skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every one of those other companies is incredibly heavily regulated.

>Tobacco companies for years lied about the risks and promoted false science

And were punished severely, rightly so. They paid out billions.

>Energy companies regularly fund climate change denial organizations (see Heartland Institute)

This is difficult to solve within the existing legal infrastructure and might require a constitutional amendment

>Monsanto sends detectives after farmers who get tangled with them (https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/Monsanto/farme...)

I'm not sure that should be illegal - they sued the farmers and lawyers use investigators.

>Tyson, Purdue regularly keep chicken farmers in poverty and silenced about chicken farming conditions.

This should be more regulated and there are serious calls to do so.

>Volkswagen created emission cheating software to hide their emissions...

And are now paying billions for it.
User's webbrowser is visiting the appliance which resides on LAN. Webbrowsers require certificates signed by a CA.
The Olympics’ Never-Ending Struggle to Keep Track of Time
It's not per se a crime. That is, there's no law that says that renting out an apartment on AirBnB is a crime punishable by x. That's not the same thing as saying that doing so doesn't sometimes or always meet the elements of a crime that does exist on the books.

For example, 18 U.S.C. § 1343 says:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.

Is a host that takes money for renting out an apartment, while knowing that such rental is in violation of the MDL, obtaining money under false pretenses?

AirBnB's terms of service, say:

7.2.3 You represent and warrant that any Listing you post and the booking of, or a Guest's stay at, an Accommodation will (i) not breach any agreements you have entered into with any third parties, such as homeowners association, condominium, or other agreements, and (ii) comply with all applicable laws (such as zoning laws), Tax requirements, and other rules and regulations (including having all required permits, licenses and registrations).
I think it’s way more complex than that. Blackberry made attempts at touch screens but they were all crappy.

Some engineers might have been dismissive, but as a company I think it tried its best to live in the future. It just didn’t have the insight to take the right tradeoffs with the more efficient tech.

Japanese phone makers had the same issue. As early as 2005 some maker tried to have touch screens, some with really innovative interfaces to compensate for the technology, but it stayed niche devices.

I don’t think anyone really dismissed touch interfaces as non threatening. It was just damn hard to have anything that was remotely useful.
The point is that there really isn't a difference for most of us. I've had a town send a tax bill to the wrong address, but there was still no way out of the penalty that accrued. We only discovered the problem when we realized we hadn't seen a tax bill in quite a while (it was still being sent to a previous owner).
It should be a short time until someone will post a comparison of the party identification data and the 2016 results.
The CDC discusses moderation of the illness some:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

I guess they don't want to get too far out ahead of the science.
I don't know about the restrictions in specifics but I would say that even if they come down in the same area the restrictions are not for protection of people from the rocket but the rocket from people. Aircraft have been taken down by small arms fire and a boat can cover distance rather quickly
"Peter Thiel comment about Google not having good ideas for how to spend their money"
Elm is cool, the BDFL seems like a great guy, but he's a bottleneck and the community is too small. I developed our internal Dashboard using Elm and we have already end-of-lifed it primarily for this reason. I think it's always going to be a niche product and I can't justify betting my business on that. Other larger communities are going to take these ideas and execute on them better.

The only way I see this changing is if Evan massively delegates responsibility, and I just don't see that happening. Elm is cool because it's small and tightly controlled, but that also limits its viability and growth potential.
I completely agree, nothing came close to the awesomeness of Milkdrop 2 in Winamp. That's one of the reasons I got into programming, by being curious about how it "knew" how to move to the music. Still have it installed on an ancient PC, will never delete it!
And if you want tech, particularly in America there are ISPs and telcos in dire need of being broken up.
It worked for Playboy.
I always thought the close one is used for things that are closer to the speaker than the listener, the middle one is used for things that are more or less in between the speaker and the listener, and the 'far' one is used for things that are far away from both the speaker and the listener. can any native speakers say whether there is any sense of that, or does it not have anything to do with the listener?
I don't get something : how 520 weeks (10 years, on a false base of 52 weeks per years) result in multiplying by 752 a weekly expense for the equivalent f 10 years.

Is it because of inflation ?
#3 might be partially due to the recent increase in the minimum wage.
Just solar shades, likely – they look exactly like what my high school installed on the classroom windows many years ago, and those were purely for keeping the rooms from heating up too much in the high summer noon sun. Solar panels wouldn't make much sense, they aren't angled toward the sun's average position at all and would just shade each other out for most of the day.
I used to work at the Bee but it was long enough ago that I don't recognize the person quoted as the Bee's president/publisher, and long ago enough that I don't remember specific experiences using it (that is, I can't remember if I ever used it), nor do I know how it's used in the present-day. But I'm guessing the purpose is similar to how I've seen it used at other news orgs: as a lookup tool for contact info (e.g. calling for an interview). This is what the Bee says:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...

