skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just send an e-mail to people who employ "quantum programmers" - there are groups at Google, IBM and Microsoft, as well as at many universities.

I do know that the industry groups employ engineers as well as more "pure" scientists.
That's a broad brush. Airlines aren't all at the same point in dealing with overbooking.

It's also not a trivial issue given the slim margins and complexity. Consider connecting flights, different fare types (refundable or not, advance purchase, etc). Also, differing aircraft types, how many seats they have, and which crews are qualified to fly them. Oh, and weather.

If you think the root cause is "airline IT is incompetent", you're probably off base. Google paid $700M for a crazy talented company (stuffed full of PhD genius level talent) that did a good job of solving shopping, but failed commercially at solving booking.
Easy big fella / fellette. Notice the use of the phrase "I have to wonder..." The point being:

- Might it be possible?
- Could it be argued?
- Are the courts and laws up to speed on such things?

For example, how would this play in a FISA court? Special case? Yes; not plain vanilla law.
It's not clear to me that this article is arguing for methods that improve learning as opposed to improve testing. One of the main points seems to be that, if we taught history etc. in a more standardized way and then tested everyone for reading comprehension on those standard topics, reading comprehension scores would go up because the topics would be familiar. That makes sense to me but it also doesn't suggest to me that the students would actually be any better when reading to obtain new knowledge.
The US is the largest English speaking market, so it actually makes a lot of sense that large scale counterfeiting efforts would be targeting it. A foreign manufacturer stands to get the highest margins if they can successfully counterfeit our brands here. The US has both the largest population and the largest reputation for "having money".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English...
A principle of psychology that disarmed a robber (2016)
Just FYI, if you get asked to swap, there's no guarantee you get the same plane type.

I opted to switch in exchange for $300, but the plane was an older 737, down from a 787.
If I were you, I would start searching articles about a more interesting question: can everybody learn to program?

When you're teaching children, this is one of the most common complaints.
I'm surprised that airlines wouldn't/couldn't build this functionality themselves.

Does anyone here have insight into the 'buy vs. build' decision that any of these airlines went through in adopting this company's services?
A simple Blockchain in Python
> Making a large refactor without types is the wild west. Types help provide structure/understanding about the data flowing through your system.

If you’re working on a large, unstructured project that you’re trying to refactor, you’re problem probably isn’t with the types. It’s that the people working on it used types as a crutch so that they thought it was okay to write classes that were thousands of lines long with giant methods that are impossible to make sense of.

The interview question I’ve been asking lately is about object design. I tell them not to put things into one big method—that it needs to be readable for junior devs. They always ignore me. The ones who struggle the most are the ones who try to do it in a staticly types language (which I’m sure you agree is crazy to use in an interview for a tiny problem). Their mental model forces them to think about types first, and they then can’t think about anything other than that and just making the thing work.

If you aim to keep your objects and you methods small enough that anyone can read them and make sense of them, then you don’t need static types and refactoring becomes easy. There are plenty of developers of mediocre talent who never use types and are able to build huge features and projects quickly and with high maintainability and flexibility because they write code that sticks to good object oriented design principles.

A class I work on regularly has become so big that everyone, especially the more senior, more talented engineers at my company are too afraid to touch, let alone try to refactor. It’s stayically typed.
> Not a bad contribution to science starting from a sci-fi premise!

1. Ancient civilization enters industrial and post-industrial era.

2. Carbon levels rise, so do global temperatures.

3. In a desperate attempt to save themselves they try geo-engineering by slamming a massive asteroid in the too hot and thus unpopulated area of Yucatan.

4. Goes wrong.

I can see it working as sci-fi novel
The point is, cliche or not, not all speech is 100% protected 100% of the time. That myth is bigger than the fire myth is cliche.
As an aside, quite frankly if you're using Redis you may deserve a slow service. Redis is a very tricky service to correctly integrate into a cloud. It's massively overused by folks who prefer it on grounds of "simplicity" to more appropriate (and ultimately, forgiving) tools.

Oh also, because so many people use languages where even a basic production-quality binary tree is not easy to write. in.
> I wonder how China is prepared to handle the impact Global Warming will have on agriculture.

Look up China's artificial rain furnaces in the Himalayas. Also on a related note, China controls a large portion of neighbouring countries' river sources. Combined with dams, which are so numerours in China that there should be a dam on its flag, China can control water flow to its neighbours, or polute it, or refuse to provide information relevant to forecasting floods. All of which it has already done.

