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Silicon valley didn't fail at all.

The main business model of a lot of silicon Valley businesses is based upon selling, buying, trading and using people's personal data, so considering this they didn't fail at all.

Edit : IMO to solve privacy we need to create another business model which is obviously not based on data / advertising.
I'd expect that converting from 1 cryptocurrency to another doesn't count as a gain until it's turned back into a country issued currency. They're basically the same unusable[1] asset under a different umbrella.

[1]: if we're pragmatic about it, cryptocoins can't be used for much on their own
Customer service is a selling point.
It's not possible for them to know in many cases so you really do need to keep track on your own. This is a problem for stock brokerages too when you've funded your account by transferring assets from another brokerage.
Is this possible with IOS? Or for people who have never shared their contacts with Facebook?
Well, I meant that no one has an excuse to say that they "have" to use GMail. Sorry if that was worded wrongly.
This cropped up several months ago on here, see here for the comments from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060417
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> Try writing something basic as fib as a recursive function and then in a loop. One is elegant and the other is kludgy.

At the same time, one is slow as hell, because recalculates the very same
value multiple times (unless you return a tuple, in which case it loses its
elegance). You've chosen a bad example.

Also, remember that the opinion comes from a guy who mistakes tuples for
lists with some unrelated property (being immutable), even though he had
a few opportunities to fix his initial misunderstanding. Anything coming from
van Rossum about functional programming should be taken with a grain of salt.
A firecracker also requires actually being in the audience and taking the risk of being shot.
Not to mention, as a SPA, Medium is a total failure.

Trying to read a string of comments on Medium results in a bunch of unnecessary clicks and page reloads. I guess it's upping their click count..
No need to be dismissive. I'm in my early 20s, and most of my life has seen the use of social media as the core mode of communication. Can you imagine moving back to a world where you could only talk to friends in person after you'd experienced talking to friends over the phone? Or shifting back to phone calls only after you'd gotten used to text messages? Like it or not, a paradigm shift has occurred. Personally I think Facebook has gone too far: they've manipulated people too much, and their platform has become mostly useless for its core feature (social interaction) because they've put too much work into monetization, ads, algorithms, and suggested content.

I think there's a lot to be said for what is effectively a collection of personal websites where people can share their life events along with a standardized communication protocol. There are a lot of advantages, like being able to keep up with (slightly) more people and being able to stay in contact with people who live farther away, and who you don't have the money or time to visit in person regularly. But it has to be on a platform that values those things, or it'll go the way of Facebook -- exploitative, and eventually useless.
So, you insult the author as either a stupid jock or a 9 year old, and boast that it's not interesting because you already knew it.

Yet, apart from the put-downs and boasting, and saying "we've heard it ad nauseam", the main body of your comment is .. you repeating the same content you just said wasn't worth saying?
And just this phenomenon, of pandering to customers' desires, and giving them the fake news they want, is where we get the pejorative word "stereotype." Stereotypes were 19th century 3-D photographs. At first, these showed realistic foreign scenes but it soon became apparent that the audience wanted to see (and would only pay for) truly exotic costumes on those foreigners, and exotic customs, whether this had much to do with reality or not.
Good luck getting a comprehensive 1099-B from ShapeShift.
Get it into your photo app. Or in a folder. Send it from there.
What what? That's more or less what a package manager does; take archives ("packages"), unpack them into the system ("install"), and then keep a database of what archives are unpacked and what files each one owns. In practice there's a lot added to that (pulling the archives from a central repo, dependency resolution, searching, managing config files...), but the simple case is barely more than tar.
When I’m really tired and falling asleep, it sometimes feels like my creative brain becomes uncorked. I can focus on any vague idea and then immediately summon an image or multiple images on the theme of that idea, clear as day. I’ve also sometimes been able to keep a mental guitar jam going almost indefinitely. Wish I had this superpower while awake — making art would be a million times easier. (Maybe it’s trainable?)
> We already have decentralization in three primary forms of communication: phone, mail, and e-mail.

I disagree that we currently do. And only agree for email in 1998 when its decentralized nature costed more to the users than the benefit of being decentralized, hence the transition.
Here's a good resource for setting up self-hosted alternatives: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
As usual, you report income. If you bought something and did not sell it, you didn't receive any income. Replace "something" with any kind of asset.
What brokerage? I don't need any brokerage to trade one crypto for another. Find someone who wants X, I send them X and they send me Y in return. X and Y may not be fiat currencies, and the value in USD at the time may be spread by 10% on various markets at the moment. Does the IRS want me to value those transactions as per GDAX at that moment, or Upbit?

