skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome - always wanted something like this! Nice design and UX :)

A couple of small suggestions.

If I set my budget your app "fills" it leaving no room for food/in-country travel/etc. Maybe you could had a measure of how much people want to spend on such things - perhaps as a percentage but presented as fixed options (I eat out a lot, I visit attractions a lot)? Or make it more obvious somehow that this is the "bare cost" of getting to and staying somewhere.

Perhaps consider only rendering the first page or two of results - then load more in as I scroll. On my 2015 MBP it hangs a little when loading in all the tiles (in Firefox and Chrome).
IBM DB2 is downright futuristic compared to what some of these systems are. SABRE, for example, is probably the granddaddy and horror textbook example of what's commonly referred as "legacy codebase" (although the IRS Master Files written in S/370 assembly could give it a run).
Therein lies the perception problem: a lot of folks think that C++ is a static target, but it's not. It has improved by leaps and bounds over the past decade or so, and will improve a lot more this year when C++17 support becomes widespread. I find anything from C++0x onwards pretty pleasant to work in if you're on a UNIX-like OS. Windows is another story entirely.
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Is it maybe an analogy problem?

At the time of the framing, your accountant had your information, but he was also authorized to know it. Nobody at Google is authorized to read my email or even I expect look at who I'm corresponding with. It's all done by machine.

And the whole concept of "property" as inside a machine is unusual. Is an email on a server like a letter on an accountant's desk, or is it like a letter on my desk in my apartment which I lease from someone else?

Was the government in 1780 allowed to subpoena the Post Office for your mail?
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They're slow, bloated and not native anywhere.
Marketplace App, what route?: Validate market pre-MVP, or build MVP to validate?
It's an interesting question.

Most startups have products with a solution for solving a problem for a distinct target market, so before wasting time building code on an MVP I agree with the general notion of validating the market prior to development and learning and adapting to suit the problem of the end user before going into development.

However, I was thinking about marketplace apps with wide appeal, like an Etsy-type product for instance. Could you really validate the idea in a meaningful way prior to building a product to use, considering you can't take pre-orders from merchants as a marketplace model depends on sales transactions to generate revenue, which would need to be built to be proven.

What do you think? How would you go about this problem?

1.) Signup prospective merchants and consumers interested in the product on a waitlist to use the service (does this even have much weight?) or

2.) Build a very minimal MVP and get people to sign up and transact, generating revenue and traction as validation.
China is shutting down coal plants

No, they are cutting back on some new plant construction, as that article says.
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You're right, DB2 is way too hipster and modern for airlines.
You know service workers both living and working in Jackson, and doing okay? Those lucky few! Jackson refuses to build more affordable housing (because tourists and rich locals think poor people are gross). Therefore you see many of the people who work there commute daily from Idaho, and many of the seasonal employees camp out in the national forest behind the Strategic Elk Reserve. Jackson is a terrible model (Vail is similarly bad).

That said, coal and fracking seem like a bad idea for Wyoming's future. It has plenty of wind and empty land.
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Video Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNGKX-4PRsk&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

Book: Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra
http://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9780898719918
>all anyone can talk about lately is politics

if your house is burning down, would you be surprised if all anyone can talk about is fire? the US' situation is similar.
This is such a weird argument to have when incentivizing w3schools to use SSL would be a good thing. They can clearly afford the cost of acquiring, installing, and maintaining an SSL certificate. And as a website that teaches people about the web, they should be setting an example by using SSL. Alternatively, they should be setting an example by demonstrating that password prompts that aren't over SSL will cause warnings.

But even if it were legitimate for w3schools to not use SSL, security is about tradeoffs, and the tradeoff is that it's absolutely worth displaying a warning on one page that arguably doesn't need instead of not displaying it on millions of pages that definitely do.
Oh, that could be. We don't take into account specific airports but just calculate an average flightprice. When we tested, most of the time actual flights were cheaper then the average price we stated (but that was tested from Schiphol Airport Amsterdam, since we are from the Netherlands)
>Rounded up for what?

differentness, dissent, journalism.
But, uh, I thought manufacturing jobs were never coming back stateside. So strange...
Republicans don't purport to oppose "government" (they're not anarcho-libertarians). They use "small government" to mean keeping government within its legitimate functions, which includes defense and maintaining moral order. When you say to a Republican that expanding the defense department necessarily means expanding "government," you're not pointing out some inconsistency they thought of. You're simply playing games with the words and talking past them.
This is great; you should be proud!

