skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that they're interacting with

Is there a choice? They are stuck in a cage bored out of their minds. It is not like they were roaming free in the wild and found the giant screen and started playing with it. I've no interest in video games - but if I am stuck in a cage and the only option is to play video games, what am I going to do? Sooner or later I'll check it out, no?
Yea, I've never had issues like that, and I've used Mac's exclusively for since they came out with the unibody.
These companies need to realize that end users, especially me, now pretty much expect their apps and pages to:

- annoy me for their benefit
- spy on me
- waste my battery
- waste my bandwidth

interesting these companies don't seem to care much about gaining the trust of their customers or actually serving them in a convenient fashion.
Ask HN: Why don't publishers serve ads from their domains to thwart ad-blockers?
It's not just Chinese-Americans. I live in Fairfax, VA and the entire county is bonkers over GPAs. It's to the point that >20% of my son's high school class had "better than perfect" GPAs (possible because honors/AP come with bonus points).

Many of those same kids spent their afternoons being shuttled from enrichment program to enrichment program. Very little unscheduled time where they could just be kids.

I question the sanity of it all. I didn't have anywhere the level of structured activity as a teen and still managed to gain entry to a top-20 university. Presumably because I was successful in things I enjoyed, not things my parents thought were good application boosters.
Anyone have a mirror?
Ask HN: When Topics Affect Me but I Am Not Aware and Not Interested
I'm contemplating a Venn Diagram with three circles:

1. News topics and information I am Interested In;

2. News topics and information I am Aware Of;

3. News topics and information that Affect My Life.

There is a section of topics in the diagram that Affect My Life and which I am Aware Of. As I delve into those topics online, Google et al learn what those topics are and feed me more related items and life is good. I become informed about new items in topics that I am Interested In and Aware Of.

But I am developing an anxiety about topics in the section of the diagram which Affect My Life and which I am not Aware Of and not Interested In. I know of no path via my behavior or online services that will introduce to me information that Affect My Life, I am not Aware Of, and not yet Interested In. Except by chance. Regrettably, I don't have the spare time to spend deliberately seeking out topics in that section of the diagram via random searching.

I initially tried to develop examples of such topics, then realized that I couldn't conceive of examples because I don't know what I don't know.... Yet I am convinced they are out there and that it is valuable to have a deterministic way to discover them. The anxiety is that if I don't discover them, the consequence will surprise me in a bad way, or, I will be somehow suffering or disadvantaged without ever knowing it. To a lesser extent, that I'm missing news items or information from topics that would enhance my life.

So my question for Hacker News is: Is this a real problem or am I deluded?

If it's real, is it already solved? If not solved can it be solved with technology? Or via a curated service?

If I am deluded, or there is an available solution, then thanks for letting me know and I can get back to work.
Reducing the boom is achieved by damping the pressure N-wave from the oblique shocks near the aircraft forebody. This is done in various ways but at this time we're exploring blunting the nose to increase the local air temperature which increases the local acoustic velocity and reduces the pressure jump across the shock, weakening (quieting) it.
Yeah, maybe RHEL 8 will have it, maybe as early at 2017. Maybe. :)
I just see it as a way to snap people out of their patterns.

I try to be a photographer, and I know I myself get caught in patterns of shitty bland photos that I look at a year later and roll my eyes ("this thing has RUST on it!!! [snap] [snap] [snap]."

We both agree it may not work, but the concept is compelling if nothing else.

PS - To be frank however, if you really want to escape patterns one of these "one photo a day" challenges for a year that give you specific themes might be a better answer. If the themes are thoughtful it can help.
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Lessons in Long Form Blogging from Writing Massive College Essays
Sure, if you miss by a huge amount it could be a "far miss" or a "distant miss" or similar.

The point where you go from colliding to a near miss is the point where the two things don't touch. There's no exact point where you go from a near miss to a regular sort of miss, since it's not a precision term.
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It's kind of a reverse Alphabet situation: doubling down on (and returning to) the brand people actually know/trust (Stack Overflow/Google) over the brand people only met if they got involved in some meta-discussions (Stack Exchange/Alphabet), even as they continue to diversify.

I'm not sure whose is the better approach. I think the name change has a bigger impact on Alphabet (the shareholder shuffle, trying to get greater focus on "side projects" outside of the Google core search products) than it will on Stack Overflow. Certainly Stack Overflow doesn't seem to be doing it for outside shareholders, it seems like they are simply doing it to help coalesce their own corporate identity and how they talk about it amongst themselves. It might not directly impact the average developer in caring about their product offerings, but maybe it will help lead communications internally for them in making those product offerings better and selling those product offerings to themselves as important/core to their future. I certainly wish them luck in that case that the name change will indeed benefit their cultural stability and future.
Concorde had to stop for ground refuelling something like 4 times on the London-Sydney trip. Each time it took about an hour and a half to come down from cruising altitude and land, slurp up a hundred tons of jet fuel, and take off again.