I'm waiting eagerly for financial instruments for shorting water supply.
Can ants form a boltzmann brain?
Is 300 dollars not worth the downgrade? That’s also a pretty small amount of money to accept to switch. Holding out would get you more, or force someone else to take it.
Distribute across multiple machines.
Mentioned in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834574

But in short, very much pro food labeling. This might have something to do with having two kids with T1D, one who also has celiac.
You could say the same of oral traditions, which were also preserved: but that doesn't mean that oral traditions are just as good (in terms of information transfer) as written ones. Keeping up a digital paper would be much like an oral tradition, with each new generation having to re-implement it for current devices.
That's only true if you live in a place with an unsustainable market, i.e. permanently growing rents and house prices. There are places with stable house and rental prices, and in those - buying tends to be a worse choice financially.

And many would argue that places with skyrocketing property prices are going to run into significant issues in the future (if they aren't already at breaking point, hi bay area).
You misunderstood the problem, you can follow a curated guide on legit non-counterfeit products, then click their link to Amazon, purchase, and still have a counterfeit arrive in the mail.
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Or that may be they had some other sources, even cheaper and easier, that we don't know of anymore because they used them all.
> In Australia [..] it is not a great experience

I am certain that almost all the issues you experienced are due to the chain from the plane to your house - mainly customs, who are the laziest, most incompetent stereotypical govt employee jobsworths you can imagine. I've had tiny camera lenses sitting at Sydney Airport for a week. You call their contact numbers and no-one answers. Clearance times are slow to begin with and spike wildly. They make AusPost look like hyperefficient geniuses.

Probably the same for the other countries. In the US, SG and (local store) Japan it's been stellar.
Would a more accurate description be that China is "militarizing," its tech sector instead of "nationalizing" it?

When we think of nationalization, we tend to think of centralized control by committee, removal of competition, five year plans etc. But militarization of an economy, like that of Britain during WWII, means working toward and pricing based on a shared (if mandated) national objective.

Western aviation is largely militarized in this sense, and looking at communications tech in China the way we look at aviation here is probably a better simile.

There is a tendency to portray the Chinese communist party as a farce of clumsy peasants toeing the party line and driving their economy into ruin, as though they were the bolsheviks or Stalin's apparatchiks. Those tropes do a disservice to those of us who really do need to be aware of the sophistication and hyper-aggression of Chinese economic warfare.

Viewing China as an "emerging," economy and society presumes the end state will evolve to something resembling western democracy and a free market economy, which is the very hubris they are exploiting to consolidate and militarize their industries and territories for global expansion.

It would be helpful to everyone to elevate the quality of discussion of these topics, as CFIUS will only protect us so much.
Someone will fill that void. It may take a while for the new winner to emerge, but it will happen, and then they will be in the exact same position as Google news.

This law won't change the structure of the internet, it will just change the players. People want free news aggregators and other countries will not enforce this silly law (see also: cookie notices).
That reason doesn't satisfy, it's not taking into account the connection to encryption. We can't know if this is simply an attempt to shutdown Telegram from use in the country, or whether they would have found the next most believable excuse to block them if Telegram gave into the encryption issue.
Considering I don't fly much, not really. 787 vs. 737 is also worlds apart in terms of comfort (both flights were first class).

The certificate they give you is valid for a year.
What is distinctive about it. Honest question. I spend a fair bit of time in NYC & have eaten at many diners. I honestly can’t describe a difference between them and the one blocks from my house in Chicago.

I’m curious what I’m missing.
Please stop to reconsider reality before labeling China "pro-trade".

As a foreigner, China is truly off-limits:

* In China, nearly all innovative industries are completely legally restricted from foreigner owned businesses (in contrast, in the US, the lone restricted industry is mortgages).

* Likewise, in China, most non-innovative industries require you to setup a company with foreigners as minority shareholders, so control is never in foreign hands.

* In China, all foreign private investment is also highly restricted with all transactions needing government approval.

* Large foreign-owned businesses operating in China seemingly always lose to local Chinese companies, not on merit, but by red tape or shady government practices: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, and others

* Even small foreign-owned businesses in China get weeded out through dubious enforcement: http://shanghaiist.com/2017/08/17/farine-baker-still-detaine...

* As a foreigner, if you marry a Chinese national, getting a Chinese work visa actually becomes harder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDiWQwl0kU

Sure, China is "pro-trade" in the sense of wanting to making money off the status quo trade imbalance.

