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I absolutely disagree with everything here.

Voting doesn't require extraordinary feats of intelligence or lots of time. Probably up to 99% of people in Europe are literate and not declared insane and thus able to vote. All it requires is an ounce of care and taking a slightly longer walk once every 5 years. Even if the chance of making a change is miniscule it should be a forgone conclusion.

Almost every major party that starts in national elections also starts in European ones so the lowest effort vote is to just vote along your party line for whoever (which many/most people do for all elections already anyway). I will not ever buy the excuse that 60% of Europeans have not enough time to vote or took the high road and decided to not vote to not skew the results by their uninformed choice.

It's a question of attitude towards EU and democracy itself more than it is a question of how much it truly matters.

Poland is a unitary republic with directly elected president with strong veto power (which means that mismatch between president and parliament in political direction causes parliament to be more tame in bills it drafts). There was no two consecutive presidents from same political affiliation so far and only once there were two consecutive parliaments under the same party's government (PO-PSL coalition). This means that there is high chance to affect the outcome and that this outcome determines both the direction the country goes in and how strongly it goes in it. Despite that the turnout for both presidential and parliamentary elections was only around 50% (55% for second round in presidential elections). Due to few quirks of the rules and how close it was even half a million extra voters in right places could have affected the outcome significantly.

Meanwhile in the federal German elections there was over 75% turnout this year despite the fact that German federal government is quite stable for the last 17 years (Merkel as chancellor) and being a federation every German has his Land government (that is infinitely more powerful and autonomous than a Województwo in Poland is) closer to him and his "daily concerns and needs".

It's also not a question of only the how much effect the vote has because Poland's turnout in European elections is worse than it is for many smaller (dare I say - more pro-EU..) countries like Belgium, Luxembourg, etc. despite that fact that we get more MEPs than they do. Even more ironically, each Polish vote was stronger in its effect on EP composition than theirs due to that higher MEP number we get and low turnout we provide, i.e. 7.5 million Poles elected 51 MEPs at 24% turnout while 4 million Belgians elected 21 at 90% turnout.

EU and its predecessors were also supposed to prevent wars (one of actually stated ECSC goals was to make a war between France and Germany literally impossible) and set long term strategic goals, not manage day-to-day lives of Europeans, that's what their municipalities should do for them.
The NYC/Hudson Valley area has this.
Please note this comment isn't specifically to you, but, I guess more to any mozzarellian that comes across this comment

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for other reasons I wanna comment on the "seems pretty reasonable" bit

"In this day and age" what with fear and stuff being a main chunk of news , perhaps using a webext (which can really only modify a page to do any tricky cool stuff) is a bad thing?

(especially when it plays off of the pre-existing FUD by referencing hacking n' stuff!, but not my point)

same for any unexpected icons appearing in the toolbars! People are being told to be weary when using their browsers: look out for signs the pages might be fake or messed with, look out for unexplained installation of programs and addons, being hammered in from every secure site!

Its worrying that, I know it would fuck with my parents pretty bad WHEN it would be enabled, because there isn't much point in developing something for it to not be enabled! Especially when money is probably on the table, when higher ups probably rammed this through normal steps designed to prevent this sort of stuff (again)

I need something to give my parents, something that is ethical, something that cares about them, and something that works: chrome still works better for them, and mozilla seems really really keen on blurring the lines for the other ones (I know I know, it requires users to opt into shield studies etc, but man, I had a talk with my ma, "do you wanna contribute back to mozilla in this way?", please don't punish us for asking other less-techy people that.)

If you guys need easter eggs, probably keep them off to the side, in the settings or about sections
You can think of the ideal resume entry as a little story: here's the settings, here's why I did what I did, here's what I did, here's the outcome.

The goal is to have that story resonate with the reader: "Oh djellybeans went and did this thing in a new product, and we're a new product and we have similar problems, maybe they can do that for us!"

Accomplishments are the last bit of the story, and ideally you have all of them.

Now, savings lots of money is great, and if someone measured it you can include it. Consider measuring this stuff yourself, even if management doesn't. But the real goal is to explain why this matters, why it's useful, why the reader should care, in a way that will match their concerns.

Here's an example from my resume, where I wrote a new config format for ops team at an old employer. Here how's I might have all four of the elements of the story:

1. Setting: The ops team managed hundreds of servers with similar but not identical configuration.

2. Motivation: Noticing that this made configuring servers difficult,

3. What I did: I implemented a prototype-based configuration system, where one system's configuration could inherit that of another.

4. Accomplishment/outcome: This allowed them to significantly simplify their configuration, reducing opportunities for errors and unwanted divergence.