Short legs.
The qualities that make someone a successful entrepreneur often make them a poor student / employee. The same disregard of authority that makes people say "Why can't I do that? Who is going to stop me?" tends to lead you to more interesting conclusions than solving 40 problems from a math textbook.

But keep in mind that Harvard's goal isn't to recruit the best students; it's to create an environment where the well-connected can co-mingle with accomplished academics. This is why Harvard and other Ivy League schools admit "legacy" students: it's an explicit recognition that sometimes, who you know does matter. If you have a good mix of smart people, driven people, and politically savvy people from powerful families, they can help push each other to great heights.

I'm not so sure if the model works as well anymore, but also keep in mind that Harvard is almost 400 years old. It worked well for a long time.
Amazon tech workers file complaints to Washington state over lack of restrooms
Node.js Framework Starts to Reach Enterprise Maturity
You could create an ARG à la Halo 2's ILB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees), but for Mr. Robot.
I taught that they've dropped that claim when they updated[0] their patent grant.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356508
When you've taken care of the larger gains, sure.

But don't start with the minutiae, start with the fundamentals.
You know what they say... scratch your own itches. ;)
Given how the political system is set up, it's not surprising that we get the "I hate politics" responses. In most states, your Presidential vote is already decided for you. A Republican in New York might as well not vote, and a Democrat in Alabama ought to stay home.

In most Congressional districts, the party has so gerrymandered the districts that it's easier to dislodge communist dictators than defeat the incumbent party.

Even if the above weren't true, our voting system encourages a two-party system with its winner-take-all rules, so third parties like the Green Party or Libertarian Party aren't as popular as they might otherwise be because of the 'wasting your vote' phenomenon.
Yes you are right! I presumed it was this guy [0]. Nice to have put this to bed.

[0] http://www.neuro.univie.ac.at/
Not necessarily, if hypothetically silver people make up 20% of the population, but due to cultural bias in testing they make up 10% of the student body you could correct for that bias without discriminating.

For an actual example, rich people tend to look better on Harvard applications, but preform worse at Harvard than poor people. Adjusting for a bias in the application process would not be discrimination based on income.
Yeah, introducing a new field and deprecating the old one seems like the best option here. The nice thing is that while this introduces new functionality, there's still only one version of the server; if you query for `homePlanet`, you always get the name, if you query for `homePlanetDetails`, you always get the planet object. This is particularly useful for tooling, since the API response is a function only of the access token and the query.
I don't actually think an entirely client-side-rendered application makes sense; on the contrary, I do think it makes sense to do most HTML generation on the server, and where appropriate, hand out snippets via the API, rather than handing out JSON or similar and making JavaScript produce HTML. But that's different than rendering entire HTML pages entirely on the server. And for primarily dynamic content, I see nothing wrong (for many sites, at least) with assembling server-provided HTML snippets from JavaScript into a server-provided HTML base page, without any fallback to an entirely server-provided page.
That's actually more-or-less how Opera Mini works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Functionality
> The EU parliament doesn't elect, if you don't understand the difference between appointment and confirmation I can't help you.

You're making a distinction without a difference (and you're muddying the waters between a proposal to appoint and the actual appointment; without the European Parliament, the European Council can only propose, not appoint). If the European Parliament says yes, the Commission is elected and can get to work. If the Parliament says no, it isn't and it can't do a thing. Same for how plenty of parliamentary democracies elect their head of government or cabinets. Lack of a write-in option does not make it not an election.

I note also that for all practical purposes, the "spitzenkandidat" system has factually replaced the power of nomination (not appointment).

> The EU council and commission can issue directives, decisions and regulations without involving the EU parliament

This is factually false, the codecision procedure (= what is now called the ordinary legislative procedure) applies to practically all legislative acts and requires the Parliament to vote for them. Legislative acts can include framework decisions with the legislature delegating implementing measures to the Commission (for example, the ecodesign directive, where the exact wattage for vacuum cleaners was then set by the Commission according to the guidelines of the directive), similar to how legislative acts in the US generally leave it to the administration to enact the necessary regulations. Note that even there, some implementation measures may be subject to parliamentary approval via the examination procedure.
A+Peek+Into+The+Daily+Lives+Of+3+Pakistani+Women
Reading between the lines, it seems to confirm a change in business model.
To paraphrase: "Turns out software for running Q&A sites isn't that hot a property, but having access to a large part of all the world's programmers is"
Thanks FriedPickles!
Is it down for you?

https://web.archive.org/web/20150913080629/http://www.swi-pr...
This is a problem of mathematical logic that is used in QM.
In a classical logical system, you can't do this. You can only use formulas that have a real relation in nature and not invent something out of the blue and use it for substitution.

