skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://momsall.com/walmart-online-get-you-desires-from-walm...
Beware friendly Berea-- of the temptation to change your tuition free-stance, even a little bit. It's a slippery slope.

Rice University was founded in 1912 with an endowment and grants and the stipulation in its very charter saying "no tuition", but then the administrators moved to change the charter (to eliminate the racist "white" requirement) and as part of that also, guess what, moved to start charging (1965) rather than depending on the endowment.

The tuition has grown steadily since, from 0 to a third the price of comparable private schools in the 90s (and comparable price to public universities) to now be a pretty full-freight $50k/year.

This, combined with the steadily increasing tuition across all universities -- (inflation eased in 1982 but colleges kept increasing rates discovering the market would allow them to charge more) -- has cynically angered me for some time.

Unlike a business, the tax-sheltered endowments fuel a bit more cynicism than just a raw price increase. There was a joke at Princeton back in the 90s that if the board of directors ever allowed the university to spend down the endowment, they could fund ever-increasing tuition for all students for the next thousand years. Is perpetuity truly needed/healthy?

An education is supposed to free a person, not put them in bondage/slavery.

An endowment should free and empower the students (and thus our civilization) as they start their lives, not the administrators and faculty and institution.

Beware, you educators and administrators who put chains on your students to feather your nest and attempt to increase your prestige!

Beware you administrators who create unnecessary buildings with dozens of spaces empty 90% of the time all to woo professors or create your own mini-legacy. And then claim the university is meeting glowing "sustainability" and energy efficiency objectives! (You may get to stay in your office but the degree of walking for students ever-increases and now shuttles are needed!)

Beware you ranking agencies who weight how much a university spends per student as a factor in how good the university is!

Beware you congresspeople who make it easier for universities to charge more by creating huge student loan programs that allow students to go into great debt and subtly mis-direct their ambitions and outcomes towards those which allow them to service their debt!

OK, rant out. Thanks for passing along the article. There has been some progress at the above named institutions to provide tuition for lower-income families. I don't consider it adequate to address all my points.
“Twitter International Company” has its headquarters in Dublin.

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

”In 2015, following an updated terms of service and privacy policy, Twitter users outside of the United States are legally served by the Ireland-based Twitter International Company instead of Twitter, Inc. The change made these users subject to Irish and European Union data protection laws”
My grandfather went there in the late 20s-early 30s, graduating with degrees in economics and woodworking IIRC. As I recall he described education there as very much a group effort - working together was a bonding and binding experience.
Thanks for the advice.. I think I'll keep trying this diet regime for a little bit, I like how I feel w/ it...

Definitely see your point w/ obsessions... I over analyze and think things. I also try to optimize everything as a developer that's just what I do lol..

I do have a fear that as winter comes I might slack off more on workouts, esp since my gym is 30 mins away (I live in podunkville,UT), so increment weather could affect my sojourn to the city to workout. I'm hoping I just let things go more, and it just becomes part of my life, at least till I hit my goals.
why would I pay to reveal my identity and bank account details when I can easily do it for free?
No apology needed. When things get that small and you're dealing with light, it's a legitimate question. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
I guess I don't really understand the frustration of some people. I do but I don't. I don't have a facebook account, or instagram, or any social media, haven't had one in many years. No one NEEDS to have one. I guess to me, if you don't want this info to be exposed, just don't have an account. Assume the worst can happen. This is not like other sites, I get that you're "trusting" them with your info, but you are willingly putting your information there, just don't.
“It’s an achievement in itself,” says Jinyang Liang, the leading author of this work, who was an engineer in COIL when the research was conducted, “but we already see possibilities for increasing the speed to up to one quadrillion (1015) frames per second!”

Just getting started... o_O
He's wondering what to do when he steps off the plane, jonesing for a nic fix.
Just a note - palm trees are part of the grass family, and have more in common with bamboo and turf grass than they do with trees. It doesn't surprise me that they would be different.
I'm a bit of a outsider looking in being a manager that doesn't code much anymore but why the dislike of Typescript? I really don't see the downside. Transpiling doesn't make it 1:1 anymore but all devs seem to praise it.
I think the 'safest' part is due to regulation, not market forces.
The reason for the e-cig ban in checked baggage is due to the chance of combustion, as if it exploded in your carry-on, it can be extinguished.

