skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that spam is frequently sent by pwnd boxen or botnets. Why would the attacker care that it racks up someone else's electricity bill?
I think that's a problem of media literacy and not page templating.

Sections and categories are not new features for newspapers or magazines. Words have meaning—they're not there for no reason.
I was thinking purchasing parity-adjusted, where Berlin seems a lot more affordable [0].
Switzerland (where I currently live) isn't such a clear-cut picture, as you say [1]. I earn more than what Numbeo suggests, and that is nowhere close to the top of the salary range.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
For most publications, the newsstand sales are a minuscule amount of income - subscriptions are a bit more (and help them plan budgets), but ads is how they keep the lights on. But it’s harder and harder to do that bc no one wants to pay for quality reporting and fact checking when they can get rumors and opinions for free on any clickbait website that pays writers pennies and has fired their fact checkers and copy editors.
If you truly want quality journalism, pick the publications you don’t want to lose and subscribe - and know that the ads are what keep the cost low enough for the average person to get reliable news.
Yeah, but it's not. Ever since Amazon.ca really established their presence here, there's not a lot of reason to buy from Indigo unless they're heavily discounting something.

Their selection is generally meager compared to a lot of other online stores here. Honestly, every time I pass by a Chapters/Indigo, I'm surprised they're still around.

My guess is that they still get a lot of bricks and mortar customers who want instant gratification with a dead tree book purchase (provided it's a popular, stocked title).
The Polarity of Brexit throws up some interesting results, depending on how a possible poll is conducted.

Would be interesting to apply this methodology to the problem.

Here's a good write-up: https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/04/23/the-c...
Things like this make me feel very out of touch. I went into Indigo the other day with my kids to use some gift cards from Christmas, with the idea of getting books to take on a short trip. We ended up in what felt like a bizarre home goods, toy store, book store, quasi-junk pile store. There was shit everywhere. My kids needed constant reminders to look for books, not junk.

Everything was plastic, cheap, very disposable, and very much intended for conspicuous consumption. Some part of me feels like we've fallen very far if literature, one of the pinnacles of human accomplishments, can only be sold if you can also buy the kind of garbage that's rapidly filling our oceans and landfills as well. There is a bizarre dichotomy between books - the things that can potentially last a lifetime and satisfy countless readers - and the impulsively purchased and remarkably unnecessary items which will be bought and lost or disposed of within a year.

I might be overly pessimistic about it. I want my kids to have more wholesome experiences when it comes to the type of media (especially books) they consume. I'll keep taking them to the library the majority of the time, and otherwise, go to local book shops which just sell books. If they still exist.

I feel a little bit like Abe Simpson. "I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was.". Maybe Indigo is just fine.
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Swiss trains are really expensive though, 20 min ride from Zurich to Zug is like $35 one way. thats a good racket they got going there I would expect train drivers to get a hefty cut of that

Is that not a respected trade there? Or perhaps unskilled labor in comparison to these jobs?
Couldn't this sort of incentivize efforts to polarize the public? If I want to get my way on issue X, but I don't care about issue Y, a good strategy for me would be to rouse everyone else about Y so that they waste their tokens on Y and can't oppose me as effectively on X. For example, I could push abortion as the most important issue of all, even though I really don't care either way, and then put all my tokens towards tax cuts for the rich.
It definitely made things worse.

"New statistics shared by the San Francisco police show... sex trafficking shot up 170 percent in 2018." https://www.dailydot.com/irl/increase-sex-trafficking-sesta-... They claim it's just improved reporting because of increased outreach.

"DiAngelo says she received calls from women who are suicidal because they’ve been forced to work on the streets and return to dangerous pimps." https://www.kalw.org/post/one-year-federal-law-curb-sex-traf...

"Breyer estimated that there were about double or triple the usual number of workers seeking assistance." https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17306486/sex-work-online-f...

"online private group chats where sex workers could share survival strategies and harm reduction techniques to stay safe have also disappeared" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anti-s... (Banner image kinda NSFW)

Here's an actual survey of sex workers in Seattle. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KBsVBQh7EsRexAyZacaf... (results start on slide 7)

And it's had effects internationally. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/sex-work...
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Linked in the comments the other day from the post 'n-wheeled cars' - I loved this post and the idea that pre-internet - news was distributed around europe at breakneck (illegal?) speeds to get it as swiftly as possible from the printers to other countries hundreds of miles away.
Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation -- (basically a charity). It does not "make money" per se, it just has to cover its costs.

