skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the Texas company sent him the form for MO, as they DO have state-income tax.
That’s something you believe. Die on whatever hill you choose.

The top comment on HN explains who Paul Vickie is. I believe people tend to read comments before reading the article or voting.
Full simulation is reality. A reality that you can not see (through your screen) but a reality indeed; on its own box.
I'd agree automatic guessing is dangerous, but an explicit (default off) option to allow upload in other countries doesn't seem like a risk.

You could even put some wording round "hey this will cost you data" and offer an automatic turn off after a set period.

Dropbox's current approach is just mis-understanding their market.

In Europe there's no such thing as roaming fees (well unless you're in post-Brexit UK), so at least they should offer the option for european installs.
Those were employees, to be fair.
I thought the way these things worked is that each of the N computers can see the state of the other N-1 computers; if your local state differs from the majority opinion you overwrite it, thereby joining the majority.
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I've heard of this type of thing happening in Boston Real Estate in hot markets, where someone gets in early on the new condo going in the Seaport, and by the time it's done, they flip it a few months later for a profit. Seems pretty risky, but some have the stomach for it.
Well... Paul Mockepetris may not agree with that. But he's also the kind of guy who wouldn't mind.
Is that 300B Apple's global revenue? If so, I'd imagine there's your answer. Prior Apple fancy accounting tricks had all revenue funneled through the friendliest tax haven until they got called on it.

I'd imagine though, only US revenue gets claimed in CA.
Kinda funny that history has proven him right, in a way. It certainly would be a fool's errand to try and write a web browser in 2019.
Resolving in parallel is one thing. Breaking down when your hardcoded DNS isn’t available, but the customer’s working DNS is... is something else entirely.
What to do with homeless college students? Let them sleep in the parking lot
It's not that complicated. -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections arguments to gcc coupled with --gc-sections argument to the linker will get rid of most of the fat.
It's an actual quote from a movie or something. I've heard it before.... so I think the context of the swear is in align with the quote.
Amazon doesn't pay dividends, so the magnitude of profit has no direct relevance to shareholders.

So if it won't harm the shareholders ( most of whom are secondary-market holders and thus not investors ) why not what is morally right versus technically right?

Isn't that what we ask engineers to consider before working for ad networks, for example? Why does that not scale to companies?
Yeah. I know we'd all want to believe that the response and reaction here would be the same if it was pointed to 1.1.1.1, but... yeah, we know better. Everyone would point out that consumer ISPs server polluted data and that Cloudflare clearly provides better service, and relying on that instead of the local garbage is quite obviously a benefit to the device user.

But this is Google, and people here have iPhones, so sharpen those pitchforks and light the torches. It's really getting out of control at this point.
The video turned out great! Good luck with your new business.
You can take part in different competitions, challenges. Winning the competition is a good advertisement.
Looking at the docs it's been there at least since PostgreSQL 8.1.
What's the problem with having the option, though? It's set "off" by default and, if the user wishes, they turn it on to enable uploads while roaming.

There's no guessing going on by the software. It's just a toggle.
I'm not sure exactly what GP meant, but I took the spirit of the post as more "I wish there wasn't so much wealth inequality that ONE person could own a superyacht. I have no problem with yachts in and of themselves."

Edit: sibling since posted
Google's business is built on web services, and we know for a fact that ISP occasionally try to inject bullshit into their customers browsing sessions via all kinds of dirty tricks. Their DNS is also designed to be faster than typical DNS. I wouldn't be surprised if Google sees this as a way to ensure the proper function of their devices.
Having that kind of money is like `iddqd` for life: fun for five minutes, then the game gets boring.
and it seems like that the UK will lose it's connection to this no roaming cost club, post brexit :(
I'm not trying to shut anyone up. Please don't be rude. I'm wondering why all the blame is directed at Amazon when they sought to take advantage of (mostly) pre-existing programs. If the problem people have is with tax subsidies in general then isn't the government the real issue here?
I can't argue with the lack of password manager support. But I know where Product is coming from on these approaches. Asking for an email address on its own screen allows the form to check whether you have an existing account or need to set up a new one. You avoid a link that says "Don't have an account, Register Here". Is it worth it? I suppose it's subjective. Maybe the designer thinks that is a good reduction in friction.

Probably more compelling is that the form can pick up your email domain and redirect to Single Sign On if the domain is known.
This should bother people here more than it does. The last thing the Internet needs is even more dependence upon Google. They've made it quite clear through their actions that they're not supporters of a free and open Internet: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l...

If people don't push back against these kinds of things, Google will continue to abuse their power. There shouldn't be an army of apologists here making excuses for them.

