skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as well as spreads the high fixed costs of warehousing over a large pool of businesses.

(Note, I'm speaking from some experience here, but it's total amateur-hour experience. I wrote a system for tracking and selling books via half.com and later amazon.com, back when half.com was a thing. At one point I had well over ten thousand books in my inventory to 'test' the program. hah. It actually wasn't so bad; there just isn't any money in it. I might go back to it if I retire; it was fun to have all those books around. I've also worked around several junk dealers, who used the 'have employees who know where shit is' method, and my SO has written an inventory system for our personal stuff, which works, except that barcoding and describing all our stuff is a... daunting amount of work.)

eh, shipping in a timely manner, yeah, if you don't have enough work for a full-time person, you probably wanna outsource. It's a pain in the ass to make a trip to the post office for what amounts to five bucks in profit.

But the cost of warehousing? I think is actually pretty low. Even here in silicon valley you can still get santa clara warehouse space for around a buck a squarefoot/month, in thousand-dollar increments.

Even here, you can get folks capable of operating a simple label printer and mailing stuff out for something like $12-$15/hr, if you have more than 20 hours a week. Especially if you only have a few SKUs, I think it's pretty simple.

now, if you have a thousand SKUs, either you need people who know your inventory really well, and you will be in serious pain when anyone quits... /or/ you need a very good computer system for handling what is where... and setting that up and maintaining all your SKUs is skilled labor. On top of that, the computer system is only as good as the employees scanning the items and locations (or putting the items in the right location; but I personally think the approach of barcoded bins and barcoded items is right; the user barcodes the item, then barcodes the bin, then puts the item in the bin. )

But /that/ is a whole lot more work than it looks like. So yeah; For a few SKUs? a couple grand a month, even in a very high cost of living area and without using your garage, and you can move a lot of product. For many SKUs? yeah. that's where your trouble starts.

I really think that once you have enough work to keep a kid busy mostly-full time, your costs are probably going to be lower doing it yourself.

On the other hand, you do have a good point about the consumer trust of amazon; For me, buying something through amazon (something sold by amazon, not something sold /through/ amazon; that's completely different.) is very easy; very little friction, and I know it will get here the next day. I'll pay a few bucks extra to get a thing from amazon vs. somewhere I've never bought from. (My /feeling/ - and I don't have anything to back this up, is that amazon is picking up on this, and their prices are slowly floating up vs. everyone else.)
>you can write a naive program that computes PrimeFactor(x) by brute force. it will be slow but it will work. let's call this ProgramA.

Ah, that's a good way to think about it. Thanks!
> There really isn't any point commenting or submitting to HN now. It really isn't worth the psychological baggage.

I totally disagree, it's well worth my effort to post here and point out something absolutely essential you've overlooked:

It's "You're", not "Your" :)

Other than that, I mostly agree - but I come to HN for the occasional well written tech related piece. I really couldn't care any less about the "show HN your boringly generic SaaS platform" and "Meet blah.js: a better SomethingElseNobodySelfRespectingWouldUse.js" or "Click Me And By Amazed At My Utter Lack Of Subtlety Plugging My Mediocre Blog" pieces.
Only since 1983 - my mother is a British citizen born to Australian parents while they were over there for a couple years.
Just a random tip for anybody casually looking at the Columbia, MO or Bloomington, IN jobs. I know nothing about either job, but I do know the area and those are both pretty hip little college towns, so I wouldn't discount them entirely if you talked to them and liked the gig, but were turned off by the location.
Sure, they are the only ones, but does that mean it's morally or logically wrong? Theoretically a government spends a certain amount of money on each individual as they live, become educated, and work in the US. If they decide to leave the US to work abroad, they shouldn't get any tax revenue back from you? They do allow you to deduct taxes paid to your residence country.
That's a baseless assertion.

