skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an anecdote, but I tried to use lob.com to send out Save the Dates for my wedding. The couple of test postcards we used did not arrive on time, and the tracking didn't work at all. Their support wasn't good at addressing my specific case – they mostly told me “This is how the website works”.

It could have been that I wasn't using it right, but I didn't have the time to troubleshoot. We ended up printing a bunch of cards at FedEx and addressing and sending them by hand. Everything worked smoothly.
using more than one tool is not inconsistent with only having one view of the world.
The worst part of the story was United's campain to smear the victim and to paint him as a sex offender.
Between the two clauses I honestly can't tell if you're complimenting or criticizing the airline. In any case, I love the no-hassles baggage policy (checking in bags is far more comfortable assuming they don't get misplaced) and seat selection (especially when traveling alone). The easy to understand frequent flyer program and relatively friendly staff help as well.
Startup Investment Picks Up in Q1
> I don't know where you're getting your information from,

Using eyes and ears and just being aware of my surroundings.

Trivial counterpoint. Pickup a state, say West Bengal. Count the number of egregious incidents of violence and intimidation reported by competing political parties and the media, including live videos. What action has the EC taken and what has that changed.

> - The EC assumes complete control over all civil services, including transferring people in response to independent assessment and complaints.

... and then does what ? You are being completely naïve in the open bedfellows relationship with IAS and politicians. There are exceptions, but rare.
China’s development of the AEV and Li-ion battery industry
All the arguments you used can be applied on both sides of the argument actually.
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THE BIBLE PROPHESY ABOUT THE IMPENDING THIRD WORLD WAR
I'm a little bit surprised that nobody addressed overbooking in this particular situation. It's not just United, it's all airlines that overbook their flights and it's hard for me to believe that it's a completely legal practice.
All those people and all that parts infrastructure, just to repair and recycle one brand of phones. Phone repair training school with posters of iPhone boards on the wall. All those shops selling phone parts. All that specialized equipment for servicing them. I like the "bubble removing" machine, a heated vacuum chamber. It looks like mid 20th century automotive, when there were corners with four gas stations that actually could fix cars, and many automotive machine shops.

Why should phones break? It's not like they can't be made much tougher.[1] The real question is, why do people put up with such fragile phones? Is this an interim stage of the technology? Does this stop when iPhone N+1 comes out and the reaction is "yawn?"

So what does all that Shentzen parts retail look like when you're building something new? Can you go into those buildings with a bill of materials and come out ready to load your pick and place machine? Can you get boards fabbed one-off while you wait? Or is it all about repair and simple mods?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPku-xItv8
This is the best summary of the issue I have seen to date, and really gets to the root of United's situation. Especially this quote:

"I really don’t think the upper management at United has any clue about the nuts and bolts, day to day, inner workings of the company. Post-merger United is too big to fail, too big to manage and far too Balkanized to govern. I fully expect the ugliness to continue at United."
It is speculation that the reason is because the guy cares about gay rights.
At the end of the day the problem is:

- the service provided has become essential (airlines, cell phones, home internet, etc)

- it's provided relatively cheaply to a large group of people

- there are few alternatives (and in many cases no alternatives)

- barriers to entry are high -but profit margins are low or cyclical, or you need scale to compete

All of this leads to customer dissatisfaction, we need the service, our particular business doesn't matter, competitors are unlikely to enter the space, and perversely since there are few to no alternatives as long as people are equally dissatisfied the few players just swap customers for no real net loss
Your description of ADHD is 100%, but for anyone trying to deal with this issue I would be very careful with meds prescribed from doctors, because for some of them it is mostly a big business. I was diagnosed with ADHD many years ago and prescribed with Ritalin and then an extended version of it (basically releasing throughout the whole day) and while it made me more productive, I experienced horrible jittering, crashes and I just did not feel like myself, but more like a zombie/junkie. I think it is scary that even 6-years old kids are prescribed with these pills nowadays.

pro tip: I was trying to find a natural solution, which for me is DMAE combined with fish-oil. It has basically the same effect for me in terms of productivity without the nasty side effects + you can buy it in every vitamin store. It is funny how I can almost immediately (within few days) notice when I stop taking these.
I don't do Haskell, but I have worked on projects with lots of small functions, and one of the problems with that is that can be... too many functions. You have to go look up three functions every time you read a block of code. Worse, people start writing the same functions over and over again.

There's probably a bigger picture problem and fix in that kind of situation, but it is something I think about.
previous discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12893793

Though the report does say it was recently updated, unsure what the diff was.
If you do this on a Google Home the owner now has a copy of your voice saying those things.
>> Armenians got greedy and betrayed Turkish people with the help of Russians.

