skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really old school Atari would have cheered. Newer school, Warner Atari, may have called the attorneys.
People do this a lot. This is a well-known and old issue known as "Hidden City Ticketing" and goes by other names, as well. It is against the typical Contract of Carriage agreement passengers have their airlines, though it's hard to actually enforce: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/17984/is-leaving-...

Note that while this tactic can be money-saving and useful in practice, it does have certain downsides, like if you need to check luggage, or if you expect to collect your airline miles and segments (typically requires completing the full itinerary, though not always).
City of Atlanta still crippled six days after ransomware attack
No, it's still pending appeal but I would be very surprised if it actually goes ahead; Uber has 2-3M users in London and I think it's more a scare tactic to get them to play more ball with regulation here.

'Standard' taxis are really expensive, I would say 2-4x the price of Uber, so a 33% discount doesn't really get you anywhere.
Ask HN: Do you note the author of a HN comment before upvoting/replying to it?
Making the Grade: Why Apple’s education strategy is not based on reality
Very nice. But are the "File" and "MindMap" menu items supposed to do something? (like export the file). On both Safari and Chrome they don't seem to have any behavior.
What they meant is that you should use an official HP Envy laptop :)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubercab

This app has access to:
[...]
Contacts
* find accounts on the device
* read your contacts
There's a whole website (https://skiplagged.com/) dedicated to it. The airlines do NOT like it. I believe they sued the creator of the website at one point.

In short, you can't check your baggage, they'll probably notice you didn't take the second leg, and if you do it too many times, you might find yourself with a ban.
I would love to see a 1TB iPad Pro. I'm really surprised that they haven't offered one yet.
Yet they are doing everything including 3rd degree murder to be the winner. Can anyone name a previous modern company who succeeded via this type of playbook?

Wonder why people downvote my loathe for Uber who stole 1k from me and then laughed in my face and 1000s of other users who fell the same fate.
> I don't have a choice but to pay it sometimes because neither app is willing to give me a lower price

Depending on your market, you may have a choice. I use Juno in New York and Scoop or Waze Carpool in the Bay Area as my primary choices.
> Anyone know whether this turned out to be an acquihire or not?

I suspect a pure patent acquisition.
It's cost cutting to make cheaper cables and ports.
My macbook won't wake up my usb-c monitors consistently. I have tried 8 cables at this point. I have to unplug the cable and plug it back in.

I also refuses to mount my phone straight usb-c, and the known workaround is to go usbc -> a -> c.

At this point in my relationship with Apple, I can only assume this is deliberate.
We still use Vagrant - because it's cross platform. And run docker inside that.
that doesn't answer the question, which is about credit cards.
What? I'm 24 and I already feel like I'm outdated in web dev, because:

* Vue appeared in the last couple of years (At least I learned that)

* Everyone uses React and I never wanted to use it because facebook.

* npm is not cool now it's yarn

* var is not cool now it's let

* Babel is in every new project now, all your browser supporting mind is useless now.

* Vue alone is not cool, now you have to use vue-x

* Bootstrap is not cool, now it's materialize/bulma/whatever

Everything is changing all the time. 1 year after you typed something, it is outdated or vulnerable because of some dependency.
Yeah sorry about that, it's fixed now.
Amazon Wants to Get to Teenagers Before the Banks Do
To avoid establishing a baseline for future incidents. And also to avoid being judged on the amount at which they settled.
Those shredded reconstituted blocks of glass that look vaguely sponge like work really well too, though you gotta rinse it down pretty aggressively afterwards and wipe with a cloth cus it gets powder all over the place.
400mm f2.8 lenses aren't made in the millions. Tens of thousands probably. The lenses used in this telescope cost $8k retail and they use 8 per. Not exactly cheap but surely much lower cost than typical astronomical big iron. Astronomy RAID :)
Smart Urdu dictionary in your terminal
Maybe I’m missing something. But I don’t see any ads.
Those are some good & reasonable points, thank you for making them :).

It would even be quite interesting if potentially the best approach to a healthy & wealthy society would be to be very libertarian for a while, and then very high tax after that...
It's not insurance. They disclose this on their own site[0].

When you go to the hospital, you disclose that. "I don't have health insurance, I am self-paid with a health sharing ministry."

I think another major reason is that health sharing ministries don't typically cover pre-existing conditions. That is huge; acquiring health insurance for a pre-existing condition is like buying house insurance after your home has already burned down.

Another reason the cost is lower is that, unlike nationwide healthcare, we're a self-maintaining community. You abide by the communities standards -- which tend to decrease disease -- and you remain in the community. But if you break the community standards, and engage in medically-risky behavior, you're removed from the community.

