skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will send an email, as a humane customer, to their customer service email asking a clarification about their policy in this regard. I urge all people on HN also to bombard them with queries regarding such shitty practices they follow.

A thing to learn: Never, ever base anything big on a big player, be it Amazon, Google, or anyone else. They can screw you at any time with or without a valid reason.

Another lesson: All (especially not very big) companies relying on cloud must remember that AWS, GCE, Azure may sound very good, but they can screw your businesses at any time with or without a valid reason. VPS or on-prem should not be discarded without due deliberation.

Edit: removed a bit of a rant.
State/government-dependence to give birth is a worry!
Nope,

this will cause people to bring less garbage with them onboard which means much faster boarding times which means more money earned which means Southwest is sure to follow.
Because you're pretty much guaranteed an instant answer for every question you ask. It's live 1 to 1 and instant. They can't patch you or put you in some backlog.
If you can execute well and if the demand is there, that's definitely a viable strategy to get you off the ground - Ride the wave
How Doctors Die (2011)
صور+القمر+العملاق
Not trying to hijack this, but this entire ordeal reminds me of this Hacker News comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360482

If your livelihood is solely invested in a singular vendor, then you absolutely need to find a contact on the inside :/.

I hope he gets it resolved.
I have never had an email fix an issue in under an hour.

Which is the real problem, phone calls cost companies more so they prioritize getting you off the phone.
Don't leave out Mikrotik hardware from the mix. Mikrotik routers are much better than consumer-grade things you buy at Best Buy and provide advanced features.
I have the feeling the 20% survivors - especially C-level peeps -- will feel rather empty knowing they can't torture their new AI employees with meetings and other forms of corporate suckage.
No country with a McDonald’s can remain a democracy
One more reason to fly SouthWest.
The MTBF is way lower. I've done this analysis for racks of server equipment and client devices. Failure rates are way lower -- low enough at scale to spend extra money on desktop SSD for low end use cases.

That said, environmentals are important. Hot solid state electronics fail.
@justinsb - oh I didnt know that. For example, we are struggling to use kops on bare metal.
However, I quite understand your AWS feature priority.
You should also require job posts to state what the steps in their interview process are and an estimate for how long the whole process should take.
I was a robot and this is what I learned
When I fly for work it is typically United due to them being th cheapest. I do not enjoy those flights one bit
Turtl :
https://turtlapp.com/
There is a web app, an android/ios client...
It's open source :
https://github.com/turtl
If you want you're own server :
https://turtlapp.com/docs/server/
Even in git there are lot of challenges: http://githubengineering.com/how-we-made-diff-pages-3x-faste...
Please hold while I transfer you to someone who has a counterexample to that statement.

hold music plays
I learned a while back a form of this lesson, which I would state as "never rely on Amazon as a single source of revenue."

My experience was starting a website that showcased interesting/humorous products in the vein of thisiswhyimbroke. After getting a great deal of traffic and getting a fairly substantial number of purchases occurring through my affiliate links, Amazon informed me that they could not approve my account and that I would not be credited for the sales that I referred to them.

I asked for a clear explanation and was not given one, only told to reapply for the program.

I was pissed off but learned a valuable lesson- that Amazon customer service is shit and at any point they can cut the power off to your business if they don't like any minute part of it.

So while I might use affiliate links as a source of revenue again, I'd never rely on Amazon as more than a small percentage of that.
great! looking forward to the results. good stuff.
It doesn't take that much space. Certainly not more space than that you can fit under the seat in front of you.
The BBB does nothing. It's just the Yelp of the past. They don't help mediate disputes they just extort business owners. If the owner pays enough money they can get rid of negative reviews. It's crap.

The only thing that will do you any good against a company like that is hiring a lawyer and it sounds like you should have done that in the first month.
"Some outlets are not perfectly flush internally even though they may appear to be fine."
Thanks, I tried most of those languages at some point in time... its more about the market.

(Haskell, Javascript, Ocaml, Lua, Python, Common Lisp, Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Golang, Erlang, Python, Ruby, Java...)
I really enjoyed reading this. I have been stalling on a side project for some time and this article has given me some ideas with how to proceed. Specifically narrowing down the requirements.
Few months ago, I couldn't login to my account after failing to answer some questions. Then, my entire Amazon account was suspended because i couldn't remember the mailing address in file in order to reactivate my account. At the end, they asked me to recreate a new account and all my digital purchases are gone forever. Their customer support staff were also very rude and unfriendly when i called them up.

Why can't just they send me a password reset thru email like most companies do?
The time you wait at the baggage carousel is unrelated to how long it takes to get off the plane. If it takes them 25 minutes to get your bag from the plane to the carousel, then saving 20 minutes getting off the plane will only mean a 20 minute longer wait at the carousel.
Nice little story
Apple's reputation has been sliding every year since Tim took over. At this point Apple can no longer rely on:

- the press painting them in a good light.