Not sure about the rest but I believe most have the same model. Sure there are few nitpicks, but my overall point was that open-source doesn't need money to work.
This is something I love about watching business / finance news channels. Everyone is trying as hard as they can not to lie because it's illegal in their context.
Wait a second, so 15 men who were participating in an HIV study with their partners managed to contract HIV from someone else, during the study, who wasn't their partner??? ?
We already get 2 hour delivery in London with Amazon Prime Now
Strategies for accelerating and spreading change with a People1st approach
>People _do_ technically have representation in the form of their Congresspeople and Senators.

Do those people really care and work for their voters? Or for their own career (including post-political career at some company they've done favors), lobbies, party, etc?
I worked at a company that not only had Friday deploy freezes, but also the other days after 2pm, to avoid midweek deploys staying broken overnight. But some of our repos were set up to automatically deploy to production when code was merged into master, and didn’t have a develop branch; which meant that during half your work hours, you were not allowed to merge your pull requests unless it was for an emergency.
Suppose everybody did this and reduced their carbon footprint by 30-50%. They still have to eat and not freeze to death in winter, but we need to become completely carbon neutral. Individual action is definitely necessary, and can buy us valuable time, but there is only so much individuals can do.
Wait a sec — Trump despises Haberman.
Career congresspersons are beholden to those that secure their reelection. That's the current steady state system we have now. Term limits forces that dynamic to no longer apply to the final term, which frees congresspeople from this dynamic for at least one term.

It also forces clearer the revolving door between the private sector and politics as then the no-longer congressperson gets hired into a company.
It looks like the majority of their outages are listed as configuration changes as being the cause. You’d think they’d have an “RCA” at some point to address making configuration changes safer.
I mean obfuscation as in downplaying the seriousness of the crimes of Trump et al. She has been a part of normalizing their deviance and that is the single most effective technique the disingenuous can use to thwart the change we need so badly. It's not Soviet-era propaganda, it's just a nudge away from the truth of how corrupt and amoral our current government is. It pushes us from the righteous anger at their machinations towards "they've done some not-good things"; therein lies a world of difference.

Read Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel.net. Her "potty mouth" is wholly appropriate and her reporting is top-notch.
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Inside the AOC Meme Machine
Since methane is said to be a worst greenhouse gas compared to carbondioxide, is there at least a way to convert the methane in the atmosphere to CO2?
>We pay our employees $20/hr for contributions to OSS and tech communities, whether it’s a third-party library we use in our work like React, Next.js

While I applaud the sentiment $20 per hour is too little to make me care and enough to make me start thinking about money.

A much better way to deal with this would be pushing laws to allow for tax offsets for contributing time to charities (open source ones). Seeing $10 per hour (after tax) that doesn't inspire me much.

Being able to write off my full time wage as a tax deductible would make me vastly more motivated to document what I've been working on and work on a lot more of it.
> Not sure if you actually read this article.

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not suggesting a monarchy is the best way to get such a ruler, in fact it seems problematic for that exact reason. I'm just an uneducated fool with limited opinions on government, but I think if we elected something like a President but with much more power like a king, and if the people who elected him understood virtue correctly, and if the election process was made much more fair, and if nations governed smaller (more manageable) amounts of people than the USA does, and if corporations were given significantly less say in the direction of the government (to shut all those awfully abused loopholes), the world would be on a good path.
No NSFW reddit subs show ads anymore, quarantined or otherwise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditads/comments/bdwlin/update_to...
I was in government as a policy analyst in just this area when these changes were happening, and fulsome promises of just such a third way were made endlessly at the time. I knew perfectly well even then that these promises were just hot air, because it was conservative governments were closing institutions, merely to save money and reduce taxes. But people elect whoever is willing to provide them with the lies that excuse the voter's most preferred (cruel-but-cheap) options.
What's the status quo?

Surely it's not the Labour Party. They are in opposition. They oppose May's deal.

And if you hold The Guardian by that metric, they should be reporting the other extreme of the debate - advocates of 'no deal' in the 1922 committee.

In terms of opinion, the left is split between those who want to reverse Brexit, and those who don't. The former is the dominant position among metropolitan areas, the professions, the better-off, and in London in particular.
In that sense The Guardian is reinforcing the dominant outlook of liberal opinion-makers; the one that already finds most voice in public debate.
Train track graphs have applications in genomics, where they are used to build pangenomic models in which the graph has two strands (like DNA). It's great to see work on them is ongoing!
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Nytimes seems to lean more on the one side since they erected a paywall. It is inherent to subscriptions that they create a selfreinforcing bubble by telling subscribers what they want to hear, but other publications are doing better (ft, wsj)
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Reminds me of knight rider and the sony watchman.
I so badly wanted one of those for my GameGear. Alas, it was not to be.
Meanwhile the spam filter at gmail (business account) regularly marks email messages that I send from our own systems (say showing disk space) to our own accounts (and nowhere else) as spam. Also sales lead forms. So they come in and we say 'not spam' and the filter is not smart enough to understand the next very similar email is also not a spam. A human could quite easily see by just the format and the layout (in addition to numerous times marking 'not spam') that it was the not spam.
That video is funnier than it had any right to be.
Barnes & Noble is doing something like that, in the sense of having a good sized section of the store devoted to things not books or reasonably connected to reading.

