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I like the idea of removing Google Analytics from my personal website, especially I only use it to see which pages are being visited most and number of visitors per month.

However, I'm hesitant to take out my credit-card to try a service without testing the integration first.

A free tier limited to 1000 or so page visits/mo would help people get started. Just my 2c
Well, putting aside your refusal to spell out what you actually think, in the 20th century the major social groups agitating for rights have been women, black people and LGBT people. I would hope and expect that they all come above short and ugly people in this hierarchy.

Short and ugly people have never been legally denied property rights on the basis of their shortness and ugliness, or denied the right the vote, or forced into segregated schools, or suffered police persecution.

I’m not denying that short and ugly people are at a disadvantage but it’s obviously on a very different scale to the above and not as a result of deliberate state policy.

What exactly is your problem with them being towards the bottom of this hierarchy?
Consider the example of a highway robber that holds you up at gunpoint and asks for your wallet on the threat of death. In this situation there is typically consent by the victim in handing over her wallet to the perpetrator - after all he has the _free will_ not to hand over his wallet.

In the same way, you have the _free will_ not to work, but the consequences of not working are ending up on the streets. As a special case of this, a prostitute has the free will not to work, on the threat of ending up on the streets. The only difference between a generic worker and a prostitute is that it is the human reproductive act itself that is being commodified.

I guess that the question of whether prostitution is exploitative or not, and whether generic work is exploitative or not, depends on what _alternative_ choices are available: Does society guarantee that you will not end up on the streets i.e. (1) is there a scarcity in the basic human needs of society, viz. housing, jobs, the recognition in law of that someone is a citizen etc. (2) does society provide these basic needs to all its members.

From this framework it's possibly to argue that _in principle_ prostitution is exploitative. It is no more exploitative than any other form of work, but perhaps has a tendency to attract the most vulnerable in society who do not have a safety net to fall back on. So I don't see anything especially exploitative about a middle class woman becoming a stripper to get through college. But not everyone is middle class.

What's undeniable _in practice_, is that legal prostitution leads to less criminal behaviour and exploitation. Hopefully we can work to change the conditions that make prostitution exploitative as opposed to an expression of an individuals creativity.
I have my doubts that any change will be implemented in the near future. Suggest using a HN app. On iOS I started out with MiniHack and recently switched to Octal due to faster updates. Check them out. They improved the experience drastically for me.
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It is passive POE, you need to supply your own input as it won't work with a POE switch or anything like that.
> for hiring programmers at least it's common (even if rife with its own pitfalls) to do more objective things like asking for a demonstration of basic coding capabilities

I'm a developer but was previously a practicing attorney. If you think developer interviews are bad, you should try interviewing for a law firm. Outside of the objective but course metrics like law school rank and class rank, it's almost impossible to tell if a candidate will be a good lawyer or a bad one. Most interviews I was on and administered, we just chatted. The purpose of the interview was to determine if you could hold a normal conversation.

Fun anecdote about this. The morning before a law firm interview I cut myself shaving. It dried and the initial interview went well. But then we went to lunch, and when I wiped my face with a napkin, the cut opened up. I started bleeding all over the place, soaking my napkin in red. The people interviewing me told me to feel free to go to the bathroom and take care of it, but I said "no, I'm fine", and continued to literally make a bloody mess. That was the wrong answer. The right one was to be cool but handle it. I didn't get that job.
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This Startup's Electric Van Is a Packaging Triumph
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My blocker reported that it had blocked 118 items. I'd rather not know what that looks like.
Yes, the SDK buffers and batches events before sending to Rudder BE. In the BE, the events are combined (value summed up, not batched) before it is sent to the analytics platform. We wrote a blog for this interesting use case

https://rudderlabs.com/customer-case-study-casino-game/
Since the parent comment says "Germany" I can say with confidence: We have both, so that qualifier is not true unless you specifically buy exactly carbonated water. It is true though that for whatever reason that I just cannot comprehend the majority of water sold in bottles in this country (Germany) is carbonated. nor can I understand why so much of it is sold - tap water is very good in most places. I know a water engineer at the local municipal water company and she too only drinks tap water. On the other hand so many Germans are extremely fixated on price, it's even more incomprehensible how irrational it is that my fellow Germans buy so much bottled water. I googled for "why do Germans buy bottled water instead of tap water" and unsurprisingly found that I'm not the first one to ask that question (first link of several, as an example, which sums it up pretty well: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/10661118/Why-do-...).

