skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Heating something up and inhaling it is never going to be that healthy.

Just to add to this. Your gastrointestinal tract has evolved for millions of years to deal with all sorts of crap you can throw at it. It's always the safest route. Snorting or inhaling compounds is a quick way to the bloodstream, but an unsafe route since the sinuses and lungs aren't as good at protection and general healing as the stomach and gut.
>playing the middle-man between taxis and passengers everywhere, forever. A 1% chance at a one trillion dollar market cap

Investors in Uber had to be hoping for either a larger than 1% chance, expanding beyond taxis, fundamentally growing the taxi market, or all of the above. The existing taxi market has a total market cap of well under a trillion dollars, even including companies like Uber. The total US stock market only has a combined market cap of about 30 trillion, so I think you're overestimating the number of trillion dollar market cap industries that exist and the extent to which investors are gambling on success having payoffs quite that high.
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Everything that has drivers for Windows now has better drivers for Linux. I've plugged in 4x12m cnc machines that just worked out of the box. We did it for shits and giggles to see how bad it would screw up.
I think the point was that it was true for the national corporate media, but the local stations were somewhat protected until ajit pai allowed Sinclair to start sucking all of them up. Now the problems with MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, etc will pour into the local news stations as well. All local news and national news will be controlled by highly concentrated oligopolies. These past years we are seeing much more concentration of something that was already concentrated.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Local stations are the least of our problems. 232 executives control news to 277 million Americans (from 2012). This was what I hoped the article was about.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...
- people trust local media

- a single corporation owns a fuckton of those local stations

- the same corporation writes a script to broadcast on every station

- media hosts or journalists can't say "no". Do the job or lose your job. They're not free to report news without bias

- you don't know everything about everything, so you're inclined to trust the news because they're supposed to be neutral and report facts

- ultimately you internalize a biased opinion that was poured down onto you by the will of a handful of shareholders

Why can't you see the problem?
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Ehh, screen zoom could be better on 4k monitors. I always find the display scaling to be WAY off by default and have to mess around with xrandr settings in the terminal to change fractional scaling. This (and many other basic setup issues) doesn't make for a great first-hand experience when first starting out with Linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Fractional_Scalin...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023204 (2013)
Phil Donahue was not a news anchor. What makes this case different is that this is scripted material posing as real local news as part of basic cable package. Most people will not treat this as crafted message from a corporation, but actual news.
Not only that, SB 35 actually passed. Additionally, London Breed is the front runner for SF mayor.
> Are you using headless Chrome or similar to implement this?

Yes, with pyppeteer[0] (Python 3 port of puppeteer).

> I found that even pages smaller than 5MB get rendered to PDF.

Web-pages (URLs that contain no file-extensions, or certain ones such as ".php", ".aspx" etc.) are rendered into PDFs. Generated PDFs must also be less than 5 MiB[1].

> It doesn't seem to support chunked transfer-encoding:

True. I need to determine the size of a file before downloading it completely, and I used "content-length" header for that. I can see how it should also be possible for chunked transfer-encoding, but I'm not willing to implement it myself to be honest, and I doubt if it's supported by requests library.

Thanks for the feedback!

[0]: https://miyakogi.github.io/pyppeteer/
[1]: An arbitrary limit. Might change it in the future.
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I love low-cost funds. I also love not paying for newspaper articles so if anyone has a link to the full text...
I agree. It fills me with sadness that people think they can just decide what music is or isn't. Frankly it doesn't matter what they think.
They most likely had their speeches written by the same person/people/company. It goes like that in most countries: a big media outlet sells pre-made news/opinions to most newspapers which they then only adapt slightly and keep most of the taglines and significant phrasing.
> Hotels aren't pushing for hotel regs to be applied to houses out of some even-handed desire to prevent loopholes. The AH&LA is a cartel trying to have their competition outlawed.

Sure, but the opposite is equally true. AirBNB, Uber, and others aren't blatantly lying about their core business out of some even-handed desire to prevent loopholes. They're doing it exclusively to illegally escape regulation -- regulations their competitors are all bound to by law. They're trying to replace a cartel with their cartel.

The question to the public at large is: would you rather have an existing cartel that is subject to regulation, or a new cartel that also believes it is above the law.
The potential changes to NAFTA make that a hard question to answer.
That's a great point, and clarifies why I have never used these services. Where I live, I park for free anywhere, or at most $1/hr at a street meter.
>"Quitting is hard and a lot of people fail so .. don't quit."

