skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to fly a lot when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. Air travel was always awful. I usually flew with and especially hated United Airlines, because the service was so spectacularly awful.

Then, I moved to Russia. Now, I fly on Aeroflot, S7 and Ural Airlines a lot. It's always awful. Really awful. It makes me pine for the good 'ol days when I had to fly on United. The incompetence, apathy and downright idiocy of these people who work for the Russian airline comes never ceases to shock me.

I'm so happy now when I come back to the United States and fly United. Finally, I get to fly on an airline with staff who are comparatively friendly, helpful and competent.
I thought that, too... until it was time for me to buy a house. Then I discovered most home owners are just as miserly as landlords. Hacky, quick DIY fixes? Check. Cheapest possible repair/replacement option chosen every time? Check. Obvious concern for only things that "increase resale value" over things substantially more important to the house's long term well-being? Check.

I can't tell you how many houses I looked at with peeling, worn roof shingles, but a bangin' dishwasher and stove.
I remember having a discussion with a co-worker the day they announced, and he swore Chrome would go nowhere, and while I definitely thought it would be an uphill battle, I brought up the fact that their home page is their greatest advertising opportunity (now, they've very smartly moved that role to the less valuable, but still insanely high traffic, properties). So I thought they definitely could pull it off, but a year before chrome, I stupidly thought WebKit should just fold up shop and adopt Gecko. So obviously I can't really predict much.

But then I actually tried it as a secondary browser for about a week, and fell in love.

Not long after, I finally realized two things:
1. Speed is the killer feature, not just of chrome, but of any software.
2. The auto update feature, on every platform (such as iOS' app store) and browser, was the most ingenious of the two. As a web dev, my biggest worry was the potential chaos, some of which has happened, but waaaay less than I could have ever hoped.
They truly did make the updates a first class experience from the developer to the different cases of users.
How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer
Usually I hate every additional button. But anything that fights AMP is good. AMP is one of the biggest threats to the open internet at the moment.

Any numbers on how much traffic a news publisher loses out if they flat out refuse the AMP blackmail and don't offer an AMP version?

We the tech crowd should help publishers to come up with creative ideas to subvert AMP.

I wonder if it would work to only show 50% of the article and then have a link "Read the full article on our website".

If a publisher had a great mobile experience, they could get even more aggressive about it. Like have a big disclaimer on top of the page "We have a great mobile website. Unfortunately Google blackmailed us to give them our content. You are currently reading a Google version of our site that we had to make because Google is hiding the open web in their search results. If you want to read the original, click here. If you want to try a search engine that searches the open web, try one of these: ..."
AirBnB has atrocious customer service. I once booked a $1,607 30-day reservation in NYC that ended up lacking internet, having a smelly mattress, wasn't the same room pictured in the listing, and a host that dismissed my concerns as "lies". After a day and a half of calling their customer service, AirBnB rejected my claim to a cancellation/refund. Then later they offered me a $100 exploding offer that expired in 24 hours. I ended up having to get the supervisor on the line (no easy task), and finally after 3 days I was able to get a refund. Was not worth the hassle, and I refuse to book long-term on AirBnB since this incident.

Thank you for this post. I had written a draft of my AirBnB experience, but totally forgot to publish it. This article has reminded me how shitty that experience was, and that these companies need to be held accountable for their bullshit.

https://medium.com/@jeremybernier/dont-try-to-live-off-airbn...
So to speed up the web Google now makes me load a hobbled AMP page then I have to search for a link to actually get to the site I actually wanted to go to. How is this better? It's gotten to the point that I search for something and just give up since it's a sea of worthless AMP links.
The problem that AMP is solving is very real. The issue is that AMP is solving it in the worst way possible. Instead of using this as a ploy to force traffic to stay within Google's ecosystem, Google should encourage sites to just slim down their excessive pages.
HN'ers who hit paywalled links, for one (the "web" link doesn't work quite as well as it used to). It seems to happen to me at least once per day.
"If a bank lost everyone’s money, regulators might try to shut down the bank."

Oh really? I thought it depends on how big the bank is. Agencies giving tripe-A to junks were punished so harsrhly...
A standard isn't some random spec text you publish on the web. To become a standard, a spec has to be adopted by multiple major parties.
Classification of Coaxial Cable
I don't understand the coloring book concept. I wonder if it is an American thing [I am from Europe], especially the recently successful "adult coloring book" concept. Personally I find inconceivable that someone can spend his time doing this. Unless, of course, it's just a pretty excuse for using B/W printing which is cheaper than full color, or you put special meaning in the activity -- apparently some consider it a form of meditation.

