skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump quotes accompanied by all time heroes.
The Texas governor has constituents and voters that hold him accountable.
For him as an investor it doesn't.
The Coming .NET Renaissance
If you take Trump's word on anything related to global economy and international relationships, you probably deserver what's gonna happen to the US economy thanks to his stupidity.
slashdot, but with a better comment engine

... but worse moderation. While rose-tinted glasses may be involved and /. never was Metafilter, if I had to design a community policing system today, Slashdot would be where I would start. Hot grids and all.
Rex doesn't have to try to get re-elected.
FWIW, I've been upvoting rayiner's comments. It's unclear why they're being downvoted aside from misdirected rage at Trump.
You've got to be kidding me.

Google has taken over search, web browsing, advertising, and has the largest mobile platform. They hold your email, maps, search history, personal docs, office suite, and calendar. They authenticate you to services all over the web. All of your actually important data (you really can live without pictures, unless you are a photographer or model) resides with them. They have created several new protocols that the web uses regularly, and influences new standards. They influence how most web content is created. They have leverage over most of the companies doing business on the web. They handle domains, cloud computing, business services, and a range of other products I don't remember. And they control how you use the web with their browsers and OSes.

There is no other company that single-handedly controls so many aspects of the web. Facebook is just a social platform; Google is everything else.
Global warming might be a bad deal for Arizona.

But most big city governments are going to be run by liberal Democrats because...they are big cities. Not that they are wrong, just pointing that out.
Hello, first of all thanks for your feedback. We were working the whole day on improving the landing page to solve that problem and try to make it clear.

Going for a niche is definitely one of the options we are considering. Skimic is only 3 weeks old after 5 months in dev (by me only)... No excuse, but just to make it clear that it is still a work in progress.
Shopping is mind numbingly tedious. Getting the best quality food for the least cost can take a couple hours. Why do that when a company, for a nominal fee, can do that for you? My only reservation is portions. I tend to eat more than the average person. So I will continue to waste time in the market shopping.
Mozilla wins a battle but loses the war
And what are the preferred destinations?
Yep. Just read it.

Basically, the author is proposing the question of whether or not it makes sense to spend vast amounts of money to build an even larger collider than the LHC, currently being planned by CERN to be built in about 20 years.

An analogy is made to the US space program, wherein rather than the Apollo missions being the first step in manned expansion into the solar system it was the apex. Since then we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the ISS and shuttles for little practical benefit, while generations of scientists and engineers have wasted their careers on these projects that seemingly have gone nowhere. The author likens the clearly defined need for the next larger collider as an ISS type of project, fearing it will absorb the careers of many physicists and ultimately lead to nowhere.

Can't say I agree with the position, but it is well written and makes some good points.
It is important that Plex comes in two parts: the server and the player.

I would absolutely recommend Plex Media Server as a backend. It is very powerful and has great support by the community (see PlexPy). It makes it very easy to store all my media on my home NAS and watch it from any device, even outside of my house. There isn't really anything like this for Kodi that I have found.

For frontends, Plex Media Player is alright but you can also use Kodi with the Plex plugin. This is especially useful since there are no linux builds of Plex Media Player available. I don't really have a preference for one or the other.
Welcome! It's a good podcast, too - Within the Wires, excellent serial fiction and just well done in general. Gave me more strongly to think, and to feel, than much fiction in the last decade or more has done.

http://www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires/
This article is strong on rhetoric and weak on facts - a top ten list with a clown face on the President isn't going to convince anyone.

Maybe if we attempted to actually have dialogue with climate skeptics, instead of portraying them as idiots there would be more traction on these issues.

Lets start simple: lets divorce "anthropogenic climate change" from "climate change". We can certainly see evidence of the latter - coral bleaching, extreme weather events, rising water levels swallowing Pacific islands. The former is both harder to demonstrate, and leads to people wanting to blame someone. Lets focus on solutions, instead of focusing on shifting blame - especially since, and this is controversial it might not be man-made. And if it isn't man-made, does it matter? We need actions to actually prepare for this shift.
Not to build a car, but to create knock-off parts.
An almost free FFI to C is one of python's best features. Using this great feature is definitely using it as intended.
Fighting clickbait is the real hard work. Thanks!
Deleting cookies isn't enough anymore to prevent tracking. Facebook knows your home IP address, your browser user-agent, and likely your browser finger print. Should they care to, they don't need a cookie to connect you with data they already have about you.
> always-on advanced GPS tracking feature

No thank you - oh my god, no thank you very much.

