skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely than being sexist or ageist, the author probably had his granny in mind when he was trying to think of the label. I agree that it's not a very good one though; it's too specific.

I don't really agree on your wider point, though. Car manufacturers do absolutely distinguish between "car drivers" and "granny car drivers", and also between "boy racers", "mums on the school run", and so on.

If you're going to manufacture a new car, you need to know who you want to sell it to. The same should be true of computer platforms.
Apparently "made" == "paid".
I'd say that it is trivial - if a new topic starts and is rapidly growing, then after 3-4 years almost anybody who started working on it near the beginning would be better than 99% of everyone else (simple 99% of others are newbies in the are), and his/her tasks would include a say in 'how it should be done' and mentoring those others - so, Senior xxx.
Well, that's the old wives tale, but I've seen people like my dad (wholesale merchant, never used a computer or cared about them until 55+) that has, in the 3 years of buying one, reinstalled his Windows 2-3 times.

It's not that difficult. Insert DVD, next-next, done. With a Mac, perhaps, it's even easier.
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unable to access https://medium.com/ since past few weeks - is something wrong?
Louis C.K. and the bawdy mystic
> Free speech is one thing, but abuse of free speech is another.

Is it abuse of free speech to report factually on what you see? Seems to me like this is what Mr Leiser did, and IMHO it is not an abuse at all. Quite the opposite, it is a good use of free speech.

Just because EasyJet don't like what he said does not make it abuse. I cannot emphasise this strongly enough. If I say "I just saw neya step on a puppy" it is not abuse of free speech, even neya does not like me saying this, even it if is objectively detrimental to neya. It is not abuse of free speech unless it is not true.

I know that we have only Mr Leiser's word so far; if EasyJet want to dispute the facts of the matter that would be different. However, if I was their PR department I'd really prefer to leave well enough alone and not attract further press attention; unless they can prove that something utterly different was what actually happened.
How do they keep the mirrors clean? How do you keep solar panels clean for that matter? Must require quite a bit of upkeep.
What's the reflectance of a PV panel? Wondering if the mirrors could be replaced with them, knowing they aren't as good of a reflector as a mirror, but perhaps they reflect enough to run the steam generator, and still produce power themselves. Net win, perhaps?
The problem for me is remembering how to create the various dashes on a typical keyboard.
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what. - A quote by Stephen Fry

You're a brave soul for standing up against the "take offense-industrial complex"
huh.. now I understand why my travel pattern is star shaped too... position is reported from both from phone and tablet...
The grandparent is the author of the post.
Works fine for me and has done every time I've tried to access it over the past few weeks.
Installing Windows XP from USB pen drive
> I thought the same of the hacking scenes in Swordfish... then I realised that the movie isn't meant for me.

No, I get that. But using this logic, BBT shouldn't be making any attempt to get the physics right either. After all, it's not a show for physicists.

Why the inconsistency?
The EasyJet T&Cs are publicly available http://www.easyjet.com/terms-and-conditions and outline the circumstances under which they can refuse carriage.

The applicable section would be: 19.2 Right to refuse carriage and the closest there is to any reason would seem to be:

"19.2.7 You have used threatening, abusive or insulting words to, or have behaved in a threatening, abusive or insulting manner towards, a member of easyJet staff, crew or Airport Staff or a fellow passenger;"

Even that seems to be a major push.

If they'd wanted to be petty they could probably get away with a detailed check of his documentation or whatever that might make him miss the flight but to do that they'd probably have needed to not say anything about it being linked to the tweet.
The Berlin Startup Cheat Sheet - some tips for Berlin startup n00bs
Note: the vast majority of patients are not really that picky about their vision. I once went to my eye doctor to complain that my vision had gotten worse. The prescription went from 4.75 to 5.00 - and most people have trouble telling that difference, let alone being bothered enough to go to a doctor for that. Also, try to get opinions from people who really rely on their eyes in order to do their jobs.

Many people will want to go through with the surgery anyway. Which is fine, but do the research. It is surgery in a very delicate part of the body and, as surgery, it carries risks. And there are many common possible side effects. You eye will get dryer. You may get halos or starbusts, specially at night. They might be minor, as the OP, or they might be debilitating. And if so, there aren't many options to correct those. Specially since, if you are getting halos, your pupil is probably large. Burning more cornea won't be an option, not if you don't want to risk structural failure (there is a name for the condition, which I forgot now). The operation is not reversible.

Also, do the operation one eye at a time. You never know if you are about to be lasered by a malfunctioning device. That way, you'll still have one eye.

