skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I'd sign up for that sociable experience. There used to be (in the pre-legalization days) speakeasy-type places you could go to smoke and enjoy; live music, fruit juice on tap, that kind of thing. But nowadays it is all but impossible to find, being made in many cases (at least on the west coast) explicitly illegal. Those places allowed a different kind of socialization that is still just as legitimate as a bar full of strangers talking about sports. Think collective artwork and experimental music. Some day...
You mean like the logos for Ace Hardware, Coca-Cola, Adobe, and Red Robin? I still don't see it. I think the assumption is made because the viewer projects their moral discomfort with arms distribution onto the objective page.
I don't think the immigration system is setup for basic human decency and compassion.
I agree, although I think it's not just tolerance level. Until recently, smoking was the most popular way to ingest marijuana. Smoking kind of sucks though, so it's best to smoke as little as possible to get the desired effects. Ironically, the strongest strains are in a way the healthiest for you as you can do a very small amount vs smoking a large quantity of plant material.
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Thank you for your pov. We really need more perspectives on it since we still aren't sure how we should market it or how people would like to use it. Beta testing is one of the routes we believe HintPod would be useful for so we definitely do have that in mind. But as I said we haven't narrowed down the use cases so we're leaving it up to the customers to decide how they'd like to use HintPod.
Example: I decide to to cleanroom reimplement Google's search REST API. Google hits me with a lawsuit for violating the SSO of the REST API as implemented by the Google Web Services executable and source.

Any protocol worth protecting will have a tangible expression they can point to whether it be code or documentation. The need for a tangible expression doesn't make a practical difference in the de facto copyright of the REST API.

You keep using literary examples even though SSO treats software differently. I will be ignoring any literary allusions from now on, please use actual case law about software.
I've started chewing nicotine gum while in the office/class and found that it helps a lot with making the noise more tolerable. I have a history of smoking and vaping, so I don't recommend it to naive people. It appears to be bad for me so I try to minimize it:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.cir.94.5.878
Cool, reminds me of MacRuby.

Now that Swift is open source and supported on multiple platforms maybe one day we'll see a MacRuby revival.
Why would anyone think that the NYT is more useful to the economy than FedEx?

Here's one point of view that doesn't come up as often as it should: the First Amendment doesn't say anything about churches that it doesn't also say about the press. Yet we don't tax churches on the grounds that "the power to tax is the power to destroy." [1]

If it weren't for this double standard, the Times would indeed be justified in paying zero tax.

[1]: http://www.catholic365.com/article/1992/faith-of-our-fathers...
copy-pasted verbatim from this post of another user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566189
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>the reason we don't have backdoors in private encryption systems today is because of public outcry

I always thought the NSA gave up on its Clipper Chip initiative not because people complained, but rather because of a handful of people with the right skills or the right kind of influence engaged in civil disobedience.

Specifically, Phil Zimmermann wrote PGP and published its source code (under no-commercial-use terms, which at that time were not frowned upon as strongly as they are these days) and enough people demonstrated a resolve to keep the source code on the internet -- by continuing to host it even after being threatened by the US government -- to convince the NSA that it would never persuade enough manufacturers to adopt the Clipper Chip.

Netscape's decision to design and implement SSL and include it in the most popular browser of the day probably had a lot to do with it, too.
IANAL, but I think of the relicensing effort as conceptually equivalent to starting from scratch and asking everyone to re-contribute their code towards the new codebase, because these contributors never relinquished their copyright in the first place. For people who said no, you just leave out their contributions.
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The difference between the NYT having an opinion and me having an opinion is that only the NYT is protected against lawsuits for libel with a special standard of “actual malice” by the contorted reasoning that anyone they chose to publish an article on must therefore be a public figure.

IANAL, but a good example of this is the coverage of the Covington High School students.
There was never an era like that, it's more nonsense and outright propaganda from schemers who want to claim that their own free-style lies are just as valid as formal journalism.
Correct. The better analogy is the salesman asking the bartender that when someone orders X drink, give them Y drink also for free. The salesman never actually gets to find out what customers got Y, though they can learn how many Y were given away and thereby get some secondary signal on how popular X is (and, of course, if individual bar patrons walk directly out of the bar and say "Hey, can I buy more Y?" the salesman can make a pretty strong guess that the patron in question likes X).
See my other post on how they're intentionally manipulating the data to make the circle relationships exponential, not linear. Why would they do this?
I think the entitlements are not offered to apps such as firefox and those that are not Apple correct?
Thanks so much! Currently, we're focusing only on the mobile versions since there aren't a lot of alternatives or services that do this in a native mobile package but we do have plans to release a web version in future.
This is so absurd that the only response that would make any sense for the Times would be to double down. Sulzberger should challenge Fred Smith to a fistfight live on CNN.
I'm a partial colorblind person. I can't tell the difference between the red and what-color-is-that when it comes to smaller scale.
> So the facts are wrong because rather than selling the data directly they only exploit it themselves for profit? That only holds while ignoring the fact that most of that profit comes from third parties who they're effectively selling data access to (e.g. ads where the profit is from Google's ability to know which ads to put in front of which users, effectively selling that user's privacy for profit).