- There's a slight CSS issue on buttons not clearing text: http://imgur.com/a/FVvj8

- As I've entered my area, it would be useful if the "from airport" on the result page would default to "area airports"

- I'd like a map view of the destinations

- I'd like to be able to filter the lodging accommodations based on stars and type (personal home, BnB, hotel) as there are some regions in the world that I've learned to only use hotels when it's sight-unseen and without recommendation

Congrats again!
Can you suggest (genuinely interested) something similar that isn't a) bloated with ads b) clearly affiliated with an airline/travel agent or c) is budget driven (high or low) - not "cheap airfare" or "cheap accom" driven? I've looked before and am yet to find something good...
Really attractive design. One thing that was a bit annoying on mobile was that there was several prompts all at once. (location, add to home, etc.) Location prompt makes sense, but you may want to save the add to home prompt for a little bit later.

I see that you're using Booking & Skyscanner, so maybe it's one of those, but where do the beautiful destination images come from?
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Yeah a lot of this stuff is on old school mainframes written in assembly. I work in the airline/travel industry and I've seen 28 year old code still running in production.
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I'm in the same boat so I've altered the rules a bit:
1) No Internet until work
2) Non-work related internet things wait until after lunch (no checking the news, hackernews, twitter, etc. until after lunch).
https://certbot.eff.org/

This. This this this. Automates everything so easily. I have helped someone personally deploy HTTPS for over a dozen sites and they all auto-renew without a hitch every 90 days.

No Excuses. EFF did us a solid
I have a C++ question. In the article, the author writes the Person constructor this way:

Person(std::string first_name, std::string last_name)
: first_name(std::move(first_name))
, last_name(std::move(last_name))
{}

For string parameters, do you need to use std::move()? Won't the compiler do that anyway?

And does anybody really put the comma separating initializers at the start of the line? Yuck.
Lavabit developer has a new encrypted, end-to-end email protocol
I totally get that, and even put in a disclaimer to that effect! (Limited space in comments, etc).

Keep fighting the good fight.
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. What I meant was that while finding alpha has indeed gotten harder over the past several decades, there are different candidate hypotheses to explore what will happen in the future. I interpreted your comment as a hypothesis that the market will continue to become more efficient as it essentially achieves weak EMH. However, I believe that you could consider the hyper-efficiency of recent times to be a natural byproduct of software and automation becoming ubiquitous.

Information gets cheaper, faster and more accessible over time but I believe that there's a diminishing return in how much more efficient the market can get without another huge jump in technology.

For example, HFT (specifically, the sort where you're actually thinking about the speed of light) is not categorically improving dramatically year after year anymore. The market is getting more efficient, sure, but it's getting more efficient very slowly, and would argue the rate of efficiency increases is decreasing. Without another categorical jump in technology (e.g. significant AI, quantum computing, etc) that dramatically improves data cleanliness or accessibility, I don't see the market getting significantly more efficient than it is now. And I don't agree that the market is yet at weak EMH.
Because my passwords for google.com, gmail.com, youtube.com, and google.co.uk are exactly the same, and the browser has no way of knowing that that's okay.

(Google specifically has probably rerouted everything through google.com these days, but the general problem exists.)
I don't understand why trying to make the FOSS community more inclusive would kill its openness.
Alright, for what its worth everyone, if you haven't seen this already, here it is! The Cert bot from EFF!

Get that HTTPS motor running. This really does make it easy.

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/intro.html
Porter was down on the 14th as well, but only for a few hours. http://www.cbc.ca/1.3936314
Foxconn considers $7bn US display facility with Apple
This whole Dinesh D'Souza tangent is a distraction to avoid talking about the issue at hand.

I think its safe to say that one the guiding principles of the modern Republican party is that less government regulation is better for everyone.

So why is the party that always advocates for less regulation and more competition REGULATING the energy market and RESTRICTING competition? Maybe because they aren't really for less regulation and more competition. Maybe they are about protecting the status quo?

Squaring the less regulation/more competition principles against this Wyoming law, or the anti-Tesla legislation in conservative states seems to indicate that these "principles" are an idealogical front to justify at least what some people want - Protecting their interests.
The US is also becoming a plutocracy. You can never go wrong by selling something that absurdly rich people want, but things may get out of hand: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
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Is this even grounded in reality?
The Russians aren’t coming to Silicon Valley, they’re already here
Nobody is going to start the next Apple if you pay them. Nobody. Great progress and innovation only come out of great tribulation.
> but I am sure these airline systems are super old and wouldn't be surprised if they use IBM DB2 or similar ancient database technology.

Not even. They're still on mainframes.
> Often I've seen businesses reason that the failures are cheaper than the upgrades.

I would love to know what the cost of today's outage in terms of overtime, gate fees, fuel, additional crew, &c.

Delta's cost ~$150MM [1]. That's something on the order of a thousand mid- to senior- level programmers for a year in my area. Even if you allocate a quarter of that cost to computer costs (which I'm betting is a fairly large over estimate), that still leaves a sizable team.

