skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I know it's bash United week, but to be honest this is not even near the worst I've seen from large-company apps.

Obviously their onboarding process is terrible, but putting new users aside, the app works pretty fine for existing customers. It gives you your boarding I passes, flight status, and reservations automatically. You change seats and check your upgrade status. I've even booked fligjts via the mobile app before (I've never seen that "something has gone wrong" dialogue at the end).

Overall I've found it functional, which I cannot say for many other apps made by large companies (I'm looking at you Chase).

And I wouldn't go so far as to say the lack of great user onboarding experience represents some sort of culture problem. Maybe they just don't have a large team? Maybe their engineers don't have UX experience? Maybe they haven't done user onboarding studies and realized these problems? (Personally I think it's lack of staffing, but I don't actually know anybody who works on the app.)
That's kind of surprising because the ACM content I receive via email is usually the trends but behind the times. There are plenty of good things about ACM but I've never felt that content was a strength.
it's not that hard to simply pick out words that do not contain it; just not trivial. it's a fun constraint to play with.
Because it's not as dense. But it still has lots and lots of lovely neighborhoods and places to walk. You just need to drive between them. The view of L.A. from Mulholland Drive at night made me realize how truely immense L.A. is.

edit: according to Google. "L.A. area" is 503 sq miles. "London area" is 607 sq miles. Interesting.
The big competitor really is AWS, especially with their multi-gpu instances. For gamers not really an option to have their GPUs at the end of a wire but for a lot of other applications it makes good sense.
Even after the Conduent spin off?
My guess is it has something to do with [1]. I remember growing up hearing that LA was planned by a large automotive manufacturer, hence it requires copious amounts of driving to fully experience the city. I couldn't find a reliable source with any cursory searching. Still, the linked article mentions LA specifically in one of the captions, so maybe there's a grain of truth to that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city
> The difference is in degree, not of kind

Everything is a difference of degree. At a certain point, a difference of degree becomes a difference of kind. There is a difference of kind between a fungus altering its environment through enzymes it produces from its genetic programming and people inventing steam engines.
Google is an ad company which makes products to put ads on
For some reason, I love reading stories about Bell labs. Even though I wasn't alive back then, I look at it with nostalgia. Richard Hamming's "You and your research" talk is awesome and gives a good perspective about how the environment used to be back then.
Chips can be socketed for easy removal. Of course, it's more costly to issue thousands or millions of new chips compared to a software patch, but "oh shit" fixing is possible.

The act of actually swapping a chip is easier for the end user than software patching. Open the case, pull this out, put this in its place, done.

Not to mention that it can be reverted. Something wrong? Pop the old one back in. Not always possible with software updates; that has to be designed in.

Less can go wrong. You're not going to half-install a chip, leaving everything corrupt with no way to revert. Unless you damage the old and new.

You can always swap in a good chip from a spare donor device. Doesn't always work that way with software. There may be no easy access to get to the piece you need in the donor device. The device which needs it could be so bricked that you can't run the procedure to put it in.

Overall, I'd say that in the area of aftermarket patching, hardware basically wins.

:)
Intel's compiler is written in C as well.
I'm assuming a lot of those dependencies (x11, libgtk) will disappear once installing a special headless version of chrome.
Viewing it from a bike at night reveals more character: http://www.thepassageride.com/Photos
How upgrading humans will become the next billion-dollar industry
Ya, that 8 watt LED bulb will cost you $8/year running 24/7 at 10cents/kwh. If it takes 2 seconds to turn it on and off each day, that's 24 minutes a year saved by leaving it on. If your time is worth >$20/hr, consider uninstalling the switch.
550+ Amazon Employees Pressure Leadership to Cut Advertising Ties with Breitbart
So is drunk driving a big issue in LA?
Everyone was saying the opposite 10 years go.
> RabbitMQ

You're already on AWS, why not use SQS instead?
Uber used secret ‘Hell’ software to track drivers from competitor Lyft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Did you even bother reading the first few paragraphs? They talked about their usage of Redis for this. Next time please read the article before replying.
Instead of the explanation you've asked the internet for, you might find a visit to L.A., to clear up your puzzlement, more rewarding.
and $$$ for reasonable resolution, let alone dpi.
> the too-common comments on Reddit and HN where people claim that they could rebuild FB or Uber as a side project.

I do and don't agree with you. Whats really going on here is that development time scales linearly with the number of decisions you need to make. Decisions can take the form of a product questions - "what are we making?" and development questions - "how should we implement that?".

There are three reasons why people feel confident saying "I could copy that in a weekend":

- When looking at an existing thing (like r/place), most of the product decisions have already been made. You don't need to re-make them.

- If you have a lot of development experience in a given domain, you don't need to make as many decisions to come up with a good structure - your intuition (tuned by experience) will do the hard work for you.

