skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the hundreds of passengers waiting the board the aircraft at where ever that flight was going might have a problem with that.

Sometimes the sizes of the passenger streams between two destinations aren't perfectly in balance. This is most clearly visible on shuttle services between a small and a large city - busy going to the large city in the morning and to the small city in the evening, and semi empty in the opposite directions.

Also seasonal flights - the first flight of the season to depart the destination (and the last to arrive) will often be pretty lightly loaded.

When that situation arises, you will need to reposition a less-than-full aircraft, otherwise your operations obviously falls apart. The GP clearly experienced an extreme case of this, but most likely that aircraft was being filled up at its next departure, and so needed to be there.

This is obviously expensive for airlines, so they try all they can to fill up these flights - which explains that the cheapest tickets are often on times that will be slightly odd or inconvenient, at least to business travellers.
So our saas web app backend is written predominantly in Cache Objectscript, which is one of the few remaining implementations of MUMPS. We use it on a day to day basis, which I guess makes me a MUMPS developer.

As a programming language, it's a fairly standard procedural language. Cache introduces the ability for scoped java-like classes over the top of the standard procedural code and there's a SQL/ORM layer that at least allows a definition for the giant persistent hash table. That being said, a bunch of our code is in the legacy unscoped routines which is... interesting.

The two real downsides are the complete lack of libraries for it (imagine having to allocate time to port DEFLATE as part of your developement scheduling) and the fact that 20 years of schemaless, unvalidated, tightly coupled data access leads to a boatload of weird bugs.

Feel free to AMA.
But how is that unintuitive?
I wonder if it would be possible to develop standard tests first on an open source non profit basis, and then somehow boycott non-compliant vendors.

But this might be the same age-old fundamental conflict between information technology knowledge management and business.

How can we effectively work together and yet still compete and evolve freely? Which words go in the dictionary? Whose language? Whose dictionary? Which words are so new no one acknowledges them?

With natural language this is a very hard problem, but I think with information systems eventually we will solve it. We could create and widely adopt something like a fully machine-processable specification source code for all protocols and languages etc. This would require building everything off of a common metalanguage with flexible representations that constantly evolves.
I was going to quote an article about how the wealthy 0.1% is a different demographic than the top 1% because the rest of the top one percent are workers for the top 0.1%. However, I guess these top one percent US people would be 0.1% worldwide.
First robust genetic links to depression emerge
This happened to me a few years ago. The activation blew on my Win7 machine when I was without internet for about 6 weeks. I phoned it through in the end which was an eye opener.

If I had to sign in to use software I'd be fecked in this situation again. Made me re-evaluate things pretty sharpish.
Let me share the following with you;

I just came across a question about how to end a small business start-up failure and make a success of it. It's always so frustrating to invest so much in planning and execution of a business idea, only for it to fail. You try another one another time, same process, same result: failure. Many attempts, many failures, and you believe that you have done everything right, spent money on ads and other forms of promotion, yet, no encouraging results. What is the way forward?

I think most do everything right except getting the foundation right and, getting this right is the most important requirement for business success. What's this foundation? It is RESEARCH. You go into business first, to satisfy a particular need which affects a good number of people and then to make money for yourself. So, if this group of people got what they needed from you, then, you are in business.

How do you identiy a need? It is by asking the right questions that you will be able to ascertain with some degree of accuracy, what the need is. It is when this is established, that you can use that your brilliant idea to give the people a good deal. If you don't follow the process of identifying the need first and then fashioning out a better way to satisfy the identified need, then unfortunately, your business start up is doomed to fail.
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PS: Don't forget to read up books that give in an easy to understand language, detail information on the business you wish to invest in.
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Why a long night's sleep may be bad for you
A million years of human evolution has gone into making snap judgements about people, and it strikes me that the snap judgements probably actually have some value
Finally, an app to help you bury a body
Does ASCII art have victims? Other than its audience, I mean.
outside curios request related to this submission, I have always configured webservers to return "400 Bad Requests" on HTTP/1.1 requests that lack a Host: header.

Still, every interaction I have had with HN this year always results in lots of hosts getting said results, and while this one is going, the most offensive host: 207.226.141.203 (dns: 207-226-141-203.static.pccwglobal.net) .. 1800 requests and counting from that host... ??
Ark: a compiler implemented from scratch in Go
FTA
"Two years ago their software was found being widely used by governments in the Middle East, especially Bahrain, to hack and spy on the computers and phones of journalists and dissidents."
"I have hard proof they knew they were selling (and still are) to people using their software to attack Bahraini activists"
This is for the appeal. For the trial, the accused have a right to counsel. In federal court, public defenders are paid a nontrivial amount. In state court...
"Why a long night's sleep may be bad for you"

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31928434

"Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...
Mentia launches: see what content will work best for you on social media
It's free to use. Interesting to find out what you guys think. All feedback very welcome.
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>The USA golds 8000 tons of gold in Fort Knox (and in NYC's Federal Reserve building). Why? Why does it do this? It must cost a lot to hold all that gold. The reason it does is because that gold implicitly (but not explicitly) backs the US dollar. If the dollar began crashing tomorrow, Obama could go on TV and say he was opening the vaults of Fort Knox and would exchange dollars for gold.