> DOS interfaces.

TUI interfaces can be really, really efficient in terms of navigation and getting around. I rarely see GUI apps that function anywhere near as smoothly or keyboard only.

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/09/08/delta...
Good question, and you're correct - it's a double standard. However, I have no clue as to why Chelsea Manning is perceived to deserve clemency more than Snowden.
I hate exercise but I know I have to do it. I'm 40 now, and I'm reasonably active - I cycle (a short way) to work, I walk a decent amount, but still. I need my heart to beat properly, often.

So this year, I've started swimming. There's a pool near me, proper 50m size.

Week 1: do 1 lap, 2-3 times that week. My girlfriend laughed at me. "1 lap?!". Yeah, 1 lap. It's just about going there and doing it.

Week 2: 2 laps.

You get the idea. By easing myself in to this, by making it a steady little habit, I'm hoping to be doing 52 laps by the end of the year. That's 2.5kms. That's not bad.
Easy with 16 tetra of ram
they might have seen with scanners that no electronics were present in his pens, etc..
>those in positions to hire should not hire those with backgrounds in government

I find the revolving door between government and private industry troubling but I'm not sure it would be a good idea to employ such a ban.

This is obviously very anecdotal but I have two prior service friends, one an infantry Marine, the other a Navy Cryptologic Technician, and they are the two most anti war, anti mass surveillance people I know. Far more so than most of my other friends who don't have any military experience, and my social circle tends to lean heavily liberal.
It's a bill, to end membership of the United States in the United Nations.

Can someone explain what this means? What are the chances of this bill being implemented? What are the consequences to USA and the world?
Any web host that doesn't offer SSL by default, for free, is offering an inferior product. I worked on my university's web host from 2006-11 and we put a lot of work into making sure people could use HTTPS whenever they wanted, despite technical limitations (mod_vhost_ldap and SNI don't play well together), and that was a volunteer project, well before the current era of free certs.

If this change convinces people not to use commercial web hosts that don't offer SSL, it will have done a good thing for the web.
I hate the whole ITunes system, and how bad it is for parents. I've found that it's simply impossible to find any time control apps to effectively monitor and restrict your child's usage patterns. Apps like Screentimelabs simply don't have the authority they require, and appear vastly better in their Android versions.

I have a 6 year old boy; I'd like to e.g. time limit games time to a set amount of time, and allow more time for apps that I have vetted positive for his learning.

Ideally I'd link N amount of productivity time to bonus time in the games category, however I'd settle for just being able to restrict overall app usage by category timers.

When/if my son's iPad breaks, it won't be replaced by a new one.
Send the interns
Garbage comment.
One of those groups (east europe/russia) is being defended by trump. Others have escalating troubles that predate him.

There's plenty of blame to cover both parties.

People seem more concerned that the system elected him than anything else. How bad (in this discussion, xenophobic) will the next president be?

I have noticed a profound, bipartisan disappointment with both parties.
I thought your experience was beautiful until you justified it by "It made me so much more productive !". What is productivity worth compared to calm and resting nights of sleep ? Is it not deeper, more important than any productivity hack ?
America already has all the power to abuse the system. They have a standing military. The reason the government is the government is because they maintain a monopoly on violence. Freaking out about surveillance is like freaking out about the compass in Rambo's survival knife when he's got a rocket launcher aimed down your throat. The compass is new I suppose. The rocket launcher has been there so long we don't even notice it any more. Whether or not the government abuses it's powers is strictly a matter of whether or not it feels like abusing it's powers. With or without trendy new surveillance capabilities, the logic of that doesn't change. Why this isn't obvious is beyond me.
If it were sent to the US it would be ok! /s
> IIRC, general antibiotics have never lasted more than 18 months before we found a bacteria that became resistant to them.

This does not seem to be correct. With the most recently introduced antibiotics—Levoflaxacin, Linezolid and Ceftaroline—resistance has developed very rapidly. But that didn't used to be the case; old antibiotics lasted much longer before resistance developed. [1]

I am not sure why this is---are these newer antibiotics more fragile (i.e., easier to resist), or are they being misused more broadly? If it is the latter reason, then perhaps we should stop developing new antibiotics until better usage practices are enforced. It is stupid to spend a lot of money developing antibiotics, only to throw it away by misusing them.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7498_supp/fig_tab...
This is a thinly-veiled "Bash Trump" article. It is purely speculative what the Trump administration will do at this point. Obama was shitty on civil liberties, Bush was the one who caused us so much harm to begin with. But if we want privacy then we have to fight to get it back the same way Americans are fighting to get back their full 2nd Amendment rights. It can be done, but this stupid, petty, left vs. right false dichotomy has to end--there are only statists and individualists, that's all there is. You have those want to coerce and those who want to be free.
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In "Talking Funny"[0] Seinfeld tells a Louis CK joke and its an amazing example of how the two comedians differ. I feel like, at least for me, comedy isn't something I consciously analyze. To see its differences and techniques dissected is amazing.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
Very interesting read - I am halfway through it.

