skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It’s because the law gave them too much leeway” doesn’t make sense. If you have leeway, you choose the easiest and cheapest method, not the one that involves building a whole new communication system.

“They thought it was the only way to satisfy the law” also doesn’t make sense. There’s no reasonable way to get that from the law, they didn’t confirm it was necessary, and they didn’t publicly fuss about being forced into a large expenditure.

Today is, by the way, the one year anniversary of the repeal of net neutrality. ISPs, including CenturyLink, were viciously fighting to end rules preventing the sale of selective internet access, and won. In order to sell selective internet access, you need exactly the system that just showed up. This system would take a while to build—maybe a year. And once it’s built, you would want to test it. The test would put your capitalization on the lack of net neutrality in the spotlight—unless you just serve a legal notice, and pretend you thought you had to. For that to work, you need to make sure people know the “legally required” part; for a legitimately legally-required notice, companies typically don’t say as much. CenturyLink literally highlights it.
Yes of course, for every single rule stated in any decent style guide, one can find examples of that rule being violated by well-regarded writers; often even the authors. That's what style guides are. What they contain are not "claims", but the authors' whimsical opinions, based on what they consider infelicitous in the writing they often encounter (in the case of Strunk, his students' essays).

You could carry out this exact exercise with any style guide, even a bland and inoffensive one like the Chicago Manual of Style (which barely even gets into stylistic issues). The books to compare Strunk & White with are not grammar textbooks (I don't know why Pullum keeps doing this) but things like Steven Pinker's A Sense of Style or Ben Yagoda's The Sound on the Page or Zinsser's On Writing Well or Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft etc.

I have said all this in the answer I linked to in the comment above (and comments on other answers at that question), so now I'll stop getting drawn into the same argument again. :-)
City of Heroes' an MMORPG by NCsoft. It was really good. Unfortunately, they made it a fremium game, whcih then tanked and then closed the whole thing down a few months later.

I wish they had open sourced it and gave it to the community instead of just shutting down and doing nothing with it.
We've become a nation of employees.
A sizable chunk of users awake at this time of the day are descendants of the very same colonialists. What did you expect ?
> Enforcing too much specifics into law is how you end up with non-nonsensical actions that are done just to comply with a law, like intrusive cookie banners on every single website.

The cookie banners are probably a bad example: they were made to take advantage of a loophole in the first "cookie law".

I think the intention of the first cookie law was clear as well, it just wasn't clear enough.
Over the years, I've come to realise that for a not-insignificant portion of managers, their goal is to hide the fact that their whole deparment is huge mess that's (at best) not delivering much value. They only need to do it until they get promoted or get a better job offer from outside. Then, this mess gets inherited by another manager, who, after initial struggles, comes to peace with the fact the the whole deparment is beyond salvation and in turn starts to plan for his exit... They're at least as screwed by legacy as we are.
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I'm not sure why this concept is such a challenge for me to convey. I'm probably not doing a very good job of it.

The investors aren't particularly concerned about small positive externalities such as the increase in surrounding property values. (If the positive externalities are very large, they would probably attempt to capture them somehow -- such as buying up the whole neighbourhood before proceeding with the development. This is why profitable train companies in Asia build train lines to where they own the land, and develop the area around their stations into shopping malls and residential complexes).

That's very different than having free riders. If you give your investors the option of paying $100 per share, or $0 per share, and in either case they'll get the same number of shares, then you suddenly won't find any investors willing to pay. Even if it's a profitable endeavour at $100 per share!

Why would you be offering such a strange deal to your investors? Well, you wouldn't, because it would totally undermine your ability to get your project funded. But it's exactly the model you're proposing when you suggest that private citizens might donate to the government if they really want public infrastructure to get funded! The ones who don't donate are paying $0/share, and the ones who do are paying $100/share, and they all get equal use of the infrastructure.

The free rider problem is not when you try to get investors to buy into your project, even though a few people who don't buy in will also benefit slightly. It's when you try to get investors to buy into your project, even though anybody who doesn't buy in benefits just as much.

Having said this, now let me put it in the context of your quote:

> "This is just not something I consider in any way when choosing to make an investment"

When you consider purchasing shares of a company for $100/share, do you not consider in any way the possibility that these shares might be available for a lower price from another seller? I would expect you would do research and pay the lowest price that is on offer. And if someone is offering them for $0/share, wouldn't you consider that when deciding whether or not to pay $100?

edit: Let me bring this back to the example. How are you going to pitch investors to pay to upgrade a water treatment plant, when they'll reap exactly the same gains from it as their neighbours who didn't contribute a dime? Or, after attempting this and failing to raise any funds whatsoever, let alone the required $500 million, how might you alter your fundraising strategy to make it more successful?

