skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can U.S. courts force ICANN to seize domains registered under ccTLDs?

My guess is not. gTLDs run by registrars not operating in the U.S. nonetheless probably sign ToS agreements with ICANN that effectively permit seizures by U.S. authorities. But for ccTLDs I doubt this is the case (it's hinted at in this white paper, https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/guidance-domain-...).

If you want to run a Pirate Bay or something, you're probably safest registering a domain under a ccTLD for a country with a lax policy.
I built one of these, it's really simple and quick to make.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-F...

They still warp, but less than laying flat on the table and it's quicker if you do all the even pages, then all the odd pages. Actually the hardest part is making the camera stable so it doesn't move when you press the button.

Lots of info on different hardware setups and scanning software here that can batch translate into pdf and different formats.

http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/index.php
I don't think all life is a game in this way; with a game we hold ourselves to the rules for their own sake - the pleasure we get from play is that of acting within the sandbox we've defined. It is a sketch of life, a model, a way to explore an idea. In the context of a game we might be adversaries, but I am intimately aware of the boundary, and that we are at play - our adversarial relationship is not "real". We often say, "It's just a game", and the just is crucial to the difference.

This is different from social mores, which are boundaries we respect because transgression has consequences we care about. There are real ends; it's NOT just a game. There is no space or context beyond what happens in life, as there is in a game (taking place within the shell of the true life).

The purpose of play, and playing games, is to prepare us for the actual contests with outcomes that we are invested in.

Of course we might USE play, and games, as tools in the course of achieving real ends (like the Olympics as a goal for furthering peace), but this is different from those ends (peace) being a game in themselves.
Perhaps "government" was too broad of a term.

Inmates sometimes end up staying prison longer than their original sentence because of crimes they commit in prison. The point I was making is that a private prison warden has much more of an incentive to punish those crimes severely than a public one does.
It's interesting to me that everyone uses that isArrayish module example as though it represented the downfall of civilization when to me, yes maybe it represents the downfall of civilization a little bit, but it also represents the strength of npm. Absolutely anyone can create code, put it online and then have others use it fast. Of course this means you do end up with a lot of nonsense, but a lot of brilliance too.

Nobody does this with maven because maven and the Java community in general makes this hard. It's doable, but generally takes more work, which is a strength and a weakness for the Java community. You could argue this is "worse is better"[0], making sacrifices, in this case in redundancy for simplicity of use. People should really just write the code for isArrayish if it is this simple, or perhaps the language or babel or whatever should provide such a function.

However no one forces anyone to use these, if you want a standard library, use Lodash, here is its isArray: https://lodash.com/docs#isArray, it even has differentiations of this like: https://lodash.com/docs#isArrayLikeObject. Complaints about something like the isArrayish module make my head hurt. It filled a void fast where one existed so people could use it and get on with their projects and subsequently their lives. I just don't see anything wrong with that.

0) https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
That was not meant dismissive, the placebo effect is of course a well established and very real effect. But there is nothing more than the placebo effect in homeopathy.
I'm familiar with RADAR and LIDAR, what is the camera-based alternative to these?
miniPCR: Enabling the era of personal DNA
If by "I trust her to know what's going on" you mean you would put faith in a proposition she makes based solely on her domain knowledge, that's literally the fallacy.

Sure - trust her to know the data in the space better than some random doofus. That's sensible, and why we have experts.

That doesn't mean you can grant her extra consideration when evaluating the soundness of the argument she makes with that data as support - the logic contained in that argument does NOT depend on her being a domain expert, but on being a good logician. That's what the fallacy points out.

I don't think we're disagreeing, but I wanted to clarify the distinction between her being a field expert and her being an argumentative expert.
MLS has been doing rather well. Attendance has been increasing steadily for the past decade[1].

The NHL, while certainly not as popular as the NFL or MLB, is pretty consistent as far as attendance numbers go, comparable to the NBA [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer_attendance...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer_attendance...
It's known, and it's called "Placebo".
Why didn't he move to a different state that had expanded Medicaid, like New Mexico? He would have easily qualified there.
Democracy never meant "mob rule". Even in Athenian democracy, few things were decided by actual majority rule. Never in history has there been a democracy where pure majority rule was the typical case.

So yes, it is a personal definition. Scholars don't use this definition. Pundits don't use this definition. The common man doesn't use this definition. It's a BS definition, and if it weren't, it would be pointless and redundant because "majority rule" captures this already.
We really do need to spend time on the numerics APIs though... I would love to pour some time into it again... just figuring out how to fit it in with all the other stuff I'm doing :(

I agree with the caution though. This takes time to get right.
My cynical prediction is that if quantum-effects are part of the brain, it will only be in a practical, philosophically-boring way.

So they may be essential to basic plumbing shared by many species, but not otherwise a game-changing factor for "consciousness" or "intelligence".
Puzzler #1 is an unclean reboot with a server-side TCP reset after the server is back online.

