skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean is exactly what I said: start by looking at the dirt your own country may have BEFORE looking at someone else's dirt. You may learn a thing or two about your government, the upper classes in your country, the racism and xenophobia they use as a way to get more power elsewhere, the reasons the other governments have to do what they do, etc.
I wanted a college degree because I see it as hedging my bets. I may not want to work at the boring companies of the world, but if I ever needed that stability I can have it with a college degree. Four years while I can work part-time in my field and the offer of my parents to fund my education made it a no-brainer.

All I'm trying to say is it's never so black and white, and while I don't plan on using the lack of a degree against somebody, I certainly wouldn't call it a red flag either.
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No recurring revenue, no actual customers, no secret sauce. Maybe some proprietary data models, but doesn't really sound like it.

So what would it be that someone was hypothetically paying for if they were to buy him out?

The blog following and sales classes probably are the key IP worth paying for.
This might burst the second dotcom bubble as others SV resources have similar background.
Yeah, but I still have to maintain the containers and possibly the underlying machines as well as the OpenFaaS platform itself. With this or any other Serverless platform, I only care about the Function code.
I'm pretty conversant in the shitty things "my" country has done. How does that relate to the matter at hand?

PS - I'm from the UK - not US if that changes things.

I think you may be arguing with an imaginary straw man version of me. I'm not sure I stand for the things you're railing against.
The Anatomy of a $97M Page: A CRO Case Study
Not in this case. I live in a town with a high unemployment rate and lots of homeless. I am newly off the street and would like to help people in dire straights. They don't have money to spare.
Isn't Southwest the one that just launched obligatory in-air concerts? https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/11/hitting-wro...

I think I'll give that a miss.
Addiction by Design is a book that takes a really comprehensive look at slot machine design it’s pretty wild how much thought is put into it and this is before ML became practical, I’m sure casino company’s are leveraging it now.
How to Create Color Schemes for Android,Iphone App,website Materialistic Design
Who checks bags anymore?
Example of universal routing+rendering with haskell-servant and GHCJS/Miso
WOW This is incredible! How come this isn't on every main media site? I have so many questions! Are both vertebrae connected to the same brain? They have to be. How can they have different personalities?
Cant be too sure but there seems to be something off about the math in the dollar amount... The article says he spent $800,000. Lets assume the going rate of USD->INR is 1->60 (it is really 64 but I love easy math!) that would mean he spent 48mil Rupees making a plane, at that price he could have owned 16 or so cessna 172's. Just food for thought.
They've been back on cable TV for decades. It's how Comcast can claim "thousands more on-demand titles than satellite." They count each video want ad as an on-demand program equal in importance to a feature film.
Gary Vaynerchuk has demonstrated doing the same thing. But his sources are garage sales and dollar stores. He carries apps for EBay and Amazon on his phone so he can easily see whether the margin is worth his effort. He aims his advice at kids who can easily pick up $1-2K a month.
> Every single website on the internet always was, is and will be HTML (with various kinds of XML/SVG markup sometimes). People just gradually realised proper and standardised web design makes the Web better for everyone, by making it more usable and accessible.

Unstyled HTML (optionally with user style sheets) is more usable and accessible than today's one-size-fits-the-designer design for the kind of content that used to dominate (and is still a large segment of) the web. (We've got better tools for making usable and accessible content, but they are mostly not used for that purpose.)

For interactive applications, its a different story.
Really? Where do you see anti-catholic bigotry on Guy Fawkes night, the religious aspect of it is long forgotten and people dont really understand or care why it is a celebration, its just a bit of fun in the winter nights.
I imagine Southwest will give this a miss also. Seems like a Nashville one-off. Never seen it myself.
Yup! I still use my eternal-september account on a weekly basis!
Travelers do for a variety of reasons.
Did any other speakers object?

It looks like they did Sarah Drashner as Supergirl [1], and Daniel Woelfel, Sean Grove, and Jared Forsyth as members of some team that I do not recognize from the uniforms [2].

It looks like they also had lots of superhero stuff, such as models and sets that people could take photos with, and in general were going for a them that React developers are superheros right up their with groups like The Avengers. See various photos and tweets here [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/filipewl/status/923583201100083206

