skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I view Fox and Breitbart as being on a scale of propaganda with Brietbart near the extreme end and Fox somewhere in the middle. But while I don't always agree with The Wall Street Journal or The Economist I don't think they're anything like Fox/Breitbart. There's a difference between bias and propaganda.
> The separatists say we are dominated by England, but I often wonder who dominates who? The separatists want to replace this working Union with the EU, a failing 40-year old experiment in which we would only play a minor part, and be dominated by Germany.

The UK is far more lopsided than the EU. England has a majority of the population (~83%) and a majority of seats in both the House of Commons (~82%) and the House of Lords. By contrast, while Germany is the biggest country in the EU, it still contains a minority of the EU population (~16%), and a minority of the votes in the EU institutions. The EU also has much better institutional mechanisms to protect the rights of its smaller/weaker constituents than the UK does – e.g. unanimity for many major decisions, double majority voting in the Council of the European Union (55%–72% majority of member states representing 65% of the EU population) – by contrast, the House of Commons and the House of Lords both have a decisive English majority and 50%+1 in each chamber is enough votes to pass anything at all.
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Clearly you think this is an impossible task. I strongly disagree, given the fullness of time.....tens and hundreds and thousands of years lie ahead of us, eons for engineers and scientists to fill with research and experimentation. Your perspective on this seems very shortsighted to me.
Congress Moves to Overturn Obama-Era Online Privacy Rules
No, because if you bought a 4S at that point you knew you were buying a 3 year old device.
If you can "take years off from work" you must have done something extremely right at some point. The only significant time I've ever had off from work is getting laid off, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in that.
I'd cut the "for other people" part out as well.
> There's a difference between bias and propaganda.

Then actually define it, and provide examples of them being literal propaganda. Otherwise the discussion is just a political version of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Thanks for your feedback. For the most part I agree with your statements - I never was satisfied with the UI, but this was my first site so I built with the tools I knew (in fact I personally hate icons for controls). Eventually I had to call it a day, since it wasn't growing.

The thing is that I'm not sure quality is the problem - it's already a vast improvement over most high ranking sites (but not apps). My challenge is getting people to the site in the first place. As you said it was already a crowded niche.

I'm not really banking on this site taking off anymore, but I worry my next one will have the same "non-sharing" issues. I thought with social sharing you might have a shot at getting noticed in a crowded niche.
Regarding mandate: Would that be the manifesto statement that is buried way down in their long-form manifesto, and not mentioned in the main manifesto; or would that be the multiple statements from Sturgeon that a vote for the SNP would not be a vote for a second independence referendum; or would that be where Sturgeon said that she would not call a referendum if there was not a majority of the people for independence? It's difficult to keep up with all this legitimacy ;-)
Wow. That's low. Boston area e-commerce and we offer all employees (SWE or not) 19 days in year 1 and add a day per year of tenure until reaching 24 days. Add to this the 8-9 company holidays (too lazy to look it up) and a 4-week paid sabbatical every five years and you approach European levels of leave.

I think our sabbatical program isn't common, but the rest of the policy seems fairly standard for the area.

Edit: We also accrue sick time at some pace (maybe 5 per year that don't roll over; I honestly have no idea as I've never tracked nor taken a sick day (in the HR systems); of course, I've stayed home while sick when warranted) and have paid parental leave (6 weeks paid for primary and 2 weeks paid for secondary caregiver).
One has to be careful what one means here. I meant it in the following specific sense and we have good experimental evidence for this.

[...] there is no time, no matter how far the spins are separated, in which you could measure the second spin to have the same orientation as the one you just measured [...]

If an interpretation makes use of non-locality to explain this fact is a different matter, but experimentally it looks exactly like measurements instantaneously affecting entangled partners.
> Man, what happened to the people that created the British Empire?

They died. Like, a long time ago.

> Is this what Great Britain is now? Just the bottom half of a tiny island in the North Sea?

No, Great Britain is, and always has been, the island itself, whether or not it happens to be politically unified (which, most of the time that name has been around, it hasn't.)

It comes from the French name (Grand-Bretagne) which distinguishes the island from Brittany (Bretagne) in France.
See my post below.

He is a racist hick, who happens to be ill. If that's "another" thing, then so be it. Don't really care which came first. I will not let racists duck undercover of his illness. I stop short of being genuinely​ upset at him, but hate speech is hate speech. Since he has a large-ish audience, his ideas are becoming part of culture. Agree with him or defend him or apologize for his racism all you wish -- you are kinda/sorta part of the problem.
Uh, what fraction of body shops do aluminum? Model 3 is not like Model S/X. And problems at body shops has nothing to do with problems at first party repair centers. I'm happy to agree that the future is uncertain, but you aren't adding much in the way of fact into the discussion.
He means an actual contract, not the US 'contract' which is just the equivalent of you signing a bunch of click-through EULAs stating they have the right to fire you for any reason at any time.

