skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do SFO to LAX, SNA, SAN weekly. It is not really fast and you are highlighting a special rate. Tickets easily go for $150 depending on the day, time, etc.

First, you have to deal with the security boondoggle. Add 30 minutes for that, because you never know what you are going to get.

Because of how SFO was built and the fact that they can't use both runways simultaneously with even a hint of bad weather, good luck leaving on time. Pad at least 30 minutes to your destination arrival time to be safe (but I've had plenty of early morning flights get delayed an hour or two waiting for fog to lift).

And then when you get into LAX… good luck getting out. Add an hour just to get out of the airport traffic. Unless you want to go north, you are better off flying into SNA… but tickets into SNA cost $175.

On a good day you can do it in 3 hours. On a bad day it's 6. The cost is $50-$200, and it's always a stressful and shitty experience.

I just recently took the Amtrak all the way down. I took 12 hours and cost $93 for a business class ticket. Yeah, it took forever. But it was really pleasant. It just takes forever. It be nice to have something in-between.
The Libertarians had a movement a little while ago where they would "tip" $0 to their waitress/waiter and then "gift" them the amount they'd want to tip (which happens to be tax free)by writing their intentions as such on a receipt.

No idea if this actually works legally, or logistically, but its an option
> I have been using this forever and swear by it.

I think it's been at least 10 years for me.

One nice side effect of the design is that you can switch hands if/when your wrist gets tired (I write with my left hand and throw with my right hand, so ambidextrous trackballs work very well for me).

I've had other trackballs along the way, but this one suits me best, all the more so given that it's small and lightweight (on the road most of the year).
Yes--if they didn't move manufacturing to the cheapest country.

Job listing in Midwest: We need people to work on our assembly line. We need all workers for administrative to live workers.

Plus--I don't believe most Foxconn workers are highly trained. I'm really tired of Globalism. Want to make your toys there--move corporate too. Just leave. I'm in a bad mood today--sorry, but there's so many people who need jobs here. And I used to justify Apples high prices years ago because I had the glowing feeling Americans were putting the computers together, getting a decent wage.
I think you can do the other way, too! A UWP app, + Win32 project app with service, full trust capabilities declared on manifest of this project then.
My data wasn't quite random! It repeats every 1kb, much smaller than zlib's window size (which is I think 16kb)
I had created so many custom tags and nests of tags and rules before their folder system came along that I never got the Google folder system, even to this day. For which I am insanely thankful. Apparently they figured I was already handling it and left me alone.
Sensory and Tracking Technologies Are the Key to IoT Proliferation
I would assume that the vast majority of train passengers between LA and SF would also not be children.
I experienced nothing but exceptional service in Italy.
I hope the MCSE has improved, because about 10% of the MCSEs I've met know next to nothing.
When I used to live in a house with 6 other people, we went through astounding quantities of minced garlic.

Peeling enough garlic for a 7 person dinner is actually quite time consuming.
Brendan Eich Explains the Brave Browser and Basic Attention Tokens
Arguably so. I'm sympathetic to her goal and that in particular stuck out to me as an over-correction. It doesn't undermine her point that simply changing the job listings can dramatically impact the makeup of your talent pool. That particular provision ended up being unnecessary, anyways; 75% of applicants for the newly posted position met the criteria for diversity hires.

Your point seems to be that explicit bias against groups that are historically over-represented in certain professional fields is of equal or greater moral concern than implicit bias against groups that are historically under-represented. I think that both can be bad, and that reasonable people can judge the magnitude of the harm on both a systematic as well as a case-by-case basis: Prior to the author of this article conducting her live experiment, 0% of non-white non-males were hired for an entry-level position; whereas in the course of her experiment, 25% of qualified applicants were white males, which doesn't sound far away enough from their makeup of the US population to trigger any alarm bells in my brain.

