skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, exactly how I recovered from a herneated L5S1
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I hate flying any cheap airline, at 2m tall I don't fit in typical sardine can seats at all. I always pay more to get a better seat, which I don't mind, but often cheap airlines don't even offer better seat pitch except on exit rows and unless you are lucky you can never count on getting one.

Now that all airlines are getting into the cheap category, I fear eventually I can't fly at all.
Wait, what does this have to do with Obamacare?
Unbreakable: China doubles down on quantum internet
In my CS MSc program, my research group had a weekly paper reading group. This seems to be a common thing. What I'm not sure about is how common the general outcome was. We had one faculty member in the group that was excellent at identifying methodology errors and raising them as discussion points. I'd guess about 1/2 of the papers we read, he was able to find something to pick on. Sometimes small, sometimes enough to bring the whole paper into question. Very great learning experience and helped me hone my bullshit detector.
GNU gettext has pretty good support for translating messages with numerals:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural...

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Transl...
Their website is amazing compared to train or bus tickets, and even most airlines.
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Closest guess: General-purpose PreProcessor

https://github.com/logological/gpp/
That works when there are a small number of possible numerical values. But cldr has a table of plural rules for each of these languages and it's not bad to solve the problem for arbitrary integers.
Snacks, food, alcohol, etc.

IIRC, inflight entertainment is free. Scheduled meal costs extra at time of ticket purchase. Much better to bring your own food, or buy their decent snacks as you get hungry.
Well, there is the societal expectation that in order to "grow up" a man must stop spending time with his friends and/or on his hobbies and "settle down". There is no such expectation/pressure on women.
"Should a carrier established in one country be allowed to offer wages typical of another?"

The chief concern is safety.

America's airline industry especially with the consolidations of United buying Continental and American buying US Airways is dysfunctional. We have no equivalent of Ryan Air or EasyJet in the US and we should.

US domestic carriers should strive to compete with Norwegian offering their prices and stop complaining.
Caller ID is a completely unauthenticated protocol. The system asks you what number you're calling from and you can tell it anything you want. It just believes you.

Contrary to what other people said, you don't need a special line or to involve a specialized company. Almost all opensource VOIP systems allow you to spoof caller ID with a configuration setting or a little scripting/programming.

It's not illegal to spoof caller ID in the US. Many companies spoof a main call-in number from all of their employee's desks. Some morally bankrupt companies like the New York Times have been found to spoof invalid phone numbers when they harass people through their phone system.

These robo-callers call my cellphone at all hours of the day and night. It really reduces my quality of life. I have to have my phone on at night because I'm perpetually on call. There was a span of nearly a month where I was woken up between 1AM and 3AM by someone telling me I won a cruise vacation.

Caller ID spoofing is probably the technology that best shows how poor engineering when thinking through communication protocols can have a massive negative impact on the world.

Caller ID spoofing is also the technology that allows people to "SWAT" celebrities all the time (using just a home PC) with virtually zero chance of ever getting caught.

The kind of odd thing is that these robo-calls have programmed such a gut negative reaction in me to anyone calling me that I will now go to great lengths to not do business with any company that calls me on the phone. Due to getting unrequested phone calls from them, I've dropped a domain registrar, an x86 server manufacturer, and an insurance company. One voice call is all it takes and I am done with the company... even if it is during business hours. I just cannot, and will not, work with a company that calls my personal cell phone with out first being asked to.
> The UK also want to do that but they face the enormous obstacle of English-language opinions posted from the USA, which are protected by substantial first-amendment free speech provisions.

That's no obstacle. US laws don't apply to the UK, and the UK already has some heavy-handed internet restrictions that couldn't fly in the US. For example, in the UK, there is a list of child pornography sites that all ISPs are required to block. The internet does make jurisdiction a thorny question, but there are sometimes ways around that (note the old rules on British libel law, which pretty much held that you only had to justify some harm in England/Wales to sue for libel there--e.g., Donald Trump could have sued the New York Times for libel in the UK instead of the US. The UK did tighten up the residency requirements after the US passed a law basically saying "we're not going to cooperate in enforcement of UK libel law").

It's not a matter of English versus non-English. It's a matter of the ability of governments to enforce local legislation.
Here's the reason for anyone wondering:
_Thread_local is reserved in C99, so we don't need a -pedantic warning.
(Quoting the standard: "All identifiers that begin with an underscore and
either an uppercase letter or another underscore are always reserved for any
use.")

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-bugs/2017-June/056419.h...
I have a question regarding startup growth so I apologise in advance if its irrelevant here (haven't read the article to be honest).

1) I get that to get the first users, you have to go out and recruit them. That's the advertisement part. So yeah, I get how you get users by advertising.

