skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of private aircraft owners in the US (immediately addressable market) is around 300,000. Overall global market is somewhat larger, but not tremendously since aircraft ownership per capita is MUCH higher in the US than any other country.

On the downside, too, the market size is admittedly shrinking slowly. Private aviation is generally less popular than it was, say 15-25 years ago (likely the result of increasing costs and regulations).

There are upsides to the aviation market, though, that may help outweigh its size: A) upscale/luxury/wealthy market - costs for everything are staggeringly high, so premium pricing applies; and B) aircraft enthusiasts are typically technology-driven and likely to be early tech adopters.

In terms of applying the software to other markets, which may be larger, we've given this some thought as well. While car/truck owners (or fleets) might benefit from this type of application, there are existing software solutions aimed at solving the problems of roadgoing vehicles.

Likewise, aircraft are fundamentally different from a regulatory standpoint. Failing to perform periodic maintenance can be illegal - and lead to fines, censure or losing certifications/licenses altogether… yet nobody is going to be arrested if they fail to change the oil in their Toyota every 5k miles.

Plus, aircraft are somewhat unique in that records and scheduled maintenance are all based on # of hours (not on mileage as in the case of cars & trucks). I have heard suggestions, though, similar software might be applied to "heavy equipment" - like bulldozers and cranes - which also have hourly logs. Market penetration seems much easier for aircraft, though, since the aviation community is smaller, more consolidated and more tightly-knit.
What if that already happened/happening/happenwhen
correction:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DQ5i1I2CQMn0RVLktwFKb8XE...
Personable != respectful.
I saw that a few times actually, but only when the idiot firing the thing didn't pull the safety pin out of the warhead. The RPG is surprisingly safe when you neglect to remove the safety and will happily fire, but not explode in that circumstance. It was around the height of the Fallujah offensive we saw that happen.
NY regularly sends police to the homes of the recently deceased to take their guns, denying heirs ownership thereof.
Berkeley CS bends to common usage, instead of holding to its own pride? Scheme is such a simple but deep language, and is really good at introducing all the concepts. It is aged, like a good single malt whisky. Now they try to serve fruit punch?
Actually the level of difference varies between jobs substantially. Many low-skill jobs exhibit little-to-no differentiation between workers (it's hard to be much more efficient as a security guard, for example).
Exists already: http://www.tripaya.com/
These kids are Hysterical
You will find some elements of an answer to your question in http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/index.php?view=overview where you will find links for a more precise introduction. In the previous workshop, http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/alphawiki_2/, you should find numerous examples of math calculus, web design and not only math markup, even if math markup can be easily built on the language. You can even play with lambdatalk in a console, http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/index.php?view=console, or install your own copy in your web account (simply running PHP)
You are welcome in lambdaway
I suppose you were either there and knew what it entailed or are clear on your facts? The Soviet Union at one late stage [...]

I think you missed the point. As long as there was still socialist idealism in the hearts of a sizeable proportion of the Western population, there was always the fear of a revolt in your factory or even country. So, people with capital had to keep their workers happy.

Now that virtually everyone in the West believes in the capitalist doctrine, not making it means that you are just a sucker who did not work hard enough, did not make the right choices, etc. So, you don't protest, you just work harder.
It was broken much, much earlier. At first you required an external device (special cartridge) or hardware mods, but there was a software exploit via the web browser for over a year now.
Fiat money can be created out of thin air. Value cannot. Printing money and introducing it into circulation just imposes a hidden tax on other people. It doesn't address the issue posed by the OP.
Isn't that clever?

Of course it is. Land is above "sea level" and all that.

(Except when it's not, but in the whole macro sense land must be above sea level)
> none of these things have any impact on the ability of a reader to understand the writer's intended message

I disagree, I've encountered several instances in corporate communications where the use of then instead of than has completely changed the meaning of a message.

Imagine writing a compiler that spent much of its parsing time trying to infer what the programmer meant, instead of enforcing a syntax and getting-on with the task of translating to machine code. It would be an enormous behemoth that would take much longer to do its job than necessary.

Yet, strangely, those programmers who don't care much about grammar seem quite happy to adhere to arbitrary programming language syntax. Why is that? Why don't they force compilers to just accept their possibly-incorrect inputs with the excuse 'you knew what I meant'?
Ok, maybe 'Developer' wasn't the best term, what I really meant was that those products are for people that are somewhat technical oriented.

For example, I see from your submission history that your are probably a biochemist [1] and also that you know what is a regular expression [2] so I guess that you know how to program to some degree, and that if you wanted you probably could make your own crud app.

The majority of people that I imagine using my product dont't know nor want to know how to program, let alone what a regular expression is.

