skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some guy from the UK uses my Gmail address all the time. I once received a British Airlines confirmation for him. After clicking on the link (no authentication required!), I arrived on a page where I could change his notification settings. His phone number was listed there, so I texted him asking that he stop using my email address. He replied back and sounded alarmed that I had his phone number.

I also received a photo of his passport once. Using that, a friend in the UK was able to look up his parent’s home address. I phoned them up and left a message asking that he stop using my email address.

He’s still using it, so I eventually set up a Gmail filter to shunt his likely emails into a separate folder. I’ve changed my password since all this happened, and I don’t get why he still uses my address.
I have a surface pro 4 and I really love it; however, it doesn't support Linux well. Ubuntu will not recognize the type cover or (iirc) the touch screen.

Currently I develop in a VM or with vagrant.
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This is a deliberately click-bait title.

It intentionally misuses the word fallacy, when it actually means that root cause analysis is an essential step in the correct direction and must go even further in that direction. All it's really saying is "cause should be plural in root cause analysis."

The fact that perhaps an incident had multiple simultaneous causes doesn't invalidate root-cause-analysis. The fact that 5-whys diverge after level 3 or 4 means that once you get to to a high-enough level there are numerous solutions on how to prevent a problem (to use the car-battery example, there are dozens of solutions. The car could show a message when the alternator doesn't work, the dealer could call the car-owner at service times, they could invent a belt that doesn't ever break, etc)
I tried this at work. IT doesn't use the latest Win10 build (:rolleyes:), so the WSL experience leaves a lot of room for improvement.

Docker for Windows is similarly disappointing. The private network docker uses for containers conflicts with our corporate network. I can set the bip for a Linux daemon, but DfW just hangs and then crashes when doing so.
He will be given a free pass because, as a jew, it is expected that he is morally challenged.

Jews aren't given work that requires integrity.

This is why.
I saw this on YouTube last week.
That doesn’t sound fundamentally different from having a failure on one engine sufficiently late during takeoff. Either way you probably want your other engine to have enough power to make a landing?
> the mechanical pleasure of pressing

And there's your title right there
There's also Sony's SLT system, where the mirror is translucent and stays put.
Also a big fan of Namecheap.

I too used Gandi at some point, but had an issue which led to a lot of BS. In short, and while not their fault, my credit card expired and that caused a few domains (5 or 6 -- all related) to go into quarantine. It was bad timing.

While their fee for registering the domains was not that high, getting them out of quarantine would have cost me $50 or 75 per domain. I transferred them out to IWantMyName (a NZ registrar, great service + works really well) _without_ having to pay any quarantine fees and just renewed them there for a year. Gandi refused to waive the quarantine fee saying "it was impossible", which was BS. My credit card had expired two days before.

I get that nothing is for free in this world, but if it would've been me in their situation, I would have waived the fee on this one occasion. Years later, I still retain those domains through IWMN.
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I’m on my 4th Thinkpad T-series - T520, T530, T450s, T460s - each one was a a winner. I ditched the T5XX series when they borked the keyboard layout by adding a numpad. Used to run Ubuntu, now I run Debian, stable or testing depending on point in release cycle at install time. I plan to take another look at Ubuntu now that they gave up on Unity. A coworker is happily on the T470s (first USB-C in the series). I always get 1920x1080 since my eyes are accustomed to it, but multiple coworkers are happy with 2560x1440. Used to get the Nvidia cards, now very happy with the integrated Intel graphics. In general, last year’s hardware requires almost zero messing with Linux to make everything work, whereas with the latest hardware, be prepared to solve a couple minor issues. Ubuntu’s font rendering or Infinality are both amazing and better than macOS or Win10 to my eyes.

I’m ridiculously excited to eventually upgrade to a T480s because it’s the first in the series to offer a quad-core CPU. They’re selling the quad-core with Intel graphics which is exactly what I want. I hope Lenovo did a good job with the thermal engineering...

Thanks to all the open source developers that deliver this totally rad experience on Linux, Debian, and Gnome <3
The toxic Coding Horror posts really deserve a dedicated write-up
This article explains nicely why, despite a strong bias to seek deep causes, I've always felt skeptical of formal RCA.

It's the formality and constraints. The key is in the example of the '5 Whys' exercise diverging after 2-3 steps if people do it individually & separately. It is simply too confining to seek a single cause -- occasionally 'true' but rarely complete.

