skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We are delighted to announce our first ever UK Statistic of the Year and International Statistic of the Year, a new initiative that celebrates how statistics can help us better understand the world around us"

TL;DR The winner is "This is the annual number of Americans killed, on average, by lawnmowers - compared to two Americans killed annually, on average, by immigrant Jihadist terrorists.", and this was shared by Kim Kardashian.
https://twitter.com/kimkardashian/status/825580660337283073?...
The wsj worrying about "diversity of thought"? Is this the same company that spread "fake news" about pewdiepie in order to shut him down?

How about we worry about diversity of thought in the news in an ever consolidating and controlled propaganda industry? Or is that a non-starter since wsj sold itself to news corp 10 years ago?
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This is kind of unbelievable! Advice from the article on how not to get killed by your dogs:

* Don't have ~100lb pitbulls

* Don't breed them to fight

* Don't abandon them in outdoor cages
Few remember, but Adobe tried to submit a variant of ActionScript 3 as an ECMAScript candidate but the open web folks were dubious and it went nowhere.

That's not the same thing as open-sourcing the Flash authoring tool, but they still sell the modern variant Animate.

They could open source the player, but why bother -- the browser vendors have basically shut the gates. The swf file spec is pretty well documented but the player architecture doesn't map well to 2d canvas performance wise and is nearly a complete impedance mismatch for webgl.
They are a local monopoly (and in case of comcast more then just local). But you see this is very different.

This is essentially a state created monopoly, so the left does never really seem to care about them. They were pretty much born as monopolies.

The left is only interested in the 'free market great monopolies and we need to protect the people with regulation narrative'.

The right on the other hand does not really care about things that are nominally private, even if it is a 100% imperfect form of a market. They care about symbolic reduction in the state and the state budget itself, plus why go after somebody that has huge interest that the left not be back in power as that could mean absorption in the state.
This is very case-specific so it's impossible to say but as a general rule, many PhDs, because of what it takes to get a PhD, qualify for an extraordinary ability green card. Publications, journal/conference review work, original research, etc. can support a strong application.
There are charges, after your car is fully charge if you leave it on the charger for more than 10 minutes you start to be charged for the the extra time you leave you car there.
I get that you should be reasonably prepared for calamitous events. I don’t get the disempowering part, nor do I feel like it’s ok to just tell daughters (I know you didn’t say that, but likewise you haven’t addressed how prevention be best discussed with sons rather than avoidance with daughters). Perhaps they are related and I’m unaware of the connection.

I don’t need a complete explanation; I’m happy to get myself educated from an appropriate source.
B-Droid – a robot that's busy as a bee
I'm more worried about people trying to make themselves the authority on what is or isn't permitted to be deserving of engagement, than I'm about people advocating genocide. For one, there's a lot more of the former and they seem to be getting more all the time.
I think of it as a scale problem. A Representative's front office is basically a call center & triage operation. The embodiment of the Politics of Attention (squeaky wheel gets the grease).

What's the ideal size for a constituency? To maximize responsiveness, accountability, effectiveness? 100k? 200k? 400k?

I don't know, but I'd like to find out.
IIRC there was a bot in the #bitcoin IRC channel years ago that did exactly that. Afaik it only looked at the Mt. Gox order book but given that Mt. Gox was pretty much a monopoly back then the result was still accurate.
Not sure what you’re measuring... gdax alone averages around 25k btc traded per day. At today’s price that’s 450mil usd
Seriously...why do people love articles like this? Why not just sum them all up into one big article, "What if you had a time machine"
I don't know where to start because all of this is true. I miss my mortgage that was less than my rent here in Boston. The weather in Boston is pretty much the same as Chicago, so I'm incredibly jealous of my co-workers on the west coast. There were some good meetups in the Chicago metro area though.

I think what got me the most was a dearth of jobs outside finance & Content Management Systems.
Good, didn't know that. Time to dust off that old analog synthesizer and make some modern car sounds!
GDPR classifies any sort of cookie as PII. So you can request deletion of data that's the result of logged out queries, in theory.

