skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.io domains are perhaps fashionable, but they are expensive.

For $0.88-$0.99/yr one can have a domain in the same registry as the Alphabet Inc. website's domainname. For that price, it would not be a clever name, but it could be an easy-to-memorize 6-digit number. What if it is only used for an API endpoint?

A higher level of "reliability" IMHO could be achieved by use and publication of a stable IP address, perhaps anycasted if one can afford it. At least it could be a backup for emergencies, such as DNS failures.

Consider that DNS itself e.g., disseminiation of root.zone, does not rely on DNS. The IP address for ftp.internic.net is well known and rarely changes. As I recall, when it does, they notify the public in advance. Some years ago if I am not mistaken, there was a change from 208.77.188.26 to 192.0.32.9.

Another example is third party DNS providers. They too publish stable IP addresses. Sometimes users might even memorize them, or store lists of these addresses e.g. included within installed software.

As a user, I hold no bias against any company that publishes its stable IP addresses. In fact, on the issue of reliablity I would hold them in higher regard than those who rely 100% on DNS and third parties associated with DNS service. DNS is reasonably reliable, but IMO not more so than a stable IP address.
In mumble experience it is much better then v3 but still not as good as Abby.
Investments can’t be expensed for tax purposes. If they repatriate $200B, they owe the state of CA roughly $20B and the US $63B in income taxes, no matter what they invest it in.

They could invest in hiring tons of employees and their salaries would be expenses (mostly future expenses) l. But that’s no free ride, those employees need to increase sales to cover their costs or the money is wasted. If my business makes $1M this year and i pay a contractor $1M so I don’t owe taxes this year, that contractor better build something worth more than a million or it was s huge waste. Losing $1M to save $350K is really bad business.

Imagine if the contractors project sold for $900k next year. Great, you deferred taxes a year, but still owe $315K on the contractor sale next year, and you lost $100k. Net loss $65,000. Dumb, dumb dumb.

What Apple would actually do if it repatriated the $200B is

a) pay the $80B in state/federal taxes,
b) pay $117B in dividends, so its shareholders would have to pay at least $20B in state/federal dividend taxes, for a total tax of around $100B. But it’s worse than that.

Remember, the $200B is only what’s left after paying about $25B in income taxes to foreign governments. Your company earns $225B, and can only pay about 45% to you, and 55% ends up going to various taxes (note we ignored VAT/Excise/Payroll taxes too).

Now do you understand why Apple doesn’t repatriate?
Here are both books. The question is: should you get the paper or e-book version? ;)

1. Paper: Paging Through History

> https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Through-History-Mark-Kurlansky/...

2. The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention

> https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-...
I wouldn't think twice. I would absolutely do that. Why? While in school I was working as a delivery driver and never resorted to shit like that.

And we were not only pressed for time. We were paid by delivered parcel. Nothing else counted.

And we had to deliver the packets that were not successfully delivered to the central logistics station by 6pm.

So if we didn't perform we were f..ed.
If there's no sequential bottleneck in information processing, where one piece of information is made available to almost all subsystems, then there's probably no consciousness. If it is the case, we cannot say that the system as a whole is aware of something, because there's no common 'something' available to all subsystems.

Returning to ants, the anthill as a whole could probably be aware of a coarse assessment of its own wellbeing without any details.
Whenever I've had dual booting, windows was always noticeably more sluggish and froze more than Linux. Maybe it's changed (haven't really used 10).

You might be right on graphics cards - it's not really my world.
The paper on storage proof is here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893

The proof of time is probably best described as being federated. Any peer can join, but it realistically will only be run by a very few peers with specialized hardware. This mistakenly trips up a lot of people as a "bad" thing, when it shouldn't.

The only purpose of the proof-of-time servers is to make replay attacks impractical. As in, if the network is 10 years old, an attacker would actually have to spend 10 provable years to manipulate it.

What if they collude with the time server? Well, they'd have to collude with all of them, which is unlikely, even if there are only a few. And second, it isn't worth the time server's work.