Even if you think that bias-by-writ is always worse than bias-by-complacency, it's still fair for a devil's advocate to put it to you: If this is not the way to solve the latter problem, then what is? If your answer is some version of "leave well enough alone," then I will be unmoved by your heightened rhetoric.
It's great PR, affirms Apple as a company that takes care of its U.S.A obligations, and goes a long way towards pre-empting negative publicity on other areas such as slowing down old phones.

"I know we're in trouble here for our corporate behaviour, but HEY... look over here at how good we are." That sort of thing works and matters and is indeed true.... it sets a good example and allows Apple to take the moral high ground which is where its marketing is positioned... as a good guy.
Your reference to the double Irish arrangement completely undercuts your point. You admit that they aren't paying substantial taxes in a huge market they participate in.

With respect to Japan and China, a multinational company, an effectively stateless entity (or possibly a state unto itself) can simply move to the most profitable country, thus forcing countries to compete for its tax dollars. Thus, the multinationals, unless resisted via solidarity, will cause a collapse in all nations treasuries.
> Statute of limitations should be a protection against this.

Statutes of limitations for taxes run from when the taxes first become due, not from when income is earned.

And the statute of limitations isn't a Constitutional protection.
Decline? Most definitely. Fall? Who knows.

Of course, it depends on your age as well: I've seen the rise and decline of CompuServe, AOL, AltaVista, MySpace, Compaq, Gateway, Siemens-Nixdorf and so on. Not to name Nokia, RIM/Blackberry, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair and many, many others. Many of them could be seens as "major players" in their fields at a time. We used Mosaic & Netscape as web browsers and MSIE was pure evil ... there was no Chrome, there wasn't even Google. Or look at the changes IBM & Microsoft have gone through.

Maybe Google, FB & AMZ are bigger and will stay on top longer, but 30 or 50 years from now, the world will have changed.
In the internet utopia fantasyland capitalism is a long-dead dinosaur and socialism is the obvious champ...
Why we don’t have Loot Boxes (and why other people do)
Of the countries in which I've lived, 2 stand out as regards tipping culture, Spain and France.

Spain has a tipping culuture and the service is mediocre; service is sometimes chaotic (eg food arrives before drinks) and slow, eg asking for bill, paying bill, getting the change takes a long time.

France has a no-tip culture; service is correct, friendly and efficient, despite the stereotype of Parisian serving staff.

My theory is that quality of service isn't related to the tip, but is related to the cultural acceptability of shit service.
I guess that's one of the "benefits" of an authoritarian government: you just tell people what's going to happen, and they either agree, are ignored, or get fined or jailed.
> Why would we possibly return to a manual memory management, raw pointer oriented, assembly language level of abstraction from the much richer and safer abstraction that JS already has?

Just wait until the JVM and Flash Runtime are ported to wasm. Downloaded and compiled on every page load :).
> Trains ultimately require close to 1 staff member per 4 passengers, much more than a budget airline.

Err, why? I've taken my share of commuter and Acela rides in the Northeast and there is nowhere near that level of staffing.
I can't edit my post. I wanted to add that it's not just the internet postings of vicious, transphobic trolls that have made me think. It's things like the controversy around Fallon Fox; or, the story of a trans woman who received an award for women entrepreneurs thanks to the success of a company she set up while living as a man. Stories that show that sometimes, trans women can really run roughshod over the interests of cis women, in our road to self-actualisation.
Yes, but the minimum wage applies to the 40-hour work week, so the wage can be kept low by being overscheduled.
Saturn's moon Titan sports Earth-like features, including moonwide sea level
Very much so. We should not have any of these laws; if bio-whatever makes economic sense, you won't need laws mandating its use.
sadly we'll probably just see mini networks where people will buy obscure repair videos in the same way they buy ebooks to sell as part of a brand, for virtually nothing, and then monetize though other people's content, huffpo style.
I'm going to state the obvious: Tesla is far ahead because they don't want people to die because of an AI bug. They're the only ones who are doing the level of testing that can ensure the safety of the system.

