skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media has always had a vested interest in what it tells you. Look up William Randolph Hearst as an example.

However, today, you see a lot more blatant manipulation in the media. People are conditioned to it, which is scary.

Take a subtle example, Ars Technica almost never says Chairman, it says Chairperson, but it will say Chairwoman (which also shows their ignorance of the origin of Chairman). Ars has played all sorts of games like this. It started around the time of Casey Johnson and the introduction of strong gender stereotyping. This was from a once brilliant (and well balanced) site that has never recovered.

Today, very few people will tell you how to think, they will tell you what to think, who to vote for, etc.

True of False (taken from Wikipedia): "Limited voting rights were gained by some women in Sweden, Britain, and some western U.S. states in the 1860s."

The answer of course is False. We have voting records from the UK (as one example) showing quite a few women on independent means voting in the 1830s (when FEW men had the right to vote, let alone women - which is always overlooked for the sake of propaganda). This is an example of a stream of calculated deceit that has flourished in the last 20 years, without challenge.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/9933592/Wom...

There are many areas today where people don't bother to do any fact checking. What's worse are those that purposely manipulate history. They insult and disgrace our grandmothers and grandfathers. Yet, most of us would say that our grandmothers were not wallflowers and our grandfathers not anything like modern media portrays!!!

So, in short, yes. The Internet goes a long way to hiding and misrepresenting information. The signal to noise ratio is a big part of the problem, but special interest groups and political correctness have also contributed significantly.
Our civilians?

Perhaps this sounds harsh, but consider the possibility that US intervention in conflicts among and within other sovereign nations may do more harm than good. "Team America: World Police" is a fun movie. It may not be the best of foreign policy goals.
To not paraphrase Tyrion Lannister because I'm about the only person in existence who hasn't watched the show, if the attempt to set this up is wilfully ludicrous, the most obvious people to think of are probably people that don't want you to think there's any basis behind any of the more longstanding and somewhat similar rumours floating around about the purported setup victim.

And probably want you to go to Wikileaks.com and look for embarrassing stuff about Hillary Clinton instead.
Depending on the time of year the flights from SFO to HKG will fly north along the coast to Alaska, then over to Siberia and down the Asia coast. This is a 15hr+ flight to avoid the Jet Stream. The flight back is 4+ hours shorter!
This is an amazing demo and a great reminder of the sheer cool factor of having tiny computers in our pockets.
I've got a friend who does wifi installs in stadiums and other large event spaces. This kind of install is the very definition of hostile networking environment. It cannot be easy to use lots of wifi devices with so many radios all blasting signals in a giant bowl.

Whats more egregious is the short time span given to fix things. Either the NFL needs to open that up, or have a whole ops team who does it for the teams and has a SLA related to making it work.

If I'm dealing with the pressure to perform that goes with running a NFL team, networking and communications infrastructure is about the last thing I'd want to worry about. Belichick is being quite restrained if he's only throwing the tablets. I'd probably crack it over my knee!
Winklevoss Brothers Name State Street as Bitcoin ETF Administrator
Probably best if Russia didn't annex Crimea, infiltrate Eastern and bomb the shit out of Allepo.

> even though the Ukranian thing was entirely a result of exploiting the crisis and near lawlessness that was already happening there.

"We were just protecting Russian citizens" right?
Cloudy Nights, Sunny Days on Distant Hot Jupiters
First off, thanks for a civil and reasonable response. Yours is the FIRST one I've seen reading the responses ranked by vote. This means Hacker News members upvoted insulting and snotty responses over yours. I didn't even expect to see one like yours. A shame that they are so very rare on Hacker News. I know you disagree with me, but you were not an asshole about it and I appreciate that!

Point One: Voter Fraud. I thin the right term to google for is "Black box voting". I know that since Trump made this an issue there's been a lot of HRC supporters downplaying it... but in 2000 and 2004 it was the democrats who were complaining about it.

I can't give you a citation other than my personal experience working for a national campaign and having access to incremental vote counts on a pricing level basis, and watching votes for the libertarian candidate rise as more votes were counted (talking absolute votes, not percentages, he was still losing by a wide margin) but at some point the software triggered and as more votes were counted, he had less absolute votes. The votes for him were flipped!

Maybe vote flipping is the term to look for. (And use DuckDuckGo, Google is apparently censoring results to shape the election for HRC)

It was several years ago when I was doing research so I don't have a handy site.

I know most democrats assume the election is legit, but I no longer do, and so I have no fait in it. In my opinion they are not valid. But it's had to shake people's faith in government, and on this issue, while I've seen the smoking gun, I can't get one for you.

