skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true under so many circumstances. If you book a chain hotel, you are really just trusting that the chain has reasonably tight control over the quality of the branch. There are plenty of 'nightmare' hotels out there, and the main guard are reviews, which isn't too far off from airbnb (a hotel will have a higher volume of guests to leave reviews, and the social incentives are different, which is why I didn't call them the same).
We don't need to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Manufacturin...
Actually I think they mean process. Instead of going back between the right people over the course of months with perfect mockups, sign offs, conference calls, etc they were in the same room and shortened or threw out various parts of the process.
There is a strong implication in the article that the Soviets were much better than the Americans at this game.
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As a very amateur photographer, do you use lightroom on every photo? What sort of photo enhancements do you do?
I absolutely hate that we have to play the game but I suppose that there's some benefit in weeding out the people who can't.

"Yes, I enjoy leveraging the different experience that each member brings to the team. When we combine a group of highly motivated and knowledgeable individuals, we can achieve a high degree of success...synergy...paradigm...core competencies"
This provides a fairly in depth look at the music industry and really spells out why these changes have happened. However, and not to discount the author's work, without providing the breadth of evidence in the article, this stuff is just super obvious. Technology has lowered the barrier to entry for all digital trades, quality and supply have skyrocketed while demand has stagnated(due to competition with internet/tv/apps etc) and the distribution platform and monetization strategy has changed. Coupled with widespread piurating the switch to live concert monetization is obvious as it can not be replicated.
I agree. This is the main feedback I've been getting today- make it cheaper- so I will be. It needs to move to a cheaper platform; that way I'm hoping I can make it $10 a month for unlimited hours. Would that be good value?
The inevitable blowback from helicopter parenting. It will probably take decades for society to fully recover.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent
It's easy to say your information is true when you say I can't look at the information and see if it's true. Not a tenable position, sir.
It still doesn't solve the problem that private vehicles require n times more space than a fleet of busses or bicycles.
Oh, one other thing. Hire Passion, you can always teach skill.
"It's a wonder they're as big as they are."

Not really. Part of getting big is not sweating small details like this when you have a constant stream of customers coming in the door and using you (to make up for the unhappy ones who never come back).
This is a side effect of a winner-take-all economy. Merely graduating from college just isn't enough any more. If you're not in the 1%, you're a loser and will have crap jobs for the rest of your life, or at least until the college loans are paid off.
Yes, but they were from the 18f team, not exactly representative of the typical government worker.
I understand what the statistic is meant to say and it does that well.

However, the city's already limited units to 90 days, so the 211ers are already handled -- if the city (with AirBnB's cooperation) enforces the law, that is. So I don't this point isn't particularly relevant to Prop F. Your mileage may vary, of course!
Still down here in midwest
It's a reasonable conclusion to draw, given your claim that people are able to "make rent" using AirBNB.

Without AirBNB, people would have to find alternate ways to do so, and if they couldn't would likely not be able to continue to live in their selected housing. That reduces demand on apartments (as people can no longer make money).
sbt isn't very good for copy&paste build masters, which was pretty much all of us who had to setup Ant and Maven projects. It demands a certain amount of investment in learning its core concepts, but OMIGOD it's sooooo good once you know what you're doing. I've extracted so much common setup to hierarchies of plugins that I can setup our company's most common usecases for new projects in 3 or so lines of code.
82-hour Internet ban on Eid fuels anger in Kashmir
Facebook seems to be having numerous issues over the last few weeks. The site and mobile app have been extremely slow, and often unusable at times during this period. Not that I really care, but I would be more curious as to what changed, or what they did, that has caused this recent influx of "outages".
I think the largest difference in that portrait is the warmer white balance.
I haven't looked into it, so I'm not sure, but I'm also not yet convinced that server logs can increase the integrity of banking transactions. I'd love to get some more info on specifics for this.

For example, a lot of people just assume that a bank can't be eventually consistent, but if you make them stop and think about it, they realize that they can and are. The ATM isn't always connected to the bank's servers. That's why your card has a withdrawl limit. That's how much they are willing to risk for eventual consistency.

I feel like the same is true for logging. That other checks can be put in place to mitigate risk to an acceptable level.
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What I'd like to see in the future is the possibility to buy a video of every concert I have been to. The production quality must not be stellar, I just need a video from the back of the room plus ok-ish audio.

So when I want to relive that concert I will just open the video and then do some chores around the house.
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And shots from the best Android phone cameras as well. An iPhone-only comparison is like saying "compare the writing scores of this 8-year-old child vs. when she was 7, 6 and 5 years old!"
It seems to me like the 6/6s does something to the skin tones. Less details, but warmer.
Just because this thread is filled with negativity...

