skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has worked for several corporations and startups over the past decade, the problem of corporate monopolies is very obvious to me so I don't need to see any third party academic references; I've seen first hand how inefficient and wasteful corporations are and how they keep extracting free money out of the system using government regulations, vendor lock-ins and and media monopolies to lock out competition.

This article resonates with me on many different levels and it references ideas that are as obvious to me as the theory of gravity.

Besides, the current economic system is not founded on rigorous science; so we should not need to resort to scientific proof to point out its many flaws. Social consensus is enough.

Also, academic studies require funding; no corporation would fund research which could potentially work against their own interests.

It took many decades to collect funding to do the research which linked smoking and cancer... And that was comparatively easy because at least rich people get cancer too.

Here we have a disease which is caused by the rich and which only infects the poor... I don't see how such research will ever get funded.
Lobbying. Even though lobbying is not the only factor explaining why government made such policies, it is an important factor that should not be dismissed.
And since corporations have much more resources than NGOs and such to do lobbying, it is fair to put part of the blame on them for pushing policies that make them more powerful.
This is so true. We should just ban lobbying because it is only used by rich corporations and individuals.
Why is the public sector in Europe staying away from Google but not Microsoft (Azure)?
When I applied to art school, I had to draw a bicycle as part of the admission evaluation. My peers would post their admission submissions online whether or not they were eventually admitted. If you search “RISD bicycle drawings”, you’ll see tons of bicycle drawings. They range from insanely photorealistic to simply abstract.

Obviously, we all used reference material to make sure our depiction was accurate. But it is nonetheless interesting to see what people come up with when trying to impress an art school admissions team.
People think military people vote Republican, and it is true that the younger warfighters are easily buttered up by Trump, but the career military people are very aware that Republicans want to take their pensions away...
Because your arguments are ridiculous, and you are referencing directly to material that points out very clearly that exposure to asbestos carries a risk of health hazard, for the people exposed.

"In general" people who become ill from inhaling asbestos have been regularly exposed in a job where they worked directly with the material ???

If there is even the risk that a single person could fall ill because of unintentional exposure, then it should be ground enough for a blanket ban.

It's like saying that smoking should be allowed again in public places, since "in general", people that get cancer are first-hand smokers.
Android 9 Pie proves Android’s update situation is actually getting better
This seems to be the attack mentioned in the blog:
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html

Basically it seems like there's a thing called PMKID, which is a HMAC-SHA1 of the PMK and things we know, which you can get just by asking for it.
This too :-) not special about you. But people worry about information leaks by watches and fitbits, yet half the commenters here easily share where or what they have worked on in a public accessible site
The Moth, maybe?

https://themoth.org/about-moth-events
To first-time Emacs users:

Do M-x (alt-x) and type help-with-tutorial, hit your enter key (RET in Emacs jargon).
Hahaha keep trying. I'm close to a solution to this wifi cracking problem! Taking days or even hours won't be able to touch what I have...
Jacinda Ardern says daughter will be raised speaking Māori language and English
Twitter can be nice once you curate some.
Wow. I mean, wow. I'm impressed. These idiots in government really only care about their bribes. And the idiots who are bribing them only care about making money. Everyone else can just fuck off and die.

But hey. The Reagan era was horrible too. I mean, eight fucking years! Plus four more of Bush I. And then, all too soon, another eight years of Bush II. ...

Actually, I was going for optimism. But I just can't get it up. Clinton and Obama were cool and all, for their two-term runs, but they were mostly bullshit. The political center of the US has shifted so far that, in many ways, Nixon (for all of his drunken paranoia) was more of a liberal than either.

Edit: So hey, I went off the rails there. But seriously, this is insane. I mean, look at the mesothelioma epidemic. So what's next? Taking the pressure off tobacco marketing to children?
Check out spacemacs then :-)
This is indeed worrisome, but the evidence I've heard suggests that it won't be as bad as +12C. Also the Earth was at +14C with respect to today at it's hottest point during the PETM, which was very bad for the earth, but life survived.

The earth will one day reach a true runaway greenhouse when the sun brightens by 10% in about 1.1 billion years. But according to J. Hansen in 2013 a complete greenhouse runaway can't happen unless the high temperatures are maintained for several million years, long enough for all the oceans to evaporate, and our own forcing will only(!) last a few tens of thousands. So my understanding is that we won't cause all life to go extinct, if that makes you feel any better.
OpenBazaar isn't the only decentralized marketplace out there, but it is the only one with any significant adoption.

