skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd guess you either got lucky then, or it didn't look suspicious to them (e.g. your first time doing it, or there wasn't a huge fare difference from the ticket you "should've" bought). It used to be easy to use this trick, but airlines much more often cancel itineraries if you skip a portion now, since the contract terms specifically ban "hidden-city ticketing" and "throwaway ticketing". Was a bit of a brouhaha a few years ago at flyertalk when it started happening. But of course airlines don't disclose what exactly triggers enforcement.
Maybe the attack will be external then? (Thieves, Hackers, Foreign govs...)
Way to quote selectively there. "It sometimes sucks" occurs more frequently for many people than many would like to admit. I work for a company that uses a ton of open source and open sources a ton of its own technology. Even for us, the GPL is poison. We're not allowed to touch GPL code. And we're not alone in this sentiment. A large number of open source enthusiasts decry the viral nature of the GPL, precisely because it has unpleasant properties common with cancer.
Should we fault CARB though? They require more stringent emissions regulations due to California's geography, and both the federal government and automakers are rarely amiable to their needs.

With cars going electric, its a bit of a moot point, except for the part where pressure needs to be applied on heavy trucks now (hopefully pushing them to natural gas from diesel until energy storage catches up).
>I wonder why there is no open source SharePoint alternative e.g. coded in PHP.

I think it's because SharePoint's strengths lie mainly in integration with Office and other Microsoft products. Lists, workflows, wikis, etc. in SharePoint aren't great. Basically everything it does can be done in a better way with another tool.

However, due to AD integration, Office integration, the ease of connecting to MS SQL Server, the product can do things that would be difficult to do in any third party product. You can upload Word documents, run a workflow on them, have users edit list data directly in Office products, bulk edit lists in Excel, and use InfoPath forms (basically dead now though from what I recall -- thankfully I no longer have to work with SharePoint).

I think SharePoint won't ever have a competitor that can offer all of its integration.
I have a 2014 Jetta TDI, and the thing I'm wondering is what the cost of the fix will be - not to me in dollars, since it would be covered by the recall - but rather, will this affect my fuel economy or performance in some other way? I'm just trying to figure out why they don't have the cars running in this lower-emissions mode all the time.
> The capital that cannot be withdrawn is what I refer to as "true capital", as all of the other value exists solely as reflection of the true capital.

What? How does that have any bearing on reality? The values of mortgages a bank has on its books aren't a reflection of how much reserves it has, it's a reflection of the dollar values attached to the loans.

How many loans a bank can write in a month is of course dependent upon how much money the bank has sitting around in excess of the reserves it is required to keep. But again, that doesn't dictate the dollar values on the loans. Those were fixed at signing and in the absence of problems, get smaller at a predictable rate. What do reserves have to do with the loan equations?
If ad blocking is a matter of right and wrong, then so is the invisible hand of any demand/supply driven system.

Blocking web-based ads is no different from TV viewers who walk out of the room, or record shows then skip over ads on playback, or mute the TV during ads. AFAIK, no TV advertisers have bemoaned that venerable practice.

If web ad purveyors want folks to browse differently then they must 1) improve their spam so people choose not to block it, or 2) change the physical way it's distributed.

To volubly complain is to sleight the invisible hand, which as you know, in the Land of the Free, is akin to giving olde Mr Smith the finger.
Cool, idea... what if we made a reverse lookup, so you could search in the app for the book and we could show you the picture of your shelf with the book highlighted. Thoughts?
I can't agree with you that blocking adds on a webpage is unethical. I am accessing a website through a web browser that has the ability to modify the page before it is presented to me. How I choose to view the content that is made available on the open web is my business. If content producers don't want to make their content available in a format where ads can be blocked, they can simply stop doing so.
A content hash is good enough. The trusted hash is sent over an already trusted channel (TLS).

Thanks for the downmods.
Things here are broader than the physical. Not for all people who are depressed, but a general absence of desire is common. It includes desire for physical things that you may have once liked or collected. Lack of desire for social things like friends or lovers or perhaps any contact with other people. Even the desire to be alive, which for most people is just a given, can be absent. I, for example, was not actually suicidal, I just had no desire to exist, but also no desire to put forth the effort to end my existence.
Not cheesy at all. HN, Reddit, Digg, Slashdot are all powered by its users. Unfortunately, management needs to "add value for shareholders" and users left\are leaving for greener pastures. Lets see how long HN can hold out.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Credit should be accepted in stores where you're expected to spend over 10,000JPY/$100, but anywhere small is cash-only. In Tokyo you might be able to NFC pay from your transit card balance, and the taxis take cards.

