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(Pineapple Day founder here :-P)

Thanks for the love HN! Don't forget to set that calendar reminder for yourself for next June 27th! (and set to repeat annually, of course)!
> Yes, this means that there's a tiny amount of coordination with Apple servers that would need to happen when you add a new contact or share with a brand new phone number you've never seen before,

I would just have hashes of all the numbers of all your contacts on both phones and if your hash sent over matches you have a contact. No need to phone home.
Not the OP, but I tried to do a lot of work in Libreoffice Calc on XLSX files. I had a constant issue of Libreoffice not being able to handle >10000 rows, and actually crashing when trying to do something intense like vlookup.
If there are 100 shares of a company worth $1000 each - the company has a value of $1000/share * 100 shares = $100,000.

The company has $10000 in after-tax profit that it would like to distribute, and you own 1 share. Since the money will be gone, the company will be worth $100,000 - $10,000 = $90,000 after the distribution.

- The company could pay a $100 per share dividend. You would get a $100 dividend but have to pay (say) 15% tax, so you now have $85 cash plus 1/100 of the company ($900), so $985.

- OR the company could buy back 10 shares. Now each share is worth $90,000 / 90 shares, or $1000. You don't pay any tax, your share is worth the same, but now you have 1/90 of the company instead of 1/100, so a greater share of future earnings.

In real life, the value of future earnings dominates the price (well, hope and greed do, but whatevs) rather than the cash-on-hand. The price should immediately go up once the buyback is announced to reflect that existing shareholders will get a bigger piece of the pie. That increase is not taxed until they sell, and the shareholder comes out ahead for the same cash distribution by the company.
$5 billion is an enormous fine even for someone on the scale of Facebook.

The idea that it won’t have any effect on Facebook’s behavior in the future is laughable.
I can't talk about the others, so I'll compare Wren and Lua. I dislike Lua's approach to objects, feels clunky and prototype-ish. I also dislike the local/global stuff.

Wren has exception-like error handling and concurrency. And the object model is very similar to C#.
My wife and I have taken the pads away from the kids permanently. They're just too crazy when it's time to be done with them.
The first issue that pops into my mind is "community of parents curating content" doesn't scale. Or at least is hard to protect from bad actors injecting into the stream.

The best way a group could maintain control would be to build a site with embedded YT videos, but YT would rather folks watch on their site with comments, engagements, and the ability to serve up Recommended links (plus easier tracking of user accounts and watching habits). And don't forget the Watch Next stuff popping up that will redirect them out of your curated garden back into the YT wildlands. And if it's only banner ads, those are much lower value for YT and advertisers. So you're fighting YT, and they intentionally don't give you the tools to build such a project to successful scale.

And you can bet once one becomes semi-successful, others will quickly swoop in to exploit that market diluting the impact.

In theory custom TY Playlists is how YT supports this curation on their site, but it's plagued with spammed algorithmic playlists associated with any semi-popular video trying to direct traffic towards their own content.

YT's goals aren't to let groups curate a custom set of videos to then redistribute to others. It's to have users engage in an endless stream of content and maintain those sweet sweet watch times to get ad revenue.

Yeah, YouTube has lots of great content, and can be a great creative outlet for many. It's the weird black holes of predatory folks that try to capture children's eyes for monetization that cause issues.
It may not be so much a great guess as a statistical likelihood! In 2000, there were over 2.3 million Smiths in the United States: https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/smith-a-short-history-of-ameri... (This number has likely grown roughly alongside our population, so let's use 2000 numbers for this.) In 2000, we had 281 million people in the US, which means 0.8% of Americans have the last name Smith.

If we assume every possible SSN could be handed out, a trailing six digit entry could have anywhere up to 999 possible SSNs, so you're firing out a shotgun with a pretty big number of potential targets each time you guess an SSN.
Why the scare quotes around European Commission?
>and they/others should not demonize those who were already there and want to preserve their culture/way of life/standards of living.

This has a limit, namely, that we who move in are going to vote to change things, and the only way bay area property owners can prevent that is to not get rich off their property by selling or renting it at sky-high prices to new residents. To put their money where their mouth is and not change things, bay area residents need to not be getting rich off the density that they are nominally trying to fight. Otherwise it's just delaying a lost cause - population growth, and a shift in demographics from owners to renters, will inevitably happen barring some big tech recession. Once there are enough renters voting in municipal elections, change will come
Then why are two belts marked "36" different length?
Apple has two major things going for it IMO:

First, they have a huge buyer: themselves. This also means they can closely integrate with the AP and driver folks.

Second, Apple is not Intel. Intel is famously quite bad at managing the development of anything that isn’t a CPU. Apple (or, frankly, basically anyone else) may be able to fix the cultural issues that make it impossible for Intel to build a reasonable non-CPU product.
You might like this:
https://fungos.github.io/blog/2017/11/20/cr.h-a-simple-c-hot...

