skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around half my flying is with that kind of luggage, more if I look at the kind of travel I'd consider Ryanair for.
Honestly curious what that solves, and how that would work.

If it is permissioned, does that not essentially mean its write-side is "private"?

What can an observer now do in case the whitelisted entities decide to change history, other than tweeting about it? I'd argue that if the observer now has power to eject the rogue entity/ies from their power, it is a public system. Just via a separate layer.

And if it is permissioned, does that not automatically mean it is centralized?
Exactly. If airlines wanted to, they could significantly optimize the process... Like ordering the passangers by seat number already in the terminal. Some larger airlines do that, but discount airlines prefer to make money by charging for "priority boarding"... and even that is retarded, they could simply charge more for upfront seats (I don't really see the benefit of boarding early, after all airplanes are likely less comfortable then terminals, but there is a benefit to exiting early).

Btw, as far as I know the reason for the long "everybody boarded but airplane not moving" wait times is that the flight is considered "departed" when they disconnect from the terminal, so they can be "on time" (another meaningless KPI) even if they don't actually take off an hour later.
Show HN: An app for chatting with people nearby, even offline, on an airplane
Why would AVs need parking?
To my way of thinking you’re taking too much stuff. I once carried more because I needed suits and the like. These days I’ll go in a 3 week trip with just carry-on.
You're right, thank you. I missed the edit window.
Yeah that might be. On some of the pictures it looks like the cats are focused on the same thing off behind the camera. Some cats can be really mellow. Maybe they were trained to stay still for a delicious treat? One can hope.

I remember an article about modern animal photographers that uses fishing line to bind dead or live animals in surprising positions. The things people do for money.
That doesn't invalidate the parent comment :) The code is pure Go, but parts of it originate in C by means of automatic translation during development of Go 1.4 (or whichever version it was).
Except that he doesn't say it is incorrect, he says that "it seems bizarre" to him that seemingly Michozuki's paper doesn't have any uses beyond proving the ABC conjuncture. The rest of this comment is just explaining how it's usually not like this.
Knuth did a good job on TeX, and it has been closely examined for many years since so there are very few bugs.
hory shet, finally.
what a good reason to get drunk
How does that in anyway protect against fraud?
I'd agree, but only as far as aesthetics go. When you have to understand the time complexity and runtime characteristics of the standard library sorting algorithms, I think Go does a very bad job - the standard `sort.Sort(data sort.Interface)` will run poorly if the data is already mostly sorted. I expect these kinds of things to be documented properly.
This reminds me of a regular pub quiz I used to do - the guy hosting would pull out all sorts of these stupid numeric questions like "what's the distance between <tube station A> and <tube station B>?", and no point unless you got the answer exactly, ie to the nearest integer.

Another time the answer to a question was "West Ham" (the soi-disant football team), and I said to my pals "write down West Ham United, as this guy doesn't know anything about football and will surely insist upon it" ... and so it proved, despite howls of protest from other quizzers.

We do a different pub quiz now :)
I'm leaving today for a 4-day trip with just a backpack (I'm a guy without contact lenses or other medical issues so I need minimal cosmetics) (admittedly I'm taking a bit of a risk by trusting the weather forecast).

A few years ago I went for 10-day trip to Cuba (i.e. you can't really buy stuff there) with a 40L backpack.
The prosecutor is no more powerful in this respect than the defense. Defense attorneys also try to get jurors that they think are demographically inclined to acquit their client and then find post hoc causes to dismiss.

If you have a pool of 30 jurors and the prosecution has already chosen to dismiss the six that are most likely to not convict, it doesn’t leave the defense much to work with. The scenario is not theoretical, I linked to a case that went to the Supreme Court.

But ignoring that, the system is not suppose to be “equally weighted” for the prosecution and the defense. It should be weighted more heavily toward the defense in a criminal case. It is suppose to be harder to take someone’s freedom or life away than to convict.

Yes a random group of people, with no training and no one to judge them, will sentence a man to death for the trivial convenience of going home early. But we aren't selecting from a group with no training. We are selecting from a population that embeds the sanctity of a trial into its childhood education and into its national identity. You have a fairly reasonable shot of at least someone on the jury willing to be the one angry man.

We can talk theory of “indoctrination” or we can look at the facts both in the posted article and the one I cited about the prosecution explicitly excluding Black jurors. The lack of concern about anyone who doesn’t look like them runs much deeper than some type of theoretical sanctity of due process.
It wants brightcove.
I personally haven't found a tool flexible enough to meet my needs. I use a Google spreadsheet with the googlefinance function to track my portfolio. I'm mostly in mutual funds and index funds. I use Fidelity, and have tried other tools with it in the past, but those all required using my login to pull the data, and Fidelity won't provide read-only logins.
Millionaires' visas give the wealthy an unfair fast track to a green card
what? ha, that is the text book approach to reallocating an array for additional values to get log complexity
> Like ordering the passangers by seat number already in the terminal.

