skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that gets photos of you that other people have taken, though.

If anybody knows a way to get that, let me know.
This is a pretty good read. I REALLY hate booking both air travel and hotel rooms as I ALWAYS get the feeling that I'm getting fucked. It always just feels like I know someone is getting the same room on the same night or the same flight for cheaper than me. I never feel like I've won, so to speak. When booking air travel, if I can, I like to book with Southwest just because it feels better. I may be able to get a cheaper flight with some other airline by going through Priceline et. al., but I feel dirty and cheated (somehow) doing it. I just want to deal directly with the person who has the room or the flight and know that I'm getting a fair price. Is that too much to ask for?
In most (all?) European countries VAT is included in the sticker prices. If the price on the sticker says €5 you also pay exactly €5 for it.
> Is it normally listed on the sticker prices throughout the store?

Unless it is a catalog with products strictly aimed at businesses, VAT is always included.
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It sounds like you need to take a moment to consciously reflect on the fact that not everyone cares about privacy to the same extent you do. I don't just mean the privacy of others, but their own privacy as well. To many people, the loss of privacy that comes from being searchable is more than offset by the value they get out of Facebook.
It sounds like your friend put a link to an image (hosted on G+) in their email.

Source: I just emailed an image from one Gmail account to the other and what you stated didn't happen.
Wow, CNN, the opposite of Hacker News. What an ignorant comment:

The "warhead" names appeared as links, most leading to 404 error messages of pages not found, but some leading to pages of raw programming code.
Vino: beginnings of JS client for undocumented Vine.co API
Google's Private Cell Phone Network
There's plenty of resources to go around. They'll just have to eat corn instead of beef and lose some lard.
+1 on a diff-tool. Its very hard to tell what's different between the forked recipes. Some sort of short commit-style message on the change would be helpful. (Something like "Added potatoes and carrots" or "Smoked the chicken instead of grilling it")

I really like the idea, but as others have mentioned, it does need some design help.
LOL, definitely. I can see this in a future version for sure.
Although the Clang developers claim GCC was poorly adapted to non-compiler use on purpose, the GCC developers seem to have been very eager to accept patches that make these use cases work better. If they were truly opposed to people using GCC as a module in a larger system, why would they go out of their way to encourage modularization?

And please don't link to that RMS email as "evidence"; RMS has about as much control over GNU projects' technical details as Charles Manson does over the music industry.
I like this a lot. Thanks for the feedback.
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Great work. Honestly didn't think much of vine until viewing them this way.
It does sound like a bit of a strange assertion. gcc is amazingly core to so much and (in this case importantly) so much commercial. Not even the linux kernel itself has this many things that need it to be continued.

Could it be ousted? Sure, if a gnu (or otherwise foss) competitor steps up and does it better (good luck..) but in that case, no problem. Could it be that the gnu/linux distributions and applications running the majority of the internet will have to rely on a proprietary compiler or die? That's just wildin' - issues aside that's nothing even any of the major corporations could really suggest.
Fluff. I'd like someone to do a proper sit-down Q&A on video and ask some interesting/challenging questions.
I was considering Manning's association with WikiLeaks and thus the larger 'free information' [1] online concern as part of his social standing. Because as soon as he became the name behind that leak, it was.

As opposed to, say, the less-visible alleged members of Anonymous and Lulzsec who are likely facing the same exact sort of prosecution 'strategy' as Swartz [2], but because they aren't or are lesser parts of those crowds, no-one's paying much attention. Even though, criminals though they may be, it's just as likely their prosecutors are pursuing their cases with that same lack of justice or proportionality.

[1] in the FOIA sense, not in the piracy sense.

[2] I definitely draw a distinction between Manning and Swartz's prosecutions, as Manning being enlisted, gives the prosecution a distinct ability to go so much further with it.
this could channel money away from preventative care, which is far more cost-effective than funding later-stage individual treatments. $50 given for the purchase of malaria nets would save a lot more lives than a single operation.
Related article for those trying to rise early: http://zenhabits.net/how-i-became-early-riser/

I found the two most helpful things are to go outside within 10 minutes of waking up (even if it's really cold!) and to focus on going to bed 8-9 hours before I want to wake up, whether sleepy or not.
How long do I have to wait for a John McAfee biopic starring Al Pacino?
Many top 100 universities are gleaming with dozens of new buildings:

- Stanford tore down some donated admin buildings across from Schwab GSB that
were not even 10 years old. A good portion of the
med school is being gradually torn down and rebuilt
near the hospital. (Will the roads ever be back to
normal two-way traffic?)
- Davis is littered with new buildings.
- Harvard's 10 year construction schedule and $30,000,000,000.00+ under HMC.

