skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nine months ago, an article "For Hotels, There’s No Room Left for Online Travel Agencies" sparked some interesting discussion on HN [1]. Many of the topics discussed informed the development of our new product, Scout.

The perception of many travelers is that the best hotel prices are to be found at the big online travel agencies.

The hotel chains have recently been attempting to alter this perception by offering lower prices when you book via their own websites. This usually requires membership in a loyalty program but they have streamlined sign-up so that you can become a member during the checkout process.

This channel shift is really important for the hotels because they lose so much in commission to the OTAs, not to mention market relevance and a direct relationship with the customer.

Room Key is a joint venture between six of the largest hotel chains in the world and has unique access to these lower direct rates.

We have just launched a new product called Scout, a Chrome browser extension that activates whenever you view a hotel at major OTAs.

Scout looks at the lowest rate being advertised by the OTA and then searches in the background to see if it can find a lower direct rate. If it does, it automatically displays a notification along with a button that takes the user to the hotel's own site to book the lower rate and get additional perks of booking direct (e.g. points, free wifi).

For now the hotels Scout works with are mostly limited to brands belonging to larger chains (Marriott, Hyatt, Wyndham, Choice, IHG). E.g. try looking at a Holiday Inn on Expedia and you're very likely to see a Scout notification.

The OTAs are currently limited to the major players (Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity) but we hope to grow this list to include metasearch engines (Kayak, Trivago, etc) in the near future. We also hope to introduce the extension on other browsers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14443291
Found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth
Good advice, but honestly just put in the time and you'll get general first time around. There a few good study apps that helped me pass the first time around with some basic high school physics and a month of shitter study sessions.
When the "copyright holder" decides to monetize a video, google gets a cut, right? Doesn't this create an incentive for google to prefer false positives?
HTTP has an enormous ongoing cost in the form of loss of security and privacy.
Google Java format works if you're okay with the Google style guide.

https://github.com/google/google-java-format
Not just the handshake. With say HTTPS (HTTP over TLS over TCP) the unencrypted TCP layer is where the flow control is, a bad guy can see and manipulate this flow even though the application data is opaque to them. Every TCP packet is identified as to which session it's part of, and the TCP stack is relying on the flow control to tell it e.g. to slow down because things are congested.

In QUIC all that vanishes inside the encryption. The only things left unencrypted are the source and destination address.
I would suggest checking out Dan Simmons. He's like Neal in many ways (lots of world building, interesting scifi), but I think a better writer and story teller. I picked up Hyperion based on a review of Seveneves, which suggested the third part was a pale imitation. It and Ilium are amazing.
First ICO registered with the SEC
When I was in my late teens (in the latter half of the 1990s) I read a lot of Clifford Pickover’s scientific/mathematical books. There I came across my first mention of lambda calculus, exemplified by a very imposing diagram taken from To Dissect a Mockingbird by David Keenan. Years later I started to think seriously about having a tattoo of one. I thought about that for about seven years, and now I have a rendition of Turing's Theta Combinator (a fixed-point combinator much akin to the Y Combinator after which Hacker News’ mother organisation is named).

I've had it now for a few months. I’m just a bit embarrassed by owning up to having had myself tattooed to my very closest family members. My sister and my girlfriend both sport multiple tattoos, but somehow mentioning it to my father or anybody more senior unsettles me.

http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/Graphical_lambda26.gif
> The problem with email is how there's no authentication for incoming mail

TYL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
I have Turing’s Theta Combinator: http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/Graphical_lambda26.gif
Amazing in a really bad way. I can't wait for fake internet money being killed off.
There's very little actual titanium in titanium bike frames. Most of the cost is in the machining and labor, so I doubt prices will drop much. And the majority of riders seem to prefer carbon fiber anyway.
All other questions aside, does this count as evidence that the AGPL closes a real loophole in the GPL?

