skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article points out, a large number of the purchasers aren't apocalypse preppers and the company itself is expanding its marketing efforts towards a more mainstream audience and successfully finding customers. So you're arguing against something the article only mentions in passing.

"...today, the major concern is environmental instability. “It’s not just the freak events. We get calls from people saying, ‘I live in Miami, and flooding is now routine. I’m worried Florida is going to be under water in two years,’ ” he says. “Or from people in upstate New York who experienced a 1-in-a-1,000-year blizzard and couldn’t get out of their driveway for two weeks. People who lived through the California drought, the forest fires of Texas and the Northwest, and who think maybe the government won’t come to their rescue when a disaster hits...."
I think that attitude suggests you may have sub-normal acquaintances. I, for example, am not acquainted with anyone who doubts that women are people.

In the US 91% of people rate gender equality (that men and women should have the same rights) as being "very important". The ideas that men think of women as less than men, but also think it's very important they have equal rights are hard to reconcile.

I find your view perverse and lacking resemblance to reality.

1 - http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/19/many-around-...
It's hard to identify with the vitriol in response to this thread, yeah it was dumb and silly but, without reading Hacker News, it would have been a completely invisible event for me. I've been totally in love with FF57 since release and this doesn't really detract from it at all. Very happy to have a fast, open browser that keeps me from needing to rely on Google, Apple, or Microsoft for web browsing, even if Mozilla doesn't always act perfectly.
So basically extracted noun phrases and concatenated where the grammar fits?

I think I've seen it before somewhere.
Perhaps you could ask the Puerto Ricans whether they feel all their disaster preparedness was pointless because eventually they ran out of them, often before full fixes arrived, and that they shouldn't have bothered to prepare at all.
1998 in Colorado Springs, same thing for me. (edit: should note that in my viewing, they did suddenly dash off to the South, which is what shocked my friend and I driving down the highway)
> Do we even have a right not to be harmed? If we do, how is justice served -- can we serve it ourselves, or delegate it to others if we wish?

...And then the young anarchists assemble a small group for mutual protection and justice. And then these small groups begin to share resources and find the need for policies and infrastructure...

...And then they rebel against their new society because it imposes policies on their "freedom"...
You may not know this but in certain circles the word "accident" is not in vogue anymore -- the preferred description is crash or collision.

https://www.google.com/search?q=crash+not+accident
BART and Muni are good public transit by American standards— which is to say, not particularly good public transit.
Some of us already have :).

What do you mean by that?
Before you saw these incidents, what was your belief system in UFOs? I ask this because sometimes we can see what we want to see and sometimes we cannot see what we don't want to see.
If your signalling and switches are good enough, you can get to about ~30s headways. You can't really go faster than that because station dwell times will screw you. Scheduling this theoretical maximum is a daft idea, though, because any mishaps, and you have no spare time for recovery. Metro systems in practice usually end up being scheduled around 90-150s headway, so about 24-45tph.

There's one catch for trains though: most trains aren't dispatching single cars. Rather, trains on busy systems are generally 8 or 10 cars that move as a consist. If you factor that in to your example, you don't have 120s between cars, but rather 12s. That might sound like a lot, but you should have 3s between cars for safe driving anyways, and train cars carry well over 4× the number of people in individual cars. Even if every road car were full Jitney vans.
A document is static. It's neither necessary nor desirable that we access documents over the internet by contacting their owners. It's better for both privacy and resilience to handle documents over something like IPFS.

The web as we know it is much better suited to applications, where websites have behavior as well as content. Whether the rendering is server-side like HN or client-side like Facebook is irrelevant.
The way to reconcile differing views is to discard them as principles and look at them as ideals and preferences.

Doesn't make for sweeping rhetoric though.
I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant. The word "sustainable" does not only refer to ecological sustainability.
See also https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/40234/what-is-t...
I meant sentences like:

> Pandey had a burning need to know what these rapists were thinking. She decided to ask the rapists themselves.

> Their utter lack of remorse came as a surprise to her.

> She saw a pattern of "cognitive distortion" — they had created their own version of the crime that allowed them to justify their actions.

Statements like that imply a certain level of cognitive capacity and agency, which maybe these inmates have, but if so that isn't demonstrated anywhere in the article. All I'm saying is that the implications of the research are very different depending on whether these folks are upper middle class, college educated with normal IQ, EQ, etc., versus if half of them have severe lead poisoning or TBIs or whatever.
> great black ceiling, which was full of blood

Q: What colour is your new car?
A: You know the colour of the sea wave? The same, but red.
Or maybe American laws make it essentially illegal to use newly-developed or redeveloped land in a way compatible with high-quality transit service.
700 calories a day isn't going to make that much difference over a week or two.