Oh and if somebody asks about "but what about chlorinated tap water" - that is less common in Germany. I cannot detect anything but "water" in the places I visit in various German states. Anyone concerned about such things can get a water filter, they are plentiful in supermarkets, mostly these types: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/31/ed/ff/31edff1af777601ac16d33292...

The website of my own municipal water company (of a large Bavarian city) says water is chlorinated only when it is absolutely necessary, and that if they do it they will also stop as soon as possible. So that is a temporary measure when something happened but not usually done.

We (in Germany) do have a nitrate problem in a lot of places. We even got reprimanded by the EU about that only recently. The reason is agriculture, of course. (https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-cl...)
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Do you know where in the timeline of human history did ‘science’ appear?

Is boric acid protocol for BV transplanted vaginal microbiome be considered ‘science’?

(Nice. The downvoting begins. And I haven’t even started. What’s the point? You guys please continue to enjoy talking amongst yourselves about scientific ways to deal with vaginal pH.)
> doctor who wants to charge $200 and an insurer that wants to pay $100. How should it be resolved?

Insured patient: Doctor gets $100, can't bill the insurer's patient any further. If the doctor isn't happy with this, he can refuse service to patients insured by this insurer, or he can find a new line of work.

Uninsured patient: Doctor can bill this patient $200
Look at ESA's Sentinel 2. It has a 5-6 day revisit time and the data will always be free. It's 10m resolution which may or may not be good enough.

Google Earth Engine is designed exaclty for this (and has other satellites too).
I think the greater reactions are due to the targetting of individuals rather than the entity acting.
I should also add that he was a great person, I had a few interactions with him via a common FaceBook group and he was really a wonderful person.
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Oh no, not at all. I just mean questioning why he felt the need to be taller, rather than accepting the need and moving straight to the technical “how” part of what operation to get.
I think you’ll find a few people on HN who have written such niche technical books. Ask them how much money these books made for them!
> If you're a "right" leaning person you probably want a smaller government that spends less and we never get that. For every reduction in law hundreds are added.

Actually, under Trump government finally did get smaller. Maybe not cheaper just yet but we absolutely DO have fewer laws today - a LOT fewer. Trump promised to repeal two laws for every new one and he basically did do that.

One way to measure the amount of regulation is by counting the number of pages in the Federal Register. In 2016 that metric hit an all-time high of over 95,000. Under Trump, it dropped to and has remained below 70,000.

https://cei.org/blog/trump-regulations-federal-register-page...

https://cei.org/blog/trumps-2018-deregulatory-effort-3367-ru...

Quote:

"Under Trump, there has also been a substantial reduction in the number of rules and regulations published within all those Federal Register pages.

The Federal Register closed out 2018 with 3,367 final rules in all. The only lower count was 3,281 under Trump a year ago, which was the lowest count since records began being kept in the mid-1970s."
And even across the pond in Manchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatx2RLVyj0
I'm Aron Eisenberg's son. I want to invite everyone to something
there should be a law that makes them keep reposting the story every year until they reach the numbers from the original release
When reports are anonymous, you'll have trouble suing for libel. When the output of the site isn't a stated fact ("person x did y"), but a "calculated probability" without actually producing any of the reports ... good luck proving that the probability of you recklessly driving is below 50%.

It's not an easy decision, but I lean towards "should be illegal if done anonymously and without proof".
> $25K, ~~reduced~~ [negotiated] by the insurance company to $1200

$25K is the sticker price that someone uninsured would see. Sure, they'll get parts "forgiven," but this markup makes patients feel ripped-off, and it almost looks like an accounting scam. I'd like to see something that the sticker price can't be more than 10% greater than the lowest negotiated price.
Who cares, everyone interested will just read your pre-print. :)
This is not long exposure photography.

It's new type of sensors + lots of AI.
How much do people forget?
That's just an historical artifact, and in some countries it's changing - now the clients get arrested instead of sex workers.
There is yogababble and there is trash talking.

There is ying and there is yang.

Mr Galloway is very entertaining and he has got his scalp. But ultimately he has the same flaw as the yogaistas.

Overconfidence.
If you look at the source code of the linked site, you'll see that WikiData is its data source. It's just a more convenient interface.

(Tip: /go automatically redirects you.)
> You can't compare the US standard of care with the rest of the world's standard of care. If you want equivalent costs to the rest of the world, expect the US expectation of care, turnaround time, and time-to-service to decrease drastically.

I think the legal standard of care is mostly just a mistake on the part of the US. Surely it would make more sense to let different people have medical care performed to different standards.
I stopped reading at this point. The implication that men cannot be sexually assaulted by women and then the victim blaming of saying they had to deal with their own sexual arousal was irritating.

