skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most municipalities within the US do not have a functional, cheap public transportation systems

Partially brought about by the oil companies buying up electric trolley systems and dismantling them. Partially brought on by the subsidized post-war housing boom, which fostered suburban expansion, making the last mile a difficult problem for public transit to conquer. And partially brought on by the rise of the automobile itself. The exuberance of the post-war US allowed a lot of people to be blinded to what was happening.
Why not store your remote state in S3 buckets? They support encryption at rest.
eInk doesn't publicly release prices. It's a "contact sales" kind of business.

Visionect's 9.7" e-ink sign, which is their version of a digital picture frame, costs $400.[1] That's a product, not a development kit. A comparable LCD digital picture frame from WalMart costs $70. Color, too.

[1] https://www.visionect.com/product/visionect-sign-9-7/
> Can you legally kick someone off an airplane 'just because' (i.e. not oversold/security/safety)?

Yes, see Rule 21 in https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag.... One of the subpoints is that they can remove you for noncompliance with crew requests, and also, "disorderly conduct".

They can even remove you just for smelling bad (H-16).
As a Vue beginner, I had the best luck asking questions on https://gitter.im/vuejs/vue and often got responses in minutes.
Q: What are your tips for salary negotiations?
The making of Samurai Shodown
What thing can the police do that United employees cannot? By requesting them, you are expecting them to do that thing.
Can't speak for swift, but go is writing with asynchronous applications in mind.
I'm not sure the United Conditions of Carriage are really relevant here anyway - if United were to decide to violate their own conditions of carriage, the worst penalty a court would likley invoke would be to consider the whole contract null and void, awarding that passenger a full refund, and maybe paying for a hotel (damages).
I've always assumed that compiling assets into the binary meant the http.FileServer can't use sendfile. I guess this means lower performance at scale, but I've never verified if this actually happened or its effect.
I usually do notes in a plain text files and I LOVE MIND MAPS for concepts and use XMind.
> debt requires violence

Any kind of property requires violence to exist. If I say "this is my land" and you disagree, the only way I can enforce my claim is through violence. Debt is just a specific case of a general phenomenon. (This applies to communal property, too.)

> Before the US destroyed Libya, it had the highest GDP in Africa

Do you have a source for this? I see Libya's GDP circa 2005 at $41 billion (in 2005 U.S. dollars) [1]. South Africa's 2005 GDP was $260 billion in current U.S. dollars [2] (bit over $200 billion in 2005 U.S. dollars [3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Libya

[2] http://data.worldbank.org/country/south-africa

[3] http://www.usinflationcalculator.com
I didn't publish on Kobo's platform because their software arbitrarily decided that I wasn't allowed to, and none of my attempts to communicate with a customer service human to find out why generated any response.

I figured that I could still sell on Kobo via Smashwords, so didn't give it much thought.

In the end, my book is now exclusive to Amazon KDP for one, and only one, reason:

- royalties from Amazon = $24.60
- royalties from everyone else = $0

(It's not the amount. It's the principle.)

I was already de facto exclusive to Amazon, anyway.
Right, but we're discussing the cost of finding more than two collisions.
Can you be tested for prion disease?
No. People will learn from a stronger player, but not far beyond your own ability. AlphaGo is far enough ahead of human play, the human era in Go is over.

However, the era of everyone being able to have a super-human Go teacher should certainly make things more fun and raise the level of amateur players.
Can you expand (or point to a resource that expands) on the "internet as extensible object oriented network service" concept? I'm having difficulty grasping what the key differences between that and the HTTP approach look like.

My understanding of HTTP is essentially "send request with resource locator to server, receive response usually with document" which seems at face value similar to "send message to object, receive message back".
nginx is much more simple than full-service servers like Apache. Which is good if you want to do something easy fast (like terminate TLS, proxy, load-balance, simple redirect, simple header munging, etc.). And not good if you want to do something more complex and get into learning how nginx rewrite rules really work (totally not obvious), how if and other predicates really work (multiple articles in docs suggest it's not obvious at all) and what limitations are needed to achieve the simplicity and quickness. So if you want your webserver to do something complex, you'd go for Apache. But may still put nginx in front for LB, static content, pre-cache TLS, etc.
And it indexes audio, too. Comes in handy reviewing hour+ meetings where we can't remember exactly what was said.
I don't keep up with Swift, but last I checked it didn't have a mature, lightweight concurrency story. Speaking generally, I find that Go is easy to write (like a scripting language), but with static typing. I'm also not familiar with another language that is as easy to get up and running with (Go projects don't require you to learn a new project configuration file language, for example--just run `go build` and you get a binary).
http://www1.salary.com/Heavy-Equipment-Operator-Salaries.htm...

that source says the median salary for heavy equipment operator is $60K/year. If we assume 2000 working hours per year, that divides out to $30/hour, so your estimate seems pretty on target.

cost of living numbers based on Consumer Price Index (does not take into account major dislocations in specific sectors like housing though, so this is actually undercounting costs)

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/consumer-pric...

