skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mulvaney is the acting head of the CFPB.. meaning he was not confirmed by the Senate. Trump appointed him, and he leads the agency. That's it.

I'm going to assume you weren't aware of that... and not--as Trump likes to do--pointing fingers at others for Trump's failures.
Thanks for sharing. This is insane.

CSS is probably the language that I’ve been using for a long time without exactly knowing how these things like float exactly work. Instead, I’ve often used a copy and paste or test and browse approach to get layouts I wanted.
Ask HN: “Speak in the language of your customer” or “don't use jargon”?
When they're in conflict, what is more important... "speaking the language of your customer" or "not using any jargon"? Why?
German Green Belt
And because it's HP they're also doing other nasty stuff too. You know how most 2d printers put invisible tracking dots in their prints to prevent counterfeiting? Well HP's 3d printers are going to do the same for 'security', anti-counterfeiting, and DRM purposes. They can print whatever pattern of color they want inside the part, so that one can scratch off the surface layer and determine who ran off illegal copies of mickey mouse action figures and when.

[0]https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AUVSI/6322f901-...
Whoa, I was just looking at some examples of this library and it seriously looks just like JS, only give away is the patten matching(which is a feature I wish JS had)
My sarcasm detection browser extension predicts 96% probability of sarcasm in the comment.
On the medicinal front: maybe we can accept these idiocies as scientific truths and produce artificial alternatives (placebos to things that don't really work) that are cheaper?
> You are welcome not to drive on public roads. Driving is a privilege that you have to take on a wealth of regulations to enjoy.

That is just a canned argument applied generically in favor of any citizen-hostile rule that touches cars.

And it's completely inane. The government has created places without access to meaningful mass transit and outside of walking distance to necessities like grocery stores or, for that matter, government buildings, or any piece of land zoned for anything but other private homes. Saying "driving is a privilege" is like saying to those people "leaving your house whatsoever is a privilege". No it isn't.
> The sad reality is, this type of behavior is not confined to one party or the other. Money should have no place in politics, otherwise you end up with a plutocracy in a democracies clothing, which is where we have been for some time now.

I don't disagree in general, but in specifics: the GOP has decided the CFPB is going to die, on principle. The CFPB was an awesome and forwards-thinking organization and if we are going to rely on government interventions, they're the type of organization we need to oversee the results. I've worked with an at fintech companies and the CFPB was incredibly friendly and honest with everyone I've talked to.

And having worked at a bank, having that agency as an empowered and potentially wrathful actor was very healthy, agency wide, imo.

I agree there are major campaign finance issues, but let's at least give the Democrats credit for backing and empowering such an agency. It is absolutely necessary.
We've been wanting to try a CRDT-based implementation with Webstrates for some time, but haven't found a suitable implementation, so this looks very promising!

Any particular reason why you choose CRDT over OT?
Yeah, if a 16 year old makes an app like this it's certainly a good thing, but I'd be hesitant to say it makes them a prodigy. Kids are not stupid, and a smart, determined kid or teen can often outdo an adult or team of adults when it comes to programming, especially if it's something they're personally interested.

Look at the golden age of games over here in the UK if you need proof of that. You've got many stories of famous game designers and developers starting as kids with a ZX Spectrum or Amiga and learning to code extremely impressive games in the teens or younger (and sometimes ending up employed in the field before they've even left school).

There's also the fan game, ROM hack and game mod fields, where quite a few notable users are between 12 and 15 years old, yet have learnt enough about the hobby to learn how to write assembly code and build tools to help reverse engineer a game made by a team of hundreds.

Add to this the no doubt thousands of great website and app developers in the same age range as the subject of the article, and well, while writing an app at 16 is impressive, it's certainly not some impossible task that couldn't have been done without outside help.
Every currency is only worth what people believe it is, nothing else, it doesn't really matter what did it actually cost to make it. Even if that's true, trying to convince people it's not backed the way it was meant to is nearly as questionable ethically as issuing unbaked coins probably was. If people keep believing nobody will get hurt, if people stop believing the results can be catastrophic. Of course this is a slippery idea itself yet the matter is too serious to just ignore it.
Meditation does not make you a better person
I completely agree about the financial crisis.

But for Volkswagen, remember that pretty much all the top executive are German citizens, living in Germany, a country that is running their own separate investigation of Volkswagen. The US can't grab them, and Germany isn't going to extradite. The only reason we got Schmidt (who was their head of environmental and engineering issues in the US, not exactly a small fish) was because he was dumb enough to visit the US on vacation.

