skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I help to run a once-a-week STEAM program for kids. Here's what we've found about cheap tools.

+ When they are new to a program, kids and parents care about how tools look. We have a nicely organized wall of tools and six identical work tables. It helps get participants excited and helps convince parents that the program is legitimate.

+ Once they buy in, kids don't care about how a tool or project looks. Some of our most popular projects are built from scrap wood or cardboard.

+ Even after they buy in, kids get easily frustrated when a tool doesn't work.

I think it makes perfect sense for the Titan team (or anyone without a pre-existing relationship to a group) to make everything nice-looking since it helps to establish credibility. If you're making something at home or you've already established credibility, you could absolutely cut some corners by using cheaper parts or making parts yourself. Make sure to use quality parts, though. If you rig something that constantly requires little fixes or nudges to stay running, your audience is going to quickly lose interest.
If the config is in the form of:

{
"file": "/etc/foo",
"daemon": true
}

Couldn't you add comments like so, all within the existing spec?

{
"file": "/etc/foo",

"_daemon_comment": "default is false",
"daemon": true
}
> But it would be relatively easy to visit a whole bunch of polling stations

That would make it harder. If you try it for one vote in one place there's a decent chance you might get away with it. You have to hope that the person isn't voting at the same time you are, that the poll workers don't recognize the person, that others voting there don't, etc. It's quite possible you'll get caught, considering these are local areas, but there's enough people that you might get away with it once. But try it 10-20 times, and the likelihood that you're going to get caught increases a lot. And even trying it 10-20 times doesn't mean 10-20 votes, since if the person already voted you'll get a provisional ballot.

So even trying to get a handful of extra votes is extremely risky. If you tried to organize a dozen people to do the same, the chance you're going to get caught goes up massively - both because of the possibility of getting caught in the polling place mentioned before, and the fact that if you try to organize a group like that there's a good chance something will leak out/someone will tell people.

You're in a situation where it's very likely to be caught and, even in the off chance that you succeeded, you wouldn't even be creating enough votes to impact the vast majority of elections. This is why in person voter fraud is so rare.
Oh, good news, you can just ditch the car and walk several miles to everywhere you need to go. Again, telling people to just start living like they're Benedictine monks is not a serious solution to the problem.
How do they abuse your privacy without tracking? Of course if they didn't abuse your time and attention they wouldn't make sense. But someone has to be paying Firefox's development, and it is not you. I'll take that last part back if you contribute to Mozilla. Hey, maybe it's an idea for a donation: make a 5$ Firefox without adds. I'd pay. To bad part goes to Google that way.
Interesting. They say that crawling is prohibited there, actually, and have a blanked 'Disallow' at the end.

# Notice: The use of robots or other automated means to access LinkedIn without
# the express permission of LinkedIn is strictly prohibited.
...
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

All the listed bots are only able to access a small subset of pages, the same for each bot apart from one. The 'deepcrawl' bot is privileged, and gets to see the '/profinder' pages, for some reason?

# Profinder only for deepcrawl
Allow: /profinder*

Anyone know who operates this bot?
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When a factual mistake is called out, it's probably better to do some research instead of doubling down.

>The astronomers figured out its elongated shape when they noticed its brightness varied when it rotated every 7.3 hours. When the asteroid’s long side faced the Earth, more of its surface area could reflect sunlight, making it more visible to us. And when the tip of the rock faced us, it was a very dim point of light.

>“What we found was a rapidly rotating object, at least the size of a football field, that changed in brightness quite dramatically,” planetary astronomer Karen Meech, who led the University of Hawaii team, said in a statement. “This change in brightness hints that ‘Oumuamua could be more than 10 times longer than it is wide — something that has never been seen in our own solar system.”

Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/a-cigar-shaped-asteroid...

Statement from the team in Hawaii: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Oumuamua/

You would be surprised how much we can infer with p>0.05 based on information that looks scarce from the outside. Much of what we know about the universe is found from surprisingly simple sources.
Running 57.0.1, and I don't see it either.
I'm think Engelbart's "Mother of all demos" included folding headings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

I think the first "popular" ones were made by Dave Winer (http://davewiner.com). Here's a list of some (http://outliners.scripting.com)
The laws of physics have progressed even less since 1965
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That's far from the only possible solution, although it is essentially the one you create if your solution is to just jack up the price of meat.
The article obviously doesn't talk about her visa status, but it certainly sounds like she holds a work visa just like you did. It doesn't sound like she is a naturalized citizen.

I agree the immigration quotas should be higher, though.
Ask HN: Since Net Neutrality is repealed, Wat list f issues cud common man face?
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Everyone almost died of a lot of things. We're all lucky to be alive. For people in countries with Malaria, its like the flu. In fact, flu also kills a lot of people.

