skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's when the deal was arranged between the companies. It was just approved by the government. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/att-time-warner-ruling.html
Definitely a cultural difference, and I'm intrigued about this approach. I used to work the shoe department at K-Mart and spent most of my time cleaning up after people who tried shoes on and just left them in the middle of the aisle, or trashed the boxes getting them open (how???), or tossed their old shoes in the box and walked out wearing a brand new pair.

Maybe not as consumer-friendly as what I'm used to, but it sounds heavenly from the employee standpoint.
It's not because of swearing, it's generally because of a grudge.

Making false statements to police is not protected speech. In every instance of this happening that I'm aware of when police are able to track down the individual(s) responsible, they are prosecuted, generally to the fullest extent of the law. It's dangerous to make something like a murder/suicide threat, and it should be treated & prosecuted as such. Yes, the police probably overreact, but they don't necessarily know it's a hoax.
So, will anti-trust please bust this monster? And split Comcast along the way too (media from ISP), for good measure.
That's when it was originally published, it was just approved... and is still AT&Ts "go to" page for the information. Additionally, you can see their "applauding of the courts" here:

http://about.att.com/story/court_rules.html

... and now excuse me while I try to figure out what the remaining horcruxes are so I can destroy them, and stop it (MA Bell) from coming back to power /s
How much AT&T Time Warner stock does your roomate own?!
Also have bad internet in LA. I grew up in North Dakota though, and back there my family is getting 1 gigabit internet for $100/mo from Midcontinent.

Absolutely bizarre and ridiculous that North Dakota, a state that has far less developed infrastructure than either coast, has better internet than Los Angeles.
Count Dankula I assume, among others.
Is there any support for bounded type variables? Or plans to add them?
excuse me sir, your western chauvinism is showing
It’s crazy to me how one judge gets to decide the fate of a 100 billion dollar merger. Humans are fallible.
What's also interesting is how the Romans initially resisted incorporating Greece and the other Hellenistic kingdoms until they felt that they had to by the 140's BCE. Also, note that the Romans had no such compunctions on adding Spain to their holdings after the 2nd Punic War. (the massive amounts of silver in Iberia probably had a bit to do with it)
Depends on the distortion. A visual distortion means that you aren't seeing things as they really are. That could be problematic for your ability to drive, or to ride a bike, or any number of other activities. You could be indifferent to that, but it could still be a genuine problem for your ability to function.
Perhaps you should avoid GAE for hobby projects, but if you can afford it, it can save you some money in not needing any ops. For hobby sites you probably barely need ops.
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The DOJ had tried to stop the deal[1] but it appears that the court ruled it could carry on [2].

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said in a statement the DOJ was "disappointed
with the Court's decision today. We continue to believe that the pay-TV market will be
less competitive and less innovative as a result of the proposed merger between AT&T and
Time Warner. We will closely review the Court's opinion and consider next steps in light
of our commitment to preserving competition for the benefit of American consumers."

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-time-warner-m-a-at-t/u-s-...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rules-on-att-time-warner-...
Somewhere there's a commercial application or two for this waiting to be discovered.
I still find it bizarre that no one has stated the obvious yet:

Having a component tree (because the rendering model of a browser requires it) does not mean state management needs to be cramped into the same tree or use a tree in the first place!

A DOM tree itself doesn't do any kind of binding and it doesn't do inter-component communication. (it merely offers events) Why should web components? Keep them as dumb as DOM nodes please.

A lone H1 element doesn't register itself on some event bus, doesn't observe attribute changes and doesn't create odd 'actions' tied to some obscure state management system.
And it shouldn't.
This is a distribution company -- internet, cable TV, satellite -- acquiring a content company (the communications portion of Time Warner was spun off as Spectrum). Isn't this just a vertical integration?
Judy arrays are to restrictive
to be useful, they should at least allow for variable length keys
Another comment [1] indicated that "this isn't the internet Time Warner (...) this is the entertainment Time Warner".

Is that correct? (I'm not familiar with the US broadband market)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297966
The article is probably the original announcement. The merger was approved today [1].

https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-is-set-to-decide-whether-...
why does Tesla/SpaceX generate so much sophomoric positivity?

Watching those boosters land literally gave me goosebumps. I just thought, holy shit, this guy is the real deal.
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> And importantly a majority of the teachers were not properly debriefed until several months later (some never were)

No. No. No. That is entirely wrong. Watch the original video. Every one of the teachers is introduced to the learner after the experiment and they were told no actual harm came to them. At least in the original Milgram iteration, all of the teachers knew by the end.
The broken promise of Web Components (2017)
Ask HN: Running a solo software business? Please share your experience
I currently work in a corporate environment, but I've longed dreamed of launching a software product and running my own business.