But don't kid yourself, apart from wanting to strategically own foreign companies and import trade secrets, China has no desire to integrate its markets with the rest of the world in any fair way.
How that is different from a sequence of display:inline-block's (horizontal wrap) and multi-col layout (vertical wrap)?
Well that's good for everyone else competing with China. It will slow innovation. Imagine if you had to worry about doing something that pissed off someone on your companies "Communist Committee" (or whatever the article called them). Yes, in general a company in China has to be careful how it treads with respect to the national communist party, but now they'll have to worry about the lower level people that are inside their company. And those "party" people will have ambitions, and when the company does good, they will do good. BUT, those (at least some of those) same party people will be risk averse, probably a lot more risk averse than a typical tech innovator. Think about politicians here in the US and how long it takes them to embrace things that are already popular with the general public (marijuana legalization for example). That's what these companies will be up against, and it will slow them down.
Doesn't the fact that ants have already adapted to all kinds of environments suggests that they don't need to evolve civilization (whatever that is) in order to be successful?
So it would be wrong for the media industry - sans the gov - to establish quality control standards? If movies are "self rated" certainly we deserve to be told what's editorial.
i've always had the same question about Uber (re the convenience of using an app to hail and pay)
A compile-time debugger that helps you write tensor shape checks
It'd be a lot less effort to just use TS imho.
I won’t disagree about the comfort but man they got you. Should never accept a certificate, especially that low for first class. Next time just hold out. I’ve had it happen twice now and both times were close to 1k in certs.
For me personally, the problem is with trust. I'm not confident that these devices won't encourage the agencies that have them to "go fishing" on the phones of every person they arrest just because they have these shiny new toys.

I also don't trust these agencies will be held accountable when they abuse these devices.

Sally Suburb has a warrant for unpaid tickets? Better check her phone while we have her!

I recall a certain incident, which I'm sure wasn't isolated. I believe it was in California somewhere, where police essentially saw obtaining and trading nudes they would obtain from peoples' phones as a game.

Using the threat of force to obtain nude images of women you've pulled over sure has a rapey feel, to me. Going on and forwarding those images to your friends sounds an awful lot like revenge porn as well. Apparently the police in that area don't agree, though.

I don't believe any of those officers received any actual punishment beyond the standard "take a paid vacation while we let this blow over in the media".

I know, I know, it was just a few of those mythical and rare "bad apples".. but until the good apples who supposedly outnumber the bad start cleaning house, and stop standing up for those "bad apples" to protect the image of their "brotherhood", trust will continue to be an issue.
Could you be a bit more clear in the question? Do you want to know how to actually write a database system? Or how to design a good schema? Or how to write classes that implement a schema for you using a framework? Or something else?

In any case there are books on these topics. And there’s open source software that probably does something similar or close to what you want to do. Look at its code and learn from it.
Agreed. Give me a matte screen, a pointy nib, and a decent keyboard. I’d buy that from them over Lenovo any day.
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Sort of hoped it was because American students had in fact become better instead...
70+ Scientific Papers Say: Today's Sea Level Change Indistinguishable from Noise
I was part of a couple ergonomics discussions and I disagree.

Yes, in the end the changes don't sacrifice long-term maintainability over learnability/marketing, but that was a hard fight. And given editions will allow radical changes to the language and ecosystem every 3 years, I'm not sure how long that resistance is sustainable.
Perhaps they tapped to the biggest ones, and developed better tech before they had to get to the smaller ones?
Interesting. The people who know how to make marketable gadgets must understand systems theory in order to sell it.

It's interesting because it's about culture and culture is a system of ideas, rituals and behaviours.

We are living in a cybernetic culture right now, so what's next?

That's what we need to understand. What do we want?
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This was my (admittedly cynical) take. SpaceX is Musk's means to his self-declared primary goal. Maybe the best of the best candidates get nudged SpaceX-wards.
I wasn't trying to make a semantic point, more of a sovereignty or legislative point.

I'm perfectly willing to concede the semantic point: that bag is fake. The legislative one is "does thia have to be a crime?"

Trademark (like most IP rules) are ultimately decided mostly on utility grounds. Does this IP system produce or destroy economic value, and who's value is it producing and destroying.

Maybe China can do without trademarks and patents. Whatever you think about ip laws in general, there is certainly a self interested swing in favour of more liberal if you don't currently own any IP.
>Volantio’s solution: Gather non-identifiable data about purchasing behaviors to learn what type of consumer is more likely to accept what type of offer.

Call me a skeptic as much as you want, but the "non-identifiable data", must somehow end up being identifiable, or at least the passenger will be personally tagged as "type A", "type B", Type C", etc. in order to propose him/her the "best deal".
I've been amazed at how bad people in my peer group (I'm 23) are at reading and writing. Even in college it seemed no one was up to the task of writing a five paragraph essay without major stress. Heaven help them if they tried to read anything above 12th grade reading level or anything written before 1950 (ye olde English is hard, but should be doable).

