skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a travel planning startup for 5 years and I agree 100% with Tan's about that you have to re-acquire the user every 9 months and the main reason is that the user is unable to remember your "name". But imho the main problem on travel industry if you are doing a travel planner is not exactly that the user doesn't remember you... this happens at other industries: job finders, real state, consumer electronics...

The big problem in travel is competence. It makes user (re) acquisition REALLY expensive and probably, as a startup, you can't afford it (an this mixed with no actual retention is painful). And why is it so expensive: because you cant compete with advertising, SEM or even SEO with big players out there with a LTV that multiplies yours by 10x. And actually, do a better job than you when we are talking about user satisfaction.

Airlines, big online travel agencies are really good at this and pay for a) Long tail SEM, b) content for being top SEO. Remember, Online Travel Agencies are technology companies with big resources. They are extremely good at SEO, at loyalty, at landing page optimization, at design, at customer service... their life is on it.

Think about this scenario:

User searches at google for "traveling to Vienna" (or even "travel planning vienna").
You know two things about that user:
1) He wants to plan his trip to Vienna (75% true)
2) He is going to buy cheap tickets to Vienna (95% true).

Big OTAs or Airlines know this, and what they do? They fake they are travel planners doing better (expensive) SEO than you as they know that user is going to buy the ticket at their site (that's 2$ per visit revenue)... because they do that extremely good. If they fail noone cares: User wont remember and at least they had brand awareness for their plane tickets.

Anyway, i think the problem is much simpler and applies at every industry: if you don't have a great retention (and this can be something not under your control, e.g. because what you are selling is needed twice a year) you have to be really good at user acquisition. And being good at user acquisition at a not-niche sector is extremely hard, no matter how good your product is. Probably you will have to focus first on what's your hack on getting users instead of at having a good product. Sad but true.

I've been reviewing Alexa's top travel sites for years hoping something changes... and its pretty discouraging: only 1 of top 25 sites not a ticket-seller: Tripadvisor (2nd). 4 in top 50, and all of them are super seo sites.

Google has been punishing not content sites for years, even being the best solutions. We've seen a lot of amazing ajax tools for almost every problem we could figure out... but if they were not seo compatible, everyone forgets them. I hope this changes in the future, e.g. mobile apps have another search scenario.
Those are between systemd parts and third parties. I believe that the issue are instead the interfaces between systemd pid1 and its various parts.

Consolekit could live on top of any and all inits out there. Logind balks if it does not have systemd sitting as pid1.
You could just get a guidebook, lonely planet or whatever.
They usually have maps, tips on places to visit, restaurants, ... and best of all work without internet connection.
Can you work for your own Estonian company, given that you're non-resident? (You can start your own US company, even remotely, but you can't work for it, unless you have Working Visa)
Why is my WiFi slow? Why does my WiFi keep dropping out?
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Poll: Will you adopt iOS 8?
I think that iOS 8 won't get massive adoption like Apple had in the past. Let's check it out will we?
Yes, already done
Yes, todo (when the problems are fixed)
No, it will slow down my device
No, but i have an Apple device
No, i don't have an iOS device!
The four bytes of ID followed by four bytes of size is an old and somewhat standard technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format
Speaker here, funny this got picked up by HN over a year after my talk.

Why makes you think LuaRocks is not the best package manager for Lua? As far as I can tell, it is.

Things have changed since last year, too! My suggestion of slide 40 ("programmatic releases for LuaRocks") has been implemented by merging with MoonRocks, which is now the official source for packages.

This has accelerated the rate of packaging: as of today there are over 500 packages available.

That being said, if you want to make things better there sure are lot of things that could be done. If you want to contribute the best place to reach the community is probably the lua-l mailing list and the more specific luarocks-developers mailing list.
> The best naan is to be had in Japan

O_o
No , I am good with android .. lovv..Android..
I think if you could own the pre-trip organisation, and the post-trip sharing that would help cement it in the users mind. Most people dump the photos onto Facebook, but I imagine if there was a way to organise the data nicely or build a basic travelog from the trip data some people would be interested.

Interesting about the only non-ticket seller being Tripadvisor, I didn't realise it was that skewed toward trips sales.
also, Amazon is available in lot of countries, whereas Flipkart is essentially India only. Over that, there is the currency and per capita differences.
Well, it's Portugal. Probably someone in some state department wanted to do a favour to a friend with an IT company.
I also don't have an Apple device, but that's why there's another option:

No, i don't have an iOS device! :)
Exactly not quite what they sound like.
Please read the reply below to snowwrestler, check the PDF. As i think it also applies here.

