jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As someone relatively well educated in finance and capital markets the whole GME fiasco has further convinced me of just how foolish and easily manipulated the average person is.

It was pretty incredible what happened with the whole pump and dump a few weeks ago I won't lie, but when GME was at 325 a share and literally many thousands of people on WSB were insisting it would go to $1000.

Why? "I like the stock" or "The new CEO has an amazing plan to go digital!"

They sell video games. In malls. Is this 2003?

Imagine 15 years ago pumping up Blockbuster stock to 20x what it was worth. Just utter insanity.

Not to shit on "average joe" it's also caused me to reflect on what biases might be causing me to have really dumb beliefs on things I don't have any domain knowledge of.
To prevent the market from thinking that a company worth $0 is worth $4 billion
I like using rmdir even for individual directories that I think are empty just so that I don't accidentally delete any files that I did not expect to be there.
Taboola and that ilk are seriously the devil. I can think of no other development in the last couple of years(or: that became popular over that span) that has done more to degrade the qualitative experience of web browsing.
That TriggerTrap thing is a lesson in poor project management. They outsourced all their technical work to agencies with basically no oversight and with no strong technical knowledge in house! Kreyos seems to have been in a similar situation.

I think really the lesson here is that you really, really, really shouldn't try to build an electronics or software product without in-house knowledge of electronics and software.
IE11 for Windows Phone supports Touch Events; IE11 for Windows desktop does not. (It's true that at the time of that email, neither did.)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/07/31/the-mobile-web...

The latest IE "tech preview" release supports Touch Events on all platforms, and so do Project Spartan preview builds.
The author's conclusion that side channel attacks are unpreventable because x86 instructions execute in a variable amount of time does not follow.

Side channel attacks that rely on variable instruction timing rely on _content-dependent_ timing. For example, the time spent for a mov from a memory location does not depend on the contents of the memory, but it does depend on the address of that memory. If that address is a function of the key or plain text, then the mov will leak sensitive timing information. If not, then the mov will not.

None of the author's various examples have anything to do with side channel attacks. The fact that xor eax,eax is just a register operation doesn't mean it can leak sensitive information.
I wrote a (partial) competitor to owncloud if you are looking for something similar: https://bitbucket.org/tshannon/freehold
Up-voting the parent.

There are attacks such as FLUSH-RELOAD which are today difficult to avoid on modern hardware and allow this sort of introspection into the CPU instructions and their timings.

Of course, there are a whole range of active and valid side-channels that are readily exploitable today. These are no longer NOBUS vulnerabilities, but are increasingly within the range and scope of ordinary attackers.
I think we have answered, to the extent it is possible to answer, the question of whether there is an afterlife. And the related question of whether our minds are independent of our bodies.

The typical responses of educated religious folks to this (as opposed to many religious folks who are still fundamentally mind-body dualists) is to posit some 'deeper' sense in which the mind 'can be thought of' as surviving death. Some religious folks simply defy any logical or evidential concerns and assert it based on it being a revealed fact, or a miracle, or a mystery.

There are a handful of philosophers gamely trying to keep mind-body dualism going as a philosophical idea, but they're a small minority, with no neurobiological expertise, and the arguments are entirely unfalsifiable and easily refuted (in both my opinion, and that of most philosophers, as far as I can gather).

I think people are entitled to believe what they want, and rationalise their beliefs however they choose, I am only responding to your claim of needing more evidence.

So yes, I think we can be as sure as we need to be that NDEs are functions of brain activity, not of our consciousness somehow being liberated from the confines of the neurones that run it and journeying to the afterlife, only to be returned to its neuronal matrix again. I can't imagine what more evidence we could need, unless you're suggesting that, until we understand everything about mental processes, we should act as if we understand nothing about them.

Presuming that I came from nothing, that means that "nothing" can produce qualia, which means that if I become "nothing" after death...

Apple trees come from nothing (at least to the same extent that human beings come from nothing), so nothing can produce apples, which means if the apple tree dies, perhaps the apple-producing essence of the tree can survive and still produce apples, even though the physical tree is long gone.

Qualia aren't 'things' that they can be produced.
No biggie, being an important point for people considering purchasing it probably does bear repeating here for anyone that missed it.
I wonder what it would be like if some food products were versioned 0.x, like OSS projects :)
Al Gore is obviously an expert. His "science" has been correct so many times before.
Oh, I know, I just was trying to highlight that the underlying library (as far as I know cucumber) is opaque when defining the test, where in robot it's a little less so. Separately, since you're familiar with it - does cucumber allow you to compose new actions from existing actions?

I had a longer post and pared it back... I actually think both frameworks are good in different situations, it just depends how the company is structured and what kind of QA group you have.

