skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He added that making deposits under $10,000 to evade reporting requirements, called structuring, is still a crime whether the money is from legal or illegal sources.

I don't understand this. How can anyone know whether what they are doing is wrong unless those rules are built into the structure of the law and the infrastructure of banks?

From how I read this, one government 'report' gets triggered if deposits are over 10,000$. Another government 'report' gets triggered if deposits are made for an indeterminate period of time under 10,000$.

> Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.

How can they assume this?
This is essentially the mobile application security question discussed yesterday @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8504136 and has nothing to do with China.
That's unsurprising, since without -march, gcc will emit code for a generic cpu that doesn't have a popcnt instruction. Early x86_64 cpus didn't have popcnt, so neither will the code that gcc emits & it's the same for any other architecture.

If you want to use instructions that are only available on or after a specific cpu generation, then you need to tell your compiler to target that cpu's instruction set.
You're right. Conspiracy theory may be overstating it.

My point is that so far, everything points to Inbox falling on the "get/keep more users" side of the spectrum as opposed to the "increase monetization on existing users" side, similar to how Google Now tries to keep users giving information to Google as opposed to show them ads directly. It may eventually do both, but the former is what the current features target.
Leaving aside how absurd this is, on balance this will have little effect on Tesla. Detroit is the bankrupt remnants of the world auto capital (of ICE cars). I would be surprised if Michigan represents a large share of business for Tesla, which is supply constrained anyway. Eventually, they will be forced to change tact, and lobby them to relocate when GM can no longer compete and folds for a second time.
I think in the end you have to realize that 'rule of law' is really a restricted form of 'rule of man', since it has to be enforced by people.

And laws are written by people too.
You'll be surprised at all the people making "large" cash deposit, seemingly oblivious to the law. FinCEN is already bombarded with tons of information.

In the process, some criminals slide under the radar and innocent people get caught up in the net.

The $10,000 limit is not a hard boundary. Banks can and often do report people for making much smaller deposit than this, just to cover their ass. With inflation going higher, $10k is not that big of amount as it used to be.

And we're not just talking about cash deposits here, everything is monitored including money order, wire transfer, checks. For example, if you have regular incoming wire transfer, and it doesn't even have to be international, you better have all the documents and explanation prepared when the IRS knocks on the door.

In this scenario, if the bank is feeling generous, it will refuse to service your account and ask you to go somewhere else. Often times though, there won't be a warning. Your account will just get frozen, "pending reviews from our security department."
Foundation takes as its background setting the inevitable collapse of civilization. Many of the Robot stories feature accidents or murders, at least one is set on a very dystopian world (solaris? where people live one-to-an-acre and can't bear to be in the same room as another human), and the ultimate conclusion is a robot deliberately irradiating Earth and killing 90% of its population (because it's the only way to get humanity to spread among the stars).
Although he has many fair points, jumping to the assumption that Google would shut down gmail doesn't seem to be very careful. He is talking about why Google wants to kill email and his reasoning is right — too bad not everyone understands that. But the real question is not if they want, but if they can.

Now, can they? It's too complicated for me to say something clearly. They are not the only mail hosting providers and I'm not even sure that gmail is the leading one amongst "common people", that is "your customers". If your customers use email, you will be using email. If you use email, and your colleagues use email then turns out everybody around uses email and your company shall be using email internally too. If your company is using gmail services and gmail shuts down, your admin will be starting your own mail server in a hurry. In that light I would say I'm very much wanting gmail to be shot down, because it means no more excuses to not setting up your own SMTP server.

So I believe Google could gently move some part (maybe even major one) of their users to some service of their own, but if it will be far enough from email, being more like "recommended to you" feed, then people eventually will feel the need in service that could "just deliver that fucking message, goddammit!" and Google will lose niche they are leading at in favor of niche where they will be more like competing with Facebook and, probably, losing.

If email persists then, they will lose ability to read emails of millions of people basically for nothing. So, no, I don't believe they will shut down gmail. Not as long as email exists at all.
Just out of curiosity: Can someone dealing purely with cryptocurrencies (like bitcoins) avoid this situation?
This should also provide defense lawyers with adequate evidence for motions to dismiss due to excessive force used.

What does this mean?
You don't need trauma to just forget things. You've experienced many hours of continuous stimulation every day for years, and most of that is naturally thrown away, including the mental impact of experiences that seem at the time like they will always stay with you.

