skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You jumped from mean to median. The /median/ new car price in this country is about $22k.
Regarding (2), I think that would be counterproductive. The whole point here is to signal submission to the establishment.
Slow news day, and not enough /newest voters?
As a consumer I am very disappointed and feel being deceived by Google.

Why Google and not the maker of the phone? They're the ones that wrote the backdoor that sent stuff to China. You're not suggesting that Google helped with that, are you?
I have heard that the more recent Model Ss (Models S?) are a lot better about being able to keep up with power output on tracks, although what you say was definitely true for a long time.
Vodafone and other carriers also offer some all-you-can-eat plan in the UK, so I guess it's an higher avg with less subscribers.
Also, I hate that the same carriers in other EU countries don't offer the same plans.
I also picked a Prius EV. It think that was a mistake. A Volt would have made my EV driving percentage way higher.
While that is a fair criticism, it's still evidence towards a conclusion, even if it isn't a conclusion itself. To compare it, as in my original point, to "Barack Obama is a Muslim", it's in an entirely different league.
if you start a slack channel, I'll join--I have the same issue
This is more than a little bit ironic coming from the New York Times, which just issued an apology for its blatantly biased, divisive, and disappointing coverage of the entire election cycle: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/elections/to-our-reader...
It gets a lot easier if you restrict yourself to a definition of random that puts some restrictions on the entity that needs to predict the events. If you for example say that you can only spent a polynomial amount of time looking at the first k bits to predict the k+1-th bit, then you have a rigorous definition where you can prove that such randomness exists (at least using standard complexity theoretic assumptions).
Because the message body is 140 characters, it will fit in a notification. There is no "approval mechanism," you simply talk to other people.

It's great for when you want to talk to celebrities. Unfortunately, oftentimes celebrities don't want to talk to you.
Show HN: Text your Congressperson (and they'll receive it as a fax)
No. And by 'no', I mean statistically speaking, no.

A job hunt is a variation on the dating problem. Here's a popular account: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/16/when-...
> Is absolute security really something that anyone desires from a general purpose instant messenger?

I think the problem is that security is an ongoing conversation between the government and the people. My guess is that most people, if pushed to a firm position, would probably agree with:

a) The government should have the right to look at communication to stop bad things.

b) The government should have to individually prove before an independent court that any one use of that power is justified.

The difficulty is that the government unilaterally broke (b) by having a rubberstamp court and a policy that let them collect everything and choose when to look at it.

And the response to the government's action is to start looking to redress this privately. I.e. a market solution to a perceived deficit of privacy. I suspect that if they had kept (b) intact, there would be much less call for absolute security, and much less of a solid argument for it.
His job is not get this or that candidate elected. It's more like the New York Times is in denial blaming everybody but the poor candidate they endorsed for her failure to get elected.

The New York Times was also in denial during the campaign dismissing Trump's candidacy as a joke, then giving Hillary 99% chances to win.

Had they taken Trump seriously from the get-go and try to do a proper rebuttal with fact checking and not just "Pepe the frog is a fascist symbol", maybe the outcome would have been different.
It starts with the 'customize' button being almost illegibly small, hidden and not even looking like a button, compared to the 'use express settings' one.
A car that costs less than the median purchase price for new vehicles in the US seems pretty close to "for the masses" to me. It's at least in the running for more than half of all new car buyers in terms of price (not in size or amenities, obviously).

TCO for electrics is also likely to be lower: http://seekingalpha.com/article/543861-report-shows-lower-to... and their total lifespan is likely to be higher, even taking into account a battery swap after 10 - 20 years.
I've built https://www.defollow.com

It tracks your Twitch unfollowers. I would never recommend anybody to care about unfollowers, but I was just always so curious to find out who unfollowed me (and hunt him until he refollows).

I also plan to add YouTube support soon. :)

Edit: It's still a little bit in development.
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I built a simple habit tracker for groups of friends to hold each other accountable. Although it has no growth, it's been an amazing tool for my friends and I. The app lead a big change in our lives and I am proud of that.

link: https://itunes.apple.com/ro/app/tribes-build-habits-friends/...
http://upush.xyz/ (No longer functioning)

I did a web scrapper which auto login to my university portal to detect any changes on news board (like lecturer post a class cancel notice), if change detected it will send a push notification to a mobile app.

Did this app in few weeks because I got pissed by lecturer suddenly canceling class and post the news at last minute. I shared it to my classmates and it jumped to 2200 active users before got shut down.
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The Bolt is just a beautiful car, more so than the Tesla model 3. I'm glad they make EVs that don't look like Buicks or LeBarons.
I am not a lawyer. Ususally consumer protection laws protect only from not providing advertised features. There might be something related to privacy laws but I am not sure how they work internationally.
That will be one of the issues that Facebook will need to deal with, if they're serious about this.