Again, the details are a lot more complicated, but hopefully that is a quick off-the-top-of-my-head explanation that gives some intuition.
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How much energy and toxic waste is generated by gold mining?
Isn't the immutability of BTC one of the major things that proponents point to? Wasn't this why there was such pushback against increasing block sizes by just 2x? Why should we assume that a community that is so based in political rather than technical ideals will just come up with some unnamed technical solution in the future to improve efficiency?
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They might pay it as dividends rather than reinvesting it. A lot of that may end up in the US economy.
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That should work :) although it would need to be connected up to the network so it could reply to proof queries and "thread the needle" of the time servers.
You’re not wrong, but the likelihood of addiction from two weeks of drinking vs. two weeks of opioids is, I suspect, not really comparable.
> It also claims, lamely, that

What kind of writing is that?
>Of course, Google will try to police its results better after this incident, but they can't effectively do this without mass censorship. If you don't believe me, see the recent YouTube drama over monetization.

Well, if you call your product "News" and you promote fake news, that's pretty much a huge sign that you're not ready to ship yet.
Just so this isn't forgotten, I think we have to ask _in reference to what exactly?_ Paper money and its supporting electronic banking systems cost energy and money too e.g. delivering cash to banks and other institutions, building and powering banks and ATMs, software costs in building and maintaining electronic payment systems, etc. I think it would be instructive to see how the costs compare.
The problem isn't the energy cost, but the fact that the energy cost is going towards work that has no utilitarian purpose. Ethereum shows a potential way to fix that, and bitcoin can adopt a similar approach once the core problems of the approach are solved.
I can only imagine...

Here's the logs of the aggressive driving, during the last 50 seconds. These logs entail a full 3d pointcloud showing that they were not responding to other drivers' potentially erratic patterns. Other driver came within 1 foot of car on multiple occasions. License plate is ABC123 and facial scan of user is $face .

User appears to have wronged our passengers with the following laws: $list

We're talking an open and shut case here. And every car with enough of these sensors could provide "dumps".
For me, Amazon by far has been the worst. Closing my account for buying too many things (and inevitably returning a tiny fraction of them because they were fake/shitty quality as most Amazon products) is the most insane thing I've ever experienced. This while I was paying for Prime. The only thing they didn't do is threaten to sue me, but stealing my membership fee is pretty on par with that.
So what happens if this fungus infects the queen ant?

Does the fungus compel the queen to spread it to the entire hive?

Or does the hive choose to banish the queen, and thereby lose its ability to reproduce?
I recently learned about a CoreOS-specific operator for that purpose: https://github.com/coreos/container-linux-update-operator. In standard CoreOS installations, once system updates are installed, the node is automatically rebooted using a semaphore. Instead, this uses the Kubernetes API to drain the pods from the node for a clean shutdown.

Kured has a feature to stop reboots if there are triggered Prometheus alerts; that’s a nice touch.
As you implicitly identify, the problem is that LibreOffice isn’t better than Word.

Users learn new things all the time, and are strongly motivated to do so when it offers real benefits, and hold a real grudge when it’s for cost savings (or an ideological concept they don’t identify with).

A FOSS MS Office killer would be more like Google docs or Etherpad, and would be way easier to open source across platforms, and maintain collaboratively.

It could offer huge benefits beyond authorization and collaboration, such as open APIs so departments can automate bureaucratic review processes, or publishing to blogs and websites.
In most (all?) US states the DMV or equivalent issues both IDs and driver's licenses, with the side effect that if you have a driver's license it is also your state ID. So the fact that they are separate in the EU is tangential. The term "driver's license" in the US is synonymous with both "ID" and "driver's license" in the EU, and can be compared to either.
Another perspective (from 2015):
"Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work" [1]

[1] http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
Why are we blaming the individuals who use the energy rather than the individuals who make the energy dirty in the first place. Place the blame where autonomy is.
I definitely wasn't recommending that usage, just illustrating what it might look like. I personally think it looks much cleaner, which I would call an advantage.

I've considered the first point, but hadn't thought about the second and third. I'm guessing the last point isn't a concern if you're using class properties for those?

Given all this, if you were redesigning the API today, would you now make connect take the component as the first parameter instead?
And to prevent further awkwardness, the acting company would need insurance to pay for a replacement actor, if the original actor playing your mother died... it's turtles all the way down!
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Totally. Jersey Pride is actually a unifying force. Kind of like how we all pretend to not like Seaside and Wildwood.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that (outside of the Clinton camp and Podesta) and given Wikileaks track record, it's highly unlikely.
>makes modern MMOs look like Fisher Price editions.

From the point of view of the MMORPGs the MUDs don't look or sound much like anything. Literally.
If you know of a proposal for solving the third world that's as cheap, fast, effective, reliable, and safe as - that has comparable expected value to - killing human-biting malaria-carrying mosquitoes, that's great! Please, PLEASE share it and work toward its execution!