Plus, it seems reasonable that doing the same tasks from the point of view of actually being the teacher, now having a lot more life experience and other things to think about, should make previously normal parts of the experience stand out. If you think this should be unnecessary, and 'obvious' just from thinking back to your own school days, I think you are either highly abnormal or simply wrong.
I do wish that my school had had the block scheduling this school seems to have. We had 8 periods in a day (school was a half period) and they were all ~50 minutes. This is barely enough time to accomplish anything, and days where the classes were shorter (teachers' meetings) then each class was worthless.
I actually don't think this is dramatic. America is not competitive anymore. Large monopolistic rent collectors are really holding back progress, and honestly it wouldn't be a stretch to assume people would consider leaving the country for opportunity elsewhere. As pointed out above, the internet is much slower and becoming restricted, media companies are dictating content and bandwith distribution, our infrastructure is from the 19th century (railways, motorways) and our freedom is being eroded daily. Tesla has single handedly tried to fix oil dependency and the energy crisis, and they are literally not being allowed to sell their cars. It is going to be an interesting 5 years going forward if nothing changes.
Keep in mind, this is the only government entity who spent millions of dollars to figure out how to continue to collect taxes in the event of a nuclear war and the collapse of society.

Great book if you want to get really scared about how much power the IRS actually has: http://www.amazon.com/Law-Unto-Itself-Abuse-Power/dp/0679732...?

I wonder whatever happened to the "kinder gentler" IRS we were supposed to get with the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998?

Just in case you're lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service_Restru...
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I went deep down this path today, and have it all working, but it looks like there is no way to enable Privoxy proxying just by connecting to Open VPN. Meaning I would have to connect to the VPN and then add in a proxy server. Will keep digging though. Great start.
There's really no hard rule. It's based on the feeling of whoever is reviewing your account transactions. Even if you deposit $2-3k every month, your account could still be under suspicion.
We really disagree on this one. I think it ages superbly well. You just have to get out of the mode that sees SF as predictive. If you see SF as a prophesy then all SF older than a few years is going to age badly. The reason for that is that the 'science' part is outdated the moment the ink is dry, good SF uses the state-of-the-art in science, changes one thing and then extrapolates from there. Lots of Gibson's work is predicated on AI and from that point of view the major element that could cause it to age badly hasn't happened or hasn't quite happened in the way that he foresaw. So it still has some aging to do in that respect and then the remaining item (the story) still holds but you're going to have to view it relative to the state of the art of the time that it was written.

Otherwise you end up feeling that Da Vinci's writings and drawings have aged badly because helicopters don't use 'airscrews' the way he depicted them.

http://www.scienceandinventions.com/files/2011/04/da-vinci.j...

When the amazing thing is that he foresaw a vertical ascent airborne vehicle in the first place.

So it's not so much about the details, in your words 'how your grandmother things about computers', but how society would respond if computers had the capabilities that Gibson endows them with. That changes the picture quite a bit.
> What I'm saying is not that you can't write software that can be abused in memory-safe languages. I'm saying that you're much less likely to have extremely serious code execution vulnerabilities if you write a program in Go instead of C.

What I'm saying is that "much" less likely is overstating the difference. Most bugs in C programs are not buffer overruns, and even the ones that are would still be bugs in Go or Rust, they would just be a different kind of bug which is still plausibly exploitable under real conditions.

This is not a silver bullet kind of situation. "Rewrite everything in Go" is not actually a fix -- it's replacing code with 30 years worth of bug reports and vulnerability testing with completely untested new code, at the cost of significant resources that could better be used to fix the remaining vulnerabilities.

I'm not even saying that all the existing code is perfect. Replacing OpenSSL with entirely new code would probably do more good than harm just because the existing code is so ugly. But that's the exception rather than the rule.
IMO, the last well-done dystopian films I saw, and I've seen a lot, were The book of Eli and The Road. I think we need more big questions being looked at in this space rather than pure entertainment pushes.
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They have more guns than we do. They can do pretty much whatever.
Meanwhile in Ottawa it was simply city bylaw officers who booked calls undercover and gave two $650 fines which Uber covered on behalf of the drivers.

The service launched three weeks ago and the city simply wanted to show it's muscle, the drivers have been operating since without issue since.
The real change was snailmail/phones to email (because store and forward, read at my leisure, global, offline workflow is a primary design element, can be sent automatically, free). That's a hard feature set to compete with.

We already have functional tools to solve the nominal 'my inbox is full' problem.

Spam is a bigger problem - CPU required to scrub it can be significant for a well established email account, and the complexity cost in running this infrastructure yourself pushes everyone to federated commercial services which has become a geopolitical fail equating to zero privacy.

There are people working on this ... I just hope they can succeed. Any of the various projects want to check-in in this thread with status updates?
Senorita and US Citizens. Hopefully the system works as well as
in Meixco and Venezuela or the former Chile under the 'strong supreme
leader.'

1.)big corporation tax loopholes. reason dot com. So with tax receipts
falling thee is an incentive to crack down on small business
.
2.)small business is the engine of growth, but there is no need due to
printing of money in the shadow banking system.
the shadow banking is a TECHNICAL TERM used by the Federal
Reserve and global banking system.

