skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap airlines (and maybe cheap seats?) actually have an unintended side effect for me. Recently I flew from Singapore to Hong Kong. The first 4 options in price according to Google flights were $69, $105, $540, ~$1500. I found that spread kind of shocking. The 2 bottom prices were for budget airlines (Tiger and Jetstar) both rated at 1 of 5 and 1.5 of 5 respectively. The $548 option was Singapore Air, consistently rated very good.

$548 is 7x $69!! That's a HUGE difference.

Anyway, I ended up taking Singapore Air because it flew at a time that fit my schedule. On the flight I had an issue with the entertainment system. It was resolved but had it not been resolved I'd have been extremely angry because I knew I'd paid some portion of $469 for entertainment.

I don't know how and if that will ever play out or if there will be any real repercussions but just knowing I paid 7x more means I expect extreme perfection, something I would not have expected if the price difference was only ~5% or something.
> Travellers have signalled that they are willing to suffer all sorts of discomforts and inconveniences for the sake of a lower fare. America’s big airlines are simply giving them what they wished for.

I feel the same way about people who complain about crappy airlines as I do about people who complain about crappy video games. If you don't want to be treated like cattle don't buy the cheapest ticket you can find on Hotwire (and stop buying from EA). It's not like there aren't dozens of other options to choose from.
Chrome because of the development tools.
Probably also because engineers know how to use the new technology and how to make the bombs? i.e. how to develop the new weapons.
Unfortunately, RyanAir's proposal was shut down:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/New-call-for-standing...

I am definitely willing to experience more discomfort in exchange for a lower fare, and from other comments, so are many others here.
Cheers! I've used Linux on servers for years, but this is my first serious foray into GUI Linux, so a lot of this stuff is completely foreign to me.
Location: Princeton, US

Title: ML postdoc, formerly software engineer

Years Exp: >5, depends how you count

Next move: Finding a job in industry (tech or finance in NYC or Bay area), solving hard problems using ML, so I can wrestle with the world instead of with reviewers, and be part of a team again.
And what do you do about the corporate travel policy that requires you to book the cheapest available fare?
It's in my .zlogin or .zshrc on my servers, and it's in my PS1 on my home computer, so when I exit the servers it resets nicely.
Thanks! It really doesn't look that different to something in Python.
My only data point is an old one, and probably good for no more than comic relief: The Salem Hypothesis.

But a potential difficulty interpreting data on Western extremists is that the higher education system tracks students into disciplines, to a considerable extent, based on their math ability.
I don't think whales are considered ungulates, it is just that ungulate is no longer considered a monophyletic category (but cetartiodactyla is).
A capsule hotel to me would nearly be as good as first class for long flights. Much much better than actual business class because I'd get to sleep.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines. Ideological warfare is not welcome here.
Don't work for that employer?
The same thing as when you disagree with any other policy or action your company might set.
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When I studied insurgency/extremism more actively I would always hear the assertion, generally voiced in advocacy of increased foreign aid or nation building efforts, that extremists are generally recruited from the ranks of those left behind by the political and economic worlds and violence remains their only recourse. It's a nice narrative because it feels intuitive and provides an addressable problem, the downside is that it's not really true[0]. The 9/11 hijackers were very well educated and not impoverished and while this work looks awesome (can't wait to read it!), there has been previous work that showed that extremists do tend to be more educated than not.

My working hypothesis on why extremists tended to be more educated was (is at least until I read this book?) that educated people are just more likely than uneducated to do the unconventional in any sense, including extremism, since they're aware of more options and know/can learn how to pursue them.

It had occurred to me how it always seemed like the attackers had engineering masters degrees in their little [bios|obits] but I figured that for some reason I was just not noticing the social science degrees. It's nice to see this book and data in general on the subject. I find it interesting the engineers are more likely to split towards right-wing extremism when the extremist ideology is highly likely to be religious or have religious pre-conditions. I generally get the impression that engineers are less religious than their liberal arts counterparts, perhaps the engineers that remain religious are more inclined to become more so?

[0] At least in expeditionary attacks and transnational orgs like AQ, generally attacks on targets in places not at war (i.e. 9/11, Mumbai, London, Madrid etc.). I'm not 100% sure about insurgent attacks that could be termed terroristic so it might depend on the definition you're using.
It's pretty clearly meant as both.
And in year 2020...
http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5ipwsRxJ1qd94ffo1_1280.p...
For Singapore Airline vs the budget airlines in the region, there is a key difference that makes it worth paying for business travel — more predictable arrival time.
It's really more likely -- and I'm replying without having read the topic article -- that this is related to the fact that developing states with "socialist" (I use the term advisedly) bents tended to privilege engineering, medical and scientific education in its universities, while not having economies capable of effectively supporting those graduates.

