skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychiatrist here, and long-time fearful flyer who benefited tremendously from CBT. Really impressed by the range of strategies expressed in this thread; I wanted to mention a few things:

1. No one solution will work for everyone, but it's always possible to find something that will help. CBT and its cousins work very well but aren't accessible to everyone (still waiting for a /good/ solution to that, HN) - in those cases I'd encourage people to try some of the distraction and visualization methods, and some of the exposure strategies, described in the comments. (I also like the lottery ticket strategy, it's a great reminder of the odds...)

2. After reading suggestions like these, and even books describing how to /do/ CBT with people afraid of flying, I wasn't better. I knew the right things to say to myself but didn't really believe them. I reluctantly did CBT, and to my great surprise it helped. My experience was that a CBT therapist was very much like a trainer at the gym: I know what to do at the gym, but having someone coach me through it made all the difference.

3. One cognitive strategy that has been helpful to me, in addition to many of the others already noted: force yourself to think, on any given day, about how many flights got where they were going, or at least got somewhere, safely. The answer is all of them. Yes, some were diverted, or returned to the airport - but they all landed. Now, remember that this happens every day - on days with huge storms in the midwest, tornadoes, snowstorms in New England, hail in Florida. For a visual illustration, check out a site like flightaware, and consider just how many commercial planes are in the air at any given time.
Microsoft Windows vs Microsoft everything else?
5 years to sell 82 million?

Apple’s Watch business will probably do better than that 5 years from introduction. It’s probably more profitable.
It is kinda cool to think that Scott himself was a really young undergraduate at Cornell. I believe he was 16 when he was a freshman at Cornell and we would hear whispers of the child prodigy in the CS department. He then graduated in 3 years and has gone on to do great things. He is a really nice person and I met him a few times since I was a CS undergrad at Cornell at the same time - He actually helped us run the programming contest we ran at Cornell. I presume if he participated, he would probably have won it hands down :-)
I think the "most upvoted comment" part is important here. Tangents are indeed good to have, but I don't think they should occupy the most visible parts of the comment section.
uMatrix works on all browsers that matter.
50 miles is a long distance. Even in Death Valley there will likely be some road in some direction. And Death Valley is a f...ing big place.
Briton ran pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign that helped Trump deny RU links
The concrete in the Pantheon is exposed to max ~20 psi tensile stress, and the concrete can handle about ~200 psi tensile stress.

http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/chapt01/chapt01.htm
Since ISP's are not government enterprises should they be able to ban users they don't like?

Legally, maybe you're right, but socially I don't think the argument is as clear cut as you make it sound.
Some of the people I envy the most never fly anywhere! The ferryman down river has an idyllic existence, his one outing beyond the nearest town is to a boat show although he has been known to nip across the English Channel on his other boat to stock up on booze. He has the most wonderful family and pretty much everyone in the locality knows and loves him. He does drive so not all of his life is at single digit speed, however, after a chat with him or his son you do have to wonder why be so busy on these new fangled modes of transport?

Maybe embrace your lack of enthusiasm to fly, it really is not mandatory or even necessary for a happy life. Develop your own perspective on the world and avoid wasting your life sat in airports being frisked by people in uniforms. Take trains, ride a bicycle and question whether you really need to find out about the rest of the world from 30000 feet. Perhaps let the world come to you instead, rather than go on holiday to India spend some time with the Indian folk you work with or live nearby to. Same for every other country, see this approach as better, more cost effective, financially and in time.

There are no pearly gates however, if you just don't fly because that is nothing to do with how you live your life then you need not feel guilt and shame for being complicit in destroying people's right to peace and quiet, not to mention the environment.

Flying isn't what it was, there is no romance in it, it is not special. In the days of Concorde, Trident and when the 747 was new flying wasn't for everyone, you had to be someone to be doing it. You could smoke at your seat then and buy huge bulk packets of cigarettes 'duty free' right there, on the plane. Better? Not necessarily. More exciting? Definitely.

There really is nothing 'time saving' about flying. You can live life to the full without spending a week or two of your year being processed by planes, getting to airports and putting up with delays. Plus there is the time required to pay for all those days flying and the taxi trips. Then if you are not working whilst being processed by Big Aviation then you are not earning. Give the whole lot up and if you do the maths then it is more like a month rather than a few days that you get back per year, time to enjoy living rather than being jet-lagged/flying. Plus those are guilt free happy times - you aren't trashing the skies - and you will be pleased you had this fear of flying thing. Obviously only chuckle to yourself at the antics of those ordinary people doing there ever so busy but tediously dreary flying stuff as they will never give up the Kool Aid.
I wasn't sure how to interpret the study. That is, they describe "resilient dyslexics" as individuals who have good comprehension in spite of decoding issues. How do these individuals compare to non-dyslexic readers? Do they have the same comprehension — but it just takes them longer to get there? Or does their comprehension still lag non-dyslexic peers?