3.)Maybe the shadow baning system hides in the shadows with the
derivatives. Oh.... NO, NADA, NONE derivatives have been seized
like the ';working captial' of small business?

4.)BUT the IRS is well run according to talk radio like the
lawsuits about the IRSgate Lois Lerner scandals? Strange how
all the government records 'disappeared.'

5.)this only happens to Mexican-Americans for perhaps the
FREE AGENTS, consultants, small business and even shoe repair
will be targeted?

6.)So, there is a BIG drug war going on. It is global, but the USA is
the leader, IMHO. Using OUR leadership skills in making the
world save for democracy and the US leadership in IRAQ and
the list of other 39 countries....

7.)So, there is a BIG drug war which is why most of the law
enforcement highway stops are GOING SOUTH TO MEXICO.
Why?

7a.)no great interest in stopping ttravelers GOING NORTH with possible
durgs.

7b.)Travelers including average citizens GOING SOUTH have cash.
reason dot com - police can seize it AND KEEP IT for 'police use.'
Police use can include training - where else LAS VEGAS where
prostitution is legal? Police use can include LUXURIES.

8.) this is in alleged possible preparation for the Cyprus bail-ins,
where the governemtn seizes not only cash, but the bank accounts.

9.)First, raise the 10,000 ten thousand reporting requirment to
ten times that or one hundred t. That allows any transaction,
even 99,999$ to be investigated - that is seized.

Of course, of course, the 'informal handshake merchants' as in
the mid east and bitcoin, digital currency are still operating.

so, perhaps most small businesses will go BIITCOIN?

22.)Will your local Chinese restaurant be affected?

IMHO, NO! Eventually ALL the chinese restaurants, especialy those
iin the nationa's captial will refuse to serve those who are 'tax
collectors.' perhaps you may look at the references in the bible about
tax collectors.

PLEASE TARGET ALL CHINESE RESTAURANTS.

what is your opinion? Better off, with no chinese restaurants - most
are family owned and deal with cash.
When you see governments already contemplating killing people based on algorithms, you begin to empathize with Musk about calling AI a "demon" that we're summoning:

http://www.thelocal.no/20141023/norways-killer-robot-technol...

However right now I'm much more afraid of governments "setting loose" autonomous killer robots than I am about Skynet-like self-conscious killer robots (which may be what Musk is thinking about). To the people being on the receiving end of the autonomous killer robots' missiles, it won't be much difference, though. They would already be living a "Terminator-like" future, where they have to "fight the machines".

Relevant talk by Daniel Suarez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
Felt inspired after reading this this morning and spent my Saturday hacking up a little demo in d3:

http://bbrennan.info/fourier-work.html
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Ah yes, just what I want to trust my life to: potentially failing technology.
I'm really not sure what to be more impressed with, the precision engineering, (which really should not be possible with the technologies of the day - I'm thinking specifically of the non-continuous structure on the mystery pipe that neither casting nor latework could achieve); or the quality of the photography overall.

Evern if some of the mysteries of what is on view are not solved, it's a fascinating collection.
There are a ridiculous number of serious vulnerabilities in C code related to lack of bounds checking and manual memory management. This isn't really opinion so much as fact. I understand what you're saying, but you're also downplaying the seriousness of C bugs relative to <most other languages> bugs.

> Most bugs in C programs are not buffer overruns, and even the ones that are would still be bugs in Go or Rust, they would just be a different kind of bug which is still plausibly exploitable under real conditions.

I don't follow. What's the equivalent of forgetting to check the length of an input string before chugging it into a too-small array in Go?

> "Rewrite everything in Go" is not actually a fix

I never said that, though. I'm not suggesting we rewrite the GNU tools in Go. But if you were to write the GNU tools from scratch today, C would be a bad choice simply because it's so easy to slip up with devastating effects, and there aren't many advantages to using it for simple tools like 'strings'.
No. Second-hand smoke is easily provable to be detrimental to public health. Giving food to a homeless person is not.
Mike Hedrick is a great guy, his Tumblr (http://thehedrick.com/) is very insightful. As a writer, he's come far in just a short amount of time.
This is really innovative!
It’s time for another revolution
Someone not long ago on HN went through the same experience and made a nice guide exactly for this.

http://www.alexjmeyers.com/amazon_web_services_guide
I just read in "the lives and opinions of eminent philosophers" written ca 300 AD that Pythagoras (yes that Pythagoras) was the inventor of the "meat for athletes" diet. He also won a gold medal in the Olympics for boxing so he was not just an ivory tower speculator.

Meat in those days was regarded as an expensive luxury.
Not really. PostgreSQL has excellent synchronous replication which can be controlled per transaction. This is missing in MySQL. What PostgreSQL is missing is logical replication (both master-slave and master-master. So depending on your use case either could be ahead of the other.

