skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a tough problem to combat, because what can be done? Barring property owners from participating in local governance?

Zoning shouldn't be local governance, because it's too easy to capture. It should be regional at the very least. A San Francisco politician doesn't have to care that most of the people working in his city have to commute 1hr+ to get there...that's someone else's problem. All he has to care about are the people in his own district. If he is given jurisdiction over a decision like zoning where a net negative to the region is a net positive for his constituents, he's going to make the decision that benefits his constituents. He shouldn't be given a decision like that.
BazQux Reader: https://bazqux.com .

$20/year, and absolutely worth it. It just works.
> Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself.

Can you cite that? It sounds like prime material for Reddit's /r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/
According to USV, the reason is that the underlying technology is really exciting and has lots of potential:

> The (original) internet brought us a world where any site could link to any other site, and they could all be accessed from anywhere in the world. This was the first interoperability revolution. The next one will be with data and digital assets. For a long time, data has been the property of platforms — with cryptonetworks and cryptoassets, data can live outside of anyone platform, under the control of users. This has the potential to open up a lot of innovation. [0]

Matt Levine as usual had a bit of fun with this:

> Look: They are right, and I was wrong, and I am sorry. I thought that CryptoKitties was just a game that allows you to buy cartoon cats on the blockchain, and I thought it was silly. But I completely missed the point. CryptoKitties is actually a game that allows you to buy cartoon cats on the blockchain, and put little hats on them. [1]

[0] https://www.nickgrossman.is/2018/zombies-eating-kitties/

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-22/when-marg...
Economic theory and history [0] day Tariffs are a bad idea. I like Senator Warren but this seems like an idea that will be just as painful as the least time we tried despite the differences in implementation.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_...
OK but now you have to explain why pushing a "left wing agenda" is supposed to be scary.

Was it voting rights? Is voting rights scary? Or perhaps universal health care? Is that scary? Or a public education? Wooow that's REALLY scary!

Come on.. scare us! We liberals love a good scary story!
Thanks. =) It's currently being translated into Arabic, and I'm yet to find a Chinese speaker (who is willing to translate).
I’m, at-best, a mid-level Linux user and I’m coming from MacOS.

I bought a Lenovo Carbon X1 4th gen a few months ago. I was originally going to keep a Windows partition, but wiped Windows 10 Home after about 20 min. The fresh install of Linux Mint was even simpler than expected. I’ve been really enjoying Linux ever since, with the only issue being the HiDPI support mentioned elsewhere ... a 1.5x would be perfect and once that happens, I’d recommend my build even to my parents who are long-time mac/windows users.
A lot of people believe that, but it's far from proven in the general case. There are some proven examples of the US government influencing news (at home and abroad), there are clearly advertiser influences, there are political influencers (e.g. Fox News) on partisan channels.

But I haven't seen evidence for it as the norm. Obviously this piece was published by the New York Times, for example.
Tesla Model 3 Deliveries Expected to Come Up Short
In your opinion, what does it say about HN that people have the need to say "this is very complicated, don't worry if you don't get it"?
> A great open-source voice-assistant is ambitious.

Yes, I get that. But so was writing the Linux kernel.
Harper's.

https://youtu.be/RGGrvn44LNA
Better title would be the end of the Windows Division at Microsoft. Certainly not the end of Windows - it's an enormous revenue generator for Microsoft. But I believe it shows that they believe the future lies within Azure, AI and Microsoft 365. This will probably help them focus.
Defensive programming framework for .NET Framework
A 2010 thinkpad works well.
Uber Zap: Blazing fast, structured, leveled logging in Go
I've used recent enough Dell and Asus laptops, no issues whatsoever.
>immature and unproven technology

Wasn't old windows desktop technology the one proven to be bad? I mean I can say this because I like windows, but people have made fun of windows bugs and viruses for three decades now..

