skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DirecTV Now is the nuts in this space. Their lowest tier $35 offering has everything I could ever need or watch, plus HBO for $5 month extra. Their apps have come a long way, and you can watch from anywhere. They've also been adding a ton of local networks, so most markets have all the locals. They also just rolled out Cloud DVR (20 hrs). And they support almost every TV Everywhere network app that you subscribe too with your DirecTV Now creds, including HBO Go. I have no affiliation, it's just been a great value for us, and really no complaints.
It also threatens to disqualify a significant portion of income toward the filer's social security eligibility credits.
oh, yes, acidic stuff, like vinegar dressed salads and straight supplementation with HCl (stomach acid), have helped me to somewhat soothe the condition during those years. From what i read, my understanding is that in normally healthy gut the "good" bacteria do maintain slightly acidic environment which prevents the "bad" bacteria overpopulation and biofilm formation.
> While I agree with the sentiment, I also have to point out that some journalists covering tech seem to have little knowledge of the topic.

That's true of most topics; having the lay public vote on credibility ratingd does nothing to address this, though (and probably makes it worse on issues where the truth clashes with the popular misconception.)
It just dawned on me that Kotlin receivers[1] and extension methods[2] are basically the equivalent to Scala implicit params and conversions respectively. Although it appears that receivers can only really be used with anonymous functions. This appears to be similar to implicit function types proposed for Dotty[3]. So the Dotty equivalent to the above would be:

type MustBeInTransaction = implicit MyTransaction => Unit

def makeObject(i: Int): MustBeInTransaction = {
return { /* do something with i or whatever in a transaction */ }
}

def test(): Unit = {
var genericArray = Array(1, 2, 3).map(makeObject)
//genericArray.forEach { _() } // fails to compile
transaction {
genericArray.forEach { _() }
}
}

EDIT - I just noticed that this is almost exactly the same as the example used in the function types link below

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45875491/what-is-a-recei...

[2] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html

[3] https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/12/07/implicit-function...
read “do the work”, a 2 hour motivational read
That's an oversimplification. "A quid pro quo contribution is a payment made to a charity by a donor partly as a contribution and partly for goods or services provided to the donor by the charity" [1]. In this case, the charity isn't providing the quid pro quo, the local government is.

States are already allowed to let one deduct charitable contributions from state taxes however they like. And visiting a park one donates to isn't considered quid pro quo. These cases will be complicated and interesting.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/substantiating-cha...
Why Facebook will never die
> it would cost about 50K to double spend on a 0-conf transaction

That makes no sense. If there are no confirmations, there is no cost, because nothing happened. This comment is a 0-conf transaction on BTC...
Everything already is VOIP. You haven't been able to use a modem on a phone line in fifteen years. The problem is these behemoth telecommunication companies. There's no reason at all for the phone system not to be exactly like using any sane video messenger software of the last twenty years, except for those big ass phone companies that will do anything to keep from becoming "dumb pipes" of this kind of telephony.
You don't consider a country's reserve assets to be a factor in their monetary system? An interesting way to see the world.
Rigetti Computing
We are to pick this as a topic to fight back on? How about fighting back on law requiring people to purchase a product that they don’t want? No, USG says I have to have insurance while I don’t use doctors in network because they are worth less than WebMD. Instead I go to a doctor that I pay $160 out of pocket for a full hour visit that keeps notes on me that help to inform my future care.

Fighting what largess the USG wants to afford in deductions is silly. They could say there is 0 deduction for State taxes and be within their rights. NY is sulking because their government has gotten so out of hand that they have to strangle their citizens to avoid total default.
What is "incredible" about using plastic containers to hold food?
They’ve hired specifically for this project, and based on the friends I know working on self-driving at Apple vs. Siri at Apple, the self-driving team has a much greater concentration of talent.
The component demos[1] are very nice and there are some I have not seen nice react components before such as the date range picker[2] and tree checked select input[3].

1. https://rsuitejs.com/en/components/overview

2. https://rsuitejs.com/en/components/date-range-picker

3. https://rsuitejs.com/en/components/check-tree-picker
Wierd. I’d always thought of go as a slower Java with an shallower pool of good libraries and weak dev tools. Is the compiler and gc that good? Maybe I’ll have to give it another try.
They cheated on an arbitrary number in an EPA regulation, with emissions that were completely legal only a few years earlier. You might as well complain that all car companies are killing people because whatever their emissions levels are, it's more than zero, and therefore cumulatively, statistically, causing some number of deaths.
I agree on the land grab. But for data, powers of ten are what we're talking about. Accents, regional phrasing, idioms, and mixing different languages together.