Period, full stop. There is no further conversation to be had about this that makes any logical sense: human life is more important than money. Big Detroit has repeatedly proven they put profit over the welfare of their customers.

It doesn't matter who gets it to market first. It only matters who does it right.

I enjoy seeing Ars on the front page, but this isn't a story that deserves our time, imo.
It's important to have incentives to reward success. How would a business even grow if it could never keep profits?

The working class does benefit from Apple, in the form of high-quality technology that even they can purchase.
How many photos/videos a day do mobile users capture?
Or also capture and share on instagram/facebook/snap?
There are no cuts in healthcare spending offsetting these tax cuts.

Ending the individual mandate will likely reduce the number of people buying insurance from ACA marketplaces, but that isn't going to dramatically change the price of other insurance (to the extent it has an impact, it will probably push insurance prices up...).

The tax cuts are, at present, going to largely be paid for by borrowing money.
> Look at the UK's railway lines, some of them have been operating for two hundred years and counting

That could be the reason why flying is 4x cheaper than trains there.
> That means that a rail line is even _worse_ in the long run

Critical qualifier: in the United States. The British rail system, as I understand it, runs with significantly lower variable costs than e.g. Amtrak or BART.
Because it would make moving away from lambda much easier.
Using the traditional approach on a pure CRUD app, your server transforms form inputs to inserts, page requests to queries, and query results to HTML. Each of these transforms can be pure functions, and all the state updates can be handled by a boring database.

With pure functional components being one of the few ways to make code actually less complex, and handing things off to boring libraries being another.
JPL article:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7040
> At my destination, getting to/from the high speed rail is also super-convenient, hassle free, doesn't require driving, and overall, is cheap.

This doesn't make a lot of sense in LA; you're going to a need a car wherever you end up -- it's huge sprawl; and most people aren't visiting to go to downtown LA, so they probably need a car. Can I rent a car at Union Station? Maybe (if I get there before 5pm), but do they have room to accommodate a larger facility needed if the volume increases? I can rent one at LAX, LGB, SNA, BUR, or any of the other LA area airports I forgot about.
I live in Australia where tipping is either frowned upon or reserved for exemplary service.

Perhaps your idea of “good service” is coloured by your own culture. For example in the USA it is rude to summon a waiter while everywhere else it is rude for the waiter to intrude.

There are also different signals such as ROTW putting cutlery together to signify “I am finished” and crossed to signify “still eating”, or whether to place your napkin yourself or have the waiter help you. Then there are different habits such as paying staff a proper wage and not relying on a hangover from slavery to support waitstaff.
It is very different. Compelling one to fill out a ballot (even if it is blank) decays the right to vote into the obligation to vote. Paying taxes is an obligation. Choosing whether or not to vote is a right.
I have an old browser, but still:

I entered my website, got a blank screen with just this:

{"status":"error","message":"We cannot access this page"}

So I thought, "ah, must add www. I guess". Did so and got this:

{"status":"success","message":"Sitecheck started"}

Aand..that was it.
In Firefox 58 beta I get: WebAssembly.instantiate took 200.9 ms (61.6 MB/s)

In Safari 11.0.2 I get: WebAssembly.instantiate took 2885.9 ms (4.3 MB/s)

In Vivaldi 1.13.1008.40 I get: WebAssembly.instantiate took 7719 ms (1.6 MB/s)
Most countries don't have strong states/provinces like the US does.

Regardless, part of the funding for the CA HSR project does come from the US federal government[0]. It's pretty common in the US for infra projects like this to have multiple funding sources.

[0] http://www.hsr.ca.gov/About/Funding_Finance/index.html
It totally is. Autocracy: gets shit done.
The 80s medium duty F-series really has a timeless look. You could replace the G-vans with modern equivalents and that 80s F-series would fit right in.