It looks like at least in this case, Google is hysterically anti-AGPL, but would actually welcome a switch to the GPL. Which, from a certain viewpoint, looks like an argument that the GPL is insufficient.
skeuomorphism works, and should be used, because of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2...
A Week in the Feed of a Stand-Up Comedy Scene’s Facebook Group
There's throttling to consider, but there's also caching. It's been a long time since I've had conversations with any NetOps folks working for ISPs, but it used to be very important for the health of a network to do considerable caching wherever possible. It's why http includes cache control headers. With TLS, only the browser can now honor this TTL, and an ISP can no longer cache a particularly popular webpage. I've long suspected that caching strategies are no longer very useful given how the internet looks today, but I also understand powerlaws and it wouldn't surprise me if caching is just as useful today as it was 20 years ago.
Definitely. Most of the questions on the tech exam are there to make sure you understand what it means to be a radio operator and responsible for your transmissions. Pass it and you can use HTs (VHF/UHF walkie-talkies), which is pretty nice. General lets you use SSB on HF, which actually lets you talk to distant people. You have to know some basic EM and electrical safety for General. Personally I had a hard time studying from Q&As/exams, and I think the license manuals are worth reading.
Being an Oracle consultant by trade I'm probably biased, but I've always enjoyed the simplicity of Apex from a developer's perspective. Simple CRUD forms can be built and published in minutes that are both functional and beautiful. The language stack is SQL/PLSQL/HTML/CSS/JS, and most all of the Javascript you'd ever need to write for field validations, etc. is built for you. I think folks tend to ignore it because it's not open source, but as a tool it's underrated. Not the most performant solution out there, granted, but suitable for most cases. If your backend database is Oracle, it should absolutely be in consideration.
Sir John Sulston – Human Genome Pioneer, Nobel Prize Winner – Has Died
`ssize_t` isn't standard C++ (it is required by POSIX); `ptrdiff_t` is only one character fewer than `gsl::index`.
Show HN: LambdaPHP – Host any PHP website on AWS Lambda instantly
I honestly would take a page out of DHH's philosophy and say that's fine. It makes no sense that every tool/app/business has to dominate the landscape. In fact that kind of mentality is quite toxic in the long run. Make new stuff, experiment and see what is out there since popularity does not always correlate with quality. Do not let other people's versions of success come to define your own.
People in the comments here are obliviously missing the point of the article. Yes, the captcha image is fake. Yes, that's on purpose, only a silly person would think it is real.

The point of the article is that Google's previously "inoffensive" spam prevention technology is being coaxed into a military tool. And this is evil for several reasons.

One: A lot of people disagree with the current US military missions, and would absolutely not collaborate with them if they were asked to.

Two: Google is a massive corporation with few or no competitors. They already have overreaching powers over several aspects of society (they're not the only one), and giving them reach over the military can only spell danger, doesn't matter how you look at it.

Three: Google is already exploiting their users in several other ways, at no benefit to them. No, convenience is not a benefit, whoever convinced people that this is the case is a genius marketer. I stopped using gmail five years ago and here I am.

The general point is: Do we really want to give ourselves always to Google, Amazon, Facebook… like that? Just because in exchange we take 5 seconds to find something on the internet instead of 1 minute?
Tesla takes a win for direct sales in Utah
Sure, if the object was declared const in the first place, then it (mostly) can't be mutated. But the real power of const comes from const references, which in Rust guarantee that the referenced object will not be mutated while the reference is alive, even though it might have been mutated before.
You must not have been reading the news lately. It is not the "liberal elite" that is burying their heads in the sand about threats to the ecosystem. It is the political right that is doing that by calling anthropogenic climate change a "hoax" and chanting "drill baby, drill."
I started out as a rust True Believer and still am active in the Rust community. But I don't use it anymore for new projects because it really doesn't bring anything new to the table. At my current job, I'm knee-deep in C++.
It's not fake so much as satirical. You would have to be pretty gullible to believe that it is a real reCaptcha.
I just used this site to disable 117 companies from utilising my own information against me to show targeted ads.

Sadly, this is an EU only feature due to the strict laws in which companies have to comply with.
This seems to be one of the less surprising false-positives of Youtube's copyright detection algorithm. You match millions of hours of copyrighted material vs. noise, seems like you have a multiple testing problem and at least one thing will inadvertently match somewhere in the 10 hours noise video

Wonder what Youtube can do here, except speed up dispute resolution. With datasets of their size, false-positives seem inevitable.

Do copyright-owners just set the system to auto-monetization or -takedown? If so, maybe Youtube should change their policy to require more manual action from copyright owners.
Large corporations represent one quarter of WeWork’s present membership
What a sad, sorry state we as a species are in when energy is used for such purposes. Greed does know no bounds.
> You’re taking away a lot of agency from people who prefer natural diamonds. Yes, of course their marketing campaign set off the industry, but the reason it worked is because many people are already predisposed to prefer natural things over artificial things.

Predisposed is a pretty strong word. Do you think people are born with a preference for “natural” diamonds? I happen to believe that most preferences you hold are learned throughout life, perhaps even manufactured by others.
Note that the Linux support is "meh" (no client software)

It's still possible to setup by copy pasting a config file and downloading openvpn- but not as convenient as the regular application.
> Look, a decent Yaesu costs 5x as much

Old timer says: My Kenwood (3 tube final amp) cost about $700 in 1978, so I'm a little amazed at modern pricing.

-- KA1BKM
How do we disincentivise clickbait?
Meltdown/Spectre kind of vulnerability plus injecting Javascript to anything that is http only by rouge ISP employee or user on open rouge wifi.
It is not about targeted attacks it is about low hanging fruit which any http site is and bots, automated hacking/injecting.