1972 avg CPI was about 40. 2016 avg CPI was about 240. the cost of living went up about 6 times.

2x wage increase vs. 6x cost of living increase. yeah, we're feeling the squeeze alright. mind you during this same period GDP

https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543

in 1972 the real dollar GDP was 4.8 trillion. in 2016 it was 16 trillion. that's an almost 4x increase in real dollars. in inflation adjusted dollars its even more. 1972 nominal GDP was 1.2 trillion. 2016 nominal GDP was 18.5 trillion. YES THE NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY WENT UP BY ALMOST 18 TIMES IN THAT PERIOD.

so the nation is approximately 18 times wealthier, by a deeply flawed but widely accepted metric, but wages only went up by 2 times, and cost of living increased by 6 times. Where did all the rest of the money go? Not to the workers, that's for sure.
They probably screwed up something. Or a different flight was canceled.
> No, you're promoting the same fallacy: if something as a whole is bad then you're bad for doing it personally.

That's not a fallacy. There's a direct and causal relationship between that "something as a whole" and you doing it personally. No one is saying that you alone are responsible for this systemic issue, but at least cop to your role in it.
Ex-Google Design Ethicist on the Zero-Sum Game of Hacking Users' Minds
Ever Wished That C&H Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page?
My Kobo mini had weird online activation requirement, and there's a bunch of gamification that makes no sense.

It's a nicely hackable device though.

http://uscoffings.net/clc/tech/embedded/kobo-touch/
Another measurement put Google at 13% in 2010. https://m.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/google_web_server/

Also, by amount of traffic it's another story (YouTube).
If you're going to backlight the e-ink, then why bother moving away from LCD for it?
Worked on PHP on-and-off for more than 15 years. Jobs in PHP can sometimes pay well, but the PHP labor market is fairly saturated, so you're more likely getting underpaid than well-paid.

Here are some of the reasons I don't use PHP anymore:

1. Code bases often written by near-amateurs, so almost always a headache to work on

2. Terrible type system (and unpredictable type coercion) mean that the code has to be written with great discipline or it's going to be buggy

3. Inconsistent signatures of built-in classes/methods/functions means that it's almost impossible to remember anything, so you need to consult documentation (or inline completion) constantly

4. Very generally, a community that likes magic (see: Laravel) -- ease/speed is prioritized over correctness/explicitness, which means maintaining large PHP projects is often a nightmare
VIPER architecture: Our best practices to build an app like a boss
No, I was thinking like very simple plain text, fast loading blog . profile where you can have customizable pages ( about, work ,etc) links (github, fb , twitter ) and your recent and top posts. search .
yeah will enable people to point custom domain to their homepage.
No One Knows About My Abortion. I Feel Like a Criminal
Helium are interesting, and there's a need for second sourcing, but also, i'm starting to think that the real problem is about creating percieved value for the end customer, like i explained in my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14078560

I wonder what you, as a manufacturer think about it.
It's helped me to realize that not working is an important part of being productive. When you get that "brain fog" effect from working too much, you can be more productive by taking a break and relaxing for a bit. Try to reframe the situation in that light.
> The police should be retrained not to use violence. (Is this reasonable? You can imagine other instances where this where this would endanger them.)

Yes, there's a fairly wide belief in this, including by many leaders in law enforcement; that is, that American police have been trained in a means which over-encourages use of force, and that this should be changed (in some places, the work has begun an implementing such a change.)

A key write-up of this is: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/248654.pdf

EDIT: also:

> I will point out that it is not United that "chose" violence. They asked the police to intervene.

Asking the police to intervene because the state has a monopoly on violence, so they are free to use it in ways you are not, is choosing violence, even if the police might also veto that choice. So the issue is exactly that United chose violence.
Indeed.

This is hardly a legitimate statistics, how many sites sit behind CloudFlare/Sucuri/Incapsula IP's, which are always nginx reverse proxies.

I don't think anything changed that much as of late, apart from more and more people adopting CloudFlare.
I think your reaction is a little knee-jerk. "Weird Sony" has been an in-joke for some time, here's Penny Arcade making fun of it in 2004: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/13/the-sony-syndr... (when they didn't even like Apple yet). Sony has a noted history of these strange, slightly off-beat products that always sound more useful on paper than they turn out to be in practice.
Bingo. I often can't read what I've written but it's much easier to flow and get ideas out on paper. Theoretically I want to use OneNote but a nice pen and paper wins.
Ah, I misread. Thanks for clarifying.
- Don't run day to day with local admin
Currently, Minecraft servers are already having in-game currencies and are heavily taking advantage of children. I think Microsoft want a piece of the pie, but maybe also they want to regulate the market a bit. Then it becomes less shady for the parents compared to some random server.
Application of force is violence, by default. Even if it's just a tiny bit of force.

