skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgetting specific claims about money and app store revenue cuts, Apple could be in for some serious trouble in Europe, as the European Commission is far more pro-consumer than the relevant authorities in the US. Where they'll get into trouble is the fact that Apple Music uses APIs that aren't available to other developers, that they restrict developers from redirecting to their website from within the app, all while having a competing product. It's not the competing product that's an issue, nor the app store cut, but the fact that they're giving themselves an unfair advantage. The EC has already punished Google for similar, I don't see how Apple escapes unscathed.
A follower of the Edward Gibbon school of Byzantine bashing.

" Justinian’s reign destroyed the Roman world." and "his ambitions enfeebled the state he tried to restore and the future he bequeathed to Europe was one of poverty and schism."

Seems like a pretty harsh assessment. Empires acquire territory, that's why they're called empires. If you get kicked out of some place you try to take it back.

The Eastern Empire continued on for another 900 years or so which is pretty good for a "destroyed" world. Europe? As in France, Spain, Italy, the British Isles? Justinian bequeathed poverty and schism to that Europe?

I think it's far more complicated than this article portrays.
Pi in ancient india https://souravroy.com/2011/01/07/pi-in-indian-mathematics/
Philadelphia to Seattle.

Philly Team Lead Architect @ 185k w2 contract with health insurance and a week of PTO

Seattle System Admin -> 115K (There was an intent to promote, but we didn't agree on my career path).
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when I was a kid, around 30min for children's feet, besides a more or less residential road. where we live now, it's right beside our apartment building, no road crossings necessary. but even in more rural places in my country, children generally walk (or take the bycicle around age 9).
Tons of capability in a modern car is determined by the traction control system and whether they tune it to stupid proof the handling for snowy roadways or tune it to try its best to make the car put power to the ground no matter what.

Without knowing the temperament of the electronic nannies it is very hard to bench race the off road capability of modern all wheel drive vehicles.

I'd like to see someone actually off road the thing and see what it can't do so you know what its limits are rather than zip around a rally course and sing praise which is what most YouTube reviews do.
Yeah that's kindof a weak argument.

That's like saying "Did the judge who took a bribe say anything unreasonable in their ruling?" or like saying "Did the academic study that was paid for a big corporation without disclosing make any logical leaps?"

Any paid, undisclosed influence is wrong, period. And almost certainly against TOS.
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I disagree. I was surprised the conversations were public and visible on the website itself.

What would be more scary, and probably happens already in other cases, is if nefarious editors organized via private channels.
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I addressed that in my comment.
Primarily it is a way to build and run pgModeler inside Docker.

However, it is also a build environment that does cross-platform UI compilation from inside Docker, compiling using GTK and Rust. i.e. it is a mechanism to build Linux and macOS binaries in Docker (Windows support on its way).
Almost all real numbers are a lot of things, though:

- uncomputable
- irrational
- transcendental
- ...

So it's not really that good of a justification. =)
True. Still, I agree with the GP poster: very little has changed as a result. The USA Freedom Act had some improvements but also made some things worse; FISA Section 702 was renewed without significant changes in early 2018.

Before Snowden, civil liberties activists (including me!) used to say "If people knew the extent of mass surveillance, they'd be up in arms - and we'd see some real changes." But no.
I'd be very surprised if it takes me more than 5 minutes with pay at the pump.

It's a difference in magnitude that's the problem. For 5 minutes, of which half is spent actively interacting with the hose and payment, I can comfortably stand around. Anything more than that and I have to find something else to do while my car is occupied.
> Basically every history article is heavily biased

This is true, and It's a problem, but it's not a particular problem of Wikipedia; it's pretty much true of history in general.
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Well, it is not only the "Christian" "Democratic" Union that is attacking on freedom in Germany, "Social" "Democrats" are in a Grand coalition with them (for the uninformed: "Grand coalition" is a term used in Germany to describe a coalition of two major parties).

I assume the "Greens" and the "Liberals" are opposing the law, but do it out of pure opportunism. Because, as the past teaches us, if they'd be in a coalition with one of the major parties, they would be for such a law.
> we know the purpose was to protect US covert intelligence communications overseas, which is very much about enabling illegal (by local law) activity.

Says who? According to the torproject.org homepage[1], the purpose is:

> [to help] you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

That includes stuff like preventing your ISP from knowing private personal details like how one was fired, or is secretly gay, or likes to write or draw porn, etc.