And this:
https://chrismdp.com/2015/08/how-to-add-live-code-reload-to-...
Two interesting points:

1) Close to 70% of Amazon operating income once again can be attributed to AWS.

Consolidated operating income: $3,084 m
AWS operating income: $2,121 m

2) AWS revenue was $8.3B for the quarter, 37% more than the same quarter last year.
That's not how it works for cars why would it be different for scooters? You generally can't call police to impound a car parked on your private property. That's why you call a towing company.
There might actually be more commercials now than in the past. I remember hearing that TV shows were being sped up by ~10% or so, and that allows for additional time for ads.

I also think that ads are one of those things that you accept until having experienced an ad-free alternative.
See it as you want, but that's a pretty negative view on the entire situation. We as humans are very resilient and we'll continue to find a way to make it through. This also isn't a localized issue but an international issue with localized variable impact. It doesn't exactly work like the way you described... But hey you do you!

I'm aware that NAWPA post wasn't entire serious, but the thing is that similar to how people were investing in companies during the .com bubble that had no clear monotization plan, Water also went through a similar phase. Municipal water and irrigated water are very different topics I agree, but from the direction I work in we look at them in a similar light. There's another project our organization is involved in that is focusing on investments in dam infrastructure in Africa to help deliver water for farmland irrigation. The specific context is different, but water is water, and the issue with quantity and transportation is present (and common) on both sides.

Again, do what you want or believe what you want, but the reality of the situation is there.
So .. you prefer seeing a derelict furniture store and its empty parking lot in your community than a maybe "cheezy condo" unit, a new grocery store, and some affordable housing units.
Care to explain the motivation for statu quo here?
Which are the other offices? I heard they closed down Metaio after acquiring them a few years back.
> same tact

"Tack", from sailing: changing direction lets you use the wind differently. Two boats on the same tack are using the same wind strategy.

My workplace currently teaches students several proprietary systems that are now old and clunky (and of course expensive). We want to switch to open source competitors, but the how and when are rather complicated to coordinate. It will happen eventually though.
I live in a single-payer system in which advertising is banned, and I know every drug that could potentially be taken for my condition and all the upsides and downsides of them, including some side-effects that my doctors refuse to believe are a thing.

There's no way the only possible method of resulting in having informed patients is to put them directly in the middle of a struggle between big companies and doctors. I'd argue that putting doctors in a position of power is terrible (whether single-payer or not), but giving pharma companies' marketing departments the freedom to manipulate people with advertising is also terrible. Two wrongs do not make a right - adversarial systems are poor designs.
I cant imagine how much Johnson&Johnson regrets their decision to take this to court. This is gonna hurt their reputation for decades. Its basically the second opium wars, except they went to war against their own country
Shame should be directed at the sanctioned govts like that of Cuba that jail or kill people for political dissent. And shame on companies that help them. These regimes are unelected or sponsor terrorism, like Iran. They must not grow. It's a bad situation all around and there is no other peaceful alternative. Crippling these govts provides them with less resources to setup extreme surveillance grids and control, like China who has Muslims under total surveillance and has 1 million of them in a camp (they aren't trying to sneak into China). They also harvest political prisoner organs and millions of unregistered women are in hiding because of the 1-child policy (not too mention females are aborted at an extreme rate). Iran's people have a shot because it's hard for the govt to control them with limited resources. The Soviets were energized by not so bad relations with the West after WII. That gave them the build up for future proxy wars and destroying pockets of dissent, including entrenching the CPB and North Korea. And if we didn't resist and sanction, hundreds of millions would now be under the thumb of the Soviets and possibly under German Nationalist Socialists if the free world did not fight and sanction them too.
We have Spectrum's stream-only service (using the Apple TV). Overall, it's been decent for local channels and a few "premium" channels -- at least for the price we pay (all local channels, 10 premium channels and HBO/Showtime for $15/month).

I agree that the format is stale, but for some, it's a good form of "background noise"; my wife loves to have the TV on even if she isn't watching it, while reading, studying, etc.

