skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I am more than willing to pay a premium price for a better service, but we're talking 50%, not 500%. I believe the price they're trying to charge is simply an order of magnitude out of whack with reality.

I suspect there are 2 factors at play here. For one, serving the lowest common denominator and competing on price is easier. It's easier to create metrics around, and by handling volume, it's easier to fill planes. It would be harder to provide a premium service airline with all more-expensive seats, because likely they'd end up with unexpectedly low utilization or unexpectedly high demand at various times, based on seasonality, and it might be harder to fill all of the seats as efficiently. Not to mention route planning and so on.

The other factor is probably just a bit of a herd mentality where nobody wants to go out on a limb and try something different for fear of spectacular failure. We know the existing system works, even if it doesn't work well.

I know United has Premium Service, but they don't even make it easy to purchase. They mention that it's on EWR-LAX and EWR-SFO routes, but then tout the level of "available" service in different classes -- 1st, and economy plus. They imply there's ALSO regular economy seating, and don't explain what (if anything) is better in regular economy. They don't discuss whether Economy plus is better than economy plus on other planes/routes. They also don't seem to provide any way of booking it -- I looked several times on their website, and perhaps I just need to know which flights are considered "PS" flights, and then figure out if it costs more or the same?
I don't think people should build the expectation where they require "success" to be happy - that only precludes them from being happy when they're unable to become "successful", for a variety of reasons outside of their control, for example, a car accident. It matters not whether everyone can enjoy "success", it only matters that everyone feel they have had the opportunity to be "successful" and they had a solid go at it.

With this perspective, "success" can be better than average, which is what it is a lot of the times - most lotto players thinks winning the lotto is "success", and winning the lotto is by definition to achieve a financial outcome that is above the average of all financial outcomes that can occur from playing the lotto.
You could even say that one of humans' super powers is forgetting just how much practice went into learning something.

I've been walking for 28 years and I still trip sometimes. That's almost 31,000 hours of practice, if we assume an average of just 3 hours of basic movement per day. Even going to the bathroom counts.

And when it comes to image/object recognition, I've had 163,000+ hours of practice. And I still see stuff I don't recognize plenty of times. Hell, optical illusions still fuck me up.

Now just imagine what an AI could do with that much practice/data.
From what I've seen, Economy Plus only offers 5" additional legroom and no additional shoulder room. The legroom comes in handy more for ingress and egress (and, I suppose, not having your laptop screen crushed as readily when the passenger in front of you reclines).
Virool (YC S12) Is Hiring a Head of Publisher Development
Over the years many people have tried building sites like this. None of them have ever worked out.
We see a lot of both sides of this at BR (http://buildingrobotics.com/) -- we are actually BACnet experts, but also provide a really novel user experience on top of this legacy protocol. One thing I'd add is that many of the "legacy" industries have evolved in a way that's very different from what the Internet crowd expects and so you can't always make the same assumptions.

Also, it might be "unsexy" but buildings consume 70-ish percent of US electricity, a lot of which is controlled by BACnet and friends... and it turns out there's a ton of low-hanging fruit that's only a (carefully crafted, ASN.1-ish) UDP packet away..
does it affect site's SEO?
The manual goes very in depth into all the features you need: http://orgmode.org/org.html
I think a very important part of learning math is learning that it's not magic or memory, it's just mechanical procedure transforming inputs to outputs (and therefore the output must contain the input).

I.e., you aren't just teaching the test, you are also improving understanding.

Now consider a question like "length of alpha, beta=2, gamma=3, a) sqrt(2^2+3^2) b) sqrt(2+3), c) 2^2+3^2, d) 7". Using your heuristic the student can rule out (d) and has a 33% chance of getting the right answer. The test reveals (averaging this over many questions) that they know a little bit, but nothing close to 100%.
It probably looks like APL. Data-oriented programming, with the only type being vectors/streams of data. Ideal parallelization to however many million CUDA cores just by distributing the workset into partitions.

Really, its how GLSL and other shader languages work already, just hidden behind C-like syntax and lies.
It's way more complex even than that. That all takes for granted that an AI would even know what an object is, let alone other life-forms (in game). An AI that starts from scratch doesn't get access to the vast wealth of human life experience as a baseline context for understanding a game. Without all that, what is it working with? A whole lot of nonsensical visual and audio data.
I just signed up using my personal gmail address and was offered this option to verify domain ownership: http://puu.sh/mB373/62a963d896.png

The file contains a random token. This is essentially the same solution Let's Encrypt offers (among others).
Great tool. Key rotation is so often overlooked but really important.

