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Load factors (both directions) are about as high as they ever have been.

In general terms, you can't really have a direction imbalance - especially due to the reasons you are positing. The vast majority of people flying (either direction) is on a tourist visa. Those people have to return as well as get there, so if a flight is full headed to Europe pretty much the same number of people must return. And vice versa.

Immigration/long-term business stays/etc. are a tiny fraction of the folks on the airplane. I suppose there could be an epidemic of US tourists overstaying their EU visas but I kind of doubt it :)

You'd see a reduction in load factor in both directions if there is a dropoff of EU tourism.
This comment is either incredibly witty and very insightful or it is completely the opposite, and I can't quite tell from just reading it.
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Companies do lots of technical work to comply with regulations. It's silly to propose that they don't.
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> they are paid and compensated by a "private" person (individual or corporation).

that in itself is quite a big deal in many other coltures. I think that an important distinction should be made between security guards and private "police".

Every private "person" might need security guard, but they should not be a police force.
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I'd take the experience of working with TypeScript over Python any day of the week. All the days really; every day.
>If there were several Uber drivers near an Uber rider but one of those drivers was also frequently available on the Lyft network, as seen by the Hell program, Uber’s ride-dispatch team was supposed to “tip” that ride request to the driver who was “dual apping,” or typically looking for riders through both the Lyft and Uber apps, sometimes by using two different smartphones at the same time. The person involved in the program called it “privileged dispatch” and said Uber aimed to use that to squeeze Lyft’s supply of drivers.
[from the original article on The Information]

I think this should be the most controversial part of the program. Essentially, Uber favored its drivers who used both Uber and Lyft at the expense of its drivers who were strictly loyal to Uber.
>they've created, by law, many barriers to entry for any competing parties, let alone casting aside either party.

Do you have some examples of these types of laws?
> So the computer picks 8 people, and you call out the first four on the list. One of them refuses, just like what happened here. Now what?

You inform the refusenik that he is trespassing; if he continues to refuse to leave, you inform him that police will be waiting for him at his destination, then call out the fifth name on the list. When you arrive at the destination, he goes to jail, while the four bumped passengers get vouchers and fly later.
We store the vast majority of our data in Cassandra, which gives us tuneable consistency and high availability given its master-less architecture. Those properties suit the rest of our architecture perfectly, though there are of course trade offs involved. Each service then has its own keyspace and is unable to access the data of other services.
Exactly. The purpose of process is to stabilize things enough to see where systemic improvements need to be made. Not to follow it blindly as a path to success.
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For those interested, Firefox is also going to support a headless mode. The current nightly supports headless SlimerJS on Linux and more platforms will come soon.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004
I might be shunned for beating the dead horse, but while he talks about 'True Customer Obsession', he allows counterfeit goods erode his customer's trust in Amazon. I'd argue Amazon's 'process as proxy' in dealing with counterfeits is the careless return process. 'Oh, it's counterfeit? We're sorry! Here's your money back!' does not solve the issue. Sure, thanks for the $10 back, but now I must think twice (or thrice!) before ordering from Amazon. Once my Prime membership lapses, I will not renew.

The 'process' for dealing with counterfeits is broken. When the customer has to think about "the chances of counterfeit" or dealing with the return of counterfeit products, it's NOT customer obsession.

I respect Jeff, TONS, but come on. You're talking the talk, but you're not walking the walk.
Been using HoloLens for about a year now, it's awesome, probably my fav bit of tech I've tried since the first iPhone. It's kinda exactly as you'd expect, a pretty decent but not mind blowing projected holographic interface augmented into reality. FOV is very mediocre, and you have to put that aside to enjoy the device, but if you're willing to look past the FOV, you really get a sense for where this will go. As others have said, the gestures are super annoying. It also doesn't really fit well and hope they refine the actual way the device sizes to your head. We do software for cities, so as you can imagine there are very many places you can take AR and city planning. FWIW: I think there is a lof of VC cash deployed into this space, but I also think it's a paradigm-shifting technology and is one of the few things I feel the hype around is justified. As a side note, I went to college for digital imaging technology and started a started a studio out of college with a buddy (13 years ago) - we took advantage of the transition from analog to digital filmmaking and ended up winning three Emmys and building a 10MM rev business. If I wasn't doing what I was doing, I'd be focusing on that shift here, there will be a lot of opportunity for very forefront startup VR studios. Here is a video of me messing around with a hololens at office last year: http://john.je/iDpX
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"Bull artist" indeed.
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Great answer - I completely agree.
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For random comparison...

