skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Threatening their business model is overstating it a bit I think. More like they had already successfully picked all the low hanging fruit and in order to maintain their stellar (multi) year-on-year passenger growth they needed to start trying other things (customer experience improvement, more focus on business flyers, serving more primary airports, dipping their toes in to offering a few connecting flights).

Short-haul LCC traffic in Europe is becoming a mature market and so budget airlines are on a drive to find ways to grow beyond simply offering "insanely cheap prices". However, it's important to remember that a bad/hostile customer experience didn't stop Ryanair getting to ~100 million passengers a year (note: not that I'm defending that!).
Some countries people will be very upset. I think these are the more sensitive ones:

Pakistan/India

Iran/its neighbors

South Korea/North Korea (you'd be surprised how often people think South Koreans might be from North Korea)

Mexico/its neighbors

By "sensitive" I don't mean that people will get very offended, just that they might be mildly annoyed. Norway/Sweden as well as Netherlands/Belgium is mostly a playful rivalry.
IDK in the US, but in Spain you can actually "buy" only renewable energy, by paying a company that only pays for renewable producers in the pool.
welcome to hacker news fam
Answer to what?
Drift: Maybe a longer life of great experiences is better than a shorter life of great experiences, but a longer life at the price of greater experiences? Nah, hope I die before I get old. Case in point: http://io9.gizmodo.com/men-can-live-20-years-longer-but-ther...
Even if it means dying a year earlier I'm going to eat salted butter and drink red wine and enjoy it. Better to enjoy less than to have more you don't enjoy?
It seems like the 1% will need to spend money to keep society stable one way or another. What's the most cost effective way of doing so?

(The implication is that war and violence has a very high cost and so alternativas should be considered)
Most articles on eating tend to focus on weight, drawing the conclusion that weight (fat) is the problem, not eating. This article provides a refreshing perspective:

> But the latest results suggested that significant health benefits can be garnered in an already healthy body – a person who isn’t underweight or obese.

The take away here is that the problem with excessive eating isn't just the weight gain. There's something about eating itself which is stressful. Restricting calories is good for you even if you're already within a healthy BMI. This means that just because you can eat anything, doesn't mean you should.
Seriously... this HTML/JavaScript template is FOUR MONTHS OLD, for God's sake! Might as well be jQuery.
Is there a comunity-curated list of rules I can import to LS?

My LS experience: Most of the time, I was not qualified to make a reasonable call when deciding whether or not to block certain connections.

I can always side with a conservative approach (block), but I quickly broke miscellaneous services.

A community promoting a healthy debate for each rule inclusion, based on criteria (or different levels?), pulling in those more familiar with diverse services, may enable us all to use LS more effectively.
Paragraph 9 (grr...):

The chemicals they called out as developmental neurotoxins in 2006 were methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, ethanol, lead, arsenic, and toluene. The additional chemicals they’ve since found to be toxins to the developing brains of fetuses—and I hope you’ll trust me that these all are indeed words—are manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos, tetrachloroethylene, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
And English speakers need to talk about things from non-English-speaking countries sometimes!
Sorry, it was just my half-assed attempt at flattery anyway ;)
Yeah it's not foolproof just a way to start.

Here is one random example that comes to mind. "Risk Management" is something every company needs to do or pretend to do.

So someone gets stuck with this responsibility and they create a spreadsheet that looks like:
Department | Risk | Likelihood | Impact

So this is a fairly mediocre solution but it kinda works and "risk management" for "Small Company Co" becomes "Bob's thing".

Of course there is very likely software that already does this but in my experience it's usually what the hipster programmers call "enterprise garbage". You know what i'm talking about - buzzwordy site with stock photos, long annoying sales cycles, no online demo or sign up, some java server you have to deploy, and some extjs/jquery interface that is ugly and each click takes 5-10 seconds. You aren't competing with these guys, you're going after the long tail of small companies they are ignoring.

Your move is to register some fun name - "Riskly", "Riskque", "Risksalot", etc. Next, hire a graphic designer to put together a fun colorful site, hire a college kid to make a fun video with royalty free upbeat music and narration showcasing your app, and build a simple CRUD app with maybe some built in risks for certain industries and some cool simulations/reports.

So go spend a few years of your life and see if you can't 'Disrupt/Fix Risk Management'. Or go work for a large company for eight years, take all your earnings, go to Vegas, and let it all ride on a 10:1 bet. It works out about the same.
The moment I saw flouride, I was done.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/why-por...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy
Sure. Most manufacturing jobs, warehouse stocking jobs, plenty of farm jobs (consistently underrated in terms of salary vs skills).
https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1498341777756-s...

What the ever loving christ is this image?

