skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally understand and agree with your observations as a pro services firm. That is the funniest part of the university I work at - say your company implements a solution for us like Product X. Well then all the sudden we can explore your ENTIRE product/service catalog with you without consequence because we have an agreement with you (for whatever). So even though you sold us product X we can also look into service Y where I'm not as concerned with cost but getting the right one. To say however they LIKE not discussing price upfront seems a bit disingenuous - yes I would want to discuss the service first but I am going to want an idea of what its going to cost to put that into my budget/grant/etc to see if it fits, especially if funded by the state. My university may be different though as I've found out many times over.

I imagine getting that first contract though wasn't easy - as that initial connection had to likely come through an RFP? and what is the ratio of RFP submission to actual customer?
Building an API Facade with Elixir and Phoenix
How is even partial reimbursement not by definition compensation?[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=compensation
I don't usually have complex layouts, and I really appreciate the stacking from i3, so in that sense i3 wins for me, but I guess if your layouts are more complex, you might appreciate bspwm power in that regard.
What if I find 1.1 deaths per 100,000 flight hours to be a perfectly reasonable risk relative to the benefits I receive from using such a service? I can't make that decision for myself?
Just FYI, the link provided has an extra double quote character and the end for some reason. It worked after manually removing it.
What about in other countries? It's perplexing to me why the green lobby isn't up in arms about hostility to Uber et al.

Services like Uberhop save energy, reduce traffic, pollution, cost. There are no downsides.
> If someone doesn't want to be captured, too bad, they shouldn't be throwing photons at you (read: if they want privacy, they shouldn't be in a public location).

That is true when it comes to merely being seen, but not being recorded. Being in a public location naturally implies consent to be seen, but it does not imply consent to be recorded artificially. (This includes any augmentations to human abilities from future technology, as someone mentioned this in a later comment)
Well, it was a bit of a joke, at the end of the post... showing how inflaming comments or outrage makes people comment more than nice stuff which they can agree with. Together with the description of public comment systems becoming proliferated with the negative spirals, it was also a bit meta :)
Companies that use their property – distribution networks, in this case – to profit from others without providing wealth creation back to society.

AKA Landlords, Realtors®, Middlemen, Licensures etc.
Yeah, don't follow that link pnt12 posted until you have a whole afternoon to kill.
Why is it an absurd statement?

I legitimately don't know. I don't know what IFR qualified means.
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I have a solid fundamental understanding of physics.

What are your thoughts on E=hv?
Then why allow PPL holders to have passengers at all. Why does it magically change when you split a tank of gas with me? I agree, I am skeptical of flying with low hours pilots. I AM a low hour pilot and I'm skeptical of flying myself! But it would be perfectly legal for me to take passengers as a PPL holder. It's also perfectly legal for me and others to share the flight costs down to a common destination. As long as I don't pay less than my fair share. I think saying that something is transformed when I say on a public forum "Hey guys, I'm going to New Orleans for the weekend. Anyone want to come down and split costs with me?" Is being dishonest.

Either passengers can assess the danger, or they can't.

Paying for half a tank of gas does not change that.
Based upon the amount of spam I receive from Yahoo! mail systems, I'm not confident in their ability to detect "attacks by suspected state-sponsored actors" as they apparently don't even have the ability to detect phished/compromised accounts.
"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

^ I'd do that if you really want an answer.
The syntax could be a lot cleaner... the Universal Module Definition (UMD) pattern at the top makes it a bit quirky... A lot of people have moved towards using CommonJS (cjs/node-style) exports with tooling such as browserift/webpack and/or babel (for es6 modules) in order to clean up the source syntax.

What you're looking at is a relatively poor example. In es6, that could be ...

exports default function...

without all the cruft around it, also the module itself could be cleaner. Similar to:

var cookies = parse();

export function set({key, value, days=null}) {
...
}

export function get(key) {
...
}

export const remove = (key) => set({key, value:null});

export function parse(values = document && document.cookie || '') {
...
}
"A sample of 250 kids isn't that accurate... And anecdotally..."

A sample of 250 could be wrong but at least it's a study, and so much better than an anecdote.

It's also much better than the original article, which says, as justification for teaching children to read early, "I will wait for the results of empirical studies before insisting on definitive claims, but my guesses are as follows.... Again, I know this is just speculation, but it seems very reasonable to me, and in the absence of better evidence, I feel justified in acting on what seems very reasonable."

So, to sum up: the best evidence we have says this does not work.
> The FAA will never allow "flightsharing" on the commercialism that Uber is at. It's simply too dangerous.

There are lots of people who have no problem doing dangerous things or even love it (say, dangerous sports). If they are cleared up about the risks involved I openly support allowing people to do dangerous things if they love to.
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I had this problem but didn't see an easy fix.