Yes please. The standard boarding process is retarded, and they could cut the time to 1/3 if they pre-sorted people before borading...

> as far as I know the reason for the long "everybody boarded but airplane not moving" wait times

I always assumed the airplane & airport crew is just running through some safety checklists in the time between boarding and taking off.
Yes, I think this is the biggest issue. Since many websites are funded by advertising, they do not want people to be able to extract data from their pages, they want people to "visit" the site and view the ads.

Also, rights. People "own" things like sports fixture lists... they don't want you extracting that data without paying to use it.

The semantic web could be perfect technically, but it was never going to apply to content that people were attempting to "monetise"... which seems to be most of the web's content.
Don't do security (yourself)
Underground Homes to Save the World?
It's not a U.S./Europe dichotomy. The first day of the week being Sunday is a Judaeo-Christian, and Islamic, thing.

For countries with these as official religions you will find that offically Sunday is still the first day of the week for many purposes. For example: In the U.K., officially still Protestant, a week for the purposes of statutory sick/maternity/paternity pay or national insurance begins on a Sunday. Sunday trading legislation was talking about weeks commencing on Sunday as recently as 1950.

* http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1640/article/2/made

* http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/22/en...

If you think that millennia-old traditions, which you can still find observed in Europe if you look, are weird then academic weeks beginning at noon on Wednesday, examples of which can also be found in both the U.S. and Europe, will probably blow your mind.
How to Farm Onions * Sivapex
>All ads are stripped...

What ads?
Avastin is an old, cheap, medication. It's useful for wet age-related macular degeneration, but it is not licenced for that. Drug companies ever-greened it by tweaking it slightly and creating lucentis. Lucentis is almost identical to avastin in everything but price: it is very much more expensive.

Doctors are allowed to prescibe off-label.

The patent holders for Lucentis have tried very hard to prevent this off-label usage, going as far as suing the English NHS.

This case was won by the NHS (strictly, by twelve Clinical Commissioning Groups. You can think of those as regional branches of the NHS who commission services in their regions) so hopefully the NHS can save a lot of money and more people can get treatment for wet AMD.

I'm posting this to HN because Lucentis and Avantis have been mentioned before on HN, and it's a great example of unethical harmful behaviour from drug companies.
1) it doesn't really solve the issue except if you can allocate everything you need at startup: if you need more memory but someone else had a bug which used all the memory you also have a problem..
Using Postgres Date/Time Data Types in GraphQL
In 10 years time these soviet-era monuments are going to be coveted and preserved.
I completely disagree, if I could have a penny for a bug that I found in a code review I’ll be rich.
Hey HN, solo founder and maker here.

I designed Berkanan app to be a general-purpose messaging app that you can use to connect with nearby users, be it your contacts or new friends. I think it's most useful at festivals, airplanes, or in emergency situations when there is no Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity.

The idea isn't something new. The most notable competitor is probably FireChat. However, in my opinion, FireChat is too complicated, is centralized, requires you to register for an account, and, most notably, appears to be abandoned by its developer.

The app is free and contains a non-consumable in-app purchase which allows you to customize your profile, like your name or photo. Don't hesitate to contact me if you want a promo code for this IAP! I have 100 of them.

If you have questions or feedback then share. I'm here and try to answer them. Thanks!
At least for clothing stores, I much prefer to go to a store than to order online. You can't feel a material online; check size; color sometimes isn't accurately represented online; etc...

The proposed use an iPad and offer tech support may work for Best Buy or the tech section of Target or Walmart but no online experience (yet?) can make up for the lack of physical touch of a dress shirt or jeans or whatever. I personally, seek out an ultra soft t-shirt material when shopping for printed tees. If it doesn't feel how I like it, I move on.

Conversely, if I had a tech support question about a laptop or iPad or whatever; I wouldn't message a Target or Walmart (there are basically no electronic stores left here) floor salesman; I'd go right to the manufacturer website and call / email / chat with them - BUT - Joe User probably doesn't know to do that I guess.
This is a great thing. You don't want mosquitos carrying diseases. I'd rather deal with my arachnophobia than get malaria.
How is performance related to code quality. That makes no sense. If anything, if you had to inline ASM for example, the code would suffer from readability.
>a shirt-like wearable device designed to correct poor posture

>So just like you would wrap a robotic skin around an object, you can also wrap it around yourself. One of the demos that we've created is showing the robotic skin on an upper body garment using the sensors in the scan to track posture, and then pulsing actuators when you pass a certain posture threshold, to communicate with the wearer that they should sit back up.

