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>I just wish they'd give us another couple of inches of legroom in economy. Just 2 inches! Take out, like 2 or 3 rows, and expand. I'm 6' and 250 lbs, and when someone reclines in front of me, the seat is literally 6 inches from my face!

They offer this service on most airlines, it's called economy plus on United.

I love a couple inches more wide. Maybe instead of a 3-3 row, they could sell a 2-3 row. Or just make the damn planes wider.

Even when I was skin and bones, 169 lbs and 6'2", I couldn't comfortably fit in these 17 inch wide seats. My shoulders are too wide. Now that I've plumped up, it's basically impossible.

Hell, I'd just appreciate a thin seat divider that clearly makes sure I'm not spilling into someone else's room.
and strategic "leaks" and press plants are a cornerstone of media engineering by the state
ES6, does that count?
Swift and React JSX scripts (and lots of C#...which is neither old nor new)
WikiLeaks being cut off struck me as a powerful use case for Bitcoin too.

The "decentralised storage" - do you mean IPFS? So far it looks a lot like BitTorrent entirely on magnet: links, but not as good.
Spent some time reading the AI.API documentation and looked pretty interesting as a chat bot framework. Anyone else tried it?
This is just a list of links. I'd expect to read some more substance on which talks were good and why.
> That's only true if you define "middle-class" as white collar.

Isn't that how everyone defines it? University educated, cultured, white collar workers? To me, middle-class means a doctor, lawyer, teacher, regulated professionals, things like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22gCw4iDdu4
I'd like to give Rust a try for real.
Have you flown international business or first class before?

It costs a much larger premium than the space differential, it largely costs more due to price discrimination, because many fliers in business aren't the ones paying for their tickets. If you're talking about real first class (which can carry up to a 30-50x price premium on the economy rate), there's also very attentive service, nice champagne, multi-course meals made by an onboard chef served on china plates with silverware, seclusion, sometimes even private rooms. I would not characterize it as "largely because of its larger legroom".

If you mean to say that many people choose business/first because of the additional space, that's more correct. But even in business, it's more about lying flat and other factors than simple legroom.
- python: my general purpose go-to language

- sh/awk/sed (I don't really think of these as separate languages): mainly for scripting things that aren't worth firing up python for or that are easier to script this way

- javascript: for web front ends

- html/css: ditto

- possibly c: for particular things where I need more speed/control over memory than python can provide
There really are different 'cliques' on HN, depending on which subject is posted. And this one seems to be the 'not so positive' clique.

If framework is bench marked, or if people create a great CSS suite and animations, you get (mostly) constructive criticism.

A company is actually doing something about bigger issues which could positively affect the lives of many people in a sustainable way ... and we get this.

I'm not saying to turn off our skepticism and critical thinking, but at least recognize the effort and the potential of such an idea. It might introduce people who never though of farming to a whole new way of life.

It's not VR, or a new JS framework, but it has a lot of potential.(BTW I am a developer, and am not affiliated in any way with them).
I love that I'm at a company that I haven't had to use SQL. I don't know if I could even find a relational database here.

But in a classic meme sense: "It isn't you I hate SQL, it's what I have to think about when I use you." I don't want to spend my time thinking about database indexes, query plans, or other complicated bits. I just want to get my data out.

Sometimes I struggle, and I'd give anything for a plain inner join, but on the whole I like this tradeoff.
Indeed, Elixir is not Erlang.

But Erlang does have a few warts, both in the language syntax and in the standard library, and these warts are never going to go away, because backwards compatibility. (Erlang cannot hope to pull a Python 3 with any success.)

Elixir is a new development, hopefully avoiding the downsides while not losing the upsides and the general FP-esque idea, and retaining the VM-level interoperability.
Elixir and Julia. Gimme those macros!
> Further the cost of Coal is higher today largely because of artificial fees places on it in the form of Carbon Taxes, EPA regulations, etc. While I agree many of these are needed and benifitial to the long term it is this has to be factored in to the statement that Solar is "cheaper"

Depends. Fees that exist to influence direction of growth for opinionated reasons definitely represent a bias, but to NOT price in the shared impact (i.e. environmental impact, use of a globally limited resource (coal), etc) represents a bias in the opposite direction. I'm willing to bet (purely personal opinion) that fossil fuel costs do NOT fully include those common costs, and thus more than wipe out any bias represented in other fees.

I perfectly acknowledge that using "renewable" resources all have shared costs as well, and likely involve some sort of non-renewable impact. I'm just saying you need to include those costs to have an even remote chance of a fair comparison.
Consider even more traditional methods of elder care such as apprenticeships and village elders.

It is rather mysterious how we take kids in prime physical shape and mush for brains and lock them into ignorant echo chambers for years while we take wise and skilled old people with worn out bodies and brains full of very expensive experience and lock them into lonely old folks homes next door and then make sure they never mix. Its almost like our culture is so stupidly designed someone is trying to sabotage it.