I could have gone to a school for the gifted, but I wanted to be with normal people, not the over achievers (friends that went later told me my worries where justified). At some point I just decided to minimize all school effort and did my own thing as good as I could, but hated school since 2nd or 3rd grade.

I dropped from winning some math competition every now and than to the lowest mark that got me through, but I would do it this way again.

I'm happy with whom (not what) I have become, a thing surprisingly few can say.
Does this suffice? http://www.jqueryscript.net/demo/Responsive-Fluid-Sidebar-Pl...

You need to use a Smartphone for the Demo above though (i.e. sth. that can produces touches and has a small enough screen), but it was the first thing I found by googling "hammerjs sidebar".

I'm sure that if you look at a few demos from hammer.js (which is a very - maybe the most - popular touch library) you'll understand why everything you always wanted has already been solved years ago - just not in a very easy way.

But it seems that didn't stop the world from writing libraries that make swiping, panning, and fluid 60fps easy to achieve. Just like with any other language, framework, etc. you just need to learn it well enough...
The interesting misinterpretation is in the original use of the quote in this thread - it cannot be used to assume anything in general about people who are just doing their jobs. Michtbaum may possibly be able to make the claim that these particular job-doers are a threat to civilization, but not by offering up this quote.
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"However, other radiation authorities, including the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Energy Agency recommend against using ionizing radiation on certain populations like pregnant women and children"

Terahertz scanners don't expose the subject to ionizing radiation. Airplanes, on the other hand...

You get to decide for your children and he gets to decide for his.

He's entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
Empirically that isn't always the case. Often rent-seekers who stand to profit from various regulations have far more influence on public policy than "safety" does.
seaborn, bokeh, pandas' built in methods, and plotly fill in the ggplot gap for me.
IFR means that you're certified to fly a plane using no outside visual cues (instruments only). The alternative is VFR, or visual flight rules, which basically means you're only allowed to fly if it's a nice day (gross oversimplification).
That's both hilarious and sad. Meanwhile, people are successfully bringing guns and explosives through the full-body scanners. http://www.wired.com/2014/08/study-shows-how-easily-weapons-...
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IFR = Instrument Flight Rules

Basically, lets you fly through weather/darkness. The alternative is VFR, Visual Flight Rules.
"Green" is often linked to social causes. Uber is perceived as reducing/eroding the job stability of workers/employees by some. I could imagine this being part of the cause.
I think we'd agree that a large portion of the current world economy is driven by rent seeking.
The launch service provider has the last say on the date of the launch. The customer provides orbital parameters, and the launch just needs to make sure that insertion happens. Delaying for weather is pretty common, and as long as the payload gets to where it's supposed to, everyone's happy. The Orbcomm contract wouldn't have had a launch date specified, except in terms of NET (no earlier than) or similar. The launch windows are decided by SpaceX based on the requirements, and are the other constraint, and there was a window on both days.
Ha! Point taken. The video is not available but here's the song:

Mojo Nixon — You Gotta Be Insane To Fly In Small Private Planes

http://redmp3.cc/1334534/mojo-nixon-you-gotta-be-insane-to-f...
Literally anything is better than init and the jumbled mess of shell scripts accompanying it, then.

Those scripts are completely different between SysV, old-style BSD, and BSD rc.d.

I agree that SysV init scripts tend to be a jumbled mess, but they could be replaced with the rc.d framework without throwing out init entirely.
Thanks for checking! What other awful things? We'd like to fix those too!
Joke's on you: It seems that when the TSA get really busy, such as at Seatac on 12/19 at 6am, they simply shut off the body scanners and switch to a single dog sniff and metal detectors. I didn't even have to take off my jacket or shoes! Which only serves as further evidence in my mind that the imaging devices are bullshit and the TSA knows it.
Can someone explain to me in plain language / layman's terms how a quantum computer is supposed to reverse cryptographic hash functions? What would be the process EXACTLY?
I've edited my reply above to clarify.

BTW: the security at SFO is not TSA. It's a TSA approved contractor (Covenant Aviation Security). I think Tampa is also that way.
The obvious choice would be solar, except for the fact that at this time of year we only get around 6 hours of daylight in Copenhagen. Winter solstice was yesterday.

Wind might work, a windmill for boats might be able to give us the power needed. At least it would extend the battery time. Only problem with that is that they're quite expensive, and we didn't have much of a budget to begin with.

Maybe next year... There were so many things we'd like to have done, but didn't find the time and money for. One of them was an app or a dedicated webpage where you control the lights on the tree. Maybe even some kind of game where you play some game on the tree against other players.