- For most products, most of the actual work is in little features and polish thats 'below the water', and not at all obvious to an outsider. Check out this 'should we send a notification in slack' flowchart: https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/837807513982525440?lang=... . I'm sure Uber and Facebook have hundreds of little features like that. When people say "I could copy that in a weekend", they're usually only thinking about the core functionality. Not all the polish and testing you'd actually need to launch a real product.

With all that said, I bet I could implement r/place in less than a weekend with the requirements stated at the top of that blog post, so long as I don't need to think about mobile support and notifications. Thats possible not because I'm special, and not because I'm full of it but because most of the hard decisions have already been made. The product decisions are specified in the post (image size, performance requirements) and for the technical decisions I can rely on experience. (I'd do it on top of kafka. Use CQRS, then have caching nodes I could scale out and strong versions using the event stream numbers. Tie the versions into a rendered image URL and use nginx to cache ... Etc.)

But I couldn't implement r/place that quickly if reddit didn't already do all the work deciding on the scope of the problem, and what the end result should look like.

In a sense, I think programming is slow and unpredictable because of the learning we need to constantly do. Programming without needing to learn is just typing; and typing is fast. I rule out doing the mobile notifications not because I think it would be hard, but because I haven't done it before. So I'd need to learn the right way to implement it. - And hence, thats where the scope might blowout for me. Thats where I would have to make decisions, and deciding correctly takes time.
Yes, however your sleep scheduled isn't affected when you're late partying which is a big bonus.
How did Hollywood get taken over by lawyers?
Interestingly he's stating that the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) will make up for the flat energy usage / non-existent growth. However, his own argument should negate a substantial amount of that: if large players such as tesla/GM/lyft/uber/whoever own the majority of future transportation, they will also have a strong incentive to be energy efficient.

Never thought of it that way, but large players don't just make efficient use of hardware, but of the resources (energy etc) they consume too. That means the traditional energy industry is in for a beating...
He is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alankay1
>There was no software religion. Everyone made the languages and OSs and apps, etc that they felt would advance their research.

I feel like there is a lot of software religion in this industry today, however it is mostly perpetuated by mediocre developers.
By how many flights should an airline overbook?
It's not known exactly how multicellular life came to be. It's happened only once in the history of the earth. Nuclear dna is from Archaea and Mitochondrial dna is from bateria. Lynn Margulis was the first to propose and substantiate symbiogenesis for this.
Only the most patriotic Americans believe that lie. Is anybody in Poland worried about Iran launching missiles their way?

I don't think so!
It used to be much worse. Many (most?) drunk drivers have since turned to Uber or Lyft.
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> Yeah. As soon as a digital good becomes artificially limited solely by physical 'keys,' it's kind of game over as far as my ethics are concerned. This stuff is absolutely fair game, especially after a year or two when the original stock is run down and the retailer no longer financially benefits.

I'm of the same opinion, especially in cases like this where the benefits are all in a single player game. Doing this cannot impact someone else from enjoying their copy of the game in anyway.
Pilots and (I think) cabin crew have work hour limits by law. You can't just pay them overtime to work more hours. If you don't have under-limit crew in place, you have to start canceling flights.
No I haven't, I'll have to check it out, thanks for the reference.
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ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law is Coming to an End
Kay's own Viewpoints Research Institute is worth mentioning in this context.
http://www.vpri.org/
From oulipo.social's FAQ (https://oulipo.social/about/more):

* No problm I'll writ lik this.

No. Stop. Don't do this.
Follow the guide in the link. Do the Arduino stuff first; being unable to do something will drive you to learn exactly as much C and assembly as you need. Learn to write network code in C. Learn how TCP/IP works and try to do weird things, such as transmitting information with ICMP (ping) packets.

The next step (for that particular company's work) would be to actually reverse engineer some complex code and write about it on a blog.

If you want to basically guarantee yourself an interview, reverse engineer and find a vulnerability in some software, and write about it. Then apply with that information.

If you're looking for the "easier" way, just apply to DoD in Maryland or Virginia for an ultra-low-paying, but connected job that allows you to learn all this stuff on the job.
> Black people are more likely to commit crimes.

Given the existing biases is the systems involved, black people are more likely to be identified by the existing biased system as having committed a crime, because they are more likely to be investigated if suspected (or even without a reasonable basis I of suspicion) of having committed a crime, more likely to be prosecuted given the same degree of evidence, more likely to be convicted given the same degree of evidence, and (as a result of all that) more likely to have a criminal history which subjects them to additional law enforcement scrutiny and systematic bias on top of that more directly due to race.

The degree, if any, to which black people are more likely to actually commit crimes is difficult to tease out since all statistics on this area are affected, directly and indirectly, by these systematic biases.