You can describe any physical implementation with any mathematical as long as you use enough dimensions. Fact is: we are living in a 3 dimensional euclidean space, this you can experience every day. Time is some other thing.
The need for 12 dimensions is just a absurd mathematical emergency exit for having something fundamentally wrong.
> Actually More permissive & lax gun laws -> More police militarization to preserve the competitive advantage

Are you sure your arrow there means causation?

Explain like I'm five, why do you think the police feels it needs to compete with law-abiding gun-carrying citizens?

I've never heard of this silly idea before, but maybe I'm silly and you have a great argument for that.

If you had said "the more guns in criminals' hands, the more police militarization to preserve advantage" then I'd agree with you but I'd ask to see how you know the number of guns in criminals' hands.

0.001% of law-abiding gun holders are a problem for the police. 100% of criminals are a problem for the police, whether they're carrying guns, knives, or a closed fist.
i recall XFS had some serious corruption issues if a failure happens when not on a UPS (or the UPS fails catastastrophically). Has this been dealt with ?
Interesting, I hadn't even noticed it renamed... I always kept calling it stackoverflow. I noticed the name "exchange" in URLs, but thought that was related to sub-stackoverflows like "math"

EDIT: After reading the article more properly I see it's about company name, not website name. Still, not deleting my comment as it exemplifies the confusion the naming gave
The OP makes the mistake of assuming that waste only occurs in Government agencies. As you mentioned - larger organisations tend to create more waste.
Who counts the impressions, to pay the ad client?
Hi, I am one of those who use; parts of sentences, sentences, topics thoughts, of HN comments/commenters, from the web generaly, but i never asked.
Often it's the provoking, or funy, or.... -stuff, i use. Everytime i finished something "postable" i share it with a cc-nc-share alike-licence, which i think is in the motto of educate, enlightenment, and "share". i hope that i did nothing wrong or intolerable...

it is a direct linking and dev-art doesn't like but risk a look find something dau-related here: http://orig11.deviantart.net/c302/f/2015/257/1/4/_en__by_imm...
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Just a small addendum: the Sears-Haack body is the shape with the least amount of wave drag under supersonic regime, but its derivation (using the Prandtl-Glauert equation) is not valid for transonic flow, where the best approach so far seems to be maintaining the cross sectional area constant.

So if we optimize for supersonic flight it won't be so good for transonic and vice-versa... I agree with you in that probably there's no way to passively eliminate sonic booms, maybe some kind of "active" solutions, but the weight problem strikes again.

Also, I don't know if a rocket can be made without boom, as the transition in the nozzle is abrupt. Maybe it's time to review those aerospikes!
Point taken, and a good one as well. I (metaphorically) withdraw my comment.
I'm not "defending" Avis here; nor am I attacking this guy. I'm critiquing a behavior.

That an exploiter is exploiting another exploiter does not seem morally better to me. I also think being tactically honest while still attempting to find the precise boundaries of how much he can scam without triggering an immune response is not notably virtuous. Many manipulative people are excellent at telling carefully measured amounts of truth.

The basis of commerce is positive-sum exchanges of value. You create something for me that I value; I give you something you value in return. This guy is intentionally engaging in a negative-sum exchange to fill his pockets. He knows it, which is why he was very careful to trick Avis's system and limit the amount he extracted to a level where Avis was unlikely to bother to stop him. I am perfectly comfortable calling that a scam, and it is definitely parasitic, in that it consumes resources without creating value.
SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help
Energy costs don't necessarily increase as the square of velocity, at higher speeds you can travel though less dense atmosphere which dramatically reduces drag. Another major issue is afterburners are not efficient and have been used for a wide range of high Mach aircraft. On a positive note, a faster aircraft can do more trips per day which reduces depreciation and crew costs.
It's corruption because the relationship usually involve the key decision makers having either stock in that company or being rewarded financially in one way or another.
Neat. I have also seen one of the authors do videos called "Watching YouTube The Hard Way" (unsure of exact title) which is a similar concept.
Motivation for Monolithic Codebase: how to manage 2B LoC in a single repo
I think we should acknowledge how impressive it is implementing a Lisp of all languages in a language that doesn't let you easily quote parens!
Did you miss the point on purpose ?

Also:
> [redacted out] breathing actually has a dramatic effect on the parasympathetic nervous system and stress reactions
If it's enough to entertain a person, why would a pig not be entertained?

The difference is that the human has the option of choosing to play the game or walk away. The only option available for pigs are roam around the small cage bored out of their minds or check this game out. If they don't like the game, good luck.