What's the solution to diseases? Improving peoples' general health and wellbeing, so that their immune systems can handle the disease. The solution is not to eradicate an entire species in the middle of an already distraught global ecological catastrophe.

For every instance of a mosquito causing a malarial infection, there are likely uncountable instances of mosquitoes causing inoculation.
Why is this an important step towards eventually being able to genetically modify healthy, adult people?
I think your comment there was downvoted, correctly, for implying that having a RISC-V microcontroller in the hard drive would be more dangerous from a security standpoint than the ARM or MIPS microcontroller it was replacing.
The difference here is that even if bred with a non carrier, all offspring will be homozygous, and all of their offspring ad nauseum. This is very different than a general that can be diluted or selected against.
I'd guess it's because mixing colors in paint is subtractive—if you mix every color you get black. Whereas with light, mixing colors is additive—if you mix every color you get white. In HSL, fully saturated colors have .5 brightness, and adding white or black changes the brightness but not the saturation. My guess is that works more similarly to paint than HSV does.
> Maybe Americans don't tend to see their whole IT and Dev departments being filled with Australians, who are NOT willing to work in high COL areas on $60k year, share apartments and a car among 6 adults, and work 60 hours a week since the money they're saving won't buy them squat once home in Australia.

How does stopping their spouses from working prevent that? If anything, they would be the least affected by this change because anyone doing that is probably young and single.
I interviewed at Gemini. My impression was of a business environment somewhere between a startup and a Wall Street boiler room. Glass walls and a beer tap. Lots of extra hours. They told me that there is some turnover and they had trouble finding competent candidates.

The engineer who conducted my principle technical interview seemed to be pleased to find himself in the position of quizzing somebody. "Let's start with some whiteboarding." I did not immediately pick up the marker, but asked him to describe the problem to me, and he looked surprised. There were trick questions, and sometimes the answer was to buy the most expensive equipment. "Wow, I have not heard about that device." He looked really smug when I said that.

The other people I met were pleasant.

At the end, their secretary came to my room and told me "You're done here". At lunch, I noticed a half-dozen missed calls from her saying that she had dismissed me too soon and I had been scheduled to interview with a fourth or fifth person. I did not bother to call back.
Meyer is the creator of the Eiffel programming language. Most of Eiffel's OOP features were borrowed by other successful OO languages, but I still don't understand why Eiffel never took off.
While I haven't used AIM in ages, I remember it fondly. There was a cool addon/hack for AIM that gave it more functionality such as combining all chats into one window and the ability to adjust the windows so that you could see through them. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If you do, do you remember the name of the addon/hack?
Because it's pretty much the same single unspoken reason for just about any decision of this general type. It didn't make business sense any longer.
Rogue One is actually about internet freedom – The Verge
> I worked at ISPs, have backbone engineer friends, and candidly: I think this issue is silly. But if it's yours... sigh... fine.

Why is it silly?
> I hope at some point we can return to some semblance of governance based on facts, logic, and pragmatism rather than ideology.

This is a great point. We're in this NN shit show because of ideology. The GOP tried to work with the Democrats to craft NN legislation, but the Democrats only wanted a Title II designation and nothing else. Now the GOP has effectively stripped away any NN protections. Both sides holding firm on ideology have landed us here.
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Your analogy is terrible, but let's go with it:

If I spend a million dollars inventing a nice car that can be freely replicated I don't have to sell it for a million dollars to break even. I could sell a copy of it to 1100 people for $1000 each and everyone wins: Nice cars are inexpensive for everyone and I make a living, so I can keep inventing nice things.

But if there are 200 pirates among the 1100 who take a copy of the car but don't pay the $1000 things are different.

Now I'm selling 900 cars and losing money so I have to do something. Such as:

* charge $1200 per car. Pirates win but car buyers lose, to the tune of $200 per car. Don't call it stealing if you don't want to, but your pirates are getting something and someone else has less money as a result. And of course you can't simply raise the price without losing some customers, so this can only go so far.

* invest less to make up the difference (making a crappier car). Pirates win and car buyers lose. The pirates don't win as much, though, since they have to drive the crappy cars too.

* enact stringent anti-copying mechanisms to try to precent unauthorized copying by pirates. This costs money, raising the price of the cars and is inevitably user hostile. So, again pirates win and customers lose. But again, the pirates don't win as much because they have to deal with the user-hostile anti-copying features as well.

Note this is a vicious circle. As piracy makes the product more expensive and crappier, more people will be motivated to pirate rather than pay, causing the product to get even crappier or more expensive. And anything that makes buyers lose also makes my car company lose, with fewer sales at lower prices to less satisfied customers.

