skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think he's suggesting that Hachette has sane standards and formatting rules, instead of running your book against a dictionary and counting the hyphens.
> But if Big Data is watching my actions...

Switch the order in which you book the flights.
Since we assume separate bookings and sequential booking order this puts lower risk into your first purchase, and also Big Data then has all transatlantic flights from London to choose from to hike your price.
An Analogy Between Data Science and Life
Welcome to enterprise, closed source software.

There are two rules you need to know.

1) They will price things as high as they think their customers will pay.

2) Nobody pays sticker price, but you have to go through sales people and trade parts of your soul to negotiate better pricing.
I just looked at round trip tickets LAX->RDU for $329 on a direct flight. Flying is cheap.
Black listing laws are handled at the state level not nationally which makes simply googling them a bit difficult as every state's legal code isn't uploaded and searchable (yet).
This would be really out-of-this-world amazing if it had QuickAssembler's UI
I hope they dont make too many of these planes that breathe oxygen. We may need some for humans.
Older people and disabled people make up a measured percentage as well. So less than 90%. Additionally everyone benefits from more seat pitch, even if just to allow them to more easily use things like a laptop in economy (which is not viable now if the person in front of you reclines fully).

> You don't have competition on seat pitch because there are not enough people willing to pay the increase for the comfort to sustain an airline.

It has nothing to do with "comfort." It isn't a luxury feature in the same vein as a complementary back massage, hot flannel, or free alcoholic drink. It is what people need so they aren't in physical pain for the duration of the flight.

Now, yes, extreme seat pitch (e.g. business/first class) is absolutely about pure comfort. I am talking about a bare minimum so an adult can fit their butt, legs, and knees between the back of their seat and the back of the seat in front when reclined.

If airlines want to save some money, remove recline completely.
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> But it was written as just a text editor

No it's not. It is really a big REPL optimized for text processing. You compare Emacs to the like of Python, not just some random editor. Unlike other editors that have an optional extension language, if you remove Emacs Lisp, effective you remove Emacs. Even file opening is written in Emacs Lisp.
I think it's just the headline that's misleading, the abstract says quite clearly: "Moreover, machine learning algorithms classified individuals as autistic or control with 97% accuracy from their fMRI neurocognitive markers."

The "or control" doesn't tell you exactly what the false positive rate is, but at least it sets the upper bound at 3%.
But doesn't fewer taxis also mean longer waiting times to get a taxi, and encourage an increase in private car ownership, replacing taxis on the road with private drivers driving themselves?

Won't one Uber driver replace many cars on the road, especially as the price is driven down, the cost of using Uber makes owning a car less appealing in many locales?

Rather than ban Uber, they could just implement taxes, just like Uber implements real time surge pricing. The tax could be tied to congestion. Uber would pass these onto consumers, prices would rise, and presumably demand for drivers would equalize with how much time and money people collectively would be willing to pay.
There are new torrents up now that aren't on the Costa Rican mirror. I think they've added some ability to add new torrents.
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Thanks, so apparently they limit the number of licenses causing those horrendous prices? In that case it seems to me they are still at the root of the problem and should fix it now that it has surfaced (paying back licenses that where purchased shortly before the VTC law for example).

If you ask me, we are way to focus on sustainable job in France. Unemployed people need to start somewhere. Which is far more easy if you are from the UK or the USA.
>because the US gov can't legally force the companies to decrypt what they can't decrypt.

I can't speak as to whether this is illegal, but the US government definitely forces companies to put in ways to capture data that's supposed to be encrypted - look at Lavabit as an example.
> It's also, IIRC, based on a logical model called the Calculus of Constructions

"Calculus of Inductive Constructions" (https://coq.inria.fr/about-coq)
I, personally, do not want Amazon to make quality determinations regarding grammar and style for books they sell. It offends me philosophically and it seems horrible just from a practical point of view. I do understand this could be reasonable if, as some commenters wrote, this is a result of trying to combat poorly implemented digitization.

The rest of these comments discussing whether the original author is using hyphens correctly seem insane to me. Writers write as they write. Read it or don't read it. Enjoy it or hate it. Ask for a refund if you think it is sold in bad faith. But forcing a writer to change it is an unacceptable invasion of expression by the infrastructure. Any short term gain in increasing "quality" is subsumed by the potential weakening of the evolution of communication and art, which relies on creators taking liberties with conventional forms.
Style is not the same as making a mistake.
Thx for this. Doesn't work in IE 11, but i'll look at later. On my ticklist is working thru the text by Partch[0] and Don Ellis' quarter tone book, which has sax and (I think) 3-valve trumpet fingerings. The amazon blurb on Partch is interesting, I always assumed he had a traditional Western European theory education.