If they have comparable comprehension but in a longer timeframe, then does this mean that non-resilient dyslexic readers cannot (in any amount of time) achieve the typical level of comprehension? This seems at odds with my understanding of dyslexia, and I work in the field.
I'm confused by the relationship. Don't the publishers own the journals? What rights are the getting from the academic societies? Please excuse my ignorance. :)
They should license the OS to Sony and Lenovo, or just wholesale license it to everyone. Give me Mac OS VMs that we can do our iOS builds on without it being a pain.
>Non fiction, yes. But fiction is harder because of stylistic attributes and the fact it all has to connect.

Ever read Dan Brown?
It could be a book of short stories, perhaps. Plus, with self-publishing these days, the bar to publish is probably the lowest it's ever been.
Thanks, I've checked it! If I understand it correctly, your comment is a poor attempt at it.
I don't think people actually waste three orders of magnitude more electricity by loading 10MB vs 10KB - sure, that much more CPU time is used specifically on loading the extra data, but that would be a fraction of what's being used for all the other processing going on, and people don't just flip the power switch as soon as a page load finishes.
It's satire
A decent amount of cash-only and cash-preferred is tax avoidance.

Cash pricing at gas stations is pretty rare in my experience and somewhat violates the merchant's credit card processing agreement.
No evidence that hacks go where the wind is blowing? That's just the history of journalism.

No evidence for the press hating Trump? Have you been alive for the past year and a half? Multiple journalists have compared him to Hitler and Stalin. I don't remember that happening before. It's understandable and clearly mutual in this case, though - check out how many places talk about his 'war on the press.'

No evidence for people souring on tech? Maybe you haven't been seeing the same things I have, but the narrative went from 'criminals are using facebook to target grandma' to 'facebook is criminal and rigging elections, and your apps might be too.' There's a reason for this and it's pretty justified, but it should really have happened years ago, when every startup was collecting every bit of data it could without any protection or thought to what they would use it for.

When tech started dominating the S&P 500, it went from being the land of outsiders and upstarts to the new robber barons. Check out how many articles talk about a new gilded age now.

No evidence for Musk provoking journalists? Just look at his twitter.
Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban
The best part of this advice is that the worst-cast scenario is that you win the lottery.
And if I pay in cash I'm also paying the baked in credit card cost.

Rationally one would think that if some cryptocoin did see large scale adoption then it would have the same effect as credit cards where the consumer doesn't actually see the transaction costs.
List: Silicon Valley Startup or Plague-Ridden Feudal Business?
When were you there?
In some place in the West you definitely can be very effed. I can imagine Alaska being even worse.
> "Who needs mindshare, when you can have in-jokes instead?"

It's a joke, but more importantly, it's a joke by and for people who are already familiar enough with Haskell. It's not a serious attempt at communicating something useful about the language; these attempts exist, but this joke is not one of them. Absolutely no-one makes this joke to beginners. You only make this joke to someone who already has an understanding of Haskell. It's not a common joke, either.

It's like those obfuscated C examples. Nobody uses them to teach beginners anything, and it'd be a mistake to ask "why do all these C programmers keep writing purposefully obfuscated code to scare beginners!?". Purposefully obfuscated C code, much like the Haskell joke, is not aimed at beginners.
The MacBook Pro line was just refreshed 2 weeks ago. I wonder if people were holding off on buying a new machine because of the keyboard issues (if people knew about those) or just the knowledge that new machines were likely to come soon.
Petition to open source Flash and Shockwave spec
Moby Dick doesn’t have any pictures or video.

Audiovisual media has value.
I personally use iCloud Backup but some people don’t want to pay for extra storage space and others have privacy concerns.
The dev version with intel wireless maybe, they put a shitty wireless card in the regular ones that doesn't work for shit in linux.
Don't click on the link. Copy and paste it directly to the browser.
Except that the bulk of the fees to the merchant are paid back out to cardholders in the form of rewards and cashback. So it's closer to a wash.
Don't forget that probably the only reason you can do a lot of that is because AT&T screwed up so badly legally back in the day, and lost many of their rights to Unix in the process. And if SCO had been successful in reasserting their rights to it not that long ago, you still might not be able to do it.

IBM, on the other hand, has always competently (and sometimes quite viciously) protected their products legally. They also have a massive patent portfolio, or at least they used to.
Previous discussion (on the video): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637834
Dramatized in the first season of Halt and Catch Fire. That show is a mishmash of all lore from that era.
I've never read Firefox's logo as "chasing own tail". I see it rather as "covering the whole planet".
I work in assistive technology and was recently talking with the head of accessibility at Intuit.

