skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling it an "accident" is doublespeak so you can wave your hands and go "I had an accident, oops, it couldn't be helped."

Making it seem like it was just your fate that day. Which if it was at-fault, it certainly wasn't. It sounds a lot better than "I am either negligent or incompetent and shouldn't be trusted with piloting a 2-ton hulk of metal."

If you checked your blind spot every time like you ought to, the blind spot detection is at best a minor additional safety backup. I see a lot of people relying on it instead of actually doing that, and the systems aren't perfect. (One good example: Someone else is starting to merge into your blind spot but hasn't gotten in the lane yet).
The Economist disagrees with you:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/10/economi...

Was tulipmania irrational?
Tulipmania was not just crazy speculation
Your comment sounds like a commercial mainly.
The way I see it is that if Firefox's userbase dwindles because of this, either we get our Firefox with opt-out telemetry or... Firefox dies. And now we have a Chrome monopoly.

I'm not sure I like that gamble.
And you got an enormous amount of enjoyment from it, which is what a game is for. :)

I remember doing a similar thing with save files and the old Ragnarok game.
Once you pay Medium, it's Medium's money. Sending fine-grained monetary support to content creators is exactly what Patreon is for.
MRR without in isolation, without churn, CAC or WoW growth is fairly meaningless. It's basically just a different way to report run rate.

You can buy 20k in MRR with your YC investment, just for a pop at demo day. Keeping up growth is another thing all together.
The hope is that the fund you are invested in reverses their long positions to short positions, and those assets keep on increasing. I wouldn't trust any money manager that wasn't ready to change their position to match the immediate market at the first sign it was profitable to do so. You don't want a "wait and see" money manager, you want a shark.
Thank you for the clarification.

Does a similar video exist from the "Savings drive the economy" point of view?
It's a semantic argument over the meaning of "pattern". Your example is mathematical, the meaning in the linked article is more along the lines of "statistical model".

I mean, to provide a counterexample: we have about as good a model for beta decay of H3 as we are ever going to get[1], but we still can't tell you when your geiger counter is going to click.

[1] Pause for some physiscist to jump in and tell me this is totally not true and there remain deep theoretical holes here.
But what is people fleeing to? The other 2 notorious frameworks are Angular and Vue.js. I've never tried Vue.js but Angular seems to come with a higher complexity than React. I know of Inferno.js which is very similar to React but comes with an MIT license, however the author was hired by Facebook so who knows how long it will stand.

Are WebComponents a thing yet? It might be better to stick to the standards and polyfills at this point.
I have tried the same, it does not work. At least for me it didn't. Its like smoker saying I will keep my cigarettes in the box but won't smoke them.
Advices from very unsuccesful people don't help either.
I think I just have whatever Sweethome recommended last year. One of the lower-end models—only useful thing, really, is a timer-vibration to tell you to switch quarters or quit, and that's the only extra feature mine has. You don't need any of the Bluetooth (!?) ones or whatever. Pretty sure it's Oral B, might be the Pro 1000.
Now that I am thinking about it I am amazed that this is not how existing platforms work.
I know that was a rhetorical question, but a search for neo on github yields 14 thousand results. Granted, that includes some "neon", but sheesh. It's like that truck I saw the other day, for a business called "best carpet cleaners". I get that the branding is cool, but you can't google that name.

Heck, there are several different programs named neo on the first page of google search results for "neo editor"!
Useless article about egocentrics no-life bullying each other...
To be honest, the claim of any influence of a president's policy on the economy is tenuous, although the bailouts at the beginning of Obama's first term may be one of the exceptions.

The only real fault you can find with Trump so far is how he's constantly claiming positive news from Wall Street and economic indicators as his successes. Since he started with almost full employment, he's almost assured to end his first term with a net growth in unemployment. Establishing the idea of being measured by those numbers is almost comically bad strategy.

But I guess he and his sycophants will just go back to claiming that the statistics are manipulated.
>> The rational thing is to buy more cheap stocks during a downturn

Are you sure? If the price is decreasing, you see buying as profitable? When the price is decreasing, I see profitability as selling. The path of least resistance is the one your money needs to travel.
The point was that it wasn't caused by government regulation. And it was a quip, anyway, pointing out that even late renaissance "investors" in a completely new market would see a boom/bust cycle.
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You say:

1) Person A: I hold a belief for which there is no proof or rational support. I just have faith in it.

2) Person B: I too hold such a set of beliefs. Mine are different than yours and they even compel me to kill you.

