skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is totally accurate. I just want to add, that the TSA now has "TSA Pre" (or Pre-Check) which categorically DOES impact the level of screening pax need (i.e. they need less screening with TSA Pre). Express doesn't (you just skip the queue), TSA Pre does.

This is free to members of Global Entry, SENTRI or NEXUS programs, active duty [US] military, DoD employees and other federal employees with security clearance. For everyone else it costs $85/5 years ($17/year~) and may require an in-person interview.

I'd argue that if you are a frequent traveller, this is BETTER than status at the moment. The TSA Pre line is shorter and moves quicker than even the express line. And if you travel even semi-regularly $85/5 years is almost nothing compared to the time and hassle savings (look at it as one trip's lost lounge access).
I endorse everything Vasudev has written here. In the abstract a couple of other libraries of interest are Java-coded PDFBox and Python-based PDFMiner.
Etsy's move into manufacturers is an error IMHO.

Etsy would be better served by shoring up its advantage in craftpeople sellers, including artisinal products, one of a
kind items, and handmade creations.

Etsy has had difficult times since the spring IPO. The causes that I see are primarily due to large increases (+50%) in spending vs. no corresponding movement in income. Discoverability/search has decreased, and gamed listings by knockoff manufacturers are squeezing out legitimate handcrafters.

In addition, Etsy sellers who are true independents are moving to other hosting platforms that provide more capabilities such as Wix and SquareSpace, and to more popular promotions areas such as Instagram and Pinterest. Amazon Handmade looks promising as well.

Rather than trying to diversify into manufacturers and supply choices, Etsy would be wise IMHO to focus on its core strength of handcrafting, and specifically focus on two immediate goals:

1) Significantly improve discoverability/search. Esty needs to make it easier for people to locate items by e.g. regional areas, fair trade practices, true handcrafting, one of a kind items, etc.

2) Return the Etsy treasuries. Treasuries were user-curated collections featuring browse by image. The treasuries worked much like Pinterest, and looked somewhat like Instagram. The important aspects are the user curation and the inclusion of multiple craftspeople and items on one page.
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Reversable micro-USB cables
Actually, there would be a (very) small piece of evidence.

The TSA-approved locks I have to travel to the US have a small red ring. If the lock is opened with a TSA master key, the red ring appears, it has to be opened with its own key for the red thing to disappear.

So yeah, you'd know that someone has fiddled with your lock, little more.
Baidu is actually one of the more SV-like in culture tech companies in China. There's also quite a large number of engineers there who worked in SV and have now returned (bringing some of those engineer skills and culture with them).
Don't forget to throw in an hour of good physical activity per day for the test week
That seems like a rather extremist point of view to have "a lot of people on here" believe. I imagine it's more that a lot of people on here express that point of view, but if pressed and probed their actual stance would be revealed to be more nuanced and down to Earth.

At least I hope so, because I'm sometimes hopelessly optimistic and even I don't believe the natural state of people is to respect other people's "rights", which are themselves a construct of civilization, not an inherent portion of the human mental state (we often have a hard time defining things like ownership across cultures, much less instinctually understanding someone's right to such).

Edit: meant to end first sentence with "believe", not "express".
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If you want to sell some of those miles let me know. I can give you full instructions on what (and how) to book and I will give you cash.
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Etsy is one of the 50 most popular websites in the US, according to Alexa. And because it's facilitating ecommerce, it has to handle a lot of anti-fraud measures, customer service... all that seeming simplicity over that actual complexity costs a fair amount of money.
The idea is awesome for developers with basic knowledge of bootstrap, and seems to make most people gain time too. The only bad thing is that your website doesn't seem fully responsive, especially with the left iframe-like menu. It's bad for a boostrap theme maker...
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I've paid for domestic first a few times on routes where I knew the upgrade would be rough otherwise, or when I needed the bonus fare-based points to hit a status goal.

Also, on the big three carriers (America, Delta and United), upgrades get processed multiple days out depending on your level of status. Currently as Executive Platinum on AA, I can be upgraded as early as four days out from the flight. I'm actually waiting for the email right now to see if my upgrades will clear for a couple segments later this week.
If you really wanted to make the parameters optional, you could have your decorator accept ( callable = None, ^^kwargs ) and then check if `callable` is a function object ( or class / callable / whatever ) or None. If it is a direct application of the decorator then directly decorate with defaults, otherwise return a wrapping function with the given parameters to await the function as need be.

annoyed edit: replace ^ with asterisk, which I can't get HN to print even escaping them with backslashes. thanks bad syntax formatting code
Do you have any insight into why SFTP support was never built into "connect to server" ?