As for ATMs, go find a 7/11 or a Post Office and those will work.
Crowdfunding 101 – How to Avoid Marketing Service Scammers
Show HN: Viktor NV-1 0.5 (Polyphony, VelocitySens, Sustain, Volume, PatchShare)
“There isn’t a procedural way to live your life, and that might be inspiring people to think mystically for guidance,”

Well, herp derp, then i guess i'll just have to go ahead and live my life declaratively... This article actually gives me a sense of perverse optimism, that perhaps i have a fighting chance in life if at least some of my potential competition eschews logic :)
> Then I put it back on, squelchy wet and freezing cold

He put it back, wet and cold...
So you're saying your idea of what's moral is different. The "what he doesn't say" and "cares about this sort of thing" is completely unfounded and callous. Not exactly useful.
Drug Patents Give Companies Like GlaxoSmithKline Incentive to Lie

Published: 15 July 2010

"A NYT editorial ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15thu1.html?ref=op... ) commented on evidence that the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline had concealed negative research findings on its diabetes drug Avandia:

"'The clearest lesson to emerge from the hearings and other recent revelations is that GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Avandia, can’t be trusted to report adverse clinical results fairly. The company must be watched like a hawk as additional trials that it sponsors go forward.'

"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Doesn't the NYT believe in the profit motive and incentives? The patent system, by granting monopolies that raise prices several thousand percent above the cost of production, gives drug companies an enormous incentive to conceal negative research findings. As long as these perverse incentives exist, then we have to watch every drug company like a hawk.

"Maybe some wacko socialists think that drug companies will act for the public good and willingly forego vast profits, but those who believe on markets and economics know that drug companies will try to get away with anything they can get away with. One day maybe an iota of original thought will be allowed into public policy debates on the patent system, but we haven't gotten there yet."

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/drug-patents-give-c...

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Pharmaceutical Company Invented Diseases, One of the Incentives Provided by Patent Monopolies

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/pharmaceutical-comp...

Tufts Economist Documents Inefficiency of Patent System for Financing Drug Research

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/tufts-economist-doc...

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Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs

April 2015, Ravi Katari and Dean Baker

Abstract: "Patent monopolies have long been used as a mechanism for financing innovation and research. The logic is that the government awards a monopoly on a product or process for a limited period of time in order to reward innovation. However, in addition to providing incentives for innovation and research, patent monopolies also provide incentives for a wide-range of rent-seeking behaviors, many of which can have major social costs. This paper attempts to calculate one category of these costs for prescription drugs. It produces estimates of the costs associated with mismarketing drugs. The estimates are based on assessments of the costs in the form of increased morbidity and mortality associated with five prominent cases of mismarketing over the last two decades."

http://www.cepr.net/publications/reports/patent-monopolies-a...
I guess he has also the advantage that he can train specifically for this kind of burst power. All his other projects were of this kind -- a minute or two of maximum possible power.
Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say
Bureaucratic intransigence is a really upbeat way of putting it. How about corruption through regulatory capture? Big auto needs to sell their over-priced parts. Why let people buy a $150 after-market part, when you can just call up CARB and have them make people buy equivalent $1,100 factory or OEM parts?

Wow, judging by the down-votes, people don't seem to realize how expensive CARB deliberately makes it to own an older car, regardless of how clean its emissions are.

EDIT: To further demonstrate that it's all about money and not about smog, you can get a "Repair Cost Waiver"[1] if you've spent at least $650 (on CA-approved parts, of course), and they'll approve your polluting car, no problem. All they really want is that $650 in the pockets of their car industry buddies and $XYZ worth of repeated tests in the pockets of the test stations.

1: http://www.bar.ca.gov/Consumer/Referee/Referee_Centers.html
> I don't believe he wrote an app hoping to have a small user base, so I don't believe that the success of the app was the problem.

Absolutely agreed. All else aside, I don't really believe someone goes through the trouble of building, launching and promoting an iOS application on the app store (with all its hurdles) with the thought, "Gee, I really hope it doesn't get too popular!"

I'm not Marco (nor have I ever talked to him) and I'm not trying to put myself into his head space. Moreover, I absolutely despise a conspiracy theory. I'm simply saying that the explanation he gave, true or not, does not make sense to me so I personally choose not to believe it. If I were Marco and reading my comment, my response would be, "Good for you; I honestly couldn't care less what you think."
Start here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.operations/5019
The article is interesting, but the title is frustrating because clickbaiting. I personally love chess and love challenges, and this was downright disappointing. I don't encourage clickbaiting. This is a shame because the article is interesting
After my post has been moderated down to the abyss, Marco has announced that he has given the app code to Ghostery, who'll certainly release an app in short order. And for which all logic states Arment will receive financial considerations.

My post above is completely accurate. The moral grandstanding is an embarrassment, and it's worse how well this noise works on HN.
I'm the app's developer, so I'll chime in here. The deals we have with publishers require that the book can't be returned to a bookstore. Having to write in your book isn't the only option though -- we do allow users to make their books with a bookplate sticker or stamp it with an ex-libris stamp:

http://blog.shelfie.com/2015/01/01/take-shelfie-use-ex-libri...