It's a real shame that Tesla has wedded their beautiful drivetrain engineering to such a creepy, cell-phone-esque system of automatic software updates and GPS tracking and giant touchscreens; I'd like to like their cars, but I want absolutely none of that.
People have to pick their battles based on their resources and level of concern. While the tracking that you bring up is important to keep in mind, its existence does not justify that kind of nefarious privacy invasion that Facebook operates as part of its business plan.
My kind of contract
> It is a risk that ruling by executive decree entails.

The problem is the gross disconnect between Local, State, and Federal interests. Polls have support for the Paris agreement well into the majority, beyond the margin for error; were it to head to something like a referendum, the US would have signed onto the Paris agreement.

And even that being the case, President Obama was well aware of the fact that it never would have been ratified by the Senate.

The international credibility problem also reaches critical levels when you consider that the United States has 4 year terms but signs onto 20 year agreements, when the political sphere is so radically split. Every four years, the International community is forced to hold its breath as one of the top world superpowers seemingly flips a coin as to whether or not it will uphold its bargains. It is worth noting that this wasn't always the case; it was standing tradition that you followed through on a previous administration's agreements, simply to maintain credibility.

Whether it is a function of Trump himself, his die-hard base, or a large group of confluent factors (my vote is for this one), this tradition of maintaining credibility despite political cost holds very little water with the current administration. Worse, this is exactly what his base seems to want and clamor for. They are painting a political climate where the country takes a 180 degree turn (rather than, say, a 120 degree curve) every 4 to 8 years.

How long can a country in a global economy at the scale of the United States maintain that strain without snapping? It'll be interesting to watch, if nothing else.
It's not entirely clear to me how even Chrome can enforce this, though any reduction in crappy behavior is probably a net win.

Frankly I want a cap on downloads of random junk for any reason, ads or otherwise. Chrome should set strict limits on sizes of scripts, number of domains, amount of data, etc. and require user opt-in only where it makes sense (e.g. "I need to watch a video").
Ask HN: How do you know you are working with a good lawyer
I am building a curated hiring marketplace particularly for legal professionals.

I would like to find out from HN users who have worked with lawyers in whatever capacity; i.) what traits you believe makes one a good lawyer and ii.) how you determine whether the lawyer you are working with is good or not
No, but that means we underestimated an energy sink, probably the ocean. That additional energy isn't going anywhere.
I'm not sure why Texas would be particularly clean, it has abundant quantities of coal and natural gas. It also has an abundance of wind, but I'd be surprised if its wind power production is even a tenth of its combined fossil fuel power production.
I've visited a park here that has living trees that were planted by a wealthy retired officer, to be sail ship masts. Now would be about harvesting time, some 100 years later. It's a nice place though.

I applaud their efforts. Seems it's just impossible to let the environment be. First everything absolutely just must be destroyed, and then, years later, somebody must spend a lot of effort and time to actually try to make it "nice" again, and they won't see the results in their lifetime anyway.
The U.K. just pulled out of the EU because it was panicked about supernational institutions coopting democracy.
I mean, that is the goal. I don't think he's consciously trying to undermine the international order, but he's certainly got backers (Bannon; an autocrat of a certain large Eastern European land empire) who look at this with glee.
> they already have most of these ingredients sitting in their fridge

That's exactly the issue - I don't have ingredients sitting in my fridge. I don't conveniently live near a large supermarket. I don't own a car. I cook mostly for myself, and very occasionally a few friends. When I come home from work late, the last thing I want to think about is spending almost an hour going to the store, browsing and buying stuff, coming back.

To do that, first I also have to decide what exactly to cook, which is a big enough ordeal. I don't want to cook something fancy, because that means I have to get many ingredients that I'll half-use and never touch again until they go bad. Usually the simple stuff is OK but gets repetitive after a while, and leftover ingredients are still a problem.

Meal delivery fixes all that - healthy, fresh and tasty meals by default, no thought or effort required.

I guess if there was an app that decided on a meal schedule and pre-filled an instacart order, I'd do that, but again it's hard to optimize leftover ingredients and costs per meal.
>Why does it have something called 'say' instead of something more intuitive like 'println'. Then there are worse examples: carp, cluck, croak. These are commonly used. They are from the same module of course. There is also Moo, Moose. I'm not sure but was there something called 'Mo' too? Commonly used of course but as you can see from the names - you can't tell what they are for.

I'm not a Perl expert, but have read books on it and done a bit with it. I think Perl tends to attract the kind of people who find these kinds of names (and many other things) fun, and are not put off by it - which is fine.

