skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many books would be on the list if it were somehow easy to extract mentions by name instead of by link. Mythical Man Month is mentioned regularly here and I don't think it's linked very often because of how well known it is.
Congratulations, you're an anecdote!

Statistically, United's performance has been absolutely abysmal. The crap really started hitting the fan in June of last year, when United reported departure/arrival on-time numbers of 42% and 66% (in other words, over half of flights departed late, and over one-third arrived late, meaning they didn't make up much time in the air).

For another perspective: if we look at "chronically delayed" flights (DOT defines this as being 30+ minutes delayed, 50% or more of the time), the most recent month published (November 2015) shows one-third of the chronically-delayed flights in the US are on United's network, through its chronically-comically-delayed Newark hub. Back in 2013 the WSJ published a report listing eleven flights through Newark which had landed on the chronically-delayed list for 8 consecutive months or more. The only carrier with more chronically-delayed flights than United... is Spirit. And that's saying something (they're also typically the only airline with worse overall on-time performance than United).

Granted, a lot of that is from affiliates running small regional jets under the "United Express" brand -- though mainline United was still dead last in on-time performance among the big three legacy US carriers in Q3 2015 -- but in turn that's mostly ripple effects of the way United manages its regionals and shops out as much flying as possible to them (in Q3 2015, Delta operated 233,000 flights, American operated 234,000 and United only 133,000; over the same time period ExpressJet, which does regional operations for all three but primarily for United, operated over 142,000 flights, and SkyWest which has over half its flying as United Express operated over 152,000 flights), which in turn was thanks to a major strategy (slashing mainline operations in the name of "capacity discipline") of the previous Smisek-led management at United.
With professional sports or the olympics it's basically a hard requirement. Does anyone get into the NBA who didn't spend thousands of hours practicing basketball as a kid?

Whereas you could write a successful book at any age and on your first try (although unlikely).
if it makes you feel better mid level "elites" don't have it a whole lot better I wasn't updraded a single time last year on 50+ flights - yes there are free checked bags and free economy plus...but that's about all I get for spending $15k+ on United
I have emacs open with org-mode and evil and use it all the time. It's fantastic. I didn't need to make any configuration changes to org-mode to use it with evil.

Evil mode is still not set up enough like vim for me to use in my every day work, though. There are a few gotchas that are different. So I use vim as well as emacs. I just change windows in tmux when I want to use org mode. The only real downside is memory usage and it is inconvenient if you want to us capture in org mode (because you have to change windows).

I'm slowly setting up Evil to support my workflow. I don't think there is anything I can't do, it's just a matter of implementing it. Rather ironically, I used emacs for 20 years before I switched to vim. I have discovered that I prefer modal editing and having a grammar to describe my edits rather than directly editing things. You would think that I could switch back and forth, but it completely blows me up. I seem to have learned emacs keystrokes and vim keystrokes in different parts of my brain...
As the sibling comment to mine points out, the fact that the instance has access to S3 means it's not actually secure - they could just use the aws-cli to copy the file back down again. My comment about deleting the file from disk was a bit silly and doesn't add any true security.

Really, you need to just make sure that the instance is secure. The point of this whole setup is not to make secrets unobtainable if someone compromises your app server; it is to prevent you from checking in production database passwords and secrets to your code repository.
You can use Kayak to set your minimum layover time.
http://qi.com/infocloud/morse-code
Or Kayak, where you can filter flights by layover time to make sure you don't get one that is too long or too short.
As someone who is in the top 1% of fliers I could not disagree more with the sentiment that the top 1% of fliers aren't going anywhere/will not notice good service.

In fact as a counter to that point I flew well over 150k miles on United last year and yet right now I'm doing a status match on American because United's service on my most frequent route (LAX -> JFK) completely changed in October of last year and I was/am hoping that American may offer superior service on that route. Regardless of the miles in my account (they truly don't matter that much to me) I care about how the customer service is, how the delays are and how often my baggage is handled properly.

When I do use my miles its almost never on a ticket for me but a ticket for a friend or family member.

As for those people who are not frequent fliers but expecting an upgrade "randomly" I'd suggest to pay more for the seats and "upgrade" yourself. The short of it is, the people who do spend as much time in the air as people like me do care and it does make a difference to the Airlines' bottom line no doubt.
Old joke: vmunix.el
Exactly. In hindsight we should have just built a separate messaging layer with a server backend like everyone else was doing.

However Skype had no history of running servers. Just keeping the login servers up and running (a handful of them) was enough of a challenge.

Plus when the company's success and revenue was driven by the P2P team and they said the same layer will work for messages... there was no one strong enough to argue.