It's similar to the Samsung Note ban not too long ago, even though no Samsung Notes ever exploded in-flight, they had known problems with the battery. Air travel is crazy about not taking chances, and many e-cigs have shady bargain-bin lithium batteries.
Depends, did they fix it immediately?
This is Service Management 101 and why “free” services don’t exist offline. There is always a catch.
> It's possible that grounding "crewed" flights doesn't mean grounding all flights

This is what I figured / assumed but I didn't want to act like I actually knew as basically everything I'm saying is an assumption. Thank you!
Anyone have any ideas on how someone outside the EU can get facebook to follow the right to be forgotten thing? I don't believe deleting my account will delete any of my data, although i've already deactivated and plan to delete permanently soon.
I agree, right now there are a plethora of upgrades from a base ticket. Things like, checked-baggage, priority boarding, emergency row / extra leg-room, etc.

There were times when I sprung for priority boarding or emergency row seating, and times where I didn't - and in both cases, I appreciated the option. Let people decide if they care enough about extra leg room that they are willing to throw and that extra $30 for the better seat versus not (because if free, EVERYONE would want extra leg room).
Also worth pointing out that, even though it's been over a year and half since the Pocket acquisition, the only thing about Pocket that's been open sourced is still just the browser extension junk to integrate it with Firefox.

So it goes like this:

1. Firefox adds integration with a commercial, closed source service (Pocket)

2. People get up in arms about it

3. Mozilla issues some specially crafted statements about the relationship with Pocket (the decision to ship Pocket "has absolutely nothing to do with money"—it's only shipping because Firefox PMs like Pocket); so even if they are receiving kickbacks, this can arguably still be true, but it's widely understood to mean that there's no money changing hands

4. Mozilla's own employees who were taken in by the PR begin showing up in conversations thereafter and explicitly saying there's no money changing hands—because they don't know any more than what everyone else was told in #3

5. It's later revealed that there has, in fact, been a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket, contra claims otherwise

6. It's reported that Mozilla is finally just going to acquire Pocket, and it will become open source

7. Concerns are abated; people move on

8. There is no #8. The open source thing was never true. Pocket remains about as open source as it was before the acquisition.
Thank ya! I edited my comment as well to be more involved in the conversation, since my comment asking you about the spelling is a moot point.
Do you actually have any equipment that comes with Thunderbolt3/USB-C cables? My office currently buys new hires at least one dongle plus an hdmi cord because our monitors don't come with a USB-C cable (if yours do, please let me know what you're purchasing). Wireless mice and keyboards that use the USBs need dongles. If you go into a random conference room (at work, at clients etc), many places will have hdmi cords which you used to just be able to plug in. Instead of having a laptop that "just works" it's now a pain to ensure that new hires have all the equipment they need.
Regulation is coming. If data is the new oil these are the oil spills that lead to the EPA.
RIP in peace Adrian Lamo
Check out newspaper too. https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The airlines don't care, and may even support these measures, if it means that their competitors have to follow them also.
Don’t store personal data for any longer than absolutely necessary (laws/fraud often require some records)

If you must, then encrypt it so that you can never access it (eg you never have a users private keys)

If you must be able to decrypt data (eg fraud/law what have you), encrypt the data to a key where the private key is separated from the rest of your system.

Finally: have billions of dollars and still lose it :-/
I think it depends a lot on culture - US seems to have inherited a rather pragmatic, utility focused approach to food from Germans and Brits. Going from East Germany westwards towards France makes you realize such differences. Japanese are at the far end of that spectrum.

I guess the best you can do is steal the best ideas from everyone - Japanese at least have zero issues with doing just that, going right back to first western contact with the Portuguese that brought them Tenpura and a bunch of cakes.
One PC operating system's poor implementation of automatic updates does not mean automatic updates can't be implemented gracefully on a router.
Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head
> since vapes have already been banned from carry-ons

That's not true. They are allowed on carry-on, but not checked bags. The change only bans their use on planes, not their presence.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
> what are the nicotine addicted supposed to do?

Patches. Like many people I know used to use before vaping became A Thing.
What I mean is, have the police enter the home for you. They will do this if there is a threat. In smaller towns, they will likely do this even if the threat is only financial damage to the home-owner.
Thank you so much, drinchev!
If a business model of a company is based on monetizing user data, it seems only fair that in cases like this flow of the money is reversed - from Facebook to users.

Otherwise it seems that big tech has limited risk and huge upside.

edit: 40acres put it more eloquently - Regulation is coming. If data is the new oil these are the oil spills that lead to the EPA.
One of those things is not like the others...

> authorizes $1.68 billion for relief for Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas last month;
You do know that Shopify is owned by Facebook? It's already happening. A lot of custom online shops use this platform to run their business.
You can already script something like this into RouterOS (Mikrotik's OS).
We don't choose administrators of government, only the symbolic representatives. The actual administrators are most often politically connected "appointees" not "employees". Which is a completely different merit and vetting process than we normally consider in terms of employment.
As a teen I worked as a caddy at duplicate bridge tournaments (moving the cards from one table to another, collecting score cards &c.). There were a lot of interesting people involved there.

