skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> Expedia has moved to an agency model since but the damage was done. Booking managed to get far more inventory, capitalise on more search/PPC traffic and blow past Expedia.

Absolutely not! Expedia has the hotels.com brand. They are doing very very well by all metrics.

hotels.com and booking.com are about 50/50 market share globally. hotels is bigger in the USA, booking is bigger in the EU.

Historically, the USA hotels are massive chains whereas the EU hotels are smaller and independents. That's why they respectively started with the merchant and agency model.

Source: Insider data.
A short history of plywood in ten-ish objects
Would like to hear some views on this article.
Great! The bulkiness must be because of the length of the commit history rather than a measure of how bloated it is. At least I hope!
If you want to use React and build a SPA I'm afraid that's pretty minimal - by the end of writing your JS app you'll probably end up with another <EDITED: arbitrary large number> dependancies.

Actually looking at the package.json here:

https://github.com/Seedstars/django-react-redux-base/blob/ma...

Things are actually much worse than even the above - taking into account with all the dependancies resolved it's 930 packages :-/
Yes I agree on the Smalltalk point. I think Squeak was at one point the very future of REPL-like development and hence why I think the article doesn't really go into how REPLs could be better and how they aren't really that much better than other development tools (ie IDE + debugger,... I mention this in other comments).

I had no idea that common lisp had image saving! I only used the Carnegie Mellon one in college.... its been a long time.
It seems to be something that does originate from the MacOS world, where apparently that choice does not produce such thin strokes that are so hard to read.

While Dev Tools certianly can fix the brokenness, here is a bookmarklet that will do the same:

javascript:(function(){var all=document.getElementsByTagName("*");for (var i=0,max=all.length;i<max;i++){all[i].style.fontWeight='400';};void(0);})();

That is all one line. Put it into a bookmark, then hit the bookmark when you encounter one of these thin font sites. The thin fonts go away.
Saving Electric Garage Heater 120v
oh that's why it doesn't work anymore
15 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You to Travel the World
The same happened to me. It was fun to swim in the big waves and spend half of the time under the water until I got tired and realized that the current was stronger than me.
Show HN: “Fetch” request progress bar for React
BTT also lets you remap Apple TV remotes to whatever shortcuts you want in whatever apps -- I've used it many times to do presentations
Olive oil doesn't exactly make for tasty pastry.
The changes to the media landscape make great shows less likely. Companies simply stopped aiming for mass appeal in the same way.

If you're really into say magic, then you will forgive more about a show with wizards etc. So, with smaller overall audiences shows simply don't need to be as good.
Most of these are dev libraries
I installed Void Linux on my new laptop this May, switching from Arch, which I'd been using for about six years. The experience is very positive overall. For desktop, I'm using AwesomeWM and NetworkManager, altho Void comes with a variety of options to choose from.

I were afraid that their Wiki is not detailed enough, and expected that some packages could be missing. However, I could easily install everything I needed from the repository (except flashplugin). TeX is installed slightly differently, but the wiki entry helps here. Regarding documentation, DuckDuckGo does not show search results from Void Wiki, so I have to use Google search instead. Documentation seems sufficient, and where I need more, I can refer to Arch wiki.

With Arch, all services seemed automatically enabled when the packages were installed, otherwise you had to use systemd commands for configuration, which seemed a bit opaque to me. In Void, which is using Runit, enabling a service (like alsa, crond, cupsd, etc) is a matter of creating a symlink, which feels very transparent and reliable. I think, I like the idea of keeping the information about your services in the plain view in the filesystem. I have never been a configuration guru, so prefer this transparency and simplicity, and it felt robust so far.
Come on Lamdu Gitter, the Lamdu team also wanted to set up a community site for non-plaintext programming.
Logicians have been extremely useful to fields like formal software methods, linguistics and semantics, programming language design, etc. The latest rumblings are that linear logic may be perfectly applicable to reasoning about blockchains; see https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01001

Wanting to treat religion vs atheism using tools from logic strikes me as... kind of old-fashioned or eccentric! You seem to have chosen the most contentious, culturally complex, ambiguous topic of all time.