You'd have to expand the concept of apprenticeship beyond current restrictive beliefs and expand the idea of teachers aide quite a bit. If all some old duffer does is make sure the kids don't tip over an unchained acetylene bottle in shop class, its still worth it if all he does is sip coffee the rest of the semester. Three old duffers stand at the table saw all day doing nothing but safety and technique critique.

Advanced disciplinary procedures are interesting to contemplate. Not so much the return of corporal punishment but you'd be surprised how well kids wanting attention can react to being assigned to work with a team of five old people. You will do your math homework alone or with the five grandmas ...

Note that this is a fair trade unlike your gerontocracy because the kids derive considerable value from the old people.

Where it gets weird is when you mix unemployed people in. Say due to ageism I'll never get paid to write code again because I'd be too expensive or unwilling to work 60 hour weeks. If welfare paid my bills would it be that bad if I did nothing but volunteer computer lab tech all day?
Lua. Combine it with C to enjoy both of them even more! :)
I probably spent $50k in my first two years on my farm.

* 30 HP tractor - $14k

* brushhog, back blade, cone spreader, log splitter - $3k

* 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse - $5k

* water to greenhouse - $5k

* haying equipment (baler, tedder, disk mower, rake) - $5.5k

* buckets, pails, tubs, lights, etc for livestock - $1k

* hoses, hand tools, etc. - $1k

* drip irrigation, raised beds, soil tests, etc. - $1k

* fencing materials - $5k

I could keep going down the list, but even just barely starting, I'm sure that the $50k number is correct.

Obviously, this package doesn't include haying equipment or chicken egg incubators or chicken feather removal machine, but I can easily imagine how you could spend $50k.
>That still only puts us at $28,000, so either there's something I'm totally missing here, or this is total BS.

Excellent, I roughly computed 26,000 US$ (actually 25,000 Euros), I was lower on the connectivity and on the solar plant and missed the water tank, but I will gladly accept a 10% increase, let's call it rounding.

Still we are around 100% margin, which should mean that the "manual" and "lessons" must be overpriced.
"Well, who cares if they're retrained. They're not inputting in the economy right now, and before was minimal at that. So why should we invest in do-nothings and laggards and lazy peoples? We'll give money to the people actually doing things, like CEOs and company makers."

--- Is that a good attempt at this new era of pro-trump, anti-worker hatred?

Edit: Seriously now? This kind of commentary is very much on-topic. By definition, low-wage people and poor people have roughly 0 input into the economy. That's not a moral or ethical issue, that's just numbers.

I've seen countless times here, of discussions on which markets to chase after (from HN viewpoint), and many times, entrepreneurs say to not go after the low wage classes - no fungible income.

This commentary also plays in to the idea that "Someone is poor because they do not work hard, and so they deserve that fate. Someone is rich because they worked hard, and due to their working hard are successful." -- These ideas are core to the Republican and Democrat parties, although the Democrats have the idea that it might not, kind of , maybe not be as true. Whereas the Republicans ran the "Welfare Queen", a known fraudster, as the eminent welfare model, that all welfare recipients are like.

I would have figured that at least some people would have seen where that kind of 'quote' would have went towards. There's quite a lot of meat up top there, with core values packed in there by a bulk of one of our political parties.
Any city building high-throughput transit corridors should take this into account. I think carpooling and on-demand, self-driven vehicles can help.

Some adjustments might include putting stations further away from each other, so total travel time decreases. If your last mile is solved by carpooling, you can go an extra block to get on a train / subway / etc.

Some transit agencies might even consider including these vehicles as part of their overall offering, especially if that replaces "park and ride". That land near stations is more valuable when developed with something other than a parking lot.
Same basic trend we saw with industrial revolution. People lost their somewhat skilled (for the time) jobs to steam powered machines. As the recent election also put front and center, we're also competing with the entire planet for jobs. How do we compete with the Terminator and the foreigner bogeyman? You don't directly. Nations build a social safety net that cushions the churn of jobs, universal healthcare so that the stress of loosing your job and healthcare doesn't kill productivity, cheaper (or free) access to entry level college education (community college), and lastly nations need to provide geographic mobility (getting from the place without jobs to one with jobs isn't easy when your bank account balance is -$40 USD). The net effect of all these suggestions would likely be a good bump in long term national GDP and growth...we could likely implement most of them using less than 1/4 of our $600 billion yearly defense budget.
Or you could just use

> Claudia Bot Builder helps developers create and deploy chat-bots for various platforms in minutes to AWS Lambda. It simplifies the messaging workflows, automatically sets up the correct web hooks, and guides you through configuration steps, so that you can focus on important business problems and not have to worry about infrastructure code.

https://github.com/claudiajs/claudia-bot-builder
What, really? In 2017? Explain, please!