And when it was obvious that Skype messaging was sub par, the company just went in denial. "We aren't really competing with Whatsapp, because they don't do video" got us another year or two of not doing too much about the root cause.

It was after the Microsoft aquisition when some MS architects told the engineers upfront that p2p and realtime messaging - forget about it.
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AP4 Project Managers focuses on the construction industry. I've used it for design projects though: https://www.ap4projectmanagers.com

AP4 does the job, but if Team Clerk will do file attachments, it's the better of the two.
is there a reason they can't like come to a stop over the water and then land in it and just expand some floats?
That's effect, not cause. The customer's relentless quest for cheaper fares at all costs was around long before everybody was booking their flights online.
Hyperdimensional Neptunia, of course.
The problem with those value-adds is that they're priced completely out of the range of the utility you might get out of it.

Remember - little things. Yeah, having a few more inches of legroom would be nice, but $50 nice? I'm well over 6" here, and the seats are designed for the lowest common denominator. Unless I get a reclining seat in first, it's gonna suck.

Priority boarding, I never understood the point of. Okay, you get on the plane a bit faster to spend more time in tiny seats. If you didn't get a window seat, you're still moving over people. For another extra $30 or so.

Say I get 'em both. I've spent an extra $80 on a ticket, and from there, I'm about halfway to first class. The extra ~$120 would get me more legroom and a mediocre meal that I could have gotten in the airport for a tenth of the price and some positive multiple of the quality. Some might bring up the free drinks at this point, but I swear the FA's are trained to tactically ignore you after about two drinks.

On top of all that, there's the psychological aspect. It feels scummy and exploitative (indeed, it is scummy and exploitative).

So a victory for the "market", I guess, at the expense of basic humanity.
I think your opinion is flawed. You seem to be giving Feminism and Education in general too little credit for their good intentions (which are basically, woman being treated equally as men) and way too much credit for their impact on society. People don't found startups because of Feminism, or something they learned in a classroom, or even from listening to some unicorn founder preaching "personal responsibility". They found it as a way to make money doing something interesting instead of super boring CRUD problems.

More than that, your opinion about education seems to not actual support the fact that fewer women are going into Computer Science and related fields than were in the 80s. If it was all down to education/politics, and there's more money now in this field than there was then, why has that ratio gone down? OTOH, if the people making the hiring decisions at startups are choosing to not hire women (consciously or not) and those decisions are trickling into the rest of the midsize companies, then maybe there's something wrong with the hiring process itself.
Thanks, yeah I'm not a designer, but I try. Hopefully I'll be able to polish it a little better over the next few iterations.
"I've always felt that by 25 you are who you will be."

Christ 40 year old me is glad this isn't true.
I would definitely pay 50% more for an extra 3" of leg room. Maybe even just 2". Take out one row and you could add that much to 10-12 rows.

I must be missing something, because that seems like it would be an effective option. It would increase the flight cost of those seats by 8-12%, and you could charge 20-50% more for them.
As far as I can tell, 42 minutes violates United's own minimum connection time for international to domestic at IAD.

Their general MCT for IAD is 45 minutes domestic-domestic or domestic-international, and 90 minutes international-domestic. There are a few connections which allow all the way down to 65 minutes international-domestic, but nothing allowing 42. So if something quoted such a connection at you it would have been invalid per United's published times.
Why use StartSSL, when Let's Encrypt will give you an equally good certificate (with more flexibility on SANs!) with less hassle?
It blows me away how many conflicting but semi-convincing theories there are about this manuscript (I read one fairly recently that argued for a New World origin of many of the plants, for instance). Which gets me thinking, has anyone analyzed the actual paper it's made out of to get any clues about where it originated? I know that spectroscopy can sometimes be used to make a guess at geographic origins of biological material but I haven't heard anything about it being used on the Voynich MS.
>But the real difference is in their cabin attendants. x10 better.

At least some of which is for reasons that, properly, wouldn't fly in the US. They hire young, attractive, college-educated women who are enjoying flying the world for a few years before they settle down and get married. And who are not expected to stay on once they've enjoyed those few years.
A lot of players are very addicted to elite dangerous, even though I personally think it's a very shallow game, some people just love space sims.

Although ED doesn't support the most recent oculus SDK update, 0.7 and it's been 4 months or so I think, so no idea what's so broken they can't update.
It came out a year before I was born so I don't have a way to gauge the accuracy of that particular Historical Document. I'm just having fun here. Time for an 80s movie night.
Replaced with a youtube search, I presume?
That's $30/hour when the plane is in motion, and $0/hour during boarding, deplaning, and idle time between flights.
I was thinking of it in terms of online gaming.
I've seen more legitimate users of .xyz than of .biz (which pre-New GTLDs was the go-to TLD for general awfulness...)
Google doesn't much power in the relationship. They have announced several efforts to make OEMs and carriers provide a better update experience. So far it hasn't helped.