What interviewer meant is that this method of thinking arrives at vastly different, even conflicting views, hence it is inconsistent and unreliable.
I read it that way too. Maybe it should be of instead of for? Not a native speaker, just wondering.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078770
Does not work in firefox developer addition. Navbars work fine but nothing else.
Amazon has automatically-checked standards for formatting, but I don't think anybody is manually reviewing content for errors.
RIP John Abercrombie
What about the communist crisis in China? /s
For certain millennials, crypto-currency already seems to hold the role that gold does for certain baby boomers. I would expect that phenomenon to grow during a bear market.
It's a one off designed to measure sound waves and bearing at the same time.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/ships/flip/history
Buy something that is globally diversified. If the global economy is on a 20 year downturn you probably have more serious problems than your investments.
So encrypt the password with your public key before storing it and decrypt it on the server?
Obligatory ShowHN:
http://ifiction.org/games/index.php?cat=2
A budget can still be "cut" while growing against inflation though. They also refer to a cut compared to projections, and the projections are usually to increase the budget faster than inflation.
Seems like we are back to node.js vs io.js (Ayo.js) war :D
Even in the Bay Area, there is periodically bad to less than perfect weather - we had 30+ straight days of rain about 15 years ago in one of the El Nino years, and that would have killed Waymo's steering wheel-less cars' useability. It's almost like none of the people who made that decision were here when that happened.
Of course we are due for a pull back in the stock market. Stocks are historically overvalued by many metrics, the most simple of which is the P/E ratio. Check out this website -- http://www.multpl.com/

The question is not if stocks will pull back, its when. Bull markets can run for a long time even if they are over valued. The boom of the early 2000's and 2007 went way higher than average, and crashed hard.
I've played several games over the years that handle skills/classes that way, Skyrim being a recent one. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Often times it's easy to abuse the system to get high stats quickly and unrealistically.

Plus, these games will usually have a scale on enemy difficulty based on you instead of the game world. So if you somehow run into something that should be incredibly dangerous for your beginner character, it is not that hard to defeat. Remember that rabbit you smacked a couple of times to kill for its meat in the early game? Later it requires gear designed to fight gods to kill that rabbit's brother. I exaggerate, but that type of system bothers me to no end.
It's not all black and white

I'm reading your comment on my smartphone, while in a bathroom, while on a conference trip.
I'm about to open an account on one of those services. I'm 47 and am terrified that I'm not saving enough for retirement and am hoping that the service can give me some peace of mind or at least help me with a plan.
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And you bankrupt every smith in the game because you flooded the market with hundreds of iron daggers.
I'll provide contrast, then.

Code checked into version control is never changed. What happens is the reviewer creates a derivative work. If they use my code as a basis for their derivative work, that's a sign of respect just as much as anything else. It means that they think I actually got it mostly right.

The same argument applies if it's merged right away. Unless the reviewer(s) blatantly misunderstood something important, it's likely their fix is an improvement. And even if they did, the previous code is just a reset/rebase/oops-commit away.

That said, you should still discuss the code to iron out misunderstandings and learn things.
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As someone who is graduating college in December and currently looking at starting a Roth IRA with money I saved from internships. Should I wait to invest until this downturn actually happens? Or does that not matter and the sooner I start investing the better?

Not well versed in this subject, appreciate all advice:)
I'm not following, nowhere in that article does it say there was no boom/bust of tulips.
Thank you for your comment. You are right and I admit I didn't come with another solution at this time. This is why I did not write a huge part about authorizations.
Please read the article, it explicitly states that the Dutch tulip boom/bust was caused by government regulation.

> Earl Thompson, formerly of UCLA, takes a different approach. He reckons that the market for tulips was an efficient response to changing financial regulation—in particular, the anticipated government conversion of futures contracts into options contracts. This ruse was dreamt up by government officials, who themselves were keen to make a quick buck from the tulip trade.

> In plain English, investors who had bought the right to buy tulips in the future were no longer obliged to buy them. If the market price was not high enough for investors’ liking, they could pay a small fine and cancel the contract. The balance between risk and reward in the tulip market was skewed massively in investors’ favour. The inevitable result was a huge increase in tulip options prices. (The price of options collapsed when the government saw sense and cancelled the contracts.)
Probably not because that never happened.
I am not optimistic about the task because there is no intrinsic relationship between an operating system and an architecture...Windows 10 runs on ARM (and before it Windows Phone 7/8 and Windows RT) and before that Windows CE and Windows Embedded on various architectures.

