skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because our brain is a superb pattern matcher. It can see pattern almost everywhere, even when there are none. That has helped our ancestors find animals that can be hunted, and prepare for flooding events timed at certain intervals (12 full moons until the next harvest/sowing season). But that also leads to situations where coincidental patterns are found, where the constituent parts have no casual relationship to one another.

I bet you can find even more patterns, where there are none: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I'd like to point out the growing trend of infantalising society in general.
The most frequent use cases for us in order of use-fullness:

1. Spotify

2. TV control (with Harmony) - great for the kids so they don't break the remotes

3. Home monitoring when we are away (drop in on the echo spot).

But for me home security seems to be an unexplored opportunity for Amazon (and Google). Those microphones are very sensitive - and if paired with motion sense on other devices (a Nest or something) start to give you powerful intrusion detection tools and alerting. How hard would it be for them to recognise the sound of breaking glass or the presence of someone in the room at a time they shouldn't be there?

Obviously solving the pet issue is a challenge, but I think it's an interesting use case to explore.
I've been at Cloudflare just over a year now, and if there's one message that's been drilled into my head it's Trust. We understand that we're in the position that we're in largely due to trust. I like to believe that even if our CEO is a secret lizard person you'd get whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork if we tried to exploit our users.
Ironically, that's evidence agaist its existence as an effect.
Ask HN: How to leave a startup early (before equity cliff)?
My cofounder is waiting ~6 months to leave her current company until the 1-year cliff hits and she gets those shares. It could be crucial though to get her on-board sooner. What would you recommend? Are there ways to accelerate her vesting, buy out her shares, etc.?

Yes my situation is slightly specific, but in general I hope this discussion is useful to others.
> Not the kind of mundane technical writing where one is merely documenting APIs, but where one is explaining stuff in a tutorial-like fashion or writing about cool new features.

API documentation is one area that really, REALLY needs the latter kind of writing. There is far too much Doxygen-generated "documentation" which says things like "int foo(int power): Does 'foo' with power set to 'power' and returns the result."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Google lets people wear casual clothes, so we need to do that too:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/06/goldman-sac...

Facebook has bean bags, so we need that too. Cool co has cool toy -> we need cool toy.
So does Comcast.
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A statistically higher salary works well for luring employees, but doesn't help much retaining them.

As soon as that developer is used to his half a million take home, which takes roughly three years, he'll start looking for a new pasture.

So the understanding has formed that in order to retain employees, you must show them that the grass over there is not actually that much greener. That we also have interesting projects (read: internal mobility), career opportunities and the aforementioned bean bag chairs.
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In that case I meant eavesdropping
Yes this is a complete piss take, potentially a joke gift.
Right, because the thing keeping people from working at banks is the lack of an open floor plan and foosball table, not the fact that they’re, how do I put this, banks.
> I've only known a few but if I asked if their idea of a good time on a Saturday was banging out some technical documentation they would look at me like I'm crazy.

I fondly remember a college class where we had to produce a software product, complete with documentation, over the course of the class. Groups were randomly assigned, and one of those on my team was a technical documentation major who immediately volunteered to handle all documentation tasks. It was awesome and made appreciate having such folks around at various points in my career.
I disagree that it's a knee-jerk reaction, drop of the hat, or whatever you want to name it. We are talking about hundreds of human lives. We are talking about an industry that consistently chooses safety above all else, regardless of profits and minor inconveniences. And for some reason that just doesn't seem to be the case here.

> Unfortunately it's impossible to have an adult discussion about that kind of thing on the internet.

So unless everyone agrees with you it isn't an adult conversation? Entire countries are grounding these planes. The evidence is pretty clear that folks are worried and aren't interesting in risking the loss of a few hundred more lives because a bit of money may be on the line, or there may be a minor travel disruption.

Edit: I see the original poster has since removed the bit about not being able to have an adult conversation on the internet. I quoted and responded to that before it was removed.
No need to be rude. I know what scummy means. It's just not clear to me why this is considered scummy. Anyone is welcome to take the open source and benefit from it as long as they comply with the license. This is a very fundamental aspect of open source.

A company invests money and engineers in building commercial tooling, which you then pay for because there is added value. You are not paying for the open source - which is freely available. How is that scummy?
I'm just speculating but cloud hosting might be their next big leap if they go that route? They've already got a domain registrar and other interesting services.
You are indeed right, though being pedantic, QE2 is still alive ;-D Nan Shepard and the Queen Mother have also been included on short-lived commemorative notes in Scotland only.
@svat's comment and link may also be helpful in this regard.
Sure is. Where do you get one, though? Like, not full time, just for a few weeks.