Puzzler #2 is an unclean shutdown with a client-side TCP timeout since the server never responds.
From RFD 5482's abstract:

> The TCP user timeout controls how long transmitted data may remain
> unacknowledged before a connection is forcefully closed.

As I understand it, this only applies if there is data outstanding. In the puzzler, there was no data outstanding. You're right that if there had been, the side with data outstanding would eventually notice the problem and terminate the connection. The default timeout on most systems I've seen is 5-8 minutes.

By contrast, the previous article you linked was about KeepAlive, which will always eventually detect this condition, but by default usually not for at least two hours.
COBOL in the cloud
I don't think the number would rise, at least not for a long time. Trucks would be utilized a lot more hours per day, which is what matters. There are currently pretty strict rules for how many hours a driver can work, but if you can sleep while the truck drives itself all of a sudden you have an asset that can work nearly 24/7.
Yup. I'm not too up to date on the specifics, but one advantage I remember reading from the paper over SGX is that you can run programs with raised privileges, whereas in SGX enclaves can only have user privileges.
I'm curious; in what kinds of situation would this apply?

Any situation where the business value of having your state be 100% consistent does not outweigh the performance or implementation cost of making it so.
i think a lot of them don't. but there's so many people in the region that even if a lot of people don't use cars, there's still a ton of cars.
>you must swim one lap with it and one against it.

Lengths, not laps. A lap in running brings the runner around the track and back to where they started. A lap in swimming is from one side to the other and back again (100m). A length, from one side of the pool to the other, is 50m or half of a lap. If there is a current one length is different from another other, but the laps are identical.
For Puzzler #2, did the kernel send any additional attempts on its own, beyond the initial attempt, before the 5min timeout?
Support and training contracts aren't free, either. I don't know if Microsoft does much of that, but it's another option for revenue with .NET.
"When I type the message and hit enter, kodos gets woken up, reads the message from stdin, and sends it over the socket." <- From Puzzler #1, this is a typo: it should say "Kang", not "Kodos". Kang is sending a message to Kodos, and this message was typed into Kang's console (waking up Kang) which sent the message to Kodos.
So as long as you download before a month from release date, everything's fine.
"First: No, that's not the point of "worse is better". "

I hear lots of interpretations of it. I could be misremembering. I'll take another look at it. Appreciate the specific points to look into. :)

"Second: I would suspect that there are far more new projects started today in C than there are in COBOL. C is in use (at least sometimes) as a voluntary choice, and COBOL is not."

If we're using that constraint, then Java and PHP are the example with Java for about any kind of app. A lot of people even like Java. They think it's great and hate C. So on and so forth. Yet, the popularity still tells me nothing as I got to watch Java get forced by Sun and others into its position step-by-step with insane amounts of work to get it to match performance and productivity of better-designed languages... partly successful there. It was actually experience of Java IIRC (later C#) that was the reason many people didn't think an OS could be done in a GC'd language. They mentally associated GC'd language with stuff like that. That a small team pulled it off in Oberon with a handful of people at a time porting or extending it is always news to Java developers I meet here.

Lack of context, bad design, meant to replace prior languages for most applications, platform orientation, and massive ecosystem + uptake + tooling make it a better comparison. So, I'll use it and COBOL next time.
That is essentially the proposed mechanism discussed in the article but the article gives the impression - at least to me - that it is not yet confirmed that this indeed how it works in birds.

EDIT: After skimming the Wikipedia article, both articles agree that it is a possible but not yet confirmed mechanism.
That's an interesting link, but parent comment clearly favors less government help for trucking, not more for railroads.
Best country? That'd be a difficult argument to make, for the U.S. or any other particular country. Preferable than most others? Sure.
While the world may seem to center around Manhattan, some people start their trips in savage lands like Queens.

Others find the prospect of standing on a hot crowded train that runs late and smells like urine less appealing.
> There does seem to be a body of anecdotal evidence

So no actual evidence then?
What does the tyre inflation pressure have to do with the pressure applied to the road due to the gross vehicle mass?

Nothing.
That sounds like a better business to me - there are a lot more bored housemakers than hardcode gamers. In the future, it might balance out, but for now, getting spare change from a large chunk of the adult population is nothing to sneer at.
AMD has the Platform Security Processor in the Puma chips (Mullins and Beema) which serves the same purpose as the Intel ME (Management Engine). I would not be surprised if this made its way into Zen.
There's not a fancy acronym for it, but it's what most current lane centering tech uses (e.g. Tesla Autopilot). It's actually pretty off the shelf kit from Mobileye.
And the second big unknown is pricing. It doesn't matter if the 3 GHz Zen only "slightly" beats a 3 GHz Broadwell-E. If it is cheaper and/or more power efficient, then Zen is a winner.
No.