Much more useful would be deescalation and mediation, but that is not the training given to US police.
If the airline makes a mistake and realizes that mistake too late, they should take the hit themselves, not punish an innocent passenger for their own mistake.

Airlines should make a better effort to avoid overbooking. If they can get away with this kind of despicable behaviour, they'll never improve.
Just gotta keep an eye out for a deal, I think there was one on /r/buildapcsales for $27 recently.

I paid around $60 for a Corsair a couple of years ago. I'm sure slightly less fancy brands or models go for under $50 once in a while.
I'm sorry for not responding to your post earlier.

> We need to stop assuming that bad things are happening because a few bad apples tricked roughly half the population to support them. They are making America great again. Look at any point in time before now in American history and you will find less civil liberty, more oppression of workers, and more destruction of the environment. It was promised. Its being delivered. And no one was fooled. It is straight up what half the population asked for.

You're correct by and large. I won't get into the remarks on the (effective) propaganda efforts Fox & crew have done. Much deception has happened there.

But, this specific bill is troublesome in part because the lawmakers often are very ignorant of what's going on, much like many of the senior judges in the US. This is one part generational divide, one part tech avoiding law, and one part lobbying. Some of that is avoidable by engagement, and if adult geeks had realized this in the 80s & 90s instead of disengaging from politics, the world would be different.
If he had done as you suggest, nothing would have happened, nobody would've noticed and he might have got $1000 in compensation if he was lucky. Instead, United look like a bunch of incompetent thugs and many of the people involved in this debacle will be worrying for their jobs, as they should.

Laws/rules don't change if people don't make a fuss about them being wrong.
Canada actually has a lot of organized crime (Sicilian & Calabrian mafia groups as well as biker gangs like the Hells Angels), it just isn't reported on much in the States. Not all drugs flow through Mexico: Cocaine often moves across the Atlantic from South America directly to the port cities of Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton. Interestingly enough a lot of that cocaine then flows south to the US from Canada to cities like New York and Detroit.

The US-Canada border is more than twice the size of the US-Mexico border, yet has only 1/10th the amount of Border Patrol agents.

Canada has very lax anti-organized crime laws compared to the US, which is why the mafia has been able to thrive up there. Google the Rizzuto crime family for more info.
> - Do programmers have quiet working conditions?

This one is the most important one for me, and the absolutely hardest to find. I believe we (as programmers) let ourselves get overwheled with extreme programming, daily standups, burndown charts and other mostly meaningless stuff. We forgot the basics; peace and quiet. Everything else is just extra.
Skimming through the comments here so I apologize if you are already aware of this, but please feel free to drop by in #helm on the Kubernetes Slack channel with any questions there. :)
I've gotten it 3 or 4 times in the last 6-8 months. It makes a new backup from scratch which takes forever. Very annoying.

I use it for the times when I mess something up and want a file system level "undo" that goes back months.

I'd be happy if it just used spare space on the drive. Which it does, but only if you are also backing up to an external drive.
Survive or die, i am thriving because i am smart, dedicated, hardworking and you won't because likely you miss some of these things (backgrounds do not matter)
/s
Not only did you not buy the game or the shopping mall, you bought a ticket to get inside a shopping mall.
>I associate it with poor productivity or time management, bad planning or scope management, unrealistic leadership expectations, and/or weak-willed individuals (e.g., unwilling to push back).

Nailed it. It's the same individuals who browse Facebook all day at work that talk about being at work 10+ hours a day.
Cheers Carl, give me a shout if you have any questions.
No!
You don't get to fork his work and "improve upon it" by pissing all over it.
Have some respect!
He did ask for it when he refused to get off the plane. His motivation was richetous but his tactics weren't.

And by I mean getting dragged off the plane. Some are spectulating he was beat off camera. Nothing would justify that.

But if you force someone to drag you off a plan, you are asking for the natural consequences.
3 Tips to Fix Your Time Management Problems
I knew someone was gonna beat me to this!
I don't think Swift was designed to address the problems of writing mobile apps in Objective-C.

It seems more like a compiler/language developer's idea of what a good modern language should be.
What happened to Pixel QI? There is a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
why did it never took off?
That's really great information thanks for sharing
For "dying" being defined as "increases installs but slower than the whole market balloons".
Shared hosting setups where you want .htaccess support (or something comparable, but same basic issue: requires some additional layer to validate and generate a centralized nginx configuration, or some other extra layer, with Apache it is built in and well-documented).