The models are moderately good at basic speech to text and some grammatical parsing. But there is a lot more to go. The simplicity of the command set isn't an indicator of their aspirations. You'd eventually want a system capable of understanding any utterance by any human, at least as good as any other human. And certainly not just in command syntax.
Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR
Not following your latter point: isn't the flat rate for the higher standard deduction progressive?
Just a cautionary note - you are describing the future in the present tense.
The result has a lot to do with:

- what Civ is next to each other: each civ has unique units, buildings, etc. this can be decisive during an engagement.

- resources

- what alliances form

There is also another factor in play here: you will see that the last civilizations to lose are the ones that secured the corners. This is because they have a smaller border to protect. In this sense it's similar to game of Go, were openings often start with corner enclosures.
I would argue that these are private addresses:
Class A Networks 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 with /8
Class B Networks 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 with /12
Class C Networks 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 with /16
Apple Maps has been better than Google Maps for me (especially UI wise) for several years now.

Siri may not be perfect but she’s pretty darn good and, frankly, the only trustworthy assistant on the market.
Nno other relatively homogenous market even comes close to US market size.

The EU is great, a lot of regulations have been standardised, but it's still a place with 24 different languages, twelve different currencies, different national systems (e.g. payment systems, shipping, retail outlets, marketing channels), culture etc. It's still very much a fragmented place. So the UK, France, Germany, Italy are still to a substantial extent separate markets, all of which are less than a quarter the size of the US.

Japan probably comes closest to the US.

Then there's China, it has the gdp, but not the gdp per capita. You can take $50 a day as a threshold for the type of targeted consumer class for example, that's about $18k a year. If you look at income distributions in China you'll find only about 10 million Chinese qualify. If you take a $20 a day / $7k a year figure, you get to about 100 million people. Japan is similar, around 100m. The US figure for this group is 300 million.

I mean don't get me wrong, you can't only have a US-focus. But I hardly see any companies do that. Instead they do first-launches in key markets and expand later on, and that makes sense.

Some data from Pew: https://chinapower.csis.org/china-middle-class/
It was a success based on the metric. It also could not have had any other result than success based on the % of ads that could not be skipped. There was no other possible outcome.
No, from the perspective of the federal budget (c.f. Treasury and IRS, the entities "worried" here) it will absolutely decrease revenue and "further balloon the cost of the tax cuts". It's true that the loss would be to the states' tax revenue and not the taxpayers, but I don't see why that merits the kind of spin you're trying.
There was also a push in the 90s to make a kind of "postage stamp" where the cost of sending an email was CPU, which would have had the same effect of prohibiting spam by making email too expensive to spam with. ISTR the guy who came up with that idea (or one of the guys) has had an interesting series of projects since. Can't remember much beyond that, though.
Could you help me understand some of the weaknesses of NAT vs a firewall? I was under the impression they were almost synonymous
"For the 2018–2027 period, CBO now projects a cumulative deficit that is $1.6 trillion larger than the $10.1 trillion that the agency anticipated in June. Projected
revenues are lower by $1.0 trillion, and projected outlays
are higher by $0.5 trillion."

"Laws enacted since June 2017—above all, the three mentioned above—are estimated to make deficits $2.7 trillion larger than previously projected between 2018 and 2027, an effect that results from reducing revenues by $1.7 trillion (or 4 percent) and increasing outlays by $1.0 trillion (or 2 percent). The reduction in projected revenues stems primarily from the lower individual income tax rates that the tax act has put in place for much of the period. Projected outlays are higher mostly because the other two pieces of legislation will increase discretionary spending. Those revenue reductions and spending increases would result in larger deficits and thus in higher interest costs than CBO previously projected."

Thanks for the completely unsourced editorial from a really trash biased source, but it definitely requires that you don't read a single word from the CBO report.
> microwaveable plasticware

I was of the impression that plastics are generally not good to microwave. Is this untrue? I have been using Pyrex containers and have generally been happy with them.
Isn’t good? That’s rather hyperbolic of you.

Is good enough for the cast majority of users but not as slick and quite as feature rich as the competitors? Sure.

But the privacy angle means it’s the only game in town as far as I’m concerned
> You don't consider a country's reserve assets to be a factor in their monetary system?

The U.S. dollar isn't backed by gold. The total value of the gold at Fort Knox, about $100 billion, is negligible [1] and does not appear on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet [2]. It is mostly an anachronism from the eras of the gold standard.

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

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_fedsbalanc...
Classifying local taxes as "charitable contributions"? I'm really on the fence about this.

On the one hand, it seems an absurd and grossly inaccurate characterization, borderline lying and definitely tax evasion.

On the other hand, there's this:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Also, someone needs to tell the IRS that they don't get to dictate Federal law. The legislative branch decides the laws, the judicial branch interprets them. The IRS is neither.
The SALT deduction was a handout to the most affluent and a subsidy to the wealthiest states. It allowed them to increase their state and local taxes at the expense of federal revenue, spreading that burden across the country.