- customers evangelizing its products.

- hiring, and retaining, the very best talent in the valley.

Some of the changes have also boosted sales. If you're sacrificing your ability to compete in the future, short-term profit is just "operation was a success, but the patient is dead"
Now how does free will come into this?
Looks nice but gonna be a bit off topic and ranty, I really don't want to bother about resumes and their formats anymore.
Is it really not acceptable to give a LinkedIn URL when asked for a resume, or as a recruiter if you see my LinkedIn profile, why do you still ask a resume? I think it looks well enough to replace any resume in any format, and its generally available. (of course if you don't choose to limit it to only 1st level connections)

Farsighted Note: I am aware of PDF export feature, but its very ugly..
If there were an airline without any overhead bins at all I'd use that one for 100% of my flights.
I can just imagine Elijah Baley zipping around that boardwalk.
Hey @mourner... so it works great with pinch zoom. Still have the same issue if using the mouse wheel to zoom. Just FYI.
How to properly use Git branches to improve code quality
Your credit card number is both your public key and your private key!

http://www.icanbarelydraw.com/comic/2702
This is some of the best travel news I've heard in a while. The entire boarding process is the second biggest annoyance in US air travel today (TSA being the first).
It's a fee disguised as a "new lower fare". Basic economy seats will cost as much as economy seats do today, with standard economy costing much more.
I don't necessarily want to AVOID an update. I don't update to new OS's.

XP sucked until SP2. 8 sucked until 8.1u1. 10 gets better each roll.

My issue with iOS 10 is the changes to the underlying flow (like unlocking the phone) and the lack of tweakability (basic issue with iOS). Naggware on top of that grates my nerves.
I don't want instant answers. I want right answers, in a timely manner. That's entirely doable in a ticket system. Not so much with phone support...at least, not in my experience. Phone support generally has a script. When your problem diverges from the script, the person on the phone is of negative value. I want my problem triaged to someone who can solve it, not hear how very sorry they are and how much they appreciate my patience.

If I sound bitter...well, I really hate phones. My favorite support experiences have never been on the phone. Chat maybe, email maybe, phone never.
I see looks like that(no days of sick) discriminates against disabled and those with kids.
Generally I'd say that if it encourages more people to check luggage and reduce the shit show that boarding has become I'm all for it. But then it doesn't affect me personally because I don't pay for bags and only carry a backpack on board. I definitely see how the move might encourage more people to sign up for United credit cards with baggage perks that "pay for themselves."

Also, if you pay a lower fare or don't book early enough and your party is broken up that's your problem. Maybe I'm an asshole for saying no. But unless it involves children or some other extenuating circumstance, or you just need me to move an aisle or two back and I still get my aisle or window or whatever I chose that day, I'm not giving you my seat and won't feel even a little bad about it.
Admittedly, I only flew on United once (coinciding with how often I've visited the US so far), but in my eyes the complete boarding process was a horrible inefficient mess. They seem to regularly overbook flights to 150 % or so and then first ask any passengers whether they want to go on a different flight maybe since there are too many passengers. Then seemingly everyone brings baggage that should have been checked (like, gigantic suitcases and bags) as carry-on baggage, so they ask whether anyone of those would rather have their bag put on the flight as checked baggage. All that takes plenty of time already since usually no one seems to be willing to volunteer. And then comes boarding in five different classes, most of which are distributed evenly across the plane, so the different boarding classes seem to be more about who likes to get their head bashed with baggage while they're already sitting, getting up to let people through to the window seat, and, perhaps the most useful, overhead storage bin space.

Admittedly, boarding in groups is common everywhere, although I haven't seen that many different classes until then. But I haven't ever seen overbooking to that extent or the fight for every bit of cabin baggage space to that degree.
Possibly, possibly not. Consider the competition Unix had at the time it was released. A cut down version could've also made inroads into the desktop market (for business users).
OK, let's do a thought experiment. You have an infant, and are (for unfathomable reasons, probably related to masochism) taking them from London to Sydney - a 21.5 hour flight - including layover.

How many nappies do you think the average bundle of joy gets through in an almost 24 hour period? You also need their baby food, a changing matt, baby wipes, nappy rash cream, clothing, books and toys to keep them entertained.

