skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so important.

We had this experience (as a client) when we went around to find a venue for our wedding (100 people).

The restaurant that got the bid wrote us a personalized letter, included information on the town and hotels that would be available for guests nearby, etc etc..

The rest just sent short notes.

As a leader in an IT department, I asked for proposals for a 40K software review.

All of them responded with no-brainer copypaste letters.
All but ONE, who took their time to make a good, detailed offer.

They called me, we met for an hour with their experts, THEN they made a thoroughly thought out offer.

Guess who got the job?
Related - the truth doesn't have any obligation to fall exactly in the middle between two extremes, or in a geometrical center between many points of view. It can really be, that one side is mostly wrong, and the other mostly right.
While I'm familiar with the idea that healthy companies can be so leveraged for quick profits that they go out of business, I don't understand the mechanism. Is the idea that such over-leveraged companies cease to be otherwise healthy before they go out of business? If so, why? Is the management worse while they are over-leveraged? Is it a matter of market conditions worsening?

Why would an otherwise healthy company be liquidated if it couldn't service its debt? Wouldn't lenders rather sell the company as a profitable going concern than accept what's left after liquidating it? A reasonable valuation for a genuinely healthy company would be greater than book value.

I'm also confused about the practice of backs selling repossessed buy-to-let homes during a crash, evicting tenants in the process. Why sell low, rather than continue to collect the rent?
Funny. After reading this, I decided to comment that in my mind The Economist is a somewhat good counter example. Then I noticed that pretty much all other comments were already discussing TE. I guess I can keep on paying my subscription.
You can keep asking. Nobody is listening. Your fake 'politeness' is deeply offensive.
Nice thesis, especially since I agree with it :)

A few other things the author failed to note.

1. News delivery requires emotional engagement by the audience to keep them consuming and coming back. That means fear or people arguing. If you can get people arguing about things people are afraid of? Even better.

2. Investigative and beat reporters are being eliminated wholesale. Political reporters are the ones left. This means news outlets tend to tell stories in political terms -- even stories that may be technical in nature. Everything becomes politics. (Which we can then slot up people to fight about!)

3. Best form of journalism? Opinion pieces. That's because opinion pieces are required to show bias up front, have a thesis and some kind of logical structure to support that thesis, and provide contextual details from news and history as part of the argument. These details provide the context completely absent from most msm news sources.

4. Anything that can be used to drive engagement _will_ be used to drive engagement. Disgusting pictures, sexual titillation, mesmerizing graphics, misleading headlines... it's all fair game. This means that "fake news" is a sliding scale. On one end we have people admitting their bias and trying to report anyway, even if what they have to say is boring. On the other end we have people who have a bias and motives that are completely unknown to us trying to create any kind of content required to get us clicking.

Quitting news is probably the easiest thing to do to get a boost in mental health, and as long as you love reading, ironically you'll actually end up much more informed than before you quit.
Something pretty close to this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html (I believe they are currently recommending the 4 GPU version shown on at the bottom of that page under "DRIVE PX 2 FOR FULLY AUTONOMOUS DRIVING")

The key here isn't that this isn't a full power desktop GPU, but it will run inference on a CUDA-compatible kernel.

That give NVidia a complete end-to-end modelling, training and driving platform. No one else has that.
Mention it on city-data.com or Reddit local subreddits. Test this strategy by doing only the biggest population centers.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html
What would happen if they started buying up coal to lock it away? My naive view is that it would form a sort of a carbon price.
Although I admire your impulse: the author explicitly says "inhabited the British colonies," i.e. the towns and cities and land under the jurisdiction of the colonial authorities. The native Americans were not under British control, and indeed made treaties with the colonists as foreign governments (which they were recognized as by the British and later US-Americans, although usually only when it suited them). I don't think "all of what is now the USA and Canada" is intended by the term "British colonies" in this piece. I really think they just mean the European settlements hugging the eastern seaboard -- hence the unadorned 200,000 figure.
Remember what DOE was like when we had a Nobel prize winner running it? He did a lot of good, but he still didn't change the culture much. I expect the same inertia will work in our favor with Trump. Passively resist as much as possible, and try to outlast the new idiots at the top.
T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint Will Release the Update of Galaxy Note 7 – APPlite
Link? What link? Did I say there was a link? I just gave you a URL. I said to go visit it. Once you're there, figure out how to save it.

(props to morganvachon for figuring out that you can use OneNote, but omg)
Before you invest in a blockchain startup, read this
I'm not sure what the exact use case is.

Another idea could be to have the text as a timeline where (simplified) each minute is a new line. Would be easy to skim as well as it would preserve the "gaps" within conversations.
I have done no such things, and in fact several of my comments in this HN discussion have said very much the opposite of what you described, as anyone who cares to read a few comments up can immediately verify. You're just making stuff up now, and as such I see no value in continuing this thread any further.
> No, no they won't. The fact that you had to say 'pre-internet' proves that the convenience factor is significant. People paid for movies because that was the only way to get movies. To claim that paid-for movies were therefore 'quality' is arse-backwards.