[2] https://twitter.com/ReactiveConf/status/888016901061922820

[3] https://twitter.com/reactiveconf/media
Stumbleupon ? :P
Also, https://github.com/neoinsanity/ontic
The economy (or even "premium") customer service on most of my recent flights has been awful. In most other U.S. service industries (restaurants, bars, etc), the staff is incentivized to serve you and increase sales and get tips. I've been on many 3-5HR flights where you see a flight attendant at most twice, and the attendants seem almost required to do the least. It comes across as if the airline firms are trying to make things as uncomfortable as possible to upsell to first/business.
I wonder if they are just being opportunistic post ‘Russian Reset’. Seems like most Americans didn’t take issue at the time. Many US companies take large investments from Saudi Arabia too and we could make similar arguements about the potential risks/rewards.
I suspected this might get downvoted and wanted to make clear I'm not demeaning the 90% of Google developers, but I failed, so I deserved the downvote. Just to make it clear I'm aware of where my comment failed to express what I was trying to communicate. Will try to be less lazy next time. It's hard to explain the purpose Google built Go for without considering where it's not used, and I failed to write a good comment.
A society that values financial and individual success above all else will inevitably lead to an impoverished society with concentrated pockets of wealth that once concentrated are adept at perpetuating themselves.

Its obvious something fundamental in governance changed in the late 70s that has directly led us here.

While technology, progress, wealth are important the magic is always people and humanity that elevate life beyond the mundane and brings happiness into lives.

There is no point being wealthy if most around you are suffering and and in desperate conditions. This can't make anyone happy, except sociopaths. You have to care for other people and society beyond just your immediate interest and benefit.
Free Game Hacks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486174
Sorry, I mean yes it's uncommon, however it's also predictable. Iif you know where a new factory is going ahead of time that drastically alters the probabilities.
Every time I sit down to work on a presentation, I intentionally recall Cristian's retort [0]:

"We used a helium neon laser, captured its phase shift with a photo sensor, and manually corrected by 30 percent to account for the index of refraction," Cristian answered rapidly, keyed up on adrenaline. Cameron had peppered them with questions on the drive to Santa Barbara, and Cristian was ready.

Swean raised a bushy, graying eyebrow. He asked about motor speed, and Lorenzo sketched out their combination of controllers and spike relays. Oscar answered the question about signal interference in the tether by describing how they'd experimented with a 15-meter cable before jumping up to one that was 33 meters.

"You're very comfortable with the metric system," Swean observed.

"I grew up in Mexico, sir," Oscar said.

Swean nodded. He eyed their rudimentary flip chart.

"Why don't you have a PowerPoint display?" he asked.

"PowerPoint is a distraction," Cristian replied. "People use it when they don't know what to say."

"And you know what to say?"

"Yes, sir."

[0] https://www.wired.com/2014/12/4-mexican-immigrant-kids-cheap...
Fewer and fewer people, but that's not actually a good thing. Boarding the plane takes longer, as people walk up and down aisles trying to find an overhead bin that still has space. Then, when the plane has run out of space, passenger suitcases have to be carried back off the plane and stowed underneath, where they belong anyway. Everyone gets stressed out and annoyed by the whole experience.

The airline fee structure is directly responsible for this. Spirit, for its many sins, charges less to check a bag than carry one on. As a result, there's almost always overhead bin space and boarding goes a lot quicker. The downside is that you're then dependent on airport staff to quickly unload your bags and put them on the carousel - they used to be very good at doing that quickly, but not any more.
> The images were captured in automatic mode, we used default settings for all cameras throughout the whole collection procedure.

I guess while that technically makes the images 'dslr quality', that's not how dslr cameras are generally used. Shooting in auto and doing no post processing, will never yield the results you see with even amateur dslr photography.
The content of this article is fantastic and frightening.

However, viewing this page on mobile, you can’t help but appreciate the interactivity that feels as though it’s been designed with the mobile reader in mind. It’s marvelous.
A self heating hotpot allows you to eat hotpot anywhere you want
Me. But I generally don't pay for them.
The stuff I submit to HN or comment on that wows people often came from me digging into websites you dont find with a quick Google. Esp academic web sites or just those made by smart folks with odd little organization schemes. Im guessing same was true for some of the more obscure, but valuable, stuff I see others submit or bring up.
How Google Is Fuelling the Sexualisation of Women in Sport
Yes I think I know how you feel. You might like reading books haha.
Anecdotal, but my brand new late 2016 Macbook Pro developed a stuck key within a few weeks of starting to use it. I only used it on my desk at work and didn't take it to the beach or something crazy. This is not an imaginary problem.
Airlines (in the US, mostly) are incentivized to add these fees for two major reasons:

1. Fees are exempt from the 7.5% federal excise tax on airfare.
2. It makes the initial fare lower on airfare sites like Kayak, for people who choose the cheapest route, then they up-sell customers once they've decided.
To be fair, Browder has his own patrons and political interests to represent, particularly in this situation.
> it seemed obvious that he was a conduit/laundry for oligarch cash at least

For what it's worth said oligarch, Alisher Usmanov, is also a major shareholder of Arsenal Football Club, one of the English Premier League's top clubs. Most of the club supporters don't care one bit from where the transfers money comes.
As someone who values free speech I can’t say I’m concerned with the content of advertising. Just don’t pay attention to it if it bothers you.
I remember reading an article years ago where a video-poker machine manufacturer "trained" the machine using real playing behavior of famous poker stars...