I think this idea has legs.
I am working on a service that aims to fix the social disconnect created by Facebook et al and to redefine the idea of a social network within the context of bonding over particular interests.

If this piques your interest, let's chat over email and I can explain exactly what I mean. I think there is much hope for the future of the internet and that we've just hit a nasty pothole.
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Who wants to bet their democracy that this was the only issue, not just the only one found?
In order to be a devil's advocate: a classic cargo cult is when you make an fake airplane from mud and sticks.

You cannot make a fake bean bag, or a fake dress code, can you?
There are 350 737-MAXs in service

There's about 6500 737s, and a similar number of A320s.

Grounding 2.5% of the world's fleet of mid-size planes isn't really a medium sized wrench.

Personally I'll fly on the 98% of mid-sized planes that haven't had 2% of them crash in the last 6 months.
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I get a crash when I try to paste text in the chat, but it otherwise works. As an aside, it's wild seeing an "App has crashed and needs to reload" on a damn javascript application. You would think it would be able to recover and continue serving content.
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That's why I don't believe in switching services, an email provider should merely be used as an email provider and have all the desired features (privacy, encryption) built on top
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>I want the early 90s Internet back.

Here, here! Save for the whole part where we could only connect via dial-up out in Feckall, Nowhere. Could you imagine trying to download the latest Ubuntu ISO, for example, over dial-up?
The fact that airlines and governments are doing it anyway kind of says this is the right reaction. It's a precaution and you take it even if you don't have the full picture yet.

> People's lives are disrupted, sometimes catastrophically

Not unlike a what happens in a plane crash. As a passenger I'd rather pay more for a ticket or have a delayed/missed flight than accept the current risk of flying with this plane.

> The lives lost already are a sunk cost.

This isn't just cynicism or pragmatism, it's plain wrong. Another crash could happen at any time if the issue is indeed with the plane and your argument is "we can't bring the dead back so we might as well pile some more"?
It makes me angry. There's a good reason I led my book with off with it as an opening example. https://leanpub.com/info-ops

The plane changed modes and nobody realized it. That amazes me. To have different modes where the controls and indicators do different things and not have that information readily apparent? Ok, this is where you might could use better training. But gee. Like you said, another page on the ECAM would have been fine. You could have put a couple of wooden mechanical airplane models on sticks manipulated by the computer to show the top two best guesses for situation and ended up with something better than what they had.

I think the worst part of that disaster was that aside from engineering/program/integration management, I don't see any particular group of people that were directly at fault. Yet it all came together in a disaster. I find that situation unacceptable.
Being old (nearly 50), I think the relation between front office and IT has changed. Whereas before IT people were looked down upon, the relationship seems to be getting a lot more collegial. Traders realise that without having the best technology, they won't make as much money and are reliant on their technologists for this.

A senior dev in the department I am in now who works on a front end for trading derivatives had the head of trading and other traders come to his leaving drinks. This would be pretty unheard of 50 years ago.
That makes sense now that you’ve explained it. FYI though I went to it on mobile, wrote a few words and didn’t know about the character limit, got confused about how to post and left :/
I don't know about Sky specifically.
Discord is pretty good, although it's gaming focused so not ideal if you're looking for something professional.
I read that as a joke...
Checks and cash don't work very well on the internet. Besides, checks are ancient tech; cumbersome, inconvenient, with no discernible upside, so nobody uses them anymore as far as I know. I don't know MobilePay, but in Netherland we have Tikkie (also made by a bank), which makes it really easy to send a payment request in a text/whatsapp message. Then you pay the request through iDeal, which is the standard Dutch internet payment system supported by all banks. Tikkie is used to split bills, pay babysitters, collect money for events or to buy a present for someone together.

Banks absolutely need to be tech companies. If US banks aren't, I suppose that explains why banking in the US is still decades behind in so many aspects. (I've heard some workers in the US still get a check they need to cash to get their salary, bouncing checks is still a thing, and of course there's credit cards, which are woefully insecure, but fill the holes in primitive payment systems.)
I experience the opposite. For me the web is 100x better than it was in 2001.
Google are already testing stuff in Chrome to remove the URI from the omnibox completely.
The article doesn't claim the foods originate in Tokyo (it talks fairly broadly about nanban influenced food, etc). I'd be more annoyed generally, that kushikatsu is stuffed in a footnote of the tonkatsu section :)
While you're on this thread... some quick feedback.