Seems a good first improvement could be to implement independent/separate 5W analysis as an early step, then use those as a broader roadmap.
How many users do you think are like you? Especially in the number of plugins?
Lenovo. The. End.
Didn't read the dislike button, however the reason why I dislike dislike buttons/options is is squashed conversation, connection/engagement, and deepening understanding for all parties.
My problem with root cause thinking is the belief that there is only one thing that needs fixing when there are many contributing factors. Fix one thing and you have a system that's just stable enough, not more.
I think AP is slower- like 1/2 speed. But some high schools have partnerships with the CCs to get 1-1 college credit in high school.
Divergence isn't a problem though. Divergence shows how complex cause and effect are, and how many different ways there are to prevent a problem.

If it diverges then people simply need to get in a room and list the tradeoffs of different solutions (robustness, cost, reusability)
GDPR articles seem to be getting some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: "Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?"

For a recent project I read (and translated to plain english) [1] every single article in the GDPR legislation and for our purposes it can be summed up as:

"Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers"

AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt them, use SSL on your site, respond to requests from people if they ask if you have them, fix them if they're wrong, don't use them if they say you can't.

Obviously that's not the entirety of it, but as a working mental model I think it goes a long way.

1 - https://blog.varonis.com/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...
> Good to have it, better not to need it.

The same can surely be said about any problem software is meant to solve (that it's good to have test cases, but better not to have the problem); and such an impossibly general remark seems not to be very useful.
Interesting, so everything works on the xps 15 w/ Ubuntu 17.10? I want to pull the trigger on buying one but I am concerned about the Linux support.

Also, do you know if the new XPS 15 support a two hard drive configuration?
That’s already true now though. If the startup can take a cheap short patent and renew it later once they’ve made money, it doesn’t sound too bad to me.
Each project I'm working on - or parts of a project - get an index card. They're color coded for what they are, and then go up on the massive pinboard in my office. As things move into different categories, they get moved around physically.

This does a couple things:

1) There's something satisfying about physically moving a thing
2) I can get a quick visual representation of the balance of my work. Am I conspicuously low on a certain type of project in the queue? If so, why?
3) When they're done, they go in a pile of either successful or unsuccessful (I'm an academic, so for example a rejected grant is unsuccessful). When I need to work on my annual report? I just grab 2018's successful pile and it's an accounting of what I've done.

Personally, I like the finality of committing something to ink. If it needs to be changed, it's not as if index cards are expensive, but I like there being a sense of solidity to "What we're doing".
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. Why think ahead, plan and make an effort to attain a goal when you can just go with the flow, really really believe and want, and let the universe take care of the rest. Then the author takes this "moral" and beats you over the head with it over and over again. Can't think of another book that left such a lasting negative impression on me.
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I think root cause analysis is perfectly capable of scaling to the type of system that we're talking about here. It just means you need to iterate and backtrack. Maybe consider something like fault tree analysis or whatever, but tailored for your system.

Yeah, we get it, complex systems fail due to multiple failure points. So iterate your root cause analysis until you find multiple failure points.

The entire point of root cause analysis is to stop from mitigating the wrong things without thinking. Where you mitigate is purely a business value decision. Sometimes mitigating at a higher level (either by stopping your root cause analysis early, or by deciding that mitigating at a lower level is not possible or desirable) is the way to go. Case in point, the root cause of my car (I live in Canada) rusting out early is cause we salt the shit of our roads every winter and that my car is made of corrodable materials. I mitigate that by applying undercoating that I have to reapply, instead of addressing the root cause (I live in a terrible climate, and my car is made of metal).

Having the causal tree of events is only useful when paired with the set of possible solutions.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/153d/578869863450766a870727...

Previous Hacker News discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877908
I taught across the stream at NVCC an you are correct. I sent students to great schools (and had students from great schools for career changes).

Near metro populations, night classes tend to be filled with strong learners- often already degreed- and with interesting stories to tell as well.
Facebook’s response to this story is revealing:

> "We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources who seek to rewrite Facebook’s early history or embarrass Mark Zuckerberg with dated allegations. The unquestioned fact is that since leaving Harvard for Silicon Valley nearly six years ago, Mark has led Facebook's growth from a college website to a global service playing an important role in the lives of over 400 million people."

You get a similar argument in the recently leaked ‘Boz memo’: please ignore our unethical behavior, instead focus on how many users we have. Growth at any cost is justified.
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Link broke, here's a new one:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/153d/578869863450766a870727...

Previous Hacker News discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877908
Every person I know that uses an ad blocker (5, including myself) does it to prevent tracking.

In fact, I want to white list certain websites (a dozen or so) to continue seeing ads, but I don’t want to because I know that they are likely using Google for their ads and I don’t want Google’s little grabbling hands tracking me.
Well that would get played for sure. Apple would start tiny wholly owned companies or buy special purpose startups with only patents etc.
How will the GDPR allow EU member states to enforce pre-GDPR law? How was it simultaneously law and unenforceable before?
technically it does not "work" but after some amount of hours of googling specific issues that pop up you can get it going. it's painful though.
Yeah, OpenBSD is my litmus test for Linux compatibility. Linux distros like Ubuntu will often figure out how to get questionable hardware working for some value of “working.”