FWIW, I have done QA for 11 years, mostly doing automation.
If you are scared to fail, go maintain Home Depot's website and iPhone app. It's ok not to be an entrepreneur.
Doesn't this prevent backup/syncing while the image is open?
That reminds me, which is the auth gem of the week currently, Devise?
I just installed the bitcoin software and bought some bitcoins at your link and I got this email:

"...If the block count in your client matches the one shown
at bitcoinwatch.com, your client should already show the
transaction. Otherwise, wait for the two block counts to
match..."

My block count says 51,486 but the one at bitcoinwatch.com is over 100,000. Why aren't they the same? Will they be?
This isn't really a new idea. Einstein had always been unsatisfied with the probabilistic aspect of quantum mechanics that became accepted by the scientific community.

A very good, non-technical read on the topic that I would highly recommend is Quantum by Manjit Kumar: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Einstein-Debate-Nature-Reality...
Would like to optionally not show stories I have already read.
It's nice to see more comments around that there will never be a one solution to fit all the problems (as much as geeks seem to want to find one) especially from Microsoft.
Unfortunately, common nouns being reused as product names is a lost cause at this point.
The issue isn't ideology per se, but rather the universal flamewar that ideological battle leads to. Hell is relative and that hell is far worse than this one.
>I am now concerned the car will bury me instead.

No that's the toyota krushchev
Could have (likely was) aiming for center of mass but ended up a little high. Real life is not a shooting range with a target that is perfectly still.

Shooting a center of mass is not at all about being "less fatal" it is about it being the biggest target with the biggest chance of stopping your adversary.
Um, the police waved them through. It was in cooperation with Capitol police. No 'overwhelming' necessary. Which is worrisome in a whole nother way.
https://twitter.com/bumbera_steven/status/134727096998817382...
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The principle of 'obscurity is not security' would seem to apply to anti-spam algorithms on the scale of Google.

I suspect that Google are not claiming this law would interfere with their anti-spam efforts, simply because it wouldn't - they can't justify it.

If that was a real concern, why wouldn't they mention it, for example in this lengthy blog post? It's a good public defence for them.

The fact that they don't say it, means that I infer the opposite.
The Clipper Chip was introduced in the open. They tried to push it through legislation. It's not like the NSA blackmailed Intel executives to include the capabilities secretly in their Pentium Processors without notifying their customers.

Same with the new proposed legislation. But all that demonstrates is that the NSA has an interest in being able to (legally) monitor encrypted communications. Which everyone already knows.

If someone had 'busted' the NSA trying to do something sneaky and/or covert and/or illegal, then you could argue that it's the tip of some iceberg of nefarious activity. But like I said this was all done out in the open.

You might as well say that because we know the FBI wiretaps phones through legally obtained court orders, that's the tip of the iceberg that points to millions of illegal wiretaps. It's a bad inference.
Congratulations! Shopify is a big inspiration for me. My current project is a similar platform for selling digital subscription products and I'm hoping to one day get it to the level Shopify is at right now.

Plus, their support is amazing. I have no idea how they can manage to keep it on this level with so many people.
The linked claims are called dependent claims. In order to be infringing on a patent, a person or entity must be infringing on every one of the claims that are linked together. Thus, an infringement would need to be on all of claims 1-10, or all of claims 11-20, or all of claims 21-23 for this patent.

The claims that refer back to 1, 11, and 21 are included in case claims 1, 11, and 21 are dismissed.

Say claim 1 is found invalid, and claim 2 depends on claim 1. If claim 2 is held to be valid and you're found to be infringing claim 2, you're hosed regardless of whether you infringe any other claims besides 2.
Thanks for the response and insight - I definitely understand that it's hard to keep track of sporadic issues especially when usage is exploding like yours did in the last few days.
Have you tried the Color Identifier app? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-identifier/id363346987?... Discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1704933
I accidentally ran a disassembled shotgun through a checkpoint at IAD. I'd filled out all the appropriate forms for declaring a gun (unloaded) in checked luggage, and couldn't figure out who to hand them to. This was at a period of high alert, so they were screening even checked bags. I finally got someone's attention, and he waved me to put my bags on the conveyor and walk through.

The bag went through without comment, and they were rather surprised and embarrassed when after that asked them what I was supposed to do with the declaration. Should we take from this that security is all a sham? No, probably not, but I wouldn't put much faith in simply adding mandatory checked bag X-rays.
Of course it would not end South Korea. But South Korea geographically is in a much weaker state than Japan was during WWII. First, half of South Korea's population is located in Seoul. Second, Japan is roughly three times as large, and has many more cities with larger populations. Needless to say though, any war is tragic, and hopefully a continuation of the war via violence will not happen, and especially not with nukes.
>> Number of children who get thyroid cancer

> Forty so far.

