skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is strange as airlines usually allow you to enter the PNR (booking reference) and any of the names in the booking. The implementation is usually that they lookup your booking from the PNR then effectively regex to see if your name is inside one of the name lines in the record. I can't think of a reason why this wouldn't work unless it was a connecting journey and the carrier didn't have the correct permissions on the the record.
Build your own Machine Learning web service with Django [tutorial]
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_html/Phoenix.HTML.html#module-htm...
There are cultures in which it is considered unlucky to name a child before, say, their second birthday, so it's never done.

In this case, it would be quite normal to have an 18 month old with no name at all. I mean, you could call them "Baby Surname" or something. But they don't have a name.
Chrome was the first browser to sandbox Flash. That was huge for security.
The amount of lifetime wasted avoiding paying $10/month is hilarious. I would never start a consumer facing tech company.
Same in germany
The same is true in Germany. You'll probably break a few laws while breaking out of a prison, but the act itself is not punishable and will not yield you more time.
I worked at a place where the convention was to give employee emails being first initial and last name. Well this guy had a last name just the letter "I" and his first name started with "H". So his email became hi@company.com.
It may helps if the sender send you password-reset email in encrypted format
I feel that the lesson at the end of the article should be something more like "don't scam people on the Internet" but otherwise great post.
You should look up those terms again — especially bourgeoisie which is the middle class you refer to as the working class
Did i say Microsoft is better?

I said that selling point for Apple is just invalid.
This is my #1 complaint with static type systems. Static typing advocates say they allow the compiler to check for correctness, but all these type systems are only the thinnest possible wrappers on machine types.

An HTML-escaped string is not at all the same type as an untrusted user-entered string. They just happen to both be represented by a sequence of characters. An integer that represents my age in years is not at all the same type as an integer that represents my height in centimeters. They just both happened to be represented by a 64-bit two's-complement integer (probably).

The fact that the underlying physical machine types match is not helpful in determining whether it makes sense to add or concatenate these. (If anything, it provides a false sense of security.) The most advanced programming languages on my computer are still worse at dimensional analysis than a middle school kid with a pencil.

I'm starting to play around with a new type system to remedy this. I don't have a programming language for it yet, though.
But remember that this is America, where super-natural sentencing is a norm. Prisons are filled with people serving double, triple or "life plus 100 years" sentences. Logic isn't running this show.
You have a good point. But again: I don't know what the best answer to this problem would be. Does a lack of patents favour diversity more or not?
Today is Aaron Swartz Day. 2019-11-09
Similar experience here. I thought of us all more in terms of whether I & they were "doing it right", but I try now to see others as individuals of infinite worth, and remembering that things can be OK in the end, so I can hopefully think more about them as a person who (like me) is still learning, and has a unique background of experiences good & bad, likes/dislikes, choices, habits, ideals & dreams, and tremendous potential. I made notes on this for myself to review periodically (helpful for me at least), which I have also posted (at a simple site): http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854745184.html .
I still have problems with this because I have the same name as my dad. The worst was when my bank account was locked because his boss at the time had been taking taxes off their cheques but not paying the government. For some reason they called my bank and locked my account thinking I was him(at the time they thought he wasn't paying taxes, it was all worked out eventually) despite our birth dates being nearly 30 years apart.

It happened without any explanation. I had to go to the bank and ask why I couldn't use my debit card. They explained.the government had a hold on my account. I ended up having to prove I was not my dad with a bunch of pieces of ID. It took like half a day to get access to my account restored. I was 20 or something at the time. There was no way I could me mistaken for someone in his 40's.
I agree that airships will never directly replace with airplanes. However, historically airships reached 100 - 160 km per hour which is gets you to about 2 days for a transatlantic flight. Thats about a day more than a flight today but given the reduced effect of jetlag, I would assume quite a few people would go for it (not the buisness travellers, obviously). However, for that airships would need to have as much space as a cruise ship and therefore become really big again. You would start on in a small plane, land on the airship, travel long distance with it and exit again why another plane.
I think "large quantities" is the key part.
You are correct that in a group of extraordinary people it is more common to find extraordinary people.
What's the economic result? Any relative increase in attempts since there's no incentive not to?
We're talking about vendors that provide wireless networking hardware.

You might have been, but the comment that I'm replying to is the first one in this thread to include the word "wireless". Ubiquiti make various other kinds of network equipment as well, and enterprise networking is a vast industry all of its own, of which wireless is only a small part.
Absolutely.

I served on the exec board of a non profit org that used our CoC to adjudicate behavior (sexual predator, harassment, etc) that was not covered by our bylaws.

One big difference, why our CoC proved useful, was we had a trial. Plaintiff, defendant, evidence, testimony, jury, deliberation. All of it.

