skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So-called "Passenger Bill of Rights" takes away options from passengers[1].

"We found that for every minute of tarmac time being
saved there is, on average, a three-minute increase in
the total passenger delay," said Vikrant Vaze, an
assistant professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of
Engineering who co-authored the study.

Adopted in 2010, the Transportation Department rule
requires that passengers be allowed to deplane within
three hours of boarding or landing for domestic
flights. Airlines are subject to fines of up to $27,500
per passenger for violations.

Hoping to avoid fines, airlines have been quicker to
pull the plug on flights, Vaze said. That forces
passengers to scramble to find another flight to reach
their destination, something that has become
increasingly difficult as industry consolidation
reduces the number of available seats on planes.
Flights that are not canceled have to start lining up
anew after letting passengers deplane and then reboard,
adding to the ultimate delay.

"Most of these extra delays are being felt by those
exact same passengers," Vaze said. "It's just that
they're not on the tarmac."

[1]: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-tarmac-delays-0105...
The Hellstrom Chronicle is a 1971 pseudo-documentary about the threat of insects, due to their adaptability and rapid reproduction, to humanity. It won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It's available on Netflix DVD and YouTube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle
They're boring, too. Why not read Tolkien instead? Or Asimov? or Clancy?
And to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOawky2eNk
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It seems to be that this is one of those fights where I (as a Rust developer) would prefer that both sides fight as hard as possible. An article like this, by suggesting that the "ergonomists" move more toward the mindset of the "safety people", could cause undue wins of the "safety people" over the ergonomists, when what should have happened is a careful compromise.
This was refuted in reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8bx9m7/google_is_al...
I'm surprised that we haven't seen more outright violence and murder by those who feel they have nothing left to lose, such as in this case bereaved relatives of victims fallen to antibiotic-resistant infection.
> These stakes give the Chinese government control over these startups.

Does it? Any more than it already has, what with China being communist and all.

I don't see why the general ideas /u/reeedom discusses can't be true, and can't turn out to in fact be a perfectly workable way to successfully run an economy. This isn't to say it's not risky and scary, with so much power in the state, all it takes is one tyrant to come along and screw everything up, but this is something altogether different than believing it is impossible to govern a society successfully in this form, for a very long period of time.
I think RC examples are very good, but in the case of special syntax for Result, isn’t that a case where the two options are semantically the same, you just are wary of the less verbose/loud option (I have withoutboats’ post in mind here)?
Are you speaking as a consumer? Dental insurance is really cheap...it's like $300/year. Many employers cover all or most of this cost if you get it through a company.

If you pay 100% of your premium and have 2 regular cleanings, it's basically a payment plan.

If you require any other services (deep cleaning for example) then it would definitely be cheaper to pay for insurance than OOP.
1) time
2) scaling
3) quitting

not solved
Explain that bold claim?

Apart from the very annoying Event compatibility layer with its event pooling and central handling that breaks the usual DOM event bubbling, I never saw something bad enough that would make someone consider de-Reacting.

As much as I dislike magic, JS libs working with the DOM will always have code that isn't as clean as your application code.
One difference: people who try to invite "you" (i.e. your Facebook profile) to events through Facebook will discover that you don't exist, rather than the event invitation just lingering in your now-abandoned inbox forever.
I personally switched to the parking lot crate which has mutexes that do not poison. I have never seen people need poisoning or handle it.
My university colleagues who got straight A's were mostly mediocre but had very good memory, learned only what was needed for the test, and occasionally cheated. Most of them didn't understand how things worked, but they memorized everything possible.

On the opposite side, I had colleagues who passed some courses with flying colors (sometimes going so far as to being exempt from taking the final test due to their prowess during the semester), but failed other, unrelated courses, because they simply didn't care.

From my experience, I have zero faith in grades.
The article says this is happening in Pakistan. This probably means a wealthier, more developed nation -- or non profit from such -- needs to step up and work on this as an act of enlightened self interest. Because letting third world countries live in filth is threatening to export antibiotic resistant infections to the rest of the world. This not my problem attitude is going to make it our problem and it's dumb.
I doubt many would consider it metadata, specially since it goes away for all non public symbols on release builds.
In my naive opinion, the least shitty modern political theory I've found so far is Murray Bookchin's scheme for municipalism, where it's an Athenian style, decentralized democracy with horizontal instead of vertical power structures. The best part of this scheme is it can implemented within a state like Pakistan so these peasants can organize their own affairs with each other on a community basis for things like clean water or agriculture trading.