The tax plan certainly had flaws, but capping SALT was egalitarian IMO.
Recently was sorting a 10 million line CSV by the second field which was numerical. After an hour went by and it wasn't done, I poked around online and saw a suggestion to put the field sorted on first.

One awk command later my file was flipped. Run same exact sort command on this but without specifying field. Completed in 12 seconds.

Morals:

1. Small changes can have a 3+ orders of magnitude effect on performance

2. Use the Google, easier than understanding every tool on a deep enough level to figure this out yourself ;)
We need people to post a bond to make a call. Maybe $1. You can't call without posting the bond. If, within 10 minutes of the end of the call, I send a text to my phone company that I didn't like the call, the bond goes to charity. You could even set something like this up as a smart contract on ethereum.
Yes. $667M/yr spread over how many different businesses? How much of that was overlapping with work that already had to be done?
For me, the only genre that reliably works is "minimal" music, like stuff by Steve Reich[1] or Gas[2]. My definition of this genre would be music with no lyrics that has highly repetitive structures (differentiating it from "ambient" music, which I find too sleepy to be invigorating).

[1]: Music for 18 Musicians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c

[2]: Koenigsforst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehNGoyMf9kU
One of it's key features listed is 'Highly Efficient.'
Since finding out about Spectacle, I don't even really make use of BTT at all anymore, even though it is still installed and running...
They evangelize for IPv6 ... and then they ask for money for a single /64? Seriously?

I would suggest anyone who wants a tunnel should look here:

https://tunnelbroker.net/

Nothing wrong with earning money, but please stop selling broken products.
There's a Do Not Disturb option on ios, that has a sub-option to still allow calls from people in your contacts list.
You're citing an IBD article (yeah, the one with "It's official!" in its title) which is inferring stuff from CBO, which doesn't claim that $440M at all in the link you posted. You get it by playing games with revenue and attributing every single dollar of the change to "the tax cut".

That's not economics. Tax policy never is, but this is especially bad work.
My first thought was whomever has a good early UU and starts on an edge or especially the corner is probably going to win.

I was a little surprised just how easily Greece rolled the map once they brought those cannons to bear. Ashurbanipal's large empire collapsed practically overnight. Those obsolete siege towers and crossbowmen were no match for Alexander’s cannons and riflemen. The Ottomans put up a better fight, but the AI loves the UU a little too much and they were obsolete by the time the Greek army showed up, but at least they put up a fight. More aggressive targeting of the cannons and they might have prevailed, or at least delayed the inevitable a bit longer.

Also, LOL at the AI for building so many settlers.

I'm a little disappointed he turned off religion, but I'm guessing the missionaries would be unable to move through enemy territory very well due to all of the military units and they would clutter the map.

Warsaw changed hands 18 times. At that point the residents have to check out the window every morning to see which flag is flying.
Winter is a tooling problem. The tools are straightforward and Chicago is well-practiced in their use. You put on a coat. The city plows. You drive a 4WD car carefully. It works out.

Compared to paying half your “upper middle class” salary for living conditions that most Americans would identify as poverty (roommates, paper thin walls, 1970s fixtures, no dishwasher, garbage disposal, laundry, or parking, etc) due to game-theoretically intractable politics, it’s nothing.
I share your gripe, but I brought it up around this topic because interest of the states and USG are in a bit of conflict. The local governments know that once people aren't able to deduct as much of their real estate rent, they'll be pushing to get their rent lowered.
Every POW coin should either switch to POS or if they are going to stick with POW they need to focus on a different algorithm and let ASIC development happen. The key to being a weaker chain is to encourage the community to build an ASIC just for your coin. I don't understand this push by many POW coins on sticking with commodity hardware, except for a few giants (zcash, eth, monero) you're going to get destroyed.

Dedicated ASIC only for your chain = good. Commodity hardware = bad.
I don't have a problem with paying taxes. I have a problem with the government taking the money I pay in taxes and wasting it.
Thanks for that!

That actually makes sense (not something that's expected to be true of laws...)

So by my reading of the advice linked there:

If an individual is in the EU, they're covered by GDPR - whether they're a citizen or not.

If a company is based in or does business in the EU, all it's users are covered by the GDPR - whether they're in the EU or not, and whether they're an EU citizen or not.

That's much less over-reachy than I'd thought. The EU arguably does have the right to make laws about how you treat people within it's borders - whether they're citizens or not. (A death threat against a Chinese person in Paris should be prosecutable under French law by French police/authorities). The EU definitely does have the right to make laws about how businesses in the EU or who have offices/presence in the EU treat people everywhere. (A London company discriminating against a homosexual Saudi citizen should be prosecutable under British law by British authorities, even if it's not illegal to so discriminate in Saudi Arabia).
No companies would touch Tesla with the huge liabilities and mounting debt. The dream of Apple bailing out Tesla is never going to happen.
That's what Rupert Murdoch thought right before he lost 500 Million on buying is very own space... literally, there was no one there
Plenty of time to ask questions but no one who can give straight answers.
If you donate money to a charity, you get to deduct that from your income for determining your tax obligation.