To simplify, let's assume that every one of the 5 million citizens has equal wealth, and the identical preferences, and is willing contribute up to at most $200 for this project, but prefers to pay the minimum possible amount and will always opt to pay $0 if the treatment plant gets built regardless.
I can't read the article - did it mention globalization? I don't know why you'd want to hire someone remotely in small country town USA when you could get 10 people for the same price in other countries.

Now there are pretty resort towns where skilled people want to live, that is different. But old Mid-Western agricultural towns don't have that draw.
This is theoretically the entry hole though, it typically does not get larger with velocity.

When you see bullet impacts on a target the entry hole is typically bullet size while the exit hole can be much larger.

I'm not saying I'd expect the perfect outline of a drone like on a cartoon, but the hole should be roughly the size of whatever hit it unless something subsequently exploded inside or collapsed the support structure and allowed the airflow to further damage the skin.
I am highly impressed that some of these actually implement wireframe hidden surface removal:

https://turtletoy.net/turtle/9ddc6d4dc5
Anti-Facebook stories certainly haven't mostly been flagged, except insofar as some users are tired of seeing so many, which would be a "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" phenomenon.

Stories about colonialism sometimes get flagged, presumably because they give rise to ideological and (worse) racial and national flamewar. But there have been many on Hacker News' front page over the years, as well.

The thing to watch out for with such perceptions, besides sample bias, is that we're all more likely to notice what we dislike than what we agree with. If a story I like gets flagged, that registers probably 100x as strongly as a story I like not getting flagged. So even a perfectly even-handed forum will seem unfair and biased in any area you feel strongly about. Not that HN is a perfectly even-handed forum—but what's going on is a lot more stochastic than these perceptions seem.

Edit: having looked at the story, I think probably what tipped the balance for flags over upvotes was the obviously baity title. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, and a title like that guarantees a bad thread, regardless of how justified it might be. I've edited the title and turned off the flags.
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I don't think states are particularly balanced, either. States tend to put capitals away from population centers, and have the same tendencies to bias toward rural voters:

"Even states that had constitutions requiring equal population districts were ignoring them. Florida, Georgia and New Mexico gave small counties 100 times the voting power of the most populous ones. Decades ago in California, Amador County (population 14,294) had the same representation in the state’s Senate as Los Angeles County (with a population over six million)."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/upshot/as-american-as-app...
Personally, I'm quite happy that the headphone jack is gone. It was the number one flaw is most of my phones. Either, the jack would get loose and start to crackle or I would get a spark of static electricity that would blow out headphones. AirPods have been amazing. No cords, no static electricity, and I can easily jump between all of my devices. If I really need a photo jack, I can use the dongle. Best part? If the dongle fries from static electricity, it's a $9 part.
There is some previous of a bird hitting a 737 on the nose and doing a lot of damage [1]. As well as the speed factor mentioned by sibling comments, the nose cone is typically made of thinner and lighter material to avoid blocking, well, RADAR.

1: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/12192721/Bird-stri...
Wakan - an free Chinese and Japanese editor and dictionary. I strongly preferred it over the windows IME. And honestly I don't know why it was shut down either. It was freeware to begin with. They should have just open-sourced it. I would pay $20 maybe even $30 as a one time payment for software that does what it does.
I had a late 2013 MBP and went with the XPS 13 for that reason. The process to dual boot (or even wholesale replace) a MBP on Linux looked really scrappy. I get it, Apple's UEFI firmware is essentially a black box with zero configurability. If that's how the process starts, I can't imagine how painful the rest of it is.
The Irish Data Protection Commission says that it opened a broad investigation into Facebook's GDPR compliance in light of numerous data breaches - https://www.ft.com/content/d796b5a8-ffc1-11e8-ac00-57a2a8264...
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> The burden is placed on them to add filters for all of the users, or the content posted, which harms the growth of the group; a new member may visit the Jewish community, see it full of hate, and decide never to join

This is how it should be. Communities (not their platforms) should be responsible for policing themselves. They should not be dependent on the platform to decides what types of speech are not appropriate in their community.

A community of historians should be the ones deciding if a post in their community questioning facts about holocaust is a holocaust denial misinformation or actual scholarly research. This is not a responsibility we should be asking our platforms to take off our shoulders.

> Through inaction, your platform has traded the safety and security of one group for another, and in my opinion, it's those who seek to harm others that should be removed, not the other way around.

