skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how/where the author gets connection time information. Each country, and sometimes each public transport company, seems to have their own system, sometimes hard to access digitally.

I've been building a mobile app for quick and convenient public transport departure lookup in Switzerland[0], which is doable because there's a free, well-documented public API[1]. Since it's fairly popular, I thought about extending it to other countries, but as mentioned above, the API landscape looks super heterogenous and spotty.

[0]: http://billhillapps.com/billhill/quickov.html
[1]: http://transport.opendata.ch/
I'm in the same boat. Have you found any decent replacement for WebFaction?
Because when it's lower than expected, shareholders start meddling, sometimes in ways that counter company goals.
I plan to upgrade my phone (unless it breaks first) when I can get either 1TB or unlimited data :)

I realize it might take 3-5 years, but that's okay.
What I remember most is what a big deal it was when UseNet started allowing ads - I want to say that was 1992 or so. Pre-WWW, UseNet was essentially a big BBS or social network for information sharing. I helped run the virtual reality newsgroup, sci.virtual-worlds, and the community building that happened as a result of the open sharing of information was incredible. It seemed as if all the experts were connected and willing to discuss their work for the good of the field. You assumed that if a person was on the Net, they were probably at a research institution or site with enough importance to be connected. Advertising your company's products was a real taboo, and people would get booted for it. Don't get me wrong, there were definitely flame wars... but for academic information sharing, the early Net in this period was invaluable.
In my experience these "leetcode" interviews are just one part of several interviews. They still look toward people interactions in other interviews with managers, etc. So it's not prioritization over interaction, it's a filter for those that can't really program so they can then continue to interview and learn their personal skills as a team member. I.e. why waste a manager's time with a poor candidate.

If it wasn't the coding question interviews that warranted complaint it would be the personality interviews. I've seen plenty of people dropped because while they were smart, they were shit at working with other people. So yeah, hiring is a series of filters. That's life imo.
That wasn’t going to happen, because while plenty of news outlets in the south covered the events in a way that was only favorable to entrenched interests, the government is banned from censorship. As a result the issue isn’t that every network and outlet will cover events, it just takes one. Realistically there are thousands, and in a big country you’ll never find a uniformity of opinion.

More than a decade of social upheavel was never going to be swept under the rug, unless the government flexed its muscles and ignored constitutional protections. This is the point, Patreon is just another outlet, and as long as the government isn’t using its extraordinary powers to arrest, supppress, and kill there are always other outlets. We have no guarantee of an easy time, and certainly no guarantee of imposing upon a private company. We have a right to speak, and I think that implies a right to be heard, but not a right to any particular audience just because it’s the one we want.

Last, remember that one of the most potent things to come out of attempts to silence Dr. King was his Letters From Birmingham Jail. On the other side of the same coin, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in jail. Sargon lost a platform to make money, and wants to act like he’s been crippled in the marketplace of ideas.

Bull. Shit. Free Speech doesn’t mean that you get to dictate how another nominally free entity behaves. The people who’ve invested time and money into Patreon get to choose who they do business with, they don’t have a legal or moral obligation to act as middleman fundraiser for anyone they see as threatening their business.
Same thought here. An Mi-26 can easily do 50% more [1]. I thought the whole point of renewed interest in airships was their cargo carrying capacity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26
Such claims require more support, lest we go another turn on the religious flamewar unmerry-go-round.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should experience jobs where the fate of nothing is in your hands yet provide pressure cooker environments. There are plenty.
It might seem that way, but since 1997 there have been only 3 shutdowns:

2013 under Obama over the Affordable Care Act

2018 under Trump over Immigration

2019 under Trump over the Border Wall (still ongoing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...
> we have zero leverage or bargaining power against these large employers.

You have the leverage not to work there. They have the leverage not to hire you. If enough people choose to work there despite things they don’t like, your leverage is not lost because of the company being large, it’s lost because people choose to work there despite things you don’t like.

Companies compete for employees.
As LAUSD teachers prepare to strike, one central question: Where's the money?
Given that people these days will more likely stare into their phones, that is towards the ground, I guess it is.
How to prepare for the Brexit as entrepreneur?
Well, Apple reached $1 Trillion in market cap in 2018. Odds were that the only way was down...you can't keep growing at 20% qtr to qtr forever, or you'd own the world.

Add the fact that today's smartphones do 99% of what people want and new ones are not that much better to justify spending $1000 on them. Add Android competitors from all over the world and you have a very profitable Apple, but not one growing like a "startup."