"Jason Koebler" ought to be formally introduced to photoshop as at the minute he is a danger to the eye.
Pied Piper vs. CryptoMove – who wins?
you (and I) are absolutely spoiled by Visual Studio w/SSDT. there is nothing even remotely close to that level of integration for database development in other stacks.
create-react-app offers an 'eject' option, which makes all the configuration visible and adjustable. Ejecting can be used as a starting point from which you can further modify and customize a project.
I guess not? Heres what I took it to mean: I think the comment is suggesting that war and violence is an acceptable and inevitable outcome of the current economic and social climate.
I find the constant comparison of present-day US to Nazi Germany a bit disrespectful. Not disrespectful of people in the present day (necessarily), but to those who actually survived Nazi Germany.

What would you think, if you were a someone who survived a concentration camp, to have people consistently claim that the modern-day US is anywhere near as bad? I understand that the US is far from perfect, but we are also not engaging in genocide against our own citizens, and I do not think that there is anything that realistically signals that we ever will.

Really, I guess it boils down to nitpicking over how watered-down the term Nazi has become. Lets not forget what the Nazis actually did.
This is exactly what I thought too: a drop in local GDP has caused a drop in aggregate demand for consumer goods and services. The only proviso is that some of the remains demand is served by out-of-county suppliers, including e-commerce operations that obviously have the advantage of convenience for the local consumers on account of their logistics.
I recall watching a video of an engineer practicing CR. He looked miserable and older than his years. He was constantly cold and had chronic sore feet because the soles of his feet were too thin.

When I don't eat enough, I don't get hungry, and I don't loose much weight, but I do have trouble sleeping which results in daytime fatigue and depression. For me the happiness/sleep threshold is sharp, so I eat just above that threshold.
I think that is what scares the author the most- that all this education, all the remembering and memoria- just evaporates- a thin layer of paint on a savage creature.

And one must admit, that at the moment it does not look very good for freedom, democracy and civilsation as a whole.
I would be interested in reading that study if you could find it.
Some references for those who want to dig in.

Will calorie restriction work in humans?
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.100581

Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14063

In general, the consensus in the research community is that we shouldn't expect more than an additional ~5 years from the life-long practice of calorie restriction. The evolutionary argument is that the calorie restriction response evolved very early on in as a way to enhance fitness given seasonal famines. A season is a long time for a mouse, not so long for a human, so only the mouse evolves a very plastic lifespan. The practical argument is that 5-10 years is about the largest effect that could exist and still be hard to pull out from existing demographic data of restricted calorie intake in a bulletproof, rigorous way. Obviously any much larger effect would have been discovered in antiquity and be very well known and characterized by now.

So that said about longevity, it is very clear that calorie restriction does better and more reliable things for health in ordinary humans in the short term of months and mid-term of few years than any presently available enhancement technology can replicate.

A good deal of research into aging is focused on trying to recreate the calorie restriction response. So far this has consumed billions with little of practical use to show for it beyond increased knowledge of some thin slices of cellular biochemistry relating to nutrient sensing and energy metabolism. It has proven to be very hard and very expensive to get anywhere here.

So calorie restriction itself is free and reliable in its effects. Everyone should give it a try. There are, however, far more important areas of aging research to direct funding to instead of trying to recreate this effect with pharmaceuticals. In an age in which meaningful rejuvenation is possible to create in the years ahead (see, for example, clearance of senescent cells, something that calorie restriction can only slightly achieve in a very tiny way, while drug candidates are managing 25-50% clearance) it seems just plain dumb to instead be chasing expensive, hard ways to only slightly slow down aging.
That's an opinion.
Factory worker? (Though for any job, it still helps to get along with people.)
Project M36 is a database that implements a relational model and corresponding query language (TutorialD) based on (among other things) the ideas from Date and Darwen's Third Manifesto. TutorialD solves many of the problems present in SQL, especially around composability.

https://github.com/agentm/project-m36
I like that you mentioned the cost to replace. This is something heavily ignored right now for the fossil fuels. The cost to find and develop new wells is so prohibitive due to either the risk or the technical challenges that securing finance to invest is not as easy as it was the past 50 years. It's becoming a Sisyphean task to replace and grow existing production.
This is how CTEs work in BigQuery (using standard SQL), for example. There are advantages and disadvantages both ways, but the benefit of making CTEs behave like subqueries is that the query engine can push down filters into table scans.
Wake me up when Apple has started helping foster a community of developers for Safari plugins.

Chrome is useful because it's so extendable.
There's a distinct possibility your world view is incorrect then if this surprises you.