If the roles were reversed, this article would be labeled misogynist. But its obvious misandry is apparently acceptable.
I’ve always thought the film Margin Call got it so right:

John Tuld : Let me tell you something, Mr. Sullivan. Do you care to know why I'm in this chair with you all? I mean, why I earn the big bucks.

Peter Sullivan : Yes.

John Tuld : I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now. That's it. Nothing more.
It’s really just men who don’t like the idea of women doing these things with their bodies.
If all of your employeer's and most private doctors didn't try to systematically fuck over your patients and brag about it (I worked in major health management orgs), you wouldn't be getting the big regulation stick. I don't really have sympathy.
I've studied the area of developmental psychology a lot, and all evidence points to neuroticism, anxiety being not genetic but a result of developmental trauma. Adverse childhood experiences, missatunemenmet with the primary caregiver leads to an area of the brain responsible with affect regulation not being developed properly. Infants learn to regulate affect from parents (the mother or the primary caregiver).
What are they being protected from? Immorality?

A lot of the dangers to sex workers is because of these protections forcing them to go underground and work with shady exploitative dealers and trafficking.
How would this affect foreign pension funds that invest in NYSE?

Would they just sell their Chineses stocks or move some investment to another country??
There's not any filtering being done there though.

(Though full disclosure: I'm part of a project that aims to help identify the best preprints, so it's somewhat my thing.)
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Expanding on the point a little further, it would be normal from certain mathematical perspectives to see max as a unary function, mapping an unordered (multi)set to the set's maximum element. With one argument, order can't matter because only one order is possible.
Living with machines: How did the Industrial Revolution impact ordinary lives?
The site took so long to load that I thought it was for showing the loading spinner tab icon, which also fit the name of the site. I had to go wait it out after reading the comments which seemed unrelated to the first experience.
Unleashing Open Source Silicon
Unless you have a closed system like special forces usually do
This is Hacker News.

Why wouldn't you?
Very nice work. The result is visually speaking.
I don't think it's paraphrasing since those are quoted. Literally, in the lead paragraph,

> Pope Francis urged Silicon Valley giants on Friday to make sure technological advances such as artificial intelligence do not lead to a new “form of barbarism” where the law of the strongest prevails over the common good.

Unfortunately the minutes are unavailable afaict.
When I visited New York City for the first time in my life two things struck me as odd:

On thing was the number of camera teams in the streets.
I mean not movie production teams necessarily but press primarily. This was after 9/11 and before that I always wondered how it could be that there where multiple cameras pointed at the twin towers in exactly the right moment. After I spent some time in NYC this wasn't weird at all anymore.

The other thing was that strange feeling of familiarity of many streets and places. I blame watching too much Kojak as a kid...
They wouldn't even need to start competing journals - often, there already are alternative journals, or preprints would serve the function of dissemination just fine. The main thing that's needed is that they perform the filtering independently of the publication process.

(Disclosure: I'm part of a project that aims to facilitate that.)
> A lot of the dangers to sex workers is because of these protections forcing them to go underground and work with shady exploitative dealers and trafficking.

This is the older viewpoint. The newer one is that no one would consensually agree to sex work unless they were coerced. I am not in a position to opine on that viewpoint, but if it's true, then every sex worker is being exploited regardless of any laws or regulations.
Not necessarily. I doubt you could taste particles, unless they are truly molecule-sized nano to be able to bind to taste receptors? I think you need molecules. Which plastic bottles, depending on the exact kind of plastic and how it was manufactured, may have plenty of - it's not just the ideal "plastic" material, the carbon chains, but plenty of other kinds of molecules dissolved in between. In text books the different kinds of plastic are always represented with the main molecule - but not just is there no such thing as a 100% pure substance in a real-world manufacturing process, in addition all kinds of other molecules are added deliberately - temporarily during a manufacturing step or to become part of the final product - to modify the physical properties of the substance. So even the same kind of plastic can contain very different kinds of other substances depending on who made it when and where.

https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics...

https://www.thoughtco.com/reusing-plastic-bottles-serious-he...
Some people get range anxiety if it's cold out, or they made an abnormal trip, or if traffic will be bad. I have a supercharger visible from my office and anecdotally a lot of people come in for 10-20 mins at a time
I just login to my email service provider on a browser to check my email. During work I keep a tab open and it gives me alert when emails come in.

Are there any advantages that email clients such as thunderbird can offer me?
> think PHP is a hot mess.