Cheaper iPhone? Maybe, but the $500 iPhone would way worst than a $500 Android one made by others so...
Local Spanish brand so not very useful here...
I started using internet in 1996 I think. And I remember reading an article at that time saying that we should enjoy internet now before it becomes full of ads and taken over by corporations. At that time, I didn't get the point of the article and couldn't envision what internet would become.

To answer the question, I remember using IRC and newsgroups. I spent nights trying to find interesting content on the web (mostly personal webpages, before blogging was a thing). There was no wikipedia, no youtube, search engines sucked. Besides, there wasn't that much content in my language and I didn't speak so much English at the time.

I also remember when Youtube started. I naively wondered how personal videos could ever be interesting!
> Same thought here. An Mi-26 can easily do 50% more [1].

But probably not at the same price per pound, or so would the expectation be.

> I thought the whole point of renewed interest in airships was their cargo carrying capacity.

A mix of cargo capacity and cost. And this model (or others being developed right now) are probably not the high-end of what they could theoretically do, they're around where they expect financial sense is for an unproven system, they need to get buy-in and sales.
There is something similar in the UK where you need to start paying off the student loan once you have job with a certain wage and above. https://www.gov.uk/repaying-your-student-loan/when-you-start...
Weighting is done to make the sample more representative, because voluntary samples are always demographically biased. You can argue that the way they weight is wrong in some way, but it’s purpose is exactly to address representativeness of the survey.
No, that is not how skepticism works. There is a humongous body of knowledge on the topic, and all of it is very well supported with an abundance of of evidence.

Being too lazy to visit a library and educate yourself on a topic is called "willful ignorance", not skepticism.

"nullius in verba" means you don't accept theories on authority alone. It means that you don't formulate a conception of gravity by thinking about elements for a while and then declaring that you figured it out, as Aristotle did, but by considering testable possibilities and performing experiments, as Newton did.

"nullius in verba" does NOT mean you can throw out all of Newton's work as "words words words" because you don't feel like reading it.
In one simple word: wonderful.

A lot less useful, a lot less developed, but like the Wild West it was a place where you got to have fun, experiment, go wild and bend the rules. And unless you went too far, you would always be welcome back into the saloon once you’ve paid your penance.

Everyone involved was passionate in what they did.

Right now it looks like a country forever lost.
Haskell without ligatures -> <- => <= looks every bit as amateurish as Lisp without lower case parentheses.
Think of data centers as huge mainframes and we will soon come close.
This is why I follow it up with "try to figure out what makes sense". The fact of the matter is, neither you nor I get to decide who voices their opinion on something on the internet. This is why it is important to scrutinize everything you read instead of blindly following the first piece of advice you read.

I do agree that anti-vaxxers and flat earthers are a problem and it is clear that not everyone has the same ability to scrutinize what they read and determine where the truth lies. That being said, I tend to assume that people posting on HN are intelligent and capable of thinking for themselves and in that case, I think it is fine for non-experts to offer opinions.
Ah yes, Airship Ventures. [1]

I got to ride on one of their last Bay Area flights. It was one of the most fun things I've ever done. See [2] for photos. The lake with houses around it is Larry Ellison's home.

Passenger boarding was interesting. The zeppelin is hovering when you board, so they don't have everyone get off before the new passengers get on. The zeppelin would float away! Instead, they swap passengers one by one to keep the weight stable.

Once on board, the passengers are in the same cabin with the pilots, so we could talk with the pilots, see how they fly the airship, and ask for little sightseeing detours along the way.

Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei still operates tours in southern Germany. [3] If you ever get a chance to ride on one, do it!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship_Ventures

[2] https://geary.smugmug.com/Flying/Airship-Ride/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Zeppelin_Reederei
Research Gate is horrible please replace link with [1].

[1] http://ptp.irb.hr/upload/mape/solari/07_Dmitry_S_Strebkov_SI...
This is terrible advice. Signing a contract you then willfully violate may cost you significant time and money, and if I found out this is how you operate, I’d never hire you. I suspect many other employers wouldn’t either.

Simply don’t sign such a contract.
Lambda Benchmarking: Benchmarks for the AWS Lambda Service
Perhaps transporting specialty equipment/parts into remote oil and gas exploration sites.
An indirect answer, by way of analogy:

I chose my house because of the walking trail behind it. One of my neighbors really loves the walking trail too, but he hates the fact that the city took it over and made it a public park. He hates the fact that it is improved and there is parking because now other people use it too (See also Eternal September).

My neighbor also hates the stores that came in on the edge of the park and cleared the brush between the park and the roads. Plenty of people drive on those roads, and visit those stores and never know that the park is there.

I feel like the internet is very similar: The old part is still there, but most people use the stores, roads, and gathering places next to it instead of visiting it.
Was it an accidental comment that saved the Jews of Denmark, or was it an intentional comment? And it seems it was very much intentional.