I've worked a job with a real contract once in my career. I'm not sure I would do it again. Not being able to quit is a strange feeling, even though there is quite a lot of consideration in return. In the end I opted to not renew and go back to a simple at-will agreement, since I kind of resented the lack of freedom it gave me.

A real contract actually means they must pay the full length regardless of if they fire you, save of course for specific "for cause" reasons outlined in the agreement.
That's a good quote indeed! My issue isn't that the media isn't sufficiently objective or that NYT in particular dislikes Trump; the issue is that the media generally is abandoning objectivity as a virtue to strive after, and they're beginning to see it increasingly as an impediment to their (mostly leftist) political activism. One could argue that this new political bias is motivated by an increasingly powerful leftist market, and I would agree to an extent, but given the political composition of journalists (90% are registered Democrats IIRC), I can't imagine they fought too hard to oppose the changing tide. There's a lot more to this of course, and there's fault to be shared on the right, but I haven't the time to opine on the entire landscape.
I wonder when it might rejoin the EU?

Also wonder what impact this might have for investment opportunities.
Like a single-celled organism splitting off children.
> Find me an older partnership than that one (yes, I know it hasn't always been friendly, but still).

If you want to characterize the time since the Acts of Union as a pure partnership and just ignore the itsy-bitsy flare-ups like the Jacobite rebellion and the Battle of Culloden (okee dokee) you're only talking three hundred years. It's not such a long time.
Don't laugh or the thought police will nab you.
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I'm confused. If these rules that were repealed never went into effect, or only partially, does that mean that our data was already (or is currently) being sold?

Does this legislation explicitly condone the collection or sale of browsing data? (I'd still rather have the protection than not, but can't seem to find a good detailed explanation.)
Isn't it an error for the article to compare the Model 3 to the luxury brands? The 3 isn't going to be a premium/luxury car like the S is.
Oklahoma man kills 3 home burglars; woman who aided robbers arrested
> You can not get away from non-locality in quantum mechanics.

I didn't/am not claiming that the effects are local.

> only determined at the time of the measurement... Before that measurement the electron had no definite spin along this axis.

That is what I'm saying as well. I didn't claim otherwise.
I've been watching $TWLO as I think their stock is undervalued. They do have some risk in terms of a few customers that make up the majority of their revenue (see $FB). Anybody know how big of a deal/partnership this is? Terms?
One aspect of this that is being missed is how well this illustrates the inability of the Democratic party to take advantage of an obviously advantageous situation.

It's a no brainer that most people would recoil at the idea of everything they do on the Internet suddenly being for sale. It would be super easy to come up with at least a dozen relatable nefarious use cases and stuff them into TV commercials and ads and tying it to the Republican party.

But nope, silence. It's almost like they don't want to be in power. It feels like I live in a de facto one-party state.
So they hired consultant to tell them if they should hire consultants?
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So as it's going to be a flame war apparently I've deleted the comment.

I'd just like to register my opinion that I don't see Washington Post is an objective, nor even a trustworthy source at this point. When they print something it's often worth looking deeper into I believe.
That's a bit of a shallow argument. So long as one accepts the existence of nation states, one must accept that there are lines between them. The lines, then, are subject to change by political consent.

Scotland voted strongly to remain in the EU, and despite this it will be leaving. That's obviously part and parcel of being in a union, but coming so soon after an independence referendum in which one of the key arguments was "voting for independence means leaving the EU" it seems pretty obvious why there would be disquiet. It's demonstrative of how difficult it is to have a political union where there is such wildly disproportionate power wielded by one member through the weight of population.

I'm an absolute card-carrying supporter of Scottish independence. But honestly, I'd rather see genuine federalism in the UK to deal with the structural constitutional problems. However, there is no political will to make that happen, so it seems like a lost cause.
Importantly, the phone was sold until September 10, 2013. So someone buying on September 9, 2013 had about 3.5 years of support, which is still great, but notably shorter.

The iPhone 4S was an extreme case of this, where it was introduced in 2011, but was sold in India until 2016. Meaning it has some of the shortest or longest iOS support depending on when and where you bought it (0-5 years!)
Are they still being updated by their manufacturers? The devices still work but support has been ceased.
Funny how google calendar abuses alert to steal focus right before an event is scheduled. They're not really following their own best practices
Interesting post.

> In light of the fact that piracy is the very definition of theft, it is fascinating to learn that pirate ship crews had a remarkably egalitarian profit sharing model.

