skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bottled water is a classic example of profiting off of regulatory arbitrage.

In well-developed countries, bottled water is easy money: move to a friendly jurisdiction, ship a transportable product out, and sell to a self-selecting, discretionary customer base at obscene markups. It's pure profit.

In less-developed countries, bottled water is enabled by and further perpetuates structural inequality: it provides clean water to those who are willing and able pay for it, without the infrastructure and maintenance load of municipal piping, dealing with governments, or having to be exposed to risks that coincide with this inequality, including theft, leaks, and distributed contamination.
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The General Data Protection Regulation, coming into force on May 25th in the EU.

https://www.eugdpr.org for more information.
> The comparison to surgeons is not adequate

I meant a surgery as in primary care physicians or dentists, not surgeons. It could be a barber though, or whatever really. You're missing the point I laid out explicitly - strikes aren't based on deception, and are announced.

And it's for a reason: to maximize the impact it has on the employer, while at the same time minimizing it for the "guilty to some extent" average people. Which is the exact opposite of the strategy you described.
As soon as I saw the author wasn't being precise I suspected that this wasn't a serious paper - you can't handwave numbers and say they are 0 when they are provably not 0, then build an entire argument on it.
Ask HN: How to reverse internet addiction?
I recently read an article about how the tech companies are using psychology to get us addicted to using their platforms. I think that I too have fallen prey to these techniques. I want to reduce the time I spent on Internet but at the same time do not want to let go of the benefits that internet provides. Any suggestion would be helpful.
I don't see (yet?) how this directly solves the problem.

Let's say I'm a foreign intelligence agency and want to influence people through ads. Feels like I just need to set up a shell corporation based in the states. Once I'm authorized, I can load the creative offshore.
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My grad school advice, as a PhD who is not good with rules:

- Understand what the rules are, why they are in place, and to whom they matter. Some are there to keep you from hurting yourself, some to keep you from hurting those on your level or below, some to keep your advisor from abusing you, and a lot to make sure you act in the best interest of the University via minimizing its liability, etc. You don't need to follow all of them all the time, but have some real justification when you do go off course, don't call attention to it, and don't screw anyone else over.

- For your research, you need a dual-prong strategy of making sure you check off the boxes for others, i.e. actually doing what your advisor got funded to do (she is on the hook for this for most grants), on time and under budget as well; then, pour all the rest of your efforts into researching what you are interested in, with an eye towards building your skill sets for the future and learning how to learn alone. Read widely enough to know the range of options for a solution space and deeply enough to know what has actually been tried in your field, and not just what has succeeded. Teach yourself stuff that your advisors don't know. The payoff from a broad familiarity with programming, statistics and discrete mathematics is large, especially if they're under-utilized in your field, and these skills are widely transferable. Furthermore experimenting/exploration through computing is often super cheap and the cost of failure is low, unlike destructive analysis of your physical samples.

- Keep your datasets small enough that you can master them. In the natural sciences, many scientists just want more and more data but getting and maintaining data is labor-intensive and has a huge opportunity cost. You don't always learn a lot of transferable skills that way unless you want to be a lab tech forever. The major exception is when obtaining data is primarily observation and measurement, which are really important to building intuition and just noticing subtleties.
In that case you'd be better off connecting it to a communal iPad or to a Mac that lives at home.
Good start. Maybe label them differently though:

* Great

* Typical

* Horrible

(I intentionally avoided the word 'normal' here due to it implying an average instead of a median.)

And a proposal for what to do with these three inputs:

Have three internal counters:

* Good

* Neutral

* Bad

'Great' increments 'good' by 1/2, decrements 'neutral' by 1/3, and decrements 'bad' by 1/6.

'Typical' increments 'neutral' by 2/3 and decrements 'good' and 'bad' by 1/3 each.

'Horrible' increments 'bad' by 1/2, decrements 'good' by 1/3, and decrements 'neutral' by 1/6.

Show the end users and the drivers the rating graphically by just stacking the three counters next to each other horizontally.

Edit: Note that I indeed mean INCREMENTS, I do NOT mean "multiplies the current value by".
Petition your local government to treat municipal water for microplastics. Petition your federal government to tackle the root problem of why microplastics end up in the water in the first place.
He is apparently working on a reboot - I think it's due out sometime this year or early next year.
I don't think people are "mad". But you have a track record of saying trivially disproven, unsubstantiated things on HN and you backtrack poorly from them, then you sprinkle in weirdly fixated antagonism like "NYC post winter stench". It's bad posting, and it's wrong besides--the gap between "they don't cook anything" and "they fry frozen appetizers and cook everything else as anyone else would" is not so small that you can handwave it away with "lol people are mad". I mean, hell, Applebee's has had apply-fire-to-food line cooks for twenty years or more. I knew kids in high school who worked there (and we'd go there because we got a discount).

