skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Running onto the plane again after having been "dragged off" and muttering "Just kill me" seems to point to possible mental issues,

You realize this could be because of the concussion he might have suffered earlier, don't you? Rather cruel thing to throw out there as an accusation after reviewing the video of the incident.
Fantastic. I believe it really is a language. I hope it gets translated soon.

His linguistic analysis shows that the book was written in a dialect of the language of the Gypsies, aka the Roma People, nomads who slowly migrated from India, through the Middle East, to Europe starting 1500 years ago. This is why the language contains elements from so many language groups, and no one can figure it out. It is probably some sort of reference book they kept with them as it contains star charts and plant descriptions.
Looked it up. You are right..."sell" it, as in the temporary sale I mentioned above. Reference:

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1689/...
You are able to export your entire public history, regardless of the status of your account. I was able to do this to rescue the chat history for Hyperledger[0][1] before we moved to Rocket.Chat.

[0] https://github.com/hyperledger/slack-archive

[1] http://slack-archive.hyperledger.org/html/index.html
America's airlines are shameless. But United has just set a new low
Interesting. I am not convinced that 91.3 and 91.11 CFR 14 (authority of the pilot in command, no interference with crew members) is suspended once the airplane is stationary on the ground, but at least it's a somewhat informed argument (which, as I've said, is very rare in the whole media bedlam).

There is the question as to when something counts as an aviation accident (because you do not want something to count as an aviation accident when the cockpit window cleaner falls of the ladder, but you do want to count something as an aviation accident when, say, something happens during taxi - even if you're not flying yet. But where do you draw the line?)

So, ICAO defines an accident to be "An occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked" and fulfilling various further criteria.

So, according to that definition the airplane was "in operation".
The media fetishized a "techno-genius" that never really existed. Design and development are two very different skills, and it's rare to find a person who is good at both.

But all things equal, a good product person can make do with shitty developers. Good developers can never overcome shitty product design. If you want to design apps, go to school for design.
What the hell did you just send me to? If I hadn't already known this was real I would have thought I was on a parody website. A movie that advances frame-by-frame as you scroll? Seriously?

What's funny is it looked good and performed very well before I allowed the page to run scripts.
Is that a typo? It looks like it should be "landscape.io", and in the way it's currently written, it gives me a 404
Setting aside scalability for an issue, how would they solve this problem in the first place?
Can you please point me to where that's happening?
By the time people show symptoms, in many cases one has been infectious for at least a full day, so this reasoning seems fairly useless. Besides, your average manager is not an epidemiologist.

The most likely explanation is simply that they're trying to shave "sickies" through peer pressure rather than managing large-scale infections.
Climate Change Is a National Security Issue, Says the Military
Since the head of communications is definitely to blame for all the negative press recently, I think this is a great move that shows Uber is committed to fixing its problems. Really impressed by Travis Kalanick's bold leadership here and I predict smooth sailing from here on out.
I am not convinced that 91.3 and 91.11 CFR 14 are suspended once the airplane is stationary on the ground, could you elaborate?

ICAO defines an accident to be "An occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked" and fulfilling various further criteria.

So, according to that definition the airplane was "in operation", insofar as people had boarded it to fly.
Silo Home
I think it fair to judge objectivism by the actions of its most infamous followers, say the koch Bros. Same as I judge communism by the actions of lenin or mao, or capitalism by, oh I don't know, Madoff.

But yeah, garden variety objectivists, just like garden variety communists or people generally really, are good people.
According to witnesses, he said he was a doctor who had patients he had to see the following day, and there wasn't another flight to Louisville for 36 hours. The crew is supposed to make an informed decision about these things, and clearly made a random and arbitrary choice and refused to back down. They may have been in the right legally, but certainly not morally.
I think blanket labelling negative feeling towards uber as reactionary social justice is a pretty good example of hyper-reactionary tribalism.
Actually those are very bad examples. In practice, compilers will produce warnings in all of those examples.

Better examples (of actually useful things) would be things like designated initializers, struct literals, declaring array lengths in args using static, etc.
> Your justification of why "it's essentially impossible to reasonably port it to a sensible transport protocol" appears to be an explanation of how one could reasonably port it to a sensible transport protocol (JSON over some flavour of socket) ;)

Except for the fact that it's necessarily redefining quite a bit of the protocol, also necessarily further complicating any possible universal implementations because this kind of construct doesn't even provide any sensible layering abstractions.

> Just to reiterate: the websockets transport does (in part) what you propose: it doesn't use URIs, it doesn't use HTTP status codes

Except that the client and the server still need to understand HTTP in order to then implement a bad version of TCP on top of it, more or less, which makes this whole mess even more bloated and error-prone.