Also, imagine how you would feel if there is a giant screen 3 feet from you flashing lights - and you don't want the screen to be there because those flashy lights are annoying to you. But you have no say in it.
From personal experience I can say that I haven't seen it recently. RHEL 7 went to XFS as their default filesystem so hopefully they've looked into it.
That's very interesting! Got any paper? =)
My understanding is that the Osprey's early issues were mechanical and training issues and not issues with the concept (propshaft issues, pilots not trained properly, poorly engineering wiring harnesses, etc) . Those things were fixed and now the Osprey is used quite a bit. I even saw one fly over my home the last time Obama visited.

Most of the current and next gen fighters have some level of V/STOL built-in as well. I think we're pretty far from what you're describing, which was maybe 15-20 years ago. Lets remember that the design team for the Osprey started in the early 80s and the original prototypes are from the 70s. The Bell XV-15 prototype first flew in '77 and then the larger version as part of this proposal flew in '83. Aircraft engineer has gone a long way since. We're able to do much more today.
We do that but Ad-blockers block even those ads. We have our own text-based adds like Google Adsense text ads which are just <div> tags and those get filtered out as well.
But it does completely replace it EXCEPT for SSH connection.

1) SSH makes the TCP connection

2) MOSH starts a UDP Connection

3) MOSH kills the SSH TCP Connection and there is no ssh processes running anymore.
Prefixing "main=" to a subroutine definition is no different from any language's syntax for declaring subroutines. If that means every programming language is declarative, then declarative doesn't even mean anything.
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Alibaba is indeed a force in China (and less-so globally) but the stock price is doing pretty poorly (down below IPO price.)

https://www.google.com/finance?q=baba&ei=fFT4VanDAdLisAHx9r7...

It's a bit weird to see him lauded at WEF when, say Twitter, which is also below IPO price, is in fire-fighting mode (without CEO, etc.)
Companies don't care, because end users, for the most part, don't care. At least not enough to significantly change their behavior.
Doing some testing of my own using BDFProxy opened my eyes as to what large sites are using http vs https for downloading files. If your primary reason for existing is providing binaries for download, you have no excuse for serving them up over http. I'm looking at you SourceForge.
I never understood why this was an issue for crossing oceans from coastal airports. Is it a huge hassle to slow to 600kt as they get close to land?

Also, at what altitudes does a boom become irrelevant? This thing will be very high so cross-continental might not be an issue either.
Part of the problem is that the web content and security model requires one to consider a domain somewhat isomorphic to an app.

It wouldn't be so bad if the technology existed to reliably say "foo.com is serving data that can be rendered via the some-standard-component presentation layer." Then, the browser itself would have the capacity to cache and optimize the rendering layer for common content schema. As it stands, your choices are to code to one schema (the HTML5 / CSS / no Javascript presentation standard, with all the restrictions that implies), to write a web app that will be a special little snowflake different from all the other special little snowflakes on the web, complete with its own chunk of memory and processing in your browser, or to throw up your hands and commit your content to one of the existing solutions that build the app for you (but then basically also control your data).

We're missing a functional division between data and app that we have in the desktop model.
BTRFS is an excellent filesystem and imho more advanced than xfs.
That's smart. Programmers do a lot of searching for examples, there was a recent Google study on the topic. [1]

One of my personal favorites lately has been bropages [2] - it's a crowdsourced set of usage examples for Unix command-line tools. Instead of wading through fifty pages of obtuse manpages or googling for usage, you just use "bro [command]" and you get some working examples.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43835.html

[2] http://bropages.org/
> There are a lot of watermen in the Navy, I'm sorry people think we just don't care.

I think that the notion is that "The Navy", as an institution, does not care, to which I would offer, "The Navy" as an institution has no capacity to care or not care, only individuals and groups of them within it do.
If you develop a culture of risk-averse comfort that you feel needs legal barriers to protect, you can't be surprised that you have a population addicted to risk-averse comfort.
I have the same background as you. Preordered it and never played it until now. Something is definitely missing.
I played countless hours in X-Tension / X2 / X3 / AP / TC - but X Rebirth is really different. I will play definitely the campaign to its end (even though Egosoft is not really famous for producing deep campaigns). Maybe when the campaign ends the real free game begins...

I would say: Give it a try.
They're changing the name, OK. But I can't figure out what this person is trying to say about what the company is now. The "diagrams" don't really help
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Web design and development is also an art. Good artists look beyond business value.

You actually should bend over backwards to cater to as many users as possible, especially if you are getting paid to build websites for users.

Some countries require sites to be accessible to the disabled. If you design sites for the US government, they should also be accessible to 0.1% of blind or no-script users.

Sure, IE6 as a baseline is very progressive, but it is certainly doable. Less so, if you start with an inaccessible website and catering to as many users as possible is an annoying time-consuming afterthought.

If you can not muster an accessible progressive enhanced website, then you can not muster a js-only ARIA compliant website either. Your only hope is to make something profitable. That's being a marketeer or business man with a little HTML skills, not being a solid web dev.