skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use chutes? Because with rockets, you can steer, and fine-tune the rate of descent. You don't need to splash down at sea, you can land on solid ground, and pick which bit of ground to land on (such as a spaceport). It's less of a bumpy ride and cheaper to recover.
I was going to post this. It might be an idea to write what the project is in the post considering changelogs are generally not good and most people won't have heard of it
To add something contrary to this, i had the opposite experience. I had to cancel a flight/hotel booking at short notice because I couldn't go. They said normally they charge for that but this time would let me do it free. Replies were fast and prompt at awkward times of day etc.
"I think we generally agree as a country that we don't want to make alcohol freely available to minors"

And this is one of your main problems as a country. When I was a kid in Spain I had access to as much alcohol as I wanted, so with all my family and friends and school partners (hundreds of people). We had very few problems with that, being a "borracho" was bad seen by society but moderate consumption was normal.

There is nothing wrong for a kid drinking some wine or Sider or Cava for lunch, in fact a lot of families continue giving their children access to low grade alcoholic drinks as it was done since the Romans(before water filtering 100 years ago drinking water alone meant death by water microorganisms).

Later they forbid it, and "botellon" appeared. It was cool to do something against the law, "borracho" was replace with "pedo" without the negative connotations, and our young people started drinking like there was not tomorrow.
Previously submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1140603
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You seem to be confused. There's no claim that a mean of 2 is acceptable or anything like that. The fact is that in the last 31 years, we've had 62 mass shootings, and that comes out to an average of 2 per year. You don't get to compare to a Poisson distribution with a mean of zero because you have to use the actual mean, which is 2.

This analysis has nothing to do with whether or not there are too many shootings. It's about whether the shootings occur at a fixed rate, and are independent of each other.
take a step back and consider: size of population and history.

Norway has had 0 mass murders since ww2. Yet 18 months ago Norway faced one of the worst mass murdrs in peacetime. Maybe the percentage of people wanting to do such stupid things are the same in Norway as in US, only the population is so small it takes years between everytime there is someone with high enough iq to plan this kind of cruelty and low enough respect of life to actually do it.

Also take a look at Japan. Few shootings but at least during the nineties a couple of attempted mass murders using poisenous gas.
I guess. But that could also be accomplished with a symlink, no?
iOS users buy apps 6x as much as Android. The article itself says that.

HTML is fast to develop relative to native apps therefore if the app is ideally used infrequently, a native experience isn't worthwhile. There are exceptions, of course.

The last option is just a default last option.
>He left plenty of evidence that pretty much guaranteed he'd be infamous. Nothing will do that like several dozen dead bodies.

That's circular reasoning. You're reusing evidence in a way that does not check out.
Only if the actual content (video bitrate etc.) differs. If you stick the same video in both MKV and MP4 containers, the resulting filesizes will be almost identical.
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I wonder if we can repay them and play the same game they are playing. Maybe if many of us reblog/post and link to that amazing detailed blog post with the anchor text being "advertise with expedia" - maybe when new hotels who will want to advertise with Expedia (and google about it) will be able to read about that horrible experience.
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"Apple does not have a good debugging solution compared to Android for testing your apps."

That's a pretty absurd claim. Xcode has a fine debugger, comes with Instruments for various kinds of profiling, and can simulate multiple versions of iOS as well as multiple types of hardware (including various screen sizes).

I haven't done much Android development, but I have a hard time believing Android debugging is somehow magically significantly better than iOS debugging.
Which bears an eerie resemblance to the problems we have with methamphetamine today. Much of the damage caused by methamphetamine abuse is the result of adulterants in the drug, which is produced under poorly controlled conditions. Pharmaceutical methamphetamine -- the kind that doctors sometimes prescribe to children -- causes far less damage to its users and even to those who abuse it (not to deny that abusing it is dangerous even without the adulterants).
I am a typical travel customer. I often go to conferences and book hotels in unfamiliar cities. I am very sympathetic to this story. And yet -- at the end --

>either use the internet to do the research or go to a reputable travel agent.

Let's look at these alternatives. Use the internet to do the research? Expedia makes it very easy, that's the point. Are its competitors better? Maybe. How am I supposed to be able to tell? Is Hipmunk also evil? Orbitz? Some other random website I find which compares hotels? If I use these websites to do my research and then book directly, I'm avoid some of the problems -- but probably not all?

Go to a reputable travel agent? No, sorry. That's a pain in the ass.

I'm disappointed in this article. It makes a very convincing case that we should avoid huge internet travel monopolies, but yet doesn't compellingly suggest what I should do instead.
I have experienced pretty good customer experience with Expedia as well. However we're not talking about the end customers here but rather the suppliers (of services).

