skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 100% true. They abandoned so many good parts of WU and, today, it seems to continue to operate as data collection (mobile apps / home weather stations) and ad revenue generation.
Mastodon deals with it by leaving it up to the operators of each instance whether or not to federate with any other instance. If an instance takes a hard turn for the crazy, you can just turn off federation with that instance and you will never hear from it again.
This is ignoring the major part of hardware development that is actually just non-free software tooling.
Centrist and neoliberal, maybe.
Anything is better than putting money into internet magic... except for a psychology degree :)
these businesses probably represent very specific circumstances where it's not worth it to hire at least one full time employee.
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I had an interesting experience in Wells Fargo around 2012. I had probably 10 business accounts there, including the main receivable account, as well as an account from which about 7 contractors were paid monthly to the tune of $100,000/mo.
I was the only signatory to the account, the only person with a login. I had my personal accounts attached there as well. A some point I log in into WF from my regular office laptop (static IP) and instead of the account balances I see a warning: your access has been restricted due to security. Please call an 800 number. I log in from my phone via different IP, same result. My attempts to talk to the assigned business banker went nowhere: she repeated the same number. When I called that number, I got treated like a criminal, I got yelled at and I was told that all accounts needed to be renumbered, and the previous accounts would disappear including the account history. With multiple vendors and contractors, renumbering accounts is true hell. When I asked this person about the alternatives and for a reason for this action I was told that this was done "for my safety", and if I needed the details they could only be obtained via a subpoena. I tell her that according to my knowledge, a subpoena can be obtained only during a civil litigation, and I am asking her if she invites her customer to litigate against the bank? She rudely responds that if I do not want my accounts renumbered, she would leave this as as (with the security warning and no account access). Since this is business critical, I acquiesce and she removes the warning, but the accounts are read-only now. She then tells me that I need to go to a branch, killing my workday. At the branch a salesperson tries to sell me their new accounts and packages (that are of course worse than the original ones). When she realizes I am not an easy target, she just asks me if I am ready for the account renumbering. I ask her if my accountants will have access to the CSV - without this we cannot even make quarterly tax payments. She says sure. I ask her that just in case, I want to download the accounts (all 10 plus 4 personal ones). She says go ahead on your laptop (like I am paranoid, I don't need this). I ask her if they have WiFi in the branch. Not for me. No problem, I tether to my phone (for 2012 it was advanced) and download. Then she hits the button- the accounts are completely gone! Only the end balances got transferred to the new accounts. I leave. Then I call Wells Fargo and ask how I can get the CSV histories. A business Banker tells me that she can fax the hard copies of each monthly statement for $12 per statement per account!
When I discuss this later this awful experience with my regular business banker at my branch, I ask her if higher balance accounts get treated the same. She says that my accounts (low 7 digit balance) are too small, but starting from 8 digit, you get a different treatment!
I still cannot understand what kind of "safety" a new account number can provide, because every time I write a check I disclose my account number.
Not really its just a static var on a switch statement nothing really bad about it, in fact its a semi nice way to handle a simple state machine.
Note that if this were C++ (11 or later) this could be done with the static variable in a thread-safe way, since function-scoped static variables initialized by functions are guaranteed to be initialized exactly once. So this code could be something like:

int set_the_mtime(...) {
static int starting_from = set_mtime_starting_from(0);
set_mtime_starting_from(starting_from);
}
// Try various ways of setting mtime until it works.
int set_mtime_starting_from(int starting_from) {
// horrible switch statement
}
Regulators enforce laws too... They are the banking police.

JPMorgan has the resources to fight the regulator in court if it’s exceeded its scope. It happens all the time.
This is a parable, not a novel. It's hard to imagine expanding this narrative to anything novel-length and also readable, so it's unrelated to TFA.

Of course, GP post is similarly OT.
Suspending domain name registration is truly disturbing. I'm literally speechless and I feel like a line has been crossed. This is domain registration, an abstract service that routes requests based on a name. How did the policing of speech get to this level? I don't have words for the things I'm feeling right now. The actions of a mentally ill person has triggered full on censorship. This is entire situation is fucked up beyond words. We just need to man up and legally ban hate speech instead of beating around the bush and before we start quietly, effectively banning other forms of speech.
I actually agreed with you, except with the edit. GoDaddy did nothing illegal, either. GoDaddy is executing their free speech. Per Citizens United (pushed by the right, of course)

"The United States Supreme Court held (5–4) on January 21, 2010, that the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions, and other associations".

We should just admit that businesses censor one way or another - whether suppressing speech (removal of tweets), or extreme bias in information dissemination (looking at you, Fox News).
Everything’s way more expensive in Aus, and not always with a good explanation why.