But if OpenBSD runs, it’s a good indicator that the hardware will be extremely well supported and work with the absolute minimum fuss, even if running Linux rather than OpenBSD.
> growth at any cost is justified.

... captured in the infamous phrase "Move Fast and Break Things"
IP address != personal, private protected data
For those of us who are only half paying attention, why is mirrorless an inevitable step?

I would have said that the advantage in sensor size of 35mm DSLRs would give them a long-lasting advantage over anything with a smaller sensor, even with advances in that technology.
Avoiding specific problem from reoccurring is not the goal either though. What is the root goal? Why do you want to prevent specific problem from reoccurring? Maybe you just want to limit the scope of the problem or of all such problems and maybe it will have much better overall effect on the system.

I think the point author tries to make is that root cause analysis is a broken thinking model that doesn't lead to actual quality improvement.
I find the arguments weak and lacking convincing power. Each has a pretty obvious gaping flaw. The author seems to depend upon RCA being executed poorly. For instance, “we take short-cuts and the investigation for the root cause is shallow.” If you begin with the assumption that all investigations are shallow and bad, well of course you’re going to conclude that RCA is bad.

Title claims it’s a fallacy but all the fallacious thinking I see is in its arguments.
Yocto-built crosstool chains crash in spectacular fashion on Win10/WSL. Would not recommend.
Fuck I omitted the word users from my blurb.
Then our town will spend our 1% busing them back to where they came from. The issue is that why should my town or city take them in when town or city X isn't.
First time I'm hearing about this. Wow. Thanks for posting. Was there never a criminal in investigation?
Corporate power structure is in direct conflict with FARs. FAR gives primary decision making power to pilots, but corporate structure essentially makes the CEO a dictator. And we have a culture and a legal system that defers to that CEO when there's no accidents. And then there's all kinds of outcry and hindsight if there's an accident. We really aren't creating fully trustworthy conditions for timely whistleblowing as evidenced by the fact multiple pilots expressed concerns, and now people are dead.

I've lost count how many NTSB reports, dozens, I've read where corporate power dictated operational outcome to a pilot against the pilot's better judgment, and everyone on board dies. And every time NTSB says the corporate dictate is a contributing factor to the accident, but ultimately the accident itself was due to pilot error.

So strictly blaming the pilot isn't eliminating accidents where the pilot's judgment was perturbed by company pressure. If the company is shown to have intimidated pilots, there needs to be accountability for it, and serious consequences.
-They make lenses for the H system (oh, and XPan - in that case, I believe they made the camera, too). The V system (what pops into most people’s minds when ‘Hasselblad’ is mentioned) was largely supplied with Carl Zeiss lenses.
You can pick up good scopes from army surplus. That's how I got my Tek.
Not clicking on the credit card update e-mail requires being educated in these matters. Not clicking on the account verification e-mail just requires reading the e-mail before clicking. I think that's an important distinction.
DSLR/Mirrorless is unrelated to sensor size. Sony makes 35mm mirrorless cameras with great sensors, just like more or less everyone making DSLRs also makes some with sensors smaller than 35mm size.
Thx for the article, but I can't see how you come to the conclusion you draw based on it. It does no clarify the opt-in/opt-out stance at all. In contrast ( https://searchengineland.com/report-google-asks-publishers-t...) states

"Use of personal data cannot be based on implicit or opt-out consent. There must be “a statement or a clear affirmative action” indicating a willingness to share the information. Google will reportedly be capturing that consent for properties that it controls, such as Google.com and YouTube. But the company is asking third-party publishers to collect consent in situations where Google’s technology and ad targeting are behind the scenes (see below). "

Which to me as a layman reads you need to have users opt-in to consenting to be used in Google Analytics if it is used in your product/site.
I'm on a 2017 Razer Blade running Linux Mint. I would say it's functional if you're looking for a gaming/development machine, but less than ideal for 100% development. My work machine is a 2013 15" MacBook Pro for comparison purposes.

The screen size is 14", which compared to a 15" MBP is no where near enough screen real estate. That and the bezel is too damn big.

The touchpad is just awful. The buttons are way too slim to hit accurately (I think they're about 1/4") and I always inadvertently hit the touchpad with my thumbs moving the mouse to random locations. I could probably fix the later by toning down the sensitivity, but there's nothing I can do about the button sizes.

Finally, the unibody case as a very sharp edge and tends to cause discomfort when typing for an extended period of time.

