jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's hard to imagine a stock market crash coming when everyone already expects it, but it's quite easy to imagine a recession coming when everyone expects it.

If people expect stocks to crash, then the expected "crash" is probably already priced in. If people expect a recession, then the reduction in economic activity is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Because why would anyone buy what basically is a CUPS implementation if not for the user data?
Offer a free trial and then require the user to take further action to enable auto-renewal once the trial ends instead of preying on their forgetfulness.

Bonus: Let users pay with Paypal so that you show up on their authorized organizations list so that they can revoke your access to their money without jumping through your arbitrary hoops like having to make a phone call and talk to a high-pressure sales rep just to remove your grabby paw from their cookie jar.

I'll never forget the experience of canceling 24-Hour Fitness' recurring billing a decade ago. I had to schedule an appointment with their sales department in person and was berated with questions like "So, why have you decided to stop taking your body and health seriously?" by some smug prick sitting back in his chair with his feet on his desk. Such a stupid default system we have.
The issue I have with historic based models is that today's "global economy" is not enough like the past. If the USA goes into a recession, chances are that's - more and more - the reflection of some other economy(s). And of course, vice versa.

The biggest impact on the econony - via the spending minds of the masses - is how the mainstream media plays the strenght of the economy in the context of the USA's 2020 election. The middle to the left will be pulling out the stops to look for bad Trump-sourced economic news. That could become self-fulfilling.
Sorry to be pedantic, it was:

1.) Maxwell's equations permit no other speed for light than c.

2.) All physical laws (such as Maxwell's) are the same in all inertial reference frames.

From those two the rest flows.
It is impressive, but it's not an improvement on the tech in the OP - it's a different approach to a similar problem as far as I can tell.
Lots of people made this case very strongly before the shuttle was finished. But NASA quickly became a political instrument to spread around pork, wasting decades of potential science projects because of gutless administrators and corrupt politicians. There is no reasonable defense of the Space Shuttle program.
Our minds work very differently... if you're good at producing results and enjoy what you're doing keep doing it :)

Some of us do most work in stretches of "flow" that involves disconnecting our minds form the outside world and from the people around us. We "go deep" like in a state of trance for stretches of time. We probably work faster, but we also need more and longer breaks between these stretches of hyperintense work. Others like you (maybe most?) can work while aware of time and their surroundings. It's good that we're different, each approach has advantages and disadvantages, we all discover what works best for us individually... just respect the needs of the people around you, let them work however fits them best!

As a "flow-er", the most important skill I've learned is how to be productive even when I can't get into flow. As a non-flow-er, you should probably learn the opposite: find tasks and ways of working that can help you discover "flow"... even if you won't experience it very often, it's worth experiencing it!
Cold start times won't matter, anymore, when App Engine 1.4 gets into production - which is soon. Then you have warmup requests and reserved instances. At that point small frameworks will lose all their appeal for non-trivial projects.
No - it's not redundant, because at the moment, the companies who wish to (try to) use Wikipedia for marketing have equal standing with other contributors and members of the public.
Oh for sure, the teams I worked with at MMe were all super talented and fun, and I still miss them. The problems were largely with the infrastructure and lack of vision for (or understanding of, perhaps) the product itself. Mostly details I can’t go into, of course, but it was nothing to do with the level of talent in the teams.
There is a small "x" top right and it disappears, no need for special adblock
This isn't entirely true, Arch still has custom patches for certain packages and some undergo a decent bit of customization before getting pushed out.

The biggest difference with Ubuntu (and Debian) is that they vet the packages for a much longer period of time and have a whole lot of politicking and red tape involved in getting the packages even pushed into the unstable / proposed repository.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. A single big donor, or a network of donors, might threaten to withdraw support unless some change is made, in exactly the same way a commercial entity might do it (which is very in a very subtle way, typically no smoking guns).

But probably the best shield against pressure: Wikipedia is a property of such a high quality that no single advertiser will ever have larger value than the mass of high quality competitors standing in line to take his place.
Broadly, guys, for a lot of the interest in 'mobile', although not all, I very much don't 'get it'. Where am I going wrong?

For my project, I want happy, "engaged" (F. Wilson, AVC.com) users who see my work as a "must have" or at least as something quite important to them. Then, my work needs a good enough 'user interface' (UI) and to provide a good 'user experience' (UX); for these two, the simple, quite standard HTML and a simple laptop computer or better are fine, but small, handheld, mobile devices look awful: The display and keyboard are too small, and access to the rest of the user's often crucially important 'full computing environment' is too limited. There are also some new, severe security problems.

While there is money to be made in mobile, I see it easier to make money where my users have a laptop or better with a standard Web browser.

