skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And England's capitalism of the 1840s reduced Ireland's population by nearly half.

There's a monotonous consistency in the ability of numerous political-economic organisation systems to produce extreme poverty and misery. Almost as if those were exogenous to those systems.
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> but as the act happened as part of a strategic decision it is acceptable police behavior.

No, they made no comment on whether that is acceptable.
The court case was about "alleging violations of the Takings Clause". The court said that this clause does not apply in this case:

- (1) when a state acts pursuant to its police power, rather than the power of eminent domain, its actions do not constitute a taking.

- (3) any damage to the Lechs’ home therefore fell outside the ambit of the Takings Clause.

This does not say anything about it being "ok if the police does it" or even comments on whether it is okay at all. It just says that they sued over the wrong law.
The First Benz Was a Dirty, Finger-Hungry Machine That Was Easy to Drive
Then again, you can use a connector to connect it to MSSQl, MySQl, Oracle and others. And you still have a very powerful tool for reporting, forms, queries etc.
The "America vs Europe debate" only ever pops up when an American comes into a thread telling everyone how wrong they are. As you say it is ironic because the position that there is one "Europe" to compare the US to is one that can only be formed in an environment of ignorance. Asking why was at some point useful, but given the pernicious nature of these discussions and the vehemence with which they are repeated we have to assume they are not going to go away (unless perhaps we ignore them).
Nobody wants their lightbulb and fan connected to the internet
> I'd love to see more training for the police officers to help in situations, but I don't see tax payers wanting to pay for it

I don’t think it’s more training they need, but different training (so rather than more money, it’s a matter of spending the money they already have differently).

A whole industry has sprung up of ex-military personnel and LEOs providing training which isn’t far off the sort of thing you’d get for a tour of Afghanistan; unsurprisingly when you train and equip people as if they’re going to a war zone they then act and use that equipment as if they’re in a war zone.
But we don't. The Russian government does not need such laws to cause trouble.

Boris Nemtsov got shot in broad daylight in the centre of Moscow.
You're bonkers if you think that news websites intend for you to read news without ads.

Ultimately this is just another case of "rules for thee but not for me".
New model of irregular heartbeat could boost drug efficacy
Ask HN: Can an introvert build a successful tech career/company?
A few months ago I left a corporate job and joined a growing startup. My idea was helping shape the startup and in the process gain experience and build a team.

However, being an introvert, made me doubt whether I can make any career progress in startups at all. So far I see that the company is ruled by sales, marketing and investors. You are extrovert, talk better and "make more friends and impress people" you are more successful. You are introvert and mind your own business, you are in trouble.

I appreciate if anyone could share their thoughts and experiences on this.
I meant "Mormons removing queer people from their media because they don't like the representation".

For a more international version of this, see Eurovision and the refusal of various Arab countries to broadcast the Israeli entries at all - which led to said Arab countries being excluded from it for refusal to comply with the rules.
IAC outlines its plans for a Match Group spinoff
Cray Revamps ClusterStor for the Exascale Era
Atomic_ring: A C++ template for a quasi-lock-free ring implementation
Fast-forwarding parts of movies for your own private use is entirely different from selling an unlicensed edited version of original content, which is precisely what CleanFlicks did.

Unless that content is licensed under a free licence that specifically permits you to remix content (e.g. some Creative Commons variants) selling an unauthorised edited version is unethical and probably illegal as well.

By arbitrarily removing parts of original content and publishing the changed versions CleanFlicks were altering it in ways the content creators didn't intend and it's perfectly understandably that those content creators don't want to be associated with these versions.
Well, if you read factcheck.org or any other fact checker, or just read transcripts of Trumps speeches you can see that the negative spin is usually there for a reason.
For free
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A figure from ca. 2004 was that the U.S. collectively spends one half the amount the chewing gum industry does in advertising a year in political advertising during a presidential cycle.

I found such comparisons a glib way to normalize malfunction.
> Gravity is very similar to magnetism

But magnets, how do they work? (C)
Delta-V to Venus and Mars is only that small when you launch at the correct time. Just as with linear distance, where are plenty of times when delta-V to get to Venus or Mars is going to be a lot larger.

But Delta-V and linear distance are different things. This particular discussion of linear distance to other planets is extremely useful to demonstrate how biased our perception and understanding are. Because of the way we usually look at and discuss planets, everybody blindly assumes that Venus and Mars are closer in linear distance than Mercury, when in reality that's usually not the case. Checking our assumptions and perceptions like that is a useful exercise in itself, even when it's not directly relevant to rocket science.
Learning to describe your problem.

Specific knowledge aside, I am always astonished that people not being able to coherently read and write is getting worse.

