skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a headless CMS like Contentful[0]. They have a free developer tier which is great for static sites, especially when you pair it with the super awesome React based static site generator GatsbyJS[1].

[0]: https://www.contentful.com/
[1]: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/gatsby-starters/
There is no right answer to this. Every company is different, so there is no right way to do software interviews.

Enterprise SaaS, Consumer Social and ML API companies will all have different working environments. Add on to that options of remote vs on-prem, CI/CD vs TDD, customer integration requirements, staff numbers, perks etc... and you have completely different needs for workers and teams.

A team earns their hires, and people will naturally gravitate to environments that suit their work styles.
I love Godot right now. I have made a ton of progress on my game in the last two months using it. Highly recommend it to anyone wanting to pick up game dev as a hobby.
No, he has to pay taxes on the BTC he DID convert to fiat. He does get to write off the losses of the alt-coins but since he hasn't yet realized those losses (and since they're in a different fiscal year), he's pretty well fucked.

EDIT: even if he didn't convert to fiat, the exchange of BTC for an alt-coin is a taxable event. That makes sense because otherwise you could, in theory, convert to a dollar-pegged crypto like Tether and defer taxes indefinitely.
Love that you've updated your page with a reference to this discussion already :-)
No wonder there are companies out there whose value add message is solely to provide tax compliance for crypto trading.

This sounds like a nightmare since you don't have exact timestamp data for anything really.
I'm optimistic and I'd say at least 2 orders of magnitude fewer.

It all started with some guys on youtube making probably quite decent money with their videos explaining that the earth is flat. Tons of people shared links to show others "look how stupid that guy must be". Because the videos were indeed made in the way to make you think the author is not very smart. I believe the suckers were those sharing the links and author decided that he'd rather have cash than his pride, outsmarting them all.

What surprised me, is that quite a few science channels made videos explaining and proving that the earth is not in fact flat, often providing links to some "flat-earther" video, basically helping him doing what he does.

Just being able to shoot a semi-decent video and uploading it to youtube, plus making some arguments for the earth being flat, takes way more comprehension than realizing that the earth is not flat. If there is some real flat-earther that made a video about it - you haven't seen it. Because it was likely low quality, not entertaining and he couldn't make it viral.
The "redheaded step child" quote reminded me of this:

"BSD is Dying"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1HghEDJf4

As I recall, in that presentation, the redheaded stepchild is OSX.
>I don't want to flee to Voat because it's dominated by assholes and trolls.

It’s exactly this sentiment that prompts services like Reddit to censor. They need users; it’s no use being a bastion of free speech if you are hemorrhaging ad dollars because assholes and trolls ruin your platform.
The long reads are published as podcasts as well often read by authors.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-audio-long-read
I never liked medium, their comment UX is weird and annoying, the whole thing is just faceless, brandless and feels generic.

Mabye I'm old, but I find shared hosting with one click deployment of wordpress a better choice, but heck, most of the blogs I end up reading nowdays are tech blogs written by bright people who for some reason will not

1. deploy an existing blog engine to a shared host

2. host a blog on a vps

3. write a rudimentary blog engine

4. write a static generator (how much time could that be? a day?)

Yep, searching may be tricky, especially with rendered sites, but it's doable and I literally never used the search function on medium... but whatever. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.

If you really want to publish something and you're a lazy bum, just throw up a github repo, or a gist, it's still 100% more flexible than medium.
That is a somewhat valid point but I think you and me are using decentralized in different senses here. When I said decentralized I meant a decentralized application, something without central servers. You are more talking about standardized protocols that can be implemented by different vendors and which together form a federated network. There is certainly also some overlap there.

But your examples of phone, mail, and email are essentially all centralized systems with a certain number of vendors for each but together forming a larger federated network due to standardized protocols. Email is probably the closest of your examples to what I call distributed because at least in theory everyone could run his own mail server although in practice it is probably not so easy because spam made everyone pretty paranoid when it comes to forwarding emails from random mail servers.
Aren’t those data trivial to procure for the common cryptocurrencies? For uncommon ones, just ask the user to find the price on dates X, Y and Z.
So make it difficult and explicit. Or shit, just don't go out of your way to make it impossible. Android threads this needle extremely well. Installing a different kernel is not something a casual user can be tricked into doing. It requires a restart, and a moderately complex sequence of clearly dangerous actions. There is no epidemic of people being 'tricked' into installing alternate Android kernels.
It's actually trivial to dodge US taxes. The most basic and effective way to accomplish that is to establish fiscal residency in a friendly european country. It becomes /really/ easy when you have dual citizenship.