Also the Google tool deletes your account data. It does not delete all things that are conceivably personal data. For example if you commented on or edited a shared Google Doc and then delete your account I'm not sure the comments are deleted too. So it's not quite that simple.

The law is so broad you could conceivably also demand that Gmail deletes any email you sent to it under your own name, out of other people's inboxes.
Cursory Google search seems to indicate that some fruits, as well as potatoes (!), dairy products, fish, and eggs contain iodine. Even if you were a very poor European peasant in the middle ages, you would still get to eat potatoes, milk, and smelly not-fresh fish, so the iodine problem probably would be bad but not terrible. If you were a rich person or someone who lived on the coast, I would speculate that you'd be pretty much fine.
My understanding was that the bullets that were successful against WWI Zeppelin raids were the incendiary Buckingham round not the explosive rounds. Explosive rounds refused to detonate on the canvas hull. And if you manged to hit an internal girder it was too deep inside to be near sufficient oxygen.

As I recall, the successful bullet was filled with phosphorus and had a small hole that was re-opened as it ran down the barrel when fired. Thus it spewed flame along its whole flight and as it penetrated the Zeppelin hull where hydrogen and oxygen where a good ratio.

But as I can find no citation, I must take my own memory with a grain of salt.
>There is literally no point to a “centralised blockchain”.

Sure there is! E.g., in the SSL Certificate Transparency system, each CA maintains a certificate log that is essentially a blockchain. And even in the context of cryptocurrency, a centralized blockchain at least prevents the central authority from secretly issuing currency and lying about how much has been issued.
>> Loss of sovereignty as it pertains to 'migrant quotas'. A country should be
>> able to say - 'no, we have decided to not receive these migrants. These
>> people need to go from where they came'.

The refugee quotas you're talking about were decided by the EU interior ministers
voting in the Justice and Home Affairs Council. The UK (along with Denmark and
Ireland) has an opt-out so although its interior minister (at the time, Teresa
May) did participate in the vote [1] it was not allocated any refugees [2].

Not a single one.

The UK instead had volunteered to take in 20,000 people [3], primarily children
from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Despite volunteering, as far as I'm aware
it's still prevaricating about actually taking them in. They're still languishing at Calais, or being held at detention centres in the UK.

I don't see how any of this shows that the EU "crushed" the UK, or that it
caused the UK to lose sovereingty. The UK absolutely said "no, we have decided
not to receive these migrants"- via the opt-outs I mentioned.

A very British thing, opt-outs. The UK has opt-outs for every little EU regulation, it seems. Yet the UK is always "losing its sovereignty" in the EU. How does that work?

___________________

[1] List of participants in the 22 September 2015 Justice and Home Affairs
Council:

http://www.european-council.europa.eu/media/22968/2015-09-22...

[2] Council decision estabilishing provisional measures in the area of
international protection for the benefit of Italy and Greece; see Annexes I
and II, with allocations from Italy and Greece, respectively, to member
states:

http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12098-2015-I...

[3] For a sense of perspective, France offered to take in 24,000; Germany famously has thrown its gates wide open; and about 2.7 million refugees are currently in Turkey, willingly or not.
Yeah, that was very likely what f2n was advocating. However I wanted to make it clear to eridius that it is not the protocol itself that is illegal. Downloading copies of copyrighted works is indeed illegal.

BitTorrent is not only used for illegally downloading copies of copyrighted content, just like encryption is not exclusively used for terrorism.
> Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons

If you didn't say that what could happen to you and importantly what is the probability that it would happen?

Are there cases where someone has taken comments and/or nominal advice and actually brought legal action because they relied on it? Would an attorney even take that case? Does the bar care for de-minimis things like this?
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Last I heard, Uber works just fine in France

> And in Germany you don't know yet what's living without cash and only with a credit card.

