skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was considered and quickly ruled out. Look at the trajectory of the northern arc [1]. It passes directly over India, which is covered by Indian civilian and military ground radars. There are major airports along this flight path. MH370 did not appear on civilian radar and the Indian military also confirmed MH370 was not detected on military radar.

The northern arc also directly passes through Kashmir, which is contested by India Pakistan and China. There were no reports of the plane passing through this area. To put it in the words of an Indian military pilot [2]:

>“There is no way or the slightest possibility of our radars’ having missed the plane,” the Indian pilot said. “We do not have an open air policy. Any blip, the slightest, has to be given attention. Most of our radars are semi-automated. If there is any aircraft not identified by virtue of its registration or identification, there will be an instant reaction at our end.”

From this, we can conclude one of 1) There is a multinational conspiracy concealing the true path of the plane 2) The immerstat data is falsified (fails occam's razor) or 3) Rule out the northern arc.

[1] https://i1.wp.com/cache.emirates247.com/polopoly_fs/1.574328...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/experts-see-ro...
It's hard for me to make that commitment to download if the website provides literally zero information on UI, Features, or how my privacy may be protected.
puts on tinfoil hat - perhaps they were bait to draw an intense investigation which could be used to probe military capabilities?
Their revenue comes from ads, which happen to be on their search, which is used because it is the best, not because people are forced to use it.
> Maybe you could even start to get some limited spatial information about the surroundings,

Good point. I guess you could accurately triangulate the position of the hard drive using seismic reference data, in the case of an earthquake. Or you could make loud noises at different places in a city, and locate the hard drive that way.
It certainly does get hot, but too cold? My goodness. Winters are something like 50 degrees on average with a handful of cold spells (_maybe_ hits freezing overnight) here and there. If that's too cold then most of the world is off limits to you.
What I learned from that article is that he helped kill a visual programming language project at Microsoft that could have revolutionized the way non-programmers interact with computers (the rest is interesting, of course).
The super rich are somehow the sheep in this metaphor?
nice just needs more centos compatibility https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-2983
It's funny how much people have danced around all this, including this article, but what Musk has done with his statements on self-driving capabilities is called lying.
Launch HN: How to decide which credit card to use for better rewards
https://sites.google.com/view/pay-better/home

I always wonder which credit card I should use to pay at a restaurant or a store.

An average US customer has ~7 credit cards. Each card is for specific category(Gas, Restaurant etc.).

But it is hard to remember which card to use while paying at a particular store.

Now you don't need to remember it. This simple App (PayBetter) tells you which card to use when you are waiting in the billing queue.

It does not require any authentication or your card details.

You just add what type of cards you have and open it when are you about to pay.

But I am using my own app everytime when I open my wallet. Feels really happy :)

I appreciate if you have comments or suggestions before I go all-in into making it a real product.

Hope you like it.

https://sites.google.com/view/pay-better/home
Comments also need:

The CONTEXT, often non-assertable non-functional assumptions.

The WHY NOT, the non-obvious omissions, because code that isn't there cannot be self-documenting.
It happens occasionally that a DJ will plug their headphones to the mic input in their console and talk to the earpiece to make some announcement in bars/clubs when there is no mic available around. But, yeah, if one could turn the headphone output to a mic input using software, that would be major because lots of people leave their headphones plugged.
Reporters submit suggested heds. Editors often change them.
Ask HN: Does Amazon Hire Without BS?
I'm starting to look at established companies (i.e. exit the startup world). Microsoft recently began adding "or equivalent experience" to the end of BS in Computer Science, or completely removing the mention of a CS degree altogether in their job postings.

But all the jobs I've read so far on amazon.jobs seem to imply that a BS degree is required. Does anyone know if that is still the case? Is there any point in applying at Amazon if you don't have a BS degree? Any tips or tricks? (Besides signing up for the quickest online college degree program...)

Thanks.
"The team was able to snip off small tissue samples from the whales by firing a harmless dart, attached to a line, into their skin."

Is it just me, or does shooting them with a projectile that tears out some of their flesh seem to not be "harmless", inherently?
The actual title of this article is "Austin Is Building a Mini Silicon Valley, With Some of the Same Problems", and indeed, when this post was first submitted to HN, the post had the same title. It appears as though an HN mod removed the "With Some of the Same Problems" part from the post submission. Why? The entire point of the article (and discussion in this post) is talking about the common downfalls of both areas.
The PBS Space Time video series, written and hosted by Lehman College astrophysicist Matthew O’Dowd, has a nice analysis of popular 'Oumuamua theories:

"'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0
>There's definitely proof that the world does respect hard work. Consider the fact that Asians, Whites, Hispanics, and Blacks spend time working on homework in that order

The main problem with meritocracy (or its lack thereof) is not about those working hard not getting compensated accordingly.