>they found seven moves done without moving licenses

Um, WTF. I wouldn't be surprised by this in 2017 in some city but back then?
This is great. Tongue in cheek TLDR (said with a lot of admiration as a divorced mom with two sons myself):

How to accidentally become CEO of a multi-million dollar moving company: Get divorced. Support your two sons' desire to make a little extra money by taking out an ad for them as local movers. Keep getting calls after they leave for college. Run with it.
Don't forget that when this law was passed, diesel fuel was well over $4.00 per gallon. Recently it's been about half that.
> But there’s no good reason to keep the compiler waiting. It’s technically possible to compile WebAssembly line by line. This means you should be able to start as soon as the first chunk comes in.

Maybe they can optimize further by speculating what the next line will be...
Sure, when you only have one political party and your government is authoritarian, that's pretty much a given.
I’ll see if I can find the source, but I remember reading an article that talked about how in some eastern cultures (Japan) hearing voices wasn’t considered a negative/psychotic problem and instead was considered a neutral-positive experience. The same article also mentioned that people in that country diagnosed with schizophrenia typically heard voices saying positive things, compared to western cultures where voices would say/suggest negative things

Edit: was Ghana and India not Japan, and study was very small sample size. Still a pretty interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-hear...
Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
Frozen cubes? Never heard of them, but I can imagine how freshly frozen might be useful. Thanks for the good ideas! I’m going to make some myself and see how long they stay fresh... months I’d guess.
If you're serving the entire JSON dataset, sure, but this solution allows you to do server-side filtering.
I think the go team does deserve credit for making compilation speed a priority when other languages of the same generation have tended not to.
>You can import C (and many others) libraries

This means compiling the lib to wasm, right? At first I was thinking of running JS clientside that imports some C lib somehow, which confused me.
It's basically all real and fairly accurately portrayed by movies from what I can tell.

There are "The Goodfella Tapes" but here's a random JFK doc that has informant info:

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-3...
A Simple Guide to Investing
From my understanding he based the main character off of his mother. He said "make me an offer I can't refuse" is something she would say.
There was little distinction before as companies could borrow against their overseas cash to invest in the US
Ah, this is exactly the same reason no corporation can stay in business! (Since consumers can just buy from the one that has the lowest prices)

For this reason, we should encourage corporations to form cartels to avoid getting taken advantage of by disloyal consumers.
The question, again, is why is there such a big difference in the cost? What are taxpayers and consumers of this infrastructure getting in exchange for these higher costs? That is, what's the opportunity cost? Even if it's a cultural opportunity cost, knowing that is party of assessing if it's really worth it.
Without Automated Testing You Are Building Legacy
Everything except Verizon is garbage in rural America.
Nudge Theory for Software Architecture
>Just wait until the JVM and Flash Runtime are ported to wasm. Downloaded and compiled on every page load :).

Why that, instead of caching common components like any other web asset, or even having the browser act as a dependency manager?

There are bound to better solutions than "download and compile on every page load."
Debugging Node without restarting processes
> This doesn't make a lot of sense in LA; you're going to a need a car wherever you end up

If only someone had thought to include regional transit improvements alongside and coordinated with HSR.

Oh, wait, wait, they did.
This kind of runs counter to how the entire rest of modern civilization works, doesn't it? I don't have the foggiest idea how to grow grains, refine aluminum from bauxite, knit a sweater, build a water purifier, manufacture pens and pencils, bleach paper and bind it into spiral notebooks, raise livestock, or pick coffee beans, so I indirectly pay millions of people to do these things for me and focus on writing code. Why shouldn't I indirectly pay someone to sit at a conveyor belt and separate my recyclables? Single-stream recycling is a godsend, and it's annoying that I have to drive across town or find specific vendors to recycle textiles, batteries, electronics, and stuff like that.
I had a similar “wtf” sensation when I encountered onion juice in a Michael Solomonov (Zahav, Philadelphia) recipe I recently made (http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/middle-eastern-lamb-skewe...). It called for a whole pureed onion in the marinade, and the very idea stunned and inspired me. The lamb was great; the funk cooked out but the harmony stayed. It got me thinking the same thing this post does: where else is there onion juice, figuratively speaking? Worthy, but driven out by a manipulation of culture?
> Moonshot in infra is really worth investing and sometimes you have to take the risk. US has been away from major infra (like interstate hwys) for years and I cannot believe economy growth without more infra.