Saboteurs, inside people, and otherwise double agents are a thing. And I could see that someone in over their heads could gently sabotage where they are able to.
Poor guy's server is receiving the HN 'hug-o-death'.
The European schedules are published centrally, and you can search them on many websites; the one of the German railways is generally seen as the best. Live data is more of a mess, but you don't need that for a site like this.
> by definition, better players take better decisions Ev average.

My experience has been that, in everything with a competitive aspect, there is a phenomenon where suboptimal choices become optimal because they are unexpected.

Chess, war, video games, sports, everything. As you point out, in the long run, the better player comes out ahead. That's what "being better" means. But the long run isn't always what counts. Sometimes two competitors are going to meet exactly once or the situation is going to be "winner takes all".
IIRC, it was originally developed as a prototype for the US Department of Defence, but when they weren't interested, the intellectual property was sold back to the company that made it and they decided to try and take it to market for faster-than-sea-but-cheaper-than-airplane transoceanic cargo shipments.

But now it sounds like they've pivoted to trying to make a flying cruise ship, which admittedly does sound awesome.
Top reason for me to even consider upgrading from my Galaxy S5: Google maps has gotten so overloaded with "features" that opening it takes about a minute and unloads everything else including music player. Similar for Twitter. I don't complain about fb messenger because I took its bloat as a nudge to ditch it years ago already. Luckily, Osmand is getting better and better, and Twitter less and less relevant. \o/
When the ability to make books for iBooks came out I was excited. I would like to write a math textbook with embedded videos in it. I was about to explore doing this in iBooks but then I realized that I would be limiting my audience to those with Apple devices. I abandoned the idea.

I buy digital books from Amazon and not Apple because I know that Amazon will make its books available on any device. As far as I know iBooks are not available on non-Apple devices. Why would someone lock themselves in? If they made their digital services device agnostic I’d buy from them.
Not surprisingly, most of the 11 are Democrats. Not surprisingly, the Republicans all hold anti-scientific positions on vaccinations and global warming. Given Republican control of the Senate with their medieval positions on science, not a lot of progress can be made but at least some sanity will hold in House.
>Seems trivial to give these all 256 or 512 gb but they are stubbornly kneecapped on space and hard to expand.

Fast, durable storage is a lot more expensive than an SD card with dismal random performance a few thousand cycles of endurance. The big-name manufacturers do use storage as a segmentation feature, but many new manufacturers are happy to offer you reasonably-priced storage and microSD expansion.

>When do we get a dozen low cost Shenzhen competitors to diversify the market?

We've already got them - Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Elephone, Ulefone, UMIDIGI, Cubot, Oukitel, Blackview and a whole bunch of others. Only the first three are likely to be competitive on the western market, but Xiaomi are already taking big bites of market share in many European markets. They'll sell you a perfectly serviceable mid-ranger for $150 and a flagship killer for $300.
I mostly read random people's programming related blog posts. Knowing whether the article just is kind of bad at explaining what it's trying to say, or if important parts of it is missing, is really not obvious.

If paragraphs of text go missing, maybe you notice it instantly, but if it's images or code blocks which aren't explicitly mentioned in the body text of the article and just let exist to contextualize or demonstrate what the author is talking about, how will you know that something is missing? More importantly, is it even possible to develop a heuristic which catches almost all cases where parts are missing, without lots of false positives for cases which are just inexperienced authors writing bad articles?
Was in college in early 90's and remember being on an email list that everyone used to announce creation of a new website. Most striking thing from today and back then is it was all highly educated people using the internet and it was very friendly and open to sharing and discussing ideas.
Lambda  School (YC S17) raised $30m for its free-until-hired code school
It doesn't index the whole internet, but google scholar often reminds me of how the internet felt a decade and a half ago...
> And I personally think learning your kids to grow a thick skin to cope with the adult world is a good thing,

What does this actually mean?

My reading of it is- "as adults kids will be stressed, so don't try to keep them from being stressed when they're kids or else they won't be able to deal with stress later."

Fair?

If so, I have a modest proposal for you. Instead of providing the grades immediately, delay them by a random amount- weeks or months. Then, immediately notify both parent and child, at a random time of day. Perhaps weight it more heavily during mealtimes.

Additionally, grade a small fraction of assignments- say, 5%- as zeroes regardless of actual performance- this will ensure that academically gifted children, even those whose parents don't pressure them- are also stressed.

Since children are likely to outlive their parents, we should also randomly select some children, tell them their parents have died suddenly, and let them start to come to terms with that loss before it happens.