That's something YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook don't teach I guess?
This to me seems not far from ayatollahs quoting scripture to justify their positions and policies. Surely thought has progressed in the last two hundred years?
When your job means handling weapons all day, forgetting about a set is no more difficult than a tech worker forgetting about a pile of blade servers. It happens. Militaries implement systems for dealing with such things. For instance, red amnesty boxes are common at canadian bases. A rocket launcher may seem scary and horribly dangerous, but sleep beside them for a few months and they become very normal.
I agree that feels like cheating. But you can equally make that division down gender lines and not class because women are more likely to build a working relationship with profs than men. Class and gender are not the issue here, it comes down to an individual perspective on the school system. The value of a task and the socializing around it matters. It depends where you are in life which matters more.
Until someone rich and famous is charged, I will continue to believe that he probably was either murdered, or allowed to commit suicide.
I pay for content that I want to support and I'm very active in choosing media I want to support and putting my money where my mouth is, but there are many reasons why someone might want to use a service like this:

1. Editing for their children as an audience. Something like Lord of the Rings is a classic with an amazing set of movies, but I might not want to edit a few things for children.

2. Editing gratuitous violence out of an otherwise good film. A lot of movies put in gratuitous violence or swearing just because it is expected to be a "serious film" even though it has no reason to be in it. If there is simply a choice between "Barnie goes to Paris" or "Lord of the Rings" with a few things edited; I know what I'll pick.

3. Slipping standards and ratings in modern movies: classic movies managed to be great without the violence, sex, and profanity. A PG13 of today is very different than a PG13 of yesteryear.

4. Production costs and minority status: the demand for clean films seems low. Producing a state of the art movie costs a lot of money, it's easier to cleanup a film than to produce the same movie from scratch without the objectionable parts. This is something of a minority rights issue and how to fit into a larger society.

5. Triggers and Choice: people have a wide variety of psychological needs and quirks. It is important for them to be able to fit into society and not be traumatized by it. These solutions help a oid things that may trigger things or aggravate conditions.

Choice is similar. You can and should be able to choose what you eat, drink, etc. Same with "mental eating". You can filter your water for things, why not filter what your mind eats to suit your tastes?
I keep mine on Dropbox, works for me.
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
Authentication Bypass in European Commission EIDAS-Node
Goes to a blank page for me, and outline.com doesn't work with it. Anyone actually got some content?
Push Button Switch Types
First These Kentuckians Couldn't Drink the Water. Now They Can't Afford It
Flexibility of labelling is definitely the way to go with pipeline management. Different organizations have very different ideas about sales processes (and even what constitutes a sale/deal/partnership) and a CRM aiming for simplicity should simply let users define (and reuse) their own.
>People used to know how to write in cursive too. Some skills just get obsolete.

I heard this few times. Is it actually a thing that people don't know how to write cursive? Natural writing (cursive) has been a part of primary education in most(perhaps all) countries since the beginning. Did they actually remove it recently? That would be insane. How one is supposed to be able to write quickly, as in when taking notes, without cursive?
Checkmate, vegans.
On an absolute basis, it's increased since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the level of poverty, in constant terms, is worse than it had been in 1800 -- the survivable level of poverty has fallen.

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms. See:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691141282/a-...

Chapter 1:

http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8461.pdf
We do have libel and slander laws, you know.
Annoying. If there is to be some legal requirement, it should be to respect some protocol that would allow you to set those cookie settings once in your browser settings.

As is, it is a complete disaster that accomplishes nothing positive.
If the calibrations were on a schedule, shouldn't Sked have handled that? I was in the Navy as well. I've made countless databases, batch files, and VBScript just to automate and streamline tasking that the Navy refused to let you use non-gov tools like web apps and whatnot. I even created a fully finctioning VTC scheduling web application running on IIS and using classic ASP with a bootstrap/jQuery front-end for one of the bigger numbered fleets. This was in 2016. When they are all you reallly have, you can do wonders with the MS Office suite.
Yes, some users find them somewhat useful.

That does not explain the complete lack of documentation, access keys, and the inability to turn it off under any circumstances.

It is possible that this is not and has not been used as a back door. But why is that so implausible?
What's funny is that in terms of delta-V, the surface of Deimos (Mars' second moon) is actually closer to us than the surface of the Moon.

Of course in travel time the distances are very different. Delta-V is not the only factor that matters.
A new high-resolution map of how the brain is wired
I wonder would pouring water onto the leaves of chilis plants encourage it to produce hotter peppers?

The substance that makes chilis spicy is a natural anti fungal.
Dappkit, Firebase for Web3.0
Ok. So, at that point, you are practically downloading a binary executable, which uses browser API's as it standard lib, per site.

You're right I think, it would become very difficult to create client side heuristics to identify the advertisement elements in the way it is currently done.