I don't know what the right answer is, but I'm encouraged by the idea of exposing kids to difficult texts early. Kids can learn really quickly when challenged. As long as it is a safe environment (you're not going to be punished for struggling with a too-hard text) I've seen that be very effective. Treating kids like they're dumb is the #1 way to make them dumb.
Well, if you're on Mac and if you want to forgo the playback speed controls (like for, music) I can also recommend Vox earlier versions (2.8.26)[0]

It is an audio player with the youtube-list-as-playlist feature. In my experience, it generally delivers a better sound quality of the same videos than youtube. Copy the url (make sure it's /?list=<id>). Hit Cmd + U, paste, <Enter>. Then optionally download the extension for using keyboard buttons[1] and control playback from there.

Or you can always use `youtube-dl -ix /?list=` then open the resulting files with .opus extension with your favorite player.

[0]: https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player/old-versions
[1]: https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player/control-extension-downloa...
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> Tencent Holdings Ltd., with nearly 1 billion users

Sounds reasonable. I would start wondering if they claim 20 Billion users, but hey, you never now.

Alibaba is also an outstanding company:

http://brontecapital.blogspot.de/2015/10/alibaba-yeah-right-...

http://brontecapital.blogspot.de/2015/09/job-interview-quest...
>Students from less educated families are usually the ones who are most handicapped by gaps in knowledge.

Entire article can be boiled down to this. Takeaways: education is controlled by the states, and many states don't make it a priority. Over the past 20 years or so, the federal government has shifted the burden of education to the states by cutting subsidies as well, making matters worse.

My family has a lot of teachers in it. They've all retired in the 1990s, and it's far worse today than it was yesteryear. I would enjoy teaching, but wouldn't do it for the world.

It's not all the states fault either. There are some students that just don't want to be there, yet we force them to be there and disrupt the students that do. When I was growing up, they sent those students to "bad kid" schools to keep the rot away.
I believe the only user of the LLVM GC infrastructure is Azul's JVM. Azul is of course famous for Azul C4, which is a superior GC to that of Go.
If you think it's all wrong then explain why. If all you want to do is signal in-group status or cargo-cult thinking then you'll get downvoted to oblivion. Hacker News has a pretty strongly developed immune response to this sort of comment.
Anecdotally, I've seen many parents do this with mixed results. YMMV.
Because I like to learn by example: http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/index.htm
If you meant NoSql but even if you did not: https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-m...
There may be a goldilocks period for detecting civilizations:

Too early and they never industrialized at scale, so there's little to detect.

Too late and they became a stage n civilisation and are now the substrate of our universe, so there's nothing to detect.
He is a hacker. All of them!

Sorry, cant take this serious.
Agreed - almost every developer I know can code full stack. They are typically better at some parts than other, so they choose to specialize, but the full ability is there. I see it even more often outside of the startup world - in Enterprise IT, you normally not only know the full stack, but multiple products at each level to support all the products that end up running inside a large company. Again, you are not an expert in everything, but you gain a broad knowledge base. And such a knowledge base, held by almost all enterprise IT coders, is hardly mythical.
Ask HN: Example of annotated source code
I was looking over Underscore.js library and found a link on annotated source code[0]. Do you know such type of annotated source code which you recommended to read?

[0].http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

Some more links:

Backbone.js - http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
jQuery 1.6 - http://robflaherty.github.io/jquery-annotated-source/
Well many millions of years ago there was no Antarctica. Perhaps a civilization came about when there was only one continent, which has happened a few times throughout the earths history.

Why would a civilization even be terrestrial, wouldn't an ocean living civilization be even more likely?

Why does a civilization need to invent agriculture. Perhaps ever evolving hunting technics or even just a sudden massive change in diet could free up enough time for a mass population of a species to start concentrating their efforts on cross societal constructions.

I'm not saying that there was an ancient aquatic civilization of squids that mutated plankton to swim to their mouths. But if we want to ask such an extraordinary question, we must not limit our self in such a way that it makes it easier to deny it.
> Anecdotal complaints aren't representative of overall customer experience

"I bought some unspecified item on Amazon and as far as I could tell, it wasn't a counterfeit" is just as much the anecdote you are hastily generalizing the other viewpoint of.

> Customers are willing to deal with the hassle of returning the occasional counterfeit item but it doesn't stop them from buying on Amazon

You keep saying that you're skeptical, but so far most of your points have been neutral or defending the existence of counterfeit products (not refuting their existence), defending Amazon selling them (not refuting Amazon sells them), but in all cases you claim to be skeptical but not really back up your skepticism with any actual skepticism or counter facts.
The more people encrypt their everyday communication, the easier it is for your confidential emails to hide in the noise.
I think here you should probably distinguish between leaking a cool tech gadget plans/prototypes (those are likely ego driven or just by childish joy of sharing), and those leaks that expose some atrocities (that might be instead moral outrage-based).