Take a bunch of middle and upper-middle class students whose parents had remunerative but unsustainable government sinecures, run them through the university system, then drop them into a repressive government and a poorly-managed economy, and you've got a potential tinderbox there. Now have the government suppress all political dissent so that only the ideologically-committed hard core groups survive, then release the pressure just enough for them to start recruiting those disgruntled students, and hey presto, there's your generation of terrorist engineers.
I think that was before Al Gore invented the Internet, so her fact-checking got munged.

Apple started in 1976.

The PARC visits were in 1979.

The first GUI was on the Lisa, then later on the lower-cost Mac in 1984.

A good history here:

http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple...
They were on major version 0 to give them flexibility in evolving the API, but considering it's been used in production at Facebook for some time and that the API is relatively stable, they are moving from 0.14 to 15.0 in the next release.
The bottom being an exceptionally safe and rapid form of transportation. As someone who is willing to endure mild discomfort in return for $20-$100, I welcome this new option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11182080
Oh okay. In Germany they use "BTOpenzone".
Avg. air fares have only dropped 13.8% since 1995. Nearly 20 years of innovation later.
2016-2017 New List of Chinese Medical Universities Admit Indian Students 4 MBBS
Of course, weather on earth can make complex structures as well from non-organic materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rose_%28crystal%29
Engineering teaches that there's always a way to create an outcome. To not take 'no' for an answer. To dig into underlying fundamentals and figure out why things are the way they are. It also encourages you to find solutions to problems that you can implement itself.

It's only natural that someone who grew up in a shithole, that studies engineering would be attracted to terrorism as a way of solving political problems. It's the path that you can walk all by yourself.
Six women written out of programming history are finally recognized
This is really gross writing.
Don't work for them, it's pretty simple.

I don't know what field you work in, but give that this is HN I assume you're a developer, if so you'll probably not see a better job market, don't put up with shit.
Totally agree. What really gets me is when people complain about the limited space in economy, then say more spacious "economy plus" options cost too much. Vote with your wallet, people.
Pray that the airlines do not introduce a Steerage class in the baggage hold?
Seriously. To my sibling comments: show me an article about how great lisp or vim is that takes 2.5k words to get to its position statement. That's an introduction that's 50% of the length of the article! I don't mind long articles, but ill-proportioned intros seem like a bad idea.

Incidentally, that position statement is ridiculously vague and anodyne:

Principles of the New Web Typography

1. We must prioritise the text over the font, or semantics over style.

2. We ought to use and/or make tools that reveal the consequences of typographic decisions.

3. We should acknowledge that web typography is only as strong as its weakest point.

Who's going to disagree with these? As best I can tell, these translate to:

1. Don't be afraid to show sub-optimal typography until your nicer font loads. Physical books never had to worry about load times.

2. Write better tools and share them. For now use Tachyons or Basscss, as a modern equivalent of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_case.

3. Try to keep your CSS selectors about the same length[1]. Read and internalize http://csswizardry.com/2014/10/the-specificity-graph.

Like parent, I say all this with love. If it got me to read it all (albeit over the course of a day), it's doing something right.

[1] I'm not sure about this, since http://cssguidelin.es/#specificity seems to suggest that specificity is the number of tags in your html that are selected by a selector. But that doesn't seem to be quite what OP means, unless I misunderstand. And it seems fuzzy to ask people to prefer flatter curves in a logarithmic graph.
Ideas are more important than code.
A whole new branch of law emerges: leg clot liability
The Life Project: what makes some people happy, healthy, successful and others not
I don't remember it really being any better in the 90's. The only difference was you walked through a metal detector instead of a millimeter wave machine.
The time and day you fly are the biggest factors in price. It was 100% intended.
For those interested in the future of American air travel ...

Regional airlines, which carry half of pax, have been "last class" for decades, but they're about to disappear.

The new pilot training rules requiring 1500 hours of experience have destroyed their ability to operate. The first to declare bankruptcy is Republic, but the rest will soon join it.

The majors have used the regionals for union-busting purposes, but those days are over.
Why are you comparing a middle school problem with a college level problem? I believe the purpose of the first problem is not to teach something about arithmetic, but to test (or reinforce or expand) the child's understanding of d = rt, a pretty important thing to understand.
Sounds like a fantastic achievement compared to college education, health care, or government.
Except it doesn't. IRA, LRA, KKK, Mormon extremist groups, Cubans (for a while if you got hijacked you could safely assume you were being forcibly redirected to Havana), Nationalist movements too numerous to count etc. No one who has seriously studied violent non-state actors believes that Muslims are more prone to violent extremism than any other group.