Notice that item #4, accomplishments, has no numbers. But it still explains why the reader should care, and the things I might be able to help them with.
That's not obvious at all. For cars to be accessible, the car needs to be designed to be accessible. For public transportation to be accessible, it needs to be designed to be accessible. The situations are identical.

Here in the US, all public transportation is required by law to be wheelchair accessible. Perhaps Europe is different, but that is a decision that they have made, it is not an inherent limitation of public transportation.

Cars are not inherently wheelchair friendly; they must be designed to accommodate them. Trains and buses are exactly the same. Here at least, public transport is much more accessible than private vehicles because all public transportation must be wheelchair accessible, but there is no such requirement for private vehicles.
FTA:

”The train leaves at 4:43 a.m. and Cherry, 60 years old and a couple of years away from retirement, rides it all the way to the final stop, more than two hours away. That’s Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Scheduled arrival time: 7:05.”
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Could somebody explain the mechanism for creating "verified purchase" fake reviews? Somebody actually bothers to go through trouble of doing a purchase and creating a fake review? Anybody has any factual examples? Any pay for services that can be used? Seems like an area just waiting to be investigated by a media outlet...
I never thought of it this way but basically South Korean is an island effectively. Practically no one travels in/out of South Korea except by flying in/out.
If that sort of commute becomes popular, it'll just lead even more massive congestion around job centers. In the limit, you'll reach your destination halfway through the workday and immediately turn around to go home.
It is only items sold by Amazon.com, so yes.
I am sooo jealous of this. What an amazing project. Yes it would be front page on Hackaday but pleased it appeared here because HN is all about (IMHO) inventive and creative technology and its possibilities and applications. These sort of projects illuminate for the rest of us on what might be possible. Has inspired me to break open the boxes of parts i have and build something that works (useful or not remains to be seen), just to explore the possible. By day i work on Enterprise software, but ive had more inspiration moments when working on IoT wireless stuff at home than ever had in meetings, workgroups, or sitting in an office.

To the author and creator, a huge thank you for the inspiration, education. Like one other poster mentioned i too would like a quick donate button for this. I do use for other projects because i think its important to acknowledge people who make stuff like this. Whether is code or hardware, or sometimes even just ideas on KS, give a few bucks if you can to share the fun and inspiration and reward others.
We have no issue with lithium scarcity - it's tremendously abundant on earth, and we could recycle old batteries if we gave a damn... the lithium is just not currently worth recovering, that's how damned common it is. The problem now is the huge demand outstripping the on-hand supply, which has caused lithium prices to soar... but this year has seen a surge in new lithium projects and companies like Albemarle have seen their share prices surge accordingly. We've also seen numerous new projects in the Americas start producing lithium. Just let supply and demand fix this market, and it'll be smooth sailing.

...Cobalt, otoh, is more worrisome in the upcoming future and much, much worse to mine. Western demand for L-ion batteries has had China turn Africa into a wasteland (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/c...) in search for more and more cobalt and copper to keep electrification projects going.

But it's not all bad news. There are alternative lithium chemistries that use less or no cobalt, just to date they either don't offer the same energy density or are not practical for mass production yet (lithium-sulfur).
the only reason you would bounce around is if it’s poorly calibrated

It's likely that there is no way to calibrate it correctly. If you don't have the benefit of gravity to hold you at a specific point of space/time, then where would you get the coordinates that would allow you to remain in a specific spot, especially when that spot is moving rapidly, relative to a previous spot in space/time?
sigh I couldn't disagree any more strongly.

1) This isn't about "feelings", it's about the fact that speech _has consequences_. People get hurt both emotionally and physically because of things other people say, especially in aggregate.

2) Etymologically speaking, violence comes from "violent", which meant "having a marked or powerful effect".

3) Legally speaking, violence includes intimidation.

4) Practically speaking, arguing definitions is a total waste of time.
> If they exist, they could just as easily be robotic drones.

While perhaps literally included in the group of "robotic drones", one interesting possibility would be craft piloted by highly-developed machine intelligence, what we might call sentient AI.
Absolutely. The whole ordeal reminds me awfully of Ajit Pai's tone as he kills net neutrality, sounding as if everything was fine until net neutrality came along.

Although different, this too brushes off this one instance as a mistake, and entirely disregards the rest of the article, not even trying to address or explain the rest of Mozilla's recent borderline malicious behavior.