It took four years to get there so rebuilding from scratch seems unwise when it's open source and you could add you own improvements or just fork it.
I don't think it even needs to be controlled by the same people. Look at TurboTax. They built a company to make an insane tax code easy and they lobby against simplifying it.

Once it's big business there's a huge finical and employment incentive to keep the machine running no matter who's running it. Some might say that privatising prisons would even make it worse.

It's hard to stop a multi-billion dollar industry but what the prison system is doing to our population is not OK.
It's also exaggerated from a climate issue.

The vast majority of the benefit comes from cutting beef (and lamb), which I don't think is that hard of an ask. Other meat reduction has much less benefit.. and it is harder for most people to do.

Source: https://www.skepticalscience.com/how-much-meat-contribute-to...
Remember that "the government" is not an independent entity. It gets elected by the people and influenced by special interests. So the blame should go to voters and the people who are influencing the government.
The mood in America is arguably as dark as it has ever been in the modern era.

That requires some evidence. Is the mood in the US darker than at the peak of the 1930's depression? After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor? During the 1960's race riots?

I'd say all of those were a darker time for the US than now.
Link to the project's source: https://github.com/GMG-Special-Projects-Desk/pymk-inspector
Could definitely use a sharing feature to compete with friends!
Both of the following statements statements are true:

> there is no level of [asbestos] exposure below which clinical effects do not occur

> in general, people who become ill from inhaling asbestos have been regularly exposed in a job where they worked directly with the material

If minimal exposure causes small effects, and maximal exposure - loose, lots of it, long periods of time - causes huge effects, you would expect the people who interact with it most to show the most severe symptoms. That does not mean the small effects are not present, only that they're smaller than the large effects.

For an analogy, poking people with a penknife is not a healthy activity. Just because most people who die from or who go to the hospital for knife wounds were stabbed with larger knives does not mean we should promote poking people with small knives, and suggest that knife wounds are only bad if you're stabbed with large fixed-blade knives many times. Being worst in the latter case does not mean that they're benign in the former case. A headline that law enforcement are now allowing people to stab each other with small knives would be ridiculous.
I guess the discussion here would be what rights they have and don't have because of that societal imposition.
Strange, I'd heard it was refined carbs and sugar giving America diabetes and heart disease. Are you saying it's meat now?
There's a difference between the product made by a manufacturer, and the OS distributed by Google (their "service"). If we are talking about Google's incentives, than we have to look at their relationship with Android as a product. They are giving away Android to manufacturers for free. It's _Google_ that has the incentive to sell the users' data. That we purchase devices preloaded with Android doesn't pass that sale off to Google (like it would to Microsoft with a Windows computer), so it doesn't take away their incentive. So for the purposes of determining at what social cost you use Android, it might as well be gratis.
Build a content management system with Vue.js and Prismic
That is how I see it as well.

Right now Android and ChromeOS teams aren't jumping of joy when questioned about Flutter and Fuchsia.

So unless Google makes it a big deal to use Flutter, it will be just yet another interesting tech.
Middleboxes can intercept and cache HTTPS, you need to operate your own CA however (some Middleboxes can do this fairly automatically and it's fairly touch-and-go).
Since it is not using the Facebook platform or API, what is Facebook's recourse? If it was using the API and there was a developer with a Facebook account they could "hold accountable" then they could do something, but there is no specific Facebook account associated with creating this software. Ban/censor the Gizmodo page on Facebook.com? That would be an interesting gambit that would surely backfire in the court of public opinion.

This is just like Facebook banning anything which tries to track unfriending, another thing you can't do through the platform API and that they have actively worked to oppose and suppress.

Let's take Facebook's argument to its logical conclusion which would suggest that they should go on the warpath to ban all password manager applications that store a user's Facebook username and password.
"Oceanic thermocline" never fails to trigger people.

As soon as they actually do in fact research it, they realize that:

a) we don't have the data

b) we don't have an accurate/sane mathematical model for it.

We can't use satellites to measure anything other than surface temperature of the ocean; it would require an actual, physically located sensor network spread throughout the oceans of the world to get this information. Which we don't have now and never had in the past...
I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history.

I'd have to go look for it but I swear there's an episode of either Next Generation or Deep Space 9 that covers almost this exact topic to the letter. Anyone else know what I'm thinking of??
Edge Music Network Announces Record Breaking First Half 2018
Is there a hardware support matrix? Would be nice if it supports the Lenovo P50.
Ask HN: What modern CSS framework do you use?
Financial Modeling for Cryptocurrencies: A CoinMarketCap Spreadsheet That Works
I don't think you understood what I took issue with in your post.