And be skeptical about claims of 20/20 vision after the surgery. Those measures do not take into account any side effects you might have, only if you are able to see the letters, no matter if their outlines are blurred to hell, or if there are halos.
Hello I am a member of Microsoft's target market here. I've definitely heard of Linkin Park, and their music, but I've never once heard the name Armin van Buuren before. Does that make him D-list?
Don't know why you got downvoted. An old iMac has worked wonders for my parents.
I believe it keeps GPS positioning to a minimum, relying primarily on network-derived location data. At least judging by the granularity (or lack of) the route data, which causes my commute to work to look most confusing.

Secondly, and this in my opinion is a bug in their algorithm, when I'm at home it frequently switches to my home location and a location about 10 miles away. The only reason I can see for it to do this is it's predicting my location based on my cell site location (phones know which tower they're connected to, Google must know where all these towers are). And my normal cell tower is 5 miles away (right in the middle of my two "locations"), so clearly the algorithm has determined I'm 5 miles away from a cell tower, but can't make up it's mind in which direction. It needs tweaking to remove data points when I suddenly cover 10 miles in a second, over and over.
In pretty much any business, and extremely so in real estate, referral fees are many orders of magnitude larger than paying for a free phone line.

I'm not working in real estate, but I'd guess that each referral would earn them at least something like $100 or much more - so forcing the "customer" (not really their customer since they don't sell anything to them, but only to the realtors) to call is the correct business decision.

The only WTF question is why they initiated a project that they don't want to use.
Say you have a financial controller (which looks at both accounting and financial performance) in front of you, what kind of questions would you like to ask? What kind of training would you like to get?
But did he install it on a barebone pc? Getting all the missing drivers etc? This sounds like this was a factory installed PC with all drivers on the DVD ready to go. That's not barebone exactly. Also the question is why he was doing that; I haven't reinstalled anything (not Linux, not Mac) for many years and I actually like screwing around with hardware and drivers?
In my personal experience, the UK ticks all these boxes, at least outside Greater London. Good state schooling and the NHS go a long way towards lowering the cost of living.
Yeap, works. Tested on iOS mobile safari here.
I would have paid for PvZ 2. I didn't buy anything when playing, it would have felt like cheating.
And iPad minis...
Taste like steak Portabello Insalata Caprese Recipe and Pompeian Oil Review
This took place in the EU, so there are legal limitations on how and when an airline can deny you boarding.
Chris Dixon: The difference between New York and Silicon Valley Startup Scenes
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this + photosynth
Not really.

For one, if I'm a business owner/scientist/engineer working on some stuff, they can do "industrial espionage" and give the stuff (or a heads up) to US companies/the army/whoever.

Second, they can use their spying on a country's politicians to influence that country's policy (like spying on a party they don't like in favor of a party that serve's their interests), do market and diplomatic moves against them, etc.

Third, who said foreigners never travel to the US?
I guess it's not the mirror, but all of the motors and electronics that keep the mirror pointing in the right direction. If only the Sun didn't move around the sky, this would be very cheap!
But that's already an investment that can get you quite some resources on AWS for a while.
The point is if you left the hyphen out, looking could be interpreted as an adjective, and therefore there must be a hyphen between friendly and looking.
I remember playing this 13 years ago, what a game. I might have to find an old Windows machine to play this again :>
I can't wear contacts either, at least, not anymore.

I am considering PRK (LASEK), but have not yet made my mind about it, as it is a procedure that is done less frequently than LASIK, so there might be issues that haven't been found yet.
This leaves out hyphens at line breaks for long words.
>If that's your idea of running a company, throwing out customers who complain publicly instead of fixing the issues, then I wouldn't want to be your customer.

You misinterpreted my reasoning and took it somewhere else :)

>No, they should serve someone who criticizes the same as any other customer. You might not be able to shout it inside their restaurants (that's their business), but they should have no right at all to refuse you based on what you say to your twitter or blog or whatever.

If you do something that negatively affects my company, without giving my company a fair chance/benefit of doubt, but ironically try to benefit from it, then I would have no problem revoking you of my services. Even If I'm the only available option to you. Of course I am welcome to constructive criticism and bashing me on your blog is totally fine. I will try to fix my mistakes. But it is different if you mis-inform your readers that I'm a bad company and if you use my company's services behind the scenes because it's one of the best options for you, then that is hypocrisy and the day when I find out it's basically game over for you. Because what you essentially did was:

1) Abuse of power. (You had hundreds of followers on your blog and negatively marketed my company to them on purpose)

2) Absolutely zero journalistic integrity. (for the same reason as 1)

>Third, their food might suck, but you find the prices great, compared to the alternatives (or vice versa).

3) Backstabbing and hypocrisy. (You betrayed your readers, my company and tried to benefit in the process).

At the end of the day, every company needs to profit. If you seem to be in it's way, I don't think it's wrong to get you out of it's way. And companies don't need such customers either. It would be shooting in their foot, literally.

>Saying they sucks and then eating it, it's perfectly normal.