Even for kids I have doubts. I remember I once talked to an American 12-year old that loved to color books and at that time I found incredible that too: in my european world, coloring books are for pre-schoolers.
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Some of my favorite episodes of This Week in Tech was when Jerry was a guest host. I loved all of his sci-fi books over the years. Going to miss this guy a lot.
I don't understand your comparison. The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app? But every other webbased reader had the same advantage, and since Google Reader's demise, we got an explosion of amazing readers, from free over self-hosted to paid.
> How well does it work if you are trying to stick to C and not go the C++ route?

The IDE works fine, but you're missing on a lot :p. You can use raw makefiles or, better, CMake with it; the integration with cmake's server mode in the latest version is top notch.

> They are GPL licensed, so not very permissive, or quite expensive for a commercial license. Is there a significant difference in feature set between the open source & commercial versions for someone that just wants to take it for a spin?

First, there are two things: Qt and QtCreator. Qt is a C++ library (and also has its own DSL, QML which is a godsend to make modern UIs) and QtCreator is an IDE. While it has a lot of Qt-specific features (eg UI designer, some Qt-specific autocompletions, Qt examples on the front page), it can just be used as a general-purpose IDE for C, C++, Python, and Nim. As such, its license does not matter for you as a developer, unless you want to ship a product with the IDE (for instance Sailfish OS and Ubuntu used a customized QtCreator as the IDE for their respective SDK).

Then, Qt is as you saw, under multiple licenses: commercial, gpl, and lgpl.

* all the libraries are under GPL.

* most modules are additionnally under LGPL.

* two tools are only under the commercial license: QML compiler (but it has been superceded by another approach that was open-sourced) and pre-made images for some embedded boards (Boot2Qt, basically useful for embedded software that runs fullscreen just on top of the linux kernel with no GUI environment, generally on the raw framebuffers or drivers provided by the board vendor).

The things that are under GPL but not LGPL are here: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmodules.html#gpl-licensed-addons (three modules: virtual keyboard, charts and data visualization). Everything else on the page (ie more than enough for "taking it for a spin") can be used from proprietary apps (you have to make a readme at some point that says that you use Qt, like any other open source libs.) . The simplest is to just use the Qt shared libs, but you can also link them statically:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...
They mentioned tensor2tensor, how is this related to another repo: seq2seg:https://github.com/google/seq2seq? Which one is more general?
I like TinyTinyRSS, but I wish there was a better web-client for it. The default one is way to slow and bloated. I'd still recommend using it though.
heck look at what the Chinese gov did during 'cultural revolution' - all the stupid stuff imaginable. Stupidity only possible due to non-restricted communism. "let's kill all the birds! they're eating everything" - which resulted in...
They do, just not as a setting. Without extra browser extension, you need to either open the link directly or click it all the time. (Unless the changed that very recently? Would be weird, they have been working hard for years to make fb as unhelpful as possible for me)
I could do a writeup of this video, but I am busy. Sacrifice 11 minutes of your time and be open minded:

https://youtu.be/SC2Qj8HsMK8
On what proof?
I wonder if Equifax will face any international action, for example here in the UK we have Data Protection laws that can be used to fine companies for such breaches, although it's not entirely clear if British customer data has been affected.

Still, Equifax are probably quick to tell everyone if you've missed one payment on your credit card, but took a few months to say they've been hacked? Doesn't seem fair
Inoreader is the best. I was about to setup my own Tiny Tiny Rss server but luckily found Inoreader. It has everything I need and more.
Stolen OS LOL. Just when you think the BS couldn't be piled any higher you take it to another level. Why would you say something as embarrassing as this?

If you think using 38 open source Java API declaration packages constitutes an OS then you clearly have no idea as to what an OS is.

>Of course OEMs will choose free.

Is that why they also chose Windows Phone?
Um... Firefox has print preview and has had it for a long time.

It's not enabled on Mac, where there is a native print preview available from the print dialog: you can fiddle with the settings, then "Open PDF in Preview". Is it possible you're on Mac?
It's a shame that fewer and fewer sites offer feeds. Most of them still do, luckily, but I've had to dig up http://feed43.com about once every two months. Though I wasn't really aware that some feed readers could perhaps generate feeds automatically, I'll have to try that out sometime.
Jerry Pournelle, RIP
This will sell
Want to know how to entirely avoid amp...

Use Firefox on your phone.