For those of you who are, or have been, a solo software business, what has been your experience running a solo business (good or bad)?
Is NFS viable at all with untrusted clients on a LAN? Seems it requires all machines on a LAN to be trusted, with proper user IDs.

It's fast though.
Well, for one example, Google basically shut off audio for the entire web a while back and panicked and reverted it once people angrily pointed out they had messed up. Given their willingness to destroy swathes of old content (just like killing - for good reason, at least - all existing Flash and Unity content permanently) it's not hard to imagine them disabling HTTP permanently in Chrome, with exceptions for enterprise LTS builds if you have group policies.

Typically Google justifies these decisions to kill portions of the web with "security" and/or "user experience", and it's easy to use both of those reasons to justify disabling HTTP forever. You can remove the 'secure' indicator!
"So-called "bad trips" can be tremendously beneficial afterwards. They're "bad" because you get into the kind of deep, uncomfortable introspection that most people would want to avoid naturally."

While such uncomfortable introspection could certainly occur in a bad trip, it's far from the only kind of experience that could make a trip bad. You could also find yourself imagining you're in something like a horror movie or in hell, dead, or dying.

Terrence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake coined the term "necrotogen" (a play on the much more common term "entheogen") for the common effect that psychedelics have of being confronted with death. Such an experience often feels very real, sometimes even "more real than real".

That kind of experience is much more than simply uncomfortable introspection, especially when it's combined with temporal distortions and confusion that is also common in psychedelic experiences -- where one feels like what one experiences takes years, decades, centuries, or millennia, or that one is stuck in a temporal loop of doing the same thing over and over again, or that one can't escape from the distressing situation that one is in, or that one doesn't know who one is or where one is or what is happening or what is real and what isn't.

Are you really dying? Did you just murder someone? Or are you being murdered or threatened in some way? Did someone call the police or ambulance? Are you in jail or being tortured or abducted by aliens or dead and experiencing decomposition, etc.

Despite all that, I fully agree that one could learn a lot from such very negative experiences -- for example, how to cope with them -- and the "bad" trip could wind up being one of the best trips one ever had because of what it revealed to you about yourself and the world.

Also, it's quite common for such a "dark night of the soul" experience and/or ego-death to be followed by an experience of rebirth and of very positive, life-enhancing and life-embracing revelation (incidentally, such psychedelic experiences bear strong similarities to shamanic initiation experiences, where sickness, bodily dissolution, and death prefigure and even legitimize the abilities and status of the shaman). But even without the latter, it could still be very constructive, and one could learn a lot.
I may have overstated it, but it seems he's been intentionally lying, including in court... Just that should suffice, regaddless of his reasons.
I think about it a lot. The term is eco-psychology. You should look into it, it's really interesting!

You're right to say that we have evolved alongside nature, and it is really only since the industrial revolution that we have fully diverged from the natural world. We live, eat, breath, sleep, and dream completely man-made everything. Things like Google can exist, because of our collective imagination and effort to sustain it.

What that means for us is that we are ignoring our biology and the habitat we have evolved to thrive in. We think we are all geniuses because we've created this artificial landscape, but we still have barely scratched the surface of our own bodies and how they work and why.
Thanks for the helpful breakdown. I might have to give the blood sugar monitoring a shot.

Just curious, in what way were you thinking it would be dangerous? I'm trying to find some good scholarly research articles, but I'm not sure what I should be searching for.

I think kind of the "common knowledge" perspective is that high carb causes obesity and diabetes. But I'm wondering if there are other dangers beyond those that you might be referring to.

In regards to obesity and diabetes, I think a lot of researchers are starting to doubt those claims. Here is an article from the American Diabetes Association that concluded that the participants of the study (all of whom had diabetes) responded well to higher carb diets:

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/1/2/77

Also, there are two notable cultures/groups of people--the Okinawans and the Adventists--that eat high carb, low fat, low protein, and both of which have some of the best longevity rates and highest rates of centenarians. Obviously those types of statistics are really hard to determine causation, but I thought that was worth mentioning that they at least don't have high rates of obesity and diabetes like you'd maybe expect.
None. He's a luddite.
The "consent or no dice" coercion will get fixed later on (2019 as it seems) with ePR [1]. Right now you have a choice to not use the platform. It isn't a fair choice (hence ePR) but its there. And, you have the choice to request your data. Its a big step up, but its not yet where it should be. Baby steps.

At least the EU does something about this data gathering mania (as for why, see Bruce Schneier's essay "Data is a toxic asset so why not throw it out?" [2]); the USA, for example, doesn't (yet). The USA just repealed net neutrality. Its good in a way because now we can watch the long term effects from the other side of the pond. I suggest Americans do the same with GDPR. Observe and learn from each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_(European_...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_t...
Compared to betting odds (https://www.betfair.com/exchange/football/competition/561474...) this approach thinks that Brazil is much less likely to win.
I was on all the social media but took the plunge and deleted them all.