BTW, im still interested on what you meant by 'start application first and not try to theorize it' :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863718
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11024116
I went through that survey too. But self-reported surveys run a huge risk of bias. The respondents sometimes say what they think you want them to say.
Airbus thinks it has found a way to alleviate jet lag
And here is the solution using Picat, using the included sat library: http://picat-lang.org/exs/bqueens.pi
I hold a similar, not exact, position as you. Namely, the trickle down is bullshit part.

But reading your comment made me think and question. The mega-elite's capital is growing due to their investments and it's showing no clear signs of slowing down [1]. How are they continuously extracting income of the middle and lower classes (and upper too)? How are they feeding their wealth at a mostly positive rate? Insider trading isn't enough to answer this question. Nor is stagnant wages because some sectors are paying well.

I think if economists can state how the wealthy are getting wealthier, in a granular way, then maybe the masses can find a better way to fight back. I.e. there is excessive profits to reap and only the wealthy are finding it, let's expose it and use it to the masses advantage.

[1] The great recession is a clear sign where the mega-elites came out with MORE wealth than before the bubble.
> logical, clear-thinking

To what extent?

So in technical terms:

> I recognize that if my wife is emotional and needs to vent,

Signal processing? Capacity management?

> that the best way to improve her mental state

State change management/processing?

But psychological thinking has it's very strange non-mathemalical logic... and vocabulary ;)
I think the logic was that comprehensions should replace map and filter for most cases.

[fn(a) for a in seq]

for example or

[a for a in seq if pred(a)]

and so map and filter are 'old'-style and deprecated. But I have to agree, I think that's not a clear benefit. For example

map(fn, seq)

and

filter(pred, seq)

are clearer. Once you get more complex, however, the comprehension syntax does shine.

Comprehensions don't help at all with reduce, of course, which has been tidied out of __builtins__ now.
I wonder what Dijkstra (if he were still alive) would have to say about this.
This is truly sad. Wonder what effects on the larger ecosystem the death of this amount of coral will have.
I'd give a simpler answer - because it looks like a kid's handwriting.
The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret
It says "painkillers" -- a very general term -- but the study was on acetaminophen (tylenol). Obviously the results don't directly hold for aspirin, ibuprofen, etc. Although, it would be interesting to do a similar study of other painkillers.
This was a really long, un-needed technical way of saying "it was cool once but it got tired with the times."

Just because this designer thinks that Comic Sans sucks, doesn't mean it didn't have a place all those years ago.
There is a whole lot of climate change evidence coming out that is terrifying.

At what point does this become so scary that something happens to increase the taxes on fossil fuels so that consumption will go down?

Falling renewable prices are not enough, and use-based taxes are the single best way to let individuals make their own decisions about what/how much to use.

Carbon credits are a good market-based solution too, but it seems likely that people and industries will try to game the system.
A demo using the WebUSB API with Arduino:
https://github.com/webusb/arduino
Yet ironically, the power derived from that wealth does not exist on paper, but is nonetheless very real.
My dad's eng degree is in electromagnetic mechanics . He graduated just as mechanical relays (actually analog computer controlling a relay) in the power grid were being replaced by electrical ones.

A few interesting things he points out:

-Throughout his career nothing has had the longevity of these mechanical devices. As late as the 2000s he had projects replacing mechanical relays installed in the 30s. Digital becomes obsolete and needs replacement in ten years when the manufacturer stops support.

-If a Turing machine can be implemented as an electrical circuit, and an digital computer is, ultimately, an analog circuit; then an analog circuit can do at least as much as a digital can. It's just impossibly more difficult to do.
there is no other side. its not a physical hole. its a gravity hole.

Think of a moon that drags you onto it. You can't ever have enough power to reverse moving towards it. Light isn't quick enough to leave the pull. thus it is dark.
I think you could go through the Forbes 100 list and ask "where did that money originally come from?"

You'll find a lot of variance, but most of them boil down to: provided a good or service that people were willing to pay money for (meaning they preferred the good or service more than the money it cost them).
I really don't mind comic sans. I notice it, because it's cool to hate it and it gets a lot of attention. But really I don't find it terrible.

Edit: kerning, small text readability, etc are all stretching it a bit. The main reasons are -- overuse and unprofessional look. I wouldn't use it in a resume, but otherwise I don't hate or even mind it.
It's not pedantic. It's the way it was designed. Just because people use tables for layout doesn't mean they were intended for that.

As far as graceful degradation, If I open a properly built page in a text-only browser, there are no styles. There's no real emphasis or bolding. There's just text. Because CSS didn't exist.

Now, if you want to live in the early part of the decade when it was OK to put inline styles and background colors in your HTML, that's fine. But the world evolved beyond that. HTML with <body bgcolor" is deprecated.

Because HTML is the content. CSS is how it looks. And JS is how it works.
Acetaminophen metabolizes to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM404, which may act indirectly on endocannabinoids or CB1 receptors.

