skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. This is why travel is an insanely hard business. I've been an engineer in the travel business for almost 6 years now and this is a behavior I see constantly (and I am not saying it's bad, don't get me wrong).

Often people think that if you create just the right product you will win both the usage and the booking funnels but it's almost impossible to change the behavior of people and the psychology behind the booking.

What you see is two completely separate funnels (with different users), one will use your product and one will come for 3 minutes, book and never come back again.
So I really try not to be judgemental and I feel a bit bad saying this, but I don't have a single good thing to say about Gypsies and I've never met someone who has. At least about the ones you see in the UK.

They are a huge problem in the city where I went to University, constantly draining police resources to deal with petty crime. Everyone I've talked to in front of house roles absolutely hated dealing with them as well, if not stealing they always seem to find hair in something and so get a refund or a discount.

Where I grew up they caused huge problems when they moved camping ground, draining council resources and never clearing up after themselves. They left huge piles of litter in the most beautiful countryside spots.

There is an interesting documentary about UK Gypsies called 'Big Fat Gypsy Weddings', it's worth a watch if you're interested in that sort of thing. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/big-fat-gypsy-weddings

Edit: And I don't like the 'well you must be racist if you think this' comments here.
The way I see it, Wayland will implement interfaces that make sense the way things are now. Compared to X, development will be quicker (because deprecated interfaces won't be implemented), and the code will be cleaner and more secure. We'll have a generally-working system, with a couple little warts, here and there.

The way I read the previous post, with its mention of "second-system thinking", is that X is currently just about good enough for just about everything, and that while 90% of the necessary features will fit cleanly into Wayland, it's the last 10% that will introduce 90% of the ugly complexity, and take man-centuries to realize the need for, and then produce.
personally I like mercurial better than git, and also using on my desktop to clone github repos with hggit extension

Facebook picked mercurial over git because it's easier to customize.
Many people think this was added for support of 0 offset arrays, but that's only a side effect really. This feature was requested by people who work with rather odd arrays (e.g. diagonal slices through high dimensional data). I have mentioned in previous threads on the subject that julia's 1-indexed arrays don't matter much in practice because the generic APIs hide that fact most of the time. This just adds the last bit of code to make that completely true and adds documentation/cleanup. For those seeking more information, I'd recommend Tim Holy's JuliaCon keynote on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0g9tHeghA
Pretty certain and I met a few after through my work.
She was strikingly pretty in the roma way (like a very fair Indian person) and was dressed in the roma style.
Our town of 20,000 people went from zero to several hundred roma at that time.
I have no idea what you just said or meant.
Fitness startup ClassPass revenue up after adding monthly bundles
> The point is that nobody is diagnosed with "shin splints",

They are, or rather, they are diagnosed with medial tibial stress syndrome, which is a distinct and generally less serious thing from a tibial stress fractures (though, AFAICT, may include tibial stress fractures.)

But the relationship between the "shin splits" and medial tibial stress syndrome is clear -- one is the common name and one the formal medical term.

And that's not, in fact, what Snowden was diagnosed with.

And what Snowden was actually diagnosed with is, in fact, broken bones in both legs, so for the House report to paint him as a liar in saying that he was discharged with broken legs because he was -- by the reports description -- discharged with mere shin splints is a lie of such breathtaking brazenness, on such a trivial matter, so far from the substantive meat of the issue, that it demonstrates that the report was written with the intent to smear Snowden everywhere possible without any regard for the actual facts. And that's what makes it important, rather than the importance of the particular claim to the substantive matter.
I think the difference between acidity due to sulfur dioxide and CO2 is twofold.

Sulfur dioxide is reactive and gets rapidly cleared in the environment. Sulfur dioxide + H2O -> sulfuric acid -> acidic rain -> + just about any metallic element -> sulfate[1]. So a hang time of 'years' vs CO2 hang time of thousands of years.

Second the amount of CO2 we're releasing is probably two orders larger than the amount of sulfur dioxide we were releasing back in the 70's. Since raw coal and petroleum contains a fractional percentage of sulfur it stands to reason the CO2 produced is probably 100 larger than SO2.
Apple patents paper bag
> The dynamic language are more productive.

Do you have a source for that? I hear it a lot and I just don't buy it.
Indeed, when I saw the title, I first assumed it'd be about the Heaven's Gate cult [1] (which ended up committing collective suicide)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro...
Dude what's your problem? I can't comment on the pictures? Look at the thread, plenty of people are commenting.
> In a surprising way, it is far easier to innovate down the stack than up the stack.

That was quite unintuitive to me on the surface, but the examples provided really drove it home.
Won't these be "Travelers" and not Roma?
I'm going to take the moral stance here that even if you actually are making a factually correct statement of fact it is wrong to make prejudiced / racist comments. "Roma are __", "black people are __", "Mexicans are __", it looks like you're playing a racist version of mad libs to the wide-eyed people listening to your hate. And no, I don't give a damn about your personal experiences with ethnic group X, Y, or Z.