Let's hope they hit the ~100% survival rate quoted for early stage thyroid cancer:

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/thyroidcancer/detailedguide/thy...
If you don't know the routine, it won't be funny anyway.

It's an easy way of excluding people under 40. Like when we talk about being afraid to visit Northern Ireland or getting nuked.
"take advantage of the recall"?

They just got way more valuable. There is no upside at all to returning them.
The biggest impetus to avoid using the GUI in my experience is when you are tired of doing the same damn steps you do everyday and want to automate it. Once you reach that stage, telling you so is preaching to the converted and then it becomes a matter of whether the actions you do on the GUI can be replaced by a series of commands that can be invoked programmatically. If they can't be, you do need _that_ GUI.
It's fantastic that suicide rates are lower.

I do think the article has missed a very important factor as to why though. I'm not saying the "heroism" phenomenon or the access to tele-based help and support isn't a factor but I think it's also safe to assume that many people, especially those with anxiety would have faced less social stress because they were confined to their homes. Many people are bullied in life, work, home, school etc... and some people struggle to be outside because of being-judged or whatever their reason.

Also, because (in the UK at least) people are not forced to go to work and can get furlough or work remotely, they are no longer feeling forced to endure these things.

I also think the sleeping in probably helps :)
Weird that you'd say that - given that our license predates the GNU license and the fact that our community is way larger than the GNU one.

It's impoverishing the free-software community by... existing for longer and having WAY more people involved in making free-software?
Same here. I use US International, which allows me to type the languages I speak. I even buy all my computers with US Keyboard layouts because I like when my keys match the OS configuration.
Yah I chloro is used to communicate that a chlorine atom is somewhere present in the molecular structure of the compound.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/chloro-
Yeah, I think you're missing the point, which is young women are having their stuff put up online and it's systematically distributed by entities that may very well have the capability to do better.

That's a legit story.

Edit: We're talking about a story for the masses here, nuances are important, but I don't think most people really fathom that this is a common thing.
I eagerly await Matt Levine's coverage of the story from the "everything is securities fraud" angle.
Yeah, this honks me off too, something serious.

“Everyone goes through this.” Sure. Once a week. Maaaaybe once a day if they’re treading towards ADHD, but it’s not inhibiting to their lives.

But if you have ADHD: it’s closer to once a minute, sometimes even every ten seconds. A conversation that lasts more than 10-15 seconds? A struggle to follow. A minute, ten minutes, an hour? I’ve lost the tangent so many times I couldn’t count if I tried (you need short term memory to count…)
I didn’t use the word evil. Why argue a strawman? Does that help you feel your opinion is superior or more important?
The price per prisoner isn't the relevant metric. Total price to society, from the cost of maintaining and manning prisons, from the cost of lost human connections with those imprisoned, and from lost productivity from those imprisoned, is a relevant metric. A prison system with a 36% 2-year recidivism rate (United States) is a failure when compared to a prison system with only 20% 2-year recidivism rate (Norway), no matter how cheaply it may be managed.

The goal of a functioning prison system is to manage itself out of existence.
Haha, I was expecting someone would tell me that it does happen somewhere deep in Austria. Cool map!
I'm sure the parent was talking about HTML5. It isn't erroneous in HTML5.
So on every other platform than alpha thread2 works correctly without any barrier?

Does this mean when you use double-checked locking on p on non-alpha systems, you do not need any kind of synchronization on the fast path where p is initialized?

So this would be correct?

if (!p) {
T *x = new T;
release_barrier();
if (!compare_and_swap(p, 0, x))
delete x;
}
Any suggestions for making it more noticable? Also, is your screen really big?
> FedEx rebuttal: "Following passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), FedEx invested billions in capital items eligible for accelerated depreciation and made large contributions to our employee pension plans"

That's not a rebuttal, because they were investing that before the tax cuts too. They actually invested less in 2018 than they had been projecting before the tax cut!

>NY times allegation: "In the 2017 fiscal year, FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing. "

>FedEx rebuttal: "FedEx has paid federal income tax every year, including fiscal year 2018."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565736

> Page 60 of their 2019 annual report will show you (link below). The TCJA (Tax Cut/Job Act) removed $1.354 billion from what they were expected to pay. They had several other benefits against their overall tax rate, but that was by far the highest in 2018. It lead to them owing -5% in taxes or $219 million. http://s1.q4cdn.com/714383399/files/doc_financials/annual/20...

How do these claims add up, exactly?
... yet we're fine running Google Analytics on our own site, of course. Please like and share this article using the f button on the left.