There's also no other real choice if you want live content (primarily for sports). You still need access to your local affiliate channels to watch this content, and for some, an antenna is not good enough or even an option at all.
Four decades Bay Area native here. Yes, unless the salary more than makes up for the extremely-unbalanced cost of living. Housing and everything in SF is obscenely expensive. It's been this way for many years, but still people try to migrate there like lemmings because "everyone else is doing it," only to later realize either they're stuck and can never retire except into poverty OR are forced to leave and find somewhere else more suitable for saving money, raising a family and/or maintaining one's sanity. Don't move there lightly without a definite plan and budget, or you may likely find yourself either wasting time and money, or in ruins.
can't seem to edit my parent post, but:

THANKS to everyone with suggestions. there's some good ones here... i played piano years ago, so in terms of basic music theory i have some of that. i tend to love researching things like music options and then am too overwhelmed to get around to doing it.

and YES to the suggestion to make bad music. totally down with that suggestion, as it's been a truism for other creative pursuits.
Why restrict this to medicine? It would seem that anything that takes people away from just informed reason is bad.
Bitcoin entrepreneur lost his $4.6M lunch with Warren Buffett
Recently with the obesity epidemic in full force I have seen many men who could use a bra. Alas, gender norms have victimized these poor men forcing them to wear inferior undershirts like a pre-teen girl.
> so the actual innovation occured in academic settings, as was the query.

Well no not at all. Innovation is both the process itself + the supporting requirements necessary to make it work on a massive scale. We cannot minimize the cost of investment in making sure treatments are effective and non-harmfulu in the general population. That is a critical part of medical innovation.
OK, even though this is a dismissive, condescending, and content-free comment, I'll bite:

What are some $200B+, publicly-traded companies that the government has "turned off"?

Facebook has lots of qualities that make it impossible to kill on a whim:

- Peter Thiel is influential in the current admin and also a FB investor

- Many companies are spending millions a day on Facebook ads and may have pre-paid

- Facebook login is a primary authentication scheme for many websites/apps (like Tinder)

- Billions of irreplaceable photos are warehoused in Facebook

You and GP are making the bolder claim by far, so the burden is on you to provide evidence.
You're missing the point. No, it isn't "fine" to torture children, but these facilities are hugely overburdened and have procedures to follow. Aside from the corrupt agents who do mistreat migrants, it's hard to ensure humane conditions for detainees when your facilities have nine times more people to process than they're designed to handle. What's the alternative right now, release them into the U.S.?

We need to stop conflating abuses by individual agents with poor conditions caused by underprovisioning of resources due to a general increase/spike in migrant activity.

Also, there is some merit to the idea that poor conditions at these facilities act as a deterrent to voluntary migration. No one is forcing these people to come here illegally and, again, the vast majority are economic migrants, not legitimate asylum seekers.
With the paratheses?
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Why would someone want companies to grow to dominance where their size becomes leverage in itself? I'd rather have rich set of alternatives.
I like this. Is there a way to clean up the logs this uses to hide these traces? I didn't see any such functionality as I skimmed the README.
I think society would benefit immensely from banning the advertising of drugs. This includes both medicinal and recreational drugs.

Make all drugs legal, but mandate they have boring text/information-only labels, put the more dangerous ones behind the counter in smaller quantities, and let the only thing influencing their purchase be doctor recommendations/prescriptions or personal research. It should apply evenly from ibuprofen to allergy pills to marijuana to cocaine to alcohol.
What about BSON?
Those stars will also grow cold and die out.
Entropy is a bitch.
The various European governments already do that kind of thing through their national agencies. The thinking behind these giant EU projects is to fund larger-scale ambitions over a decade or more. (Not saying it's been the best use of money so far, but that was the aim anyway.)
You Are Not a Product
Stock is down 3% after hours.
I work in the valley, not SF, but still the same. Sorry if this sounds bleak, but out of 45 engineers in my workplace none has been able to buy a place. You'd need probably a 300k/year salary and above to buy anything in SF, or hit it big in your company stocks. The options are a longer commute, you decide how much. Rent is extremely high in the area also
South Dakota (and other such places) have most of those things up to reasonable standards, except perhaps the (well-connected) telecoms and airports in some cases. All of those things can come together as the population scales up and demands them.

I agree that gathering people into larger population centers is way more efficient for us and the planet, but I don't think anyone's arguing for us all to spread out on 10 acre farmsteads.

The middle ground is just to build more decently-sized cities in all of the vast available land. Why fight for overpriced artificially scarce land in San Francisco when there are 20 other SF-equivalent cities a state or two away (existing ones, or ones that could be hypothetically built). "Location, location, location" has got to stop being the reason people choose a city.

As a side bonus: by moving a bunch of coastal persons back into the flyover country, you're re-exporting newer cultural norms into those backwaters, perhaps enough to cause meaningful cultural and political reform in places that sorely need it!
Are any of the organelles visible to the naked eye?
Then you make a bunch of loosely related subsidiaries that do the same thing (see the canadian wireless market) but are owned by the same large company.
But they still need tax breaks if you want them to build in your city!
Happened to me too. It's a good failure mode, IMO. :) If the card runs out of total write capacity, it turns read only. It might be better for it to reject writes, but whatever.
Assuming this would be mainly applicable to non property owners? Can't see why any property owner would take that offer.