Maybe you'd be amused by this --
https://github.com/FormalTheology/GoedelGod -- an open source effort to formalize Gödel's proof of God's necessary existence with the framework of higher-order modal logic.
ReactDev: ... [fidgets] ... it's, uh ... [clears his throat] ... well, yeah... [fidgets some more] ...
A Comparison of Linux Container Images
Idiomatic event builder that helps you track user states from your web apps
Fission is also worth a mention: http://fission.io/, I will certainly keep an eye on `faas-netes`
This is missing Visual Studio Code and MPV.
Add custom Bootstrap 4 Sass to create-react-app
But no one have mentioned licensing issues. Linux or *BSD do have quite liberal licenses comparing to QMail license or at least last time I read it, it was quite years ago. I have maintained my own set of patches with some of my own additions but it was a hurdle and it didn't make exchanging of those easy. My point it, maybe it is not only abrassiveness issue?
Those buttons sound like an unfortunate way to distract a driver.
I'm wondering what would be your take on a concrete example that I just posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15115319
Richard Ayoade rapping, priceless.
portable water purifiers/desalinators are pretty useful, if you have access to any sort of water
While, that is, the pretty regular small earthquakes in the Vrancea county that borders Transylvania, release the pressure! At least, I assume that's better than a long period of ominous silence - I'm not a geologist!
Reminds me of another bloated boilerplate [1].

Please don't use those for real projects. It's really big pain to maintain and also the day after you start using it, it will be already deprecated.

Best approach, that won't make anyone else reading your code unhappy, would be to spend some time and create the base of your project yourself. It will result in a much smaller amount of dead code and you will learn a lot.

1: https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate/blo...
FWIW, there is a third season of Twin Peaks currently running (well, it's almost over... the finale will air on Sunday).

I think it appeals to David Lynch fans more than Twin Peaks fans, but so far I loved every single episode.
There are few[1,2,3] much better lists created according "AWESOME" initiative[0]

[0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/awesome....

[1] https://github.com/phmullins/awesome-macos

[2] https://github.com/phmullins/awesome-macos-commandline

[3] https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac
Fun fact I met the author of #3. Nice guy.
I'm sure there's a market for both.
Expedia is awesome. Rated best place to work in the UK, even in front of Google. They have hundreds of brands, which you certainly know and use whenever you travel.

They own hotels.com, which is doing incredibly well by any metrics you could think of. Last I checked, airbnb was about 2% of the bookings of hotels.com. It's negligible.

That being said, they are not competing. Hotels and BnB are not interchangeable.

Source: insider data.
Thanks,

Last time I looked at Smartos, I noticed few issues regarding hardware driver support. Do you know if there has been any improvement in this area, after the acquisition by Samsung.
I'd be very happy if you sent me a message about your model, my address is marius@tolud.com.

We tend to describe ourselves as "the tech team for your (tech) startup", our goal is to be a one stop shop for tech-heavy startups and companies.

We work with Node.js, TypeScript and React/React Native. We've created a bunch of quite unique libraries and components that help us develop a lot faster and with less bugs (I can get into detail over e-mail).

The company is new (founded in March 2017) and so far I just used my contacts from the past to find us work (7 developers, 2 analysts/consultants), but this source is quickly drying up. Right now we're finishing our website and my plan is to go to some meetups, but I'm not entirely sure it's going to help and I'm afraid I'm going to lose time.

Our biggest problem is that we don't have much of a portfolio, only a bunch of internal applications we can't really show. Clients I found online don't trust us and/or want our services extremely cheaply, which is a problem because our developers are senior guys that charge a bit - but that was a deliberate choice, we want to make high-quality software.
booking.com and hotels.com 50/50?

LOL.

And yes, failing to kill booking.com when Expedia was a clear market leader is a huge mistake indeed.
Except it mostly doesn't work.

My dashboard has recommended Minions "because you watched The Thick Of It". Out of the whole list, only Yes Prime Minister comes close, and even at that it misses the (more) obvious Yes Minister series.
I used to be a tinkerer, happily maintaining my own fork of, say, Rails. Or Postfix. Or the Linux kernel. It was tremendous fun and a great way to learn internals, but also a colossal time sink.

I don't fight the platform anymore, I just use whatever's vanilla out of the box. And I'm actually a lot more productive as a result.

I think it's more than okay to go through the tinkerer phase, it's one path to growing as a developer.
Magento vs. Shopify: Is Shopify Really the Better Choice?
Good.

Fuck the current medical system.

It's archaic, full of encumbrance and moves at a snails pace.

It's human lives at stake. These self preserving anti risk taking measures kill people.

The entire system needs a shake up and if this is the only way, so be it.
I think there should be a distinction made between "Free trade" and "free trade", the former being what can be seen in a capitalist economy - not the free association of people, but the requirement of some people (workers) to sell labour-power to landowners (capitalists). This systematic requirement is anything but free[0]. However the latter is the actual equal freedom for all to trade what they want to, in what quantity, which they can do without fear of poverty, destitution and death if they do so.

This is what Communists mean when they say they are opposed to Free trade. Because the sale of labour-power for wage is an unequal relationship from the outset, in a similar way to how the feudal serf producing his quit-rent-corn for the feudal lord - yes, he may refuse to hand it over (he has the freedom of choice), but should he take that freedom, which is human-created, structural, he is liable to poverty, destitution and death.

