skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me I just want 1 thing:

Sleeper economy: Something that will let me lie flat that isn't 4x the price, for trans-pacific 12 timezone flights that take 12+hrs. I would be totally fine with beds that stack, it's too bad it doesn't exist.

If a flight is waking hours long then economy or economy+ is good enough for most people.
I don't think $50 a flight is going to get you much on a low-price domestic flight, other than maybe a slightly better itinerary, or priority boarding.
Primarily protestant (lutheran) states prefered Sozialdemocrats over Christiandemocrats, while the last ones are less socialist.
Angela Merkel: Europe must take ‘our fate’ into own hands
Lego seems so weirdly disconnected at times, I understand where they're coming from, but this made want to buy the Lego Porsche.
Hacking Go's type system
On the other hand, I would guess it's not just the maintainers being entrenched: If you were to redefine something like C-v to perform "+p by default, you would upset every guy that has been using Vim for some time. Not only that, but you would also really ruin the day for everyone that regularly uses it through SSH and counts on Vim's default behavior. I would guess the reactions would be orders of magnitude more vile than those to, say, systemd.

So, leaving such rebindings as opt-in possibilities to newcomers seems like a much more sane decision to me.
> nothing you or I should ever try when we're driving on the highway.

I've done exactly that on highways and on non-controlled-access roads. It's not hard to keep a mental model of nearby vehicles (look at mirrors, if you see a car disappear from them but not go in front of you they're in some blind spot. When I know I've been tip-top at keeping watch like that, I've done evasive manoeuvres into other lanes just based on that. If I've been shoddy with my situational awareness, I do a quick head turn while doing the swerving and am ready to bring myself back into my lane should there be a vehicle in the spot I want to occupy.

Part of defensive driving is being proficient at swerving; as sharp decisive steering input can get you out of collisions that would be unavoidable via braking. Being able to swerve as fast as possible without losing control, on an open-loop basis (without needing feedback by looking at the road) and recovering is a useful skill to be confident in. I've practised swerving and thus can controllably and swiftly shift my car sideways and realign with my previous direction of travel -- it's not something I need to think about, it's as ingrained in my muscle memory as operating the pedals or the gearbox!

A few weeks ago, I used that skill to avoid hitting a pedestrian who had ran onto the road (without warning) from behind a parked car on a rainy night when I was driving at 35mph. Given my reaction time and the time needed to take the foot off the throttle pedal and onto the brake, I'd still have hit them at ~25mph even with maximum braking effort -- there wasn't enough distance. Indeed, braking would have given them more time to get in front of me, as they didn't seem to be slowing down / stopping. "Possible hit at 35mph" vs "more probable hit at 25 mph" is one horrid dilemma!

Given my (legal, albeit not so prudent) speed and how little warning I had (it was night and my driver's side window was covered in rain), when I first saw the pedestrian (through my windshield!), my immediate reaction was to swerve and not to brake. My steering input added a meter or so of space between my vehicle and that pedestrian. I did not hit anyone that night.

Self-driving vehicles should be capable of that sort of performance as well! Braking is not always the best option.
In separate repos, yes, but unlike React both the Router and Store are official.

When using Vue CLI it configures a project for you with vue-router and vuex.
> Unfortunately, communism showed that greed is a much better motivator which is probably the primary reason capitalism has flourished.

I don't think we've given Communism a good go, especially as those societies in the modern world (i.e after the advent of capitalism) have been capitalist states, either internally or externally to other nations. The fact is that in the absence of a motivator for money, people will do things for a variety of reasons, including wanting to make the world a better place, out of a desire for mastery, desire for recognition, out of wanting to improve the lives of those who will come after you, to live in a society you want to live in (everyone wants to live in a society with clean toilets) etc.

It is also a fact that these motivators only appear in two cases, (i) when people have enough money to not have to worry about survival and being satisfied (ii) when people have no need for money, as they are already satisfied.

Neither of these cases has happened yet.
I think the biggest problems are no the lack of a tool to do this, but in the skill in soliciting this information from other people. Especially if those users are on the other side of the world.

To answer your question we use JIRA to capture issues and Confluence to document requirements. But this probably wouldn't be any better than any competing system and is just an organisational choice based on typical business reasons.

Something that I might find useful is a way to link up a "requirement" from a user through to a spec, to design, to code, to the test plan to test it for full tractability. Often we see rules in code and have no idea why that rule is there, but it has to be preserved just in case it was important and was a requirement of the user!
Release is 25 million bibliographic index files and has nothing to do with copyright, since none of the data was ever covered by copyright protection.
Southwest has been profitable for the last 43 years: http://investors.southwest.com/news-and-events/news-releases...

So, if by record losses you mean lower profit than normal then sure they got hammered in 2008.
This is a lot of fun. Really fast, but still fairly easy to follow.

