skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In particular, Southwest does not sell through aggregators at all

...they sell through aggregators, just not to the general public. For business travel they pretty much have to, otherwise they'll miss out on the market (large companies usually requiring their employees to book business travel through a central agency).
That's certainly one approach toward interactive journalism.

Works incredibly well on mobile devices too.
Don't blame the immigrants, blame those who are fully or partly paying under the table.

Of course, would you support a national ID card as a means of combating this variable you accuse?

In the US we pretty much have such a thing already, just without any proper security or identification aspects... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus (A short (< 8 min) video by the ever informative CGP Grey on the inanity of US SS cards.)
I had a somewhat similar experience as Mr. Giacobbe in the article.

Recently I had to make a last minute change in a hotel reservation via Agoda, but they require you to pay the full amount in order to cancel the reservation, and then re-do the booking.

So instead I called the hotel directly and got my reservation changed without any extra cost.
>"We've underinvested in the driver experience," a senior official said. "We are now re-examining everything we do in order to rebuild that love."

This just seems so crazy to me. A company who's very foundations are built on its number one assets: drivers has been neglecting them. It's like an airline neglecting its pilots or hospital neglecting its surgeons. Without drivers, Uber dies. I know they're investing in self-driving vehicles, but self-driving Uber's are a long way off after a spate of incidents and the pending Waymo lawsuit. It's going to take many more millions and countless lobbying to adopt laws for self-driving vehicles.

Seems to me that Uber see their drivers as temporary pawns in a long game of chess. Eventually, Uber hopes to replace their drivers with self-driving vehicles a dream they've been aggressively trying to make happen. What a horrible business.
Before going out and buying a modem, I would strongly recommend making sure through support that the modem you're planning on getting is ALSO compatible with the very specific data plans for now and for the foreseeable future. One of the interesting things I found was that the Comcast device compatibility site listed a modem I bought as compatible, but you can still wind up unable to get the speeds you're paying for because the specific profile that was listed for my account was not flagged for that modem even though the modem is actually capable of it (300/35 plan, which is a bit unusual). So I wound up returning my 24-channel DOCSIS 3.0 modem and buying a more expensive one on DOCSIS 3.1. The other option was to actually downgrade my plan to maybe 150 Mbps.
Only if you're trying to scare the newbies away. This stuff does need to be learned at some point but cs101 should be about getting a feel for programming in general.

Focusing on the basics of objects/classes functions (with mandatory source control) is smart before killing their will to learn with nasty edge cases
Generally its the opposite, technology developed by the military is co-opted by the civilian sector.

Anyways all these new "AI" memes don't change anything, the weapons are just as lethal as they are today. All that's changing is more and more personal is no longer needed in the field and can be seated behind a desk. For the foreseeable future humans will still be involved in the decision to engage (kill) someone. When the day comes and robots will decide who they want to engage without a human in the loop, than we should really be afraid.
It's not the only paper I read regarding IPSC and germ cell induction. The Yamanaka paper has been out since 2007, this kind of work is well established. But, this paper is the only one I can find that has researchers attempting to make sperm from a female. There are other papers regarding iPSCs induced to become female germ cells to oocytes and then IVF producing viable offspring, in mouse, pig, and monkey.
> Please try writing an ERP system where you have a quantity of a billionth of an item price of a billion euros (or an item price of a billionth Euro and a quantity of billions) and tell me which integer type you deem sufficient for this.

For what it's worth, values on the order of 10^18 are exactly representable in int64; decimal64, however, only has 16 significand digits, so there you are already affected by rounding, and it's not far from where the distance between consecutive numbers is greater than 1.

In general, with floating points, you either waste lots of space for excessive precision around zero, or you quickly lose precision when numbers grow. On top of that, you get all the other quirks of floating point numbers such as cancellation.
Not yet, but it's only a matter of time. Imagine every company's support being a version of Stack Overflow where you get points for answering other customers' questions (grinding), or by paying actual money, and can trade these points for time with knowledgeable, paid humans.
With you here. I only fly delta and end up just booking on their site. I'd rather be eligible for an upgrade than being in a fare code that doesn't qualify.

Not sure why the author thinks travel agents are useless. You don't (or shouldn't be) paying them so it's not like only the rich benefit. I used an agent recently when I was meeting someone in Orlando and needed our flights to arrive around the same time and have transportation waiting. A lot less stressful than trying to compare between carriers. My agent was able to track our flights and had to move the driver back an hour due to a delay - something I couldn't have done easily from the air.
Duplicate of a submission a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14019951
At the end of the day I think we will end up with RDMA being the norm. Additional offloads can only go so far and are going to require firmware anyway so why not just cut to the chase.