It’s gotten better the past few years but Aus as always gotten reamed with a surcharge on anything tech related. Adobe was most famous, charging about 2x for the full Creative Suite. Apple too. At one point I emailed the CEO of the company I worked for at the time asking why Australia was charged 60% more for the same OS dvd, not even specialized for the market in any way (since all locales are built-in), and got a reply from an assistant about “taxes, supply chain, local markets” blah blah and wasn’t super convinced by the response. 10% for GST is fair but there’s no way shipping a container load of DVDs there, divided by the number of DVDs in the container, could possibly account for that difference.

If not on price, then availability was also inconsistent. Netflix and the local broadcasters had to learn this themselves when people setup US based proxy accounts, or just plain said ‘fuck it’ and went to the Pirate Bay.
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Making that a uint8_t would solve the problem. Non-kernel code (with a normal stack) could also make it a uint16_t.
I think you're mixing up the OCC with the Fed.
Bitcoin is no longer the terrorist and drug runner’s currency of choice, there are other crypto’s for that.

Bitcoin however is the white collar criminal’s crypto of choice.
Absent from tech in Silicon Valley maybe. Go work in IT at State Farm Insurance or some other tech area east of Silicon Valley and observe the absolute and complete lack of openly liberal or openly atheist tech people. It's the end of a job, often, to say that you are liberal or atheist in many places I've worked.

Conservative Christians are definitely not a minority in my experience; they are a very vocal majority.
It's probably not related, but I cannot be quiet about management access outage GoDaddy is experiencing right now - nobody can login to their accounts and multiple authoritative dns servers dont work https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2018-October/01177...
They paid $2/share for Bear Stearns, in stock rather than cash. The closing price that Friday had been $30/share (and was $150/share the year before).

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jp-morgan-to-buy-bear-stea...
Using horrific and tragic deaths as a cudgel to beat your political enemies discredits any moral claims in my opinion.
"We may terminate your access to and use of the Services, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you." - Gab Terms of Service
52 week high is $177.
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As a private (non-govermental) organization, GoDaddy isn't bound to providing free speech to anyone. Gab.com is welcome to keep gabbing on someone else's platform.
I wish Cygwin would get more steam, a new package manager and a repository...
> That is exactly the opposite of what most software vendors and similar want. They want more control over the assets they release, not less.

Maybe? The ability for something like this didn't exist before, maybe an entrepreneur will come up with something new and valuable around the licensing use-case. I also don't know if such a blanket statement about "most software vendors" can be asserted.

> If the asset is financial in nature, this is basically illegal. KYC and AML laws still apply, even to crypto, as do other related securities law.

Major companies like Coinbase and Circle are not violating any laws. They have lawyers, licenses, and so on. Just because something is regulated, doesn't mean an entrepreneur can't invent a new and innovative product - they just comply with the laws and regulations.

> If the asset is physical, you have to solve the issue of making the blockchain match reality. I know you said there's a ton of work being done in that space, but I have yet to see a lot of solutions.

Time will tell, I agree.

> Given the rate of bugs in "smart" contracts, that is not an appealing pitch.

Active area of research and development, such as formally verified computation. I would bet that technologists are more likely to solve this issue than not.

> I also find that the people angriest at the middlemen often know the least about why the middlemen exist. Hint: they often provide a service to match their fees.

Sure, but if the same service can be provided at drastically reduced cost, then it's a win, and blockchain may be able to do this. Middlemen exist for reasons, but that doesn't mean they can't be disrupted.

> It's also a fantastic way to lose your shirt.

Investing in anything is risky, let alone seed-stage startups on unproven technology, but luckily there is an industry that funds such risky endeavors.

> You basically said "anything could happen". If your prediction is basically "anything", why bother prognosticating?

You are making the bear-case for crypto and blockchain, while I am an optimist making the bull-case. I'm basically saying that a huge amount of potential is there, and writing it all off as worthless or barely useful at best in October 2018 is very premature.
Yup you're wrong, because they have a financial relationship. And Utility law doesn't affect the internet at all.
> Godaddy is distancing themselves because they don't want to be associated with those things.

Would it also be reasonable for browsers also black list the website in question "because they don't want to be associated with those things"?
The policing of speech got to this level when the site owner expresses no responsibility for contributing to the murderous radicalization of its members.
That may be the case, but Rune as a term for implementation predates the accepting of UTF-8 as Unicode.