He is looking for (paid) volunteers who have dyscalculia to help them with product design decisions. If you email me (my username at gmail) I can put you in touch.
Naming rights, like when you want to call your journal the Proceedings of the X Society.
The price differential is based on the cost of filing an insurance claim, the risk that the insurer will deny the claim (or require changes before approval), and the delay in receiving payment. A cash payment today is a sure thing.
Yes. Like AirBnB management but for leases.
that made me chuckle, judging from the whole idea, it's part of the fun
At ~2:20min he says that the realistic nightsky didn't add anything to the game. I was instantly reminded of Elite2:frontier and why it didn't really amaze as much as the predecessor did.
Sometimes I upvote things purely for their literary quality.

I have no knowledge of "Motherload," nor any interest in modern games. But those few lines about your (your character's ?) interaction with it, makes me want to know how this story unfolds.
> I don't see how the Mac should grow from here

I think they could start selling MacOS as a competitor to Windows. I realise this would limit some of the coolness and designer feel (and quality) you get from mac hardware, but hardware has become a lot more stable in the past decade or so. with their marketing, they could convince consumers to ditch windows and just put MacOS on their PCs for $X/month.
Plenty of the web including HTML and JS own advances can be traced back to some of the amazing things we did with Flash and Shockwave. It would be wonderful if we could build tools to still be able to view archives of Shockwave and Flash with JS. This would only be possible with an open spec.
Consider it from an engineering perspective:

Problem: I write some code, but it doesn't work very well.

Solution: Write a lot of code every day for a few years.

The implication is that you learn what kinds of things are good and bad through practical experience, rather than simply re-writing the same implementation/prose every day.
> Rome fell.

But not because it built roads.
I would consider myself to be fairly agnostic when it comes to languages (although Python happens to be the language I work most with, which has a lot to do with what my coworkers prefer). What I can say is, that quite often, those large distributed system solutions has high constant offsets / penalties if you aren't building the BIG solution. so everything, starting from functional testing to those small tasks that happen more often than one would like take ages. I wouldn't be surprised if a python stream processing framework could provide a good developer-happiness -- efficiency ratio, just by being responsive.
I mean, that actually IS a good question. ISPs are pseudo government enterprises—that is, they become government enterprises when they need to be.

It's really on a whole different level though. ISPs are access to infrastructure. Should ISPs be able to ban people? I'm not sure. It's a valid question though. I tend to think that they shouldn't, but I'm not sure it would be a violation of free speech if they did. Good question though mate.

It's also worth nothing that they DO ban people. If you don't pay an ISP can ban you, outright, permanently.
There's enough space to have both. You know, like on 2015 model. Remove Thunderbolt 2 and Magsafe, add TB3/USB-C.

But don't make me look for dongle every time I want to plug in a mouse, USB stick, YubiKey or any other of literary thousands of USB-A devices.

The user experience of this device is objectively worse. It made me think less of Apple - they decided to constantly annoy me to earn more money on dongles.
?? Wasn't Samsung the first to produce $1000 phone last year, followed by Apple a few months later?

or if you are insinuating that everyone else is merely copying Apple's pricing strategy (or anything that is Apple), or just copy, copy, copy, Apple fanois website is that way --> Appleinsider.com
> E.g. This post which is also on the front page: “U.S. Workers Get Biggest Pay Increase in Nearly a Decade”

You mean this one [0] that was flagged off the front page afte the discussion thread pointed out it was using figures not adjusted for inflation, where the inflation-adjusted figured show a decline of 0.1% percent in wages?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655634
I'm pretty sure the Steele dossier was not made public until Jan. 10, 2017 (i.e. after the election):

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-t...
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IPLing a Z-Series machine is some serious dark magick.
This leaves out a huge amount of the market that might want a macOS device but are unwilling or unable to go to the spare-no-expense level.

I understand that Apple doesn't want to create a "cheap" Mac but they're even unwilling to do "affordable".
My first thought was to make random sectors of the first hard drive the "food"... For better or for worse, this stuff really brings me back to my teens. Nice job!
Really? Remove Fox, Infowars, and Breitbart; could you easily find 5 articles or clips that are genuinely supportive and praising Trump?

Trump literally, himself, says that the press is out to get him. You say he's wrong and it's really that they love him?
I believe he person you're responding to means posting the public web page, not the submission here.
> It sure would be nice if Facebook would come out and clearly say that these bad actors are clearly non-partisan, and are simply trying to cause civil unrest in the US by agitating both sides of the political spectrum.

You're dead on. It would be nice if Facebook would come out and clearly say that!

There might be a potential wrinkle in that it's not always possible to correctly infer an actor's true intentions from knowing some of their actions. It's also generally impossible to know for certain when you've learned of all of an actor's actions.

