skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though farming, including farming partially on reclaimed land, receives a cursory mention in the article, generally most of Appalachia is understood to be a poor fit for farming as the topography is rough, the soils are poor, and the narrow river valleys are where all of the population and transportation routes concentrate.

One solution is that after the (controversial, but still commonplace) practice of mountaintop removal surface mining, you restore land in such a way to enable flat-surface or terraced farming, instead of just planting it with fast-growing pine forest and/or grass as it's usually done. This is obviously a transformative process with non-negligible environmental impacts, but it would increase economic throughput.

Historically in Europe, and early colonial America, ridgelines were favored as transportation routes because river fordings could be avoided. This wasn't the case deep in the Cumberland Plateau because the terrain was too rugged, but nowadays ridgelines show good potential for highway and other flatland construction like the King Coal Highway [1][2] and associated developments [3].

[1] http://www.mcra-wv.org/assets/images/sliders/_Resized/king-c...

[2] http://www.wvkingcoal.com/images/maplg.gif

[3] http://www.wvkingcoal.com/images/11082010/2010-11-09_12.JPG
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Designer & author of the JSON OT algorithm that underlies ShareJS/ShareDB here. I do not have a formal proof for any of the properties of the algorithm, but we have extensively fuzzed it and are confident in its correctness. I believe a proof of correctness is possible, merely tedious.
This reminds me of React state. Sagas, selectors, constants, components, containers, routes, reducers, actions, connectors, shoot me.
Doesn't this "fundamental strength" also doom it to be abysmally slow?

Quick proof: If there were a network like Freenet (meaning, nodes can't control what content they host) that wasn't abysmally slow, companies that currently pay to host stuff (e.g. mobile app banner ads) would move their files on to it until it was abysmally slow again.
I'm reading LYSE right now and it's very good, worth whatever you end up paying for it!
Oh, you're not running the search over your own data?
I was just typing this. Reading PDFs sucks, especially when you want to detach yourself from the interface you're currently working on. Flipping back and forth screens, meh.
These bundles exist only because of the near zero cost of duplication. For so many books the tier should be even higher unfortunately.
Build big, then what? The subways and footpaths are already at capacity at peak hours. Let the growth go to other cities.
Sounds like a great strategy!
They aren't doing the free upgrade to 10 offer anymore so you're probably fine. I've been running a 7 instance in a VM for a long time and never had a problem with it upgrading to 10.
The same people: "those barbarians over there," no matter where you're standing.
Let us assume it was socialism for the sake of argument:

It doesn't matter. There provably wasn't equality.

So whether or not what they had was socialism (which, by the way, does not require equality in any case) is entirely irrelevant to the argument.
Let's be real, "they" won't. A select few might change to a mac, maybe a chromebook, and that's it.

Developers are a case apart.
I think of those examples, social eating is the one pushing the limits :p
A solution a German blogger did was kinda funny.

For every post you made, you had to enter a captcha.

Then, if your comment had words that were likely to be hateful, it’d show your comment again to you, and force you to enter the captcha again.

The worse the likely quality of your comment, the more captchas you’d have to enter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4FawUtYPA
> If they can't do that, then they fail their primary purpose.

That's not the primary purpose of IPFS, and you've been given quotes/links saying as much.

It might be your primary purpose, in which case IPFS (on its own) isn't suitable, so use something else (e.g. FreeNet). Why criticise IPFS for not having the same goals as you, when you could say the same things about the World Wide Web, Gopher, IRC, email, Gnutella, DropBox, etc.?
Surely that's BNF rather than XML?
Well when compared to almost every other major nation on the planet, it becomes much less of a belief (or "political opinion" -what?) and more of an objective fact.
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Big tech won’t buy your startup, but big brands might
I think 49.9% of executives agree with that and 90%+ of product people/developers agree with that too. The problem is that it's rarely X and Y. It's almost always justifiable, though. Imagine X=1 and Y=100.

If you sell 1 and a customer asks for 100 it's easy to say no. If they ask for 50 or 25 it's still easy.

The problem is when they ask for 2. Or 1.5, and are willing to pay big bucks to get it. It's hard to know whether your line should be at 2 or 20 or 80, especially when you can make business arguments for all of them and they all come with buckets of money attached.
This is pretty cool. A bunch of resources I've either been meaning to pick up or am pretty excited to check out.
At Doberman we were one of 12 creative firms in NYC who helped launch the US initiative Pledge Parental Leave to improve these benefits.

http://www.pledgepl.org
Folks, Microsoft blatantly disregarding user choice and privacy is not news. What else do you expect from a company that ships at least one backdoor in every software they've ever made?