Acetaminophen has been shown to have an effect on social pain/rejection as well: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20548058

It's an interesting drug.
If implemented right this could be fantastic, especially for devices like Chromebooks, but am I reading it right that this API basically brings hardware drivers to JavaScript?
> Dan Lyons is misrepresenting us when he implies that we believe that employees should be loyal to companies even though companies show no loyalty to employees.

I didn't read it like that. It's pretty clear from your statement (even taken out of context) that you expect lower loyalty on both sides.

On the other hand there are bosses that would like loyal employees, even though they're not loyal themselves. They may even get a simulacrum of loyalty, as the fear of unemployability increases with unemployment itself. (Unless we take rather drastic measures, unemployment will continue to rise. Next in line are drivers.)

Beneficial mutual relationship under Ricardo's law of comparative advantage is great, but we must not forget that some people, organization, or even countries, may have no comparative advantage. What are we to do with them? We can let organizations and countries collapse, but surely we shouldn't just let people die?

Finally, it's not clear that work is really voluntary when the alternative is not being able to eat: employers face this conundrum much less often than employees do. There's a fundamental asymmetry there that when strong enough turns "voluntary" into plain old blackmail. (As a white male programmer, I don't believe the asymmetry I face is that strong. The neighbour who works at Starbucks however…)
Hmm, head-splitting pain or paracetamol? The choice is getting tougher by the day /s
Shh, don't break the hypocrisy/circle-jerk.
Also links the video you linked:

https://github.com/milinda/kappa-architecture.com

http://milinda.pathirage.org/kappa-architecture.com/
The story of a critical information disclosure villain
It can be logical to use emotional response and illogical to only use logic.

Logic isn't a solution in itself since it always require a premise to begin with.

You can logically win a discussion and still loose the argument.
How about taxing wealth then? That way the 99.99% can reclaim back that money via mob rule.
Just to be fair, you should include labor force participation when quoting those low unemployment numbers. If you include people who gave up looking for a job after the meltdown we're closer to 9% unemployment.
I up voted you. I read RT, but their juicier bits I always look up to cross check.[1]

But I don't live in Russia so Putin can't harm me. Therefore, I'm not scared of them.

However, it is an invaluable source to know what we're doing. RT wants to discredit the West, and there is too much truthful material for them to work with for to have to fudge too much.

[1] although is disagree with you there is no western equivalent. I used to be a big fan of the WSJ, NYT and The Economist, after Syria and the Snowden leaks, they have become unreadable. Only The Intercept is left (npr gets a pass because I have a 40 minute drive to work)
HTTP2 will help, but it'll also make server-side rendered pages load even faster, before you load all of your client-side JS.
This is a fantasy. Productivity growth is catastrophically low, and over the last 40 years has averaged about half of what it was in the 30 years before - and since the crash in 2008, been slower than at any time after WWII.

http://www.bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.htm

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp15116.pdf

It's global:

https://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/

"An alarming result from this year’s estimates in The Conference Board Total Economy Database(TM) is that the growth rate of total factor productivity (TFP), which measures the productivity of labor and capital together, continues to hover around zero for the third year in a row, compared to an average rate of more than 1 percent from 1999-2006 and 0.5 percent from 2007-2012. The challenge on TFP growth is widespread across the globe. Most mature economies including the United States, the Euro Area and Japan show near zero or even negative TFP growth. In China, TFP growth has turned negative, and in India it is just above zero, at 0.2 percent. Both in Brazil and Mexico TFP growth continues to be negative, respectively at -2.3 and -1.7 percent."
You'll find that most USB drivers do very little beyond moving bytes from one place to another, so it's kind of a natural fit because it can enable a lot of convenience for end users. (Think kids trying to program their Arduino, or a web-based GUI for your ham radio... things like that.)

It's already been played with in Chrome a bit: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_usb
Can't you say the same thing about any other human need?
The amount of kids people have is dominated by whether they have easy access to birth control. Money is secondary to that.
Making Salt Water Drinkable Just Got 99 Percent Easier
Swift Weekly: 2016-04-09
I'm familiar with Tripaya. As pointed out earlier, there are a few others with a similar approach. There's no real network effect here, so I expect that 1) there will be less of a winner-takes-all dynamic (i.e. room for more than 1 player) and 2) it won't be so much about who gets there first as about who gets it right.
I think a more reasonable comparison is 4 lines of code you have to think hard to decipher but is correct, vs 40 lines of code that has a bunch of bugs and edge cases and is just as jibberish but 10x more code to decipher. Shorter solutions often encode the authors insight from thinking about the problem, and longer solutions encode are more of a history of the path an author took while just hammering on it without any particular insight until it worked good enough.
There is a recent and much discussed analysis of wealth concentration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

I haven't read it so this comment isn't an endorsement of it and so on.
Yes. Outside of some city/state/local laws, Americans as a whole do not have mandatory paid (or even, in some cases, even unpaid) sick leave protections. Every day, some Americans are being forced to decide between going to work sick and being fired into poverty.
The reason that employee:applesaucegingersnaps is necessary is that all your hard work is buried behind a login page. I mean, anyone who reaches your landing page is potentially pure gold. Sure they're also potentially a black hat, but the business is making money. Don't put in friction. Don't make the experience bad.