Also please don't put to much faith in the people that roll the packages. It's a kind of dangerous assumption, see history for examples.

Also i fail to see where i have not been civil, I've tried so very hard. Not a single F-word in there ;-)

I agree it wouldn't have to be complicated at all, if simply a new distro was created fully based and compliant with the ideas of systemd, until its mature enough for others to adopt. Instead of overwriting the existing with something that certainly is not proven to be better or best for the job. And many are entering a road where they are not even sure systemd is going to end taking over things, unifying things, making all distros the same.
One thing I've noticed these $4 toast stories seem to miss is that toast (though not the same flavor of "artisanal") has been a big, sometimes ridiculous part of life in Southeast Asia for decades and decades now. https://localwiki.org/sf/SF_Toast_Craze
You are delusional.
When robots are good enough to build everything and labour cost of manufacturing approaches zero there will be NO ONE to buy anything. We will end up with 1% owning robots, 9% working directly on robots(designing/fixing), and 90% in favelas eating grass and cardboard bread.
I wrote Lua Toolbox in Lapis mostly to experiment with it. I think the framework has a lot of potential but I have two main issues with it:

1) It is written in Moonscript, which makes understanding its internals harder for Lua programmers. On the application side, Lua support used to be a second thought but now I think you can do almost everything without writing a single line of Moonscript.

2) It is tied to OpenResty. This is both a good and a bad thing, because it means you cannot use several of the existing libraries in the Lua ecosystem.

If you are looking for alternatives, a new framework called Sailor was presented at Lua Workshop 2014 (slides: http://www.lua.org/wshop14/Dalcol.pdf)
You should be happy you saw anything at all. Site doesnt work in older browsers.
Whistleblowing? Under your real name?
> the "We here in the Maker movement could not be more pleased with ourselves" vibe.
This is another of way of saying that we enjoy making here beyond earning a living.

I didn't see it that way. To me it meant: "we are pleased with ourselves that we are not just helpless consumers but also creators and self-reliant". We are smug with our technical know-how. Another form of machismo.
What a great experiment! Any form of government that tortures people because of their political disagreements is worth an embargo. Most people that write wistfully about Cuba have never lived there. As much as a police state as the U.S. has become, you can still write blog posts against the government without ending up in prison. Try that in Cuba. Remember Che? Brutally murdered opponents in the name of the 'people.' The love-fest some people have with Cuba is astounding. The Cuban Intelligence agency does a great job of propaganda. Blaming the US embargo for the actions of Castro's government brutality is stupid. Are we next going to suggest that North Korea would be a friendly place if it weren't for those pesky South Koreans? The blame America for everything meme is starting to get old. People don't risk their lives trying to escape the Dominican Republic on a raft made from old car tires. Why is that? If the DR is poorer than Cuba, why aren't rafts washing up in the Florida Strait filled with Dominicans? How would Cuba have been doing without the decades of subsidies from the USSR? That experiment in total communism would have fallen flat on its face. The Soviets had a near 100% literacy rate and 'universal' health care, yet you ask anyone over the age of 50 if they would want to live under the Soviets again and it would be an overwhelming 'No.' Let's ask the Polish what they think of Soviet communism.. Any place where the answer to dissenting thought is arrest and imprisonment is a terrible place -- no matter how many doctors there might be. US prisons have universal health care too, but that doesn't mean we would want to live there. When Cuba has free and open elections, then maybe I'll change my tune. But when the people have no voice, then we should not be rationalizing a government just because the kids score well on a math test and it's cheap to get diabetes medicine. I would invite anyone here who thinks Cuba is so great to go live there. Defect to Cuba and let us know (assuming you can) how you're doing in 5 years.
which unfortunately happen from time to time

How on earth do you manage that? Surely you have a process for monitoring and maintaining them?
there is no problem with giving out your wallet address public , if you are not funding bitcoin to terrorist or buying illegal products. ..
check the overstock's original website, after few seconds it was evident that I shouldn't be bothered reading the article.
You don't have to design by committee, but you do have to publish your interface and commit to keeping it stable. Yes, this slows down development, but it's essential for interoperability.

Of course the alternative doesn't exist yet when the interfaces change every week.

And systemd's definition of "internal" is rather dubious; to most of us, udev or journald should be separate components that can be swapped out.
Good work ...
Do you actually do that manually? Why isn't there a script for that? It should be a part of the automated process. Much better doing it once as an automatic step than writing everywhere in your sources:

somethingbig/somethingbig

every time you use somethingbig. And that step should also zip the modules, I believe.

