skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing the fact that they were offering better service than the discount airlines but at the same price. It was the only way to compete when most people who travel infrequently purchase strictly on cheapest price. In effect they were offering a better service than people were paying for because they had to.

Now they are finally updating their seating and policy to be in-line with what the discount airlines offer. So they aren't charging more for economy. They're pricing it inline with the level of service you get, something they weren't able to do before.
Will implement soon :)
We can start with the ones crying about a shortage of programmers and engineers (read, ones that think the cost of employees is too high). If you can impart a skill for $X at a discounted salary of delta(Y) so long as X ~ Y you're breaking even or making money over the the 1-2 year time frame the average person spends at a job.

Note this is how finance has been hiring line engineers for years.
> This allows patents that are not being profitably exploited to lapse early

It also allows larger companies to sit back, and wait out small inventors to "give up" on a patent (due to it becoming too expensive to renew) that they are trying to sell to these same companies.

You might ask, though, why would somebody invent something that they didn't then market and manufacture themselves? Well - it happens, more often than not: Some inventions are created by hard work, sometimes at a large expense to a lone inventor, sometimes not, or a prototype or model can be made to illustrate the invention (which I don't think is a requirement anymore (?), but used to be) - but a full-scale implementation is beyond the inventor's finances or capabilities.

So they try to shop the patent around to companies or investors to get it to market. Sometimes, they succeed - and they sell it or otherwise license it out - and make a lot of money in the process. But often, these other parties just elect to "wait it out" - for the whole 20 years of the potential patent life if needed. In other words, rather than help someone else gain from their hard work and idea(s), and bring something to fill a possible need to market, they would rather "save that money" and wait it out - then when it expires, suddenly "bring a new device" to the market (perhaps even with their own extra patented bits attached to foil others!). All of this is legal, of course - nothing says these companies -must- purchase or license patents - but I personally find it a distasteful side-effect.

I posted another comment earlier on this - about something which happened in a similar manner to my brother-in-law. In his case, his up-front costs consisted of not only creating prototypes, but also having to create them by having a company manufacture plastic injection-molding molds for these prototypes - this wasn't cheap then, and still isn't cheap today. Today, though, it would be easier and cheaper for him to just 3D print his prototypes - but that wasn't the case back in the 1970s when he was working on his invention.

Between those costs, and the costs to patent and renew the patent over its life, he only broke even (roughly) after settling out-of-court with Bell when we found them infringing on the patent by importing infringing devices from a Chinese-based company (we were in a Walmart one day, and saw them being sold in the store).
For all the startups I've worked with, it's a real person (or persons) behind the chat, usually founders. The greeting is pre-set but all conversations are real.

How do founders have time for that? Not many customers use chat, but the ones that do are valuable. As pg says, all early stage startups should just be writing code and talking to users, so founders make it a high priority to reply quickly!
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Time will tell if they did a good job. You could have said the same thing about the DAO before that collapsed.

"Oh, they made an investment platform without any of the hassle of traditional investment platforms". Then someone found a bug, and poof it's all up in smoke.

The danger of ethereum right now is that it's really easy to get something incorrect and broken operating at full capacity on the network. It's really hard to write secure programs, and when money is on the line there's a juicy bounty for anyone who finds a mistake.

It seems like a significant competitve advantage but I don't think any serious product, idea, etc should be developing on ethereum while compiler bugs are still regularly being discovered, and while best practices are still regularly being updated.
Yeah I was just using "First Class" as an enhanced level of service where you can expect a bed, decent food options served on actual plates and other niceties like a comfort kit and other things.

I think they called it "Business First" before they switched to "Polaris".
You argued that the Huffington Post won a Pulitzer to try to refute the fact that their top content is clickbait trash such as "Fitness Star Proves There's Nothing Wrong With Stomach Rolls". Stating that the Huffington Post won a Pulitzer to refute that its content is mostly clickbait trash and suggest that the amount of Pulitzer-worthy material is the norm is disingenuous at best.
Pony: http://www.ponylang.org/
New things I plan to pay attention to:

* Rust, for it's a sane replacement for C and C++.

* Elixir, for it's more consistent than Erlang, running on the same battle-tested VM.

* Clojure, because any JS code I write now gets transpiled anyway, so why not use a nicer language with a nice standard library?

* Crystal, because it might be a faster and safer Python replacement.
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Oh my, just had memories of a much younger me reading these in horror back in the day:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness
HERE maps integrated in Car nav is good enough for most of my uses.
It has value. And thus you can sell it or borrow against that value. The alternative of renting does not maintain value. You pay to live there for a month and then at the end of that month your value disappears.

It is true that a house has its downsides and requires more effort. That is true of most anything with value.
There is a middle ground, using electron + per-site customization. HN user megous got a bit of attention when he teased a bit more detail two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226170
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I travel enough where it only makes sense to use a domestic carrier. United is the most convenient for me so that's that.

You're right though, airlines like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic are quite a bit more nice. United treats me pretty well as I have the highest status, however.
I recently got into TypeScript, if that counts. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I'm running into some annoying things as a beginner:

* For many third-party libraries, needing to write `import * as Something from 'some-package'` instead of `import Something from 'some-package`.

