skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a little bit more:

www.booking.com##.soldout_property
www.booking.com##.sr_rooms_left_wrap.only_x_left
www.booking.com##.lastbooking
www.booking.com##.sr--x-times-booked
www.booking.com##.in-high-demand-not-scarce
www.booking.com##.top_scarcity
www.booking.com##.hp-rt-just-booked
www.booking.com##.cheapest_banner_content > *
www.booking.com##.hp-social_proof
www.booking.com##.fe_banner__red.fe_banner__w-icon.fe_banner__scale_small.fe_banner
www.booking.com##.urgency_message_x_people.urgency_message_red
www.booking.com##.rackrate
www.booking.com##.urgency_message_red.altHotels_most_recent_booking
www.booking.com##.fe_banner__w-icon-large.fe_banner__w-icon.fe_banner
www.booking.com##.smaller-low-av-msg_wrapper
www.booking.com##.small_warning.wxp-sr-banner.js-wxp-sr-banner
Well said. I have been trying to pinpoint these sentiments for a while, but haven't quite figured it out. The ultra-rich and the middle-class ruling above others is a very eloquent way of phrasing it.

Your description hits my native Norway very well. It is very difficult to excel and get recognition for it. In a discussion with my SO the other day, I was trying to find a Norwegian word for 'excel' and realized that we do not have this word in our language.
I believe they autogenerate the password, but the long-term strategy is to make OAuth as seamless as possible so users are encouraged to login to everything with their Google/Facebook etc account.
Unfortunately this isn't a good option. My Pixel XL on Project fi is supposed to do this. It never does it when it should. Never. I have yet to see a phone handle the tradeoff well.
So why not just ignore the expectations and cook what you want? If Michelin tourists have different expectations than what Michelin judges judge on, then that's the source of the problem. People shouldn't blindly go visit a restaurant with stars and expect it to be identical to other restaurants with stars.
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The trouble with this style is that your sublanguage program is no longer a value, so you can't reason about it or treat it as one. Instead you've created, effectively, an imperative method that accepts a bunch of callbacks that implements effects and runs those.

I mean, the imperative programmers already knew they could write programs full of effects without monads. But there's a reason we regard that as bad style. As far as I can tell this piece is just a longwinded reinvention of imperative programming?
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With JS disabled as well?

This is quite weird, I was never able to access it with TBB nor with any proxy without the cloudflare captcha page popping in.
I think this is great for HTC, HTC is really good on hardware, and are only really struggling with marketing their phones, partnering with Google is almost a no brainer
What would be the point? If it's for tracking, you can do that without actually connecting to the networks, just by monitoring passively, like Android does.
Not just you - no dyslexia here, but I still parsed the title as "Time Travel" - so I was expecting some sort of animation on how the Tube map has evolved over the years.
In fact, they had their first digital camera in 1975. They basically shelved it.
But if he's willing to lose all three of his stars, then surely the possibility of losing only one shouldn't be a big deal? Or does he wants to permanently have three stars without the possibility of losing them?
The example image contains a large scale object spanning the whole image and has lots of fine-grained detail. While an impressive demo, it probably won't work as well on black-and-white documents, because the edge will have very little information to determine adjacency. Additionally, shredded documents can have two sides and the shredded stripes might be so small that it becomes difficult to tell up from down. That adds another exponential search space on top of the Traveling Salesman Problem.

That said, reconstruction of shreds is probably possible in most cases, although there is still lots of research to be done in this space. For example the Fraunhofer Society has a project to reconstruct torn documents of the East German StaSi surveillance agency [1]. There seem to be very few detailed publications on their methods, but I did find a high-level overview [2]

[1] http://www.bstu.bund.de/EN/Archives/ReconstructionOfShredded...

[2] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4763-3_8 (The Springer page is paywalled, but the DOI can help you find cheaper sources.)
>Seems like a huge missed opportunity

Don't worry. It's possible Elon will have a proper AI play some day, with a project that's more deserving of the name.

Seeing as he's concerned about safety, I can think of no better way to instill an ethos of caution into an army of AI researchers than having them show up to work at Cyberdyne Systems every day to build Skynet.
جزیره شگفت انگیز مون سن میشل در فرانسه
مکان تاریخی زیبا در فرانسه جزیره مونسن میشل می باشد که بیشترین بازذیذ را از بین جاذبه های فراسه بعد از برج ایفل دارد.
Agreed. But what does he want then? Keeping the stars without being judged?

If he wants to cook his own style (which I can totally understand) he has to put up with it. I am not shielded from my life decisions, either.
affirmative, i see it pass by about every year since 2013, i still look at them with as much amazement as i did in 2013.

