skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No idea how this would be normalized but it’s a novel concept.

interesting concept indeed, but i think the normalization function would be a serious vulnerability. most state and national level elections in the US tend to be pretty close, so the normalization function would pretty much end up deciding the winner. people who realize this would fight hard to get a biased function implemented, and you would be stuck trying to explain statistics to the general public. basically the gerrymandering situation, but even harder for the public to understand.
Stadia Maps founder here to answer any questions!
> the incentive of the hospital in the U.S is to bill you as much as possible.

And it's worth nothing that this is very much how non-profits operate too. Without making any claims of efficiency there is a wink wink nudge nudge in the US system that overbilling wealthy and insured patients is how we cover costs for patients who cannot afford it.
Its a motivation argument.

If you can't be motivated to drive a car, open a bank account (under KYC laws), buy a handgun, fly on an airplane, hold a legit tax paying job (under form I-9), enter federal controller property such as an office building, buy and drink alcohol, go to a concert, any number of zillions of things, why permit someone that disconnected from society to vote? They have no skin in the game and they clearly do not care enough to put forth the most minimal effort to fix their problem, yet they want to impose their active dis-motivation upon us all by voting and thats somehow good.

If someone is allowed to be completely disconnected from reality but should still be able to vote, should someone completely disconnected from reality be allowed to buy a handgun under an identical argument that anyone should be allowed to do anything they feel like?

Should it be easier for someone to vote for "literally Hitler" without an ID than it is to buy a harmless handgun or hunting rifle? Surely, voting is more important.
A 1TB SSD is maybe $200 retail?

For the cheap ones. The faster/better quality ones from Samsung and Intel, which are more comparable to what Apple is using, are $400-500
I can't remember if it was Joel Spolsky or Jeff Atwood who said this, but the analogy they used was Stack Overflow is supposed to be the college, not the quad. There we're plenty of unstructured discussions at the time, very few sites dedicated to the creation and cataloging of information.
Neck and back injuries are a good reason to call an ambulance. The original quote refers not just to life but "life or limb". I suspect any reasonable person would extend that to "paralysis". Back and neck injuries often render a person immobile (as you say, for risk of further injury).

Your anger seems grossly misplaced and based on a deliberate misreading or uncharitable reading.
Imperative Loop or Functional Stream Pipeline? Beware of the Performance Impact
I don't think that's their fault but issues with the map services they rely on (which is OSM from what I gather [0]). I remember this being discussed recently on HN but can't find an article/thread right now.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17010831
Kodi is recommended if you want a media pc connected directly to your tv, but personally I prefer Plex with a Roku and the media streamed to my tv. Only negative is that it's not useful for anything besides video
Any reason why you wouldn't self host your tiles using something like open map tiles?[0] If you're geocoding mostly US addresses it's actually not impossible to roll your own geocoder* . If you're insane enough, I'm sure you could find some German spatial data and follow along with how the TIGER geocoder loads and normalizes information if you wanted to run an entire GIS operation in-house.

[0]: https://openmaptiles.org

* Provided you're familiar with PostgreSQL, and PostGIS.
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I feel you're being kind of disingenuous here ignoring the "and limb" part of his "life and limb" statement.

It's quite clear Basil would be calling an ambulance in your wife's situation - as there was significant risk in additional injury (the "limb" part of his statement) if not otherwise done.

Knowing medical professionals who actually work in the ED overuse of all emergency services - including ambulances - is embarrassingly common.
Stop travelling to work.
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There would be an increase in the amount of Radon pulled out of the ground. Usually the way an HVAC system is set up is that you have the filter, then the evaporator coils, then the fan, then the ducts to the rest of the building. To heat or cool the air the tubes would need to be placed before the evaporator coils or it would just be wasting energy instead of saving energy. This also puts it before the fan. Everything before the fan is at a negative relative pressure and everything after it is positively pressurized.

Presumably those tubes aren't perfectly sealed so the negative pressure will draw in a tiny bit of Radon from the ground. You could flip things around and move the fan to right after the filter and before the tubes and evaporator coils, I'm not 100% sure why that isn't normally done but all of the residential HVAC units I'm familiar with are done this way so there's probably a reason.
Filtering air intake thru a HEPA filter is plenty good enough, fallout is dust.
A Response to the Statement Against Alessandro Strumia
It may be better with III but with a Raspberry Pie II XBMC/Kodi is quite slow and a bit laggy.

Personally, I switch to an Intel NUC with a fanless akasa case, and aside from the occasional Lodi crash it works relatively well.
the poster suggested Amazon -start a city-. If they're starting a new city, isn't that by definition nowhere?
While black boxes are certainly a concern access privileging can contain. If something which reads text can phone home something is fundamentally wrong from a design standpoint.