The behavior of require, as I'd like it:

require X first looks in the directory X, for module X. If there is no such, it opens modules.zip and reads module X from there. If internally in the ZIP there were a subdir for every module, I don't care, as long as I don't have to type that fact every time.

modules.zip would be constructed automatically. Whoever wants to tweak some specific module can unpack it in the separate directory.
> Americans are notorious for shirking vacation, clocking the lowest rates of vacation on the planet

As if they really have a choice in the matter.
I saw this announcement on local news some days ago. There's data from the past but no easy way to see it at a glance. In any case if you scrape it and do a nicer interface it could be cool to check things like mortality in the winter vs summer, decline in crime / road kills. It was announced in a public safety thingie so I'm guessing its purpose was to track epidemics, just not sure who is going to use it. Journalists maybe if they can deal with the shitty UX.

Not complaining though, more access to data is always better.
Stop wasting our time
Cuba was no such thing. Castro turned to the Soviet Union after his advances to the US were rebuffed. The "sovietization" of Castro's party took years.

It took two years before Castro proclaimed his government socialist, it wasn't until 1965 that his party became the Communist Party of Cuba.

Eventually they became dogmatic Leninist, but substantial parts of the party, including Castro came to Soviet style socialism out of necessity. That's not to say that there weren't many of them that clearly had socialist leanings of various types before that, but the Castro regime was the making of the unholy marriage of rejection by the US and a toxic embrace by the Soviets.

There may have been less of a gap between theory and practice in Cuba than elsewhere, in that the elite appears to have been less greedy and reinvested more in actually making peoples lives better, but it's still an oligarchy with drastic class differences reinforced by the party, rather than fought by it.
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Looks like a favour,but this app update the database every 10 min.

The related new is about epidemies, suicides and car crash. I think that it's quite good that gov released this tools, opendata is one of the goals of this century ;-)

NEW:

PT: http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/ate-ao-inicio-da-tar...

EN: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=h...
And this is different than current practice how?

Are you aware, for example, that in the nba you are subject to 4 drug tests per year? And there is no reason you can be given a fifth? So the very second you get that fourth test, hopefully well before the tail end of the season and the grueling after season, these ultra competitive athletes have free reign to do as much hgh and steroids as they can get in their bodies.

And steroids will help you heal and deal with the effects on your body of competing at those levels. Low supplementation, particularly under a doctor's care, is probably all to the good.

I'd bet most of this is already going on.

An addendum: and we all know it.

Look at the muscle Barry Bonds put on in an off-season in his 30s.

Look at Kobe Bryant, going for surgeries (and what else) abroad, coming back from torn acls and a 3rd degree torn achilles, commonly a career-ending injury. At age 34 and the 14th highest minutes every played.

Look at Ray Lewis and his fucking miraculous recovery from a torn triceps.

Look at Adrian Peterson tearing his acl and mcl, then coming back within a year to break a 28 year old rushing record.

What do all these guys (and there are dozens more examples) have in common? Incredibly rapid recovery from horrific injuries. Late in life jump in muscle. You pretty much have to have your head buried up your arse not to be aware of what's going on.
When has an eclipse not been special ?
Hmm, let me try to make my point clearer.

What's happening now is a competition in taking the most drugs while avoiding getting caught. The possibility of getting caught limits what you can do. Isn't the idea here to remove this limitation, to open up for experimenting with more things? This is certainly a good way to find out how to manipulate human bodies with drugs, but it does seem to be at the (cynical) expense of the guinea pigs.
> Rather, I'm unhappy the OP is going out of her way - to the point of making a separate post about it - trying to appropriate values common to other world views as being inherently feminist

So you felt "othered" and didn't like it. That's natural, and fine. I feel the same way sometimes. It's clear that others here do too.

Where you're hitting turbulence is rationalising that emotional response and building hard logic on top of that soft foundation.

It's actually fine for feminists to appropriate values. It doesn't stop anyone else using them. Sure, we can resent the implication that we don't hold those values, but the way to deal with that insecurity is by proving it to yourself. If you're human-centred, be human-centred. If you know, other people will know too.

It's hard. I suck at it too.
I agree with this in general, especially about forgetting lessons and repeating past mistakes. Privacy-awareness in East-European countries is impressive, it's on the top of their minds because they know what can happen if you let it run loose.

On the other hand, I read a few years ago (and I don't have much reason to suspect much has changed though I'd love to hear I'm wrong) about a village in East-Germany that was entirely in control by neo-nazis. That was scary to find out such things are actually going on today (this was before I heard about Greece's Golden Dawn and how they run refugee camps). When travelling, I was warned about the are that people that looked too "foreign" might have a bad time (I suppose when coloured or Arab, me and my travel companion were both very white, Dutch and half-German).