It'll be a little happier.
It's not crazy to think. Why do extremely wealthy people continue to strive for 100 billion instead of settling with 10? They had plenty at 1 million.

That's probably socialized, but maybe theres some animal hunger underneath it.
Yeah cause criminals only ever use guns that police are allowed to have.
I've been a die-hard Firefox guy for a long time ... I stuck around while the browser was being surpassed in performance by Chrome[0]. I left briefly when developer edition was updated in a manner that prevented my most relied upon add-ons from working.

This move, when I first read about it, rubbed me the wrong way. As things have settled out, though, I'm a lot less quick to want to jump ship. In the context of a simple "easter egg" kind of thing, it's actually somewhat cool (I'm a fan of Mr. Robot, personally, so hey -- that helps a little)[1]. I think what bugged me the most is the lack of communication. Upon first reading about the "bug", it sounded like it was something that was "on by default" and potentially being used to collect data. It at least sounds like it was disabled unless you intentionally turned a setting on in about:config. OK, I guess. It would have been nice if there was better communication once the crap hit the fan and The Internet started panicking.

The "easter egg" idea isn't something most of us would complain about if a very clear explanation was available upon discovery, but the fact that it was a promotion with NBC Universal, I think, is where a lot of folks got seriously upset. I know it was the first red flag I latched onto. Frankly, it's hard to imagine a worse company to enter into this kind of an agreement with and the way this was implemented just looks really bad -- as an add-on that appears to be a telemetry-type service.

I think NBC Universal and the first two things that come to mind are the MPAA and their desire to burn down the internet if it keeps people from downloading movies ... and Comcast -- bandwidth caps, JavaScript injection, abysmal customer service, ever rising Internet bills (especially if -- as is often the case -- you live in an area where they are the only provider). It's a shame they had to suffer such a poor lapse of judgement at a time when the press around Firefox was turning so heavily in its favor. This was, hopefully, a painful enough shot in the foot that something like this won't happen, again. But who knows? Out of the options, available, I'm sticking with Firefox for now.

[0] Part of this was my stubborn refusal to import my bookmarks mixed with the convenience of sync being setup everywhere I used it, part of it was a general dirty feeling I got from using a browser from a company (Google) who's becoming increasingly aggressive in asserting their monopoly positions.

[1] And there's no irony lost about the fact that a show that would directly appeal to security engineers was being promoted in a way that would cause a security engineer to lose his/her mind.
Yeah, and didn’t the Pentagon say they’d lost track of $6.5Tn in spending or something? This is nothing compared to that.
The object in the video is hot. Most military FLIR devices can be toggled between "white hot" and "black hot". If you look in the lower left corner of the video, there's an indicator that says "WHT" and the object appears white. At about 12 seconds into the footage, the coloring is inverted and the indicator changes to "BLK" because the pilot toggled it.

The halo is an artifact of the FLIR device. Every FLIR I've ever seen does that in areas where there's a high temperature contrast.
Most of the UFO sightings are simply balloons used to study weather. Take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_balloon
There is a natural tension between the desire to do good and the need to make money.

If you can't be financially self-sustaining, then no level of desire to do good in the world will result in the long term ability to continue doing good.

It is like the phrase, Justice without power is inefficient and power without justice is tyranny. You need both profit and philosophy to do good.
Well, evidently I don't think it's invalid. Just asserting that doesn't achieve much. I haven't given this a great deal of thought, but it seems the specific emotions are so far irrelevant; what is relevant is whether an action causes harm, or may be predicted to do so/usually does so.
>they might suspect that a darker skinned person driving with a white person at the back is more likely to be an Uber driver

I think in Finland official taxis say "TAKSI" and have a yellow sign on the roof, so maybe they might suspect any unofficial-looking car with a driver in the front and the sole passenger in the back as being an Uber.
Kind of my point. It's a great dissertation, with some great ideas in it. One of them is REST (Web pages). But the other architectures are well documented in there too - with trade-offs.

Ed: not sure about "time wasted bickering over it". Bickering is always time wasted. Careful analysis of software architecture, patterns, and figuring out what you're actually trying to achieve - is time well spent.

There are fundamental trade-offs between REST and different patterns - depending on where the truth of your data recides, if you need acid or not, and where (what part of) your code executes.
I don’t want to be the pink elephant in the room
Is it easy to find free (as in freedom) DAB receivers?. Analog radio circuits are easy to examine, but I suspect that DAB receivers must be impossible to examine thoroughly for obvious reasons. There might be some security concerns because of it. What have the Norwegian authorities said about that?.
Beyond that, on the west coast, there's concerns that there are massive earthquakes that have been overdue for a while and may occur sometime in the next couple of decades.

