skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps the only incident I can think of where a parachute may have helped was US Airways 1549 [...]

Another is United 232, the Sioux City crash during a landing where all hydraulics had been lost, leaving the pilots with only differential thrust to steer with.

Perhaps TWA 800, if I'm recalling correctly that the explosion basically decapitated the plane leaving the passenger section largely intact.

Also maybe Aloha 243. That plane was able to land after a large chunk of the cabin blew out with no fatalities other than a crew member who was sucked out during the initial blow out, so like USAir 1549 a parachute would not have saved any lives in that particular incident. In that type of incident, though, it probably would have been a good option. Such incidents leave the pilots with a plane that is flying at the moment, but that has severe structural damage leaving them with no idea what maneuvers they can do without tearing it apart and no idea if it is even going to hold together in stable level flight. That would probably be an incident where your probabilities would be better with popping the 'chute.
Niceness, community and civilization.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-co...
Do "Women in Tech" conferences and workshops help to close the gender gap by actively working against the legacy of a male-dominated industry, the same way affirmative action works against the historical disadvantage of minorities?
That's weird, because I use yahoo mail, and have adblock installed and I've never had a problem accessing my email.
The "Distribution Network" document, which was updated a month or so ago (https://licensing.500px.com/distribution/) under the "Content publishing partners". Sony, Google/chromcast, and Samsung all have the right to use your material uncompensated.

There is an opt-out box buried away in your preferences, but (in a shitty move) you also have to opt out of selling your images through partners at the same time - you can't disable only uncompensated use.
> There's a lot more circuitry crammed into the compact power adapter than you'd expect, including a microprocessor.

microcontroller.
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Pretty much this, unfortunately. Which means the only way to fight back is to raise enough money to counter said lobbyists and try and get the laws the other way.

That said, it's probable banking will get disrupted eventually. It's just that a large company like Google, Apple or Microsoft will probably be one of the main causes, since they have enough money to keep battling until they either become too big to stop or the incumbents give up.
Just look at this very forum anytime anyone mentions maybe just maybe some self-proclaimed feminists do more harm than good.
Did the citizen in question personally ratify the constitution, or otherwise agree to it? If not, why would they be obligated to follow a contract they never accepted?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract
basically like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGKPAgBpOg, where the developers are the ball, and demand is the box
Pedantry is a poor defense.
I'm frustrated by the sticky bar designs on a bunch of websites as well. I'm even often frustrated at some of the other "subtle" fancy on-scroll behaviors and parallax effects many designs are also doing. It's one of the reasons I like that Edge has made the "Reading View" button prominent on the desktop now as much as it has been on mobile IE/Edge for quickly getting a clean reading layout without even needing a "read it later" app.
how do you interconnect three nodes without a vpn on hetzner without paying twice as much as on aws? like a private network.
Lulz. You're getting downvoted because the people in power on HN don't like your comment.
Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected to Become Terrorists
The secret of web success: figure out what your user wants, then give it to them
The whole season of South Park so far has been amazing. They've been spot on at describing the neo-fascism implemented by so called "liberals".
It's because the market is so fragmented. USB-C and USB power delivery will do a huge amount of good.

The USB smartphone charger market is starting to produce genuinely well made third party products.
There's still two big reasons I can see: a place to live and for your children to inherit, and a place to rent out.
I found that comparing recursive (your examples are all recursive it seems) and non-recursive traversal code helped me internalize it a great deal, stuff like depth-first vs breadth-first depending on whether you're using a stack or a queue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627833
Just for everyone's awareness, there is a broad astroturf and professional political push that has been happening for over a year by FIRE, a right leaning think tank. This is a concerted effort to bring controversy around campus free speech into the news.

My perception is that this is an effort to weaken student's ability to speak freely, but is coded as a "free speech" issue. Similar to how many churches coded marriage equality as trampling on their freedom of religion.

Just to remind everyone how free speech works: You are free to say whatever you want. I am free to choose to speak out against you or even pull my support from you if I disagree with what you say. My freedom extends to let me voice my opposition to you just as loudly as you voice your opinions. That is not censorship.
The bigger question is the business question: Is the new "product" viable?

This means that the focus of the "software" should be toward answering that question. In other words, the "app" could connect to a manual booking system behind the scenes [aka, "something that won't scale"]. The keys at the early stage are reliability and flexibility. The choice of technology should be driven by data and the data should come from the actual business process not a priori assumptions.

Good luck.
Great idea to enable private issues, I've created an issue to implement this for GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3678
Well...citizens, individual citizens can't ratify Constitutional Amendments in the US, so I'm unsure if this question is valid. Can you clarify your stance?
Systemd referenced in link to flame war about how to submit patches.