I'm just saying, you can't really blame the US for the lack of prosecution.
> In English words are roughly spelled in terms of their root meaning, which makes it easier for a native speaker to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

I was under the impression that words are spelled according to their etymology, which only rarely helps with the meaning of unfamiliar words.

> German is a good example: offical spelling and grammar corresponds with Hochdeutch (which is not used at home by a majority of people, though perhaps recently a plurality?) and which was offically adjusted twice in the 20th century alone to account for pronunciation shifts.

I learned Hochdeutsch at home and can't even do a credible impression of the local dialect, but I admit that the experience of others may differ. However, I'm quite sure that the German spelling reforms are not related to shifts in pronunciation, rather they were attempts to simplify the rule system.
> some of their best shots were HARD to get

For some definition of "best" !

Pictures succeed or fail on their own merit, not on how much work was needed.

otoh House painting we value by how much work was needed.
White Paper is a jekyll theme built keeping content for developers in focus
To be fair they are weighing an unreleased solution in the most optimal configuration against nearly 2 year old data. For 100k shopping right now it would be interesting to get an apples to apples in the entire market because that is what people purchasing this will be looking at
Isn't it rational to hold on as hard as you can, to as much as you can, for as long as you can? The old models of commerce are so lucrative that adapting early to the sustainable models comes at a serious cost.

Imagine the area under the curve, and how much money that adds up to, if we went from a market with CDs and DVDs and happy cable subscribers to Spotify and Netflix and internet-only broadband as they are today overnight instead of over the course of the years.
Are you aware in Europe in general, there is much much less buying on credit?
This doesn't compose with all operations. One users adds and another user multiplies, for example. That is to say, not all operations are associative.

I bet you can run really far with this general idea. But there is no panacea.
> For one there is no software tool that can let someone visually move elements around and still produce reasonable CSS.

Indeed. CSS was never designed to be worked with in a visual design tool. There are so many intricacies in its rules that the only way to create a sensible interface is to paper over the majority of the potential of CSS and make everything absolutely positioned, for example. This of course results in crappy bloated sites we love to hate.
Yes, it is okay.
The Outlandish, Scary Schemes Being Studied to Cool the Planet
10 seconds with a microscope (and not even a very good one) would identify the real thing. Ivory as an organic material is a lot harder to fake than a diamond, which is better when it has less irregularities (ok, up to a point where flaws are used to prove a diamond is the real thing and not a synthetic).

Have a look at some ivory micrographs to see how intricate its structure is.
Thanks! Will try, test and update regarding points 1,2,3. My use case required ca certs but I'll mention the scratch alternative too.
Linux Kernel Release Model
So what the author is a woman?
How about mortgages?
Apple makes more revenue and far more profits than Amazon, and a much higher percentage of those earnings come from products with AI baked into them--compare the iOS business to the Alexa business.
Nintendo LABO – Engineer Perspective
The Revenue Cutter service, half of what became the USCG in 1915, dates from 1790. It was an armed service from that time.
Sci-Hub pits US law against morality, public sentiment, and public interest much more directly than usual. Unfortunately, the US government is not the sort of entity which can notice itself being a villain, or notice itself burning its credibility.
There is a saving grace here, which is that almost nobody who would ship a new grid-based design today is shipping only one layout. They're shipping a family of layouts for different devices.

And once you have a family of layouts, it's not a big deal to add one more layout that covers non-grid-capable browsers.

The design choice that makes this all tenable is to accept that the site isn't supposed to look identical across every browser. You're accepting that you'll do progressive enhancement of layout. Old browsers still get all the content, they will just get it in a more boring format (like all stacked into a single column).
It's also not a surprise that they're doing this. The GOP and Trump campaigned on dismantling government. So, that's what they're doing.

It's wildly undemocratic to push for government employees to usurp the will of the people's representatives.

Like other's have said, the best a government employee can do to protest the direction that the President and Congress set is to resign vocally (as lots of people have done).

Consider the opposite side! People rightly criticize government employees who resist implementing gay rights. But, somehow EPA employees resisting loosening regulations is righteous.

Everyone thinks their political beliefs are righteous.
We use HP jet fusion printers to manufacture end use parts (see https://www.jabil.com/insights/blog-main/3d-printing-reality...). They are impressive machines, and I'm excited to see the full color ones in action. Also, the MJF API is pretty well designed.
> It is a company owned by liberals. Semantics, but important ones.

