skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To underline your point people should go look up median wealth by zip code and look at the top ten, they'll see pigs massed around the trough of DC.

We've somehow been suckered into supporting a massive class of very expensive bureaucrats whose main interest are themselves, power, and the rich. Who believes laws and regulations create wealth and prosperity, they are burdens and restrictions on the productive.
… and the xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/504/
The selling may be to route around the price restrictions. If the mandated IPO price is $100, and the statutory maximum price change is +/-10% of the previous closing price per day, and the true market price of shares is $10,000.00, the procedure looks like this:

Day 0: Buy 10000 shares at $100.
Day 1: Ask $110.00 for 1 share.
Day 2: Bid $121.00 for 1 share.
Day 3: Ask $133.10 for 1 share.
Day 4: Bid $146.41 for 1 share.
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Day 48: Bid $9,701.72 for 1 share.
Day 49: Ask $10,000.00 for 10000 shares.
Day 50: Pay your patron tribute from the $98,994,971.
Day 51: Start converting the remainder into foreign currency.

Following this patient strategy only costs you $5029, which ultimately goes to your trading accomplice, who bought your share on odd-numbered days and sold it back to you on even-numbered days. No black market transactions are required.
Can such a drive be built at home? Would be a wonderful maker pet project.
It does.

Actually the video reminded me of Austin Powers.

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The EFF recently successfully petitioned the USPTO to invalidate Personal Audio's patent claim on podcast technology: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-pate...
Which is fine. I wasn't arguing against the changes, but against citing startssl.com as a good solution (Even though I have to admit that their service overall extremely likely has done more good than damage, I really dislike that aspect of their offering)
> the full cost of the system you install will be added to your local property tax valuation

Why is that? And are you absolutely certain it's true?

I also live in Michigan, and I've never heard of this. I've replaced major appliances before without it impacting my property tax assessment -- including appliances that have cost more than the Tesla Battery pack and been inspected+verified by the city (such as a new 96% efficient furnace).

I don't see why adding a Tesla Battery would change property tax assessment any, when adding a $6,000 furnace, $5,000 air conditioner, or a $2,000 refrigerator doesn't.
Are you concerned about privacy in your own country? You should be voting for leaders who don't allow the US to put their fingers in your pie. As an individual you should be taking steps to protecting your online activity and data.
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Would have been interesting to see if it can compile itself.
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Is "illegal" not generally reserved for criminal law? Sure, he broke his contract, and yes, that is grounds for a civil suit.

But I'm not sure I would call it "illegal".
Are you guys interested in hiring interns?

I find myself qualified for a couple of the jobs specified.
How does one calculate this?
Sweet.

Best case, we get a new awesome thrusters.

Worst case, we get the learn new things. So far these drives have pass tests and stumped experts and researchers. So even if it doesn't violate the current laws of physic, it'll paint a better picture of the current laws of physic and better testing method in the future.
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Thanks for that. That's Psychology in a nutshell for you folks, this amazing "science". Now let's wait for a similar study for economics, the other amazing "science".
This is good for monitoring single appliances, but it's a pain in the neck to keep moving it from appliance to appliance. Do you know of one that I can attach to my power meter and it'll give me realtime usage, tracking, reports so that I can see my peak, minimum and average draw for the whole house?
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Clojure certainly seems one of the darling languages on HN (along with Haskell, Rust, Go). The thing that _I'm_ noticing all of a sudden is the uptick in articles on category theory -- which, similarly, I was only made aware of about 3 weeks ago.

Is there a graphical representation somewhere of buzzwords appearing on HN over time? If not -> hack-a-thon project.
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Hi Scott!

I think this is interesting for two reasons:

1. Open source web apps often struggle to maintain a "Try it" server. The interesting thing here is that Sandstorm (through our package ecosystem and demo server) makes that easy for any open source web app, and this is an example of that.

2. Since I wrote the code that powers that link, I thought it would be a great thing to "Show HN", per https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html "Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News."
I wish it did; we are very far from harmonizing all the different utility rates. Once that data is clean up and available, an interactive website should not be too difficult to build. If anyone is interested in doing a paid internship to help us build it, send me a note with a portfolio at dfong@lightsail.com -- I run a compressed air energy storage company.
The EFF has been involved in a number of lawsuits to lobby for and protect our rights. They've been offering legal support to a number of defenses including targets in Bitcoin, DRM, and CFAA prosecutions.

I haven't seen gratuitous spending on the part of EFF for marketing / promotional purposes -- they seem like one of the organizations who utilize their resources well.
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Sartre and Borges on Orson Welles
This is awesome. Thank you for making these tools! Any ideas when the other two games will be available on Windows?
Are you suggesting it's worse than food science?
Shame that you guys aren't doing the Java tech in the Chicago office. I keep getting bugged by the recruiter, and I used to work in a similar company 2 streets up. (But I'm not a .NET dev/haven't been for a while)
Are you serious? If you had the power, you would actively prevent NASA from doing these experiments and trying to falsify the claims?

I could somehow understand that if the experiments cost a billion dollars. But they don't. Any Europa mission is in no way related to nor threatened by these drive tests.
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> if I hire a broker, I expect them to buy and sell stocks in the way that best benefits me, not whichever one benefits some high-frequency trading firm the most.

This is not just the ethical way, this is the only legal approach. As a broker, you can't frontrun, etc.
Author here.

> I do believe this. When I visit a static web page over SSL people sniffing my connection are almost always going to have a good idea of which domain I'm looking at (either by IP, or the DNS requests I just fired off, etc.), so the attackers know what content I'm seeing.