A serious fork is long overdue, if only it didn't take a corporation as big as Mozilla to undo their bad deeds.
More specifically, the mining was happening for 10s on an insecure captive portal: https://twitter.com/imnoah/status/936948776119537665/photo/1
Might work, but... slow learning process. Some alternatives:

https://www.keyvalues.com/ may give some insight on some companies.

https://theaccidentalengineer.com/ has interviews with people at lots of companies, to see what they're like.
Hopefully we'll have better options than Uber by then.
I always found the prepper mindset a little curious. It seems to me that any kind of major disaster that would totally knock out reliable access to food and aid for 3-6 months (i.e. something worse than the recent hurricanes, more along the lines of climate-change-driven famine apocalypse) will also probably have knocked it out for far longer than that. What happens when one runs out of one's few months of stockpiles?

For those of the prepper mindset, it would make more sense to start homesteading instead. That is, learning to grow and preserve one's own food, instead of stockpiling a little food but in the end still relying on our national food supply network. Homesteaders, I think, will be the ones who survive the true nuclear/climate change apocalypse, not preppers.
https://www.techinasia.com/china-citizens-scores-barred-from...

They call it a “social credit system” in china (the one that can get you barred from flights), besides not paying your fines you can get on the list if you happen to be a unharmonious dissident. It’s no wonder it is confused with the sesame credit system, since they are both credit systems that run in china. Here is a state-owned press link if you doubt tech Asia:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1015549.shtml
> Even when "enabled" in the add-on manager, the add-on was completely inert unless a user also manually dove into about:config and specifically enabled a flag related to the add-on. Without taking that deliberate action, it didn't do anything but watch that flag. No headers, no word inversions, etc.

Wow. So is Drew DeVault lying, or confused? Was there a bug that turned it on for him? This is odd.
"... that is for x reasons better than the Tesla factory", the title just doesn't let the reader know that's the angle
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What if you could do the commute while sleeping ? Actually every time I get into a moving vehicle I get rocked to the sleep.
Per Wikipedia, flow batteries aren't as far along the research-production timeline as Lithium batteries.

That + grid-scale customers being extremely conservative = gradual uptake.
> If GNU/Linux were to die

But there is no such entity as GNU/Linux. It's hundreds and hundreds of independently working engineers who would all have to be hit by buses at the same time.
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This really sounds strange. Can you put the code up somewhere?
There shouldn't be a 75 times improvement by going to .NET. A 50% improvement is more likely.
Yes so it is much better to use Google's Pagespeed module for Nginx or Apache to handle this aspect. In that way the compression is abstracted out and you don't have to worry about it. Pagespeed will know that someone is using an old version of Safari rather than Chrome and will send the correct type of image, i.e. one that will render.
> No more need to dedicate huge amounts of valuable land in our cities and suburbs to parking (cars can drive themselves to outlying areas to park or, better yet, can be shared).

Let's solve our congestion problems by doubling the amount of traffic on the roads! Sharing vehicles is a red herring; the peak traffic is caused by what's effectively a unidirectional, time-compressed mode of transit--once the car drops someone off at work, there's not enough trips nearby that it can do.

> Driverless cars could drive faster and closer together, especially if they can communicate with one another.

Yeah, except for all those unpredictable pedestrians walking on the street in busy cities. You could drive faster and closer together only if a) every car were so wired, and no one drove manually and b) it's a limited-access highway with little conflicting movement. It might help I-70 in Kansas; it's not helping any street in NYC.

> A driverless, electric, shared, and tunnel-augmented vehicle ecosystem is probably the perfect mass transit system.

No, it ain't. The way you get mass transit is you start packing people into tighter spaces. A single-occupant car, no matter how many times it's reused, no matter how tightly you pack them, is just way too much extra space. The twin Hudson river NEC tubes carry more capacity than the GWB, Lincon Tunnel, Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, and Brooklyn Bridge combined.
What is your point?

How do you propose we move forward?
Ask HN: Is ProductHunt trustworthy/relevant anymore?
ProductHunt has transformed from being a website where users can submit and vote for good products into an online army of marketers, influencers and companies that pay insiders and hunters to feature their products on the homepage which is seen mostly by other marketers and influencers instead of real users. Almost anybody who dealt with PH know how things work (let a popular hunter or insider hunt your product for you in workdays very early EST; make your employees, friends and everyone you know upvote it in the first hour after the submission (I've even seen many times on freelance websites people who want to get 50-200 upvote deals for money ahead of the submission, and you will find many indians who would accept this task for less than a couple of hundred dollars), get your product featured in the frontpage and get traffic for sometime and then hope that your product won't be forgotten after that).

Is this relevant anymore? the whole thing became obviously so fake and rigged (excluding rare cases of good products that were featured without intentional intervention) that I don't even see the featured products anymore. Do you think I am exaggerating or think I am right?
As long as the item isn't prohibitively expensive the company paying for the review could just provide you the money to purchase the product.
Trains are nice too. I can hack on my projects, that's the only time I can work on them during the day. I used to take the subway and it was hell, specially during Canadian winters.
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And? For those nothing changes, but overall there will be less demand.
Cars will simply become mobile bedrooms.