Like people saying that changing SSH port on your VPS is not security. Setup one Linux VPS and see how many bots are trying to brute force your password. Just change the port so they stop trying.
Ice 9?
In unexpected collateral damage, at any rate. US drone programs target the occasional wedding, yes, but the bulk of the civilian casualties seem to be either invented targets ("they're moving tactically") or civilians in the blast area of actual targets.

I, for one, would spend a lot of time wondering whether raising confidence about targets would help justify firing with civilians present.
> I never thought about those recaptcha things. I feel guilty and almost dirty for helping them do these things. I also feel ripped off. We are programming their computers with our data and they are using our work and intelligence to train systems which will make them billions and we won't see a dime of it!

Umm, you are "paying" them with a tiny amount of labour in exchange for getting a web page (or some other access). It's a microtransaction.
Yes, you can absolutely make Exceptions a first-class domain concept, I've been doing this in a worker instrumentation that I've been doing. I have a custom error class that inherits from StandardError, and the exception handling code handles these custom errors differently than other errors.

This way knowledge can be slowly wrapped around the failure modes as they get seen.
I chose a lab-grown diamond to have set in my fiancée's engagement ring. It looks stunning, is significantly larger than I would have been able to afford if sticking to "natural" stones, and nobody can tell the difference. It's certified by IGI, which most people will tell you is not a good thing (you would generally look for GIA certification, and GIA refuse to certify lab-grown diamonds), but if you find a stone that is graded highly across the board by an IGI lab (colour D or E, cut Ideal or Excellent and clarity >VS1) it seems unlikely you'll be disappointed once it's set in a ring.
Your argument is not a scientific one.

There is no alternative hypothesis for climate change that fits the data. As the sibling commenter noted, there are many credible alternative hypotheses for the observed differences in general intelligence across races that do fit the data (and moreover, predate GP's study and were the preferred explanation of that study's authors), and from what we have seen with Asians as a prior, I am more inclined to believe them until an experiment can separate the competing hypotheses.
Only Half of Those Who Paid a Ransomware Ransom Could Recover Their Data
I forgot to mention how I learned to do this: apparently when Walter Chrysler Jr. joined Chrysler, his father did not put him straight away in an executive position like the other car company founders did. Instead, his first job was to clean out the basement of the Chrysler building. From there, he had to work his way up. It is said Chrysler Jr. became a proper manager as a result. I heard this story while I was a teenager and never forgot it...
This was just a weekend project. Here are some examples of using LambdaPHP. All of these are hosted on AWS Lambda (i.e. serverlessly):

- Static site

https://www.lambdaphp.host

- Handling POST data

https://www.lambdaphp.host/examples/post.php

- Creating sessions using AWS DynamoDB

https://www.lambdaphp.host/examples/session.php

- File IO on AWS lambda (using S3 wrapper)

https://www.lambdaphp.host/examples/guestbook.php

- Simple File uploader to AWS S3

https://www.lambdaphp.host/examples/upload.php

- User signup and login using AWS Cognito

https://www.lambdaphp.host/examples/auth/

- Using Custom domains with https support

https://www.lambdaphp.host/
In America, we can do something about it through many avenues. In China, you get 'disappeared' for trying to do something about it. A bit of a difference.
Ah. You had mentioned social media and IM so I figured you'd be using them.

Look for remote work and make your cabin dreams come true? You still have to interact with people, but a lot less?
This is a story about a rentier near monopolist (DeBeers) desperately trying to fend off innovation that is making them irrelevant.
Assuming they talk about how they prefer “real” diamonds, the latter. Similarly, people on the other side signal their association by talking about how they’d never buy “real” diamonds.
I've never worn any kind of mask. I grew up in this weather, so maybe I'm used to. I was just in the Caribbean for a holiday. I tried running in +27 C weather with 70% humidity and I felt like I was suffocating.
It would be nice to have readily available GPUs at a reasonable price again.
As opposed to: gold/silver/diamonds mining (greater energy and human cost), arms manufacturing (orders of magnitude larger industry), etc. Why single out bitcoin (which is actually offering a useful service that critically needs PoW to work)?
They provide generic traffic management and acceleration tools. They can be used to provide this kind of bulk of interception but its not the only (or even most usual?) application
Some aspects of school/district curriculums that shouldn't/can't be tailored to individual ability should still be tailored to the general ability of the student body. In areas with rapidly shifting demographics, this data might help inform decision making. Obviously, in almost any conceivable case, there is plenty of other, sharper data that renders the race data unnecessary; but when the almost entirely Ashkenazi school becomes 75% African refugees and chooses to put on a less lexically complex play, this research will have constructively informed policy.
12 things we learned by reading every single National Rail timetable
I think you're right. Also news stories tend to have a currency. By the time a copyright owner complains, the news is old news. They don't want some automatic process to mark their content as "spammy" and not feature their links or content if someone pushes it.
Discipline can only get you so far. If you call a method coming from a third-party gem, you will still have no idea what exceptions could be raised by it no matter how well you've handled exceptions sourced from your own code.
I don't walk around quoting self help all the time. My point is that before you give advice first take some time to understand the situation.
Were you thinking of William Gibson[0]?