Hint: use text patches not zip-blobs
Agreed. It strikes me that "balanced viewpoints" are actually antithetical to the anti-fragile philosophy Haidt promotes. We need to be malleable in our viewpoints so that we are both free to express them and should be expected to change them when we encounter evidence against them. A "balanced viewpoint" means keeping viewpoints safe from the world (a "fragile" viewpoint!).

It's also worth noting that humans respond better to praise and work more efficiently when we feel safe. So we obviously can't be completely "anti-fragile".
Yes, I think the newer container services like Triton, IBM Containers, ECS, and GCE intend to be more flexible than Heroku. It will probably take some time for them to mature, especially in storage.
lmm said conscious, not sentient, and (regardless of the specific definitions of those words) was almost certainly talking about something more than the ability to suffer.

I subscribe to a train of thought that says it's wrong to kill a person; it's okay to kill a cow, but wrong to torture one; and I'm not sure if anything done to a mosquito could count as torture. I think dolphins are around the same level as humans. I think tuna and many other fish are probably between cows and mosquitos, closer to cows, but I haven't read or thought about that one very hard.

Whatever it is that separates cows from humans, also seems to separate cows from dolphins. It's not sentience, according to your definition of the word, but it's what lmm was talking about.
As it stands, there's the baby boomers waging war against their offspring by bleeding to death the societies they live in for their own benefit.

That notion of "new generations [are required] to support us" can go die in a fire. (was that sufficiently impolite to prevent living in the dark ages?)
I'm not demanding hypersensitivity, I'm simply claiming that the path towards better debate is one where emotional invective is left off the table. If you can clearly explain why classifying people as "raving lunatics" adds insight on how to mediate the state of open ("free") college campus discourse, then I'll keep an open ear as to the value of such comments.

Also, I find it hard to believe that "fuck that piece of shit" was ever acceptable as college-level discourse. In fact, I think that even high school level L-D style debate shies away from that tone and temperament.

If you sincerely believe that using language that appeals to emotion, over logic and evidence, is a means to an end, then we probably will not get much further on this topic. (And I really don't see how this stance is hypocritical, or indoctrinated/pushing a doctrine in any way. It applies equally to both ends of the spectrum.)
"The real essence of any city lies within the community. The physical landscape is given meaning by those who fill its doors and spaces."

Culture is defined by the community, who is pushed out when the rent is too damn high.
The point is, thanks to Social Justice Warriors, you never know what comment could affect your career. Expressing opinion about merits of Angular.js is probably safe. But anything that involves gender - a study, or a remark about distribution of men and women in tech industry - is not to be touched with a ten foot pole if you value your employability. It takes very little to become a victim of a Twitter outrage.
Why It's Hard to Recognize a Black Hole
> taxes are signatures on a social contract

If taxes were voluntary, I would wholeheartedly agree. As it sits, I consider (rightly or wrongly) most taxes to be voluntary, but the income tax is inescapably not. If governments are going to charge high and involuntary taxes on things, we shouldn't be surprised when people shop around where they are able.
I would grade this explanation poorly, because it is wrong.

It's impossible to know the odds of an apparent effect coming from random data fluctuations or a real effect. The p-value cannot tell you these odds. The p-value only tells you one half of that---the odds that random fluctuations would cause an apparent effect.
Since he is currently CEO of a technology company, I don't think it's anything like an industry blacklist, in effect (obviously, its nothing like it in structure, either.)
I see CS as the great equalizer; the only thing that matters is what you produce.

Say's law does not apply to CS, which is largely a demand-side field with strictly ordinal utility functions and evaluation criteria that are not necessarily technical. As such, what you produce is not innately "the great equalizer".
If an airline overbooks, and you miss the flight, they must give you $1,350
Always find something new and fun to do
Anyone here heard of the Magsafe saver?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lightning-magsafe-saver-p...

This is what I got-- took an eternity to get to me, but it works well enough. I wrap my cables. I had my Macbook Pro for two years, abused it, charger was fine. I sold it with the Macbook when I moved back Stateside after living abroad.

