skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the maximum amount that any person or PAC can donate to a candidate is $5000.

Where are these contribution numbers coming from, then? http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=B
Somewhat silly question: can we build a firewall around china from the outside?
I'm starting to think something like flatpak or snap is necessary, but in a more sandboxed way, to enforce on the user level that certain apps won't have access to certain files. I would like to see options to fully sandbox an app (has it's own separate permissions for certain documents) or not sandbox it at all (for things we trust implicitly that need that access).
Spelunking
> I'd easily make this tradeoff if I had no/limited other sources of revenue.

Not me.
I’m amazed of how many people share this “once stablished things never change” mentality in this forum.

Most of the people reading here are either thinking of or trying or actually becoming living proof that this way of thinking is wrong.

Maybe instead of asking non-techie friends about mastodon we should be asking kids about myspace..
There can be no water without fire, it is known.
Expanding that beyond GG for a moment...

Does every Wikipedia article have to include both pro- and anti- views? Do they need to be given equal weight?
It's certainly a poor use of Python's flexibility, but I've seen that kind of thing written at two completely different companies by completely different, yet smart, people so I suspect it's prevalent. Haskell does a much better job of nudging smart people to write good code. Gabriel Gonzalez explained it better than I could: http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should-...
Spamming.
Thanks for that link. It took a second to dig through the layers of news posts to find the original story/data:

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/spotify-ap...

It looks like Google Play (Google Music?) still wins for compensating artists the most so it's nice to see my choice still holds up over time.

To save people the click:

* Google Play $0.0068
* iTunes $0.0060
* Spotify $0.0044
Wikipedia reflects what people believe to be the Truth, so historical or news are often filled with mistakes and half-truths. My favorite wikipedia deletion was an armchair historian who would correct common myths, such as Canada did not have Troops in the Vietnam war. He would even link to the Canadian military site that listed medals to soldiers station in Vietnam.

He kept getting all his updates reversed, as the perceived fact was the only one allowed. His proof was discarded.

He finally gave up, and only updated his personal comment page. And then the wikipedia did a personal page purge to stop searches from showing personal pages. Coincidence? I doubt it.

Those who control the history books they say.
Sure there are. Successful propaganda in democratic countries loops back in elections, for instance.
The Edge TPU looks like a cool toy. But I would never base a product on anything that Google makes (either hardware or software). It's here today, and might not be here tomorrow, at Google's whim. I think the value of Edge TPU is mostly educational.

And before someone waters this down with "but every company has whims and every company can discontinue products" — in electronics, companies will guarantee 10-15 year lifetimes, especially for automotive-grade parts, with end-of-life buy notices well ahead of sunsetting.
The difference in the way the USB-C cable and Magsafe handle an off angle tug seals the debate for me.
I've always assumed that the color profile used for a screen has some effect on how color pickers interpret what is displayed.
Don't forget that he was also quite a wordsmith (NSFW) -

http://textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0050.txt
Might this just be how ultra-nationalist types work? I’m less familiar with the dynamics in China, but with Indian politics any place where people are mildly critical of the Hindu Right can rapidly get brigaded. And it doesn’t usually seem all that organized or botlike. I think it’s just a country of a billion people with really bad liberal arts education and an extremely sensationalist media culture being unleashed on the web.
Fair enough. But please don't post such links on HN.
That muddies the water a bit; my boss threatened to fire me if i didn't do my job is blackmail under your definition.
That's not a good definition for blackmail - if I threaten to not perform my job without pay and go home instead, it would qualify under your definition.
"I'm going to quit unless you pay me more."

Why doesn't that meet your definition? I'm threatening to do something legal (quit) unless you do something you don't want to (pay more money).

I'm confused.
The experience here in Orange County over the last few months has been nuts.

Being able to hang out down near the ocean and see the San Gabriel mountains just decked out in snow is surreal: https://i.redd.it/kueaye5p6si21.jpg

Another photo: https://i.redd.it/vy7dlavrh0f21.jpg

Anaheim hills, an area that rarely gets snowed on: https://i.redd.it/trbf198kb6i21.jpg

Then we roll right into the poppy/wildflower superbloom which has been bonkers: https://weather.com/travel/news/2019-03-13-super-bloom-flowe...

