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Looks good. I researched flight data suppliers & GDS companies recently for a side project and found them either very expensive (QPX falls in this category - having to pay several cents per query makes it virtually impossible to do anything creative) or lacking coverage for LCCs in Europe, which is my target market.

So naturally I'm quite impressed with Fareportal and will give it a try. I did do a quick search on CheapOair and didn't see Ryanair among the results (although they do have a flight for that route and date). I know they're icky about third parties advertising/[re]selling their flights but there's some suppliers that do carry their flight data (ie Travelfusion, which politely told me to come back once I have a working product, chicken and egg much?).

I'm not keen to book flights on behalf of users at this point since I have a (not thoroughly documented) fear that regulatory matters will make it difficult/expensive to operate an indie OTA but that's TBD.
"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

-- Niklaus Wirth
Grace Hopper said something very much like that, and is generally credited for the expression of that attitude. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
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I'd send an email to the email address they signed up with to confirm.
Interviewing is subjective. It’s about sitting down in a specific context and extrapolating, based on incomplete information, about a future set of conditions that will likely change when time catches up to them.

If we can start with the idea that interviews are a very blunt instrument, the process becomes at least somewhat compressible: it selects for people who recognize the parameters and perform well within that context. At best, that pattern-matches to success. At worst, it filters out talented folks who don’t interview well, but could code well.
that's not true, if you follow Martin Luther you do.
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> As a Lutheran celebrating the quinicentennial of the 95 Theses this week, it always surprises me how far behind the times the Roman Catholic leadership can be.

Your sect still subscribes to faith as an epistemology, right? Given that that is pretty well known to be an unreliable method to obtain knowledge, and you still subscribe to it, how can you be surprised that other people are equally behind on minor details that you happen to get right?
It's because Electron has taken over desktop app development. While it does significantly lower the knowledge barrier to building desktop applications, it does come with a heavy memory overhead.
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That is an irrelevant argument.

If a news outlet wants to rely on images taken by the public, they are free to do so. And many outlets have moved towards that. That doesn't mean that they should be free to take images a professional photographer has taken at an event and use them willy-nilly.

247 Sports likely used Tannen's photos because they were better than ones that could be gotten for free from fans in the crowd. If you want the better photos, pay up.
While Ion Storm had an extravagant office at the top of a skyscraper, Warren Spector had great ideas and a track record of awesome games. And Ion Storm created one of the very best games ever made, Deus Ex 1, and Thiefs 3 was great too.
Agreed -- there are far too many pitfalls that you only really learn through debugging strange behaviour. Autovivication is a perfect example of this:

perl -wE 'my @test; say $test[5]{yes}[0]{ok}++; say scalar @test; say ref $test[5]; say $test[5]{yes}[0]{ok}'

outputs:

0
6
HASH
1

with not a single warning
Doesn't a recession happening mean we were unprepared?

If we were prepared to handle it, wouldn't we, and then avoid it?
Wow Skype with 109MB?!

Last time I've had it installed it was something close to a gig. But then it became a cluttered monster I rather fear so that's not relevant anymore.

Same goes for this. I'm happy to give that RAM to Signal since what I get for it, is more then worth it and I have the RAM left. It took me more time and headaches to get people to use Signal on their phones in the first place than it will ever for that 130MB RAM.
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> Isn't culture fit just another word for "people like me"

More like: people who aren't going to grate on me, which is very different and encompasses a much larger set of people.

The "culture fit" strategy can no doubt be abused, but it's also wrong not to recognize that a technically brilliant hire
can be terrible for the company if there are communication problems or personality conflicts.
Why does it have to solve a problem? It's not a tool.
Aside from the libraries issues...

Understand I'm talking about in the context of my workplaces and experiences, which, also in my experience, are a significant number of employers hiring data science-type jobs.

An alternative doesn't exist in the sense that we've been battling for years to get things that are more open and aren't SAS/Matlab/SPSS.

Finally we're at the stage where something is finally getting semi-approved and installed reliably and the doors are opening...and its...R.

Python is becoming more common. Admittedly. And kudos to anaconda for its non-admin requiring install. But in some ways even installing that is a bit "naughty".

But Julia, Java, Scala, C?

No no. Those are programming languages. Software companies get those. Maybe a handful of guys in IT if they need it for some reason, but many are still working in places where most IT/security staff can't tell the difference between R and RStudio. Github is blocked by the firewall and security :P

So the idea of options...maybe in another 10 years :P Until then, we take what we can get...
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I really want to try VSCode, but it sends data to Microsoft even with Telemetry et al off [1].