The kind of things B&N has there are (all of these are probably incomplete since I'm mostly going from what I've noticed):

• A bunch of different kinds of games. Board games, card games, dice games from a variety of types (strategy games, role playing games, party games, for example).

• Puzzles. Assembly, disassembly, interlocking, take apart, and other such infuriating things. Rubik's assorted things and similar. Jigsaw puzzles.

• Collectables and branded stuff, such as action figures, bobble heads, key chains, plushies and such for assorted popular characters from Disney, Marvel, DC, Studio Ghibli, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and others. Even some food, such as "Bertie Botts, Every Flavour Jelly Beans".

• LEGO. A bunch of sets and kits, both generic and themed.

• Toys. Quite a bit of these are STEM related, such as simple electronics kits and simple robotics stuff, microscopes, telescopes, anatomy models, and more.

It's actually a pretty good and interesting selection.
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I think he's talking about the tube drivers [0]

[0] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-tube-drivers-earni...
> Some made up numbers from what i feel about my surroundings: young adults (<30yo), i'd say maybe 1 in 3-4 have a car around here.

Even at those levels, cars are still relevant to a large portion of people, and it isn't wise to simply dismiss car ownership ("Are cars still a topic? Who owns a car here?"), due to their functionality and uses.
I suppose I was taking more of an idealistic view.
Yep. 1860 is more accurately characterized as the first year of the two party system. And the people only wanted another party because of the slavery issue. Literally, the only time we dealt with extremists, was when we first started the two party system.

So it's disingenuous to say that 1860 was like today. It wasn't. At all. There is no new, powerful, upstart party that people can vote for to get away from the extremists today. There is no overriding issue that people can legitimately claim to be at once barbaric and deleterious to the republic. There is none of that.

We just have two parties... who choose to be extreme for dubious reasons.

So it hasn't been as polarized as it is today, ever really during the two party era. Today is way outside the norm. We haven't seen anything like this before.

Of course, we've never had anything like our current leaders either. But that's a whole other issue. (A related issue though.)
I named the "obfuscators" just as I was asked to.
Part of the problem is that due to changing revenue models, online publications have turned to controversial headlining and identity topics (the new culture wars) to generate clicks.

One thing that may have influenced the NYT's decline into that strategy was their new editor, who's proudly out to poke bears: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/sarah-jeong-new-york-...

I find stuff like this more emotive and more suited to activism than informative, and I'm more interested in information than feelings when I read the news in the morning.
The fact that we’re talking about it here implies that we’re in a better place than we were a century ago.
That attitude has killed countless software projects. Conversely, many projects only exist because they value backwards compatibility above almost all else.

"Bad practices" often don't start out as bad practices; circumstances change. Additionally, some "bad" things are more like "dangerous if improperly handled" things (e.g. Rules), so making them impossible cripples users.

Lastly, there exist some useful, maintained libraries/tools with a substantial proportion (or majority) of "client" codebases at or greater than 20 years of age. Just because something has been around for a long time is not an excuse to break it. Just because something has not been maintained does not mean it is necessarily poor engineering or deserves to suffer for the passage of time.
Okay. So if you're autistic and upset somebody have a choice now. Tell people you're disabled so they don't take offence but stigmatize/patronize you instead. Or tell people nothing and let them be pissed off at you. They will jump right to retaliation like you say for seeing you as cruel.

No matter what you do. You always lose. The only escape is withdrawal. Temporary or permanent.
Which are the Brexit supporting parties you are alluding to?
Using text with check constraints is a good one.

Setting up the constraints is a tiny bit more work, but it's worth it in the end.

It's especially nice when your ORM or web framework knows to deal with all of this at both the migration and validation levels. Then you can have both database level protection and nice human readable errors in your app.
And one day delivery nationally with Prime.
Very nice car indeed, even without TV.
That can be more than just suspicion - it was confirmed by insiders after the announcement. The ban had apparently been in the works for some time, and the iOs action just provoked them to move up the timeline. (Which also explains the decision to release an untrained system and let real users serve as alpha testers.)

