skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flight mode exists because the FAA applies unsafe-until-proven-safe methodology to everything flight related (as they should). If flight mode mattered at all planes would be falling out of the sky on the regular, many people just leave their phones on the whole trip. The only reason I turn my phone off is because it wastes a lot of battery as it tries to manage tower hopping the whole time. Planes are getting blasted by RF in the cellular bands continuously from the ground, too, so this is taken into consideration in the design process.

Don't get me wrong the Kindle shouldn't do what it's doing but it's by no means a safety issue.
So that would be the impact causing injury. Not stepping in front of a car. If you are insinuating that the impact was caused by stepping in front of a car then fine. But stating a direct causation is careless.
I came across something similar for Clojure recently. https://github.com/ahungry/determinism/
Russia and China have, in effect, trained people to assume posts defending them are paid or bots. Many of us have seen the sudden swarm of patterned posts, sometimes with bad English, show up in comments. And we've seen news articles like this one.

Maybe it works, on average, but it tends to undermine real people's posts. Why listen to someone who is likely to be a bot?
I like Hugo too – but it came much later as is probably influenced by Jekyll.
As someone who's only spent about an hour reading an intro to Haskell (and none reading about OCaml), I was able to mostly get the gist of what was being said. Not completely. I had to look up the * operator (effectively a comma between arguments, as opposed to a currying arrow), but I would consider the article to have been useful, even if it could've been more useful.
LaTeX or TeX would be excellent choices if you want good typographic control, though there's a significant learning curve if you're going to produce beautiful books. Check out https://www.ctan.org to start learning more.

They have lots of book publishing resources: https://www.ctan.org/topic/book-pub
Doesn't look like they sell anything but 3-ply now.
I'd argue that Rust is much closer to C++ than to C or ML.

Rust was designed by C++ programmers, to replace code that was previously written in C++. The concept that most guides its design is the idea of "zero cost abstractions", which a very C++ thing as well. ML doesn't mind if abstractions have a cost, while C is a smaller and more spartan language.
> NYC's sanitation workers are notoriously careless about handling the trash, and my pet theory is that a sizable portion of street litter actually originates in the sanitation workers spilling trash on pickup day.

DSNY, aka Sanitation, does not pick up trash from commercial businesses, only residencies. Businesses have to hire a private carter. Private carters are notorious for not giving two fucks. They have also been responsible for many pedestrian accidents as well.

I have never really noticed a surge in trash in the streets after DSNY comes by. Though, after schools opened, my house is around the corner from a public school and I see an immediate surge of snack wrappers tossed on my lawn. Same with the building I own near another school, wrapper trash all over.
I've been doing tech interviews professionally for a large tech interview platform that you would have heard of. We have a timed coding challenge, but code quality is something we explicitly look for. Making slow but steady process with good testing is a great signal for us too, even if they don't get very far through our challenge within the allocated time.

That said, occasionally we have people who work very quickly and somehow still have great code. Thats an even better signal.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a better GCP / AWS UI?
Ghost is like the antithesis of this post.
When I read the headline I assumed it meant that GitHub was hiring an employee named Semmle, which confused me until I realized Semmle was a business.
> If something existed for Excel + PowerPoint...

Isn't that SlideShare you're asking for? If not can you explain more please?
Unlike IP addresses where you get exponentially more of them per unit cost (i.e size), storage space costs 1 bit per bit.
I'm taking this thread as an opportunity to pay Comcast a review I owe them as I recently became a first time customer with them:

Comcast may have the best deal in most areas by virtue of monopoly, but I can guarantee you that the average customer ends up paying more. I agreed with a rep on $60 per month for just internet, nothing else. The bill comes and it's $83 with basic TV and a service charge. How they did this was they sent me a text message with a link to an agreement and asked if "everything looks right". Being on my cell phone and on my lunch break I just wanted to get it over with and said yeah.

They also assume you want somebody to come over and plug in your modem and rent you a router. I explicitly said no to this, but they signed me up for installation anyway.

I'm convinced Comcast institutionally trains reps to steer sign ups in this way.

I was refunded eventually, but it still cost me time to dispute billing.
How would you describe them?
You can often circumvent those restrictions with a VPN.
> Why is it always that SJWs like you need to find that one joke, one excerpt and turn it into some kind of personal war/problem/argument/discussion/hate?

Namecalling ("SJWs like you") is against the hacker news guidelines. I would suggest you read them.

Also, it's worth noting that actual, self-proclaimed SJWs (I am one, I know many, and am in their communities) wouldn't have any problem with the joke in question, because it's "punching up", i.e. it is making a joke about social problems in a group that has the systemic advantage. So your name calling isn't even accurate in this case.

> Instead of focusing on the VALUE brought by the author, you managed to dig up one benign joke and went on to discredit the entire thing.