[0] https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/william-gibso...
Waymo self-driving trucks are hauling gear for Google data centers
I think pipes might be a strong contender. Currently titanium is roughly the same price as copper, but harder to machine -- and it's produced in ugly forms by the Kroll process. Electrolysis produces a metal powder using less energy. Titanium is practically immune to chloride corrosion but is slowly worn down by fluoride, although fluoride is typically present at just 1 PPM in tap water (anything higher is toxic) so Ti pipes should last quite a while. Boats can also be made of titanium alloys. Anything dealing with water gets easier when titanium is in play, for the most part; one of the few things that really affects it is lactate (biofouling), but even that can be inhibited with the right alloying additives. More speculative uses might include offshore wind turbines and underwater (isobaric) compressed-air energy storage equipment.
Well, offering a service, anyway. We could have a long debate about "useful".
This is really well said.

Part of problem finding is also taking vague inputs "that subsystem is kinda wonky" and transforming it into "that system has these specific problems, which can be fixed with this approach, which will take roughly this long, and help out this much".

The existing group may not have made tickets for something because they think "it'll take six months" or "we'll have to change x,y and z before that idea is gonna help us", because they don't have the time to analyze a known pain point for how painful it is, or even because they haven't thought of the improvement. Then someone realizes that those assumptions are wrong, and finds a big improvement.
Obligatory reference to ice-nine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine

We're almost there! EDIT: Oh wait, it does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_IX
In the case of a Twine-like system to make offline capable games: everything is just HTML/CSS/JS, it often gets packed into a single HTML file, and there is no server side at all. A client-side DB would be important in that case so that you can query/update game state.

In another thread GUN is mentioned, at that may be the closest client-side DB to what I think I'm looking for, if I ever get around to that side project.
Yes, ice is by far the worst part. You have to pick your route to avoid it. I'm lucky enough to have a mostly cleared or packed paths in my neighborhood.
> The flaw can be exploited only by local attackers, and it also grants access to a low-privileged user account. In spite of this, Cisco has classified the issue as "critical."

I find this reassuring. It is the opposite of downplaying security issues.
This cryptocurrency mining rig can also heat your home – The Verge
This is really apt, people who are not adepts choose reliable routes to success over potentially faster ones, and often reject your "better way" because it requires some subtlety in their mental model or an exception to a rule that didn't already exist.
De beers blood diamond monopoly is over
A sizable fraction of people who have many years of experience aren’t good at making you have fewer problems after 6 months of hard work. Those people still think of themselves as senior, so we have to be careful we’re talking about the same pool of people.

But assuming my high performing senior matches your definition of senior, my experience doesn’t really match your approach with “likely better to bring on a few junior engineers to tackle those rather than Seniors”. The people I think of as high performing seniors will do wonders at making a collection of desired bug fixes and required improvements get done and leave the system with, net, fewer bugs. So it’s never better in my book to assign such problems to juniors.

Some juniors do this, at a lower fix rate. Others introduce as many bugs as they fix. Those either get better fast, or get managed out. So in my world, juniors are a resource (“the future!”) we carefully husband, but try not to have many of them on any given team, because the variance in outcome is so much higher.
I doubt it's happening already. Metalysis currently owns the patent rights to the process and is focusing on tantalum and zirconium (higher profit margins) while working on scaling it up.
Oh Jesus. Get off your high horse. They’re using cheap energy to make money. There’s plenty plenty plenty of worse ways people are willing to make a buck. How about Martin Shkreli? Or the diamond business? Or oil? Or cigarettes? Or... a million other things.

You’re being dramatic.
I recommend https://hamstudy.org/
https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/tattoo-ink-pa...

and

https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/consumers_safety/safety_produ...
I recently went shopping for a diamond.

Price depends on grading factors such as cut, colour and clarity (inclusions). I was surprised to learn that lab grown diamonds also vary in colour, and may have inclusions, and as such are graded on the same scale as natural diamonds.

At most of the stores I visited, the price of lab-grown diamonds was about 30% cheaper compared to their natural counterparts at the same grade.

Most surprising though was that the sales people were really pushing hard to sell the lab grown diamonds over the natural ones.

I would imagine the markup and commission is much much higher.
The De Beers cartel fell apart when mines in other locations were established. It was only valued at 13 billion in 2011.

De Beers definitely mined cornered the market for a long time. But its over.

The meme that diamonds are falling off frees if not for De Beers is not accurate. But with these artificals, it may very well come true.