From the article:

>Worse, Facebook doesn’t flag or mark credible news websites

Okay, so who's judging what is a credible news website/source? Is CNN a credible news source, is The Huffington Post, how about the National Enquirer? People can argue that CNN get so many facts wrong, that they aren't a credible news source.

If you're an expect in a field, you tend to notice that the media often make massive mistakes or gross misinterpretations when dealing with news regarding your field. Now realise that they make the same mistakes for pretty much any other field. Are ANY mainstream media actually credible, given the knowledge that they misunderstand and misrepresent an incredible amount of topics every single day.
I was anticipating the end of this election, now I find that the situation is just as bad or worse. I'm not talking about which candidate won, but the vitriol coming from both right and left. The intensity is killing me.
Now that I've thought about it, Twitter also has "turn of retweets from Tony" which is almost turning off link shares.

> for a few years now

Each time I see that option, I think how crazy I could get blacklisting every FB under the sun. It sounds like you've tried!
There have only been three accidents at level 5 at commercial nuclear power plants, ever. Only one (Chernobyl) resulted in any casualties. The exclusion zones around Fukushima are as radioactive as Denver.
> Finally, there’s one big falsehood at the core of arguments for nuclear: that it’s “clean.” The full life cycle of nuclear power—from mining, milling, the separation of the uranium from the ore, to ultimate plant decommissioning—collectively generates vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

This is of course even more true for wind and especially solar.
Facebook can do whatever it wants. Personally, if facebook does not stop the spread of false information I will stop using their services and will do my best to convince my friends to stop using their services. If they want to create harmful social bubbles for profit that's their prerogative, but I won't be part of it.
Is it less than you pay {Civic monthly lease + (Civic Monthly Gas Cost - Bolt Electricity Cost)}??

Honest question! It seems like a critical mark for GM to hit with such an odd looking vehicle.
I made a mobile game in a day from concept to completion:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fraserhart...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-beer-cave/id1080186646...
Fake News from the Left: A Data-Defying Headline
Wow. Very light grey text, on a white background. Almost unreadable.
I know, its pretty weird
"im ded :( plz walk doggie"

Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away.

:-|
really like the clean design of the front-end, did you use anything special to create it?
this is out of left field but one thing i find myself searching for is sunset/sunrise times in the future, especially when traveling to different latitudes. could be a cool addition if this info is available.
Impact great than 0 does not mean it's enough.

You forget that people gravitate towards what they believe in already. They aren't sitting there evaluation who to believe in based on the facts out there.
You make a great point, although I think it's different. These are just people opining privately rather than a "news" organization presumably publishing news/information based on some kind of rigor --now, which one has more influence on voting, yes, I agree, your circle of friends is typically more influential, disinformed as it may be.
Haha. Yes, unfortunately phones are incredibly vulnerable. You can monitor permissions and be vigilant about what has access to what, though.
What I take from this most is that I'm glad the ridiculousness of the DMCA is backfiring, even if the navy didn't have anything to do with it existing.
I personally think that the problem with your approach is exactly as it is described in the article. You offer tutorials which you can compare with your implementations, but let's be honest – it is boring as hell. People usually treat it as a mundane, like they have to study it and go through it.

So, there is no personal thing in this, and therefore no passion. The article is basically the opposite – do something! But do it by yourself, do what is interesting, just for the sake of doing and enjoying.

If you ask me, I'd say it is too boring to make 1000-ish timer or some basic app.
this is a shadow ban?
This is inflammatory bait and not HN-quality discourse.
Yes, plenty. The problem is radiation is incredibly wide ranging including wildly different materials and effects. Much like there isn't "the" treatment for electricity. You mean UV damage to the eyes from being exposed to arcs or thermal explosions or shock to heart or RF burns or ... and radiation is the same.

Also some of the stuff he did was questionable purely chemically. So ... boring holes in lead, you're at least washing your hands before eating, right? Or the feeling I get from this guy, no. Or his refining process involving lithium metal, interesting but not advisable.

I wonder what the guys "banana equivalent dose" was. He didn't get that much material, at least as reported by the press. A thousand times nothing is still nothing unless the true story is more interesting. From what I can find an unmolested smoke detector is about a tenth of a BED/yr so the mere presence of a thousand detectors in one room, if you sit in it for the entire year, is about the same as eating 100 bananas in that year, which I probably do! If you're sloppy and it stays outside your body its about the same. Unless you inhale it.