(And if there's any wind at all, modern roof-mount kitchen venting will ensure you don't smell much of anything if there's even moderate wind.)
That won't work. All the ISP has to do is snoop port 53 and they can see your DNS whether you're using their DNS server or someone else's. You have to get the DNS traffic out of their visibility by using VPN or DNS TLS.
Probably if you really want but most of the deleted answers are deleted for a good reason. The only ones I'm glad I can see are the ones that link to a website with a good answer and are deleted because the answer must be on Stackoverflow! Can't have those other websites collecting precious pageranks can we?

Anyway 10k is really not a lot. I only ever answer questions if I have a problem, find the same unanswered question on SO and subsequently solve it, and I have 30k rep.

Also this guy makes it sound like they delete your answers without telling you, which isn't the case at all. SO definitely has problems with rule nazis but it is still the best QA site out there and this guy is an idiot.
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>I don't know about the others but Evian and San Pellegrino each come from one source, respectively situated in Évian-les-Bains, France and San Pellegrino Terme, Italy.

Yes, that applies to San Pellegrino (and most probably Evian also) but San Pellegrino (the company, which is anyway Nestlè) has 6 bottling plants in Italy:

https://www.sanpellegrino-corporate.it/it/stabilimenti-59

While it is true that San Pellegrino brand water is exclusively coming from San Pellegrino (and as well Acqua Panna comes from Scarperia only and Levissima comes from Cepina Valdisotto only) the other three plants are anyway marked as "Nestlè Vera" (with of course a distincion on the spring, respectively "fonte in Bosco", "fonte Santa Rosalia", "fonte Naturae")[1].

I believe (possibly I am wrong) that in many (non-EU) countries the bottled water is more like a "pure brand" than a "specific spring".

[1]See page 63 of this .pdf:

https://www.sanpellegrino-corporate.it/files/valorecondiviso...
And of course, people will ignore most of these deaths when comparing capitalism to the alternatives, because the responsibility is distributed, and can often be placed on individuals.
Submarine cables have actually been tapped in the past, so cutting them should not be much of a challenge. Blind Man's Bluff [1] is a book about this kind of thing (and all sorts of weird things that involve intelligence operations performed with submarines). It is one of those books that would not work if it were fiction: too unrealistic.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42343.Blind_Man_s_Bluff
You could also argue that with the Slack app's memory usage, it's closer to how a child would build professional app, and is more of a prototype than a shipping product. (No disrespect to Slack developers: I understand the tradeoffs of using Electron). My point is that if design shortcuts were taken, that's because development priorities were elsewhere (ostensibly, focusing on performance)
Interesting. Most of the people I know on it post less than on Facebook and there's a much higher ratio of other photos to selfies/screenshots compared to other social networks. I only post a couple times a month when I feel like I have a photo worth posting.

As more people move over from mainline Facebook and Facebook adds more Facebooky features to Instagram, I expect it will get less useful for this. There's also not a lot of timeline control, so you do end up with situations where someone goes on a trip and suddenly you have 20 posts in a row from a single person at Disneyland.

I suppose if you're using it as an all-purpose social network and trying to maintain a persona, the inability to post anything other than pictures applies a lot of pressure to always have exciting new pictures to post.
VYPEZ: Social media as it should, without privacy violation
Violation of our privacy, we make it all happen every day. But what does this have to do with this. This is because large social media platforms resell our data for unconscious marketing purposes.

That is why my team and I came up with VYPEZ. A social media platform that is not about making the creators millionaire like other platforms do. But to respect the privacy of the user. The user decides for himself what he wants to share, with whom and which group of people.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therealbastiaan/vypez-social-media-as-it-should-without-privacy-vi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
Less debt per capita than the US.

The sad thing is most of the debt was post the 1996 US tax change when the US Government (President Clinton + Republican Congress) decided to phase out the pharma/manufacturing special deal for Puerto Rico. The government of PR basically didn't do much to try to replace that industry until 2006 when it actually left, then started massive borrowing to make up for the shortfall (operating expenses, not capital spending), then 2008 financial problems happened and it kept compounding. The hurricane was comparatively minor.