Which I suppose is one unsung bonus of apt-get. It seperates the update query mechanism from the program so it can't phone home to get any more data than "yep that is someone getting the latest dev build".
You selected one of several points and took it entirely out of context adding your own bias. The point is, we've contaminated the entire planet with various things as a direct result of our actions.
> You genuinely feel that registering with a party so you can vote in its primary elections is... a violation of the idea of a secret ballot?

Yes, especially since there's no reason to require it. In Missouri, where I'm from, there is no party registration. They ask you at the polls if you want a Republican ticket or a Democratic one. No record of your choice is kept.

While it's true that you could construct an epistemological and philosophical argument that party registration doesn't reveal votes, everybody knows, in a practical sense, that that's exactly what it does.
I miss this:
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Thank you fellow AirMash player ;)
"Fraud with mail-in ballots would be orders of magnitude easier to pull off."

As recent bombers have discovered, this isn't the 70s Unibomber era anymore, and every piece of mail is individually bar code tracked and enormous computerized fingerprint databases exist along with CCTV footage and cell phone monitoring databases. Using the US mail to commit a crime in a general sense (not strictly election fraud) would have been fairly untraceable in 1970 but half a century later it would be an extremely foolish strategy. The USPS is slightly less locked down than my bank, but much more locked down than my local food store, for example.
One could argue that Google used search revenue for predatory pricing, which breaks anti-trust laws, to subsidise Maps and other services in order to build a monopoly.
Yep, it should be in the next Rust release (in about a month). This will also be the first release to support Rust 2018.
On scaling other than 2x, it's unusable, while the MBP mobile Radeon Pro is good enough. They should have included that at least.
Yea, like over thirty billion a year to Israel no strings attached!
Actually, according to the article they didn't want to call an ambulance for someone that couldn't walk, sit or stand straight (Stephon Nelson).

It's sad that we're debating whether an ambulance is needed for people with back injuries or mangled/broken fingers.
Sounds like it would be a great entrepreneurial opportunity to start an ambulance company that delivers lower costs by increasing the supply.
I used Linux Mint on a Lenovo Thinkcentre micro-PC for a while, at 2x scaling on a 1080p TV. Now I've changed over to KDE Neon (because the KDE UI is more flexible) at around 2.5x scaling, and it's a bit more comfortable. The main input device is a Logitech wireless keyboard with a touchpad. I mostly play videos through SMPlayer/VLC, so it doesn't need anything fancy.

A dedicated 10-foot UI would maybe work better, but as a low-cost low-effort solution, this works great. I got the PC for free (somebody was throwing it out at work) and the keyboard plus a DP to HDMI cable was $35 total. It plays 1080p x265 just fine.
What distro, what type of machine? Because I’ve been prolific in my purchase of brand new hardware and I have had only the most minute of issues.
And his point is that "Limb threatening" covers back injuries as well. You're being disingenuous implying that your situation was the sort of thing which the Doctor was advocating not using an ambulance for when he's said nothing of the sort
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What I want is the ability to screen out paywall content just like I can screen out shadowbanned people. If someone wants to see paywalled content, then they could just turn it on.
No, I'm saying writing your password down in a notebook on your desk in your locked office is nearly as safe as any offline password manager.

If you aren't the one under attack, and you still create different passwords for each service, the method of offline password storage (be it a spread sheet, a password manager, or a sticky note) are all similarly-ish safe.
"If a patient has a pain in his foot, but the doctor cannot understand the pain, then, according to Basil Besh, the patient doesn't have a pain in his foot."

Sorry, where does he say this or are you misunderstanding and making an huge assumption that the doctor's objective examination wouldn't include ultrasound, x-ray, and/or MRI diagnostics - which would all be part of determining objective cause? For example, if pain exists in an area - say in the feet - even if there's nothing visibly broken, fractured, or torn, an inflammatory process (which causes pain in itself) will show up as extra fluid in areas where there shouldn't be fluid noticeable.
Implementing Rust’s std::sync::Mutex in D
Vote. At the ballot box and with your dollar. Tell your friends.
My understanding this works only for addresses and places, many of our customers want to move the marker around because default mapping doesn't reflect the location of their venue (ship, museum entry, backyard,...).

Will add this clarification and your links to the article if site works again though, thanks.

[Also currently not online are maps with search results, we removed to cut costs but will add back again]
This is true for all google cloud services. You have to enter a credit card number. You may 'intend' to use just 20$ a month and I believe you can set quota alerts, but you can't set a hard budget. Google will just bill for whatever you consumed.

I think that's ridiculous. It should deal-breaker problem for anyone running on a side project.
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Show HN: Plek – Continuous Deployment Using Now and Fly Integrated with GitHub
Besides what the others have said,

1. Wrong code doesn't necessarily crash on all inputs, but there's usually at least one input that makes it crash, so it's not a terrible heuristic.