To put it another way, a diagram reflects a decision to leave out some details and emphasize others in order to make a particular point. To be a bit early Wittgensteinian, the world is all the facts, a diagram is a picture of the logical structure of the world, and the problem is that the relationship between operating systems and architectures has no logical structure. Knowing that OSX runs on x86 is not evidence for or against it running on MIPS. I can only use the fact in syllogism. And even then unconvincingly because OSX runs on some x86 systems and not others.
Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)
Ahh yes, we know this all too well, the Linux desktop trap:

iterative work is lame, the old solution is so bad it's not even wrong, here is my idea for a rewrite, look it's even still compatible (for another few minutes).
> In America, 75% of employees consider their direct line manager the worst part of their job, and 65% would take a pay cut if they could replace their boss with someone else.

And this is one of the secret sauces of startups. Excel at valuing your staff in the midst of a crap-show and they will stick with you even though you can't match the compensation packages of large corporations.

Corollary: good management is imperative within a startup, or you'll loose an important value-prop as an employer.
A sidenote to ABC-like theories: entrepreneurs always end up with clusters of malinvestments, even without interest rate manipulation. Simply because humans always exaggerate.

The difference is that without e.g. interest rate manipulation, we'd probably have a lot of "rolling waves" of small recessions. These small recessions would be frequent but also limited in duration, scale and scope.

With suppression of interest rates, the malinvestment becomes bigger and broader. Meaning their unraveling is much more traumatic.

9 years into the latest boom, with ZIRP and NIRP and QE and mark to unicorn accounting and all the other oxycodon shots necessary to abort and forget the 2008 run on the system, we can only wonder what has been built up in terms of malinvestment and what the unraveling will be like. Not just in the world of finance and credit, but also in the real economy, where much of the recent competition and "disruption" is really based on venture capital backed companies not worrying about profitability for years on end.
Indeed, you are:)
If Dropbox Paper would work offline, then I think that'd be perfect for me.
Well they could probably come up with some solution perhaps using a virtual LibreOffice to import it or whatnot. We've known for ages that those formats aren't particularly "ideal" and we should be starting letting them go, regardless of dreaming about a hypothetical OS or not.

I mean, you could also probably come up with some solution to have a guest over who brings their pet cow without doing too much damage to your nicely decorated apartment. Doesn't mean that's an ideal situation, and it most definitely is no reason to not dream about living somewhere nicer than a stable, and what that would look like to you.

The latter part, about dreaming how NICE your house could look like if you did not have to accommodate guests with cows barging into your living room all the time. That is what the article is actually about, he's pretty clear about his awareness that technical possibility is very different from the availability of a realistic road to transition from where we are now to the possibilities he sketches.

It's also a very important matter of combating learned helplessness. If you dismiss dreaming about an IdealOS beforehand because there's no way (that you can see now) to get there from where desktop OS's are today, then you most assuredly will miss the opportunity to attain even some of these improvements, were they to come within reach through some circumstance in the future.

Also, I remember programming on a 386. And on the one hand it amazes me that the thing in my pocket today is so much more powerful than that old machine, let alone my current desktop. And on the other hand, it infuriates me that some tasks on my desktop today are quite slow when really they have no right to be, and some of these tasks are even things that my 386 used to have no problems with whatsoever (but then, TPX was a ridiculously fast compiler, a true gem).

We should not let that slip out of sight, demand better and keep dreaming.
Ask HN: Any CMDB software suggestion for tech startup in cloud era?
we are seeking a simple cmdb software for our startup, which can easily manage the service and it's owner/group information. Alerting system can find the true of source from there.

but after several search around didn't find the perfect one.

any suggestion? through we can write it in Django for sure, but I think this is a common requirement for any company have micro-service inside.
Okay, that is definitely needed if we want to build serious components. Else it's gonna go crazy heavy!
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Hydrogen storage ain't easy. It's not the motors that are the problem in weight, but hydrogen storage tanks or electric batteries.
I'd lookup Hayek, who has a different take on it compared to Keynes
> Now let's say waymo chooses a sole partner to avoid this, GM, for example.

I think it depends a lot on the specific partner. Noticeably WayMo has partnered with Chrysler, rather than Ford, and Chrysler seems in a position where they would retool to do what WayMo told them to do, because they have no self-driving effort of their own, so WayMo is their only hope if this becomes real. WayMo might just buy Chrysler at that point.
That means you need an additional ship when towing it into position, and more time is wasted transitioning people to and fro. Here everybody boards in port and they can do on-board setup during towing.
> As the author points out, we've forgotten how to be bored. We need to learn to engage that part of our brain again.