For German machines I can say they're not a target market for ML or other "experimental" stuff given the ultra strict regulations here. More or less illegal online casinos however are the new Wild West of the gambling industry.
What university in India
> We don't seem to do much browsing anymore. We search and selectively pick what we consume. It's faster but, as you say, I don't think it is as fun.

Dunno, how much of this is also just getting older and set in our life routine? When was the last time I explored my own city on a bike like I would as a kid? Our interests and patience for browsing change.

How old are you now vs in this "golden era of the web"?

Most of those stories just sound like nostalgia to me. Like suggesting that games these days aren't as good as they used to be because look how less time you spend gaming these days.
After blocking all the JavaScript and hiding the position=fixed garbage, that was an interesting article.

> So I tried to post a link to one of my stories on Facebook. Turns out Facebook didn’t care much. It ended up looking like a boring classified ad. No description. No image. Nothing. It got three likes. Three! That was it.

I write a blog, and publish links to posts on Facebook because doing so costs me nothing. It also gets me next to nothing. People click on those links about as often as Facebook asks me for my credit card to "boost" them.
i don't think browsing's that rare, actually, it's just different, having been centralized by facebook, tumblr, wikipedia, reddit, and the like. it's less like going out and exploring the web and more like just living there.
Yeah, and rural Indians have to use peer-to-peer networks to download their apps because service is so spotty and expensive. That's materially different from an "internet user" in Western Europe or Japan or the United States.
The way to fix this is by design: to have a government small enough that buying it wouldn’t bring you advantages comparable to succeeding in the free market.

Most people disagree with that and seem to think it’s possible to have angels from heaven running the government machine. The thing is that even if you manage that, it’s bound to go wrong at some future election.
It's a persistent and PERNICIOUS myth that mass is an effective shield for cosmic radiation.

To quote this page -

"""Manned missions to planets such as Mars require extended missions that will expose astronauts to harmful radiation in the form of energetic particles from solar and galatic sources. Traditional methods for protecting spacecraft and occupants from these forms of radiation involve some configuration of a massive material shield to absorb the energy of incoming particles. For the high energy galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) that astronauts will be exposed to, these so-called passive shields are too massive to be practical and will likely produce showers of secondary radiation that could be more harmful than the GCRs themselves."""

https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~d76205x/research/Shieldin...

It's concerning that so many people that are interested in space exploration are unaware of this.

The primary enabler for actual space exploration is most likely superconducting magnetic fields but this is an unsolved problem, though the European Space Agency did complete some work in 2016 towards it by reusing technology from CERN

https://home.cern/about/updates/2015/08/superconducting-shie...

It's unfortunate that propulsion is where everyone seems to focus their attention when the shielding is so much more important to human settlement.
Flight attendants aren't really there for service. Their primarily responsibility is supposed to be safety. Serving snacks is just a courtesy. You can always bring your own, or walk to the galley and ask for something.
It would be kind of cool to make a modern network of sites robots.txt'ed out of search engines.
If you find these lesson interesting, there were another 10 lessons from the Rotafest:
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...

[Prof Rota was a bit of an institution already in the 80s, when I took his probability course 18.313. The course utterly kicked my butt, and I believe him when he writes that the homework would occasionally lead to publications.]
To me that seems like they were playing you.
“Big Ideas
His first examples g1, g2 are not shifts of f. What am I missing.
Meet the Doomsday Prepper donating all of his food to Puerto Rico
Looks like prior art to me
I really think Rich Hickey's talk has spurred some great conversations and blog posts. While I don't necessarily agree with this particular one entirely, it's lovely to see such a debate flowing in the Clojure and Haskell community :) There's also a Haskell thread on this article if people are interested[0]. And other previous discussions at

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/7awn3h/on_types_an...
I can't view the page either with emacs-w3m nor with w3m itself.

So that's one thing that DDG has over Qwant for me: it works with my browsers.
Promise vs. Observable
It came out fairly recently that the US was bugging German politicians communication, and while there was mild outrage at the time it seems to have blown over without much consequence.
What YC companies tell everyone else: Milner wants to invest in us because he recognizes that we're we're awesome!

What YC companies tell themselves: Milner wants to invest in us because he wants to make money, and if he has enough fingers in enough pies, one or more of his investments will pay out nicely.