(Of course it's better being a hypocrite than being completely indifferent but there's no excuse for not fixing their own site.)
Even your link acknowledges there are tipping points, and that they matter, specifically noting Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Using the IPCC as evidence for their lack is contradictory as they themselves explicitly acknowledge they do not consider them as the full impact (and timescales) of their consequence is not well understood. Thus consensus is unlikely at best. Yet there are many thresholds that may have dramatic amplifying effects over lengthy periods (millennia). Lack of consideration of them has been a source of criticism of IPCC, and is why it's possibly safest to consider IPCC reports a "best case" scenario.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-...

What matters is they would increasingly lock the world onto a track of rising temperatures. It matters little if the impact turns out to be serious such as melting permafrost or East Antarctic ice sheet, or less globally serious and localised such as a closedown of the North Atlantic Conveyor. How many degrees of increased warming or changed climate is far less well understood.
I support this, but not enough to give my name and email to Mozilla to sign a petition. Am I being paranoid?
I don't think it's true to say that 'traditional media' is less powerful or less 'individually' targetable. Addressable cable, mail, phones, doors are central to politics and each individually targetable (at small sizes too).
Or Oreo and Hydrox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
I appreciate the kind reply! The thing is, there isn't really a tradeoff here, because even in the case when people are so completely wrong about something so important that harm could result from believing them, the best way to respond is to patiently provide good arguments and correct information.

If you slip into the flamewar style and/or the online callout-shaming style (which overlap, of course), you won't reduce harm. You'll only provoke and reinforce the people who disagree, and the resulting conflagration won't help undecided people decide. Worse, you run the risk of discrediting your own position, and if your position happens to be a correct one, that actually causes harm in its own right, because it somehow ends up discrediting the truth (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

So happily, I would say, the cause of not having flamewars, of sticking to the site guidelines, and of giving the truth the best possible advocacy, more or less coincide. That doesn't make it easy. It's far from easy, but that's because it's hard to handle the emotional torque it places on you when someone else is saying something that is (or that you feel is) totally wrong on a topic. Where by "you" I don't mean you personally, of course—I mean all of us.
I still think that's a bit simplistic and maybe politically motivated. Of course groups have different feelings towards their members and non-members.

First study: why in the world didn't they report their findings of how black people felt watching white people get hurt? That's a pretty bad bias.

Second study: are these people just fishing for proof that white people are racist?

> The less privileged the target seemed, the less participants thought s/he would experience pain. In other words, participants associated hardship with physical toughness. Importantly, target race (Black vs. White) was no longer predictive of pain ratings once we controlled for participants’ perceptions of the target’s privilege,

but they just sidestep that part for the conclusion:

> The present work demonstrates that people assume a priori that Blacks feel less pain than do Whites. This finding has important implications for understanding and reducing racial bias. It sheds new light on well-documented racial biases. Consider, for instance, the finding that White Americans condone police brutality against Black men relative to White men

How am I supposed to take these people seriously? Experiment 5 showed that blackness only correlates with a deeper, more predictive factor but they ignore that to go on a socio-political rant about the plight of black Americans. They do everything they can to fit the results into a preconceived narrative. This isn't science, it's social activism masquerading as science. 90% of their "conclusions" was about things that weren't even part of the experiment.

.

This isn't bringing us any closer to understanding how and why people are able to do awful things like commit torture, which should be the goal here. Instead we have to put that question aside and ask why such political bias isn't being called out in science.
> I'm not sure if I trust what you guys did, calling the old Hitachi Drives as HGST.

> I don't know if HGST drives are related to the old Hitachi models at all.

FTA:

> Some of the HGST drives listed were manufactured under their previous brand, Hitachi. We’ve been asked to use the HGST name and we have honored that request.
So what exactly is whatsapp web?

[edit] Found the answer at https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/web/28080003

> WhatsApp Web is a computer based extension of the WhatsApp account on your phone. The messages you send and receive are fully synced between your phone and your computer, and you can see all messages on both devices. Any action you take on the phone will apply to WhatsApp Web and vice versa.
Not working for me yet.
>AI is whatever a computer can't do.

Not sure if I agree with this. My computer can't do a lot of things and only a small set of that would really be considered AI.

The chess example isn't great. We have known chess is a deterministic game and a good enough algorithm on powerful enough hardware should beat or stalemate a grandmaster. The state space is big but finite. Its just a more complex form of checkers. This seemed to be more of a research issue of a known solvable problem that needs its state space shrunk to something we can calculate than a true AI breakthrough.

I think AI like described in this article is a functioning, self-determined, self-learning, HAL-like system. This doesn't exist. It probably can with the right research and funding. Its not a problem of perception or arguing about what may or may not be AI. Although the AI-effect can be annoying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

I don't see the AI effect explaining why AI hasn't gotten farther. I think not understanding consciousness or the brain on a certain level is probably our biggest hurdle. Unlike chess, we don't know what we're trying to solve exactly.