* Not being able to import non-TypeScript files, further fragmenting my import style by needing to write stuff like `const styles = require('./something.scss')`.

* Module resolution in general seems to be close enough to ES6 that I'm usually okay, but different enough that I sometimes get really confused about why something doesn't work.

* There are tons of incorrect type definitions in the DefinitelyTyped repository. A common thing for me to do is: 1) `npm install --save-dev @types/some-package` 2) notice that my app no longer compiles because a method supposedly doesn't exist 3) `npm uninstall --save-dev @types/some-package` 4) move on with my life, because the method does indeed exist and my code works. Once I have more experience, I'd like to contribute to the repo to fix these errors, but the repository itself is GINORMOUS. 1k+ issues, 3k+ contributors, 25k+ commits, and 87 open pull requests right now. I have to think that there's a better way to manage types of third-party libraries.

* I find the docs very difficult to read.

If someone has a good resource for learning TypeScript, I'd love to know about it! Specifically, my pain points are module resolution (as you can see) and types beyond the basics. For example, I recently tried to make a React component where the props could be some custom things I wanted, PLUS all the fields of HTMLAnchorElement. I tried, but couldn't figure it out, and eventually switched the props type to `any`. This is less than ideal :(
I feel like this is a situation where developers are looking back to an internet that doesn't exist anymore. In 2002, there were 665 million internet users, now there are 3.4 billion and growing [http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/].

If we were still stuck with terrible standards implementations and lack of processing power, I would side with the "Lets do everything on the server again!" argument, but we're not. For most use cases only privileged information has the requirement of server processing, and if thats not a requirement, why not take advantage of the device requesting the service?

Set aside the 5 second delay user experience annoyance, and realize that as a business there is no way to scale your services profitably without offloading as much work as possible to the web client.
elder-care cannot possibly be a solid basis for the economy. they are not in their working years and are not (on the average) contributing positive sums to GDP or tax revenue.

there is a humanitarian case to be made for improved quality of life for elderly people, but I can't imagine that there is a reasonable economic case to be made for it, unless you're arguing that the elder-care industry is just an elaborate substitution for more traditional methods (inheritance and taxation) of redistributing the accumulated wealth of the elderly. aside from that, it strikes me as spiritually corrosive to set up a society in which the young are caring for the old simply so they can pay their rent. this is a kind of gerontocracy.

It seems to me that what is needed is alternative industries that are booming because they create new economic opportunities in a generative fashion. an industry that is booming because the core economic and social dynamics of our society have gotten out-of-whack is not really much of a solid future for people facing job displacement.
"Forever" likely means it takes a really long time to do the conversion. In my case the CPU was busy. It's also really prone to failure, even for simple PS with just text no graphics, such as the kind of PS generated by groff(1) on man pages.
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Everything, including e.g. type inference?
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Just exclude countries that have harsh drug smuggling penalties from the program.
For the most part, they are backstopped by state-mandated-private guarantors (who in principle also have a bankruptcy risk), but not federal guarantees, and with fairly low limits (and sometimes at less than full value even before the limit, e.g., life insurance products on CA are at 80% up to either a $100K, $250K, or $300K limit, depending on the type of product.)
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Isn't that the point of Economics2.0, we should assume that the devs have read Accelerando and are investing heavily in lobster as we speak.
I'm using Pharo (Smalltalk) to build a web app.
No, f = O(n log n) means that f doesn't grow significantly faster than n log n. That is true for f = n log n, but it's also true for f = n. The "or better" is implicit by using big-O.

Note that this wouldn't be true if the standard said that it has to be Θ(n log n).
Common Lisp for all of my hobby programming.

Edit: Well not all of it. I'm also learning rust and scheme in my free time.
In a startup now that is using Go. It has worked out extremely well so far. Some of the pieces like unused imports are errors, and checking for error return values in the end help to keep things clean. Performance is definitely impressive.
I'm going to give to the benefit of the doubt and not assume you are intentionally being misogynistic, so here's some light reading to help clear up why what you said perpetuates rape culture and isn't okay.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/11/locker...

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-locker-room-talk...

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/13/what-did-don...?

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/perpetuating-rape-culture-n...
No, bottom line is Apple have forgotten they're a company that sells awesome - or at least tries to - and have become a company that sells branded stuff, just like every other company selling branded stuff.

That (IMO) was the Jobs difference. He wanted game-changing awesome in everything - the PR, the advertising, the packaging, the launches, the personal story, the ecosystem, the design, and the product internals.

Sometimes he got that very wrong. Mostly he didn't. But I always felt that Jobs was absolutely consistent about the goal, even when his idea of awesome was as much of a miss than a hit. (As at NeXT.)

Cook doesn't understand awesome in the same way. He understands useful, more or less, and he understands incrementally better. But he's not obsessively and addictively dedicated to making things that are unexpectedly cool and insanely great - or at least as insanely great as they can be, given what's possible. Mostly he seems to want to make money by cutting production costs to raise margins - which is fine for a company, but not very exciting for anyone else.