Let's keep it civil, folks.
None of these contradict my point though. You only mention where those started. They wouldn't be where they are today without outside investment. WWW, penicillin etc... are great examples of significant investment before there was a tangible way to afford growing and scaling distribution through revenue/bootstrapping.

It's hard for frontier technology projects (ML/AI, AR/VR, Genetics, Robotics etc...) to even get out of the lab without significant investment, as the personnel needed have so many lucrative options and they are generally done by older people with relatively high personal burn rates (kids, mortgage etc...).

chasing an image of what the future looks like rather than discovering what the actual future will look like

That doesn't make sense. By definition you have to blaze a trail in new technology/markets - you don't chase an image. The image you have is the the world you build - and hopefully people respond.
I miss the days of the plain-old html web. It might have been ugly, and there might have been marquees and blink tags, and under construction signs, and webrings and webmasters, but it loaded over my 56k modem, nobody was screwing with my back button, or messing up scrolling, or popping modals in my face, or pestering me with anti-anti-anti-ad-blocking nag modals and interstitials.
Well, yeah, and that's rather the point.
It'll just have different design decisions and flaws. Expecting anything else is unrealistic. Bit-rot means that X isn't as well-suited to today's environment as we'd like, but I'm sure that some things in X that are regarded as mistakes now were trumpeted as great advancements when they were introduced. Similarly, Wayland will someday be in the same position.

That doesn't mean that it's not a net-positive to develop and start using it, of course.
France has had a rising antisemetic sentiment along with the defacing of Jewish cultural sites, along with a sharp increas (think double) over the last year or two of hate crime against Jews.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/18/france-might-n...
React and Autobind
I don't know that this is worth litigating further. I think, for instance, it's much simpler to establish that the House Report was brazenly dishonest about Snowden's educational record. It's not like the trustworthiness of the spin in the House Report is in dispute: it's clearly not trustworthy.
It's a cultural difference. Roma have all the freedom and obligation of adjusting their culture and fitting in, but they don't do it, do they?

You can't change your skin color and is not responsible for it and should wear it proudly, but you can definitely fix your culture, AND THEN wear it proudly.
That's with ~most old people (not just the black thing, but also similar stuff that you have to create a new hn account in fear of downvotes).
Funnier Filter Future
Very interesting theory - I think I agree. I would add though that a good portion of the causality is going the other way, where people who find work fun and stimulating become more successful, and those who are bored by it stay poor.

These are broad generalizations of course that don't capture all of what's really happening, but they're interesting to think about.
> If Americans start to come to other countries and behave obnoxiously,(...)

I believe you just described a good chunk of American tourists. :)

And a good chunk of all people, everywhere, for that matter.
See also: “Why you shouldn’t let ‘donation matching’ affect your giving” at GiveWell. (http://blog.givewell.org/2011/12/15/why-you-shouldnt-let-don...)
How expensive is printer ink compared to human blood
What kind of horrible things have you witnessed white Americans do that you've never witnessed any other race do?
That's another worker protection that I keep missing when I make lists.

The protection of 'on call' (in any type) equated to a type of work. Maybe not paid at full rate, but still compensated for as personal activities must be interrupt-able and other work cannot be sought.

Also the protection of a regular and predictable schedule with long lead times.
How to Create ClojureScript App
Sure, for larger projects a good, well-thought out and consistent framework is a godsend. No doubt about it that plenty of people make very good use of the frameworks and libraries at our disposal.

But on the other hand I cannot count the number of times I've seen Angular included for a simple contact form with validation on a static site, React to render a single trivial dynamic list or a nice, but basic JS lib that only works in module form via NPM exports.

Sorry if I sound like a fortune cookie, but it's true - if all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Since 2001 or so, I can count on three fingers the number of variable collisions I have experienced in small- to medium scale projects. That I as a newbie now have to understand and manage various module systems in order to embed a lightbox on my site is a huge jump in complexity for a gain that is at best negligible in practice.

And while you and I probably have worked on some higher-complexity use cases, I think we would be kidding ourselves if we assumed that this constitutes the majority of the web.

Because that's not Facebook-scale, it's the dude around your corner selling dishwashers and reparing washing machines, trying to get his inventories's prices from an Excel sheet onto his page with a minimum of fuzz.
You circumnavigated Africa with a truck? I am impressed!
What do you think, what specific demographic group in france is most visible in antisemitic sentiment, defacing of Jewish cultural sites and hate crime against Jews?
Why couldn't it make taxation impossible?

Sure, you still need to buy things in person, which can be done with cash. But drug dealers seem to be able to do a pretty good job of evading taxes.