What the rest of the world is telling YC companies: Milner wanted to invest in you because Russian oligarchs and the successors of the mf'in KGB wanted to get root at your tools, your data, your users, your insights, your ability to spread their crooked point of view...
From the sample images, all I can see is that the "DSLR"-ized images look brighter and have subtly more pleasing colors. But is that all to it? Am I missing the big picture?
And the median active investment fund underperforms the market for a reason. If a fund plowed 100% of its investment into the S&P 500 they'd be exposing themselves to laughably high volatility.
> Nowadays, you search for {$foo} and find mostly beautifully template-designed pages of text written by indifferent fiverr freelancers who had about 20 minutes to stuff in as many keywords into as many column inches wrapped around as many ad slots as possible before moving on to the next subject.

Yeesh, does anyone else have this opinion?

I sure don't. It's never been more trivial to find good, enriching content.

How many of these posts are just HNers getting more crotchety in their old age? Sometimes it just seems like a pissing contest for who can be most cynical. ;)
I'm not sure what to think? Joe Biden told the media "I am a Zionist."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-UXZ-1ups&app=desktop
As a non-American who still gets a free checked bag on all non-discount carriers, me!
The nickel-and-diming of airlines has been clear to me for ages, but I found what I considered a surprising new low last year. I bought round-trip tickets but missed my outgoing flight. I booked a one-way trip for later the same day, reasoning that I would use my original return flight to come home.

Surprise! I found out (at the airport, trying to fly home a few days later) that because I hadn’t boarded the first flight, the airline had resold my seat on the return flight. I was not credited for the seat on the return flight (which was now unavailable to me). I wasn’t even notified that it was forfeited when my trip was cancelled. Pressed for time, I had to purchase an additional one-way ticket home.

I understand the motivation to resell an unused seat at flight time in the event of a no-show. This, however, struck me as a deliberate predatory theft of my reservation, a sort of loophole to deprive me of my reservation without recompense. I don’t think a scenario such as this is unforeseen by the airline (an honest misunderstanding); rather, I think it is exploited.

The airline may have a clause somewhere on their website explaining that the above is to be expected. That doesn’t make it square for me. The behavior of the airline was, IMO, unethical. If I ever face a similar scenario in the future, I will know to communicate explicitly with the airline about my intention to use my return ticket. However, I shouldn’t have to do so or risk finding myself stranded away from home.
It's clever of the author to use "website" in this more specific sense. Technically a "website" roughly means anything served as HTML over HTTP. But all us fogeys know what his title meant anyway.

But I still think he protests too much. The style subject-oriented websites which the author is referring to evolved slightly and got the new name "blogs". The blogosphere might not be as popular as social networking, but it is still huger than the web of the '90s.
...and possibly pick up some kompromat on you, your co-workers, and your users along the way, which could come in useful for them down the road...

Yeah, your company is an investment for them. But not the way you think.
Scroll through, and just take note of how many are American, vs other. Choose any international university ranking, I leave the following on just as an example.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...
Like those fax machine compression algorithms that end up swapping digits? Thank you but no thanks.
I think labelling this as "DSLR quality images" is highly misleading. It's another interesting image enhancement technique, this time using DCNs to further predict what information isn't present or is incorrect.

However as the article says camera phones are fundamentally limited by the size of the lens and sensors, so they can never gather the same amount of information that a larger DSLR camera can. They simply can't gather the same detail and although we can get better at being able to predict detail in some cases it surely can't ever be same as having that information in the first place.
I find high undisclosed taxes on rental cars and hidden resort fees at hotels much more unfriendly to consumers than airline fees.
My understanding is that Amazon's management believes that they can "flip a switch" and stop expansion and R&D, making them suddenly ludicrously profitable. Investors are fine with that because the longer management holds off on flipping the switch, the higher the eventual eps will be.
Every so often a flight aggregator (Kayak, Expedia, etc.) shows up. To date precisely none of them have solved the REAL customer pain point: show the actual price I will pay.

I really wish restaurants and everywhere else would include taxes in their prices too. I frankly don't care what fraction of my money is going to the government, all I care is (a) what I pay in total and (b) what I'm getting.
Cryptocurrency miner installed on Ello via Cloudflare hack
The fully cooperating with RT is the what favors the Russian government.
Was thinking exactly the same thing. From those images alone, it's not entirely clear that the same can't be achieved by brightness/contrast and hue/saturation sliders.
Agreed. TM is a gold mine of storytelling. I shared "Still Life" to my Facebook friends a few years ago - they still talk about it.
This is an incredibly naive point of view.
Hope this makes people see the collusion of the global elite.
I thought caps are generally the first thing you look at for any failing/failed electronics? Least I tend to, its pretty easy to spot bulges in electrolytic caps and pop em off then have things magically work again.
Unfortunately that has been happening for years, long before checked bag fees were a thing. It is likely a way to make hidden city ticketing harder.