skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ffs, what a clueless bunch. Why do they have to bundle all their complaints and make it us vs. Them??

So now if you dislike ICE you have to dislike big oil also? And vice versa? What's next? Google should not do business with Chickfila because their employees dislike the ceo?

I mean I dislike google so the worse business risk with google. gets the bettet I say.

I am just afraid I will be put into a position where I either support lgbtq+climate change+blacklives matter+anti-china+anti-russia to use any tech service in the west or I learn chinese or russian and use their services. I mean, why are they so intolerant of anyone who does not conform to their very specific set of ideology and world view? They're worse than the people they fight. You can be lgbtq and work at chickfila just fine,you can be for green energy and work for ice,you can be against ICE and big oil will do business with you. No matter how correct they think they are,they cause more problems than solutions.

This is why otherwise sane people are trump supporters,because to support the alternative you have to conform to this long list of ideological views. Only intellectual cowards who can't be bothered to patiently discuss their views with their peers corner people into picking between two extremes -- where deviance is met with hostility. I refuse to accept any view or movement where I have to surrender critical thinking and be either for the movement or against it.

Now big oil has to band together with ICE? Good job on uniting your enemies against you! I can't accept any result from people like this. Ends don't justify means and freedom to think and disagree is very important.
Walmart and the like killed local competition. There’s a gas station I stop at from time to time in the country with a Walmart next door. It’s insanely busy.

I have family in the country and they accept having to drive to get decent groceries. There are seasonal vegetable and fruit stands but you couldn’t get everything you need. A local ranch sells beef but it would be quite expensive to buy year around unless you want a whole or 1/2 cow.

The county has something like 12,000 residents. It’s about the same population as a 2-3 mile radius is the suburb I live in.

To be honest I don’t feel bad for some of these people in the article. They are opposed to the word co-op.

Edit: Removing the last 2 sentences of the last paragraph as it’s against the guidelines for flamebait topics. Reading between the lines of the original article I can only assume “speak the the language” is referring to politics.

> “It’s ironic because it was farmers who pioneered co-ops. They’re O.K. with ‘community store.’ They’re the same thing, but you’ve got to speak the language.”
The very companies and resource that made their job possible.
> that’s one of the biggest reasons why these Mac people (myself included) doesn’t even consider moving out of macOS

Fortunately for Microsoft this "issue" has historically resulted in some additional (if uneven) familiarity among Enterprise users, where MacOS is nowhere to be found, though I do concede it's been getting out of hand now with Windows 10
This is insane. The term goes back to the 1700s. You can't just take over random words from the dictionary and start suing.
Same here.

From the GRC fingerprints page FAQ:

"What can go wrong with this test?

"There ARE several things to consider:

"False-Positive Mismatches:

"Smaller web sites, like this one (GRC) and those others listed above, deploy only one security certificate on one or more web servers (For example, our wonderful certificate provider, DigiCert, specifically allows us to use the same single certificate on as many servers as necessary.)

"But companies with a massive and widely distributed web presence, such as Amazon or Google, may deploy many different security certificates across their many globally distributed servers and web sites. Multiple certificates may be easier for them to obtain and manage, and their security is not reduced. But it does mean that not every user of their servers (like you and this GRC page) would necessarily obtain the same security certificate.

"This means that a simple comparison of certificate fingerprints could erroneously lead people wishing to test these huge websites to conclude that their connections were being intercepted, when they have simply received a different valid certificate than the one received and shown by this web page.

"The best solution is to test smaller sites that are known to be using single certificates, or sites using the completely unspoofable extended validation (EV) certificates with an EV-honoring web browser such as Firefox or Chrome (but not Internet Explorer, which doesn't properly verify EV certificates)."
Also interesting to note that stock market returns map better to a Laplacian distribution. https://sixfigureinvesting.com/2016/03/modeling-stock-market...
But who was vilifying whom?? pgeorgi just said "I don't own a car", not that you shouldn't!
Federal Lawmakers Push '.Gov' Web Addresses for Local Governments
Qt works well for me, as well as Tcl/Tk.
that is not true. They want to be regulated. They want to compete with unregulated systems like alipay
Indeed, and a government regulated system would be much fairer for everyone. In most western societies (the US may be a partial exception) we don't want to see people dying in the streets, therefore there is universal basic healthcare for everyone in every civilized country.

Therefore, it would be much better to fund it like, e.g., high energy physics research.