Copenhagen: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Copenhagen-8017438/

Pittsburgh, PA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Pittsburgh-800970/

San Francisco, CA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-92496/ (note that the entire scale of the Copenhagen map fits in the bottom 1/6 of the SF map)
I have the opposite opinion. The gesture recognition works perfectly and its easy to wear. However the voice recognition was really flaky in my experience. (Tried integrating voice into a Unity app)

There is a trick to getting the hololens comfortable, just make sure the inner-strap is tilted ~45 degrees. This might sound obvious but I observed a lot of people just leaving the inner strap horizontal, which means a lot of weight is on the nose and the strap has to much pressure on the forehead.

As for the tech, same opinion as everyone else. Idea is awesome, works great, FOV is limiting factor.

As for development, was super easy. Unity has inbuilt support, so just press play in unity and it automatically gets sent to the Hololens.

I developed for the Hololens and wore it a lot over a couple of weeks.
I imagine it's a marketing tactic to accelerate the flywheel he cares about: more awards -> more talent that wants to write/sell to Amazon Studios -> more exclusive shows -> more customers -> more awards
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> Think that's bad? Try switching back to windows. I've found it is at least as bad, except you can't edit driver source to work around brain damage. It is like staring into the abyss.

This does not match my experience at all. I've installed both Linux and Windows on a lot of different hardware, and getting all the hardware to work under Linux is always harder. Probably partly because the manufacturer took care to make sure everything is workable under Windows, whereas Linux support was usually not even on the radar. Sure, there are plenty of annoyances on Windows, like how the Nvidia and Realtek driver installers also install a bunch of other software that you probably mostly don't need, but at least the hardware works once you're done with the driver install.
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Budgie desktop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie_(desktop_environment) vs Unity
> accusing New York City of violating his legal rights by allowing the “Fearless Girl” statue to be installed facing the bronze beast, without his permission.

> Di Modica called the statue an “advertising trick”

A mite ironic, seeing as "Charging Bull" was initially an advertising trick installed without the city's permission...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull#History

That said, I am a tiny bit sympathetic to the Charging Bull artist who had the stated meaning of his art subverted a bit - I get it, you didn't mean it as a "male power!" thing and it sucks to have your work treated that way.

At the same time though, I do feel that this sort of subversion is important artistically, and allowing copyright to stifle it would be unfortunate. Furthermore, I can't help but feel that the idea that you could be able to control the context of an artistic work (not the art itself, but the environment around it) with copyright a little silly, especially for art as public and symbolic as "Charging Bull". All-in-all, an interesting case.
It is truly funny to see how instead of solving the root cause (airline shitty attitude to customers) you treat the symptoms (paying for the consequences of shitty attitude) thus making the root cause not only not going away, but make it actually worse since you are encouraging the airline to screw you.
Almost completely useless as an actual device for doing real work, but much more in line with what future such devices will be like. In contrast, the HTC Vive is useful, usable, and a much more pleasant experience all around, but also kind of a dead end in terms of design.

Get a Vive now, wait 2 years before getting an AR device.
I remember one year when the math classes I needed were only held at 8am. Combined with roommates who regularly made loud noises as late as 4 in the morning, a lease I could not afford to break, and myself being a very light sleeper... it was a major detriment to my academics.
They invented a new font rendering engine based on the rust-based font-rs, called Pathfinder. Look into it, it seems to be progressing nicely.
Pidoco (www.pidoco.com) is a great tool for mobile apps and collaboration at the same time.
It's online based, so you can share your prototype and simultaneously work on it and with the Pidoco app, you can preview your prototypes on your mobile device.
Also, it is very intuitive and doesn't require any technical knowledge but still offers a bunch of different interactions and stuff.

For me Pidoco is working best for the wireframing and low fidelity prototyping stage.
And based on the FAA's definition of 'incidents', it's from the moment the _first_ passenger embarks to when the _last_ passenger has disembarked.
I don't know if I'll ever work remotely again for a company that is out of town. I'm currently in an office regularly, so I can appreciate working from home, but I'll only do so if the office is in town. I don't mind getting in my car and going in when needed, but I don't like having to hop on a plane.
> An innovative, new upshot getting sucked up / blatantly ripped off by an established player

If you're getting "ripped off by an established player", then you know you've made it.