The domain is not the same as the content. Far from it. Aside from that, a site being 'static' is not a meaningful data point here.

> SSL is really not cheap CPU wise; it can limit the usefulness of a small, personal, cheap VPS for hosting even moderately popular content.

Being somebody who runs a HTTPS-only PDF hosting site off such a cheap VPS, I disagree. It does not make a meaningful impact on resource usage.

I'm quite sure you could easily run a static site HTTPS-only from even a LowEndSpirit VPS - these are €3 per year.

> If the writer really does believe everything should be encrypted (this necessarily includes metadata), then I assume he would advocate Mozilla deprecate supporting for non-Tor connections? :)

No, I do not. Tor is yet another dependency that needs to be available, and there are significant usability (and privacy!) concerns with routing all traffic over Tor.

"Everything should be encrypted" does not come at any cost. There are real-world problems that need solving before this can be made a reality. Just disabling non-TLS connections does not cut it.
Dangerous Times for the World’s Cultural Heritage
Very glad to hear the idea has one fewer advocate than I though t (my 2010 rant on the issue: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/02/postels-law-not-sure-... ).
> ...solved by simply including a signature of the content rather than encrypting everything.

How do you deliver the signature to the client. If it is through the unencrypted channel, then the signature could also be MitM'd.
How to talk like a trucker:
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Twitter's problem is that it's a transition product.

The transition is one from its origins as a primitive status updater ("What are you doing?") that existed on the desktop and barely on the phone, to what it should have been all along: Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc.

There was a further b.s. step in there for Twitter, when it was temporarily called a micro-blogging service.

The original idea for Twitter was not too distant from what WhatsApp & Co. are today. The problem for Twitter, was that it came along too early, had to compromise on its communication vision (the now massive smart phone market wasn't primed yet), and now finds itself in the quicksand of being a half-breed legacy product that isn't the best solution for any particular thing.

Twitter was supposed to be a communication platform. It failed to become that, WhatsApp is going to have a billion users soon and took Twitter's future, and Twitter has been left behind as an advanced variation of a status update service. It lost its future, and the product as is has a limited potential that will soon be all tapped out.
The stuff you guys are doing looks awesome!
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Architecture of HP's “The Machine”
Apple Confirms Tattoos Can Affect Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Sensor Readings
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Yes, sure, they've measured something surprising. I have no reason to doubt that.

A few years ago, the enormously more respected folks at the OPERA experiment were willing to announce that they had seemingly detected neutrinos moving faster than light. Despite this coming from a large group of scientists with top-notch credentials, that was immediately doubted by almost the entire physics community, and sure enough, the observed effect turned out to have been caused by a bad cable connection.

If anything, conservation of momentum is more deeply embedded in the structure of known physical principles than the speed of light limit. And this little group within NASA doesn't have remotely the level of credibility that OPERA had. So it's even easier for me to believe that this measurement is due to some loose cable or improper calibration or failure to isolate the test environment, too.
Skiplagged: United’s case dismissed on technicality
A venting lithium ion battery isn't usually an electrical fire.
Boeing 787 Dreamliners contain a potentially catastrophic software bug
Get quotes from a few different places, and read the specs on the panels they're offering.
They make a great radio: http://www.amazon.com/BaoFeng-UV5R-Dual-Band-Two-Way-Radio/d... (cheap way to get into Ham).
Cool!

I'm always skeptical about stuff like this, when it's a person's self-developed method, and you can "Buy The Book!" and there's strategically placed testimonials, and it has it's own useless terminology like "e-cise" and you can get lessons from a certified center. It all just seem too sales-y to me.

But you seem to be a real person, and it worked for you :) I guess I'll have to try for myself.
This is very interesting, but the title is misleading.

The ants don't do anything better than humans.

They just act like panicked humans do, so you can easily test different theories about the best way to build exits.
Show HN: NoVideos – Share any Vimeo or YouTube video in real time with chat
My crystal ball tells me that the judge would find your argument very amusing, but not substantive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotizing_dysfunction

Narcotizing dysfunction is a theory that as mass media inundates people on a particular issue they become apathetic to it, substituting knowledge for action.
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Nonsense. These devices are on the far extreme end of the "requires extraordinary evidence" spectrum. Until this extraordinary evidence is provided, they are well within the prior probability category of providing pet dragons.
It comes standard with a 10 year warranty, with an optional 10 year extension. If they don't have different numbers than you, I don't see why they would even attempt that.
The FTL neutrino was a fiber-optic cable from a frequency generator that was slightly loose. So no, it could still be something really stupid, and not exciting. Beyond the fact I wish someone from that team had sent a video into FailArmy on YouTube.
Yes, I am unfortunately. I am in the midst of protesting an assessment now for a system I installed last year. See this pdf (sorry), page 17: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mpsc/marketbarrierssolarin...

Solar systems are considered "real" property, i.e. property that is permanently attached to the house, and thus subject to taxation.
Can someone explain to me the appeal of Gherkin and other such tools? I don't see why the example on that page are anything but code that wants to "look better", and just ends up introducing another thing to maintain in your application.

How is writing a step in English and writing the English to translate it to code better than just writing the exact same steps in code to begin with?
The issue is not a lack of awareness. The vast majority of the voting-capable population has heard, to at least some extent, that the NSA/others are surveilling communications. The issue is either they don't care, they agree with the surveillance, or they are too lazy to become informed and vote to change it.

There is literally nothing on this site about being involved in voting or the politicians supporting or fighting this type of activity. If they at the very least gave visitors some way to continue their participation and become informed, I would be fine with it. Right now it's just attention for the sake of attention. It needs to be channeled into something useful.