It is about what background, encouragement, financial support, and chances each individual had, from baby to adult, to work hard on their homework/business ideas/development/etc -- and what powers they have against them as well (e.g. racist HR profiling).

You'll find that these ethnic groups had that kind of (statistical average) support (or lack thereof) in a same order as their "working harder on their homework".
>One jet owner found himself charged 4,000 pounds ($5,300) for 240 sushi boxes apparently served on board his jet while it was empty, according to My Sky, a company whose software helps scrutinize and manage private-jet costs.

Seems like their main source may be a bit biased, no?
Definitely - most the incidents I'm referring to were on 10 around Houston (all sorts of vehicles but especially trucks & SUVs) or on 20 heading west away from DFW (big rigs)
Elison and Dell were nowhere near 1% types. Dell started Dell with money he earned selling newspapers and dropped out once it was making 6 figures while still operating from his dorm room. Ellison came from a messed up family situation, dropped out to work odd jobs, and ended up teaching himself programming dropped out and worked odd jobs before teaching himself to code.

Of course the environment changes over time. And so trying to create a business selling computers from your dorm room or moving to California planning to teach yourself to code and then [something] is probably not likely to work out so well. But I think the moral of these stories is often one of creativity and drive. Now teaching oneself programming is trite. When Ellison did so in the 70s, it was something extremely uncommon to do which meant it had vastly more value.

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In reality, I think our opinions are going to be driven by our experiences. In contrast to your experience, I've only ever even mentioned my degree for exactly one job. And that job very much did not require a degree. Since then I've found endless opportunity in spite of the fact I'm pretty much the embodiment of anti-networking: dumb phone, no social media, etc. But I enjoy development. Create one product that's impressive and useful, and it's like the world just opens up to you. A lesson I rather wished I'd learned about 15 years ago. But hey, something I can pass on to my kids - perhaps not so different than one William Gates who enlisted in the army right at school, served in WW2, went to college on the GI bill, and eventually had a somewhat more well known William.

In any case, it's always made me question the value of the degree. I came from a very poor family which means that sheet of paper had quite the price attached to it. And that was before prices really went into lala land.
I like Stargate SG-1's solution to this: Evidence is all around us (both in mythology and ancient artifacts), we just don't recognize it.
> ...my grandmother reads erotica...

I'm proud of your grandmother, but TMI, man. TMI.
Your arguments seem to work both ways, for example: There is no "consent" with Equifax, they start building a dossier a few seconds after you venture into the open market. You at least have to pretend to "consent" to Google by initiating an HTTP transaction with a Google-associated property. And there are many other ways to get the same data (again, like public records)
I've had that thought about a simple brazilian meal as well: I don't get tired of rice, beans and a steak.
Yeah I developed a stable of foods that I knew the calories of and rotated through those, made my calorie tracking easy.
The natural muscular potential of women
He includes a link to data connecting unemployment to unhappiness.

His so-called smugness derives from betting: putting his ideas on the line and winning. I think he's the opposite of smug because he's humble enough to put his ideas to the test. Maybe he gloats, but I think we should socially encourage victors gloating (in fair competitions).
Another important source of hidden unemployment is Social Security Disability.

It is the new welfare in parts of the south and Midwest where globalization has hit the hardest.
Splitting AWS out of Amazon isn't the thing that really matters though so much as preventing Amazon from operating a store AND a marketplace on the same site, not to mention having its own product lines. If you want to sell something online and you're not already a household name then you're at a big disadvantage if you're not on Amazon, but if you do sell there then the price is giving Amazon insight into your business. And if Amazon chooses it can basically bury you by promoting your competitors or worse, selling its own copy of your product.
Perhaps getting a bit off topic, but when playing rock-paper-scissors, for multiple rounds against the same person consecutively, I've noticed that people tend to throw what would've beaten the last thing you played, so you just throw what it takes to beat that. I used to tell people I'd be able to beat them pretty consistently at rock, paper, scissors..of course, they think it's random and that I can't consistently win. If they take me up on it, we play 10 or 15 consecutive rounds, I beat them over and over, and then explain what I've observed/how it works.
There's a few things to keep in mind when discussing self-driving tech.

1) Self driving tech doesn't exist today. It simply does not. There's lots of people working on it and they are using different strategies, but it is not clear how long it will take, which strategy is technically superior, which strategy is more economical, etc etc. There's a lot of very strong opinions floating around (LIDAR is essential! No, vision and lots of data! No, 3D maps or bust, etc etc). It is important to keep in mind that we don't know the future, the people busy inventing it don't know how things will play out and outside observers know even less. The tech industry is littered with strong opinions which have aged terribly.