* Ultimately, I might find I can't make money doing this at all: that there isn't a price high enough to make up for the piracy and low enough that anyone will pay for my crappy cars and I just stop making things altogether. Here pirates lose, buyers lose, and, of course, I lose.

Don't call it stealing if you don't want, but you are getting something without paying for it and it is costing other people more money as a result. Not only is your piracy making stuff more expensive for everyone else, it's also making it crappier for everyone and ultimately lead to less nice stuff being available at all.
You're being hyperbolic, you don't need to go into about:config.

It's right in the main browser settings, under the Privacy and Security section where one would expect settings like this to be
I may be wrong, but this is only if you use CRISPR for modifying embryonic genes, right? If you induce somatic mutations/insertions/deletions, this wouldn't have the same effect of passing it down to offspring? Perhaps that's not an ideal solution for all genetic diseases, though.
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I like code reviews in general. What languages are you able to go over? Are you looking to see if it is idiomatic for that specific language? I'm a professional C# developer but am learning Elixir and it would be great to have people to look over the code to see if it is idiomatic Elixir.
A 50 year old can have great grand kids, and a 3 year old at the same time. Though with a large extended family someone can also probably take over in the case something happens.
> perhaps saying in some cases "you don't have enough data to determine validity yet

Contrary to popular belief, that's actually exactly what a p-value is. A p-value determines whether your sample size is large enough to reject the null hypothesis, given the observed variance in the sample data.

Introductory statistics classes don't really explain this properly, because it would require knowledge of continuity theory that most don't have at that stage, but that's really what a p-value is already telling you.
> won't protect you from the lawsuits that result when a toddler drowns in your pool

Good analogy. I wonder i operating fa poorly secured website that leaks private information could be seen as an 'Attractive Nuisance' [0] and the owners could be prosecuted for that, rather than the hackers!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
1 everytime I have time for that. 2 Books. 3 Either from kindle store, or by e-mailing stuff to my @kindle.com e-mail address.
Is this different from structural typing?
All these credits are misdirection, they don’t change anything. foreign profits go through 5 layers of taxes and you yourself admit takes at least 50% in taxes. Even for a poor retiree holding Apple stock.

Apple pays 8% income tax to foreign governments. The credit means it still has to pay US taxes on the 92% that’s left. It would be CRAZY to tax money already lost to taxes.

Returning foreign profits would have worked out this way before repatriation.

Apple pays 8% to foreign governments and repatriates 92% that’s left.

Apple pays 9% to state of california. 84% is left.

Apple pays 35% to Federal government, 55% is left.

Apple pays the 55% as dividends to shareholders.

CA middle class taxpayer pays 9% to state of CA. 50% is left.

CA middle class taxpayer pays 20% federal dividend rate, 40% is left.

You understand now why Apple didn’t repatriate?

Taxing investment at 60% is an egregious rate, and it’s bad for society. The best tax rate for investing for society is zero, to encourage investing.

Change the corporate rate to zero, and compensate by taxing dividends at ordinary income rates. Besides encouraging more investment (and raising the same or more tax over time) you restore progressivity to our tax system.
She lied to obtain loans and sent money to ISIS. Seems like real crimes to me. The fact that police and prosecutorial abuses exist doesn't mean that they're happening here.
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FCC Chairman dressed up as Santa and wielded a lightsaber to mock net neutrality
Women Are Becoming Retirement Millionaires Faster Than Men
Facebook pushes pre-roll ads on Watch as it stops subsidizing Live
> you also need to explicitly opt-in

Wrong, as far as I see: Looking in my about:config, I see

app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled=true
browser.onboarding.shieldstudy.enabled=true

enabled by default. The settings that I've changed from the default are shown in bold. These aren't bold. Those are the defaults. Everybody can check.

That means that the user must actively take steps to disable them, if he knows that they exist and where he can disable them.

Every time the user creates a new profile, and most probably also when he "refreshes" an old one, he has by default the studies allowed.

It's even worse in other aspects: through the UI the "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" can be unchecked but it doesn't change the value of "experiments.enabled" to false in about:config.

Apparently the "experiments" allow Mozilla to install the "experimental" extensions to any user, without him knowing. And these extensions are invisible in the GUI! Even if the user goes to the about:config and sets extensions.ui.experiment.hidden to false, it will be automatically set to true again.
> their real goal is to reduce teenage sex

I don't get it. When they are in position of power they secretly want teenagers to have less sex, but they don't tell that anybody, instead they enact policy that they think will do that loudly claiming it is to reduce teen pregnancies despite the scientific fact it does exactly opposite thing....

This is beyond silly scenario. Way simpler explanation is that they simply ignore the facts when they counter their believes and cultivate illusion they will still be right in the end despite available and mounting evidence to the contrary.
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That link does raise some interesting points. For the most part I’m unconvinced, but I’m also unfamiliar with academic work in this area.