In addition, Rune refers to a specific implementation of the code point. As far as I am aware, UTF-8 doesn't define a code point as being uint32, rather it just defines it as a point within the code space (which is defined to be at least a certain size), a code point could be implemented in any number of ways internally. When talking about implementation details, a Rune is defined as a uint32, which is analogous (for implementation purposes) as a code point.

That is to say, a Rune is a manifestation of a code point, but a code point need not always map to that internally. This is like complaining over using "int" instead of "uint32_t" (I'm sure someone else can think of a better example, actually).
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1 million is obviously intended to convey an order of magnitude, but I'll bite, because it works anyway, I live something like it.

I'll use GBP to begin with and convert back to USD at the end, because I'm in the UK.

10K GBP a year is more than I currently spend on life. This excludes rent. I'll get to that.

300K at a 3.33% withdrawal gets you that.

Another 300K to buy a home outright. Sod the mortgage, you have 1M net worth, do that if you think you can beat HPI with investments.
This is doable in most of the UK. In many areas you'd get something really rather nice for that.

That's 600K GBP or 768K USD, in total. That actually gets you a better standard of living than my current one, forever (I don't own a home).

A bit left over. So we'll spend another 5 grand a year 'cos we can.
166K GBP required at 3.33% withdrawal, 766K in total. Still not 1M USD.

In London (I live here) you'd probably want 750K for the house (you can do cheaper but if you have this money to begin with you probably wouldn't). That would bring it to very roughly 1.5-2M total. I think it's fair to consider London a "bonkers area".

When I say retirement I mean early retirement, sorry, I'm lazy.

It's kind of odd to me to explain this over and over because it seems like most people just don't do the math. If you have annual minimum wage x 25 in the bank then you are in a position to work fairly infrequently. If you have annual minimum wage x 50 you can probably sustain a basic existence indefinitely. Above that you're looking at More Toys.
Recently, Bloomberg has had some very stilted articles -- editorial tone pushed in to articles and choice of coverage. It feels odd, and it feels wrong.
If mind-probing is the currency of the future, and we're too conservative about permitting experiments, we'll lose out on a lot of innovation.
What if you would just publish your code on GitHub, would they seek to punish you?
Far worse content is seen in Twitter, and they keep their domain. How so.

edit: immediate downvoting with no response. Really? So isn't there abhorrent content divulgated by Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/etc? Are any of their domains threatened by it?
Any of the downvoters, feel free to engage in discussion.
I'm disappointed of HN comments whenever cryptocurrency topics come up.

People are forgetting that Nakamoto Consensus is a legitimate CS breakthrough concerning the Byzantine Generals Problem.

Is it acceptable to bash every stock in the Nasdaq just because a second tech bubble popped and some SV companies are behaving unscrupulously?

Frenzied speculation brought about inadvertent side effects but these should not detract from the fact that significant advancements are continuously being researched and implemented.
> tone of this article is really weird

The limits make sense, the secrecy not so much. That guarantees an odd tone for an article to be read by (a) JPMorgan Chase shareholders and (b) Americans who don’t want another financial crisis.
[I work for SUSE.]

Nowadays, yes. SUSE Studio was the main proprietary thing we had in recent memory, and it was sunlit a few years ago with KIWI being its successor.

As far as I know, everything we develop is free software. You can get the full sources for any package in SLES or openSUSE (which isn't really SUSE but SUSE engineers work a lot on openSUSE) using zypper.

Personally, not only is everything I work on free software, I also exclusively work upstream-first (and I maintain several upstream projects like runc and some OCI projects). To be clear, this is not a company-wide thing -- many of my colleagues do not consistently contribute upstream -- but regardless all of our products' sources can be downloaded under free licenses. In fact you can get the sources from OBS (it's what openSUSE Leap is directly based on).

Now, there are some things that we distribute which are proprietary to certain customers (think flash or the NVIDIA drivers), but these are mostly because customers pay us to repackage other peoples proprietary code. We don't develop them. Personally I'd prefer if we didn't do this, but it is a very small part of our business.
> if IBM decided that they had copyright on your contributions to Cygwin.

How could they decide this if you'd have written the code on a weekend?
Nobody else is doing it.

I don't think he needs to hand over - if someone else was doing a better job of the advocacy of Free Software then perhaps he could choose to 'retire', but until then he is the best there is.
(Also, I'm not sure whether that was intended to be an ad hominem that I personally haven't looked for alternatives, or a statement about the state of the industry that I haven't been made aware of them, but I can in fact name alternatives, and mostly because I've followed debates like this.)
1) Please stop with the hyperbole. This isn't war.