Imagine if everything that you bought in person was done with cash, or a bitcoin payment. That money would be untaxable.

If you buy a house, for sure, the government can track that, and you need to make sure the money used to buy that is "clean", but a surprising large percentage of a person expenses could be done in a safe way.
HTTP APIs – connect the web elegantly
$600m over 10 years

I bet Bezos isn't too comfortable about the Trump presidency after the way WaPo has behaved
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-single-...
> “The stereotypes of them panhandling and engaging in petty thievery just stir up these prejudices.”

> In Sweden, politicians are debating whether to ban begging, a tactic critics say targets Roma.

So, the stereotypes are true? From what I can tell, the Roma have a distinct way of life that they're seeking out, making them a bit different than socioeconomically transient groups that are struggling to integrate and succeed (i.e. various influxes of immigrants at different stages of US history).
relatively small sums

Except those were all venture funded...and even though it's not hedge fund amounts, those aren't small sums. the whole point of the post was saying that Venture money puts you on a certain path. I claim it's necessary to get on that path. So I think this proves my point.

Oculus: Andreesen/Spark

Instagram: Andreesen/Sequoia

Twitch: Bessemer

Cruise: Quallcom/Spark
Sometimes when there's a bunch of triplets the editor will just write "simile" and drop the triplet notation.

This could work like that and only the time signature would need a brand new notation, so no I don't think it would be super hard to read.
The story seems a bit "feel-good"-y. Many Roma don't have the resources for this kind of trip. They're among the lowest social classes in relatively poor countries (think average wage of less than $500 per month).

About discrimination... yes, there is a lot of it. It's a cultural thing. The traditional Roma culture is close to incompatible with modern societies: nomadic societies (in a world of property rights), arranged marriages for teens (as young as 12-14), a culture valuing "face" and prestige incredibly highly (think possibility of violent clashes for offenses). There's also a probably reasonable from the Roma point of view "moat mentality" where outside help is viewed with a lot of suspicion, based on past discrimination. Overall, a very hard nut to crack, this discrimination, for both sides.
Pascal and Ada have had arbitrary indexing for decades. It's been fine.
Your new favorite habit for being more productive
Where will they be published when ready?
Hmm, not sure I can agree, but for the sake of argument, I assume that you don't think every member of said group is bad? Or every member of a 'better' group is good? That would be a very bold argument, which would require remarkable proof.
I don't know? I'm just giving a reason why the Jews are getting the hell out of France as requested. If you want to conjecture about what demographic might be doing said antisemetic acts, I would love to see sources because I genuinely don't know! (I'm not French nor have I researched this topic extensively so I would be more than happy to receive education on the full context of antisemetism in France)
Come again? If I am to say, "Elbonians are statistically 2000% more likely to be five foot three", I am making a racist comment?
I find it hard to take this article seriously when it's about issues with a framework:

* that was still in beta/upgrading to the official version that was released last week

* that was redesigned from the ground up by a company that is pretty intent on not doing things in JavaScript (see Dart, TypeScript docs but no ES5 docs)

* whose original announcement of versional incompatibility was one of the major reasons its competition became popular

* has clearly been attempting to frankenstein a lot of ideas from other libraries/frameworks in awkward ways

The JavaScript community definitely has warts - I have zero issue with that statement. But the real problem comes from developers from other language-communities making blanket statements about the JS community while using tools that are clearly marked as unstable when they could've just as easily (actually... much more easily) written said app with any library/framework that wasn't released literally a week ago or even used raw JS - an API that hasn't had many breaking changes or compatibility issues in quite a while.
Assuming it's true it isn't incriminating but it does kind of make him look like an idiot. Posting to reddit anything about a VIP seems like a bad idea. Posting it under a username you use all over the internet is even worse. I think it adds to the list of bad decisions HRC and her subordinates have made regarding email in specific and technology in general.
There's only an 11 minute documentary in the article which shows some clips of the films. Unfortunately.
I'm getting the same warning with Firefox (which isn't too surprising, considering they use the same database for this).
Passing this Amazon interview.
This kind of text reads like something that is going to end up in https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Not sure why the downvotes. Feel free to visit Roma housings provided for those in need in northrine-westfalia, and witness behaviour that can only be described as anti social.

Like literally throwing trash out the window, social security fraud, theft, begging and overt hostility to "intruders.

But feel free to click that downvote button, the warm fuzz of perceived moral superiority feels great doesn't it?
It's well worth reading the original 'Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager' chapter from 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things': https://a16z.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/good-product-manage...

(It is also linked in the article, but I missed it first time through).
I agree with you but this isn't data storage.

