skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all real and serious challenges. LTV of an average user is a tricky one because it can involve 19 "users" worth $0 an 1 worth $500, but the price of an adwords click or whatnot will be set based on the $25 average value. But, you might have something for the other 19 "users" that doesn't bring the average value up to that scale. It's a legitimate difficulty.

The acquisition/reacquisition and learning to use some specific software paradigm is a legit difficulty. Something that works for a hotel concierge using it daily may not work for an occasional traveler.

Real problems.

OTOH, I think that ultimately "travel planning" or something to that effect is not impossible, just difficult. Review sites like Yelp are great for finding something that is popular but not terrible on average, but I have gotten far more mileage out of guide books where the author seemed to have tastes that I enjoyed. Usually I don't have one, but.. There is still a ways to go.

It would be facetious to seriously suggest some solution because obviously these things need to be banged out in the real world, but I can imagine all sorts of things that might work. How about you enter the location of your accommodation, tick a few boxes for your budget and travel modes (walking, taxis) and it spits out a decent guidebook chapter. Local walking maps, restaurants, bars, local gigs for this evening. Some explanations about local tipping norms, buying train tickets and maybe a one page phrasebook. Give me an app where I can push a button to do this from a Cafe's wifi and I'll at least give it a try. If I can print it out, I might.

Maybe a person could be in charge of a city or part of one. Maybe not. I dunno. The idea that good ideas and execution can't penetrate this industry doesn't sound convincing to me. I have no doubt that its hard but I also wouldn't be surprised to see startups take off that really nail informational based stuff for travelers.

One upside that the commercial realities of this industry can offers is a multitude of opportunities to make money from having a userbase . IE, if you have 1,000 active users in a city on any given day, that's enough to make something.

In fact, I think it's something that's accessible for people to have a go at. Even authoring a local guidebook for your city (provided it is not New York or somesuch, in this case, pick an area). Keep sections up to date with weekly info and release it as an evoke, app or whatever.

Information is still what the traveller needs, IMO.
The US "enslaved" vast numbers of people through proxy too, and contributed to several genocides by propping up various puppet regimes.

The US may have been morally superior at home but played just as dirty in large parts of the world.
My startup is currently discussing with a prospect/potential acquirer that was very clear about this: "We'll do it, with or without you, so you'd better accept our under-priced offer".
I'm not aware of any option to prevent any company to do that, is there?
That conclusion was fairly foregone for someone taking steroids.

Excercises increase the body's ability in two ways by: 1. damaging cells (either muscle cells directly, or cells in the cardiovascular system), to which the body responds by making more cells to withstand similar stresses in the future; 2. depleting the energy store of muscle cells which causes the body to overfill them in response, stretching them to store more energy for next time.

Steroids directly impact the efficacy of the first method by improving the growth speed of the body, generating more new muscle cells with exercises than somebody doing the same exercises without steroids would generate.

So once you've taken them AND exercised with them, you've got a headstart over other people, and can maintain that advantage as long as you keep putting in the work.
> Some people are mulling over legal options including a litigation to regulate such e-commerce malpractices

Much needed. About time there's some regulation & transparency on pricing & discounts. E-commerce companies need to respect the meaning of MRP (Maximum Retail Price). The #BigFoolingSales need to have the fine print spelled out properly. Ebay India pulls the same crap multiple times a year. There are 3rd party sellers like cart2india that list stuff at waay more than the printed price and then offer huge discounts, still charging you more than what you'd pay at a brick & mortar store.
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hehe :) i guess indeed fedora is his playground, and probably why i stopped using it. (which was before i even knew the name of the pulseaudio author)

But still think its should have been something new, Fedora-CoreOS until its matured and then decide to overwrite all existing distros with systemd if the need and demand is there, instead of forcing it through the whole community while there is a large part that doesn't want it and it's not even finished or really brings something new to the table.

And yes its the people that follow the 'leading parties' blindly, and they think its cool to roll out something new, in my opinion mainly because it is new and exciting.
This would be true if Flipkart did not have viable competitors. This is most definitely not the case. Snapdeal is another Indian e-tailer and the global e-commerce juggernaut Amazon also has an Indian site, both of which offer cheaper prices than Flipkart on a vast majority of items.