The blackstar canyon waterfall is LIT! https://i.redd.it/4bq8v71ff7j21.jpg

Last but not least we are smack dab in the middle of an epic butterfly migration, https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2019/03/08/why-are-there-so...

Driving down the 73 toll road yesterday I think I drove through about 300 butterflies, at least. They just kinda flop over the car, none of them hit me. It was like driving through a butterfly hail storm.

This place sucks a lot of the time with all of the congestion and traffic, heat, smog, high cost of living etc... but times like this really make you stop and appreciate how beautiful it is.
> he law is drafted to close a loophole where you can open a black market site

The chance is pretty good, given their recent track record.
U.S. private sector employs nearly as many PhDs as schools do
Absolutely none of this controls for social factors. Twin studies focus on twins raised separately, since they would have the same genes but a different environment. But unless one of the twins is raised in this society and another is raised in a society without any notion of gender roles, you aren't really demonstrating anything.
Are you arguing that Trump is not attempting to destroy American democracy?
I don't think their style is as new as it appears. Yes, they are more active on social media, but most Americans are not on Twitter directly; there is a whole genre of news story now that revolve around things politicians say on Twitter.

AOC didn't really have a national brand until after she won, and she got there mostly through traditional retail politics. Trump had a media brand to begin with so he was able to create traditional media coverage whenever he wanted.
I was referring to the brake based traction control system, not the differential
> then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to.

As opposed to the paragons of virtue who wield power now.
Cutting 10% of losses is hardly something to sneer at.
If you only need to get gas every week (assume a small SUV like the model Y, a Ford something or another) you're going to get 24mpg, and have a 16 gallon takn or so.

16*24 = 384 miles of range. A Tesla should be able to do what, 300 miles on a charge? You shouldn't have to charge every day.
Whether you post a nuanced view on China or criticize either side someone claims the other is a shill, a sympathizer, or a propagandist. By what mechanism can there be a real conversation online?
>That's why I think the MCAS isn't really to blame here as much as Boeing is to blame for not properly documenting...

I pretty sure the Ethiopian pilots would have been aware of the Lion Air crash and MCAS issues. The fact they still crashed suggests there's more to it.
Your post history is pretty much exactly what I was expecting it to be after reading this.
In addition, New Zealand does not have have a blanket freedom of speech guarantee. In fact their laws specifically say speech can be suppressed to protect public safety.
This part does seem like the notation is responsible to at least some extent. I definitely have that experience myself when I read things like econometrics and machine learning papers. I know the concepts and could probably handle the words, but the pages full of bizarre elongated Greek letters that has to be translated with some kind of nonexistent Rosetta Stone just induces a bit of panic.
> I wouldn't say it's worth a 30% (or even 15%) cut, but it's not worthless.

Sure. By that logic Apple also “helps the growth” of Uber by offering the same convenient payment method in the form of Apple Pay. Their fee for that: 0.15%.

Charging 15-30% is clearly about more than “helping growth”.

And Apple isn’t just charging for the convenience of IAP. They’re also frustrating Spotify from collecting payment any other way. The specious argument here is saying that strangling premium subscription growth doesn’t hurt a company’s finances.
I'm guessing it comes from people who have never been in an airplane, on a very tall mountain or in open prairies. Ya know...all those places you can actually see the Earth curve at the horizon...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_telephone_excise_tax
In Fatberg Fight, NYC Goes to War Against Flushable Wipes
No. In order to publish (even just within your organization) you need to establish a trusted relationship, and Apple charges for that. There is plenty of room for argument about how much Apple should be charging for this, but the process does have some costs to Apple, so it is only right that they charge something.
Laptop and phone manufacturer.

People are more serious about encrypted communications, as well. Matrix.org and Riot are enjoying great growth right now.
People can invest their money in science and technology... Why do we need the government to invest in that? See how silly that argument sounds...
To be fair I would happily call a cistern an aquifer, so it may be a British thing???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistern
1) People have the right not to have their corpses, and their spouses' and children's corpses, rubbernecked by a billion people, a significant minority of which will take the opportunity to make jokes about the video.

2) The videos themselves can be seen as a kind of propaganda, both for the violence a person might be capable of and the attention they might get for it. This I'm less sure of: I'd be curious to see if there's a contagion effect.
It's not controversial that different topics are difficult for different people, but the idea of "innate" understanding is absurd. And the idea that code quality has a direct causal relationship to code quality is even more absurd. He certainly didn't qualify that statement to imply C programmers have lousy code when they don't understand pointers, but how many people that struggle with pointers want to jump on that ship anyway?