I think half of it is watching someone use Vi really well. Step one: bind a key to compile+run the program. I always just do "^z, foo, enter, fg, enter" (replacing foo and fg with "up, up" the second time 'round.)
U.S. 'might' expand laptop ban to all international flights
Having recently bought a mortgage, a car, and a family vacation, I am convinced that the internet has made all of these transactions worse. Maybe there was a time when the internet tilted things in the consumer's favor but nowadays thre are no deals. These industries have figured out how to collude to control all information channels, obfuscate the actual product and discriminate prices to the maximum extent possible.
Yeah; in weapons, it might go like this:

* Govt research agency awards contract to study smallpox, including stockpiling smallpox. Researchers are happy, they're protecting the world.

* Govt weapons agency gets notice from govt research agency that "it's ready now."

* Govt weapons agency confiscates smallpox stockpile and data, makes more, spoons it into the tips of missiles.

Original researchers are more or less legitimate victims, whose goal to help humanity was used to obscure the Govt weapon's agency's goal to kill humanity.
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> I would say I would rather start a new an app using Vue because of the learning curve is a lot faster to pick up than React.

When we're talking frameworks that you'll use again and again I don't really think this is a factor. You'll only need to pick it up once. I'm a lot more concerned about long term maintainability.
Actually, if you read one of their blog posts from the last few weeks, they've pretty much abandoned it because it's too hard a problem to solve. Sorry I can't cite, on a mobile and in a rush.
Scene stealers: In praise of the background artist
So by your account, a >>"right" to food, shelter and health care<< would mean people would still have to worry (but not much). That's kindalike what the parent was saying, there is no universal right (to Basic Income).

So there have to be arguments and he's giving one, that this proposal is hardly going to be afforded by those in the position to do so. Which part of the actual argument do you disagree with? It seem you are saying the workers would have to want to afford it (because its a positive right), but you don't actually show it.
Because it gives no advantage to the house. The cards are dealt if the house has blackjack then they have blackjack the prism doesn't change that only allows the dealer to know since dealer blackjack automatically wins against any player hand except blackjack.
All the users risk their 'investment' becoming worthless, that is not a risk exclusive to first users.
Where did you draw that figure from?
Reader mode is available in Safari (iOS). Maybe the github sources work for you? You'd miss out on the interactive parts, tho: https://github.com/jonase/learndatalogtoday/blob/master/reso...
>For one thing, it could be thought of as rewarding the engineers who wrote the evil code, maybe even creating an incentive for engineers to add such code in the future.

In the development model used here, it not like engineers just indepently decide to add a feature. An autogenerated two line procedure is going to have two pages of documentation.
Similarly, I've been meaning to try iked in OpenBSD to get a simple ikev2 vpn endpoint set up.
To be fair, a big part of this page is the interactive exercises, which would be a nightmare to try to do on mobile anyway. So I can see why being compatible with mobile wasn't a big concern.
>bigger seats

Really? As I recall, Delta and United premium economy are normal economy seats in the forward half of the airplane. It saves you a few minutes deplaning, but does nothing for the comfort level in flight.
Suleyman was not only a great military mind, but an extremely astute politician as well. One thing the article fails to mention is that Suleyman didn't just let the people of Rhodes "go free" after their defeat, the Knights Hospitaler had to hand over their fortresses in Kos and Bodrum as part of the deal. This was a smart move as the castle in Bodrum was much better fortified, and Suleyman got it without, in essence, firing a shot. For this reason, the castle in Bodrum is extremely well preserved and a must see if you want to get a sense of crusader architecture.
Always worth checking with the source ...

(a) I'm quite sure I didn't tell him that I started a new book every day (note that this contradicts with a later sentence where he attributes me saying that I now read about 4 books a week). You really should realize that many people when they write, reconstruct their memories to fit what they are trying to be didactic about.

(b) and nowhere in the article does he say that I spend 4-6 hours a day reading (this is something -you- ("optymizer") constructed (quite innocently I'm sure). I probably read about 2 hours a day, maybe a little more. This is enough to finish most books. And, yes, some books require quite a bit more effort and time -- both from length and wrt depth.

I did start putting some effort into remembering "pretty nearly" what I read, starting in 3rd grade. However, my abilities never got to the legendary levels of some readers e.g. Bertrand Russell.

(c) I didn't say I've read 20,000 books. I said I'm pretty sure I haven't read more than this. And I do know a number of people who have read more than this. In fact, I don't know how many books I've read.

(d) Why bother thinking about competing? What point is there? Why not just enjoy knowledge and the fun of interrelating it?
1. Vue has been pretty stable, and Angular has learned from its previous mistakes. Also, remember Parse.