Also, if you own a big business and you just bought a supplier to eliminate the costs of a middle-man, you might also want to keep that confidential from your competitors for whatever business strategy you have.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/
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I spent the last few years growing a venture-backed company as CTO and cofounder. We had a moderately successful exit and now am looking to go back to work for a big tech player (FAANG etc.). I have managed teams of 30+ product and tech folks and built a company to multiple 10s of millions. Where can a guy like me get started looking?
That has been shown over a dozen times to be false.
4chan has been blocked in NZ “for security reasons”
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Wouldn't you say that the original iPhone was also form over function? Blackberries had e-mail, a browser and a built in camera, didn't they? People do care about looks, and personally, if people buy a solar roof because they think it looks cool, I'm glad to see more people buying solar. The fact that Tesla can also sell them battery technology is great as well. I don't think that all solar vendors can sell you a compelling energy storage solution.
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>We will not buy or consume our way out of climate change or negative externalities that affect the environment.

I disagree. While our consumption habits merit a lot of discussion, we literally have to buy and consume our way out of climate change.

We're not going to _stop_ buying and consuming, and we're not going to manage to reduce it enough to stop climate change without massive economic recession (read: massive human suffering).

You can argue such suffering is overall less than what we will suffer due to catastrophic climate change, but that is not at all obvious.
I don't go to often to concerts but they do have a particualr audience in it.

'beloved' is probably not the best word for 'accepted / aware of it'?

Also they do play classic in some undergroundstations in munic to get rid of teenagers.
Same with kittens. Cats have full control of their claws, a properly socialized cat will rarely accidentally scratch you (although if they get too excited playing or don't recognize it's you - feet under covers - or are kneeding they might, but not on purpose). They usually learn this from interacting with other kittens in the litter, but the same concept applies to help train them.
>Because Tesla manufactures all its car in California, which has far stricter rules than other states. If other manufacturers moved their production there, Tesla would rank better than the competition

I just want to point out that Tesla's California plant is Just the old GM/Toyota NUMMI plant. The article insinuates the safety violations are greater than any US based plant operated by other manufacturers over the past 10 years, a time period which includes the era in which GM/Toyota ran the very same plant.
Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight
I mean isn't that what a trojan technically does.

A small binary that embeds itself, opens a backdoor, and downloads more intrusive code.
There is a huge discrepancy between the described motivation and the actual proposed section 126a. The proposal from January that I have here[1] only applies to a couple of explicitly enumerated potential crimes like propagation of child pornography and money forgery. Plus, the prosecution would need to prove that you created the service with the purpose of furthering these crimes. Also, the service must have some kind of access control. I do not see how a Tor exit node would fall under these criteria. A site hiding behind an onion URL would be a completely different matter.

[1] https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/drucksachen/2019/0001-01...
The argument is that it's an amount many people can and do trivially spend on a whim.
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Greenwald is a political activist.
> “some correspondents” never left bars in Saigon

My point is group think requires significant interaction over social media. This requires more than visiting a bar one a month / posting wedding photos. It requires significant amounts of time and crossing that threashold is not very common.

So, sure a small fraction are significantly influenced but the majority is not. Making the overall influence far less significant than it might appear.

On top of that mainstream news organizations like FOX, CNN, NPR differentiate based on appealing to different groups. Which creates different spheres of social media for each segment. This has been intensified with online sources the Drudge Report going mainstream and gathering vast followings. Which means social media is pulling different reporters in different directions.
Not only that, but the 5 Eyes alliance pushed through laws that would legalize much of what was uncovered before anyone got any "bright ideas" to start prosecuting the spies, or before the public started asking for such actions.

Now, they can lay back and say "look, it's all legal now" (even if much may still be unconstitutional).
Special Books by Special Kids (SBSK) is a very inspiring project that gives thousands of disabled children a place where they can express themselves and find acceptance and encouragement.

The comments on their Youtube videos are a valuable place where disabled children, their parents and other adults can connect with each other. It seems that Youtube has disabled the comments on their video channel.
Is there anybody here from Youtube who can help resolve this?
Frequency is also a factor. An extra 5-10 minutes added to a commute each week in order to fill up is no big deal. 30 minutes every day in order to charge is unworkable
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It's telling that you think it was obviously a metaphor. It was obviously a fictional dialogue, but so many things relating to that dialogue (as mentioned in my previous comment) were unclear.

Have you heard of "the curse of knowledge"?