End of the day, learning its a personal thing, and some people struggle in some topics and not in others, but under no circumstances do I think there's an innate ability to understand pointers and some people are never going to have it. That just sounds like C programmers trying to pet their ego.
Genuinely curios, since I believe Reddit is banned in China, so can't Reddit counter this by simply blocking traffic from China?

Or, perhaps Reddit doesn't think this is a problem, or at least not a problem they want to tackle given their recent funding from Tencent.
He's one of the more charismatic contenders, is young, and has a large cult following both in a deeply red state and online. Those factors naturally lead to coverage, at least in today's press.
I live in Seattle too, and this is the first year I made more than $85k. But I don't have kids.
I'm sad that you failed to mention the original /Hackers/ movie as well as /Swordfish/ -- two staples of Defcon movie nights.
Show HN: Music Portraits as Computer Art
The changes in behavior those surcharges are intended to cause remain important, especially as future droughts are quite likely.
They used shady tactics to force them to bill through the Apple's marketplace so they could get the 30% cut, forcing Spotify to raise prices by 30% so they could maintain their revenue position. Then they released Apple Music at the $9.99 price point that Spotify was at previously.

The shady tactics resumed when Spotify stopped using the App Store to bill and reduced the price to compete with Apple Music. Apple isn't interested in competing with Spotify, only with freezing them out of the market.
Frankly this is more of a color roulette than a guide—it doesn't explain any principles of the system. You could do better by knowingly tuning RGB values—or, even easier, HSV.

E.g. ‘abcdef’ turn out to be pastels because they produce light colors with low contrast between the RGB values (i.e. saturation)—since the a-f range is pretty low.

And, of course I can generate the rainbow by shuffling the numbers, but what do I then do with those colors?
Data locality laws, for starters.
The actions associated with the dystopian fiction are there but not the dystopia ... yet. I don't see the dystopia outcome as inevitable either but that can creep with an impossible weight to counter if the powers want it.
FCC Tackles 911 Dilemma: What Floor Are You Calling From?
That article by Joel goes into detail, but I agree with him that false positives (hiring someone who turns out to be a dud) are MUCH MUCH worse than missing out on someone who is potentially good (especially the rarer case of someone who is potentially good but still did poor on the interview).
Is it even freedom of speech? The users aren't being banned, they're free to go elsewhere like twitter and take their lumps with their precious hate speech.
Color is something that i’ve always struggled with.

https://h4studios.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/a-little-color-wo...

I wish there was a way to validate color choices.

Even my recent apps don’t look great, but at least I've moved away from my affinity for grays.

One little trick that I learned is how to make a color lighter or darker, which you need for gradients.

https://h4studios.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/choosing-lighterd...

At least to me, it seems like if you do a slight gradient, the colors look a little better.
But the captain had 8000 hours of experience. But I agree, maybe the less-experienced pilot was a contributing factor. The black box recording should provide insight if there were any cockpit squabbles...
What does the word shill mean exactly? I know what it used to mean, but it seems like the last decade of internet culture has made it similar to the word "cult": most of the usage I see just means "person at the median of intellectual honesty whom I disagree with"
If you hide your bias, I can't judge it as easily.
Do you have your setup documented somewhere? It sounds intriguing.
You are right, Users like these were booted out of 4chan and formed 8chan. 4chan got it because it's more popular
Yes exaggerate the claim to be completely different from the real situation. If you think Facebook has it's demerits then be consistent and say the same about all of the Internet. Because your Grandparents aren't on HN, HN should be banned as well.
Only among people (as here) who have much greater than average tech knowledge, and probably a far more nuanced understanding of the various possible meanings of "hacker".

Elsewhere, the words "hacker" and "hacking" have an almost universally negative connotation.
I'm from and in Florida and have never driven in ice or snow. Why not just call an uber on snow days? :)
> I think that type has mostly gone away/become the third.

Not a chance. I think that a lot of kids with socialization problems who grew up spending a lot of time on the internet took trolls seriously, and built very strange worldviews from that assumption of earnestness.