Last time I travelled there was hardly room for a small bag under the seat in front, there's no way 24 hours of supplies for a baby would fit easily. Now what if you have twins?
Then you charge them money and do as they ask. Or they can go ask someone else to do it for free, maybe that friend who recommended the software that doesn't run on Linux, given that they know better than you...
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You also get the space under the seat(s) for the small children too. Give them each a small'ish bag they can carry themselves.
So right from the start I wanted to make sure it wasn't locked to AWS. We used to have GCE support enabled (and continue to have it on a branch, though obviously it has bit-rotted as we've added more AWS feature support) But we built GCE support early so we could be sure that the abstraction wasn't AWS specific. And we have bare metal support on another (more experimental) branch. Bare metal is much more challenging, largely because on clouds we can run etcd in HA mode with automatic instance replacement, which isn't really possible on bare-metal, so it looks we have to settle for HA with operator intervention when an etcd instance fails.

So I actually think kargo is a great choice on bare-metal - and it also does a great job of running on multiple clouds and bare metal. But the design of kops isn't particularly tied to AWS, though it does match better with clouds.
Someday you will handled like luggage, you are put into a pod with 20 other people and one toilet and the pod is stuffed into the plane. At the destination they pull the pod out and stuff the next one in while you are exiting. You can utilize a 3d packing scheme to optimize the pod space. Perhaps they will offer free paralytics to ensure you don't move much.
For one thing, as an interviewer it is nice to have a hard copy resume to refer to on the fly
Opsec matters. If you're printing tax returns or proprietary data with this without some sort of commercial contract, you have a problem.

For a student printing schoolwork, printing my concert tickets from a tablet or a hundred other use cases, yore fine.
It's not like Southwest doesn't have it's price issues. If you want to avoid their seat lottery system, you have to pay $15 each way.
Doesn't Spirit do the same thing, too? Start barebones and keep selecting add-ons until your fare is the same as a regular airline?
After flying United to Australia and having a miserable time of it, I used to joke that soon United will introduce a fee structure in which for an economy ticket, they will pack you in a cubic crate 80 cm on a side, and for an additional $180 they'll upgrade you to a full cubic meter.

Now it seems much less an absurd joke.
Being able to "Infer" from what it learns and "Apply" it to new scenarios in a general way is all about intelligence. I do not see how making it to win one game or one million will move it towards achieving general intelligence of this sort.
Their digital assistant Sarah seems to be unique. I don't know any other OS which has it.

http://www.semicodeos.com/sarah/
It just came back. It was down since yesterday.
See: http://i.imgur.com/pVS4KcE.png
In Italian too, JFYI.
BEM and maintainable CSS
if they offer a checked bag free, they can't quote a ridiculously low fare on the popular travel search sites.
Makes sense for very high power users I know that an organisation in the UK (RAE Twinwooods) that ran wind tunnels had a private link to the grid and for the really big tunnels had an arrangement where they would control the wind tunnel by directly controlling the local power station
Italicizing is not a good solution for quotes IMHO.

I don't add the following links because that's where I got my opinion from, it's only in support. I came to my own opinion by reading a lot on the web :-)

In addition, only very few people in this forum use that method for large quotes, so without consulting a style guide, it seems to me most people feel that way.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100502220045A...

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/punctuation/when/when-to-i...
I use moinmoin wiki[1] on my own server, with a local copy on my laptop. Since it isa simple python app and stores everything in flat files it is easy to run and to sync.

Previously I've also used tiddlywiki[2], which can work locally in the browser or on a server, and also exists as a hosted service[3].

[1] https://moinmo.in/
[2] http://tiddlywiki.com/
[3] http://tiddlyspace.com/
I use https://www.evernote.com

Allows you group notes and add tags, all I need.

The free version allows installation/use on two devices - phone and chrome for me.

It has two-factor authentication which is a plus.

Some folks don't like the new web ui, it doesn't bother me enough to jump ship, because while I use it regularly (the mobile app) I don't have complex requirements, just note taking, tagging. I can do that whenever inspiration strikes me and then come back and flesh out the idea when I'm at my laptop.
I'm pretty sure the CEO of Spirit airlines said something along the lines of people not caring how they're treated as long as the fares are cheap. I believe this was said in response to them having the worst legroom in the industry.
I used to work as an installer for a wireless-isp and we supported some very rural areas as well as an urban area. I typically did the urban area but I grew up in one of the very rural areas so I could appreciate how badly people wanted their internets out there.

At one point I had to service some of the rural areas when the installer for that area quit and had one service request that I was sure would be fixed by a simple power cycle but wasn't. "Are you sure you unplugged the right thing?" I asked, and "If I come all the way out there and power cycle it and it works I'll have to charge you, do you understand?" I warned, he understood but wasn't worried because he knew that wasn't it.

After a nearly 2 hour drive out into the utter boondocks, I go inside and check the POE injector, unplug it and plug it back in. 20 seconds later I check his internet through his own router: golden (or as golden as you can be over a waverider 900Mhz link). He had just been unplugging his own router and plugging it back in over and over. In retrospect I could have made him physically trace the power cord but there was still a good 10% chance the unit actually had a problem.