If you understand the true nature of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, this should never come as a surprise. It's going to take several generations for the culture to change, that is, if ever...
Ondemand printing exists, maybe literally bundling the books together into a large, reader's digest-esque format.
You mean the 2 visas/year filed by CGI? http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Clinton-Global-Initia...
Or the 685 by Trump's WPB hotel, including almost 100 last month for which he rejected US workers http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election... ?

Since most Trump voters are uneducated, this is my tip: Go to Stanford/MIT/Columbia, get a CS degree and then you won't have to compete with illegals for a job. And always remember:

"Of course foreigners steal your job, but maybe, if someone without contacts, money, or speaking the language steals your job, you're shit." ~ Louis C. K.
So your only criticism is that you don't like the adjective they used in the summary? Neat.
This fucking over everybody who isn't going to have children, can't have children or are die having children.
No, there is no legal requirement. Other big cities often have brokers. Boston, for example, has many brokers, despite being much smaller than NYC.

Brokers serve the owner, not the renter. While it may seem like the renter is paying the broker's fee, it's really the owner. Compare the rents of equivalent apartments, one with and one without a broker. You'll find that the one with a broker is "cheaper" by approximately the annualized broker's fee. [0]

[0] My own research, randomly sampling Craigslist postings in NYC.
From the author's LinkedIn profile:

> Leading a marketing and PR campaign to promote and popularize the Smalltalk programming language.
> That's why you see a TON of stories about degradation on Nissan Leaves

Mind you, you need to remove the 2011 Nissan "Leaves" from the dataset, they had bad chemistry that didn't survive much on hot climates. New batteries are better.
The New York Times comments are free from trolls and spam, but it's a frustratingly obvious echo chamber when it comes to politics. I'm a liberal guy but I can't stand it. David Brooks wrote an interesting column (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/the-great-affluenc...) a week or so ago and most of the comments are just bashing him for being a Republican, as if that has anything to do with the subject matter.
You don't think agree/disagree votes apply to articles like they apply to comments?

And given what I've seen of the algorithm here, page positioning is a lot more complicated than vote count weighted by time.
totally agree. i'm in china and i can barely have a skype conversation with people abroad - it will randomly cut out or the quality will degrade. i can use google most of the time via VPN, but then there'll be some big political event and even VPN will become intermittent. when my co-founder came to china he couldn't believe how much of a productivity killer the great firewall was.

actually, it is quite interesting that the great firewall can totally block most VPN's when the gov. wants it to, but most of the time they choose not to. they just make it enough of a pain for normal people to give up, yet they leave just enough access for those who really need international internet access to get by with VPN (albeit barely).
Everything the government provides causes lots of inefficiencies and waste, and unintended consequences to boot.

That said, some things may be worth the sacrifice, healthcare may be one of those things. One question to ask, will the quality of care improve (whatever the cost) if the government takes over?

Since the US is made up of states, what is stopping one state from providing single-payer and proving the model works?
Why don't popular sites like CNN, bbc and arstechnica use HTTPS?
I am developing a new website that won't have sensitive data transfer at least on the short term (like logins or money transactions), Google says every new website should use https or will be punished on the long term. Mozilla seems on the same track. So why don't many MANY popular websites use https? Of course, they have the money and infrastructure to do so. Is there something hidden in this issue?
Related: https://m.signalvnoise.com/bigger-prices-bigger-problems-728...
> I've never been able to understand how a parent could advocate against European-style healthcare goals.

Sheesh, haven't you heard of the slippery slope?? Today it's six months of paternity leave, but from there it's a straight line to Stalinism. /s
"'Rights' are basically just freedoms we've decided we like a whole lot and want the government to guarantee" - as I said below, the logical conclusion of that argument is not a world you'd want to live in. -- "is there any such thing as a government that does not force people to do things they wouldn't voluntarily do?" - no there isn't. That's why it should be limited to protecting other people's rights.
Damn, I just bought the F# book...
I don't know, I think USPS is better than FedEx.

Also, here in Connecticut (the place where the rich historically sent their kids to school), there are plenty of public schools that are at least as good or better than at least some nearby private schools. When you get into preschool, for instance, the public schools are a HUGE improvement over all but the top-tier private ones. Likewise, the "magnet" program schools are a public option that is as good or better than most private schools nearby (they are special, well-funded by the state, and use a lottery to get in, though).

This is coming from someone who agrees with you in principle, too. Reality is nuanced, though.
This is very true.

I'm curious what kinds of evolutionary biology impacts technologies like Google's search engine have on humanity. Before the internet, there was a large motivation to memorize information in order to quickly retrieve it without a very costly lookup operation. Now, a more efficient method to access information is to "index" the information with your brain - i.e. just remember how to find it quickly with the right search terms. This way, a significantly larger amount of information can be accessed very quickly by an individual.