Islamist groups have certainly gotten the "best" press for a while and have the most prominent groups whose stated goals essentially boil down to "world domination" (but their plans for world domination have only slightly less chance of success than mine, so relax on that front). That, however tells us exactly nothing about the propensity of Muslims to become extremists.

Extremism is no more common among muslims than it is among any other large group unless you limit your definition of extremists to Islamic extremists.

Edit: grammar.
It's not pretty simple if travel is an insignificant part of your job that you only undertake once every year or few years. (You shouldn't casually suggest that someone quit their job over something that might be and probably is trivial just because they don't like it. It's disingenuous. Note, I didn't downvote you, though I thought about it.)

But there are better solutions than that, anyway. Corporate travel policies might only reimburse the cheapest fair, but you can often book a better fair and reimburse the cheapest rate while paying the discrepancy yourself if you wish (which is how you might fly first class).
Well, the nice thing is, if you can manage to stay in economy: the "cattle" will probably switch to sub-economy :)
Huh, found this reply only moments later down the stream:

http://i.imgur.com/meUjRmQ.png

Seems even the great John Kelley doesn't seem to know what the fuck is going on.
In 1995, jet fuel was $0.50 per gallon. Between 2010-14 it was almost $3 per gallon. It's about $1 now.
Have you read My Secret Life? This was the age when caning boys was the thing to do, when Venus In Furs was written, when homosexuality was first introduced to public life since the end of Rome. Their pornography was about desire frustrated, because that is sexy.

http://the-toast.net/2014/04/10/pearl-victorian-porn-finest/
When it comes to actual attacks, there are more engineers. When it comes to merely joining the ideology itself, however, there are few engineers.

'We realised immediately that this was an invasion, but we couldn't fully process the thoughts. My mother sat there shaking her head from side to side and said: 'Nothing bad will happen.' We were not Shi'ites who they hated. We were just Yazidis who they wanted to have control over.

'We quickly put long dresses over our night dresses. We then ran out onto the street to see the fighters who were approaching. They waved their black flags with white Arabic writing on them in the air.

'The first faces we saw from the passing vehicles were known to us. Regardless what jobs they did before, whether they were craftsmen, teachers or doctors, all of our Arab neighbours seemed to have joined up with ISIS.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3462146/Raped-beaten...

This echoes stories from what happened in ex-Yugoslavia, Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and even older stories from Israel's independence war. The same story keeps repeating : a lot of people who lived in areas with lots of muslims suddenly found that nearly all of them hold extremist ideologies. Enough to kill and rape at least. And the thing is, we don't even know most of the time that this happens.

What I think is that most people can't be bothered to actually do anything. If the effort they'll put into their life doesn't include getting an education and the sacrifices an education demands, it likely doesn't include fighting and the sacrifices that demands.
Considering one of those employers is the federal government (and anyone receiving money from them) that could be harder than you expect.

Almost all of my travel in grad school was funded through taxpayer money. You ever fly to Okinawa in economy? It's not fun.
I think it depends on the length of the flight. I'm happy to go with Ryanair in Europe (not sure you can go with a worse airline), because it's max 2-3h. But there's no way I'd do that for a longer flight for a number of reasons.

For a 23h trip, I'll definitely get the better option I can reasonably afford.
I think it is great that Jean (and Philip) both wrote these up. But, to be honest it 100% depresses me to read them. Graduate school has not been easy for me and I had no first author paper submissions for 5 years and ended up having to being part time for 3 years to support myself and my family. (My research is well in hand now. I finally submitted my first paper and have 2 more going out this calendar year. Sometimes it takes a while to find your passion/research area.) Given my family situation I am not able to do internships and in many ways I don't want to. I am going to go back to coding now because this is too depressing to read.
Is it that bad over there now? I have never flown domesic in the us, i mean i had heard it was bad, but i had assumed tey were just the worst of the worst horror stories.
This is great! This will open airline travel to a segment of the population that has historically not had access. This is the story of airline travel. It has taken decades, but what was only available to the richest of the rich is now available to socioeconomically disadvantaged groups of society.
I don't know about it being a better market. There's jobs (and that's actually been pretty consistent), but the pay, at least in my area, is just not there and hasn't been for the past 7 years (very slight uptick in the past 18 months, but nothing major yet). Sticking with the old corporate job is still the best bet around here.
I agree that Differential, the Phabricator code review application, does not handle patch sets with hundreds of files or many thousands of lines of well. They don't optimize for that case much because they believe in smaller changes [0].

