skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 747 struggled initially as well. If the A380 is completely full it is almost 30% cheaper per passenger per mile to fly compared to 787. Maybe some new company will come up with a way to make money like southwest or spirit.
You can’t get a visa to KSA if you are Jewish, no matter where you are from. Used to be you couldn’t get one if you wrote “Atheist” either. Then again they don’t have tourist visas (though isn’t that what a visit to Mecca is?)

> Luckily this nonsense hasn't spread to Europe and North America for the most part.

Umm, you have it backwards: there are people still alive who were subject to such rules in the Europe and North America (famously up into the 1940s, but also through 1990s in Balkans at least) and there are large numbers of people trying to revive such rules, some of whom are in governments (e.g. Hungary, Poland, Austria, USA...)
LastPass’ Authenticator app is not secure
Big companies will be quick to cut deals with ISPs to prioritize their traffic. It's the startups and new products which can't afford to pay that will suffer.
I would pay (a little) for a purchasing/problem fullfilment agent.

An example:
I have one of the new macbook pros, and it came with a "free" 3rd party cheap-china usb C -> usb 3.0 hub. The problem (which I believe is quite common) is that attaching it, disables wifi - I guess it's just crappy low end chinese design and total lack of care for wireless compliance, etc.

So, I'd like to buy another hub that actually works without disabling my wifi. I don't want to pay Apple prices. I don't want to spend a day reading between-the-lines on aliexpress/ebay to ensure that it is genuinely compatible and non-interfering with my macbook wifi. I'll pay a premium (but not too much) for the best/best-value usb C hub for my purposes.

There are numerous examples of this kind of problem when buying products, particularly electronics, of having to read the fine print to get particular revisions that support some obscure use-case that I'm particularly interested in, and it's a real drag to try and hunt the right combinations.

Another example: I got interested in mechanical keyboards. (I think) I'd like a 68-key layout with rgb backlighting and gateron brown switches.
Find one for me.
I'm not sure I want to get involved in that (at my office) since I already deal with enough equipment already, but I think something cool would be to make a small ePaper like display for conference room in front of each door, and display the upcoming meetings that are booked.

Of course people could look directly on the calendar through their phone or computer, but sometimes a quick glance when you're near is all it takes.
interesting choice. doesn't ship to Europe though :/
They will be taxed first, but presumably the tax will be low enough that they can comfortably afford it, while also being large enough that startups will have little chance to make the same kind of deal.
Most of the reason for the spreads is counterparty risk. So you might have a lot of trouble getting your money out of the exchange or the exchange might go completely under.
Isn't that a description of Uber?
Y U no ostree?

https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/introduction/
It's entirely possible that the Bible in the Tarantinoverse is not the same Bible that we have.
The 787 windows seem to block cell phone signals. Their tinting technology seems a a little unnecessary.
One of those tp-link smart plugs. Which I haven't even taken out of the box yet, so maybe that shouldn't have influenced my purchase decision!
> only a tiny subset of the device's functions can be used

If that small subset is sufficiently useful to that particular individual, I don't think it really matters. The average person only uses a small subset of Microsoft Word for example.
The US government is like old legacy software. It's not as good as modern software but it's too difficult and expensive to replace.
Vatican City may be surrounded by Italy but it is classed as a separate country. Your comment only makes sense if you replaced Italy with the Vatican City, in which case - Yes.
I'm going to repost here a comment I left on reddit.

This Segwit2X has almost nothing to do with the original "Segwit2X". They are basically taking what they think is the good parts of all cryptocurrencies, and are putting it into one monstrosity.

- X11 based algorithm from DASH

- 2.5 minute blocktime from litecoin

- 4mb (closer to 8mb with segwit) blocksize from Bitcoin Cash

- difficulty adjustment algorithm from Bitcoin Cash

Plus they are promising some pretty impossible stuff in the "future":

- ZkSnarks from ZCash (which they list on the same line as "anonymous transactions" in some areas, and on a different line in others...)