That's on the Germans (especially Berliners), rest of Europe uses cards a lot more. And I'm glad the US finally took their head out of the sand and are using Chip Cards

But yeah the cookie notice is pretty much useless (and I think it's been implemented badly by websites as well). Note not all cookies need the notice (which is a fact overlooked by most sites)
This was my experience when I looked into moving to France from the US a few years ago. I agree with your conclusion as well--this comparison is not a good one.
You're confusing the Flash player (no xtras) and Director a bit here.
It's hijacked the word "coin" too.

Gone are thoughts of the halcyon days of arcades. Now it's just get rich quick schemes and #ad.
> There has been no fundamental change, either internal to SV or external, to cause Silicon Valley to lose its status as the epicenter of the technology world and the unparalleled access to capital that the region enjoys [

What about climate change and the impending major droughts in the next 5-10 years?
'The west' being US, I imagine? The Nordics and western Europe have a more equal society with a much larger part of society getting by comfortably than the US. Perusing HN I am often amazed at the implicit cultural differences within the west. How your employer treats you (US: at will employment, more like tenure in many western European countries), how we view (access to) healthcare and -insurance, heck a hundred things that make our day to day way of looking at the world vastly different.
Yeah honestly it's annoying enough already to pick out one specific word from a whole thoughtfully written comment and point out that it's incorrectly used, but you're not even right in that.

Furthermore, you can't even be bothered to spend 5 seconds Googling your belief, rather you just blindly stick to your incorrect assumption and post a one word completely nonconstructive reply.
They oftentimes are easy and a great solution we handle a lot of them. The key, and sometimes the stumbling block, is that "investment" here doesn't just mean transferring money to the U.S. company but it also means the actual expenditure of a substantial portion of this investment by the U.S. company on legitimate business expenses.
True, but it's still a nice "what if" for small amounts of currency.

I wrote down my first bitcoin wallet address in May 2011 and revisited my noted in mid-2013. I had the real intention of investing the unimaginable amount of 20$ (insert Dr Evil Meme) - but I gave up after a bit of research because it was too complicated to get some.

The calculator tells me I could've earned 11460 Bottles of Budweiser (or hopefully 10k of real beer) - but I'd almost 100% had sold off everything at 1-4k per BTC.

The only cryptocurrency I managed to buy is DOGE. Too bad it didn't really increase by more than 20% in the ~2 years I held it. But hey, still ONE free beer if I sell all of it now ;)
Agreed, it's just weird to think how much that mindset has infiltrated the HN. This place is supposed to be populated by engineers with critical thinking skills, yet any criticism of these large corporations is met with censorship via down votes.

Really makes you think..
I'd still be broke:

If I was was the type of person that invested in Crypto, I would have also "invested" in all the other fads: lottery-tickets, slot machines, ostrich farming, classic cars, overpriced college degrees, Flooz.com, and Gold right at the top of the bubble.

Edited: spelling per the helpful editor below.
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Seriously? For what reason Apple should have been forced to support in his platform something sluggish, buggy and full of extremely serious security problem?
I really can't understand your rationale.
I am all for addressing deficiencies and glad to hear of such successes, but I hope we get better at making such things available, but not mandatory.

I have a serious medical condition. If they wanted to make this mandatory, I would need to campaign against it in order to protect my health and life. It bothers me to see the desire for options tarred as if that desire is mere prejudice and cannot have legitimate concerns behind it.
Yea, so incubators in other places serve as a new filter for startups. Makes sense.
Asm.js is just JS. "No support" means just "No ahead of time compilation for JS in engine."

If you are trying to point that wasm is supported better on iOS, then look at performance tests: https://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29&view=breakdown&suite=as... . At many tests, Safari is faster than other browsers at asm.js microbenchmarks.
It was only recently that Windows got 4k Netflix, and that comes with a big bag of caveats. It's gotta be one of a handful of Nvidia GPUs, using a recent driver, only on monitors that support the right version of HDCP, and only through the Netflix app (ie: no web streaming).
The argument was about French companies, not EU companies. Ideally, you would demonstrate France making a regular fuss against French companies, not a single EU company; however, maybe that's difficult due to the legal arrangement between France and the EU?
If all I'm doing for this business is coding and I have less than 50% of the share, I'm not an employee and I'm not getting paid.