When the argument is that the privacy groups have a perverse interest in opposing a specific rule because of donations from tech companies, it seems pretty relevant that the tech companies already aren't actually violating that rule.

> Pointing out that ISPs are worse is really neither here nor there. Just because big tech isn't the worst does absolve them of criticism nor is a compelling argument for why we cannot talk about them lobbying for the law to allow them to continue to do what they're doing or even expand it.

But that isn't what they're talking about. They're talking about laws against selling user data, which the ISPs are doing (so there is a strong lobby against passing a law to prohibit it), but the tech companies generally aren't.

To prohibit what the tech companies are doing you would basically need a law against collecting user data, or something much more invasive and specific about what it could be used for than "don't sell it", and that's a whole different debate. Because then you run into problems like entrenching the incumbents by creating a complex regulatory environment that only huge tech companies can navigate. Which is why opponents try to tar them with "selling user data" instead, which is a lot easier to define and be opposed to, even though they aren't actually doing that.

> I'm not even going to try and address why we cannot have privacy because of "legitimate first amendment problem[s]" or because it would result in "law[s] against strong encryption." I don't consider those arguments to even pass the basic sniff test, they feel like throwing out every argument under the sun and seeing what sticks.

Political realities exist even when they're complicated and inconvenient. Mocking them doesn't make them go away.

> Collecting facts, presenting those facts, and putting a negative spin on it isn't "gotcha journalism" because the journalist didn't trick Google or Facebook into doing these things, they're simply telling the public that they did. In fact the term doesn't really to apply to journalism outside of interviews

The term originally dates from a time when "interviews" were a thing that happened after you actually agreed to be interviewed. Now the debate happens live on the internet and trolls get to ask their loaded questions in front of the public with the implication that you're guilty if you don't respond.

But the question is phrased so as to make an exonerating response impossible. It's the rhetorical equivalent of "have you stopped beating your wife" -- have you stopped allowing tech company money to influence your policies? Respond right now, while the question is on the front page, or you're guilty.
Why aren't SSPL, API Copyleft, Parity, CAL, and Icepick free software licenses?

GPL restricts my freedom to build and share closed applications with free libraries, in order to prevent the creation of closed software that restricts others' freedom.

AGPL restrict my freedom to build and share network applications as closed software with free code, in order to prevent the creation of closed software that restricts others' freedom.

Why can't a license restrict my freedom to build closed applications with free dev tools, in order to prevent the creation of closed software that likewise restrict others' freedom?
The first story gave me a real laugh, thanks & well done! You dared to innovate!
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PurpleAir also makes an indoor air quality sensor that measures particulate matter: https://www2.purpleair.com/products/purpleair-pa-i-indoor

Not sure how it compares with Awair or laseregg.

I have no affiliation with PurpleAir, but they are pretty popular in Utah.
But which bank doesn't? I have N26, DKB, 1822direkt and they all have gotten much worse.

If I could, I would opt out.
Upvoted. See also: "Programming as theory building" by Peter Naur.
Could something similar be used to publish an artifact to Pypi?
Split rail fences are sort of similar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-rail_fence
> >instead of simply allowing an open-market to thrive on iOS.

> The App Store paid developers $34 billion in 2018; I would say the market is thriving: https://fortune.com/2019/01/28/apple-app-store-developer-ear....

They said open market. Apple's closed market is thriving, but the open market doesn't exist on iOS.
FedEx is a $40 billion company -- eight times the size of the NYT. They already have equal footing, and are responding right now, which is why we're reading about it. Only with zero specifics of what they claim the NYT is inaccurate on.

So... neither substantive nor particularly entertaining. :(
The page is intended to project a certain aura. The dramatic fade-in, the crossed-out weapon, and text in all caps were chosen for a specific reason. You can't possibly pretend it's impartial. The source data, a table, is presented impartially.