- Lightning Network from Bitcoin

- Smart contracts from ETH

- Something called "offline codes" which god only knows what it means

Basically it's a shitcoin that is trying to lure people in with impossible promises and just taking what they think is the best thing from every major cryptocurrency and putting it into one disgusting abomination.

Oh, and they chose a loaded name to make sure they'd get some coverage in the "news".

This "Segwit2X" has literally nothing in common with the previous "Segwit2X" from november except for the name. Nothing else is the same. How they got any exchanges to list it under the same name i'll never know... If I was a betting man, I'd wager that the guy running this lost a bunch of money when the S2X futures market crashed since the fork never went through, and he is looking to recoup it by starting the process back up and pumping the futures cost so he can get out.

But on the up side it's really showing me which "news" sites and exchanges I should stay away from, because they clearly don't even vet the stories or coins they are going to be listing.
> Would it be a good idea to build Docker, Swarm and Kubernates with something like Elixir(Erlang) today?

And what exactly do you think has changed between now and five years ago with
regard to Erlang?

It's as good idea now as it was then. And similar amount of work required.
www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
That doesn't work if they decide to throttle anything not on the "whitelist" of high priority sites based on your plan.
What if the ISPs block VPN?
That's an existing problem, and not an easy one to solve. It will have to rely on independent review.

But relying on social networks for news drops both careful research AND independent review, which is a step backward, not forward.
But not God === Jesus. :-)
> Most of the reason for the spreads is counterparty risk

This "arbitrage" is a classic picking-up-nickels-in-front-of-steamrollers trade.
> This is something I notice here on HN in product-related discussions more and more: people just say what THEY think about product X (typically a negative opinion or complaint), rather being creative, constructive or inquisitive.

I think that's always been true, if anything it might have gotten a little better. I remember back in the early smartphone-wars days any article about the iPhone would illicit numerous "iPhone is too locked down" comments and any Android article would illicit numerous "The UI is bad" comments.

Somewhat related, the most influencial Paul Graham article for me is http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html. I try (and often fail) to apply this when responding to articles.
Deploying Native Node.js Dependencies on AWS Lambda
Flying jumbo jets is bad business these days, but the immediate reason for why these carriers dropped the 747 in 2017 was because starting in 2018 they wouldn't have been allowed to fly due to new FAA rules around fuel tank inerting.

Of course putting "we won't be allowed to fly them since the regulator thinks they're too likely to explode coming next year, but we're still selling flights on them!" in your own press releases is bad for business, so most of the news only mentions other reasons.
Can't they (the ISPs) just block or charge extra for VPN traffic? I've read that China detects and blocks VPN traffic.
In other countries there are laws which force the cable owner to rent the last mile to any ISP.
Islam is a distributed religion, sort of like Protestant Christianity. There’s no “normal” form as there is with Catholic or orthodox Christianity, French or Spanish languages, or SQL.
There's no point trying to explicitly introduce it now. I watch these experiments with befuddlement - it's like watching a small baby try to run before it can walk.

UBI will arrive slowly, incrementally and by the time it or an equivalent is finally here nobody will celebrate because it won't seem like a big deal. It'll just be the result of welfare and other services getting better and better over time, with more and more lightweight "bullshit" jobs that require essentially no exertion or risk and lower and lower hours until one day people find that the benefits system is so generous that having a job has become a lifestyle choice.

But we have a long way to go to get there. It won't happen in our lifetimes. Almost all increases in wealth at the moment seem to be absorbed by healthcare and social care costs. UBI makes no sense whilst people are being bankrupted by health costs. Priorities people!
As a person who visited SA I know for a fact that even among muslims who have homosexual inclinations, that it's not a problem unless one acts upon it or tries to 'propagate' against the established and accepted moral foundations. Not sure about the specifics of the visit rules tho, but I doubt that they would ask you about that, instead they would ask you about your religion.
A lot of people can't visit a lot of countries. The list of people deported/denied entry into country X is too long.

