skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 5,000 Year Leap – 28 Principles of Freedom That Founded America
And yet the United States still sends troops to the middle East again and again and again.

The greatest threat to an American life is a drunk driver. If the United States actually had priorities aligned with statistical reality, the billions poured into the war on {{concept}} would have been redirected to drunk driving decades ago. Also, smoking would be illegal.
The ones where it was revealed the Clinton campaign was running the DNC and Sanders never stood a chance. Whether your support that or not I don't think anyone disputes that this was revealed by Wikileaks
I am quite on the left I would say (not from or in the US), so

>why should we pay a high school paperboy a living wage?

My opinion is that it is everyone responsibility to create a society were were abject poverty and marginalization is minimized. There are many tools to our disposal, paying a living wage is one.

The point is do you have a problem of people working as paperboy and not being able to live properly? Then you either pay them more or try to make other jobs possible for them. We should be careful not to do it immorally, we should not just "give" to the poor, but we should make sure that they have always a chance to rise.

I do not think of this as a moral obligation to help other, it is simply my answer to the question: Do you want an entire demographic to be hopeless and disillusioned? I do not and I believe sorta high living wages are a good tool often.

ps: this is not meant to be an argumentation for anything, there are no proof or facts in this comments, just heartfelt personal opinions. I find those pretty useful sometimes and hope mines can help too.

edit: the parent was referring to non-adults paperboy, my answer completely ignores the very important concept of families which are particularly important for non-adults
There's also just straight up extraordinary rendition, ie. showing up, black bagging someone, and flying off, outside the legal process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

Ironically, the UK doesn't allow extraordinary rendition, and it was a big deal to even let those planes refuel or use UK airspace, but Sweden historically has allowed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
Would you though?

The State Dept under Clinton played fast and loose with it's own procedures and regulations and I have a friend who died in the Benghazi attack if you want to fight with me on this point.

More than 5% of the Section 702 wiretaps conducted under the last President's administration were performed illegally by their own admission.

False flag operations are part of our history and three-letter agencies have a history of being Wild and Crazy Kids.

Assange gets an extraordinary amount of political attention for even a public figure. It's perhaps an unreasonable conclusion for them to make but it's not _too unreasonable_.
I believe companies like Boeing or Space Systems Lorale do that kind of work in their satellite design groups. Same with Orbital ATK.
What makes the least physically attractive men less appealing than the least physically attractive women?
Worse, the constant exhaustion makes your mental state absolutely horrible. Not just in the obvious stuff like being more scatterbrained, but in lack of motivation and, I dare say, depression.

Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I have a use-case in mind where the power might disappear suddenly and often. Is there a different SBC board and OS which is optimal for this use-case?
This is not true at all.

See, e.g. the blanket pardon given to draft dodgers after the Vietnam War.
I agree SpaceX is way ahead, but I wouldn't say they have no competition. Blue Origin is making some very interesting moves.
That was their motto, but didn't they also have a mission statement that was about connecting people?
I'm generally OK with open-ended liability, even against people who were following the rules, to a T. (And especially against people who were not - see [1])

With wildfires, though, I'm not so sure. These forests are giant powderkegs, and that's no fault of PG&E.

They will burn, sooner, or later. It might be from power utility equipment, it might be from a van's hot exhaust, it might be from a lightning strike.

Blaming the last person who touched it seems... Unfair, in many ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood is a great example of an organization that should have been held criminally liable - for second degree murder.
I didn't intend to imply it was standard. In fact I meant that it was not standard and that is why I was lucky.
Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientists
That's totally fair and, not to be dismissive, I don't think it's productive to try to have this conversation here. I just want to say I'm not trying to defend or downplay what WikiLeaks got up to under Assange's oversight. I'm simply saying that while his interests may have lined up with Putin/Russian oligarchs he is himself an ideologue and a bad actor who comes from a community of the same and he should be treated as such.
PG&E would likely just go threw bankruptcy again like it did in 2001. Then, it would come back and operate again. The primary loses would be the PG&E shareholders not necessarily all the PG&e rate payers.
An interesting thought experiment: what would marriage have to be like to make marriage appealing again?
My SO won’t sleep in the same room as me without my CPAP.
That's sounds like a political opinion that you just stated. Why are you trying to meddle in the political process, by engaging in political speech?
Would you support it if the DNC had run a similar campaign supporting Clinton against Obama in 08?
Tech is generally worse. Mostly because there's no check on hyperbole.

Most businesses have an official mission statement to the effect of: "Help people do {x} at a competitive price."

Only a 23 year old CEO says things like "Changing the world by connecting people."
All governments use the media, that does not mean the media should not be free. Even journalists from Russia Today should not be imprisoned for what they write, for example.