People are hesitant to usher in a global power because nobody in the elite circles of such a power would bother listening to the concerns of the far removed people affected by their laws, it's more likely they would just implement ideology they think is best and become a prince ruling over a colony.

If anybody knows of any universities with an active political theorist department or journal that isn't recycling 20th century ideology I'd be interested.
It doesn't matter if they prefer to speak English at home. Imagine some scale where 50 is satisfactory and 100 is ideal, a kid who scores a 40 in English and a 30 in Spanish is probably better off than someone who scores a 50 in English with no other language. But we don't rigorously measure Spanish proficiency.
Flaky potential clients. They reach out to me, say they are interested when I provide them with a statement of work, and then go silent. 90% of people who contact me behave in this way.
>none of that stuff will be in orbit in 60m years.
where will it go? it wouldn't have the drag or the delta-v to reenter. i think the parent meant geostationary altitude, but "geostationary" orbits are "relatively" cyclically stable. most significant perturbations, you mentioned some, are all <100 year cycles. If there was another spacefaring civilization >60m years ago i think there would be evidence, in orbit.
I'm guessing you're not in the US? Here, the polices have VERY low lifetime caps. One root canal can wipe it out. Other than that, it's basically prepaying for an annual cleaning.
I am also thinking about using it for one project which needs 100M inserts per day.

We'll be using range query only.

But since we are using GCP, it seems Mongo Atlas with sharding in one region with multiple availability zones is better and more cost-effective solution for us.
Congress Held 10 Hours of Hearings on Facebook. What’s Next?
Part of the issue they are trying to solve is that the optimal pricing problem is overlaid with a currency exchange problem. Airlines can compensate customers with vouchers, upgrades, cash or frequent flier miles; as well as different commitments for rebooking. Each customer is going to have a different value for each of these axes. Learning about passenger preferences will help airlines to make offers that are most appealing to individual passengers.

Ultimately, operating a rebooking system near the Nash equilibrium is great for everyone. People who really need to get from A to B on time have a higher chance of doing so, people who are flexible can trade that flexibility for compensation, and the airlines can operate at higher capacity and sell more high-dollar last-minute seats.
I really want to know the demographics here. I don't know a single one out of my hundreds of friends.
Ask HN: Is Facebook truly a monopoly?
Cashing in on Standing Rock
This isn't totally on topic, but when you said lots of your peers in college got stressed when required to write essays, it really reminded of my own experience.

I strongly relate to that. I never wrote a paper in school without deep stress and lots of procrastination, and I think I only wrote one paper throughout both high school and college that I was proud of, the rest were just the bare minimum of competency that I thought I could turn in without dying from shame. But contra that experience, I've always been a voracious reader of all kinds of texts.

Now that I've had a long time to look back on this (I'm about a decade older than you), I think a big part of my problem was that I never felt like I had anything to say on the topics of those assignments. I never found hidden meaning to deconstruct in the fiction I read, I just knew that I loved how the best authors constructed worlds alongside the characters who belonged in them; but that didn't seem like what I was supposed to write about. I never knew how to write about the non-fiction without just re-stating it. I never felt like I had a substantive extension to the arguments made by philosophers, economists, and political scientists, and I never felt I had the expertise to disagree with them. All of this is to say: my problem wasn't with writing per se, but with having something to write. I'm also not saying that this is a problematic approach to an education in writing, it's just that I was rubbish at it.

What finally helped me was to write a lot about things I know: emails and documents at work where I have expertise in the topics being discussed, and writing about my thoughts privately and with my family.

Maybe your peers in school were like me?
Large ISPs Behind Repeal of the Open Internet Order Ask Calfornia to Stand Down
"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
Ok, we'll use that then. Thanks!
I use email for exchanging messages with other people.

Jira is for ToDo list.

So each people is free to organize on their own email client as they want to see their email threads, provided the UI provides aggregation by topic.
If you want to cut down on lines, this is equivalent:

let val = do_result().map_err(|e| Box::new(err(e.into())))?;
Architecture, Materials and SW: Changing the Power/Performance Equation
In 2000, I spent five months in Boulder, Colorado, as part of my graduate work. I saw no reason to buy a TV, but I did buy an AM/FM radio, and Coast to Coast with Art Bell was all I had hoped for in strange American late night talk radio. Pyramids and faces on Mars, and people calling from phone booths fearing to be abducted by the Greys. Good times.
> The people at Xerox were perfectly capable of designing and building low-cost computers with third party components. Xerox never entered the low-cost personal computer market. In the early 1980s Xerox sold high-margin workstations to large corporate clients, and in terms of price/performance their offerings were very competitive.

http://oldcomputers.net/xerox-820.html

This was a rather plain CP/M computer released almost at the same time as the Star. Pretty sad when you think how much better it would have been for them to just make the 3 year old Notetaker with no changes instead.
"I was hoping that this article would talk about how they did the survey through Facebook :)"

There is one type of "revolution" that arguably cannot be started on Facebook.