For those Fortune 500 companies who've made the shift to cloud services Amazon currently fills the role that Oracle does in data storage. I'm sure there's plenty of Fortune 500 CIOs who are still hesitant to embrace the cloud in general, but If there's a CIO out there who's moving some services to the cloud going with Oracle over Amazon just because its Oracle then they're out of their element.
I don't understand why the source of the Koch brothers' wealth is listed as "Diversified". They owe their fortune to petroleum.
It's under 40kb gzipped. If that's a sizeable percentage of your total JS code, you probably didn't need React in the first place.
I migrated to gitlab - the joy of CI, CD, runners and Trello like boards - all at one place has made my day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535358
I'm not sure that follows. But nice to know you don't listen either facts or opinions I guess?
Can you explain how the new architecture makes the more recent phones more secure to this sort of attack?
Disagree about bootstrapping AI tech. People who can actually implement, or build neural nets from scratch in a scalable system are in massive demand and are not cheap - from a time or money perspective.

To build competitive nets you need a way to acquire data (not cheap), label it (also not cheap), and train nets with people who know how to implement them (very much not cheap).

That's all before you have a product which is generating revenue to "boostrap" from. Even Geohot needed 3M from Andreesen to get comma.ai off the ground to gather and train data from a free app and try and turn it into a product (which isn't out yet).

I'm talking about $10M here, not $10B. You max out Angel money around $1-2M which would get you maybe a year with some MS/PhD Machine Learning Engineers. I know this from first hand experience. And yes, you really do need people with that level of background. I've never met a self trained ML expert who can rapidly build ANNs and gather the data efficiently (though I am sure a few exist).
What qualifies as unclear-ugly ?
Yeah, but once you start quantifying making a huge company — what is "huge": 10M, 50M, 100M, 1B? I think this number varies a lot by founder.

I think you're totally on point about that what venture money was created for decades ago... but, is that how it is being deployed today? Particularly, I'm thinking of Vinod Khosla's thoughts when he criticized VCs for acting like investors in a company like Dollar Shave Club [0].

[0]: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-vc-funding-20160409...
Timeline here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-02/fbi-report-shows-ho...

But The Hill has the more important detail:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/296680-house-pan...

"The Reddit message was sent on July 23, 2014, according to an archive of the page saved by other users. The day before, the Benghazi Committee had reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of related records, according the FBI's investigation into Clinton's use of the server."
Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat?
rest and vest!
As a Jew myself the majority of modern antisemitism I see is from Muslims.
From “Habitability and Piecemeal Growth,” by Richard Gabriel
There are patterns on Roma people. They don't integrate locally, that's why they're all the same.

The same thing is by Albanians who emigrate, if they keep their local culture they mostly ~suck (really, ask ANY Albanian). ~Most Roma people don't integrate therefore they suck (their original culture does).

Americans integrate locally (redneck, bible belt, etc) and are different between states/cities/etc.
You forgot "threatening to kill their children when police try to make arrests at camp". I leave it as an exercise to any incredulous reader to look this shit up.

People who shout 'racist' in discussions about Roma have never interacted with Roma. What's worrying (to me) is that these do-gooders don't seem to realize that their behavior is pushing otherwise moderate people to the far right. The far right is literally the only political arena that recognizes that such a problem exists.
Also http://riotjs.com
> One of its best qualities used to be that you could
> have absolutely no idea what you're doing, read a few
> bad tutorials somewhere on the web, mash your head
> onto the keyboard and end up with something
> horrifying that was nevertheless close to what you
> wanted to achieve.

> I know of no other language that can tell a similar
> success story, with that high an impact.

I assure you, the same is definitely true of VBA.

And I agree with your overall point. Shitty code often makes the world a better place. It gets a bad rap from developers because we compare it to good code. But shitty code written by non-devs is not replacing good code, it is replacing an absence of code. And shitty code, for all its sins, is still often better than no code at all (which usually has the same sins).
Not toxic at all. It's a very accurate comment.

Having been in numerous situations like this, I actually now "know better" than to rely on some 3rd party API that's not easily portable.

That's probably why most startups that provide infrastructure as a service are built on open source (using open standards) from day one. Otherwise good luck getting any traction
There are around 200,000 migrant Roma in the UK, with another 200-300,000 people who meet the broader Council of Europe definition of "Roma". Irish travellers are the main other itinerant group; estimates suggest that there are around 25,000 Irish travellers in the UK.

All of this data is fairly vague, because itinerant people are inherently difficult to survey. There is only a single census category for "gypsy/traveller", so that's of little help. Many indigenous British travellers do not identify themselves as being Roma and have unclear origins, further complicating the situation.

http://www.salford.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/363118/...
http://itmtrav.ie/irishtravellers
Anyone interested in this should check out the International Institute of Space Law's Moot Court http://www.iislweb.org/lachsmoot/index.html
You did an amazing job turning the blame on the Roma themselves.