It's not legal to camp in your car in a parking place but with a self-driving car, people can just sleep in the back while the vehicle drives aimlessly around.

If this process makes traffic go very slowly, so much the better - less gas spent and a gentler ride.
Except that scales horribly. Autonomous cars can't replace public transit, no matter how paranoid Elon Musk is about serial killers.
So put your life savings into shorting bitcoin. It's a sure thing right?
It's not uncommon to hear these stories in LA because the math generally works out very favorably. That 280k house in Riverside easily goes for 2-3x where he works in Norwalk. If you could effectively triple your pay by "working" an extra 3 hours a day, would you do it? Especially if those extra commute hours are by train where you could be doing a wide variety of leisure activities, like reading, games, crocheting. No part time second job that I know of can be more enjoyable than a hobby on a train.
I think you're over looking the impact that natural disasters can have.

Think about hurricane Katrina, or even the more recent season.

Just because there is some aid doesn't mean your access is reliable enough for an entire family.

There's never enough to go around to everyone who needs it, so the best you can do is be prepared.
This is a violation of the CFAA, a criminal offense, if the API owner did not authorize Uber to access it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
I feel like this is way overblown but I think the logic here is that Mozilla claims to be an ally of privacy and internet freedom. While Google obviously, does not.
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Nope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town_Hall_(Hanover)#Histor...
If the underlying motivation for understanding or judging is to figure out what public policy to adopt, then the choice of what to do is simply what works best. If some people are irredeemable and locking them away forever ends up creating the safest and healthiest society for the most people, then judge away. If it turns out that helping people and understanding them where possible works better, do that. Most progress seems to me to originate in moving from the former to the latter, in moving more people out of the "irredeemable" category.
Decentraland: It's totally not "Second Live" again!
The "fulfilled by amazon" part is pretty obvious on the page, so I wouldn't say it's hard to figure out. If they have it in one of their warehouses, they'll ship it to you and will refund you directly without getting the seller involved if they did and there is a problem with it - sometimes without even verifying you returned it (this has not happened to me but I've seen it happen to another person). If you chose to buy something that isn't in one of your warehouses, your mileage will vary.

Recently I got them to refund me after showing I returned the defective item (tracking number + signed by an employee) the SAME day it was returned to the seller's location. Granted, the seller and I had a dispute (which was that the seller refused to acknowledge the device spit out a fair amount of magic smoke when powering a small charger).

Again, it's effort in and effort out. If you buy something off Amazon, make sure it's being shipped to you by Amazon!
13,600 calories is enough food to actually feed a family of 4 for about 2 days.

The "servings" of the meals listed on their website are about 250 calories. 500 calories is small meal for many adults.
Intamin offers comparable systems.[1] Intamin is primarily a roller coaster manufacturer. As a sideline they offer the "Mountain People Mover", which uses roller coaster track and wheel systems. It's electric drive, not cable drive, so it's a people mover, not a funicular. The track can be much more curved, in all axes, than with a cable driven system.

Intamin offers the tilting cabin option, but their existing installations don't use it.

At some inclination, cable-driven systems are considered elevators. The George Washington Masonic Temple has cable-hauled elevators which are 82.5 degrees from horizontal. This is a 759% slope. They're tilted in two axes, because the building is a narrowing tower with big meeting rooms on several floors, and the elevators don't break up the space.

[1] http://www.intamintransportation.com/transportation/Mountain...
> My previous Sennheisers broke (just the headband) after a couple of years

Let me guess, HD280 Pro? It seems they've fixed that for HD380s.
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When Pocket was first added, it was an independent company with no signs of any acquisition by Mozilla.

It was not added to the browser as an "add-on" but as core code. Sure, you could hide the button, but... it's still there, attack surface and all.

Plus, it's a product in a competition-rich field. Adding first class support almost certainly affected adoption for competitors like Instapaper, Pinboard, etc, who still had to play by the rules. Hardly what you'd expect from a "choice centric" company like Mozilla, and it screamed of a cash bribe.
> If you could effectively triple your pay by "working" an extra 3 hours a day

6 hours a day - the commute is 3 hours both ways.

In other words, she works 9 hours a day, commutes 6 more, and then has 9 more hours to do with what she will, like sleeping (which normal folk like to do for 6-8 hours). So she has about an hour-three hours a day of actual non-work involved free time.
Do you drive, or take some form of public transit?
I've just woken the wife up laughing. Is there some explanation of how this was constructed?
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> Newtons method

Where are you seeing Newton's method? I didn't think second order information was available for typical systems in statistical machine learning.
Have you seen the Common Lisp specification?
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