More importantly, as daenz pointed out, the circles are calculated to mislead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566253
Because of the nature of the GPL. You don't get those guarantees in most other forms of activism.
True it is disabled if you aren't Apple.
@Author, you should include the Matthew's correlation coefficient.
> Exactly. I find it absurd that credit card companies can charge between 1.5% and 3.5% in merchant fees.

They can't anymore in the EU. It's capped to exactly the 0.2% you mention for debit and 0.3% for credit cards.

This is also the reason why you don't see rewards on consumer cards anymore around here.
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Everybody hates sounds like that. Why you might ask? The human brain confuses it with the sound of chewing something bad (eg a stone within your food) that's cracking, grinding and ruining your teeth.
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train passengers don't need to buy a car to ride on a train. the 50x vs 500x argument should consider that.
Yes, they're often combined, on the basis that it's easier to measure water usage than sewer usage and the latter is presumed to be proportional to the former.
Much of Brooklyn's "residential" offerings aren't legally residential. They're old commercial buildings that landlords have cheaply repurposed to get a piece of the rising demand in housing.

I lived in Bushwick for a year and a half, never met my landlord, and I'm sure the building was breaking at least a dozen laws, but it was relatively affordable so no one really asked questions.
So logically living and working in the countryside is optimum for your IQ rather than polluted cities and areas?
Working on a vending locker concept that supports payment collection via mobile money in Nairobi, Kenya. The long-term idea is to automate small kiosk operations by leasing the locker technology for monthly fee. I have figured out most of the hardware work and currently in prototyping phase. Open to getting a co-founder with electronics and embedded systems background.
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That's by no means all of open source. Some of us are working on things designed to re-enable a peer to peer personal computing model.
Even if they're all electric cars? This is why I live in the suburbs. You can't champion density as the solution on the one hand, and then say, "you have to drastically change your lifestyle to support density!".

Just let people who don't want to live in density pay for the externalities of low density living (require EVs, higher cost for infra, etc).
Because people are profoundly bad at understanding how modern online advertising works and the companies profiting from it have done a notably bad job of consumer education.

The most common behavior people observe that makes them think companies are selling their data is when they visit some site P that sells widget p and then on completely unrelated site Q they start seeing ads for p. The obvious conclusion to draw is that Q now knows they visited P. In reality, ad broker X knows the user visited P, and is satisfying queries from Q (really, from the user agent visiting Q) by vending ads for p to the user agent that is displaying site Q's content alongside that ad. But the ad and Q's content are generally sandboxed from each other the same way that your bank account login state is sandboxed from Q also (1). In reality, Q has no idea the user has visited P, but the content on the page strongly suggests that Q does.

(1) note: It is possible there are holes in the security model that an unscrupulous Q could use to gather information on a user about their history on P; that's generally considered a violation of the ad vendor's policy and will get Q kicked off the ad network.
Theoretically they could sue you and win damages, practically they probably won't, because damages won't be high.

But signing and then reneging is a serious faux-pas (unlike signing and quitting a bit into your probationary period), and if you intend to be in the general business area that this company is in, it may come back to bite you later.
Dejargonized: "Scientists develop slippery toilet coating to stop poo sticking"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/18/scientists-d...
Pollution, IQ, who cares?!? We've got carbon dioxide to fight, a benign gas that for some reason we believe is the root of all evil! Climate change is the most important issue of our time, not pollution (which is actually real and not forged by IPCC, but who cares about reality when there is Greta Thunberg)
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What makes you say that? Would be curious to read any study about that if you can remember where you heard that.
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I think you missed the point. These rural voters have passed an initiative that bans a metro area from taxing the metro area to build transit.
"The cost of a TBM doesn’t get much higher as you increase its diameter."

This is the key assertion, and it is unsupported.

- heat extraction will become a bigger problem

- debris extraction too

- cost of parts, cost and speed of logistics like transport and installation of the machine will be worse

- small number of exotic large TBMs will scale worse than large number of small TBMs in manufacturing cost and operating experience

- I've seen elsewhere (citation missing) that small borers move much faster than large so any costs that scale with time will be worse.

- risk-wise: a portfolio of small borers will have less risk than an all-eggs-in-one-basket gamble. a broken part delaying a big machine incurs more cost than ona smaller machine.

unless your project requires a single enormous bore I think you would prefer to use the smallest you can get away with.