This works great for smaller groups with shared values. It cannot work in nationwide healthcare. And it's a big reason the cost is so much lower.

[0]: www.chministries.org/downloads/newsletters/CHMApril2013.pdf
The manned elevators of NYC (2017)
> I've actually never run into a problem debugging go binaries with gdb.

Are you able to step inside code running in a goroutine? with GDB? Because it's where GDB starts to become useless for debugging.
> The chambers burn solid fuel to produce silver iodide, a cloud-seeding agent with a crystalline structure much like ice.

> ...releasing only vapours and carbon dioxide, which makes them suitable for use even in environmentally protected areas.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
A lot of folks liked Just Enough Structured Analysis by Yourdon. Yourdon's methods date back to the 1970's with a lot of real-world application. That approach was also used in at least one high-assurance system (Tenix Data Diode).

http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~sasanr/Teaching-Material/SAD/JE...
That's a great question!

The app is basically a place for developers and sales to get together and help each other out. Developers are constantly working on side projects, it's just how we operate. Constantly creating and building cool things we want to see in the world. These side projects too often get put on the shelf, never used. This is what I call the github graveyard.

This app isn't so much to "find someone to do a job for me", "find the perfect co-founder", or to "build a company" like so many apps out there already do. The goal of this app is to bring to life the projects on the shelf. To revive the github graveyard, and maybe make some extra cash while you do it.

There are so many great ideas just sitting, unused because developers simply don't have the time/motivation to go out and sell the thing. After all, we have side projects for the love of building. Not the love of selling and marketing.

From a sales perspective, you get access to great products with sales potential.

From the dev perspective, it gives your project a chance to live while granting them the luxury of being able to focus on building (not sales).

Both parties have an opportunity to make a good chunk of change on the side.
on good days they could pump water into silos
No, no and no.

I've worked on every single vertical and 3rd party data / Partner Categories is rarely used by big or small advertisers a like.

The cost of the advertising increases i.e. higher CPMs for using this data. I've spent north of $40ml across all digital ads with a large chunk being on $FB and it isn't the main kind of targeting that is used and its the most expensive kind as well.

I am not hugely convinced this will dramatically affect $FB given there are so many other targeting options out there it isn't much of a concern in my eyes just a shame this is one avenue that will now be closed but its one of so many marketers can use.
The problem arises when the business overestimates willingness to pay. Ancestor post said "screw this; taxi".

That damages customer goodwill. Every time.

If you double the prices on umbrellas every time it rains, some people will stop buying umbrellas from you entirely, even when it's sunny and they're still normal price. But if you offer a 50% discount whenever weather is fair, there will be no adverse reaction from consumers. Weird. The prices are the same either way, but the reaction is totally different.

People like to know "this is the maximum I can be expected to pay" a whole lot more than "this is the lowest price I can get". When planning out a budget, it is always better to have an unexpected surplus at the end of the month than an unexpected additional expense. That's why businesses overstate the price by X% and then continually give out Y% discounts. People who can pay the higher price might not bother with requesting the discount. If they advertise a low price, then add on a bunch of hidden fees and surprise upcharges, people get pissed.

This is something telecoms and airlines should consider.
I had never heard of "Architecture of Open Source Applications". Nice, and free online!
Apparently Google thinks it's necessary, since they are doing that decision.
I like this idea but cleaning each little grill bar individually sounds too time consuming.
Because USB-C has a million features that require complex logical controls and hardware.
see, the comfort of not having to shop around provides value to you. feels much more comfy now, doesn't it? ;)
The good ole Gerald Weinberg always has wisdom to share: https://leanpub.com/generalsystemsthinking
That makes sense, thanks for your answer!
Same. Tried in Safari and Chrome. Upon inspection, looks like something is going wrong with the styles. Changing .dropdown-content{position:absolute;} to position:fixed; brought them back for me.
Simply Great, super neat. Especially that drag around on the nodes. Thank you for sharing.
> In the simplest form, you do not give up control unless you use I/O, a synchronization primitive, or explicitly give up control (runtime.Gosched() in Go).

This is not how Go works nowadays. There are other preemption points.
Throwing stuff out is hard to do if you are poor or were raised poor. Everything you save now does not have to be bought later. There is a potential use for anything and everything, so you might as well keep it. Granted, at a certain point the cost of the storage facility exceeds the amount saved, but the mindset is still there.
For Janestreet? Definitely.

If you do Ocaml, you do emacs, if you do emacs, you do GNU (or some other sane unix). Anything else means you're stealing your own or company time.

> a trivial difference in opinion about UI efficiency.