You're deploying on 68K Macs?
The first remote wireless conversation
Old-Line Companies Like Wal-Mart and GM Acquire Taste for Tech Startups
+1

i am really excited about how the language is evolving. its becoming silly to use anything else on Android now.

on the server Spring 5 is building official support for kotlin as is vert.x. Reactor is integrated closely with kotlin... and the developers are putting in a lot of effort around scripting.
Done. Please check this out:

https://www.listennotes.com/search/?sort_by_date=1&q=Rogue%2...
Surgeons are but one small and very specialized part of the Health Industry, just because Surgeons may not be replaced soon (even that I can debate) does not mean the other jobs in Healthcare are as immune, GP's, Nurses, Lab Techs, etc are all targets.

the comment I replied to was wanting to take People in Job A, and retrain them for Job B in healthcare as a second career do to Job A being automated. You are not likly to be a Surgeon as a Second Career unless you are already a non-surgical doctor. You are not going to take a welder and make them a Surgeon as a second career most likely.

As such it was implied that Healthcare was a "safe" industry for people seeking refuge from having their jobs automated away. I was pointing out it is not.
There aren't any. Nobody is going to reward you for your dreams.
As I've said in other threads re high-tech farming ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13063841 ), most of these websites and startups and schemes are completely inane.

I'd bet that this one is in that category too.
Forbes 30 Under 30 2017
"The paper, called “Disappearing Routine Jobs,” provides more evidence that the transformation of work in the U.S.—from an industrial economy to a digital one where routine work is automated or outsourced and the remaining jobs are concentrated in low-paid service work or high-skilled knowledge work"

Note the "or outsourced" piece. If the prevailing wage in the US is $20+ an hour vs a 3rd or quarter of that in the developing world there is no way the average US worker can compete. While I get the automation argument, that still doesn't explain the large (seemingly majority) of retail goods in the United States are that manufactured in lower labor cost countries. Not everyone is cut out to be a knowledge worker. As much as I personally like tech, this is not going to be the great job creator for Middle America.

There are still a lot of jobs that can't be automated and/or won't be for a long time. If it was possible to automate as much as some would have you believe in the short term straight up there are some robotics companies that would have not closed down (Willow Garage), and you would be seeing a lot more traction with others doing more interesting things instead of telepresence robots and clunky household devices such as the Roomba.
Spain had to deal with major cuts to their coal industry too: Loss of competitiveness closed mines that employed tens of thousands of people directly, and entire towns indirectly. Asturias, the region with the most mines went from being near the top of Spain's GDP to the bottom third, and has never recovered.

What was done then, and it's still in progress in the few mines that are already open, was to provide amazing early retirement deals: Instead of laying off young workers, anyone over 50 gets to retire with full pay. While that minimized the pain to secondary industries, as the retirees still kept their income, The region ultimately produced less, and massive emigration followed. This doesn't make me wish for this solution on anyone.

The best solutions, which I don't think are practical in US rural communities for cultural issues, is to incentivize replacement industries: For instance, St Louis hollowed out for decades, just like Detroit, but the city is doing better lately by fostering technology startups near its universities. This is revitalizing areas of the city that were slums for decades.

It seems difficult for American rural areas to do this though, if just because of the big culture clash between the old school America and people that create companies imitating San Francisco culture.
Check out api.ai, for instance the demo in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SUAuy9OJg4
Lisp, and specifically Common Lisp although the latter isn't that old.

It first appeared in 1984 and the ANSI specification was finished in 1994, but it traces its lineage directly back to Lisp 1.5 from 1962. It can run Lisp sources decades older than it trivially.

It is a very practical, multi-paradigm language with high quality, high performance implementations on many platforms.

Its main issue is that it is not very popular, but that might also be a blessing.
You can also give yourself a nice head start by remixing one of GoMix's bots: https://gomix.com/community/handy-bots

(I have no affiliation, but I'm a fan of Fog Creek and super excited by this product.)
Assange has no idea where the info came from--that's the whole fucking point of Wikileaks, to create a layer of anonymity so that information can be leaked without endangering whistleblowers.
I really have very modest keeps - 25 maybe? The startup and idling Javascript requirements of keep are insane.
Pretty much. I think I need to read Atlas Shrugged again.
There is also the well meaning scam where they try to do something good, but have very little ability to actually execute and/or are trying to solve a problem without running the numbers (eg: gravity lights). They can end up going full scam when they refuse to pivot to techniques that would work better when the numbers come in and say their idea doesn't work.