Lots of possibilities, but limited time and money...
Due you suppose consumers are only unable to determine pilot skill due to a lack of prior incentive to develop systems for disseminating this information or because it is technologically impossible?
Why does the iPhone need to be "beaten" in the first place?
The bottom line is that companies who provide price upfront end up competing on price. And history has shown us that that's a race to the bottom.

As a counterpoint to this, my cofounder and I have been very successful with our own security consulting firm with the opposite philosophy. We have not found transparent pricing to be an obstacle in landing lucrative clients. I also haven't seen any race to the bottom of "commiditization" in our industry. One of our closest competitors also publicly lists weekly rates.

I don't know that they care one way or another. It's not as though we champion transparent pricing in our sales pitch - it's simply one more available piece of information on our website. Potential clients still need to contact us, they just know what to expect. We haven't found that we have pressure to reduce our prices or compete on price as a result. Granted, we cater to more YC companies than we do Fortune 500s, but we still serve both, and the firm does very well.

The vast majority of our work comes in through referrals, which probably changes things a bit. I think there is merit in either approach, enough that it's not fair to say one definitively causes this or that as a result.
Comparing 100,000 flight hours to 100,000,000 miles seems strange to me. If you assumed an average speed of 50MPH, that would be:

Commercial Aviation (per 100,000 flight hours): 0.022
General Aviation (per 100,000 flight hours): 1.11
Motor Vehicle: (per 100,000 driving hours): 0.075

This is data from 2000 though.
You know how I can tell you've never had to scud run back to your home airport ~500-1000 feet above the ground (as cloud cover is quickly descending) because the pilot you're flying with doesn't have an IFR ticket?

Don't fly with someone without their IFR ticket.
It is unreasonable to expect to not be observed in a public place, but it is reasonable to expect to not be recorded artificially without your knowledge. This goes for all locations, including public ones.
Most people I know at the intersection of GA and technology are mostly (or entirely) on board with the FAA in this case. The ones acting like this is a great injustice are either GA-only with little tech savvy (and didn't know what Flytenow was before a few days ago) or have no aviation experience and greatly underestimate the danger of GA and the need for clear distinctions between PPL, CPL, CFI, etc.
Thanks. :) I'm on Linux Chromium and it worked fine for me, but maybe it was Safari not liking the accelerated scrolling plugin. (Off-topic, why are so many site themes bloated with bells-and-whistles..)
Thanks for pointing that out. It was updated after initial publication.

Originally it said:

> This was cleverly demonstrated by Nat McHugh, who used the broken hash function MD5 to create two images with the same hash...
Customary, I'm probably going to get downvoted for this but..

What part of there being a "transaction" makes the flight inherently unsafe? Does a "transaction" imply that the private pilot will be flying more to make money, therefore be less safe? If that's the case shouldn't there just be a limitation on the number of flights private pilots can do?

Are private pilots not supposed to take passengers with them? If that's the case, maybe there can be additional safety/certification requirements imposed for private pilots (without requiring them needing to learn all the ins and outs of commercial 747 flights).

A blanket ban just because there is money involved seems silly.
I assume you were making a quip about your own statement, because IFR Qualification literally says that a pilot is qualified to fly under IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) should the weather warrant it.
LOL, Alfred discovered a niche market: political, topical board games.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1700980409/california-w...
WTF I get modded down for posting a link describing DNA resonance at THz frequencies? Radiation does not have to be ionizing to cause DNA replication issues.
Yeah it reminds me of that one episode of "Silicon Valley":

"No one told me that I didn't have to take the money!"
Alex thx -- this is great feedback. We'll get these cleaned up!
Actually this make me very angry that my private details exposed in such creepy way, even if this is using some public APIs etc.

I would never sign up to service with such form.
Charles Petzold's book CODE will sorta teach this from the ground, literally, on up. It's one of the best books I've read.
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So does that mean it's OK to wear my "I made it to second base with a TSA screener" T-shirt?
But then surely they would have fixed it much more quietly? If this had been snuck into a regular patch with no fanfare, would we even be talking about it?
That's not an absurd statement. If you're trying to fly "to a destination" and don't have an IFR-qualified pilot, and the weather changes, you'll be in IFR conditions without someone who doesn't have the training to keep you in the air in those conditions.

If your destination doesn't matter, or isn't set in stone, then a non-IFR pilot is free to choose to fly somewhere else, where the weather is better, or land at the closest airport.

For those who don't know: IFR means "Instrument Flight Rules" or flying by instruments only. An IFR-qualified pilot is allowed to fly in conditions where he/she cannot see out of the aircraft, such as at night or through low-visibility weather.
>> Seeing your account, and a number of dissident or activists being attacked from a block of IPs or similar password attempts, probably means the attack is state sponsored.