The challenge then is making sure you have a strategy for co-existing with the incumbent (e.g. being more nimble, expanding the market), being acquired by the incumbent, or building a moat (e.g. expanding into a vertical that the incumbent can't touch; innovating faster than the incumbent can copy you).
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I don't know maybe you are young and new to the technology sector, but theres probably more stories within tech of the big corporation copying a new innovative startup and failing than there are of them succeeding.
I'm sympathetic to the airline execs who feel this way - they're right (technically).

However, they're missing the forest for the trees. Their processes are so bad that this type of thing actually ends up happening–which is the symptom of a marge larger loss of trust.

I fly less than I otherwise would if it was a dignified experience. Right now smart VCs are thinking about how to reinvent airlines and let's hope they get in soon.
Certainly true. My intent was to say that after a year or so of using Sublime the need to consult the unofficial docs was minimal. The unofficial docs are more like training wheels than a necessary reference in my experience.
Al Jazeera's article is a good second source:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/bull-sculptor-fearless...
My? New?

But good luck having a particularly big advantage in a fight against most fellow adults of your species without using society to get there.
I meant it had a mandatory nondeterministic overhead. I even made an example with the nondeterministic overhead of C++ vectors. Come on, now you're really putting effort into misunderstanding me.
A 24/365 Apple Store is a signal about how cool and new technologically vibrant NYC is ...we need it and use it 24/365. Repairs as well as purchases 24/365.

Number of Apple Stores in Manhattan = 7 (incl. one 24/365)

Number of Apple Stores in NYC 5 Boroughs = 10

Number of stores Paris (incl. La Defense) = 4

Number of stores London = 5

Number of stores Berlin = 1

Jazz/Blues/all kinds of music, a city open 24/7 full of creative vibrancy. 40% of New Yorkers not born in USA. We don't do BrExit here forcing (legal) residents out.

NYC has a 24 hour subway system which costs about $120 / month for unlimited rides. London and Paris shut down their subways at 12:30 AM. Thus, NYC is more committed to green, not forcing people to use gas guzzlers at night.
> that doesn't work in many languages,

it does when the language has generics. You in fact wouldn't need 2 types []fooint and []Fooer but a single List<T Fooer> , as long as fooint implements Fooer.

So with Go you end up writing functions that convert types manually. The 1000's time you do this, it starts getting a bit tiresome.
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Not sure what it offers over just using SolusOS, to be honest (Solus is the main OS that develops the Budgie desktop). Existing Ubuntu packages, I guess?
I say great for the teachers who found a way to make some well deserved extra money for all of their hard work.

The thing that makes no sense is the need for it in the first place. The constant changing of books for the curriculum forces everyone to reinvent the wheel for their lesson plans. So much wasted time and energy that the teachers could be spending actually helping children and being more satisfied. This isn't cutting edge ML research at MIT, it is helping 3rd graders learn about planets, etc.

Why isn't this done at the state level Department of Education? Here is the playbook, follow it and add/adjust as you need to based on your students. Huge time and money savings for all. This is easy to solve with some political will and give-a-shit.
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Is it worth it ? If not doing already, do you intend to do it ? I am asking because I am considering it but not sure what others have to say about it so far.
> There is async lag to fsync in-memory data to disk, which is configurable, but obviously this is a trade-off with RAM based operations like any other database.

As a VoltDB dev, I don't accept this. Performance and sync disk persistence for every transaction don't have to be mutually exclusive, they just require the right architecture and engineering work. We get our speed from memory-centric data structures, and by never waiting on disks/users in a transaction. Doing batch commits (fsyncs) to the WAL every few MS means you can keep your throughput very close to an async thoughput without trading any persistence.

I'm not sure how exotic VoltDB is, but I agree it's a different animal than MemSQL. VoltDB is focused on transactional and operational workloads, while MemSQL is more of a pure analytics play. It has "transactions", but with weaker guarantees all-around. We take our guarantees very seriously (see Jepsen https://aphyr.com/posts/331-jepsen-voltdb-6-3).

VoltDB does do "real-time analytics", which we typically define as analytics you can do in milliseconds. This leverages materialized views, special sorted indexes with ranking support, and lots of other tricks that MemSQL doesn't focus on. This enables our users to transactionally respond to an event as it happens in a few milliseconds, all while leveraging gigabytes or terabytes of state.
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> I don't really think 3-4 micro services ought to be something one can't run locally relatively easily.