>International events should not happen there.

Why? What is your rationale?
Hashing and the Birthday paradox: a cautionary tale
Well that much is obvious. This doesn't speak to whatever utility bitcoin might have, but the recent uptick in price clearly has nothing to do with bitcoin's technical properties.
World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year
protip: 1250 / 850 = 1.4706, ie 147%
ISPs can trivially prioritize content from preferred providers while throttling all other traffic, including VPN traffic.

VPNs do not solve this problem.
"Our town's window repairmen are going to kickstart our economy thanks to this plucky child with a stone!"
Funny the article doesn’t say whether it was because echos Dot was sold damn cheap during the sale
> The A350 is their 787 competitor and looks amazing

The A350 is considerably bigger than the 787, it actually competes against the 777 ( original and X ).

The 787-8 and -9 have the same floor area as the much older Airbus A330-200 and -300 respectively.

Airbus doesn't have a direct rival to the 787 other than the warmed-over A330Neo.
"Several countries in Europe have experienced negative power prices, including Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland."

> Yes, as does most media - especially in Germany. Those negative prices are no win for any german. Why else is it, that we will soon pay the highest prices for electricity in the world?

AFAIU, it's because you're aggressively shaping the energy market in order to reduce health and environmental costs now.

The technical issue here is that batteries are not good enough yet; and [hemp] supercapacitors are not yet at the volume needed to lower the costs. So, maintaining a high price for energy keeps the market competitive for renewables which have positive negative externalities.
I believe that was exactly my point.
They look cool! Thanks for sharing.
Asking as a noob to programming electronics, do you have any guides on how I can display a few characters on one of these?

As in which controller to buy, how to interface the controller to the display, and how to set myself up to program such a controller... etc. I can try if there are enough resources, but honestly I'm easily intimidated if someone says "Just get a ESPXYX900 controller and hook it up to ABC IDE and flash this ROM and there you go."

I can program in Python and I have heard of MicroPython. If only I can figure out how to get to a point where I can get my python program to execute on one of these tiny wonders.
Also related: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2017/08/08/plasma-in-memory-ob... . The Graphistry team has been super excited about Plasma as part of how we're getting our NodeJS stack to talk to more GPU & fast data compute pipelines, and suspect it'll help others as well. If you're looking for a cool nodejs winter project, happy to share roadmaps!
It seems more like breakng a window just to call fixing it 'inonvation' to me [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
It's possible, but tricky, since a lot of companies use VPNs and the US is a corporate welfare state ruled by Big Cos Inc.

Perhaps they will try and charge a VPN or encrypted data surcharge.
And look at what's happening.
Copy paste with multiple buffers. I often have to copy some kind of unique ID, then copy paste a file name to search; on a Mac I can't do this because it doesn't support middle-button paste like X. I can do it on X but that still only supports two buffers; would be nice to have more.
VPNs can solve the problem only temporarily.

But what will happen is that ISPs will stop upgrading their "regular" networks, and upgrade only the "fast lanes" networks.

VPN providers will either be outright denied access to those fast lanes or they won't be able to afford using them. So in a few years, whether you're using a VPN or not, you'll still be in the "regular" (read: slow) lane, while the big companies will likely have to move to the "fast lane" (and pay the ISPs for the privilege).

The more time passes, the worse this will get for small companies, as the needs for data consumption and bandwidth increase, so eventually internet users will slowly move to the fast-lane-using services and dump the others.

Also, the more money the ISPs will make from the "fast lanes" the less incentive they'll have to upgrade their regular slow lanes (unless fierce competition appears, which may not), because it just means companies will have bigger "incentive" to pay them for the fast lane access.
So, in other words, "gadgets". Kitchen gadgets (rather than tech gadgets) are also a popular choice for that kind of gift.