That's one way to look at it. Another is that the quest for UI efficiency is a timesink and an upgrade threadmill susceptible to fashions. The counter to that is to learn it once, learn it well, and be done with it for the rest of your career. Emacs fits that profile just about perfectly.
Mazda did a product launch yesterday at the New York Auto Show and mentioned they were doing some kind of "social" thing with Amazon. Is this it? This seems kind of sad.
Are you sure it has a USB-C logo?
It's a pointless conversation the argue over which unproven theory is taken most seriously.

The reality is that we don't know.
Now that I switch between Uber and Lyft I notice the prices are lower for the same rides than when I used Iber exclusively. I noticed it by accident when I would use Uber out of habit instead of Lyft.

Similar for reserving hotels on travel sites. I started always checking the price on the hotel’s own site and it’s often cheaper. At first the gaps were huge, but they came down after I became a frequent-abandoner on Kayak
In addition to reading about systems thinking, I would recommend actively practicing it. I’ve found that looking for and cataloging abstract patterns has developed my ability to recognize and reason about real-world systems.

For an example of what I mean, take a look at this project: https://github.com/perspectivesonatheme/patterns
7 things I learnt from one of the best startups around
What's the difference between "evolutionary strategies" and "genetic algorithms"?
I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars the mistake of signing that $2 billion Google Cloud deal [1] has cost them unnecessarily and how many jobs are going to get cut as an ultimate consequence.

Their SG&A expense line was ~$450 million the last three quarters of 2017, up from $182 million in Q4 of 2016.

Daily active users only increased from 158m to 187m in that time, which should have prompted a very modest cost increase in their operating results. They added upwards of $800 million in new annual expenses that should have never been stapled on to the business. Reducing that back to where it was, would still leave them burning $150m or so per quarter in net income (maybe $100m in cash per quarter) in 2018 assuming sales hold up, but it'd be a lot closer to manageable. As it is, they're massively bleeding red ink.

Free cash flow was around negative $800m the last four quarters. Their cash went from ~$3.2 billion to $2 billion in 2017. It looks like that will be down to ~$1.2 billion by the end of 2018.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/02/02/snap-will-spend-on-google-clou...
The reports I heard is 'buy 30% of the talent'
I've noticed that people conflate "hours worked" with "skill level" or "effectiveness level". I mean they definitely correlate on average, but 100hrs experience for one person is equivalent to 1khrs to another.

Figuring out skill level is hard. And no matter what job you are at and skill level, it requires training. But if we're talking junior positions, that means "we are going to teach you." I feel like that part is being lost.
Lots of examples here, but the one I can't stop thinking about is rent. The longer you stay, the more you pay. To get a decent rate, you have to move. But there's a lot of friction there, and landlords know it.
Anecdata, but in my group people are using Snap less and less. Meanwhile I see more and more Instagram stories each week.

It's sad for the employees affected, but this could be a wake up call to Snap. I like the premise of Snapchat, that messages are ephemeral, but it seems like Snap the company doesn't realize that people don't use their app for sponsored stories. It's primarily a messaging tool for friends.
Companies understand this, that's why you get to pay them a little more for the convenience of not having to shop around.
Now THAT is a tough question. I'm not sure I agree with the "sleazy-over-the-counter-salesperson doesn't at all" part, but I can sympathize with the sentiment.

Nobody wants to give up their golden project, to someone that doesn't care as much as them.

Hopefully this app will do justice in providing equal incentives for both sides. Like I said in my comment to @theuncommon:

This app isn't so much to "find someone to do a job for me", "find the perfect co-founder", or to "build a company" like so many apps out there already do. The goal of this app is to bring to life the projects on the shelf. To revive the github graveyard, and maybe make some extra cash while you do it.

There are so many great ideas just sitting, unused because developers simply don't have the time/motivation to go out and sell the thing. After all, we have side projects for the love of building. Not the love of selling and marketing.

From a sales perspective, you get access to great products with sales potential.

From the dev perspective, it gives your project a chance to live while granting you the luxury of being able to focus on building (not sales).

Both parties have an opportunity to make a good chunk of change on the side.
Pair programming for sure. Senior designs the code, junior writes it. Senior doesn't touch keyboard. It's real time code reviewing.

The senior's time is rarely wasted. They can always do time consuming high level work like designing test cases, planning out the next part of the work, seeing if the API supports stuff.
I was taught Modula-2 in college as well... 5 years ago. I think they have removed it from the curriculum now though, and just use C that semester, sadly
Uber settles with family of woman killed by self-driving car, avoids lawsuit
It's worth mentioning Terra Preta [1] the manmade soil that makes the Amazon Rain Forest possible in such a huge flood plain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
introduction to cybernetics. it is a great book with exercises and it is free.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
It's basically a back door for the government. They don't violate our rights by accessing information we freely gave to a 3rd party.
That's overcomplicated 4D chess. They just wanted to use standard tools and components.
It seems like its time for consumer-driven AI to combat these shenanigans. Like if there is an app I could open that would automatically do the Uber/Lyft rate arbitrage for me, create false positives/negatives to thwart the business traveller flags and then to automatically reset the destination mid-way to ensure I get the honest price.