2. Writing oracles along the line of "the output should not be negative" , or "the output should contain this value" , or "this string should only contain printable ascii" gets you much closer for very cheap.
I second that. At my previous job we were looking at AWS and another tool in the FedRamp approved cloud.

From my perspective, Amazon wants a piece of government IT. Which is expensive due to regulations but also lucrative.
Official Hong Kong Blockchain Week Launches March 4 – 8, 2019
I would argue that a programming course might want to teach all three of those. They are quite different languages which could be used to teach different underlying concepts (C for pointers and low level stuff (and maybe combined with some assembler), Java for object orientation and Python for dynamic typing).

Python vs PHP vs JavaScript would be another matter. I would say it doesn't matter so much which of those you teach. Same with e.g. Java vs C# vs C++.

The question remains why build an Atom plugin over an Excel macro? And what underlying concepts would you hope to teach students by doing this? And is this the best way to introduce those concepts?
At this point I don't think they're really interested in accommodating students.
“I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t sit down. I couldn’t even stand up straight,” said Nelson, who’s 30 and used to play semiprofessional football. He asked for an ambulance, but the on-call Tesla doctor said no – he could take a Lyft to the hospital instead."

Sure about that?
I clicked on it and got a bigger image that was easier to read.
The price for those SSD upgrade are more than double of the current Retail Pro Level SSD at same capacity and similar speed. Which Apple saves on SSD Controller, better NAND pricing, no retail and distributor margin. Even though I expected the Apple SSD upgrade were to be expensive, those upgrade price levels are simply ridiculous.

The DRAM too but at least I could upgrade that myself to 64GB.
That the desktop market became a monopoly without F/OSS doesn't mean cloud isn't becoming one based on F/OSS. Cloud thrives on abundance of F/OSS where the only money being made is for glue code and services, none of which arrives at the original developers or maintainers.
Unless he's caught tossing puppies into a wood chipper he will carry the NYC area and it won't matter what the rest of the state thinks. Cumo doesn't need to give anyone tax breaks.
ICO’s investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns
Locally harvested is the only good option, but I would like to comment that when food is bought at lowest offer then you are likely to pay carbon-kilometres regardless if its corn, avocado, olive oil or what have you. Cheapest product in a global economy means that transportation cost is simply part of the competition to press prices down, and food prices has almost not moved at all in the last 50 years.

But for honey in particular I would say its is even more important to buy locally. It is better, safer, and better for the environment. Mixed honey has none of the unique taste that specific environments can create (my personal favorite is pollen from mixed coniferous forest, preferable with a gps coordinate to the hive). Imported mixed honey also share the same problem that plague olive oil, which is food fraud. Because honey is expensive it often get mixed with cheaper syrups or worse stuff. From a ecological perspective it is also good if the colonies are in areas that need pollination, which locally harvested usually are. Bonus points if its a small business by someone personally invested in it.

As for costs, the difference in prices from cheapest to expensive locally produced ones is normally for me about $1-2 dollar per jar. It such a small increase that just the security against food fraud is worth it (assuming you trust the local producer).
Read the article again, focus on the part about Stephon Nelson.
Your argument is:

- Contradicting almost all of current science on the topic, without even a cursory attempt to make an argument for such a vast conspiracy

- Extrapolating from a grand total of one example (Malthus), without explaining why that should be relevant 200 years later. You could just as easily point to predictions of doom before each world war, and marvel how accurately those came true.

- Engaging in the good ol' it-is-therefore-it-ought fallacy: just stating that we survived the little ice age does not negate the suffering it caused. "Widespread crop failure, famine, and mass death" certainly don't sound like something I'd want to risk just to avoid the minimal changes in lifestyle this article lists.

- Using references that actually contradict it: Did you read your wikipedia link on "Global Cooling"? It does an excellent job of showing that the idea was simply one possibility arising from the nascent realisation that humans affect climate. The uncertainty was communicated in the relevant documents, and this period of competing possibilities only lasted around eight years, far less than the current consensus.

- Drawing distinctions without a difference: At this point, adaptation and prevention have started to merge. Is eating less meat intended to lower methane levels and energy usage, or trying to prevent erosion and deforestation? The former are preventative, the latter both preventative as well as adaptive.

- ...going complete off the deep in the end. As in "How many kids, vacations, cars, etc are created because BBC exists?", a sentence that makes me understand how my dog feels when they tilt their head just so, and look at me with their big, questioning eyes.
Do you see any performance differences when enabling/disabling? Our cluster uses Sandy Bridge through Skylake chips and all of our nodes have HT disabled. When things were tested (before I got here) there apparently was a non-trivial difference for the applications running. Curious what your results are.
Apple's New Hardware with T2 Security Chip Currently Blocks Linux from Booting
As someone who has been doing web dev for a long time, I find it interesting that I can understand the author's points, but that I don't relate to them at all.