For anyone who wants to enforce ssh key rotation, consider using our product Foxpass (YC S15), which (effectively) automatically removes keys after a set amount of time (e.g. 90 days).

https://www.foxpass.com/
so which procedural language should we be using? still waiting to here a recommendation? best recommendation he offers is a combination of object-oriented and functional ?!

title should be rewritten OOP is good. with some small changes
- prefer stateless instead of stateful
- prefer aggregation of objects over inheritance
- prefer functional first

I guess no would see the video if he had a reasonable title that made sense.﻿
Terminal color schemes that play nice with f.lux?
I love f.lux. I love the Solarized Dark color scheme. I hate the two together.

At night, my terminal has so little contrast that I have to turn my screen's brightness up just to read comments. That also means that if I'm switching between the terminal and online documentation, I have to adjust the brightness all the time.

Does anyone know of a good dark color scheme that looks as nice as Solarized (especially when f.lux is off), AND will play nice when blue hues are gone?
I thought we were talking about the "Memory Encryption Engine", which is what the link is describing. Slide 7 says the keys are "randomly generated at reset".
So, the Jews control Hollywood? That canard's been around for a while. What's bizarre is that you didn't include money lending.
one that advances the game successfully

What context does an AI have for knowing what it even means to advance the game? A game like Skyrim carries a HUGE baseline assumption that the player is familiar with what it's like to be a human being, living in a human culture rich with history and conflict.

Imagine trying to teach a jellyfish how to play Skyrim. That's kind of where we're at right now.
Education is a proxy for IQ and conscientiousness. People with these characteristics (and importantly the wealth this provides) tend to make better neighbours. Zuck dropped out of college, yet I very much doubt he'd be a terrible neighbour, nor would a neighbourhood full of Harvard dropouts be bad.
>99% everyone on earth has more than the statistical mean amount of legs.
http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-says-purple-iphone-concept-pr...

Samsung argued that Apple used the Sony designs for the Walkman and a prototype phone as a basis for the iPhone. Apple claims their Purple project predates the Sony prototype.

Apple once sued eMachines over the eOne that looked like the G3 iMac, citing a trade dress issue. It was an all in one design where the monitor had the computer in the case and it had round edges.
Ask HN: How is OpenHunt doing?
I guess the title is self-explanatory. I'm curious about the number of daily visits, as well as results that linked products can expect from OH.

If people from OpenHunt, or someone who's submitted to OH is reading this and would like to share, I'd appreciate it.
i once read that high perplexity can generate embeddings that are very tightly bound on a unit circle...not sure if this is what is going on
Xkcd: Congress
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On windows? Try fiddler: http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
Some experiments were done in early 2000 with inflatable aerobrake. The concept was shown to work, but experiments weren't a complete success. However this technology I'm sure can be applied to the task of returning the second stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry#Inflatable_h...
Interesting that modern alt-space community often employs the concept "test a little, fly a little", and consider making reuseable systems easier.
I spent much too much of my childhood playing astrosmash!
The problem is, is that 'good jobs' are hard to find even if you have a good education. If you do, you can look forward to 60-80 work weeks, expensive housing and child care, and of course massive student loan debt. Very few of the things that were available to the middle class 25 years ago are available to the best and brightest today. The question is, is there anything that can be done about it, it was the period between the 1920-1980s so special that it can't be repeated for generations.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like an AI problem.
"Cost to the end user $10-200/year"

What? How have you not heard of Let's Encrypt by now?
There's a huge difference between showing children a more humane way to interact with the world, and crushing your child's spirit until they do what you want them to. Doing the latter is how you end up with breaking people to the point where they don't notice that they have emotions for a decade.

Evil people don't think they're evil - instead, they think things like "spare the rod, spoil the child". Just... goddamn, be careful with spreading that line of thinking, okay?
Well, no. Rather it's a threat vs vulnerability case.

There exists a vulnerability, because the Peach tokens (seemingly) never expire, and thus are vulnerable to replay attacks.

However, because authorization uses TLS, it's very unlikely it will be exploited, because TLS mitigates MITM attacks.
It's something that could be negotiated, I'm sure.

Personally, I'm interested in minimum vacation policies instead. The founders do reiterate frequently that 5 weeks is expected.
Servers all set for the folks who ran into the 503 :) Thanks.
VCs may not bite. Try equity crowdfunding.
This is a cute argument, but I think it falls into a trap of following its own thinking.