Used to work at a fairly large global corporation. One day I was chatting up one of the senior sys admins. He was talking about the incredible traffic that bombards their server everyday. I was pretty naive back then and said, "Cmon man, it can't be that much!"

He opened his terminal and ran a simple monitoring tool, then opened one another terminal. In one was the constant traffic to several of their applications that were from a specific block of IP addresses he thought he had traced back to China. The other window was a running queue of mistyped password attempts. It was like clockwork. They'd try three, get kicked out of the system, then in an instant, you'd see a flurry of new IP addresses from the same block, then some more attempts to guess the password. Kicked out, rinse, repeat.

In the span of five minutes, I must have seen two dozen failed attempts to try and do a dictionary password attack on their login page. He guessed it was some kind of a bot that was running the tests considering how mechanical and orderly the attacks were.

It really opened my eyes as to how often and how many businesses these governments go after for intellectual property.
Interesting that the Met Office in the UK says that winter for weather starts on December 31st http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/learn-about-the-weather...
No, you're mis-interpreting the data. The commercial aviation record is as low as it is in spite of the large number of people on board. So the chances of accidents in general aviation are many times higher for any given flight using the one or the other mode.

In other words - and to make it really simple - if you are given the choice of going with a commercial carrier or with a general aviation craft to the same destination in a single flight then you would do wise to take the commercial carrier.
There are also lots of people who would find a loophole and sue the government for not properly regulating such a service.
It seems that philosophers are not immune to scam artists. I am surprised by this particular example, but only a little bit.
I have long suspected that the overwhelming majority of any "sharing" that takes place will be one-sided, from corporations to government.

In previous jobs, I've been involved with various ISACs and while there was some sharing of information from the government, it was often "watered down", vague, and mostly unactionable.
Yes, to some extent. The workaround is to grown the language towards your problem, which may wind up making a Forth look a lot more like Factor.
subie didn't claim it was okay. It was just a guess at the implied question in "I'm not sure what compels people to download and look at any of these leaks."
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You can read the rules[0], they state that each player gets some goal cards (each with two policy goals) & the winner is the player who achieves all but one of their goals (or all of them).

0 : https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/005/082/476/9ce6e22f89f241f...
Yeah, it sucks that they don't make it easier.
Yep, or just intercept it themselves as it crosses the wire.
"Peyton is a poo" at the bottom of the process st homepage?
I have an HP LaserJet Color 400 series, and generally never use the manual feed, only the tray with US Letter size paper... I had an HP 4000 for a long time, that I bought used at a school auction, that beast lasted me 6-7 years after it had already been in heavy use for 5...

I don't print much, but I'm not sure where your problem lay. A typical low-end B&W LaserJet with a single tray is pretty damned close to what you are asking for, and they aren't that expensive.
Flipboard has sadly hidden the Zite per-article training options in "Up Arrow" -> "Tuning Options" which is the last menu item under the Share menu. What was one Zite click (up/downvote) is now Flipboard's click, swipe, click, click.

It brings you to a dialog which offers:

More Like This
Less Like This
Mute Site
Report Site

Gone is the Zite option to whitelist/subscribe to a site, which was the equivalent of following an RSS feed. Tragic. At least medieval cathedral builders would leave behind ruins to remind future generations of what was attempted. Software just vanishes.

Note to News App Developers: read Claude Shannon on the role of surprise in information theory. If your app shows the same articles being regurgitated in every other app, there is no surprise, i.e. news or information. Zite excelled at surprise.
Many countries allow you to fly at night without an IFR rating, including the US, Canada, UK, and most of western Europe.
Lack of static typing is awesome in evolving a system

I really don't follow your logic, here. Few things change more frequently while evolving/hacking together software than the data structures and types. Changing a type in one place while forgetting to in N other places is an extremely common defect introduction method that is easily caught with static type systems. If anything, it's the evolving/hacking process that's MOST prone to accumulating runtime type errors than any other process.
And another one:
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I'm sorry, but this mindset is very harmful. If I need an old version of a package and I didn't save it off somewhere first, it simply cannot be found.
So we're going to debate the energy of photons vs higher energy radiation on HN?

That sounds like a terrible use of time for both of us.
If you go color laser, you'll probably have a better experience...
Yeah I'm not a lawyer either. I tried to use the descriptor "classic" to indicate that it is well known as a very important part of prosecution, rather than some expert opinion on my part.
Finding bugs with HTTP verb and response code mismatches
Flipboard is something people actually use?

I recognize the name as some crapware pre-installed on my Samsung phone.
Google testing signing into accounts using just your phone, no password required