This sounds like a contradiction. Isn't boredom precisely the state that results when one fails to engage their brain?
As a user, instead of the "we will send the data once you are online" message, I would prefer "you seem offline, please try again once you are online" kind of approach. I would not like to rely on a background worker on a mobile device and I would not know whether my form has been sent, a timeout occured, what happens if I refresh the tab, what happens in a poor connection (seems online but can't connect to internet). Therefore, I would like to be just notified about the connection issue and try again once I got out of the metro.
Le verdure fanno bene alla nostra salute ma andiamo nello specifico
Can't wait to see how "CocuSocial" is received in France.
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Well, if you know it will go down, you shouldn't invest. In general for IRA stuff the sooner the better though.
The article states 1) it was a boom/bust and 2) the boom/bust was caused by government regulation.

It states that Tulipmania was a rational response to anticipated government regulation that would let investors cancel their futures contracts for only a small fee.
In your example, you'll also need to change the headers because $.ajax will set content type to application/json, which wouldn't work if your server is setup to receive x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data.

Starting to get complicated now, might be easier to just do $("#form").submit().
The problem is that good ones who are actually good charge such high fees that it eats up all the difference they make, and also end up being bad after a while anyway. Bad ones do the same thing but lose more, faster.

In a gold rush, sell shovels.
You're making the assumption that someone just put all their money into the market at once. People use dollar cost averaging and add money to the market every week or month. So if you put all your money in at the top, yes you;d not be doing so well. But more likely you put money in before, during and after that event and today you'd be well up when you consider dividends and appreciation.

Also, you'd want to diversify outside of a single market, like Japan stocks. You'd want to be diversified across bonds, stocks, real estate, currencies, precious metals, commodities, etc. This is so easy and inexpensive to do today for the average person.

Dollar cost averaging across a broad spectrum of investment instruments over a long period of time is better than holding cash.
The cffi module in python came from pypy (which broke the cpython c api) - but both the python ctypes module and cffi use libffi:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libffi
A few weeks ago, concerns were raised by several TSC and CTC members regarding issues they had with @rvagg's interactions in the Github tracker and Twitter.

The specific issues that were reported include:

[Note: the specific list of issues has been removed at the request of several core collaborators who felt that listing the issues was not fair to Rod. This post was made with an effort at full transparency and with no ill intent towards anyone. No additional harm was intended by listing the issues - jasnell]

Ok, so what did they do? Does the announcement say?

EDIT: It looks like some of the allegations are at https://twitter.com/ohhoe/status/899748838302302212 but I'm having a bit of trouble parsing it.

Would it be possible to get "They said X, which is inappropriate because Y"? I don't know enough to understand why "apologizing to a contributor who had been repeatedly moderated" is bad (or what it even means, really).

On the other hand, I don't want my comment to be interpreted as a dismissal, or to put anyone on the defensive. I'm just asking for more info.
It's not the best-written title ever, but in general when you see "therapy for X" it means "therapy to cure X", rather than "therapy to cause X".
Before I try to address the idea that "software" should just be fully adaptable to the needs and wants of the average internet user, let's stick to this more specific use case.

If you want a web site that allows you to create your own personal grid of thumbnails for a list of links (from a URL), that is something that can be built with software (with relative ease). If this particular developer created that tool, the considerations would certainly elevate rapidly - now it's useful to a lot more people, so you need to provide hosting for your larger audience. Instead of a novelty, you've created a burden on your resources. Particularly if they want a "live" grid of thumbnails, and thus it updates "constantly", the resource costs could quickly become staggering.

What are reasonable expectations for software, and if they are not being met, what is the roadblock? What exactly were the predictions and hopes for software in the late 60s?

A relatively average user can use WYSIWYG editors (including word processors, web editors, and apps that provide text, photo and video editing at your fingertips.) What else should they be able to do?

Are we merely discontent with the rate of progress? People who are not in the line of work of home automation are able to purchase hardware and configure it in their homes. People can buy inexpensive, versatile computer chips off the shelf and program them to be unique devices, meeting specific needs. We can already imagine, predict and hope for a future where the functionality of a web site or device is wildly configurable to the individual. What metrics do we have to reach before we're satisfied?
The closest I've come to smooth and flowing writing is using Sublime Text, pandoc flavored markdown (for the epub support), and pandoc and LaTeX to process it.
So is the dbus-broker the latest project from the kdbus/bus1 guys.

Since from the text dbus-broker does not use the bus1 kernel module, does that mean the bus1 project is dead?
Exhibit 3 looks somewhat like a random walk. Exhibit 7 doesn't. I assume the y-axis is gdp growth.
The previous submission was flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078995

(I don't know why it was flagged -- I only noticed the story, I didn't read it.)
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Not sure why this was downvoted. It's quite true. As others have mentioned, when the economy grows, people get more comfortable with risk. When the bubble pops, people freak out. This behavior goes a long way in mangnifying the boom/bust cycle.