And by bad I think of how many people who work for tips are going to be interested in typing all War and Peace of employee:applesaucegingersnaps. The audience isn't HN'ers or investors. It's the real individuals you're trying to make life better for.

Forget about marketing. Go out and show it to restaurant servers and people who work for tips [or others who have variable income] make it good. Make it useful. It's not about SEO trickification.

Good luck.
The problem is, even once you take action to correct the cause of a headache (assuming you can tell what that is) the headache often sticks around for the next few hours regardless.
We used it quite a bit in the 90's when we ran a 0-3 child/family program for just the reason you gave.
Complaints about the carried interest issue bug me. (It's not an exception -- it's just how partnerships work.)

IMO the problem has nothing to do with carried interest or hedge funds in particular. I think the real issue is our bizarre idea that certain types of income (long-term capital gains) are special and should be taxed less. Hedge funds (and only the kind that generate long-term gains) are just easy things to pick on.

Have you noticed that pretty much every large corporation carefully avoids corporate taxes and arranges for its principals' income to be mostly long-term capital gains or qualified dividends? It's the same failure mode, minus the hedge fund.

So yes, I think Congress should fix the problem, but I don't think that carried interest is the problem.
At this point I welcome catastrophe. Nobody listens anyway so a clear message from nature is the only way.
`First, so that the device can protect itself from malicious sites it can provide a set of origins that are allowed to connect to it.`

Sounds kinda DRM-ey. The CORS system works because the owner of a URL is the person who can attach headers to responses. That doesn't sound the same in this case, as the owner of a device is the person who owns it, not the manufacturer who decides what metadata it broadcasts (though obviously working out what the UX should be is a hard problem)
Newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone
One of the things I love about stripe is it allows you to give them the raw credit card details directly (never hits my servers/logs), and they give me back a token. So I can still keep things server side, but I don't have raw credit card information in my server logs/database.
Please talk to a doctor instead and don't take medical advice from the Hacker News commentariat.
>Average rents, meanwhile, increased by 4.1% to $1,248 in the first quarter from a year earlier, compared with the 2015 first quarter’s 5% increase, according to Axiometrics Inc., an apartment research company.

So rents increased 4.1% instead of 5% as they did a year ago. Both of these numbers are higher than the rate of inflation [0]. So rents are still rising in real terms.

Can we really say the market is "cooling", then? I would think that the "heat" of a market would be measured by the first derivative of price, rather than the second.

[0]: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-inflation-rate-in-past-1...
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11445956
I am working through Tyler's free tutorial and so far have enjoyed it.
Arggh, every single time someone posts an incredible cool small piece of code that solves a difficult problem, comments like this appear.

This whole HN attitude of pristine code is killing me. This is a piece of code in a GIST and solves the problem in three lines, it is clearly not intended for production use in a large code base.

Please stop searching for something wrong and enjoy what is presented in all of its glory.
Perl being big on "more than one way to do things...", semicolons are easy to discard:

sub nextq {
my $sz=8;
(print("@_\n"),return) if @_ == $sz;
foreach my $col(0..$sz-1) {
my $row;
if (grep($_==$col,@_)) {next} else {$row=@_}
if (grep($_==$col-$row--,@_)) {next} else {$row=@_}
if (grep($_==$col+$row--,@_)) {next} else {$row=@_}
nextq(@_,$col);
}
}
nextq();
It does.

However, it's the matter of how strong that causation is and how hard are you going to rely on it. Because if you think that someone in their 30s is likely to be be significantly more experienced and wise, it also means that you should think that someone in their 50s is likely to be significantly burned out and slow.

My point is: the correlation (and underlying causation) is there, but it's not strong enough, compared to differences between individuals.
It's sad how many apps are being written lately by "innovators" and "entrepreneurs" to try and monetize already existing free services that function perfectly. Where are the real innovators and scientists who will tackle the biggest threat humanity has ever faced? Is it only Musk and Cook and Bezos amongst us?

We need to stop writing apps to monetize what is already provided to consumers as free services and focus on the big issues of today.

We should use technology to solve the biggest problems. Our talent to code and design systems should be used in ways that move society further towards sustainability.

Climate change could ruin everything we have ever built. Everything we ever do in our lives including our families could fade forever if we don't act swiftly.
Better yet: 4 lines of code + a few lines of comments.
Your words: "I think its a waste of time to try to figure out some minimal set of "red flags"

Do you truly believe there are no signs for anything?