Video games are explicitly designed to test and fit within our bounds of conscious control and processing; particularly the retro games, but essentially all games in general have a very limited input control space (a couple keys or joysticks) and usually very rigorously defined action values. Moreover, these were designed by humans with very explicit successes, losses and easily distinguishable outcomes.

None of these descriptions fit the kind of control that an 'intelligent' system needs to handle. Biological systems do not have predefined goal values, very incomplete sensory information and most importantly control spaces that are absolutely enormous compared to anything considered in a video game. At any point in time the human body has ~40 degrees of freedom it is actively controlling - compared to ~5 in a serious video game.

I do not doubt that pattern recognition and machine learning techniques can be improved through these kind of competitions. But the problem is in conflating better pattern recognition with general intelligence; implying or assuming any sort of cost, value or goal function in the controlling algorithm hides much of our ignorance about our 'intelligent' behavior.
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3-meter waves?! For context, once those hit the surf zone they stand up a bit more. Here's what that looks like when it's breaking

http://www.surfline.com/forecasters/blog/12_foot1.gif

(source: http://www.surfline.com/surf-science/wave-heights---forecast...)
This is a great way of putting it! It's true that many middle managers and business/sales people do not respect this line of reasoning, but that is their mistake rather than a genuine or well thought out business decision -- which is why it bites them in the end. I would take this further and say that it's often a matter of professional disrespect to pay the architect's skepticism such little heed as to override the architect's vote to constrain feature creep. Self-discipline is hard!

One of the most challenging aspects of this in real development jobs is that shrewd managers and/or business and sales workers are very good at deflecting blame and creating political situations in which they are able to pretend to have supported the "right" choice no matter what the outcome.

So, very often, when features get hacked into the system against the architect's advice and it predictably causes untenable debt growth and parts of the system fall over, what is the first thing you hear? That it is the engineers' fault for not building the system correctly.

It's very rare that an architect can successfully communicate the problem of excessive feature growth and convey after a system failure that it was not really the engineers' fault, rather the fault of everyone forcing their poorly conceived features to take priority.

In a healthy development environment, everyone should be hearing "no" very, very often when asking to add features, especially when they come to you as if it is a big emergency that some market phenomenon mandates that the feature must be added right now.

If you find yourself in an environment where your employer does not empower you, as a developer, to say "no" in that situation definitively, then rather than trying to fight any blame wars about whose fault a system failure was, just get your resume ready and leave. There's no need to put up with that sort of poor engineering culture, and plus, wouldn't you rather put your name on something of quality instead?
This is someone's blog, not a peer-review journal. And sure, that someone is a researcher and thus you might want to hold them to a peer-reviewed journal standard in their blog posts.

Personally, I appreciate the amount of time that clearly went into writing this blog post and the information shared therein. Most of what's shared on Hacker News doesn't go into the depth of this article.
The parent specifically asked for legroom. You're correct that there's no additional shoulder room. As a relatively tall person, the legroom is nice. I basically never use a laptop in flight.
Anyone else notice an attitude that people who disagree with pg are just too dumb to understand?
That isn't what this article is about
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"availability heuristic", not a bad stab, yes Internet is slow today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
I've been a developer for about fifteen years, and for the past four I've been dealing with progressive bilateral hearing loss related to an autoimmune condition. It's been a struggle to adapt, and one of my big fears is if I have to move between companies whether I'll be able to get past the easy discrimination that can happen in the hiring process. My current company has guidelines for assisting impaired employees, but it's easy to get weeded out in an interview just because the interviewer doesn't like you.
Note that employers aren't allowed to measure and discriminate on IQ, but they are allowed to look at which college a candidate went to. Colleges, on the other hand, are allowed to measure and discriminate based on SAT score, which is highly correlated with IQ.

And since college education is mostly a positional good (it helps you compete against people with worse education for limited jobs), there's a pretty fantastic charitable opportunity for an enterprising lawyer to start suing employers over requiring or looking at college degrees.
Wingsuit flyby of Ball's Pyramid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqQrWWpcT0I
Success is whatever provides an individual with a consistent feeling of happiness and fulfillment in their life.
This story resonates with me.

Here in New Zealand, we have many native species of birds, insects, frogs, lizards and the like that thrived when our islands were cut off from the rest of the planet, but that have become extinct, or are in imminent danger of being so due to introduced predators such as rats, stoats, hedgehogs, ferrets, cats etc. etc.