The author does not seem to have any relevant experience, so I'm not going to take this on his authority; he's a programmer who has done scheduling software on metro projects and is working on an MBA. Interesting summary of types of machines though!
Many people disagree with you, and want to live in a society where only exceptional people can live comfortably, and the rest of them live miserably. Many, many, many of the miserable people actually like it better this way, which is proven by their voting habits.
It's actually a good one, I'd recommend too
> Funny how Guthrie's communist, anti-borders, anthem got co-opted by nationalists so far that they don't even understand the meaning

There is a rich tradition in classical liberalism on the universality of land, predating the ideas of communism/Marxism. For instance, see Thomas Paine's advocacy for a tax on ground rent [0]; so-called "absentee landlords" were associated with royal aristocracies and enclosure [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Mexico does not make the top 25 list for 2018. Yet, the circle for the US almost entirely covers Mexico, and part of Canada too.
Cells have both a maximum range and a _maximum population_. The multiplexing that enables many devices to use the same spectrum to communicate with a tower is limited, so you can't just put up one tower in Manhattan and you're done, that'd fill up with users immediately, you need to add lots of towers in areas with many simultaneous users or the service is lousy. As a bonus the reduced transmission distance means handsets (automatically) reduce radio power, which means improved battery life.

As a result cells are naturally much smaller in populated areas where you're most likely to want detailed information. In a city centre the cells may be only a hundred meters across. True, up a mountain the cellular network may have no idea where on the mountain you are, but this isn't a Safety of Life application, it's a survey.
Suggestions for text-based network topology framework
Looking for something that:

- Is easy to create/maintain (like markdown)
- Can be easily understood in text form
- Easily versioned (text is)
- Mostly concerned with logical topology elements and their interactions
- (Optional) Can be updated from network mapping software
- (Optional) Can be easily converted to graphics
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pypi-publish seems it exists!
I've been pretty frustrated with HN lately. Every time Google search is discussed, someone comments with a Google News search that fails for them, despite it being almost completely irrelevant to the conversation.
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The 19th century printmakers like Hokusai are well known in the west. But not enough is known about the post WW2 modern masters like Kiyoshi Saito and his compatriots. I have a handful of prints from the late occupation that are wonderful. Check them out!

https://www.asianartscollection.com/p/1/Bunraku-by-Kiyoshi-S...
Thanks for saying that!

As for text selection, the best I have so far is

right click to open context menu

select "Copy text from here"

And you should get a box pop up with text you can select. :)
One of the problems with these circle charts is that most people aren’t very good at visually comparing areas. So to give a psychologically accurate impression you wouldn’t just want to scale the areas either (of course, most people would expect the areas to be scaled, so doing something else is also misleading).

Just a bar chart does a much better job of conveying the relative quantities (of course, it throws away the geography part). I would recommend trying to find some other way than these scaled-circles-on-a-map thingies if possible.

In any event, I think “intentionally misleading” is a leap. It seems likelier that the creator is not an expert in data visualization and wasn’t thinking carefully enough about how to make the plot.
The logical conclusion to this is that we should not take any action in the face of incomplete information or uncertainty. This is typical of the dogmatic approach to reasoning that you find in many religious texts. The action of taking down the fence may not be based on ignorance, so much as curiosity. This could be viewed as subversive, and we can’t have that now can we?
It looks to me like that was done to make the differences more visible. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to perceive at all some of the more subtle differences among countries. I still think you're grasping at justifications for an initial assumption that wasn't really supported by the page. I think that even more because I'm inclined to the same point of view you are, but didn't get that impression at all from the bare-bones visualization shared.

EDIT: Never mind, I didn't see the opening animation or the header and footer, because I opened it in another tab and didn't realize you could scroll the page. You're completely right and I'm an idiot.
Without moral judgement? Jump to conclusions? The favicon and main graphic shows a bomb with a cross through it. The actual domain is a pointed question designed to assign blame. The graphic is intentionally misleading (as others pointed out), hiding the raw numbers and showing them as the radius size instead of area, drastically inflating the apparent size. The quote at the bottom is from 1984 - a book about a dystopian government.
Isn't the trend in cities for more mixed-use space?

And wouldn't Uber be more profitable if people lived and worked in different parts of the city?
I worked in a place where my team of 8 was right next to a door that loudly clanged shut whenever one of the 150 people in the company used it, and they did 90% of the time as most of the desks were closer to that door. Well, it was kind of annoying, I had to constantly re-prop the door, and we weren't allowed to put signage or a door stop...maybe due to fire hazards or regulations?

The main issue: Upper management didn't care, they all had their own offices that were removed and much nicer. The rest of us peons were in an open office hell, my team was on an island that anyone could walk around at any time...we were unmoored and near a clangy door, it was very hard to focus.
I don't think so. I don't think you need anywhere near a 45 degree angle, and making the wall double thick won't really solve the fall over problem in the first place.