Bulgarians got greedy, Greeks got greedy, Assyrians got greedy, Armenians got greedy.

* Bulgarian Genocide in Batak of 1876. The number of victims 7,000.

* Greek genocide 1914–1923. 900 000 Greeks were killed.

* Assyrian genocide 1914-1925. 750 000 Assyrians were killed

* Armenian Genocide 1915 - 1923. 1 500 000 Armenians were killed.

All these predominantly Christian minorities in Turkey for some reason got greedy.

I assume lately Kurds are getting greedy as well?
Add this to your .bashrc:

# History stuff.
shopt -s histappend
export HISTFILESIZE=50000
export HISTSIZE=50000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'

Individual shells keep their session history in order, while all commands regardless of which shell triggered them get appended to the history file.
I Said 'Yes' to Everything for a Week and Ended Up in the Hospital
Does this post add any value or just pointlessly assert your disgust in a passive way? Because from my perspective it seems like it's the latter
Hey, thanks for liking the article. I was just looking at my blog stats and they had a bit of spike when you wrote this.

I'm just getting down to writing some posts about the big question the New Yorker article introduces, but doesn't really make any real progress with: will machines actually replace doctors.

Hope you enjoy them :)
Security is expensive for vendors to implement, so they externalize the risks to their customers and society in general. To reverse this dynamic, "insecure by default" needs to be more expensive than "secure by default".

It seems simplest for the Govt to avoid trying to mandate detailed security standards for continuously changing tech, and rather simply make the vendors legally liable for damages and let the market evolve effective standards and practices.

However, constructing effective legislation/regulation for doing so is a non-trivial legal challenge. Simply proving when the vendor is liable vs a user could get tricky, as well as estimating damages and divying them up among multiple vendors if damages involved products from multiple vendors. Among other things.

Anyone, especially lawyers, have insight on best way to fix this problem?
I love this idea. It's not important for production / env that are managed through tooling, but the "randomish" nature of losing history on dev/stage is one of those, admittedly minor, annoyances that this would solve.

Great idea, thanks for sharing.
I understand the desire to blame something.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of enough evidence in the universe to be come to that conclusion.

Statistically speaking the odds are very high that it was something else because so many things cause cancer.

It's safe to assume that roundup causes less than 50% of cancer deaths (it's probably much lower), which means that most likely it wasn't roundup. Even if it was shown to be worse than tobacco, it's still a long way from being the likely culprit. Tobacco is the single worst thing, so we are very aware of it. It 'only' causes 30% of deaths, but that has mobilized governments around the world to curb its use.
Somehow the CPD is a sympathetic character in this story for the first time in human history.
I use git/gitlab in a private repo to keep track of my zsh profile and history. Stupid like a fox!
They're flying to Kentucky, not Tokyo. They're not using a Gulfstream G650. $5k/hr max.
I'll bet it was flagged as anti-LGBT and is simply the work of an automated process going wrong.
I really like how the search feature shows the frequency of each entry. I've thought before it would be cool to see the most used commands of some of the more experienced folks I work with, though ideally it would be slightly more generic than exact commands - i.e. Different arguments would count for the same command.
Definitely. But the situation presents itself for self-promotion. I think the author is taking advantage of the situation and making the best of it from their perspective --and Google well, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
I think one of the huge differences in east vs west electronics/maker/hacker communities is the approach of DIY vs using production services. In the US, as a hobbyist with a limited budget, if you want to have a PCB made, you either send it off to OSH Park and wait weeks, or you try and make it yourself and get pretty low quality results. Here in Shenzhen, nobody even considers it. You upload the file to professional board house, and standard turn around is 3-4 days. For $30 more, you can get 24-hour turnaround.

So there's just this really different approach of "what can I make myself with the tools I own" versus "what professional services do I have access to, and which of my friends have factories with the right production equipment".

As a result, you see stark difference in quality of initial prototypes.

The flip side is that I think western makers/hackers are more focused on coming up with completely new ideas, with less of a focus on quality of execution, whereas a lot of chinese makers/hackers/manufacturers are more focused on iterative improvement - how can I be really clever to make something cheaper or easier to produce, that looks like a professional product. Both sides are very clever and creative, but focus on different aspects.
And don't forget the llvm (and gcc) sanitizers[1] and SaferCPlusPlus[2] (essentially a memory safe subset of C++), which are more modern and have arguably better overall combinations of performance/safety/compatibility/practicality.