By selectively prosecuting non-violent speech, a state denies freedom to all journalists, because it asserts itself as the ultimate censor of what is acceptable to publish and what not. You get a massive dilemma: are the other, non-imprisoned journalists, the "real" journalists or are they simply afraid to say the truth because truth lands you in prison?
Well the US has a generous social safety net, which discourages private savings. Healthcare is also vastly over-priced due to govermment intervention.

The number of hospital administrators increased 3,200% between 1975 and 2010, compared to a 150% increase in physicians, and this increasing inefficiency is due to an increasing number of regulations:

https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-r...

>>Productivity isn't connected positively individual quality of life, otherwise this wouldn't be the case.

Quality of life is vastly better in high-productivity countries than low-productivity ones. Only someone who has been totally sheltered from the extreme poverty characteristic of many countries of the world could even make a comment as detached from reality as yours.

>>A free market depends on an entire class of people maintained in poverty. That is not efficient except for a minor plurality.

That's demonstrably false. The global poverty rate has been decreasing at the fastest in history over the last 30 years, concurrent with the spread of marker institutions. The rate of extreme poverty has halved in the last 20 years.
Both Oklahoma and Vermont have close to a 5% state income tax on the first 100k of income, so for many on HN, this is more like a rebate on state income taxes over the first 2 years. I guess if you always dreamed of moving to these places this could be that little nudge to finally try it out.
Doctors being debt collectors is annoying for both the doctor and the patient, and they're also bad at it. Just the other day I got a bill for a procedure in July of 2017, despite 1) not having seen that doctor since 2016 and 2) never having had that procedure. Now I have to fight with them to prove a negative, until it goes to collections and I can make them prove the debt, and then wait for my credit to get fixed after they figure it the debt isn't valid. Yay.
> again pointing towards gender expectations as the culprit

Well, that's exactly right.

In general, I wish we would move away from oversimplified "patriarchy"-based language of "aggressor" vs "victim" (which discourages male victims from coming forward and encouraged a culture of collective victim-hood we are in now, where to really leverage speaking power one must first prove that they, too, are a victim, an ultimately disabling attitude) and move towards couching all of this in the very inclusive and in no way "feminine" term like "gender expectations."

Straight men would feel personally attacked less and open to talking about unfair expectations of them more. They won't feel that any conversation about lack of fairness in cultural norms excludes them by default.

Women (and people who overall dislike the gender binary) would still be able to voice their opposition to expectations, too.
Poor "providers"... They charged us $250 for a can of apple juice and two Advil pills (AKA "recovery kit") after a broken wrist surgery, which itself was $45K without a hospital stay.

No wonder they now have a "problem" having to chase non-paying people. It's like charging $10K for a handshake and then sponsoring an article on Bloomberg about being unable to collect it.
This is good advice, especially because anyone who is serious about using the address will be passing it through CASS certification or geocoding on the backend before using the address. Such APIs are fully capable of parsing the full address without you splitting the address lines.

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/

https://accuzip.iaccutrace.com/cass/#/app

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
> but making it about the 'government knowing' is the least of the problem really.

In the case of divorce that actually becomes very important. You now have a judge from the government who is making life decisions for you and your family. Source: grew up in a divorced household.
I don't really see it as a 90's shaped experience. Business applications (ERP in particular) are still very much based around a desktop client. In fact many of the attempts to move ERP to the browser have been significant compromises, or the web client becomes the cut down version.

Part of that is the eco-system of Windows. Most businesses are running Office, and the ERP's come with close integrations with Excel in particular. And before anybody says it, the web version of Excel and the Google equivalent are very significant compromises for power users like accounts staff. I think the desktop application remains the gold standard of enterprise software.

Most of the 90's stuff transitioned from VB to VB.NET and C#.NET and along the way lost some of their ease I feel. I couldn't code in any of those old favorites due to compliance issues demanding up-to-date software. So it is back to Visual Studio and WPF...
As far as I recall, there were studies showing some causal effect in the behavioral difference of how early things like cancer were diagnosed.

In essence, the average man living with a female partner would get a "nuisance" investigated, diagnosed with cancer, and (sometimes) treated; while the average single man sought treatment only when the condition was truly disturbing, and by that time it's too late to treat the cancer.
From the point of AI safety, slow progress seems to be beneficial.
The ones that caused the DNC chair to step down, showing that the DNC had subverted it's own internal processes regarding impartiality during the primary process.
Calling bosonic modes analog (in the constext of computing) seems misleading. Most of the big proponents of bosonic modes (like my institution, Yale) use them to implement digital logic on top of them.