2. There is NativeScript which supports Angular 2+ and shortly Vue, and Weex build by Alibaba on top of Vue.
Right-- they are suffering because they entered a training regimen during which, as the author stated, wellness is not an option.

The point is a therapist is trained not only to look for high levels of work-related stress, but also for signs that the patient is at risk of causing serious, long-term damage to their psyche.

It's certainly not fool-proof. But the author seems persuaded that the stress is so high that it requires a new, idiosyncratic moral system for residents. Before doing something that drastic and so obviously prone to confirmation bias, I ask why checking in regularly with a trained, objective third party observer isn't an option.
If I could fly capsule-hotel class I'd love to try it. I think it'd be less awkward and uncomfortable. But it's not going to happen because airlines need to get passengers on and off quickly.

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines is a compelling explanation of why the pilot's unions have the industry by the throat. I can't imagine investing in a business where every labor negotiation is an unconditional surrender because saying no means you have to shut down indefinitely.
I work at a show Springsteen used to like, and he would come to see it live with some regularity. He'd sit in the kitchen until the host was ready to come out, at which point security would kind of just nonchalantly walk him in to a seat that had been kept empty. At this time, no phones were allowed in the studio at all, security would confiscate them if they came out.

We used to love watching the face of the person next to whom he wound up sitting, as they realized "holy crow, Bruce Springsteen is sitting next to me and I can't take a picture, text, tweet, or freak out. I just have to sit here and watch this show for the next 30 minutes."
There's a fantastic book by Roger Crowley called Empires of the Sea that covers the Habsburg-Ottoman war for control of the Mediterranean. The early chapters go into great detail on the Siege of Rhodes, including Tadini's efforts, and how the lessons learned there would set the stage for later battles (particularly Malta and Lepanto) and the end of Ottoman supremacy. For anyone interested in this article or the era in general I can't recommend it enough.
I guess you mean in USA, right? Because my experience in Germany and Spain was different.
The Vicious Cycle of the Retail Meltdown
Not sure if I follow the reasoning.

If now 1 person makes the work of 4, why something have to give? Is not the economy producing more than in 'early times'?
How an undocumented immigrant from Mexico became a star at Goldman Sachs
Won't happen unless the metrics by airline become drastically different (right now they are declining at roughly the same rate), different enough to justify the price and schedule differences between competing flights. Otherwise it could be done today.

We have seen it in the past. I remember when JetBlue launched many would take a higher priced seat, for the in flight entertainment. Or Virgin for the service and seat room.
Doesn't apply here: it's not a designed system, it's a pile of hacks.
For a moment I thought this was based on React...
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Lots of casinos are going to 6/5 payouts instead of 3/2, as well as various other restrictions on doubling down or splitting etc, regardless of shuffle method primarily because most tourists don't know any better that they are playing at a higher disadvantage than before, squeezing the margin on card counters is a side benefit.
Thank you for this, it was a very interestingread.
Salient excerpts:

- whether they know it or not, the fundamental problem facing today’s tech exec is the problem of governance.

- Corporations do not want to legislate, let alone enforce, more of humanity’s behavior than they need to. They have better things to do. The universe isn’t going to dent itself. But because they are outpacing traditional governments in their ability to predict & shape human behavior, they walk right into stupidly impossible situations over and over again.

- The problem of governance arises wherever “move fast and break things” runs right into an older saying: “you broke it, you bought it”.
I would think it depends on the site... maybe some special html characteristics around the first headline?

I usually use lynx, which strips down the html and only outputs the text. News site tend to have the same structure for every article, so after passing the html to lynx, the headline for a news site article will probably be around line 5-6.
FWIW, airplane or medical software is also closed.
Self-reliance? Fight for our own future and destiny? Europe First? Sounds vaguely familiar.
Ask HN: Friends teen brother died. How to get into his computer?
Hey guys.

So my friends brother passed a few years ago =(. Under really sad circumstances.

Anyway, the police returned the laptop after 4 years to the family. But didn't tell them how to get in.

It's a windows 7 laptop. We know what half his password was.

The family have been devestated on this over years - and really want to firstly, check to see if there's any pictures on there of him. And secondly, to use it for their own to always be able to remember him when they're on it!

Any ideas as to how to get past the admin password? :(
Fanon vs. Canon
Germany was strong before WK2, the buildings where gone, but the enterpreteneurs, scientists, developers, the workers morale and their experince were still there. Also obedience of the law, memories about how things should be organized etc.

If some money would help so much, more contries would be doing better.

If some money would help, more countries qould be soing better.
The Strange History of Mad Honey (2014)
I spend a lot of time in the ethereum proof of stake gitter and I can confirm that this is false. It's actively being researched and still in the roadmap. A hybrid PoS/PoW model will likely come out first.
Correction appreciated.