Crypto takes out the need for middlemen like brokers. You can use them, but you don't have to either. Even with them, unless you're trading for USD at the time it's a standing question of what the USD value was at the moment. This isn't like, "use the price in the WSJ that morning".
Now you need to match your experience with the post above about the van stopping in the link's line of sight and tell us:
- what wifi you had and
- what the bandwith was.

We need to solve the riddle if it was wifi or laser link.
Your previous brokerage will still send you a transcript of everything at account closure, which provides a baseline for comparison with your new account.

OP's argument that "it's too hard" is not adequate justification for not obeying tax laws.
You only realize income on sales. So if it's lost and you can't sell it, there is no taxable income.
As usual, a bunch of nonsense by people who have no idea about this.

The fundamental problem is that digital advertising is a 12-figure global industry with practically 0 oversight and regulation. This is an industry that sells influence at scale. Anyone with a credit card can start changing how people think and act but there are absolutely no real consequences for bad actors.

Even the most minimal laws around who can advertise and how would radically change everything. Google has even more data than Facebook. Amazon has just as much. Your ISP has just as much. These silly little projects to chase the latest scandal will do nothing in the long run. The only way to fix anything is to regulate the core, not try and fix every little symptom that occurs.

* Before the inevitable comments, yes advertising works, yes it works on you no matter how much you think otherwise, and no adblockers dont magically solve everything.
I like it! And I will check out AfterClass. Looks like a great execution of a similar idea I in mind some years ago. Kudos to you and keep it up! :)
I've been using these for a while now and they seem to be pretty reliable so far.
Interesting that Jonah Lehrer is the author of this.

Here's a more recent New York Times article about him that might be title, "Does the Stigma Wear Off?":

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/books/a-fraud-jonah-lehre...

I don't think this article was affected by his disgrace and I still like a lot of what he's written. Still, in light of Lehrer's own subsequent history, it's hard not to read a certain ironic biographical significance into the final paragraph.
> One project I have had on the list for many years is to build Linux on BSD. Could it be done? Has it been tried?

How do you mean? Compiling the Linux kernel on a BSD machine? Using GNU on BSD (if so, the answer is yes; see Debian GNU/kFreeBSD)? Linux kernel with BSD userland?
Reporting a cost basis of $0 has you paying the maximum amount of taxes. As a general rule, the IRS doesn't care if you decide to say that you owe the maximum possible amount of taxes - it generally focuses on possible underpayment, not overpayment.
Step 1: Put it into diversified investments designed to beat inflation + a good yearly income. Technically I'd only actually need 40-50k/y for everything I want, so 2.5M is on the high side.

Step 2: Work full time on my open source projects that I haven't been able to devote enough brain power to.
> I'm making no claim as to how they are as people

Well, sorry I thought you were, but when you say "consistently come across as being principled and passionate" and talk about who Zukerberg was as a person when he was 20 (when he made the "dumb fucks" comment) and his "his ethical foundations", it very much sounds you're making claims about them as people.

> spoke only about the _perception_ of what their company's philosophies

If you say "It's of course entirely possible that this simply means that the Google guys are better at personal", by personal I'm gonna assume you mean surrounding their person, not their companies, and personal PR _is_ very flat and all about "Sergey good" or "Zuck bad". My comment was meant to give the other side of the coin: it's evident you personally see Google's founders as better people ethically, and Zuck as lacking principles, so I gave you an example of the opposite to complement your point of view and hopefully give you a more rounded vision of them. They're all people, with their flaws and strengths; neither has it all figured out.

> The rest of your comment is pretty much a non sequitur and this is already a pretty long response, so forgive me for not addressing it (though I'm happy to if you think I'm being unfair to your point).

I don't mind long comments, feel free to address it. (:
I don't think decentralization just means > 1. That you can use 4 services is not very decentralized.
>The formerly decentralized services are no longer so decentralized

People keep saying this but to my knowledge email still isn't centralized. While there are a lot of gmail users in the US but that's not the case in many other countries, many people also have a .edu email and a few years ago I ran my email server myself (I even handled signing papers when I switched jobs over it.) Google even contributed to and pushed for dkim and spf which solved a huge spam problem that threatened their ability to forward mail from smaller outside domains to their users. A lot of people might use one of the big services but as long as you don't have to in order to interact with them it's not "centralized."
You know the phone numbers of all of your FB contacts?

Getting someone's phone number has always felt like a much higher bar than their FB since you could harass them with calls, SMS, etc and it's more difficult to block. Plus there's an implicit sexual connotation if you ask a woman for her phone number that doesn't apply to Facebook or LinkedIn.

