle.
I’d just love to debate a fascist Justice Department over the meaning of “You will not be affected...” as I am led off into detention. Real rights are often negative rights. My home ownership has little to do with entitlement to activities within. It has everything to do with keeping you out of my house if that’s what I choose. Get it?
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon will be perfectly unperturbed when the so-called “attention economy” goes away. They are real companies offering real goods and services.
This already exists. It's called scuttlebutt and it's awesome. No coin or ICO involved, just a bunch of smart programmers solving hard problems. The best bit is you can use it with just an app, you don't need to setup your own sever or trust someone else's to host your content like every other decentralized social network I've seen.
Keep in mind:

- Trading cryptocurrencies produces capital gains or losses, with the latter being able to offset gains and reduce tax.

- 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.

- Receiving payments in crypto in exchange for products or services or as salary is treated as ordinary income at the fair market value of the coin at the time of receipt.

- Spending crypto is a tax event and may generate capital gains or losses, which can be short-term or long-term. For example, say you bought one coin for $100. If that coin was then worth $200 and you bought a $200 gift card, there is a $100 taxable gain. Depending on the holding period, it could be a short- or long-term capital gain subject to different rates.

- Converting a cryptocurrency to U.S. dollars or another currency at a gain is a taxable event, as it is treated as being sold, thus generating capital gains.

- Air drops are considered ordinary income on the day of the air drop. That value will become the basis of the coin. When it's sold, exchanged, etc., there will be a capital gain.

- Mining coins is considered ordinary income equal to the fair market value of the coin the day it was successfully mined.

- Initial coin offerings do not fall under the IRS's tax-free treatment for raising capital. Thus, they produce ordinary income to individuals and businesses alike.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/cryptocurrency-and-taxes-wha...
>I don't see how disparate experiences are bad experiences. Those are two entirely different things

Inconsistent experiences is perhaps the single biggest complaint about Android as a platform. This is on comparison to iOS which has much stricter controls on how things can look and what you can do. Unified interfaces are better experiences. Predictability is a part of good ux.

>Is there any reason this can't be done today? I already have root on my platform, and, afaik, I can spoof my gps coordinates. Besides, if you don't like how a platform has set up its permissions, then don't develop for that platform

I'm honestly not 100% sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's the kind of thing that only possible via BusyBox or whatever.

As for the second part of your comment: losing Uber for a feature that will be used by 6 people is not a reasonable trade-off for a platform to make.

>There's no way of knowing whether or not they actually keep my data.

Well yes there is. You can see all the data Google has one you via takeout. For location specifically, there's timeline.

Unless you mean that you think they are lying and secretly storing your data in which case there's a plethora of legal reasons they can't do that. You're veering off into conspiracy territory.

(I work at Google but these opinions are mine alone)
I tried—I really did try—to use server-side rendering for every project I've worked on. I find it really unpleasant when I hit a site, like a blog or something, which has almost entirely static content and yet it still rendering it locally. The experience is objectively worse, and I had no interest in making that the case for my users.

But there's a middle ground in practice. Public-facing website that users might hit from a search engine? Obviously render it on the server, and if required progressively enhance it. Something more akin to a web application? Server-side rendering makes everything slower and more complex without benefiting any users. If you aren't using Node on the server, it's even more complex.

I really hate that this is the case. I had this firm idea in my head – "every URL is an HTML page, and users should be able to take that URL and request it using Curl or whatever, and see the content of the page". In practice, we were developing a highly-interactive, domain-specific application that relied heavily on client-side scripting to be realistically useful for users. There were no users without JS that I was able to find. We were doing a huge amount of work to follow a rule of progressive enhancement, that in practice slowed down the experience for users and, benefited nobody, and made development ~ an order of magnitude harder.
See also: BBM
This all seems pretty reasonable IMHO. Relevant section:

* A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property.

* Payments using virtual currency made to independent contractors and other service providers are taxable, and self-employment tax rules generally apply. Normally, payers must issue Form 1099-MISC.