This is totally unsurprising to me. This is the same model as taxation in a democracy. Taxation is theft. The taxes (stolen goods) are distributed to those who are a part of the organization that does the taxing (stealing) according to input from members of that organization.
How great did Britain become due to the influx of foreign cultures? Would people eat Tikka Masala without Brits learning that style of cooking from the Indians? And would The Beatles have been what they were if they never visited India? Going back to Top Gear, like a quarter of the stuff they do is because of open borders between the UK and the EU. Sailing across the English Channel? Racing through the chunnel? When they visit the US they have to deal with visas and law enforcement and the threat of being deported just because they're foreigners.

I'm not even talking specifically about the EU, the glory days of the British car industry was pre-EU. But the UK seems like it used to be a land of big goals, populated by dreamers who would get things done, impossible things. And the UK today, shrinking back from the rest of the world, stands as a stark contrast to the nation that sailed across the seas and established the most successful colonies and invented the car and invented the computer and owned property on every continent.

I don't know what you and your wife are experiencing in Scotland, I've never been there. But as an outsider looking in, the Britain that exists today seems a lot more afraid of the world than the Britain I learned about in history class. You might think it's condescending or hysterical, but remember that the UK literally owned land on every continent, in Asia and Africa and North America and South America and Antarctica and Europe and Australia. And now they're facing down the prospect of losing Scotland.

I'm sure some people called the fall of the Western Roman Empire "condescending and hysterical" too.
> Tesla is doing to traditional car manufacturers what Apple did to Nokia.

Sincerely, and with all due respect, this is a false analogy.

What happened to Nokia was pretty much self inflicted. Mismanagement, competing empires, complacency.

Apple did not start shipping low end brick phones and eat Nokia's market.

Post '08 bailout automotive manufacturers are lean and hungry (for the most part)

Furthermore, the 'traditional' car market, while slow to move, is not far behind. And in some cases is taking a longer view. E.g. Ford is going straight to Level 4 in 2022. Forget the ICE v. electric debate, that ship has sailed and everyone is heading to EV. The real battle will be to produce the safest self driving product.

I am long on TSLA, I expect them to do well however they are in a far riskier spot than Apple was when the iPhone dropped.
They were healthy, profitable and experienced (+Jobs). TSLA is none of those.

I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment. I just thought we were past the Apple analogies.
And if the pro-independence side had won the country would currently be out of Europe.

It is difficult to make that claim with any certainty.
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"The lesson here really is that if the issue is really important, then get an actual law passed instead of trying to contort regulatory authority based on laws from the 1930s."

That's silly. That's like saying phone doesn't deserve protection from wiretapping because there never was a law specifically against it.
Please describe a way to do SSL without the domain being visible that can work for most sites.

What would you encrypt the hostname with?
With regards to this, I absolutely can.
I'm starting a self-help seminar for real-estate agents on ice. I hope you're right.
His show on KCRW is pretty great https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/henry-rollins. He has quite eclectic musical tastes, so it's a good way to get out of your musical comfort zone. Rollins has such a great energy and knowledge of the tracks and bands he plays too, it's wonderful to listen to. He is clearly passionate about everything he does.
You wish it's DARPA
That's entirely incorrect. The Republicans own actions, and absolutely nothing else, portrays them in a bad light.
It's my impression, from a distance, that the sentiment in Scotland is anti-Brexit, and is in favor of remaining with the EU. That would seem to cloud the issue of whether this is a "separatist" movement.
interestingly enough the top comment is argues the regulation in question is overreach so I think you're giving the HN community too little credit.
Hillary didn't rally the black vote well enough during the general, but that's one failing among many of hers as a candidate in that election. I was referring specifically to the campaign for the nomination, in which she and her campaign successfully cast Bernie as a racist, as you note, and did so in part by portraying him as though he thought poverty caused racism instead of racism contributing to the poverty of black folks. There were other factors at play (e.g. Lewis' remarks about not remembering seeing Bernie around during civil rights protests and activities), but those are separte, if related, issues.

But, yes, you are also spot on regarding the Democrats' malfeasance in "play[ing] this game too long," too.
And 0% of Democrats in the house voted for the bill. This bill is 100% owned by the GOP.
What VPN provider do you guys recommend?
Well, calling them "old" is silly because these privacy improvements never went into effect.

Referring to this privacy exposure as "something that may/will happen because of Trump" ignores that it is already Federal law and has been since 2015. Yes, in removing FTC authority over broadband, the Obama administration created this privacy exposure in the first place. That tap wouldn't shut off until next December at the earliest if the current administration did nothing.

That privacy ship has sailed. Broadband providers can have been sucking this data up for over two years by the time this particular Obama regulation would kick in, even if left as was. The Obama administration could have timed the FTC authority removal to not happen until replacement protections were in place, but, no.