My next charger broke, because my kitten decided it made a great teething chew. Cha-ching. $80. I noticed a bit of wear, so I got the dinky plastic protectors. They seem to be working well. I use it on my lightning cable, too.
I'd gladly exchange Magsafe for generic interchangeable chargers. One charger for a laptop, tablet, smartphone and e-reader, and provided as a matter of course in cafes, libraries, trains, workplaces etc would be superb.
Technology's Opportunity to Ease the Burden of Bulk Data
I agree completely, and am publicly willing to do so because I'm not willing to live in a future where I can't publicly disagree with someone. Why is it technology, specifically, that needs to be equalized? Because it's currently trendy? Because there's a lot of money in it? Is money all that matters? Why aren't we as interested in getting, say, more men into nursing, considering there a lot of underemployed, undereducated men in the US who have to work blue collar or service industry jobs to scrape by while women dominate that very lucrative and stable field? It makes absolutely no sense to me and I agree with the parent commenter that CS is intriguing to me precisely because it's such a great equalizer. Your code speaks for you, not your gender, race, or creed. I also don't see a lot of "Women in Pro Football" groups, either, even though that's an incredibly lucrative and prestigious profession. The whole thing is bonkers, and this is coming from someone who has two daughters (who are free to pursue whatever profession they like).
I can't argue with their rationale or yours, but would be totally comfortable with Pfizer being barred from lobbying now, as a foreign corporation, plus being hit with import tariffs.

No reason US law has to open taxpayers to blatant exploitation by multinational corporations, who probably benefit more than anyone, from the US' unique combination of highly educated workforce, stable and for-sale political system, protective military, and millions upon millions of the most prolific, indiscriminate consumers in the world.
The "secret power" of Pocket is that someone is making money off selling detailed information on what people red, probably including when, where, probably how long a given document is read. They aren't offering their bandwidth and storage as some sort of charity; those server costs are obviously being covered by surveillance-as-a-business-model.

The database Pocket is building is an incredibly tempting target for many different groups (governments, insurance companies, etc). Even if Pocket isn't using that data (unlikely), the probability of leaks/theft is high.

Building a better bookmark system is a good idea. Such a system doesn't need network access. If for some reason you need to share between devices, a socially responsible bookmark/read-it-later tool would be encrypting at the endpoints so an opaque encrypted blob is the only thing stored remotely. (prior art: the original Firefox "sync")
I'm not sure why the down votes. Your comment demonstrates perfectly why it's absurd to compare paying taxes (compulsory) to paying for some private club (voluntary).
> OpenBSD source code is also available but it uses CSV and I am not sure it includes the source code for all CLI tools.

Isn't that pretty much the whole point of BSD distributions? And IIRC OpenBSD doesn't even allow binary drivers, everything distributed as part of OpenBSD which runs on the host CPU is open-source (OpenBSD does bundle firmwares blobs)

(otoh it is nice to get more OS support in psutil, it's a neat piece of kit though with an annoying history of API changes)
This distaste is unsurprising. Research has concluded (see this popular science article about it http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutt...) that polarized opinions do affect how strongly readers react to information.

But the core of the article is about how there is a problem about polarized opinions: the core problems with the Mizzou, Yale and al. situations are not related to the opinions expressed themselves: the initial email was that opinion (in the specific case discussed in the article) and the administrator wanted to meet with that student to discuss it.

The problem is that the conversation is not about the concerns expressed in that email anymore, but about the use of one word in the response.

Is that the more important conversion you talk about wanting to have?
responding to someone's opinion with "Ugh." is exactly what the op article is about
I think the KEY thing here is that you wrote the tests, that gave someone the 'confidence' to say whether or not they were even on the right track - this is amazing - the tests give exactly the right context for someone to dive into the code.
Just to clarify this correct comment for others reading it: When blahblah says the false positive rate will be at most 5%, she or he means that at most, 5% of experiments will result in a false positive, not that 5% of results will be false positive results. This tripped me up when I read it the first time.
There are multiple reports of phone chargers killing people:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-07/14/c_1325400...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950641/Woman-electr...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671493/Woman-dies-e...
http://shanghaiist.com/2015/03/15/girl_from_hebei_dies_after...

If you look inside cheap chargers (as I have), it's not surprising that they occasionally kill people.
This is a good list, but of course the most incendiary additions would involve race.
The reason to buy a house would be the same as the reason to buy a car, or any other item: because you want to use it.

If housing prices are guaranteed to increase, it means owners of housing are extracting unearned rents from the economy. Houses decay over time and eventually need to be renovated/rebuilt, so you should on average take a net loss from owning and occupying a house, just as you would a car.
The biggest failure of such people is that their own conduct serves as a terrible advertisement for the sort of worldview they promote. Look at these people: do you see happy, healthy, mindful, compassionate, self-confident, well-adjusted human beings? I don't. I see bitter, spiteful, demanding, insecure, Us-vs-Them types, perpetually searching for the next perceived slight. Are these the sort of people I'm supposed to want to emulate? They are so caught up in making me a good person that they have not made good people of themselves. And everyone suffers for it.
The point is that small businesses won't be able to thrive under the conditions of having high rent. If corporations are the only businesses that can afford it, then there's not much uniqueness to NYC businesses. It's not about wanting the city to stay the same. Transience is a natural quality of life, but it is being controlled in a way that gives corporations the upper hand.
Some people voted for ratification, but none of them happen to be alive now. If you want to propose another means by which you can justify citizens being bound to follow the constitution, please do. There are a few theories including the social contract, and implied social contract which argue that citizens have consented to accept the authority of governments (unfortunately those are both wrong); philosophers have devoted a great deal of time and effort to justifying the government, but failed. If you have a novel theory, please describe it.
Oh no! It will take longer for lower-income* renters to be priced out of the market.