These guys don't seem to qualify for this and fall into standard NGO scam, as the wifi/computers/etc in a farm that is destined for the 3rd world just seems to be there to generate buzz and justify their outrageous price tag. It seems like another box of stuff that will break in a year that gets dumped on the third world.
This reminds of the massive deductions the govt have for commercial trucks. They weren't very specific about what the usage was so everyone bought an expensive H2 Hummer and slapped a business sticker on the back gate. Usually realtors, appraisers, or some mobile DJs.
Does Google Scholar have transcripts from trials before appealing?
Israeli Flying Car – completes first autonomous flight
Assuming massive automation, and accompanying decreased employment and people-with-money, who is going to the bank, who is a prospective customer and who needs managed? Given sufficient layoffs the demand for these middleman jobs will also decline.

I mean, a workplace run by people needs a manager for about every five people. A workplace that runs robots needs a manager.

Salespeople only matter if there is someone with money to sell to. I suspect the direction we're going as far as they are concerned are automated goods warehouses that people buy from with self-checkout and a bored troubleshooter/security drone standing by the door. No more shoe salespeople. That leaves enterprise sales, which is a comparatively small footprint, in terms of jobs.

As to bankers, sure they'll be around, but I don't see traditional bankers to be exactly a growing field and they aren't really dying for new employees.

Nope, we're all headed towards serfdom, no two ways about it
From a contractor POV, I love these calls. The hourly rates are high, and the work is generally easy.
Snapchat has quietly acquired an Israeli AR startup
> you'll need to make a chatbot that is indistinguisable from a human over video chat

This may sound cynical, but if you could arrange a tableau, looking like someone is paralyzed in a hospital environment, speaking like Stephen Hawking, then you don't need any serious advances in robotics (IIRC uncanny valley still hasn't been crossed) to fool humans. But I imagine the rules won't allow that.
With jobs, there are big demographic issues, as well as the underlying shift of jobs overseas.

So it may have nothing to do with 'ups or downs' - just a long term secular trend in those areas.

Recessions just exacerbate the problems a little, possibly.
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Have you seen the game called Human Resource Machine?

This is not actually a joke comment -- it teaches assembly language programming. Not 6502 specifically, but the fake architecture looks a lot like 6502. You work up through a set of more and more challenging assignments until you have to write a sort. I really enjoyed it and would consider it a great introduction to basically any assembly language.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the overall accounting for airline profitability throughout history was still in the red. In addition to the airlines you called out, there's also Pan Am, Eastern, TWA, etc.--as well as the others in your referenced list.

Furthermore, a lot of international carriers have historically been government subsidized.

It certainly hasn't been a great business for most of its history.
Can you elaborate on how you've been burned? I want to integrate it into some work projects, so I'd like to be aware of potential pitfalls.
When reasoning with incomplete information, things like history of credibility have to be taken into account. US Intelligence services have been caught in lie after lie. Wikileaks has never been caught lying.

Trust is not binary. You don't have to "trust" WikiLeaks to wonder if there's something sketchy going on.
Admittedly, "Switching a whole product lineup from IBM to Intel" is the sort of multi-billion dollar deal that will give you lots of pull, pre-release goodies, and bulk discounts with a provider.

But it's a one-time trick. We can't expect them to do it all the time.

You won't, and shouldn't, get preferential treatment for "upgpraded an existing laptop to use the newest model of the same CPU".

(Switching to ARM right now could potentially allow for a nice repeat, though)
Wow.. that is a much more striking use of the "slanted" layout. Superb.. it has a little bit of "materialize" feel to it but without the cold / harsh aspect of material (imho). Or maybe Material isn't done very well in most sites / apps I've used (often times they tend to have a ton of space that's not really "white space", just badly designed empty space.. Google loves to do this by forcing mobile app layouts into a desktop site).

Also this is a great use of animations. The page is fairly static, and animations are used in interactions (mouseover mostly).

Adding this site to my inspiration bookmarks :)
I still teach SQL, via SQLite, as a first language to students, even though in practice I do 90% of my data analysis through the command line or Pandas. But SQL is very direct and clear as a language, and the overhead of SQLite is...well, light. Making an index is just one more line of code that for many datasets, you run once and never touch again.

What do you find simpler in terms of data querying and management?
You absolutely can publish stuff which is known to be false in the Daily Mail, which is one reason it's a tendentious rag. I don't know enough about the NYP's attitudes to known falsehoods to know if that's true for them or not. I would be astonished if a politically useful and commercially popular story were spiked by Breitbart because the editors weren't sure it stood up. This is common even with papers like the Guardian, who are way less fastidious than the NYT and WP.

But sure, story selection is for sure a product of what a given outlet considers 'newsworthy', which has political bias (conscious or otherwise) baked in.
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Hands down the best thing about C++ for me is that with modern C++ you can write relatively safe clean code while taking advantage of decades of robust libraries.

Yeah, Rust is a big step forward in some respects, but it'll be almost a decade before we see it catch up to C++'s incredible ecosystem. C++ is almost the lingua franca of finance, for instance.