He accumulated more "stuff" than the NRC feels safe to give out unlicensed, but the NRC is pretty pessimistic so he should have survived. And seemed to have done so, unsurprisingly.
I didn't know they were bad at peaking but that makes sense.

The way I understood nuclear plants is they are enormous capital expenses and thus a utility is going to shy away from them because of that. I wonder how much they compare to a new coal fire plant though.
That's not a Bayesian approach.
I miss FMV cutscenes. Another lost gem: Clive Owen in Privateer 2 (also 96, incidentally).
The short answer is, no, it's not vital. (That was easy)
> Plus, while nuclear can be done safely, it often isn't

Huh? Citation certainly needed since by ANY metric you are 100% incorrect. Count the number of nuclear subs, nuclear power plants, plutonium power sources, controlled fusion reactions in testing, fission reactions being carried out across the globe by nations at different stages of development, etc and tell me it is "often" not done safely.

The fact that nuclear is so scary to get wrong is precisely why we (by and large) get it right.
Except to be fair to the Dems and the Clinton campaign, they did have proposals and white papers addressing exactly these communities. For example, a proposal to invest $30 billion into coal mining communities within the Appalachia regions with promises for infrastructure investment and private business investment, and retraining former and current miners into new skilled occupations. Of course all of this pales in comparison to Clinton's emails, while Trump's incoherent economic message of howling pain to reopen all the mining operations gets all the air time it needs.
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If it's vr with hand tracking, I think an Avatar (the series) game would be amazing.
Some context: This was built for a hackathon + I'm currently using the test API keys for Phaxio intended for testing, so the congressperson currently doesn't actually get the fax unless I swap the keys out for the live ones. It does, however, give feedback as though the fact has been sent, so feel free to try it out.

To me the ideal use case of this would be the pressure tactics employed by orgs like the EFF or ACLU during times of protest. For example, when Net Neutrality was a significant mainstream issue, orgs had tools to reach out to your specific Congressperson to persuade them to vote in favor of Net Neutrality; those tools involved several steps, and from a UX perspective condensing it into one step would create more participation. Plus, physical faxes are pretty hard to ignore.
I'd just like to add that mpge does not really make sense for EVs.

There simply aren't enough EVs to make any significant impact on short-term carbon emission. All the EVs produced by the end of this decade won't make even a tiny dent. You can't really think of EV as relevant at all in the short term. You have to think of it as part of a two-decade long strategic plan.

The same is partly true for PHEV with sufficient battery capacity.

So the question is really, how is electricity generated in 20 years?

I think there's reason to be optimistic about that question.

In general, when it comes to the environment: don't mistake the forest for the trees.

But I see that, ironically, both environmentalists and deniers like to focus on carbon emissions on EVs (equivalent or not). Environmentalists like to say that they're "zero-emission" to boost their ego, while deniers like to show worst-case scenarios to try to make EVs no better than gasoline cars. But if you're calculating the carbon emission of an EV today, you've already missed the point.
Would you prefer people use their real name and simply get doxxed at the outset?

Remember Blizzard Real ID? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/blizzard-scraps-real-id-fo...

> A Blizzard employee going by the handle Bashiok revealed his real name, Micah Whipple, on the forums in the course of the debate. WoW Riot responded by quickly finding and publishing Whipple's address, phone number, age, the names of his family, his Facebook page and lists of his favourite music and movies, to illustrate the privacy and identity theft issues raised by Blizzard's decision.

No thank you. Make your own social network and have it be fully verified if you'd like, but I wouldn't consider joining it for a second.
“If you actually like Windows (I do), just switch to the Enterprise Edition and dial Telemetry down to "Security"”

Ah darn. So I guess that means the “Off”¹ option never made it into the release version of Windows 10 Enterprise… ️

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¹ — https://i.imgur.com/AtC1dAn.png
Well, the method of fire-and-forget has long been the holy grail of arms manufacturers for many decades now. What that has done, has create levels of precision and the acceptability of precision upper/lower bounds is relative to what optically, thermal imaging, and radar provide beyond the low altitude signature and physical characteristics of that projectile going down range (aka stealth, etc). I CAN say with some conviction that audio disruption has already been thought of and implemented as a counter jamming measure and counter counter jamming measure to increase effectiveness of projectiles fired at a target. The "tools" of the trade to hit a target are much more sophisticated than even stated here ... but the conceptual point of the jamming method ... is effective, but not impossible to defeat based on current tech Im aware of.
I was looking for a Discover Weekly saver for a while, but resorted to using just screencapping the list, and saving the good tracks internally.

One issue with saving a Discover Weekly list to Spotify is that Discover Weekly is generated based on the content in the user's playlists. If you add a bunch of Discover Weekly lists that are 28/30 duds you're going to start reinforcing the system to generate crappy lists.