Same applies for crypto gains, if you avoid using US based crypto-exchanges you are probably OK for the foreseeable future.

I have found that many americans overestimate the reach, competence, and sheer willpower of the IRS.

You would be surprised at what /doesn't/ happen if you stop filing taxes.
My girlfriend trained herself to sleep with movies. Now she can't watch movies without falling asleep.
I'm keen to try Godot.

The only thing I'd like to see soon or at least on the roadmap is Switch support. Other open source toolkits, like Monogame, have included it. I believe Love2D also supports it now, or at least has a partner that will build projects for it.
Your opinion is a perfectly reasonable one to have, but I don't understand why you seem to have hard feelings about GNOME and KDE.

There's hundreds of lightweight, no-bullshit options in Linux land. GNOME and KDE are the only ones that stick out from the crowd. No one forces you to use them and especially they have every right to exist, even if they don't suit your taste.
The world is getting greener. Why does no one want to know?
> Only in your opinion. A non-free system whose vendor has an incentive to protect privacy may also provide even stronger privacy protection for the masses than a system that meets your version of 'freedom'.

This isn't a "version" of freedom. It is what freedom literally means. You can say you're willing to sacrifice some freedom to gain privacy, sure. But from a technical perspective, that's a totally false choice.
Wtf are you about with worker class men? They are not ugly or something, plenty of them are attractive. That would be first thing. It is great that they have tons of jobs as you claim and if you are right, their salaries will go up which would be great. But economically, there is lack of those jobs currently. It is not worker class men fault obviously, it is economy. They play games because they don't have jobs. Not because they are too lazy without perspective of sex.

I cant believe your opinion of men is so low. And if you see your existence as a slave, but with sex then it is ok to be slave? Men in history did a lot of things, good and bad, for their own purposes, not just in exchange for a sex. By all statistics, Americans spend more time in work then ever and men on average more then women.

No being entitled to partner is not same as not being desirable. It primary means that world does not own you a partner and the potential partner has right to not be in relationship with you. You might be desirable to someone else. (And some guys are really too dangerous or sociopathic to be dated.)

Your cousin is not working class men looking for hard labor job, his issue is not that women don't want working class men. University men don't do physically demanding work. But his parents should either find him counseling for depression or alternatively stop enabling his lifestyle (depending on what is cause of his passivity). By your definition should be among top percent - majority of population does not have degree. Besides, it sounds like you want girlfriend for him so that girlfriend partly becomes his mom to force him to work and partly uses sex to blackmail him into work. Wtf for both of them.

Choosing mate for a girl purely on how much he earns and whether he is hard worker is receipt for disaster for her. It just does not even sound as if women were humans from your analysis, you treat them like a chocolate prize cake.

You don't care at all about what she can achieve (and she is significantly less likely to spend all her time playing games), she is literally just piece of meat for him to have sex between wold of warcraft raids - in the hope that he will work afterwards.
Find a place where people actually grow cocoa beans. That sound stupid, I know, but I'm not sure there are a lot of place else you can taste raw cocoa.

I once saw a TV report about a chocolate maker in Belgium who bought beans directly and making all the process by himself. Perhaps some other do that ?

I have the chance to live in a carribean island where there's a place where they grow cocoa. So you can test (and taste) it in its raw form.

It's particularly bitter ! And eons from chocolate.

I was the only one in a group of five to appreciate it. But just a sip :-)
Exactly. Apple has lots of opportunities to monitize the App Store by profiting from user data.
I am sure just the enormous challenge of actually building a rocket with a couple of friends also played a major role.
I know I'm really late to this discussion, was moving house (yuck). I think this is a great idea, but wonder if you'd benefit from limited scope.

I'd personally focus on the juvenile justice system and perhaps young adults. You need to incorporate education into the program to help people get their GED or equivalent.

I've seen kids go into jail on a Friday for the most silly reason, only to have to wait till Tuesday to even be seen in court. The county I lived in only heard cases Tuesday and Thursday. So Friday meant multi-night lockup. This can be incredibly daunting on a kid. Especially a first time offender. If you guys could create a trust system where kids could be released immediately to parents by using a device with app it could stop some problems before they begin.

Partnership for work is probably the next most critical piece. If you could find companies that, based on your assessment, would be happy to hire people on your program you would be tackling another big problem. If the only way someone can provide for their children is to steal, they're going to do it.

Good luck with this! It's a noble cause and something has to disrupt the judicial system.
Here’s a trick I‘ve stumbled over a few years ago:

Close your mouth and inhale quietly through your nose to a mental count of four.