Probably a safer bet. Whether funds begged from donors and liquidated from students are utilized efficiently is another matter.
Seems like I've been "slow banned" for the above.

Taking people's money and giving the job less that what you promised is apparently OK, but scolding someone for doing it is to be frowned upon.
Well, it's not Facebook who's doing the asking, but Facebook's closer than you might think to having genetic information: https://www.facebook.com/23andMe
>As far as I understand them, the sentencing guidelines group related charges into a single charge.

Even so, I believe the maximum penalty under the CFAA is still 20 years on its own. The fact that there are multiple possible charges with such disproportionate penalties for a single underlying action just underscores the need for systematic reform.

>There is a reason to add charges though: It can make the jury more likely to convict by helping along their sense of "splitting the difference", makes the court of public opinion turn that much more against you, etc.

In other words there isn't a legitimate reason to add charges but there are a number of cynical and illegitimate reasons.
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Everything people don't like are market failures.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5098258
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112837
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4738488
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963251
etc

People keep calling things like city planning a market failure when it is full of regulation.

Or healthcare when the U.S. government spends the most money on healthcare in the U.S.

etc

People throw the term around without knowing what it means.

EDIT:

Changed "is a market failure" to "are market failures".
I've been spending the last couple weeks ramping up a game project with Clang and libc++ and porting for testing to MSVC.

The notion that C++11 doesn't exist is novel given that I'm using it regularly on both platforms that I consider relevant.
I may get flamed for asking this, but am I the only one that thinks the Swartz suicide has been over-reacted to by HN and the tech community at large? In no way to I mean to be disrespectful or callous, but it seems that there is way too much coverage of his suicide.
Preamble: I'm not saying anything one way or another about who or what was or wasn't causal to the Arab Spring movements.

That said, you really need to learn the difference between proximal and ultimate causes.
KDevelop has a very sophisticated C++ parser (duchain I think they call it) which even provides semantic information (e.g. you can syntax highlight pointers differently from objects, non-virtual method calls different from virtual, etc.)

Example overview: http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from-...
Isn't that what App.net is supposed to be? Or are there problems with it I can't identify (being too poor to deem $5 a month on a social network a valid expense).
> "The doom and gloom doesn't make sense otherwise"

But the 'doom and gloom', from Gabe's mouth, doesn't seem to be any more extreme than his stated position on DX10/Vista. As far as I can find, the press are the ones taking his comments to extremes, reading into them about app stores, etc.
Aside from the goodness of their hearts, why would they do that?
When I switched from Vim to Sublime Text 2 (with Vintage vim mode), I missed EasyMotion so much that I created a ST2 plugin for it: https://github.com/tednaleid/sublime-EasyMotion
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When I read his post I was thinking "That's sad. Hope it works out for him."

But when you realise he's a C-Level exec, it's more a case of "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!"
Try some problems at http://rubeque.com/ or http://www.codeeval.com/. Project Euler is also good, as duggieawesome suggested. As you're doing the problems, try and find "Ruby-esque" ways to solve them.

Other than that, run through the http://RubyMonk.com lessons, and try some of the Ruby courses at http://CodeSchool.com.

The best way to learn is with hands-on stuff though. So, if you're looking to get into Rails as well, I'd recommend what jfaucett recommended: try and pick a (simple) app to build, and build it.

I'm not sure what town your in, but if you don't see any meetup groups (check http://meetup.com .. or search Google), then why not create one?

I've heard that meetup.com can increase attendance to these meetups significantly, but I think it depends on which town your in. (I.e. if people in your town don't know about meetup.com, then it doesn't matter and you can get away with a website and marketing it another way [try reaching out to Python/Perl/Web Design groups and see if anyone would be interested in meeting up to talk or learn Ruby]).

If you'll be meeting with a bunch of people who are new to Ruby, going through RubyMonk.com together can be a good way to get people up to speed. Then try Rails for Zombies Redux at http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies-redux (it's free).

But, yeah, practice, practice, practice. If you want some intermediate level stuff to work on, try creating a Rails app. You'll likely come across some intermediate-level stuff.

And good on ya for looking to improve your skills and get active in a local community. That's great! :)

I hope this helps.
Yes, and how did it ever come to be any other way anywhere? No value matters except what comes out my pocket - why tell me any other number?
if a gnu (or otherwise foss) competitor steps up and does it better (good luck..)

There is a pretty compelling argument that LLVM and Clang are doing precisely that. And the "toolability" referred to in the article is a big part of that. Clang complete[1] is an example of using Clang to do things that the GNU toolchain thinks are perfectly doable with a box of regex. (Spoilers: they're so not.)