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If we leave glycogen in our mouth for seconds/minutes, would the acids in our mouth decompose it into glucose which would taste sweet? Yes, I have no knowledge about chemistry.
Hot weather cuts French, German nuclear power output
Mmm. I live in the UK.

London is somewhere in-between; so are most of our towns and cities, really.

Tons of semi-detached or terraced homes, well served by public transport, which provide a decent balance.

We still can't just increase the population in those commutable areas without bound though.
I get what you mean, really, but it is not what I’m talking about.

Depending on the country, the “companies” that you mention have a different legal status than an enterprise / business kind of company. I think my point was clear: not only management consultants are the ones who seek to make money out of their business.

And of course to belabor your point, if private hospitals and bakeries and carmakers are all in to make a better world, up to that standard of idealism, consultants are there too.
I've also found it interesting, in a "sign of the times" way. Alas, my poor past submission did not make it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/realestate/the-cosmo-girls...

"Helen Gurley Brown’s turreted quadruplex atop the exclusive Beresford co-op at 211 Central Park West, where she lived for four decades until her death in 2012 and which was bedecked in midcentury glamour, has finally sold. At $19,380,000, it was the second most expensive transaction of the week, according to city records."

All in the past now, as in the "famous ceramist" Gore Vidal remark.
Well, the blind eye they seem to turn towards this seem to be rather unimpactful for their bottom line I guess...
You can create a ProtonMail account verified through a Yopmail.com account. This works in the U.S.A. probably in India too.
If I had the option to not pay taxes, obviously I wouldn't but I don't that that has any relation to tipping.

On the other hand, when the government asks to donate for a disaster, does everybody contribute even if they completely sympathize with the issue? You may do it sometimes, but will you do it every time there is a disaster? Will you do it even if you can afford it? What will be your opinion of the government if they tell you "We can't deal with these disasters unless we get donations. We know these same disasters happen every year and we should have budgeted properly but we didn't do it for political reasons. But now if you don't donate, people will be in trouble"

Tipping is a way of showing your appreciation for service. But if it has to be done every time, then you may as well call it a service charge.
I heard a story/statement once, that every time a bunch of smart people got together to think about solving the world problems, they all pretty much came up with the same solution: eugenics and birth control.

Both of these are controversial subjects at best.

Have you seen the TV show Utopia? Basically a group of people decide it's in the humanity's best interest to wipe out 90% of the population with viruses. Rather grim, but understandable in a way.

While in the domain of Sci-Fi, the solution I liked better was the idea from "Forever peace" by John Haldeman, where human evolution is propelled to the next step by increasing mutual empathy through technology. The Internet might be a small step in that direction.
Tulsi's trip was preapproved a month in advance by the House Ethics committee.

She was assigned to and serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, determining policy that directly impacts the entire world. Visiting other countries on fact-finding missions falls cleanly within the jurisdiction of her responsibilities to her constituents and to our country.

Seeking to understand all sides in the Syrian conflict, Tulsi met with Assad's opposition, displaced families and Gov officials from several countries. She did not plan to meet with Assad, but when invited took the chance to search for a peaceful solution.
https://medium.com/@TulsiGabbard/the-syrian-people-desperate...

Tulsi was heroic for calling out the plan to arm al-Qaeda to overthrow the gov of Syria and heroic for meeting with Assad at the risk of political backlash, in the name of peace.
A key point the article mentioned is that you can tell if you are well hydrated by seeing if your urine is reasonably clear. Though I would guess if you are exercising or in real hot weather you would need to stay ahead of the game by drinking more than needed for that.
Exactly this. The only explanation must be that Fb isn’t economically viable with more than a tiny fraction of original content (our friends showing cat pics to us doesn’t make money) but at the same time it isn’t a good product without a much higher, fraction of original content. And if that’s the case then Facebook will implode. My guess is they can’t watch their other apps cannibalize the blue app, so mergers will take place.
Why would they spend 12 hours day 7 days a week doing what the rider should have done in the first place? If the companies gave incentives for riders to put the scooters in those places these two wouldn't have a business model.
Multi compartmental models of neurons simulate the local voltage dynamics of membrane in detail , by considering the neuron as a graph of connected cylinders , and uses the cable equation along with hodgkin-huxley-like models to model the ionic channels of the membrane. It's the most detailed and closest to reality way to simulate neuronal dynamics. Most neuromorphic chips simulate much more abstracted, integrate and fire neurons. In both situations, plasticity is the big unknown because we know so little about it (and it's so complex).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-compartment_model
Do they publish Google Fiber results?
What about dinosaur eggs?
I imagine there are servers that drop QoS 1 or 2 messages that never complete the protocol after X amount of time, so that they don't keep consuming resources indefinitely.

MQTT 5 standardizes this by adding a message expiry interval field, though even there it's opt-in by the publisher and defaults to forever.