There are 2 kinds of gifts I like to give that aren't "purely sacrificial gifts": either a book I think the recipient will enjoy (this could be a graphic novel or art book if they aren't much of a reader), or a framed print of a portrait of their kid/partner/themselves with friends/etc. (I do large format film photography and make my own prints, so obviously the latter option is not a possibility for everyone. Still, books are great)
Correct, and this also sidesteps the issue of VPNs falling under legislative scrutiny in the future.
Why use jQuery when you can use Zam?
http://zamjs.com

https://github.com/roecrew/zam/
Indeed. I went on a bit too long and buried my point, I'm afraid. What I wanted to draw attention to was the self-awareness of the original post: It's entertaining on both levels because although Scott puts a great deal of sincere effort into drawing out the connections, he's also well aware that there's nothing there.
> Also, where is the solidarity form champions like Magnus Carlsen?

Really!!
But quality of life has nothing to do with richness. The quality of life for Joe Schmoe making 26k a year beats that of some of the ancient pharaohs with his AC, fridge, microwave, running water, indoor plumbing, instant hot water, and beat up 12 year old Camry. They were still “richer” than him.

(Some Roman rulers did have “AC” though:

Attempts to control indoor temperatures began in ancient Rome, where wealthy citizens took advantage of the remarkable aqueduct system to circulate cool water through the walls of their homes. The emperor Elagabalus took things a step further in the third century, building a mountain of snow—imported from the mountains via donkey trains—in the garden next to his villa to keep cool during the summer. [0])

0: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/07/a_hist...
I keep seeing people recommending VPNs to fight Net Neutrality, but I don't think that will help.

Let's say that they want to slow down sites like TPB and Vodo while making Netflix faster.

Instead of "making everything normal and making TPB slow", which would be a bad for marketing and would be avoided by VPNs, they'll make "everything normal and Netflix fast", which sounds much better in marketing and you can't avoid with a VPN (if you use a VPN, everything will be the same, except for Netflix which will be slower).

This is the same thing that is happening with zero-rating in the EU: If you use a VPN, the only thing that happens is that you'll have limited traffic for all services.
Existing ISP's wouln't ban VPN's because of business use but they could make a special high cost lane just for VPN's.
Any reason why the GitHub repos are under an user account but not an org?

[0] - https://github.com/gittup
The very next section if the article describes what the police version can do:

"There are various models of LRAD, with military grade versions that can send voice communications up to 5.5 miles away, and slightly less powerful versions like the LRAD 500X or 300X which are what police departments generally use. All can produce a sound somewhat akin to a high-powered car alarm that can cause intense headaches, nausea, loss of balance, and potentially permanent hearing loss."

Now, their particular model might not have that last capability or it might have options to avoid it, I don't know.

But I don't know if I trust police to use it after less violent methods have been tried, including simple conflict resolution and non-combative crowd control. This is the same reason I dislike police departments to have military weapons - most states aren't training their police in basic interpersonal communication with mentally ill citizens - How can we trust the training on this?

Doesn't matter to me what version of the weapon they have or how they are using it - to me, anyway. I'm more worried about the potential harm, regulations on use, and the training the cops receive so they can be trusted with such a thing.
Yes. It's the bad thing. Who is to decide whether FB is bad? If you want to fight disinformation on FB, then fight it. But discriminate against using FB is the not the way.
I really love VICE news on HBO even though it definitely comes from the Hard Left perspective. Basically all news should be taken skeptically, but as much as possible they just go with first person video interviews of the people involved.

I don't trust what CNN says about Steve Bannon or Roy Moore, but just hearing what they say about themselves in their own words is enough for me to know I don't belong in their camp.
Isn't Israel denying voting and movement rights to millions of people within its formal borders merely because of the religious/ethnic identity of those individuals?

I could have sworn that is what the BSD movement is all about...