To put things in perspective: There are in fact dozens of microservices running on every laptop out there. They're called "system processes" or "daemons".
meh, making what is essentially a complete clone of snapchat within Instagram hardly seems like "ethically out-competing them" in my opinion. They took the ideas directly from Snapchat and just stuck them in an app that already has a huge sticky userbase, relying on the convenience factor to get people to use it.

Totally made up and arbitrary example but it would be like if Starbucks started serving some widely popular menu item based on a recipe from a competing chain. They already have a huge loyal customer base that's coming into their stores all the time, so it's more convenient for these people to get this new item at Starbucks since they're going there anyway, but Starbucks didn't come up with the idea or recipe, they just saw that it was popular elsewhere and knew they could leverage the convenience factor to get people to buy it from their stores (which people were already coming to) instead of going to a second store for it. That's not really ethical competition.
Either I'm misunderstanding copyright or he is... what "artistic copyright" applies here?
Be prepared for the army of shills - this topic is one of the most targeted by shills.
I think you're being a tad dramatic here...

Facebook offered to acquire Snapchat for $3B cash in 2014. [1] Snapchat declined the offer, then went on to have a successful IPO with NO VOTING RIGHTS for common shareholders (a first). Snapchat is a successful company, Evan Spiegel is a billionaire, and any entrepreneur would gladly follow in his footsteps.

What happens now between Snapchat and Facebook is largely irrelevant, the original Snapchat team found a wildly successful exit. Sure, it might suck for the majority of Snapchat's employees if the company goes under due to competition from Facebook, but the lesson for entrepreneurs is pretty clear.

Also, one company copying another's product with no government or legal protections would occur under a purely capitalist system. A move towards communism would entail the US gov. stepping in a nationalizing Facebook/Snapchat...which is way off base here...

[1] http://mashable.com/2014/01/06/snapchat-facebook-acquisition...
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"University students go to sleep later than most people, neuroscience research shows"

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The 'little girl statue' is the artistic equivalent of painting a black mustache on the Mona Lisa with a marker. Pure artistic vandalism.
I wrote an email to Jeff suggesting that Day 2 might be started by losing control over what is sold in his shop.

I really respect the way he thinks about the company and I have bought stock in it as a reflection of that respect. My hope is that he will be able to match 'focus on the customer' with 'don't sell the customer counterfeit or shoddy crap'. With their investment in Machine Learning one would hope they could train that engine to predict where crappy product is going to come from and reject it before it gets into the pipeline.
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Surely you are aware that money is not grounded in physical objects but in notional promises and contractual relations. I certainly support the use of any software that enriches me at your expense, since you seem willing to do the same to me.

The flaw in your argument is that you think because mp3 files are copyable that technical reality obviates any moral right of content creator in deciding who they sell to and under what conditions. Since you don't think that content creators should be able to contractually or legally bind people from making copies, why should I care about your equally notional property interest? If you feel somehow diminished by my helping myself to your property, well just make more and sell it or something. It's not my problem.
> This is boat allocation on Titanic all over again.

Contrary to James Cameron's abominable film, boat allocation on the Titanic was quite fair. One's odds of survival were better in First Class, but this was likely due to First Class passengers being closer to the life boats. Notably, women & children had a markedly better chance of surviving than men, despite not being notably 'privileged' in early 20th century society.

C.f. http://blog.minitab.com/blog/real-world-quality-improvement/...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14068253 (135 point, 4 days ago, 19 comments)
I always wondered why Uber showed fake cars on their map. I remember them citing "technical" issues which seemed suspicious given that it's not a hard problem, and Lyft actually shows car locations. I wouldn't be surprised if the fake cars came about as a result of the Hell program when they realized car locations could be used against them.
> my next fear is being confronted by strangers

Don't make eye contact, eyes straight ahead, walk with a purpose.
I remember my freshman year at Clemson my dad suggested that I retake calculus even though I already had the AP credit because it would be an "easy A" for GPA sake. It was 8am 4 days a week.

After the first test was failed for not showing my work I dropped the class. My grades in every other class went up after that (next class was closer to 11am) and I never took another 8am class during college.
The addition of the girl makes it look like the bull intends to go after her, that's kind of a troubling thought and it does not respect the initial artistic intent of the bull statue.

"financial resilience" becomes "confronting women"? wow.
In my experience, it can be hard. For some people, it's easy to emotionally accept that you have to be gone at work all day but very hard to process the fact that you're right there and can't always instantly turn off and interact with them. Your family/SO needs to feel like you care about them, and you need to be able to settle comfortably into work without feeling like you're going to be interrupted constantly. It's a really knotty problem.