* Wages paid to employees using virtual currency are taxable to the employee, must be reported by an employer on a Form W-2 and are subject to federal income tax withholding and payroll taxes.

* Certain third parties who settle payments made in virtual currency on behalf of merchants that accept virtual currency from their customers are required to report payments to those merchants on Form 1099-K, Payment Card and Third Party Network Transactions.

But I think this last one is probably the most interesting to us HODLers

* The character of gain or loss from the sale or exchange of virtual currency depends on whether the virtual currency is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer.
Pretty much every major company has a mission statement about "improving the world" in some way. Can't really think of any that says that their goal is to cheat, lie, and steal to hasten the coming of the Brave New World.

If you seriously think that "people behind them are more concerned with impact on the world than on generating profit" then I have a bridge to sell. Oh, and shareholders would like a word with you, too.

There's nothing wrong with generating profit, and I would trust people motivated by profit fart more than ones motivated by the whole "making the world a better place" -- the latter tend to be genocidal maniacs -- but for companies that's exactly what they are supposed to do, generate profit. It just would be nice if they were a bit more transparent about how they do it, whether Facebook, or Google.
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This could be interesting, and it's certainly timely. Hope it works. I signed up to get an invite.

Ryan Grove (@yaypie on Twitter), director of engineering, says:

“We want Cake to be a place where people have great conversations. That means we’re not interested in being a platform for hate speech, harassment, and trolls, because those things aren’t great. Cake was built with this in mind from the beginning, not as an afterthought.”

https://twitter.com/yaypie/status/977263143817699328
How does the non-compliant taxpayer intend to justify the origin of the money when BTC hits $1mn or whatever and he buys a lamborghini and a penthouse?
Coinbase and other crypto exchanges report to the IRS for one. There’s also forensic accounting where large unexplained cash flows (i.e. buying a house for money far above your income level) establish probable cause, which allows them to go fishing.
What isn't sane around "report your income"?
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It's not that they particularly have a way to record this though if you happen to convert your earnings through a US based exchange, ostensibly they could track you.

It's that if they do catch you you are signing up for lots of fines and or imprisonment by not previously declaring.
Why should I trust a corporation (e.g. Valve) with 2-factor authentication?
Formerly, posting your real name online was a cardinal sin, and providing a service with a phone number wasn't much better. If the odds of my account being compromised without 2-factor authentication are low enough, what benefit is there? It seems both inconvenient, and invasive. I have no reason to trust a company.

I don't feel the need to connect my internet accounts with myself. An email (even a temporary one) and a password should be good enough, and I'm very grateful that some services (e.g. HN, reddit) still follow this model.

I assume some of you aren't on the same page, and I'd like to know why you consider it beneficial.
I also noticed recently that if you search for problems using google cloud stuff (app engine in my case) on google, the full first page of results are the documentation for the product. What I wanted was stack overflow posts, or angry forum posts where other users had the same questions. Or somebody’s personal blog or GitHub gist where they talk about what to do. If I want all results from the documentation I can go to the documentation and search from there! If I used google to search for information on C# programming they wouldn’t return a page of 100% MSDN results, so I don’t see why they do for app engine.

Not strictly related to your comment, but similarly frustrated.
Do you really want to live your days feeling dependent on this sort of "service"? Do you really want to say, "but I need Facebook!".

In today's age, you need a phone number and e-mail. It's ok - they are decentralized. Don't let a centralized platform of Facebook's evil nature become necessary for you to live your life.

Delete and forget it existed. Ignore and move on. Give up the benefits and pay the cost.
Apple's non-investment in cloud is starting to pay off. Hey Tim, how about letting app developers and browser makers use a non-safari rendering engine on the iPhone?
I would imagine using the same mechanisms they use to track down unrecorded income from other sources.
If you can deal with the German UI you could check out labarama.com. I wouldn't know it if I hadn't met the developers on a night out. It's an altruistic project from Austria that keeps to the basics.
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If Apple's stock were to split and then "moon" would you claim the difference in portfolio value as misc income? That sounds nonsensical to me. The IRS guidance states it can be treated as a capital asset. You're still HODLing right? Right?
Lots of people cheat on their taxes.