The OEM's customer is the carrier because the carrier determines whether or not the handset even appears for sale in the stores or on the website. For both the OEM and the carrier, updates are a pure cost center for which there is little-to-no benefit.

Google can't roll out updates on its own because the OEMs customize for their CPU, platform, baseband, etc. Google doesn't have the drivers, licenses, testing capacity, or configuration details to deal with the various bits of hardware.

Presumably Google could make regular updates a requirement for using Google services on Android. At that point we'd find out whether the tail wags the dog and I think Google might not like the answer; getting the data on Android users is quite valuable for building advertising profiles. I doubt a few Googlers desire to have timely updates would survive contact with the money-making ad side of the house but I could be wrong.
Nope. The symmetric crypto is basically free. The asymmetric crypto is cheap.

IPv4 addresses cost. Most big sites can't quite go SNI-only yet. Soon!

Customer support costs. Why would TLS involve more customer support? Because it's a technology designed only to break connections. Ideally that's only the adversarial connections---but much like the TSA, a mis-designed authentication scheme can cause great stress and drama.

I do think the world will be all-TLS before too long; the parts that aren't will probably not be HTTP over TCP (e.g., content addressable networking).
It's all in how you evaluate whether it is a horrible product. I consider economy class airfare a commodity and evaluate it on getting me to my destination safely and on time. Delays are obviously still an issue, and I do believe airlines should treat passengers as well as possible (prompt re-booking, compensation, hotel rooms, etc.) when their travel plans have been disrupted due to delays.

I also don't believe there was a historical glory day of air travel. It used to be far more expensive, with far fewer routes. International travel was MUCH more expensive, again with fewer routes. Fatal crashes were more frequent. We all used to complain about how bad airline food was...then they took it away and we complained about that too.
Bloody-mindedness mostly.

I worked permanently for various companies in and around London for about 10 years, then got sick of London, moved to Australia, did a couple more years permanent work there, then decided to move back to the UK. At that point I was sick of being an employee and had a vague offer from a friend to help bootstrap a startup, which fell through. So in lieu of having an idea to start up a company myself I decided I was going to be a contractor, set myself up a limited company and started throwing my CV at anyone that asked. I have got most of my contracts through agencies that called me, not through contacts.

Making the leap can be tricky - if you have a notice period longer than one month you may have to quit your current job and then look for contracts afterwards. A lot of people want contractors to start now. You may not find one for a month or more, I've had dry patches lasting a couple of months before, and it might be another month after you start before you can invoice, and it could be another month again before you get paid, so you need a financial cushion.

As soon as you get your first contract you'll need an accountant. These come in at about £100 per month. I use Nixon Williams, this is not necessarily a recommendation, they deal with hundreds of contractors, the service is streamlined but pretty basic and if you need anything out of the ordinary they probably won't do it.

Errr.... time of year may have an effect, like a lot of things it seems to be easier to find work in the first few months of the year, though I have had two start in November/December.

Anything else you want to know?
The vellum was carbon dated not too long ago, indicating that the book dated back to the 15th century: http://phys.org/news/2011-02-experts-age.html
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=http%3A%2F%2F...

Assessment failed: No secure protocols supported

It fails spectacularly as well. No matter the quality of the content of this article (and I'm one to agree with it), this sort of throws it out the window for me. If you aren't able to manage a functioning version of the product you are describing (especially in the lets encrypt era) you don't get to do a technical article on said product.
The article is mute on one key element: how do the dissolved components get back across the blood-brain barrier?

I can see how it could dissolve and its remnants be carried out via the bloodstream and/or lymph system if it was elsewhere in the body... but how does it get out of the brain?
Yes many open source projects suffer from this too. We as engineers (even former ones) often assume the what to build is "obvious". This is often not true, if ever.

The best open source projects are ones where engineers are the end users (customers).
I (author) didn't say it's hard to move up from (only) engineering side. It's hard to move up from customer empathy perspective. Hence the emphasis on what to build. It's a product strategy question.
Ask HN: Where do I go to learn Modern PHP?
There is Modern Java, Modern C, and Modern JavaScript. Is there Modern PHP? Or, I should just learn some other language instead…
Relational XPath Map (rxm) provides a syntactically terse domain-specific language (DSL) to query relational databases and generate structured documents.