Second issue--- Yes, I am concerned about all human rights for everybody. In fact that's my one issue. I will not deny that Trump has an asinine border policy that denies people rights. Will you deny that Hillary wants to deny people rights? Will you deny that self defense is a basic human right? That being free of slaery is a basic human rights? That when it takes us half the year to get to tax freedom day we're effectively slaves for that half of the year? (You may get value from the taxes, but if a thief steals my car and your bicycle and gives you my car and me your bicycle, would you say he hasn't violated my rights?)

Both candidates are authoritarian jerks. Trump is the lesser of two evils in my book.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give you.
Berlin is a pretty fun place.
Wikileaks team: If there is any need for further research from within the UN I have a very high-level friend within that section.
I was on a BOS-LHR flight once that picked up a good tailwind and we arrived well ahead of schedule, only to sit in a holding pattern for 30-ish minutes so we could land after the airport noise restrictions were loosened at 6am.

Super frustrating to fly over your house repeatedly when all you want to do is get home!
Trump is basically preventing her from losing.
As someone without chronic expensive health needs, I've been on a HDHP with an HSA for almost a decade. They're great.

With a low deductible, I'm paying more up front so I can pay less if I need care. With an HSA and HDHP, I'm paying less for insurance and putting the difference into an interest-bearing account that I keep with me. Two different jobs that offered HDHPs also offered HSA contributions or matches.

Over time, my HSA has grown to roughly 3x my family's deductible. Tell me how I'm losing out?
Official statement: http://www.cancilleria.gob.ec/comunicado-oficial-sobre-el-ca...

Google Translate:

"Ecuador granted political asylum to Julian Assange in 2012 on the basis of their legitimate fears of political persecution because of his journalistic activities as editor of WikiLeaks.

"In recent weeks, WikiLeaks has published a large number of documents which have an impact on the election campaign in the United States. The decision to make public such information is the sole responsibility of the Wikileaks organization.

"The Government of Ecuador respects the principle of non-intervention in the affairs of other countries, it does not interfere in electoral processes in progress or support a candidate in particular.

"In that sense, Ecuador, in exercise of its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications system in its embassy in the UK.

"This temporary restriction does not prevent the WikiLeaks organization to carry out his journalistic activities.

"Ecuador, consistent with its tradition of defending human rights, especially with the victims of political persecution reaffirms granted asylum to Julian Assange and reiterates its intention to safeguard their lives and physical integrity until you can move to a safe place.

"Ecuador's foreign policy responds only to sovereign decisions and not yield to pressure from other states."
Sure; 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot anyway. [0] It will also vary greatly depending on your business scale. Google needs computer scientists; at their scale any efficiency slip is very costly. For the local small business looking to turn their Excel spreadsheet sitting on a shared network drive into a CRUD app, a trade programmer or two is probably entirely sufficient.

[0] Yes, you heard me right! 91.4% of all statistics are made up at the very moment!
What makes the Pixel camera so good?
Webcomponents library (beta)
I agree with you, but to be fair even if he wanted to use a mac(or more appropriately an ipad), he probably wouldn't be allowed to because of the deal that the NFL made with microsoft.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724096
IF by "in theory" you mean "under the constitution" and by "but" you mean "but in practice" then I agree with you completely.

That is my point. In this area and many other areas of human rights, the government is corrupt and a criminal organization violating these rights.

Have an upvote for a reasonable reply.
You're talking past one another, I think. You are correct for most blue collar jobs; GP's description is accurate for most white collar workers.

Your downvotes are probably for your unnecessarily inflammatory final sentence.
Ecuador admits limiting Assange's internet
Electric cars can conceivably replace passenger cars though, whereas people commuting in a pickup are very probably quite unlikely to replace that pickup with an electric vehicle of any kind. (Are electric trucks even a thing?)

In light of that, it seems entirely reasonable to compare electric car efficiency to gasoline passenger car efficiency.
> In general, flight pricing seems rather opaque; I'm always confused by flights from city A to city B that are more expensive than flights from city A to city C with a layover in city B.

That example is pretty simple. If you consider a non stop flight as a different product than one with layover, non stop has less competition, people who don't mind a layover are more price sensitive and if there's a layover the airline will compete with all the other airlines trying to fill their hubs.
Clinton doesn't need a conspiracy to win, it's as simple as that. She's polling at +8 nationally, if the election were held today she has at least a 75% chance of a landslide election (320+ EVs) if the election were held today, and there's zero indication that Trump's numbers have any upward mobility whatsoever at this point. In fact, the Republicans will be lucky to hold onto the House if things keep going the way they have the past couple weeks.

There's no reason to do a dumb attempt at stinging a has-been like Assange. Literally all it could do is hurt her (if it backfired and people took Assange seriously).

http://election.princeton.edu/todays-electoral-vote-histogra...