Me, I say kill the mosquitoes.

(Although, honestly, even if you did have such a plan, I'd still say kill the mosquitoes in addition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15665373)
On second look, I think I am incorrect. Altering Section 132(j)(8) doesn't yield a substantial change.

Before:

Amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for education or training provided to the employee which are not excludable from gross income under section 127 shall be excluded from gross income under this section if (and only if) such amounts or expenses are a working condition fringe.

After:

Amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for education or training provided to the employee shall be excluded from gross income under this section if (and only if) such amounts or expenses are a working condition fringe.

I'm not sure where this is in the tax bill.
We have a rollback mechanism. This system requires the continuous introduction of new infected males.

If we find that eliminating this particular mosquito species is harmful. We can just reintroduce them from somewhere else.
After testing several podcast apps for Android, this was the one that stuck.

The ability to quickly scroll through unfinished episodes was the killer feature that others are lacking. I listen to different podcasts depending on what I'm doing (running, cooking, preparing to sleep, etc), and all other apps, at best, required several clicks to find an unfinished episode from the previous day.
Here's a trailer to a new documentary on this: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/trumpingdemocracy
That's exactly how I do multiplication in my head! I wonder why school never taught something like this, I find the standard right-to-left-and-carry-over method impossible to keep track of without paper.
NASA’s SLS probably won’t fly until 2020
The general term is "Bootstrapping" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

Generally you start with "something smaller/easier" and build your way up.
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That alone is almost enough to make me want to see them crash and burn.
> As far as i know for my town, Paderborn (NRW), we have about 1.000 people receiving opioid replacement drugs under government supervision (~90.000 city population).

Whoa, that's an outsized proportion - entire Germany has 77k people in methadone substitution: http://www.bfarm.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Bundesopiumstell...

Also, the numbers are 500 methadone substituters (of total ~1k opiate users) in Paderborn (http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_paderborn/paderborn/paderborn/1...). What would interest me is the background why ~1% of the population are opiate abusers, though.
Character separation is much harder, bordering on impossible, with handwriting. Also look at all all the handwriting where you need to understand the context to eg. differ a 'm' from an 'nn'.
>Why do you think wealth can't be generated with digital currency?

I didn't say that. I said that the marginal unit associated with mining can't be credited with the wealth gains of digital currency applications. The criticism was of the mining costs you need to make this work, not the stuff you can layer on top of the currency itself. For it to be a social net positive, all those benefits would have to outweigh the mining costs.

>And I think you're looking at the resources spent on digital currency and the current financial system in a different way. There's no need of people spending lots of time and energy to safe guard big lock rooms.

Of course the financial system has to pay for similar "defense", but the comparison is not favorable to Bitcoin/PoW. The costs of securing conventional centralized mechanisms (or bank vaults) ramp up much slower than Bitcoin per dollar or per unit of wealth secured.
I disagree with this argument. If I go around telling people I am the reincarnation of Napoleon, and insist to be called “Your Excellency”, sooner or later I will be committed to a mental institution. The subjective experience of an individual cannot serve as a basis for reality.

EDIT: of course, there is no answer to this, only downvotes. Trying to discuss this subject is more and more like trying to discuss a religious doctrine.
Is that a problem?

Cisco pioneered the model of outsourcing a lot of its technical research (two different teams would quit and start startups to solve problem X; one would get traction then Cisco would buy it -- bonus for the team! -- and the others get their jobs back).

Big Pharma has pretty much outsourced early stage candidate development.

In both these cases (and many others) the large company has strong development, manufacturing, distribution and sales pipelines as well as strong balance sheets, none of which a startup is likely to develop.

If Ford chooses this path I don't see it a reason to criticize.
That's fair, to a point. Obviously most of what Google does is search, but "Top Stories" is cheerfully vague. It isn't Google News proper, but I agree it's intentionally confusing.
Interesting that WL goes after the one nation state that is not going to completely fubar them, and has much better human rights than the other big nation states it could go after. I say that if WL's real goal is to promote human rights, the US is not the highest target on the list. On the other hand, if they want easy publicity with minimal risk to self, the US is probably their best target.
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Dropbox isn't a personal backup company.

They provide storage to lots of individuals, but that isn't really where they are trying to grow their business.
That was tge reason I switched over to PyCharm and back to regular, browser based notebooks.
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Totally deserves billions for running a money losing operation thats getting eaten alive by the competition.
I'm a big supporter of legal weed, but even I know better than that. It's less harmful than alcohol, and about on par with caffeine.