> This doesn't feel like people facepalming and walking off, but just saying "huh, let's see if the HTTP thing is that bad in practice. oh, it's fine, i'll concentrate on writing my bot/bridge/client/whatever".

What exactly would people facepalming and walking off feel like, that this doesn't feel like it?

In case you hadn't guessed it yet, that was exactly my reaction when I looked at the spec a while ago, and it just so happened that I stumbled upon this thread here, or you most likely wouldn't ever have heard about it, and I can only guess that I am not the only one.

(And no, that reaction was not just based on the use of HTTP, but more generally on the impression from the spec that it's all a huge dysfunctional mess that's essentially impossible to implement securely, and that probably will result in even greater interoperability problems than email with all its historical baggage in a much shorter time frame. All of which in turn makes me suspect that the people who are busily writing software for it just are lacking knowledge and experience to see the flaws, and examples like that "C" client do not exactly help to convince me of the opposite.)
Yep... it's kind of like C. Minimal and to the point.
I don't mean to be sensitive; is the suggestion that I did this somewhere, and am thus missing the irony?
It's just a huge amount of CSS - with lots of animations and transitions. The css is somewhat optimised, it just does lots of cray shit, lots of repaints.
Sorry, by "this situation", do you mean the United incident, or the hypothetical example of farting at 42,000 feet that the GP brought up?
>When they arrive for their eight-hour shifts they wade through a trough filled with powdered disinfectant

The Aristocrats!
Why do you think you have that right? Honestly curious.
How to know if you're paid what you're worth
I simply can't make heads nor tails of the parent comment. It was probably downvoted because people think it is nonsensical. Here is my explanation:

1. What does it mean to be "discrete on a macroscopic level"? (If a universe were discrete, would it not be discrete at any scale? When we use the term "discrete", are we talking about state space, or discrete spacetime, or what?)

2. What does it mean for a universe to "inherently [be] a natural number"? (Universes are not numbers, right? Is some sort of claim that the universe's state space is finite?)

3. What does have to do with whether a universe was "intelligently created"? (How can it possibly make sense that "intelligent creation" is an alternative to a discrete universe? The claims seem entirely unrelated.)

The "explanation" comment doesn't attempt to explain anything so I'm not sure why you call it an explanation. (Well, perhaps it explains that a conditional with a false antecedent is logically true, but most people here already know that, so pointing it out is not a great way to contribute to the discussion.)
Memorizing is a learnable skill, like anything else. There are lots of tricks you can use that eventually become second nature. A good starting point might be the book "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer. If you want to remember names easily check out Harry Lorayne. There's a YouTube video titled "Harry Lorayne memorizes audience's names" where he demonstrates his abilities. I started using his method recently and found it works well. But as with anything else you have to explore and figure out which methods work best for you. Good luck.
Hi. An off topic.

In page https://about.gitlab.com/products/#comparison it says "Community and support forums only" which is applicable only to "Community Edition". It may better be titled as "Community and support forums" and show the tick mark below every Edition. This could of course save you some time (and money).
People downvoted you because you're saying they want Uber to burn due to sensationalism and not because it's a genuinely bad company. It sounds condescending and probably pissed people off.
The TypeScript team's philosophy* is that they want to incorporate features that have either ~0% or ~100% chance of making it into ES. Types they put in the 0% bucket. Once a feature is near 100%, they'll include it. But if it's only at, say, 60%, it doesn't make the cut, for fear that it will change before standardization, leaving TypeScript in the "annoyingly different" situation you describe.

* - [edit: found the source] "We'd really like to hit features that have either a ~0% chance of making it into ES7+ (e.g. type annotations), or have a ~100% chance of making it in with easily-defined semantics (e.g. where fat arrow was two years ago). New operators are likely to fall in the awkward middle." [https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16]
What do you mean by that? It's had the ability for a while now to easily specify types for external js code and call js code.
Secret A.T.F. Account Paid for $21,000 Nascar Suite and Las Vegas Trip
Blue Apron's been good, but takes way too long for us to cook. I highly recommend you look into Gobble (http://www.gobble.com) which is as healthy, much quicker to make, and the recipes are delicious.
You mean "breath", not "breathe".
You mean "bated", not "baited".
> Flow is a different language than JS

How so? Isn't JS-with-Flow just JS with specially formatted comments?
Nvidia releases beta Pascal GPU drivers for old Mac Pros (and Hackintoshes)
For Youtube in particular, they're sending VP9+opus where the browser supports it, without considering hardware acceleration. The rather anaemic Atom chips might have H264 decoding on-chip, but only Kabylake has VP9.
Legal hair splitting aside: there is a line that a company can not and should not cross, which is to alienate its paying customers. Once you pass that point it stops to matter whether or not you were legally in your right, you've lost in the one court that matters: the court of commerce.