For example, I agree that the angularjs to 'angular' transition was a bit wonky, but I don't understand having resentment or anger build up because I have to be a little more careful about how I craft search queries.

It feels like he's frustrated with a lot of things, and once you get in that mindset, each irritant takes on huge significance.

You don't start doing web dev because you really want to work with Angular, and I think that's the problem. You choose Angular because you think it will help you achieve an end-goal.

I suspect that he started working on a codebase that had already chosen Angular and he had no buy-in. In that case, problems become frustrations, rather than just 'things to learn'. For example, the documentation on the module system is pretty good. It covers the reasoning, shows a basic example, and then delves in for when you need more information: https://angular.io/guide/ngmodules.

Anyway, I enjoy working with Angular, but if something else works better for him, more power to him.
Opps yes for non UK political wonks George Brown was 60's/70's Labour politician famous for Liquid Lunches.
Ask HN: Is it normal for VC to take a fee on exit?
Hi All,

Quick question for you all:

Have any of you been asked for a % fee from their VC on a term sheet being tabled for acquisition to help close the deal?

Is this normal?

What kind of fees are usual?

Any experiences would be much appreciated.
If you listened to Marcos podcasts, you'd know that he has been very critical of the most of the Macs that have come out in recent years. He remains critical of most of their laptops. That doesn't mean there is not still a conflict of interest in principle. But in practice, I would say he has a track record that proves, that he is not afraid to bite the hand that feeds him.[1] With or without conflicts of interest, there's really no substitute for getting to know a reviewer to find out if you generally share that person's sense of what is valuable and not.

[1] Maybe it really isn't the hand that feeds him. Marco's primary gig is his podcast player for iOS.
I assume that the OP is teaching at University level. From experience I know that time is very limited in that environment. Everything done with the students should be well justified. Building an editor add on seems like something I would question strongly. What concepts is the OP aiming to introduce the students to? And is this the best way to introduce those concepts?
See my other replies, Tesla denied ambulance service to man with a severe back injury, unable to walk.
Indeed, Scala's main innovation was to demonstrate that functional programming is a well-behaved edge-case of OO programming.

(Before Scala, research was mostly trying to show the opposite: how OO is an edge case of FP, but that didn't work quite so well.)
Teardown of a rented Tesla
Disabling half the cores can be (poorly) justified. "We enabled game mode on the AMD 2700x, wasn't that what we should have done?"
There is no national identity card in the United States and there traditionally has been strong bipartisan resistance against this sort of an initiative in this country.

The defacto "photo ID" in the United States is a state issued driver's license. Yes, some places informally use this for age verification as a result. But not everyone has the ability to drive (whether by choice or by disability), so not everyone is going to have this document.

So identification for this purpose will have to rely on a patchwork of various documents in order for it to work. But even considering this, if photo ID were tailored in a bipartisan manner as such to ensure complete access is possible, there probably wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case in some states.

The classic argument you hear, for instance, regarding Texas' often-struck-down-but-still-living-on voting ID requirements (https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/id/acceptable-fo...), is that a handgun license is considered a sufficient form of voting ID, but a college photo ID is not. I will add, reviewing the document, that from my perspective, it is logically puzzling to me why, for those aged 70 and older, it is okay to have an infinitely expired ID and still be allowed to vote given the typical "voter ID" arguments you hear in favor. Unless there is a "demographic advantage" here that the law is covertly aiming for, that is.
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> Interesting to see that Cuomo, ostensibly a progressive, would be for such a thing.

Cuomo literally engineered a Republican majority in the state senate, even though the Democrats had been elected to the majority, so that he wouldn't be pressured to sign overly-progressive legislation before his 2020 run.
It's not dishonest, it's just irrelevant.

If your friend fell off a ladder and hurt his/her back in a way that prevented them from moving, what would you do? The chances are that you don't know how to assess that injury. It's prudent for you to call 911 and have an EMT and/or Paramedic assess and make the call on the next action.

It's different if you are a doctor, working at a factory, and have an injured employee brought to your infirmary.
Best idea is if someone who can read it copies and pastes it into several pastebin, dpaste, bpaste, etc. sites and links them in the comments. By the time DMCA hits the paste sites it'll be a few days later and everyone on HN will have read it.
NLL is the default in the beta channel, and will ship as default on stable in exactly 30 days.
"Even the example given of a broken hand is not an injury that is helped by an ambulance ride, if anything you are delaying treatment by calling 911 and waiting for an ambulance to be dispatched for a very low priority injury"

The thought processes of some of you genuinely scares me. What happens if the person goes into shock from the pain and loses consciousness in the taxi? How the f do they even put the seatbelt on, if their hand is broken? What kind of small talk will the Lyft driver make with them? "Is that a piece of bone I see peeking there you naughty naughty boy!"