> The Bee had obtained the voter registration database from the state for reporting purposes, and it’s not the first time this information has been exposed on the public internet. The state has provided the same database to other organizations, and some of them have also been subject to attack – including a 2017 incident in which a hacker made a similarly worded demand for a Bitcoin ransom.

Campaigns of course use it to know which people to call up during voter drives. In other states, the databases are downloadable from the Secretary of States' websites.
Messaging Apps: Where Cryptocurrency and Conversation Collide
Over time, those that are able to move to areas of growth do so, leaving those who didn't leave behind.

This movement of people ensures that the urban-rural divide, as well as the growth-stagnation divide will persist, because the working definitions will naturally fit around the current facts on the ground.

This is neither a new phenomenon, nor freshly articulated. For example, much of Thomas Jefferson's political career was devoted to addressing issues of the urban-rural divide in the early United States.
If you want to hear the story in song form (and French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlnL8JHetY
Another data point, I grew up in a small town outside of Amarillo and now live in Fort Worth.

I went down (south) to Lubbock for College and over to Fort Worth (east) when I graduated. I still head over (west) to Lubbock occasionally because I have a sister going to Texas Tech. I go up (north) to Amarillo to visit my parents.

Maybe it's just me, but I haven't really noticed anyone using "out" to describe a direction. People do head "out" and go "out" all the time though.
Except that your narrative is exactly trying to paint it as "only rich people get to succeed", which will lead to the "not rich" to give up trying, which will only make things worse.

You probably think you're doing justice to the world, but you're actually doing the opposite.

The real successful people succeed DESPITE their perils and in many cases BECAUSE OF their perils, and these people should be encouraged to pour all their passion into whatever they want to achieve and succeed. Instead I see people like you always saying "doesn't matter how hard you try, the world is fucked up because only the rich get richer, so don't tell people to work hard, it's just exploitation". That probably makes you feel better about being "woke", but your argument does nothing but convincing people to give up.

These people who come from bad background, when they do succeed, they they give back to the alienated community they came from. These are the people who actually make progress with inequality, not some guy on HN and Medium.com bitching about how the world is unfair and all the successful companies are shit because of that.

Your narrative only gives people excuse to complain and get distracted from actually building valuable things.

Like I said, the world IS unfair, and nothing will stop it from being unfair for unforeseeable future. The most efficient way to make sure we get out of this situation is to encourage the alienated people to succeed instead of getting them into "me vs. you" mindset, because that mindset is a loser mindset which only leads to wannabe activism, instead of actually creating something valuable.

If you want to prove me wrong, just tell me a single successful person who built a valuable business or product, who spent most of their time playing gender/sex/income/inequality/whatever activist. Unless your business itself is a consulting business to sell to these classes, I have never seen one.
You're conflating the size of the company with how much stuff they produce. Relatively small companies can still produce at massive scales.
And it still doesn't work as desired.
It's certainly possible to pay for such a thing today; many of our friends in Fortune 50+ companies have access to such things. You are right that we mere mortals with dreams of a tiny coffeepot IoT empire over HTTPS must hope for the post-Let's Encrypt era that the cost of such delegating certificate authority certificates drops in commensurate to other certificate types.
> I came down with the flu (I had the vaccine), I took 4 pills over 2 days and it was turned into a slight cold.

What makes you think you had a flu in the first place and not just a cold?
That is another outcome that I'd be okay with. If this procedure weren't a one-off but a new standard then that would probably be a higher net benefit to society.
I'm a stutterer and English is my second language so I get even more nervous when trying to speak, it does affect my work because I can't really communicate what I'm trying to say without going back to a whiteboard explaining a programming concept or something so I usually resorts to not saying anything even when I know what other people are saying is bs.

I dread making or taking phone calls and even though I'm confident on my programming knowledge the anxiety prevents me from looking for another job where I can be making what I think I'm worth, on the flip side I would like to be a salesman talking to people all day and not having a desk job but my anxiety prevents me from doing so, anxiety worsen my stutter which in turns makes me more anxious ( a never ending cycle)
Referral bonuses are an existing medium for monetizing connections for a lot of orgs.
If you have flu regularly, every few years, and they are all exactly the same, that is not the flu. That is something else, like Malaria kicking in.
I say that if you really were perfectionist you would deliver. If it's not delivered you can't really call it perfect.
Keep in mind that that this isn't a unbiased random sample. It's selected for companies that launched publicly within 6 weeks of the start of the batch, which usually means they have a working MVP. Companies with long R&D cycles (like most energy, robotics, biotech and pharma companies) are underrepresented in this sample.
True, but that still doesn't contradict the point made above regarding how the skinning community is a dying breed.