I actually worked a qualifier for the Women's National Yeam once. At that level they placed a divider diagonally across the table to prevent partners from being able to see and signal each other.

Personally I think it would be very hard to get to that level by cheating, as you end up with anomalous results (not only were they recorded, but pretty much any competitive player at the regional tournaments could rattle off every single hand and result after an afternoon of 26 hands of bridge).

It was good work, paid really well for a 13-15 year old, and I even learned enough bridge to play on the rare occasion I'm with 3 other like minded people.

side note: for those not familiar with duplicate bridge, you play the same hands as other players. The hands are scored similarly to rubber bridge, but your actual points for ranking in the tournament are based off of how much better or worse you do than other people.

In matchpoint play, many people play the same hands, rotating opponents and there is a formula for calculating the score.

In team play, 2 from your team play against 2 from the other team, and then you switch the hands so that you get the cards that the other half of your opponents team just had. Typically this is done in a sequence of rounds in a Swiss format[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament
Look at the names of the "supplements" they found issues with:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/sda/sdNavigation.cfm?...

Literally the only surprising one on the list is Slim Fast, and it's so surprising I'm wondering if they are using extremely old stock or something. The rest of the "supplements" are dick pills with names like "Sexy Monkey."

It's just not even the same market as the weekend warrior crossfit bro who takes whey protein and maybe gasp creatine.
Snake oil is so 1900's. Now it's fish, coconut and other types of oil.
You put them in your carry-on and leave them there as you do today.
No, the author is not assuming that. And in fact the opposite is true.

The assumption is that your performance on any given race is some combination of luck and ability. If you perform extremely well, it should be assumed that both were in your favor that time. The next time you'll still have whatever ability is in play, but you are unlikely to have luck.

The result is that your performance is likely to be good, though not stellar. You racing one day or the next are not independent events - your ability creates a correlation. But your performance one day is also not a linear prediction of your expected performance the next.

This is called regression to the mean. It comes into play in everything from stock picking to poker players.
So many of the assets that Sears was known for, their tools, appliance brands, etc. are all siphoned off into Eddie Lampert's hedge funds.
Meh... sheep or FB users, they all get monetized in the end.
Typical arrogant sixer :)
The author (Laurie Voss) is the “co-founder / coo” of npm Inc.
How Apple use CNC machining to develop their products
First, you need something to organize.

You can't optimize what's not there.
I wouldn't count on it. I wouldn't be surprised if
some will understand it as 'shoot on sight'.
Seven Hours in the Air with Some Record-Breaking Swiss Balloonists
Here's the discussion on the Facebook post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202589.
Thanks for posting the list. This is a list of dick and diet pills and Slim Fast. Slim Fast is genuinely surprising to see on this list, especially considering it's for an ingredient they used to have openly but was banned. The rest of this stuff is not at all in the same category as whey, creatine etc., and the study muddies the waters by grouping them together.
Concerning getpolarized.io: I just watched the first video on the front page, and at 50% I was like, okay 'reading-progress tracker' I don't need that and was about to close it, but instead, I skipped through to the end, and then I heard 'Anki'.

Boom, spot on. Being able to create Anki flashcards while you are reading new content is pretty cool, and much more useful than the whole 'non-linear reading progress' (most documents are meant to be read linearly, and my PDF reader opens a file at the position I closed it).

Now I will check it out ;-)
I hope the eventual seat pitch/width standards are reasonable. I don't think a seat pitch below 33" or width below 19" are tenable for an average 6' 200 pound male.
>You already can't bring vapes in checked luggage, so what are the nicotine addicted supposed to do?

Put up with it or don't fly. The nicotine addicted don't have a right to nicotine.
Have you considered that this perspective is also an almost perfect ego preserving technique?

It's not my fault I'm bad at math, its just that those other guys have memorized the language. I just think different so of course I wouldn't be suited to the normal way of doing things. If only someone had nurtured my special way of thinking and treated me as the individual that I am I'd surely pass by those who so readily conformed to the standard without really understanding. We should teach math with a child like curiosity, because children have infinite potential (and so do I).

I also suck at math. I have had these thoughts. I don't think they are healthy or constructive, they probably come from a place of pride and ressentiment. I'm not saying you have these thoughts or there is a direct connection between what you wrote and what I did but it certainly reminded me of that thought pattern.
I guess the core questions are "How much did you enjoy Heartbleed and Shellshock?" and "How much are you willing to pay to prevent those from happening again?"

