skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had nearly the identical experience with it on all counts. By and large, I am a huge and loyal user of it as well.

It seems I've had the most changes in fare price or availability when identifying flights on United specifically, more so than any other airline, in my experience. That being said, it's still pretty infrequent given the volume of airfare we've booked through it for our people over the last 2 years or so.

Another thing I would add is that in connecting flight situations, it will occasionally present an itinerary that's technically possible to make, but not always entirely practical or ideal. (e.g. the window between flights is really narrow, not leaving much margin of error for flight delays, getting to another gate/terminal, etc., if not near the one you arrive at.)

All that being said, it really does work pretty great and we prefer using it to any of the other travel sites.

I would love to know why there are occasional fare discrepancies though... as far as I know google treats the click-through to the carriers' sites like an ad click, so I don't think Google is "marking it up," rather, the carriers are in some cases pricing based on the referer link or something. It can also be a demand pricing issue too, as the flight fills up, I suppose. My understanding is that Google is basically just the informational conduit between the user and the airline so it's weird that there are occasional price discrepancies.
Tough Pico-ITX SBC Packs 1.91GHz Quad-Core Atom
Q. How did Superfish even get onto Lenovo machines in the first place?

A. The original motivation for this was that the product team was being
asked, "Can we do something to improve our consumer experience?" Someone had
the idea to improve their shopping experience in a novel way — not to own
their experience, but just, if the consumer is looking at a desk, can we
suggest an alternative product that looks like that desk? The motivation was
to enhance the experience.

This is some amazing bullshit: nothing like ads on my computer to 'improve my experience'. And if this is all about improving my experience, why is Lenovo getting paid by the adware vendor? It's pretty damn annoying the interviewer didn't push on this at all.
I like Venkat Subramaniam's "Scala for the Intrigued." There's a 12 part article series[1], and a video.[2]

1: http://blog.agiledeveloper.com/2012/08/scala-for-intrigued-a...
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvvKURwGNg
If that is a big concern for you, you should have gone with the LTS. Or, you know, a decent support contract.
Since 1.8 is an LTS release, those of you using 1.4 can finally upgrade without having to do so again for a couple years.
I'm the person who made this teardown, so if any of you have any completely positive feedback or soul-punishingly critical thoughts on it, I am here for any and all of it!
I'm confused, or you haven't been there in a while. In those two blocks, there's a brand new class 1 office development, a large condo complex, a popular bar, and a 1 star Michelin restaurant.
If we assume that you are living in the non-democracy, and are on the less-equal side of divide (in other words, the majority), how exactly does your opinion on the given screed matter?
China drops leading technology brands for state purchases
It's not necessary to forklift the entire population of 20,000 employees when you have the option to grow elsewhere in the region.

You might be surprised to hear that a significant number of Google employees in Mountain View were recently moved to a new campus outside of the city, and it wasn't exactly an opt-in affair.
'Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion
Early, while working on Keybase, I answered it here:

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/788

Technically, not a lot has changed. We're still just putting our own money into it. However, we just added 3 people full-time and 1 person part-time, and so our costs have gone up. I'll admit, we only did this when we got an idea that we thought could turn Keybase into a business.

In a few months we'll be launching a tangential idea - more than just a PGP key directory. This product will let you do some neat things with data backup and signed (possibly encrypted) file hosting and message spooling. It has nothing to do with email, but it requires a real PKI. I'll save the specifics for a big announcement, but the pricing model will reflect our costs with room to make money. More per gig than Dropbox and far less than Tarsnap.

Should the "business" fail, we'll be back to where we were when I wrote the above answer.
nope, that's all in. And, you don't generally see 33% taxes on top of a ticket.
That is just not true. Sure, they are collecting some limited information on every, but mostly because its harder to collect targeted information than to just get it all.

So maybe the US has a record of every call made in Germany, but nobody is tracking some random bus driver in Bavaria.

Right now there aren't is the manpower to actually look at even a tiny fraction of what is collected.

I guess in the future, if an AI with human like ability is created, the actual monitoring of every person could occur. But it just isn't a fear right now.

I'd call it psuedo-pirvacy.
How the Bin Laden Raid Put Vaccinators Under the Gun in Pakistan
In retrospect I found it to be more of a "functional programming which happens to be using scala" class and less an "intro to scala". That's not a bad thing (nor a good thing, it's just a thing) but it's not necessarily what is most useful for a person.

A few years ago I joined a group which had been using scala for a while (since '09ish IIRC) and I took the coursera class to get up to speed. It definitely helped but the reality was that their code base was closer to being java++ than to haskell and a lot of the early habits I picked up from the coursera class were immediately beaten out of me once I got rolling there.