Edit: I now realize that, taken out of context, my comment sounds pretty twisted.
If I remember correctly, David Allen, of 'Getting Things Done' fame, makes a similar argument: if it can be done in 5 mins or less do it now rather than defer.

I've definitely noticed the benefit of this. On the other hand, small things add up and occasionally I've just got to tackle that 5 hour task.
Given enough time, most applications turn from "feature rich" into "feature bloat."
One big difference is that in MySpace a user could modify how other users viewed their page. With skins a user can modify how they view other users page, but would not modify those other users experience.
Soma is an excellent recommendation!
Here's the law for CA: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

"Shall be provided with respect to any voter, subject to the provisions of Sections 2166, 2166.5, 2166.7, and 2188, to any candidate for federal, state, or local office, to any committee for or against any initiative or referendum measure for which legal publication is made, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, or political purposes, or for governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State."

Looks like ultimately it's whatever the Secretary of State allows.
Yep the heart of the matter.

Techies thought the internet would be an end to gatekeepers and influencers. They were wrong. The Internet did not change humans.
Cryogenic oxygen has something like a 700:1 expansion ratio when it is warmed into a gas.
i think you are misunderstanding the IoT flow. you don’t connect to devices
I find ordering tasks easiest to hardest can also be a trap - often you can go days or even weeks without working on your most important work. It is a kind of false productivity.

I managed to do this for about a year while working on my thesis. I finally realised I wasn't making any forward progress.

I find 1 or 2 quick tasks then straight to the most valuable work is a good way to get the momentum going.
Bitcoin is a good example of a toy. It didn't really solve an immediate problem at the time.
I'm fine with penalties and late fees for people that don't pay on time because they didn't handle the paperwork properly. I'm not fine with their property being confiscated with no warning.
Saltstack has now 3699 open issues
Seems like Core depends on Base (https://github.com/janestreet/core/blob/master/core.opam)
I keep hearing this over and over in this forum, relax the code, change the zoning laws, that'll solve problems.

How many of these folks actually live in a densely populated city? Zoning laws in Manhattan have a different source and downstream effect than some suburb of SF or LA, or some other city with housing cost issues.

It's a huge topic of conversation, but I'll summarize it by offering a few items to ponder before we reduce the problem to "zoning restrictions" and people reply with "100X times this!".

--- Infrastructure is more than housing. And much more expensive. The subway system in NYC isn't scaling to capacity due to the speed of development. It may feel expensive to build a new rental building, but scaling public transportation, education, and more is deeply more expensive.

--- Manhattan isn't dense enough for you? You realize the parent article is about Google purchasing a huge swathe of Manhattan real estate. Are the skyscrapers not high enough? Better yet, maybe we should knock down those 19th century buildings in whatever pockets are left of low density housing in Manhattan and turn everything into a giant concrete reed jungle? Not all NIMBY is mean-spirited, and if you're the traveling type you can understand the need for preservation of architectural character.

--- I live in a part of NYC where zoning laws allow for more building. As it turns out, I even own a building where I could potentially build an additional 1500 square feet, and I could convert my building into six separate apartment buildings. This would add net 4 apartments to a city which has a housing crisis. And I'd love do. However, I'd have to comply with code, which like zoning exists to protect us from ourselves, if for different reasons. To comply with code, so my tenants don't get incinerated in a fire, I'd have to spend so much money that it's cost prohibitive.

Sorry, I'm just tired of reading the same "it's the zoning laws" reductionism by people who know only suburbs.
Proposition 13 does indeed suck.
Restore justice in Turkey
Yes the basic premise of our condition: the desire to rule over nature.
This is the most normal, healthy thing. Interests rates have been unnaturally low. Now they are starting to rise and seem likely to rise. The ability to get a higher return on bonds will put negative pressure on stock prices, sending P/E rations towards their historical averages. And that is OK!
Might be, but beside that the author clearly writes: "Some businesses in Harrogate are paying teenagers well above their minimum wage of £4.05 ($5.70) per hour, to tempt them into work".
This article has a lot of economical misconceptions.

To name just one of the most blatant: the author complains about wages not growing enough, but also that tech giants are "less efficient" in job creation, having more market value per employee, and requiring less employees to generate the same revenue and profit.