A company is a tool of it's owners, everyone else involved is paid agents of the ownership. The distinction you draw isn't important, it's meaningless.
I really hate to sound like I'm defending Elsevier, but is it really unreasonable to assume that a large corporation that has built itself on an entire multibillion dollar company would be opposed to being toppled by piracy?

I am 100% for Sci-Hub; I think it and sites like Arxiv are the natural evolution of professional journals and the future of academic publications. But I do understand why Elsevier is fighting this. It's not a disconnect, it's not like they don't see the writing on the wall, they just want secure their benefits as long as they can and enjoy the good life while it lasts. If their lawyers succeed, then there's no worry, the party continues.

If they fail, at least they have plenty to rest on. If they're going to lose it all by not fighting, then it makes perfect sense to bet it all by fighting, because with Sci-hub and distributed systems (Tor, bit torrent), there is no winning in the long run. At least, not living with the revenue they are now.

So you don't have to be ignorant or emotional to make such a decision, you just have to make a calculated gamble and figure out which is going to hurt the least in the long run all things considered.
Copy of employment contract. When independent, 3 yrs of yearly financial statements. SOP.
Please change the title of this to something even remotely relevant to the actual article contents.
No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It
Is this why the barista's are so sloppy in Seattle? They're all ex-Microsoft employees?
Yes, that's true--the malware installed in our government has done some bad things that need to be discussed. But we also have to address the vulnerability that resulted in its installation.
For the photos in the link, eyeballs. The photo manipulation is poorly done and really obvious.

(I mean, there's the clouds issue. And then the fact that the moon is in front of trees in the right-hand image, bottom right.)
Indeed that is how it is framed. But IIRC (it's been years since I learned these things) the real "problem" addressed was that, particularly in the christianization of the scandinavians and goths, if you defeated them in battle they were happy to add Jesus to their stable of gods to call upon, as that one had been handy for the other side. In addition, as I mentioned, local priests were relying on faulty memory and taking local custom into account when discussing matters ecclesiastical. i'd think that wouldn't be at all bad in a religion, but I can see how it is destructive to corporate structure. It appears that the point was to infuse additional magic into the ritual and remove a large chunk of autonomy from the local providers.
> Your suggestions simply repackage the same basic facts with fancy words.

We must remember a few things:

1. Not everyone here is from the US or is appraised on the basic facts in US current events. Be respectful of this.

2. There is a small but active group of folks here who will deliberately try to poison discourse for their own motives. Being very explicit in what you say and why you're saying it makes their mission harder.

3. takin tim to type wurds wel zi corumukashun &7& shwz repskt 2 othurz. <-- Did you enjoy parsing this out? Inference and irony laden text is about as fun to read for someone outside it, and maximizes misunderstanding. Given #2, we have enough problems without making more.

But my message doesn't just repackage facts with fancy words, it also makes it clear what my intent is AND makes it clear part of what I intend to do about it. So it's actually more information rich than "money is speech & they donated to republicans."

I assure you, I and many others here are acutely aware that killing the CFPB is a clear example of quid pro quo politics and were it not for the other billion scandals rocking the administration would be the biggest news in 5 years. Hopefully when the dust settles from the investigations of egregious campaign finance violation we can keep our senators and house reps on task restoring this and locking in funding.
Most portable filters will, actually. They've got fine enough filters to catch protocysts; they'll easily catch any metal contamination. What they don't get are smaller bacteria and virii, which is where secondary purification in the form of boiling or purification tablets is necessary.
I bought a LaserJet CP1525nw for ~$250. The "starter" cartridges lasted me just over 4 years. Refills for it cost $340.

I bought a brand new LaserJet M452dn for $212.
Build a Mobile Marketplace with React Native. Benefits and Drawbacks [pdf]
Things I’ve Described as “My Super Bowl”
The device under discussion does not have a camera.
Well, there's some nice advice here. Okay, it's not exactly revolutionary, and most web designers should probably be aware of everything on the list already, but in a world where certain bad design ideas seem to be making a comeback, it's a nice refresher none the less.
The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up
Looks like their onion service is also down: http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/

Can anyone test their i2p eepsite as well?
The whole “starve it until it can be drowned in a bathtub” thing is from Grover Norquist, whose anti-tax pledge has been signed by almost all Republican lawmakers for decades.