When I can get the same product for nearly the same price from Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart, why should I go with Flipkart (in light of the negative stories)?
Thanks for this. Many people here have some romantic vision of Cuba that is influenced by well-designed Cuban operations to accomplish exactly what they're accomplishing: influencing gullible left-leaning Americans to support Cuba. I remember when I was at the University of Houston, there was a Cuban Friendship Committee that held Cuban 'cultural' events for students. Interestingly many of the students invited to those events were majors in areas of rather strategic interest: journalism students. Interesting even more so were the free and discounted trips to Cuba being covertly offered to select students. The leader of this group even assisted with obtaining Cuban travel permits from the Cuban government. Now just why would that "Friendship" committee be so friendly? I have first hand experience because I was both a journalism student, a Reuters contract photojournalist and the photo editor of the student newspaper; so I was invited to these Friendship events almost constantly. This was back in 1995-1997. There certainly wasn't any other 'student' organization offering free trips for 'cultural' exchange, except for Hillel, but that's another discussion altogether..

The point is that there is a powerful clandestine and covert effort by the Cuban government to manipulate American influencers to present the image of Cuba that is so frequently transmitted. It's exceptionally effective; just read some of the comments posted on this very thread. However the reality on the ground is much different than Michael Moore would have you believe.
Having reread the Lua manual, `require "lib"' can easily be made to execute `require "luapower/lib/lib.lua"' by adding "luapower/?/?.lua" to LUA_PATH. This is the way the standard /usr/local/lua libraries are require'd. Now I cannot think of a single explanation for why luapower works the way it does.
I discovered http://www.rome2rio.com a few months back and it's a fantastic site. This is what I was expecting too, it will give me all travel options from point A to B, Google Maps but international/cross border. Maybe something changed on that Yahoo Travel planner, the original article was posted over 2 years ago.
I'd prefer modifying require to not need a new entry to the ENV var for every used module. It is a huge waste of ENV.
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I'm aware of the stuff they are pulling to escape the Enforcement Directorate & foreign investment related laws. Still, from a perception point of view, I feel, as of now, they are the "Amazon of India" more than Amazon.in themselves.
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Yeah he wants a geographical recommendation system with tons of data that likely don't even exist online like restaurant menus, and have that quickly hacked in a week.
http://www.lua.org/pil/8.1.html

> To determine its path, require first checks the global variable LUA_PATH. If the value of LUA_PATH is a string, that string is the path. Otherwise, require checks the environment variable LUA_PATH.

Even if you needed to modify an environment variable, I still think that would be preferable to creating yet another package manager and fracturing the Lua userbase further.
Could you name three?
Brazil got a program that imports around 10 thousand cuban doctors. And they are nearly slaves to the cuban regime.

Brazil pays around 4k USD for each doctor, but he only keeps 1,2k. Everything else goes to the Castro's regime.

And that's because our oposition made a huge noise about that, because they used to receive about 400 USD, and the rest of the money to castro.

They have a good health program? Maybe. But I won't swap my freedom for that.
i haven't read the whole text of this yet. but god damn it, all that text.. and that layout... thats a disaster that must end.
Ask HN: Fail stories? Made a significant project but no one came?
Anyone wants to share stories about how they spent a lot of time crafting interesting projects but eventually it failed? Aka postmortems.

Thanks!
Very interesting. I've always been wary of PBKDF2 for these applications simply because most people will have a 4 digit PIN (although I don't), which is essentially useless against an offline brute force attack, and possibly worse than useless if it gives people a false sense of security.

At least CM11 allows a dedicated FDE password though - Google is really doing its users a disservice by not implementing this in stock Android.
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The only thing stopping you from achieving your goals is you. There is no magic formula, only hard work and perseverance.
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I guess you can get away with attacking strawmen if you pre-emptively claim your opponents are no-true-scotsmaning you.
As a user, I want to "just use it" and the binary to "know" where the stuff of the module is without me having to hold its hand. Specifically, I don't want to know about LUA_PATH unless to use it to point to the single dir where I put my own modules.
At first I thought it was because I had javascript disabled on the site, but nope, enabling it didn't help one bit.

It's almost as if the site was designed to be solely read on some tiny-screened mobile device or something, with all that text squished in the middle.
Default still implies it can be disabled. As it is, I'd guess it wouldn't be that hard to store the TTS somewhere unencrypted and load that first, perhaps as part of the bootloader.
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If ever an article needed a tl;dr, then this is it.

As far as I can tell, the OP has seen something working in practice, and has set out to demonstrate why it doesn't work in theory.
Please can someone answer the following question, in all seriousness:

What problem is the travel planning software startup solving?

Never have I planned a holiday and thought "I need an app for this." Maybe a better flight booking system, or a better guidebook, but never a website or app. In fact, I find planning holidays enjoyable and fairly straightforward.