I'm a fan of your registrar service. I started experimenting with it not long ago and have begun moving most of my domains over. I understand it's still early days there. Any chance you could build up & clean up the billing reporting and controls for domains (separating it out better, making it easier to view just domain billing information & renewal info)? It's a bit haphazard currently. It would also be very nice to be able to register domains further out than a year (right now it's just a basic one year autorenewal on/off) - even if that offering cost extra per year to push the duration out. I'd guess the issue on wholesaling and allowing longer renewals, is that if the price goes up on you in the meantime, you can't pass that along (no buffer / profit margin built-in); so throw a reasonable fee on top for pushing the renewal out. As it is, I've been adding years on my existing registrar, before I move domains over to Cloudflare. Why do I want the longer duration? Peace of mind, instead of renewing every year. Not having to worry about domains expiring is a mental positive.
Some generally useful startup equity resources:

https://gust.com/launch/blog/startup-equity-101

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/equity
Adult version of TikTok might be interesting. This might be purely adult user generated entertainment or sort of a dating app.
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Well, okay, walk if you live somewhere you can walk. Here in Tokyo I would do that. When I was in SV there was nothing in walking distance.
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I pondered this issue for what seemed like an inordinate amount of time namely: on how to describe this subtle but key difference.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a nice way, so i glossed over this point, which you correctly say makes many expressions and theorems cleaner and more elegant.

Furthermore, this difference helps explains why q^2 is a natural choice, which some other readers on this thread have enquired about.
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IMHO, anyone who claims to care about privacy should seriously consider throwing down the ~$10 a month (I forget exactly how much it costs) to have a paid PM account. The company isn't perfect, but it's a far sight better than the majority of other providers out there. Furthermore, by paying for your account you are not only directly supporting a service that aspires to provide communications privacy, you're also helping to subsidize said service for those users who may not be able to afford a paid account (particularly important in countries where economic and governmental problems overlap).

I pay for my PM account and have had nothing but good experiences with the company and service so far (including with the VPN and with the mobile app before I ditched my iPhone). It took me years to migrate off of Gmail but since I finally managed to do it I've never looked back. Give it a shot.
Yes, but at least that gives a signal to each pilot what the other is doing.

It wasn’t until a few minutes before Air France’s crashed that the pilot realized what the copilot was doing.
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The blogspam must flow. How exactly was this an “update”? Just regurgitating what’s already out there and hasn’t changed in a year?
Would this be related to the claim that Americans are never poor, just temporarily embarrassed millionaires? Only people at the top would have nothing to be embarrassed about, while everybody else would love to tell you how much they make once their ship has come in.
I doubt that. But we do have a very large network that keeps expanding and expanding...
a turbo engine takes some amount of time to spool up the turbos and produce the full torque. sometimes that time is very small, but it is there.
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If you want, I can store the encrypted password [pdf]
May be your comp is just somewhat above the average for your company?
I haven't tried namecheap DNS recently, but I used to use it. I hated DNS. It would just take hours and hours for any change to propagate, regardless of TTL and it was just extremely painful to work with. I thought this was just the way DNS was, until I switched to cloudflare. Suddenly, new records appeared instantly and changes applied in seconds or minutes it felt like pure magic.

So, that's my review of Namecheap freeDNS. I suppose they make it bad on purpose so people upgrade to their premium DNS?
Presumably the analogy is that the dress code and bean bag are the mud and sticks with which the banks are trying to mimic SV tech culture.

After all, the mud and the sticks were not fake, were they?
If you guys are interested in some close-to-the-details reporting on individual crashes, http://avherald.com/ is an excellent resource. For some reason I couldn't find the specific crashes related to the 737 Max in their logs though, I didn't search very very thoroughly though. It may only show certain carriers.
Last time I checked there were no third-parties bundled in Firefox.
No, you're missing the point:

If you don't understand what is causal - the original case being that a radio operator uses a radio to talk to someone to get cargo delivered - then there's no amount of mimicry that works. You can make everyone wear US army uniforms, even real ones, and it doesn't cause cargo to arrive.

So long as you are not addressing the actual issue, it won't be addressed. If banks want to hire tech employees they have to pay them, and they have to respect them.

Adding a bunch of toys is neither of these things.
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Ask HN: Why Chrome still has no MathML support?
From MathJAx Github[0], "This implementation has not passed Google's security review and so is not integrated yet in Chrome."

& From Wikipedia[1], "Google removed support of MathML claiming architectural security issues and low usage do not justify their engineering time. As of October 2013, the WebKit/Safari implementation has numerous bugs"

Does anyone have any clearer/explicit reason as to why Chrome pulled out on MathML support?