Generally I see it better to provide new 'content' the users will like a lot, via a standard Web browser on a laptop or better, than to severely throttle the content and severely hurt the UI/UX just to provide access on a handheld device. That is, I trust in the CONTENT and not the 'form factor', and definitely don't want the form factor to hurt the rest.

Net, I definitely do not believe in "mobile first".

Where am I going wrong?
"cultural fit" tends in practice to mean "illegal discrimination we can pretend we're not doing", even when it's obvious from the results.
<=> is the "spaceship" operator in Perl, Ruby, and Groovy.
> I don't know about you, but the "open the Appstore app" from a link on my phone sounds identical.

It's not identical, because he was talking about browsing the Market on PC (or tablet, if you must) and installing apps from there. All you need is to login into Android Market with the same account as you are using for the device and you can push apps to your phone. No cable necessary.
In the browser and on my phone I use: Google Reader, Twitter, and a little bit of Facebook. My Google Reader has something like 150 sources and I generally skim the headlines of all them together. If I've tapped that source I'll head to Techmeme and HN directly.

On my iPad I subscribe to The Economist and I also use Flipboard (again, with Google Reader).

Via shared links on Twitter and Facebook I generally end up on the NY Times a few times a week, as well as the WSJ and Wired.
That's the latest batch.
> No reason self-driving technology should be bundled with a car

Aftermarket self-driving is inherently a compromise.

OEMs can design the car for their self-driving system. They can place sensors in the right places, size the actuators appropriately, and integrate vehicle dynamics data into the system.

OEMs can also properly safely test the entire system, operating as a unit, as it would operate on the road.

OEMs also leverage economies of scale to make the best technologies available at reasonable prices. Automaker net profit is on the order of 10%, and their scale is massive. You're getting a lot of bang for your buck.

Aftermarket systems are inherently a compromise. They're limited to whatever sensors can be easily mounted in the aftermarket device. The device is only mounted where convenient. The device can't take advantage of vehicle-specific sensors or actuators or vehicle dynamics data because they need to keep it generic.

And most importantly, aftermarket self-driving device manufacturers obviously aren't safety testing the device in combination with every single car on the road. They expect their users to just sort of wing it and see how it goes.

I think it's cool that Comma is working on this, but it's not going to replace OEM solutions any time soon.

> Look at consumer reports for a comprehensive review [0] (comma.ai was #1 in lane assist, above even tesla).

The report shows Tesla's system was more capable and performed better. Comma tied with 3 other manufacturers for performance.

The advantage of the Comma system was supposedly in the fact that it keeps drivers the most engaged. Kudos to Comma for that, but it's not exactly accurate to say that Comma's lane assist performance beats Tesla.
It’s probably the best engineered and most reliable part!
I drove 10-12h per day across Canada without cruise control let alone any drivers aid.

If you have no option, you just get it done.
Gosh, fiber tucked on utility poles. How backwards is the US, that's ridiculous.

Fiber has to be digged into the ground and properly isolated from the environment by laying the fiber inside pipes.
Hey thanks for trying. I just managed to create an account in Firefox and Chrome. Were you using Safari?
Nothing good is not something new to humanity.

Ask the German and Japanese survivors of WW2. India has gone through its own share of unimaginable trauma such as Partition. Travel around the Balkans today or Russia and talk to people about their memories of War and Collapse.

Its hard to imagine how society recovers from such events, while in the midst of one.

But we do.
These satellites are going to damage real science that is already costing us billions (and what's more perverse, do it for a profit). Professional astronomers already warned us about the issue, and IMHO there's no reason to think we know better. Of course we're launching telescopes into space (like the James Webb, planned for 2021 [1]), but those won't be able to replace science done by the larger terrestrial telescopes.

For reference, the ELT, which is currently being built in Chile, will be 74 meters high, 86 meters wide (with a Ø 39.3 meters primary mirror), and weighing 5,000 tonnes.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
I had the virus. This happened to me. The loss of smell and taste is as if someone completely cut off that function from your body. No stuffy nose during the illness, pre, during or post. It started coming back after about a week.
I meant something a tad different.

Survivors will look back at how badly the West handled the pandemic and vote authoritarians in willingly. And it will be fully justified at that moment. The danger being, of course, that authoritarianism is hard to root out and gets worse over time.

Because it will be hard to deny that a faster, stronger reaction and a few beatings here and there would've spared a lot of future suffering and loss of life. You won't be able to say with a straight face that letting idiots do their idiocy is a small price to pay for freedom.

To be clear: I don't like the authoritarian future I predict. But I would love to see military on the streets right fucking now, instead of reading every single day a story about some idiot breaking quarantine to run some errands, and in process shutting down a store, a clinic or a hospital ward.
And?