It was a lot of work. And EXTREMELY painful. But it worked. A popular leader had a day in court. And our org emerged stronger for it.
And Mexico
Volkswagen starts pre-production of ID electric vehicles in China
I see debugging as a significant challenge in a micro-services environment. Even with distributed tracing, how do you reason about the order of events across services? We've had trouble separating cause-effect in a monolith let alone a micro-service.
Surprise, what everyone in the e-cig industry has been saying all along. Many states have already started implementing very restrictive electronic cigarette laws though (to save the children of course). A few small e-cig shops near me have been gutted due to the new overly restrictive regulations. Protecting big tobacco's interests? Mission accomplished.
> are they "upper class" for the brief part of their life when they have the cash

Yes. Highly paid professional athletes are upper class.
Disney is currently making bank by licensing their catalogue to various streaming/cable services. This stream of revenue will dry up as they take back their IP. It might take them a long time to have enough users on Disney+ to cover the lost licensing revenue.

Netflix has ~150M paying subscriptions. Let's say that $0.20 of your Netflix subscription go to Disney (you can adjust it to whatever you think it might be). That's 30M a month. At $10/m, Disney+ would need 3 million users just to break even with what they used to make from Netflix.

How many active users (or what price point) will Disney need to justify the investment?

https://redef.com/original/nine-reasons-why-disney-will-succ...
Towards the end of the article it talks about the challenges they will face.
> I mean, what is “burnout” other than not wanting to work?

"Not wanting" to work is an attempt to weaken the position of the person who suffers from burnout, as it puts the responsibility of the problem solely on them which is inaccurate at best, and dishonest at worst.

Quoting Wikipedia:

> According to the World Health Organization (WHO), occupational burnout is a syndrome (group of symptoms that co-occur) linked to long-term, unresolved, work-related stress. [1]

> According to the current WHO classification (ICD-11), burnout can arise from unsuccessful management of chronic work-related stress, resulting in an occupational syndrome characterised such symptoms as "feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy." [1]

(Notice the URL's name is occupational burnout. There are other forms of burnout.)

I take it you're able to imagine that such is not always the sole responsibility of the employee but could also be co employees, work environment, management, employer, pressure, family, things such as breaking the law or "working around the law" while conscience takes its toll?

From my experience, I can say I've observed there are people who have not much clue about diseases such as burnout or depression or a disability such as autism unless they lived it themselves or put substantive effort (which takes a considerable amount of time and energy) into the issue (an example of such would be, thankfully, a doctor).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout
> They have every duty to keep him alive and healthy, up to the point of him expiring naturally.

Didn't they fail that when simple kidney stones evolved to a life threatening condition?

I'm not doctor, and I don't know the case, but it wouldn't be first time a "correctional" facility violated this duty.

It's not a far fetch argument to suggest that incarceration in US prisons is cruel -- I'm suspect history will look back at us with horror.
I also have a numeral. Sometimes as a child, when I went to the local hospital they would initially pull up my father's information instead of mine. I'm not sure how they thought that could be correct, given I was a child in the 2000s and my father was born in the 70s.
I had a similar thought- Rust has "tuple structs" which are effectively structs without property names. You could make singletons:

struct Relative(i32);
struct Absolute(i32);

let foo = Relative(12);
let bar = Absolute(12);

fn useAbsolute(coord: Absolute);

useAbsolute(foo); // Err!

and effectively get this idea enforced at the type level. Of course support for this pattern would vary by language, and there would probably be some small overhead, but it could be worth it.
Could an airship make sense as a loading dock for drones making deliveries?

Laden drones which can drop down to their delivery point from above, and then return empty back to the air dock seem like they could operate much more quietly and efficiently than drones which need enough power to maintain altitude as they travel horizontally to their target.

Of course the drone would need the capability to throttle up and climb fully laden, possibly even minus one rotor, and the energy reserves to spare.

But the theory would be launching off the airship, and traveling horizontally (at altitude) above the target, then a controlled descent straight down to the drop point.

Presumably you would have two or three ships so one would be in position, while another was moving to/from the ground warehouse, while the 3rd was being loaded for the next batch.

The whole thing only makes sense if the energy density of the drone batteries doesn’t allow them to simply launch from a remote warehouse and proceed directly to their destination at altitude and return all on their own power.
Why did you assume I'm from the US? I'm from a progressive Scandinavian country and would be considered slightly left of center here (which is far-left in the US.)

Trump never said "Mexicans are rapists," he said something along the lines of "They're not bringing their best people... their rapists" which could be misconstrued as "they're."

He did say that African countries are shitholes, while complimenting my country, which wasn't great for our public image worldwide, but I did chuckle at it. It's the sort of off-hand stupid wording you'd hear at a bar late at night, which I figure is part of his appeal to the people that actually like him. Not a good look for a president to be sure.