Last time I checked Chelsio backed iWarp which has pretty much been defeated in the RDMA wars by RoCE since iWarp had terrible performance because it has to run over TCP. Intel has even removed from it their new cards and have pushed DPDK as a replacement. I'm also not surprised Chelsio has added additional offloads to compensate for their lose. That being said RoCE does have that Converged Ethernet part (CE) which is still not mainstream in many datacenters.

I get people will be disappointed that their previously Open Source drivers will be replaced with proprietary firmware but as we see FPGAs take off I think that you may see VHDL code going open source on new fully programmable cards.

I for one welcome our new hardware based overlords but perhaps I'm being far to optimistic.
What else are the drivers going to do? Flip burgers at McDonald's? Driving an Uber is still as good as you're going to get with flexible hours and no skills. I say this as someone who drives for Uber (albeit part-time for fun).
The aesthetics of rhetoric is crucial to the ability (and, being an articulation of values instead of a specific programme of behavior, validity) of a manifesto to generate an animating, co-ordinating spirit. If your creedal banner is not kalos, its kagathos is suspect.
They underinvested in drivers because they were very optimistic about self-driving cars. Now they see that replacing drivers won't happen quick enough they realizing need to pump investment in drivers.
> It has even concocted an algorithm similar to a Netflix feature that automatically loads the next program, which many experts believe encourages binge-watching. In Uber’s case, this means sending drivers their next fare opportunity before their current ride is even over.

I have to say that as a USER, I've noticed this change (I think it's been fairly recent) that they assign you a driver who hasn't yet finished a trip.

What ends up happening is Uber tells you an "estimate" of 3 minutes to arrival before you book. Then it assigns the driver and says "10 minutes" to arrival, but the driver hasn't even dropped off their last passenger yet. So, what's happened multiple times is that the 10 minute estimate ends up staying at "10 minutes" for 5-10 minutes straight and 15-20 minutes after I booked, the driver shows up.

I would understand this if I ordered an Uber pool, but I ordered a black car and it still operated like that.

I'm not sure when they made this specific change, but I've noticed it a lot more in 2017 and overall I've been really disappointed with the uber app this year as they seem to be trying to over-optimize everything to the hilt and it's starting to backfire
Heh. Ask only what you want to know, and nothing more.

Good for QM because it gives you a sink to dump uncertainty, good for hiring because it helps you not get sued, good for avoiding miscommunications in general, ......
Airlines do underinvest in their pilots and hospitals in their nurses. Management is shockingly short sighted about these things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018765
Look I'm the first to argue against the ridiculously punitive US criminal justice system. It's easily responsible for more violence than every other "criminal" element in the country, and is probably the deepest irony in our society.

That said, I disagree with the libertarian argument against drug use. Drug laws, aside from their fundamental purpose at enfranchising drug companies and imprisoning Black men, are supposed to prevent a race to the bottom where everyone feels pressure to enhance their performance with dangerous drugs.

You can handle meth? I don't doubt it. I also don't doubt that only 1 in 10,000 can (or whatever it actually is), so in the same way I think we restrict the use of things like cars, cranes, guns, planes, etc., we restrict the use of drugs.

I'm sorry for what's happened to you. Our drug laws are terrible. But legalization isn't the answer.
I hate that I've become an AT&T fanboy, but I have their Gigabit fiber service and use their router. The modem/router they gave me -- and don't charge an extra fee for it -- is in the worse possible place in my two story house. It's in a guest bedroom closet downstairs attached to the smart panel.

When I'm right under it, I can get 400Mbps u/d from my iPhone and my laptops. In the worse location in the house I get 120/120. My house is wired for gig-e throughout but I with that kind of wireless speed, I didn't bother about getting the more expensive Roku boxes with 10/100 Ethernet connections.

Of course I usually get 900+ u/d wired.
why would we even bother?
It makes more sense to create perfect humans and clone from them only in artificial wombs to prevent epigenetic defects.
Terabytes of corporate sensitive files exposed to connected servers worldwide
Knowing insurgencies these days, it would probably be so low-tech the government wouldn't be able to tap it.
MTV?
The problem here is that to some degree it's a zero-sum game between drivers and passengers. Anything Uber does to benefit the one probably comes at the expense of the other.
Agricultural Futures: From Home Aeroponic Gardens to Vertical Urban Farms
It doesn't really matter if 5Ghz gets crowded. Walls quickly get rid of that problem. 2.4Ghz crowding is much worse.

I can see about 10 other 5Ghz networks around me, but they only marginally interfere with mine compared to 2.4Ghz.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14019182 and marked it off-topic.
The great, vast majority of Comcast users are ignorant and get fleeced constantly (I firmly do believe the great majority are old people with their primary bandwidth "hogs" being an SD-broadcast Netflix TV show, 3 iOS apps / year, and a bank website login), so this practice of under-delivery visible to the consumer will probably never really stop (they're cash cows) until we get the FCC involved across the board showing it's a corporate policy to not deliver an advertised service. Unfortunately, they probably get around this too by putting so many disclaimers and exceptions in ads based around wi-fi inconsistencies and system loads that it makes any lawsuit about service levels impossible to prosecute successfully.
My personal experience is consistent with your second point.