As far as a solution goes, they can simply make 8.8.8.8 a fallback when something goes wrong. It's a disturbing trend to see them forcing things like this upon users.
I used to work for a company making a SaaS tool for SEO teams to use to see how their site was ranking for their desired keywords on Google. This meant searching Google six million times a day from a motley crew of grey-market proxies and IPv6 providers.

We're definitely in a Google bubble. It becomes very clear that they have intense control over what shows up on the first page of searches, especially in their Featured Snippets and Carousels at the top, and their native-looking ad results.

Control over search results is incredibly powerful in terms of anything from influencing the zeitgeist, to controlling marketing efforts at a grand scale, through to straight propaganda.

We really run an incredible risk as a society by putting too many eggs into the Google basket. Using their browser to use their service to consume their results means a complete monoculture; and while they're not really visibly abusing it now, it's clear that they can subtly manipulate things for a long time before they get caught, and they have the platform to be able to do far more should they (or any government actor forcing their hand) decide they want to.
"Anecdotal, but I'm making much less errors and paying more attention to the code, now."

Could be correlation rather than causation. Presumably, you're a more experienced programmer now than you were three years ago and you might be making fewer errors and paying more attention regardless of whether you turned off syntax highlighting.
Literally every other application does this. If you can check whether you're roaming you can also check whether a boolean configuration property is true.

Would you say the same if Dropbox did not upload photos outside of your home state with no option to enable it? Because that's the EU situation.
And just as in that thought experiment, it is entirely obvious how to get to an outcome that is better for everyone: cooperation.

Ya its called being a cartel. 1000+ members cartel (city/state/national govts) is just extremely unstable and short lived. Think Amazon HQ2, Brexit and others as trust busting done by free market. The Cooperation is not going to work.
I hate it when I forget that I am outside of the EU and get a 100$ roaming bill for net usage by just stepping out of the airport. Then I get the overuse alert from my telco and turn off roaming.

EU citizens request the native support of "EU roaming" in the phone's OS!
The "WEIZSÄCKER" here is Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4...

> Born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, he was the grandson of Karl Hugo von Weizsäcker, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg. His grandfather was ennobled in 1897 and raised to the hereditary nobility with the title of Baron (Freiherr) in 1916. As such, the four-year-old Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker became Baron Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Since 1919, noble titles have legally been considered parts of the family name.

> Weizsäcker was raised in Stuttgart, Basel and Copenhagen. Between 1929 and 1933 Weizsäcker studied physics, mathematics and astronomy in Berlin, Göttingen and Leipzig, supervised by and working with Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, among others. The supervisor of his doctoral thesis was Friedrich Hund.

I therefore cannot believe that his "spoken German was probably not very good."

That Wikipedia link gives a further description

> the "Farm Hall Transcripts" also revealed that Weizsäcker had taken the lead in arguing for an agreement among the scientists that they would claim that they had never wanted to develop a German nuclear weapon. This story was at least untrue to the extent that the detainees also included scientists actively engaged in eager attempts to build a nuclear bomb, namely Kurt Diebner and Walter Gerlach.[14] Max von Laue later called this agreement "die Lesart" (the Version).

Thus, I think you should see this as an attempt to create a narrative that likely didn't exist.
> In an arithmetic progression of five terms with common difference 6, one of the terms must be divisible by 5, because 5 and 6 are relatively prime. Thus, the only sexy prime quintuplet is (5,11,17,23,29); no longer sequence of sexy primes is possible.

Pretty neat.
spurcell has interpreted me accurately.
I just looked it up, it was a quote on the HBO show, Ballers. (Not sure if they originated it, though, but that's where I saw it.)
I am not sure I like the path c# is going down.

For years the language has been trying to evolve from being aesthetic and easy to understand and read.

With the functional implementations and patterns I believe the language is trying to embrace too much.

This is not specific to the swith expression in this context but in general.

You can write C# in too many forms and I don't believe that's really good.
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I took that to mean properties that are held by the developer, where the developer financed them with debt.
Perhaps you live in Turkey and Google Public DNS is blocked?

I agree that on a privacy level, hiding DNS requests from Google when your Google Chromecast is calling Youtube seems like closing the stable door after the horse is gone. But there are reasons other than privacy that relying on Google's DNS might go wrong; it can be blocked (or trigger suspicion) by a government, ISPs have occasionally broken their routing to 8.8.8.8 specifically, and Google DNS itself has even had (very rare) outages.

None of those issues are enormously common, except perhaps Turkey's censorship, but they're all totally avoidable. Using 8.8.8.8 as a default and failing over to the user's DNS if necessary seems to be strictly better than this approach from a consumer viewpoint.
Yeah, federated flows were my guess too. However, the password fields could have been present and hidden in the same page supporting both password managers and avoiding a page transition. And also the hundred other sites that don't need federated flows but think they need to copy this feature as well. Together it's annoying to hit password managers twice for every login.
True, but the alternative is a type of data loss for users who think their photos sync when they don't and happen to lose their phones while roaming.

