skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such thing as speculation by mining - if they wanted to speculate but didn't profit from the mining itself, it would be better for them to speculate by buying - instead of giving dollars to the power company, they'd just give them to other people on the exchange. Basically the only reasons for miners to "speculate" are long term contracts like lease contracts for warehouses. And those may or may not be long term.

And 51% attack has the designed side effect that all other people stop using the currency - they may keep following the previous fork without the double-spend - as shown by ETH and ETC. You'd also need some way of forcing all participant to stay with the now corrupted currency. Otherwise the attacker who performs 51% attack will gain the ownership of a network that immediately becomes completely worthless.
I agree in general, but saying "Nobody at the FSF cared about cloud or mobile" is not true [1][2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.com...

[2] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2200967/software-cell-p...
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>Nobody at the FSF cared about cloud or mobile

Stallman back in 2010 about SaaS

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

Also,

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

"We don't see any sensible way to address the SaaSS problem with license conditions on particular programs. Even to write a legal condition to distinguish between SaaSS use and non-SaaSS use would be a challenge, and if we had that, we don't see anything that the program's license might require in the SaaSS case that would correct the inherent wrong of SaaSS. Thus, our solution to the problem of SaaSS is simple: refuse to use services that are SaaSS."
I found this a worthwhile argument:

"The FSF should have nurtured and grown new leaders a long time ago, leaders who looked into the future, understand cloud and mobile computing and their threats to a free society.

...

I never heard anyone at the FSF ask what it means for a digital society that Facebook has been legally using free software to develop algorithms that modify human behavior. Quite the opposite, the problem was javascript in the browser for apps like Gmail."

I wish the author had taken his own titular advice, though...the post would be better for it.
I can see this helping with low-force motion such as a pen-plotter but I think with things like 3-d cutting there just isn't a replacement for rigidity and high-power motors that can maintain a consistent cutting feed rate for a quality finish.
That is only true for the U.S. People living in outside of the U.S, and especially in the E.U (which is the case of the author) have way to control they information after placing it in the custody of a third party.

I think this is were the FSF missed the goal. Laws like GDPR should have been fought for way earlier.
There are "tax help" open source programs out there, but online filing (which is the main goal here) is impossible without a corporation working with the IRS to set up access, negotiate protocols, and such.

There's no open standard/API/infrastructure or protocol for online filing, so the only option for an open source program to help with that is "print out the whole thing and send it in" which is usually a lot more trouble (more expensive in time and money) than just paying Turbotax or similar services.

Turbotax and the rest of the tax prep industry have lobbied for years to prevent easy/free options for citizens to file taxes... it isn't just them preventing other companies from building products to do it, they're suppressing all competition and modernization, basically anything that would threaten the money they get from charging people to prep taxes.

At this point the entire system is set up with high barriers to entry, and open source solutions/free software don't typically work well in that kind of setting.

Essentially, no open source program has any chance of facilitating online filing in the US because of corruption in the US government.
I think it will happen, because phased array systems are being developed for 5G, next-gen WiFi, etc. Lots of players in the ASIC design game are designing similar hardware, and in the volumes spacex presumably wants to order, I think they'd be totally happy to spin a chip putting together a few hundred phase shifters and amplifiers in-front of a regular DSL modem SoC.
There are good arguments for the sensor to be on either side of the phone (or ON the side). I have a phone with the sensor on the back, and while it is inconvenient when I am doing a quick check or it is in a mount (rare), it is a more natural place when you are actually picking up the phone.
Add on dark reader and the mobile experience is dramatically better. It's still a little clunky from a UI/UX standpoint, but still superior experience overall.
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I'm not sure what you think my perspective is?

Allowing religious employees the space to practice their faith at work is explicitly part of diversity and inclusion. That is why many workplaces have prayer rooms, why dress codes allow people to wear crucifixes, why on-call rotations are moved around to cater for high holidays, why the cafeteria has vege options, and so on. Religion isn't the opposite of diversity - on the contrary!

I think it's disingenuous to portray modern attempts to make the workplace a more inclusive environment for people of different backgrounds as some kind of political indoctrination. There is nothing controversial about companies expecting their increasingly diverse workforce to do their best not to offend one another. It's good people management. It's good business.

If there really is - as you suggest - an "indifferent majority" who find it outrageously disruptive to learn how to treat their colleagues with respect, then that just reinforces the OC's point: people who resist "discussing politics" at work are privileged because they are the majority.