PR people also engaged in protests bordering on terrorism (and some in outright terrorism) in the US or against US entities in the 20th century, and this colored the US-PR relationship. Most recently the Puerto Rico Vieques range protests caused the entire US military to basically pull out of PR, costing 6000+ jobs.

In 2012 they put in place a bunch of new tax credits for businesses and individuals, and enhanced them in 2017. It may be too little, too late, but combined with privatizing the power grid and a bunch of other capital investment, it's a better outlook today than it was in 2006. The ~$70B in debt is a big problem but it can be restructured; what matters the most is that the economy actually works so there is some surplus to service and pay down the debt.
They haul it up: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200...
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You never know when these accounts come in handy. I'll just buy it up.
FYI for others, in the US at least a "person to person" call was an operator-assisted call in which you didn't need to pay if the person you were supposedly trying to reach wasn't available.

And a collect call meant that the party receiving the call was the one who paid. Collect calls at least still exist. I've used them when calling a credit card company from overseas.
Because corrupt local politicians certainly have control over FEMA and other federal agencies that could be tasked with lending assistance.
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the cable is cut, both ends raised to the ship, new section of cable inserted, new splice done, encapsulated, put back in the ocean.

there is not enough slack in a modern well-laid cable system to hoist an intact cable to the surface.
CNBC, last week: "Meituan Dianping is buying bike-sharing firm Mobike for $2.7 billion excluding debt."

So Uber isn't alone in thinking a dockless bike share company can be worth over $200MM.
I think the effort at sincerity is a worthwhile one, so good on you.

Popular irony has so circled back on itself that it’s nearly lost all meaning. It seems like a waste of time, because if it isn’t funny then it’s only purpose is to humiliate or politicize.
Fuck their profits. Corporations can and are socially responsible at the expense of a few extra dollars.
I don't think it's about low quality content. That is the intent of the rules, but the overzealous application is because a) the people that spend most of the time enforcing rules obviously love enforcing rules, and are probably the kind of people you don't want doing it, and b) they tend to zip through the review queue and don't really consider questions fully. Especially with the "too broad" or "not clear what you're asking", often it is just that the reviewer doesn't understand the question because it isn't something they are knowledgeable about.

Despite its flaws it's still the best option.
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Most statements (at least in the US) have very cryptic descriptions though. For example there might be an entry for EPC #008 for $2.95, and by deduction I can figure out that is the identifier for the coffee kiosk in the lobby of my building, but there is no way I would be be able to identify all transactions. Normally it doesn't really matter except for large transactions which I would remember. I can see a small fraudulent charge going unnoticed.
I guess they might be working on a post-status-as-a-picture feature.
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I think you missed the "Very easy with ChromeOS 67." this doesn't work in any Chrome browser on any OS
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> Can you point me to a website or store where I can buy my fully autonomous waymo car?

Not sure what are you mentioning, self-driving cars only exist when you can buy them personally?

Let me know where I can buy a M1 Abrams, if you don't, I'll claim they don't exist!

But actually, you can get a ride in a Waymo self-driving car already, with nobody on the driver's seat.
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Worth noting that some payroll systems allow you to set up automatic donations to charities like the EFF. I know Gusto did.

edit: looks like some payroll systems may take a cut. Be wary, or set up recurring donation directly.
Yue sounds similar to libui[0], which has numerous language bindings, but seems to be in long term flux in terms of scope.

[0]: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
Interestingly, this was not always the case in the United States.[0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
It's a pretty impressive process. The cable is indeed hoisted up, after being "hooked" by a device dragging along the ocean floor. I think I saw a video of this once, here's one on youtube (not the same one I saw, but seems to have the same info): https://youtu.be/m6qTk5WNq9E
Considering Starlink et al., thoses cables won't be as needed in the future hopefully.
Also, don't forget about the 'race' to get more and more likes on the post.
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Because it has a real native backend. It uses Qt/C++. I really wish other chat apps would do it...
I agree with this.

I really wonder what Zuma was capable of?
Not to mention I find dog slobber to be extremely off-putting for reasons other than germs. Just like I would find it extremely off-putting if someone went up to me with a clean wet washcloth and started rubbing it on me.
Five years ago all the chatter was about private financing being the “new” normal for tech, as it offered closer control with fewer disclosure requirements. Companies like Uber were raising insane amounts of private money while thumbing their nose at public markets.