I have noticed this in my own life. I consider my ability to recall things with Google to be a skill, and I consciously do not memorize pieces of information which I am fairly sure I will be able to find in <10 seconds. I think that using my brain as an index allows me to ingest more concepts, and as a result of that make more connections between concepts. It's definitely not without downsides though, an obvious one being a very high level of reliance on internet access. I wonder how this will play out over time, and if there are directly observable physiological differences between individuals with and without the internet as a form of memory-augmentation.
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You literally explained the situation I find myself in with my bootstrapped company. I couldn't have explained it better.
You've just decided to read it that way and make an ad-hominem argument instead of engaging with the statement itself.

Well, no. You've said a lot of things in this thread that seem to indicate that a 1st order heuristic only has value if it can be used in place of cognition. If there are more than 2 possible answers, a 1st order heuristic that was correct 40% of the time could still have value.

And lots of people apply it poorly.

Applying it properly is taking it as, "We need more evidence to justify the cost/benefit." That's conceptually more precise, though it manages to sound even more awkward than YAGNI. But from what you've been saying, it seems like "YAGNI" is simply the end of discussion.
Relevance isn't the watchword for inclusion on HN, interestingness is. That's per the guidelines.

And you'll note I said "online".
So a variation of the 80/20 rule? 20% of your users/customers cause 80% of the headaches/effort that aren't productive? This does hash out some 'stock characters' like I was "taught to identify" at a certain blue and yellow colored big box, because we were supposed to target them to "meet their needs" - gamer, Mom, audiophile, etc.

I have a few qualms regarding the avenue Justin.tv took as used for an example, in that yes I'm sure 90% of the user-licenses allow for game broadcasting - claimed publicly[1] - but IP is a slippery issue and willful infringement is potentially quite costly. I'm a former gamer so I also have first-hand experience with, ahem, demands that gamers can sometimes put forward which may or may not be grounded in the reality of IP law. In other words, I'm pretty sure they got lucky with right-place-right-time-right-market which takes some sheen off the innovation, execution, etc type narrative.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/11/after-twitchs-music-copyright...
No worries; it's a confusing name and I forgot to include the link which I usually do when I mention it.
So, if the majority votes to take away the rights of, oh I don't know, Japanese citizens -- that's a world you want to live in? You're not thinking clearly about the issue.
If you are planning on doing some tricky rebase with possible problems you can just create a branch before you rebase on the old head. delete the branch when you know the rebase is successful. Then you don't have to deal with the reflog at all.
The case for making New York and San Francisco much, much bigger
The anesthesiologist alone will be $5k.

They are the person most able to kill you when they screw up, so a significant portion of that bill is insurance. They also make $300-500k.

Also recovery room or ICU time is very expensive -- something like $1000/hr in some cases.

That type of procedure (gall bladder) will cost something like $15-20k.

When I had a spinal fusion, it was a 4-5 hour procedure involving a neurosurgeon, his PA, an anesthesiologist and his nurse, and 4-5 others. That procedure cost ~ $125k.
Way different chemistry, reserve capacity, active thermal management.

Of these, the chemistry should answer for most of the improvements. Electric cars as a rule do not use standard lithium ion batteries exactly because of the degradation. Instead, they get less energy density.
Agreed, I find it amazing that this still hasn't been addressed. "Sort by Average Score" should definitely factor in the number of reviews. It's an easy fix from a technical perspective because you can also sort by number of reviews. Just combine the two!
A family friend, who was at the time the chief neurosurgeon of a significant Canadian hospital, pointed out once back in the late 80s, "America will never make single payer work because you won't be able to place a cut off where you stop paying to delay death." And of course it's completely true. The claim that there wouldn't be any "death panels" was of the most damning aspects of the legislative battle, because it proved that no one wanted to let reality in.
Same here. I used to live in NYC, but planned for a significant lifestyle change (move, job, etc.) with kids because I didn't want (and couldn't afford) to pay someone else to watch them.
Not quite sure what recklessness you are referring to. If necessary, the exception is only for the one directory the EXE is in. IIRC the program isn't really installed, it just needs to run once to make changes in firewall rules, etc., that prevent MS telemetry. AFAIK it doesn't increase external access to the computer being configured.

After making modifications, the exclusion can be deleted if desired. If you have more info about risks of using the dwt utility, I'd be real interested to hear about it.
If you don't care about security and don't mind missing out on HTTPS-Everywhere users.
>of what? that you don't need a separate mobile site (or js) to show a most basic wall of text?

Most sites only need to show just that. And fail miserably at it.

>open up amazon.com or walmart.com and see how your justification holds up.

90% of sites are content based, not Amazon or Walmart. And even then could do with a much simpler layout.
To learn properly, I feel that I prefer learning from a book rather than learning from a PDF. This is why I couldn't really use Codecademy. Too many distractions.
The US health care market is not competitive in that way because of the incentives do not work that way. The US health care market is not consumer driving it is employer driven, and employers want all the things you bring up because it lowers their costs. What employers fear is that someone will offer a health insurance plan that is competitive to theirs, which makes it easier for my to change jobs.