Seriously? If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what else is.
BlackBerry joins other technological turkeys
GNUcash though ? I used that for a while and it was just so frustrating to work with. Even creating a custom invoice was a hassle. That application needs to be replaced by a cloud hosted app for simple invoicing.
> hen services were not rendered as expected when the soldier mentioned in the article couldn't be on time...

Granted they weren't on time but EasyJet's T&Cs do say that they don't guarantee their schedule at all:

15.1.1 Without prejudice to any applicable passenger rights pursuant to any international or domestic laws, times shown in timetables, schedules or elsewhere are not guaranteed and form no part of the contract of carriage.
On this theme, I love Charles Minard's diagram of Napoleon's invasion of Russia where the width of the line is how many people are still left - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.pn...
Considering that 99% of USA politics is driven by lobbying and big business this legislation has a snowballs chance in hell of actually passing without a lot of watering down.
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iOS might be an even better alternative. I've met quite a few arthritics who have to use a touchscreen, plus the interface (until recently, though it will be again) was much more natural.
Yep. Pretty snappy in iOS7 at least.
Aren't the halos created by a large pupil reaching an area which was not touched by the laser? That was my understanding, at least. If so, LASEK would still carry the risk of halos.

But not dry eyes, and no flap dislocation. If that flap DOES dislocate (usually, because of trauma), you are screwed.
Probably worth mentioning that there is also the CSS Grid Layout Module [1], which has (according to Can I use...) much less support (9.65% [2]) vs Flexbox (79.32% [3]). A quick survey suggests that Flexbox should be used 'in the small' whilst grid is for 'in the large', but Solved by Flexbox seems to suggest that it is equally competent as a solution for whole page grid layout. Is the CSS Grid Layout module a dead end?

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-grid-layout-20130910/
[2] http://caniuse.com/#search=grid
[3] http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
> even stronger obligation than public accommodations, as common carriers

Ah yes, I knew there was something beyond public accommodation but could not remember the concept of common/public carrier. Thank you.
In order to stop replies like this, I've stopped using the word "offensive" or "offended". Instead, I use phrases like "you belittled me", "you're trying to marginalise me" etc. "offended" puts the 'blame' on the person who being offended, must better to say that the problem is with the person doing the margalisation.
R 3.0.2 source released
Oh feel free. I'm just telling you that you aren't entitled to anything. And that complaining is pointless.

Google is way past not listening to its users, power-users or regular users alike, as far as Chrome goes. They have a bigger strategy and Chrome is just one of many means to that end.

Make no mistake about it: Chrome will be bent and reshaped to fit that strategy, not your needs or desires.
Writing 'twenty eight' as 'twenty-eight' is accepted practice? The looks very odd to me. But perhaps that's a difference between British and American forms.

Also 'friendly-looking' isn't joining together two adjectives , it's making a compound adjective.
If you have keratoconus, you are not eligible for LASIK, period.

Doctors screen for that.
He says he's enjoying it, so it must be MVC.
Airports within the EU have loads of posters saying this. They are very clear on it.
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It sounds like I am being way too negative here. I would do the process again but I would insist on getting full pupil dialation before the procedure. With this correction I will be extremely satisfied but all told it took at least 40 hours for follow up visits including travel time and getting everything set up ahead of time. With my right eye doing all the work and looking at monitors all day it gives up at about 8pm where I can't easily read a 15" laptop without eye strain.
I think most important things would be:
1. Understanding double-entry accounting
2. Passing entries for liabilities and later squaring off them against payment from bank (e.g. credit card, deferred taxes)
3. Managing all the hosting services and other SaaS tools monthly payments as an expense item
4. Understanding how to account for equity
Hmm, looks like account sign-up doesn't use SSL, and includes the ability to include your password in the confirmation email.

Probably worth being careful with password choice if you're going to sign-up to this. Don't use one of your existing ones!

Other than that, I'm so glad to see Myst back!
Unfortunately aviation safety is concerned with those 0.001% probabilities, because many of them tend to gang together and cause fatal accidents. Just like the sterile cockpit environment rule. What is the chance of some random thing being missed because the pilots were talking about an upcoming football game during landing, and moreover what is the chance of that oversight causing a real accident?

It's really, really, really small, with millions of successful flights done without problems. Yet accidents like those have happened, and have been prevented after that rule was put in place.