No, I asked: what should vaping be replaced with?
I agree. 232 people control the news that 277 million americans are allowed to see. ([1] from 2012). Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself. I think it is this control at a national level that the Sinclair news anchors were being told to warn people about, but the NYT has flipped the narrative on them, and now they're the bad guys. Genius, but unfortunate.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...
This could easily backfire though. Voters would want even more bellicose and populist politicians, willing to impose even higher tariffs and even go to war for their perceived "wrongs".
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They literaly broke enterprise provisioning between the last beta and final release of High Sierra pretty much preventing update of huge fleets of enterprise MacBooks. That's not something business customers appreciate. And that's only the tip of the iceberg ignoring things like my MacBook deciding to fail to boot after a High Sierra security update.
I'm FAR more concerned about national stations like CNN than local Sinclair stations. Just anti-american agenda based news non-stop. Some of us happen to like the country we live in.
Here is an article talking about Trump's response on Twitter, which is basically saying that propaganda is okay because it is to fight all the other fake news:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/381229-trump-defe...
this happens for me on my portrait mode monitor. I suspect some sort of mobile styling is at work.
FWIW, I've already got git-for-homework, git-for-academic-articles, git-for-slide-decks, git-for-lesson-planning, and probably a few other things. I'd be curious to see what passes for version control in fields other than software/CS, but I don't think I've heard of any such thing in use. I don't even hear "git is too complicated" -- people don't seem to talk about (anything I recognize as) version control at all.
Brighthouse did it before they became Spectrum. They did allow me to turn it off though. I've heard that this is still the case with Spectrum, but I haven't tested.
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Yeah, just about as scary as GE, Disney, Time Warner et al. pushing their left wing agendas via CNN, MSNBC/NBC and ABC.

See, everyone can play this game in the Postmodernist world.
I used Turo once, during a visit to SF. The owner didn't meet me (it's optional on their part), and the process of "checking out" the car didn't seem any easier than renting a car from Budget. It's an elaborate sequence of taking pictures and uploading them to the Turo app in the right order. The cost was not too different from Budget either.

I used Turo simply because the closest "traditional" rental car office that was open was many miles away; while the Turo car was parked close.

I haven't used Turo since. Usually when I need a car it's because I'm flying somewhere, and getting a rental car at the airport just does not seem difficult to me.
During a AWS demonstration at work. The Amazon guy specifically mentioned, AWS is a more lucrative option for large companies than small ones, simply because it was an easy one time way of culling large teams in big companies who were adding very little to nothing in return in value.
It's not that simple. Nicotine is both a stimulant and a relaxant.

http://www.ti.ubc.ca/1997/10/31/effective-clinical-tobacco-i...

I don't personally take meth or anything like that, but low dose amphetamines are widely used to treat ADHD and related disorders.

It's good that you quit. I'm certainly not recommending nicotine to anyone. Just pointing out one factor behind the growing trend.
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It sets up distance to seriously dangerous things way too short for teens:
- few drops to get little high, teens love to experiment because they can show how cool/adults they are, and they're hooked in no time
- concentration of nicotine in nic shots is way too high, spill in your pocket or just having your hands "dirty" with 18mg can end up in emergency room or even death, if teens have younger siblings the risk goes up, bit of liquid from a tiny bottle of nicotine shot can easily kill an infant (and they love to catch and suck random things)
- comparison with cigarettes sometimes doesn't make sense, you can't accidentally eat a pack of cigarettes in few minutes, with liquid nicotine it's enough to spread it on the skin (not even ingesting it) which absorbs it extremely well and it's hard to wash off.
etc.
By that logic, they never had the right to interfere with broadband. They're the Federal Communications Commission, not the Federal Airwaves Commission.
I have only limited formal music education, but I am an ardent amateur performer and listener. But I agree with the person who ran down the aisle at the 1970 performance, yelling "Stop! I will confess!"

Western music requires rhythm, melody, harmony. (though rhythm may stand nearly on its own.) Beauty can be subjective to a degree (some non-Western cultures do not find dissonant notes to be objectionable in an otherwise harmonious piece) but coherence of chord progression and melody are fundamental.