And the problems with analog computers is not just from the old days. Analog computers fundamentally can not scale because they do not permit error correction procedures.
You haven't checked for quite a while then :)

ZeroNet has supported movie-sized files and up with it's BigFiles plugin since early this year. It's effectively done torrent style, downloading chunks from multiple peers, but working over TCP, with optional Tor support built in.
Pretty absurd. That said, the Saudi government just straight up murdered a journalist in one of their embassies, the whole world knows it and politically it appears things are still business as usual...
I don't believe they are a news organization, but they are something very similar that should be protected with the same freedoms. Their contributions during 2016 were highly biased but they released information that wasn't false, while it isn't wrong to call them partisan they still provided a valuable service.

If they had received the emails, discovered they were forged and then released them anyways, then I think there'd be a different story. News outlets need to provide true information, they can be opinionated if they are open about it but blatantly lying (i.e. National Enquirer) is the only thing I think is objectionable.
That time I coded 90 hours in one week
You mean, google it for you? Ok

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compilers#C%23_compi...

At least 3 serious, large scale long term non-Microsoft implementations.

Or something like https://github.com/SandipKumar05/C-sharp-Compiler and then you can argue that if it only implements a tiny part of the spec it doesn’t count and that proves it’s a Microsoft conspiracy?
Have gone through 3 sleep studies. No drugs were offered and I never got to sleep. You would be fully within your rights to decline any such offer and they wouldn’t give a shit anyway.

Given your sleep routine I promise the study would be pure hell. They are for me. But I need that APAP.
> I think the idea that everyone at FB who doesn't leave immediately is a "mediocre sell-out" is very far from the truth, and contrary to my own experience. Thus I'm suspicious of people who claim such.

You are so self-assured about your position that you immediately take the contrary assertion to be in _bad faith_? This seems silly to me, but perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree.
This is the origin of that story. From The Evolved Radio and its Implications for Modelling the Evolution of Novel Sensors

"It seems that some circuits had amplified radio signals present in the air that were stable enough over the 2 ms sampling period to give good fitness scores. These signals were generated by nearby PCs in the laboratory where the experiments took place."

https://people.duke.edu/~ng46/topics/evolved-radio.pdf
> the US is coming to the aid of the many dictators and despots whose crimes Assange has helped reveal.

I.e. themselves.
Here's the link to the video I mentioned in my original comment. I think they discuss how the metadata was altered in the second video of three but no promises I'm remembering that correctly. To be clear, I'm not saying the emails were inauthentic. I'm saying they were altered to make the source of the materials appear to be an internal leak from within the DNC as opposed to a hack. The alterations were (allegedly) for the purposes of Russia covering their trail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-d...
It would need to be as easy as starting or quitting a job. There also couldn't be pre-conditions around it such as a limit of two people, prohibitions on same-sex marriage, and bans on "adultery."
This is very cool, great website too. I actually looked up Tulsa while reading this. Well done. When I search Tulsa in Google maps the default street view is a desert looking place though. I wonder if they could affect that.
Does this explain why US presidents give retroactive pardons for their political friends, like it was Halloween candy?
You have my sympathies. My insurance keeps sending me a bill for $5 for "unpaid services". Every time, I tell them everything is accounted for, and they remove the charge. Only to get another one a week later.
That had nothing to do with Assange or WikiLeaks.
Think of them as the "objective" section on a resume, something you really only tend to have early on in your career... as you get more experienced, you dont have an "objective" section any longer - and you realize that the only true objective-statement on a resume is "to get a paying job"...
They do. According to CBS you don't qualify for the benefits if you take a local job.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tulsa-oklahoma-will-pay-you-100...
You bring in workers who are paid less than the average and can't shop their services around. Free immigration can bring growth as those people can act in the market. H1bs are effectively indentured servitude, which are better for the company, probably better for the person taking the H1b over staying in their home country, but certainly will put a downward force on wages
> Would you though?

Well, yes. The ever-increasing, horrible drone campaigns conducted from the Obama years onward as a tool of destabilization are one thing, but that doesn't make it reasonable to expect that they'd use them to assassinate high profile political agitators in first world countries or that they actually have the ability to do such a thing. The contexts are totally different, however the narrative IS in keeping with the typical far right behavior of cultivating the image of a victim terrorized by an all-powerful shadow cabal
Tanking is a big enough issue in sports that a few months ago, the commissioner of the NBA sent a memo promising to severely punish any team that deliberately loses. He wrote that memo shortly after fining Mark Cuban $500,000 for telling his team that losing was their best option.
Not to complicate things more, but social welfare spending != efficient social welfare spending, leading to more potentially contrary (in both directions) trends.
sigh ... The current Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) has directly called out and said that WikiLeaks has done work for the GRU or the Russian Intelligence. https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2017...

