skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not use the redesign. I especially despise this behavior of "forgetting" the login and redirecting users to the redesign, and I use a simple userscript to keep everything on old.reddit.

It's much heavier on my machine, for one thing, and I hate the new user pages - not the bio/avatar, or the fact that you can post there, but just how the messages are displayed. It's noisy. The context provided is not worth the space it takes on the screen, and AFAICT comments from deleted thread only appear on the old overview.
Apples and oranges. PRISM was not these companies giving Carte Blanche access to data, it was narrow to specific government warrants for specific individuals per later media reports, and nothing like the Motel 6 or AT&T issues. It sounds to me like PRISM = “I have a warrant for individual XYZ, please zip up all their account data and deliver it electronically somewhere for the FBI”

A separate program, MUSCULAR targeted dark fiber inter-data center links against companies which suggests that the tech companies were not handing out backdoors as they were accused of by Greenwald/Guardian reporting.
At least when I was using it a few years ago, I found Parse to be more intuitive and polished. Their DB browser and filter/query tools were terrific, and a great deal of the platform was (eventually) open-sourced.
I had one. I think the interface was great. The OS was buttery smooth. Can't really remember the details but I really liked it.
It's 1000% homeshare, so not libel.
Not a typo. They weren't road bikes. They were looks-like-but-aren't mountain bikes targeting kids. Real big when I was a kid in the 90s. Sold dirt cheap at ToysRUs and the like.
"In the revised indictment of Esformes, prosecutors said he illicitly gave the coach (Penn basketball coach) $74,000 in the form of cash, a recruiting trip to Miami and a ride on a private jet in 2013 and 2014." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-05/celtics-a...

Seems more affordable than I thought, considering in the other scandals people were dropping $500k+.
It a concept, not an opinion. Most Kings get tired of being monarchs, for what it's worth. But, no matter whether they think it's the right way of doing things, they are kind of stuck with it.
deltas?
Why Feedback Rarely Does What It’s Meant To
My standard recommendation when the conversation reaches this point is Tim Marshall’s book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Prisoners-of-Geograph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax
People probably don’t use it to question their closely held beliefs. Like me, they probably used it when they had a loosely held opinion that they weren’t sure the validity of.
Users on these phones generally don't have google accounts. Of course some kinds of Assistant commands won't work without such an account, e.g. scheduling appointments in your google calendar.

And these phones don't run Chrome at all.
the same Ive who prided himself in designing the PoS macbook keyboard. I remember when they were first launching that new keyboard there was a video of him touting its revolutionary new design.

He is a good designer but needs to prioritize reliability/longevity a bit more.
> If you really care about slowing down climate change, you need to be all in on nuclear power.

and the opposite is happening...
The problem isn't cost of power generated, its the ability to respond to rapid volatility - when clouds obscure solar panels, and when the wind stops blowing.

Nuclear cannot do this so it is useless. Batteries and gas power plants can which is why they are being rolled out.

Wind, Solar, Gas, Batteries and Electric Vehicles are existing solutions to the climate problem. The market will implement them slowly, since they are cheaper and superior to legacy solutions, but we need political effort to do it more quickly.
Thanks for the tip, CirrusCI looks interesting.
Show HN: Lettuce Networks (Austin) Locally grown zero-waste food delivery
Ah cool. Btw, my question was not sarcastic - just genuine curiosity.
It's a fascinating glimpse into the minds of conspiracy theorists. The "you've been duped" bit. The "actual hero" and the shadowy villains who "do the same". Fascinating. Inconsistent but such an enduring belief.
not a typo :( search for "bicycle shaped object". huffy is one of those brands sold in big box stores to folks with little intention of serious use. riding these is so unpleasant there's actually a negative feedback loop.
It's as if idealistic kids inevitably grow up to believe the same things as their annoying "butts in seats" older bosses.
Drop.io. Got bought by Facebook I think and was unceremoniously shuttered.

Last.fm, well. I really miss it.

Windows Phone and especially the Metro Design (although some of it carried into Modern UI).
In my view, paying for education in the absence of a career motivation is consumption spending. I don't see why there has to be a utilitarian, or even a "status" motive. I'd pay for my kids to be educated as a gift to them. Granted, I come from a culture that values education as an end unto itself.
Exactly. I've been in need of a new laptop, so I've been looking at ThinkPads because of exactly this reason, and honestly, it's one of the things stopping me from getting a laptop from a Linux-friendly vendor.