My wife and I have stayed in a bunch of airbnb's (Aptos CA, Oregon House CA, Portland OR, Palo Alto, CA, San Diego CA, Princeville & Kapa'a HI, Seville & Barcelona (Las Ramblas) Spain, Venice & Florence & Rome Italy, and maybe another one or two that I'm forgetting) and the experience has been well above average every single time and every one of them were cheaper than the hotel alternatives.

No idea what we're doing differently, but we meticulously look through reviews and make sure we exchange a few messages with each host before we book.
Ask HN: How am I supposed to verify the origin of a sign-in page in a web view?
I just had to sign in into my google account in an iPhone app (ingress). The familiar google sign in page appeared in what is known as a "web view", that is a browser that is embedded into the application. The problem I am seeing here is that I don't see the URL that is being loaded into the web view. It could be a page on a completely different domain that just looks like the google sign in page. Even if it did show a URL, I couldn't be sure that it actually is what it claims to be, because you could just make it look like it loads google.com even if it didn't.

Should the sign in page not be loaded in the actual system browser, which I do trust and where I can see the URL and the certificate, and then somehow redirect back to the app?

The only way I can think of is by installing MITMProxy on my computer and watch the traffic as I sign in to confirm that my password is really only transmitted to google.

Is there a better practice than the sign-in via web view for (iPhone) apps?
This suddenly makes me think of the hiring process -- at least the much-criticized and apparently prevalent form -- as a primary example of premature optimization.

Perhaps a bit obvious; nonetheless, I find it useful to apply those specific words to it.
You know people masturbated well before porn of any kind existed right? And that people frequently do more difficult but higher reward thing? And that there are other motivators for meaningful relationships than just sex?

Maybe this was just a joke that I didn't find very funny?
The implication was that the Americans were "embarrassed" by how easily their agents were identified (or conformed to a formula of sorts). I don't believe it mentioned if the Soviets were in fact "better" at either spying, or identifying spies.
> OTOH, it says it's executing Vagrant and Packer under the covers, so I really need some of the Packer limitations I have (like https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/409 ) addressed more than I want glue on top.

Ahhhh that Packer issue. I have been following that one for what seems like years too.
What are they gonna do with all that money?

...change the company name to Large?
> Do you have any more lies/mental gymnastics

We've banned this account as a troll. On HN, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Resources are a matter of budgetary concerns, mostly.

True, but most people unfortunately don't have unlimited budgets to work with.

Also, there is more than a monetary cost. Every system in your architecture incurs a non-zero cost to maintenance, reliability, cognitive load, and management. For example, if you are in AWS, every unused box adds time to the API call for listing the instances. Every extra box that is there for "just in case" does too. It's important to balance these things.
I've hired people to work on .net apps (C#) as well as hiring devs with no F# experience and this is simply not my experience at all. I hired someone to do a spike of a project in Rust, ditto. And just this last week I met with one of my consultants that just started using F# the week prior. His F# code isn't quite idiomatic but he's written ~1000 lines of usable code. I've personally investigated and made bugfixes to a system written in a language/platform in which I had no experience.

Therefore I think it's quite fine to say it takes a few days to learn a bit of a language, enough to start contributing. Enough that it's not "job security" to pick something that provides a real benefit.
> It doesn't work with large codebases.

This type of general conclusion isn't, by itself, particularly useful in discussion; a lot more useful would be presenting a summary of the specific facts and experiences that lead you to this conclusion.
I suspect there are several interpretations of "feature" being used in these discussions, and without someone being a bit more explicit in what they mean, I doubt much useful progress will be made.

I also think that complex languages may be harder for teams with high turnover or a lower average skill set within that language (and as such the average allowed complexity per expression may play a role in this). I went into some depth on this in a cousin thread[1], but my conclusion may not be quite the same as yours. Part (well, most actually) of my original question on this topic was to ask for clarification, because I thought the assertion was inherently ambiguous.

That said, if you have actual numbers or studies to bolster your statements about C++ I would love to see them. What you assert is a common refrain here, but I'm truly not sure how much of it is confirmation bias and squeaky wheel. There are plenty of C++ supporters as well as detractors, but I'm not sure how to sort through the noise here to get an accurate assessment of the landscape. Interestingly, my relative distance from C++ may actually help here since my own experiences may not sway me as much, but that might be entirely overshadowed by C++'s similarities and differences to other languages that I like or dislike in some aspect that I am more familiar with.