2) Musks's first principles aside, Tesla was never going to do LIDAR. They're in the business in shipping real cars to real people and there was never any possibility of mixing that with LIDAR. If they had gone with LIDAR and started a research program like Uber, they would have started years after Google, with less data, far fewer resources and absolutely technical advantage. It is far, far more likely that this program would have bankrupted them than beat google. In essence, whether Musk's first-principles is real or a sales pitch doesn't matter. Tesla's choice was their current approach, or nothing at all.
> Could they be combined to provide a better signal than a sample from a single drive alone?

It's not as simple as just combining them but yes, the second data point would be immensely helpful.
Their share structure prevents them from ending up in ETFs, so one of the largest segments of investors literally won't be able to invest in them. Seems more like VC wanting to cash out and leave employees who can't sell their shares yet holding the bag.
Why is VC funding your only metric? I work in Austin and we don't take much VC funding. You know why? We're _profitable_. Yes, a tech startup that actually makes money. We don't feel the need to grow at some arbitrary and ridiculous rate in order to please VC's looking for an exit. I have the added bonus that my cost of living I less than half of what it would be in SV, but I don't make half as much.

Certainly there are more meaningful metrics to consider. Like... number of tech jobs.
>Plenty of studies show that the correlation between being on the edge on that curve and being extremely successful are tenuous at best, most very successful people have average IQ.

Sources please. That's not my understanding of the literature at all.

>Shouldn't people who are extremely exceptional in terms of their IQ be extremely successful?

People who are extremely meritorious should be extremely successful. High IQ can be a contributing component to being effective, but other aspects would contribute too. You'd naively expect a correlation, though not a strict causal link. Which I believe you do find.

[1] http://www.emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Intellige...
There is an actual affirmative action in China for ethnic minorities which provides beneficial university admissions and no-interest business loans etc.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China

The one you're talking about is religion, which is funny considering that communism is anti-religion, why are you surprised, my grandma goes to an underground Chinese church, religion was always bad in China.

You will notice most of the guards and police in Xinjiang are Uyghur, they're just not Muslim.

If you read NYT, you will see that they're pressuring them to "renounce Islam": https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/worl...

Also do you not hear the hypocrisy, why would CCP want you to break their national laws? CCP can break their own laws, doesn't mean you can. How about you break the national law on censorship next? It will become a slippery slope.
Thanks for the advice! The analytics are for team use and are used for auto sorting and surfacing up links that your company is using today.
If a plane can only get a GPS fix to within a 15m radius that's no big deal, whereas if a car has a 15m fix it's running down pedestrians on the sidewalk. Planes also don't have a habit of flying in tunnels or urban canyons where obtaining a gps fix is even more problematic.
Regarding the first question, IMO the webserver should half-close the socket. So, the on the wire requests are rejected on TCP level, while the final response is being delivered. Of course, the client needs to deal with socket errors in addition to http status codes.

For the keep-alive header, you are right, I wasn't aware of it.
I'm so glad as I read what you wrote. I also long have hated the tedium of choosing where to go, actually going, not squandering finite time fucking around with ordering when coworkers want to chat up the alternatives, when I'm lucky enough, or persistent enough, to have a job I like which I'd prefer to be doing.
Hello. What color is your aura?
It's municipal, so the magnitude of threat you're implying (oooh Government) is a misdirection. GP's point is that consistently lobbying to shut down the existence of any competition, public or private, is monopolistic behavior. And it is, pretty much by definition.
"The wrong way involves doing none of those things, because you are talking to them via a shitty Skype connection on wheels."

What if the doctor couldn't get back to the hospital in time and this was the only way to tell them?

If it's over Skype or nothing. I choose Skype.

"But it should not be used to replace the empathic, emotional aspects of healthcare"

I've been to hospitals different parts of the world and this is pretty much the norm (low empathy). Most Doctors are very busy/overloaded with patients, they don't have any time to sugar-coat results or make you feel better.

This is one aspect of government-run healthcare that I'm not sure many people are willing to accept.
Okay, what other concerns does he mention? All he says is that being fired is difficult...which he then suggests is important because you can then be rude to your boss. No other reasons are used to support this idea.
That doesn't make sense - while Google may have a dominant position in a winner takes all ISPs can exclude others from the market far easier. If Google becomes grossly unreasonable it is easier to leave them - in a Geographic area your options are more constrained by physical availability and prices can be raised largely arbitrarily.
To your first point - Walmart, Target, and almost all Grocery stores in the southern US have private labels for significantly cheaper than name brand labels.

They are the market place and players. And they also drive traffic to their products via website and shelf placement. If you say amazon is illegal here, you can’t simply ignore almost all big players are.

Not sure that’s illegal anyways since the consumer has plenty of choices at Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc.