>worse examples

According to who(m)? Opinions differ.
I've tried asking in past posts but haven't been able to get an answer unfortunately. Is SeatGeek looking at all experience levels?
Cryptocurrency company pushes back against Shadow Brokers' latest claims
Random question to Maciej: looking at https://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm, did anyone apply/win?
I believe Tillerson wanted to stay in Paris so the United States would be involved in the program and shape it's direction. I'd say that's quite a bit different than voluntarily taking on the pledges for Texas.

Maybe Abbott will surprise us though
The question isn't why does the function decleration need to have &mut, it's why does the call site need to have &mut?

as in assume you had:
fn reset(p: &mut Point) { p.x = 0; p.y = 0; }

Why can't this be called like so:

reset(&some_point);

rather than needing to say

reset(&mut some_point);

To some extent it's nice that the callsite must document the behavior visually, but its more forcing a style guide rather than anything that's required to compile & work.
What would you consider a nominal fee? Blue Apron costs about $10 per person per meal for modest portions, I can easily buy ingredients for half, if not a third of that.

This is based on their podcast ads I'm always hearing; I didn't research it.
What lobbyists are you talking about? Are you claiming there aren't any companies outside the renewable energy space lobbying in favor of the Paris Agreement? Have you heard of Exxon?
Just a point, air pollution has peaked about 2 years ago and is starting to go down. (Not sure if that data is published yet.) There is some progress.
> you know you can sort your newsfeed to "most recent" right?

Just looked through settings and wasn't able to find anything for order of posts in news feed.

> And mute your obnoxious friends from appearing in your newsfeed.

Yep this is pretty easy to do.

> You can also hide posts from particular websites from appearing on your newsfeed.

This isn't helpful since you cannot block the entire class of "transitive" posts. Eg a Honda ad because a friend of mine liked a Honda page. Sure I can block Honda. But Toyota or Volkswagen can still show up until I block them individually...
I first read the Silmarillion when I was about 15, and I found it a terrible boring slog. I concluded it was absolutely terrible.

10 years later I came back and read it again. This time I had read more mythology and understood the Silmarillion as a book of mythology. I very much enjoyed it the second time. I think age, experience, and expectations had a lot to do with how I viewed it that second time. It's a totally different book than the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Anyone who isn't expecting that will end up disappointed.
Yeah, but it's more than just % of GDP. Think about the outsized influence Texas has on school textbooks nationwide. Same idea with CA/NY/WA/TX in other areas.
From a pure electricity standpoint, they're doing pretty good. It's almost all zero carbon or low carbon (NG) generation.

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=TX#tabs-4

Of course the real problem is their oil industry. They export a shit ton of oil, and they are extremely well connected to every aspect of state politics.
This is starting to sound like the “Rim States” from the science fiction novel Black Man (Thirteen) by Richard K. Morgan. Basically the blue and red states separate in the future because they couldn’t resolve their differences. The blue states go on to prosper and the red states languish.

It struck me how plausible it sounded when I read it. Now with the commander in shit-the-bed Donald Trump and the rising tide self-destructive behaviour, it’s looking like a good option to me.
> This is great because it's kinda crazy to think about booting into stuff like MBR, real mode, etc in 2017.

This doesn't happen on UEFI computers, unless you use the CSM.
> Yeah, like all those soaps and mini-shampoo bottles we steal from hotels and intend to "use" someday, too.

No -- you ship the gel packs back to Blue Apron and they reuse them. Reuse >> recycling, BTW.

I just did a back of the envelope calc for the carbon footprint of shipping your gel packs back to them (assuming shipping by truck 2,000km). It's about 300 grams of CO2.

A gallon of gasoline puts about 10kg of CO2 in the air. If you were to drive to the supermarket a mile away, just your trip in the car puts 800g of CO2 in the air (assuming 25 mpg).
Probably.. but at this point it's really not just about the emissions... it's now also about economics. Renewable energy is set to be a massive industry -- worth trillions and create millions of jobs globally. No state should want to be left behind.
It's a good thing that all the packets are equal, except for the ones that are more equal than others.
Why does everyone want to build a bill-splitting app?
Why would you just plain guess at TX being cleaner than CA, the clear leader among all US states on climate issues, without bothering to look it up? Careless and lazy.
Love the announcement. It is so clear, direct, and funny and makes almost anything written by a corporation sound weird and artificial.

Also,

> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

Brilliant.
Nah, Tomasulo and all that jazz (microarchitecture) is about improving performance once you've got a defined instruction set.

Microcode (which is one of those highly confidential things that both Intel and AMD hold close and dear) is about doing an on-the-fly CISC to RISC transformation because you realized that the legacy x86 ISA is an absolute pain to handle (but you aren't willing to give it up).
Ok, thanks Noel.