The slip of paper trick (or acetate sheet) is an option for people who want to try to game the system... but we do have mTurks who check the claims and will block the accounts of repeat offenders. That said, there are easier ways to get free ebooks e.g. thepriatebay.se
From the Patreon wikipedia page:

> Artists set up a page on the Patreon website, where patrons can pledge to donate a given amount of money to an artist every time they create a piece of art, optionally setting a monthly maximum. Alternatively a fixed monthly amount can be pledged

So it either turns into a monthly subscription fee, or becomes another game for the ad-tech industry to solve.
Nice! Wikimedia Labs is going to start offering Volunteers who want to do any Wikimedia related projects Kubernetes access for free soon (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-September/...) although that isn't going to be on CoreOS.
There are two problems with roundabouts in America.

The first problem is the people who don't know how to drive. I cannot count the number of times I have seen people stop in the middle of a roundabout to let cars in, or stop at the entrance and stare in confusion when there is absolutely nothing coming.

The second problems is inherent in the design. A line of traffic that is going straight can, effectively, prevent any cross traffic from entering the roundabout, due to the small radius of most US traffic circles. This is a trade-off, of course, and is still safer than traffic lights or a 4-way stop, and usually more efficient.
I scaled it to fit 2560x1440 for my Apple Cinema Displays and used content-aware fill in the black space in the margins on the top and bottom. It works as an amazing wallpaper.

http://i.imgur.com/GykjvD7.png
So my question is now: In terms of aerodynamics, what aren't they doing?

Some commentators have noted that the shape of this bike is just about as good as it can get. The rider/engine is also not going to see any vast improvements. So rather than this become a pure athletic event, where can engineers look for improvements? Will they have to start dealing with boundary layer issues? Will the next generation of bike be covered in golfball-like holes to reduce turbulence?
Exactly. I hope we will see a world soon, where Bitcoin (or another cryptocurrency) is as ubiquitous as credit cards now.

Transaction fees for a failed credit card payment? Its more than insane.
I'm all for keeping the air clean, but that's obviously not the motivation behind CARB's policy of failing cars with clean-blowing after-market parts.
The article states that he's just guessing at what happened leading up to the fraudulent request. (If I'm reading right.) So, no way to know what would stop the first part. The actual attack was a common one where a request comes in without strong authentication and an authorized user carries it out. Neither QubesOS nor any other low-level architecture I mentioned would stop that as it's an application-layer concern. There's a little irony in your comment, though, given that one of the Nizza demonstrators in mid-2000's was doing eCommerce by splitting the UI and security critical parts over a microkernel. Did that for GPG email, too. So, even they recognized the problem and demo'd a two-part solution. I sent that to Joanna in our exchange.

"We can always fork Qubes and play around with whatever other VM templates such as OpenBSD, seL4 x86/genode port or experimental encrypted overlay kernel.org kernels"

That's true. It's why I found the seL4 and QubesOS work interesting. Additionally, as they showed up, I've suggested various projects to those interested in improving QubesOS assurance. These included capability extensions for Xen, the Xenon project, several projects that knock risk out of Dom0, components like Nitpicker, and so on. To be clear, I don't see QubesOS as worthless or all bad so much as redundant in some ways, weaker technologically in others, and a vast usability improvement in yet others. Use and improve it if you want for sure with definite benefits over a vanilla Windows or Linux box. Just know the limitations of the security approach and that efforts might be better spent elsewhere.

Here's a recent report on the 2005 Nizza architecture's design along with other projects that built on it if you're curious what it was like. Notice how they understood where the software risks were, systematically eliminated what they could, and kept metrics on the TCB to back it up. On other end, I couldn't even get Joanna to agree user-mode drivers were more robust despite a decade plus evidence of this.

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/Studium/KMB/WS2014/11-Security-...
I'm still not being clear, I'm afraid. It's not a question of how stringent the emissions specifications are. The problem is CARB's reliance on equipment checks rather than tailpipe emissions checks. ryandrake's car might well be cleaner than a perfectly-stock vehicle, but if each and every component doesn't have a CARB certification number stamped on it, it's illegal.

You could argue that equipment checks are in place to prevent the very situation described in this article, where people might install shady aftermarket hardware to game emissions tests, but as we've seen, the aftermarket is not where the problem actually lies.
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The Lost Apple Logos You've Never Seen
Interesting. I live in an Type-2 Westfalia which has a fridge, two burner propane stove, 9 storage compartments, two air conditioners, a heater, sleeps up to four, fits in compact-width & height parking garages and has complete privacy with curtains all-around. If/when I do the trick of not curtaining the front seat area, it looks plausibly like it's has curtains up for another reason. I'd like to convert it to all-electric (Tesla) because keeping it running is a bit pricey. I rarely pop the top because that's not stealth.
Apple Gets Ready to Migrate to .Apple GTLD
> Wow, judging by the down-votes, people don't seem to realize how expensive CARB deliberately makes it to own an older car, regardless of how clean its emissions are.