[1] - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3302
Oh yeah? Well your comment is a market failure.

edit: I was being humorous.
clang++ compiles my code base for work about 4x faster than g++ 4.7, using c++11 features. The end result may be slightly faster in certain situations with gcc, but for almost all of the code I wrote I am spending time in I/O where a little optimisation for a loop won't make a tiny bit of a difference.
Why on earth would you want to sell out all rooms as a goal?
Doesn't it seem likely to anyone else that Keith Rabois was not openly homosexual or bisexual, and that is the reason he didn't report the relationship to the company?

Or am I missing something really obvious?
If you work on low-level software, you can and will use tools like VTune and cachegrind to understand where the performance bottlenecks are for your code.

If you are working with a lot of people who tell you not to optimize, you're probably working on high-level software where the focus is on getting it out the door as fast as possible. Try working for a company like Intel or NVidia. You'll write plenty of assembly language there if you want. There's also things like compilers, virtual machines, and storage software.
It's a matter of reputation and business for both participants in the squabble, so it's not a waste of time for them. You might have wasted your time reading it and commenting on it (if you didn't find it interesting), but that's your fault. I found it fun to read, so it didn't waste my time.

And you said '...the "design" crowd'. What are your quote marks for? Are you implying they're not actually designers, or are you mocking the idea of product design as a profession, or something else?
Those are creative ideas. Someone might point out that Pandora pre-dates OKCupid, and Wikipedia existed long before GitHub. I'm actually curious about "GitHub" but for "Fashion". Right now, I don't see a feature in common between any of "like X but for Y" pairs except for the presumption that Y will be as popular as X or the use of algorithms. In other words, "Microsoft but for Bagels" sounds the same way to me.
The Hipmunk demo miscategorizes most of the "neutral" tweets: http://recon.io/demo/neutral

About 50% of those are easily positive with quite a few more that could fall into the positive category without much debate.
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As far as I understand the situation, in the past credit card surcharges were prohibited by law. So credit card companies and merchants will have more freedom in regards to their arrangements now. Credit card companies can still have a contract with a merchant that says that surcharges are forbidden (Amex does that according to the article), but otherwise there's no law anymore that prevents merchants from adding the surcharge.
Original press release here, but it doesn't mention HIV
http://www.ibn.a-star.edu.sg/images/cms_press/press_82.pdf

My interpretation is that the hyrdagel-based "nanomeds" have the main advantage that they break-up biofilm colonies, which have a higher (100-1000x) drug resistance than free floating bacteria. It seems to be operating through mechanical rather than biological methods, but the exact mechanisms aren't described well in either article.
Lazy protest. He should have sewed the text 4th amendment into the inside of his shirt with strips of aluminum foil and then gone through the nudie scanner.
It's really not going to change much. Visa and MasterCard rates are already almost identical, and American Express will continue getting away with higher fees because of the higher net worth and spending power of its customer base.

I sell business services and most of my credit customers pay with Amex cards. They typically have higher credit approval barriers and annual fees, which their customers gladly pay for the raft of benefits the other issuers don't offer (extended warranties on all purchases, accidental damage coverage, rental insurance, travel insurance, roadside assistance, etc). Price is not the only dimension a card issuer can compete on.

Further, aside from Amex and Discover, the card issuers have no control over merchant fees. Chase can't issue a Visa card with lower merchant fees than Wells Fargo because neither bank sets the fees, Visa does.
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You would rather everyone at your hotel pay the same price, which is higher than most people at the hotel next door?
GCC already "shriveled up and died" once -- the egcs project got so far ahead of regular GCC in development that the FSF basically just said, "congratulations, you are the new maintainers and your project is now the official GCC mainline".

GCC is stagnant, but the dynamic pace of development on the Clang front means that either the GCC developers will adapt, or the community will adapt GCC for them.
The situation is the exact opposite. Previously, Visa and MasterCard prohibited merchants from charging more for credit than cash. It was a term required in all merchant account agreements with member banks of those networks. In the federal court settlement, Visa and MasterCard agreed to drop that clause from their contracts. There was no federal law prohibiting surcharges, and you can't eliminate laws through court settlements.
Really? Perhaps you know more than I do, but Android "not allowing apks to be sent over Bluetooth" seems pretty unlikely to me.

It doesn't allow you to easily get at apks you've downloaded from the Play store, if that's what you mean, but I think that's just an anti-piracy measure. An apk you've downloaded from somewhere else is, as far as I can tell, just another file. I can't imagine why (or how!) it'd stop you from exchanging them, particularly if you have some sort of custom Bluetooth client.