I really don't like how WhatsApp piggybacks on phone numbers and phone contacts but clearly I'm in a tiny minority given how successful they've become.
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Whether you agree or disagree, I believe that the people who consider some SJWs to be “regressive” is that the system used to be that social conservatives used to tell people what to think, we had a period of open-minded exploration, and now SJWs are advocating moving back towards a system that people are told what to think, except it’s social liberals who are doing the telling. In the sense of someone telling people what to think versus a embracing a wide range of different views, it could reasonably called regressive — perhaps up one level of abstraction if you want to get technical.

Note that I am not supporting one view or another, rather I am just explaining how the term can be used to reflect one’s perspective accurately.
> How can you have a market inside a company? Markets depend on having multiple suppliers and multiple customers.

This is basically what Amazon did with AWS, to phenomenal success. You can create a single-supplier market within the company for any product as long as you sell to the wider public too, and if the wider public buys from your single-supplier then you know your internal customer is getting a good product.

> We had a formal project process...

Been there at companies with similar models, done that, the entire model is fundamentally broken. You may pay the lowest amount of cash on paper but the process takes so long that the additional amount of money you spend on management and architects over the project planning process usually outweighs any supposed competitive savings. You also pay in agility / opportunity costs.
My experience has been that it’s most important to get started. Then you can scan and read man pages etc.
If OP is trading abroad, I hope s/he is also keeping up with his FACTA and FBAR obligations.
By Jonah Lehrer, later fired for plagiarism and fabricating quotes. A Wired.com review of articles that he wrote for them said

"Lehrer has a cavalier attitude about truth and falsehood. This shows not only in his attitude toward quotations but in some of the other details of his writing. And a journalist who repeatedly fails to correct errors when they're pointed out is, in my opinion, exhibiting reckless disregard for the truth. It is thus my opinion that Lehrer plagiarized others' work, published inaccurate quotations, printed narrative details that were factually incorrect, and failed to address errors when they were pointed out."
“Ownership not as a percentage of equity, but as a measure of your ability to change things for the better.”

This is wishful thinking. This is how you wish the world was, and, as a child, you demand it to be so.
Whichever one you report to the IRS.
Not unreasonable, it is the LAW. I doubt the IRS has the resources to try to acquire the kind of records they can get from traditional trading houses but if they ever could, a lot of people will be in a lot of trouble.
Paywalled. Alternate link ?
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The fact that they make it hard is what guarantees that there's a large pool of people with stock iphones. And this pool is too big a market to ignore, which is why I can have good apps, even from companies I don't trust, and deny them permissions I don't want to grant.

I think Apple understands this. The freedom you desire has ecosystem effects which I don't want.

You may quibble about precisely how hard is hard enough. Maybe they could loosen up a little bit, walk some middle path, and satisfy both of our desires. Maybe. Has anyone done it? Apparently people will sign anything you ask them to in order to play farmville. And every jailbreak seems like a security hole I'd rather not have.
I’ve wanted to read man bash, and believe me, I’d think I was the kind of person who would (I learned Go just reading the spec. It’s a great spec), but man bash and many other man pages have never worked for me. Maybe if I tried again now.
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Tbh, I don't trust any corporation in the US to keep my data safe anymore. You can't fix that kind of reputation damage
MacVim or gvim is still a regular native app without a js vm and a web enviroment. It's less minimal then terminal vim, but way more minimal than electron.

I don't mind electron myself, but that ps sounds fairly disingenuous to me.
There is a 0% capital gains tax bracket, for example.

Additionally, below a certain (low) level of wage income deductions and credits can negate nominal income tax owed, for an effective zero or even negative (with credits) tax rate.
Put another way, advertisers’ data is not secure. They too are the product.
All of the messages I post on Mastodon and twitter are intended to be public, just like the things I write on my website. End to end encryption would only make things harder without actually protecting anyone's privacy.
The way I see it you have two options:

1. Make what you're working on explicit and transparent in the contract you draw up with that startup. This has to be made / checked by lawyer in order to avoid any ambiguity.

2. Don't work for the startup.

If option #1 is worth it depends on how much profit you expect to make from the contract.
The richness of the irony in your question makes me wonder about your level of sarcasm.

On one hand, its pretty reasonable to say that absolutely nothing changed at facebook. We are all witnessing the effects of latency.

On the other hand, the change(s) that has ushered in this uptick in negative opinions in regards to Facebook will likely be the source of vigorous debate for some time.

For one, this is just the latest example of habitual behavior on Facebooks part, selling third parties more access to personal data than the persons referenced are comfortable with. The response every single time has been for Facebook to say roughly "We agree in principle that we slightly messed up, and as our more than adequate self imposed penance, we will solve this problem in secrecy with the completely untested technology that we've been working super hard on ever since we discovered this problem 2 years ago, but only acknowledged publicly as a strategic move when no better alternative existed to preserve our viability as a corporation".