Also, I think 14" is there perfect size for a laptop. 15.6" feels too big, 13" feels too small. I'll get the 15.6" if there's no other option, but I'm not going to give up my TrackPoint and middle button, which I maintain is the best way to browse the web.
By "major service" he means an oil change - and most of the Euro manufactures are running full synthetic with change intervals of 10,000 miles or longer, so it';s basically a once a year thing for most owners.
> Unions do not exist to protect potential members, they exist to protect actual members.

Yes. Often (though not always) by increasing barriers to entry. Either directly, for example by requiring union membership, or indirectly, by increasing the cost of labor, which could mean that companies in the industry will higher fewer people in aggregate.
No point scoring inferred. In fact, it's a great illustration of different language and technology communities taking words and ideas and implementing them differently, crucially, with different degrees of specificity.
Notion Ink Adam Tablet [1] Pixel Qi Display [2]

Altogether not a truly great tablet, but I loved the idea of the Pixel Qi display. Normal colored LCD when being used indoors with backlight enabled. But outdoors in the bright sun, the colors faded away and it became some e-paper like reflective display. That way you could use it for watching movies in the dark and reading books on the beach ;-)

Sadly the tablet had a lot of other flaws and the colors of the LCD weren't as good as the AMOLEDs we are used to today, but every time I see one of those ebook readers with b/w display I wonder why the Pixel Qi displays didn't make it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
>You won't be able to name a single case of active harm caused by disclosure or sharing of genetic information. The worst thing that is possible is to learn your family isn't what you expected it to be.

There are many reasons to keep DNA private, it gets much worse than just family surprises. Your DNA is yours for the rest of your life, so even if there are no current threats (which there are to some), there may be threats in the future.
Please watch this video if you are interested in learning more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
It has nothing to do with character. If you have a secret you can be extorted with the threat of revealing that secret.
>Companies aren't legally free to entertain the question "Maybe women can't be as good at computer engineering as men" without running very quickly into established law that prevents acting as if that hypothesis were true.

It's a good thing that that's not what he said though. Good job on misrepresenting his view point. I find this misrepresentation particularly funny, because he was trying to help, because clearly the way things have been done so far haven't worked. He tried to explain why and that we need a different approach.

>(Damore's also a bad example for supporting the hypothesis that holding wrong opinions bans you from discourse, because it appears he's been pretty vocal about his opinions since Google let him go).

Because most people can simply lose their jobs as though it's nothing? This would effectively create censorship for the vast majority of the population, because they are unable to risk losing their job.

>If a person were concerned about being fired for expressing a politically-charged viewpoint, I'd personally counsel them to consider whether that viewpoint is worth the price of the job, and if it isn't? Be silent. Silence is free.

You are literally advocating for censorship here. Imagine if people had held this opinion about homosexuality or transgender in the past? They were not accepted. Imagine if simply advocating or agreeing that people should be allowed to be homosexual would get you fired. I don't think that would've been good for society.

>I don't know why this thought is so scary to some people.

It's scary to people because we understand that we don't have all the answers. There are things we are wrong about and to challenge those ideas we need people to be open to speak their mind. The second reason is that a world built on censorship is a world of fear and fear breeds mistrust.
i grew up next to a pig farm. Want to trade?
I’d say that’s not nearly enough time to write 50k loc from scratch! (Unless I’m horribly slow and no one is telling me.) Porting is a very different kind of work from feature development, since you already know the inputs and outputs of your system.
> I have no wife anymore and I feel pretty bad and alone.

If you lost a spouse just because you had a bit of a down period in your life where you procrastinated, the problem in that marriage most likely wasn't you...
We agree. The problem isn't advertising, it's the implementation of online ads.
> "We've become much more cautious now," she said, advising other travelers to learn how to scan networks for hidden cameras.

Hosts: Guest Wifi, Home Wifi.

Camera livestreams from home wifi and won't be detected from guest network.
> why the Germans are retiring their plants

Politicians bowing to the wishes of an ill-informed public.
Beta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
Even if they hadn’t, the PS2 is one of the greatest consoles of all time. It would have been a difficult competitor to go against.
Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?
It's amazing to me how little (if ever) they bring up massive antibiotic overuse in agriculture. High density farms for pigs, cattle, chickens, etc. are goal directed evolution experiments for antibiotic resistance.
Losing reader essentially killed RSS feeds for me. I tried importing my lists into other apps but it became a hassle
> Why doesn't the article explain why the Germans are retiring their plants?

It does, although it doesn't draw the connection directly.

> I think these articles should go more in-depth regarding the pro's and con's.