This shit is easy to lookup ... and the fact of the matter is, trying to claim that "we" are as bad as the Russians is the same shit Putin does to dispel any criticism against his fucked up regime's actions. No matter how bad the US has been in Wars and sticking their fingers in democratic elections, the Russians are 10 times as worse and they know it.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I definitely agree that life's too short to waste it grinding away at tedious tasks. I'm certainly not arguing for doing boring stuff at a big corp!
She was very clearly joking.

I personally thought it was hilarious.
Typically the tunnel walls need to be pretty strong, whereas compressed dirt bricks tend to be rather mediocre as far as strength goes.
No metadata had been altered for any WikiLeaks releases.
The interesting things is that the total numbers don't match - does that imply that more young people are single?

For example, age 18-24: drop of 22.6% married or with partner

* 1968 = 39.2% married + 0.1% with partner = 39.3%

* 2018 = 7.3% married + 9.4% with partner = 16.7%

Age 25-34: drop of 26.6% married or with partner

* 1968 = 81.5% married + 0.2% with partner = 81.7%

* 2018 = 40.3% married + 14.8% with partner = 55.1%
Not really, it just feels longer.

(old joke)
Surely they should all be using a Facebook Phone?

Whatever happened to that device?
Works pretty awesome!!! Can be a life-saver app!
Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos
I suggest when you reply regarding the erroneous charge, you send it certified mail return receipt ($7 at your local USPS), and build a paper trail. It ensures any discrepancies will be resolved in short order if you need to pursue legal remedies.

Conversely, when you make payments that you might encounter turbulence on, write a check (I know, gasp) or a USPS money order. Once it clears, save the front and back of the check images as proof of payment (for the money order, save a copy of the receipt and the entire check and receipt assembly prior to mailing or delivery). I've found this to be much more effective than a debit or credit card line item on a statement.

There are few weapons more powerful than a properly assembled paper trail, and the mere act of showing you're building one is usually enough to get action taken.
That is a bold claim. More capable than Team City?
What? I would be proud to have got this into postgres core, but perhaps you operate on a different plane of excellence. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blobdi...
I believe Home Assistant's new fancy UI codenamed "lovelace" is based on web components: https://www.home-assistant.io/lovelace/

This should give you a sense of the power of web components.
Amusingly enough, I’d argue Zuckerberg nailed that mission.
Which articles are you referring to?
> When it was done with the intent of influencing the 2016 election

Reality check - partisan newspapers, news channels, and news organizations publish partisan nonsense with the intent of influencing elections. All the time.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, freedom of speech does not mean 'Freedom of unbiased speech.' If it did, then you could shut down the entire media establishment tomorrow.
> where is it ethical to work?

Possibly these companies: https://bcorporation.net/directory
> doesn't make it reasonable to expect that they'd assassinate high profile political agitators in first world countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_in_Euro...
You should use something else for most of these, as the Raspi is hugely overkill. Something like an ESP8266 is much better suited for sensors and things like that, and it comes with onboard storage that it uses to run its code from.

Plus, it costs $3 each, is stamp-sized and has Wifi.
Then what are these additional bills I get from Doctors service companies. I recently paid $250 for an ER visit. That was an expected deductible as outlined in my healthcare plan. What I didn’t expect was a separate bill from the ER doctor for an additional $200 for a 5 minute visit.
Somewhat related:

I had major surgery for sleep apnea a few years ago. It was completely worth it. I don't sleep with a CPAP any more.

I do wish I could get a very light CPAP without a prescription for when I have congestion from allergies or a very bad cold. When I had my CPAP, it used to power through the congestion so well that I sometimes strapped it on in the middle of the day just to relieve cold symptoms.
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I found it very interesting that Assange had made real contributions to postgres. I had thought he was a "hacker" in the sense of popular journalism (i.e. fuck knows that they mean but not a serious open source contributor). I don't know why you're criticizing the person who posted that interesting link.
regarding the pricing, i dont think its fair to compare Zapier (or IFTTT) services with other SaaS. The reason is there is considerable amount of investment on maintenance from Zapier side for keeping their plugins/libraries up to date with the APIs/services. If you consider evernote, once they develop it, they have to fix bug on may be the core platform plus a dozen other microservices and UI modules. But for an integration service like Zapier, they have to maintain more than 200 and sometimes close to 1000 components.
>Again, nothing suggesting they are knowingly working with the Russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tomorrow
If she did indeed fabricate the allegation, this kind of complacency toward it suggests to me an extremely sexist attitude on the part of the KVUE-ABC at the expense of men. How else can you explain treating such an accusation so non-chalantly, instead of like what it is: a severe transgression or moral and legal bounds?