If customers can no longer trust you to treat them with even the lowest degree of respect (and bodily integrity, already a sore point with air travelers is undeniably a part of that) then you're in trouble.

Witness the stock markets response today, no amount of legal wrangling will make that kind of beating right, besides the obvious ethical angles.

UA failed, then failed again during their initial apology and now may be able to put this behind them but it will be a very costly lesson.
AFAIK there's no good solution. That's why it works best when your back end is using Typescript as well -- your route returns the same interface the client is expecting.
Thanks captain obvious!
I wonder if this could be ported to WSL. Android apps were Microsoft's original motivation for developing it, after all.
Windows Subsystem's Not Unix.
Facebook still has not made any desktop apps available, leading me to rely on a hodgepodge of 3rd party, electron-esque shells to provide a desktop experience.

This is despite their mobile apps being the most minutes used apps of any company. Even then, they tried to go with a electron-esque approach and only backed off when the performance and UX tradeoffs became unacceptable.

If one of the most profitable companies in the world can't see the business case for supporting a first party desktop ecosystem, it's very hard to believe many other companies have the justification.

This isn't an engineering problem, it's a business problem.
I've seen bookstores with substantially fewer books than that. Incredible.
>There are costs to developing desktop applications and developers don't want to pay them, so they make users pay for them

That is definitely not the whole story. Costs are shared between developers and users. If it's more expensive to develop an app, you can bet it's going to cost users more too.
Humorously, I did not know it was bated until maybe two or three years ago. I always imagined it was something like a cat who just ate cheese to lure the mouse to its trap.

(Yes, I have all kinds of college and good grades and yadda. This word is a tad obscure.)
> * Plus a full time salary at roughly $120k/year

There's absolutely no way that's correct. It'd basically be pushing csallen to leave (he's an experienced YC founder, MIT grad, and full-stack developer). His market salary is way more than $120k/yr.
> What's more interesting to me is that everyone who converts their code into Flow or TS immediately finds at least N bugs (albeit small).

When I was playing with TS I converted a project and found no additional bugs. Type related bugs shouldn't be that common IMO (if they are and they're systemic (not like a one off) I would argue that there is an issue with the way you're architecting).

Maybe TypeScript just isn't for me. I see its value but didn't find it high enough to continue using. I'm working on creating a .d.ts file for one of my open source libraries but I don't know that I'll use it beyond that anytime soon.
The whole point was that the decision is random, in the name of justice.

They have some criteria to exclude people from the bad lottery (disabled people and their care takers, unaccompanied minors), and then may apply a ranking based on booking class, frequent flyer status, and check-in time.

But here, the claim is that pax were chosen randomly.

Many people have good reasons to be on a plane, and this passenger being a doctor should not have any bearing on the resolution of the problem at hand (except insofar as it should've compelled other pax to take the 800 USD and hotel room and volunteer for disembarkation).
Has anybody looked at ThoughtTreasure? Since Nat is willing to accept updates to Open Source Software, this amazing code base would be a good start of AI related stuff.
It really could use a better user interface to its databases, for example. Or a tie to WikiData. There are several good things that could be added to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThoughtTreasure
> Today, just about any book you are interested in can be purchased on demand.

There is a sizeable 'black hole' of books that are still in copyright but that are not available digitally or in print. Your only chance for those is flea markets and second hand stores and those are offering fewer and fewer books as well.

I would not be surprised if after the whole digitization has run its course that we end up with a large gaping hole in our records.
>Uber was an asshole, but they were OUR asshole.

In other words, they played us like fiddles.
Reddit IS a forum platform. Anyone who wants to create a subreddit can do exactly that. Reddit did not replace forums, just the software that they run on.
I don't feel betrayed, no. There are plenty of companies interviewed on IndieHackers.com that started as small shops and eventually got acquired. I've got nothing against that, obviously. It's a great opportunity to cash out and do something else fun.

It's just weird to have IndieHackers.com, which I sort of viewed as a bastion of the movement, suddenly no longer part of it.

At the end of the day ... I'd probably do the same thing as csallen, if I were in the same position. He talked several times about how time consuming it was to find sponsors for the site and podcast. As a consumer of the site, I started noticing more and more ads showing up and interrupting the content. Hopefully Stripe will help reduce that. It wasn't clear from the OP if they intend to do away with all sponsorship. That would be really nice!
Muttering "Just kill me" does not immediately mean a conclusion of possible mental issues. After all, the guy just had his face smashed against an armrest so it's not beyond the realm of imagination that he would a) be traumatized and b) have a concussion.