Automatic translation (assistance) from native C to SaferCPlusPlus is being worked on. And if you'll permit me to gripe a little here - you might think it's a reasonable undertaking, until you start contemplating code like this:

int **var1 = (int **)malloc(20);
var1[2] = (int *)malloc(10);
int *var2 = var1[2] + 4;
var2--;
free(var2 - 3);
free(var1);

:)

[1] https://github.com/google/sanitizers

[2] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
I'm curious as to whether you realize that you've now taken so strong a position on this issue that you've blinded yourself to the evidence? I just gave you some information that showed that, the center of activity for Creators Edition is Bash. Bash is the only way that you can launch your linux subsystem on windows. Lots of work has been done on this Bash environment. It's entirely reasonable for Microsoft to say, "What's new in Bash/WSL and Windows Console" - as that's where they've done all the work. Bash is not just a Unix Shell in Microsoft's particular implementation - unlike every instance of Unix I've ever used (Starting with SunOs in 1993, but including zillions of iterations of Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc...) - your shell on WSL is not just an entry into /etc/passwd, but instead is your operating environment - that, when it goes away, takes the entire process tree with it.

I kind of get what you are saying, that you are irked that Microsoft is trying to take some ownership of Bash, when it's really a GNU property - but, honestly, this is more like a temporary fork. Right now, for Anniversary Edition and Creators Edition - Bash is the center of gravity (along with the console environment - tons of awesome stuff there). And I agree with you, that this feels like a temporary hook, and that in the future, WSL will be able to run without Bash - and that will be a good (great!) thing - crontab! And then, Bash will hopefully just return to being what it was before - just a shell. (Perhaps with a few extra WSL hooks than vanilla GNU Bash - but we've already agreed that each implementation of Bash will have those hooks, so nothing new there.)

How about we both agree that Bash is a shell. Developed and Maintained by GNU. That is required by WSL right now to launch the linux subsystem, and therefore work by Microsoft on their Bash environment is important to WSL.

Fair enough?
Certification does work in some industries.

When a lawyer is admitted to the bar, that is generally taken as proof that they have some idea of what they are doing. Bar exams are hard.

And the bar also provides a forum for dealing with shady lawyers. If a lawyer treats you badly, you can file a complaint with their bar association and they might get disbarred. This is an area where cyber training and certs is not as good yet, I think: as a forum for resolving disputes.
A great book as well is One Straw Revolution
Indeed, google Appengine has sandboxed versions of python, java and go. It's becoming the 'old' way to do things though. If I understand correctly more recently VM and container-based solutions are the new way to do sandboxing on google cloud, e.g. Compute Engine and Container Engine.
The 3 GPU renderers that matter are: V-Ray RT, Octane, Redshift

CPU renderers are a different story but Arnold is right up there with V-Ray. CPU renderers are tried and true, reliable and robust.

V-Ray is the only company making both CPU and GPU renderers. The GPU version can render most of the same shaders but the backward compatibility requirements slow it's progress. It's OpenCL support is always behind CUDA as well.
To invoke a swat team killing people and, given the fourth amendment, I for one, don't think 40% is high or a success. Maybe you are high?
Would love to be told why the law says this defence wouldn't work.
Yes, Obsidian, Mozilla's proposal, is based on Vulkan,

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/WebGLNext-Proposals/tree/mas...
That would put a lot of people's minds at ease.

Frankly, I don't care that the dev isn't very loud on the internet, and a new build every 6 months seems perfectly fine. And if it stops being developed, it's a standalone app, it will be many years before it bit-rots. I will be using it for years whatever happens.

But if it were open source, people would know that if it ever got dropped it other people could keep it going longer.

I'm really only concerned with it bit-rotting though. New features? Who cares? It does everything I want it to and I was already using third party syntax definitions to keep up with language changes, it's not like it matters if Sublime doesn't change much. It looks like they'll have high DPI support complete soon if not already, so once that's done I'm really struggling to think what else I want out of it. Not that I have a high DPI monitor, but if we're thinking about things that might make it unusable in the future if it gets dropped.
WTF. That's unbelievably moronic. Are there competent people in United?
Surely you're not suggesting he hired a personal injury specialist law firm _before_ he bought his ticket and got on that plane?

Someone else _offered to get off this plane - for a few hundred or so bucks more than the on-site middle management was prepared to pay - so they chose to not only break his contract illegally, but physically assaulted him using hired goons to do so.

I'd bet reasonable money that Stephen Golan's people contacted Dao, and by "hired" they mean "The law form has offered to do this on a _very_ small commission, because they know just how much money United stands to lose here, and Stephen Golan plans on buying his own 747 with his 15% cut of the settlement figure".

And as much as I hate ambulance chasers - I'm cheering this one on here.

It's _possible_ I'll get o a United plane in future, but that'll require me knowing that this incident hurt them a lot - enough to ensure that nobody working at United now or in the future doesn't hear about it, and that it's blindingly obvious being part of letting a situation like this happen again will not only be an immediate firing offense, but also have United's lawyers chasing illegally acting staff for whatever they own to cover then next 8 figure damage payout.