Ellis book PDF available w/registration and maybe payment [1], maybe archived somewhere on web:

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Music-Creative-Fulfillments-Pa...

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/151154827/Don-Ellis-Quarter-Tones#...
Jet Blue mint is $599 from jfk to sfo or lax. I commend them for only pricing the premium experience at 2-3x.
I think you get more casual viewers when something is on a prime channel.

People who might not normally watch something with the word 'lecture' in it would just skip over it in iPlayer might continue watching it if they run into it as it's being broadcast and something interesting is happening.
And your evidence that's what Amazon is doing would be?
Unfortunately this is the only issue I'm facing with the case sensitive fs. There are workarounds to be able to install Adobe Suite on a sparsebundle image, but I'm unable to automate this process and I'm reinstalling the OS quite often...
Thanks for the upvotes. You are right about both of these subsets pointing to other languages; I had not thought about that!

I myself throw pointers around all over the place because I am restricted by my Windows compiler (no C++11 features) and I don't do stupid things with them (and am a slow learner for new features...).

I suppose the performance gains are negligible in simple applications but in performance critical applications they can make a difference - games, web servers etc. See how Facebook built their PHP to C++ interpreter for reduction in running costs and heating costs. PHP was more convenient to write (and PHP developers are cheaper to hire I presume) but I wouldn't welcome all programs being of the "interpreted" type.

With C++, the push for type safety and making the compiler do the work for you will mean more efficient programs and less run-time checks. This is particularly important on mobile devices where processing usage = less battery life. And I would be far happier running an application for a few extra hours on my laptop if it was written in a sensible language and made efficient use of my hardware; lots of little performance gains add up.

Imagine the horror of apps being written entirely for developer convenience with little thought to performance - you could kiss goodbye to a big stack of power worldwide. That problem is only going to get worse, and the "there's processing power so I'll use it" approach is what gave us bloatware in the first place.

So I suppose application and system program development is a tradeoff between developer convenience and user convenience (battery life, speed etc.)
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How To: Share a single C++ codebase between Android and iOS
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Demand starved economy is starved of demand...

NO WAY

Minimum Wage leads to inflation, but printing money to bail out banks doesn't...
Thanks a lot!
The basic idea was to help developers like myself who are not very great with front-end development but have a good back-end knowledge. Once I started developing it (and picked up front-end development along the way), I realised that the even developers who have fair knowledge of the front-end part can really utilise a browser based tool for visual CSS development since a lot of us use browser tools like Firebug and Chrome developer tools which tend to get quite limited.

So yeah, that's how the idea evolved and I started creating a visual editing tool that not only helps developers with visual development but also provides a more extensive browser based coding IDE.

Browser plays an integral role in most of the web development cycle and so if we can combine the development and testing process and create a more streamlined Test Driven Development flow, it save a huge amount of time.. especially when it comes to responsive web development..

The way I envision it is to create a full stack development IDE inside the browser itself; so the only developer tool anyone would need is just a browser.. HTML/CSS/Javascript/Database+Server-Side Programming.

So yeah, to come back to the question...I am targeting mostly developers (majorly freelancers) right now.. who have a lot of work load and can actually benefit by saving a lot of time by using StackHive..
After that I think there is a great opportunity to bring on Designers onboard as well and create the full web development ecosystem inside the browser :)

(For the slow rendering, I made a temporary fix for now.. sorry about that.. should be able to get it in the groove in a few hours!)
Getting things perfect is pretty hard: it basically required being able to see the future. There are still a bunch of examples where imperfect decisions end up being a really significant win. For instance:

1. The counter stacks that we build using the HLLs allow us to draw miss ratio curves. These are a model for how much a given application will benefit from getting additional fast memory (whether that fast memory is flash/ram/etc). A useful aspect of this isn't just trying to give it more memory but also identifying the workloads that you simply can't win on. For workloads with absolutely enormous working sets, you can decide to give them a lot less resources, and then end up speeding up all the other applications in the system. Alternatively, you can decide to give them the large amount of memory that they do need to be successful, possibly by having to buy additional fast memory. In either case, being able to get detailed working set analysis helps make appropriate decisions a lot.

2. 80/20 is completely anecdotal -- the appropriate split is always going to be entirely dependent on workload. That said, as you move out into the tail of the access frequency curve, cost per access increases. So even if you don't move data out to disk -- even with only a single type of storage media -- understanding these curves can allow you to decide to do things like compress the colder half of your storage, trading off some compute work and latency on access for more space. In the case of hybrid systems, strategies like this have the potential to really increase the effectiveness of caches.