The big misunderstanding the blue has about the red is who pays for things. It's not the GOP hates renewables, they just want the private industry to pay for them, not the taxpayer. Let the cheapest energy source win! Wind and solar absolutely have a great chance at doing that.

That doesn't make a good story though... It just stinks that people won't look for common ground :/
A prototype exists from 2013 https://www.ccsl.carleton.ca/~askillen/mobiflage/ but if something like this became popular they would just find ways to discover the 'hidden' partition and force you to open it anyway, or make flashing consumer devices illegal or something.
Maybe they have a program which generates vaguely relevant images automatically.

Further down, in an article about pythons, the snake, the publishing system inserts a plug for an article about Python, the language.
I took the comment to mean that whatever the moral considerations thereof, a violent class war will be the ultimate outcome of this current predicament. I would like to believe that moral considerations will prevail and bring the situation to a more satisfying conclusion without bloodshed. To resign oneself to the supposed inevitability of violence is despicable.
I phrase it as "Standing problems I solve for free, sitting problems are my usual hourly rate."

Which is to say, if I can solve your problem for you before I get tired of standing up, I'm not going to bother to charge you. In my case that's usually a half hour or so.

People seem to respond well to that, in general. I think it's in line with how most people view the value of their own time.

It's also a one off, as well. Just because it only takes me 15 minutes a week doesn't mean it's free.
Clickables:

- Code examples: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/hyperapp

- Browser demos: https://hyperapp.glitch.me/

- README: https://github.com/hyperapp/hyperapp/blob/master/README.md

This is a good example of what an open source project should do. Straight forward. And also, refreshing to see a lite javascript framework.

One suggestion to authors: Include a link to the demonstration's code on pages like https://hyperapp.glitch.me/slider.
The bar is very low, it seems.
>There are multiple transmission line projects in progress in the US to drag wind energy to major load centers.

Sure, but not to Europe and Asia.

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-asia-lng-idUSL1N1FE4BG
Basically it's saying for every extra dollar you want to earn in consulting you must hire more engineers. For traditional software you can continue to sell the same bits over and over and not hire an extra engineer for the Nth sale.
Slack really doesn't make sense as they already make native apps for mobile devices in Xamarin (.Net), but small projects like this do make sense, as the amount of human resources justification is clearly there.
”Cold Civil War” is the best term to describe and surmise the current predicament I've read so far in years of considering these problems. Is it your phrase?
The above comment is implying:

Consulting requires linear increase of resources. Software product requires logarithmic increase of resources. Therefore product business is more efficient to scale than consulting.
In tandem with their Better Ads enforcement, Google will also launch a companion program, Funding Choices, that will enable CBA-compliant sites to ask Chrome users with content blockers to whitelist their site and unblock their ads. Should the user refuse, they can either pay for an "ad-free experience" or be locked out by a publisher's adblock wall.

Does this mean that Chrome will be directly supporting anti-adblock technology? Will it somehow just disable extensions like ublock on these CBA supported sites?
That's clearly the wrong direction for an audience full of cranky autists.
But in this case, you are simply throwing your money away since the green producers aren't going to produce more energy because you and other consumers are paying them to. They will produce the same amount regardless.

In that case, better to give the money to some charity that say, replaces incandescent bulbs with the newest LED lamps starting with your own house and office if you haven't already converted. Also, better to take mass transit than use the car.

BTW, our brilliant NY Govenor Cuomo is putting a lot more carbon-based fuel back on-line. Because nuclear is more expensive than gas powered generation, he is removing the Indian Point nuclear power plant from the grid. This plant generates 1/4 the electricity for NYC and adjacent Westchester County.

The population of NYC is 8.5 million, Westchester County is about 1 million. So removing the carbon-free power for about 2.5 million people.

All will be replaced with carbon-based fuel generation. So much for people like you trying to be responsible and green.
I'm a bit annoyed at the constant background snide and subtle implication of these vague literary articles, that programmers are bad empathetically or emotionally. They use facts such as western programming culture being very male-dominated, and then twist this to imply that males are bad at being empathetic.

Firstly the gender ratio of engineers in e.g. Russia is more even, so let's just shoot that one down before continuing. There's a lot of gender imbalance in Western culture as a whole and to imply that most of it is the "fault" of unemotional males is pretty insulting.