It seems so simple and obvious ... would have saved humanity millions of man hours with people mucking around with sshFS/FUSE on their macs, which barely worked back then ...
Bringing up the protection of the nuclear arsenal only enforces the fact that an encryption "master key" controlled by the government isn't such a great idea:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-u...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20427730/ns/us_news-military/t/air...

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/11/03/2-nuclear-commanders-f...

http://www.rt.com/usa/usaf-general-drunken-women-moscow-529/
Abstracts don't define the patent, claims do.

In the UK the abstract is part of the patentee's submission, but examiners would redraft them as needed to make them useful. IIRC the USPTO doesn't spend any resources on abstract re-drafting(?) and so abstracts are very poor.

US6988138 is "EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE" as of 2014; note that in 2010 it was "EXPIRED DUE TO REEXAMINATION WHICH CANCELED ALL CLAIMS"!
For what it is worth, flights between the UK and the US are some of the most heavily taxed flights in the world. Sometimes you are better off with a connecting flight from a European carrier that stops somewhere like France or Ireland.
"Cloud" in the hands of a corrupt company... will not be good.
No, Ginger could take a small nap and pay Fred a 100$ to do some work for her that she would normally do. Then, Fred would have 600$ to pay her back, and the economy's output would stay the same.
Post ends with:

"This project was fun. It was very exciting to bring it to life step by step, and such a pleasure to see it working after we put so much effort in it. But this is nothing compared to how much we learned thanks to it. What seemed to be pretty easy from the beginning, turned out to be very tricky in details. I could not imagine I would have to learn statistical methods and clustering algorithms, dust off my school notes on electronics (though we only need the basics here), and discover a number of useful tools and services on the way."

These are exactly my feelings after reading through this marvelous blog post.
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I don't think there is any special font used for the ASCII art...

You aren't asking for a font that produces ASCII art are you? If so then you might misunderstand how ASCII art is produced.
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The master keys for the nuclear arsenal were "00000000" for much of the cold war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/nuclear-missile-cod...
Is it possible to have someone from navlio contact me? Is there a contact email or number for navlio?
No one wants HN to turn into Reddit. More than half the comments there, except those in maybe /r/science, are poor attempts at humor that overshadow the discussion. I've seen humor successfully used here on HN but it's of a different sort and used sparingly. No memes or copy pasta for sure.
You're not wrong, it was an explicit decision: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-May/0206...
Common perks:

* Free (capacity-based) upgrades to first class on domestic flights

* Buying a full-fare economy-class (rather than discounted) ticket auto-upgrades you to first class at time of purchase

* Free checked bags

* Free access to exit rows and other extra-legroom seats

* Discount on lounge membership, and free access to lounges when you're departing internationally

* Priority customer-service access

* Waiving of lots of fees (for things like last-minute flight changes)

Moving up through the status levels, the perks have a tendency to get pretty nice; I've done multiple flights to/from Europe where I paid for an economy-class ticket and upgraded into business class for free, for example. I've also had access, regardless of fare class, to the fancy international lounges (most recently, had a shower and a hot breakfast after an overnight flight into London a couple weeks ago).
I work near a team of people I'd consider "good JS developers". If I were to just go over to their workspace and say, "We should totally use Clojurescript", they'd look at me with a mixture of "LOL, Emacs" or "This guy's a loon".

However, if I were to give a presentation talking about how I took X and rewrote it as Y in Clojurescript, and the benefits of doing that -- time, ease of debugging, code readability -- I'm pretty sure that they would not dismiss it immediately. (Of course, this would require me to actually learn Clojurescript well enough to rewrite my JS things in it. ;))
It's two different ones.

"HTTY" appears to be written in fraktur.
"The HTTP TTY" appears to be written in "grafitti"

The standard figlet fonts are here: http://www.figlet.org/examples.html

Here's the entry on fraktur from the figlet fonts library: http://www.jave.de/figlet/fonts/details/fraktur.html
Believe me, I know what it is. This just isn't the way to do it. Hiding a goto in a macro is bad. Hiding a goto in a nested macro is even worse. Sure, it's fine right now, but this is setting the project up for maintenance nightmares.

What's the benefit of this way over a more explicit coding style? The only benefit is saving a few lines of typing. Code is typed once and read 1000's of times. It's better to optimize code for reading, not for writing.

Feel free to read the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) coding standards which says "Goto shall not be used", and "Macros shall not be used, inline functions are preferred". Also, see NASA's Joint Propulsion Labs (JPL) coding standards where they recommend against using goto, and only allow simple macros (hint: a goto inside a macro is not simple).