Hanlon's Razor says that if it looks like some dumb idiot ("small business owner") who thought he could hire Assange for his TV commercial and then got his jimmies rustled that Assange said no then it probably is that instead of an international conspiracy. But even if we're moving into conspiracy territory, Clinton doesn't have the motive here.
Yes it does, near the end. A hypothetical scenario anyway.
The way I do it is with a technique from Buddhist meditation. I watch the urge to switch to something, and intercept it by making note of it.
The new cold war with Russia started in the 1990s, little more than a handful of years after the Soviet Union fell (it was quite obvious in the Balkans crises of the 1990s.)

Clinton's famous "reset button" was an effort to try to create an opening to reverse that (or, more cynically, merely to be seen as making such an effort.)
You didn't bother to read my comment, and so, for instance, you lied about who I am supporting. And apparently I triggered you to the point that you didn't even respond on the point.

Scalia doesn't take the posit you claim for the reasons you imply.

Please take some time to actually look into these issues-- I had already addressed your argument.
Wow, great work. I assume the pinch gesture calibrates the positioning and is always center of the screen? The bounce off the screen edge on pong is satisfying.
Even if you can charge for free the batteries only have a limited number of charge cycles so you have to pay for the wear and tear on the batteries. Last I heard the economics were pretty close to neutral for the US:

From http://www.catalyticengineering.com/top-ten-facts-about-tesl...

"So revenue is $1.66 x 183 days x 10 years = $3,000. You’ll just about recoup the cost of the product, but you won’t profit because of two factors – the cost of inverter and installation, and the time value of money. We’re in a low-interest environment, but setting aside $7,000 today to make back $3,000 over 10 years still leaves you down $4,000 – not a very good deal."
Yeah, I read some of that the other day. I continue to think that my single issue voters together are a larger block than the people in that article. The article doesn't have any more statistics than I do.
It used to be the case that you could "bank" unused vacation-- often indefinitely. When I started with HP in '92, there were engineers that saved up literal months of vacation time, and would then take it all at once to go spearfishing in the Bahamas or what-have-you.

Then when the .com bust happened, everybody started tightening their balance sheets, and huge piles of unused vacation time was an easy liability to get rid of. So they reduced the max vacation accumulation to 3 or 4 weeks over your yearly accrual in a year (but left you what you had, so you wouldn't gain new vacation if you were at the cap, but you wouldn't lose it either).

Then they tightened further, so you'd only accumulate 2 weeks, then 1 week over your yearly allotment.

It's possible that habits built when vacation was easy to hold on to die hard.
The PCB ordering service seems to accept files well, and the prices are great. But the link is hard to find. From the home page, it's not even clear that they make boards.

Board assembly service is even harder to find. It's here: [1] The list of stock parts they can assemble, the Open Parts Library, is a dead link. It's actually at [2]. although there are several versions and I'm not sure which one is what they actually stock.

[1] http://www.seeedstudio.com/propagate/app/service/
[2] http://statics3.seeedstudio.com/assets/file/fusion/Seeed_OPL...
Incidentally I find that to be a smart business move for them as well. I mean if you behave like a gTLD you integrate much faster than say .es where you have all kinds of offset rules you must apply to their expiration or .nl who give you a one day window to renew!
Slightly expanded article: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f997f97c5f140a29f385ea05f1b6...
Mark Zuckerburg comments on Peter Thiel controversy regarding Trump donation
Maybe the total "stuff" burden should be calculated as:

amount of stuff owned * amount you care about it

Owning a small number of things you fetishise seems not so different than having a pile of crap that you don't care about at all.

The "owning less stuff" movement seems to have a lot more traction where rents are high and space is constrained. It seems to me that people tend to produce moral justifications for what are simply practical constraints.
Bloomberg is terrible. If it's not a nearly baseless hatchet job on China, it's a nearly baseless hatchet job on Europe. Next up? Canada.
I think it is more likely that Belichick is just a Luddite, or to be more charitable, that the tech just isn't very good. In the ESPN article[1], he comments that nothing in the communication stack works reliably, whether it is the tablets, or the in-helmet comm systems, or whatever. People have tried to spin these tech failures in New England as something nefarious along the lines of what Auerbach used to do with the visiting locker room at the old Garden, but these outages hit the Pats often enough that I'm not convinced Belichick is Sauron, Spygate be damned.

[1] http://www.espn.com/blog/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4796...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739349
Right, which is why given there is no enumerated power clause giving them one the federal government has no power to regulate marriage.

The problem is, the states legalized gay marriage at the state level, and DOMA which is invalid under the 9th amendment and powers clause caused a problem.