The Middle east is full of countries that act backwards. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, to name just the worst...
Yes as I was checking the spelling of Tegel I came across the Brandenburg airport information and linked to it above. It makes Terminal 5 look fast and flawless by comparison!
Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person's bigotry or perceived bigotry is A-OK.
Tweet it or find a tweet of the article and click that link.
This reads a lot like sponsored content.
> If there was a significant cost saving (there isn't) then of course it would make sense

There could have been, but Airbus shied-away from a really radical design like a blended-wing-body and stuck to traditional tube-and-wings design, just on a larger scale.

There's not much margin for efficiency improvement in that case other than begging the engine manufacturers to work more magic.
This is BS. I lived in Vietnam for years, there are plenty of language schools where foreigners can go to learn Vietnamese. I've never heard of anyone needing a license to teach Vietnamese. There are even volunteer groups in HCMC for teaching foreigners Vietnamese, all done in the open with no teaching certifications.
Interpreting Codd the 12 Rules
From their about page:

The top story on Hacker News is sampled every minute. The story that occurred most frequently in these samples in the last 24 hours is recommended to you.
How do you scale that?

Getting a significant number of users on VPN would take a long time...
Doesn't work for me :-/ it's still paywalled although I access it via the 'web' link and search results page. I tested disabling Javascript too, didn't help.
Some orders will be transferred to other models, e.g. Airbus sold customers an A350-800 that didn't exist yet then cancelled the project that would have developed it. The orders were transferred to the -900 and A330neo, with the airlines presumably getting an inducement to do so.
I'm sorry that the idea makes you a little spicy, but words mean things and by any reasonable definition, and even if your particular situation does not validate the current cost of one (and bear in mind that this stuff tends to get cheaper), that doesn't mean it doesn't literally tick the boxes of an investment. Investments can even be bad ones, after all!
> 12 ordinary people came to the same conclusion

I'm also not in any way outraged by the outcome, but actually this was heard in a magistrates' court so there would be no jury involved.

> big evil government

Nah, it's kind of down to the whims of the individual judge. The wording of the statutes is pretty broad and vague, and in practice I think you inevitably have to rely on the individuals who comprise the legal system to not be terrible.

Right now I'd say that if people want to be outraged about the UK's legal system, they'd do better to direct their ire towards cuts in legal aid rather than "hate speech" laws (which have always existed in some form).
Fake This Marriage
Because humans existed and traveled for hundreds of thousands of years (beyond what most average modern folks can conceptualize). We don't fully give ancient peoples enough credit cause they didn't completely fuck the environment up and didn't leave much evidence. Not at all shocking...only our true ignorance being shocking.
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No, because living conditions have nothing to do with being rich or poor. I’m not arguing that quality of life has not gone up; it’s has undoubtedly done so. The richest of kings of yore didn’t lead a more comfortable or luxurious life than a middle class citizen of any country today. But they were “richer.”

But disparity in wealth (which is the definition of being rich/poor) has nothing to do with that.
Here is a comment on the article:

Joop black6master • an hour ago
Red flags all over. Founder has no background or education whatsoever, the business development manager is dancer, model and actress. Github was first created a couple of days ago. Accounts with these names are fishing after privatekeys on Bitcointalk etc. etc..
I'm seriously considering moving to pre-shared keys. Vernor Vinge's books (_A Deepness In The Sky_, others) talk about how much of interstellar shipping is the secure transportation of random pre-shared keys.

Although I'm unfamiliar w/ anything more sophisticated than a password manager like 1Password and S/Key - I'd like to see if I could have a go with this for my personal kit.

Can anyone recommend keywords/papers that talk about pre-shared key authentication at automated scale?
The ISPs will offer full NN access for $100 a month extra. If some startup comes along with similar service, the ISPs will cut the NN price to $50 per month extra until the startup is gone.
That is the whole point of repealing NN: ISPs want to be able to offer premium services at premium prices.