Is there some reason this wouldn't be viable? I would think such apps would have applications beyond just fighting the latest discriminatory or dynamic pricing exploitation by Uber.
That's assuming the prices go up linearly with your salary.
Very interesting. By reading docs I like the idea.

So if I understand the core concept correctly, there is no React component. You only dispatch animation you want to perform as store action, and get back in timely fashion state updates which you apply as style props to any React component. Is that correct?

EDIT: Has been that thing already promoted on HN? Because I see it for the first time.
Agreed. Last week landed opened both applications and picked the cheapest. Lyft this time by almost $20.
I'm out of the loop. How will "impl Trait" help with errors? Does it automatically improve errors, or just allow library authors to implement custom error or something?
Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes
Yeah, having programmed the thing, it's kind of amazing what can be done.

The magic comes from the hardware being just a bit too spartan. Had it incorporated a bit more dedicated purpose, ease of use type functionality, the ultimate limits would have been significantly lower. (potentially, depending on how buggy those would have been)

The first thing one does is get a kernel running. That's the display, rendered line by line.

Depending upon what one's vision for the display is, that kernel may be simple, flexible, or very complex, timing dependent.

When it's all said and done, some cycles are left during the blanking period, mostly the vertical one, for game mechanics.

Once, during a project, I ran out of bits. Literally, every single bit used. Was thought provoking.

Another thing, I consider pretty amazing is the compiled BASIC available. One enthusiast saw that a lot of the code could be generated, while retaining a fair amount of display capability.

https://www.google.com/search?q=batari+basic+games&sa=X&rlz=...

What happened was kind of unexpected. Ordinary people could grok the very simple language and limited environment.

The same thing happened for them as it did for assembly language programmers, and that is the stark limits made for a keen focus on the game mechanic. Limit choice, and people finish projects, and or execute on visions.

A ton of goofy, often pretty fun, games got made.
Wait what.

That is insane. Who thought this would be ok?

Is there any cables that are fullspec?
OK, this is moot, though, since the article talks about "dining out" and doesn't distinguish based on your restaurant classification.
Why not plant trees? https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-fo...
> Except when you want to keep the italics that are already inside the quote.

If you're sure it actually matters you can turn off the italics around the portion that was originally italicized, which isn't typographically correct but it gets the point across. Italics are the happy medium between something perfect which hasn't been implemented (or described) yet and the visual diarrhea people sometimes post.
It's no less morally defensible than an employee asking for a salary that's more than they need because they know their worth to the company.

I don't think that anyone thinks Uber's upcharges are hidden given how often they're talked about -- hell, Uber seems proud of the system. It might be bad for their business in the long run to price this way but who am I to tell them how to run their show.
Researchers find algorithm for large-scale brain simulations
You should have sued the restaurant to force them to stop impaling their customers.
This is basic market segmentation—charging more to people who pay more. Although I think rate regulation is a stupid idea, taxi rate regulation was designed to prevent exactly this sort of thing. (It’s also why taxis can’t compete “fairly” with Uber. They have to charge everyone the same all the time; surge pricing and price discrimination allows Uber to offset the cost of cheaper service for some people against increased revenues from other people.)
The big one that nobody's mentioned is that the airline will cancel any remaining flight segments on that ticket, without recourse unless you are very good at begging favors from customer service.

So don't book a round trip SFO-NYC-BTV-NYC-SFO on one ticket and skip the NYC-BTV segment, because you won't be able to rejoin either for BTV-NYC or NYC-SFO.
Theory: it's a bluff. You want to at least convince the enemy that their missiles are getting shot down. Trying to mislead the enemy via newsmedia is at least a century old (in some ways much older).

Problem: social media, and a very fragmented internet newsmedia sector, make this less effective than before. The Houthis no doubt are aware that the Saudis are not successful.
It says the algorithm is based on time and distance. Was there more traffic? Is it possible that the up front pricing algorithm knew that the time portion of the trip would be more than usual and charged more because of that?
No. I don't know or care who anyone is or is supposed to be. If I like what someone says or want to reply, it's because of the content of the comment itself.
It says in the article they did, yeah. Still a bizarre amount left in my opinion. I can't imagine what they do all day.