Which is not surprising considering that Windows itself does the same thing [2] (hence, my not using Windows).

Even if they allowed us to opt-out of telemetry now, I wouldn't trust them not to silently opt us back in later.

This is not something I can accept my editor doing, and would expect a little less apathy about it from the HN crowd.

Does anyone know more about the MS spyware and how much I need to worry about it?

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-...
> As a Catholic this is news to me. I like the Pope, thought he was good. In fact I haven't heard any other Catholics I know criticize him.

It's possible that the catholics you hang out with are not the most conservative factions (e.g. the ones who still gnash teeth over Vatican II), which are the ones fuming over Francis.
To me it seems like Firebase essentially supports the cancer of the (app/software) industry:

Creating/buying an app, making it popular and drawing every last penny out of it while pissing off the core users who helped to make it popular and then letting it die. Rinse and repeat.

It helps you piss off the core/current users a little less to draw out the process as much as possible and make more profits, but the result is the same.

Using optimization strategies and software like Firebase disconnects you from the user base as you turn your users into the product. Of course this would come from Google who are experts at it. They get away with it though, because their software is great and there are few alternatives, but that's not the case in the app market.

/rant
And not just for kimsufi, also for the main brand. To figure out the price difference you have to consult a PDF which splits prices differently than the main page. They stated in the email that new orders will see the new price but that's definitely not the case. The blog article talks about increases in the range of 1-10€ while in reality, increases in public cloud are much higher (20-30%). Selling that as a DDOS investment is questionable, I guess they just miscalculated prices.
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Lived in London for six years, only spoke to my partner, people at work/uni and my landlord (who is also an uncle-in-law, if that's a thing).

Two weeks before we left we got a dog. We met so many people from the area and the dog was an excuse to start a conversation. Made us feel like we'd been missing out all that time!
The geologists are aware of the potential risks and the magnitude of the damage potentially induced.

The madness is making unnecesessary world-affecting damage.
Anyone noticed that Plus Messenger for Android has published the source code?
Don't it get lost or closed by mistake all the time?
To me much of the value of a separate app is being able to cmd+tab between application and I frequently just close my browser be get remove all windows and tabs.

I like the compartmentalisation of separate apps, but I doesn't really care if it's written as an Electron app, as long as reacts fast enough.
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GSuite is a perfect subscription business model; they are giving you stuff you will probably never need or use along side something you were already using for free. The cost of a single account is just about small enough to be negligible for a business customer.

This is enough to give me confidence that it isn't going to be shut down.
Yes I did as long as those 4(5?) starting with "Signal*" were all to count.
But your other problems go far beyond that.
You are correct, "culture fit" is not a good descriptor of what I meant.

We hire people we believe we will be able to work with. It's not a popularity contest, we evaluate problem solving, analytical thinking and communication skills, such as the ability to explain complex topics in easy terms.

I'll give you an example, usually we are interviewing people straight out of the university, but this can be applied to any candidate.

I'll start by asking the candidate to talk about his master's project. As he talks about it, I'll guide the conversation towards these topics :
-What was the problem
-How was it defined?
-How did you tackle it?
-Explain your solution
-support your decisions
-Was there a cost/benefit analysis?
-How was the problem decomposed?

This will give me an initial picture of the candidate's ability to address a problem, and is far more important to me than wether he knows "the number after F in hexadecimal" or some other nonsense.
> his support for migrants, his attacks on global capitalism

As only one of these can be sincere given the other, the commenters who suspect that the Pope is just very good at looking like the good guy are probably right.
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Our generation has witnessed many changes on the face of education in the past few decades. This generation is rapidly adapting simpler and smarter modes of learning like speech-sound / visual-image. Not only does this make learning easier, it creatively engages multiple points of human mind. Books, however are available in both print and digital medium, the later is certainly more sustainable.
The book markets around the world are shaped by different factors, from the size of the population to the level of economic development. The main consumer market of ebooks today is the States; followed by China, Germany, Japan, UK and a number of European countries. The e book industry shows a healthy projection with a forecast to account for a quarter of global book sales by 2018. These are essential statistics for the students of tomorrow because not only would learning be feasible for them, they would be able to save loads of money on print books.
Piracy is a robbery, often segueing into murder, one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Digital piracy is one of the least talked about topics in developing countries. Publishing, music, fashion and film industry; years of the industry’s collective effort goes down the drain once a copy of a book or film is made breaching the copyrights. The struggle to fight piracy is real and alarming.
While many organisations make money off one’s intellectual property without compensating him/her for the effort, there is one company that has chosen the right road over the conventional one. Glossaread Technologies Pvt. Ltd helps publishers eliminate piracy by splitting books into chapters and provide it to readers at a cost less than a cup of tea, so much so that the price of the chapter is cheaper than photocopying it. The intent behind Glossaread essentially is to make learning more practical and delivery of education ethical.