Hold your breath for a count of seven.

Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound to a count of eight.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/life-hack-sleep-4-7-8-breathing-...

For me, it does not work immediately, but it makes me fall asleep much faster. AFAIK this works by calming the sympathetic nervous system, just like meditation would. A downside I‘ve experienced is that sometimes I‘m very cold for a while after waking up.
> and send mail with UPS instead of USPS

Not to detract from your point, just thought you might be interested to know that USPS actually has a legally-protected partial monopoly on the right to carry letters (18 U.S. Code § 1696).

An exemption was added in 1979 allowing private carriers to deliver "extremely urgent" mail. This is why UPS and FedEx express mail envelopes bear that text on their front.

Apart from this exemption, USPS, FedEx and the like are only allowed to deliver 'parcels', not 'letters', though I'm not sure where the distinction is legally defined.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
One other way is selling a home -- in certain circumstances, one can get $250k (single filer) or $500k (married filer) gains from the home sale tax-free.
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc701
Facebook Shouldn't Lock Data Away They Should Open Up to Those That Give Control
Well, that's smart.
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It makes a difference having a CEO that is so vocal about this, it changes what everyone in the org does and sees as "right". It's a good thing.

At Facebook the understanding seems to be more Orwellian community like, spearheaded by Mark Zuckerberg. They envision and build a future where everyone is under surveillance at all times - so collecting a bit more doesn't matter, more to the contrary. Last week there was a story that FB internally also does surveillance on employees and they know what employee click and hover over on, and they monitor their messenger conversations. And it's all okay in their world view. Good to see some balancing conversations.

I believe Apple took even a toll and fell a bit behind the last few years in regards to eg. Siri as they take personal data more of a liability rather than an asset. So, much respect from my side to Apple and Tim Cook for this. And I'm really not much of an Apple fan, but reconsidering with statements like this one.
Except he doesn't believe, he just wants to go do something dangerous and adventurous and have other people pay him for it.
>And society at large paid for it.

What's the cost again? I'm still experiencing cognitive dissonance over the fact that this is news here on HN. What Facebook was doing was common knowledge (for the last 8 years?). I assumed all those spammy facebook apps, like candy crush, had access to the entire social graph of facebook (not just US) or at least built it up over time. All those stupid "Log in with Facebook" apps almost always asked for your friend information.
I always ask them to read code and tell me what it does. 100% better than whiteboard coding because you can hear them working through it.
I really like your principles! :)

IMHO, a mission helps focusing on things which really matter to get where you want to be in a couple of weeks, months, years,... And by that, I do not mean that one gets there faster by having a mission, but rather gets there at all.

Yes, things happen if you wait. But in my experience, not the things you want. Or, if things you want happen just by waiting, it was by coincidence, mostly?
I think living by a set of positive principles is really important! I like to complement my principles with a mission, while still staying humble and open minded (i.e. having a clear focus but not blocking new and different insights, thoughts, ideas..). I hope that makes sense.

Any chance you also read "Principles" by Ray Dalio?
Go already has RSpec
A 5/4 decision means that essentially half the court disagrees in some form with the logic used by the other half. It has the force of law, but (a) not as much rhetorical force in discussion (because I can cite almost as many qualified legal scholars that disagree as agree) and (b) not as much precedential force --- the close decisions are the ones that tend to get revisited by later courts. For a recent case, you're talking about a decision that is essentially one change of justice away from being reversed.

And, no, the limits suggested by Heller are, in Scalia's opinion, entirely related to the purpose of the amendment. His decision starts with a discussion of what a militia was at the time of the founders and ends with (paraphrased) "the people have a right to those weapons that would normally be borne by a civilian militia".

I'm not arguing that Heller "doesn't count"; it's the law of the land. I'm saying that it's a bad example of the principle Rayiner is talking about.
Why does it need to be signed and encrypted? We have PGP, Signal and Co. for that.

Mastodon is a microblogging service, it's perfectly fine to not sign all messages (though ActivityPub does support signing)

Mastodon is as trustworthy as your instance administrator, so you'll have to find a place where you can trust your admin.
I probably am overestimating their reach. I would imagine the willpower scales proportionally with the amount of lost revenue minus the cost of pursuing. I’m sure a lot of people in crypto think they’re cleverly covering their tracks when they’re not, and it really comes down to whether or not the IRS notices. Personally I don’t want to roll the dice.
I liked the irony in this post, considering that the main draw of Electron apps is that they are supposed to be cross-platform. (To be fair though, FreeBSD is pretty niche.)
Unfortunately a name like scuttlebutt does not inspire me to join.