Trump is not the ghost of Hitler, it can be fun to argue in that kind of hyperbole but he really isn't. And ~50% of the American voting public chose him over Hillary, because it was a shit sandwich vs giant douche race, you can't reasonably suggest banning all those people from Linux conferences.
I have seen far worse passive-aggressiveness here (most often it's a variation of "why anyone would think X is beyond me" or "You do X ? I do Y because of reasons and I would certainly never do X but do it if you want.").

It might be a globish issue but I don't see any hostilities in OP's comments. [0]

> > This is factually wrong. Your information is deprecated.

How would you phrase that ?

[0] but I also believe that HN has members from many different cultures and lot of what is being discussed suffer from too much variety in communication style.
That's concerning if true. Do you have a source?
Whether you love it or hate it, it's cool that the PHP project has come so far. I know a lot of people still use PHP every day, so it's good to see the language continues to improve. I imagine a significant percentage of web services are still PHP based to this day.
"how names work"

part of the issue is people writing software making decisions about 'how names work', and there being multiple interpretations of it. I've wanted - many times - to build in just 'name' in systems, vs "first name", "last name", "middle name", "suffix", etc. Because... inevitably, clients have to support someone that doesn't fit that mold. The end user probably has dealt with it dozens of times already, but it's still bad for them, and usually unnecessary. MOST of the time, we only ever take "first" and "last" and concat them on the screen anyway, then keep them separated for someone to sort via excel...
My very first move with timeseries data is to get to frequency space as fast as I can.
That’s a good question. It’s mentioned in the book, “driving Honda” by Jeffrey Rothfeder
The listed reasons for separate fields contains assumptions that may not always be be accurate.

How do you tell an initial from a single character name?

How do you sort by last name if a person has one word for their entire name?

Assuming names are spelt the same or have a fixed length is also not accurate.

It’s all a trap - using one string might be a terrible solution, but it might also be best.
> Some patients say they vaped only nicotine, and state health officials consider some of those reports reliable, Dr. Schuchat said.

A good warning to ignore all the people on HN who keep trying to insist that "oh, vaping is safe as long as you aren't doing X".

We have no idea if vaping is safe. We still have no idea if vaping is safe, except we explicitly know it is unsafe (to the point of acutely poisoning you) if it involves this chemical.
You can look up the traffic to a page:

http://stats.grok.se/

It'd be interesting to write a crawler to look for "stubbish" articles then checks if they're widely read, then flags a human if so.
I've stopped using my real name. My last name has an apostraphe, and at this point I'm just sick of websites rejecting it and then forcing me to refill in all of my information.

So, now I drop the apostraphe.

In high school my school ID was completely broken. It printed <first half of last name> <first letter of last name> <middle name> <first name>.

They ended up putting a quotation mark instead of the apostraphe - somehow the machine handled that fine. That was the workaround.

Hotel wifi systems tend to break if they ask for a last name to connect. Again, training me to reserve the hotel under a 'fake' last name.

I actually notice it every time I write my last name. I'm like "is this a system that will break" and now I'm inclined to just never use the "real" spelling because then I'll get a mismatch later on.

This is something I've really noticed over the last decade. The older I get, and the more systems become a part of my life, the more systems I have to give a fake name. Paper records will show my true name, but I wonder if at this point, given digital records, what it would appear to be.
Are you sure? This is a quote from the article: "monetary fines are not adjusted according to income, as in neighbouring Finland"
Shaquille O’Neill, with an estimated net worth of approximately 400 million dollars, is wealthy.
Why on earth do you claim the judge is doing this? The law in Iowa defines death as irreversible. What reason do you have for saying the judge's common sense is what's at play rather than, you know, the law?
Based on the top answer, this appears to be an error in the CLI "helpfully" re-interpreting Amr as { First name: A, Title: Mr }, not an issue on the data storage side.
Relevant odds:

http://aristotle.com/emailimages/PI_Insights_Trump-Impeachme...
And also about the escape: https://apnews.com/db543dc5d2774098acf398984ac7324a/Suspect-...
I'm surprised it was so quick.

Normally when I discover things like that which require some interaction with bureaucracy at some level, I find out on a Friday afternoon at 4pm, have to wait until Monday, then things are resolved for days because people are 'backed up' on Monday...
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so?