The revolution to reclaim privacy from Facebook, to free ourselves from Facebook surveillance.

Whenever this "conflict of interest" comes up, there is an unforgettable 1970 song I recall hearing as a youth.

Hint 1: It was written before "rap" existed but many rappers and other artists attribute this man's work as a precursor to hip-hop.

Hint 2: It has a repeating chorus that expresses a similar "conflict of interest", involving a different "revolution" and a different medium.

Can any HN reader guess the song?
RHEL/CentOS 6 stock python is 2.6, IIRC.
It barely ever turns a profit over the long term was my point.
Improving performance with Stackless Python
Not a freelancer any more, but when I was my biggest hassle by far was chasing payment.
Linus Torvalds' talk on Git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Not parent, but I'd like to answer :)

I use mailchimp for a newsletter for my own SaaS site. It is a nice service, they really do make it easy to send and design a mail. Their editor is good, their HTML-plaintext conversion works reasonably well.

What I do not like is the workflow. It's like my usecase is completely unsupported, and I do not understand which usecase they do support. Every time you send a mail you start from scratch: They make you start a new campaign(?), pick again a template, fill in the from address, write a text by editing the template. The workflow does not at all support the thinking that all I do is send a new issue to the same ML like always, which should of course use the same template and infos as always as starting point, where the main thing to do is to change the text in the mail.

I guess they support some marketers definition of how things work there? But really feels strange, as if the text of the mail is an afterthought.
Qownnotes has been working well for me of late.

It can synchronise with Own/NextCloud (I don't use that) and/or a local folder full of markdown files (with git versioning if you like).

http://www.qownnotes.org/
Nationalizing the tech sector will have a negative impact on its growth and innovation.
You're likely under the assumption that other people are like you, but a little different.

That's causing you a great deal of confusion if that's the case. People are not the same - if you look at people's height, some are 6 feet, others are 4 feet.

Our brains is made up of many many sub-fields responsible for somewhat specific tasks. While height can range from 4 feet to 6 and it's obvious, the physical size of the sub-fields in the brain can vary in size up to 10 times!! This accounts for someone not being able to sing 'happy birthday' in tune, while there existed Mozarts and Bachs. It's just not obvious that they're more than species apart in their ability to appreciate and create music.

This a long winded way of saying, look around you, people are very very different, and there is no need to try and teach a pig to sing, you'll frustrate yourself AND the pig.

The right answer is the answer everyone already knows, they're just afraid to say it in this 'equality' culture - people should stick to what they're good at, unless they themselves are motivated to do otherwise.
Source? I think one would find that most tech entrepreneurs are not backed by VC capital. VCs only invest in certain kinds of businesses that have the potential to grow to at least ten million dollars. YC looks for potential billion dollar companies. The VC business model just doesn't work for smaller businesses, which are probably the majority of tech businesses.
The key factor here is the time it takes for a startup to be "successful", it took 9-11 years for Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe to get to where they are today after they went through YC. It will take a similar amount of time to see how successful the larger batches are. I'm guessing your concern is whether they manage to give the same attention to each of the startups as the intake size increases. PG talks about doing things that don't scale (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html), so I'm guessing YC is trying to experiment with scaling, and it will be at least a few years to see definitive results.
I use Zim Wiki ( http://zim-wiki.org ). My requirements, which it fulfills perfectly, are: open source, non-proprietary format, text file storage (which I store inside Dropbox, so that solves syncing), cross-platform, hierarchical notes, some sort of markup for section headers, highlighting etc., links to other notes. Zim Wiki has many more features, but that's enough for me.

Drawbacks: its search functionality seems to miss stuff sometimes, though I haven't figured out why yet. So I'm used to using ag (silver searcher) when I can't immediately find something.

Edit: added cross-platform requirement
"Ten-it" :)
i think you’re fine. if you’re worried about not learning anything new, than i would suggest learning an entirely new stack. otherwise, i would suggest you try to create a product and see how easy that is. odds are, you will learn a lot from that.
How to find great developers
It was such a wonderful experience discovering Coast to Coast as a kid. Many of the classic episodes are on youtube if anyone wants to check them out, I recommend the New Year's Eve prediction specials.