They were "quality" in the sense that people willingly paid for them. The sad reality is that a huge amount of web content doesn't even meet that low bar.

And I said "pre-internet" mainly to avoid the issue of piracy from bit-torrent, but it probably wasn't necessary. A ton of movies here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films...) were made post-internet and they still made hundreds of millions of dollars. Likewise, the music industry is doing great.

The news industry is in the dumps because they were the ones stupid enough to devalue their content by giving it away for free on the web along side trashy advertising.
I used it once - to coordinate a project ownership transfer with a person not typically using pgp. Explicit message "this person is XYZ on GitHub" helped.
Magic Leap is neither magic nor leaping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=610761

The Curse of a New Building (steveblank.com)

51 points by coglethorpe 2767 days ago

(The C.N.Parkinson chapter is particularly recommended. Can't go wrong with the whole book, too.)
You assume that your customer values things like you do. If the customer is happy he'll feel better; the fact that is happiness is economically viable is an entirely different matter.
But the point isn't your opinion on this argument, I'm just saying that it's possible that someone could genuinely believe in the argument at all. The original comment suggested nobody possibly could think like that, and suggested instead it must be innumeracy.
Ok - I guess I'll mention Papilio - basically a Xilinx FPGA on a board. The Spartan 3 version is as cheap as $38 and the Spartan 6 with an HDMI phy is $75.

http://papilio.cc
WHEN GALAXY NOTE 7 WILL RELEASE THE UPDATE ? : http://applite.eu/t-mobile-att-sprint-will-release-update-ga...
It's quite a jump from what's in the blog article to the claim that you end up "voting wrong". Actually, it seems to me you didn't pay any attention to what the text says at all. Please actually read it. The more I think about your point the less of a connection or relevance I see with the text I just read.
It's 2016, if you abruptly shut down a computer in the middle of a filesystem write the chances of ending up with a corrupted filesystem are of around a 0 %, so those are the chances of getting a brick when you drop your mobile.
That's orthogonal to the previous argument.
> the people that made climate change such an enormous political issue during the Presidential election

Climate change was discussed during the presidential debates for precisely 82 seconds. If climate change can be considered an issue of this election, then the "people that made climate change such an enormous political issue" are the people who made the following ridiculous, attention-getting statements about climate change:

https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/54o7o1/donald_trum...
The same way that solar/wind power is renewable (i.e. not really).
I think this is inevitable. Even the effect of mass media going against so-called "fake news" won't have the effect they desire: In my estimation people will stop trusting and hence following all of it. It pays off, for as you and I have both gathered from the comments it is obvious that people do feel their lives improve once they "tune out". Since 2010 or so, this applies to me as well.

Besides, I don't know for how long mass media has existed in its entirety, but TV only existed for maybe 60 years. Before that we managed just fine without it and I think we'll manage just fine in the future as well. We'll find other ways to connect with matters we care about, which is the basis of news anyway.

When things such as what we need to spend our time on become obligatory, and enforced by social pressure, people will feel entrapped sooner or later. That's what's happening now. The media keeps dividing us into so many categories, and then passes judgment on all of us. To them, no one can escape, no one is free, no one is good - it's the only thing that sells. We're all stampeded on by editorials and pounded on by inducing guilt and forcing ads. Conflict is a cash cow.

Personally I think that the importance of news is terribly overrated - I've yet to hear of any reason for why it should be important that resonates with me. As I've said, I've tuned out for many years.
I disagree.

In my experience, the people who actively don't follow any news at all are fully aware of their blindside. They just don't care (or have judged, quite reasonably, that they have more immediate personal concerns)

The worst people are those who are glued to the TV or net, closely watching things as if the future of the world depended on whether they knew politician X was fired right now or five minutes from now. They attach far too much drama and emotional involvement in matters which they have no control over. In addition, they're just as much in a bubble as the ones not engaged at all. The tragedy is that they don't realize it.

If you're in a discussion with somebody who doesn't follow the news, as long as they are reasonable, you can cover common ground fairly quickly, then get to whatever your point/question is. If you're in a discussion with somebody who is glued to the news, you can spend hours teasing out their bias and failing to reach any kind of common ground at all. That's because news promotes rhetoric instead of the dialectic. People are being taught to argue like lawyers over whatever beliefs they have because they spend hours invested in a medium that shows them lawyers arguing about events. They teach themselves how to have a closed mind.