[0]: https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/wiki/MathML-Support-In-Browsers
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML#Web_browsers
Yep. I understand. Billing has been a frustration around Cloudflare Registrar. We are working on it. Stay tuned and sorry for the frustrations.
The max-width on desktop browser should be made wider. it looks really odd as a thin strip of text on a 1000px+ window.

other than that - good job.
True, in the last ten years nearly all the big projects have been Reg projects. These are normally never as much fun as revenue generating projects.

However, I still think banking as a whole is more interesting than a lot of others - FMCG, manufacturing etc.
> I fully expect to be moded into oblivion for speaking anything except praise for the apple frenchise.

No one speaks praise about iTunes.
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Continued massive network expansion. https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1104827226963361792
The problem is that the trigger for 3rd party skills sucks.

Saying "Alexa, ask [Whatever skill name] to do something" is really unnatural and ruins the whole user experience.

They need sort out the grammar to make it actually feel conversational.
Is Mozilla interested in built-ins?
I thought win10 shared kernel between mobile and computer?
It doesn't work that way. A thing you have to experiment with to even know whether it could potentially work for you is just one of many such things that have to be considered and evaluated too, but you simply ignore them in your idea of analysis. You are literally justifying committing to something without knowing what it actually is.
"Always mention that you are running Arch Linux."
That's not exactly the allegory I'm envisioning. More like future products are going to be less open for fear of being subsumed by cloud vendors. This story of Elastic is not too dissimilar to the story posted about Docker the other day. Docker Inc is in the process of being crushed by Google via Kubernetes. It's going to potentially stifle future open source enterprise software development.
OTH, you'll see the coin much more often.
Pretty much always. I mean, as a frontend developer I'm dealing with an untyped api all the time: the backend. We've written pretty huge software using many untyped services, and we're doing fine.
The phenomenon described is common - making a noticeable effort to hide something draws more attention to what you're trying to hide.

Attributing it to a specific individual seems a little weird to me. It'd be like calling lashing out in anger "the Depp effect."
Beyond the point, made by others, that a spirit level will not give you the airplane's attitude (on account of acceleration), it is also the case that the airplane's attitude does not tell you the angle of attack, which also depends on the airplane's vertical speed with respect to the airmass. Pilots-in-training are taught not to rely on the airplane's attitude (normally judged, in visual flight, by the position of the nose or top of the instrument panel relative to the horizon) as an indicator of whether a stall is imminent.

In a steady state, and for a given wing configuration (flaps/slats/spoiler positions), there's a causal relationship between angle of attack and speed (which also depends on air density, aircraft weight and load factor (how many gs you are pulling)), such that the indicated airspeed (which measures ram air pressure in a pitot tube, and fortuitously cancels out the density dependence) has historically been the proxy for angle of attack - and, at least in small airplanes, it still is.

Even small airplanes often have a separate stall warning device, which is triggered by the movement of the leading-edge stagnation point (where the flow divides between going above and below the wing) as the angle of attack changes. In its simplest form, it is operated by a small tab which is flipped up when the stagnation point moves below it.
The Queen being on the other side is something different - she is always featured there and isn’t selected.
Yet it was put into planes. So either it wasn't really understood in the context, or no one that knew about it was advising on the design of aircrafts.
From RFC2026

> A specification from which at least two independent and interoperable implementations from different code bases have been developed, and for which sufficient successful operational experience has been obtained, may be elevated to the "Draft Standard" level.

Standards are created first by someone implementing them and then others coming out with their own implentation and then finally going through a standardization process

Even IEFTF does not accept standards which lack at least two independent implementations
In theory, maybe. In practice, not so much.
There isn't one predictable manifestation of autopilot failure you can train over.
It’s less stressful to be in an environment where you can actually work vs one where you constantly have to fight distractions. Yes you produce more but it’s also better for mental health so it may be worth being paid less.
Great, but let's understand it's not going to tilt the scales. It's still going to count Chrome as the final winner since popularity is measured more by User Agent in visits, and less by download stats (atleast that's what I have seen so far, would be very happy to know otherwise).
It's a slight simplification. The Mozilla Suite was "built to support Web standards rather than Microsoft's particular spin on these standards". Firefox/Phoenix/Firebird is the second generation Mozilla browser.
How it's less free? It's easier than ever to publish something for free with knowledge that can be acquired for free and reach/collaborate with orders of magnitude more people.

I remember digging through HomeSite 4.0 help file to learn what HTML tags do.
What if FB makes sure the ad sees non impressionable audience?
Great critique after using Clojure for 5 minutes
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Ah shoot, thanks for the heads up. Will fix that now.
Not every one is paid in $. There are devs who live in countries with currencies that have lower value when compared to $.