You said:

> Passing peer review is something used as a substitute for reproducibility

And what I'm saying is "No, it's not". Reproducibility of the results is the most important aspect of the scientific method, otherwise, as I said above: "what's the point really? We would resort to trust or belief in one's sayings."
But, but, but, the Silly Valley Boys are all geniuses. Surely the other side will appeal to logic. ;-)
100-200 years is pretty fast when compared to how slowly climate moves in one direction or the other. Also those 100-200 years are the same in which human instrialization took place.
Measuring temperature in a global scale is a very daunting task and it is open to interpretations by negationists and reactionaries, but you can look for pictures of the last 30 years in the North Pole. The Arctic is going to be open to navigation soon.
You can also ask the climate experts, we have to rely on them, and the vast majority of them are predicting a similar effect.
Congratulations to the Dart team on that important milestone! Dart is already by far the most productive cross-platform web technology I've ever worked with, and it's getting even better with each new release.

Absolutely love the language, tooling, and "batteries included" mindset. Everything "just works", and is solid, lightweight, and thought-out. Compared to many other languages/ecosystems I've worked with (not going to point fingers), Dart feels like an island of sanity and productivity.
> E.G: salt now often contains E551,

Strange how new solutions to non-problems keep getting invented. We just used to put a few grains of rice in the salt cellar to stop it getting damp.
Or they didn't see a viable candidate that represented their interests and decided to abstain. This is a legal right.
The word is "shoo".
Thank you, yes a million times!

Of course, here on HN people got this right 4 days ago. :)

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672799
So you're not a fan of laws then? Just might?
If asbestos is enclosed, what's the point in using it? Why not just build the entire object using the material that enclosed the asbestos?

Safety analysis on a 'case-by-case basis' will take place where the product is made, not where it's sold. In China. So you believe Chinese inspectors will keep Americans safe?
or later for that matter.
Yeah, hydrazine came to my mind instantly.

That stuff is scary.
The Complex Art of Apology in Japan
Trouble is the government will make sure that the police and military remain well fed, and they have even bigger guns.
Google Venus atmosphere. Nature has already given us a model to use.
One reason could be that from what I understand Azure licenses it's cloud software to other providers ("Azure Stack"), so you can get "Azure" run by a European company in an European data center, or even a state-owned one.
I'm not sure this hypothesis holds up. For instance consider places like Singapore. It is relentlessly brutal against criminals. Even relatively petty crime like vandalism is subject to corporal punishment - caning. Yet there is no feedback loop - the country has practically no crime, and I think this is in large part thanks to the people and culture of the area.

Or consider Japan. They have a 99% conviction rate, and a big part of that is because it's an open secret that police will torture confessions out of people they arrest. But once again a different people with a different culture and we see an incredibly low crime rate.

For this matter we can perhaps even look at the US! Violent crime rates have been plummeting since the early 90s even though that has been paired with a sharp increase in the public perception of police violence. If there was a feedback loop then we would expect it to have been going sharply in the other direction!
...Can't tell if trying to make a joke (peopl's) or serious...
It's about economics. Climate change keeps being presented as something we need to make huge sacrifices to do something about, and this does not work. The unwillingness to make such sacrifices, we may find reprehensible when it comes from the rich who could easily afford it, and more sympathetic when it comes from people who are barely keeping their heads above water as it stands, and reasonably suspect they would end up in a pauper's grave and never see the future they were supposed to be defending, but whether we agree with it or not, that is people's revealed preference.

So the narrative needs to stop being about sacrifice, and start being about jobs. The immense task of converting the world to renewable energy, has the potential to create millions upon millions of badly-needed jobs. It needs to start being sold that way.
That is probably not even true for the crowd here. Flying and cars likely dominate.
> It's like some sort of outrage porn that keeps getting remixed over and over again, and becoming some sort of fractal version of itself.

This is such a good description of the problem. Right now it feels like people are angry about being angry, and the mood seems to me somewhat detached from the reality around us. By historical standards things right now are not that bad, but a lot of people act like we’re living through the apocalypse.

My personal take is that this is the natural product of the social media / hyper media era. It’s easy to make a lot of money making people angry (“outrage porn”), but there’s no money in calming people down. I wish that weren’t the case.
Sure, you can screw up any scheme, regardless of how easy it is to do right.
Is such histrionic journalism a byproduct of the current cultural infatuation of "victimization"? Living in a Golden Era doesn't fit the narrative.
Buying Your Way Back to Riches
Without any other information outside of reading this article, this contradicts basically every other google support story I've ever read on HN. Similar to what the few other comments are saying at the time of me writing this, it seems like this guy made a fuss somewhere that caught the attention of someone who didn't want the bad PR. Google will remain the contact-less customer non-service entity it always has. This guy might have gotten lucky to get a response, but don't expect it to become the norm.
Aside from the dubstep comment above, as a game designer, I would advice you to make the score mechanic more transparent. Right now, I see how much score did I get only after clicking the answer, and while I suspect that the sooner I click, the higher the score, the interface never shows this link to me.