Oath apparently viewed the adult content as a nonstarter for monetization and a general threat to advertiser relationships. Since both the site's design and its massive engineering flaws meant adult content showed up anywhere, it was even driving advertisers away from not-necessarily-adult content like user feeds, and there was some concern it was even keeping user counts down.

Of course, the entire plan here was nuts. Oath apparently wanted to double user counts by summer 2019, even though growth was effectively zero and there was no plan to fix that. They confused an adult content problem with a spam problem, and so the spam is still going strong. And the monetization outlook is genuinely hilarious: Oath intended to ban adult content as a step to monetizing the site's fandom and social justice communities. Apparently nobody noticed that the fandom stuff was the porn they were banning, or that a solid 20% of all users were going to be affected.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/4/18126112/tumblr-porn...
I am Japanese. It was hyperbolic but not that much.
Expenses like paying their employees.

I will never understand how so many people in tech think that not for profit means never make a profit, or pay anyone for their time. But somehow spending money on corporate funded machinery is fine.

When a local maker space wasted thousands of dollars for a license of some cam software, but didn't want to pay a member $10 for cleaning up after everyone else (and keep them from being homeless) I had to seriously reconsider supporting a place that was so anti-people and pro corporation.
It's an up to 6 months imprisonment on the first commission and up to 2 years imprisonment on subsequent ones[1]. Is there a definition of misdemeanor, which allows crimes (that are not called "misdemeanor" in the text of law) with up to 2 years imprisonment to be called as such? If so - I never seen one.

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
Yeah, I also noticed this.

And I'm pretty sure that some years ago gmail was much better at this.
That formula doesn't make individuals want to work more on open-source.

Looking at the team profiles on Formidable's site it looks like a lot of them were working on open source projects anyway, so this isn't a way of manipulating them to do something they weren't already doing. It's just a way of rewarding them.
I don’t think they would tell you they were HIV positive if their goal was to infect you.
Some example of quality Guardian writing:

> Like walking into a space and suddenly realising everyone there is white. You know that feeling? When you go to a rooftop bar in Peckham and you worry that you’ve inadvertently stumbled into a Klan meeting?

Just imagine the same text with white replaced by black and Klan by gang.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/22/avenge...
Money is always funny to represent. I did a bunch of research on this for my budgeting app. Turns out that while most countries use two decimal points for their cent/cent equivalent, some use 0, 1, or 3. In addition, at least one country (Sweden I think), doesn't allow values like 0.01. Their smallest denomination is 0.05, and everything is a multiple of it. I ended up storing the data as a decimal type with 3 digits after the decimal, along with the currency. Then I periodically extract the locale data from a Linux timezones package and the app has a giant lookup table for how to represent and parse each currency + value combo. This changes from time to time as currencies get updated and governments change.
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Sex worker advocates were nearly united against SESTA/FOSTA. No one listened to them. This conflation of prostitution and sex trafficking has gotten really out of hand.
They were planning to remove adult content long before that, and the iOs ban largely served to speed up their timeline. At least, that's the story from some ex-staff who talked to Vox after the news broke: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/4/18126112/tumblr-porn...
Okay, weird. I didn't have such a problem up to now.
It looks like that the core team included: Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski ,Jerzy Różycki. These were the most talented students from prof. Zdzisława Krygowski from UaM https://amu.edu.pl/ which is a university located in Poznan.
Who themselves have been recently outed for internal rampant racism and sexism.
Cocaine found in all shrimp tested in rural UK county
I would guess in the first case, they confiscate your stuff and detain you, and in the second case, they dont give a fuck
Charfield in django is varchar so while there is no performance difference vs textfield, it does put limits on your inputs. This is most likely a good security measure. Unbounded inputs can be found and exploited.
A field of sets is neither an algebraic field nor a collection of sets.
The thing that makes this a bit weird to me is that the New York Times is a for-profit organization. If you purely want to fund journalism, your dollars may go further with a nonprofit like ProPublica.

I'm absolutely in favor of supporting great papers like the Times as well, so I'm not sure what my point is here. But it seems misguided to compare news corporations to public institutions.
>Career congresspersons are beholden to those that secure their reelection

Yeah, those people are called "voters". That's how it's supposed to work. We want congresspeople to feel beholden to them.

> It also forces clearer the revolving door between the private sector and politics as then the no-longer congressperson gets hired into a company.

Isn't this just motivation for more cronyism? You're basically arguing that the last term of any congressperson should be spent working for a company instead of the people.
Is that a new announcement? If I order before (I think) 8pm I'll almost definitely get the order next day. In the UK if that helps any, Midlands