I pretty strongly suspect that this is very dependent upon social context. I wouldn’t expect parity, but I’ve certainly seen how past & present social pressures have skewed peoples’ behaviour and preferences. Specifically, in creating an environment where these pressures either don’t exist or are minimised, I have been able to see the changes it has effected in people of any gender.

Of course, and as you point out, there are exceptions, and I believe I am one. The point I want to make is that to whatever extent this discrepancy in sex drives exists, I think for the most part it is not inherent to gender. Rather, it is a natural product of the social pressures applied.

My value judgement is that this discrepancy is a net negative. I would like to see the social pressures addressed.

I therefore believe my point important as it implies the ability to effect change.
Mozilla Firefox installer is signed by a code-signing certificate. But at the very end it means nearly nothing: if the developer cannot be trusted, no amounts of certificates, green bars, smart screens, stores and walled gardens can fix that.

That's a very important point to grasp, as I hear a lot of voices nowadays claiming that the modern security model (read walled gardens of all kinds) is the universal panacea.

Just the opposite, it brings a false sense of security making you more vulnerable. It also tends to inhibit a healthy and free market competition when a lot of potentially good software suppliers are gated off from the walled gardens from the start.
Same here! I'm really sad they never added anymore chat protocols, and now most of the ones I used are obsolete or don't work.

I stopped when all my friends switched from Skype (which I used Trillian for) to Telegram, but I missed how compact Trillian was.
On each plane it would not be reasonable, but on a few planes it could be done, and would detect defects like the one described above.
My beef is that they sold me what purports to be internet service, not some kind of CompuServe or Prodigy or GEnie like service.

Finding alternate revenue streams is fine...but I don't see why they should be allowed to stop me from using the service they sold me in order to try to convince some entity, which they have no relationship with other than that they and that entity have mutual customers, to pay them something.

I'm fine with it if my ISP wants to find alternative revenue by establishing some kind of relationship with outside sites and selling them something, just as long as the ISP continues to provide the service they sold me, on the terms they sold it to me.

For example, something like AT&T's "sponsored data" is fine. That lets sites pay AT&T to not count data AT&T users exchange with those sites against those user's AT&T plan data limits.

That's fine because AT&T's customers get the service they paid for. If a site buys "sponsored data" some AT&T customers get more than they paid for. If a site does not buy "sponsored data", those AT&T users that use the site still get what they paid for.

The EFF and other leading net neutrality proponents would probably disagree with me on "sponsored data". This is the kind of thing I was thinking of in another comment when I talked about trying to shove things into net neutrality that do not belong there. Yes, "sponsored data" favors bigger, established content providers, so could harm competition. We've got antitrust law to deal with that.
> If you clicked on the link about shield studies you'd see it says they're opt in, did you not getting prompted about it?

No, I had Firefox test pilot with `Video Min` addon, I was not prompted about he `Looking Glass` I removed all addons from Mozilla and their test pilot yesterday. There is only one thing that keeps me away from moving to Brave browser https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/3101

I hope they fix it soon so I can drop Firefox and their "mission". This is second time my Firefox got infected by Mozilla and their addons. A month ago my PC at work got infected with "Firefox Pioneer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648179

Firefox Pioneer is literally a spy and tracking addon:

>Pioneer is an opt-in program that allows collection of richer data from Firefox.

I did not install it.
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It's not easy to keep them turned off. Browser upgrades seem to silently re-enable things.
Does signal even allow bots? They have pretty draconian terms on allowing 3rd party clients to connect to their service.
Not trying to be rude but, isn't this their goal?
Threads indeed, this one really brought it home:

"the film was the first of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. Certain reviewers nominated Threads as the "film which comes closest to representing the full horror of nuclear war and its aftermath, as well as the catastrophic impact that the event would have on human culture" (from Wikipedia)
"Also, why should anyone "set aside" money and influence in politics, particularly on this issue where the fingerprints are pretty clearly visible?"

I'm not asking you to set it aside forever and in all contexts. I'm asking you to set it aside when evaluating the claims of Republicans against net neutrality, because it seems to be blocking you from accepting that they genuinely and in good faith disagree with you.
Or, the opposition to those humans who they perceive are using shoddy claims of being in favour of environmental protection when advocating for other reasons their policies which might in fact be harmful for environment.

Typical examples of this culture war are nuclear power and GMO agriculture. The scientific consensus is settled: using GMOs in agriculture would be better for environment, but nevertheless it is the "environmentalists" who particularly oppose them.
That would be a good point if an ID was not required for many other activities. I don't understand why people think it's voter suppression that you need an ID to vote, but not, say, marriage suppression that you need an ID to marry.