2) I get that when you have a million customers, they become the advertisement and they are the ones who are bringing you new customers. Your product "ad surface" is way bigger than simple banners through them.

Now what I have a hard time to understand is how 300 users procures the same effect as 2) (or even 3000). I get that they gonna get you 30 more customers by talking about your product to their "friends" who, if everything goes fine, at their turn gonna bring you 3 more customers who gonna bring you 1 more customers, for a grand total of 34 more customers. And that's the end of it. That wont grow much bigger. So basically, you would have to go back to 1) to get new users.

What am I missing? Does a user have to bring you n more new customers, n > 1? How many customers do you need via advertising so that the compound growth effect kicks in?

edit: I can see actually 2 types of compound growth effects: a) a user explicitly recruit another user (ex: "hey my friend, come play to this game"), b) a non user "see" other people using the product and he tells himself that might be a good idea to try it.
Anyway, so basically, what I see is that, early on, you can rely only on a) so, in average, your customers have to get you n more new customers, n > 1, by explicitly recruiting them for you. Which, if Im correct here, would give an idea how badass the product must be.
Uh am i the only one that found none of that confusing or any more complicated than any other tech stack? Why on earth would i expect the same security process for a relational database and storage web server (s3). How is s3:* even bad? I mean clearly its a stupid default, so its not one, but a popular way amongst users to use buckets as construct for better or worse. You dont have to "throw out wildcards randomly" unless your devops situation is in shambles. Just like on any stack by any provider. Do you expect different policy expressions with any web server on earth?

I dont even primarily use aws
The Healthcare ‘Cost Disease’ Demystified
Note that some of their upcoming long haul stuff is to obscure airports: their new flights from Edinburgh are to "Providence/Boston T. F. Green Airport" which is an hour+ away from Boston. (Well, it's a totally reasonable airport for Providence, but marketing it as Boston is dubious!)
It's truly bizarre to see how big of an impact one random, completely irrelevant event (ZoePost, GamerGate) had on the sites culture.
For anybody on Rails, you can call .to_sql on any ActiveRecord::Relation and it will return the exact SQL string that your code is producing. Really handy for troubleshooting, especially for associations.
Some data from an interview with Prof. John Cacioppo, the director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (W. W. Norton & Co., 2009)

http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/loneliness-is-a-modern-day-epi...

"I’ve seen studies that suggest the percentage of Americans who report chronic feelings of loneliness has risen over the past few decades.

Looking from a few different sources of data, it seems that way. The percentage of Americans who responded that they regularly or frequently felt lonely was between 11% and 20% in the 1970s and 1980s [the percentage varied depending on the study].

In 2010, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) did a nationally representative study in 2010 and found it was closer to 40% to 45%. And a recent study done on older adults out of University of California - San Francisco put it at 43%. In our own longitudinal studies, we’ve seen it at about 26% and longitudinal studies in Europe have found around the same thing; there could be mathematical reasons for why it’s lower in longitudinal studies than in cross-sectional studies ones.

So loneliness levels are on the rise, we’re just not sure by how much. Why do you think this is the case?

We aren’t as closely bound. We no longer live in the same village for generations, which means we don’t have the same generational connections. That releases social constraints—relationships are formed and replaced more easily today. We have Tinder, Match, eHarmony and all these kinds of places you can dial up and find friendships, connections and opportunities that didn’t exist. In the last 15 years or so, many of those face-to-face connections have been replaced with social networking.

We’ve found that if you use social networking as a way to promote face-to-face conversation, it lowers loneliness. But if you use a destination, as a replacement for the face-to-face, it increases loneliness."

Interestingly, a paper found evidence for declining loneliness among American college and high school students.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422313

If I need to guess I'd say that online social networking may promote face-to-face socialization among students, while it is often used as a replacement for in-person interactions among older adults.
Companies that have low costs and innovate during a downturn are always the ones to come out the strongest out of the downturn. By the time the big players "return to normal" in an upmarket, those innovators are already in a much better long term position to take them on.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot of prior art for their "design", so I'm kind of safe there.

Edit: unless you were referring to the whole aspect of the page. In that case, it's just a presentational page for an open source project, so it has nothing to do with blogging platforms. That should be ok, I guess.
One thing this article mentions, in an offhand way, is the effect of media outlets on mass appeal. There was a time where things like Dick Clark and Ed Sullivan were not just major tastemakers - they were some of the only tastemakers. The internet cracked this singular, self-reinforcing media loop wide open by allowing people to explore alternative genres and art forms. That's not to say that people aren't still influenced by guitars and guitarists; they're still selling almost a million of them every year! But I can't help but wonder how many of those other sales got robbed by people inspired by other artists.