Keeping a tight leash on background data while roaming should be an OS prerogative, not each app.
The funds don’t exist. They aren’t going anywhere because NYC now has less money than before not more.
They may not have a choice, people who are intelligent enough and/or supported enough to become doctors presumably have other high paying options. High pay is determined by supply and demand, not how hard you work.
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Disclaimer, I'm not a mathematician, physicist, or even of notable intelligence... but I too have seen a lot of movies :)

I agree it's unlikely to be possible that we could send a person or object back to another time or forward in an movie trope kind of way...

What if everything exists at once, but there's an unalterable sequence of events. So, like you say everything has already happened past, present, and future including any kind of time travel.

But, let's say time travel is possible, but is limited to small state changes in the building blocks of the sequence of record (dare I say, the blockchain of time).

In theory we could make these changes and they would be completely undetected until we understand both how to create the change and know when and where to look for the changes.

Now suppose in the future we find a way to do this and collectively agree on some kind of location to start a linked list of information from other "times".

Thus begins some kind of technological singularity. Instantly we gain access to all the knowledge anyone at any time in existence that has the means wants to share.

Now our problem is how to process that much information in a way to make it useful and trustworthy in a reasonable amount of time.

This isn't well thought out and I'm sure there's some kind of paradox in there somewhere, but it was a fun Friday musing. I think this kind of allows for "time travel" to be possible via encoding information instead of killing Hitler while also allowing for those changes to have already happened without altering our currently observable past.

If anyone knows of any sci-fi stories or movies that explore a similar concept I'd be totally interested in the recommendation.
I've just expanded my vocabulary by 5 words, while reading the 1st page of correspondence: https://github.com/jiahao/backus-dijkstra-letters-1979/blob/...

I'm in awe.
The current top comment was not written at the time I wrote mine, and was not top comment until less than an hour ago.

If you want a spot on my hill, I have room to rent.
Google has already built this, but it definitely isn't perfect.

http://www.seobythesea.com/2014/10/google-fact-questions-ent...
There is a continual and persistent trend in Google’s behavior, across a broad range of products. While any lone action might be explainable, as a pattern, they’re poor conduct.
> In what sense is there an oversupply of luxury housing? Are there lots of vacant luxury units?

Short answer, yes. If you're interested in detailed information about NYC housing, I definitely recommend checking out the Housing and Vacancy survey data (https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdf/about/2017-hvs...)
There are products that do a precise search on large datasets, like Westlaw and LexisNexis searches for legal research. Of course, services like these can charge around $100 per query or more, though I’m not sure of their specific rates.
It's another story point in the tale of how Google shaped the neo-modern web.

Google's influence is massive, anyone wanting to build a profitable website needs to bend to their standards of performance and structure.

Normally this was a general push in the right direction for everyone. With how they've been handling AMP however, part of me wonders if they're not trying to build a feature moat around the web itself. Although misguided use of their power by individual product-managers is probably the less sinister, more likely reason.
Rentier capitalism
Sure, but don't we reserve the right to run our own split-horizon DNS servers and point fqdn's our devices want to resolve to anything we desire?

Don't like it? Use TLS and verify certificates.
You could use it as an argument to a chained base() constructor.
We've reverted the title from the editorialized ‘500px: don't worry, your passwords were “MD5-encrypted”’.
Unless you don't have other options or really, really love teaching, I wouldn't recommend becoming a teacher unless the pay was greatly increased. Too much liability and annoyance of dealing with other parents.
I'm having trouble making sense of your comment. If your company knew about credible threats ( disgruntled employees, bomb threats, etc ) wouldn't you have a BOLO list? How is that backwards logic at all?
I guess they're taking the Apple approach where "just a toggle" is a UI-destroying notion.
Yes, in particular many B2B web apps' help systems (looking at you, adobe) do very unholy things with these fragments.
> But if traveling back to the past, and changing something

Therein lies the problem. What makes you think the past can be changed? If the past can’t be changed, there’s no problem with time travel (at least on these grounds).

Moreover, if you adopt the block universe view, as general relativity seems to demand, there’s no such thing as change at all. There’s no becoming, only being. This was the conclusion reached by Parmenides in ancient times. Julian Barbour wrote a book on the subject called The End of Time, for those who are interested.
Making a choice to raise a health baby capable of a self sufficient life, instead of one with Down's syndrome, does not seem like a tragedy to me.
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Because they're essentially paying:
market value - value from future tax breaks discounted to current value
10000 Payloads per Second
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Google would certainly be aware of pi-holes and the potential of the threat, but to put things back in context we're talking about a mass-market device which has to deal with bad network config, bad isps, bad routers, etc. What's more likely?
> the original Wolfenstein.