Do you think an undocumented immigrant would get a better deal in SF?

What kind of comparison is that
The initial Wuhan outbreak is completely inadequate for estimating the mortality of an unchecked wave. It was weathered with massive outside help, being surrounded by the most powerful and agile economy in the world and all that. The rest of the planet is hit concurrently, there are no unaffected regions left who could send help. And that local wave was successfully interrupted long before reaching anything close to herd immunity, so peak medical demand was still far below worst case.
I don't these stockpiles exist. At least the order by the German government seems only to be fulfilled by new production [2] and other governments might have to queue due to few manufacturers [3]. I don't know if in market forces and IP worked to our good here. I think current design challenges could at least channel random good ideas wrt ventilator designs. [1]

1.Montreal offers $200k prize for cheap and easy to build ventilator design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637540

2. https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/medizinte...

3.https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/knappheit-wegen-coronavirus-...
the "debate" here is simply the utter failure by so many to recognize power abusing non-power for ideas deemed unsavory

just as is the inability of so many to recognize that it is exactly the same when wikileaks is refused a right to be published via server space

you "debaters" should be ashamed of yourselves...but you won't be. i don't fully understand that part. is it really that hard to see the shape of the nation? the commerce infrastructure? the war, imperialism, peonage, acquiescence to abuses in the name of stability and financial growth.

yet nazis DID exist, and nazis DO exists, and the more often Godwin's crock of a law is pompously imposed the more will exist. ask yourself: how did they exist? were the german middle class simply naturally evil spawn of the devil children waiting to grow up and be spawn of the devil killers? how did they rise? not some macro view, a micro view. how did the middle class of a western nation create the nazi's military machine?

have you considered that they were propagandized? and how did that occur? why was information lacking? is it possible that information was suppressed? who suppressed it?

you are not immune to the very same information deficit which you endorse. you are not immune to the very same fear which envelops the nation.

but you say, "this is incest, i just don't like incest". well, there's lots of things you might not like. perhaps for example consider that 80-90% of you are not gay. presumably you don't read gay fiction. why are gays allowed to have a deviation from your norm while you are selectively willing to determine another deviation from your norm eligible for suppression? try to keep in mind that your cultural norm is a shockingly violent culture filled with shocking amounts of violent fantasy. "oh but i don't like violent fantasy". yeah right, i'm talking to the other 99.9% of you then.

you <--- yes you, reading this, are the middle-class of a western nation with quite a track record, and one that is only getting worse and so very very quickly year upon year of this century.

what questions will people ask 70 years from now to try to understand you. the middle-class "debaters"

metaphors are a powerful force against natural difficulty to place events into context. i would say you're only hurting yourselves, but actually you're hurting us all. You.
any comments are greatly appreciated :)
Brilliant!

I am ashamed to say that I did not understand this reference at first. To anybody else who did not understand: http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-...
Today I did a search for "acronis true image". Acronis was not of the first page.

Err? You should check again, acronis.com ranks #1 #2 and #3 for "acronis true image", acronis true image, acronis and "true image" as well.

Wild divergence from actual search results sounds like local malicious activity.
How 'bout Land of Lisp? [1]

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[1]: http://landoflisp.com/
Times had better prepare for a DDOS.
I admit to using smaller forks and smaller plates when I'm grabbing a quick meal for in front of the PC - makes the food look larger, and it's easier to handle, too.
Facebook isn't a 2010 phenomenon.

2010 was the year Wikileaks changed the world.
One of the things I liked about the Slashdot comment system was that you assigned a rating "Insightful" "Funny" "Helpful", etc.
It's not an absolute solution, but it makes such a crime both psychologically and physically much more difficult. Turning a knob is impersonal and easy, but killing someone with your hands is neither.
Two reasons, legal and technical.

1. the legal responsibility lies with the pilot(s); therefore there always needs to be an option to override or even shut down the computer

which is partly caused by

2. computers and their programs are anything but perfect; computer-assisted issues are usually resolved by human input ("speed is 253...254...255...oh look we're actually moving backwards, now what?!" "now we fly manually, you dumb toaster, because we're obviously not in the situation you think we are.").

In other words, "take control completely away from people and give it to automatics" is a recipe for a far more frequent trouble than an unpredictable outlier event.
Your name just reminded me of Terry Pratchet's death
I'd agree that 1984 references are played out, but also argue that many times they are not wrong. McCarthy was a real gov't official who used the power of the government to ruin real peoples' lives. So was J. Edna Hoover.

Every manner of "conspiracy theorist" has been saying all kinds of similar things for years. Some of them obviously crazy, some of them with lots of rhetoric (but approximately correct), and some of them sounding otherwise quite reasonable. All of them were typically dismissed as "tinfoil hat nutters" by association.