But who knows? Maybe machine learning based solutions will become necessary? Maybe dedicated recognition FPGAs?

The war will probably continue for some time.
That's true but then even in France it's not something cheap. It's exceptional and as you said, basically something you have once or twice a year.
Biggest thing for me would be seamless (and option) email import. I can store contacts in a spreadsheet, but seeing the history of conversations with a customer is where a minimalist spreadsheet is a lot better.
Hey man, I just have to say, I've randomly stumbled onto three(!) of your projects this week and love them all! Keep it up!
I give AWS employees the benefit of innovation eg. inventing "the cloud" as we know it today, but what's in there for developers? What are the incentives for F/OSS software developers if all they contribute to is monopolization, lock-in, and attention economy? tbray wants to appeal to an F/OSS ethos that has run its course and just doesn't make sense in the cloud economy. I'd go further and say F/OSS has ruined the software industry in that it has made software a commodity, so the only way to make a living is by operations, taking away economic value from developers, and giving it to cloud providers instead. That's obviously not a sustainable model for software development going forward, and creates incentives that are neither aligned with those of developers nor customers.

Well, AWS at least offers the marketplace for indie developers to offer their images (with a markup for billing which is ok I guess). If AWS is serious about a sustainable economic model for software developers, then they could start to expand this offering and make it more prominent (I haven't heard much about it in a long while), building it on mainstream Linux distros rather than AWS Linux, etc. What I'm seeing on AWS marketplace and places such as DockerHub, though, are mostly repackaged F/OSS convenience builds rather than original applications. And AWS could have made a stance here by selling eg. Mongo DB images from the marketplace rather than going for Mongo's customers with their own offering. I guess it's better than on Azure and Google Cloud at least, where you need a partnership deal to even be able to sell images.
Some Academics Quietly Take Side Jobs Helping Tobacco Companies in Court
So it shouldn't be OK for someone not to watch something they don't want to watch? I don't understand or perhaps I'm misreading.
That's true at the same time. It's a tough choice for those talented with love for science or a will to work on solving bigger problems.
You are introvert and mind your own business, you are in trouble.

That's not really what an introvert is.

I'd recommend reading Susan Cains book "Quiet" for a really deep dive on the psychology of introverts, extroverts and ambiverts, but in a nutshell it's about how you recover from social situations compared to being alone. Introverts need time away from others to reenergise. Extroverts need time among other people to reenergise. Ambiverts are those rare people who get energised by both.

To that end, the answer to your question is really to make sure you block out time to be on your own in order to recover after being in social situations.

If you genuinely don't like social situations that's something else. It could be shyness, anti-socialness or a form of social anxiety. What strategy you use to deal with those things is a bit more complicated and very personal to you.
> You just won't find it on the top hit at Google because their business model is based on ad sales wankery.

And neither did you find it through Google in the "early 1990s" like in the article. Or in any other way, except by pure luck, because search was crap back then or simply didn't exist.
If I understood correctly, the way to land when even minimum thrust is too much is both simple and clever. The goal is to reach zero velocity at zero altitude. But there's always some uncertainty in how rapidly an engine will fire up and come up to power, so you can't just precisely time the engine startup. So what you do is to time the startup so that the predicted zero velocity point is underground. Then once the engine has started and spooled up, you continuously measure altitude and velocity, update the predicted zero velocity altitude, and progressively increase thrust until the zero velocity altitude is at zero altitude.
I was thinking at least LEO, not Everest.
> starting to believe

When it is founded on hard evidence I think belief is not the right term to use.
It's within the rights of the Arabs to not broadcast, and within the rights of Eurovision to not allow them to participate.

Are you suggesting that we should force people to watch things they don't agree with?

That isn't exactly what you said, but seems to suggest it.

I agree that taking the movie, editing it, copying it, and selling it-- is and should be illegal. But other solutions like client side indices of what to skip or mute don't harm the producer and are not editing of the copyrighted material itself.
You can present facts differently to manipulate opinion - even simple things like percentage vs percentile, or increases chances by vs to - and even if they lie, the correction won't be reach everyone who read the original article.

Then there are opinion pieces - which by definition are opinion not facts.

I seriously have no good idea how to regulate that: international or national certifications are bound to be abused(lobbying in case of former, national interest in case of latter) and current system is absolutely dogshit.

Honestly it is because all news outlets optimize for one thing only - money - and money nowadays comes from one thing mostly: selling ads, or to be exact - selling access to serving ads to people with specific interests.

As long as selling ads en masse is the most profitable options the current system will exist. Clickbait/Yellow journalism will thrive as long as it's only purpose is to attract attention.
they can't even prevent fake bank twitter accounts and their pnishing ads.

Or they don't want?
> It's hard to take the clear disappointment from my bosses.