(On top of that, there's the bias from the fact that things have been made crimes, or more sever crimes, specifically, in whole or in part, because black people were, at the time, more likely to do them.)
"Consider the shift to cloud computing. From 2000 to 2005, electricity use by data centers in the U.S. increased 90 percent. From 2005 to 2010, the gain was 24 percent. As of 2014, data centers accounted for 1.8 percent of U.S. electricity use, according to a 2016 Lawrence Berkeley study, but their electricity demand growth had slowed to a crawl (4 percent from 2010 to 2014). What happened? The nation outsourced its computing needs to cloud providers, for whom cutting the massive electricity costs of their data centers became a competitive imperative. So they innovated, with more-efficient cooling systems and new ways of scaling back electricity use when servers are less busy."

I am torn because centralization leads to more R&D and cost savings and better security. I just wish the innovations would propagate to everyone. Decentralization is much better for everything except those things that come with economies of scale.
LA emphatically was not planned, especially not by an automotive manufacturer. The automotive industry simply colluded to destroy the metropolitis's mass transit system, to be replaced by automobile freeways. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_con...

Despite this, and contrary to the stereotypes, the LA Metro is actually dead last in the US in freeway lane miles per resident. See http://freakonomics.com/2009/02/24/los-angeles-transportatio...
And yet we built houses out of such materials for thousands of years.

Security has 2 problems--technical and social.

The technical problem will eventually get solved as transistors are almost free. We are integrating hardware accelerators into almost everything since transistors are so cheap.

The social problem isn't so easy. Companies don't give a crap about security. Only when companies start losing 25% of their stock price after a breach will they care.
I'm interested in replacing my 27" 2560x1440 display with something of a higher resolution and larger, but I haven't found anything I like. You can get 30" 2560x1600 displays, but while I like the taller aspect ratio, there isn't that much more usable space and the DPI is too low. It's old tech, I had one 10+ years ago. There are also the new 34" widescreens, optionally curved, which at 3440x1440 are just wider versions of my 27". That could be neat, but I'd like to have more height to work with.

Another option is the 27" 5120x2880 LG display that Apple sells. That's like a "retina" version of my screen. I could run it at a higher effective resolution than 2560x1440 when I need more space, but this feels like a tradeoff -- my eyes aren't so great. I don't like tiny text. I'd also have to buy a newer Macbook to drive it... meh.

I'd like to get something that runs at the DPI my 27" display provides, but larger on all sides. I stare at a monitor for most of my waking hours so price isn't much of a concern, but as far as I can tell, nobody makes something like this.

I thought about two 27" displays rotated 90˚, but subpixel rendering goes away when the panel rotates and it looks horrible. I also wouldn't like a big seam down the center of my monitor.

Any tips?
They called police in to solve a civil dispute (the contract DOES allow them to make him to leave, and it's an enforceable contract-of-adhesion) which is afaik illegal.

They could have called the FBI (or perhaps some other federal police force) because the passenger violated the federal requirement to obey aircrew. But they didn't
(Applauds headline author for avoiding use of "Moisture Vaporator")
Cheers! That's awesome. I'm going to set aside some time to learn more Prolog. :-)
Yeah the sea surface is a glacier. There might be air pockets though? But it would also be near-freezing there, whereas the core would be much warmer, and would also have more pressure.
> One of the most unnerving aspects of life at Tanium is what's known internally as Orion's List. The CEO allegedly kept a close eye on which employees would soon be eligible to take sizable chunks of stock. For those he could stand to do without, Hindawi ordered the workers to be fired before they were able to acquire the shares, according to current and former employees.

Employees at startups generally take a below-market salary in exchange for equity compensation, so imagine the double humiliation of being fired because your first shred of equity is about to vest.
I'm sure it's a big issue but I don't think it's any worse than most other large American metros. In fact, I imagine it may be less of an issue here. LA does actually have a somewhat functional rail/bus system and some pockets of very walkable neighborhoods that also tend to have an abundance of nightlife.
It's giving you the city of Los Angeles there. If you do "greater L.A. area" it gives two numbers, the L.A. Metro area at 4,850 square miles and the wider metro region at 33,954 square miles.

I don't know enough about either region to make a useful comparison, but I think the area for L.A. has to include more than just the city of L.A. proper.
"A little glob becomes a globe instantly, if you just add silent e!" - T o m L * h r * r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHPaVxkdPA
Is there anything like this for python? I have an application that would very much benefit from it.
Getting mainstream users to use 2FA? Is that like getting them not to use overly simple PWs? Or not use open wifi? Those people?make Not sound like an ahole but...How's that working out for ya?

I think ya might be able to argue that if you're going to add friction (e.g., Yubikey) you're also creating a great senses of seriousness. That sense of seriousness is seriously lacking.