Some things I visited to blow time like imgur have infinite scroll in their apps but are paginated on their mobile site, so I just visit the mobile site and stop after one page. I had disabled infinite scroll in RES at first but eventually left Reddit altogether.

I no longer browse app stores, Netflix, hulu, etc. I already know what I want to watch and search for it directly.
Check our Michael Pollen's new book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, if you're interested in getting a stronger historical context of the use of these drugs in all sorts of settings.
This is a topic I'm interested in, because I have NO interest in exercise.

Do I think it would help my health? Yes, outside of some absurd circles, absolutely.

Do I think it would improve my self-confidence? Probably, if I stuck with it, but I sincerely doubt that I would because of the heavy incentives against it.

Am I just being obstinate and stubborn if I acknowledge it would likely help but am still not doing it? I have no safe answer to that question. "No" is clearly wrong, but "Yes" dismisses the problems.

Here's my problem: Exercise is extremely uncomfortable. It's hot, humiliating, and painful. If I push through that...it's 10 seconds later and I'm more hot, more humiliated (even with no one else around) and in more discomfort. I can push through again, but my brain is well aware of what to expect. There's no "endorphin high", no sense of satisfaction. Those are at least many days off in even the smallest of quantities (for me at least - people that cheerfully tell me of their "good pain" just make me feel more misunderstood/disregarded/ a failure). All the benefits are theoretical and in future, with benefits that equal the costs even further out, while all the costs and pain are up front. Humans are bad at managing such equations - I certainly am.

Even this awareness is a sense of failure. Am I making excuses, or do I really feel more pain and less "good pain" than other people? Either answer is not good for me. And these are what my brain focuses on while suffering. Listen to music? Read a book? Watch a movie? Everything is made harder because I'm literally struggling, and so every moment of discomfort progresses at a snail's pace. I've been exercising for...45 seconds?!

I know I can't get a training montage that is effortless, but there has to be something that makes me far more able to sit down and struggle through a mental activity for hours than to struggle through a physical activity for 5 minutes, much less the actual time (and repeated time) needed for any improvement. Not that mental exercise is easy - I have plenty of mental tasks I've been procrastinating on - but I have successes there where I have none in the physical arena.

I've tried various ways - small frequent things at home, team things, sport-focused, fewer high intensity things, just taking walks. So far the closest success was fencing, where I started to feel some of my aches and muscle pains were satisfying while hurting...but every class was an effort, both to sacrifice the time and to face the pain, and once I dropped I stayed dropped. That was 20 pounds ago so I know trying again would be MORE painful than before.

I'm left interested in the result while having no interest in attempting (again) without some reason to think this time will be different.
The loss of food culture in the US is partly to blame. All of the loopy fad diets people are describing here are a symptom of the same larger problem that has caused the obesity epidemic. There is no shortage of intact culinary cultures in the world that include wonderful, healthy, inexpensive things that anybody can prepare with a little time and love. Accordingly, your best bet for good, cheap produce and healthy stuff in a big city is any immigrant/ethnic market. These usually depend on parallel supply chains that allow them to undercut and outperform mainstream supermarkets.
To be fair, the DOJ actually tried to stop this but was overruled by the courts.
> Father Ted
Also, priests tend to have pet bricks and drink motor oil.
Because it's from 2016, that's when the acquisition was originally announced (check the internet archive). The real news is that the court just approved the acquisition: http://about.att.com/story/att_to_acquire_time_warner.html
This has nothing to do with the broadband market. Time Warner Cable was spun off from Time Warner in 2009 and subsequently bought up by Spectrum in 2016.
Cafeteria. Worked in a company where we had free lunch and breakfast. It was very sociable.
It's an extraordinarily unique mental exercise to fight HARD for 30 seconds, to put the bar on your back and immediately start to panic from the weight pulling you down, and to push through that and squat down, feeling the whole time like you're going to get crushed, only to push back up, as hard as you can, and get to the top, and then realize you have to do it another 4 times. Undergoing that level of acute hardship on a regular basis gives one a different type of confidence, and changes how one sees the every day struggles one goes through.
Second paragraph is great. I haven't worked at a startup, but my experience in a big company is that you can definitely innovate, change things, and make things better.

But I wouldn't call it thrilling, I'd be interested to see how many startup employees found it thrilling.
In the context of net neutrality ending, this looks like AT&T acquiring the means to exploit discriminatory traffic routing. It seems like there will be a gold rush of sorts, towards building walled gardens, segmenting the Internet into fiefs.