Anecdotally, my own experience confirms the "robbed interest" theory. I got into bluegrass music early in college, found and listened to a bunch of it online, and ended up learning to play the dobro. I doubt I'd have ever managed that if I hadn't had the internet to interact with the genre's community, or consume more media in the same vein.
LZ4 is only one of the many variations on the basic principle of the LZ family of algorithms, which is to replace repeated sequences with references to where they were before.

What does amaze me a little, is the fact that the rather more complex Huffman algorithm was published and implemented decades before LZ.

The core idea of LZ, however, has been known for centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration_mark
All good suggestions. But, pthreads, they are unlikely to detect the satire in bringing Art of the Deal, and are more likely to be reassured than concerned. In fact, I expect all Jihadis to be carrying tAotD already.

Forgot to engage karma shields though and the anti-humor brigade is out in force! The book burners of HN!
The extreme left throughout popular media? I watched a neoliberal win the democratic primary this past year. We can talk about whether the media was biased in her favor, but that would strengthen my point: they chose her over the progressive candidate.

I really don't like this sort of "look what you made me do" thinking, especially when the reaction is to their own boogeymen. If the alt-right wants to blame the left for their rise, they should be honest about their origins: culture wars on the internet, not society as a whole.
It exists; was at a Founders pitch day for new Seattle startups recently and the winner was a company using drones and sensors along with chat features. I’m pretty sure it was called something like “Unearthed” or something. I’m not sure if they got inspired by a similar interaction with acquaintances or not but it seems reasonable
I'm also around 2m and never had issues with leg room on Norwegian flights.
Stewart Airport, N.Y. seems like the poster child for third tier airports with ridiculous transfer times everywhere.
Anything in the "lifestyle business" category by definition doesn't scale past a certain point. Also, anything that requires a licensed individual (e.g. plumber, electrician). There could be an interesting business opportunity in Uber-izing networks of these small businesses. For example, I need a dog sitter last minute but I don't want to scour craigslist or have to remember which of my neighbors dog sits.
What I know is that the Democratic Obama Justice Dept wrongly bowed to the special interests to weaken competition among domestic carriers (perhaps bowing to union interests which also want less competition so that they can get higher wages). It clearly was an anti-trust issue and yet they approved not one but two consolidations.

Consumers paid for these consolidations with higher fares and worse service.
> C++, which few people under the age of 40 want to learn

Thanks for making us aware that it is going to be easier to find jobs in High Performance Computing, Fintech, Games, OS and compiler development, machine learning, GPGPU computing, robotics, automotive industry, database engines, audio processing, medical devices, IoT,....
I've done both equal and non-equal, but I've yet to have or observe a business where both the risk, contribution, and effort put in by the founders is actually equal.

Sometimes it's just a conversation founders want to avoid having because it's uncomfortable, but that in itself is a bit of a red flag.
OK. So let's say it is the placebo effect. You can pay $50 for a massage that will manage your pain or better yet get rid of it or you can pay 100's of dollars and your insurance 1000's to be relieved of the pain with pain killers and medicine you don't need. For my money I'll choose the $50 and if it doesn't work then I'll consider other treatment options.
Its seems hospitals are starting to wise up to this too. Here is Rutgers University Hospital Pain Management Center for example:
"We also refer patients for alternative techniques such as acupuncture, chiropractic care, bio-feedback, and self-hypnosis."

http://njms.rutgers.edu/departments/anesthesiology/pain_cent...
I wish Radio Silence had a snitch-like option, so I could run it in "noisy" mode for a day and block anything that I deem necessary, and then go silent after that.
Oh wow I've never been on a transatlantic flight with pay-for food but I think it makes sense. I don't know why people feel the need to eat so frequently on flights and it clauses chaos for everyone while it's being served if you are in economy.
You can have functional SQL query languages that map directly to SQL
without object oriented row mapping. Everyone can use these tools without performance issues.

Disclaimer: i wrote SQLAlchemy.
I wonder if they would have been better off (happier) remaining in Iran and being together. The children basically lost their dad in order to live in the USA. I'm not sure that's worth it.
I bought a Gibson SG in high school because Angus Young and the guitarist in my favorite local band played them.
> AFAIK localising "formatting literals" is the more normal method, it avoids redundancies as you don't need two different systems

I never understood why people think this is a good idea. The exact same sequence of letters in an English phrase, which you would like to use instead of IDs, can mean two different things in two different places - and those two different meaning could have different forms in other languages. Denormalizing translation database like that seems semantically incorrect (and strikes me as programmer laziness).