Totally agree with your other points. There are many factors to consider and balance in any system design. Note that for raw media, magnetic disks are still way more reliable in terms of archiving your bits without data errors over long periods of time than NAND. In either case, good system design needs redundancy and scrubbing to make sure that device errors are caught and recovered from before data is actually lost.
JavaScript Application Architecture on the Road to 2015
For learning this sort of thing I always recommend Pierce's Software Foundations [0] and Chlipala's Certified Programming with Dependent Types [1] which are both available online for free, but I'm also reading through Coq d'Art as well and like it a lot... unfortunately it's harder to find.

[0] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html
[1] http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/
Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
My memory is a bit blurry, but IIRC with `nodetach` option pppd would fit "simple" category or its derivatives well.

Teaching it to notify via dbus is as trivial as passing a bunch of `connect /usr/lib/networkd/ppp/ip-down`-type options or writing a simple plugin library to do dbus messaging or `sd_notify` calls. Available plugin API hooks should allow for anything necessary to have a good understanding of pppd's state and provide a good amount of control over it (link state changes, authentication, IP address negotiation, idling etc) when necessary: http://ftp.samba.org/pub/unpacked/ppp/PLUGINS

I'm almost certain there's no need to write a whole new pppd from scratch.
Absolutely agree. It is called 'artistic freedom' after all. Right?
It wouldn't have to be a replyable subthread, just a note somewhere are the top of the page.
I'd also pass along, for those in the US, that an "official diagnosis" qualifies your child as having a learning disability, which means that you have a unique opportunity to form an actual team of people at your child's school who will be better equipped to manage your child's particular idiosyncrasies, and who will all make whatever modifications and accommodations are necessary to ensure your child gets the best education they can.

Of course, individual schools may still have a poor array of teachers, but in my experience as a father of a nine year old boy with autism, being a proactive and considerate parent who wants to be part of the school support team goes a long way to making the most of your child's time in school.

My son had made a comment that, taken literally, seemed like a threat to another student. He was, in fact, verbalizing one of the many random thoughts we all have but most of us filter before it becomes spoken aloud. The other child's parent rallied to have my child removed from THE SCHOOL (my kid isn't violent in any way, nor does he show anger physically) but the presence of an IEP [1] protected my son, and the school district administration came to his aid. My role as a member of his IEP team (as opposed to just being an ornery parent) made sure that my son's needs were met, and his behaviors were evaluated in the context of his differently-wired brain.

Be an advocate for your child. Don't be defensive, and don't be a dick. You'll be surprised at how many people sincerely want your child to succeed.

[1] https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/special-servic...

Edited to add IEP link
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Yeah, it was almost certainly firmware bugs combined with already marginal NANDs. ie. the NANDs probably would have been fine if they were babysat a little better, but they were probably bottom of the barrel. That's kind of the SD card market in a nut shell any way.

That being said we tried many different SD cards from quality vendors and found pretty heavy bugs and performance related issues among all of the non "industrial" versions.

So, yes, the problems don't have to be intrinsic to the form factor, but empirically you're more likely than not to have issues with them.
Depends, has the mere mention of anything that doesn't benefit / isn't in the interest of the top 1% of 1% qualify as commie?
Some downvotes are accidental. They're usually corrected by other people.
(1) Benjamin Disraeli.
Even the no-data-cap requirement will be hard to match. Have a look at a couple of countries on http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/

It would probably be prohibitively expensive. Look who is buying Iridium phones these days, it's not digital nomads.

The best alternative I could imagine is selling those prepaid cards easier, e.g. courier who hands it to you at the airport. But most providers these days require the buyer to provide a copy of a passport.

[edit: fixed typo]
You can offer it as an individual but it is quite cheap to incorporate your company and it can save you from losing your shirt if your company ever makes a mistake.

If you are a lone young man/woman with no kids, no house, and few assets, I wouldn't worry about it right now. If you have $10k+ net worth, it really wouldn't hurt to set up a company. It costs a few hundred bucks and takes a weekend of reading or a short consultation with a lawyer and an accountant.

Also note that it will cost more to incorporate later once your business already has traction.
Pardon me, but that's what I would do. Why does it make you grumpy?

I'd rather not rely on some package server (and whatever provisions they may have in place to allow library authors or DMCA claimers to remove packages) for my build to succeed. I'm pretty sure javac is going to be available in 10 years, but not equally sure about all dependencies. Why take that risk?

Don't forget, the people who made "don't commit binaries" a holy command actually meant "don't commit files generated from other files that are also in this repo".
Constructal Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructal_law
What happens in your body during a “cleanse” or “detox”
Where do you live?

My suggestion would be to find a company with a local contingency in your city. Like 3-4 developers that are local to you and can meet up to cowork occasionally or a few times per week.