The problem for Apple is that Jobs was one of a kind. Not only is there no one at Apple who can replace him, I'd be surprised if there's anyone in the entire industry. The only two people who are similarly obsessive, effective and obnoxious are Bezos and Musk, and they both have other plans.

And I'm not saying that as a fanboi, because Jobs was clearly an obnoxious asshole for far too much of his life. But credit where it's due - he was uniquely smart and talented.

Apple's best hope might be to keep a very close eye on the AI startup scene and see if they can talent-spot the next major player before he/she gets to billionaire status.
There was some internet co-op type company whose name escapes me right now, but they basically did this kind of work for farmers (and would be very helpful for newcomers). The idea was that every farmer who is a member will put in their crop yields along with location, soil quality, exact seed and source, how much fertilizer, etc. All of that data is then available to the other members.

So I could sign up, go on there and decide what to plant and how to do it from that kind of site. Maybe I heard of this on a This Week In Startups podcast?

Edit: I've found it. It's called Farmer's Business Network [1] and I did indeed hear about it on a This Week in Startups podcast [2].

[1] https://www.farmersbusinessnetwork.com/
[2] http://thisweekinstartups.com/amol-deshpande-fbn/
That's fine if you have an average or above IQ. There's a lot of people that don't, and no manner of training is going to rectify that hole they start in, especially with everybody else pulling ahead at the same or greater rate.

Manufacturing used to be a solid living for those who were none-too-bright but capable of semi-skilled drudge work for 8-12 hours a day. More and more, those people are getting left out in the cold. I feel badly for them, but I don't know what the answer is. I was smart enough to go to college and get a degree in something technical, find a job and make good money. Most of my high school classmates would be ecstatic if the old jobs in the paper mills and the shoe shops and the sawmills that their parents and grandparents had were still available.
We're sharing some of our land this year to someone trying to make this concept work for them, on a spare acre we've never developed. I don't know if it is as viable as books and articles claim or not, but I'm absolutely willing to share my land to let people try.
Rust and Elixir. i have a number of p2p projects i want to get started on. i've spent the last couple of years educating myself on the state of the art for this type of tech, and i have some ideas that i think may be interesting.
because Google benefits from it
> Do you have any source for the avoidable deaths?

None whatsoever - I'm not saying that there were, nor that the failure was actually linked to the leap second, and I tried to make clear in my comment that the facts were unknown.

I was suggesting that avoidable deaths could be a plausible outcome of a CAD system failing, and that the CAD failure could have plausibly been caused by the leap second. This was in response to the comment arguing that the only problems created were software, and I was trying to demonstrate that "only" software bugs can have serious consequences.
Note also the submission about how routine jobs are disappearing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310423
> Ukraine often didn't have money to pay Russia

But Russia cut _all_ gas supply, stopping gas flow to Germany and other customers.
Nim.

Main: http://nim-lang.org

NES emulator (compiled to JavaScript, runs in the browser): https://hookrace.net/nimes/

Simple 2D game: https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-...

More examples: https://nim-by-example.github.io/

Nim has pythonesque syntax, with Pascal/Delphi roots, fast compile times, portability (compiles down to C, JavaScript, LLVM), strong metaprogramming support, seamless FFI, optional GC, and a lot more.

It doesn't have Rust's ultimate safety, although it has quite a bit -- e.g., it can track which thread accesses what for concurrency (in a limited but extremely useful way).

I'm a fan; It looks like the fun of Python but the speed of C/C++. I haven't had a chance to start a project in Nim - hopefully, in 2017.
And all your friends, colleagues, contacts, family are where you live at the moment. Moving cities is moving away from all that help.

In the Uk these social ties are too much to break away from, its easier to stay put and look for work. Unemployment creaps up, zero hour contracts drive wages down. Deprivation sets in. Its a slow downward spiral.
All those pieces do have profit margin built into them...
I wrote my first chatbot for IRC, and then later on for AIM. Such great memories!

The first chapter of my book, "Building Voice-Enabled Apps with Alexa" covers several of these topics, including XDCC chatbots, Eliza, The Loebner Prize, and a lot more of chatbot history. Fun stuff!

"Building Voice-Enabled Apps with Alexa"

https://library.oreilly.com/book/9781939902443/building-voic...
Appreciate the recommendation. I personally don't care much to be around other startups (although in SF we sit around the corner from Stripe, Soundcloud, ...).

I want decent space with good food options around and for my people to afford decent housing close to the office. It seems to be more doable in LA than in SF.
They're totally different languages. But because of safety, performance and productivity I prefer Scala.
Healthcare is not immune from Automation either.

there is huge efforts underway to replace Doctors, Nurses, etc with AI.
When I think someone's got "a chip on [their] shoulder," I try to step back and check my assumptions. If my rationale includes that many weasel words, I hope to realize that it may not be a thing that actually exists.
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Emacs Lisp. I want to port all my remaining sh awk and perl stuff to it, and I'll havee some time to do that in the coming weeks.

Also, m4. I use it together with awk and bmake for a couple websites. I plan to port awk scripts to sth. else though, I keep forgetting awk.