;-)
The problem with RSS is that most feeds treat all items the same so the same prominence is attached to a nuclear strike on New York as is attached to a child scraping its knee.
Anti-flash white
The raindrop argument is like suggesting that we rebuild a beach a single grain of sand at a time. Le Bourget airport outside of Paris was packed with hundreds of private jets for the Paris conference; all those “important” people nullifying the effects of thousands of Leafs. I stop my raindrop, they start a thunderstorm, so I hardly see the point of spending extra money when the “important” people have no respect for the sacrifices of normal people.
A lot comes down to "perfect storm." At least many parts of California have a long history of controlling growth for a variety of reasons including environmental concerns and people wanting to preserve existing character.

Proposition 13 likely plays at least some role.

People like living in California. For the most part, it's just about the perfect climate whether your idea of a perfect climate is better satisfied by SoCal or NoCal. Lots of natural and other recreation activities of all sorts.

Finally, it's been a job growth magnet across a lot of different areas, most recently in certain types of tech. And, with respect to the Bay Area specifically, much of that growth has been relatively sudden on the scale that sort of thing normally happens.
Inside the Guest Worker Program Trapping Indian Students in Virtual Servitude
Quite a few notable sites have implemented AMP support as well as there being alternative AMP caches (eg Cloudflare). I'd say that it falls under being "adopted by multiple major parties."
> quick to tell everyone if you've missed one payment on your credit card, but took a few months to say they've been hacked

Yes, I believe Equifax may finally get a bit of karma on this one. Unfortunately, at a lot of others' expense.
Can you give a concrete example of your bad experience with Russian airlines? I'd like to share in your newfound perspective on U.S. airlines.
Thanks rmbeard. We don't have any specific importing tools, but a markdown converter should get you most of the way there.

Happy to discuss further if you do end up wanting to use it.
525,600 possible pins for a whole year is staggeringly tiny.

1440 tries max if you know the day. 720 if you know if it was day or night. Botnet and/or proxies can do the rest
It's a little bit more useful than Microsoft Office's formats since it's actually well documented, and isn't prone to arbitrarily changing without notice. Since it's developed out in the open, there will plenty of notice before any breaking changes.

The alternative implementation issue is a fair point, but doesn't seem like that's an issue for most people. I haven't seen any technical criticisms of the amp library.
Interesting article, much of which I agree with. Would be better without the swearing.
> ...although it's not entirely clear if British customer data has been affected.

It has [0]:

"... Equifax also identified unauthorized access to limited personal information for certain UK and Canadian residents ... no evidence that personal information of consumers in any other country has been impacted."

[0]: https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com
It's so beautifully put together and made so easy to understand, I thank you very much, it helped greately in my learning.
What are the tax rates in both?
I've failed to track down who invented it; but a 1993 patent by Schlumberger describes this already as prior art (US5237540).

Very clever...
Show HN: Deep learning using 3D architectures
best I can suggest is to read some frequent flyer forum complaints about business class..

I told them a couple of times to fly in economy for a long haul flight again once or twice and you'll be back to happy with business class :-)
Show HN: Lip Reading – Deep Learning with 3D Networks
Netherlands has DigiD. Banks here are rolling out iDIN which can be used to authenticate elsewhere as well. Banks here have been using TOTP for ages for online banking, with a physical authenticator. Tho iDIN is more recent.

Belgium has eID.
I think, the hypothetical lower-bound would put webpages onto the hard drive whenever possible, therefore not really being dependent on webpage size...
I am ignorant in these matters but do earthquakes likely occurrences somehow build up over time ?
Remember this the next time you read anything in the news about an industry you don't understand.
I think at this point the smart move to make is to devalue the stolen data: assume social security numbers are public information.
Not sure I can say it's complete crap. There's a fairly cheap place that list items like:
- Chicken
- Pork

And when I'm looking at the menu I'm thinking... ugh, can't really find anything that sounds any good. The food comes and it's amazing.

I go to a fancyish place and when it's described better, it sounds amazing.

I feel what the article said about describing food should be common-sense tbh
How do we get in on this lawsuit? What are the implications of this hack to an average person and what if anything should they do about it?
your right but this isn't a statistics textbook, they're just saying sooner or later
I just use email newsletters from interesting companies and projects. RSS is not much better than FB and Twitter.
I think this incident is a very good argument for why NSA and the agencies in other countries should focus on publishing known exploits. This was probably not one that was known, but it shows what could happen if criminals get access.
OP says you can't access the command processor on a modern GPU, but I thought that changed recently, now you can program the GPU hardware?

http://gpuopen.com/amd-vega-instruction-set-architecture-doc...

Am I missing something, or is OP just a little out of date?
It's quite common. Some governments, like some people, would rather not appear to be insolvent.