Edit: I must also note that it also works the other way. The capitalist is not free from capital either, within a capitalist economy - he must employ wage labour, make it his only concern, in order to survive, without which he will either be forced to become a worker, or if he cannot find work then become destitute. As such, Property itself is a restrictive force, acquiring a mind of its own. It is in the self-interest of the workers and the capitalist to counter this system which restricts them so.

[0] Kropotkin wrote in The Conquest of Bread: "We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We call those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.

The result of this state of things is that all our production tends in a wrong direction. Enterprise takes no thought for the needs of the community. Its only aim is to increase the gains of the speculator. Hence the constant fluctuations of trade, the periodical industrial crises, each of which throws scores of thousands of workers on the streets."
Nothing, free trade is perfect.
Warn us of the dangers of fake news.

Really, this video should have been tagged more appropriately. And they shouldn't have used the BBC branding.
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Show HN: React-d3-speedometer – speedometer like gauge for React
Is this the path the western world will take eventually? Anonymity is a very powerful tool for the masses to get their point across, it's pretty troublesome if you're the one in power.
I got it from the article, but several responses say that it's a misrepresentation by the article, and that more transactions would not consume significantly more energy.
Stay away fom SnippetsLab. It looses data very often... better approach: Use a decent editor like VS Code and use Dropbox/Google Drive with a directory structure of your own.
At that point, it's better to change the secret if at all possible.
This is all very hilarious, but I'm actually quite serious about the effort to get my favourite 8-bit machine from the 80's - the Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat machines (which also use 6502-based CPU's) - onto the Internet.

So, actually this could be quite useful - especially if we treat the machine state of the local system as transmutable, to be transferred up to "6502Cloud" for execution later. This could indeed be the beginning of an Oric-1/Atmos revolution in Internet communications!

(Disclaimer: TODO: Give the Oric-1/Atmos a Modem/Wifi device ..)
Honestly you should not use a React boilerplate of any kind as of today. We got pretty decent alternatives today in order to avoid using that kind of stuff:

- You're just getting started with React? Use CRA[1], it is enough for most of the use cases people will ever need use React with. You may also want to consider Next.js[2] if you are looking to do a more website-like app using React components but that's all...

- You know how to setup js tooling (webpack, babel, react-router, redux, ...)? You may still want to use CRA because it is way easier to use anyway. But this time you know you can either eject to more fine-grained tooling tuning or do your thing independently if you want.

If you use a boilerplate at that point, that's because you understand the tooling behind it and CRA won't answer to the precise need covered in this boilerplate. Also you should be able to maintain it and make it evolve later (the more dependencies, the harder it will be...). So in that case, if you master all of those tools (can't say I do) and integrate them often with django, then maybe, this boilerplate could be for you...

In conclusion, this covers a very special need and I don't understand how this got on top of HN... It actually makes the React community look kind of bad (assuming some people upvote when they see React stuff, which I don't think is the case) because this does not seem to solve any of the problems people outside of the community are complaining about. So, if you are looking for an easy way to use React (that won't prevent you from plugging it to your django backend btw), just use CRA!

[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
[2]: https://github.com/zeit/next.js/
Show HN: Yet Another Real Time Social Experiment
Or you could just be stuck in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
from the documentation it sounds like it uses namespaces where available, just like containers. chroot otherwise.
Social Octopuses? GTFO? Really? I must know more (as I am an avid octopus junky) and I thought that octopus were not social .. Got any more specifics?
Mmmmm, my main thought reading the list was mainly 'thats a huge amount of cruft to overcomplicate my life'. I mean, there are a few things in there that are useful.
>>> China forbids anonymous online posts

Clickbait title. The article doesn't even say that.
I don't wish to excuse past totalitarian states, but the Communist hypothesis as Badiou writes is much broader than totalitarian forms of government; it is the job of modern day Marxists to consider why it happens and how to prevent it.

I have nothing against free trade, I am opposed to the idea that capitalism promotes a 'free' society. Although there are market Socialists, I am not one of them, because I do no think that it goes far enough to eliminate the law of Value which stands in the way of emancipation of the labourer from capital.
I loved The Prisoner! I especially enjoyed how they would change certain details from episode to episode. It's like gaslighting the audience: highly appropriate, given the subject matter.
That article is focused on React/JSX. Having coded Nuxt/Vue apps I seriously can't relate. With Nuxt you don't even have the build/setup pains. It just works. It just builds.
They are called adrenaline junkies for a reason. That makes me wonder - can we put thrill-seeker in "rehab"? And should we?
Well 90% of everything is crap (or is it 95% ?) We just disagree about what 10% is non-crap. Due to the financial structure of TV production, you can be sure the majority of what is produced is considered worth watching by somebody.

In any case, we are in a golden age of TV production with more high quality (writing, action, production) TV shows produced than ever. Enjoy it while it last, so you can complain when it ends.
I'll try to provide an answer as far as I understand the issue.