Do the research funded by governments, and the pure production of patent-free medicine can be done by the industry who, compete on price at a set and defined quality.
The "efficiency savings" are probably because they've rejigged their processes to make them cleaner as part of the new initiative - NOT because of blockchain. If you control and trust your data source, blockchain is a really silly choice for storing your data. And the fact that SAP is the provider says it all really - them and their like are purveyors of superfluous hokum, sold to corporate managers that don't know any better.
I would go even more minimalist and claim that a blockchain is any distributed consensus on an immutable log
'Some' is a vague word.
Would it have to list bullying itself? Or is that the recursion base case?
Your understanding of inflation is misguided. Inflation as we have it under central banking today is theft.

A GSE creates money from nothing. Large banks are allowed to have this money at near-zero cost, and lend it to others and a higher cost. It's a free profit for large banks. It's 100% organized theft.

This is the scenario that create the 'too big to fail banks' that we had to give even more money to keep the system propped up.
I disagree. You're making two different arguments. The first is that PLT does not study suitability, but then you switch course and say that math analagously can define suitability for specific tasks but suitability is not (and this is my own words) a normed space.

Programming language theory does not, in fact, make value judgments, but it does make statements upon which value judgments can be built given context, which contradicts your first statement.
Because no one can clearly explain the advantages of FP. Not “in theory”, but using commonly used practical tasks. I don’t care about immutability unless it clearly makes my life easier and so far I got by just fine with non-FP style of doing things. The only valid argument I heard is “it expands your mind as a programmer”. Yeah, whatever.
Contentless lawyered up canned response.
Wouldn't they be in roughly the same position, just without a ton of debt?

People have a different emotional response to predatory lending like payday loans, but not those same practices in student loans.
Now the USA is relying on these massive mega-corporations resolve the problems they created in the first place, and all these corporations are giving are empty platitudes and band-aids...
No they shouldn't, but in that case the burden is on the USPTO to deny the application in the first place. Once the trademark is granted, of course the company is going to defend it. The party to blame is the one granting it.
The credit card companies' share of the entire economy is problematic, but few companies could handle the threats of fraud in e-commerce as well, for as little. There's a very harsh tradeoff between ease-of-use and fraud protection, and it's not an easy problem to solve. Doing it for 3% is beyond most companies' (or governments') capacity. It may provide the incumbents with a healthy profit, but few if any newcomers would be able to get their costs low enough to survive on that.
Interest rates are lower than at almost any time in history. They're usually strongly linked to default risk, which is why mortgages are about 2% but credit cards in the 10-20% range. But none of that is applicable to cryptocurrency, which doesn't really have a credit infrastructure at all and instead is trying to replicate something closer to negotiable bearer instruments.

Transaction fees are a real thing, but essentially that covers keeping fraud out of the system. In cryptocurrency that's your problem, and many of the "solutions" are riskier and in the end more expensive.
I remember that in IE all you got was a yellow alert sign in the status bar that there was a JavaScript error somewhere and you added alert boxes on every 100:ed line eg. alert("line 200") alert("line 220") until you had located the error. This is still how you do it on some mobile/tv browsers. Some browsers will not even tell you there is an error - and fail silently.
Same teachers as anywhere else? At my public magnet school I was taught by a National Teacher of the Year, a board member of a national mathematics group, and a few PhDs. The faculty needed to guide/craft winning entries for prestigious science competitions, and coach nationally-competitive mathematics teams, and teach classes years past Advanced Placement courses. That is not your run-of-the-mill teacher.

The faculty I had was enthusiastically involved in all of these things and performed well. The few exceptions that did not live up to that level were well known, and the very involved parents pressured the principal and leadership to change at every opportunity - but public schools don't have much flexibility for getting rid of teachers.

Of course, the caliber of the faculty is determined by many factors, and other magnet schools may have terrible teachers. But it is up to the principal, school board/leadership, parents, and teachers to give the kids the opportunity to reach their potential.
Not anymore http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/nfl-no-longer-non...
But are they really based in Utah, or just have their paperwork on file there because it made the most sense to file there? I was given the several options including Utah and Delaware as a place to file my company. Not sure what the implication you're making is.
Google isn't an employee-owned company but I imagine that they do own a decent amount of stock due to the compensation structure. Maybe they could use that as an avenue to have their voice heard?
I moved to Colorado in the early 90’s and backcountry was already a super common term. It certainly predates these guys.

I have no idea what this guy is talking about. I’ve never heard the term randonee until today, and at least in Colorado the term wilderness has always had a very specific jargon type meaning as referring to designated wilderness areas, like the Big Blue Wilderness, for example. The term is clearly defined by the US Forest Service.
Recreating the Osiris-Rex Slingshot Manoeuvre from a Network of Consumer Cameras
Well, public sentiment affects the conditions of survival for politicians. It’s not the same thing as what you’re talking about but it does have an influence.

