skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well of course, everyone wants free stuff without paying for it. That's just as much an economic principle as the one you brought up.

However, I don't think services which offer a free-but-with-ads-version are the issue here. After all you could just not use those services.

I think the way bigger issue is the ubiquitousness of advertisements/spam in our daily life. Most e-mail traffic is spam. If you walk around in your city you most probably get to see an ad every couple of meters. And this is not just your local butcher putting up a sign with today's specials. These are footholds of international corporations which manipulate your emotions so they can sell you their shitty products (Oh, I forgot, it's not shitty, after all if I believe the ads your corporation somehow has some deep connection to my family life and that's what makes the product so great!)

How it ever got like that is insanity in its own right. Now giving these public space polluters another tool for manipulating people? I can't see much good coming off of it.
Just curios, do you think the earth is flat?
Someone further up in the thread posted better sources.
>> The problem isn't really bad choices, it's uninformed choices

So that, should be the job of the OS (Apple in this case), rather than limiting the user's choices of where he/she can install an app from.
I realise that your numbers are only meant to be illustrative, but it's worth realising that this is "only" 65 hours a week for 40 years. A lot? Yes. More then I'd be willing to work at a typical desk job[1]? Probably. But feasible for a passion project? Definitely! (and doesn't even necessarily require starting before you hit 25, although that clearly helps...). The limiting factor is not so much that nobody can do this, but that (short of independent wealth, which I think can bring its own set of constraints and expectations) very few people ever get the opportunity to do this without a lot of interruptions. I don't think it's impossible to imagine a society where that isn't true.

[1] although... "thinking" can stack surprisingly well with some activities we'd consider leisure, like walking or (at least in my case) gardening. So maybe this isn't really going to be 65hrs/week at a desk...
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Qt 5.12.1 Released
It’s not a legal thing. If you think it is at least try to cite the general area of law.

You can create devices and sell them and not make them compatible with other companies products if you want. It’s true from printer ink to PlayStations.

The only issue would be market share and monopoly problems, which given that Google’s alternative platform has 54% of the market is totally irrelevant here.
For what it's worth, Gnome is very usable on a 1440p screen if one sets Font Scaling to 1.6 (in tweak tools) and leaves the general scaling at factor 1. The result is that the fonts have the right size, while GUI elements are a bit smaller than usual (which is actually quite nice because it saves space). Maybe that's why this hasn't been fixed properly for so long.
People that feel like they are on the border of hire/no-hire. Some people will obviously fail the interview (this doesn't mean they are terrible, or even not qualified, it just means they didn't do well on your interview). It's easy to say no to these people.

On the other hand, there are some people that will do so well you know you want to hire them. Usually if the process is rigorous enough, these are your slam dunk employees. The problem with them is they will likely ask for a lot of money, but you know they can do the job.

The people that are on the border I think are the hardest. You want to give them a shot, and you may not have had a slam dunk, or they turned you down because the offer wasn't good enough. How do you figure out which people that did "pretty good" are the hires, and which are the no-hires?
“But the company said Mail Online still failed to gather and present information responsibly”

Does this not then undermine the meaning of the green tick for sites that are responsible?
As an ex trader, I'm not surprised. Customers on the buy side have been suspicious for years, but any one of us would not have the pieces to figure it out.

Roughly in the mid 2000s it got very common for people in the trading business to get on chatrooms. Bloomberg is probably the best known, but somehow Yahoo Chat also has a piece in the commodity space.

The chats go on constantly, and I would guess people just didn't think anyone would look through the records. Much like with squawk boxes, who would ever imagine someone listening to the recordings?

Similar cases have happened in FX and LIBOR, and it's quite clear what the incentives are. You might think that some banks are long and some short, thus cancelling out the market effect, but that's not the case. Often the trade that's popular is the same for everyone, so the banks are on one side and the customers on the other. So if you have a small group of banks that in a chatroom, it's quite tempting to collude.

You also have to think about how market making works. It's at heart an information business. If you know customers are going to be buying, you want to get inventory first and sell it to them. It's nice to be the first guy to do that but realistically you won't know what's up all the time. Makes good sense to have friends at other banks.
Here’s one, possible, good reason: the EU has a sort of “whistleblower” defense, where the first company to cooperate in a cartel investigation gets off free. Assuming that bad PR is a significant part of punishment in these cases, it would make sense to delay announcing the culprits here to give one of them time to escape being named.
> It's not clear that even reputed newspapers like NYTimes/WaPo produce quality content consistently.