In Chinese history, there was a time when the government declared a simultaneous tax increase and tax reform because taxes (in grain) often didn't even arrive at the capital. The reform turned out to be so successful that the increase was canceled.
Guess specification might be a less controversial term. Just saying that it's strictly defined, and easier to implement alternate native renderers for (eg Safari's reader) than raw HTML.
Credit cards are great because if someone steals mine and makes fraudulent charges, they're stealing Chase's money, not mine.

(In theory if someone steals money through your debit card you can get it back... in theory. I'd like to avoid ever having to find out how well this works in practice).
> First, Florida is extremely fiscally conservative

Neglecting infrastructure is not "fiscally conservative". It is fiscally reckless.
Yeah, then I'd have to use a service that has already failed me. I think this shouldn't be the case.
`Feeddemon and others` refer to regular applications (see http://www.feeddemon.com/). Google reader was, to my knowledge, the dominant feed reader back then even though other services existed (and filled up the space when GR was discontinued) and had that same advantage.

> The advantage of google reader was that it was a web app?

Over regular client readers, yes.
That makes sense, however perhaps there aren't enough women in some fields. Therefore even if true and desirable, it may not be physically possible.
So much this. I've been using FF mobile for years now, and if AMP hadn't negative coverage on HN regularly, I would've no idea what's the deal with this AMP thing, much less AMP links flooding search results.
Shader ISA != command processor
I'm not arguing against you, just curious... in France, what prevents people from just applying for loans over and over and never paying them back?
Depends on the war you are waging.
> Our understanding is that data entered (and retained) through consumer portals/interactions

Why was such sensitive data "retained" at the edge?
I mean, Equifax is quite literally in the business of making sure people don't get away with things. It would be unfair to their mission for them to continue as a going concern.
Has anyone notified them of this bafoonery?
The Gell Mann amnesia effect - https://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnes...
> how would I convince banks to give me this info?

Read "The Art of the Deal.|"
Yeah, but how can that be solved? The law is very complex in any advanced country (I'd argue necessarily so), and requires specialists to navigate it.
There is actually a plugin called REST: http://struts.apache.org/docs/rest-plugin.html
Stress between tectonic plates build up over time as they slide against each other, and they release over time, most of the time slowly slipping by, but sometimes they can jerk and release fast, causing an earthquake.

This is based off my memory of a class from years ago, so I am likely oversimplifying it.
Descend very gently.
I would not trust USPS with anything. I came by to pick up my mail and they gave me someone else's mail - a stack of 40 some letters / documents - all sorts of sensitive stuff that I could in theory open up and steal that person's identity.

Please, think before you say USPS... this agency is broken as hell. The last thing we want to do is trust our identities to them.
In the Uk you'd be looking at replacing a roof after about 100 years, costs about £6k ($8k), not exactly a major cost.
CH's income tax is graduated and can only be estimated as a function of which canton and community you live in. I live in Zürich city in canton Zürich. I can't recall exactly what the figure works out to be, but it is nothing compared to taxes I would pay were I still living in the United States (hint: as an American abroad, I am a citizen of two countries on the planet who tax their citizens working and domiciled abroad). I get partial tax credit (it's basically double taxation; don't let anyone tell you otherwise).

I estimate my CH tax averages to 20 percent my gross income, which is pathetically low by European standards, and before any of my fellow U.S. countrymen balk at this, consider that we have a working and efficient society here. It is mostly free market with some degree of state-run business. Where the state runs something, it runs it typically better than the private or public sector does in the U.S. All of this is to say, comparing taxes between the two is apples and oranges.

Another consideration: there are stupid voters here like anywhere else; but after they burn their hands on the metaphorical stove once, they recognize their mistakes and attempt to correct. I would give this country a higher social durability rating than any part of the United States. Not having the whole mythology of predestined preeminice shoved down their throats helps.

Last I checked when living in the U.S., my average tax was about 30-something percent when combining federal and state.

CH also has a yearly tax of wealth (property, stock, bank assets, etc.), but it is effectively so miniscule that it remains unnoticed for ordinary people. For me, it would be 0.1 percent on total wealth per annum.

Tax rate is orthogonal to the effectiveness of society, governance, and civil society. A starve-the-beast mentality injures all three of these. Sorry. I hate to put it so bluntly and bust anyone's bubble. You get what you believe in and pay for.
I can't even imagine how something like that can be implemented. Even if you put the most junior developer on this, something so serious should have been reviewed by someone. At least do a quick search on stack overflow or something.
When taking extreme positions or offering gambles at humor or impression, it is often impossible to know which side of the line you will fall. As they say in Hollywood, no one knows anything (about what will become a hit).
> Why is the licensing model even relevant?

Licensing model directly affects the availability of source code, and this technically facilitates exploit discovery.