Nobody should be removed by the platform, instead the platform should provide people with the tools to protect themselves from all kinds of harassment on that platform, whether it is harassment of people based on their religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or political beliefs.

Platforms choose to censor to protect their PR image, not to protect you. Why would you trust them?
The plane was on landing approach, during which it isn't traveling 300-500mph.

Also, notice how in every single one of the pictures in your link there are blood streaks. This is pretty much universal in a bird strike, as a strike hard enough to damage aircraft skin is also hard enough to severely injure any bird, leaving at least some feathers behind. The photo in the OP doesn't have either blood or feathers. That doesn't totally rule out a bird strike, but it does make it less likely.
He was often blackout drunk according to his classmates, but he repeatedly lied and said he wasn't.
Just make the barbers that are "certified by the state" on one side, and "the others" on the other side. Then people pay for their preferences.
Vanguard has many pieces and parts, many of which are, indeed, corporations. It says so on the bottom of its website: "Vanguard funds not held in a brokerage account are held by The Vanguard Group, Inc., and are not protected by SIPC. Brokerage assets are held by Vanguard Brokerage Services, a division of Vanguard Marketing Corporation, member FINRA and SIPC."

Regardless of its legal structure, I meant "megacorp" in the generic sense of "large company."

It is a large company.
I love Linux for servers but I have a lot tools that work a certain way for work and it would have taken more time than I had to get my Linux set up that way. Part of it was frankly the Linux laptop I ordered was made of cheap plastic, and the track pad didn’t work very well. I was disappointed I spent all that money and they skimped on things that really affect the user experience.

So it could be I ordered a Linux laptop from the wrong company. Of course, I won’t name names.

I was behind on my work, stressed out, and having trouble sleeping so I sent the laptop back and bought a MacBook.

So in thinking about it, if the laptop had been made of higher quality material and the track pad had worked well, I ay well have had a different experience. It also fell in a week where I head very limited time.
3% is not huge for the US right now (we have been the most aggressive of the developed markets in normalizing). 3% is only a bit above the federal funds rate right now.

When you account for the investor cash that will subsidize this service as a loss leader offering, it’s not unreasonable.

The only risk is we enter a severe recession and the fed has to drop interest rates to 0 again. In that scenario, robinhood simply has to lower the rate of their offering as well. This isn’t some big existential risk.
The electronics for your typical GA transponder are primitive by modern standards and can be very small, but it would probably need to be paired with a radar reflector or else it would either remain undetected or appear as noise.
It's still in alpha. The beta version will include better protection for the customers. /s
Could someone correct me if I'm wrong: but I assume this is why we have altitude restrictions on consumer drones, right? Other than the technological challenges of going that high up, but it's also so we don't become burdensome on the air traffic.
I feel a sense of inevitability with rural America fading in importance and massive hubs being the dominant players. The only solution I can think of is pushing for more remote labor in these rural areas as an acceptable lifestyle choice. Maybe restructuring the towns with more of an appeal for 30-45 year old software engineers to work out of. The biggest problem I see though is top tier education systems in these places being the biggest deterrent.
This is an op-ed from a libertarian think tank about a study they conducted themselves. Quite a bit of bias here. Sure, there exists a grey area with the music therapist anecdote they use, but personally, I'm quite fond of electricians, plumbers, etc being licensed.
Whenever people question the concentration of tech jobs in cities like SF it always makes me think:
1) Why do most jobs related to show business(movies) are concentrated in LA?
2) Why are most jobs in banking concentrated in NYC?
Many of the articles in those earlier computer mags were really good and very educative. (I used to stand in regular new-book shops or roadside second-hand book shops in Chennai and Pune, reading such mags (to decide which ones to buy with my limited budget, by reading parts of many articles in them) until my feet hurt, and then leaving, after buying a few to read fully at home.) Ditto with the British Council Library, from where I used to invariably borrow 4 books (the limit) at a time. They had very good books by British computer book authors, on many topics and parts of the h/w and s/w stack.

I remember reading a very good article about Huffman coding with an explanation, figures and C code or pseudocode, by Jonathan Amsterdam, in a BYTE issue. BYTE used to have specials sometimes, notable ones were the issues on Smalltalk and Lisp (one each), in which articles about those subjects filled almost the entire magazine. The Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column by Steve Ciarcia was great too, so much that I used to read it even though I did not have a background in electronics or hardware.

In fact, for some issues, BYTE's cover art by Robert Tinney became collector items.