I wouldn't want to use a company (no matter how good they are) who have been known for crushing smaller players to maximize their bottom line.
the network solutions bot who did that is kind of a dick.
I must admit as an Apple device wielding individual that the Windows Phone UI has always intrigued me. I was put off however by a colleague who at the time of writing is on his 4th Lumina 920. I know that this is anecdotal, but the hassle the guy had getting faulty phones replaced was poor. Nokia weren't interested. Which is why I'll stick with Apple. My own experience of their customer service has been second to none, and ultimately it's a big decider for me. It is a lovely device though, when it works.

Having tested Window 8 Desktop with a view to deployment in the enterprise space, all I can say is that as things stand, not a chance. The metaphor just doesn't translate to the desktop.
A search on Wikipedia turned up this 1976 paper [1] (unfortunately, behind a paywall), which derived a memristor circuit emulating Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics, a good biophysical model of the membrane potential of a neuron. In particular, it can show the generation of action potentials.

The relevant part is on p. 210: "In particular, the potassium channel of the Hodgkin-Huxley model should be identified as a first-order time-invariant voltage-controlled memristive one-port and the sodium channel should be identified as a second-order time-invariant voltage-controlled memristive one-port."

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1454361...
Ditto. Some more proofs would be great in order to establish some trust with this post. If everything written here is right then I would say they have a pretty good case in suing them.
I would also argue some lawyers would even take this case (granted the proofs are solid) based on a success fee.

EDIT: I strongly recommend to read the comments, someone wrote that he witnessed this personally (of course comments could be fake but it's still something).

David Beau. said - December 4, 2012 at 11:29 pm

We can verify parts of this. We have stayed at the Luna Blue almost every year since Tony and Cheri have opened.
In late 2011 I was checking on availability of the Luna Blue for our vacation. I was surprized to find expedia said they had no room available.
I then checked a couple other small hotels in Playa and was told they were also full. I then contacted Cheri and found that they did have plenty of rooms. Which we did book thru the hotel.

Deanna said - December 5, 2012 at 11:03 am

I know first hand about this. I had booked a room back in Feb. to travel in November. I got an email mid Oct. from Hotels.com that Luna Blue no longer had any openings for that time. It didn’t make sense to me.
After calling Hotels.com and them wanting me to book elsewhere I got hold of Cheri. She was in San Francisco at the time but took the time out to make sure I was able to rebook through their website directly for the time I had originally booked.
I was also able to save 10% off what I had originally expected to pay. We went and stayed at Luna Blue and it was truly a wonderful experience. Cheri was out of town when we came so I was not able to meet her but Tony made us feel welcome and we wish you guys all the luck fighting this horrible thing that has happened.
I would certainly stay here again if I return to Playa.
"I think we generally agree as a country that we don't want to make alcohol freely availible to minors"

Really? I was thinking more along the lines of "lower the drinking age and raise the driving age." I would rather see teenagers drinking than teenagers driving.
I've never booked with Expedia because they have never offered a better price than I can get from the travel agent in my neighbourhood.
Right, that's very much what I had in mind - I might very well have got it from there and forgotten; I've read much if not all of RWH at one point or another.

I would point out that in addition to the mentioned testing use (itself not to be underestimated - QuickCheck is amazing and making more things tractable to QuickCheck is great), there's also some other big potential wins. If I have a function that deals with local files in a monad that's an instance of MonadHandle, I can write an instance for a RemoteIO type that performs file operations on a remote system through a network connection, and suddenly the function that was local also works remotely.
The main problem is that Expedia is really great for customers like us since they really help us in making better and (cheaper) decision when booking a flight.

I think this should be fixed with either suing the company and the people involved (granted everything they wrote is true) or talking to a high level manager who could look into the case and make the right decision (ie. Fire the people who were involved).
Why?

The main reason I root my Androids is for TitaniumBackup and Nandroid.
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You have it correct in your last sentence although your previous sentence had it quite wrong.

You are correct that the analysis is about whether the shootings occur at a fixed rate. The author had set the expected value of 2 at a given time period, which is to say the author assumes that the 'natural rate' of a mass shooting murder is 2 a year.

The mean across the years has got nothing to do with this IMO. It may have been a good rule of thumb to compare against, but it's not a good one to do an analysis upon. It leads to all sorts of mistaken conclusions, like the one the author made.
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I was mostly huh'ing at the mapping of dissimilar disciplines in a confused attempt to promulgate OOP cargo cult.
same with my blog (http://jwillmer.de/blog/), using feedburner for rss maybe some parsing errors with that service?
Or return it and buy a Nexus 7, which is $15 cheaper and can be unlocked by running "fastboot oem unlock".
You might have been somewhat fortunate finding the same direct price. I'm aware that Expedia is large enough to get bulk discounts from airlines that aren't always publicly offered to direct passengers.
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That data is from mid 2011. The difference should be much smaller now, if there is any. Android had like 150-200 million devices back then. Now it has over 500 million.