I wonder if the new POTUS will keep the same tradition of having 10 letters each day added to his daily briefing?

NOTE: Not a snarky comment. Just genuinely curious query if this is a 'thing' that all past presidents did, and future ones will?
I think Tripnary is doing a great job at it, though probably failing because it's a hard business to start with (they haven't updated their app since last year)
That is pure idiocy. Who is going to round you up?
The long history of the Republic. Our Institutions have failed us whether it's slavery or the Japanese internment, Jim Crow, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, the hysteria after 911. But in each case we eventually recognized our mistakes and made corrections.

Edit: also the treatment of First Nation peoples
So found an issues, for places that don't have flights it never pops up the dates. Then when I click "Search Flights", I get a validation error for not selecting dates.

Pulling my hair I finally found a destination that had flights and the date selector displayed correctly.
Numerous states haven't had a problem with it even though they have no personal income tax.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/03/...
on Firefox-mobile, if you request the desktop site and double-tap on the first paragraph, it displays fine (not ideal)
Yahoo reportedly under investigation by SEC over data breaches
> - I'd like a map view of the destinations

I'm normally a huge map fan, but I actually like it the way it is, without a map. I had this cool moment where I thought, "It doesn't matter where in the world it is, as long as it is under your budget."

I haven't figured out how to pass all the menus after clicking a destination. I typed in an airport and clicked Search Flights, but it complains that I haven't entered dates. Can't find a place to enter them.
The media really likes to take it to 11 when security researchers find issues. In this case, it looks like the App is sending lots of identifying information about you for advertising purposes.

Is that Evil? Yes. Is that done all the time in lots of apps and websites? Yes. Do I wish advertisers would stop being idiots and assuming that these practices improve advertising effectiveness? Yes. Is this a serious security threat? Probably not.
Exactly--enforcing the laws that should be enforced is not the same thing as running cattle cars into extermination camps! The hysteria must stop.
You mean the orange oompa loompa narcissist? No way in hell this continues. I think one reason he got elected is that people projected attributes onto him that just don't exist in the man.

Economic frustration is a hell of a drug.

The article on the other hand shows why Obama was a good president. The guy was a well-rounded human being that truly wanted to make a connection and make things better for people. He didn't just want to win. He certainly had his own shortcomings and probably made a few policy missteps here and there but I don't see an article like this being written for Trump's tenure.
> Unfortunately, a lot of [Lean In] doesn't work, research has found. Sandberg herself has even walked back some of her claims.... So, what now? [S]allie Krawcheck, [i]n her new book, Own It, she argues that women don't need to act more like men to get ahead at work. Being a woman, she says, is more than enough.

exactly right, in my opinion.
Because Jobs and Woz were impoverished third world peasants who created Apple with no help from their families, government or investors?
That makes a type copyable, but does not allow you to insert arbitrary code that must be executed during a copy.
I don't believe that 'you' (the reader) are the intended 'author' of the play in that quote. It's not that you get to write your own role, it's that it's your job to play the role you were given, and someone else's job to give you that role.
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> relatively inoffensive sedan shape that Just Works for all parties and still satisfies that litany of constraints on the design, manufacture and maintenance

I feel like you've encapsulated the essence of Toyota.
Apple is not obligated to give you any way to run any software at all on the phone they sell. Luckily the vendor whose share dominate s this market does offer you just that: a way to run any software you choose.

Let's please not pick up our anti trust pitchforks to take the minority share luxury brand to task. This behavior is not at all new btw. The app store is as restrictive as it's always been and they've never offered an "allow install from unknown sources".

If you don't like it, don't buy apple.
Wyoming is not an electric choice state. Customers are stuck with the electric utility that owns the wires going to their house, so that utility does not need to stay competitive with utilities that serve other areas.
Many people in the press conflate border control with xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. I didn't vote for the guy but my take is he isn't looking to kerb legal immigration (with the exception of people form "terrorist hotbeds") so much as require all immigrants to get the proper visa as well as get expelled if they overstay a visa --normal operating procedure for most mature governments.

I can understand the preoccupation that he might especially kerb people from the ME. However I see this constant conflation seemingly to scare all immigrants into thinking that the new administration is "anti-immigrant" whereas I see it as anti-illegal/undocumented immigration.