"Living tissue inside a metal endoskeleton" quoting that animated Doctor Who and Terminator crossover called "The ExTerminator".
But the "downloadable source code" is written by Apple, so that workflow _is_ software by Apple that takes an image from his website and displays it without attribution.
Might be because on the flights I took, trying to stuff all my electronics (a laptop, a Kindle, power cables) and clothes&cosmetics for 3+ days in the same bag would make me exceed either weight or size limit of hand luggage.
There's a nice introductory lecture series on CPython internals on Youtube that tries to cover how the interpreter works and how the python code maps to bytecode by going trough the cpython source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhadeL7_EIU
There are different examples of radical socialist societies in history, too bad all of them were oppressed by all too powerful neighbours. If you like Orwell, you might like reading "Homage to Catalonia", his experience fighting for Republican Spain in the Civil War. The CNT-FAI supported a radical socialist society, in particular, an anarcho-syndicalist one. Another example is the Free Territory of Ukraine, during the russian civil war. In the early twenties it was conquered by the bolsheviks, since they didn't want Makhno, the military leader of this anarchist society, gaining popular support outside Ukraine. There are other examples: in Korea during the thirties... There are alternatives to both capitalism and Communism (in the Soviet Union sense). The fact that those alternatives aren't considered is caused by lots of propaganda against leftist ideal, take for example the two red scares.
There have been various dodgy dealings around subsidies, it’s by no means as clear-cut as that. This freezes rivals out.
Am french, and can tell you that the only reason I managed to get up to the baccalaureate was an iPod Touch I had on me at every, single, exam I ever took since I was about 10.
I managed to pass the baccalaureate entirely because of a TI Nspire on which I preloaded every single possible program I could need ever for the exams, maths, biology, physics and chemistry. Formulas, step by step solving and all the jazz. They banned in the year after I passed.

The reason is simple. I have never been able to memorize anything or learn anything "by heart" in my entire life. I recently discovered that this is because I am dyslexic. The problem with that is that I spent my entire life in the french education system being treated as if I was lazy, dumb and whatnot. The amount of stress I endured and the amount of meetings I had with profs and principals all over my "motivation" and why my work level is "never constant". I'm actually so mad over this if I saw some of these people in the street I would probably punch them in the face and run away.

I keep saying this over and over again, but in a world where knowledge is at the tip of your fingers, why in the name of f#ck do we still actually need to learn anything. Knowledge is not sufficient itself, you need practice, and not simply "do exercises and you'll get it". I'm talking about real world applications, something that is completely inexistent in the current system. We don't go to school to learn what we want to do later in life, we go to school to go to school, much like in America you go to prison because the prison wants its money per head.

So maybe before they crack down on "cheating" and whatnot, maybe they should take a long look at themselves. The devices they fight so hard to ban are (for me) actually the way of the future in terms of education, even if the kids using it don't have the maturity to know they should not be playing Candy Crush, it's not as if the current system mattered in any way for their future anyways, except if they were born to fit in it.

I recommend an article that was posted recently "College is Dying, Design Your Own Education.". It resonated so hard with me and every single flaw it points out is present in the french education system.
Another 2,000 would be a rounding error.

2,000 would be 2%. That's in the range of a traffic change (1% - 5%) that would degrade the Level of Service of a highway from D (design goal) to E or F.

It doesn't take much of a reduction in traffic to significantly improve free-flow. Or, conversely, it doesn't take much an increase in numbers to make traffic suck more than it already does.
We try to keep up, but the truth is that it's a 15 years old C++ codebase implementing some weird hardware in even weirder ways. We're far from where we'd want to be code quality wise -- close to no automating testing infrastructure, code is full of module-level globals, inconsistent conventions, etc.
Rosling does a great job in the book to drive this point home. He has a logarithmic scale centered on 2, 8, 16, and 64$ a day, and shows just how much of an improvement in life it is to go from 2 to 8. It means a massive drop in child mortality, access to health care, small families, educated children, etc....
> A few years ago I went for 10-day trip to Cuba (i.e. you can't really buy stuff there) with a 40L backpack.

Nice. But how did that fit in the usual size & weight limits of hand luggage? Or did you fly with a decent airline instead of a cheap one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games#History

> In February 2011, Tencent paid $400 million for a 93 percent stake in Riot Games.[2][8] Tencent bought the remaining 7 percent in December 16, 2015; the price was not disclosed.

I don't know about you, but having 100% of the shares seems like a quite a bit more than "significant interest" in the company. Some would say that this "significant interest" qualifies as ownership :)
Okay, but if my password is complex enough and there is no known data inside the encrypted data then I do not see how bruteforcing would be a viable option.

Even with a chain of trust, what is to stop someone desoldering the storage chip off my device and reading the data and bruteforcing that way?