Some really smart people put a lot of effort into creating coding standards for critical systems. Even if you don't believe me, when Bjarne Stroustrup is hosting the coding standard on his personal website you might want to pay attention.

http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
> The video game Metro 2033 (recently remastered for modern consoles, so it's still around and relevant) envisions a typical post-apocalyptic future. People live underground, in subway (metro) tunnels under the cities, which are hellish radioactive wastelands.

> Something that struck me about the game was the role of women. You mostly see them in the context of children or, more regrettably, in the kitchen. It's not reflective of even the present day in Western cultures, let alone decades in the future.

Reversion to (or, at least, reintroduction of elements of) pre-modern social structures is a pretty common trope of post-apocalyptic fiction; insofar as social structures are adaptive to environmental conditions, its not entirely without a realistic basis.
Today this is true for a more obvious reason; Pascal is legacy.
I look back on air travel of former times with incredulity - being able to smoke on a plane is one excerpt that particularly takes the biscuit. Concorde was quite incredible too, but the world has moved on to this new madness of easy-hack TSA locks, bullshit terror stories and lame air miles schemes. (As it happens I am looking after a house right now because the occupants have gone on a cheap flight made possible through some frequent flyer scheme.)

People also used to go mad for Green Shield stamps from garages, racking up far more miles on the road as a 'sales rep' than needed because there was this marginal incentive of rubbish you could get with the Green Shield stamps. It all worked wonderfully for a while and many people were delighted getting things like 50 glass tumblers for their kitchen cupboards.

I am sure the people next to the Avis depots around the world are used to people revving up their engines, slamming doors and shouting, but that does not make it right. If you had something important to do, how would you feel if there was someone parking a car every few minutes outside your place to drive off again a few minutes later, repeating ad-nauseum? I personally would not feel happy doing that sort of 'driving' even if I was in some faceless bit of American surburbia where such activity was normal. I might not have cared when I was a teenager but I didn't think very well in those days.

I also have connections with Madeira and I have seen the old photos from how things used to be before the E.U. plonked some massive airport and motorway there. It is a small island with a big runway, no surprise people on the island use it instead of hitching a ride on a fishing boat. I have not stood outside the departures lounge to count natives vs tourists but I am sure that whole infrastructure was built for tourism, not so grandma in Funchal can visit her relatives spread out all over the globe.
Another example of why HN posting time matters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10200641
You're quite confused - please see my response, but he was looking for the FIGLET fonts that produced the "ascii art" text.
I think you're the one misunderstanding things here. There are most certainly such things as ASCII art fonts.
Here's a very simple one: https://gist.github.com/dmd/6c57d30c1a38c611a99b
> Compilers with array bounds checking (...) stifle creativity, (...) and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts.

Absolute classic. The words to live by.
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Which combination of right and left?
Not in the general case. But in this case, yes it can.

First, I suggest you read the fucking link I summarised in the first place: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Second, this fucking course is really good: https://www.coursera.org/course/automata (I have taken it myself.) If you have a dozen hours to spare, it is highly recommended.

Third, you may want to take a look at this… fucking… analogy:

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The number of paths from top to bottom is 2^N. If you want to try them all, that will indeed take exponential time, parallelism or not. But when you process an NFA, you don't care which path you have taken. So you can forget about which path you have "actually" taken.

The thing is, when you branch from K, both branches land at the same spot: K+1. So you merge those branches. Then you split again. So when you're going through this graph, the maximum number of actual threads you will ever run in parallel is 2.

That's nowhere near the expected 2^N.

Here lies the beauty of proper NFA processing. By merging the parallel threads at each opportunity, you keep their numbers down to the number of states in the NFA —at most. As a result, the worst running time of a good NFA algorithm is O(N*S), where N is the length of the input, and S the number of states in the NFA. And the worst running space is O(S).

Of course, if you're fail to merge the threads (like backtracking), then your worst case goes back to exponential. On the other hand, it can give you extra powers such as back references.
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I'm sure there's a market in the zombie community for an oven capable of creating the conditions you describe. This could be a major public health concern among the undead.
> That isn't "name calling". It's just naming.

I see, fair enough. It was clearly wrong to assume you viewed his actions as either moral or immoral.

> Avis [is] an amoral, predatory agent

> Approving of it [...] makes the problem worse.

> you've helped normalize exploitation as a behavior

On second thought, I'm pretty sure "name calling" was spot-on.

OP bought a good for the lowest price he could find. If you want to call that exploitation, more power to you, but please don't try to pass off your moral opinions as objective truths. It's slimy.
All the other replies mention the obvious perks, but when I flew a lot on United, the biggest one was being treated nicely by the airline. Punch in your frequent-flier number, hit the option for a representative, and they treat you much better if you have even the lowest premium status.