I think the local patch problem you are experiencing is due to the way the author submitted their diff. Normally if you want to locally try code you run "arc patch D123" and it will create a branch off that revision and apply the patch for you. If you look at this review [1] you see it has a link to the repository "Repository rP Phabricator", and in the "Revision Update History" and "Local Commits" sections it has direct links to the base and parent commits. If the submitter based their diff off non-published commits this won't work.

You can also reduce the need to directly pull down code by integrating a CI tool, code coverage information, and screenshots into your review process. All of those Phabricator supports.

[0] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/recom...

[1] https://secure.phabricator.com/D15358
New Rules on Classified Human Subject Research at the Dept of Energy
Google unveils search engine for children: Kiddle
Loading an application and hydrating with data seems like the ideal architecture. Especially when your single application can run on the web, mobile, or a desktop. A choice between thin and thick clients seems a little mainframe versus PC. The web started as a page-based text-focused entity, but I don’t understand why it needs to stay there or why thin clients are the ideal pattern. Certainly first load & SEO can present challenges, but both these problems are going away with React/Angular2 server side rendering and Google’s progress with indexing web apps.

Maybe I’m missing something, but SPAs seem like the future (perhaps compile to JS or whatever, but still thick clients). The backend should be concerned with clean APIs to data and not with rendering the view. If people want to turn off JavaScript for a text only web, well some people still use flip phones and everything depends upon what you are building and for who and how quickly you can move in either paradigm. I’d suggest studying either the Angular or React ecosystem, but don’t expect SPAs to go away.
> It's not pretty simple if travel is an insignificant part of your job that you only undertake once every year or few years.

If you're concerned over uncomfortable travel 'once every year or few years' then you have better things to be worried about. I can't imagine a better example of a 'first world problem'.
Same. I just can't sleep sitting up. It doesn't matter how much free space there is, I'd take horizontal, stacked place over business class seat/pod.
Sadly the job market is heavily centralized, from my recent experience. I can get offers in SF, Seattle, or NY, but I'm personally attached to the Mid-Atlantic for personal reasons, and it's been months of hell.

Now I don't discuss previous salaries, as I'm sure that has torpedoed several offers. That just leads down a road that is an inverse of the Impostor Syndrome, where they think you're overqualified for the position, and you can tell from the responses and further question. I am seriously wondering about the culture of the game, that it can be so seriously lacking of it's shining feature: distributed collaborative work.
Earlier mixture from modern humans into Neandertal populations
Book the more expensive one and expense the cheaper one (i.e., you pay the difference). I have yet to have an employer say I can't do this.
And you could bring a drink and keep your shoes on and nobody was swabbing and bomb testing your toothpaste. The cumulative effect made the lines move about four times faster.

Edit: I think there's also a lot of inefficiency. So often I see a huge line, half the equipment sitting idle, and half the TSA agents standing around talking to each other. I don't remember that sort of thing in the before times. Maybe because the security people were employed by private companies motivated to get their money's worth.
In most companies management level people aren't engineers on entrepreneurs either. Isn't it sad that whether you work for a corporation or are a terrorist there's usually a management level guy that's better off than you?
JavaScript often fails to load due to network congestion or poor connectivity. In those cases, it is important to provide a good user experience with the HTML alone.
Valve's SteamOS now supports Vulkan
The article implies that the source of trouble is the GCJ-02 datum.

Is this really such a major problem though? In North America, both the NAD27 and NAD83 datums are still common. NAD83 nearly matches WGS84, but NAD27 can be quite off. Datum transformation is a well understood topic, so what's so special about China?
Asides from safety, wouldn't standing be actually more comfortable?

Sleeping pods make much more sense - you are safe in case of sudden breaking and somewhat comfortable. The fairest way would be introducing progressive seat sizes and charge accordingly. Small people pay less for seats that are actually more comfortable (more fitting their height) and tall people have option not injuring themselves without paying 3x more.
Although, from Wikipedia:

> As a descriptive term, "ungulate" normally excludes cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises), as they do not possess most of the typical morphological characteristics of ungulates, but recent discoveries indicate that they are descended from early artiodactyls.
It's not immediately clear whether I'd prefer

(a) being crammed in a space uncomfortable for anybody over 5'2" or 120 lbs between two chatty salesmen mutually disapproving those who think the world is ca. 600,000 times older than they think it is, or

(b) being shot with a tranquilizer dart and shipped in a dog crate.

I mean, I'd seriously consider (b) before sighing and going for (a) + alcohol.
To elaborate, the GP should have put quotes around command arguments that included variables. For example:

cp $INSTALLDIR/app AppDir/bin

Should be:

cp "$INSTALLDIR/app" AppDir/bin
Which is? Submit, quit, or be fired/disciplined?
Transavia - the Dutch competitor of Ryan Air and owned by KLM is one to avoid as well.