The EFF is oddly silent about why they've been so oddly silent about this exposure for over a year now. Their partisanship is showing.
Against the 3 series this could be an issue, but have you been in an i3? The interior is shockingly crappy, and easily bested by something like a hyundai sonata even.

The cheap CLA class doesn't feel that great inside either, and is really cramped. Plastic all over the place and weird design choices here and there.

They're on a much more level playing field here than they were in the model S price range, where it really did stick out like a sore thumb.
Pascal has null. Does that mean it is dynamically typed?
Your comment made me curious what the average farm nets per acre. I'm seeing wildly different answer depending on region and crop choice. Based on a "good year" - as low as $900 an acre (corn) to $5,000-6000 (strawberries/raspberries).

So, at 8 acres we'd assume a basic income of somewhere between $7,200 - 48,000 per year.
I appreciate that Scotland is an obvious major partner in the UK. But doesn't it seem ultimately unfair that in a case like this, where there is a massive constitutional question, that two out of four constituent countries have their views essentially ignored?
The truth is that the Union between Scotland and England centralizes power away from the Scottish people, in the same way the EU does. An independent Scotland would at least have more power and freedom to - for better or worse - shape its future. It Scotland gains independence and joins the EU it will at least be rid of a layer of bureaucracy and power that is the Union.
Yo! We actually do support Volume + Pan in the Discord RPC - which will let developers implement positional audio. But this means that it'll have to be something that's implemented by game developers rather than how mumble does it by scanning the game's process memory to grab this info.

https://discordapp.com/gamebridge
https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/topics/rpc#setuservoi...
Craftsman quality went to shit before Apex moved production overseas. There's also a pretty big gap in price between Snap-On and Craftsman, a gap that companies like S-K and Wright seem to occupy. Of course S-K suffers because they don't have a great distribution network (something Craftsman and Snap-On do) and their quality just isn't where it was pre-bankruptcy.

Thing is, Craftsman quality went to shit because Sears decided to compete solely on price. Apex/Danaher are plenty capable of turning out high quality tools in both their American and overseas plants (they own Armstrong, GearWrench, and Xcelite). They're also capable of producing shit tools for Sears. Turns out though that other companies (ex: Harbor Freight) can product comparable, if not superior, products for a lower cost.
NB: it's "GE", not "G&E".
I sell a Unity plugin for live inspecting and update of game objects and properties on a build deployed to a device: http://u3d.as/sHr. Ordinarily you can't do this; once your game is on your device you can debug it with VS or MonoDevelop but you can't inspect any of the game objects on there and tweak settings. I think it's a really useful tool and something that should be built into Unity.

It's averaged US$340 gross per month since last May but it's been hard to grow it. I think in some ways it's quite a technical tool and you need to be interested in actually debugging issues on device, but there are a lot of people using Unity who aren't super technical. Also it doesn't lend itself to sexy screenshots. I've noticed some of the successful plugins are those which are about creating things, and they get a lot of people sharing screenshots of things they've created on the forums.
Actually no -- an obscure interpretation of a one off line in an unrelated law was used to prevent the FTC from regulating here. The FTC tried to regulate -- and was shot down because it was determined that FCC had authority. Then the proposals were re-worked through the FCC -- now the same people who claimed FTC didn't have regulatory authority are now claiming that FCC doesn't and FTC does. Not classic government overreach, classic right wing misdirection.
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Were you recruiting for a well known and respected company that was listed in the job ad or for a random generic company?

If you're someone like google or in a very specific niche that I'd like to be in then I'd write a cover letter, but that is not most jobs.
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Ask HN: Weird state of company, what should I do?
so I'm working for this company for over than 2 years now and I'm starting to see that maybe something is not working.

We are small dev team developing a web app. Over the years(5) few developers were in and out. We fired most of them as they didn't fit. In december last year our lead developer left and I'm currently replacing his job.

We have company owner based in another state. He also have his own another business. Basically the next company started from tool developed for his primary company. This guy is also financing us, we don't have any external revenue yet, as he cant find the clients for the product. We are still developing features and features, but only his company uses them. We have around 150 users active per day, as the users are based in another state, we cant really get in touch with them, also app is so specific that we cant find users in our location. or we still waits until feature x is done and it still isnt. We are developing an app which will never be used by us and which users are currently miles away.

From my perspective the owner is in role of investor, which would mean that we don't have a leader. He doesnt have much time for us as he has lots of work in his primary company.
We are just group of people developing requested features by them and thats is. It works because of money, but without leader or without a power to change something we cant do much. From my side, its the modern dev stack, which is holding me there.

I'd like to change it, I don't know how. What can I do as a developer to make things happen ? or should I just leave as the others did ?
Also, 55 character limit? What the fuck did I type in my Delorean this morning?