Fortunately, in my experience, that is not the case. I don't think most employees have a problem with doing training on unconscious bias or inclusion or whatever else, because they understand that they are at work and they are expected to uphold a certain level of professionalism. There are lots of trainings people do at work that they don't care deeply about - bribery, first aid, occupational health and safety, etc. Some of that will sink in, some of it won't, but overall the trend will be toward a happier, safer and more productive workplace for everyone.
Qubes OS is excellent for things like that, but not really something most people are willing to use. I love Qubes OS; especially being able to have a disposable Windows 7 template VM I can game with that has a PCI passthrough for my spare graphics card. Though, it's a bit heavy for my daily driver laptop.

Also, re: your browser idea - checkout the sibling comment to yours on using Chrome with a temporary data directory.
This is pretty helpful. In a perfect world it picks a category (eg. smoke detectors) and recommends a privacy-aware product along with trade offs.
Depends on the country and relationships involved. In the United States, employee’s making trades based on based on insider information is illegal. Similarly front running in the US is illegal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
I read about the "sysupgrade" tool and concluded that the upgrade to 6.7 in another 6 months will be awfully seamless... But I see from this that they backported the tool as a syspatch for 6.5! So from 6.5 we will be able to do syspatch && sysupgrade to get to 6.6. Sounds nice.
Practical Applications of Rest and Spread Operator in JavaScript
Please boycot both Twitter and Facebook until they show ethical behavior.
React Native vs. PWA – which should I choose?
Sure. There's: http://www.soliftec.com/NonExhaust%20PMs.pdf (2016)

Study highlights:

 A positive relationship exists between vehicle weight and non-exhaust emissions.

 Electric vehicles are 24% heavier than their conventional counterparts.

 Electric vehicle PM emissions are comparable to those of conventional vehicles.

 Non-exhaust sources account for 90% of PM10 and 85% of PM2.5 from traffic.

 Future policy should focus on reducing vehicle weight

Part of this is that we already spent a lot of deliberate effort on reducing emissions from engines. As the study notes:

> Before the introduction of air quality standards, exhaust emissions used to be a major source of PM, especially for diesel cars (Miguel et al., 1998). Since then, PM emission standards for vehicle exhausts have become increasingly strict and now all new diesel passenger cars are fitted with a diesel particulate filter (DPF). Bergmann et al. (2009) found that DPFs are very effective at reducing PM emissions, lowering the emitted mass of PM by 99.3%
TurboTax creates the problem and then sells the solution.
Guide to Using YubiKey for GPG and SSH
But does it Kill Fascists ?
There's a fun paper where the authors plot a rough map of Europe based on PCA of genetic variation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/

Slovakia ends up in the wrong place, but other than that it's not bad!
The IRS doesn’t have all the relevant information though.

A lot of deductions and credits are based on events or transactions that aren’t reported to the IRS. State and local tax deduction, charity deduction, medical expense deduction, and so on. There are also various penalties that need to be self reported - the IRS can find them, but only if they do an audit and are looking through bank accounts and other stuff they normally don’t know about.

I’m not sure if the IRS even knows how many kids you have for the child tax credit. How would they?
When DRY Fails
Judging from the pic, I'd say "Hairy" is something this plotter does well.

It's a neat toy and a cool hack, but it's not useful for a lot except artistic sketches.
> It's obfuscation by volume.

Not even sort of. They know EXACTLY who you are, and have the ability to determine EXACTLY what you say, or when you are home, or who is home with you, or meta data about your habits like sleep or TV, or in a very realistic possibility monitor for words beyond “Alexa”... like let’s say “Sanders” or “Trump” and upload number of times those trigger words were said every 24 hours.

There is no part of this that is obfuscation by volume. Specifically you get specifically tagged.

How could it not be within reason that a door to door political volunteer is sent to your specific door with their tablet saying “Don’t mention guns, Do mention tax reform”?

There are arguments I can make for personal assistants esp for elderly or disabled. But obfuscation by volume definitely isn’t the case here.
and yet there are still X and Y chromosomes.
> Based on recent history Warren certainly isn't a run of the mill middle of the pack Democrat. Her positions on banking, big business, healthcare and big tech companies is a leftward lean even when compared to Obama's tenure.

Obama is a conservative democrat (or a liberal republican, you can't really tell these days) so you're not putting the bar high.
DarkOwl is hiring Software Engineers in Denver.
Cherokees and Confederates? That's the oddest collab I could ever imagine. What was their official stance on the institution of slavery? That seriously is one of the strangest bits of US history I've ever learned.
Did it actually work? Did they actually stop using that delivery company for your packages (and is the company common enough for this to not be random chance)?
Then why did you start the discussion? An FPGA is a computer just as well as any CPU.
Actually it is the other way around - anyone can state whatever they like about other people mental state (and suffer the consequences if the statements are defamatory), only the US practicing members of American Psychiatric Association are forbidden by their association to diagnose people that are not their patients - the so called Goldwater Rule.