WebDAV support.
> Summon a linked list from the void. It floats to the surface of the screen: a timeless structure, expressed a thousand ways, but always beautiful.

Coincidentally, I had Bach's E minor organ sonata on in the background, so...

> You sigh contentedly.

I did, I started smiling from ear as soon as I read the now-classic "Summon a ______ from the void". :)

Also, TIL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei%C3%B0r
I bet people continue shopping airline tickets on price and barely remember this in a week or two.
Ask HN: Whom to follow for the best advice?
From an idea to execution, from general advice to big decision...whom do you follow on the Internet or read about? In another word, whose advice you consider?
This probably is only for the "Minecraft for Windows 10" version of the game, not the original Java version.

I play a lot, but only a pirated Java version, so I don't know if, after Microsoft bought Minecraft, they have stopped supporting the Java version.
Is a hard preference for retina quality text actually a thing? It's never been something I've ever cared about, and while I recognize that I could be suffering from the False Consensus Effect, I have a really hard time imagining it is a thing for a critical mass of laptop users.
There are a number of things the police can do besides resort to violence (which they are authorized to do if necessary). While news reports highlight violence, the vast majority of police interactions in the USA are non-violent. Just having the police present as representatives of law enforcement will change the tone of the interaction. The police can also act as mediators. Yes, there is the possibility that the police may have to resort to force, but that's not the only possible—or likely desired—result.
This was a light and interesting read.

Here is the direct link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0411418.pdf

"Indeed, the most important thing in understanding a complex system is
to understand how it processes information. This viewpoint regards physical
systems as information processors, as performing computations. This
approach also sheds new light on microscopic quantum systems, as is demonstrated
in the highly developed field of quantum information and quantum
computation. An extreme version of this doctrine would attempt to build
the world entirely out of discrete digital information, out of 0 and 1 bits."

It would indeed be quite a blast to discover we are to a high degree of probability in a simulation.
Sure, you try implementing SHA-256 with redstone and sticky pistons.
This is impressive, and I hope Tesla brings loads of great ideas and competition into the auto market. But I think the breathless quality of these stories is misplaced.

Tesla's current sales are a tiny fraction of Kia, much less GM. The market cap of GM is based on established revenue streams and a fairly stable future. The market cap of Tesla is largely speculative, based on the belief that Tesla is the next GM.

The interesting news from Tesla, therefore, is their actual achievements along their path to bring that future to light.
Ask HN: Widespread impersonation on Facebook ahead of votes?
I've spoken to a number of peopele who seem to be being impersonated before the Turkish referendum. Does Facebook provide data on the nature of such attacks (for example demographics of the accounts being spoofed) so members of the public can investigate the nature of the current attack landscape?
I see your point, but subsidies are invariably offered on extremely expensive plans and that cost must be calculated as an overall expense. Compare with buying the phone outright and using a pay-as-you-go alternative.
In United's public statement they said had to remove the guy cause he wasn't "willingly volunteering" to leave.

Hmmmmm....
I first heard about prions and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after getting a letter saying I may have been exposed.

I had surgery after someone with CJD, but before that person died, was autopsied, and diagnosed.

That was over a decade ago. So far no signs of it. I did make peace with the fact that I have a much higher probability of dying from it than the average American. The only substantivu changes in my life are:

(a) My family and I have had very frank discussion about death earlier than we would have otherwise.

(b) I no longer donate blood.

(c) I removed myself as an organ donor. Although my family knows I still want my body to be available for science.
I think its interesting this has been completely removed from the front page
>Compared with Ruby, PHP, Python, or Javascript, you're going to get great memory and latency performance, and libraries that do what you expect.

Isn't picking a language to solve memory/latency issues a pre-optimization? Also I'm not sure if one can argue that libraries from one particular language are better at doing what you expect than libraries from another language.

Disclaimer: I'm trying to understand how much of what people are saying about Go is hype. People are telling me things like you can cross-compile on different platforms and output a binary, but I fail to see how these things are important for most API's and web apps.
"So, in Borel’s view, most reals, with probability one, are mathematical fantasies, because there is no way to specify them uniquely." (Paraphrasing, because there are only countably many possible math papers that might describe a number.)

I think Borel has confused names with things. The fact that we can only write down only countably many expressions for numbers doesn't mean that there are numbers that we may never write expressions for - only that in a single symbolic system we can't have expressions for all of them at once.

Besides, if you confuse extant with useful you might end up believing that some random large integers aren't "there!"
The airline should never have let it get to that point. That is precisely what is unethical about it.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075337 (40 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14068672 (11 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14074937 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14065522 (1 comment)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14080492

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069969