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people make derps in code, even google. if the content of said documents were stolen then i'd say worry about it. but there is no indication this has actually happened.

"This morning, we made a code push that incorrectly flagged a small percentage of Google docs as abusive, which caused those documents to be automatically blocked," -> can actually happen... not like they will duplicate all documents of all users in some kind of test environment to test it before deployment, that seems unreasonably resource intensive.

"Still, the incident raises important questions about the control Google Docs users have over their own content" .... people with important or sensitive documents ( and the tinfoil hat brigade) should host files on their own machines always or accept the fact they are submitting to a third party which can never guarante 100% access due to human error being involved in processes...

"Nobody should be writing hate speech or death threats in their Google docs — or anywhere." this scentence is completly random.... nothing is mentioned on what exactly is the content which is being looked for by the algorithms, nor any details are given about what kind of programatic error caused this, so this is only speculation... :s

a lot of people seem to be getting really aggresive towards putting everything in the online censorship / data theft / big evil coorporation bucket, but really most things are just not that dark. not to say such things don't happen, but there seems to be no indication here of anything like that.
Emacs modes normally use regular expressions for everything from syntax highlighting to semantic insights. This does not make it fast. Emacs performance usually degrades linearly with the size of the file being edited, and most CPU activity occurs synchronously and blocks the UI.

I don't think Emacs is a fast editor unless you run it bare with -Q, at which point you've left out all the stuff that makes Emacs useful.

IMO it ought to provide a state machine engine for modes to use to do syntax highlighting, something that it can cache at line boundaries, stop and start electively depending on bit of the buffer is displayed in the current window, evaluate the state machine on a background thread (so, concurrent with actual usage, unlike the idle work it already does), etc. A state machine without extra knobs would only provide lexical highlighting, but I think extra knobs (e.g. variables, stacks) could be added to make it more useful.

The retained mode text styling with font locking etc. is not the optimal design choice for performance, I suspect.
He probably uses a password manager and generates them randomly. Nothing odd about that.
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"Inter-personal skills" plus "works well in a team" seem to be those criteria, as I would describe them (from the UK).

(I don't actually mind what anyone calls it, but "culture fit" has got a bad press and got my hackles up! Apologies to all!)
> ... it's not a great language;

Yes it is.

> it's a clusterfuck of "cleverness" which lets "clever" people implement horrifying glass cathedrals that shatter as soon as you open the door.

It is clever, so are most other languages. It lets do people do horrible stuff, as well as wonderful stuff, same as in most other languages.

The Perl code from other programmers that I usually come across is mostly using established popular CPAN modules and/or frameworks that encapsulate the "clever" parts. I think you are right in that you mostly get to see Perl code that does need help, rather than the better maintained Perl code that does exist as well.
You are probably on Airtel or one of the providers that exclusively peers with Airtel at the Chennai location for International traffic.
> In fact, this kind of thing could be taken as further evidence that God is a fiction.

OTOH, it's been joked that there must be a God, because how else could the Church have survived nearly 2,000 years of all this [stuff]? I know, I know, the joke doesn't withstand critical scrutiny, but still ....

Riffing on that subject at the risk of going off-topic: The existence of some kind of Creator finds at least some support in the continuing evolution of the universe from the so-called Big Bang into local areas of greater and greater complexity. (This is a variation on the Weak Anthropic Principle [0].)

This continuing cosmic evolution seems consistent with the [EDIT:] conjecture that our universe is part of some kind of Great Project, in which it could be said that we're project workers — as Lutheran theologian Philip Hefner put it, we're created co-creators.