All that said, the UN + PW idea is too weak. We need something that's up to the threat AND is also appropriate to the risk of loss. Best I can tell, as a general mainstream rule, we're not even close to that. It's 2017? Really?
LA is so ugly compared with SF.
Iterating each list is at least O(n) (because you just visited each item). So your dictionary building is in itself O(nlogn). As a minor optimization, when you walk the last list you can build the final list incrementally (check for things with two existing visits).
Back in the late 90s I came across this drawing in Lateef’s book and studied it closely. I found that it actually describes not a flat disk but a torus (aka donut) with a string winding around it. There are versions of the torus for all the symmetrical intervals (semitone, whole tone, minor third, major third). What changes from one interval to the next is the angle of the string.

I diagrammed each of the intervals and shared my work with Lateef. We had a warm conversation.

He mentioned to me that “Coltrane was always drawing things like this.” This particular drawing was something Coltrane did between set breaks at a gig they did together. Coltrane gave it to Lateef at that gig.
I think it has something to do with different kind of processing in the left/right hemispheres of the brain. For most people left brain type of thinking (attention to detail, focus on process) dominates, it also may be harder for them to see where and how the "gut feeling" originates.
You're missing the point. This subthread is not about what IRC does do, it's about whether a chat protocol with support for persistent sessions, search, etc. can still be simple.

Maybe actually read the thread next time? So don't "so what?" me. This isn't about whether IRC can do those things.
Why are people so adamant in denying the potential that blacks on average may in fact commit more crimes? Even considering that the system is biased, is it really so difficult to accept that there really IS more crime in poor, minority neighborhoods?

It is as if those who kowtow to political correctness don't understand that bias can exist in both directions, and when it comes to making decisions that affect society in general, both types of bias cause problems.
I don't think we're presenting conflicting facts.

It's possible for a president to be terrible but ultimately better to not be removed from office.
That's what I like about LA. Keeps out the superficial people, and draws those who can see past appearances.
Reddit is like the 7th most popular website, features like this need to be able to handle significant load
I've tried the development hololens from the March 30, 2016 batch several times.

My observations:

Getting it to recognize my air clicks is the bane of my existence.
Object permanence works very well.

Before I used it, I thought people were hyperbolic when mentioning the narrow AR FOV. It really limits the experience.

Moving objects around is very annoying when it doesn't seem to recognize half my gestures. However when it does recognize my gestures it's fairly straight forward to move objects on each of the three axis.

Peers make fun of you for wearing something cumbersome.
Perhaps, but there is still a type of lockin that doesn't exist with groceries. Both Android and iOS have built up their ecosystems such that there are substantial switching costs. Lots of other organic stores now sell 100% identical items that Whole Foods has.
I was thinking very same issue for some time. Underwater species will have limitation to advance their Intelligence due to not having access to LAND to make all kind of TOOLS which led to Human Spices advancement .
It seems we have a kind of proof at this time planet Earth.
'Long-finned pilot whale' have '37 Billion' Cerebral cortex Neurons , where as Human Spices have 21 Billion .

I think due to their Water environment WHALE did not become the dominant spices on EARTH but Humans became .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
> Fund people not projects — the scientists find the problems not the funders. So, for many reasons, you have to
have the best researchers.

> Problem Finding — not just Problem Solving

Lessons not yet learned
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On every tour I ever went on (except the first, which was to a very nice European country), children were absolutely considered two-way sources of fairly true information. Small children don't lie when they're confronted by men with guns, regardless of who those men are working for. That was a blessing and a curse. Incidentally, we usually knew when the enemy was going to attack on a particular day, because there wouldn't be any children around. That being said, some of the worst people in those places use children in their attacks.
>So from a strictly physical point of view, I would argue that the odds of Earth "infecting" Europa with life in the past 3 billion years are pretty much 100%.

This is exactly why europa is so important. It's that the gravity well of jupiter is so great, that infection of europa is extremely unlikely, rather than being extremely likely. Europa would be a vastly better case for arguing separate origins of life than any other place in our solar system.

Since earth has only existed for a short time in the grand scheme of things, and supposing that life indeed sprung here on its own, the odds of a random rock from a random few impacts landed on europa, rather than jupiter, in such a way to get to survive is absurdly small.
Good artists copy, great artists steal..

Maybe Di Modica should be more sour that the fallibility of the market, and the cultural realisation of gender bias, has changed the meaning of his work. Or Instagram and the many people polishing it's balls.
It appears that they were fired just before their stock vested. That's why as an employee you should never agree to vest all your stock at the end of a multiple year period but in small chunks over time (annually, usually).

That still carries risk but not as much. Assuming you assign value to the stock at all.