I'd assume (and I have no insider knowledge) that it's because Google assumes if you have a Google account that you probably want to be logged into it when using Google products. Otherwise it would suck if you tried to do something that requires an account and were told "log in" and then had to refresh the page, potentially losing state. The up-front login avoids some usability issues there. (Of course there are many ways to approach this, this is merely my hypothesis.)
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This has always been available as a setting on iOS and it is not the default. Most companies though will install a profile which enables this to a custom value of retry attempts if you add the company email (typically exchange ) account to your phone
It used to be free to renounce U.S citizen ship, but I think it's $500 bucks to file for it now because too many people are lining up.
I grew up loving the philosophy and values I learned about America -- Jefferson, Adams, Thoreau, King, Edison, Feynman, ... welcoming Einstein and so many others. Young as the country and its culture is, we've produced some greats.

As I've matured and times have changed it's been impossible to miss other parts of America grade schools don't teach -- increasing division between rich and poor, decreasing social mobility, corporate control of the government, entrenched racism, sexism, jingoism, needless wars based on lies, ... I could go on. Anyone could.

I haven't lost faith in my country -- such vague words could mean so much in this context -- but I don't like how the powerful are influencing the processes that led to it flourishing so long, even taking into account its colossal mistakes (Prohibition?), nor how those without power aren't taking responsibility to gain power like they (we) could. I'm impressed with the love many foreigners have for much of our freedom, which I share.

I tell myself living in Manhattan is like living outside any country. Legally New York City may be part of the United States, but culturally it's its own world.

Still, I find it valuable to look at where you live sometimes with rose-colored glasses because life feels better when you love your home, but regularly to evaluate it warts and all. How else can you change it if you feel you can, or escape before the need becomes desperate, should the need arise?

(Here is where people often ask where it's better or point out places it's worse. I don't argue against asking those questions, but we don't have to jump to comparisons with others, which distracts from evaluating it from what it could be. Or once professed or aspired to be.)
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Yeah, you don't need a double blind study here... Just measure the plaque levels before and after usage.

As long as the plaque reductions are comparable, as well as the absolute final values, you're golden.

Looks like the savings is about 6 days over 5 years (http://xkcd.com/1205/). At a cost of $900 that's not a bad return on investment.
I'm very curious about this as well. Are there any provisions in ACA for those living abroad?
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"U.S. citizens living in a foreign country are not required to get health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. If you're uninsured and living abroad, you don't have to pay the fee that other uninsured U.S. citizens may have to pay."

https://www.healthcare.gov/am-i-eligible-for-coverage-in-the...
I feel like this effect is diminished when you're brushing your teeth in front of a researcher.

Also, don't forget that the NEW STYLE BRUSH you mention is more likely to be improperly used.
This is pretty cool, but I don't think a lot of people use gist for blogging.
I didn't realize that Gates would be 100% divested 2018 (per a long-planned sell off of his shares)... Interesting. I know his main emphasis is elsewhere (the foundation), but I suppose that just strengthens the investors' opinion: "You're getting out of your stake, so get out of the way."
You forgot Chicago, third most populous city in the US and everything, but you know, whatever.
> It is a technology risk. This means that if I solve it, I wouldn’t have to worry about finding customers. VCs like technology risk.

This is wrong (with all due respect to Steve Blank in his video, I don't really disagree with that video in context). Technology VCs hate technology risk. Biotech can get funded with 10-15 year lag times because the market risk is so lopsidedly low with patents, very concrete information on disease incidence rates, and solid metrics on what likely drug prices can be, among other factors. Technology VCs would call his AGI a "science project" and dismiss it. The only reason he can sort of make this statement is that he's assuming that the technology risk is gone when he says "if I solve it," but that doesn't mean that they don't hate technology risk. Even if he were successful in building an AGI there would still be market risk because if he can get it done, what's the probability that Google or IBM won't have beaten him to the punch (a VC might say)?

The reason this is a confusion is because "technology risk" and "market risk" are not anchored to any particular value, they are relative to the speakers norms, and so each of these parties is anchoring them differently. When Steve Blank is talking about technology risk, he's not talking about high technology risk as in building AGI hard, he's talking about "can we build an enterprise software that automatically handles some highly complex business process that we aren't QUITE sure is automatable."
I checked out your site briefly, it's very cool. I've been hearing about this tech but haven't seen anyone pull it off yet! I will be in touch.
> What really hooked me onto Go was both the helpfulness of the Google group as well as the nice people on #gonuts

Same here, which is why I like to idle in the channel when possible (and occasionally answer questions when I can).