But I'd be careful about making conclusions from the suicide/antidepressant statistics. It's shown to be highly correlated to altitude. I've included a couple links from google search to demonstrate the point.

That being said, the Mormon/LDS church does cause some psychological hardships for certain groups such as LGBT and ex-mormons... at least in my anecdotal experience.

suicide rate map:
http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2015/03/higher-suicide-rates-o...

altitude map:
http://weather.unisys.com/usgs/
Why do HTTPS requests include the host name in clear text?
Actually it's called rent-seeking and many capitalists would also call it bad (namely stemming from the failures of the patent system).
This is the first time I heard about "Malaysia internet sharia law". Does it mean the law being applied to internet usage?
Hospitals abuse residents who are the future lifeblood of the hospitals. Just because the personnel are essential doesn't preclude the abuse.
A couple of things...

1. I believe leaving an ideology has more to do with the individual that the ideology, especially when the ideology remains consistent. For example, I was born into a Mormon family, baptized into the LDS church, and even served as an LDS missionary in Tokyo, Japan for two years. Then, I rebelled against the religion, for a variety of self-centered reasons, and demanded to be excommunicated. I remained antagonistic towards the Mormon church for many years. A few years ago, I decided to return to it. During all that time, I was the only thing that changed. The Mormon church remained consistent.

2. In my experience, the LDS church does not take a dim view against its apostates. I was one for many years, and they never approached me with anything but love and kindness, even when they were met with my vitriolic attitude. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the LDS church, and their attitudes towards me during my years as an apostate.
Which is also a reason we should stop destroying the environment. There is a wealth of knowledge out there we have yet to acquire. If you ran a deep-learning algorithm using an entire planet for 3 billion years, the results would be considered invaluable. Well what is natural selection and evolution but that?
While I thought this was a pretty good article, the author is confusing what is an OTA vs a meta-search engine, even though he spends a paragraph explaining the difference. From one of the comments on the article:

* Expedia is not an aggregator/meta-search, it is an OTA itself. Meta-search engines are sites like skyscanner, hipmunk, trivago and kayak to mention some.

Another further confusion is when the author compares TripAdvisor with Hilton's own site. The screenshot even shows that TripAdvisor just redirects to Booking.com (Booking.com is owned by Priceline), who is the OTA.

The other thing the author doesn't discuss, but is an important part of the story, is that large OTAs spend billions advertising through Google, and are experts at it. Booking.com is the largest spender of any company on Google Adwords: https://venturebeat.com/2015/11/05/booking-com-largest-googl...
Wouldn't that sort of bug have been fixed in Ms Pacman?
>"We've underinvested in the driver experience," a senior official said. "We are now re-examining everything we do in order to rebuild that love."

This is a pretty troubling way to phrase using behavioral science to manipulate your employees.
I never understood why the US didn't have more walk in clinics. They are simply doctors offices that take people on a first come first serve basis. It costs $50 if you don't have insurance (ex: new to the country).

Urgent care clinics are similar but more mini hospitals - hence the '$$'.
I'm ehhhh on this.

I've worked with these systems. Airlines are pretty much never worth it through these sites. Margins are so damn razor thing that everyone pretty much scrambles for the last dollar. (Literally like 3-5 dollar margin"

Hotels are MORE worth it, in that they do offer deals through aggregators. Partially due to name and partially through exposure.

Booking.com is pretty good for this as they index alot of smaller hotels that generally are hard to find.
To counter your anecdote, as a French used to UHT milk, I really hated pasteurized milk at first (and my first experiences with pasteurized milk were in UK)... Since then I've lived in countries without UHT milk and got used to it and actually like it more.
Yeah I suppose what I really want is physical procurement of hardware with the ease of cloud.
I've also seen the opposite - 10 minute estimate and the car shows up in less than 3. This is just as bad...maybe I ordered the car early because of the long projected lead time, now the driver has to wait for me while possibly blocking traffic.
One of my professors made a point about college: it's not about getting a job or not, but rather, being a button-pusher or understanding what you're doing. It's way too easy to become a "button-pusher". I am 100% confident that I could successfully perform a relatively complex cardiac surgery on a patient with about 2-3 weeks of training and some good staff. "Cut here, tie that together, done".

The thing is, there is a HUGE difference between what I described and actually understanding what one is doing, in the deepest meaning of that word. That's what you go to college for: to pass on that deep knowledge. You don't go to college to "get a job".