This "Four Organs" piece is to my ear a timing algorithm, far less interesting than a perpetual canon ("song in rounds") because it implements only rhythm - melody and harmony are missing. Frère Jacques... no, scratch that, even "Happy Birthday To You" seems a grand compositional achievement by comparison. It is a meager elevation beyond the sort of finger and timing exercises every music student performs -- play a scale in eight notes. Now dotted eights, now triplets, etc. This sort of timing-coherence pattern is pretty common in percussion -- two musicians playing in different time signatures so that the beats periodically align. But the arrogance of four organs playing a monotonous note stretches this simplistic exercise beyond any value, and to raise it up as a great achievement is absurdity equal to the art world's all-black canvas, empty box, or filled rubbish bin.

I'm going to use Rush Limbaugh's definition of art : (paraphrase) "Art is what I can't do. I can throw paint on a canvas. I can glue litter to a floor. I can pound the keys of a piano. That's not art.
I cannot carve a statue of David from marble. I cannot paint the Mona Lisa or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel nor compose an orchestral work. These are all art." [edit: added last sentence]
Why is the part about Sinclair news reporting on "Islamic terror" and "Trump support" singled out. Do they not report on anything else at all? Or is reporting on both this stuff by default a wrong thing to do?
> Disclosure: I am putting a Kickstarter together to use GMOs to eliminate tobacco long term.

Could you elaborate on this? It sounds interesting, but it also sounds kind of "Scorpio-like" [0] like you are some Bond villain plotting to take over the world's tobacco supply with a genetically modified super-tobacco that will strangle other tobacco at the roots unless farmers pay you for weed killer. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnod9vtB4xA

[1] https://www.roundup.com/en-us
Semi related, but in rainy weather (Washington), there's plenty of times where I'm basically guessing at the line location. I'm not sure if I'm especially bad at it, but with light reflections all over the place, I lose track of those little white lines.

This gets made worse then construction strips old lines and draws new ones a couple feet over. The old ones in dry weather are barely visible, but in watery weather, they hold water differently than normal road surfaces.. meaning there are now lines which, due to different water levels of normal road surfaces, form visible lane lines competing with the real lane lines.

The reflective bumps are a huge boon for me when they exist. I'm always surprised more accidents aren't caused by poorly visible lines.
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What is said in the media and what is said in negotiations are likely very different. Trump is a populist right-moderate politician who appeals to blue collar workers. Trade deficits are easier to understand than IP laws.
It's ironic (cue pedants) because they're denouncing one-sided presentations that advance a particular agenda while using a facade of ostensibly independent-minded locals that are actually mouthpieces for their remote overlords.

It betrays that their indignation isn't so much over dangers to democracy as it is their loosening grip on the ability to frame the discussion of any given day.

https://youtu.be/TRBppdC1h_Y

https://youtu.be/0ljI-isM0bg
I agree in that iPad are being perceived as too expensive here in EU, notably because of the advantaging EUR/USD conversion rate that Apple don't really follow when it come to pricing it's product.

On top of that shop owners tends to rely more on local vendors for cash machines, and many of those still heavily built atop of the Windows ecosystems. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if W10 surpassed Android for this kind of appliance. Here in France I often see waiters use device with old school stylus on UI with really small buttons. I'm not even sure what OS this is to be honest.
Isn't gogs basically dead and replaced by gitea?
> No one cares about the cost of Windows when you're running someone else's proprietary desktop software on it

This is a small and shrinking corner of the market. Valuable. But still a corner.
We'd love to hear more about what you think of this, perhaps you can contact me mael.primet@snips.ai and I would love to do a Skype with you, if only because I read quite a few of your posts over the year and am curious to know you.

We are providing the source, and people can rebuild it from scratch and ensure that their device is running the open-source code. In theory, it is each user who should deploy his device. If an industrial partners want to ship our software to many devices, indeed it will be needed for them to prove he hasn't modified the software and we are happy to learn about best practices to help them do so, so we will look at this
I have mixed feelings about this. Uber is a horrible company but they created real competition for a lazy industry that sorely needed some.

Turo is doing the same. When I wanted to rent a Tesla for a few days Turo was the only viable option. The majors all wanted around $1000/day; I found one on Turo for a little over $100 and the free fuel brought that down to around $80. It was a delightful experience.
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> Who would abandon an ecosystem that they own over 80% of?

They aren't abandoning the desktop Windows ecosystem, they’ve just demoted Windows from a single desktop and server org that the rest of the firm orbits to something that serves the areas where there actually is expected to be growth.
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Do you mind sharing which country and how long ago was this? That's quite a strong risk-averse & duty-of-care-oriented response to the incident. Was this a teenage military service thing?

(I can see your username but I don't want to assume.)