Seriously? Those 8000 tons of gold, priced at today’s price of 1144.45 as of a few minutes ago, have a value of $296,002,697,361.7893--a little under $300 billion. Sorry, but $300 billion just isn’t a lot of money in the grand scheme of things.

To put that in perspective, the market capitalization of just one company (Apple) is just over $723 billion dollars.

The gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States is over $17 trillion. If we have some kind of financial crisis, $300 billion in gold (obviously the price would increase in the event of a real crisis) isn’t going to go very far in a $17 trillion dollar economy.

The point: the dollar isn’t backed in any way, shape or form by the gold the U.S. holds.

We should be more concerned about the dollar than bitcoin—$100 in 1900 was worth only $3.48(!) in 2012: http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/04/100-year-de...

History shows us that all fiat currencies (so far) eventually go to zero.

Final thought: Bitcoin may or may not survive long term, but not because the concept of a cryptocurrency is unsound or that blockchains don’t work. Bitcoin has proven its value is based on its usefulness and flexibility: the ability to transfer value of any amount to anyone else anywhere else in minutes without needing permission and at little or no cost.

Bitcoin is the prototype, not the final product.

Besides bringing blockchain technology to the world, bitcoin is an invention that can’t be uninvented now that it’s here.

The same way a Mac user from 1984 might not recognize a Retina iMac today, we will have some type of cryptocurrency that will be mainstream and accepted at some point in the not too distant future. It may not be bitcoin (though it’ll still be around) but some successor that addresses some of its weaknesses and builds on its strengths.

Final final thought: bitcoin is already a fairly big deal in developing countries where regular people are unbanked. It’s also a big deal in countries with unstable currencies, some of which have already gone to zero once or twice: http://bitcoinfilm.org/documentaries/.
They can probably be used for giftcards etc via the MileagePlusX program / app.
headless browsers are easy to identify.

The best you have to not be ID'd and "kinda headless" is slimer or selenium to XVFB, which aren't really headless but sort of

[edit] slimer [AND] selenium to [OR]
> How can this be considered normal?

It's not acceptable, but nobody has any better ideas.
I dunno. Seems a bit harsh.

These are not unlike other open ended packages where the seller expects to come out ahead, on average. Slightly further afield, it reminds me of yesterday's thread on reedit. They revoked their unlimited free speech policy, so that they could stop hosting some really nasty stuff.

Some people said "but you promised unlimited free speech forever."

I don't know if there is a clean judgement you can make. promises should be made in good faith and kept. If a company makes promises that it can't keep, then what. Sometimes you hit a sort of promise bankruptcy.

I think that's the case here.

On a complete tangent… The owners of these passes are probably an interesting bunch. (A) I think their brains are wired for quirky beat the system thinking. (B) You have to have a mind for opportunistic life hacks, in order to jump on this.
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Good coverage of the cultural history, but it's dubiously light on the chemistry. It's definitely worth talking about the -NBOMe series, but you shouldn't just mention them as being dangerous in the same paragraph where you're discussing general 2C- safety.
Six SLSs for a crew of 4 to spend 24 days on the surface. At first glance, this is a wildly inefficient mission architecture.
Down the Rabbit Hole of Mobile Testing: Prelude for Newbies
The hospital where my wife works just spent $1.2B (yes billion) on software written in MUMPS

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/31/partners-lau...

The company that provided the software is interesting:

http://www.epic.com/

Based in a suburb of Madison Wisconsin, founded in the mid 1970's by a grad student who wrote some software for a local hospital. They grew organically by word of mouth never spending on sales or marketing. They landed Johns Hopkins as a client years ago and now Epic chooses which hospitals are allowed to "invest" in their software. They hire young grads right out of college who have never worked anywhere else - who find themselves trapped with completely non-transferable skills. It is like this company evolved in complete isolation from any outside influence on software development.

Of course it is typical enterprise software developed by waterfall method that puts users last. My wife says the doctors are in open revolt. They have 1000's of open change requests - some critical to patient safety. For example the field to enter prescription instructions is only 64 characters. This is a hospital that administers chemotherapy so the instructions are more complicated than "take with food three times a day." The developer who got assigned that ticket had the nerve to suggest using abbreviations instead of making the change.
Flask - https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask. It's small, awesome and digestible.
That was about Gamma Group wasn't it?