2) Godaddy is apolitical. They are merely trying to distance themselves from the actions of the Gab site like everyone else is.
That would be nice (even for non-epileptics), but in the meantime a alternative is:

blink { text-decoration: none !important; }
* { animation: none !important; } /* or -whatever-animation as needed */

Ideally, we could embed a time-domain low-pass filter in the graphics rendering pipeline, so we aren't relying on the Internet of Hate[0] to not deliberately or accidentally exacerbate medical conditions or the Browser of Spam and Spyware[1] to do anything about it.

0: aka the internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324681
Based on this quote, some of the business aren't quite one person:

"He relies on a team of three virtual assistants, who are contractors, to help him with tasks like phone and email support."

More to the point some of the businesses are one employee, which then opens the ongoing question of when is a contractor a defacto employee?

Maybe the numbers are compensated by the existence of other single employee businesses who "employ" family members to spread income?
> No fees to middlemen

Except for all the fees to middlemen?
Yes, domain registration is an abstract concept. GoDaddy, on the other hand, is in no way, shape, or form abstract and as a corporation, has the rights to do this.
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It's more inliner-friendly this way though.
> Less than 10,000 people total in the whole US bring in at least a million in revenue.

TFA: "The number of nonemployer establishments with annual revenue over $1 million grew by 5.7 percent to 38,029 in 2015"
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's time for the US government to step up and provide its citizens with minimal tax-funded government-managed hosting and domain services, for people to say whatever lawful speech that they want, without being censored. It's becoming clearer that the public sphere for speech is now online, and that space is managed only by private companies. If we want principles like free speech to continue, we need to segment some of that sphere to be funded and protected by the government.

I say all this, because I believe both that a) yes, these private companies should be able to do what they want WRT who they associate with and b) online is the new "public space" for voices to be heard, which is currently only occupied by private companies. If you believe private companies shouldn't be able to buy up all the public land, then I think you would support something like this. The internet is the new public land, but it is theoretically infinite, and for some reason it's only occupied and controlled by private companies.
Could these be used in spacecraft? With no moving parts would they be more reliable?
In short: there was a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The shooter was actively antisemitic on Gab, which is known for tolerating extremism and hate speech.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/gab-robert-bowers-pitt...

Note: I'm trying to be factual here, but know that Pittsburgh is my home town and I have a lot of feelings about this.
Yep, according to the 2017 FCC net neutrality ruling, the Internet is no longer regulated as a utility.
I mean, yes. You don't read Neuroscience I guess. Governments do the same with self driving cars, can allowing limited experiments so they can encourage scientific and economic innovation.
Contributions can be owned by employers and things still work. That's how Linux development works for instance, and the DCO is arguably a similar "permission slip" (though it mainly depends on the honour system with contributors just asserting they have the right to contribute). Some CLAs are very similar to the DCO (for instance, the Apache CLAs or the Google/Kubernetes ones).
With creative works you are necessarily adapting and building on previous work. What first principles as a goal does is allow you the possibility of making new mistakes...and while that's good in a research sense, for most practical design you want to restrict the deep experiments to a certain focus area and loosely copy the rest so that you have a stable framework to test those ideas with. Shooting off in an all-original direction basically ensures you will make mistakes.
Private companies like CloudFlare and GoDaddy don’t have to work with sites they don’t want to work with, any more than the sites have to allow people to post on them.

InfoWars itself would moderate its posters.
It's freedom of association. Except for groups who faced historical discrimination and so are protected by law, businesses are not obliged to provide services to anybody the don't want to. Anti-Semites are not a protected class.

The analogy you make, a phone company, doesn't really work. Because of their natural monopoly status, phone companies are obliged to provide common carrier status: they can't arbitrarily interfere between two network users. The ISP equivalent is of course net neutrality, which also doesn't apply here, because domain registration is not a natural monopoly.
There are fees with bitcoin - the transactions that leave higher fees for the miners get processed quicker. If you don't include fees with your transaction it could take hours to be bundled into a verified block.

People, myself included, jump to the criminal aspects because those are the only real world applications that are currently creating value for Bitcoin "users" (vs. speculators). Getting around borders/currency controls is valuable because it's hard to do/illegal, and Bitcoin makes it easier.

The rest of the things you listed such as "highest density of wealth storage every invented" and "completely different threat model" are not use cases, and are not inherently good/bad, just different (and actually usually bad when optimizing for verification speed/efficiency and transaction clearance over chargebacks/fraud)

PS did you get hired into the crypto/blockchain world, or just more optimistic after doing research? I remember us being in agreement / you being skeptical about it before
How easy is it to switch to Ubuntu instead of upgrading my web server to CentOS 7?