Poorer countries with less developed markets are forced to open their domestic markets to foreign countries and competitors who then completely outcompete and dominate the local offerings. This prevents local business from developing and many existing ones go bankrupt in the face of foreign competition. This tends to leave the local market largely undeveloped in terms of domestic companies, and results in money flowing out of the country to foreign shareholders.

Another problem is that so-called "free" trade isn't totally free.

Some of the places that espouse free trade, like the US and Europe, don't practice what they preach. The most egregious example I can think of is agriculture subsidies, which effectively prevent (for example) African farmers from selling their produce in those markets while additionally making produce (like poultry) from those countries cheaper than local offerings, which again bankrupts locals.
It's right there in the title
If you're purely Apple then the build in Keychain and iCloud Keychain for syncing across devices is fine.
Saw a document once about red octopuses called red devils that attack in pack during night. Definitely not a fun thought to have.
The title doesn't seem entirely dissimilar:

> China doubles down on real-name registration laws, forbidding anonymous online posts
Signal does the exact same thing.
apart of the game, was the idea of having a cluster or a cloud of servers to run the virtual computers inside of the game. Remember that the original 0x10c initially was to have a 6502 CPU but Notch change his mind and make his own 16bit CPU.
Typically the problem areas would be in versioning of dependencies (in particular, resolving conflicting version requirements for different packages, where dependencies form a DAG rather than a tree) or around install hooks (where installation / removal can't be represented simply by existence / absence of whole files on the filesystem).
How Hurricane Harvey Became So Destructive
It's not in the content.
What am I missing? That is less than $5 per month and I'd even pay 10-15+. They could make it optional.
Missing Sublime Text as an editor, and Terminator as a terminal. Maybe the title should go to "31 Linux Apps used by an Advanced User", or the page title "31 Linux Apps you will love" ?
Just my 2 cents, but I would - once again - recommend the Dillo web browser. I has its drawbacks, there is no Javascript, and CSS support is ... not awesome.

But on the upside, you can have dozens of tabs open and still use less RAM than a freshly started instance of Firefox or Chrome.

Due to the Javascript/CSS situation, many web sites look broken or just remain blank, but it's great for reading documentation where you can easily have dozens of tabs open at a time.

(There is a Windows port, too, but last time I checked it was very unstable.)
I would look no further than the basic ingredients of the sport: speed, gravity, zero margin for error and over a long enough run of events you are destined for the morgue. This is not a sport, it is suicide in disguise.
Consciousness is definitely a function of the brain - unless you believe in the metaphysical.
Entry level app at best, hackers? Unlikely.
Valid concerns, sure. But how is banning it a good solution? How do you even enforce a ban on a group of people who are okay risking their lives for fun?

Maybe instead you get them contributing to a local SAR organization. Maybe they have to get insurance. Or something else more constructive and less ham-fisted than just making it illegal.

Why is banning stuff so high on everyone's list of solutions to problems that don't really affect them?
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I had that philosophy for a long time, but I’ve since written a few bash scripts and put them in a git repo to automate the things I do frequently.

I, too, try to stay close to the defaults, but I will change them if I feel strongly enough.
While we're on the subject of esoteric browsers. I'd recommend qutebrowser. It's WebKit based and has a few quirks (YouTube full screen doesn't work) but it's by far the most complete browser with vim keybinds.

If you love Firefox for vimperator I implore you to try qutebrowser.
> The CAC also specified what content is forbidden from being published online (link and translation via Google Translate), citing a list from a 2000 bill regulating Internet information services in China. The list is so broad that it can cover almost anything:

Article 15 of the Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services stipulates that Internet information service providers shall not make, reproduce, publish or disseminate information containing the following: (1) opposing the basic principles as defined in the Constitution; (2) endangering national security (3) to damage national honor and interests; (4) to incite national hatred, ethnic discrimination and undermine national unity; (v) to undermine national religious policies and to promote cults and (6) spreading rumors, disrupting social order and destroying social stability; (7) spreading pornography, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terror or abetting a crime; (8) insulting or slandering others and infringing upon others (9) Any other content that is prohibited by laws and administrative regulations.
Holy smokes. Talk about wired. It's all there though. Thanks for sharing.
Extremely Inspiring Logo Design Trends 2017
Uber picks Expedia head Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO
Direct quote: "According to the new regulations, Internet companies and service providers are responsible for requesting and verifying real names from users when they register and must immediately report illegal content to the authorities."
Not sure if it was used in Stuxnet, but an OOC compiler already exists [1] :)

[1] https://ooc-lang.org/
> Last Friday, the country’s top Internet censor announced a new set of regulations (link via Google Translate) meant to eliminate posts by anonymous users on Internet forums and other platforms.