For better or worse - this is how the justice system works against corporations - they can't choose to assault a person and put them in hospital - then just say "Oh sorry, here we'll cover your hospital bill. Now we're all good, right?" and have everybody involved just say "Company policy, soz!". Stephen Golan needs to take enough money out of United's coffers to guarantee that there's a top down message send inside United that this must _never ever_ happen again - no matter what the company policy says. (I'd also settle for United just covering Dao's expenses, and the entire chain of management from CEO down including the airport rent-a-cops as well being sentenced to whatever jail time they'd d=face if they're each personally committed this assault on Dao in public. But I'd be prepared to let Dao choose which of those outcomes he'd prefer...)
I'm sure the dead people of those 60% are just dancing in their graves at the "success".
You are using it incorrectly. From wikipedia:

"Playing the pronoun game" is the act of concealing sexual orientation in conversation by not using a gender-specific pronoun for a partner or a lover, which would reveal the sexual orientation of the person speaking. Lesbian, gay and bisexual people (LGB) may employ the pronoun game when conversing with people to whom they have not "come out". In a situation in which revealing one's sexual orientation would have adverse consequences (such as the loss of a job), playing the pronoun game is seen to be a necessary act of concealment.
Lots of people get injured severely daily and very, very few hire high powered lawyers to litigate their case. It seems clear he wants to win "big". But you know, maybe that's what everyone one wrongfully injured does.
I'm not arguing the fact that United did a really bad thing. I definitely agree with that.

I'm only arguing the supposition that United is a uniquely bad company.
Just make sure you have a hard backup. You don't want to be troubleshooting tech on your wedding day.

Happy Wife = Happy Life.
Ask HN: How can we help reduce work exploitation in tech?
More often than not, it happens with new grads or interns that don't know any better, but it can happen with anyone.

Examples of exploitation common with tech jobs:

- Unpaid internships where interns should be paid, as they were contributing to the business

- Workers on 1099 that are nevertheless expected to act as employees (and if they do exercise their rights as an independent contractor, their jobs get cut)

- Conditioning that "burn out" is okay all of the time

- "permalance" roles, done for tax evasion purposes

- Inexperienced students being hired by startups with C-level titles and expectations (seriously why do some startups do this? Don't they have respect for themselves?)

Some of these things are illegal yet so many incidents slip through the cracks. Maybe educate students better about the gotchas and red flags of jobs? And in your opionion, whose responsibility is to educate, to let workers know what they DON'T know?
All airlines in North America sucks. Take cue from Emirates and learn from them. See how they treat economy class customers. I wont think twice to fly Emirates , Etihad or Qatar.
Given the honesty of the police historically "4/10 found nothing" means a 40% total fuck up rate. 60% who knows wtf really went down.
Seemed like just a joke to me.
What do TCP/IP headers (SEQ/ACK/RecvWindow/src port/dst port/packet length/checksum/morefrags flag etc.) have to do with HTTP headers??????
All the software you use likely already came with a liability waiver / disclaimer:

> IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
This might be like a false report, since it's questionable they had any right to remove him at all (according to other comments above). But I only meant to imply here that United deserves moral blame, and e.g. boycotts.
They said call and register your displeasure. That's far from harassment.
Did they change this recently? A few years ago when I was flying all the time, you had to use the vouchers at an actual ticket counter to redeem them. It was ridiculous.
Japan invaded China in 1931, Thailand in 1941 and had attacked Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. It was kind of on a roll attacking stuff before it hit the US in a way that is rather different from modern Russia.
Is there any proof that United was the one behind smear campaign?
I invite you to visit some places in Argentina and you will surely change your mind. You can find more information about this here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php
#MGTOW
Complete with comments from people who won't stop talking about how overbearing Wolfram is.
Which does not contradict anything that I wrote. "Shaken" can also be an unexamined reaction.
RescueTime is a great option
poor guy, #MGTOW
I think that's usually a reasonable presumption (that lawyers contacted him first) but it's not unquestionable if only because his past history with the legal system.

I would prefer restorative justice over punitive justice in this case. If people were not deplaned, another flight would have been delayed/cancelled affecting not one or two people but hundreds. There were jerks all around --from the people who physically took him out to the victim himself.
I've been using a variant of this: https://debian-administration.org/article/543/Bash_eternal_h... which adds all commands to a file ~/.bash_eternal_history

Plus a script named "ehist" in my path which contains "cat ~/.bash_eternal_history" -- this enables searches with "ehist | grep git"

It also handles the case of multiple shells writing to a history file.
I think the answer to both questions is yes. Perhaps you are overthinking this?