"There is a 17 to 20 percent chance that northern Oregon will be hit by a magnitude-8 quake in the next 50 years."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/a-major-...
It's natural that older people tend to need less sleep though.
Tremendous amount of fraud. Not just unethical behavior, but fraud. Lying on financial documents, fraudulently altering loan documents are two starts.
2007 budget gets passed in 2006 though.
Anytime an article/blog post/whatever begins by characterizing NN as an "Obama...power-grab", I immediately know that the remainder of the piece is ignorant at best.

Much like oxygen, NN has been taken for granted to the point that the general public can't even imagine a world without it.
Amazon's solution to fake reviews is Amazon Basics, a "verified good" version of whatever you were looking for. Thus, they have little incentive to combat fake reviews for products not directly sold by them, since that bad experience, they hope, will cause you to run back to them for the product next time.

They also get to avoid being called a monopoly by selling products of various qualities and from various sellers.
By cooperation, do you not mean subordination?
Electrification of the vehicle fleet will be great for cities (especially in Europe) just because it'll reduce a huge source of point pollution on urban blocks.

And I'd definitely enjoy owning a car or campervan for hiking/biking trips and other adventures — or paying $.75 a mile for a robocar to pick me up for similar trips.

I just hate the way that nearly all American cities make car ownership mandatory for full citizenship, and American land use laws mean almost all new development is almost purely auto-oriented (this is somewhat less the case in a subset of post-2008 development, but these developments are generally islands of sorta-walkability in an inhumane hellscape of high-speed arterials).
I feel like in that culture, the drug of choice is alcohol. A lot of people forget that alcohol is a drug, just one that most human societies have deemed acceptable.
The object is hot. Military FLIR devices can be toggled between "white hot" and "black hot" settings. You can see the BLK/WHT indicator in the lower left corner of the footage. The pilot/observer toggles it at about 12 seconds into the video.
I hope Hacker News will be the last bastion for fake comments. At least, I have never seen bots lurking around on Hacker News.
It's normal, but we don't really know why people tend to sleep less as they get older. A lot of things we traditionally viewed as a normal part of aging are now seen as disease pathology. She's also been doing this for 16 years, so age doesn't really explain it anyway.
> this is honestly one of the most bizarre manifestations of that yet.

I'm not familiar with the demographics of prisoners in India, so I'm just going off my knowledge of how the criminal justice system works in the US.
That is a common misconception: https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/aging-and-sleep
Benefits of GraphQL on the Back end
"Go big or go home, kid!"
What you've shown is that not all swaps are valid, but you haven't shown that this particular swap is invalid.

The point of swapping the words is to illustrate that generalizing about people based on their sex is sexist. I hope you agree with that idea. If you do, then swapping the words can simply help put a more unfamiliar form of sexism into clearer view.
I agree. The anti-car rhetoric in the US is simply ridiculous. The US is simply not built for any other lifestyle. Maybe Manhattan and certain very tiny parts of other cities that are already unaffordable to the middle class, let alone the poor. We don't have public transportation and we don't have the proper legislation in place to do anything else. We don't build enough and we don't build densely enough.

These problems are widely known and currently, they have no solutions in sight. Most people want to keep the status quo, but even if there was a mass movement to change this situation, I doubt the money would be allocated. The money most certainly exists, but much of it is currently wasted (defense, bailouts, tax breaks for the rich, weapons, more weapons, etc.), at least at the federal level. I don't think any state currently has the budget to even begin to make a dent in car culture. Hell, we can't even replace hundred year old critical infrastructure bridges, yet anti-car people want a whole new infrastructure (either that, or they're delusionally thinking that everyone can cram into downtown somehow). Car culture is here to stay. That's what the market dictates in the US, anyway.
Why hope that? Having enough calories is essential to being able to do strenuous work. Taking hunger out of the equation is the point of having a food reserve.
Crypto is here to stay Get yours now
I really think there should be a .text TLD.

I don't know how you enforce it exactly, and maybe it's redundant with pastebin.

It still nags at me that sometimes I want to go to the web to just read a thing, measured in the tens of kilobytes, and all this other nonsense just gets in the way.

It's my kooky nostalgia probably. Old man yells at cloud. But other times, for fleeting moments, I think about applying for that TLD and feel just a bit like Ray Kinsella...
>people claim they don't possess musical talent

I firmly believe everyone has musical talent, it's a spectrum more than an on/off switch. It can be fostered though there are cases where someone is just always is gonna sing out of tune (but hey, are they having fun?)
I mean, George Bush used to live in Compton. How bad can it be?
Whilst real world events have caused many people to focus on the social ranking aspect of the story, when I watched it, I thought it was more concerned with privilege (and the loss thereof).