One could argue that they were in the wrong, but I disagree - Scala is a multi-paradigm language and not everyone is going the FP route (I recently heard Venners refer to Scala as a "reform movement for OO, which is how I personally treat it, but that's neither here nor there).

All this said, I don't have a better suggestion. As I mentioned I took the Coursera class and read the Staircase book. The Twitter stuff online was useful but mainly I just read as much as I could online, tracked down conference videos, etc.
They have figured out what they want. Unfortunately, that's turned out to be getting all the money from tech employment while not letting the tech employees have any say.
Yeah, well, if you can get providers to agree to do anything at all, let alone have the capability to not be in the engineering dark ages, you'll be rich. Until then, companies will continue to fill the gap with imperfect solutions.
Our learning's with outsourcing App development to Pakistan
> where's the investigation into Al Gore becoming a billionaire from this issue?

Reports put him at between $200-300M. Pretty far cry from billionaire.

> Al Gore has been debunked on numerous occasions; weren't the ice caps supposed to have disappeared? Over 5 years ago he made that claim but they're still there. Al Gore has almost godlike status among the global warming crowd yet he flies in private jets with motorcades and has a massive mansion. If he was so worried, why has he done nothing to curb his own carbon use?

This whole paragraph is nonsense. Why does Al Gore (a non-scientist) matter in this discussion at all? An Inconvenient Truth was propaganda. It just happens to be propaganda for a side that's backed by the evidence and nearly every climate scientist in the world (the so-called "global warming crowd").

If you want to show research debunking the currently-accepted research, then go for it. Otherwise, this is completely worthless; you're just fighting a celebrity, not the science.
Is there a specific asset pipeline library that most people that use Django recommend? I'm mainly concerned with filename asset fingerprinting.
Here are a few more excellent resources on the potential and the dangers of machine intelligence. Even if you don't expect to read Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence - a deep, provocative, and thoughtful book, but also very verbose - the above links will give you an excellent primer on humanity's prospects if and when we develop a true general AI:

[Wait But Why]

The AI Revolution, Part 1: How and when we achieve machine intelligence, e.g. strong AI - http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

The AI Revolution, Part 2: The species-level immortality we can hope for, and the extinction we have to fear - http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

[Resources on Friendly and Unfriendly AI]

Unfriendly AI: What AI looks like if it does not act expressly in our interests; e.g., a universe tiled over with paper clips - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Unfriendly_artificial_intelli...

Friendly AI: Strategies for designing an AI that respect human morals and metamorals, including what we'd want if we were as wise as a superintelligence (coherent extrapolated volition) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligenc...
From exec to indie: One family’s wild ride ends today with debut of dream game
> I was thinking mid-high rise buildings constructed in Mountain View near the train station.

Rent for 2-bedroom apartment in those new buildings was around $4k last time I checked.
The way to scale it would be to contract it back out to an existing personal concierge service, but then it might be obvious that Magic is new marketing for old services (with a little bit of an updated tech twist).

It might be valuable in that Magic might be accessing a market that basically didn't know such services existed. But I don't really see any fundamental process efficiency that Magic brings to the table for this market...
The point is that instead of the upstream developers doing their job and maintaining backwards compatibility or providing automated migration scripts, tens of thousands of downstream developers will waste tens of thousands of hours fixing that intentional breakage.

That's why a new Django major/minor version is never a good news, but a periodic reminder of how broken the ecosystem is.
I could not disagree more with most of what you've said here. The beginning seems to rely on the assumption that no change occurs in politics anymore - "we" are simply being screwed and that's the end of it. This is precisely the view of someone who isn't involved and is informed entirely by outrage-porn articles. This also belies the frankly uninformed worldview that it's "us" and "them", which could not be farther from the truth.

Later you imply that armed revolution would actually lead to a reasonable outcome. Clearly you have never heard the phrase "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and are unaware of the perhaps dozens of examples throughout recent history where this fits the picture to the T. You are also ignoring the reality of the conflict in Afghanistan, where the military enjoyed remarkable success against a foe that is more resourceful, elusive and better armed than that vast majority of the even the most hardcore, gun-toting, anti-government survivalists here in the US.

I'm also sensing based on your willingness to adopt violence as a potential "solution" that you don't have the faintest clue what armed conflict, let alone combined arms warfare, is actually like. There is a reason we avoid it. This sort of sentiment is not only totally unproductive but it's possibly contributing to the problem by adding non-solutions to the noise.