Maybe it's just an anecdote or some small isolated issues blown out of proportion, but this is what also plays in the back of my mind whenever I consider they're learning from past mistakes.

Either way, no throwing babies out with the bathwater, we can both support and learn from their historical awareness, as well as be vigilant about rising intolerances.
I'm quite sure skype is originaly a swedish company

EDIT: seems like it was made in Estonia, but that the founders were swedish and danish.
Pure Lua modules do not need to be cross-compiled.

Simple C-based modules using the "builting" build back-end will probably work well with cross-compilation just by setting a few variables (CC, LD, CFLAGS...).

More complex modules will use the "make" or "cmake" back-ends and you will need to pass specific options to their build systems, which LuaRocks can do.

See http://luarocks.org/en/Config_file_format for more information.
Stopping this is always going to be a losing battle. Sport should embrace it instead, I think, especially given its current prevalence today - the olympics etc. are really just a competition to see who gets the best combination of drugs already - why not recognise that and credit their developers?
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except those stories tell you those prices are FICTION and your order will get cancelled
With all respects, all the issues you address, should not be addressed with a new process manager which glues and tapes things together as some hot fix.

The processes need to be debugged and fixed. I'm strongly of the opinion that daemons for example, need to start once and not crash at all. I don't want a process manager to decide to restart it, and if that was acceptable, a safe script will do fine. (and hehe don't get me started about process states within systemd, its that process manager that often think processes are still running, while the old init would check for the process, detect its not running, cleanup the pid and start)

I also strongly believe in separation of duties, so 'big systems with many processes' do not exist in my opinion. They all have a specialised function, and only that function.

Also please have a look at the pdf i replied below to snow wrestler about systemd and its future.

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DR
Bulgaria has a corporate tax at 10%. The e-government isn't nearly as developed though. There was some talk about using the Estonian experience to help in building ours but that is still just an idea.
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It's not about sympathy, rather its about empathy. And listening. And mindfulness. Not skills the "ninja coder rockstar" person in their 20s, is likely to either have naturally, or to seek cultivation of. These are cultural problems, not of one "ism" or another.

Problems that are also in part born from young STEM academic over-achievers leaping from mid-degree coursework, and into the fast-paced world of startuptopia. The gap skipped over, is that one of the slower, social & personal-growth experience college life rigors our emotional skills through. That humanities coursework gives us tools of insight into the human condition, to work from. That shitty part-time jobs in food service or retail, teach us how to have a work ethic and value the work of others, through all involved parties being paid degradingly low wages, doing shit work for uncaring managers, but then relishing what little bits of wonder the crappy paychecks make possible after all the personal-growth the humbling work done for them, made subconsciously possible.

We need to all pause from the hustle and bustle of doing things as quickly as possible and with as much risk and for as much money as we each feel we can shoulder. We need to make room to prioritize mindfulness, listening, and just simple human humility. It's not all about people like us. Or, them. We are in this, together.

He who dies with the most toys, is simply dead. Not winning.
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Interesting finding, I was always surprised that former cheater do so well after being allowed to compete again, my hunch was that they found another way to cheat but this result seems more plausible.
If only it was cheap and it had a sun... :)
From the website:
To apply for one, you need to make visit a Police and Border Guard office in Estonia – there you need to submit an application and provide biometrical data (your facial image and fingerprints) for background check.

I don't think it works for money laundering in any way.
got it , am new to HN
Thanks for the reply. Interesting theory and one I agree with entirely based on who I know.

I'd love to move out of the UK and will do this if we ever drop out of the EU. Perhaps East of that line.
I totally agree that Germany has a pretty good system. Their forest schools are a step in the right direction. But they did invent the Prussian model of modern schools (which are a curse).

The point is, it should NEVER be illegal to refuse to send your children to a militarized system which has stunted and de-humanized every single person in the modern system. In the UK, they ever tried to make Summerhill school a bunch of criminals. Also see Steiner schools, unschooling etc etc. The evidence would indicate that doing the BEST thing for your children would make you a criminal in most first world states. If you wonder why the electorate has become more malleable, "stupid" and gullible in the last 100 years, maybe you should look into why this is. It's not because we are "devolving" or because people are stupider now. They are forced, trained and educated to be thus.
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I thought I recognized the favicon! He's also the guy behind Infiniminer (the primary inspiration for Minecraft) and KOHCTPYKTOP (a game where you design basic digital circuits that I'd like to personally thank him for, for expanding my mind beyond the "pure" software realm: Thanks, Zach!)