> PhineasFisher described how Gamma Group "had denied having anything to do with it, saying they only sell their hacking tools to 'good' governments. ... I have hard proof they knew they were selling (and still are) to people using their software to attack Bahraini activists, along with a whole lot of other stuff in that 40GB."
wow really bad now, my program is mostly useless without firebaseio... should I ring them?
How the silent screen burst to life with color
Morality is not binary. That someone is fine with some things that are illegal does not mean that they are fine with everything that is illegal.
A person with $200 000 yearly income (a very conservative assumption for top lawyers) is in top %0.04 richest people by income.[0]

Yeah, right, they have to "put food" on the table.

[0] http://www.globalrichlist.com
Where your thinking is flawed is in the idea that major subreddits won't be affected by reddit's stance change. Specifically, banning isn't the only way to affect a subreddit, it's merely one of the most final.

As for your fixation on /r/coontown.

Can you remind me, wasn't there a famous person once who made a quote about the unpopular opinions being the ones that needed defending?

There's a clear difference between what /r/fatpeoplehate was doing and /r/coontown. You may not like that they exist, but your offense should not be enough to get that subreddit banned.

OTOH, reddit is a private company and they can do what they want, but taking the moral highroad in this argument from your side is silly, especially seeing how you seem to be wanting to infringe on others' free speech because you don't like what they use it for.

And wasn't there a famous person that had a quote pertaining to that? I think so.
Ask HN: What to cover in a one week coding course in Athens?
Together with Founders&Coders (non-profit coding cooperative) and The Cube (co-working space in Athens), I'm setting up a free one week coding course in Athens in late August.

It's directed towards beginners who are interested in getting into web development.

The goal of the course is to get the students to a level where they are able to continue learning on their own, so that they eventually can become good enough to take on professional work or build their own products.

Given the short time frame (Monday-Friday, 10.00-17.00), it's extremely important to choose the right curriculum. We've already decided to focus on Front-end, so the language will be Javascript, but there are still a lot of choices to be made.

- What should be included in the curriculum?

- What should NOT be included in the curriculum? (equally as important, if not more important)

Git? HTTP? Web API's? jQuery? Ajax? Algorithms? DOM-manipulation? Data types? CSS? HTML?

All advice is appreciated!

PS: If you're in Greece and are interested in contributing, do drop me a mail at perhborgen@gmail.com
Thanks for that link (IPv6 newbie here, I really need to properly learn it some day...)
That depends. Not everyone needs to work for money. There are also people who set aside certain amount of hours per week for pro bono work. Not everything has to be about money all the time.
Do you have to pay taxes on using the miles?
> Other pop novelists, like John le Carré and Tom Clancy, may flavor their work with a few real-world scenarios and some spy lingo...

This seems like an unfair characterization of Carré who actually worked as a spy for both MI5 and MI6 and who introduced the word 'mole' as slang for a sleeper agent into the english language.
What do you mean with "the zone is not as productive"? I recently had the luck to work a few hours from home, undisturbed, alone, in the "zone". It was by far the most productive time i ever had.
Cybersecurity startup LogDog raises $3.5M to sniff out hackers
Cutting Through Internet of Things Hype
Civility works best with mutual respect. That respect might be hollow or fleeting but it's established and traded on. When two people meet for the first time there's a credit exchanged. That's the humanity-freebie.

Don't ask for sympathy ("They don't want civility or truth!!!"), ask yourself why you were treated "uncivilized".

Truth? I suspect that's a glitch in translation.
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3 Core Elements for IOT to Succeed
Sadly the odds will be stacked against her but I think it's worth donating if you can.
FTA

> Who are Hacking Team's clients? Australia, Azerbaijan, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Honduras, Hungary, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Poland, Panama, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan.

As mcintyre1994 said, the only Bahrain mentions were in regards to Gamma Group (FinFisher).
Marvel Gives Comic Book Characters Their Own API
SLS = Space Launch System?
Lawyers charge a lot per hour but also have large overheads, especially trial lawyers. The amounts mentioned in the fundraising page seem small. I am guessing Chelsea Manning already gets a discount and that they will have to raise much more later on.

A high profile criminal case such as the one against Chelsea Manning where the government throws in many man-years will only be successful if the defense also throws in a team of competent defense attorneys, researchers, assistants etc. In a huge case like this that stretches over several years and where there is vast information to deal with, this could amount to decades of man-years.

A one man boutiques usually can't handle such cases and the largest law firms typically don't take such cases. So the defendant often has to pick among law firms with 5-20 lawyers.