It works best if you have some nice coworking spots locally within a reasonable commute.
That would be a legitimate way to parse that phrase, but it's far more likely that this is a typo for "red head-scarf". There isn't a particular kind of scarf worn by red-heads, AFIAK.
Thanks for the insight. Seems fair to regulate publicly owned goods. Maybe the problem is that the regulation is too dumb? For example it could encourage taxis at night (like many have said Paris at night is terrible and taxis are way too expensive), or be based on congestion like cromwellian suggested?
Yes, that is completely legitimate. Nobody is going to bat an eyelash if you do that.
"Wrong according to whom?"

According to the customer who complained about them (who is, after all, the person with the money), and anyone else who's familiar with standard English usage.

Consciously choosing to break the rules and breaking them because you don't know any better are two different things.
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Ask HN: Who bought and is using the Xeon Phi multicore coprocessor?
About 3 weeks ago, the Xeon Phi was posted on here, 57 cores for $200. I bought one, anyone else buy one and what are you doing with it? I'm currently doing nothing with mine since I don't have a compatible motherboard. :-( I'm interested in exploring Parallel Processing with Prolog and Erlang on it.
Yep. Amazon is suppressing books that probably shouldn't be suppressed, but it's not because of the creative aspects of them.
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I disagree with the premise of this argument.

First, regarding sources: all I was pointing out is that there are multiple ways to frame the statistics, and that the framing is predictable based on the political bias of the source.

Second, liberals are fine routing less money to the government. The solution would be less DHS/war spending, less welfare for banks/corporations, and also re-balancing the tax burden of individuals vs. corporations and investors.
You can as long as they are immutable objects. Again, you can't alias mutable references, even if they are of the exact same type.

Maybe you should read this: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html#traits
If you're unhappy if your job in general, go with the 3rd option (look for something better during the holidays).

If you're only unhappy if the pending deadline and the ensuing chaos, go with the 1st or 2nd option. This depends on how you feel the CEO will react to the deadline not being reached (he could take it out on the people around him or the people who took time off).

If you genuinely care about the company and what its trying to do, go for the risky 4th option. If it doesn't pay off, fallback to 3rd option.

my 2 cents
Try to buy an apple in California and see whether the sales tax was included in the price ;)

I have a two-part theory as to the advertising of prices exclusive of sales tax (which, again, doesn't apply to the apple example, for those HN readers who live in Silicon Valley); it goes like this:

1. Companies that sell products out of more than one store would like to use the same advertising everywhere, instead of making one ad per sales tax region they're present in.

2. This causes everyone to have to advertise prices the same way.

Actually, now I'm curious what the tax scheme was when you ordered something out of the Sears catalog.

Most of your examples have something going for them, but this one

> an advertised $30/month cell phone plan is actually $45 after "taxes and fees,"

is something I've never heard of. All of my US cell phone plans advertised the exact price they charged.
I couldn't help but hum the British national anthem while reading this.
From what I'm seeing here (and on the site) a customer complained about bad hyphenation. Amazon pulled up the book, and, sure enough, it has some bad hyphenation.

That's not at all the same as algorithmically rejecting a book based on hyphen count.
I read tons of books via the kindle app on android. I believe that hyphens DO hinder the reading experience... due to an apparent bug with the kindle app!

I have seen countless times that, if the current page breaks on a hyphen, then the next page seems to begin at the next full sentence, thereby losing information. My normal workaround is to simply change font size temporarily to force a repagination. It is annoying.

So, maybe this is why people have complained? I can't really see any other explanation for caring whether or not an author chose to hyphenate.
>we felt like students not like entrepreneurs

Alas, this is the case with many arab incubators. They fund the entrepreneurs, they take the majority of the stake in the company, they de-risk the whole venture and treat people like employees. What ends up happening is a lot of founders stop caring about "their" startup and leave. It has a lot to do with the culture. You need to be able to trust people to run this kind of business.
Yes, I would tell management they hired the wrong person and move on.
Quanta isn't The Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. It's not a scholarly scientific journal, meant for an audience of specialists in a particular field. It's a popular-science publication, meant for a lay audience. A smarter-than-average lay audience, perhaps, but a lay audience all the same. From the About page:

"Quanta is an editorially independent online publication launched by the Simons Foundation to enhance public understanding of science."

The key phrase here is "enhance public understanding." It's natural that the public, upon encountering a theory of the origins of life, will think about Darwin. The article anticipates this line of thought and addresses it.

I see nothing egregiously wrong here. Shouldn't we support publications for attempting to bring thoughtful, well-meaning, reasonably well researched science journalism to the lay public? This article does some spoon-feeding, but spoon-feeding is better than junk-feeding, and it's certainly better than no feeding at all.