Historically with Walmart and Target being players and the marketplace, have you seen that damage the consumer? Largely consumers end up getting commodity goods for cheaper, and the goods that are specialized/branded for roughly equivalent prices to other marketplaces.
So you think that someone saying that Python or C++ is superior to COBOL is ageist.
Great to hear! Few of our users have suggested this and is something that solves a valid use case :)
True, but I think it's pretty universal that having to piss in a bottle to make a billionaire slightly richer does generally not contribute towards one's personal happiness.
We've spent decades developing a huge software/hardware edifice that we all stand atop of, thinking in terms of a single thread. The majority of programmers still have to actively push themselves to think in more than one thread (and why would they - the majority of problems programmers come across are single-threaded).

I don't know if there a whole other edifice of computing out there, built atop of decades of thinking in terms of multiple threads, but I have sympathy to the idea that if it's out there, we'd have an awful lot of trouble conceptualising it, and an awful awful lot of trouble conceptualising it after decades of development.

I don't know what kind of practical problems 4000 CPUs will solve that 16CPUs can't, but I give weight to the argument that the way we think, the problems we've created for ourselves and subsequently solved, could have blinded us to them.
computational fluid dynamics, FEA, physics based simulations and the like
Missing: http://www.czechstartups.org/en/start-up-visa/
So basically Bay Area except for the hills. It doesn't get hot as hell but these days it's getting cold as hell.
Nuts & cheese contain protein. And whole pineapple chunks is not "just sugar", I thought it was pretty well established that whole fruit is not comparable to soda. Although I guess in fairness depending on the can you buy, some have a fair amount of added sugar in the form of juices & syrups.
I don't recall editing anything.

I'm not trying to make anyone look poorly, I'm simply stating that I'm not being clear with my point and I didn't have the time or interest in trying to clarify it. No malice.

All the best.
The doubling rate of programmers has been 5 years for pretty much most of the industries history.

This means, right now, half of programmers have been doing it for less than 5 years.

This is the primary reason older programmers seem oddly rare, 87.2% of programmers are less than 15 years into their career, 75% less than 10.
It would be great if you could create a separate links page for individual teams within an organization. The most important and most complicated links at my work tend to be specific to my team, and are not relevant to the rest of the company.

Unless I'm using the product wrong...
You have claimed that it's a stranglehold, but never explained what actually makes it so, given that any would-be Google and Netflix competitor would have access to the same pipes as those two, and on the same terms.
The extension will read the text on screen to determine if there are any golinks so that it can change it to a click-through link. We know this may sound scary but rest assure that we do not have any ability to see or save any content. Your privacy is our top concern.
Windows 10 doesn't come with the tablet experience on by default, you have to put it into tablet mode to get that. That's been true for several years now.
That is if it is somehow economically feasibly for those societies to develop interstellar travel in the first place. When a civilization is occupied with its own struggles and conflicts (the fast-living rapacious ones), they might be incentivized to first exploit local resources before interstellar travel is considered seriously.
You can argue an innocent slip of the tongue. It's not like the commenter knows her personally.

Calling it out as "blatant bigotry" feels far more intolerant. People aren't either total saints or total bigots.
What does a day in the life of a data scientist look like?
Respectfully disagree. "You might not make it home", he said.

If my time on this earth is now measured in hours or days instead of years, every minute is precious. I don't want to wait for the doctor to drive in to the hospital. And I don't want to hear from a stand-in doctor who isn't familiar with my case. I have questions, and I need to compress both 1) acclimating to this new reality and 2) enjoying what remains of my life into a painfully short period.

Email is insufficiently interactive, but Skype is fine. I have family for emotional support, let me spend as much time as possible with them instead of waiting for test results.
Fast food often uses fortified ingredients. Perhaps the most common is fortified flour. Some chains use iodized salt. Preservatives like ascorbic acid or vitamin E effectively provide fortification.

Other than a lack of fiber and ease of consuming too many calories, one could do much worse than fast food--McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc. I think it's easier to get it wrong using a so-called whole foods diet. The ingredient diversity of fast foods makes it more fail-safe, particularly if you're disposed to repetitively eating the same kinds of foods.

I mean, obviously you can't subsist on french fries, but if the issue is laziness, lack of time, access to good groceries, or lack of money, it can make sense. It's difficult to beat a McDonald's Double Cheeseburger for dietary money-value!

Granted, the removal of trans fats has helped. And note that I'm not arguing a whole foods diet can't be better. I'm not recommending a fast food diet ;) But we sometimes underestimate the effort involved in following a good diet and discount the benefits of a good-enough diet.
Can one be comfortable outsidee when it's 100 degrees? I would think that would make a lot of things unwalkable because you would show up covered in sweat.
TypeScript vs. PureScript