Granted, Windows Store still sucks ass years later its introduction, but building a new ecosystem with unified and modern tooling was probably a necessary step for them to make
Office is Office365 rebranded - which just means the lock-in is a monthly subscription instead of a license. The lock-in is further exploited because email is the cornerstone of any business productivity suite and it'll be hosted on Azure now (which is a huge lock-in to their ecosystem).
One thing I love about debugging on Windows is that a program being debugged cannot grab the mouse and keyboard. On Linux, if you break a program that has a context menu open, you can say goodbye to your ability to interact with the PC.
Please provide reasoning as to why if you are going to claim that this article is not appropriate for HN.

I did not see anything in it that would be a red flag.
Do you know if the data engineer position is an engineering position or more based on ETL tools/packages? The job posting doesn't mention anything about languages or skills required.
Or our constitutional republic, as the case may be.
This salary range is much too low to be posting on hacker news, FYI. Especially for the comically large number of skills that you're looking for. If someone did have all those skills, why would they work for you for the salary that you have posted, rather than many SV/SF companies which will pay many times that?
Not the person you're replying to, but I also have a hard time seeing the problem. Or rather, I can see the problem, but this is how I would've expected news to have been done for decades. I grew up when there was only 4 TV channels and no internet. I would have assumed CBS (or its parent) would have controlled all the CBS affiliates in this way in the 80s. NBC would do the same, etc.
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> You have all sorts of metals, liquids, flavoring compounds, wicks, etc

Metal content is negligible unless you dry hit. No one likes that so it's pretty much a self-limiting problem.

Flavoring compounds, though... there are liquids out there that contain diacetyl (a "buttery" flavoring). It's relatively common in foods, but is known specifically to cause issues when heated and inhaled.

ETA: I just saw that this is mentioned in the article.

> Any one of those components could be harmful.

Yep. The best harm reduction strategy at the moment seems to be to stick to well-known and establish manufacturers of eliquid.
Looks like you have no intern positions on your website
> people are often extremely attached to their personal vehicles

And for good reason. Cars are expensive to maintain even when driven and cared for responsibly. No idea what would be considered a reasonable listing price on Turo, but to hand my keys over to a 21 year old stranger in town for a weekend vacation, I dunno... maybe I'd do it for >$100/day.
"Reviews" are useless, in fact, they are worse than useless, they are just another form of spam. Those reviewers and bloggers make their living on commission, thus the incentives are not aligned. You can find positive reviews of pyramid schemes and malware.

Mattresses are in a way kinda interchangeable. Sure there's different quality and a well worn mattress will be different from a new one, but, in general, you probably aren't going to sleep differently on a different brand of a similar quality mattress.

About 6 years ago I read that people who bought their mattress from the internet we're just as satisfied with their purchase as people who tried them out in the store beforehand.

Plus most people's opinions suck anyway.
Could you get a grant or two?
In the same vein:

Building a container from scratch in Go (Liz Rice) @ Container Camp 2016 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utf-A4rODH8

What's a container really let's write one in go from sctach (Liz Rice) @ Golang UK Conference -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPuvDm8IC-4

Cgroups, Namespaces and beyond: What are containers made from (Jerome Petazzoni) @ DockerCon 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5i-N34im8

Building Containers in Pure Bash and C (Jessica Frazelle) @ ContainerSummit 2016: https://containersummit.io/events/nyc-2016/videos/building-c...

First two are basically the same talk, but it doesn't hurt to hear the same ideas more than once.
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We're a biotech company developing novel software, hardware, and biochemical systems to give scientists new methods of discovering the mechanisms behind cancer and immunology. We're looking to grow our software team of currently seven engineers (including myself) and three QA engineers to support the rapid adoption of our technology and release of three new novel products this year. Scientists are really excited about our technology as evidenced by the company seeing $71 million in revenue in 2017, which was more than double our revenue in 2016. We're working to continue this trend this year.

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Nothing is wrong with you, it was enjoyable. Very very different. I found myself bobbing alone with the maracas enjoying the organs as they built up.
> And with every shift towards ads

You mean like Apple asking me to use iCloud every single time I unlock my Mac? Or every time I power on my test iOS devices? Or do you mean up I have to open the App Store to apply MacOS updates and click past the ads?

Windows 10 adds some shortcuts to the start menu during the bi-annual updates, they're annoying but once they're deleted they don't come back. They also have an add in Explorer for OneDrive that also goes away permanently when dismissed.