How the heck is a company supposed to pay more it's employees without being able to make more money per employee? And if it's making more money per employee, then obviously they will have more market value per employee. This is not a company being inefficient at "creating jobs" but actually being efficient at creating high quality jobs with wages that keep growing over time.

That's just basic math and economics, but seems to be beyond the understanding of the author.

All the part about the economic impact of the big four is quite nonsensical, and reads like the proverbial rant of light bulb makers that they can't compete with a free source of light like the sun.

As with most of the current zeitgeist the idea of the article seems to be that success is the problem. The problem with the big four is not that they exist, but why there aren't more of them? Why not the big 100 or 1000?
What's hindering other companies from being as successful in generating profits and high-paying jobs?
Maybe the big four are doing a lot of evil things to prevent others from joining the club. Maybe the government is also to blame. Maybe both big government and big companies are together in this (anyone knows the meaning of the word "lobbyist"?).

If you keep asking the wrong questions and ignoring basic economic reality you'll never get to know the answer.
Was Facebook a toy? It wasn't the first social network, and it was built to solve a problem on campuses for students.
Quit Abusing Malloc
Dude, if you asked the lowest airman "Hey, we have this awesome thing and we need you folks to blow it up. How do we do that?" that request would go up the full command chain at supersonic speed.

The military moves like lightning when it's 1) something they really want to do or 2) something egregiously stupid.
... and I always wonder how healthy an open source project or at least the teams’ community spirit is when there are that many open issues.
It still doesn't. But I'll grant it's turning out to be tech's single best attempt at hastening the climate change and cooking us all on this planet.
Yes, by all means, use a tool designed to fight the mafia and terrorists to criminalize a housing regulation dispute. That makes sense.
Ask HN: Interested in Ferrari Design for Your Product? Open Call for Partners
Pininfarina is a legacy Italian name - most known for iconic auto design. The studio always looks for partners who are looking for collaboration on design projects in:

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ex. Hardware, consumer products (inc. IoT), machines

STRATEGY DESIGN ex. Design systems, IxD, company 'Wow' factors

ARCHITECTURE/INTERIOR DESIGN ex. Offices, experience spaces, etc

TRANSPORT DESIGN ex. Autonomous, land/air/water, future transport

Some cool reading:
https://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/9-reasons-we-believe-the-catalyst-9000-rocks

If you have a product, service, space, or dream-to-build you'd like to discuss with our designers, let's talk.

Contact:
g.micheletti@pininfarinaextra.it
Title should be "Geographer claims old theory of regional inequality as his own".
You knpw the saying "can't beat something with nothing"?

Don't regulate! Come up with something better.
Secrets of Solar Flares Are Unlocked
What did people use before brushes?

(I love that the user complaining about curling minutiae has the username "stan_rogers", by the way. Possibly the most Canadian thing ever.)
In Las Vegas, most of the big casino companies are off or getting off NV Energy's grid. They've built their own solar farms and solar furnaces, or are contracting with other companies that have them.

You mention the set percentage of return. Having a massive customer like Caesar's jump ship hurts NV Energy enough that the hotels have to pay huge "exit fees," and if they don't NV Energy threatens to pass the loss on to the customers.

In the case of MGM, it had to pay $87 million to go solar[1]. Otherwise, NV Energy would have charged each of its residential customers $200 to make up the difference.

[1] https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/energy/mgm-resorts-to...
"Peace is a dangerous cause to fight for in Turkey right now. In the latest blow to academics, 11 members of the Turkish Medical Association, including its president, Raşit Tükel, were arrested in early-morning raids last week. Their crime? Using the slogan that war is a matter of public health, the association had called for a halt to the Turkish army’s cross-border assault on military units of Syrian Kurds, launched on 20 January to international consternation. (...) The raids follow the arrest of more than a thousand academics who signed a petition in January 2016 calling for peace in the country’s southeast, where government forces were fighting Kurdish separatists. Many face criminal charges, and hundreds lost their jobs."

"As one part of the government oversees mass arrests and orchestrates war, other parts are quietly but determinedly working to fix some of the entrenched problems in the research system. Thousands of new PhD places have been created in recent years, along with some brand-new research institutes, and universities have been energized into competing with each other by offering financial rewards for strong performers. It is a start, and has been enough to persuade at least some young scientists doing postdocs abroad to return home to establish independent research labs."
PyOpenCL provides a NumPy like array, usable from IPython or Jupyter,

https://documen.tician.de/pyopencl/array.html

It doesn't support the more complex NumPy APIs, but it's a good starting point.
GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors
Obligatory Joel on software blog on the subject: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
Link to paper, behind a heavy paywall.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24671