Here's a question for you - can you quantify what the metaphorical brick wall we're supposedly careening towards is?
One of the mantras repeated most often around here is that when it comes to growth

Strategic Vision + Execution > Nice Idea + Connections

It's not surprising that a concept which, thus far, is demonstrating the exact opposite hasn't been universally welcomed.

I'm sure things will change if it ingenious logistics and commercial partnerships turn it into an Uber-esque juggernaut. At least there's a clear business model.
Um. maybe. 5 machines behind a load balancer. Normal case, load is even, 100 requests to each server. One server starts running into trouble, exceeding timeouts. your load is now ~125 per server, because each client retries frequently. Is 125 enough to push over a "slow" threshold on the others? This will further magnify the load.

The load balancer will spin up more machines, so now you have 10 machines leaning on whatever the back end is.

Yes, your approach is great - but you really have to understand the failure modes - if you're living on the edge, you could have a pretty un fun cascading error.
Yeah I'm that good. :)

Maybe you like wasting time on mindless projects, or tech recruiter? It might benefit to polish up on your economics, specifically supply and demand.

Last week alone in Denver:
-15 Dev jobs at Pacific Metrics
-20 Dev jobs at Health Grades
-A Mapquest recruiter I don't know begging for referals.
-New Tech (Denver) 15 minutes of job announcements.

You might think I have an attitude or arrogant, (oh well) what you can't deny is I now the market.
Wow, what a news!
It's a mystery for me how people can come to conclusions like that this late. I haven't bought any subsidized phone for like ten years. I understand that with CDMA careers it might be hard, but with GSM? There's no excuse.
Delta doesn't fly direct. For this particular journey I could elect to spend 26 hours in Istanbul for $700 and change.
"""After adjustment for CVD risk factors"""
FWIW my very favorite pizza company is a local place in my city that doesn't deliver. It probably goes without saying they also don't have a website, any way to store card data, etc. His register is a cashbox.

I have every expectation that Magic would handle that order for me, though. Probably slowly, if the article is any indication, but I'm assuming they'll get better.

I wasn't really talking about my local shop, though, so point taken. It'd be pretty enjoyable to get "hey mr. mod!" and I say "hey, give me what i got last time, please." and hang up.

I don't want to bother with paying at the door, but I'd tough it out, I guess.
The NSA's Information Assurance wing considers itself responsible for the security of classified US Government systems only—specifically not unclassified US Government systems, or any civilian systems whatsoever, which they feel falls under NIST's domain.

But yes, it's much smaller than their SIGINT wing, and yes, I also feel that having both teams under the same roof (so to speak) is not just an 'equities problem' - it's a full-scale irreconcilable conflict of interest.

You might feel that surely the NSA wouldn't backdoor their own stuff? But no: there they are, actually using Dual_EC_DRBG even in their own most trusted crypto hardware - in, I presume, the firm belief that "nobody but us" has the private key to use the backdoor. Which seems somewhat reckless in light of a working distinguisher and how very fragile (EC)DSA is… and a stark reminder of how the recent return to talk of backdoors - sorry, "front doors" or "secure golden keys", because they want to control the language to frame the debate in the way they want - are so much bullshit, and the only reasonable discussion we can have about things which undermine all of our collective security is one where the people who are asking for such idiotic things to - they think - make their jobs easier should kindly shut the fuck up.

Ahem.

GCHQ over here have the exact same issue with CESG and the MoD CRYPTO group versus the COMINT/ELINT/SIGINT bulk of their mission. GCHQ have even selected their own suppliers and political and other infrastructure for targeted surveillance in some cases! So for those who choose to try to work with them - surprise! - that doesn't mean they're not also working against you too. It just gives them another angle.
i just met a guy named jason swartz who wrote this book:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030287.do

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001798/index.ht...
My point was that making the assumption that you'll be able to book 2080 hours in a year is bad for business. I've had full months, sure, but I've also had months with about four days of work total. The numbers have to work in either case or you're running a hobby, not a business.

Also, I can't speak to how common it is, but in my (albeit limited) experience, a full book is just a bad idea in general. When I have a full book I end up working on the business (invoicing, lead gen, client relationships, bookkeeping, taxes, etc) in the slices of time that I would rather be spending time with my family.
My point was that your listing of things that happened in the past omitted an important piece of it.

I actually don't agree that "the original problem clearly states it." Fully cognizent of the issues at hand, and with space for reflection entirely outside of the context of trying to solve the problem, I agree that it is clear that this is what the statement of the problem was trying to get at (particularly with the note that Monty knows which door has what) but it strictly does not say that that informs his choice (or how).
> How do you start developing multiple microservices at the same time?