If I had to choose between MacOS/iOS Ads, and Windows 10 Ads, I'd choose Windows but ideally they'd both stop it.

> trying to force a mobile-first UI on a desktop/laptop

Windows 8.1 and 10 don't require UWP apps to be full screen. And actually the Settings App in Windows 10 is fantastic because it responsively adapts and is usable whatever size you make it.

MacOS on the other hand won't allow you to resize most settings windows and they're fixed to a size that's comparable with a 90s era Macintosh despite MacOS only working on machines with high resolution displays.

> I switched to OS X ... with Win8

So you've never used Windows 10 first hand then and you're just spouting things you've read to validate your decision?
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Minerva Analytics is seeking a Software Engineer to join its team, a recent venture to emerge from the Cogo Labs proven incubation model. Your raw energy and hunger to hone your engineering chops building consumer web applications will become the foundation of your success here. You'll be immersed in full-stack development on performant, feature-rich web and native applications backed by data-driven analytics and design teams. You aren't just another cog in the wheel here: your work will actively determine the success of our products.

The successful candidate will…
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If they play their cards right, this will actually strengthen that part of the universe. Windows was led by people who wanted it to be a consumer operating system in every home. That lead them to do a bunch of stuff that was nonsensical to the business world (Win8 start screen on Windows Server? Seriously?) This move makes Windows subservient to people who actually understand those users.

Their continued dominance in business is contingent on them preparing their products for the next wave of workers. The generation that grew up typing papers out on their phones is going to have a different expectation of what productivity means. They’re going to have to scramble to meet it. Since Salesforce is not so quietly buying a modern productivity portfolio to take it from them.
You can like your country and still be critical of behaviour done in it's name. In fact - I would say it's a duty. If you care about something, you care about it's well being and reputation.

Would you call reporting on, say, The Mai Lai Massacre or the Kent State shootings "anti-american"? How about Monica Lewinsky or Watergate?
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“An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar”(2006): Taryn Simon
Google DNS also has issues resolving DNSSEC-enabled Cloudflare domains.
https://github.com/loopindex/ckeditor-track-changes
From what I can see, their achievements are selling costly cars with manufacturing problems, bland interior to a dedicated fan base at a loss.

I can see why nobody thought it possible, but it isn't tremendous
If I had a vaping problem, a "buttery" flavoring would probably make me sick enough to quit.
Afer accounting for their costs, Uber drivers don't make much money. As a casual gig a lot of people with other sources of income have probably found it's not worth their time. If you have no other options, working 80 hours/week as an uber driver might make you enough to eeek out a living.
Sometimes it's not even at the ISP level. I experienced a similar adventure a few months ago. I turns out that my cellular hotspot caches PDFs. It's not even at the ISP level, it's in the little box in my pocket.

Naturally, it can't be disabled.
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Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

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It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.

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that's for sure, mostly 10-15 years after. Doesn't change the fact that this never happened in the UK; old council houses are still ugly, energy inefficient and often mouldy inside... not to mention some awful&impractical design choices
Interesting!

Under what license are you open-sourcing the platform?

And what is your business model?

How well do you perform in benchmarks? (Assuming there are benchmarks)
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The script came from Sinclair Broadcast Group, the country’s largest broadcaster, which owns or operates 193 television stations.

Last week, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a copy of the speech and reported that employees at a local news station there, KOMO, were unhappy about the script. CNN reported on it on March 7 and said Scott Livingston, the senior vice president of news for Sinclair, had read almost the exact same speech for a segment that was distributed to outlets a year ago.
What about the male labor force participation rate?
Seems like we need to get more people cord-cut immediately...
It's easy if you just blindly accept the axioms of one of the groups. You accept the axioms of left wingers, so it doesn't seem scary to you. I'm not a right winger but they could just as easily say: murdering millions of unborn children, robbing us of our right to defend ourselves, denying the right to freedom of association, infringing on our freedom of speech, infringing on our freedom of religion, etc. Those are all pretty scary.
Why is this news? Conan covered this years ago. https://mic.com/articles/77721/watch-conan-o-brien-bust-loca...