This is why this article is BS, because most of the data used in it is extremely irrelevant for the Android ecosystem right now. This article should've been written in 2011. Not at the end of 2012. The Android ecosystem has grown and improved a lot since then.
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Or is it 'should have killed Photoshop'...
For anyone who's interested, this blog post piqued a very morbid interest in me, and so I decided to have a look at the data.

Here's a distribution of the number of days before the previous incidents (as reported by MotherJones. I'm personally not familiar with the number of shootings in the US, which according to different sources ranges from very few to way too many): http://imgur.com/Onoxv . The colours represent the group of how many incidents happened in the 180 days prior to the incident.

Here is the distribution of the number of incidents 180 days prior to an incident: http://imgur.com/9VTjQ

Draw your own conclusions
Travel hack: as the article points out, Expedia take 25% cut of the booking rate, which is usually the same a the hotel's direct rate.

Because the hotel will make more profit from you, you have a higher chance of getting a room upgrade at the property, better amenities or even just better service if you book direct rather than via Expedia.
I disagree with this post. Never had any issues with expedia. Always use them for air/hotel bookings and they are awesome. They do a really good job filtering out the junk "non-chain" hotels and making clear to the buyer that what they are getting it high quality.
The design of this site is incredibly annoying and awful. I just want to read the article!
I've only read Alexander's Synthesis of Form once, and it was a few years ago. Thoughtful reading, no doubt.

I think you may be confusing design requirements with patterns. His "no more than four stories" was a requirement for healthy human development, not a pattern. His 'patterns' were reusable chunks that fit a situation's requirements.

Patterns in programming only add value to the developers and architects.

Edit - and architects.
I see few posts where people are in doubt. This behavior is unfortunatly their business model. Mark "non participating" hotels as full and listen against their will and trick users to more expensive/hotels they get more commissions from. Not long ago they even lost in court around this in Norway http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
Of course Lockheed is upset. They got used to getting fat contracts with money amounts that had nothing to do with the cost of what they were building. Now they'll have to actually compete as a normal company would do in the market.
The notion that you cannot criticize somebody for the probable consequences of their actions is idiocy. Especially given the track record of DHH-driven flame wars in the past.

He also did say something about those specific arguments: that they were blanket. Which I took to mean: shallow and over-broad.
Why on earth would anyone bother to pirate a $0.99 app???
Here is the funny fact, whenever I check the hotels' own websites, prices are almost always higher than Expedia's listing. Does anyone know why?
I had to use expedia to book a last minute trip on aeromexico because they were the only ones with seats available for the date I wanted. I have to say that the whole experience stinks like a ripoff. Something that Really raised flags was the fact that according to their terms if you miss your flight you completely loose your ticket. Also, you cannot make any changes. They are really not worth it.
Understatement.

Even if perfect replication of a neuron electronically was possible, there are 86 billion neurons in an average human brain which is well over ten times the number of transistors present on modern chips.

Of course, functional electronic neuron models and scaling well before that point is likely to be immensely useful anyway.
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Why should anyone be surprised? Do you really think abuse of power is absent because a business is on the Internet? How many times have publishers had their Buy buttons removed from their books at Amazon? How many stories are there of small devs getting ripped off by Apple and Microsoft? What about late payments to devs from the Google Play Store? I will never use Expedia now. Better that I should be inconvenienced than be jerked around by smug companies out to crush small businesses.

EDIT: Typo fixed.
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That is a different problem. If people play your game it means you are doing something right, so you must work on your revenue and communication with users strategy. Also if you have client server architecture you have much easier time just discarding the pirate users. If apple prevents you from distinguishing between types of users - that is serious platform deficiency. Otherwise it just requires a DB check before allowing access of the user to the server.

There have been cases where a product receives critical acclaim, is widely pirated and failed commercially.

XBOX 360 had the ability to pirate games since 2007-ish, and PS3 was much harder in this department. You didn't see abandonment of the X360 platform from the developers.
No, I would prefer at least "years", but even better "decades". A few days (or weeks depending on your background) is the time required to read a few papers on the Physics of the atmosphere.
I don't see what SF has to do with it. It would be a California LLC.
Was down for me on xbox last night, which was super annoying because I loaded up some great movies from rottentomatoes netflix list and then fired up my xbox only to discover netflix was down :(
I've absolutely no idea.
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While frequently with these articles you have to wonder about the validity of all parts of the story, I can say I've had A similar experience from a consumer perspective. I was trying to book hotels for my wedding and couldn't find a hotel that I knew was in the town my in-laws lived in.