Nope. I'll take a non-news consumer with an open mind over a msm news consumer any day of the week. Life is too short to program yourself to be so hard-headed and impervious to change.
My advice to you would be to get a subscription to a quality newspaper, even if it's only on a weekly basis. Newspapers have come to terms with their position, as last in the news race, so they tend to make up for it with articles pondering the why's of news, rather than the what's. Kids are smarter than we give them credit for, and they will absolutely read a newspaper while eating breakfast, if you leave one out for them.
Carpet or hard floor (ceramic, etc) ?
>I think the best way to do it is to redesign cities to specifically accommodate self-driving cars

That will never happen. The car has to drive itself on existing infrastructure or not at all.
I know of at least 2 commercial implementations: VFX Forth by mpe[0] and SwiftForth by Forth Inc[1]. Both companies are still in business, selling their tools for hundreds to thousands of dollars, so there is obviously some people using them. I think they have a partial customer listing somewhere on their site. Oh, and there's also gforth of course.

Then again, part of the charm of forth is how easily it is to bootstrap your own forth on your own system. There could be countless homegrown forths out there, in addition to these commercial offerings.

I haven't used forth for anything in production, myself. I just think it's a really interesting language. It's a great "what if" question. What if everything built on C had been built on Forth instead? What if all the work in improving the C language, tooling, operating systems, libraries, hardware etc had been spent improving Forth and stacks instead? It's fun to ponder.

If you want to read more about forth, check out Thinking Forth[2]. It's really got some great insights about programming and software design in general, not just applicable to forth programming in particular.

Starting Forth[3] is also good more of a beginner's introduction to forth. And Moore's own Problem Oriented Language is a good book talking about what his intentions were when he created forth[4].

For more reading:
This page has a lot of good forth links too [5]
Chuck Moore's color forth blog[6]
This site has lots of interviews with Chuck Moore on it and other forth opinion pieces[7]
Forth Interest Group site[8]

There's also a new forth standard that's being worked on[9]. Seems pretty active, too.

[0] http://www.mpeforth.com/software/pc-systems/vfx-forth-for-wi...

[1] https://www.forth.com/swiftforth/

[2] http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

[3] https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/0-starting-forth/

[4] http://www.forth.org/POL.pdf

[5] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20160305013837/http://www.colorf...

[7] http://www.ultratechnology.com/

[8] http://www.forth.org/

[9] https://forth-standard.org/
You could build one or two million houses and solve a lot of problems but you'd also p*ss off a lot of homeowners in the process. It's a no win situation for any political party.
Had Q1 support for 3D acceleration on launch ?

I remember playing Q1 CPU only, on a crappy PC and wasn't really blown away by it.

Q2 I believe was bundled with my first graphic card, and it really made a huge difference.
I understand. I used to use Debian on an old Radeon card in 2009 on my first computer (was 9 yrs old at the time, got a family friend to install Debian Lenny for me). Used it up to Wheezy. Then I got new hardware, Debian wouldn't recognize the WiFi card and I kind of switched to Ubuntu. Then got other new hardware, Linux wouldn't work, shitty AMD APUs... I'm right now installing Ubuntu 16.10 on a new model netbook and it works pretty well, everything was recognized, and I'm typing this on it. It's very smooth and fast, but on an E1-2100 AMD APU it's extremely stuttering and slow and unreliable and crashing. And that's both with FOSS and Closed Source drivers.
The DOE's biggest duties are nuclear defense (2/3 of the budget), and science programs (1/4). Among other things, they're working to "find alternatives to rare earth elements which we now depend on China for" [0]; they also helped fund the Human Genome Project.

The DOE invented "solid state lighting, modern refrigerator compressors and water heaters".

The OP (submission) mentions cuts to ARPA-E, which he probably got from 2 of Trump's questionnaire, but cuts to ARPA-E are very unlikely to be significant, since they fund so many commercializable things, which Trump said he supports during the campaign trail. Here [1] is the Trump questionnaire so everyone can read it without speculating about it. Many of the questions are innocuous, the fuss is centered around question 13.

[0]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2015/11/23/republican...
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/09/us/politics/do...
Reading interface heavy code is harder because interfaces are another layer of abstraction
This is why the break from political news on HN is so welcome. Just about any topic that has a partisan angle is going to be reported with a big slant, or outright fabricated.

There are plenty of other venues for that.
Now if only I could use extensions in private browsing mode...
> Obviously some people don't agree with fact or scientific truth, to each his/her opinion but it seems to me advertising is invasive by definition.

I would have liked your comment more if you wouldn't passive-agressively dismissed the people who disagree with you as anti-science and anti-fact.

For a sufficiently rigorous definition of "invasive", I (like you) find it pretty obvious that ads are invasive by nature, but the disagreement is whether or not the invasive nature of ads is a bad thing. (I'm torn on this, but it doesn't matter. I have plenty of other reasons to dislike ads.)
Thus making you dependent on said revenue, so you end up not wanting to get off carbon.
An effective offshore relationship
What seals the deal about news is that for the vast majority mainstream medias are both late and innacurate[1] compared to just reading from upstream sources (medicine, technology, economy, geopolitical events). Also now twitter and the like are taking the night spot. Anything happening then won't be covered by most medias, or in a hurry which means they'll be as crude as a twitter feed.