The con's (both for Germany, and the US) are (quotes below from the article):

> irrational dread among the public and many activists

> ...

> people estimate risk according to how readily anecdotes like well-publicized nuclear accidents pop into mind.

For Germany in particular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out#German...

Tl;dr, Germany politic interest in nuclear phase-out began around 2000 as misdirected "green" activism and was escalated by irrational public fears in response to Fukushima in 2011.
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GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening, But They’re Almost Done
Even if we had all the perfect excise taxes, there's no theoretical reason planned obselessence would take place in other ways. (E.g. company buys your trash and recycles it into new thing they sell you at profit.)

The imperative to get more revenue always points towards rent seeking. I'm not even sure how to theoretically separate planned obeselessence from other forms of rent seeking.

The left is derrided for wanting to abolish private property, but the irony is capitalism itself tends towards concentrating ownership away from all from most of us.
1. Basically all of it.

2. Probably not much, since S3 doesn't give you code execution (does S3 rely on Xen in the first place?).
It’s not a moral comparison, it’s recognizing that both could lead to situations where the person in question could prize the propriety of said facts above honest execution of their duties. People in debt aren’t morally bad either, but the same can be said of them as well.
You're conflating a language with a framework.
What does '/s' indicate?
good stuff! Really interesting article, first time in a long while that I actually finished a 10+ minute medium article / OR wasn't able because medium added their paywall
Finding hardware with solid open source drivers (or writing them if they don't exist) and disabling Intel's backdoors is hard work, as is ensuring that everything works with an open bootloader. And they have to do quite a bit of this themselves since they need hardware switches to disable the camera and WiFi.

I'm guessing prices will come down if volume of sales goes up, but they're always going to lag the competition because they have to do more work than the competition (every new Intel line has differences in how to disable their backdoors).

I would totally buy one if they only charged a $300 or so premium and if they had a TrackPoint and middle mouse button.
Content warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.
I suspect the actual standard on Windows today, as hated as it is here on HN, is now Electron.

The HTML based UI ecosystem is just so much richer and better supported than WPF that any theoretical advantages WPF might have are dwarfed by the practical considerations of just build it in Electron and be done with it.
Pretty much because Merkel decided so in the days following Fukushima. Not exactly the result of long term strategy.
He has made a mistakes and learned from it payed costly for it
Airbnb guest found hidden surveillance camera by scanning Wi-Fi network
I used to take a DSLR everywhere when I travelled, but the bulk and weight was always a PITA. The quality of photos a high-end smartphone takes nowadays is really quite incredible, especially given the small lens and sensor. And the convenience of being able to carry all this photographic power in your pocket is even more incredible.

It was with some sadness that I recently sold my trusty Canon 450D and Sigma long-range lens - my wife and I travelled the world with that kit, so it held sentimental value beyond the intrinsic. It did me proud for almost 10 years, and I still got a decent percentage of the original purchase price on eBay.
When the OP's view has somehow changed, or they find a compelling argument, they "award" a delta. It's a message with the delta letter that acknowledges the change of view.
This program seems to be poorly structured - the loan forgiveness schedule should not be 0% for 10 years and then suddenly 100%.
Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus Rat’ Author
A certain baseline power requirement must be met.

It's also interesting to see the volatility of solar and wind be used as an argument against baseline generation, as this has traditionally been an argument against renewables.
No, it's the cost of power. And even if nuclear were technically able to respond instantly, it's economically pointless, since if you don't run a nuclear plant most of the time the cost of power goes all to hell.
I wonder how often incandescent lightbulbs are/were recycled. That is probably as closest example in reality to my planned obselessence + recycling example. (Certainly glass and iron are relatively easy to recycle, not sure about tungsten.)
Batteries and things like batteries serve shifting demand relative to slower-moving supply for nuclear even better than they fit unpredictable/irregular supply renewables.

Unlike sunny or windy days, nuclear power is consistent 24/7 and output can be modulated (albeit, with delay) by raising and lowering control rods. Batteries (electrical or mechanical) can store extra nuclear-produced energy and use it to power the grid while output increases to match demand, and vice versa.
> My power bill doesn't randomly jump 5000% from last month.

Probably because Enron is no longer in business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis?...
You can say "Pułaski był" or "Pułaska była", but you can't say what you just said. This is not 'Nam, there are rules.
Thanks, I think the CLI/API is pretty key too - Ultimately I think Maildown is primarily targeted at developers so its important that it integrates easily with what its customers are trying to build
Nuclear power can save the world....

If the US can build reactors at 1/10th the cost they do right now.