There is the obvious lunatic. Talks about fluoride too much; thinks the gov't might seriously consider using false flag tactics to inflame public opinion and start a war (Operation Northwoods, Vietnam, and possibly every other war since Korea), or at least blame all the bad things on the commies (Operation Mongoose). Also mind control (MKULTRA).

Then the mostly reasonable guy who occasionally gets too excited about the camera on your cell phone, and pretty much every other surveillance camera. Talked about "Echelon" before Wikipedia existed. Was an avionics tech in the Air Force. Says the government has technology you wouldn't believe. He keeps too many emergency rations at his home for someone who isn't a Mormon.

And then the reasonably intelligent person with an over-active imagination. In a casual conversation once you learned that he thinks the Iran Contra affair was a real event in history (lol!), and that he is generally mistrusting of government; you quickly changed the subject. You also once noticed that he keeps a piece of tape over the camera on his laptop. You generally regard him as smart, just naive about the government, ironic that.

> Sometimes I wonder how many conspiracy theorists are actually right,

Given the current facts of the day, isn't it about time to take it upon yourself to investigate some of these claims instead of dismissing them by default?

> just because of pompous, self-righteous, anti-establishment way it is written.

But aren't you actually opposed to this particular establishment? And shouldn't you be? And doesn't your dismissal of the message due to the messenger's rhetorical style play well into the hand of that establishment?
Is it realistic that we see human controls largely removed from passenger plane pilots? Or ground-based group overrides? I know that for the largest jets, pilots already operate within some sort of computer-decided 'envelope' (I think it's called) of reasonable decisions.

I think we will see personal driving banned in some cities (CBDs at least) or routes in the coming decades as self-driving cars come to dominate our roads.
Also the book "Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewing Elements)" provides an excellent guide to using yeast. Describing aspects such as the different flavour components produced by yeasts, up to plating your own yeast samples.

It's amazing how different yeasts can produce radically different flavours. A fun experiment to try is to split the wort (unfermented beer) into different vessels and try different yeasts out. For instance using a hefeweizen yeast, will give clove/banana notes.
At what point will pilot-lock outs have killed more people than they've saved?
The design of cockpit controls could be directed by a number of things such as government regulations, manufacturer features, industry standards, airline or pilot lobby groups, etc. I bet we are going to hear a lot about airplane flight controls in the coming days.
Daniel Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? in this TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h...

He also did a great interview on the Colbert Report that never fails to crack me up.
It's a nice piece of math, but it just confirms common sense. If you have a small edge and the payoff is very likely, you bet a decent chunk of cash. If you have a big edge and payoff is unlikely, you bet a half decent chunk of cash. If you have a big edge and the payoff is very likely, you bet a double decent sized of cash. If you have a small edge and payoff is unlikely, you bet a little bit. If you don't have an edge, you don't bet.
It's a good deal and an attractive alternative, but I don't know why you're hung up on a Windows install. There's nothing stopping you from installing Ubuntu Lucid or Maverick, and away you go.
Richard Branson loves risk takers:

> Imagine you’re a simple student in the Netherlands. Without making any plans for it, what would you say the chance is that the same afternoon you’d be flying in a private jet with Richard Branson to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington?

http://beanoriginal.net/the-audacity-of-shamelessly-asking/
It's not controversial because people (all - democrats, republicans, rich and poor) don't seem to have a clue how much unequal the US is. It's been a HN submission today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039503 . If they really knew, they may change their opinion on that.
Four days off!

Snow! (A rarity where I live.)

A very, very productive day for some of my websites. :-) :-)
Buying stolen goods is not very ethical either. And it should have been pretty obvious that the computer was stolen. But I personally would not be able to be that angry at someone buying my stolen computer.
It is not as bad as superstition and hallucination.

The knowledge, such as it is, derives from people actually producing software. A firm respect for practical knowledge, as much as for hard scientific knowledge, is entirely normal for engineering subjects. In fact, the practical side probably leads the science mostly.

(And why pay attention to hyperbolic rants in the first place? Is that the sort of writing anyone wants to encourage?)
I'd just noticed the other day that "Integrated Authentication" works on Windows out of the box in Chrome while testing a client's internal app. That's very helpful.
It is not clear to me whether Google is doing "ethical talent acquisitions" by releasing unneeded products, or whether they have just have no need to keep these projects closed.
No; I am no lisp/ocaml god and not sure what do you mean by easy, but it seems they lack feature you are thinking about.
Not everyone is hipsterfag.
Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.
The US patent office has the Peer to Patent project for public comment on pending patent applications: http://www.peertopatent.org/

Looks like it's voluntary and applies to a limited number of patent applications, but it is a step in the right direction by the US patent office.