Lots of wasted "brain" time.

[1] In fields I know it's completely useless to listen. Makes you wonder about other fields too .. It feels like entertainment rather than information.

ps: I'll add the neurotic swing of medias. So many crysis (greece, ...) you hear about for a month constantly. Then nothing. No follow up or so rarely. It just doesn't matter what they say.
I just checked, You're right. I'm sorry, I didn't look at it. Basically to disable SecureBoot you must disable UEFI. SecureBoot can't be changed but boot mode can and it's either UEFI or Legacy. UEFI is 32bit so it's somewhat of an issue, but not that big of a deal, Ubuntu handles it.
Interesting thought. Another option is that it's more of a link between substance dependence and anxiety. In the same way that alcohol, weed and other drugs create a feedback loop of 'feel bad' -> 'easy, instant solution' (to which absence of the solution can become the 'feel bad' itself, creating a loop), I suppose it could be the same for food/sugar.
I took a break from Twitter because of the community's obsession with (mostly depressing) day to day news and the outrage about it.
> but how are lower real estate prices really a bad thing?

It depends why they are lower. If they are lower because more houses are being built that could be a good thing because relieving the chronic shortage in affordable housing will help more people get on the property ladder, increase the available labour pool for businesses, if they live closer to work it will ease transport congestion, etc, etc. Good all round.

However if house prices are falling because wages are getting depressed so people can't afford higher prices, the jobs market is slowing, inward investment is petering out, etc then it's not so much that lower house prices themselves are bad, but it's a really bad sign for the economy.

Apart from anything else, falling house prices due to economic factors is going to reduce investment in new housing, which we really do need in the medium to long term.
Why not publish (at a typical ebook price) on Amazon also? Be a fun experiment to have both paid and free versions--not too many opportunities to collect that kind of data. Or maybe make the vue version available only on Amazon while leaving the older version as is.
It's been around since 2012, one of many Flash-specific filesystems. And sure, it can be helpful for flash disks, as other filesystems can too. But in some benchmarks f2fs performs worse than ext4, and in others shows it is not syncing to disk as often as it should be, putting data unnecessarily at risk. Oh, and the fsck program used to crash on any filesystem errors (hopefully they've fixed that by now (edit: they appear to have fixed it in March))

The performance boost in this case is mainly due to the nobarrier option, which is potentially dangerous unless you have something like a battery-backed RAID controller to act as a persistent disk cache. If you back up all your stuff, could be nice. (A similar hack I used to use to eliminate iops-related slowdown was to implement a tmpfs mount for small files that got written a lot, and just rsync them once a minute to disk)

One of the benefits of f2fs is that you can select the allocation and cleaning algorithms that it uses based on the flash chip in use, so before using it on your system, you might want to tune it to your application. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.tx...
Lawyers provide a solid defense from the locals who for some reason don't enjoy being neighbours of the new wood-burning power plant.
Portfolio, please.
> [Facebook] is monstrously expensive to maintain.

It would be interesting to find out how much of this operational cost and complexity could be removed if they didn't depend on collecting as much data about users as possible for the purpose of targeted ads.
Does it result in significantly slower muni? Many major downtown routes have dedicated bus lanes, and obviously there is no impact on the subway.
I recommend testing and evaluating Bcache carefully before planning to use it in a production system. I found it unwieldly, opaque, and difficult to manage when testing on a simple load; Benefits were mild.

I'm sure it has its uses! But I'd emphatically advise anyone to obtakn hands-on experience with Bcache before planning around it! As I'm sure you are already doing or considering of course :)
The salary you must earn to buy a home in 27 metros
Salary you would need to earn in order to afford the principal, interest, taxes and insurance payments on a median-priced home in 27 metro areas.
Well, because we have never seen any exploits with bash (Shellshock anybody?) or ssh (Heartbleed rings a bell?).

You just don't know the weird ways things can be exploited. And if an exploit is discovered you'll be just as happy as everybody else if you don't need to implement a fix yourself but can rely on others implementing, testing and reviewing fixes that they provide to you as an update.
Wish it could import Supermemo knowledge (with history). Simply can't afford switching to a new tool at this point (7 year Supermemo user with thousands of knowledge items).
>>> Look at how many of the answers in this thread are simply about communicating effectively.

spot on
Do they import 6%?
Clickferry
What's a good "upstream" for geopolitics?
High house prices are mainly good when you die. You no longer need a house and your descendents get to convert the house equity into cash (paid for by the younger generation). The rest of the time high house prices just mean larger debt, more risk if prices fall and higher transaction costs.