This isn’t different than any other form of undeclared income.
Sure, I could do that. Just yesterday someone described AWS as an "Ikea" construction set, where it's all there but you have to figure it out (and the AWS documentation is not very good). I need to start blogging, anyway, so thanks for the push.
I get where you're coming from, but I'm not sure that matters to me personally. Privacy and security are important to me, and that's what Apple is selling, so I'm going to buy.

The more consumers support privacy as a selling feature, the more Apple will guard it. I'll gladly pay a premium to a company that has a vested interest in keeping my shit safe, and a straightforward business model of keeping me happy enough to sell me more shiny things.
The algorithm needed for Multi-Master (decentralized) data is a CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type).

Specifically, this solves the problem of data consistency across different node/peers without needing a central (ie, Facebook's servers) master.

The way it works, is like so: http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html

However, a blockchain is still actually useful for a P2P Facebook. A blockchain that uses a consensus algorithm (PoW, PoS, etc.) is not scalable enough, though. But that is okay, as we do not need to solve the Double Spending problem for tweets/photos (see the previous link as to why).

So what does a "blockchain" mean then? A blockchain is a cryptographically signed linked list, often a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph). But these graphs would more likely be social networking data, which is naturally a graph - and they would be signed with user's public/private key pair.

Solving for that is pretty easy, we already have it working:

http://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wit...

And our goal is to build a social network that has distinctly different properties than Facebook, one that is based on psychological research and emotional intelligence:

https://hackernoon.com/a-new-kind-of-social-network-emotiona...

Finally, the hardest factor is to remove the complexity of cryptography. There turns out to be a good security standard that lets user emulate username/password combos (see the middle link for more details), in summary:

You use PBKDF2 to extend a user's password with a salt, this creates a Proof of Work which is used as an AES symmetric cypher key to decrypt their private key. Fully P2P, but with a traditional UI that users understand, yet PBKDF2 makes it impractical for a cracker to guess (or even a dictionary attack) against the user's account.
The useful part of block chain is the Merkel tree, where each small piece of data is tamper proof and consistent because it hashes the data that came before it. Having all the social data on one big chain would be silly, because it would never scale.

Scuttlebutt is a protocol just like you describe and is already being used by different clients and plugins to build a distributed social network that works quite well.
Apple can make a very good case that your vision of freedom is in opposition to privacy. By preventing certain things you categorize as 'freedom' Apple can provide stronger security and privacy protection, they can limit the ability of untrustworthy developers to sidestep protections, they can make it incredibly difficult to set up side-channels that leak privacy, and they can set OS-mediated protections of device info (GPS, etc) that are difficult to bypass.

The fact that this privacy protection happens to be in the financial interest of Apple pleases me, because they are unlikely to sell out long-term interests in protecting reputation for short-term gain in abusing my trust. This alignment of interests makes Apple a better guardian of my privacy, not worse.
From what I can gather, I downloaded one tenth of Usenet - 11,000 groups. This means if I'd done all 110,000 groups it would have taken me about a year to download them, and an 8TB drive to store them (in 2013!). That wasn't really feasible...
I would say keep the Lumens till you sell them. But report it as long term investment? I would wait till the Lumen guys build their platform for trading cryptocurrencies it will likely be seamless enough to where you wont even need to shift from Lumens to BTC to CoinBase or whatever people were doing to cash out their lumens.
I’m actually wondering why every decentralised solution MUST use the blockchain.
He is not to blame at all. This lawsuit should have been dismissed immediately. Do you think he would have had a chance to sue Nissan the company because it used a domain with this last name? It just shows that the system is rigged for the big guys.
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It's a cynical view but valid. It's not like Apple made a decision to be a non-player in social media for moral reasons - they just never got around to it because of the insane profits they got from selling iPhones.
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This kind of talk seems childish.

Declare your income, or don’t.