I had a long think while writing this reply about different ways of stopping the issue you described of "change[ing] the OS to simply ask for your passcode and send it back to that someone, you won't notice it", and I couldn't think of one that would be entirely secure (eg. encrypting system, extra checks for this part of the OS) so I agree there - however:

- There are 100s of millions (billions?) of PCs that start and do not have a chain of trust or SecureBoot that store much more confidential information than who my mother last called.

- Lots of servers that store confidential information do not have a chain of trust or SecureBoot.

- SecureBoot is vulnerable.

- Users who get a little popup when starting their phone would likely just ignore it. (if you disagree with this then you severely overestimate the average phone user)

- The chain of trust becomes completely worthless after I decide to put a new operating system on my device. This limits my choice and freedoms as a user of a device.
> a real meme is something more than just a funny picture.

> The spreading from person to person being the crucial part.

The article says:

"They were called postcards, or souvenir cards, and mailing them to friends and relatives was immensely popular for sharing a gilded, snowy holiday scene or even a lolcat."
> This law is useless because schools can adequately set their own rules.

This is just a terrible argument. Just because a subset of people may be able to enact rules on their own does not mean
you shouldn't create consistency at a higher level.
Especially if you desire a specific outcome instead of having some groups come up with something completely different.

Also this law was one of Macron's campaign promises. People voted for this and people got what they voted for.
Apparently people didn't want schools to make up their own rules.
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The whole problem results from people using the same time for user-display and time calculations. Display time is user-facing feature that Should Not Influence system time.
If people used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time for software none of the problems related to calendars will occurs.
IAT has no leap seconds or any calendar corrections at all.
To me that would be Appleseed rendering engine.

https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed

Even though I can't code C++, I can read it here and understand most of it (besides the maths).
L.A. is about the worst example you could come up with as to why we should not invest in transit. Quick, name the first thing that comes to mind when you think of "the worst thing about L.A." You probably thought of either traffic or smog from car pollution.

Angelenos have realized this for some time now, and the region is correspondingly investing more in transit than anywhere else in the country by a significant margin. They literally have no other options: the 405, for example, is the most congested freeway in the country, and there is no room to widen it anymore. It's an easy sell to taxpayers when congestion has that much of an impact on quality of life.
Gemalto at least had that flaw - it had a lot of circuits to detect probing, but a circuit that feeds fuse blower is easy to disconnect/damage even under optical microscope
Typeclass induction and developing a QuickCheck-like library
Pushing all dom manipulation through global evals seems like the exact opposite of thoughtful design to me. I have a long list of places where I want to implement strict CSPs, but can’t purely for minor use of jQuery.
Honest question: what if those self-driving cars have multiple people in them? With 4 people you quadruple the throughput, and this seems technically achievable with technology. Minivans and the like go further. I certainly haven't run the numbers vs rail but in most regions it seems like 4x ing the highways would meet current needs comfortably.
You are reinventing TAI64NA badly.

* http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html
> Is this Reddit?

You've asked this several times and it will attract downvotes every time as it's against the guidelines. People have been worried about HN "becoming like Reddit" since soon after it launched over 10 years ago.

People generally downvote because they don't find the comment convincing or enlightening.

Downvotes are less likely when commenters explain their position with thoughtfulness and effort to help the community understand and learn things.
"Posting solutions to Coursera assignments goes against the Coursera honor code."
I just dont get that mentality in general.

I have (had) a hard time understanding math and programming (and logic in general) from whatever resources. What I need is a problem (or task) and then the solution. At the start I will have no clue so I just check the solution. Then after some exercises I see the pattern and I "blindly" use that to solve the problems without peaking. After doing that for some time I suddenly understand the whole thing.
Sublime Merge looks a lot like SourceTree from the approach it takes. Must say that I'm happy with SourceTree after having had a slow start...
It's a million improvements in a million individual situations. It's public programs to raise health and educate people made feasible by economic growth. It's happened in countries with vastly different systems in very different parts of the world for the last century.

The biggest reason for reduction in extreme poverty over the last decades is the responsibility of the Chinese state. The fastest drop in family size ever was overseen by the totalitarian Iranian government.

Beware easy one line explanations.
I've been using the local Electric Moped rental to get around my large metropolitan city, and I have to say it is really delightful to use and experience. I have all the best parts of having a moped to use, without any of the ownership issues. Of course, it helps that the provider has deployed thousands of the things .. but with every ride I'm ever more convinced this is the future of transportation. Easy to use electric rentals, just great ..
What's stopping the website owner from returning any image he wants in this case. Advertising, political messages, pornography?

Doing things like this without the consent of the website owner feels very dangerous. It looks bad on Apple they haven't thought this through and are a disgruntle owner away from a major incident.
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