I know of no-one who has difficulty planning their holiday, beyond the flight problem. And to make this work, you're going to need a lot of people with the same problem, whatever that problem is.

Anyone?
Can someone please write a C/C++/Go/Rust version as I am C# Illiterate .
With that much badly organised text, it's almost like it was designed never to be read at all.
The HTML doc title is a legit option for "original title" and gets used all the time on HN. This title also isn't the worst linkbait we've seen (or even seen today). But you're right that it is hyperbolic and—uncharacteristically for the New Yorker—a bit breathy,
and also not something whose accuracy we're in position to verify, so we'll adopt your suggestion. Hopefully that will not lead to another big off-topic discussion the other way.
He won't get away with anything in Scotland after that, especially calling them "Scottsmen".
Still they sold items of more than $100 million and thats what we are discussing. Some items were cheaper on other sites in festive season but that doesn't make it a flop. Also they didn't inflate MRP just removed discount on few items slowly and added it back on sale day.Though they did give great discounts on most of the categories and items .I don't understand what is wrong with that. They wanted people to buy items online and they were successful in doing that.
I don't understand the Emperor and 'beloved leader' references in your post?
The problem with China is that whatever you say about her is true, and it's opposite is true too.

For example, businesses rely very highly on trust in China, precisely because you can't rely on laws to protect you. But it is another kind of trust.

Also, Chinese are quite optimistic too, that's why they never stop creating restaurants, businesses, etc.

And pragmatism: it is a strange pragmatism that who bring one billion of people to fire crackers and spent thousands of rmb in smoke and noise
I found Waldo! Just kidding, but I found Indiana Jones. I also doubt, that the sprites on the left side of him, are part of this Star Wars game.

Edit:

I did the same for the Indiana Jones game: https://i.imgur.com/c1kKfV7.png

(thanks ImageMagick's convert and montage)

Edit 2:

Well, they're part of the game according to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Yoda_Stories:

>Indiana Jones is featured as an easter egg in a mission, as a sequel to a mission in Desktop Adventures. His similarity to Han Solo is remarked upon.
It doesn't bode well for this article when they make a mistake in the first line. It's "Scotsman", not "Scottsman".
> The possibility of getting caught limits what you can do.

What I'm saying is that the possibility of getting caught is very remote to what you can already do nowadays. There's much more effort and investment done at improving the drugs and hiding them than efforts to detect and prevent the abuses. And the subjects are willingly taking drugs anyway, so we are all just being a bunch of hypocrites when we celebrate "clean" sports because everyone involved know that 99% of athletes are taking drugs heavily.

It's like pro wrestling: it's all fake, but everyone pretends otherwise.
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Docker Meetup: 170 people at ING
The evening of 1st Oct saw the 7th Amsterdam Docker meetup and the largest in its history, with around 170 people in attendance. The event was held for the first time at the ING offices in Haarlemmerweg. The audience were treated to 3 talks: “The Inevitability of Complexity” by Jamie Dobson, “Running Databases Inside Containers” by Marcus Hughes and “How to scale like Twitter using Containers and Apache Mesos” by Benjamin Hindman.

Henk Kolk, Chief Enterprise Architect at ING, welcomed the assembled crowd, giving a short speech about the enormous size and scale of the engineering effort he spearheads at ING, where they are experimenting with several new technologies, including Docker.

I asked Mr Kolk what it would take for them to use Docker in production “It’s security first. We would need to see much more hardening of Docker.” he replied. Marcus Hughes from Cluster HQ had a more optimistic viewpoint, telling me “we feel Docker is stable now, it’s reached the point where it can be generally adopted”.

The headline talk from Benjamin Hindman didn’t disappoint. He gave a thorough overview of the Mesos project and its evolution to providing cluster management for several large Web companies, primarily Twitter.

Jamie Dobson, CEO of Container Solutions, who are responsible for organizing the Docker meetup, celebrated the large numbers and enthusiastic crowd. He said, “it shows you how far Docker has come in a very short time. It will soon be a mainstream technology with people here tonight representing both the bleeding edge and trailing edges of adoption”.

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I am a little bit proud that they use a framework I was involved in for a while: Padrino

https://twitter.com/YogiKulkarni/status/183576477953036288
> this is my experience whenever I argue against Object Oriented Programming (OOP): no matter what evidence I bring up for consideration, it is dismissed as irrelevant.

This, I thought before even reading the article. I know that frustration myself too well, but have to admit I am often in the wrong, asking the wrong questions, having false preconception.