I agree in principle, but my belief is that we (the US) need to focus a lot more on infra that serves local and regional needs before worrying so much about interstate infra (CA HSR is not technically interstate, but given the size of CA it's an interstate-scale project). We have a ton of aging and insufficient local/regional infra that badly needs upgrades and expansion.
What Caused Two-Thirds of the Saiga Antelope to Suddenly Drop Dead
Shareholders care about more than profits. Just ask one!

Many shareholders care about stability, There is the whole distinction between "growth" stocks and "income" stocks. Some investors prefer low-growth companies that pay big dividends, other investors prefer just the opposite.

Some investors care about environmental issues, or social issues, or religious issues. e.g. the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund divests from companies that don't meet its ethical objectives, and is often a significant investor.
You don't actually have an argument though. Why is the CPU wrong? Because you say so? And btw, you're wrong about this not affecting ARM or AMD. It affects everyone with speculative execution (we're only talking about Spectre variant 1 here - if you're confused about that, please go back to my first comment in this thread).

Look: When other side channel leaks were found, e.g. people recovering RSA or AES keys from plain cache timing without speculative execution, maybe there were people similarly arguing that it's the CPU's fault. They lost that fight, too. Today, the uncontested consensus is that cache timing leaks are the code's fault, for good reason.

Because what are you going to do, stop building caches? Obviously not, they exist for very good reasons. The same is true for speculative execution. What do you expect CPU people to do? Rip that out entirely? Be real. (Please, seriously think about that: what is it that you actually want CPU people to do? Don't just handwave!)

This kind of discussion is why Linus Torvalds regularly flames security people.
There are a variety of alternative arrangements that have been proposed. Economic democracy is one of them (that is, the workers control the company via elections, which will influence their pay).

The workers benefit somewhat from Apple, yes, in the form of a consumer gadget. I will grant Apple some utility, it did find a way to fuse existing science and technology in an interesting way to produce a very nice pocket computer.

However, this has had many effects, some good (access to information and maps), some bad (dissolution of privacy, addictive interfaces, the creation of "apps" at the expense of the open internet). Apple then uses this commodity to vacuum up dollars from consumers in excess of what it cost to produce... and do nothing with them other than allow executives and securities holders to slake their desire to accumulate. It's an addiction in itself.
Spend a weekend in bed, not talking to anyone? I do that from time to time now. I find it relaxing.
...It is open to beginners and is designed for those who are new to machine learning, but it can also benefit advanced researchers in the field looking for a practical overview of deep learning methods and their application....

Someone who took this course before, is it really good for beginners? Also, the course title suggest it would deal with models for self driving cars. Description says "practical overview of DL methods and their application". How specific is the course ?
It was done by the state police.

It's maybe implied that a competitor encouraged them to inspect her books.
Licensing that's effectively restricted to industry incumbents is not at all uncommon, see stories about unlicensed hair braiding, etc.
So the articles says that they can take tips if they pay the minimum wage -- given the minimum wage for jobs that traditionally have a significant tip component is typically much lower than the "minimum wage" (because it's made up in tips, right?), does this mean that they're referring to the non-tip minimum wage?
Does this work in safari for anyone else? It only shows the first few lines then white page the rest.
Before you get it to catch on, please switch the s and the p back to "capsaicin" and "capsaicious"!
Agreed, and to take a bit further: I don't think we should be tackling projects of this size and scale when we don't even have good local and regional rail stories. They are the squeakiest wheel that should get the grease.
I think that headline would be classified as bigotted..?