That’s the solution. Not the much cheaper clean energy sources that already exist and are being built out in record numbers...

Nuclear is great. It just loses out because it’s too expensive and worse, it gets more expensive with time.

If the reasoning behind that is based on irrational human fears then first propose a solution for irrational community fears. You’ll also be able to solve the SF housing and homelessness crisis at one go then.
People that care deeply about privacy aren't nearly as price conscious as the average consumer. You just can't find many options that come out of the box with Intel backdoors disabled and completely open WiFi firmware.

I want a Librem, but I'm finding that the price premium is a little higher than such a small risk is worth to me. I hope they can bring prices down so people like me can justify it, but that probably won't happen for some time.
>People who are women or gender non-conforming, racial minorities, homosexual or disabled have no way of changing their position in life so we protect them.

But not men? If you look into it you'll find that men are a minority in quite many places: universities being one of them.
Pretty much just going by feels. Not exactly good governance.
First-of-Its-Kind HIV Therapy Draws Out the Virus, Then Kills IT
So what did Saint Isidore suffer to become the patron saint of the Internet? Get trolled?
It's an argument against renewables only when the renewables are expensive. When renewables are cheap, then nuclear is placed in an impossible situation, as nuclear either displaces the renewables when they ARE available (incurring a large marginal cost), or only runs when they aren't (forcing nuclear's large fixed costs to be amortized over much less output).

It's likely that a cost optimized grid will have little or no nuclear in it.
"Bombed" is rather nebulous. Are you referring to a strategic bombing campaign or a tactical strike?

If the latter, then yes. I believe they, the US, and most other countries in the world would rather suffer a tactical strike than crack the lid on indiscriminate ASAT usage.
Wow, when companies complain about short sellers, it's generally pretty dumb (and a sell signal), but this sounds like MS was trying to help people get around lockup agreements which is pretty bad behavior if true.
Your family only shares part of your genome. Even if you have full sequence data on both parents, you don't have anything near full information about the child. With siblings you would have less information, and the information gained from distant relatives becomes astonishingly small the farther you go. Don't assume that your DNA is fully compromised just because someone in your family has surrendered it.

I work to apply encryption directly to DNA molecules, the Fort Knox of DNA data security ;)
Who else would you suggest ?
No. If renewables are cheap, then batteries and other storage will just serve to reduce the fraction of time renewables are not covering demand (why charge the batteries with nuclear if cheaper renewable power is available?) The smaller this fraction is, the worse nuclear does economically.
The 5000% number is misleading because that’s the most sensational metric.

For example, let’s say that the price of the drug was $0. Then he raised it to $1. Is he an awful person for raising the drug infinite %? It’s simply bad reporting. If you hate Fox News and their headlines, you should also hate these headlines.
Great user experience overall. Very fast and everything seemed tightly integrated.
Thanks for linking that, it's often hard to find this sort of thing unless you know exactly what you're looking for.

Wow, was that ever a stitch up though; I have to vent(!):

>"The non-public nature of the place of the performance has no bearing on whether or not those who enjoy the performance constitute 'the public' under the transmit clause", stated the court. It did not matter whether Zediva's customers were using the service at different times and in different places. //

Paraphrasing that "the clause requires the transmission to be to the public, the fact that here they're not transmitting to the public [but to paying customers only, in private] is not material". Way to take an explicit requirement and hand-wave it away there judge.

What I'd love to know is how the motivations work in this sort of thing in USA, like do the politicians get paid by the media corps, and the politicians choose the judges, or is there a way the media corps pay off the judges direct [perhaps "consulting" jobs when they retire?].

>The court also refused to adopt the Second Circuit's volitional requirement //

What a surprise!

>Last, even though the plaintiffs required their licensees to provide a high quality movie-watching experience to the VOD customers, the defendants being non-licensed, were not obligated to meet such standards and provided sub-optimal customer experience that tarnished customers' perception of VOD as an attractive option for viewing the Copyrighted Works. //

Except that's, again, exactly backwards if the VOD providers were better then they'd get the business. The defendant is paying full price for the DVD; the DVD is the quality the complainant made it - likelihood of irreparable injury is close to zero.

I'll bet the court did a quick survey "would you like cheaper, easier access to dvd rentals at home?" and all the public said "no way, stop that shit ASAP!".
> Good managers know that freedom and autonomy are empowering. I'm sure others have had much worse experiences, but I think it's mostly well-established that micromanagement is a bad thing.

This is really important. If your manager or PM is constantly bothering you, you won’t be able to get into your flow state, which is important in software engineering.