Lloking at different impleme tations it's clear, experts aren't all that sure, either, even though most implementation specifics aren't detrimental to OOP, so language critizism in lieu of OOP concepts is clearly a strawman. then I stopped reading.
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If I may be so blunt, I suggest you help yourself. You will no longer be 'C# illiterate' when you have.

I'm having difficulty understanding in what way C# is difficult to read for someone who can write in the languages that you mentioned.
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I'm quite happy to trash Bitcoin because it's userbase is intolerable, the sooner it goes to zero the better. Their idiocy have caused genuine harm to people who are new to asset trading/speculation: people who bet on Bitcoin with their retirement, their kids college fund, etc.

Underscoring every positive Bitcoin related news is the implicit solicitation to `invest` in Bitcoin.
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It is snappier, the launcher/finder works relatively well but can take some times if you have too many lens. I quite like the keyboard shortcuts to glue a window in a corner, or to change workspace. That's about it. It does not get too much in the way. Nothing earth shattering and nothing too awful.
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Its an interesting take on German Education. However, people admire Germany and Germans for results and for how they function as a society. Doesn't this in itself excuse the bad consequences?
Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments?
Actually, he later calls it an Untrue Scottman.
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Unless the stocks had risen since they bought them. It would also have been a much easier justification to the SEC - "this announcement was coming up, we didn't know which way it would go and were unhappy with the risk".
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Well, I actually worked on Yahoo! Trip Planner (making it internationalised). There was zero engagement indeed, but everyone knew it was a crap idea then, at least in Europe. No idea how trip planner recruited ANYONE!

Yahoo is good at one thing slapping ads on content and making loads of money from it. Everything else they need to stop doing.
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Many times I visit Amazon to buy a single book, but end up purchasing more. Though some books I bought on Amazon helped me a great deal, most simply languished in my bookshelf. After Kindle books appeared my temptation to buy books that looked good increased even more.

I will implement the suggestion given in the article, to restrain myself from using the Buy Now button and wait for a day or two, before deciding to buy anything.
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I think we both know that if I had made the implication in the reverse direction, everyone here would be lecturing me in response on how I shouldn't be othering people I disagree with.

I think the response to me has shown that people weren't objecting to the question I asked and instead because I dared to call out such behavior from a feminist, instead of Approved Bad Guys(tm). Read up to where someone posted a study agreeing with me to tell me I was wrong.

I have two objections to her comment:

1. It's empirically untrue, and that does us no service if we're concerned with actually solving the problem. As the study cited to me points out, many of the problems related to sexism are actually caused by confounding factors in the community, and not necessarily just because a few problematic actors are sexist. Similarly, my point was that solutions are often about addressing these confounding factors, such as reducing the undue influence of problematic actors (eg, posting way more than most people).

2. No, I don't think it's okay for feminists to use propaganda tactics regularly used by groups to "other" people they don't like just because we agree with the goals the feminists have, and I think such poor behavior should be called out when anyone does it - including people we agree with. We may just have a difference of opinion here on what's acceptable, but you've been incredibly dismissive of me simply having a different opinion on what's appropriate conduct and attacked me personally for it. I regard this, too, as poor conduct.

I think at this point, everyone responding to me has shown two things:

1. They're not concerned if "feminism" (no one even seems to be clear what that means in this context) actually fixes the named problem of having safer spaces for women in online communities, they're supporting the claim for ideological reasons, not because it's true. All the data actually suggests that changes to the community orthogonal to the concerns of feminism have the dominant effect on the comfort level of women in the community, because they serve to amplify or diminish the role of problematic actors (of several stripes).

2. People who are supporting her comments aren't interested in actually engaging with others, and will use all kinds of fallacies, irrationalities, and outright abuse to try and shout down opinions that don't fit with with their chosen ideology.

I think we should expect better from people.
I think I read the article too fast, but what's the "actionable takeaway" from it? "just to notice" (copied from last paragraph) that you're going to buy something?
Must be a troll or a comment on the wrong thread. I know neither language, have no clue about programming and have no trouble understanding the logic in the code snippets.
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Bluetooth beacons don't track anything!

It's the applications in the bluetooth BLE enabled smartphones that track the beacons.

And there's nothing secret about bluetooth beacons, anybody can detect them with the right application.
A little bit of data hiding wouldn't have gone amiss.
"In fact, Americans are notorious for shirking vacation, clocking the lowest rates of vacation on the plane"

That's because America is one of the very few 1st world countries without mandatory holiday time. 25 days of paid holidays + unlimited sick leave here in the EU are the required minimum by law.