People often underestimate how much impact the community behind a language has. The Go community has been one of the friendliest, and also one of the most willing to share its knowledge.

FYI, it's #go-nuts, just in case anybody reading this is inspired to check it out.
heh. i just watched Pirates of Silicon Valley the other day. Such a good movie. Gave me a lot of perspective on both Microsoft and Apple.

would suck to see Bill go. But I guess it will have to happen sooner or later. Idk how much he influences direction any more anyway.
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Its a hoax. The cube has a central column running through it which creates the vertical axis it spins on. There are also splines inside running to this to provide rigidity.

Here's a photo of the removal for maintenance some years back.

http://gothamist.com/2005/03/10/the_astor_place_cube_removal...
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US citizens who live abroad for 330 days in a calendar year are exempt: see question 12 at http://www.irs.gov/uac/Questions-and-Answers-on-the-Individu...
> It is as though your 'home state' continued to tax you (or make you file paperwork) long after you've moved to California.

This is an imperfect analogy (since there is not really a concept of "citizenship" for individual US states), but note that claiming residency in one state while living in another will often require you to pay taxes in both.

> Nobody else (worldwide) does this. It doesn't make any sense.

I think it is pretty clear its purpose is to prevent US citizens from deciding to live abroad in order to pay less income tax. The legislation that requires US citizens to report foreign bank accounts (which some of the people in the BBC article mention) is called the "Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act" [1] is supposed to prevent all citizens from committing tax evasion by hiding funds in foreign bank accounts.

I think there are multiple reasons why you or others could argue that these rules are counterproductive [2] or otherwise detrimental to the interests of the United States, but I do not think they can be dismissed out of hand.

[1]: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Corporations/Foreign-Account-T...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
"Omit needless words" is from Strunk & White's Elements of Style
If you did not apply, are you still eligible or allowed to go ?
May be blog is not the right name for it. This is useful in a situation where you want to write something quickly without going to the lengths of publishing a full blog post and then want to share with someone who is not in to Gists and GitHub.

Also, see http://gist.io where I took the idea from.

Cheers.
There is absolutely no way Yahoo would ever buy 4chan.

Sorry if you're being sarcastic and I'm not picking up on it.
How is that weaker (or any different) from the obfuscator that was proven to not exist? Namely, an obfuscator that preserves functionality and has the black box property.
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It kind of sounds like the sort of move you'd read about in a novella about power struggles... makes me think the board members in question here are plotting something, not simply trying to give the new CEO "breathing room".
You're right that low price is a great competitive edge, but one can name many now defunct computer makers that were anything but full stack -- Compaq, Gateway, eMachine, Packard Bell, Siemens (the PC maker), Olivetti. As a matter of fact, one can argue that they went under because their products didn't stand out from the competition.

Full stack can be seen as a great advantage. Otherwise Microsoft wouldn't make Surface or acquire Nokia. It all depends on specific business cases.
Of course they can be dismissed. What you're not getting is that these people have to pay full taxes in the place they're actually living. A place you're not living has no business collecting further taxes from you.
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My take on it:

1. Optical brain computer interfaces will make accessing the internet at the speed of thought. Internet will truly be integrated as another mind that we all share. Some people will even rent their subconscious neural networks for the global brain.

2. Polymorphic hardware that will change its architecture to speed up applications.

3. Programming languages with NLP and AI help developers with rapid prototyping.

4. Long term computing: Computers that can run for millions of years without much intervention in space.
Thanks! Interesting...
AGI. The Intelligence Explosion.

http://intelligenceexplosion.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion#Intelli...
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lol, dead giveaway.
It is hard to fathom the complexities you face when overseas as a US citizen due to the US tax code, which is basically the only code of a major developed country to tax its citizens wherever they may live worldwide, regardless of their source of income.

There is a system of tax exemptions and credits within the code to offset the double taxation this would imply when living in a jurisdiction which imposes its own income taxes, as most countries in fact do. The difficulties arise in reconciling the US tax liabilities with those owed to the foreign country, calculating the applicable credits, etc. In practice this requires expensive tax professionals in most cases - and they get really expensive if you're an entrepreneur with an overseas corporation, which is pretty much a nightmare to deal with on several levels - different accounting standards, controlled foreign corporation tax reporting, paying estimated taxes when having no clue what the result of a complex tax calculation process will be, etc.