Please point out where the poster "discredit[ed] the entire thing". I don't see them discrediting the entire book, I see them questioning a bit of context around the joke, which is a perfectly valid thing to do.

> Why aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Why aren't you? The poster is asking a legitimate question around the context of a line of the book, and you're insulting them and denigrating them for this.
[Thanks for posting this.]

It's a disgusting article. There is a tradition of not badmouthing the dead that sometimes reach ridicule levels, where all the dead are saints and heroes. This articles goes unnecessary too much in the other direction before there is a final result of the investigation.

> The same cannot be expected of airline pilots who never fly solo and whose entire experience consists of catering to passengers who flinch in mild turbulence, refer to “air pockets” in cocktail conversation and think they are near death if bank angles exceed 30 degrees. The problem exists for many American and European pilots, too. Unless they make extraordinary efforts — for instance, going out to fly aerobatics, fly sailplanes or wander among the airstrips of backcountry Idaho — they may never develop true airmanship no matter the length of their careers. The worst of them are intimidated by their airplanes and remain so until they retire or die. It is unfortunate that those who die in cockpits tend to take their passengers with them.

Is this paragraph really necessary in an article that discuss the cause of the accident that killed the pilots and the passengers??? There are a few more similar parts, let's pick one more:

> Boeing has grown largely silent, perhaps as much at the request of its sales force as of its lawyers. To point fingers at important clients would risk alienating not only those airlines but others who have been conditioned to buy its airplanes, no matter how incompetent their pilots may be.
Reddit is the only major social media/aggregator I can think of that actually has to go offline for scheduled maintenance still. I can’t imagine the kind of shitshow it must be internally.

Imagine if Facebook or Twitter had to go down regularly for “maintenance”. Heads would roll.
You could want that, but it's not the common case. Therefore, to me it sounds like something they should ask about when you deactivate service, and they should either have no default (force you to explicitly choose) or default it to canceling the device protection.
This is a good blog. I'm curious to hear about how these tactics scale past your first ~10 customers. Can't go to meetups forever.
Some examples of the font in use would be cool; if its got ligatures for programming, then lets see em!
Odd example
Can we breakup Facebook and put their executives on trial already?
having just moved from SF to NYC, I think the trash bags in NYC are much worse than the majority of SF. Union Square and the Tenderloin are another phenomenon entirely though with feces and urine everywhere. This appears to be less common in NYC.
The other end of HDMI would need to offer a network connection for that to be real. Also its so poorly supported it might as well not be a thing. Noone implements it and it isn't just a "there's Ethernet wires in the HDMI cable", it uses some multi-purpose pins that both ends have to agree to use.
(I'm asking because I don't know. It's not advocacy. I have NONE of this equipment currently.) So, if I get gigabit cable internet and want to buy a 4K tv and plug it in for streaming Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc. (no broadcast, no WiFi to reduce bandwidth), is the solution to leave the WiFi off on TV setup (or give it a bad password to avoid opportunistic connection) and to plug the ethernet cable coming out of the cable modem into an Apple TV and/or Roku instead of into the TV, getting all of my programming thru wires coming out of these secondary boxes?
I would assume most people on hn are American and with employers and a culture that is very anti holiday.
Probably the upcoming Area 51 raid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51,_They_Can%27t_...
I hate this kind of advertising. It is bullshit and I am tired of it.

In GIANT BOLD: $50

In smaller font: "each"

In even smaller font: "$150/mo" is finally explained

"High-speed data up to 22 GB/person & slower after." is not unlimited data when the "slower after" speeds can barely load google's search page. It is, 'high-speed data up to 22 GB/person & slower after". Do we need to start throwing around a dictionary definition of the word unlimited? This is getting old...

Just because it's google, doesn't mean they get a pass on car-salesman type sleazy sales tactics.

Why not just advertise it plainly? This method of advertising makes someone like me less likely to buy this product.
Clarifying: I am not / have never worked at or for Google.

I was a G+ user, and helped coordinate the exodus and information ("plexodus").
Yes but we're discussing amount of energy needed
Move fast and break things. Perfect motto for a aircrafts.
I felt the same way once, especially when Google first came onto the scene with their plain text unintrusive ads. After the 90's, they truly were a breath of fresh air. They weren't intrusive at all and for the first time were often even relevant. If memory serves I even bought at least one item from a text ad on Google sometime around 2005 or 6.

What's happening today couldn't be more dramatically different. Tracking your activities around the entire Internet, then using your own computing resources to auction them off to the highest bidder for every new page you view.

I don't have a solution to the ethical conundrum. But accepting this kind of thing cannot be it.
> Not really. "You're about to stream a video. Tap to accept the 15 cent network surge fee."