I like Stallman, and even if he is mad as a hatter and offends the whole progressive world - he is still right about the only thing about him that interests me - his opinion and work on software freedom and privacy.
What it really shows is the flow of money through the system. That’s really the crux of double-entry bookkeeping.
> I'm not sure that's universally true. Even where it is, that doesn't mean the recording will be admissable as evidence in a legal proceeding.

Unless the recording was made by police, illegally-obtained evidence is often admissable if presented by non-law-enforcement.

> Evidence unlawfully obtained from the defendant by a private person is admissible. The exclusionary rule is designed to protect privacy rights, with the Fourth Amendment applying specifically to government officials.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule
did you have a belt across your face?
That's an odd way to disagree with someone. The situation is symmetric. Why the assumption that I'm the one seeking special treatment?

My boss who suggested office hours wouldn't want to hire someone with your view.
yes, at this point I just don't want additional organizations having my data

credit karma having more comprehensive financial data on me? no thanks! just stick with the credit line approvals from self-reported income
Also time to start asking people to leave their phones in their cars, taking them as they walk in your door, or warning them that you have your phone on as well.

Anyone who uses a voice assistant should be warning others of this at all times.
If you are a privacy advocate, how could you work at google and sleep well?

Why sign up for that kind of pain?

To me- its more interesting that this exec is so clueless as to utter something so damning in such a cliched way. Gosh- was he really this earnestly naive? Or is it possible that this is sarcasm? How can you be a vp exposed to press and say something this unguarded or sarcastic IN FRONT OF PRESS?!? What is going on at Google that people like this are promoted/hired?

“Our customers should consider warning guests and family that they use our products” -a google exec
I wonder if there's some psychological factor of a person standing there waiting to put food on your plate, making you more conscious about how much time you're taking to make a decision
I wouldn't say /pol/ is as anarchist as it is simply nihilistic. The common thread among all the various opinions shared on 4chan throughout its existence is that nothing matters and it's all just a game.
A wee bit of motivation, hah, are you James Bond or something?

Usernames can be guessed remotely, fingerprints can't really.

Please demonstrate an attack that takes "a wee bit" of effort where you can use a fingerprint you found in the wild to auth.
By every real production load we know. Techempower have not been representative of anything. The only reason elixir and phoenix is not higher is because their code is buggy and they discouraged the community to try to fix it.
So does that mean libraries should be shut down yesterday? There are chemistry books and outright army field manuals to do essentially exactly that - the status of war is the only thing which makes it not-murder.
I use FF exclusively on my laptop. Having FF on my phone syncs my tabs and history. This is amazingly useful. Use it 3-4 times a week.

If you enjoy FF I recommend signing up for their beta program. New versions come out every couple of weeks and tend to make noticeable random differences or feature enhancements.
If you were using SVR4, you already had the AT&T/Sun TCP/IP, and the AT&T/Sun sockets interface in addition to the old SysV TLI.

If you were using SVR3 or earlier, you may have needed extra stuff.
Agreed. A better analogy is to what is going on in Xinjiang. Apple's handover of access to all Chinese users' iCloud data should be viewed accordingly.
Venezuela is also technically named after Simon Bolivar.
Obama held almost all those positions during the primary in '08. Why do you trust Warren to follow through when Obama didn't?
No, because it's a small step from having a smart speaker - which is specifically designed to pick up someone speaking quietly from the other side of the room - to go from "requiring a wake work" to "listening to every conversation". Especially when the companies involved (Google and Amazon specifically) have direct interests in knowing what you are talking about.
I'm assuming you also want a simple way to mitigate layer 7 attacks, which is the hard part. You can try something like gathering statistics of /24 IP subnets that make connections to your server and once you detect increase in unseen subnets that goes over some threshold you think your server can't handle - nullroute unseen subnets that go over that threshold for some short period of time. And on a web server side configure rate limiting for everything.
> > California requires consent from all present who have vibrated the air while you record the air vibrations

> One-party recording laws enable us to catch bad actors. Otherwise, you can't do things like record Rob Ford smoking crack and being a racist piece of shit while the incumbent mayor. The fact that you don't have the right to record a conversation you are participating in is not a good thing.

That doesn't stop illegally obtained recordings from being presented as evidence, so long as the recording was not performed by law enforcement, at least in the United States.

Sure you might be open to civil liability but that's a different story.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule
IIRC that is no longer considered to be a likely hypothesis.
They store the fact that someone was there are a particular time but they strip the userid immediately.