Assuming all the details in your explanation are correct, if someone already knows those details what are they going to get from your comment? And if they don't know those details, how are they supposed to understand your comment?
FWIW, the most useful link from the original discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KeirstenBrager/status/109436626260242022...
If you had 3000 visits, shouldn't that be 1500 -> 28 and 1500 -> 39? (assuming you're doing a uniform split of both groups)
>ongoing and 15% is reasonable.

What markup do you think that is. For larger apps I'd imagine it's about 1500% (ie 1% covers the costs).
Reliability goes up as the volume goes up and you can more readily apply statistical methods. A bit of a chicken/egg problem, really.
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One more disappointment with ProtonMail - the web client's message search does not work on message body or on attachments... After moving from Gmail, searching became harder.
I tried adding it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&type=rev...

The article is dated on 14. of March though, so it should not appear on the front page but here: https://cited.news/wikipedia_pages/date/2019-03-14
He was the father of the philologist William Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)
Being paid is not the same as acting in bad faith. Being paid is one potential source of bias, and happens to be one that is strong and particularly easy to objectively define (as opposed to, say, bias from one's political opinions). Everyone is biased, but some people at some times are acting in good faith despite their biases.

The point of my comment is that you can't divide the world up into biased and unbiased, label the biased part astroturfing (or whatever), prohibit it, and then expect a nice unbiased outcome. Rather, everyone is biased in their own ways and to varying degrees. The good outcome come from the truth-tracking aspects of the process, not from have unbiased inputs.
>After a day's work, if my kids hit each other I just couldn't act all calm and put on these kinds of little plays described in the article.

My practice is to reflect on when things like this happen. We have one 3yo son but issues do arise where we get upset, and reflecting on them and preparing myself for the next time helps me address what he needs to not do whatever it is that upset me, and for me to not get upset which makes him upset.

I guess it's not so strange now but when I started parenting I figured my parents' approach would be best, like expecting kids to do their work because it's basically their job.

What I didn't expect is how powerful the word "please" is.

Seriously, I'd been trying to get him to do small tasks when he was about two and understanding us, but wouldn't ever, EVER do it. I'd talked with a teacher who mentioned her class listens to her because she asks them politely and other teachers who don't have unruly classes. And so I finally caved and said "...can you please put your dishes in the sink?"

The difference was night and day. Immediately, he picked up his dishes and put them in the sink. Since then, I think we've done an OK job of inviting him to be involved in chores and tasks because anytime he realizes we're working on something the first thing he says is "can I help you?"

Anyway, point is you can learn so much just by paying attention, mindful reflection, careful preparation, and some study mixed in there. And as someone else said, having the humility to acknowledge to your kids' face that you were wrong goes a long way.
>That's what my blog's curation team does

And why would you move your blog to Reddit without curation team? It seems that Reddit does technically the same as Tumblr, you just have to move your site there and ask you mod team follow.

> but given the nature of Reddit I expect that number would skyrocket, overwhelming the mod team.

That's very, very unlikely to happen. People start their own subreddits and want more people, but it's just as painful to grow the number of subscribers as everywhere else.
I think the root of a lot of Toyotas performance is cultural. When asked if they were worried about VW selling more

>a Toyota spokesman said that the brand was not focused on chasing volume for the sake of it. "We believe that our sales volume is just the result of our focus on making ever-better cars and providing better customer experiences."

And that has mostly been true - focus on better cars and presumably better production techniques over many decades. It may seem obvious I'm not sure other companies focus like that.
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The way this (anonymity) is handled in the Estonian system is that votes can be validated out-of-band for 30 minutes after they were cast, then they're locked. Additionally, a voter can overwrite their previous vote at any time during the vote period, so they could always prove their first vote, and then overwrite it privately later.

There are several other major problems with their system [0], but I think they should at least get credit for their approach.

0: https://www.aaspring.com/ccs2014/ivoting-paper.pdf
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The same chassis, but with larger engines, placed higher on the wing giving rise to different handling characteristics, especially at the edges of the performance envelope. The instrument layout is different and center panel control locations differ. Both of these changes lead to different instrument scan procedures and in the event of a high-stress condition --when seconds count, as instincts and muscle-memory kick in-- it feels like a different aircraft.
It's sad that some Indians leaders and followers ignore these achievement and just try to claim they had hi-tech internet
in ancient days .https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/india...
This is not the right approach to take then. There are lots of other approaches to decision making outside of hypothesis testing, use them! This is not an appropriate use of hypothesis testing and can very much lead you toward making the WRONG decision.