I looked up the hotel on the corporate website and it showed it as completely booked, and this particular had didn't show up in any searches for rooms because of that.

I ended up calling them and found out they had left the chain and were becoming independent and had plenty of rooms. So I can't confirm this small business' story, I Can confirm that similar things happen.
When the Newtown shooting made the news, I had the following thought: just 24 hours earlier, there was news of an execution-style shooting near Times Square. Even though the Times Square crime is less horrifying (fewer people, no children, etc.), I would say that it is more relevant for gun policy. Why? Only seven massacres in 2012, but tens of thousands of gang-related shootings.

We have a problem with guns and crime, not with massacres. Massacres happen, and if there were no other murders to worry about I would say we should focus on massacres. The trend in gang violence is very clear: concealable weapons (handguns) purchased on the black market. If you want a sensible gun policy, you need to focus on handguns; gangs rarely use rifles because rifles are too difficult to conceal.
One of my biggest problems with taxes is that the output of my hard work is spent on things that I find morally reprehensible. I feel it is absolutely evil to take someone's money at gunpoint and spend it on something he finds evil. For me, that's abortion.

We needn't labor the point of why other people don't find it evil - that's irrelevant to this discussion. The important part of my argument is that, short of going to jail, there's no option for me not to subsidize something I find morally reprehensible.

Failing to let individuals make that sort of decision dehumanizes them. I'm sick to my stomach every time I think of it.
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no need to kill photoshop. Then we'd just have another monopoly.
Ask HN: The future developer rig?
Every day we read about tablets replacing desktops, we read about smart phones and app markets on the desktop replacing traditional operating systems.

At some point say ten years from now how will developers be interfacing with systems to write code? Will we be the last customers of laptop and desktops with mice and keyboards? "Specialist" devices that allow programmers to develop code for all the "normal main-line devices"?

Will my grandson watch me type and wonder what I'm doing? Laughing at how old his grandfather is and that he "still uses a keyboard and a mouse"?

Exactly how are we going to program all these things when the only thing on the market will be tablets, smartphones, smart TV's and app environments without command lines or desktop interfaces?

I find it funny that 30 years on and I'm still using Vi to edit files on really fancy terminal programs (thank you iTerm2).

In a world full of interface innovation the low-level still means knowing how to ssh to a box and vi files? Really?
Nothing in your comment explains why you disagree with the post, however. Nothing you are saying is contrary to the original article.
Check out the Intels ULV processors. Intel haven't bothered to do anything with Atom because they don't want to cannibalize their own products.

Long before Atom even came out a dualcore Core Duo ULV processor with a TDP of 5 was usually twice as fast as the Atom, if you disabled one of the cores on the Core Duo ... In other words about four times the performance at a much lower power consumption. I'm writing this on a 7 year old laptop sporting such a processor... Yes it is slow, but compared to an atom it the performance is just hysterical.

The Atom is, and has always been, a pathetic joke in all regards except for price. And the performance is so abysmal that the only reason it ever sold was because of shortsithed consumers that can't look passed the price tag. Which of course took everyone by surprise, and intel obviously haven't dared to improve on Atom too much since it's launch for this very reason.
I have never, ever seen nl2br referred to as making anything secure or safe. It just converts new lines to <br />s. That's what the manual says it does. That's what tutorials say it does. That's what the function name very obviously shows.

I think map() from Python should be removed. Its name implies to a new learner that it will draw a map, but it actually does nothing to that effect at all! No, it maps an array to a function. We must rename this dangerous function to call_a_function_on_every_element_of_an_array - or, even better, remove it from the language core ENTIRELY. If it was a private function used inside the runtime, maybe that would be fine, but it's a public part of the API.
You disagree from the point of an end customer. If you have no hotel preference and are mis-directed away from certain partners to those that pay better commission then to you it has been a good experience. Just because they have got you good bookings, does not mean they haven't lied and screwed people over in the process.
In sales they teach you that making fun or otherwise disparaging your competition is not the way to close deals. I guess it doesn't apply when you're a billion dollar corporation and you can throw your weight around. Or think you can?
Just for reference in case you miss it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966004

Of note, the subtitle on the resulting page: [Expedia and companies] Portrayed [hotels] as fully booked even though they were not.
Alexis, this is awesome, but why did you do all of this?
For most apps, an HTML wrapper like PhoneGap works great, so might as well do both at the same time.