I agree that in general, more granular is worse for translations - there's too much risk your split will pierce the contextual whole that's required for some translations.
The most recent information visible in search about this guy's company shows he was making a little over $20,000/year. A recent traffic related arrest of someone with the same name as his in the same area where he is reported to live shows a residence in a cheap beach condo high rise in a low cost part of southern Florida.

All that misery he put out into the world and he probably only made around $20K/yr (probably from mentally vulnerable/disabled populations). Have any of you ever actually purchased a cruise vacation from a robo-caller that spammed you in the middle of the night?
> I think you have fallen victim to the news.

I've experienced these problems first hand. US immigration being incredibly rude to visitors for no reason at all, and know someone from London who was sent to secondary because they were the wrong skin color (their electronic devices searched, books read, and seemingly no clear answer as to why, it was a business trip with a return ticket to a conference they had a ticket for and hotel room booked for).

I genuinely wish Americans could experience US immigration as a foreigner; rather than get their special lines where they just get waved through. Then things would change, things would change rapidly.

How many times, online, do Americans need to read that US immigration is some of the worst in the world before you'll believe it? That your border feels like entering a police state? Seriously, what will it take? The fact that you guys are now attributing it to "fake news" says a lot.

News stories are fake, anecdotes are fake, it is all fake because you don't like to hear it...

PS - US immigration has been horrible since at least 9/11 (arguably it was bad before). This has nothing to do with Trump, it was horrible under Obama and W. Bush too.
OAK <-> LGW on Norwegian during October was ~$650, which is about the same as Virgin Atlantic.

Some of the fare prices to Europe are very cheap, but not always.
> Who will pay for these jobs? Here is where the enormous wealth concentrated in relatively few hands comes in. It strikes me as unavoidable that large chunks of the money created by A.I. will have to be transferred to those whose jobs have been displaced. This seems feasible only through Keynesian policies of increased government spending, presumably raised through taxation on wealthy companies.

This proposed solution seems okay in the short term (a social safety net) but over the long term it makes it sound like humans supported in this means are pets.

> The government will not only have to subsidize most people’s lives and work; it will also have to compensate for the loss of individual tax revenue previously collected from employed individuals.

The above does not sound like a sustainable situation. How can a small part of the population support the rest of the population completely? I can not imagine that lasting for that long until something changes in some unforeseen way.
You never can tell how long a fad will last, but to be fair, EDM aka House aka Techno has been around in one form or another since the late 80's or early 90's depending on who you ask. That's almost 30 years right there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music
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> There was also always an undercurrent of racism (spamming the n word goes back to the early days of /b/)

You are conflating message with actual sentiment. Using racist language is simply a subset of inflammatory language and trolling. Calling people a retard or a faggot fulfills similar goals. It does not really tell you much whether the anonymous poster actually discriminates based on those attributes or just uses the language to maintain a vulgar atmosphere. Slur words will always exist, attempting to ban them will just make the political correctness treadmill spin faster.

> which was the first time a lot of 4chan users experienced politics having an effect on something central to their culture.

Not quite. cartoon child porn has always been seen as a canary in the coalmine. If they go after that, which other deviant thing will next be branded as a thought crime?

4chan is radically free speech. Any political movement that restricts free speech in any way at all will have that as a black mark on them. The philosophy is that only deeds matter, words are free. If you post on /b/ that you'll shoot up a school tomorrow nobody will give a fuck. If you then continue to actually shoot up a school tomorrow then a) that's the actual crime b) great lulz will be had.
Yes, very much so; a fairly large team at Google is devoted to maintaining it.

I'm curious why people keep asking this? Github is very active - many commits per day. There are multiple releases per year. Flutter (which uses Dart) got a fair amount of attention at Google I/O. Where do you look to decide on project activity?
Here's a time saver: Any news article whose title contains the word "could" or "may", is probably speculative and not worth reading. If the article is about a cure for cancer, it's 99.9% probably not worth reading.
Not exactly. First of all the currencies aren't deflationary, they're slightly inflationary, meaning they lose value over time. Deflationary currencies are considered very bad if a government holds much debt at all. Inflationary currencies incentivize spending over holding.

Second of all they don't just look at velocity of money, they also look at the economy's strength, demand for money and lending, consumer prices indicies, and other things that are tied to external metrics and thus need a centralized authority to use. For a cryptocurrency, we can't do this, we have to rely on some algorithm. Tying creation rate to velocity of money seems like a decent approximation to me, but I could be dead wrong.
Agree to disagree I guess. I wasn't even talking about politics. I was talking about the left-wing PC culture that is throughout society for the last few years. Can you say with an straight face that most universities, for example, aren't more extreme left than in the past?

EDIT: In the past a progressive candidate wouldn't have even stood a chance, now one of them almost won.