A reverser ring for a e.g. 50mm to do macro is quite common in photography. Extender rings work quite nice too, though depth of field becomes mega-shallow, so for any significant object, you will need to resort to image stacking to get a properly focused subject.
I knew it, thanks for confirming. I use RentalCars a lot and I'm happy with the service, but the "someone just booked" just felt fake. The weird part is that, even though I was convinced it was fake, it still had an impact on me.
Haven't fully thought it through, but I think such a projection would be unintelligible in most cases - it would probably only look remotely 'intuitive' if travel time would always increase with distance.

For a real city, it would likely just be very weirdly morphed blobs of the map all cut up and smushed back together, with bizarrely curved roads, non-aligning roads & train lines, etc.
One reason why Google seems to do better is because it knows more about me. For example when I search for "reverse a LL" shows me reversing linked list on Google (which is what I intended) but something completely else on DDG. Maybe because Google just knows that I tend to search for programming stuff.
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Wow, even when Apple does something right some asshole has to interpret it in such a way that Apple is the bad guy. Really ?
Yes, the scanning works even when the wifi is "off". But it's fully passive, not actually connecting to the networks.
But if doing this for publicity, then it's insincere.
I didn't realize the flash was disabled, that is super annoying.

On the plus side, i'm extremely happy about the car bluetooth based DND mode.
Android scans, but it doesn't connect again just because you walked to another location or it's 5AM. Auto-connection does stay disabled.
It is incredible how complex water is. Chemically it is a super-simple molecule. For me this is a reminder that in nature even the most simple-seeming "things" will turn out to be unbelievably complex if researched or observed more closely. Like when physicists believed that they solved physics in the late 19th century - b/c it was just about solving some math problems revolving around Newton mechanics. Nature is consistently always being surprising - always.
Apple have made the right move but Google are too heavily invested in mobile advertising to let them get away with it that easily!
He can surely manage... even with half of his 120 million dollar bonus going to taxes.
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Right but this is still referring to the individual companies, no? My question is what does a yc 'token' get you? Does yc turn around and give you X amount of equity of each company in the current class, do you get to hand pick, or something else?
Yes, it seems Apple only gives version number updates to the latest version of iOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

Not sure if they can/do update independent components though
There's a case to be made that the largest tech companies are now larger and more powerful than many governments. Google estimates that there are now more than two billion active Android devices, and there's a similar number of active Facebook users.

Obviously it's not just about numbers. Google and Facebook can't imprison you or raise an army. But when you consider their influence on communications, their ability to lobby governments, and in some cases their tendency to work around laws (I'm thinking of Uber's 'Greyball'), the idea that the government is the ultimate accumulation of size and power doesn't seem so clear, especially outside the US.
OK, what about UK to Brazil? Or UK to Russia?
For those like me who have no idea what this is about, here's the Chrome Web Store description.

Steam Inventory Helper:
Provides many utilities for steam inventory and market (offers notification, quick selling, buying, offering trades, price check...)
Nonsense, if anything we observed that users keep asking for larger screens, not smaller.
I don't know why but the piano at the end made me think of this....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYR_1LvSGQ
I look at a number of sites when researching hotels, but the final straw for me was when the prices on Booking.com's page were actually higher than the prices offered by the hotels directly.

I repeatedly verified this on numerous dates, with numerous hotels -- Booking.com's super-exceptional "deals" were occasionally up to 20% more expensive than a direct booking with the hotel, for the exact same room type.

Has anybody else seen this?
Except that is literally what he said. As soon as they work for defense contractors they are no longer considered friends. Presumably no matter what they do, as long as they are associated they are guilty. Be it cleaning floors, writing software, testing hardware, or what have you.
Wanted to edit, but can't, so here: I assume hn will mess up the signature with formatting, here is a pastebin https://pastebin.com/mzxtFGWS
Just restarted TBB and turned off JavaScript (High Security) and went there: https://imgur.com/a/CXCw4
A few reasons I can think of:

Financially, having the option to do X has a certain value, even if on average X isn't valuable. (If X has volatility)

Startups has a certain risk characteristic that is different that what you can find on the public equity market. Theoretically, an efficient market should dish out higher reward to compensate for higher risk and poor liquidity of investing in startups. It may be beneficial to individuals to use startups to diversify their overall portfolio.

Startups in general might not be a great investment. The subset of all YC startups might be.

Researching and investing in startups is fun and educational.
Guy books the cheapest hotel he can find, smack in the middle of the "vibrant gay village". Unsuprisingly, it's noisy and he doesn't get any sleep. Blames the UX of the booking website, because somehow the website forced him into trying to sleep in the middle of a permanent Mardi Gras. Suck it up, snowflake.
>Part of being a grownup is doing whatever the hell you want.