* By lower income in Seattle I mean households making less than 50k a year... how awful that they might be able to continue to afford living in the city.
> No way you're getting that in value.

Infrastructure was in place before you were born that gave you the opportunities to succeed.

It's now time to pay that back(/forward?) so that others have similar chances to succeed.
Well that narrows it down.
According to abstract of their paper, these two researchers hypothesised and then tested several possible explanations of the observed correlation.

That fact alone disproves your claim that they mistook correlation for causation.

The article also discusses a third factor.
That's actually not a strange argument. It's semantically identical to the widely-held belief that the benefits of order, safety, and education granted by the government morally obligates one to pay taxes.
Please forgive the ignorant questions of a software guy that probably have blindingly obvious answers to a EE. Does this mean that theoretically, I could attach a 18V/18.5V [0] DC power source (like a solar panel array running into a DC-DC converter) to the prongs and as long as I can supply about 100W/8.5A my MacBook Pro will boot?

[0] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111250/how-to-charg...
How did this even get upvotes?
That may be true, however the correlation is that the value of homes increased after the Starbucks arrived in the neighborhood. Of course there are other factors involved.
Can I say that this is all actually my fault? My company was the first Bitcoin company offered services by IAFCU. I made the mistake of speaking to a reporter at WIRED about it. Within hours regulators had the noose set. Had I not opened my mouth, IAFCU could have built up enough strength to tackle its opponents.

The polices and structures in this country are not oriented toward mutual benefit or utility, they are oriented toward entrenched interests.
Came here to post this as it's hands down the most brilliant indictment of this culture I've seen to date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXF8MIG_HQI
as long the definition of the word 'safety' has been expanded to include removing any risk of emotional distress from day-to-day life, we might as well call the current campus climate 'unsafe' for anyone who doesn't hold the prevailing views. i know i certainly didn't feel 'safe' to express the occasional disagreement with the majority opinion while at wesleyan, even though i was 99% in agreement with those prevailing views. i felt paranoid about (either accidentally or deliberately) saying the wrong thing and therefore provoking mob justice. 'walking on eggshells' was an understatement. that paranoia felt more than justified when people who had expressed contrary opinions were the subject of campus-wide mockery, derision, and ostracism.

being reflexively deferential to every conceivable sensitivity causes us to disproportionately look out for the safety of some at the expense of the overall atmosphere of civility, dignity, respect, and yes, 'safety,' of the campus. it really hit home when recently Wesleyan's campus newspaper lost a good portion of its funding because it dared to publish an op-ed criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement on effectiveness grounds [1]. After all, students no longer felt "safe" knowingly attending the same school as someone who disagrees with them (rightly or wrongly). i am completely embarrassed.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-speech-is-flunk...
Groupon seems to be selling original ones starting at $30 (MacBook Air): https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-apple-magsafe-2-power-adapt...
I know it's typical to speak in those terms, but I still can't get over how value-laden a statement like, "rental market weakens" is. Clearly the market is weaker / less good if you have property to rent out, but I know a "weak market" is cause for celebration for many here in Seattle.
Good point, I missed that part...
Hate Lives in a Small Town – A Social Prank
Ah, so it's a conspiracy. Gotcha.
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Yeah, their points are all pretty shaky. I've been a fan of Namecheap for awhile because of their past support for a better internet, but it's extremely disappointing to see this post from them.

I guess I didn't expect them to put their profits over what's best for the web.
Stationary bikes are a great way to read and still be quite active.
Issuing loans is how banks make money.
There are a few theories including the social contract, and implied social contract which argue that citizens have consented to accept the authority of governments (unfortunately those are both wrong)

I don't think I have much of an alternative-for no honest reason other than having not put the thought or time into coming up with one. Not for a lack of want.

That said, the quoted line above, when you say 'wrong' do you mean "the notion that the citizen automatically accepts government rule" is incorrect by virtue of criminals rejecting the rule of law, evidencing a wholesale rejection of authority, or do you mean the concept itself is morally wrong?