In California today, we have a crusading mentality, trying to save the world from itself but neglecting administration of our own affairs, and our politicians reflect that. For example, consider that PG&E has been left unsupervised to a point where their neglect is burning down the state, while California politicians have vigorously maintained separate emissions standards for cars — something which ends up affecting the whole country — for decades. This outward, crusading focus is also reflected in actions like the SF city council’s recent declaration of the NRA as a terrorist organization.
I'm doing they same. I've spent a stupid amount on bikes and climbing gear from them so hopefully they listen.
Speaking of LEGO, I went to the Alcatraz tour in SF and they had an amazing lego mural on the floor consisting of the faces of important civil disobedience activists.

It was done by Ay Weiwei remotely from his home in China (he's under house arrest).

Not the same one, but similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dzAdK1s3E
What exactly did you fail to understand?
Sendgrid Live Issue: non-Roman characters getting garbled
It seems to have happened from last night (4th November) that emails sent with non-Roman characters e.g. Japanese, Cyrillic etc., are being completed garbled and rendered wrong.

I noticed lots of people in Japan on twitter are complaining but despite this and raising P1 incident, Sendgrid is refusing to acknowledge the issue on their status page and give us updates on the fix. Hoping other people see this and this alerts them to impact. Sendgrid is now the email arm of Twilio.

https://twitter.com/toofu__/status/1191662577723400193

https://twitter.com/t3_heartland/status/1191682021413670913
https://twitter.com/seiketkm/status/1191674672674246656
https://twitter.com/Hi_Noguchi/status/1191662822574346241
Huh? Lobsters doesn't replace HN. Not just in the obvious, practical sense that HN is 100x bigger on any metric than Lobsters, but also in a theoretical sense, because our definition of topicality is a strict subset of HN's. And we're not trying to replace HN. And we're not an organization, or even particularly organized. If you think HN should be replaced... maybe try doing that, rather than contributing to it?

(Context: I'm the admin of Lobsters.)
I buy lots of custom water bottles from specialized, for our bike business. I sent an email to our rep saying we had a philosophical disagreement with their actions, and would stop using them. They received enough backlash which filtered up to management, apologized, and stopped. It was an effective use of boycott.
> they could provide consumers (and authorities) a way to trace their products back to their origins, a capability that already would have saved several lives.

Why would blockchain be required for that? In case of drugs and food there recalls are being done using batch number of day of production.
> Because setting alarms on normal clocks is really annoying.

I'm not sure, on the two digital clocks I'm using, changing the time or the alarm takes at most 30 s. On the other it will ring every day at the same time, including on week-ends, but then since it's quick enough to change the alarm it's not a big deal. If I wanted day-of-week dependent alarms, I'd use my smartphone for this.
I disagree, at least at the matter of degree.

Scorsese said "[f]or me, for the filmmakers I came to love and respect, for my friends who started making movies around the same time that I did, cinema was about revelation — aesthetic, emotional and spiritual revelation. It was about characters — the complexity of people and their contradictory and sometimes paradoxical natures, the way they can hurt one another and love one another and suddenly come face to face with themselves."

The paradoxical nature has been there between Thor and Loki, for example. Or Thanos and Gamorra.

The most revelatory Marvel movie was Captain America the Winter Soldier.

"Steve Rogers: The Future? How could it know?
[Sitwell laughs]
Jasper Sitwell: How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it.
[Steve and Natasha look at him in confusion]
Jasper Sitwell: Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola’s algorithm evaluates peoples’ past to predict their future.
Steve Rogers: And what then?
Jasper Sitwell: Oh, my God. Pierce is going to kill me.
Steve Rogers: What then?!
Jasper Sitwell: Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few millions at a time."

Coincidence or intentional, the fact that they kept that plot line after Snowden, that took balls. IIRC a lot of films around 2001 re-shot in respect of 9/11, and they could have re-shoot if they wanted to avoid it.

I can agree that these aren't the forefront of most Marvel plots. But I can think of far more movies that I'd accuse as not-cinema before I'd go after Marvel.
The US switched over from NTSC to ASTC broadcast television in 2009. To build an ASTC digital television or converter box, you basically have to be in the MPEG LA patent pool, or the members can bankrupt you with licensing fees if you attempt to comply with the standard.

Edit: acronym typo. Thanks mnw21cam.
... and this is on top of their general shameless political activism. I wonder at what stage this kind of "using my company's big guns to bully what i don't like" is considered social terrorism? Google 's employees, smart as they may be, are not the representatives of the people. Yet they act as if their political power is legitimate
When you right-click and copy, Javascript code runs which replaces the link with the real URL. If you simply click on it, however, you get a tracking URL which then imperceptibly quickly redirects to the real URL.
The majority of bankruptcies are because of medical debt.
So why is this not an article angry at the USPTO for granting overly broad trademarks?