Besides income taxes, there are also bank account reporting requirements (TDF 90-22.1 form) which have made many people's lives difficult. The penalties for not reporting any foreign bank account are draconian even if you live overseas and need an account where you live (you will). Even worse, foreign banks are reluctant to deal with US citizens because of the reporting they in turn are required to do on their behalf, resulting in frequent difficulties opening and maintaining bank accounts overseas if you are a US citizen.

Finally, as a US citizen overseas you are still entitled to social security payments from the US government, but get no benefit from your contributions to Medicare, which only covers you within the USA proper. For that matter you also get no benefit from most of the residual income taxes you pay to the USA that you can't offset with tax exemptions/credits. It's not like those taxes will be used for any of the infrastructure etc. you use overseas.
This includes foreign military bases.
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The refurbished point confused me. Does that mean they refurbish your own old one? If so, I would think that would alleviate most people's cootie fears. And if it's someone else's, how does that work? I thought they had to be custom created for each person's mouth.
That's true, but there's a difference between then and now: AFAIK Bush did not make not giving pay increases to Federal employees an explicit policy. Obama has.
What part of the US tax system is easy compared to the EU, seriously because I come from the UK and being in the US is the first time in my life I have had to even file a tax return.

The US system seems to guarantee you need an accountant.
> On the other hand, my therapist tells me ...

Ah, now I understand. You had self-esteem issues arising from allowing yourself to be defined by random women's tastes, and you now have the additional burden of allowing yourself to be defined by the random tastes of a therapist.

Let me tell you something. You will become self-confident when you decide to define yourself -- and not before.

You're going through something that many, many people have gone through -- trying to secure validation from other people. One day you will wake up and realize that securing validation from others is like securing happiness by shopping.

By a process of natural selection, nature has made you the way you are. There has never been anyone like you, and there never will be again. Your purpose is to live your life as yourself, not as some imaginary person defined by others.

Evolution works. Natural selection works -- but only if people don't all try to be copies of the same "ideal" person.

> I just can't seem to hack this whole sex thing.

What's to hack? The "whole sex thing" gives too much power to other people. Marketers and commercial interests want you to believe they can sell you success, and therapists are in the same line of work. It's just a big scam -- the trick is to figure that out before you die of old age, still trying to catch the brass ring.

And guess what? If you stop trying so hard, if you come to realize the "whole sex thing" is completely ridiculous and stop giving it any energy, women will suddenly and inexplicably flock to you like moths to a candle.

I know this from personal experience.
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That's exactly the conclusion I came to. Which is a shame, because there was a point where WordPress basically did just what I wanted to, and put the emphasis on those things. Now it's a full blown CMS, which I don't want or need.
I don't mean to say "what happens if you lose a finger" rather, what happens when your biometric key has been compromised. You can only move on to so many unique body parts before you're out of key changes.
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In this case though, it'd really benefit from being visible — all non-editable views into public google docs should be accessible
Slashdot, concentrate on the mobile version. Most of us read /. when we're in bed and supposed to be sleeping.
In case the author is reading this: This article was unreadable on my phone (iOS7) because the "share" buttons obscured the leftmost five or six letters on each line.
The first iPhone was the disruptive product. Everything after that has been incrementalism. The 2013 iPhone 5 is a direct descendent of the 2007 iPhone 5, and the 2007 iPhone 5 was almost a completely different product than my 2006 Treo 700w.
Doesn't seem to work...
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You're making a weird assumption that because you have no dental issues nobody does. Or that because a cheap brush is good enough for you it's good enough for everyone.

33% of Americans have untreated tooth decay (CDC). An optimization may be just what the average American needs.
I think Windows 8.0 or 8.1 Store application do not allow it.
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Hmmm, not as effective a call for action as you might want. In part because under US law email delivered to your corporate address is a company asset, not a personal asset.

That said, there is a lot to be gained by having copies of your personal email (and metadata) handy. I am sure I am not unique in that I've got a script that uses imap to pull non-spam email into a temporally ordered store (a DVD-R :-) and a dynamically updated index (initially sqlite, now its more mysql). Still lose stuff of course :-).