Is this considered like providing services?
No. You are not misunderstanding me. You are right that there are several European countries with a well spread normalization of using credit cards. In the European countries that I've spent most of my life, and which are also some of the biggest ones (Germany, France, Spain) have still IMO a poor acceptance of credit cards. -- In contrast, for example, in London you can pretty much live without cash whatsoever.
HTML5 is very nearly good enough for a huge number of applications, even more so if Firefox supports MWAs on the platform.

Android emulation would be an interesting stopgap.

What are examples of "key apps" that neither of those would cover?
A good collage degree should only be $10 or so, it's not that hard to cut/paste pictures together.
We make natural monopolies into public institutions. Roads, sidewalks, parks, copyright registrars, postal services, land surveyors, courts, law enforcement, etc, etc.

And then we take an active role in their management.

Notice the difference between the physical activity of helping to maintain these institutions and the physical activity of sitting at your keyboard and typing into an HTML form and hitting the submit button.

Look at what is actually occurring and not just at what is described in what you are reading.
As of 2010 in Cleveland:

> Black or African American: 53.3%

> White: 37.3% (33.4% Non-Hispanic Whites)

> Asians: 1.8% (0.7% Chinese, 0.4% Indian, 0.2% Vietnamese, 0.2% Filipino)

> Native American: 0.3%

> Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders: 0.01%

> Two or more races: 2.8%

> Some other race: 4.5%

> Hispanic and Latino Americans of any race: 10.0% (7.4% Puerto Rican, 1.3% Ecuadorian, 0.9% Mexican, 0.3% Dominican, 0.2% Guatemalan, 0.2% Salvadoran)

> Amongst the city's white population, 9.9% were of German, 8.1% Irish, 5.0% Italian, 4.3% Polish, 2.8% English, 1.6% Slovak, and 1.5% Hungarian ancestry according to Census 2010.

> 8,796 Clevelanders were born in Europe.

Also note that the "white" ethnic groups are very active in Cleveland. There are Slovenian, Ukranian, Croatian, and Hungarian dance groups (probably more, but these are the ones I have first hand experience with).

Columbus ranks 15th in the nation for LGBT populations.

I now live in Denver, CO. That's a city where diversity is a real issue. Majority of people are white, bearded (males), and wear flannel (both).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Cleveland
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Spectacular! Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. Not related to Watsi, but happy to do whatever legwork is required. Passionate about effective, efficient healthcare delivery.
You don't need WebAssembly to invent your own UI in a canvas. WebGL and all that works from Javascript.
A national security letter (NSL) is an administrative subpoena issued by the United States government to gather information for national security purposes. NSLs do not require prior approval from a judge. [wikipedia]
Your understanding of CA labor law is a bit off. Employees cannot have a side business that competes with their employed business. E.g. if I work for Salesforce, I can't make a side project that does sales client / customer tracking. But I could make a Twitter clone and market that.

The IP protections are important because they mean that anyone can actually start a business, let it grow on the side, then, when ready, jump ship. All of this without fear that your employer, who is doing nothing for the side business that you're working on, will come and take it all. This key piece of legislation enables most of SVs success.
GPDR doesn't impose rules on companies under EU jurisdiction. It tries to impose rules on all companies everywhere. The blog post is written by an American.