If you display the constantly decreasing "stake" on screen, it will immediately explain the mechanic to the player and put more pressure on him to make the choice quicker, making the choice between clicking right now and spending additional time thinking over his choice more interesting.
Did they pay the ransom?
Lady Catches Glimpse of Other Realities and Dimensions on Film
I can't be the only one that sees "Token Sale" and immediately loses all interest.
Lobbying is just a legal form of corruption. Ban it, and it will still continue to exist underground anyway. What we need is to stop voting for idiot politicians.
The media has known this for a long time.
Since Grid and Flexbox became well supported enough to use there's no need for a CSS framework, so I don't use one. If I need a UI toolkit I use react.semantic-ui.com or bootstrap 4, but I prefer not to.
How's this one?

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Might perforate the blood vessels in the gills and enter the blood stream? Later on we eat it?
> Yes, but as long as they don't pihole works beautifully because the ads are killed before they are downloaded, in stead of stripped after the download (like with uBlock).

> Especially on data capped devices like mobile phones it works wonders.

Are you implying that pihole works wonders on data-capped devices such as mobile phones? If the phone is connected to a network with a pihole, it isn’t using the capped cellular service. If it is using the capped cellular service, it isn’t going through a pihole. Am I missing something?
The driver seems to be the economic incentive of becoming the world leader in renewables by getting a head start while the rest of the world drags its feet. Say what you will about authoritarian governments but they can certainly get shit done.
Nim partners with Status.im
Smoke detectors have a radioactive source, and we put them inside our homes, because the radiation level is so low that the increase of the risk is minimal.

Walls have a tiny amount of radioactive material, but they protect you from the radiation of the exterior. I don't know if the walls increase or decrease your cancer risk.

There are many thinks that may cause cancer. It's important to calculate the risk of each one, because you can't avoid all of them.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689404
That is the only way to keep Flutter relevant.

Right now, in what concerns iOS and Android, Qt and Xamarin also compile to native, use mature languages (JS, C++, C#, VB.NET, F#), can also target desktop and have an endless list of libraries to choose from.

Also Chrome team is quite interested in making PWAs succeed on mobile Web, and they have Microsoft on board with them, given how JavaScript has first class support on UWP.
> I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating

Would be an interesting "prequel" to the troubling but good "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
As a background, the problematic part of Facebook’s policy is that, while end-users are the owner of all content they produce, they [Facebook] essentially consider all their HTML their copyright. They have argued in court (and won [1]) that scraping essentially requires creating an in-memory copy of this HTML before the user-produced content can be extracted, and thus is a violation of their copyright.

It’s a very unfortunate precedent in my opinion, that limits pretty much all forms of scraping. Copyright law should not be abused for this, but yet here we are.

If the Knight’s institute manages to get Facebook to amend their policy that is a great step in the right direction, but I feel that copyright should not be abused to restrict scraping like this: the copyrightable content is not what is being scraped at all, it is immediately thrown away after the user-produced content is extracted.

This means there is no way for a user to even legally get their own content extracted from Facebook this way, and on top of that, web browser make in-memory copies of Facebook’s HTML all the time; heck, they even specifically instruct browsers and proxies to cache a lot of their content.

[1]
http://www.knowmad.law/single-post/scraping
There is a cost to using FOSS, though it's much less sinister than that of using Android or Google Apps. You are giving up convenience in exchange for software that respects you. In terms of the user becoming the product, I suppose that would be harder to argue. Maybe one could say the users become co-opted to promoting the cause/agenda of FOSS.
http://emacsrocks.com/

http://emacs.sexy/
Moran is famously press-shy. He's been on Marc Maron and Scroobius Pip's distraction pieces and is excellent in both, so I'd recommend listening to those.
My experience with oral storytelling has been through festivals dedicated to it. This[1] is a list of storytelling festivals around the US and some other countries.

[1] http://www.sostoryfest.com/festivals.html
1) Those are incredibly arbitrary labels and you either know that or should know that

2) The US drone program regularly targets first aid personnel and rescuers.[0]

[0] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2012-02-04/cia...