Nothing stopping you having a passive meter in the top corner showing an average spend rate, e.g. $0.05/last hr or something. Put spending limits in and you're fine.
> Why aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Regardless of the argument, that's an unkind, personally-attacking tone and doesn't seem necessary to your criticism.
they don't make much money so don't have the same redundancy luxuries as other sites
> SJWs like you

That's awful lot to infer about someone from one sentence.

> turn it into some kind of personal war/problem/argument/discussion/hate

Picking the "discussion" part out of that, why is discussion on these topics a bad thing?

> one benign joke

Benign is subjective.

> discredit the entire thing

I think a more charitable read would not result in the implication that the question was intended to discredit the entire work.

> you actually put EFFORT in finding something

Or perhaps the parent just saw this when reading the page.

> Why aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Probably because it was just a simple question being asked.
GET OFF MY LAWN.

If we are gatekeeping, THIS (was) blogging like a hacker:

https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
Apple cares about privacy enough to make Google their default search provider for many billions each year. Apple pays lip service to your privacy and obviously cares more about money just like any other corporation.
I don't know, though you could research via their blogsite.
I hear this argument brought up a lot relating to minimum wage at McDonalds. "IF THEY RAISE IT THEY'LL JUST FIRE EVERYONE". Guess what, they already started replacing cashiers with touch screens. Those 400k would've been replaced by robots whether or not the union was there, all that happened was while those 400k jobs were essential to making GM money, those workers got to have a decent life.
Its opensource and maintained by volunteers. If this matters to you, don't whine on HN. Write a PR.
This is because the tech workers who primarily fill those buildings tend to lack political awareness and hence the wishes of the people get stepped all over by entrenched powers.
I'd use it!
> But say, people might schedule their Steam downloader to only update games in off-peak hours.

Thus making off-peak hours perpetually on-peak?
> "a whiny child who has never reached the emotional maturity to treat people decently" when the man 99.9% likely cannot cognitively do so.

This is simply not a black and white situation. I'm familiar with people with Asperger's who can both behave nicely to others and who are aware of their limitations and actively work on thinking through their situation to counteract those limits. Being diagnosed is not a license to be a dick. If someone actually can't handle this, then it is a disadvantage for a public position and they likely shouldn't hold it.
Price-wise the gTLDs for $3-$4,000/year like .Cars or .Security are exclusive.
Jekyll is great. It's what I use to run my site for the last ~4 years with about 250 posts (it's still very fast -- reloads happen in less than 3 seconds).

It really doesn't take too much effort to use existing Jekyll features to add in custom "user features" into your site. You can go so far without needing to write your own plugins.

For example, I just put out a video a few days ago that goes over using "includes" to add 3 unrelated site features (site wide affiliate link notices, a table of contents for blog posts and embedding media): https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/implementing-3-different-webs...
the first things most apps try to do is attempt to connect w/ graph.facebook.com at launch (and periodically)

this is true for your banking apps to music apps like Pandora and Spotify

you can get Netguard, which functions as VPN/Firewall and get visibility into the data exfilitration that is happening right now on your Android phone (and block some of it). Similar things should exist on iPhone too

CCC had some coverage recently, but this has been happening for a long long time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0vlD7r-kTc

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google apps are also constantly trying to phone home and panic when they cannot connect to the mothership, causing signficant battery drain... I haven't seen them trying to call facebook directly though
Yes they do sell some ad supported ebook readers. And the price difference is not a lot. $20 savings for months of ads is not worth it.
> Stateless components, or as I like to call them dumb components.

You mean like pure functions?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
I usually text first to coordinate a phone call.
They’re Alexa rank #16 globally - that they’re having trouble monetizing their userbase just means they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
Personally, I'm not sure I would want this. I think it's even more likely the average consumer would want this. It makes costs harder to predict. Perhaps if there was time of use pricing with a fixed schedule then I could get on board.
In your opinion what's wrong with Kubernetes or microservices?
Swiss banks are in that position today because some of them engaged in criminal conspiracies to help US customers commit tax fraud. If they want to participate in the US financial system then they have to play by US rules.

US citizens residing in other countries can still receive some services and protection from the US federal government. So it's completely fair to tax them for that. We can argue about the value of those services but clearly it's >0. Those who don't like the deal are free to pay an administrative fee and renounce their citizenship.
No idea what UK company registration processes look like.

Possibly. You're not gonna get far moving your mountain of coin without the help of lawyers, accountants, investment bankers, banks, prime brokers etc.

...none of whom will touch you if you can't prove this stuff reasonably well.

As for people submitting straight up fraudulent info - rules don't stop people like that in the same way sternly telling a mugger that it's illegal won't stop them from taking your wallet. Checks & balances sure but beyond a certain level of illegality more rules achieve nothing.
> There is no public-interest benefit in hate screeds.

Sure there is.