1. NYC is _BIG_. It's 304 square miles, which is about 17 by 17 miles. There are many places where biking is too far.

2. Subways, in contrast to popular opinion, don't go everywhere. Mainly, unless you live in Manhattan, or that's the only place where you want to go, the Subway system is quite lousy. Going from the airport to Coney Island takes an hour and a half by subway (according to Google), rather than half an hour by car. Now what happens if you have what to do in Queens, Far Rockaway, or NJ?

3. Expensive and no point. Due to #2, most NYers have to have a car, if at least for those off days when they want to leave the city or what. Once you have the car, driving it is much cheaper than taxi.
How does it do in a snowstorm? Heavy rain?
Libreboot is inaccurate on this one, as far as I can tell this is only on the Puma chips right now, but it's likely it will make it's way to other chips as they come out. Newer Bulldozer-derived (Family 15h) cores made today such as the current FX lineup do not have the PSP.
I have no idea what happened to your loved ones or if they have been "fatally poisoned," and if so, who was responsible for that. What I do know, based on what you said, is that the government didn't forcibly lock them in a box for X years at gunpoint. They apparently failed to publish some kind of report you wanted them to publish. Not exactly the same thing.

Criminal laws are by far the most invasive laws we have on the books, and because of that they deserve special protections against those that would seek to exploit them.
Is it out anywhere? I looked through it and never saw a download link or check out the code here... something.
Tyre inflation pressure is irrelevant. We could assume the tyres were solid rubber for the purposes of this conversation and the wear on the road would be the same due to the gross vehicle mass devided by the number of tyres.

As another commenter pointed out, I've ridden my bike with 150psi tyre inflation pressure but the weight per wheel is my weight + bike weight devided by contact area of each tyre. Sure, higher pressure tyres typically have less contact area, but the gross weight of the bike is tiny compared to a truck the road wear from cycling is pretty much zero.
I think a majority of the motor vehicles are taxis, buses, private car services, and what does the most damage per vehicle - commercial vehicles. Box trucks take a much greater toll on roads than a bunch of average passenger cars.
> The question then becomes "Who do you trust more than the US"

The guy who used to manage the Australian .au TLD.
When a process exits abnormally or not and if there's unread data in the receive buffer then the kernel will send a RST, otherwise it would send a FIN.
Virtual reality is helping paraplegics move again
Unfortunately, it seems impossible to acquire a modern x86/x64 chip without such hidden firmware. The last Intel CPUs without it are from 2008, and the last AMD CPUs without it are from 2013.

If you can tolerate using a different CPU architecture, Raptor Engineering's Talos Secure Workstation looks very intriguing. https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
I'm curious about this too. In SF it can make sense to have a car even just for travel within the city because public transit to/from certain areas can take forever compared to cars.

I was just dragging points around between random places on Manhattan and Brooklyn, and the difference in transit times between cars and public transit seemed pretty minimal almost everywhere I dragged the points to. In SF, there are certain well served areas where that is also the case.. but if you want to cut west from, say, Dogpatch to the Castro, it can take 2x-4x longer by public transit.
> Write your code for this game only, not for a future game. You’re going to be writing new code later because you’ll be smarter.

This alone is worth the read for me. I wish I could shadow this team.
I really appreciated the depth of detail into what programs Oregon did and did not qualify for, how Medicaid expansion was supposed to work, and how opting out of it effects poor Texans.

There's just one data point that it would have been good to see... For people who don't qualify for Medicaid, the next step is a heavily subsidized marketplace plan through ACA. Now it isn't an option for people like Oregon after the fact / in this case because getting sick is not a qualifying life event. You would have to do something like move to another state to qualify for special enrollment. But if he had had an ACA plan, the transplant would have been covered, with some very small deductible. I would really liked to have seen the article address how much this would have cost, in monthly premiums and out-of-pocket expenses, because it's a another very "interesting" minefield.

Now, in order to qualify for federal subsidies in the marketplace, you need to make 100%-400% of FPL. If you make less than 100% of FPL you do not get any subsidy whatsoever because the Feds expect you to get Medicaid. This is where states that don't cover people who are making less than 100% FPL can truly fuck someone over.

In this case Oregon was declaring $10,944 of income, or 93% of FPL. An unsubsidized silver plan would then cost ~$252 per month with significant annual out-of-pocket expenses. However if Oregon reported income of $11,800 ($856 more) then he suddenly would have been eligible for a subsidized silver plan for $20 / month with virtual no out-of-pocket expenses. (numbers are from Kaiser's cost calculator for Dallas, Texas)

This income would be so minimal that it would not have disqualiied him for SSDI. You need SGA (Substantial Gainful Activity) of $1,130 per month for that. In other words, he needed to "rent" a room of his house for a few days and report Schedule E income, or have a garage sale and report Schedule D income, or just report $900 of "Other Income" on Line 21 of the 1040 in order to declare the extra income, and thereby qualify for an ACA subsidy.