There are definitely effects from long term use. Both science and my personal anecdata of long time smoking friends tell me that.
Wow, yea, some of these responses are crazy! If I had those neighbors I'd GTFO and move to a sane neighborhood. Next time someone accuses me of being a NIMBY because I don't want low cost crack housing built next door to me I'm going to remember this thread.
It seems to me he's just laughing at how absurd everything has become. He suggests as much quite directly by stating "he has become something of a conscientious objector on social media." The same is no less true of his comments on our economy. I mean what would you want the guy to do? He has donated a lot of money relative to his net worth on things that all are helping to improve society for everybody.

The only thing that seems to make people angrier than politispeak, is honesty!
My high school had a personal finance class (I recall it was required) where you had to pick an occupation, research a typical salary, and then put together a monthly budget based on that salary.
We don't eradicate them. We just prevent us from being sick, it's a local action. We are not actively mass killing it.

If you can't see the difference between defence and offence, local area of effect and genocide...
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The problem is Office. It is actually a problem of two sides.

1) Libre/OpenOffice was never satisfactory. It is ugly and crashes. Tried many times using it since 1999 and it gets worse and worse. Pity, because StarOffice was a perfectly usable alternative back then.

2) Office-like products are addictive in corporate environment. People love to make ramsom-note style documents and presentations. An old typewritten document seems way more professional in direct comparison... People add so many 'hairs' in documents that not even Office365 can open them anymore, so you have to resort to native MS-Office. And sometimes it must even be the Windows version, because the Mac version does things a little differently and messes up a really complicated document. (The second last version for Mac consistently broke when review mode and table changes were mixed, and I worked in an environment where review mode was extensively employed.)

Any migration away from Windows would have to tackle these problems before even the operating system. The rest of the desktop UI is ok in Linux - people use mostly the browser anyway. Google Docs is an option - no documents more complicated than GDocs can handle should be allowed.

I actually preferred the documents were all generated, either by software, or at least using markup like HTML or LaTeX, that are diff'able. But I know this is impossible to impose on the layman.
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That's a rather uncharitable read of my comment, obviously keeping kids away from awful Internet content isn't sufficient by itself.
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>To our surprise, we found out that NIC.io could only be reached via phone between 7 AM to 12 AM UTC Monday through Friday and did not expose any status about the health of the service.

That doesn't sound very reliable to me...
No. The reason why it's written as not just a HOC, but a curried-ish function is so that you could potentially reuse the "connection" definition for multiple components:

const SpecificConnection = connect(mapState, mapDispatch);
const ConnectedFirst = SpecificConnection(FirstComponent);
const ConnectedSecond = SpecificConnection(SecondComponent);

Admittedly, I suspect that use case isn't popping up very often. Most of the time what I see is that a given component type is only connected once, and a given connection setup is only used with one component. I also don't remember seeing specific comments by Dan or Andrew saying that's why it's written this way - I'm inferring the intent from the API definition. Still, it's a potentially useful capability in the API, so no reason to throw it away.
I find it very odd that a nurse would be so cavalier about that. There are a lot of people who can't/won't take prescription pain meds for a myriad of reasons. Some are concerned about addiction, but other reasons are religious/philosophical. I've always been asked if I want those kinds of pain meds, even when they are highly recommended, it was always a question.
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These mosquitoes have undergone induced sterilization. By definition their evolution is completely controlled.
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No way, dude. There's clinical evidence that such a location in/on the human body represents the true effective residence of human sentience, since snipers target precisely that location to take out their targets, before they have a chance to (even reflexively) react to their wounds.

It doesn’t mean a little person reclines in a hammock there, but I’d wager that there’s a resonant, sensation-event-sensitive waveform, that has a primary focal node looping through a region very close to the pituitary gland in normal, living human beings (with similar analogs in all other mammals, and also many other vertebrates), also hinted at by the pituitary’s role in endocrine governance.

But furthermore, you deny your own agency, if you refute me. I suppose maybe you are simply a bot on the internet, then. In which case, I'm deeply disturbed to find entities on the internet telling me I'm not sentient. Maybe having humans inform me of the same poorly rationalized fallacy is worse?
>We are not actively killing it.

What do you think a person's immune system does to smallpox when they have been inoculated against smallpox and they are exposed to it?

We're not actively killing mosquitoes just preventing them from breeding.
They discuss exactly this, beginning with the third paragraph under "Word Deep Net". Did you stop reading before then?