Wait till you're a grownup and you realize how not true that is.
I'd contend they're a top booking site because of the wide variety of hotels available, not because of the CRO. I'd look for the team that goes and signs hotels up to the platform, they seem to be doing a really good job in all territories.
I have just downloaded Firefox Multi-Account Containers but I can't find information on how to use it.I am not an expert.
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I don't find statements like that particularly helpful.

It is fair to say that most organised attempts to advocate for 'White Culture' -such as White Pride events and a staggering proportion of 'European Students Associations' etc are explicitly racist in practice. This by itself should be concerning enough to lead observers to scrutinise very carefully organisations or publications devoted to securing 'White Culture'.
They're not involved yet. You're out of your bounds to make a person do something (like, accept inspector) on a promise of future interaction.
It doesn't seem so, visiting Panopticlick[0] on my unmodified Safari/iPhone7/iOS 10.3.3 gives "your browser has a nearly unique fingerprint"

[0]https://panopticlick.eff.org/
A key point in the philosophical foundation of democracy is that it is a good system for making decisions of consequence.

One can fashion a simplistic thought experiment where a simple majority votes to take resources from the minority, presumably against the minoritys' will. That seems rather unjust, or unfair.

What this glosses over is that governments need to make policy and decisions. Inevitably, there will be winners and losers.

Just because decision making power is taken away from the majority does not mean that more fair outcomes are likely. Some other method of making decisions, let's say by rule of a (hopefully enlightened) monarch, still needs to be implemented. And these decisions will have major consequences on the population, creating some winners and losers in the outcome.

The argument for Democracy is that it, on balance, will protect the population from potential tyranny of a despotic or corrupt ruler, better than other forms of government.

The political structure of the US government has built in protection against a tyrannical reign by the majority of the population over the minority. The system of "checks and balances" is a good idea, however imperfectly it is implemented.

As a practical matter, the "power of the people" is limited in any case. There is an actual "elite" in the US, and members of the elite hold disproportionate power. For better or worse.
How would HN attack the problem of solving a crossword using this type of tech + character recognition?
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You can still do things like being able to get the battery status with JS or detect visited links.
When I turn off WiFi, I expect it to remain off and not just decide to turn back on whenever I find a new network.

Any other behavior is dark UX.

Ignoring the security implications, it has implications on battery life.
So sue the homeowner. After the situation resolved.

But I don't see how a person owes something to you over a hypothetical situation.
The main issue with this argument is that you can't really choose the government you live in, especially if it's under a strong dictator (e.g. you can move from the US, you can't just from North Korea), but you can choose who you work for, especially when it deals with tech companies.
but shouldn't then also exist asymmetrical snow flakes occasionally?
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Yup, this is the principle behind reservoir computing. You take a complicated thing and hope that some of the processing that that complicated thing is doing, is useful to the task at hand. Then you set out to find that encoding/decoding.

A nice way to think about it is - it's like taking the thing to be processed and smashing it into a million pieces and then searching through those broken pieces to assemble the thing you want to build.

I am really pissed, because I've been wanting to do something like this for a decade. The interesting thing is that there are so many potential substrates for this kind of processing.
The Twitter quote reads on my phone as:

Twitter is not actually a cc

Non-profit that accidentally

(Yes I can scroll, but it scrolls independently of anything else)
Yes i did pay with a credit card. Unfortunately unlike US, disputing a cc charge here isn't that easy either. At that time the policy was to take a printout and then go to the bank and submit it there in person (same reason i never went to small claims court too). Seemed like too much hassle.

I instead wowed to never book another hotel on their site (using agoda ever since) and telling friends and posting on forums (it was on the frontpage on reddit india for 1 day) about how they cheated me. I think that must have costed them more money than they cheated me out by not honoring their guarantee.
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I like USPS too. RFD isn't an option, so my mail goes to a post office in a nearby town. I often forget to check my mail and they just put it into a box for me. Usually, maybe once every two weeks, I'll go down and get it. If not, they hold it until the box is full and then they call me and tell me I have mail and should come get it.

The other delivery companies just drop my stuff off there or, if they aren't open, they'll drop it at the gas station/convenience store. UPS has gotten stuck on my lawn, twice. FedEx can never find the house. So, it is just easier this way and the post office has been very accommodating.

It is one of the great joys of living in a very rural area.
That's 60 million, assuming that anything prior to that is relatively pocket change. Lawyers cost $1000+ an hour and you need several, for years. Not to mention any possible claw-back, lawsuits for fraud, theft etc etc. There was an article yesterday here; Lance Armstrong has spent some $15 million on his lawyers alone so far.
No. 'Foreigners' very likely simply means 'foreigners' here. Japanese society is incredibly xenophobic and has quite well-known problems with casual, socially accepted racism.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/11/01/issues/tac...