Example: Washington Post pushed the "Covington boys surround and intimidate native man" narrative that's been completely shattered by about 200 hours of video footage in the last week, and led to Twitter disabling the account that spread it, refutations (oddly enough from the NYT) and various apologies from those who came after the child on question.
There's a few places you can get ECMWF from, but usually your state meteorology institute will use it, even if it's not clearly advertised. (In Portugal they use ECMWF together with AROME)
i would guess parking lots in us are much bigger than in Europe
I don’t think using outbreaks of a preventable disease due to stupid people thinking they know more than they do and causing harm to society as a whole is overly dramatic. If anything, there should be more coverage about it so we can get laws passed to deny non medical exemptions.
See McSherry et al, "Scalability! But at what COST?"

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
How OfferZen Uses a Mission Framework to Power Up on Transparency
What is meant by "natural" in the context of the Standard Model?
Well then you have to stop paying "poverty wages" for the technical skills required. Btw this is a what a ex squaddie mate of mine said when he got a pitch from UK TLA on linked in.

I get the strong impression that the nat sec community is stuck in the 1940's and 50's still thinks they can get high end cyber skills and pay enlisted wages - a cheery working class chap in the films he be played by Norman wisdom or George Formby
Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages lead to more buggy code
Huh ? It's even simpler to put a manual car in neutral without the key. You could even push start it.

The main problem would be having a locked driving wheel (common in France), which may make pushing it 5 meters away impractical/impossible without lifting the front wheels.
They mention 2 methods in the article, the sweep method, and plain old modulation. If the 2 methods could be combined it might work better.

The sweep could be sped up by several orders of magnitude, and the modulation could be coordinated with it to create traveling pulse trains toward the listener that would have higher fidelity.
"I just want to make calls reliably with my phone. Don't want color displays and all in it".

"I just want my phone to make calls and send plain text messages reliably. Don't want videos and gifs and camera in it."

"I just want a smartphone to make calls, send sms, basic whatsapp and take average pictures. Don't want it to become a DSLR".

"I want my phone to just work reliably. I actually don't want it to be a full-fledged computer. "

Interesting you say that, because your phone is already much (, much) more powerful than the full-fledged computers from just a few years back. The only reason you don't want it to be like 'traditional' full fledged computers because it doesn't work great that way right now. Once it does, you'll not want your phone to become something else.
We had quite a scandal with something like this over here in Germany some weeks ago.

A young journalist named Relotius who worked for "Der Spiegel" was found to have his stories a little bit too perfect. He acknowledged that some parts of his stories were "beautified" by him to make them more appealing to the readers.

So, while the core of a story might still be true, nobody really knows what happened and what was added by him. Nobody believes anything of these stories anymore after all.

It totally blew his career up (he was formerly found to be one of the "rising stars" of German journalism and had already got some awards for his work) and the Spiegel also found himself under heavy criticism, although they already have a concept in place, where another editor always fact-checks the other editors work.

So: Enthusiasm in journalists can go really wrong.
When I worked in commodities trading about 8-9 years ago, everyone used Yahoo Chat. However, it also popped up a message (as I recall) informing the user their conversations were being recorded for regulatory reasons.
I've used shitty cabs in some places, including the US where they were surprisingly poor. So I can understand Uber has some appeal.

Here in the UK it's Uber that needs to get a clue. After a few tries of Uber I just use cabs as they're consistently reliable and have a clue where they're going, and local rat runs. Without needing to piss about with the sat nav. I've never had a cab driver phone me to ask where I'm going then not show. Uber have done this twice. So they score near zero for reliability which is what I need from a vehicle service.

Just as well really considering the assorted revelations about their dodgy practices.
While there’s certainly nothing that compares to a well-stocked French bookstore in Berlin, you could try “Grober Unfug” (groberunfug.de) or Modern Graphics (modern-graphics.de)
I haven't looked into the sources, but my impression was, that it was using GPU to scale surfaces and then compose into final framebuffer, that is the same resolution as display. Not that it uses output encoder.

The quick test is, when I do a screenshot, I get a file with dimensions same as physical display, not logical resolution. On macOS, it is exacly the other way.

Scaling with GPU is more flexible; you can do things per surface instead of per desktop; but slightly more complicated (because you do things per surface instead of per desktop), takes away GPU capacity/memory bandwidth from applications when then might it, and is more power hungry when the GPU could be idle.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of. But I'd forgotten LeMay's name :( And I also vaguely remember something about an attack plan by George C. Marshall.
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This is new to me and looks really cool despite the sensational style of journalism. I imagine in the near future we will have a variety of widely available methods for making physical objects from digital models, each with advantages and disadvantages for different usecases.
Of course, but if it's falsifiable then once it's falsified it will go away. If it's not falsifiable then it's "not even wrong" and it's impossible to convince people to stop repeating it as if it's fact (or worse, an 'undeniable possibility').
You cant run a modern army with a majority enlisted force the training requirements are so high both in time and cost.