I upvoted you even though I disagree with you for what its worth.

You're an edge case. Most people with older cars no longer maintain their emissions controls. The older the car, the more likely it is that its polluting. Is it fair? Not at all. You're just swept up in the process.
Do people really take it that seriously? It's not like you can exchange karma points for VC investment...

IMHO, anyone who takes HN like that is bound to be disappointed. What rises to the top is pretty much a crapshoot.

A few weeks back I made a small side project that got to #1 on the HN frontpage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117297

Thing is, I had posted the same site as a "Show HN" the previous week, and that time it didn't get a single upvote! It's just a matter of luck. (The moderators will even sometimes send you an email asking for a repost if they think your submission should have got more attention.)

Also worth mentioning is that the only reason I was inspired to make the WordSafety site was a discussion on HN (it's mentioned in the comments on the post I linked above). That to me is the real value of Hacker News: finding the motivation to do something. Showing off the finished product feels kind of secondary even.
More extremely, I flat out refuse consumerist society whenever possible. None of us needs to be manipulated into buying most of the things ads try to manipulate us to buy.

Yet, you are consuming someone else's writing as a minimum. I have taken ads off most of my websites and added a tipping option. I hope that turns out to be successful. I currently don't get enough traffic for it to support me outright. Most people on the web find that donate buttons do little or nothing. They turn to ads because it is a way to get paid.

What are you doing to try to solve the problem of monetizing the web some way other than ads? If you aren't doing anything to try to promote another monetization strategy, then you are basically promoting slavery in that you are expecting people to make the web happen without being paid for it. You are expecting people to work for free. Currently, many people do work for free, some of them in hopes that it will lead to money at some point. Some of them are quite bitter about it. (Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10234287)

I have been online about 17 years. I have steadily watched good, free content disappear and get replaced by something that helped pay the bills for the content providers. I also loathe consumerism. I live a spartan life and I expect to continue doing so. But the Internet is important to me and it needs to be monetized somehow.

I am not trying to be disrespectful to you and I apologize if it at all sounds that way. It is easy to say what we do not like about what we currently have. It is much harder to find a viable alternative. I don't know how else to start that dialogue and I think it is extremely important that it get started.
I'm suspicious of anyone who uses smart pointers without being able to discuss the trade-offs. Likewise the STL and Boost('s smart pointers and containers).

RAII on the other hand, totally.
WIRED gives Apple News exclusive story – future of monetization?
I cannot but recommend the book "The queen of fats" for a fascinating history of the Omega-3 fats recommendations.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Queen-Fats-Omega-3s-California/dp/...
A monthly subscription to having the artist or company make content. Not to the actual content itself. The subtlety here, is that if people are paying the artist to work, the work itself can be free or sold-at-cost if physical. So basically, you get what the web used to be before the bust - free content as far as the eye can see.
Peace, the Top Selling Ad Blocker, Removed from App Store
The problem is that other solutions are just not good enough to deliver the exact end product to send to clients or partners or management. We do everything in Google docs because it is just really nice and convenient but when it needs to be finalised for sending off we send it to the one person with a MS Office license who fixes it. I would never condone paying more licenses though because when we all had MS Office licenses exactly the same thing happened... People writing content are usually not the people doing layout and design.
Social Media, Customer Service and Brand Reputation: Case Study of British Airways
Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs
You need to account for the probability of being caught. It's quite likely to be significantly lower than 1/3, so they might still have come out ahead.

Even if they're just breaking even, it's a kind of loan - they had the gain a long time ago, and pay the costs much later. If you're a risky business, that's potentially worth a lot, since investors might be hard to find.

And if you account for that you need to account for the asymmetry of risk due to bankruptcy protections - even if the average payout is negative, fines are effectively capped at what the firm can pay, so the effective expected payout may still be positive. (Assuming those making this decision escape personal liability).
And when you add the spyware/malware issues along with a general stance of "I am always allowed to control what my computer does for me" it strikes me as textbook motivated reasoning to frame things as the author has.

It can get outright comical, part of this argument reads to me as a threat: "If you people don't start letting me run code that works against your interests in your browser we will start doing even more unethical stuff to get money".

I don't even disagree that the bad actors will get worse if their business model continues to fail. I just don't see that appeasement is a good solution in any way. And I just don't believe that anyone would find this convincing unless their livelihood depending on them believing it.
My Reality Moment. Why did I ever agree to do this?
Perhaps you should first articulate what you think makes something real or not.