Same as any other project: Develop from the outside in.

In practice, trying to develop in the "optimal order' leads to speculative development that will be wasted.
Oculus’ Mobile VR Jam 2015
It's always hard to convey tone of voice well online. Sorry.

"And if I can't pay myself and several more founders? Would that make it a "Yes, topic" ?"

No, it's still a non-topic. If you can't pay your founders minimum wage you still have the same two choices: do a start-up or don't do a start-up. If you chose to do a start-up, know that you are taking on the additional risk that you might be breaking minimum wage laws and/or one of your founders can take you to court over it.

"What sense does it make for all Founders depositing...?"

The sense of it, is that it removes the risk of you breaking minimum wage law. That's ignoring all the positive social good of all those things. As NeutronBoy mentions you're literally describing how business works.

"that prevents almost all tech startups to legally exist"

No, it doesn't. I think your confusions stems from misunderstanding how law works & how law is enforced. Law is not proactive & the law is not binary. Minimum wage law cannot prevent "a start-up to legally exist". As Kirsty & Carolynn point out several times in that video your startup is a separate legal entity, one that exists from the point of incorporation. Assuming you've incorporated your start-up exists. Minimum wage law can't make it un-exist. A law or statute can't prevent it from existing. The clearest evidence for this is that thousands of start-ups do exist & that >0 them probably haven't paid minimum wage.
Magic reminds me of Path Talk (https://path.com/talk), which is more focused on places and probably has more room for automation & optimizations, e.g. if many people ask for the price of a burger at place X, might as well display the answer in the FAQ of the place on Path Talk. Otherwise a real person picks up your question and texts you back in a while.

The app can also expand by striking some deals with smaller merchants to handle the customer service part for them.

The benefit I see from this is that you asynchronously ask for an answer and get texted back whenever, instead of waiting on the phone line.
I will not be blackmailed into paying for commercial support.
I don't know about the existence of a degree in 1927, but graduating in that year would put you among the designers just before and during WW-II---i.e. the fastest period of aircraft development.

So, yeah.
To be fair, it's also impossible to ship Firefox on ChromeOS.
Question for those who've used Magic: how was your experience? What did you buy, and under what circumstances? (ie, was the item cheap? hard to find? Did you need it immediately?)

I've found that the tech behind this is actually quite scalable, thanks to Twilio. As other commenters have pointed out though, Magic's concept has already existed (free) for a long time, through concierge services like Visa signature and Amex Platinum. What's different and innovative here are the sms-interface and the hidden, Instacart-like surcharge.
The time a hacker remotely bricked cars in Texas
I like daily price bargraph. Gives a sense of overall prices.
More like as robotic pack mules. Or search and rescue. I doubt that sticking some guns on them is gonna be the most effective use.
That wouldn't be a problem at all if Mountain View was willing to permit residential build-outs. Sadly, like most of the Bay, they want the money from the good jobs but also believe the people who have those jobs should live Somewhere Else.
Does Apple release HTML features updates to Safari in between OS releases? It feels like they freeze the features in July at WWDC, so they would be pretty out of date by February.
The second generation of Xbox Live
Seriously people why the downvotes for these guys not being up on California law? Also, this particular post specifically calls out "In most places". In most places this IS in fact true. Feel free to reply and let him know that California has a special law in place that makes this possible, but nothing he said is worthy of a downvote.
OpenBSD Foundation 2014/2015 News and Fundraising
Did you try vim-fugitive? Especially with git gutter.
> This isn't a highly populated area. There is little chance that if this drone fell at any time it would hit someone or land in a street.

Only if you consider the only failure mode to be a descent straight down. These 'consumer' multirotors do have a nasty habit of buggering off in random directions when they feel like it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dji+flyaway

> And what's wrong with night time?

Maintaining line of sight with the vehicle becomes very difficult when its dark. In some jurisdictions the law actually makes no reference to it being daytime or night-time, only that you able to maintain direct unaided line of sight with the vehicle.

When you're in control of what is essentially a 1-2kg flying blender, it is your responsibility to err on the side of caution. Just like when you operate any other device which could significantly harm another.

> You could make many of these bogus arguments about a variety of new technologies ... maybe cars should only be driven during the day?

You'll probably find laws and rules already exist to protect the public from other new technologies. Take cars for example:

- You must be qualified by a government body to use them.
- The car must be certified as safe to use on the road, and routinely checked.
- You may only use them in specific segregated areas.
- You must be able to maintain control over the car at all times.
- At night your car must be well lit and must provide you with enough light to see what you are doing.
- If you do something stupid/dangerous with your car you are punished.