Don't take this the wrong way but the USA needs to get over regarding the founders odd ideas about standing armies it just doesn't work in a modern society.
A plausible reason is that it would likely impact their market value as shareholder confidence in those banks is affected by the potential for large fines in the near-future. Since the banks haven't actually been found guilty of anything (yet), they're simply being investigated, it would be damaging to release their names.
In the sense that from a 2D representation a 3D object is created, yes, but that's it.
Recovering satellites sounds odd in our age of ubiquitous high-speed digital communication. But back then, pictures taken by a reconnaissance satellite were recovered by having rolls of used film thrown at the Earth for airplanes to catch in mid-air [1]. Using a shuttle would have looked awfully simple compared to that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
But from the user perspective there is huge difference between +1C tomorrow and -3C.

Really? I'd read those both as "near freezing, going to need a decent coat".
This post is from early 2018. There is already a new annual ranking.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/germany-n...
Does the NYT really have to turn every headline into a bad pun?
With Apple/Google Pay isn't this information NOT shared with merchant, but only a transaction token ?
Open Codes: The Art of Coding
So the enterprise drives perform as specified and the consumer drives don’t?
Maybe a feature request to save you some work. On submission, based on url, the site automatically lets the submitter know of prior submissions and if they choose to submit anyway, then (if they do) the first comment is an auto comment with links to previous discussions. Could also add a year to the lookup and have that gets auto added to the title if not already present.
When users load the app or launch the player from a web browser they receive a message explaining that the service is free and requesting a donation. I don't think that could be termed infringement. When I used the player in the web app, however, content would be interrupted with a similar type message mid-stream. That interruption could be problematic.
TSB suffers £105m loss after computer chaos
IBM explains their plans to restore software patents
> But in France, at least, comic books were taken seriously as an art form, Peeters said. “When I was a young author I came from a more literary world,” he said. “People said, ‘What are you doing with comics? You are a clever person. You should work with movies or literature.’ Now, nobody would say that.”

Contrast this with a petition initiated and signed by a collective of authors, including Benoît Peeters: https://collectifartistesauteurs.tumblr.com/post/17004407655...

Maybe the art form is taken seriously, yet over half of the comic books, authors cannot make a decent living off this profession in France today.
I cannot say for sure but here are four things that cones to mind:

- Considering how much of a problem normal space debris is I'm happy we don't have a number of old nukes in orbit.

- I also guess nuclear weapons need some maintenance.

- Leaving nuclear weapons in orbit would make it possible for another country to try to intercept/study/disarm them.

- Regulations/treaties about weapons in space
Facebook Faces Seven Data Probes as Irish Watchdog Gets Tough
Agile Testing: A New Era for Agile Teams
Do you need an app to be more productive?
Have to? No. But it’s kind of a sport amongst copy editors. Some of the good reputation of The Economist stems from the fact that they elevated puns (not only in titles) to an art form.
Does this have a name? Like the overuse of "X considered harmful" after Dijkstra, or the annoying increase of "X Y and where/how to Z them" after JK Rowling?
The "they" in that article is the Obama administration.
Huawei’s Clout Is So Strong It’s Helping Shape Global 5G Rules
I'm not necessarily talking about performance but mostly about features.

For instance a lot of friends using Android phones are shocked about iOS lack of a global filesystem.

But to me, this absence is a feature, not a bug. Having every app sandboxed at the OS level is a great thing to limit what can go wrong. I explicitely don't want a global filesystem on iOS.

To be clear, I would hate a full computer without a global filesystem. But I'm really fine with a phone not having one.

(By the way Apple did take tiny steps towards a public filesystem on iOS and I'm not super happy about that)
Neither C or C++ have the same developer reach or safety.
Props man ! Keep up the good work, always a good laugh !
It was a terrible idea, inventing a new GUI toolkit for the window manager the application would have to support (and that they couldn't use with others), instead of just allowing applications to draw in the title bar/have them do their own decoration.
Le May was ruthless, but his successor at SAC General Thomas Power sounded like a character from Dr Strangelove:

"Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Power
To his defense he wrote he woulldn't work for companies not paying what they thought he was worth, not what he was worth or what he was thinking he was worth. Basically companies that try to take advantage of him by paying less that what they know they should and could.
The hype wave is gone, but if you ever saw @Secured or @Transactional, those are aspects after all.
Do you know where to get historical forecasts easily (to gauge accuracy)?
Who was destroyed by mere accusation? Because really, these are people who were accused repeatedly again and again and their victims ended in oblivion while piling up.
> …but the proposed declarativeNetRequest API isn’t a good replacement. So where does that leave us?