So rather than us armchair quarterbacking it, why not let more of the facts solidify before passing judgement?

PS. I'm not sure if I would say that the article you linked to counts as "measured". Here's a different article (comes with citation of United's Contract of Carriage): https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/11/did-united-airlines-vio...
Regardless, it's still name-calling. It doesn't further any real argument, and comes across as immature. From my perspective, calling someone a "SJW" is the same as calling them a "libtard".
The logical assumption would be that they gave IH a very sweet deal, much sweeter than they'd generally offer an acquisition target with similar financials. So if they release the details, future acquisition targets will expect similarly sweet deals, which Stripe has no interest in seeing.
C++ is very complicated. C is basically the simplest possible programming language, and the closest to the API actually presented by the processor (i.e., assembly language)
Most of what you think is "good graffiti" is probably done with permission or paid.
Um, "In total, the bank has fired five senior retail bank executives, including Tolstedt, over the scandal and has imposed forfeitures, clawbacks and compensation adjustments on senior leaders totaling more than $180 million, including $69 million from Stumpf and $67 million from Tolstedt."

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/04/10/wells-fargo-clawback-stumpf-to...
I have built computers with the intention of overclocking down the road but never got around to it. If you are going to overclock then do it with the intention of doing from the get go. Historically, are unlocked CPU's more expensive than locked CPU's?
The (unexpected) speed of social media
Fable has such potential. F# is fantastic and I could totally get behind that as a TypeScript alternative under the right circumstances.
So, this was a design flaw in how matrix-js-sdk was originally implemented - it simply didn't cache any state whatsoever locally, so every new launch meant re-syncing the whole world to the client. This can obviously be improved by lazyloading, but for now we've fixed it by caching full offline state in indexeddb - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/pull/363 & friends. This speeds up launch time to a few seconds, if that - and as we go through doing more lazyloading it'll be even better. We also need to make the app progressively loaded in general rather than a big ball of webpack.

Coincidentally, the new version of Riot which uses the new indexeddb backend should be going live tomorrow (live today on riot.im/staging).
Legal at my current and I think any company I have worked at would never approve use because of the terms of service. Issues include but may not be limited to unrestricted use of name and logo for promotional purposes, changes to the terms including material ones are without notice or any time period before they take effect, and binding arbitration in The Netherlands. I would have expected the terms to more closely resemble those of the githost.io service.

Besides the legal issues there is the issue of no availability or performance SLAs. Given Gitlab's performance and availability track record this is a non starter. Especially when combined with the annual billing.
Standard practice? That's a big claim substantiated by nothing. Uber has thousands of employees, the ancedontal account that came out looked credible but there's nothing that says it is pervasive. Does Uber even skew from the mean when it comes to harrassment compared to other tech companies or companies in general?

It looks to me that people are piling on, just because.
Not since Evil, now it has the world's best editor (vim).
The product took off thanks to the HN community. Hence the "right". He is simply a hypocrite if he doesn't share that.
That seems like a great compromise. Pay a ten million dollar fee to extend your copyright by ten years. Most material becomes public domain, some exceptionally valuable properties remain privately held and generate value for the holder. Plus, we get some additional tax revenue.
That's probably it. The Twitter.app, Facebook.app, Snapchat.app, etc. would all still have their own icons, of course. But you could just hide those away in a folder.
People are clueless about nutrition. I try to get the word out, but the powerful bread lobby keeps blocking my research.
Like, for instance, "Public Safety"?
This is an example of how people can trick themselves into adopting random dogmas.

Don't eat octopus because they are smart

Eat fishes, even those able to detect, hunt, defeat and eat octopus (therefore smarter than them)
I stopped using them over a year ago.

Recently, they started spamming me with lots of %-off offers[1]. Just a datapoint; it could be unrelated marketing efforts. Or it could be that they're feeling it.

[1] Their mailing list was also broken and ignored my unsubscribe request, so given that they seem too incompetent to run a mail server, now anything they send me bounces.
Do note that it's CO2 extraction not consumption - it's counting oil that's extracted in Canada but burnt elsewhere; reducing local consumption wouldn't change that number, it's about the global oil production.
This looks quite similar to Samsung's new Dex dock UI. Of course, you don't need an S8 for this to work. Very interesting.
even more pedantically: sub-quadratically since it's being built on a positively curved manifold. As the Pentagon approaches the size of a hemisphere, growth will stop and then reverse.