I think that's why Spotify doesn't allow saving them. They do allow saving of the topical Discover Daily, which reinforces my belief here.

Just thought I'd let you know about the possible issue with your product. Even though I absolutely love it and would use it.
Look, no matter what we do, eventually ALL the oil will be extracted fro the ground. Alternative energy just isn't going to replace the oil fast enough. Carbon credits or not, it doesn't matter.

And under President Trump, the US will be developing all the fossil fuels it has. Great for economic independence and paying back sovereign debt. Bad for the environment.

The best thing to do at this point is to invest in ways to capture the carbon once it is released into the atmosphere.

Then of course there is this: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...
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NYT is not a great paper, it's not the worst, but it has issues. It has been demonstrated in the past that they change or skip coverage of important stories in order to maintain access. Often when they do have important stories they get buried in the paper while the front page exposes something significantly less meaningful.

Basically, I do trust that what they write is true, but I don't trust them to always write it...
Nuclear waste isn't a big deal, from a technical perspective. Find a good, geologically stable location, encapsulate the waste in strong containers, and put it there. The quantities are so small that it's not a big undertaking. The real problem is dealing with people's overblown fears, like how you have to do crazy things because the waste remains dangerous for tens of thousands of years. Never mind that lots of more commonplace industrial waste remains dangerous forever and we don't take anything like the same sorts of precautions.

But solar and wind are really starting to take hold, so I don't think you have to worry a whole lot either way. They have some big advantages over nuclear even if you ignore unfounded fears, such as being able to install them in small quantities rather than requiring billions of dollars and years of construction. And the cost is dropping rapidly, so that it'll be cheaper than nuclear soon if it isn't already.
The average price takes into account all sizes of cars. It is not an average sized car; it's towards the small end which makes prices lower. It's very close to the size of a Kia Soul which goes for $16k and smaller than a Chevy Trax which goes for $21k.
Umbrella App: Simple digital and physical security lessons for people who travel, activists, aid workers and journalists:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
Nuclear would have been a great option 30 years ago when the public debate about CO2 began.
if they are reporting the news they can dig a little bit further than just reading the obituary
I remember writing a similar HN comment shortly before Fukushima, feeling very smart at the time.

Well Fukushima happened and left me wondering if we as humans are able to maintain something that can generate so much potentially irreversible damage, with our tendencies to cut-corners, wing-it and just being less than perfect.

I hang my hat in shame over that comment everytime I read of more irradiated water leaking into the Pacific.
Also any kind of filter is open to abuse
https://blankslate.io - just a blank page you can type on and save your thoughts. I use it every day and love it!
Great. They are different markets. It's console vs PC gaming. They can co exist. One is a different experience and fuller experience but cost a bit more and requires some set up.
Indeed, all we need to satisfy our curiosity is "he died from X" where X is not unknown.
I'd bet its best to pay more money now for huge benefits later, than save money now with huge risks later.
rsync.net.

I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to.

If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like.

It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this:

pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"

... while simultaneously, someone else is doing this:

zfs send tank/test@snap1 | ssh user@rsync.net zfs receive -s tank/test

It's been 15 years now since we started providing this service - almost 11 since we branded it rsync.net - and the first warrant canary is now 10 years old. This appears to be, for now, my lifes work.
Ask HN: How does Google take client-side screenshots?
On most of Google pages they allow to give feedback that also takes a screenshot of your active screen to help the feedback, but how do they take a screenshot without using UserMedia.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/

You have to give 3 stars or less to get a prompt to give feedback and then you can click either and it takes a screenshot.
These sites employ advanced cloaking and show users something different than Google. They look at request ip range, not just user-agent. Going to be a tough battle.
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Seems like a more flexible solution would be to use VSCode in a tab on a Chromebook to edit code in a working directory on a another machine? For example, it could be a Raspberry Pi if you want.
My usecases are typical enough that I don't encounter things that I could improve, or if I do I would have to replicate a lot of the stuff surrounding that particular minor annoyance. That would usually require man-years of work.
love these small simple tools! Aligns well with the little projects I hack on at work
In fact, on the subject of fundamental stuff... when I first started out, version control was a drawer full of audio cassette tapes that I cycled through, overwriting old tapes with new versions! Collaborative working? The postal service.

So yeah, things move on, but they will continue to move and although git is pretty elegant, it has rough edges and a fiendish CLI interface that very few people fully understand, so I think there is plenty of room for improvement.
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I also did a bit of a double take upon reading that. It seemed like a questionable position to try and take up in an otherwise reasonable-ish debate.