Does it really try to stop you?
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It would take an immensely ballsy release engineer to approve switching from GCC to clang even for a modestly sized, mature codebase. I can think of at least two Fortune 500s where this will almost certainly never happen: the potential cost incurred by the change would far outweigh just hiring a team to keep the old compiler alive, at least in the medium term.
Yeah, it's a great tool like that. And my banks IOS app lets me adjust my limit - so I put it down way low unless there is some big purchase about to happen. After 10ish years I got caught recently and had to pay interest, something like 19 cents. Used carefully and they can be a great way to get cheap banking.
The kerning on the bold typefaces throughout that site is annoying at best.
Four Seasons selling blocks of rooms for pennies on the dollar to HT doesn't hurt their brand? Do you think HT is paying $500 for each of those rooms?
>If they were truly opposed to people using GCC as a module in a larger system, why would they go out of their way to encourage modularization?

The claim I've seen repeatedly is that this is precisely because they must now compete with Clang/etc.
Yes. In the UK, sticker prices or advertisements aimed at consumers must include VAT where applicable. This is not so if the sticker/ad/whatever is aimed _solely_ at businesses (many of whom can claim back the VAT).
Further info: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/sectors/consumers/basics.htm

Service charges are a different matter. Some restaurants advertise a mandatory service charge (e.g. 15%) on all bills, or for parties of x (e.g. 6) or more people. Although it may seem like increasing prices by the amount of the mandatory service charge would make life easier for everyone, services charges (even mandatory ones) are treated differently for tax purposes: if they are distributed to employees, they are not subject to VAT (revenue tax) or Corporation Tax (profits tax). They are, however, subject to payroll taxes (PAYE Income Tax and NIC): http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/payroll/special-pay/tips.htm#1
The legal minimum of 1.5% is fascinating, i wonder if it was put in by the credit card lobby.

Overall, this change should accelerate evolution in the payments space. Customers choose the payment type, so when merchants have to eat the fee and hide it from consumers there's little downward pressure on fees.

The minimum looks like an attempt to put a floor of 1.5% on the fees. Does anyone know what happens to any payment technology that wants to charge 0.5%? Does a merchant who passes along such fees have to eat it if its less than 1.5%? Or is it disallowed?
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I don't find the argument that famine relief does more harm than good compelling.

Can you list some examples of this type of harm? Are they outliers or is it normal for this kind of aid to hurt its recipients?
As a little thought exercise, I'm trying to see how many commands I can think of that are equivalent to s. So far:

1s

cl

c<space>

vc

xi

There's obviously more if you want to add '1' to a couple of these, and more still if you want to go to 3 characters.
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You just stated that it was difficult to solve and didn't say anything more, which I think is one of the problems most people have when talking with Malthusians.

For people who even vaguely know what they're talking about chances are pretty good they're aware of that the problems and hard and are still trying to make progress. Showing up and espousing that idea doesn't add anything to the conversation other than maybe suggesting your priorities are different than theirs (but that too can be articulated better).

I can compare it to talking to a libertarian, or alternatively someone who doesn't think anything matters but profit. All of their ideas are very sound within the realms of the overarching theory they subscribe to. That's all well and good, and sometimes makes for good conversation but they don't bother to extend their ideas to the current state of reality which exists outside of the already ideal conditions those philosophies provides.

Don't want to be reduced to "a simple Malthusian"? Make a post that says more than simply reiterating a watered down version of his thesis.
How do you connect? If you aren't actively and intelligently taking precautions, they may well have enough network address history to be fairly definitive.

Also, do you block their widgets on other sites/pages?

Not that I disagree with the "Big Brother" concerns that this "Ihre Papiere, bitte." activity raises.

P.S. Aside from government(s), of what value is a proven identity to commercial interests? Being able to prove that you/they are targeting exactly who they want.

Hmm... Amongst other things, I understand that process servers are already attemtping to use FB as a accepted means of delivery. And I've read that debt collectors are using accounts having profile pictures of bikini clad young women, in order to successfully "friend" those they wish to hound.

All sorts of value to "proven" identities...
Guy spent $1.7 Billion testing a hypothesis. Admitted he was wrong.

Probably would have been better to fail faster, etc. But it was his money. Kudos to him.
Would switching from a chemical/biological to a mechanical form of attack against bacteria be expected to produce an evolution of mechanically resistant bacteria?

Be they variants that don't have the same properties that cause the nanogel to be attracted, or have cell walls that are too strong to be disrupted by the nano-stuctures, etc?

I guess my question is: are we talking about a 'final weapon' sort of thing, where any potential 'defense' would require ditching some attribute that makes bacteria feasible in the first place? Or are we just talking about a new weapon, one that we fully expect to eventually wane in effectiveness and thus will have to continue iterating upon?
especially when other rich white guys are causing or exacerbating many of the problems.

Sounds like "Rich White Guy" is the best person to solve the problems, then. Which is a fairer fight- bushmen vs. rich white guys, or rich white guy vs other rich white guys?