Well, the original Wolfenstein 3D, the third game in the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Castle_Wolfenstein
$ musl-gcc test.c -O2
$ ls -laB a.out
.rwxr-xr-x 15,776 roblabla 15 Feb 16:49 a.out
$ musl-gcc test.c -O2 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wl,--gc-sections -static
$ ls -laB a.out
.rwxr-xr-x 17,864 roblabla 15 Feb 16:48 a.out

Static linking with MUSL added 2088 bytes of overhead. Likely only the code that was needed.

It's true that without proper care, you might end up importing a whole lot of useless stuff though.
You should write your own algorithm for creating the KeyGen. Also, think about how the key will be checked.
The key can be tied to the MAC address of the computer. But this way has some pros and cons.
I also don't see a way they could do it, but then I only know just enough to be dangerous, as they say.
Progressive disclosure can be made to work with password managers, notably Apple's Apple ID login page[0] does this while still allowing the password manager to fill both username and passwords in one action.

0: https://appleid.apple.com/
+1 for bitcoin. there, i said it. i am the champion. raise the belt.
>I don't think people get away with nearly as much tax avoidance shenanigans as most people think - The tax man isn't that stupid and trying to claim that sort of use for luxury products is just asking for an audit.

It all depends on how tangled a web you weave.

For example, this case only came to light due to a leak via Paradise Papers: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-lewis-hamilton-avoided-p...
Considering how much of a rip off they already are on the financial system. Simple rent seeking at 23% interest, 20% + 3% processing. There should be legislation to combat this shit.
Good behaviour really is honoring the resolvers provided in a DHCP answer.
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I would go further than this: don't get clever with logging in. Here's a list of "don't"s:

- DON'T arbitrarily restrict my password from being too long

- DON'T arbitrarily restrict me from using special characters

- DON'T arbitrarily me require to use certain classes of characters (eg 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase and 1 number as a requirement; see https://xkcd.com/936/)

- (this is a big one) DON'T TRY AND STOP ME PASTING MY PASSWORD. I can't tell you how infuriating this is.

Login forms aren't hard yet the desire to "add value" with little restrictions and tweaks (because security) is maddening.
Having inherited some crappy projects software development companies, I think he overestimates the quality.
Is there no longer a panic over letting an attacker know that an account does exist?

I remember that being a thing for a while, but haven’t built user facing UI systems in a few years.
It's not unreasonable to attempt to use DHCP provided DNS servers. It's not unreasonable to use fallback DNS servers when the DHCP provided servers don't work. It would be a bit strange, but maybe not altogether unreasonable to run a fully recursive DNS client with root.hints and what not.

I guess you could argue over reasonableness of favoring the fallback DNS over DHCP. It's not reasonable to ignore DHCP when the fallback DNS doesn't work though. It doesn't matter what fallback DNS you're using.
Worth noting that here in NYC, the courts have gone back and forth on whether passing transaction fees onto consumer is legal: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2018/10/23/ny-court-of...

I remember being shocked when my local pizza place put a sign on the register saying there was now a 3% fee on card usage (which became legal to do as of ~September 2017). Absolutely wild that Visa/Mastercard would raise prices further. It's already hard enough to find a place that accepts my Discover card, let alone an independent joint that will accept Amex (accept for all the places in and around Chinatown who only accept Amex, never will understand how _that_ happened).
I see your point, but it isn't as bad as it may seem. Specifically I deal with B2B companies whose sales audience and customer base are solely the US (due to operational "boots on the ground" type of work)
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All the VMs run on my employer's servers are running code we trust. None of them run arbitrary code from some third party, because we're not a cloud provider, nor are they used to browse the web. I don't want to slow them down to mitigate vulnerabilities that just aren't a serious risk or even applicable.
This means a price increase for everyone.
The stores will just increase their prices across the board, even for cash, because most of their transactions are credit cards now.

This is the cost of wanting a cashless society, mastercard and visa get a tax on everything. A tax not subject to voting, but one controlled by unconstrained capitalism.
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The number of vacant apartments and the number of apartments listed for sale/rent are both at an all time high. Despite this, most new construction is priced at the high end of the market. In addition, there's been a big boom in ultra-high-end multimillion dollar apartments.

https://www.6sqft.com/nearly-250000-nyc-rental-apartments-si...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/realestate/brooklyn-devel...
Ah I sit corrected - I seem to recall one of the Lemans Ferraris was $16 Mil