Personally I find this conjecture to be exciting and awe-inspiring — but only to the extent that it can be kept evidence-based [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hefner

[2] Self-cite: http://www.questioningchristian.com/2007/02/another_way_to_.... — see also the comments to that piece.
The alternative is that we need to have a complex system of payments and invasive DRM/spyware to monitor everything posted. People will share these photos widely anyway, but occasionally and randomly someone will be sued for $150,000 per violation and have to defend against that. Is that a good trade-off for keeping a few photo-journalists in business?
I must have missed something somewhere - doesn’t the article say the lawsuit doesn’t state how the images were used?
The regular Visual Studio uses about the same amount of memory as VSCode while being an order of magnitude more complex and feature-rich.
Has configuration become any better? I tried using VS Code for both Go and Python and all the magical stuff you needed to add to JSON files in weird places became a show stopper. I simply cannot figure out how it ties together and or figure out what my configuration options are.
Not to mention that on a slow resolver it might even trigger a time out and a SERVFAIL.
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If you want an asset to maintain it's current value, then its demand and supply must also maintain their values.

People talk about Bitcoin as "digital gold", but in reality it's not even close, and no crypto ever will be. Gold is valuable because there is a fixed natural supply, and throughout human history, across many civilisations and societies, gold has always been worth something - unlike our fiat currencies who's supply can be altered and made valueless.

The problem with Bitcoin isn't it's supply, it's that it's value relies on it's demand remaining high (or at least maintaining current levels). Problem is there is no historic reason or intrinsic value to bitcoin to assume it will continue to have steady demand like gold.

More worryingly in my opinion is that bitcoin's current demand isn't really for bitcoin at all. The demand is to make USD fast. The moment people realise Bitcoin might not give them returns similar to other safe investments, it will crash like all other bubbles do.

I'm not saying people who get in early won't make loads of money, plenty of people made money from the dotcom bubble too, but you need to be smart about it and understand the risk. At $6,500 bitcoin's market cap is far beyond PayPal's which provides a genuinely useful service and processes millions of dollars of transactions every day.
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I'd never, ever consider working a place like that, as it places the power in the hand of managers who may decide something I consider perfectly reasonable is "abuse", and use this "under their name" bit to harass people. Which means I can't evaluate if the company will be a decent work place or a sweatshop.

To me, this is disrespectful to employees in the extreme. It shows a total disregard for the power disparity that exists, which makes rules more important for clarity for employees than for the company.

If they wanted to be respectful to their employees: Set rules, and create a mechanism for asking for exemptions and be lenient with the.

Otherwise they're asking me to trust that they will not abuse their power.
RT specifically, but this type of media package was sold to a large number of media outlets, public and private.

Twitter itself is public and has become 'the medium' for much information.
Democracy does seem to have a problem delivering fiscal responsibility, it's too easy to put it off for the next government.
The more compile time information you have, the greater coupling you have as well. Make User subclass Entity for polymorphism reasons and now taking a User parameter makes your business logic depend explicitly on your ORM.
I’m hardly spreading potentially misleading information. There is actually a wide body of evidence that amongst certain people cannabis can cause psychosis. It’s far more harmful in that your sole reference is a fairly partisan Wikipedia article. Give me primary sources, don’t give me a tertiary source like Wikipedia.
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This isn't screening for 'culture fit' though and I'd sincerely recommend avoiding referring to it as that. You're screening for strong communication skills and that's absolutely fine (and highly recommended).

Interviewing for culture fit (as you've seen in the responses to your comment) has an extremely negative stigma attached to it for good reason.
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I agree, I regret my use of the term "culture fit".
The amount of the original work used is a very important aspect of fair use.

If I write a movie review of The Matrix and include a screenshot of Neo dodging bullets, that's your typical fair use. The reason for this is obvious, the screenshot is there for review purposes, maybe to show off the thematic feel of the movie in my review.

But if I do a YouTube video review of The Matrix and then include the entirely of movie, it's not fair use. I could maybe show a scene or two, but I can't just wholesale copy paste the movie and call it fair use.

After all, if that was okay, you could "legally pirate" anything by just having a 5 second review before the movie.
If you were going to build a JSON based file system today, then I would study the Newton’s Soup which was based on frames. It was pretty cool and had some interesting capabilities (remove half the storage from a running system, ok what’s next). I would imagine queries would make a reappearance in a much nicer form.
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The 24h trading volume of Bitcoin is currently at around $2.8b, so I don't think you're necessarily right. There's been $2.8b of Bitcoin sold in the last 24h, and the price has gone up. You could probably sell that many coins over the course of a couple weeks without having much effect on the market.
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How do irrational arguments for the existence of a god support the position that that god's existence can be established by rational argument?