Now all of a sudden it seems there’s a new IPO filing every week or so. Does this indicate a stronger economy and/or pressure from shareholders to allow their investments to become more liquid, or are people smelling a downturn around the corner and hoping to cash out before valuations drop?
I disagree. No power for months is quite a bit worse than 2 days without the Internet, no matter what the scale or the cause is. 100k people without power is far worse than 100k or 1M without Internet.

On the scale of Internet outages, I agree, it's a whopper. Potentially affecting two dozens of African countries even just for 2 days is a big deal. It's still less important than several hundreds of thousands of people not having power for months. Which is reeeaaally bad. It blows my mind, actually, that such a thing is even possible on US territory.
My mistake then.
Let's remember the macroplastic of the bottle holding the water that outside Flint, MI is unnecessary pollution in nearly every country of people reading these words.

We can all stop buying bottled water. It won't solve every problem, but it will solve a lot of this one, while saving you money and focusing people on cleaning your current sources.
Many OS projects do this with Vagrant.
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Nothing about your situation says independent contractor. You work for an outsourcing sweatshop that sells labor as contractors to further reduce their rates.
You certainly can - the code is on GitHub with install instructions. I considered self-hosting but it's cheaper to just pay the yearly subscription fee. Also I feel good about paying for a service that respects me by opening the source and by giving me the ability to export if I want.
If you live in one of those areas you're far better off with a filtration system than regularly purchasing bottled water which is also not in any way guaranteed to be safe.
But then you get the great quip that 'freedom isn't free'...
With ChromeOS 67 you have gnu/Linux and Android in a container. But only on a pixel book at this point.
> Puerto Rico is a part of the United States and its real shame that we don't do more to help it.

Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States, and the purpose of a colonial relationship isn't for the imperial power to aid the colony. That's sometimes a side effect, but the intent is for benefit to flow the other way.

If Puerto Rico were part of, rather than a territory subject to, the United States, they would have representation in both houses of Congress and in the Electoral College.
In an environment such as links between UK-France there is a great deal more redundancy (at OSI Layer 1) and alternate paths. Coastal west african nations do not have a lot of diversity for fiber paths to reach the global internet (via Western Europe or Cape Town, ZA).

Sierra Leone is a great example, it has only one submarine cable connecting it, only one modern submarine cable landing station. There is now some terrestrial fiber that links Freetown to Monrovia, Liberia.
Out of interest, why?
All the more reason to push for our governments to properly regulate a safe supply of drinking water (infrastructure level).
I use android pay when it's available in the US, but the first time you encounter any specific reader, there's a learning curve. By "reader", it should be obvious we mean the reader that is in the store that you tap your phone or slide your card into, not the fingerprint reader on your phone.

Most of them look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_terminal#/media/File:P... and will occasionally have a contactless payment icon or an apple/android pay logo on the screen when you walk up to it. In the case of this card reader, the NFC point is at the bottom of the screen and you basically have to rub your phone on the screen to get it to read.

Sometimes they look like this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/14128014654 but that big pad at the top is a lie - those have never actually worked and if there's not a sign on it, the cashier will tell you it's "broken".

The rest of them look like this: https://twitter.com/dionlisle/status/768124197549723648 and there's no clear indication or consistency where the NFC contact point is, or it is also a lie and you shouldn't even bother.

I'd say about half of my credit card transactions these days involve me handing a card to someone who swipes it directly into the register - there's no way to possibly use NFC or enter a PIN for debit/etc.
because there are quite a few people at the local levels nationally (and internationally as well I imagine) that run for various positions that don't have the financial backing of a Koch or similar that deserve an opportunity to have the same footing as someone as financially backed.

If we want to get special interests out of everything like we claim, then we need to have the platforms for people to get themselves out there to be both effective and cheap enough to do so.
Quoted from the linked article:

Although the Obama campaign in 2012 did target potential voters using information gathered from Facebook profiles, there were key differences. The Obama for America organization accessed voters’ Facebook information when they logged on to the campaign web site via Facebook. Obama supporters were given a permission screen in which they could approve or deny the request, which clearly came from the Obama campaign.

Although Obama for America did collect data on users’ friends, it was at the time in line with Facebook policy. A Facebook spokesperson told us both candidates Obama and Republican Mitt Romney had access to the same tools. In 2015, Facebook changed the rules so that apps could no longer target the friends of users who downloaded them.

In the case of Cambridge Analytica, information was gathered from users and given to a third party under false pretenses.
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If you have some kind of purchases database you could practice data science on it.
Yes requires not only chromeOS 67 but also a pixel book and more info available at Google IO this year.