For example, with such small numbers, there isn't much value in aggregate statistics. It would take a day or two to go through each one individually and see what happened, and you'd probably learn way more about your customers.
Andy Warhol had an art factory. More modern artists dabble with machine learning. It makes one wonder how we will value the art when we get to a case where an artists trained avatar lives on beyond them.
a dozen years ago, e-waste (electronics recycling) got a lot of attention, when the EU passed their version of the guidelines.. currently, with all things considered, its just an economic cost. There is no "opportunity" .. if that means make money.. many well-intentioned people (and some not well-intentioned) went broke attempting to make electronics recycling work. Plastics has all the burden and none of the value, compared to the electronics waste stream.
No, maybe 6-10 and I don’t think she has that problem.
It was first for a bank, later for a data analytics start-up, and then also for an education technology company. I had many skilled functional programmers on my team too, including a few people who had done work on GHC itself.

I’ve also see code messes in many languages. It’s a business culture problem, has nothing to do with the language or paradigm.

I’ll greatly dispute with about Python though. It has been a language that facilitates notably cleaner and more extensible implementations in my experience. Seen messes in Python too, but absolutely no way it’s “an order of magnitude” worse. That’s simply ridiculous. The only way that’s happening is if the programmers are exceptionally bad to the extent that it would not matter which language they used.
This is absolutely amazing, well done!
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Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the info he wants? (2011)
They don't charge Spotify if users sign up on the web and then use the iOS client app right? Could Spotify just add a surcharge if users pay through the iOS app?
To my understanding this is not illegal, and the ethics are debatable.

I don't think Netflix is comparable. The App Store is a market place, where things are bought and sold. Netflix is not a consumer marketplace.
wikipedia's policy of only accepting secondary sources is similarly problematic

This is why I stopped contributing.

Article about a radio station where I was in management and selected the call letters? I added the meaning of the call letters to a Wikipedia article. Rejected because I'm not a secondary source.

Added an article about a dial-up BBS network that did store-and-forward e-mail a decade before the internet went mainstream. I ran one of they key nodes. Rejected because I'm not a computer magazine available in archive.org.

Added an article about what was probably the world's first online cartoon series (helped with distribution, since this was pre-internet). Rejected. Same reason.

I as a journalist at the scene of an event when it happened and watched it unfold before my eyes. Added some information to that event's entry in Wikipedia. Rejected.

The irony is that if there was a copy of the broadcast I did on the event, that would be perfectly OK. But the people who patrol the sources on Wikipedia are under the impression that there was no recorded history before the internet.
What did she actually say about Apple?

She mightn't be a hypocrite, just she may not care as long as she's paid??
Amazon is also larger and more diversified than most other American companies. Is suspect their lobbying dollars per revenue hasn't hanged all that much over the years.
> I'm confused, isn't "Gamergate" like "Watergate"?

No, not really, but...

> That's like... are you on Watergate's side?

There were people on (the) Watergate (break-in)’s side. There are still, oddly enough, people proudly on that side (Roger Stone, for instance.)

Anyhow, since the Watergate scandal, naming things “-gate” to evoke Watergate and the widespread (though not universal) revulsion is common by opposing activists, but just because the name sticks doesn't mean the association does.
What type and model of networking do you use on 15K servers? Can you share some specs?
Yes, but it's like when you're at a cafe and need to go to the bathroom so you ask the random guy next to you to watch your laptop. Sure he could steal it, but you reduced the attack vector to just him.
NPC's to inspire you to start doing that thing you were thinking about.
In theory, but aircraft are rated for and maximum number of takeoff and landing cycles so that stress fractures aren't a problem while they're in service.

Carbon fiber could change some of the economics around that, but I'm not sure if the airframes wear out from stress before or after efficiency gains make new planes more desirable.
Education is a tricky one too, considering bad actors like Mcgraw-Hill (who probably created all of your children's textbooks for elementary school) whitewashing all the things.
Indeed. archive.org isn't helping jog my memory but I was buying cards around 2005-2010 from a number of sites, including Mt.Gox.
> Shooter are mostly mentally ill / violent people FIRST at the root

Whenever someone says "mentally ill", what diagnosis are you giving and on what basis? The other Islamophobic mass shooter, Breivik, was declared sane by a court. These kinds of incidents are not spontaneous breaks in sanity but deliberate, premeditated crimes planned out like bank robberies.

> "jounalistophobia"

In both cases it's radicalization. The perpetrators are given some people to hate, and an encouragement to violence, and some emotional support in planning the attack.
That's a fair point. On the other hand, Microsoft Windows wasn't a marketplace with respect to web browsers.