They have a GPDR data-request page if you are interested in seeing exactly what data they store about you.
I don't understand why the pain of filing is connected to the pain of spending money.

If a politician raises taxes, and all it does is change the value of a annual withdrawal on your account, I think that pain would be the same, regardless of difficulty of filing.

The pain is estimating and filing 4 times a year.
Love the release poster for this one.
I do think that’s mathematically interesting, but practically I think you can just take pizza from the first table since all pizza is good.
Well, the government was clearly interested in providing free online filing, back around 2002. But they were lobbied out of the idea by Intuit and a few other companies in the tax prep space.
The move to smartphones doesn't change anything. The only thing different this time around is too many people were willing to overlook the lack of control upfront, and it's hard to undo that. But it is being done and the FSF is an important part of making that happen.
You didn't need to get a bunch of extra stuff from Sun, because SVR4 was, itself, a Sun/AT&T joint venture.

e.g. The Sun sockets support was in the base SVR4 kernel and libc.
If you’re in to this kind of stuff, you might want to check out the hashtag #plotterwitter. Some really good stuff there.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/plottertwitter
Until you're selected for a random audit and quickly get charged with tax fraud.
So what?
Fuck TurboTax trying to rent seek mine and anyone's ability to pay taxes. What's next? Feudalism?
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Relevant to SIDS tech:

https://tricorder.xprize.org/prizes/tricorder

https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/22/qualcomm-tricorder-x-pri...
Research: Virtual Reality Can Help Train Surgeons
Maybe they can drop in Soli and have Nest warn them automatically...
Not sure why this is flagged. Not saying that I wholly agree with the author but there are interesting and relevant points to be made here.
You can improve the precision by using visual feedback, but there are movements that are impossible to do if you don't have precise enough motors.
I don't think so, though it's close.
HP wanted Sun, too, but they couldn't afford it -- IBM and Oracle had better offers.
The new version of Fahrenheit 451 (film w/ Michael Jordan) does a fantastic take of this. I highly recommend it unless anyone is a Fahrenheit 451 originalist.
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What I meant is: you can not change it and you can not keep it secret so it makes a poor password replacement. Usernames do not have to kept secret (you know that my username on HN is petschge), so finger prints might be slightly more usable as usernames than they are as passwords. They are of course not great for that either. Their best use might be similar to the "card present verifier" on the back of a credit card, i.e. as a sign that the person who entered they username, they password (and possibly a physical auth token like a chip card) is actually present themselves. Or don't use fingerprints at all. They are not secure nor convenient as you think.
Things I was definitely wrong about
Unlocking bootloader makes rooting safely possible.
How many pages of the supposed eight thousand plus pages of tax law apply to the majority of those who file taxes? The IRS certainly can tell me when I am wrong but they won't do it except when the result is in their favor; in my case I was improperly not filing HSA expenditures which would have resulted in me getting more back.

It comes down to this and I do not blame Turbo Tax or any other company in this area. The Federal and State Tax codes are weaponized by politicians and until that stops the system will be too complex for many to do the the filing on their own and some of that is because there is always that "did I forget something" feeling.

At least the changes made recently helped the lower and middle classes out a lot, that doubling of the personal deduction was a god send in reducing the work needed as many will never need to itemize again
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This is not true. Here you can watch someone set up the fingerprint without the protection and using a different finger to unlock it after the protection:

https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/1184475413252210688
> When the industry is only 20-25% female, such a target is effectively impossible without discrimination.

This type of discrimination has a name, it’s called “affirmative action”. This argument that fixing an imbalance is discrimination and therefore somehow worse seems to be really common but I think it’s a little misguided to say we shouldn’t use it, and here’s why.

The imbalance we have is an imbalance that was caused by cultural discrimination against women, and it’s a type of discrimination that is often unseen and is hard and time consuming to fix. (Not to mention, nobody actually knows how.)

The idea for affirmative action is to provide a counter-acting force to the already existing discrimination. Furthermore, the idea is to use this force gently and, most importantly, temporarily, until some balance is restored.

We already know what happens if we take no action at all: we get discrimination against women. The industry used to be a much higher percentage of women 40 years ago. Why has it declined? It’s obviously cultural because it used to be higher in the recent past, and just before that it was near zero and women weren’t allowed to vote. The numbers have been swinging all over the map in just 100 years, so it clearly has not settled from the perspective of history.

So what would you do to fix an imbalance? What is your suggestion? Doing nothing already has a known, negative outcome. There are other ideas besides affirmative action. How well have they worked in the past?
It's an issue that affects almost every American, why not obsess? I've seen two stories in the past day about Google Nest which affects maybe 10%? What a bizarre obsession.