Additionally, the data subjects do not generally understand the power imbued to the purchaser of that data at the point they give away that data. Further, they possibly are giving up the legal right to any privacy stemming from what that data may tell third parties.

In the context of all of these generally nebulous problems, is the growing news story involving Cambridge Analytica's alleged use of Facebook's data, the Presidents use of both of those, and the extent to which it can be argued that voter outreach crosses a line in to deceptive psychological manipulation.

Its what folks in scientific fields refer to as evidence that supports, as opposed to weakens, a falsifiable hypothesis.
We can never replace Facebook with another Facebook, decentralised or not. It needs to be disrupted orthogonally.

Think of the individual components of Facebook that are keeping people from leaving, and create better stand-alone versions of those. Can they be integrated with other things that Facebook doesn't have? Sort of like the concept of disrupting an incumbent by integrating a different part of the value chain from – except there isn't really a (known) value chain.

We have to find new points of integration, new ways of bundling valuable features that makes the whole more than the sum of its parts. It would likely have social components, and probably be defined as a social network, but don't start in that end. Start with the components.

I don't see any other way Facebook is going away in the short term.

Personally I'm really only there because of work and for discovering events. Oh, and stalking.
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Yes, so when you choose to not use a brokerage you're responsible for keeping track of your own transactions.
https://www.internalpositioning.com/doc/overview.md
A later Radiolab episode on the same topic that he contributed to was found to have errors, and WNYC issued two corrections.

https://www.wnyc.org/people/jonah-lehrer/
> 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.

Well, at least some tens of millions of users seemed to be happy about the idea to pay USD 1 a year for WhatsApp.

They were running this operation with something like 50 engineers so it should have been really profitable.

Then came Facebook...
If it were true, then there would have to exist at least some framework to judge what counts as maximizing profits. Maximizing the profit this quarter may require a vastly different course of actions than maximizing the profit over the next ten years. So depending on exactly what would fall under maximizing profits, this may or may not be a valid argument

But fortunately we don't have to worry about that, the people writing laws are not all idiots and it would be a pretty stupid idea to put requirements into laws that are essentially impossible to fulfill due to a lack of psychic powers and time machines.
The make it easy and simple to report them. Expecting regular people that can't afford expensive accountants to report potentially thousands of transactions a year is kind of crazy.

But America likes its tax system to be super complicated and complex.
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The actual precision you get depends on context, as this system utilizes surrounding signals (Bluetooth/WiFi/etc.) in the given environment to classify the location. Generally rooms/walkways are easily distinguishable. Pieces of rooms are also usually distinguishable because of smart devices people generally acquire nowadays (e.g. a Google home at one side of the kitchen is sufficient).

I say high-precision because I compare it to GPS, but if you compare it to round-trip time (RTT) measurements which get cm-level precision from specialized hardware, it is an order-of-magnitude behind.

The public server knows the mac addresses of devices that they send to it, so in a sense it does know where they are (because those can be reversed with public wardriving databases). The public server does not have authentication, so if someone figures out your "family name" then they can see your data. I suggest using the public server to try FIND, but not to use FIND so I have instructions for setting up your own system. [1] I'll make this more clear in the docs.

[1] https://www.internalpositioning.com/doc/server_setup.md
As an aspiring songwriter with a 9-5 the main benefit is simply providing a time constraint that forces you to work.
That’s a good use case. Believe me I’m into man pages. Every 6 months I check the Apple store to see if anyone has created a good man pages app. But as primary learning material for most people: not so sure.
Sure. But America is not the world
Oh come on!

Twitter by default broadcasts everything you write to the entire world!

Why should open source solutions be held to a higher standard?
> yes advertising works, yes it works on you no matter how much you think otherwise

And even if you think it doesn’t, it works on enough other people to make it a worthwhile spend if you want to win an election or get regulation passed.
Regardless of how well you feel this article is written whether you agree with it, it's important to not ignore it and others like it. This reflects a growing sentiment among much of the population—address their concerns, or regulation will do it for you (likely in a sub-optimal, if not counterproductive, way).
I think that these points have to click before people move from FB:

Simple -> Start the app and commicate (on all devices)

Minimum features -> Feed, Chat, Groups, Events, Friends

Fast -> No one will use a slow App

Ownership -> All self-owned data can be removed from everywhere

Decentralized -> And no one else can remove your data

Privacy -> With simple sharing control

So far, I've not seen anything that has all of these.