But actual trolls are still everywhere, and their trollishness can be measured by the inverse of the ratio of their typing to your typing. That ratio can nearly reach zero with the use of copypasta.
On Moc OSX with my native color picker set to sRGB, for the color labeled #abcdef I get #accfef. Set to AdobeRGB I get #b6cded. With the Chrome Dev Tool's color picker I get #acceef.

I think this is just a result of the wonderful world of color profiles.
Inference is a little more involved once you add lambda abstraction and function application.

Recommended:

Christoph Hegemann: type inference from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytPAlhnAKro
The distinction is some of the anti-China submissions on HN are submitted for the sake of being anti-China, not because these posts "gratify one's intellectual curiosity". I do not consider geopolitical stories presented on the front page of mainstream media as something that "gratifies" my "intellectual curiosity" when I visit HN. I still read those off HN and I feel annoyed when I see them here, because they are not what I came here for.

The gross generalizations and shill accusations (mostly thrown against users who actually post "genuinely opposing viewpoints") endemic to these China-related submissions are just icing on the cake.
According to last.fm it’s mostly synthwave, techno, and psytrans. Examples:

Neurodriver - Ball of Judgment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPkyT4QaUOU

The Midnight - The Equaliser (Terry Da Libra Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daERNrY15CE
Single stream recycling is the majority style of municipal recycling here in the United States. It's popularity was along the lines of why we got Chip & Sign and not Chip & PIN EMV: Governments consider their citizens too uninformed and friction averse to sort their own recycling. They felt the consequence of that would be that the municipal recycling would become an underutilized money pit.

Unfortunately, those governments got the predictions right, but got the consequences wrong. The cost of uninformed citizens putting plastic grocery bags, gardening hoses, and all sorts of non-recyclable trash into the single stream is extremely costly. Single stream plants shut down several times a day to remove plastic film bags from their machinery, untangle hoses, and remove literal tons of tainted recyclable material because someone threw a full paint can in their recycling bin.

This is further exacerbated by many municipalities providing a recycling bin that is larger than your yard waste and trash bin. A city I lived in previously did this and many of my neighbors would just put their trash bags into the recycling bin because their trash bin was full.

As such, single stream recycling has been on the ropes since before China raised it's standards. Now it's in full on panic mode.

That said, I don't want to put up with a Japanese style rotation of trash days, special trash bags, and 50 page manuals on how to sort your trash and when to put it out either. Unfortunately, we're going to have to move away from single stream if we want to increase recycling efficiency, it seems.
And even if you're a transplant (at least with me) that's used to cold winters, you've got 1-2 years before you normalize to the weather. First year here I really believed there was no winter in LA, but after you acclimate you realize it was all a lie!
> or how I will feed my family, even in lean times.

I see a surprise in your future.
A private company demanded your financial info and made false threats? You might have trouble proving it in court, but there's got to be something illegal in there. Threatening to do something that they can't legally do, at the very least.
Remember those "fuel surcharges" from when gas was over $4/gallon? Me too. I'm still paying them.
This is an amazing post. Every couple of years, I look at the massive clusterfuck that is the IoT ecosystem, and decide it's not worth the bother. This post nicely encapsulates why.
> Does this account for the massively depleted aquifers thoughout the state?

By definition, no. Though being drought free is enabling some parts of the state to actively pump water into aquifers beyond natural recovery, so they aren't unrelated.
I think a wait-and-see approach is best (now that the planes are grounded). The black-box of the Ethiopian crash surely has the voice-recordings of the cockpit. So we'll be able to hear what the pilots were saying as the crash went down... we just gotta wait for the data.

No point speculating when hard data is just around the corner. With the planes being grounded, there shouldn't be any safety issues if we wait.
> "In this case Spotify are arguing that Apple is using its dominance of the smartphone market to give an unfair advantage to its own music store." You forgot to add context; by charging 30% on IAPs. The fact is Spotify don't need to use IAPs for subscriptions. Apple even mentioned this in TFA.
Good journalists have to be, it seems.
Warning: NSFW ^

(though cool, NSFW)
ya but neither of those 2 things (Toyota's Prius 2, and California's green car incentives) were successful in making car manufacturers wake up and go electric. It was only when Tesla started making money that every car manufacturer is being serious about competing in this space, and even then they are behind.

Curious to see why you think credit goes to Toyota, instead of Tesla?
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