(Just a single example - but quick googling should you countless more from reputable sources)
The biggest browser maker is funded by advertising revenue.

I recommend watching the film "Democracy"[1], which showed how an EU data protection law went through the process to become law. The "main character" (chair of the process) was a German MEP. The thing I best remember him saying[2] was in response to some lobbyists, who wanted to know why he was pushing back against their business interests when they were all united. The MEP said he primarily represented the thousands of people in his constituency, even though they couldn't afford to send lobbyists to Brussels.

With some stronger wording ("This site shares your data, including the web pages you view and where you click, with the following companies: Google, AdNetwork234, ..., These companies use it to sell advertising to you and may further share your data") the cookie law could have been stronger.

The MEP was in the Green party, but most aren't -- pressure from individuals on other MEPs would encourage other, more business-friendly MEPs, to push back against the lobbyists.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/14/democracy...

[2] I think it was in the film, but I also went to a screening with him giving a talk afterwards.
Agoda.
>> Except for donations to WikiLeaks. Or if you want to buy weed in one of the many states where it's legal. Or if the recipient's Paypal account has been frozen.

These are not pressing use-cases for me.

>> When I sent that wire

It appears your banking service is a bad one, I have had none of these problems, even transferring large amounts between countries.

>> Perhaps as a buyer, but as a merchant, chargebacks are a nightmare.

Yet without them, many buyers would have given up buying online by now, chargebacks and buyer protections allow the online marketplace to function.

I think what you might have there is (yet another) criticism of how backwards the US market is.
Blocking a few egregious ad types is not at all the same as the blocking of privacy-invading cookies as Apple is doing.

> The Chrome ad blocker doesn’t just help publishers, it also helps Google maintain its dominance. And it advantages Google’s own ad units, which, it’s safe to say, will not be in violation of the bad ad rules.

Don’t be evil, indeed.
I can't seem to find a way to disable except in going to settings > wifi Where do you see these options in the force touch menu?
It's interesting that Amazon tried this in its very first years, but had to give up due to customer backlash. I wonder why the practice survives in travel services.
> Apple would like to maintain exclusive access to a market segment that values security and privacy above all.

You make it sound like Apple has some kid of unfair advantage over competitors. Or that Apple has monopoly power over the ideas of security and privacy. Bullshit.

> it's a shame about Apple's chosen direction.

I can't believe anyone could say that with a straight face.
> (I say this to ensure that neither politician gets a pass).

Reagan/Bush I put the economy on economic Cocaine (deficit spending).

Clinton upgraded the economy to Crack Cocaine ("free trade").

Bush II had to switch to economic meth amphetamine (permanent war).

Obama had little choice but to add heroin to the mix (ACA -> blank check medicine)
I only using these sites of booking for getting information. After I double check on the website of the hotel, price, go to the location with Google map to see what is nearby, never had a problem. Nice analyse I would like them more.
> the alt-right, which is a small, far-right movement that seeks a whites-only state.

It amuses me to see every article about the "alt right" define it as something different.
Right, but it's a start - meaning they might eventually get there. It means there is pressure and that they may be obligated to take notice. It's not the end, it is the beginning.
I routinely move funds internationally using the old-fashioned mechanism called "wire transfer" which for my particular case, is settled in hours and has zero fee.
This is a misleading way to compare salaries and cost of life between countries.

A much better metric is to look at net disposable income after tax, if you're focusing on the "making money" aspect.

If you're focusing on the life quality aspect you'll also have to consider mortgage, car ownership and time off.

Example:

- In Netherlands you have 24 business days of time off, where you can take them from the moment your contract begins (not after 1 year working), and you can take them however you want.

- Taking a mortgage in Netherlands is currently cheaper than renting and most houses in the "sweet spot" cost around 300k euros, which is ridiculously cheap. Monthly payments are subsidized by the government (for some years) which makes it cheaper than renting.

To summarise, every country has a lot to offer, and at the end of the day life is not just about money.
But Google is not good at marketing either :/
Does the author's motivation have any bearing on the facts of Booking.com's website behaviour?
US, China, Germany here. I only stay in AirBnB or the Chinese competitor, after the last 3 attempts with Booking.com were too bad.
I only get

Twitter is not actual

non profit that accid
What is the 30% rule?
US salaries where? I'm guessing Silicon Valley salaries are not comparable to Midwestern salaries. The Netherlands also has good healthcare.
Email them. They don't see it otherwise.
Let's do it then. The form factor is somewhat of an in-between in my opinion. A step in the good direction, but too small to be really useful on the long run. Something like Google Glass (not necessary Glass itself, but something similar / improved) combined with hand gestures has more potential I think. Though we'll see, I might be wrong about this one but I really don't see smart watches still being a thing in 2020.