Employers like the fact that I pay $200/month for my health insurance, they pay $1000/month. If I want a health insurance plan that improves outcomes and which costs $1500/month I have to come up with the $1500/month, not just the $300 difference. (the above numbers are all made up, but they are realistic)

I have long believed that we cannot solve the US health care problems without removing the incentives that force me to use my employers' policy like it or not.

In short, you don't see those examples in the US because the system is not competitive on outcomes, only costs. Since cost is the only thing they compete one insurers offer lower payments to doctors, fight every claim, add higher deductibles (which is a hidden cost on me) and co-insurance for the patients. These are innovative, not all are innovations that I would want my insurance company to come up with, but since I'm not a customer they don't care what innovations I want.
On the flip side, I run Ubuntu on my htpc, and have for several years now... there have been a couple times where the updates broke audio, and the fix took on average 2 days, though I can imagine some people having worse experiences...

Getting an MCE remote (arguably the most common PC remote type) working with Kodi (formerly xbmc and very popular full screen media player) took some cumbersome steps.

On average one app breaks every 6 months or so after updating.

By comparison, omitting the privacy issues, MS has a much better track record with updates.
You are not sure if your OS decided to download gigabytes of data using your home connection.
I have found comment sections on news websites to be reliably awful. It seems every discussion thread deteriorates into an attack on the other side's politics even when the link to get there is non existent. ("Thanks Obama")

That being said, I love reading all the comments. It has been a guilty pleasure of mine for years. I often spend more time reading NPR's comment section than I do reading the actual content. I don't think this change will cause me to consume less NPR content, but I'll definitely spend less time on their website.
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And a little while after that you end up in a Gulag.
Drawback of ZeroNet is that it can host only static pages, page can't be generated dynamically. Max size for a page is 100MB. I tried to wget and convert my 5yo wordpress blog to static files, but it currently takes 1600MB, so... zeronet is no go for me, I2P and Tor work fine. Honestly I can' think of good example what zeronet should host. Maybe plaintext pages with leaks from WikiLeaks?
That's silly. Insurance is a great method of hedging risk. If my apartment burns down it would cost me A LOT of money to replace my stuff. But the chances of it burning down are really small. So I can purchase renters insurance for just a couple hundred bucks a year, an expense I can easily afford.

That benefits me a great deal!

Maybe when you said insurance you meant to say "health insurance" but the same principle applies. If I have a heart attack then treating it will be hideously expensive, but that's also unlikely to happen.
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There's been any number of threads on HN about Google's data collection practices and how to avoid them.
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HSM signing capacity is not infinite, and HSMs are expensive, but the real issue is just general DOS attacks. We aren't anywhere near our HSM capacity at the moment.

It's easy to set up tons of subdomains and request gobs of certs, which generally eats into the resources we have (database, bandwidth, HSMs). We need to limit that behavior to make sure legitimate users are getting good service.
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But surely that is in itself counter to how css is supposed to work at a very fundamental level?

If you want to render different content for different browsers, I'm not convinced that is a function of stylesheets, not should it be.

If my layout needs extra padding or whatever if a div is a flexbox, rather than display:table, I would consider that to be an implementation issue rather than something I would want to cover with additional code.

I might just be completely missing the point, but it feels like a bandaid.
Anecdotal, but managing thousands of VMs, hundreds of ELBs, service discovery, several CI pipelines, and so on, its never a few minutes unless its a blatant misconfigured flag.
When did Cricket Wireless become mid-tier telecoms? It is hte first time I have heard of the company. Check this out. U.S. Congress Flags China's Huawei, ZTE As Security Threats:http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmontlake/2012/10/08/u-s-con...
Cisco paid the lobbyists in DC very well.
Author of jeviz.com here. All started with a question on Quora https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-features-would-you-like-t...
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Endorsed.

Even fork _with_ exec can be real trouble. This is one of my bugaboos at work: due to poor life choices and high pain tolerance, I own the infrastructure we use to spawn subprocesses (carefully.) For various reasons (security most notably) we have to do some very tricky things in and to the forked child before exec(), and pretty much all of this code is a disaster waiting to happen. Every so often I get feature requests for more stupid pet tricks people would like out of subprocesses, and they're always surprised by what their "simple" change would entail.

I'd like it if Linux had native support for posix_spawn, but even that would require a lot of extensions to be useful.

Don't get me started on the teams that want to break forking rules and thus ask me how to guarantee a process has no non-main threads. There are few ways you can make me more upset than by building software that breaks if some one else happens to call pthread_create and doesn't tell you.