So the problem really is with employers: why do they insist on a college degree when they could ask for a technical school diploma, or whatever. There's nothing wrong with college per se, IMO, as I think you'll agree.
I feel like there's less choice in that case. With Uber, I can flip to lift or a taxi or black car service with the push of a button - don't have to think about what's closest or in-plan.
Patch Management Can Prevent Security Breaches
It's not just $20 a month, but you need to pay for 2 script reads, $50 each, so the first month's total is $120. Realistically, it's $140, as it takes a while to get the 2 script reads. If you score high enough, you get put on the highlight email list. If you don't, you're just available for discovery. Basically, if you don't score high enough, you're wasting your money.

The author didn't understand that you're paying for access, if your script scores high enough.
Nintendo still has to do that to some extent in order to get competitive performance on outdated hardware. They even managed to get Smash 4 running at 1080p60fps on the Wii U.
Eh what? The are lots of people that have multiple phones.
But how do you know if they were exposed to the advertising? You don't. Even if you did, how do you know they actually saw it/were paying attention? You don't. And even if you knew that, how do you know that it was because of that particular ad that they ventured to your location?
can't a button saying "can't login" on your website solve this problem?
So, peer review doesn't scale, and some alternative is needed.

Sounds about right. How about we crowdsource the task? Since all the qualified specialists are busy writing grants against a 15% payline, we can farm it out to people without those pressures.

Oh... wait...
It's not so much machines getting better. It's investors switching to low cost passive funds rather than giving 2% a year to pay for the managers next vacation home.
Ok admittedly I'm a Costco fan boy but I only buy fish from there because I believe their supply lines are more trustworthy.
> you can have an open shop in a state that doesn't have a right-to-work law

"Right to work" laws are also called "open shop" laws because that's what they mandate. Of course unions can choose not to collect agency fees in other states.

Going back to the beginning, you claimed that unions can negotiate closed shops. The Taft-Hartley Act outlawed closed shops, NLRB v. General Motors made union shops equivalent to agency shops, and 28 states forbid agency shops.

> Alternative way of phrasing that: Only unions which represent the majority have the ability to compel all members to accept whatever terms they negotiate.

No, those statements aren't equivalent. Plenty of other negotiations see parties authorize their representatives to agree to terms within certain parameters. Plenty of contracts commit the parties to accept the result of some process.

> They have to represent them for things like grievances, yes, but that doesn't mean that they can't pick and choose which subgroups they advocate for in negotiations over others.

They can't choose members as one of those groups. If other groupings correlate with membership, sure, they can get away with some favoritism. You originally claimed they can exclude non-members entirely.
All those retirees living off investments will be paying more in capital gains to subsidize the UBI, way in excess of the amount paid out to them to maintain the universality.
I love how you believe that most reviewers have time to conduct a thorough review for a journal, most of the time.

As opposed to something much closer to "LGTM!" With some "but be sure to cite my vaguely-relevant work in Foo et al, 1952".
Well the only clinically significant scenario I can think for this kind of thing is for homosexual partners to reproduce with 50% of the genetic material coming from each partner. Right now one partner contributes 50% of the genetic material and the other partner doesn't get to contribute anything.

And creating perfect humans and cloning them in artificial wombs sounds beyond the scope of science at this point. The paper I posted could lead to offspring now (viable or perhaps so epigenetically modified they are doomed -although a germ cell undergoes some demodification in the ovary's environment).

It wasn't supposed to be an alternative future for humans (such as perfect humans), although I could see a total female society having less anti-social personality disorders and less violent crime.
Using logs to build a data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are a bad idea)
"For example my desire as a buyer would be to purchase an awesome steak for about a dollar but the failings of our society have again let me down."

"Lobby" congress to right these wrongs perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig
It is trivial to automate a fake phone number.

https://smsreceivefree.com
You can actually arb the SP500 components against the ETFs like SPY in a process that creates and redeems the ETF. This is how the ETF is kept in line.
But why?

We are fairly confident we can make BSD pump several hundred Gbps doing real world long haul TCP for content serving in the next couple years on something like Naples or POWER9.

At the other end, Isilon converted from Infiniband to OS TCP for the latest product: https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/05/06/emc-shoots-explosive.... That is pretty amazing because of low latency timing and incast.

To your point, Intel's Altera acquisition may eventually bear fruit but I'm not holding my breath and don't really know how to reason about it until an offload/accelerator ecosystem is built up.
Preregistration, as demanded for clinical trials, is essentially the only way to ensure that researcher degrees of freedom are avoided.

Buy the ticket, take the ride. Needless to say, it's a scary ride, so most groups won't do it.
Uber doesn't care about its drivers they stole Google's IP to try and win the self driving car race. Those cars will replace these drivers who are struggling to get by like my best friend who works two jobs and drives for both Uber yet now more so for Lyft.

Uber drivers are slowly rotting trash to Uber/Kalanick.
pg's early essays like http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html drew a crowd who want to see language design move in the polar opposite direction. From that viewpoint, Tor only barely dodged a bullet.