Norquist was a Reaganite though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan,_Abramoff,_Norquis...
Interesting marketing choice that all of the images are of the actual glasses, and none of the images are of what your eyes see.
Hetzner opens Helsinki Datacenter
For some servers, you can already select the location "HEL1" from the location dropdown on the order form, for example for their EX-Line [1]

[1] https://robot.your-server.de/order/server/product/912/category/rootserver/culture/en_GB/country/US
Was it too much to register crpgaddict.com ? :(
I think it comes down to a combination of money and perishability. Healthy food is expensive and perishable. Carby snacks are cheap and have a long shelf life.
It's similar to Bernie Madoff as well. Harry Markopolos spent years trying to warn people that he was running a ponzi scheme, and he was ignored until the whole thing finally blew up.
That's essentially what happened to me. The cartridges got down to 1% and around the same time it started jamming. I bought a replacement Black cartridge and it continued to jam. I wasn't about to spend $200 on the color cartridges at that point so I bought a brand new printer instead.
I wouldn't complain if that was the outcome. But I might also imaging using the fines cross-agency like giving the FDA more operating budget to pursue cross-state food safety issues.
Happy 6th birthday, Sidekiq
If you're not shilling, you're not selling.
That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

If you hire / appoint / confirm someone with the motivation of doing something unusual or illegal, you’re hardly going to turn around and fire them for it.

This repeated claim that “things must be fine, otherwise the adults in the room would take action” assumes that there are adults in the room willing or able to take action. At some point it’s nonsensical, and clearly just an attempt to avoid acknowledging the obvious.
Funnily enough, Cities:Skylines also runs into trouble with big cities and traffic. It's hard to make a game about civil engineering playable for people who aren't civil engineers
Majority of the voters probably don't understand the severity of the situation or just don't care. This is what gives the courage for politicians and bureaucrats to pull shenanigans like this.
I think I'll just use this. I often need to cut up videos and I've found that using linux's video editing tools are horrendous. Even using ffmpeg from the command line doesn't work out due to its horrendous tolerance for choosing start and end points.
Does anyone have any experience and can offer a suggestion on javascript libraries that will handle text editing (like google docs or etherpad) and which can be dropped into a site and which aren't locked into a particular service or backend?

I.e. basically something like this but for text?
I hope this means folks aside from me are trying to bring linear logic into new programming models for resource modelling computations.
Totally agree that executives and so on are hyper-vigilant about status. However it's possible to be aware of status without aiming to increase it. Those whom I had in mind are religious leaders like Jesus or the Buddha. They apparently saw no difference between people in their essence.

Engineers work with objective reality and so they are humble at least with respect to knowledge. This will be evident from their behaviour in most cases but there will be some who are appear arrogant yet competent. I would conclude that they are humble in private.

>That said, as far as I can tell, acting fearful (especially acting fearful of losing status) is one of the quickest ways to lose status

Yeah, good point.
It's generally a bad idea to complain about down-votes. Try to shrug and argue the points, not people's choices for how to respond to the points.

Taking my own advice, regardless of what you or anybody may think of the connection between Russian money, Russian politics, and Mr. Trump, surely we can find a number of wealthy Americans who are interested in winding down Federal oversight.

I'd start with the high-fructose corn syrup people, the private university rip-off people, and the fossil fuel people. If there are also Russian interests, surely they are not "acting alone."
I can understand that. I just think it was a case of the parent comment already having a method/process that worked for them. I'd say there are a couple of different schools of thought when it comes to committing things to memory nowadays (more photos or more living in the moments) and if one works for someone then it's a bit unnecessary for someone else to come in and simply say that the other way works better for them.
The Revolt Against Silicon Valley’s Failed Dream
So by 'no one', you mean the Office of US National Intelligence (who are made up of career employees), right? Here is their full report:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

From the report:

"We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US
presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process,
denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess
Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.

Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government
agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or 'trolls.'"
Just curious. What do you think those are made from?
Ask HN: Is there value in reading programming books?
Like O'Reilly books, books given to use in college classes, etc. Even something renowned like Pragmatic Programmer, is that something worth checking out?

Are there anything that young programmers should be doing besides programming? Reading code is something thrown out a lot.
Pre-tax bill, I might have agreed with you.

But it's pretty clear the party is on board with a kleptocratic approach for donors.

I know that comment will upset folks, and I apologize for being contentious, but the tax bill makes 0 sense unless you intend to keep control of inter-state commerce and reward favorites while also screwing over the middle class by dismantling social services (that the middle class isn't getting as a government benefit, they're paying more outside of taxes to fund it!).

It's shameful and the Republicans are complicit with all of these actions.
"Should I suggest to the developer that they check if Starbucks is hiring?"

Why, because people actually are putting a million icons on their desktop? Either this one is a swing and a miss on Chen's part, or I'm confused on what his point is.