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/rxm/

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/rxm/wiki/Discussion

Currently generates SQL code from a DSL, which can be run against a database to produce an XML document.
C libraries do not conform to the standard if they do not free in this case.
BTW, Cloudfront also prices HTTPS a little bit higher than HTTP (on per request pricing, not on bandwidth).
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Somewhat related:

Columbia is notorious for kidnappings, with kidnapping victims often being held for as long as 12 years.

The Columbian military teamed up with musicians to create a song, with the following message in morse code embedded in it:

“Nineteen people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope.”

Because many of the kidnapped victims were ex-military, they hoped that they would be able decode the message embedded in the song.

They played the song on the radio for months, reaching millions of people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTYQcugD1c
Your assumption that "city folks don't know how to farm" is fairly far-fetched.
Is that a Linux server in your pocket, or you just glad to see me?
Would be interested to see how this compares to deep learning methods.
I'm totally with you on priority boarding - I don't get the appeal at all.

All I am saying is that the market responded to our collective preferences for airlines to compete on cost -- and we benefited from this in some ways because costs have fallen over time. It's likely that the $50 you might pay for economy plus would put you even on real terms with tickets/legroom from 10-20 years ago.
There is always diminishing returns to travel upgrades. Maybe $100 (or whatever) gets you a bed but $300 get you a really comfy bed with a nice view. This also applies in all sorts of areas.

>Priority boarding, I never understood the point of.

A lot of it has to do with having overhead space. On a packed flight, you'll often have to check your carryon if you can't fit it under the seat in front of you if you're in a late boarding group.
one man's irony is another man's satire...
@martinald, this sounds frustrating and I'm sorry about that. I can't speak for the United site, but when I travel I usually choose Delta. On the Delta.com site there's an option to filter by both Min and Max connection time. So, even though United doesn't do it, there are other airlines that do.
Companies that run a bug bounty / disclosure program are a good start: http://bugsheet.com/directory
A standards-conforming realloc will never try to allocate 0 bytes: it is required to free in that case.
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I'm sure their intentions are good, most people's are.

In general there are fewer men participating in higher education than women:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_306.10.a...

2012 shows enrollment at: 43% male, 57% female = 14% difference

In my original comment I said that men are succeeding in tech and not much else. I think these numbers show that.

If there are fewer women going into CS then it's not the hiring process that's the problem, it's a supply issue.

People have many reasons to create startups, but the decision to make one is way down the pipeline of where any issue lies.

What makes someone passionate enough about technology that they choose to study it, pursue it as a career and eventually maybe do a startup? That question gets answered early in life and doesn't have to be the same for everyone.

Women don't have to be interested in technology. They should be given the same opportunities as men if they are though and from everything I've ever seen in our industry, they are.
The YouTube app on AppleTV is a native app, not a wrapper. I don't know about the FireTV (on a side note, the YouTube app for Android TV is also a native app and not a wrapper).

I actually quite like the youtube.com/tv page as a good demonstration of a HTML5 app, though it has some navigation quirks. Before the Apple TV I had a NUC set up with Kodi and Chrome Launcher for when I wanted to use YouTube and I'd use the TV page exclusively.
I've been taking an interest in mind mapping/concept mapping software lately and some of it crosses over into outlining and task management, for example Vym[0].

For now, though, I am using these tools in a more disposable fashion for brainstorming sessions -- I find the mind-map format very effective for exploration. I transfer the data into other software when I'm ready to linearize it into a document.

[0] http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/time-management.html
Wow, that's oddly similar to an idea I've been playing with.

Who do you see as the core users of these tools?
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Do big companies really keep failing? I'm failing to see the evidence of that assertion.
Thank you GitLab for being yet another option, and for at least maintaining one Open Source version of your software at the very least.
What are the best productivity hacks of startup CEOs?
I'd seen that, but I'm wondering if there's any way to use spectroscopy or some other technique to determine roughly what part of the world the vellum came from. It's been shown to be possible with wine:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23682581

And (I think this one is really fascinating) some researchers at the Louvre awhile back even used spectroscopic analysis on a painting by Murillo to determine that the obsidian he painted on began its life in a 14th century Aztec obsidian mine!

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005NIMPB.240..576C
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ... this is awfully close to a personal attack.
http://www.phptherightway.com
Impressive achievement in just three days!
Apple is not vertically integrated - Wikipedia entries to the contrary notwithstanding. It is a grossly inaccurate statement. Up until very recently, Apple didn't own a single factory - how can one possibly claim that they are vertically integrated if they don't own their own means of production?

Apple is a fantastically successful software and industrial design company. The vast majority of their production is outsourced. This is not vertical integration.

Additionally, actually, Apple has tremendous amounts of hugely successful and popular software.

Though I dig the underlying point of this article, that product management is hard, I think the examples are less than good.
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