Finally, all shoes and socks must surely be banned, to ensure the proper development of calluses on children's feet.

Surely this will help make kids more resilient. Suffering is part of life, so children must suffer early and often or they'll be too weak.
In the SE boat as well. Great chassis - durable and fits in small pockets. Wish they'd keep squeezing newer gen parts into it. Every time someone sees it they're astounded at its tiny size, but I have no trouble reading on it.
Little more detail:

> As a unique part of the design, 60% of the lift
is produced aerostatically by being Lighter-Than-Air and a further 40% lift is generated aerodynamically by
having a wing-shaped hull. The engines can be rotated to provide an additional 25% of thrust up or down, to
help landing, take-off and hover.
found out this is how you operate, I’d never hire you.

You wouldn't find out until I found a new job someplace else, right? And at that point, why would I lose sleep over how incensed you supposedly would be, here, hypothetically?

Worked great for my ex boss. What do you recommend, a person stays unemployed forever because they refuse to sign these unprincipled agreements? Did you read the Bloomberg article?

We're not all Richard Stallman. Some of us have mortgages and obligations. Let's hope more states follow California.
> I will say that the people who develop HTDP are the some of the people who spend the most time writing about pedagogy in computing education.

I don't think that's really true. Yes, the HTDP community, and Felleisen in particular, write a lot about Pedagogy. But Mark and Mike have them beat handily. Thinking about the CS Ed blogs I read[1], I don't think any HTDP folks have that much compared to others.

[1] https://acbart.github.io/2018/06/25/cs-ed-blogs/
> What is a Toshi?

> Toshi is a three year old Shiba Inu. He is a very good boy and is the official mascot of this project. Toshi personally reviews all code before it is commited to this repository and is dedicated to only accepting the highest quality contributions from his human. He will though accept treats for easier code reviews.
I think schools just wanted to hop on the latest technology and the easiest way for companies to push that was "instant feedback" or something. They didn't foresee the unintended mental health consequences.
Apache Cassandra with JPA: Achilles vs. Datastax vs. Kundera
Entirely false. It is Rome that absorbed Greece civilization.
You need to study history instead of showing your hate for Christianity.
Http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_in_the_Roman_era
Serious question: was needing two wires holding us back?
Can someone help me understand the importance of this? Seems big but I just don't have the expertise to estimate the significance.
> It's been the longest shutdown ever.

By 2 days (so far), the previous record was under Bill Clinton.
>Something can be a problem from one person's perspective and not a problem from another person's perspective and/or globally. :)

Sure, but also some things (like waste and overconsumption) are objective problems for our societies/environment, and we should not allow companies to profit from them and find ways to make them worse.
> not at the same price per pound, or so would the expectation be

Exactly:

> between 20% and 40% of the fuel consumption and operating costs of equivalent traditional aircraft

> Minimal ground crew are required: two for an Airlander 10 and none for an Airlander 50.

https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/downloads/download/Airland...
It is difficult to eat enough fiber. My trick is that I keep a sealed plastic container in the refrigerator with a mixture of cooked spiced beans. I usually just use black beans and garbonzo beans. I vary the spices, but usually use some combination hot spices. It is easy to then add these to whole wheat pita sandwiches, soups, salads, etc. This way I get a lot of fiber and extra protein.
When hardware slows to sell you ramp up services ??

better make more interesting phones and laptops and accept the end of growth rather than dilluting your spirit into chasing revenue
If the phone is a flagship or Apple-priced that’s at least $1200. $100 a month if you buy a new one every year.

If the webpages I browse today load fast on my existing phone, network being the speed barrier... will I actually experience a 40% speed-up on a new phone? No way.

The value is just not there. And that’s not my opinion. That’s the market speaking. Figures are down for phones everywhere.
I am not even sure if you are trolling or is this suppose to be a joke.
In that case they should name the first 2 Sterling and Babou.
Judea's work and "The Book of Why" ought to be required reading for anyone who draws conclusions from data. People who do not understand statistics well enough to understand the book need to study statistical thinking until they do.

Michael Nielson has a nice post (circa 2012) on the topic at http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl... with comments at
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/guest-post-judea-pearl-on-....
Amazon could kill support for any platform at any time if they wish. If I get any eBooks at all I want them to be in an open standard (e.g ePub) with no DRM whatsoever.
Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM do not participate in Movies Anywhere and movies from those studios will not sync across services.

https://help.moviesanywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150052819...
France also makes it very hard to fire a worker, which means hiring carries more risk. That then leads to one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the Eurozone of around 20%.

The US unemployment rates, both youth and overall, are about half of France rates.

Sticky job movement causes friction in both directions, like most sticky economic variables.