You should be brave and raise this with your bosses. You may have got the wrong idea!

Ask them how you are doing and trust them to be honest with you. You may be disappointed in yourself whilst they may take a view that you are fine or improving or they are happy to offer help.

Perhaps try to broach the subject with your team, too? They may be supportive if they recognise you are feeling down.
Pig skin, dead wasps and bee vomit: what's in that candy?
I’ve stayed in Stanford dorms, and they were pretty swanky (but then, so was pretty much every other dorm in the US I’ve seen)
Top dropshipping suppliers of original US/EU products
I work for a small finance firm. Before I joined everything was maintained ad-hoc in spreadsheets with no defined structure or consistency. I developed an Access database that now acts as our data warehouse and reporting engine. We are talking here about tens of thousands of rows of data not millions. Access has forms that allow non-technical users easy access. SQL queries can run more complicated reports. Excel can also easily import Access queries and tables.

Programmers often don't understand that Excel and Access are valuable because you don't need a programmer, simply a professional with some technical knowledge. Developing a fully-fledged solution would slow you down and increase your developer headcount by 1. If any modifications need to be made you could waiting weeks for an IT/Developer team to react. IT often acts as a blocker for us trying to get work done with limited data sets.

There is nothing else quite like Access on the market. Air table is but a toy for those of us in business that need a serious tool that can integrate with Excel and has aggregate and SQL querying capabilities.
Ask HN: I want to contribute to a open source project, do you have a suggestion?
I want to gain some skills by contributing to an existing/a promising open source project and also increase productive use of my time.

Do you have a suggestion ?
> How one is supposed to be able to write quickly, as in when taking notes, without cursive?

One usually types said notes into their phone or speaks them into their watch. Or just writes them quickly the typical way, since there aren't likely to be cases where that wouldn't be sufficient.
Inconsistent indentation is NOT a problem in practice.

inconsistent tab/space use is a problem in practice (not a "wide" one in my experience, but not negligible), but if you use the right tab width (and many projects mark it inside the files with a hint e.g. Emacs understands so that won't be an issue) - then it becomes a non problem too.

I've never heard of someone saying "I don't care about mixing spaces and tabs because it's the curly braces that matter", and I've never heard of someone who edits a file with inconsistent on-screen indentation and doesn't care.
In the past, America was not as unequal as it has become
Building edible PCB calculators
Sure, everyone is fine to do as you described for his or her own private use.

You might think that an otherwise good film contains gratuitous violence but the film's creators put it there for a reason. Even if that reason was a shallow one you can't simply decide for yourself to sell a new "improved" version of that content without asking for permission first, which is precisely what CleanFlicks did.
Well its a rather expensive item in the shops. Affordable still, but paying 15-30 euros for a small box brings it into affordable luxury category IMHO. Its more expensive than exquisite french/italian cheeses with black truffles for example.

Same would go for ie Moet champagne, one can afford it but you definitely notice the price.
What if this startup idea is the idea
I released the initial version of https://datamaps.world at the beginning of September. So far I earned around 200$ from subscriptions and 100$ from selling the license to my datamaps chart library.

I have a full-time job and I'm working on this project only in my spare time.
Anecdotally it seems to me that the "lazy, young, and failing at everything" stereotype is much more prevalent for men than women in popular media. On the other side the "young but really capable and never giving up" stereotype is much more common for women.

Of course inversions of these tropes can be found all over the place so to properly see if there's a skew you'd need to analyse a whole lot of media and see which is more frequent. I'm not about to embark on that project so the best I can give you is a description of how it feels to me.

In the end I don't think these sorts of stereotypes are too unbalanced, for every bad female stereotype you can find a bad male stereotype. I feel like the conversation shouldn't be about who has it worse and deserves compensation, it should be about how we decouple both good and bad stereotypes from gender or skin color or sexual orientation or what have you.

You need stereotypes to tell compelling stories, otherwise you'd have to explain every single character in-depth. This isn't a bad thing, but we need to be more careful about attaching stereotypes needlessly to real existing groups of humans.

If I were a script writer and it'd be up to me I'd probably just write the script with whichever stereotypes it needs, and then once the script is done flip some coins for the irrelevant character attributes such as gender or skin color or eye color. As far as I can tell those basically never matter for telling a story. Even in the case of it being historically inaccurate I wouldn't say it matters: you're already suspending your disbelief for a lot of stuff in the movies, the idea that e.g. a woman would be a commander in the first world war isn't a stretch big enough to break immersion.

I need to learn to write more coherently and start a blog I think.
Quantum chemist. Quite different from nuclear physics.
DAX is unrelated.

There’s M in PowerQuery. It is also not SQL, but I do believe that it’s better for the task.