Oh I see, the popup is https...
Keep the boost disc, blow up the instance, start a new instance with the old boot disc.
You can implement traits for both kinds of references, so a function might accept both.
From where I stand, it seems like law is lucrative in litigious countries like the US. Outside of that, law tends to be a really long and hard slog to the top.
You're someone who has been on Hacker News for almost five months and the only other comment you made before today was how you'd totally be a porn star, cos, y'know, free sex and drugs. I'm not trying to say anything, I'm just saying. Just pointing it out.

And maybe this isn't some grand liberal conspiracy because it's something that the entire planet and most Americans believe is a huge problem and maybe some intelligent governors see a chance to both act nobly for the common good and promote their energy economies -- two things pretty much everyone seems to agree the Paris Climate Agreement would do. Again, not trying to say anything, I'm just saying.
Why not use instacart to solve this? Some recipe sites are even starting add a "purchase this recipe on instacart" button.
> Good for them, but they seem to mistake it as some sort of universal lifehack.

Does it have to be universal to be useful? Helping 0.01% of the US Facebook userbase save 1 hour every week is still huge...
> By default any browser would "see this information" no matter what browser you are using.

Yes, but by default most browsers don't go on to use that information to decide "what preferences and intent signals to expose [to advertisers] to maximize user, publisher and advertiser [and Brave's] value".

>Our server side has no access to this data in the clear, nor does it have decryption keys. We do not run a MitM proxy or VPN service.

See, this is the brilliant marketing I was talking about. They don't use the data serverside and expose the results to advertisers. They use it clientside and then expose the results to advertisers. The end result is exactly the same, it just sounds friendlier. The references to MitM and VPNs is just verbal chaff: they don't need to run a man-in-the-middle attack to listen in on your traffic, because the end-user software is already doing everything a MitM would have done, and then some.

Now do you see the problem?
In case nobody noticed, former TX gov. Rick Perry did speak out on this, and he was in favor of the Paris accord, also.

Shocking that Trump would go against the current head of Exxon, the ex-head of Exxon who is also his Sec. of State, and another very conservative oil-state politician in Rick Perry.

http://time.com/4754578/rick-perry-paris-agreement-trum-clim...
I predict that Florida Governor, and part-time Spider-Man villain "The Vulture", will not being joining the group - even as Miami slowly floods.
Yes. Shim requires that your kernel is also signed, and also disables support for kernel modules.
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...Which is reason #387 I don't use FB.
Do you carry your smartphone with you in your car?
I wonder if Trump is secretly happy with the development. In addition to all the European liberals, he now gets to point his fingers at treasonous liberal states. Great for energizing your support base.
Okay, that makes some sense. Thanks.
A trailer with an all metal skin is an off the shelf type item, a Connex box, for example. One could also line the inside of a trailer with foil backed foam. Neither would be a lot of effort, even for a $30k car.
Where "a bunch" = 2-3m
While the normality of office work is responsible for a lot of oppressive commutes, it doesn't follow that commutes must necessarily be long or that this in itself negates the benefit of working in the office.

For what it's worth, I have zero tolerance for long commutes, and always lived close to my jobs. It took considerable expense, and relied on life situation flexibility I no longer have, but my patience for driving is maybe ten minutes.
This is a good idea (for customers) since you could rotate in other providers for different weeks.
Even if they can't steal a whole car and have it be usable, the parts might still be worth a lot. If you steal a 100k car and sell the parts for 10k, it could still be profitable and worth the risk to some people.
could work out that way...I can see a similar alliance on things like healthcare, education..etc...of course civil rights could be a complicating factor.
> There's nothing stopping a company from hiring great security people, and implementing their own great security.

Money.

We can afford to pay Amazon for their services and reap the benefits of their security investment and experience as part of the purchase.

We can't afford to hire someone to be dedicated to security.

If you're a small business, and/or security isn't one of the core components of your business, chances are you'll make better use of your security 'budget' (or lack thereof) dollar-for-dollar by paying Amazon.
Ask HN: How to get daily visits of a site?
Is there a possibility to get daily visits of a public site (ex. mysite.com) from any source...
I'm frustrated and spiteful because I'm an environmentalist. At least republicans are internally consistent: they're not willing to do anything about climate change because they don't think it'll happen. Folks here in DC/MD/VA in contrast profess to believe that this terrible thing is going to happen, but they're not willing to actually do anything that will solve it. Who exactly are the crazy ones?

That are lots of things we can do to attack climate change. None of those things are on the table.