In the end, since it's not as simple as "less features us better, more features is worse" (otherwise we would all be writing assembly), I suspect there are a few other important axes of comparison that actually describe the situation better, and language features is a useful abstraction but only over a very short range of values, outside of which it becomes increasingly useless as a metric for how hard or easy it is to manage a codebase.

> BTW, today C++ is quite effective because it's become a (relative) niche language (even according to its creator). Niche languages are used by specialized teams that are good at enforcing discipline, and/or tend to be smaller.

Is it? I know there have been other systems eating into the market share for C++ for a while, but my impression has always been that it's still extremely popular in certain segments where there hasn't been much new competition for a while. E.g. high performance computation, cutting edge/AAA games, etc.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292093
You still haven't provided the evidence needed though to support the conclusion of a majority given some or even many.

Also, we are talking about an endeavour in which deception is the norm, so even evidence like this is more than a little bit questionable.
There is a Linux desktop client, although it isn't mentioned on the front page with the other clients.

From https://zulip.org/clients.html:

> There's a Linux client, but we don't have binaries posted yet. We hope to have a PPA setup soon.[0] In the meantime, you can clone the git repo[1] and build from source.

[0]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/issues/1

[1]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop

It's mostly a WebKit wrapper, just like the Mac and Windows clients, but it does provide an icon and a dedicated window and potentially better integration with system notifications etc.
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I've never played. Was there ever anything to do there that didn't "involve making, buying, and selling things," or are you just saying that it has become boring doing the same things over all the years?
If we ever get to a "post scarcity" future, then art would be one of the few things there would be a scarcity of (or at least good art).
Large asteroids are generally frozen on the inside when they impact the earth, similarly any large ejecta would likely contain pockets that remain relatively cool. Polar ice would actually be a great candidate for such a transit.
Best estimates are that American debt cannot be fixed with taxes on capital
We aren't talking about phones though, so I'm not sure how this applies.
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Calling the cops and needing counseling after seeing a mouse... Oh I am soo happy I didn't stay in academia. The professors are the ones who have to deal with the emotional trainwrecks that result from 18 years of overly praised and insulated child raising.

It'll be interesting to see the next gen of parenting advice after this gets sorted out. "Have you let your child fail today?"
What Drupal DESPERATELY needs is a full separation between config and content in the database - there is no real way to play with Fields and Views on a dev environment because replaying it is a PITA, and the more external modules you use the more likely you're going to run into issues with Features and the other supposed solutions for the problem.

Oh, and you can't do development for content on a staging environment, either.
Mostly because the Soviets did everything under a veil of secrecy -- likely as much to shield their own people from what was going on as the West. This extended to most parts of the government, not just the military/intelligence apparatus.
Much parroted, rarely if ever supported by hard data.
How the Ocean Forced Us to Develop Reliable Clocks
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How is that relevant? Secret laws are still laws. Just ask the NSA.
Im pretty sure ive read in one of a books that through sterilisation was curbed in,as it was causing excessive hardware failures
One thing I miss from that comparison are indoor moving subjects (ie. kids). My iPhone 5 seems to go for pretty long exposure times (1/15s). Of course, that makes for great stills, but many of the photos I take of my kids end up blurred. I'd prefer grainy but sharp.
I think they're both huge.
Your site's readability would be greatly improved if you darkened the text color. #444 or darker is good enough for a white background.
Articles like this remind me of "old economy steve".

Please, Professor with tenure and a pension, tell us how children facing an increasingly winner-take-all world in which failure actually is catastrophic are too afraid to take risks.
Start paying their writers?
"On what it will do with the money? Doyle says it will go to making Medium “the dominant pipeline for connecting quality content and conversation,” which is pretty broad."
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The content is decent, but the conversation aspect of Medium has a long, long way to go before it comes close to many other platforms.
People have chanted "sharing is caring" at demonstrations against greater regulations and restrictions on short term rentals. I think we're stepping close to a deliberate ambiguity.
> I know there have been other systems eating into the market share for C++ for a while, but my impression has always been that it's still extremely popular in certain segments where there hasn't been much new competition for a while.

"Extremely popular in certain segments" is typical of "niche languages" -- those segments are its niche(s).
Not every organization is good at teaching.
The hypothesis, I believe, is that the stuff in Allan Hills 84001 was fossilized back when Mars was wet but it was only ejected a few million years ago. The important part is that the inside of the rock never got too hot. As long as there are bacteria which can take being frozen for long periods of time they ought to be able to survive.