> One should distinguish between the terms "freedom" and "liberty." Speaking generally, Freedom usually means to be free from something, whereas Liberty usually means to be free to do something, although both refer to the quality or state of being free. Jefferson's use of the terms almost always reflected those meanings.

http://eyler.freeservers.com/JeffPers/jefpco26.htm
The real question is: why should it be otherwise, and why is this newsworthy at all ?

European countries all claim to be sovereign countries, but surprisingly, not when it's time to pull the credit card out.
This. I can't count the number of times I've used two libraries with different casing just to have my own code end up as a mess of both..

I can see the point though that grepping, and things like editors which highlight the selected variable would have to take these rules into consideration. It's a valid concern but I feel the benefit of clean unified code is more important.
Timestripe
I feel for Germany. If they say they don't want immigrants they're nazi's. If they let them in they're push overs.
Ask HN: Can we enumerate FOSS chat, messaging, voip and collaboration software?
Please list noteworthy FOSS that provides any of the below: instant or non-instant messaging, voip, forum, discussion, collaboration, etc.

To start off, I'll mention mailing lists, irc, matrix protocol[1], ring[2], tox[3].

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org
[2] https://ring.cx
[3] https://tox.chat
And that's exactly what `set mouse=a` allows. You can switch tabs, resize panes, etc.
> In 2015, regulators realized that diesel Volkswagens and Audis were emitting several times the legal limit of nitrogen oxides (NOx) during real-world driving tests. But one problem regulators confronted was that they couldn’t point to specific code that allowed the cars to do this. They could prove the symptom (high emissions on the road), but they didn’t have concrete evidence of the cause (code that circumvented US and EU standards).

I don't understand this from a regulator's point of view: as a regulator, all you have to do is test for symptoms. You don't have to explain root causes. You drive the vehicle in conditions as close as possible to real ones, measure emissions, and decide whether or not they're above the norms.

Why would regulators do this in a lab? It's like health inspections that would ask restaurants to send food to be tested, instead of showing up anytime, unannounced.

Regulators should pick up real cars from real owners and test them on the road, at regular intervals.

Or, modern technology should allow to test a car all the time and report emissions and fuel efficiency, etc. during its lifetime.

People cheat, and if cheating is easy they cheat more. The one thing a regulator cannot do is trust the industry.
This article explains the general thinking behind it:

https://gendal.me/2015/04/27/how-to-explain-the-value-of-rep...
Well, it depends on what the claim is.

If you're claiming that overall temperate (or energy content etc) of the atmosphere is on an upward trend because of specific drivers, then one anomalous year doesn't refute that (so long as the rest of the years and samples are in line with the claim/theory).

If you're claiming that a certain ubiquitous dynamic exists that forces all providers in one market to do X to stay profitable, then it would refute that claim to point to one provider that is able to consistently, year after year, stay profitable without doing X.
Sounds to me like she's just saying Europe can no longer rely on the US (e.g. NATO), and because of the unpredictable nature of US domestic politics at this point, they need to plan as if Europe may not have reliable US backing.

Trump may very well get his wish to see some of the less rich NATO members spend more money on defense, but it may come at the cost of US leadership.
>In my opinion (and I welcome disagreement and debate) engineers have an obligation to say 'no' to wiring unethical code.

I respectfully disagree. Engineers have an obligation to do whatever is asked of them by management. If that means building nuke-hand-grenades so be it.

Being an engineer( be it software or mechanics ) should be a morally neutral thing. Do the job and keep your morals out of it. This is the only way we can have some semblance of sanity in the field.
I mean "state" in the sense that we can distinguish time-dependent systems with internal state or memory from time-independent systems, whose outputs are a pure function of their inputs. Combining pure functions to create pure functions does not introduce any state, in this sense.

An entire program may have no observable state, like a command-line tool that reads stdin and writes stdout with no particular timing. It does have state inside it, of course, but only because it's running on a giant state machine. We can fully describe its behavior without making reference to any internal states, using functions or relations to talk about the relationship between its input and its output.

> I would say that the main difference between TLA+ and the functional approaches, is that in TLA+ you reason purely mathematically, while in the functional approaches you reason within a (complex) programming language.

This statement puzzles me, because we have great math for reasoning about pure functions (mappings). We have lambda calculus and category theory. You don't need a state machine to prove QuickSort works in a purely mathematical way, either, just statements about the equivalence of functions. The recursion can be handled using the fixed point operator and the algebraic laws it obeys.

Edit: In fairness, existing "functional approaches" to specification do seem complex and look like programming languages.

I came across an old comment of yours (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11835178) that seemed to support the idea that FP and TLA+ have strengths for different kinds of programs, depending on whether they are more transformative or more reactive. I'm just as happy if learning more about TLA+ turns my idea of this on its head, though!
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