The ACA was written so as not to expose the Fed to states dumping their Medicaid patients into the marketplace. That's why they have the 100% FPL minimum in order to get any subsidies at all. That makes sense from a Federal policy standpoint, but really drives the point of how badly a state is behaving to not cover people who are under 100% on Medicaid. The "answer" in cases where the number is so close is to make up the necessary income on the tax forms as needed to get the ACA subsidy. And really, at least by my moral compass and theory of civility, you can read make up however you like in this case.
Do you know is there hardware available with SEV capabilities yet? Or is there even a roadmap/timeline for its release somewhere? Would be really interested to get my hands on it.
Basically. The good news is CompCert might not be needed. Remember that seL4 bypassed need for CompCert by somehow translating it directly to ASM. I found out they used Myreen et al's method.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/stacks.html

Their work is mindblowing. There's almost no TCB left lol. I still want diverse verifiers in diverse logics and machine codes to verify the HOL checkers and such. I don't trust their verify it in itself sort of method. Not entirely. They do have a nice projects page for CakeML listing each improvement that would be useful and skill estimate. More should do that.

Look at NICTA's COGENT, too. It's open-source now with an ext2 implementation partly or mostly done.

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/cogent.pml

Here's the Simpl language I referenced that's I believe at the heart of AutoCorres tool. They embedded C in it but it's not C specific.

https://www.isa-afp.org/entries/Simpl.shtml
I'll say what people have been dancing around, or unable to say; The U.S is the lesser of the evils. Is the U.S perfect? Hell no. But they're the "least bad" country to be handling the system. Any other country or entity would immediately be targeted and open to bribing, gaming, pressure, and corruption.
Those tests are with floats. That may be the standard but it isn't appropriate imho. Swimmers do not swim in the top few inches of water. They swim as deep as four feet in dives, and are constantly dipping hands feet down two or more feet. Any current down there would go undetected by such a float, especially when it is surrounded by lane ropes.

Do a test with something hanging below the float, below the protection of the lane ropes. Or drop some dye in the water.

(I'm a little surprise by the wave action visible in these tests. With so many ropes, that water should be like glass very quickly.)

There is some theatre here. Swimmers know the water moves, that it isn't a stationary tank. A perfect pool, with perfectly still water in every lane during an actual race, isn't possible. As slight winds can affect football games, swimmers just have to live with slight inconsistencies between lanes and pools.
Ok. Fair enough haha.
Why in the fuck is diversity a "thing"?

Algorithimic and behavioral diversity maybe. But this bullshit kumbaya bullshit where team composition has to reflect a skin color ratio that's suitable for an ad exec's eye is fucking worthless.

I've been "lower income". I've been fucking homeless. You're training technical monkey to do technical jobs. No problem with that but don't fucking be "greater diversity blah blah blah".
I think you are overestimating the power Carmack has in this. This isn't ID.
You can reference projects or other files that are in submodules. What about the .NET build process makes vendoring the only option?

Even so, it's always been more convenient in my experience when something just ships with fixed versions of dependencies already inside it. Those versions are known to work with the codebase and there's no chance of new bugs or other incompatible behavior being introduced from updates to the dependencies.
I guess weeks because it's still not supported.
Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154228
I am thinking it is a bit like the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which has been continuously painted since it was built... The work crews when they get to the end of the bridge simply go back to the other end and start again... :)

EDIT: Just clarifying that it is not as simple as starting at one end and painting to the other and back again - simply that I have heard that there is always someone with a paintbrush or spray hose somewhere on the bridge working away.
Did anyone else click on the Empire City Subway link in the Article? This organization has intrigued me since I learned about them. You don't see their trucks often and when you do they are very low key looking, matte grey, simple block letters. They have nothing to do with the subway. Anyway if you missed it:

"Empire City Subway Company (ECS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon that specializes in subsurface engineering and construction services. Since 1891, ECS has held a franchise from the City of New York to build and maintain a conduit and manhole infrastructure in Manhattan and the Bronx. ECS rents this space to telecommunications and cable television service providers."

If you want to run fiber in in either of those boroughs you need to pay Verizon. Kind of odd that a public asset is controlled by a private company. Its basically a shadow company. A 125 year old franchise?
It's an acquirehire and for the technology.
Thanks for this amazing reply. If only you, catnaroek, and I were able to sit down over coffee for an hour or two.

This has been a fascinating thread.
Picturesque millennial stereotyping.
Nearly 10% YOY returns - it certainly does pay to have no morals
Yeah, pushbullet is alright (it's what I used before switching to Fi), but direct integration with Hangouts is _so_ much cleaner. It just works everywhere, on every device.
I spend about half my job inside Powershell and had no idea bout this. Very cool.