It would be really awesome is Facebook were to say that this is clearly just non-partisan shit-stirring! But it also might not be fully true.
I think she/he was saying that a PE of 17 looks like growth has stalled, which is evidently not the case. All other tech companies have higher PE due to expected growth. With Apple it is always hindsight, since 15 years
So just don't reference not accessible references. Win win for all.
Reddit is the 4th/5th largest website in the U.S according to Alexa (keeps swapping between 4th and 5th). Source: https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US

Any agency, whether it's a nation state/government, business or political party, would be laughably bad at their job to ignore a website that size, one with the perfect format to spew their propaganda. It even has little score counters so you can keep track of what works, and what doesn't! How handy!

Reddit has been a target for manipulation for years now. I've been a moderator of some of their largest subreddits and the evidence was so overwhelming you can't help but become angry, then apathetic when told by the admins that they wouldn't do anything. "As long as they don't break the global rules, they're free to be here" I saw a moderator get told that by an admin ~3 years ago (few months before the Ellen Pao debacle). Spewing propaganda is fine on reddit, so long as you don't manipulate the votes.

I take issue with the fact that BOTH are inorganic manipulation of reddit. Both should be dealt with swiftly, without prejudiced and without mercy.
A role not mentioned above is the editor.

By this I don't mean a copy editor, but the person who decides who to send the manuscript for review, and makes the decisions on whether the manuscript is rejected, accepted, or more review is needed. Doing this job properly basically requires a researcher with experience in the field the journal is about.

It appears there are many journals where no editor is employed full-time by the publisher. If all of them are unpaid, then indeed the journal operation should be cheap.

There are however some journals (iirc Nature and APS journals are like this) with professional editors employed by the publisher.
> BTW I find the use of 5 digits for years (02018) very clever!

Why?
I prefer it that way. Much less power consumption.
Like I said in the original post, we aren't talking about ICANN or domains. That's a different discussion—one worth having.
I think it's worth pointing out how remote Wollaston Lake really is: https://goo.gl/maps/U4TxWcUjQrC2

There's a single highway that connects it to the rest of the country, and it's 550km to the nearest major city. That highway doesn't actually run to the town though; in the winter there's an ice road, and in the summer there's a ferry from the west side of the lake.

If you're stranded in the bush near there, you're pretty much hoping that you can signal an aircraft that can land on the lake and pick you up. My guess is that the SaskPower repair/rescue crew probably came in via helicopter. I'm going to spend a few minutes here looking at the satellite view to try to find the power line (I can almost guarantee that it's a single one that links Wollaston Lake and Hatchet lake)

Edit: didn't find the power line, but did find confirmation that the repair was helicopter:

> "We have to charter a helicopter to fly the line to find out what the issue is and that's what we did on Friday. We discovered the four poles that were toppled and discovered him as well."

> The man had been out on the lake in a boat when bad weather struck. His rather dire circumstances may save him from the financial consequences of his unorthodox rescue signal -- which could cost the utility upwards of $100,000 to repair.

From: https://www.ctvnews.ca/stranded-man-chops-down-power-poles-t...
Again with your post I see many more words about Moby Dick and nostalgizing for a past that no longer exists then words about a possible solution, and while your solutions are better than the typical “just move to a susbscription model,” I can’t see how we would generate the political will for anything other than cheap internet. We can’t even agree to tax carbon emissions yet. How are we going to tax bandwith and convince everyone to accept a low bandwith internet?

I don’t have any great ideas myself, but part of me sees the Americans with Disabilities Act as a model for getting this done.

I really don’t like AMP because of the Google Cache and the potential for google to bias their search results page to emphasize AMP pages over similarly performing non AMP pages, but it’s a better thought out attempt to fix “the Bullshit Web” than anything else I’ve seen, and it has been extremely successful in decreasing payload size for many readers of sites like NYT and other major publishers.
Origin of the species: where did Darwin's finches come from?
If you're lost, please stop moving and re-assess. If you have a cell signal, make a call for help (911 is just fine). If you don't, hopefully you brought a PLB. Go ahead and use it. If you can't make a call or use a PLB, then get out your GPS and start following your track back the way you came (almost always better than venturing deeper into the unknown just because there's supposed to be a road up ahead). If you also don't have a GPS, then get out your map and start figuring out how to go back the way you came in. If you don't have a map ... what the heck are you doing, anyway?

There are quite a few places where trying to follow water downstream, or even powerlines, will get you even deeper into trouble.

In most areas, people wait too long to ask for help, and they can make their situation worse by trying to self-rescue. In most counties that have wilderness areas, there's a county search and rescue team, all volunteers, who are familiar with the area and will be perfectly happy to come and get you at no cost. That comes with the added benefit that you'll get to meet some cool folks, and if you suddenly get sick or injured or something else goes wrong, people with first aid training will be right there.

SAR teaches kids, "if you're lost, hug a tree" for good reason.