Of course, the whole conspiracy theory world seems a lot less innocent and fun now than it used to, but the old show is still fun to listen to sometimes.
I’m glad somebody got it. I’m fine leaving people be up to the point where their practices produce externalities which threaten or actively hurt me. Second hand and even third hand smoke are taken seriously and societal risk from overuse of antibiotics should be too.
No, of course not. The service that they sell - access to an audience for advertising - can be bought from many other companies, such as Google, TV networks, the New York Times, etc.
I am grateful that my father was using Linux exclusively pretty much from the mid 90s on and we never had another OS at home.
If all you do is cleaning, probably not, more so if you aren't diligent about your visits. However, if you know you need work done, it is cost effective over paying full price. (many plans cover $500-$1500 of work each year, and cost an individual about $300-400/year)
Syria Strike Ordered Based on Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can’t See
I'm not sure what your point is - it's mirrorless that have really pushed the tech on here at least at the cheaper end of the market. It's my understanding that Lumix G range for example has been widely adopted for video in a way that SLR has not. Are you saying these users will defect to SLR with a new generation? Can't really see why, since all that going SLR would do is introduce some extra mechanics they don't need.
Oh how I hate marketing speech.

First of all, the title should include "video of a predefined 360° turn".

And then they say something along the lines of "average accuracy of about 5mm" for joining the constructed modeled joints to their model, while you see the body wobbling around happily.

This is an impressive demo, but gah!
It's good to know other platforms and languages so you can adequately answer, for example, whether or not those upsides of Node and React are worth the downsides. If you have nothing to compare to then what do you base your opinions on?

But, that being said, there are downsides to trying to work in more than one language/platform. The main one is that you only have so much brain capacity. You simply can't be an expert in every platform out there all at the same time. So if you have a language/platform that you know really well and is suited to task you're doing then you really aren't doing it wrong.
Technically, people have polynomials with uncountably many variables, so you can't order them.
This isn't mine, it's just a neat thing I found. If you don't want to download it, you can play around with it on TIO: https://tio.run/##TY3BCgIxDETP7lfk2AorFm/CfkypKQa7aUnSw359d0...
1) leads 2) scope management 3) payment
https://lookatthatsaas.com is a good resource for inspiration.
Paul Simon’s “50 ways to leave your lover”. ;-)
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Your entire backend doesn't need to be all Node
Personally I wish it wouldn't have to be a fight, but Github issues are not well suited for large scale design discussions and are bound to produce certain amounts of grief.
Pick a different type of project. If you keeping doing projects where node and js are the best solutions, it will feel unnatural to use something else.

Try embedded systems, or real time audio processing or something interesting like that.
All comments in a thread based on an article should be read in that context. Unless, of course, the links are never followed and we’re just here to massage each other’s preconceptions.
Try TypeScript or ReasonML or ScalaJS. They all compile to JS and have dead-easy FFI so you can still use the ecosystem stuff you're used to, but you learn something new. In the case of ReasonML and Scala you get to use them later with different backend ecosystems too.

TS will give you a nice balance between learning new stuff (types) and sticking to what you know (most JS patterns are supported), whereas ReasonML and ScalaJS would be a bit more adventurous.

Also try playing with dotnet languages (F# maybe?) via EdgeJS: https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge (but I don't know if thats production-stable)
Being precisely inaccurate isn't optimal. There needs to be a balance between precision and accuracy for a measure that's close to reality. Of course, there's going to be tradeoffs between the two, as well.
That's rubbish. How do you think their business model works? They make enough to pay your procedure, plus all their overhead, plus return a profit to their shareholders - all out of your premiums.

Unless you have reason to believe you're going to require many times more procedures than the average person, it's a waste of money.

With health insurance it's very different, because if you get unlucky it could bankrupt you. A $500-$1500 dental bill is only marginally more than a years premiums, and you won't be needing to pay that every year.

It only makes sense if your employer pays it as a benefit. EDIT I missed the "if you know you need work done" part, or it was added afterward. Clearly if there's no limitations on pre-existing conditions AND no requirement that you maintain the policy for at least N years AND you know you need work done, then it may well make sense temporarily. It's just math, and you have to do the math and read all the fine print. But without that asymmetric "insider knowledge" that you need work, or that you will need substantially more work than the average, you're expected return will be negative.
SourceForge Hiding Fact That They Have Lost the Latest Revision of SVN?