Of course companies are going to try to overreach and get as much as they can. The point of having a government is to regulate and turn down unreasonable requests. That's where this needs to be fixed, not by expecting profit driven companies to altruistically leave money on the table. It should be obvious by now that doesn't work.
you hit upon on why this will all pan out

renewable energy sources combined with electrically driven transportation never meant we would do less travel or use less energy over all. it means what all break through events in power generation and efficiency meant, more of it for more uses and more people.

clean easily obtainable energy is going to lead to an explosion travel and who knows what forms it will take
You are You man. I love everything you've written. Totally agree. Perfect post. Resonates exactly with how people c/s ould feel.
Interesting how so little of this can be applied to security alerts. E.g.: most security alerts can't be actioned.
As soon as blockchain is even mentioned on HN, everyone loses their freaking minds. For some people that tout themselves as intellectuals, they just seem to parrot that 'blockchains are useless' without even taking a cursory look into the technology. It seems to me that a lot of people here fall into the category of ultracrepidarianism.
It’s Been Done Before
A bit unfair since your win10 counterpart was probably not an ARM processor, so keep that in mind :)
This thread has plenty of unironic use of "SJW", complaints about any left wing activism being about stroking their own ego and how politics should be left out of the office.

The posts about Stallman had plenty of defenders as well.

How is the culture here too far left?
But they do have a legal obligation to do what the board wants. Guess what the board wants 99% of the time?
> I reckon the only way to error-free is redundancy, i.e. 'out of the box' we just put two boxes, or actually three for "high availability"; the underlying controller being just a dead man's switch — if A's life signal dies, failover to B; set up C as new failover; reboot A.

You can have a lot of this automatically with "lockstep" chips, such as TI Hercules: http://www.ti.com/en/download/mcu/SPRB204.pdf?DCMP=hercules&...
Sure, it's contentious, what's not contentious is that our lexicon grows over time, how would an AI go about inventing a new word?
> I think it's improper for someone not using IP or not the original developer of IP to be able to make IP claims

Congress, the Supreme Court, and hundreds of years of precedent would disagree.
Mentmento, Validating the problem, and making it to #2 on Product Hunt
From what I heard 3rd/4th hand/speculation, the "stealth" helicopters are quieter than normal helos but at the cost of efficiency and maneuverability. There are always tradeoffs.

edit: what nradov said.
> I could imagine you might need a legacy Control Panel that only appears if you install an old app that adds something to it—but anyone who doesn't use those legacy apps wouldn't see it.

Yeah, and that means (at least for me) non-coherency of the platform. Why should there be two different settings on one OS, depending whether the user installed the app it or not?

> And even then, there's no reason Microsoft couldn't add a visual update and even integrate the UI into Settings.

FYI: the reason Microsoft can’t remove this control panel stuff is because some legacy apps (mostly designed for enterprise) installs DLLs that adds a control panel item.
This is one of the examples where their backwards compatibility drags them to make a better OS.
Leadership is afraid of them. When I was there I had the same skip as some prominent “activist”. I’ve seen other people let go for poor performance pretty quickly but somehow this nutbag was spending all of his time on internal g+ and company-wide mailing lists where he bragged about how many people he reported to hr monthly among other things. All while doing fuck all for his actual work. Lasted 3 years before finally getting canned then sued
I guess the article is actually about taxis specifically, but if the technology exists, they could definitely be sold as personal vehicles for travel along paths that are very long by road, but very short by air. Making rural less... rural, if that makes sense.

The market is probably there if someone could pull off a 1-2 seat VTOL that had maybe a 60 mile range.
* People think imperatively most of the time.

Together with

* Imperative/OOP programming works. All kinds of cool software have been built using those paradigms.

that means that few people have a pressing need to look into functional programming. Some who are curious do. Some of those love it and don't want to go back.

But there's nothing wrong with not doing functional programming!

And last

* Both C++ and Java have adopted (or stolen) quite a few things from functional programming languages.

The FP purist will say that it doesn't matter, but it really does. They stole those parts that get their users maybe a quarter the way to functional nirvana, but with very little effort. That's obviously enough to succeed.
> We make no profit from selling these units. If you think that a minor dissatisfaction, such as a dead pixel, will prompt you to file a PayPal dispute then please do not purchase the Pinebook Pro. Thank you.

This just sounds unsustainable