Have you used PHP in the last 5 years?
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There are some Chromebook ads with a similar message.

(TBH, Chromebooks _are_ the most secure computers normal people can buy today. But ads like these cannot be recalled if shit hits the fan).
Should we create policies that disregard facts and are based on emotions, beliefs, desires and imaginations? My impression is that we're typically actively trying to keep the non-factual out of the law-making. "I had a dream once that a great evil will come if we tax corporations more" shouldn't be an argument against new tax laws.
Saudi Arabia has a problem in that its far larger than UAE and it is also the home of Islam. Loosening cultural restrictions might fly in Dubai, but I'm not sure the Muslim world would be as okay with the same happening in the country that hosts their most sacred site.
> When I visited New York City for the first time in my life [some] things struck me as odd: On thing was the number of camera teams in the street. I mean not movie production teams necessarily but press primarily.

I grew up in NYC and I can say that filming (professional or not) has increased dramatically. When I was younger, I would routinely see camera crews down the street and get excited about who was there or what they were filming. Now, it happens with such regularity that you just grumble and try to find a way down the side-walk to avoid it.
I'm not familiar with EV charging prices, but this does seem a bit expensive. 2.5 SEK per minute is 0.23€ / 0.26USD. Is that for high speed DC charging?

Anyway, to me the focus on high speed charging seems to be completely the wrong way to go about charging infrastructure. Our cars sit idle 95% of the day. Aside from long trips, why should we try to charge them in as little time as possible?

Almost all the new charging stations they install around here offer high speed charging. They are extremely expensive to set up, because providing 50kW DC charging requires big expensive electronics. This leads to the problem that only very few charging stations are installed, and the charging stations have to charge by the minute to make sure that people only park there as short as possible.

What if instead the city provided 5kW AC outlets next to every parking spot? Those would be much cheaper to install, the electronics needed for billing would be extremely cheap (an NFC reader, a microcontroller, and a relay won't cost much), and charging speed is not an issue for people who live or work there. You would just leave your car plugged in while you're at the office, or overnight. If you could top up 30kWh while you work that would be plenty for most people.
If we're keeping up with the safe analogy, this exploit doesn't give you the keys to your safe, it gives everyone the keys to your safe.
Which is the best free stock photo website?
Even pre-ACA, I don't remember insurance companies having margins that big. Progressives like to paint insurance companies as villains, but they're not printing money, and definitely not like tech or financials.

Not that insurance companies don't add bloat, but healthcare cost in the US is due to a lot of factors.

- Overtreatment to mitigate liability
- Overtreatment of the elderly
- Poor end-of-life management
- Insurance bureaucracy
- Siloed providers
- Intervention rather than prevention
- Conflict with other policies (like the farm bill)

The ACA tried to fix, um, not really any of them. But props to Michelle Obama for axing the food pyramid.
average can meant many things even in stat. like modal ...

But if only 50% ...

Should it be "normal", "common", ... or most, not just professional test pilot
Looks like a proper shakedown.
When folks say Angular they aren't including v1. That is called AngularJS.

Also, you still configure webpack for your React app right?
> This is a typical guy who feels pressure so he buys at the top and puts his money based on recommendation of others in a business that is going to be next big thing

Well that is how the current VC market works - sadly
> Being a programmer is just a job

That's like saying building bridges is just a job. The word you're looking for isn't "privilege," it's "responsibility."
I thought you could sideload self-built apps onto an iPhone these days. I mean, it has some restrictions, but at least it doesn't require forking over $99.
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It's an app that connects dog owners with dog walkers. People here are treating it like it was a CERN project.
If one of your strongly held beliefs is "spaces over tabs" and you think that belief is information that has sway in the interview AND you take the advice to not reveal the information, then how are you not misrepresenting yourself?

You're answering like a person who doesn't hold strong beliefs to a question designed to identify strong beliefs, knowing that you are a person who holds those strong beliefs. Is that not misrepresentation to bypass the filtering mechanism?

We might be talking about slightly different things - if you have a strong belief then I agree you should try sell it, and doing so would demonstrate leadership qualities.
Given that the vast majority of the papers I read are on Arxiv, linked by researchers online, I just don’t really buy the argument that we need to keep these publishers around. I’m betting that other researchers will still serve as a fine filter.
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> Aside from long trips, why should we try to charge them in as little time as possible? ... What if instead the city provided 5kW AC outlets next to every parking spot? Those would be much cheaper to install, the electronics needed for billing would be extremely cheap[.]

It's a lot easier to install a few high speed chargers than many thousands lower speed chargers.