It leads to the bizarre situation that conservation here is largely about killing things.
It's called "Last Place Aversion": http://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140116142/avoiding-last-place-...
How to generate a sine wave in Golang
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I wonder if they've considered side curtain airbags to catch the rocket once it's really close like that, sort of like Amazon traps your item in 3 or 4 of those big bags, instead of lots of bubblewrap.
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Physics and Math aren't in demand the same way high programming ability is.

"Both supply and demand matter, and the vast majority of coding is something the average person could be trained to do, especially given how accessible the resources required to learn are."

This is wrong. Passing an interview like Microsoft's or Google's requires a very high IQ. They are designed that way for a reason. http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2007/02/its-all-about-brainpower...

The average person isn't nearly as smart as you think, probably because you mostly interact with people in a restricted range.
For example, have you taken the SAT and do you remember how easy it was? Training, on average, fails to significantly improve SAT scores. http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2012/02/test-preparation-and-sat...

If you think the average person can solve highly g-loaded algorithmic problems by practicing you are delusional. Most people could practice 16 hours a day for years on end and they would still do awful. Even for the more basic programming stuff, the performance of a higher IQ person is usually far, far better.
At the time that was written, only the frontends did TLS---remember, there wasn't universal strong encryption or authentication within Google's back-end until after the Snowden leaks.
Square Enix creates Final Fantasy-inspired ads for Louis Vuitton
Going off the tangent a bit but: did the original article actually talk about WhatsApp in the context of "going up/going down the stack"? Or, did it just appear in one of the subtitles?
> Very few of the things that were available to the middle class 25 years ago are available to the best and brightest today.

This is such millenialist bullshit. Overall people are better off now than ever before. Yes, there are problems now, but there have always been problems. 25 years ago, the internet was unknown to the general public. Housing is more expensive, but food and clothing are cheaper, something these statements usually ignore. Civil rights for women and minorities are better - advances there far outweigh erosion in places like intellectual property. The further back you go, the better life is today. Remember when women were legally paid less than men for identical jobs? Remember being conscripted against your will? Remember when being visibly pregnant in public was a source of shame? Remember when you had to ensure you had all your food shopping done by a certain time, because shops were only half open on Saturdays and not open at all on Sunday? Remember how expensive appliances were, and that you actually had to take the time to go into the store to talk about the issue rather than ring a number or look online? Remember how time-locked (and expensive!) entertainment was, and none of it was 'on-demand'? Remember the fear of living under the nuclear umbrella and Mutually Assured Destruction? This last one has been replaced somewhat by nebulous 'terrorism', but the fear of our western democracies being literally overrun by a terrorist military doesn't really compare.

Remember when 'good job' meant 'regular pay packet', and not 'comfortable work in an office that you like'? The 'good jobs' of yesteryear were more gruelling and less fulfilling than the 'good jobs' of today. Want cheaper childcare? Then stop outsourcing to professionals and shame working women back into the home, because that's why childcare was cheap in the old days.

It's become more and more prevalent in the past couple of years to look at student debt and housing costs and simply declare that life now is worse than previously, without actually looking at what it was like to live in past days in an overall sense. Cherrypick a data point and declare that life is worse now. Yes, there are problems today, significant problems, but that doesn't mean life in previous generations was a breeze.
That's impressive, but seems more like filtering. Taking the top 15 students in a high school and teaching them calculus doesn't prove that one can make people more intelligent through education, as 15 out of thousands is a huge filter - though still helping those kids was very nobel. As for the higher numbers later in his career, you have to imagine that with his fame intelligent students from other districts were likely filtered to his school. I also don't see a pass rate for the later years.

I've investigated many of the claims that one can teach intelligence. From Dual-N-Back to Head Start, they have all proven to have negligible effects on future outcomes and no effect on measured G. I think there are also pretty solid theoretical reasons to think that "learning how to learn" is not possible, as intelligence is that capacity that enables you to learn, you are strictly limited by your intelligence even when learning how to learn.

There is also increasing evidence in the literature that the theorized transfer effect (that learning one skill increases your capacity to learn other unrelated skills) does not exist.

These are not conclusions that I relish; I advocate them because I think they're true. Better a bitter truth than a sweet fiction.
There's a big gap between high school and a full bachelor's degree. AA degrees, trade schools, etc. Agreed that mindless automated jobs are a dead end.

I'd like to see a 2 or 3 year trade school for programming and other useful trades - with low costs. Something suitable for people who aren't interested in higher ed, but do want a decent trade in life.
They now have a separate process for FE developers