The rest of your argument reduces to "all regulation is good" thinking. I haven't made any arguments about regulation in general. However, passing a law so vague there are continuous arguments about how it affects backup strategies and attaching a 10-20 million euro penalty to it is absolutely a punishment out of proportion to the severity of the "crime" (which is itself not even remotely close in severity to polluting a river - which one has the chance to actually damage somebody's health? not data processing!).
I'd actually love to but the WSJ has a paywall. Generally speaking the WSJ editorial page always defends unfettered markets, less regulation, and anything that would be considered pro business. The WSJ calling for some sort of intervention to deal with the duopoly of Google/Facebook is very out of character. Any principled conservative would admit to that.
Imagine a single database controlled by the government that contained a record of every transaction every citizen or non-citizen made with the official state currency. Run a query with no warrants, and no subpoenas. Now imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
My partner was recently (Q1 2017) a visiting scholar at Stanford on a J-1 visa, and I tagged along on a J-2. We intended a repeat sometime in the next couple of years, but staff at the Bechtel Center suggested that the J-visa program might be going away or substantially revised to stymie our plans. They weren't able to elaborate, however. Has there been a change of J visa rules, and/or is there such a change in the offing?
They're pretty warm overall to the telecom industry and tend to side with Ajit Pai.
There is no question that the decision-making can be arbitrary and unfair and this seems to have increased under the current administration but still, even in this environment, if the job is clearly a professional job and the pay is above Level 1, then such petitions are getting approved.
> providers would only install access in areas that are profitable and not extend further out into the more rural area

That is a argument often made by those ISPs but I don't believe it for a second.

In Sweden remote rual villages get together, fund a fiber connection to their village (and quite often actually help dig) where some companies is allowed to lay fiber but is required to allow any ISP to compete.

The market (and admittedly good general regulation in Sweden) leads to an effect where free people in voluntary association get together with private business).

As long as you have single monopoly access these ISP will never update their infrastructure and voluntary offer higher speed and better service.
The next SV is more likely to be China than anywhere in the US other than SV. Massive amounts of capital + appetite for risk and experimentation + love of technology + huge market. Just don't get on the wrong side of the CP and you're golden.
To ask more specifically: what benefit does a cryptocurrency give you if you still need to trust a central entity?

Some guesses of mine:

- Could be easier to trade than forex (though I don't think this is currently the case with crypto)

- A centralized ledger may reduce the information that individual financial institutions need to store

- Blockchains are generally tamper-resistant databases

- Blockchain's may be easier to police for e.g. fraud

As a consumer, most of those are 'not my problem'. What benefit do you anticipate?
> Even if you were a very poor European peasant in the middle ages, you would still get to eat potatoes

No, you wouldn't, as a European of any social class, except maybe in the very late middle ages at the boundary of the Renaissance; potatoes were a New World import in the 16th century, which might just still be considered the Middle Ages in some parts of Europe.
In my recollection, Java was pushed into browsers as part of Sun’s Write Once Run Anywhere strategy. Browser makers went along because it was the era when everybody wanted to be a platform for plugins. Then Microsoft tried to control the development of Java on Windows, and that was a mess.

The Java plugin was a pain. The runtime took somewhere on the order of 10 seconds to load, and the browser was completely unresponsive during this time. This was also the era before CSS, so if you wanted animated buttons on your web site, you had to use Java. Imagine loading a page, and then seeing a column of gray rectangles that freeze your browser and eventually resolve into dithered (“web-safe” color) buttons. Not a great experience.

Real Media only played video and audio. QuickTime played video and audio and VR snapshots. There were also plugins for specific types of content like VRML.

I feel that Flash took off because Adobe spent lots of money pushing it everywhere, but also because it ran better than Java. The runtime was smaller to download than Java, it started up much faster than Java, and its vector animations played very smoothly compared to the alternatives of the time.
If your goal is to make it "cellular" you can get an even more cellular appearance by using the Delaunay triangle centroids instead of the circumcenters like Voronoi diagrams use. Side by side comparisons https://www.redblobgames.com/x/1721-voronoi-alternative/ (scroll halfway down). The polygons end up looking rounder. I also made a little toy where you can drag an image onto the page to fill a cellular polygon diagram https://www.redblobgames.com/x/1722-delaunay-map-import/ (cartoon images work pretty well but fine detail is lost)