Exactly. The issue is Google is using the removal of this "bad API" as an excuse to end ad-blocking in Chrome. If it only wanted to remove the bad API and secure users, it would have announced a better alternative for ad-blockers at the same time.
Ask HN: Cheapest and best hosted database
Reading about Firebase going GA I've wondered what would be the best hosted database for the best price for a side project?
Yes, "roman graphique" is a rather recent term (whose usage has slowly grown over the last 15 years, generally applied to BDs with more "serious" topics; it allowed some people to say they don't read plebeian BDs, they read romans graphiques).

Speaking of broadening people conception of BDs, I highly recommend people to have a look at La Revue Dessinée, a quarterly news magazine in BD https://www.larevuedessinee.fr
Nasa’s Curiosity Rover Weighed a Mountain on Mars
Open-hardware laser scanner for 3D printing/pcb manufacturing
The BBC striving for diversity in hiring != Th BBC pushing a “social justice agenda” in its content.

If you can’t see the distinction, I doubt you will find any journalism stooping to your level.
If they're both relatively rare for you you might not notice a difference, but if you encounter them more often you'd notice I think.
An 11 Year Old Boy Filed a PIL in Bombay HC Applying for BAN on PUGB – Will Modi
My argument was and still is : there are hundred of apps named "Facebook XXX", having facebook logos all over them.

For any sane person, the only way to know the "official" ones are to check the developer account, in this case, it was not Facebook.

Hence, for any sane person, the only reasonable assumption was that it was not a Facebook sponsored one.
+1 means that the packed snow is going to melt on top and then probably re-freeze, making everything super slippery. So I need to remove as much snow from the paths as possible and spread sand, and remind the kids to be careful.

-3 means relax.
The justice system is not working as expected.
It is unnecessarily long, expensive and dreadful.
* You can find VTC licenses for ~60,000€.

* Uber and Cabify don't own those licenses directly but their CEOs and investors do (https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2018/08/05/5b659a44468aeb9a29...).
If you are parsing known JSON schemas, defining them as types instead of generic dictionary lookups makes this a type-error, not a implementation error.

I can’t see why anyone would want not to do this.
I've seen similar in California. Forecasts are really not always that accurate even within 24h.
Most if not all Windows applications can be resized properly without being updated. Remember that it's the widget toolkit (Win32, GTK, Qt, etc) that is doing the resizing, not the application.

The app tells the toolkit to draw a button at 10,10 with a size of 100,20. The toolkit multiplies everything by 1.5 and then draws the button. The app doesn't need to know that this is happening at all. Of course this is not possible with some applications that do weird things, but for the 99% this works, and the 1% can just be resized by the compositor. That's exactly what Windows does.
Linguistically updating the instructions every 25 years seems a little unnecessary. We have plenty of documents from 1500 that scholars have little problem parsing.
1) Is there a business transaction within their business model that produces revenue?

2) What is their long-term intent? (Exit, operate, merge, acquire, etc.)

3) Has the leadership team done this before? (I don't want to be someone else's learning experience.)
I think the root of many testing problems is that people write code and continuously test manually until they think it works correctly. Then, they start writing some automated tests.

What I think is much more effective is to write test instead of manual testing while developing. That is, what you would do by hand just implement in a test. And only at the very end, double-check manually.
Yes. Government does not issue more taxi licenses, so the only way to get one is to buy it from someone else. The price is set by the market. A taxi driver can easily make 2,500€/month in Madrid, especially if he/she hires another driver/s to drive the taxi when the main driver is resting.
Seals took over California beach during government shutdown – won’t give it back
Did they have a choice to open up as much as they did?
Same here, my favorit is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud aka. Moebius, also very popular among other comic book artists.

http://comicsalliance.com/jean-moebius-giraud-art/
Tell that to the high-frequency-trader crowd, they almost use java exclusivly, because even 1ms equals a few thousands to them, correctness is apparently worth it for them.
> He acknowledged that some parts of his stories were "beautified" by him to make them more appealing to the readers.

I think you are underselling it. Quoting from Der Spiegel[1], "he included individuals in his stories who he had never met or spoken to, telling their stories or quoting them. (...) He also made up dialogue and quotes."

[1] http://m.spiegel.de/international/the-relotius-case-answers-...
Disagree, Consumer grade hardware is a fantastic idea because it's so bad it forces you to write robust software.

Enterprise hardware is 3x the cost of consumer hardware, but on average it's at the most twice as reliable. If your software robustness and redundancy is high enough, the total TCO will be lower and no less reliable.

The real wtf with CamelCamelCamel is not that they were running consumer drives, it was they were running 3 replicas on consumer drives with what seemed to be a too heavy workload.
Wether you want it or not, you are in the news business – as a Customer, that is.

Since that business is integral to democracy, it would seem we all have some stake in its success.
Not to undermine your point, but you have used the worst possible example. In the top 1000 of worst prisons around the world, most if not all of them are not private. Just take a look a Brazil prison system as en example.