As for the OS, Mint went on without any driver issues. This is my first experience with desktop Linux in a long time and I'm very impressed with how mature it's become. There's just no way I could go back to developing on Windows. In fact, I've become so accustomed to developing on Linux that it's a pain to go back to macOS.
How do you know this about these people? Frankly I think the population is far too large to come to one conclusion across the board.

And what is a “family oriented” community? Is that just code for making other people deal with the problem and not taint your backyard?

And you think you can just expect people to “get a job”, like that is straightforward? Like there’s just so much opportunity out there, with more than enough income from one job to survive in these crazy-expensive places? (Hint: No way.)
Yeah, that's the hard part about this. If they have the IP addresses of 10 million people, that's probably less critical than if they have medical data on even just 10 000 people.

But the IP collection of how-to-live-with-epilepsy.com might be worse, again, since it implicitly carries the information that you do probably have epilepsy.
There is more than that. Planes become lighter as they burn fuel, batteries don't become lighter as they drain.

Lighter planes are more efficient, and most airliners are not designed to land with their tanks full. They have a option to jettison their fuel in case of emergency.

It means that just matching the energy density of fuel is not enough, batteries must exceed it. Jet engines are also quite efficient: around 40% now, and it may reach up to 60% in the future. It means that the more efficient electric engine is less of an advantage compared to cars for example.

The only battery technology that seems viable in order to replace fuel would be lithium-air. Petrol is just too good at storing energy.

Right now, I'd say the only chance for a "zero-emission" plane would be using biofuels.
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Yeah, it's still kinda bleeding edge. I only run it at home. At work I can't use it and even Hyper-V is not stable because we're on some in-between build of Win 10. We'll catch up soon.
I don't know how related it is, but I'm glad you shared that link.
Welcome to the other side. It's common place here to see the same sort of nationalism for the US, but no one ever comments on it. For those of us outside of the US, it's extremely obnoxious though.

Right in line with that, the minute any comment or article even slightly nationalistic about another country, you get tons of comments about how untrue it is and how it's still the US that is amazing, not the other country.
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This is a well known problem in cognitive systems engineering, which sometimes seem to promote design which might seem backwards to an interaction designer focused on creating for everyday consumption.

You don't want to design the control room for a nuclear reactor like you design a webpage, because you can under no circumstances sacrifice correctness for ease. A lot of times, it's about making the wrong thing really hard to do, with multiple layers of fail-safes. The potential gain in productivity when designing for ease is vastly overshadowed by the risks associated with making an error.

When we're not talking about nuclear reactors, but—for example—statistics, where consequences are abstract, it might get tempting to err on the side of ease. In fact, any domain you don't understand well enough well tempt you to design for ease over correctness.

Ideally, the designer should understand the domain at hand well enough to create a design that makes it easy to be correct, and hard to make an error.

There's a lot of stuff out there that has been neither designed for ease nor correctness, however, but which has a design arbitrarily dictated by the table layout of a database, or some other random technical constrain that has nothing to do with the problem domain.
Speed, perhaps, but population for sure as well.

There's been a citizen science study at UC Davis going on for many years now called the California Roadkill Observation System (CROS) http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/ It has maps of roadkill sightings, makes for interesting viewing. It used to allow you to select by species but unfortunately no longer.
When digital became a reality, it also took plenty time to displace film. When I bought my first digital camera (a Canon D30), it had many drawbacks compared to the top-of-the-line 35mm film cameras of the time. A measly 3 MP resolution, a confusing crop factor (b/c the sensor wasn't truly 35mm), not great battery life, limited low-light performance. Yet it was clear digital was the future.

Sony and Fuji are making great strides, but Canon and Nikon have had decades to perfect their systems. And while mirrorless manufacturers are investing very heavily, Canon and Nikon have really only been putting out fairly iterative updates (especially Canon).
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Good point. I think stents, and to some extent, statins, are starting to be exposed as often misused tools. Yet, for some reason, it feels politically incorrect to ask the same questions if SSRIs.
I nabbed this for $1,100 just over 3 years ago: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1683431...

It's giant and my next system will def be smaller. But it does the trick and I plan on getting another 2 years out of it before replacing. Here's what I do when I am looking for a new laptop. I really research the CPUs. I don't need the best, but I make sure I am getting good performance for what I spend. I live on here while researching my system https://www.cpubenchmark.net

I don't care much about the brand of the system, some people laugh that I got an Acer. Whatever, I am concerned with whats inside, not outside. Does it come with bloatware? Doesn't matter as I install Linux on it as soon as I get it. Just before I do that I burn the bastard with prime95 to see if I can get it to fail before setting it up.

Never had problems before.
My work IT runs an old enough and locked down enough Win10 build that WSL isn't even available. Drives me bananas.