I was using mathematical proofs as an example of why in IT security, often times since you can't be sure, you do the proactive thing and don't run services exposed to the internet. If you have a database with credit card numbers, you don't let the DB listen for connections on a public IP, not because you think there is a security hole in the DB, but because you can't be sure there isn't.
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Getting Started with GNU Privacy Guard
Apparently EasyJet DID treat him better because he was a journalist (well actually because he taught law) Apparently if he was just a lay person they wouldn't have let him on the flight. So you decide if it was a real complaint or not.
Lack of alternatives. GnuCash is frustrating to work on mac.
Any lifetime cost calculations must factor in the fact that the fuel is free. I've seen quick comparisons with combined cycle gas, coal, etc. that neglect this obvious difference.
No, it was within the EU which has strict law about airlines denying people boarding. They can't just refund your money and that be the end of it.
That's was I was wondering. How do I write an Em dash on a keyboard? I've always just used a hyphen for this (but I'd like to do it right).
Never mind that the function casts (coerces? constructs?) ints to bread and ints to bacon. Let alone how it's got a special "plus" operator that can work on bread/bacon and return a sandwich...
Well, we are not using it for any invoicing but just maintaining our records. The year end reporting to the CPA was a cakewalk this time compared to all the head breaking we went through pouring over Excel entries, bank account statements etc last year. There are other alternatives but GNUCash works well for our needs.
"If Microsoft were Google"
Note though that "interception" was a nuclear warhead (neutron bomb). It would still be all out nuclear war, but you'd rather set off a small nuke a few miles from the silos than have the incoming 25MT beast hit the base.
I type Ctrl+Shift+U 2014 Space (U+2014 EM DASH) surprisingly regularly. (That's with Ubuntu.) U+2013 is EN DASH and U+2010 is HYPHEN.

Does anyone else find that they know dozens of Unicode code points purely by accident? Other useful ones in that block are U+2018, U+2019, U+201C and U+201D, the left and right (first and third) single and double quotation marks...

In the end, though, I really wish everything supported Vim's digraphs. (e.g. Ctrl+K l * produces λ.) I know even more of those than I know numeric codepoints…
Beyond Asimov: the struggle to develop a legal framework for robots
Yeah, those notifiers are not implemented yet.
I currently work for an insurance company.

Warren Buffet was spot on when he said (after investing in insurance companies): “Invest in businesses that any idiot can run because, sooner or later, one will.”
> then that is hypocrisy and the day when I find out it's basically game over for you

Hypocrisy is not illegal (nor should it be). Not honoring contracts, on the other hand, is (and it should be).
Looking at the accuracy of the results it has for me (apparently I only spent three hours at work last week), I'm not worried.
No problem. - 13/14 here. The procedure takes about 10 / 15 min. and is done one eye at a time. Procedure in the morning, I was able to see again for a bit in the eavening, and almost good again the next day. The cut is so small it doesn't even require stiching. (The lens is flexible and is folded before inserting). I do think your eyes need to be stable at least a few years though. My vision was 120% (felt like that guy in "Interview with a vampire" who gets bitten and sees everything in a new way. Even gave me a bit of a headache, so sharp. This stabalises after a few weeks, to 100%). The halo's were annoying, especially when stepping in to a dark enviroment (a pub). In the beginning driving a car at night HURTS your eyes, because the pupil contracts a lot. Yellow glasses help.

A few years later my retina ripped at the back and inside of my eye. That can happen when you've got -13/14. They were able to operate on me because the doctos knew I could take it, I've had these implants and was like a statue then. Only difference was, that time it lasted 3 hours, was during midnight and they drained my eye. (Lesson: Don't take static black spots lightly).
I believe the exclusivity for Shine is just for retail. Apple made a deal to be their exclusive (physical?) retailer, just as they have done many times before, like the Phillips Hue and a few other cases and accessories.
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rpsts/ped.pdf

Search for "laptop" and you have a few examples of spurious TCAS RAs.

In some older report there was a specific instance where the pilot out of curiosity had the passenger turn the device back on, and had the problem reappear (this was in cruise so there was more time to debug the problem). Google for NASA PED reports and it should be in one of them.
This really isn't a freedom of speech issue. This is a customer service issue. Would you rather do business with a company that stops doing business with customers that complain, or with a business that listens to customers complaints and fixes the issue?
I didn't quite say it was _perfect_, shit happens - and I've had my share of systems hosed by buggy updates everywhere: be it Windows, Linux, Mac or BSD. I still hold that in 2013, a modern Linux distro has _the fewest_ of such problems.

Or, to put it differently, of my simplified boxes for basic users, Linux generates the fewest trouble tickets.
This incident occurred within the EU, which has strict laws about airlines denying boarding, and the level of compensation they have to give if you are refused. "we don't have to give a reason and only have to give you your money back", would not be legal in the EU.
Works great on iOS 5.
First off, strawmen really don't cut it when trying to refute another persons points.

Yes, anyone should be able to refuse you service if your actively denigrating their work except where prohibited by law.

If you tell me my service sucks, I will correct it if I think the criticism is warranted. I am under no obligation to consider it valid until I have researched the issue at hand. Pretty much it comes down to this, if you don't like the service then don't use it, however don't expect me to render service knowing your predisposition to label it as inferior or worse.
I wonder if your location data could be used as part of your alibi if you were falsely accused of a crime.