If you can't read Mein Kampf, you can't recognize when a new work is following in its footprints.
What happens when you want to use Netflix, Amazon prime, or an external Plex server with the smart TV? You NEED internet access for those
They also have very frequent cases where the site throws up an error page or is completely unreachable because it is under heavy load. I can't think of another major social network that has those problems on a weekly basis either.
>related : Vancouver BC reaching third most expensive city in the world status a couple of years back, for reasons that have little or nothing to do with local populations

What is it due to? I imagine ease of access to Chinese people who want a place to park their savings, plus nice weather, are the biggest factors. After all, all those wealthy Chinese people could just go to another city, like Edmonton, but they don't: what kind of insane person would want to live in a place where it's -40 in the winter if they didn't grow up there?
For what it's worth my Roku has a search feature that populates a list of all streaming services (including rentals) that a movie or tv show you search for is on.

I've seen plenty of sites that also combine all the streaming service lists and let you search for specific movies or just browse based on genre.

Could it maybe be easier? Sure. But I'd argue it's still a lot easier than pirating...
I'm a US customer of Binance for a while now. Is the difference between their regular platform and this that you can now add USD to their platform to trade with?
I frequently see DSNY workers spill trash around when it's been improperly bagged, or the bag rips, or similar things. That shouldn't matter, but they don't care.
Yes: people smoke walking down the street all the time. It is a real challenge having asthma.

I blame the lack of a real winter. In the northeast people quit smoking when it was banned indoors, because they didn't want to smoke in the freezing cold snow, whereas in SF people just go outside all year around.
You are watching rusian propaganda tv too often

Man

Or bot
> But then again, people let their pets inside, and they put even less effort into post-bathroom cleanup than humans do...

Do you own pets? Most don't need post-bathroom cleanup. They have different anatomy, imagine that.

EDIT: They also don't poop in unnatural positions.
The project is a testament to how women, who are naturally irrational, can nonetheless contribute to a software project, especially in the presence of men who in nature are found alone and never in groups.
Yep. Looks like garbage to me. Someday "unlimited" will mean it, but right now it's just code for "actually quite limited but written in small print." I'll pass.
Fi is a science fair project
So what? 24/7 builds up to fragility like the NYC subway system or has huge costs. It's social media, not a hospital.
I've lived in a place like that. Communist Poland, 1985/1986. It was pretty weird. Inlaws, very well to do by Polish standards were continuously reminding their twenty something daughter that she should keep out of that because 'names were being recorded' and nothing good would ever come out of it. Never mind the details of Zomo's beating up people in the streets, it was their own reputation they were scared of. They looked pretty silly for a while when the wall fell, but then all their connections landed on their feet and made bank, and nothing really changed for a long time. By now it fortunately has changed, but still, lots of the fat cats from before the wall fell are much fatter still today.

The amount of legitimate dissatisifaction is proportionally inverse to people's general well being and with China having made very rapid progress on that front you can bet that people are in principle quite satisfied with their leadership.

If it stagnates for too long or crashes then things will change. The dissidents are not even a blip on the radar until the economy goes haywire, then they will matter.
My understanding is that yes environment makes a huge difference in your biome, however there may be strains of bacteria, for example, that you would only get from your mother. Maybe something she picked up playing in the dirt in a different country, or maybe something from her mother.

Whether it makes a difference really depends on the individual. Personally I think it's better to get the gut bacteria that you can from your mother near the time of birth, but that's me.
That doesn't follow at all. There are all sorts of insanely popular websites which have significant monetization issues (think tumblr, wikipedia).

Just because lots of people use something doesn't make them willing to pay for it, and it doesn't make a platform inherently monetizable.
Definitely a danger. The worst is that ppl can't even redirect their old traffic if they have to switch domains.

If someone really wants uk in their TLD they can always go with .uk.com - totally unrestricted.
Announcing the first preview and code release of PowerToys
I’m also curious about this. They might be planning to meet these targets by switching enough of the fleet to hybrids or electric?
Wouldn't another plausible explanation be someone has hacked the radar? Because then implausible movement and speed would be explainable.
I just re-posted my account of Summer Camp 2018 to the comments for this article.
Also in Australia, but it has been both up and down for me in the past 2 hours.
At first I thought it was of me refreshing /r/soccer so many times this evening because of CL matches.
Agreed. We watched Google slowly change its search algorithms to condition certain information you receive, archive.org is the least problem in the age of "misinformation". Why is Trump mentioned in this article? Level 1 scapegoating right here. This is a vile attack on technology and your personal freedom.
The constitutional position of Wales has significantly changed with the three devolution acts introduced in the last 20 years. The Wales Act 2017 in particular made the assembly/parliament permanent and Welsh law as a separate body; that means Wales is effectively its own country in the UK, on par with the other three.