Often this also accompanied by some implicit value judgement assumption, that they attempt to force onto the programmer. "My values are better than yours". Er, no sorry. If you think a programmer is being unemotional, perhaps you should take a step back and examine whether it is you who are being unempathetic, brushing away someone else's engineering concerns as being less important than your own personal feelings about a topic that you don't have a good knowledge of?
I do agree with the ACLU's mission and with the notion that privacy rights are being eroded. At the same time, I personally feel that this kind of polemic is becoming so common that its usage risks numbing us to the biggest risks. (If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.) Criticism is possible without relying on cheap speculation and exaggeration.
Has anyone here tried Futhark? Is it ready to use or mostly PL research?
People who crowdfund are investors in the project. If it succeeds - they get the benefit they backed it for. And if it fails, they lose. Not every benefit is supposed to be measured in profits. So there is clearly ROI there, but not the way you described it (monetary gain).
Do we have any evidence that that's where Intel even learned about the bug?
> Restricting calories is good for you even if you're already within a healthy BMI.

How much of this study, and your statement, applies to highly active individuals, and atheletes? I box and train 5 - 7 times a week, and spar (high intensity with protective gear) twice a month.

I tried restricting calories to lose fat and "lean out" but I find that I am constantly hungry (even after consuming proteins) and like someone else has mentioned here, I don't get good sleep when I eat less...
A few past lives ago, I used to work on the AIX kernel at IBM. I once spent a few weeks poring through trace data trying to investigate a very mysterious cache-aligned memory corruption induced by a memory stress test. Our trace data was quite comprehensive, and is always turned on due to its very low overhead. It was concerning enough (and took me long enough) that it eventually sucked in the rest of my team to aid in the investigation. None of these other guys were noobs- a couple of them had (at the time) built over 20 years of experience in this system, and in diagnosing similar memory corruption bugs beyond any doubt (many were due to errant DMAs from device drivers). I had too, though for much less than 20 years.

After several full days of team-wide debugging, we had no better explanation based on the available evidence than cosmic rays, or a hardware bug. IBM's POWER processor designers worked across the street from us, so we tried to get them to help- first by asking nicely, then by escalating through management channels.

Their reply was more or less: we've run our gamut of hardware tests for years, and your assertion that it's hardware related is vanishingly unlikely... we don't look into hardware bugs unless you can prove to us beyond a doubt it's hardware related. Cache-aligned memory corruption without any other circumstantial evidence isn't enough.

On a crashed test system sitting in the kernel debugger for several weeks now, there would be no more circumstantial evidence beyond the traces. A corruption like this was never seen again, by all accounts.

If we were right and it was evidence of a hardware failure, this is one way such a problem can go undetected. I hope it was something else, or even a cosmic ray, but we'll never know for sure, I guess.
I wonder if this is a "bug" in humans, or serves some evolutionary purpose -- perhaps in keeping small tribes together.
Quarterly bonuses of 8%-25% or guaranteed (in your employee/promotion offer letter and added to your contract) end of year bonuses and if it is a startup quarterly additional stock options based on company, sector, team performance. Some may even pay for your home, car, and offer fully paid tuition/books/university fees.

You may also gain the ability to ride (company paid) business or first class for all of your domestic and international flights or if if your in a really profitable company or high position in a government agency you get to fly on the company/agency/chartered jet(s) for some or all flights. You may also get an assistant or assistants to help you out with personal and business related activities since you should be pretty busy and may forget things, they will normally keep your schedule and keep you on schedule 24/7/365.

You normally get a pretty nice severance package that is only offered to C-Level management which is only VP and above. Though if it is your first time you should have a sit down with an attorney to make sure what you get from the company is good to go and a financial advisor and tax accountant to help you make a plan for what to do with those extra benefits and how they can affect you tax wise so you know what is seen as income and what treated as gifts. This way you will have a full picture of what you are really getting. As sometimes it may look like more, but may push you into a new tax bracket or increase your taxes to not make much of a difference in the end. Either way it is good to have a full overview so there are no surprises at the end of the year.
Actually, in Texas you have your choice of transmission and distribution companies if I understand correctly haha.
i don't really think they would, at least for a long time; these pushes only come when the measures they address have become trivially easy or default practice. most jihadis have no particular tech expertise, but anyone can install telegram (for example). doing some fringe deep nerd shit like dual booting with a steg volume on your phone will probably never be popular enough to warrant legal reaction, barring specific high-profile instances popping up in the news.
Yes, we have seen similar in AVRs (328p) where the lowest voltage brownout threshold/trip is not enough to prevent the EEPROM and/or Flash from getting corrupted somehow...
N is literally the percentage of your steady state customer base that comes from referral.

So it's the divisor on your marketing expenditure for any given customer quantity.

N > 1 never reaches a steady state, those are "viral" businesses.
I can't even use symbols like that anyhow (I deal in USD, CAD, and NTD). I end up using ISO 4217 codes everywhere. You missed ¥ as well, for which I would use JPY or CNY.
> It's way better to combat "racial purity" ideologies (or any other speech) with more speech, with reason and truth than with violence

Do you have any evidence to support this claim?