People in the rural areas were really nice about everything though, being on 56k until 2010 makes you appreciate whatever broadband you can get. He just laughed and got his checkbook, in the city people complained when you told them the bill an hour after telling them what the charge would be over the phone.
> Why is a phone the gold standard for support?

It's not so much "on the phone", as "talking to an actual human being whose job it is to help solve problems like mine". The 'phone' part of it is mostly incidental, although obviously it works better than typing for people who aren't as comfortable with keyboards.
Twitter user points out interesting HN timing
Sure, but the same time their answers don't mean anything. I've had more situations than I can count where a rep said something that wasn't actually true. I will only communicate in written text with companies for this specific reason.
I did a 6 hour flight (which was a 14+ hour day) with my son when he was 8 months. It was pretty easy. Every child is different though. If he was a difficult baby/toddler, there's no way I would have attempted it by myself.

The twins question is easy. You're only allowed one infant per person. So, if you have twins you and the other adult both have a bag for food, changing mat, wipes, diapers, etc.

If you're already thinking it's too much to spend a few extra bucks to improve the experience for everyone, you probably shouldn't be flying anyway.
Perhaps because my mother's use of a computer literally never ventures out of the web browser? A Chromebook would be great for her, but she does not have one. Instead she has a desktop that has been "linux + my mother" for 6 years.
hahaha, an infant? ANY DAY. try a 2.5 yo.
The problem with learning a new programming language lies not in learning a few language constructs; it lies in getting to know the libraries and the whole ecosystem around the language.
Your difference between soft/firm is an arbitrary decision made by a manager, not really a hard/fast If I can't meet this deadline my system is a total technical failure.

You've created a false dichotomy.
The problem is everyone always throws up like "30-180k depending on experience". Standardize that by making like 3 "sample" levels and nake them say what they would give for each.
Given the name I really thought this was going to be a service that puts your resume onto a cake and sends that cake to a company you want an interview at.
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I had a former coworker who was banned due to large number of returns. He was treating it like a try-and-buy service, returning anything he didn't like and they eventually cut him off...of everything. Paid amazon movies, gone. Paid kindle content, gone. His wife's account with the same billing address, gone. They annihilated his families Amazon world with one action.
Add the Stackless Coroutines for tbox
Black Mesa on Linux
I really miss the original Netflix too.

If someone else were to start a DVD-by-mail business like the original Netflix, I'd sign up.
Building a Basic UI-Clone of Instagram Using Elm – Part 3
Something similar happened to my wife as an Amazon affiliate. It took quite a while to piece together, but after about 4 or 5 back and forths, we figured out what happened.

Someone had clicked on her affiliate link, then copy and pasted it onto reddit to share the Amazon product with some people (without knowing it had the affiliate link as ?tag=....). Because reddit is a site you are not allowed to share affiliate links, Amazon suspended the account.

The person who had shared the link was obviously even a legitimate reddit user, and the post was pretty minor only getting a few upvotes (we only found it via a search). But because of this, Amazon suspended over $500 of earnings, and killed a site that took many months to build and establish. And now my wife is now on a "refuse to respond" to list for trying to contact them multiple times to get someone who can apply a little bit of reason to the situation.

I think in hindsight we made the mistake of not trying to publicize the issue and Amazon could just ignore it. So here's an upvote for the OP
I also believe that if China did not have a powerful central government it would break into several republics, starting with Xinjiang and Tibet.

But the interesting part of this is that the central authority not only works to stop secession movements, but also to make sure minorities have a place in modern China. In general they try to favor minorities getting into college, by lowering the grades (from the overkill high school test) a minority student needs to enter college. That and general promotion of a minority's culture in primary school (like dances, language, etc) tend to ease the friction that both the Han have towards some minorities and the minorities have towards the Han Chinese.
The main problem of such a platform would be the signal to noise ratio. I imagine majority of submissions would go in the direction of "faster horses" and "X, but better".
i think the drawback to this approach is that maintenance and just "staying in place" starts to become a nightmare. development is circular in that you have to loop back around and make sure your good live chat plugin even better as time goes on.

it's not just lay a brick and you're done. my experience has been that you either solve a problem that is very single minded (bonus if it's in the consumer space) and tries to solve for one or two problems, or be prepared to face reality in hiring and scaling.

you might be able to compete on some level with the well funded companies, but you aren't going head to head with intercom or hubspot without more resources. not to mention that businesses don't want to deal with companies that don't seem like they have the capacity to support them.
Advice to live by:

1. Don't login to non-primary devices

2. If you are required to login, use a completely new/isolated account
No I think the $6 Billion in fees Unites is racking up every year prevents that. :-)
"Why Learn Java? Why not C or C++? If you know Java learning C++ is easy."
Really?