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=byte+mag+cover+artist

DDJ (Dr. Dobb's Journal (of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia was the original name, IIRC) and CUJ (C User's Journal, later became C and C++ UJ), were excellent too. Many really good articles on C and C++, both on the language and algorithms for various purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(magazine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/C%2B%2B_Users_Journal

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=steve+ciarcia

https://circuitcellar.com/how-it-all-began/

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

I miss those days, dammit.
I really like your dream. There are probably people on this forum with the right skills to make it happen if you want to pursue it in earnest.
Perhaps it is an artifact of frantic damage control by a guilty party and this information is not so reliable.
No, that's why I'm asking...

Not every question on the internet is a thinly veiled attempt to make a statement!
For anyone else. The landing speed of a 747 is around 166mph-172mph [1].

[1] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=747+landing+speed
> The long-term solution to this mess should come from users abandoning it

Where will the people go? If it's other software it might end being as bad or worse.
It's not copyright law or authority, the Internet Archive can just say no. They can't be forced to take material.
The pilots did not specifically witness a drone, just a lack of birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fts9u5ND24
True, nobody eats homemade soup.
Front shot of the dent shows no signs of small/sharp sub-dents or deep scratches within the main dent that would've been caused by hard object such as drone. Which kind of steers thinking toward heavy and soft object that planed collided with.

"Is goose going to be okay?"
Any idea why this article is flagged? It isn't a bad article
You're right. I thought I had read it as "will be insured" but now that I go back and look at the content on https://checking.robinhood.com I see it reads "Every Robinhood account is SIPC insured up to $250,000 in cash and protected by modern encryption so you can rest easy and save confidently."

No bueno.
This also means that it will be impossible for third parties to limit access to your articles.

?? I don't understand. Somebody, somewhere is hosting the reading UI at vitriol.co, right? That's the chokepoint to attack.

Political issues aside, it feels like this has to be client-side software in order to achieve what it sets out to - more like scuttlebutt.
I'm not sure that Watson's expressed views that the inequality of races is demonstrated by the experiences of "people who have to deal with black employees" is a high water mark for scientific enquiry, or that his related comments on being particularly cautious about promoting black people were likely to have a neutral or positive impact on science. What I find curious is people who argue that unlike the progressives who eventually lost patience with a scientist using the profile he (deservedly) earned to articulate a long list of offensive crankery, Watson's own shaming of people for being fat, black, autistic etc really isn't worth paying attention to.
This article is from a fantastic nonprofit public interest law firm that does GREAT work in this area: the Institute for Justice (https://ij.org/issues/economic-liberty/occupational-licensin...)

They've successfully gotten a number of these stupid licenses struck down. In terms of my perceived ROI for my donations, IJ is one of my favorite/most worthwhile organizations that I support. They're also in Charity Navigator's top 1% of nonprofits. I highly recommend donating! (https://ij.org/support/)
I have had such an account at Fidelity for years.
However they only pay lower money market rates which are based on bonds less than 30 days.
This is a company with an interestingly convoluted corporate history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenturyLink
This looks somewhat familiar with the centralization vs decentralization debate in tech. It seems the network effects benefits don't apply only for tech products, but for cities as well.

While there are many efforts in overcoming those effects through decentralization in various aspects (from remote work to blockchain projects), it seems none of these really achieved as much success as we were expecting, probably because the benefits of decentralization don't outweigh (yet) the advantages of strong networks.

Perhaps once we solve this equation in tech, and make decentralized options more appealing than their centralized counterparts, we may be able to transfer that knowledge to city planning somehow.
Good question, to which I don’t know the full answer. But if you look at their motto “move fast and break things”, insistence on pushing new features as fast as possible, and the recent clash and resignation of their CSO, I’d say google are just more mature about security, and understand their products are entirely reliant on trust of their users.
Seems like this is more up to the company and its ability to provide such things rather than being in any explicit contract. What if they're unable to fulfill such obligations?
A friend of mine signed up for them on a promo, got charged 3x the price he was supposed to, then was told “We didn’t apply the promo, but that’s only for new customers and you’re a customer now so we won’t fix it.”

Thankfully he lives in one of the few places with multiple providers, so he told them to stuff it.
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You're not wrong. I wouldn't blame the US for wanting to defend against it. I just wouldn't bother with the "morality" card vs. a simple transactional justification.
Yeah that's my bad. I thought saying Utah ISP might highlight that this is currently only a Utah issue and CenturyLink isn't blocking everyone's traffic... I think.
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The alternative is to allow the least competent actors continue to lose user data without any consequences.
Still all boils down to the same thing - keeping the computation & data as close to possible will always be more efficient.