As to larger impacts I really can't speak with any authority and I'm not aware of any studies which would say. But my intuition would be that the greater volumes in large the ejecta from large impacts would heat up less due to more insulation. I should probably put this on /r/askScience and see if anybody knows more.
If a candidate actually had any of those attributes, never mind all seven, they wouldn't be interviewing at your company. Companies need to realize 99% of candidates are B players, and 99% of their own employees are too.
It's an interesting service, though I can't personally see putting that much of my sweat into 2,000 word blog posts that I don't own.

But what is their game plan to monetize?
Don't forget safety-critical software. I don't want avionics software developers thinking "that bug doesn't matter because it's very rare". Even if the effect is non-catastrophic.

For certain classes of software, zero bugs is not an unreasonable or unrealistic goal.
Yep, can't see it... Montreal, Canada.
The weather is most definitely consistent - consistently cool and very, very rarely hot.
How would you describe the typical government worker?

What characteristics would you ascribe as 'typical' among the nearly 2,800,000 federal government employees? What do think of the engineers at NASA? The biologists and mathematicians working on the human genome project? What character traits do you think are shared by Park Rangers fighting fires and educating people about the value of wilderness in Yosemite, and FBI Agents working undercover to investigate organized crime?

I'm genuinely curious.
That's just baffling to me.

Why would they advertise chaining together sequence operations like this as being LINQ-like (or like Clojure and other functional languages) when it's eager by default? What is gained by making these eager by default?

It just seems like a poor choice to me. That's a shame, because I feel like it's otherwise a pretty well-designed language.
A guy from a never communist country: privatization is not all that it seems to be when you've had to live under a "really existing socialism". Neither capitalism, for that matter.
That makes sense, the announcement seems to imply that really the problem was that Vagrantfiles were too restrictive, so make a Vagrant 2.0 that can read the old files (and will whine) and it uses the new super "Appfile" format as its native format. Maybe there is a tool to convert a Vagrantfile to an Appfile automatically (as Appfiles are supposed to be able to do everything Vagrant can do and more)

Anyway, in a more typical software development environment you'd provide such transition tools and carry your users along, so that the next version already starts with a huge base of users. Rather than throw out the old way and come in with a new completely incompatible way to do things.

Very confusing.
They also don't close over their parent scope.
In order to achieve this we will need to dramatically re-evaluate our priorities for higher education. Although it is empirically true that college administrations and associated costs have grown in recent decades, we have much higher expectations of colleges today than we did 30+ years ago. Health centers, rec centers, dining halls, transportation agreements, student clubs, etc., all contribute to a need for...more administration. So long as colleges have to compete for the funding students supply, they're in an arms race to have at least some minimum of amenities that modern students have been conditioned to expect. Judging by enrollment trends, "rigorous academics" is not ranked favorably in the decision of where to attend.

This is one of the reasons that I favor increased public funding of public universities and junior colleges, because many students would forego elaborate benefits in exchange for lower costs -- especially after watching Millenials take on a lifetime of debt to finance an expensive "pre-adult" development phase. I think there is plenty of room in the market for private colleges (who can spend their money however they like), but public schools should have more modest expectations of what they provide.
Still waiting for an HR blog where they checked the people they didn't hire against those they did.
Hashi folk: this actually hit my own site a few weeks ago, learning from the experience: OS X renders fonts better, even on the same non-retina display, than Windows does. If you have something font-weight: 200 or less, it's fine on OS X, but it's completely unusable on Windows.
The Island of Color Blindness
Which is why this uses Vagrant and doesn't replace it.
Our team (RYOT) got the opportunity to film a documentary short in Haiti with the new 6S+, results were lovely. Feel free to check out the film in 4K:
http://www.ryot.org/watch-the-first-documentary-filmed-on-an...

also for fun there's a behind the scenes on the same link that shows how the shots came together.
>> wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that there's a major difference between natural seeding of life on other planets via meteors, and humans bringing it over while trying to find natural life?

There would definitely be a difference vis-a-vis reconstructing the natural history of Mars.
Replace "government" with "Apple", "HP", "Google", "Cisco", or "other big company" and it still works.

Process is the biggest issue not people.
Still down in europe ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
I have a friend who has helicopter parents. The parents would take rotating shifts to fly out and live with them while they were at university (and not in residence) to keep an eye on them. To an extent it's robbed them of their independence and they've lost direction in their life.

The parents truly mean well and love their children, but people don't become strong by relying on a crutch their whole life.
> So when I want to relive that concert I will just open the video and then do some chores around the house.

Totally off topic, but this gave me a hilarious mental image of pushing a vacuum around at a Pig Destroyer concert.
Yup. And these photos are all gorgeous. I think we're at a point were the limiting factor is not the camera, but the photographers' skill.
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