The main character actually worsens her fate by acting entitled and being self-centered. Had she maintained her higher status, she both wouldn't have been in situations of pain in the first place, nor found it necessary to make a (here, social) effort to get out of them. In real life, being considerate to people serving you pays off in the short term, and in aggregate makes for a better society to live in (it is generally accepted in Western society that insulting your waiter is really rude and antisocial, for example).

Interestingly, both people with low rankings (brother, truck driver) appear to have bad manners (because they are direct) but are nice people deep down; the point being the rating system is imperfectly implemented or optimising for the wrong thing.

The parallel with the Chinese rating breaks down precisely because the show rating is focused on this shallow idea of visible manners whilst the Chinese system appears to correct fundamentally inconsiderate, widespread behaviour (like stealing a shared bike), just as credit scoring in the West was originally a means of increasing general welfare (by lowering rates for most at the expense of the few who game the system).

The real parallel between the article and Black Mirror is this: the author, who is privileged (he already lives in a considerate society where everybody cooperates and the rule of law is a given) cannot understand the need for Sesame; upon losing that privilege (by moving to China with a blank score) and having to earn it back, he is upset just as the heroine of the episode was ("but I'm an honest guy, why should I pay a deposit to rent a bike?").
Where are the bold road markings, excessive signage, radar based speed display signs, photo radar, etc?

Rarely are these things difficult to mostly solve, but it requires at least some minimal effort. Sadly, that is too much to ask of most people in North America.
> Well, evidently I don't think it's invalid.

Fortunately, courts in the US do not have trouble discerning this difference.
The SSD will run much cooler, so you can just tape in the same spot as the old hard drive and you should be fine. The reason you wouldn’t want to just let it hang someplace would be that it could end up getting hotter than the hard drive actually is, so the firmware on the motherboard might throttle stuff to prevent overheating. So the spot on the end of the HD is probably a spot where the air flow is reasonable so it won’t get overly hot there and represents the actually HD temp.
When you're defending malicious attacks on people's characters...

I’m explaining, not defending. As I already said, welcome to Earth, try to be outraged by the inevitable, only as appropriate.
Anarchism is much more than the absence of a national government.

When and where was it tried plenty?
that's cool - hadn't realised. i still dream about a word-excel mashup. imagine a table in word that when you click on it revolves around to reveal a spreadsheet and you hook the 'other side' to the calculation cells. literally separate data and text/analysis but packaged as a unit.
This is really... well, I don't know. You're not comedians. You make the reliable, trustable browser. That's why people use Firefox. And you're spending that capital very generously. Firefox's privacy defaults are not that of a privacy-focused browser. Things like Hello or Pocket are not what people expect from you. Get your things together because there's nobody to push FF via default installs like Chrome, Safari or IE. If you alienate people, they have some nice options at present too.
We absolutely can change that and we absolutely won't. Rich people don't like transit, they like personal vehicles and sprawling neighborhoods, not loud trains and dense apartment blocks. Rich people write laws.
That's why the legal barrier to a search warrant is only "probable cause". No one is expecting that prosecutors can prove all elements of a crime by reading a bunch of public material.

So how many executives have had their "no-knock" raid?
> the fighters were circling a thing hovering at about 20,000 feet - bulky ovular object with greebles and lumps

How were you able to see such details from 20,000 feet away?
Texas is one of the top producers of wind and top 10 or so for solar. We produce energy in all forms.

I tried to get solar on our house ~3 years ago. The roof is angled a few degrees too far north so we didn't qualify for any federal, state, or local subsidies or tax credits. I'd love to do it but the numbers don't work out that way.
Who are these people who think that writing on Medium gives you clout?
Why not? More exposure => more users => more ad income => ROI => GOTO 10
people can get started on that, and probably are. but the web exists, and the web is pervasive. it doesn't make any sense to abandon it until a replacement arrives... just as it makes no sense to simply abandon gas engines (and what, walk?) before electric ones are ready to replace them.

the real question is whether the New Thing can avoid the problems of it's predecessor.
As I've replied in a previous comment, in the US, 91% of people view equal rights between genders as "very important" (source below). How does that fit with your implied belief that most people perceive women as property? Are you, perhaps, located in Saudi Arabia?

I'm also curious for your source on the statistic that 1 in 5 women worldwide are raped.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/19/many-around-...
Voluntaryism is the only moral way. We deserve to live a peaceful existence free from threat of force.
The statistics that show women abuse men about as often as men abuse women[0], and (iirc) that lesbian couples have the highest incidence of domestic violence?

[0] http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-...