They should have struck down DOMA and let the states have their choice, as they do under the 9th amendment.
In fact Air India is one of the most generous in terms of legroom and seat width (An artefact of it being a govt owned entity). They have been slow to adopt the 10 seat across(in Y) that has become standard with the 777. Try flying in EK or UA and see the difference. Trading seat comfort to entertainment choice (among other factors) is an individual choice.
Any pushback from these people that starts with the fabrication that Trump voters are the working poor is basically not worth engaging with. They live in the same world as everyone else where it's reasonable to critique people who have deeply harmful or prejudiced views and it shows when that pushback is based on the assumption that classism is essential to the case against Trump, even when all the polling shows us that's a complete lie.
slightly earlier, on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739349
Ecuador: Official Statement on the Case of Julian Assange
The Tsar Bomba is a 100MT design, there's zero doubt it could achieve that yield. However, like most thermonuclear weapons roughly half of that yield would have come from fission in the natural uranium casing. Essentially every neutron from a fusion reaction has the ability to cause fissioning of U-238, and when you do all the math it works out to release as much energy as the fusion reactions.

But that would have meant that the test would have released 50MT worth of fission byproduct fallout, about an order of magnitude more than the roughly 7-8MT worth of fallout accidentally retired released in the castle bravo test. Since the USSR's test sites were on land, such a release was daunting, so instead they changed the device for the test and used an inert material for the casing. The end result was that the 50MT test was comparatively very "clean" with most of the yield coming from fusion.
But the point is that the US is 100-200 years of homogenization veneer on cultures ranging from Asian to African to European to indingenous.

In that sense, the US has a broader base of those enclaves within the country and less time to have built a coherent cultural identity between those populations.

Europe, by contrast, hasn't forced the veneer over all of the enclaves (eg, single language), but the enclaves share a more similar historic background.

It's different kinds of diversity, really. Stable multi-components versus broader partial fusion.
I don't think that's the first image in the sequence, just the most famous one. They took a lot of images in sequence. Here they are edited together into a sequence (several series, presumably from multiple tests, unfortunately looks a bit incomplete): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQp1ox-SdRI
this seems like pretty good proof that the dirt on clinton is real, legitimate, and devastating... why else would there be such a sudden and intense effort to shut him up (push ecuador to cut off his internet) discredit him, shut him down, and smear him as an enemy spy?

seriously, if the allegations were crazy, they'd just say "nope, and here are the facts that are correct". all hands on deck for discrediting him speaks volumes about what is really going on.

the pedophilia smear is very predictable, also... i believe assange himself may have predicted this years ago.
Totally. This is a league that fines players for wearing cleats or sweatbands that are in non-sanctioned colors.
No, they are not. Read the pre-amble to the bill of rights. It makes it clear the rights are broad and pre-existing for the Bill of Rights and the Bill of Rights merely clarifies.

This is why the right to self defense cannot be restricted by any interpretation of the second amendment. Same with speech and the first amendment.

Those amendments are restrictions on government, not creators of rights.
WHy?
If the poster wanted to have thoughtful discussion, they could have put some thought into their second comment, but they didn't.

The boilerplate anti-Hillary spleen vent isn't even on topic here. It's exactly the sort of derailing tangent that gets these thread flagged to begin with.
I had a lot more sympathy for Assange and Wikileaks before the recent releases that seem to have been timed to influence the US elections.

Also, why has it taken so long for him to agree to an interview on the rape allegations? Yes, it's possible, as Assange has asserted, that it is bogus, but there are also two victims who deserve some closure.
As near as I can tell, this is referring to a minor scandal in what I usually think of as the skeptic community.

Long story short, Dawkins made some comments regarded as regressive which got him dis-invited from a couple of skeptical conferences.

It is a slightly different argument than the one we're having now, although it wouldn't surprise me if the sides people take are similar: given that in any large gathering of people (eg, a skeptical conference, an online forum, a corporation, a political party...) there will be some people whose behavior, actions, or speech is hostile, harming, or threatening to some other people, should we force some people to restrict their behavior or leave, or force other people to either accept it or leave?

Unsurprisingly, a majority of the skeptical community opted towards restriction, many skeptical conventions reiterated their policies with the goal of making convention-goers feel safe and welcome, and some individuals who prominently made statements against these changes were dis-invited (as speakers) from some conventions.
I finally went out and bought a 10-port powered USB dock.

Which doesn't work with my USB Midi keyboard.

Well, shit. Now what?
Seems like they become de facto law at that point.
It looks like a forced dichotomy. What is it compared to the cost of not owning cars and having decent mass transportation, and dense/safe/cities in which people can live without the threat of cars?

And also what about in both cases the costs of roads, bridge, traffic jam/signals, accidents, policing?

Seriously, it is as if the problem for solving man created excessive energy that screws the climate was to make MORE green energy and not about consuming less energy.

Consuming more dirty energy or more green energy still results in extra temperature on the surface of the globe.