If you have long term capital gains on a stock, you can donate that stock and not pay tax on the long term capital gains. Additionally, the full value of the stock counts against your income for determining tax.

This type of nonsense is all over our tax code.
I ran into this issue today. Frustratingly low limits ($1000) for my bank.
Not really. The IRS is enacting the law Congress gave them, as it's supposed to. You can disagree with that law (I do) but I don't see them stepping outside their constitutional authority
I think you missed my point...
Building a $15k/Month WordPress Plugin Business: WPFusion Founder Interview
I've experienced this often. Some comments:

- Before a release, I have to hold off major features (like you path system) and it goes slow and boring. But immediately after release, I can suddenly begin the exciting new stuff again. It's a freedom to look forward to.

- When swimming, I would get tired near the end of the lane, but by visualizing the end being even further away, I got more energy.

- My todo list grows faster than I clear it. So aggressively remove pre-release items as much as possible. You're never going to do them all anyway.

- You really need people to be using it or you'll be designing things wrong, perhaps even the major organizing principles will be hard for users to understand. You don't want to end up with a Gmsh or a Blender!

- User requests are a powerful motivator. You're doing work for a confirmed real purpose and know they're going to appreciate it.
Does this also prevent you from receiving non-phone related notifications like it does on iOS? I have banner notifications turned off for almost all of my apps, but for the few which I have still allowed it, I would still like to be alerted by those notifications.
You can use logical replication between 2 versions and fail over to the new version without any downtime . In pg 10+ it is built into core, for earlier versions you can use pglogical or similar tools.
Google Assistant is more capable than Siri. Apple has lost a lot of ground.
I don't think you're understanding how this is being constructed: the money wouldn't be going to the government (i.e. directly to the department of finance), precisely for the reason you're describing. That's why they're floating the idea of establishing charitable institutions under a kind of trusteeship in the municipalities as per the bylaws of what those shell entities will be.

EDIT: Stated specifically, for NY: "The Budget establishes a charitable gift trust fund in the joint custody of the New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance and the State Comptroller."

[0] https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy19/enac/enacted-tax...
Aren't networks and medical insurance a problem across the board? I've had that problem on employer provided insurance plenty of times... it's got nothing to do with the federal requirements, it's just how dorked up the medical industry is.

I get what your'e saying but the details if what you describe is the a whole healthcare industry issue. Too often I see "OMG THIS IS THEIR FAULT" no it's just how the insurance industry is and nobody has a backbone enough to deal with that tangled mess. This networks and providers have been an issues since before any federal requirement(s).
An obvious solution (though not necessarily a good idea) is to raise state corporate taxes to offset the federal cuts and lower state individual rates correspondingly.
gorgeous UI
I can try.

The purpose of mining is to solve a puzzle. In Bitcoin one solution is expected every 10 min on average. This can then be used store transactions on the blockchain in one block. To add to that block you need to solve a new puzzle and so on.

You can reverse transactions if you recalculate the puzzle solutions. This can take time but if you have more mining power than the rest of the network you can win this race. This is called a 51% attack.

So for example you deposit to an exchange and wait for that to confirm, in maybe 6 blocks. Meanwhile you create 7 blocks in secret yourself where you did not send to the exchange and release them to the world. The blockchain works by always considering the longest chain as the correct one, therefore overwriting or reversing the old transactions.
They should get smart on the environmental effects of that Nuclear Missile that the US deemed too crazy to continue funding back in the 1960s. Project Pluto
Ideally wait until one of the aggressive Steam sales and get the Complete Edition for ~$10 (even $30-$50 for everything would be great given the amount of content).

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/575/Sid_Meiers_Civiliz...

These are my preferred short list of addons / expansions:

Brave New World - https://store.steampowered.com/app/235580/Sid_Meiers_Civiliz...

Gods and Kings - https://store.steampowered.com/app/16870/Sid_Meiers_Civiliza...

Babylon - https://store.steampowered.com/app/16868/Civilization_V__Bab...

Korea - https://store.steampowered.com/app/99612/Civilization_V__Civ...

Several others that add more civilizations are good as well. However, again, the cost right now for all of those items is quite high for the age of the product ($70).
You're right that there are a few canaries in the coal mine, but there are a lot of creative options if you have the ability to execute arbitrary code on a mining node botnet, assuredly some of which are yet to be discovered (as far as we know). Consider as well the many financial opportunities available to someone who may have an interest in sabotaging or disrupting some kind of mining activity, perhaps in subtle ways that are not usually noticed.