I am almost 100% certain PostgreSQL will have have stable master-master replication within 1.5 years. The team working on it has come really far along.
Maybe you could have a look at "Unix system programming in OCaml"?

http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/
Not really, you have to first funnel your funds into bitcoin, which may trigger a review. Heck, if you use a US-based cryptocurrency "bank" like coinbase or similar, they may even "review" your account.

(guess it's cash under the mattress for now ;)
Would it surprise you that you can turn off the Promos folder, or train the classifier to put it into a different category with a simple drag and drop?
Meanwhile corporate tax abuse has no criminal consequences for decision makers in the corporate!
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standard governnment advice is to use the offical bureaucratic procedures.
Senorita

1.)take the day's receipts and WORKING CAPITAL to Walmart, 24 hours

2.)wire it to MEXICO, with no questions asked

3.)need money every week to buy supplies of food? then
have MEXICO holding company wire it back to you.

4.)send copies to nation's capital, with copies to Mr. President
and if needed the lolcal police station. SERVE them the copies
with videoape evidence when they arrive to eat. Make sure to
blank out any identifiers or ask them to hold up the 'mask in front
of the face.'

5.)raise the prices and also lower your profit, for

THIS IS COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN THE USA, for

Mr. President says, small business is the engine of growth in the USA
and we have no recession.

not legal or business advice, may be submitted to Colbert Report and
other satire shows.
Ask HN: Remote Dev + Stay-At-Home Parent: Who's Done It?
My wife and I recently welcomed our first child several weeks back. I have been working full-time from the home (and had been working so well before the child got here), but a reality check is about to hit hard: my wife's maternity leave is about to come to an end!

I'd love to hear from other dad's or mom's out there who have done the "stay at home parent" + "full time remote engineer"; any advice/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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The headline must have changed since the link was posted to HN- it's currently "Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns", which is about as matter-of-fact and non-clickbaity as it gets. It's just a literal description of the article contents. What was it originally that was so sensationalistic?
The Constitution is full of weasel words like "due" and reasonable".
Yes, but unlike many other futurist novels, I've always enjoyed the way that the resolution of so many of Asimov's stories are inclusive of technology.

I guess another way to say it is that many authors treat technology as somehow inherently evil. Asimov, on the other hand, treats technology as technology. That's not to say there are never mishaps or tragic consequences, but it's usually the result of human actions. The technology in his stories does not exert a malevolent force of its own. Some humans are good, some are bad, but technology doesn't change that.
"$person does $thing and is shocked by what they find/learn/discover" is definitely in the first chapter of the Blogger's Guide To Clickbait Titles.
I remember high school.

During class I hid whatever book I actually wanted to read at the time inside the class book and drowned out the teacher.

If homework was worth >10% of the total grade for the class (so that you couldn't get an A from tests/quizzes alone), I would copy the homework from someone else the period before.

Tests & quizzes are so gameable it's a complete joke. Standardized tests even more so. Without any actual learning from the class itself, you can generally come close to ace'ing most high school tests by being moderately intelligent.

There was one class where I got busted for copying the homework and actually had to apply myself for the rest of the semester to avoid being failed, and this was only because the teacher felt I could rise to my potential if challenged to do so. Thankfully, that was actually one of the more interesting classes I had to attend.

I was warned constantly that college was going to tear me apart if I didn't instill good study habits, but it was mostly more of the same. It actually required even less work because most classes relied more heavily on quiz & test scores than High School did. After my freshman year, I went to class about 2 hours a week (out of ~18) and still kept above a 3.5 GPA.

At the two corporate jobs I've held so far, the same formula still seems to apply where you can avoid applying yourself 98% of the time as long as you can shine during the corporate equivalent of "tests."

To date, it's the hardest thing in the world for me to garner the self control to apply myself to a task if I'm not passionate about it (even forcing myself to pay bills is a challenge), and I think a large part of that is due to the fact that I've been able to coast through every "challenge" quite easily, and everything has seemed to work itself out so far.

This next month I'm actually striking out on my own, thankfully on something I'm passionate about (and have been working on for the past six months on the side), and I'm scared to death I won't be able to actually follow through on the hard work required to be successful as an entrepreneur.
I wonder if it was an ancient belief of gaining the power of the item you were consuming in this case a volcano similar to eating tiger or bear would give you their strength.

It has nothing to do with that. In Greece where I live, in the past ashes were used to filter water. Even today it’s used in pastries as in bakery because it helps in digestion and cleans the bowel from infections.

It has dozens of other uses, from cleaning dishes and pottery to fertilizer (that’s why some of the best wines are produced in places where used to be volcanoes). It can also drive insects like ants and roaches away, can be used in soaps, on open wounds to help disinfection, etc.