Such small firms usually cannot afford to allocate that much manpower to pro bono cases.

But even if they could afford it, there are numerous faster and cheaper options for marketing. As for professional satisfaction, there are plenty of cases that provide that and pays a salary meanwhile.
Not entirely. You need to divide the total by 2, not the water. Dividing the water by 2 would give 49.5 water vs 1 potato matter, for a total of 50.5. The potato matter content would only be 1.98%.
Tangential: New to c++ dev on Linux after years with devstudio/windows. What do you guys recommend for a dev env for a guy like me (say on a mac). Thanks!

Edit: I see Jetbrains has CLion. Any good?
> Also if you sleep well, and live 25% longer, that 25% will be when you're old, senile, and unable to do anything useful.

That's assuming you do become senile and unable to do anything useful. Doesn't necessarily have to happen, and that doesn't mean you shouldn't live a good life.

> Studies about sleep are often just crazy. When did people stop using their common sense? Just have as much sleep as you think works for you.

What's considered "common sense" can vary greatly from person to person, and people aren't always aware of how their habits can have long-term negative consequences on them.
You sound like you'd be more comfortable in another "ecosystem"?
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ZenPayroll is hiring a head of security
I just think of stuff I would like to build, found interesting or useful. If you are the intended user, it's a lot easier.
Business class international on Delta is far more than that. I know, I fly Delta first-class often enough and that's ~100k/roundtrip domestic. So that would be five first-class domestic flights for me and a partner at 1MM miles. Business class international? Might get one roundtrip flight between the two of us with some leftover miles for domestics.
Check out QtCreator. It's for writing Qt based C++ programs but I'm fairly certain you can use it equally well for plain old C++ code.
The wizard Anti-pattern AKA the Installer Anti-pattern
The longer you live in the UK, the greater the chance the NHS will be gone and you won't be able to afford treatment. :-) Coming soon: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/richard-grimes/governme...
I attempted to call the 1 (844) 843-3473 number on the firebaseio.com site, I suspect it may be before their waking hours though.. my hnwatch now is not behaving at all like it was earlier though, and the only difference is that I released it here :-/
Essential Trello integrations for developers
This is not of interest to HN readers.
Oh I see what you meant, apologies
I dont know about English, but there was not common French language until 20th century. Several dialects were united during WW I and latter with radio and television.
I reserve 4 hours a day for client queries mainly when they are online. And then shut things off for 8 other hours of coding. 4 hours per client mas/menos.
Rich people don't just swim in money you know. It's fairly likely they'll have far more expenses than poor people. So they might have a better pension plan, pay a gardener. Might send their kids to private school. etc etc

So someone earning $200k could well be less well off after expenses than someone earning $50k.
A network comparison of the 3rd page with and without uBlock enabled. See if you can guess which one is which.

https://i.imgur.com/iHZI27O.png
I really don't get this to work as I feel it should. Initially I get like 4 articles showing up, sometimes two articles have the same pos-value.

The list of articles then continues to be populated very slowly (I'm up to 12 now after a minute or so maybe?).

I've tried it on two different networks, one of them being 100/100mbit/s fiberoptics.

Am I missing something?
I did over 10 years in prison, both state and federal, and never was an inmate raped at any of the facilities I was housed.

Inmates joke about it a lot, but its just not perceived as cool, and besides, with DNA testing now available, who wants to get a sex charge _inside prison_?

Edit: Also, everyone in the federal system gets their DNA sampled and placed in a national DNA database, regardless of the crime they committed. So, federal prisoners are much more aware that they could be identified as the perpetrator of a rape.
Recent Head of Medicare and Medicaid Srvcs New CEO of Health Ins Trade Group
Graphing a Lesson-Learned Database for NASA Using Neo4j, RStudio, and Linkurious
Yes I was rather harsh [1]. The honourable thing for AA to have done would have been to buy back the tickets at their current value, not try and find a way to weasel out.

1. I am biased as I have hated AA ever since they decided to put me on some secret list (the SSSS list) for no reason which means anytime I flew AA I would be put through the wringer.

Edit. For those interested here is the details about the ssss list [2]. I am not sure what my "crime" was, but I suspect it was because I often flew one way (around the world tickets). The crazy thing is it is airline specific as I am not on the list with any other airline.

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSS_rating
"Barring some compelling geopolitical phenomenon, there is
not likely to be another ‘Kennedy moment,’ and the NASA budget is unlikely to see a dramatic increase"

and

"Furthermore, although not considered here, international contributions could offset some of the cost"

oh Americans, there is a wider world out there across the border you know...
xkcd's chart for Primer feels just as helpful:

https://xkcd.com/657/