Does ending NN allow an ISP to completely block a website? I.e. to what extent does this also open up the door to overt political censorship?
I think sets like 0.0x₁0x₂… ought to be considered "mixed random", not "non-random", since they are homomorphic to a superset of random numbers. (My terminology is hand-wavy.)
Time Warner Cable (the ISP) was already bought by Charter and renamed to Spectrum.
No, this is the result of that failure. ATT/TW wanted to do this in 2016 as the other comments state. This was the approval.
There should be a NO button too, right? Personally, I just bounce from most pages that show any kind of overlay that is not adblocked. There are lots of sites and my time is short. I can just hit the next search result.
Selling the shovels during the gold rush.
Did I miss something, or why are you discussing HTTPS as a counter argument?
Hidden variables where specificly proposed as a solution to non-locality. So, I just mean bad in that they did not solve that problem.
Serverless: The New Way of Thinking
Deploying smart contract to Rinkeby testnet using Truffle and mac OS X
I actually watch Vice News Tonight every night. I'm a well off 29 year old white male for demo info. I find they often cover stories I haven't heard about and their foreign war reporting I think is fairly unique outside of like a dedicated Frontline episode.

There are definitely reporters I like more. For instance Ben Anderson always brings a lot of context to the minutiae of the many wars. Elle Reeves (charlottesville) also usually has interesting stories, lots of times focusing on kind of the opposite of my morality; Showing perspectives from the racist right and people like the 'pick up' artist who is actually more a misogynistic pimp.

I also consider myself a fairly heavy news consumer as I work in politics and read throughout the day.
Defining System Programming
Depression also manifests differently in people.

My breed of depression makes it so I self-neglect, but in a way that's kind of physically harmful. This means going to the gym, not sleeping, overworking, and not eating correctly. Just kind of terrible emotionally avoidant behavior.
Technology will help the citizenry destroy these evil megacorps. It's just a matter of time and some improvements in technology. The world where ABC/CBS/NBC/NYTimes/Time/etc could control what people think is over. In the near future we will have a much more educated populace. They will flex their power in ways that seem unimaginable now. When the information revolution finally arrives, these megacorps will be the first against the wall
Doubtful, most clinical practices are very unaware of how their setups affect the results. They understand “set and setting” intellectually, but not viscerally. So they act surprised when patients dosed DMT in a hospital experience contact with bizarre alien entities that coincidentally resemble hospital workers. (See nick sand’s critque of strassman’s DMT study as one example)
NB this is "Time Warner the media company", not Time Warner Cable (which is now Spectrum.) This isn't broadband consolidation but rather media/entertainment consolidation.

The deal is most closely comparable to Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011.
Does that really matter? Just because it isn't becoming an Internet monopoly, it's still a content+distribution mega-corp that can squeeze its competitors and limit options for consumers.
The Fire Volcano of Guatemala increased its explosive activity:
Did I miss something, or why are you discussing HTTPS as a counter argument here?
They have also been handling the response to the autopilot glitches pretty terribly. Someone should just tell Musk to shut up when someone dies in one of his cars and not immediately rush in to defend the technology. And especially don't twist the truth to make the dead guy look worse. Either suck it up and admit that the technology remains a work-in-progress, or ... perhaps a better choice ... say nothing at all beyond "our sincere condolences to the family of so-and-so"
Anecdote: this is what my Nissan Leaf does. 20 to 80% it charges like a bat out of hell. 0-20 and 80-100 you might as well put a solar calculator to charge it up, takes a long time.
The source of the article, Sun, is interesting.

I guess the author knew what was about to be foisted upon the world.

Kudos for trying to warn us.

(I remember reading Novell and OS/2 documentation in the late 80s / early 90s about threads and recoiling in horror. Of course, all real men must use threads, cuz they’re faster, even if stupefyingly dangerous)
Im using flex with node. love simplicity of app engine and suite of tools in gcp - cloud debugger is dope.

Does cloud fumctions support node 8 yet? Will make life easier
Don't remember... I looked it up the other day as a data point in a discussion of the lack of nuclear power penetration in the market. (I was arguing against the popular idea that the limiting factor on nuclear is the cost of those liberal treehugger regulations, by pointing out that neither Russia nor China have significantly more, despite their disdain for environmentalism.) I was kind of shocked by the numbers, actually. Russia and the US are basically equal in nuclear output percentage-wise, but China lags far behind.

If my numbers were dated even a few years, China is probably doing better, due to current crash efforts to scale up nuclear power. Still, 3% isn't exactly huge market penetration.
Could this guy be the next ANGRY GRANDPA?
> am I the only one that finds this cringey and forced

You are not the only one. I also find this politically-correctness quite useless and - in this particular case - also insulting towards women.
This is nuts. This means there is now only one last-mile broadband provider in plenty of big markets. Milwaukee, for example, now no longer has any competition in the broadband space.
Perhaps you'd like to read up on NFS basics.

The short answer is, you can use it with either loose or tight authentication. The "LAN" bit of your question is largely irrelevant.
You simply choose not to invent any of them.
they block 3rd party scripts

"They" who? I am blocking 3rd party scripts with uBlock..