I talked to someone about it, and basically the airlines all assume you booked purely on price, so have no incentive to treat you nicely, since if the next time you search, if they are $50 more than the competition you will book with the competition regardless of how you are treated. If you have FF status, then the equation is different.
Peru isn't Guatemala by a long shot and hasn't been plagued with the type of gang violence present in Central America in over a decade but...

I've spent a lot of time in Peru (particularly Lima) since most of my family is Peruvian and I was born there myself but was raised almost entirely in the States. As I got older I became more aware of the differences between my life in the States and that in Lima. One thing that particularly struck me is that upper middle class neighborhoods like Miraflores or San Isidro are frequently patrolled by private security holding submachine guns. Not cops, just private security, hired by individuals or community organizations.

People in Peru don't have faith in the police. People's homes are usually walled off with 'murros' covered in barbed wire, ornamental fence spikes, or shards of glass sticking up. These houses end up looking like boxes on the street obscuring a normal looking home behind the murro. You sometimes see similar architecture in parts of San Francisco.

People less wealthy might not have the resources to build murros or hire private security so this sort of attitude towards policing is not totally surprising but terrible to think about.
That is absolutely wonderful.
FWIW, I assumed as much when I wrote the post. I wrote merely that the code is bug-prone generally, without pointing out specific bugs. A stance that I got the impression you agreed with, from watching your video.

In generally I tried to avoid an overly negative tone when referencing your code or statements, I hope you find that it's reflected in the post.
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The minds are the Culture and the minds are anarcho-communists (at least as far as I can tell).
One of the programs closest to my heart which I use multiple times a day, "Beyond Compare" is written in PASCAL, Delphi more specifically. I know very little about PASCAL, but I know that Beyond Compare is rock solid.
Exactly. This is only a problem if the locks were publicly available which they should be in case of insecure technologies like the clipper chip.

I guess the physical equivalent is a knox box as illustrated here https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_up...
I did 4 years in high school.
I think you underestimate how much people (at least 30 and older, but a good number under 30 also) like owning their own cars and driving them.

There is definitely some tunnel vision here. Not everyone lives in densely populated urban areas where owning a car is already almost not worth the cost and hassle.

I can't see myself ever owning or time-sharing a self-driving car.
And churn cards for the sign up bonus.
Exactly, this is not at all like when eBay changed from people selling stuff out of their garage to mostly regular retailers. In that case, the nature of the merchandise didn't change, and the service actually got better because you were dealing with pros.
Etsy has some wonderful sellers and items (in his spare time, a guy is making me a pair of gorgeous faceted opals that you can't find anywhere else) but if it becomes mass, who cares? The degree to which they succeed in doing Etsy Manufacturing is going to be the degree which they become irrelevant to anyone looking for their traditional handmade product. If I just want something cute I can go to Target. It's the exclusivity that creates the value.
> In what reality can economic growth continue indefinitely into infinity? In what reality is there an unlimited supply of goods to satisfy boundless demand?

There doesn't need to be an unlimited supply of anything except economic activity. Economic activity is defined more or less as any exchange of goods and services (including labour). If I decide to go to the pub and recite poetry, and someone decides to give me money for reciting poetry, we have economic activity.

Another example. Take a brand new model year 2015 automobile, and contrast to a 2014 model with the same badge. The 2015 will be priced higher. Why? Because we assume it's better - more technology, maybe more features. Even if both have never been driven off the lot. Another poster made the comparison between a 2010 and 2015 iPhone. Even if both are in the original packaging, there will be a price difference.

It's in this way that technology is factored in to economic growth. In the future, as long as technology increases (which it likely will), even if the output of raw material decreases, even if we don't pull out as many resources, economic activity can still increase in value.

> Finance has abstracted economics from the real world into mathematical magic.

To a certain degree, yes. Much like computing has abstracted transistors and electronic circuits into something that allows us to write plain English into an abstraction (HTML and such) that's interpreted through another abstraction (browser) that's implemented on top of another abstraction (OS) that's implemented with another abstraction (compiled language) over a language (assembly) that's a nicer façade over what the hardware actually interprets (machine language).

The language of Economics allows us to quantify what happens in the real world, and create abstractions to allow us to make sense of how it all works.
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No insight whatsoever. Probably nobody ever asked for it, to be honest. "Connect to Server ..." was overwhelmingly used to connect via AFP or, shudder NFS at the time, both of which expose a filesystem like interface. How much like a filesystem is a SFTP connection, as opposed to a FTP-like one? That's probably the reason, right there: WebDAV purported to expose filesystem semantics, which meant that in theory adding it was simply defining a communications protocol to the Finder, rather than a complete translation layer between filesystem operations and FTP ones.
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Perhaps this example would have been better if it were written in C and didn't muddy things with object construction.