I am also unlikely to recommend it to people in real life. How could they get something so simple so wrong?
In these types of games, when an empire becomes large, all the minutiae decisions very relevant in the early game become tedious exercises. It seems then that in 4X games, the game could evolve in response to the change your empire's complexity, including new UI, new strategic considerations, and even removal of features from the earlier stages of the 4X game. Individual units might be glommed together into a larger superunits. The map might change to a larger field of view..move from warfare to economic rivalries. The point I am making is that the tedium of late levels versus the intense fun of the beginning, is partly because the game stays the same. Change the game, and that expansionist fun can be highlighted again.
It's no weirder than having to pay tax on selling MSFT for AMZN. Once you sell an asset, you pay the tax on any gains. doesn't matter how the transaction took place "physically". Just because this crypto space thing is The Future of Money and uses The Internet, doesn't somehow exempt it from real world tax law.

Seems like people should have found better exchanges that would have helped facilitate tax reporting...
> Apple actively chooses to not pursue these revenue streams even though they have the resources and reach to do so.

I disagree. Apple can't compete in those spaces effectively because they're already owned by Google/FB. Microsoft has similar resources to Apple, and they tried to compete with Google on search - look how that turned out. Even Google can't compete with FB in social, look at Google Plus.

Apple has, intelligently, recognized that they cannot compete in that space. So they aren't trying. They are then using that to their advantage, by focusing on privacy, which is something their competitors cannot focus on. It's a perfectly legitimate strategy, and there's nothing wrong with them doing that. I support it wholeheartedly.

On the contrary however, it is not in Apple's strategic interest to give users's sovereignty over their devices. In both cases, their behavior aligns not with user interests, but with their own. Being financially self-interested better explains the sum total of Apple's behavior than any interest in user well-being.
It is worth noting that Tim Cook said this in China, where Apple happily hands over all user data to the Chinese government.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/28/technology/apple-icloud-data...
Vanguard allows me to exchange one mutual fund for another mutual fund (without having to explicitly sell and re-buy). Do you think that's something that shouldn't be taxable? Where's the difference to the cryptocurrency example above?
"after all the package manager is really just keeping a database of files and unpacking archives onto the disk."

err..... what
I think the volunteer model abuses a minority of weird humans with the instinct to help too much. We need a model that scales while addressing the status quo diversity of humanity. What I really mean is the fact that almost nobody wants to help, and almost everyone wants free stuff at world-class level (they don't want shitty free things, they want Google/FB level of free).
They're not really punishments, but difficult crisises that the player must overcome.

For example, two ancient powerful but inactive empires might become active and start a war. This allows the player to align with either one of the powers, or form an independent coalition with a chance to become the new "leader" of the galaxy. These events throw existing borders up relations up in the air, thus effectively making the game interesting again right as its becoming stale.
Well obviously commercial jets have video screens instead of windows, but surely building an ultralight or using an open cockpit plane is easier than this.
Still doesn't change the fact that you have to pay tax on gains when you sell an asset. Doesn't matter if you sold it for USD or bartered it for alt-coins, washing machines, or shiny rocks.
Good point. I see a lot of good things coming with GDPR, foremost a realization that its NOT ok to just store personal data without meaningful reasons and abilities to let one know what a company stores about them. It's not perfect, rather ambitious in can cases, but I like how these conversations are now happening more broadly.
A given day could have multiple instances of open/close price n for any number of trading intervals though couldn't it?
>but they used the money to bully Uzi

And it cost them. I'm not on Nissan's side here. They should have engaged Uzi in a good-faith negotiation. In the end, I think he would have sold for something - because that would have been the right thing to do. Not only because it would have made financial sense for him to do so, but because the branding value of the domain is so high for a multi-national/multi-billion dollar corporation compared to a small mom and pop outfit that it approaches at least an ethical consideration. But they didn't do that, and all sides are worse for it.
good read on 1031 Like-Kind exchange for those who are thinking about it.

https://www.mdmfinancialservices.com/cryptocurrency-and-like...
This immediate suspicion when speaking out is why I removed the comment. I am not stealing anything and I don't have any employees.
Retro Review: 2009 Mac Pro in 2018
I worked with someone that was living on an boat he had purchased (for not much) in Marina del Rey. He would commute by motorcycle (much cheaper than a car) and was probably making a minimum of $50k-60k. Seems like a smart way to save money if you can make the space sacrifice.
Correct. They didn't build a business model around doing something unethical, which eventual can get the entire company in trouble - so great strategic leadership I'd say.