It was basically what happened to G+ and FB over the last few months, but to every website. Preventing that is probably worth pitching a few percent of your annual capital budget to infrastructure projects.
You forget that you don't need to have a Facebook account for Facebook to create a profile for you. You just have to exist.

The same is true for many other social networks.

So while you're posting about being all smug and happy that you never signed up for one of these services, your personal data is still in their servers, ready to be exploited by both the company and hackers.
Personally, i don't have issues with overweight.
but before last ramadan (June), i was having some digestive issues, i lost appetite, and i was feelings like i need to vomit, but just after ramadan, everything is back to normal, i recovered quickly, and everything is back to normal,

Also i was starting to get used to drinking beers (alcohol),
but i had not to drink the whole month, and since then i don't drink (i don't miss it)
for non muslims it might seems like it's crazy thing to do and you are harming yourself, but it's really easy for us and we miss it.
Created an issue over at the Yarn repository: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6538
Why? Do you think they didn't report this breach to a supervisory authority? Even though they made it public?
Sixers unite!
This is kind of exhibit A of willfully missing the point...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202205.
but you are willingly putting your information there, just don't

I know you're the Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own a TV[1], but...

Facebook probably has a profile on you containing personally identifiable information. If literally anyone who has ever had your phone number or email address also had a Facebook account, and gave Facebook access to their contacts, that's the ballgame. So maybe be a little less sanctimonious about telling others not to give away their data, because I'd bet all the money in my wallet Facebook has data on you.

[1] https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
IF is actually a simplifier: skip breakfast. If you don't late-night snack, just skip breakfast and you're doing IF.

I've been skipping breakfast for at least 5 years. Assuming the average breakfast would've cost me 5 minutes per day, I've saved over 160 hours not doing breakfast over those years, never-mind the cost-savings and simplification of life that comes with consuming things less frequently.

I've been healthy and fit the entire time I've been skipping breakfast, maintaining a steady weight of 175 lbs at 6'1". I usually have had caffeine, though I occasionally wean myself off. Caffeine (black coffee, straight tea, no sugar) helps with the hunger/IF lifestyle, but it's by no means necessary.
You are correct that most of the supplements in this study are not sold at retail, as explained in the article:

> Since FDA sampling has focused on dietary supplements found online or through import screenings, this data analysis does not indicate the prevalence of these adulterated supplements at retail locations.

But I would not have confidence in what is sold at retail. A 2015 operation by NY state found problems with supplements sold by GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/new-york-attorney-... Granted, I don't think they found any actual drugs in the supplements, but many of the supplements did not contain what they claimed to contain, and some of what they did contain are potential allergens.
Not a lot of comments about the tyranny of regulations in this thread. Surprised there isn't more push-back against a law that is almost entirely regulations imposed on businesses and travelers.
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain"
Shopify isn't owned by Facebook.
I love this. Excellent work. Would be cool to see a step-by-step niblets of client/server implementation of each step.
See this to check if you are one of 30M compromised Facebook users
Not entirely - in-flight wifi, extra legroom, lie-flat business class, and seatback-controllable entertainment & food service are innovations that have spread across the industry because carriers found that customers will switch airlines to get access to them. In many cases they're even moneymakers, with customers willing to pay extra for them.

I think that the industry has generally found that price-discrimination is a powerful tool, though. The business traveler flying Sydney<->SFO on the corporate dime will pay the extra several thousand for lie-flat seats; the upper-middle-class family with bored kids will pay for wifi and tablet holders; but keeping those (and baggage, prime seat selection, early check-in, etc.) optional keeps flying accessible to the working-class laborer who needs to fly home for a funeral.
Regulations are certainly part of the story, but make no mistake, regulation don't work without market buy-in. If a regulation stands in opposition to market forces it will fail miserably. For example, car fuel efficiency regulations tend to lead to cheating, and non-compliance (which leads to non-enforcement because regulators give up on them) if they stray too far from reality. Furthermore regulations don't innovate. It took aviation engineers to design and build super-safe passenger jets, and airlines (along with engineers) to maintain them - bureaucrats don't do any of that. But yes, regulations have a place.
Hm, that's a bit of a silly rule. This isn't the best example, but there are certainly instances where someone is arguing from a point of complete ignorance about details in the article. Even the rule's preferred example of "The article mentions that." still seems to me to insinuate someone hasn't read the article.
I really wish they'd charge for carry-ons and make checkins free. I hate travelling in American where people are rushing into the plane, hauling huge suitcases. Flying in Asia recently was bliss without these huge bags in the overhead bins.
I'd argue that Southwest already did so.

This fall I recently started flying again after having not flown since 1999, and I've been making it a point to only fly Southwest because they're the only airline that's even remotely consumer friendly.