Chrome was clearly the leader. Apple should have moved to their fork then if anything.
The British empire essentially deported many of its criminals to Australia. The USSR banished their radicals to Siberia... I’m sure others have done similar.
Conda has an .exe installer on Windows and a .pkg installer on macOS. Both signed by Anaconda, Inc. for the OS. There are RPM and deb bootstrap repos for Linux. Then there’s also the .sh shar file installer.
Farm suicides raise concerns amid extreme weather and trade wars
if he was serving only one life sentence and had DNR order, then it's fair to say he served his sentence if they resuscitated him against his will

if he would be serving multiple life sentences than he would just fulfill first one, otherwise what's the purpose of multiple life sentences in US? we don't have this nonsense in Europe
"Maybe we should have a living wage"

We already have a living wage. Amazon is paying at least $15/hour in all their warehouses and many other companies pay well over minimum wage for jobs that require little to no education. The amount of truly minimum wage jobs is miniscule.

"If the threat of wealth taxes is the catalyst that gets us there then good"

A wealth tax won't get us there. The wealthy will move to a country that has less-restrictive tax laws (and most of these countries would be happy to have the new income) and the customer and the middle class will end up paying more out of their pockets.

a "living wage" is always a moving goal post and doesn't really mean anything. If I'm single and have 3 kids to support, my 'living wage' will be much higher than a person that is single with no kids.

Why should a company pay for the poor life decisions of all its employees?
Probably not going to work for the same reason that the police generally won't go around and arrest someone based purely on dashcam footage: who is to say that the video Person A has of Person B driving illegally is actually real? It is all too easy to doctor videos, and if insurers/police just blindly trusted videos people find on the internet/record on their phone/dashcam/etc then it would be pretty easy for Person A to frame Person B for crimes they did not commit.

Innocent until proven guilty, not Innocent until some grainy youtube footage that kinda maybe looks like you were speeding. Police equipment is calibrated and the evidence stored appropriately for a reason.

That said, at least the in the UK, the police do use video footage from the public to a certain degree. I believe this is often used to go and "have a quiet word" with the driver in question, i.e.: <unexpected knock knock on the front door> "Was this you sir/madam? <shows video on smartphone of sir/madam driving dangerously>" and then give them a warning if they own up to it (...and this sort of intervention is probably enough to on its own without having to go any further, i.e. having a police officer standing on your doorstep with video footage of you driving like a prick and being able to "get away with" just a warning/telling off), but I do not believe that the footage on its own is enough evidence on its own since it is so easy to fake.
Hopefully, "names correspond to pronouncable words" is only false in a Fry and Laurie sketch[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LopIroSjsU
Expertise and Public Philosophy
It became a symbol for the entire C# coding attitude/worldview/paradigm at the time. I lost it with EF because it just didn't do what it said it did, and all the documentation lied about what it was actually doing. It became the straw that broke the camel's back, the poster child for everything that was wrong with .Net and C# (at the time - I gather things have got better since).

Go became the antidote, the "way things should be", and moving from Win/C# to Linux/Go was eye-opening and very healing.

YMMV. I'm totally happy I found Go right then, when I needed it
I went to a 125th anniversary lecture day organised by Nature and I still remember it (25 years later) as an outstanding day. Speakers included Richard Dawkins, Stephen J Gould and Carl Sagan, who used his 'pale blue dot' lines in his talk. A truly stunning array of the great luminaries of the day. It's great to see Nature continuing.

One of the more amusing moments was when one of the speakers - describing mankind vs the environment (or something, I don't precisely recollect now) - finished by saying something like "...and so you see, Nature will always defeat Science", referring of course to Nature the journal's rival journal. Unfortunately someone in the audience didn't make that connection, and tried debating with the speaker about the primacy of science and technology. Oh well.
What if you have twins in that case? Or triplets? ”Baby 1 Surname”, ”Baby 2 Surname”, ”Baby 3 Surname”...
Ask HN: Should I Go for an MS in Computer Science? Having Doubts
Background: I have a BS in Computer Science (graduated Spring 2018) but have been out of a job for a few months now. I'm in my early twenties, US citizen and have no debt whatsoever.

I got accepted into a few master's programs, but now that I need to make a decision, I'm questioning myself whether I really should be going for this. It seems like a lot of people in the industry are against getting a master's degree as it can be expensive and of questionable value. As for myself, I have a few reasons that are motivating me:

1. Better employment opportunities outside of web development work: I am aware that some positions e.g. AI, ML are pretty much restricted to those with master's or PhDs.

2. My undergraduate school was not the best in terms of education, and I would like to learn from a much better institution. Ideally, I would also assist with some research should my schedule permit it.

3. Self-interest: I enjoy computer science and would love to go deeper into several sub-fields (will likely do a thesis).

4. Reputation / family: Growing up, my family did not really put much emphasis on education and intellectual curiosity, nor were they themselves relatively educated. I'd like to be one of the very few in my family to hold an advanced degree. It's almost like a challenge to myself to see how much I can grow from my circumstances and previous self.

So, HN, what's your take on this? Should I pull the trigger and go to grad school?