skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AppleTV a loser?

The only device significantly ahead of it in sales is the Roku (Amazon and Google's sticks are ~the same number of sales as Apple TV).

But the market is pretty evenly split in sales and Apple still maintains one of the larger overall install bases for any of them (not the outsized winner it used to be there though of course).

"Not being a de-facto monopoly" is hardly a loss.
Smart people wouldn't pay the equivalent of a 2% sales tax to a private corporation in exchange for gimmicks.

The best part is that they realized you can keep the people from finding out that they are being royally ripped off by giving every single 30 card toting person the special feeling that they are the one getting back more than they put in.
"If crew repositioning granted those four employees "must ride" passes, could United not make the argument that those four seats were then not "available" per that definition?
"

No.
Because by the point that happened, they had ticketed, confirmed, and reserved all of the space.

By definition, it couldn't be confirmed and reserved space if they had reduced the number of available seats ahead of time, but they didn't. They marked everyone else as confirmed and reserved. There is no provision for changing the number of seats after the fact.
The number of spaces on the flight is actually fixed ahead of time, again, by law ;)

This is why united's contract of carriage says:
"A reservation for space on a given flight of UA is valid when the availability and allocation of such space is confirmed by UA and entered into the carrier’s reservations system. "

Note: ahead of time.

it continues:
"Subject to payment or other satisfactory credit arrangements, a validated Ticket will be issued by UA or the authorized agent of UA indicating such confirmed reserved space provided the Passenger applies to UA or the authorized agent of UA for such Ticket within the Check-In Time Limits"

and
"
Once a Passenger obtains a Ticket indicating confirmed reserved space for a specific flight and date either from UA or its authorized agent, the reservation is confirmed even if there is no record thereof in UA’s reservation system."

There are no provisions for undoing this.
At the point they confirmed it at check-in, it's confirmed and reserved, period.
No takebacks.

Further, there are no provisions for "must-ride" tickets in the contract of carriage.

They can't even make the argument they gave them zero fare tickets.
The CFR, again, says " A zero fare ticket does not include free or reduced rate air transportation provided to airline employees and guests."

They pretty much have no way out of this.
Yeah, I know. But something inside me feels "tricked" when the one independent thing I did is "really" part of a herd changing direction.

I quit smoking a little over a year ago. Switched to vaping. Apparently 2016 was the year that everybody did that. I thought I was just making the choice to live a little healthier, but it turns out the invisible hand of Trendy Stuff swept me up. :)
Yeah, that was my first thought too. Has Apple ever seen a single dime from the "Hackintosh community"? Why would they care about what people who by defintion are not customers want?
Very interesting..

I briefly looked over the features and didn't notice any ecommerce features, yet FINE's examples show ecommerce sites. One thing I think is thoroughly lacking is a solid open source ecommerce gem.

Will have to play around with it.
Yes that is correct. We could attempt to detect all plugins by pinging known files but that would involve indexing all available free plugins and doing around 40,000 HTTP request on the site you want to check ;) Glad you like it!
Mind sharing your build?
Thanks. I guess I worry because when you have no authorities to guide you it is easy to adopt bad habits.

No I use plain paper, it never occurred to me to use squared; :).
I might give it a try
Microsoft is experimenting with tabs in Explorer and other apps on Windows 10
You clearly don't read what you write.

> I would love to use Rust in games (I currently work in games) but it's not clear that it would work out.

There are many contradictions in your posts on here.
Also Dallas:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFW_Skylink
If they are wealthy then they likely do not care much about service fees. Meanwhile, smart thrifty people are busy churning credit card bonuses and earning tens of thousands of dollars of free travel subsidized by people like you.
How is it when it comes to OS updates?
The concept of a "company DNA" is mostly a buzzword with a fuzzy meaning and should be avoided when trying to analyze and reason about things.
That's not the definition of eugenics. Eugenics implies taking deliberate action to influence the gene pool in a direction that you believe/hope will be beneficial.
What were the biggest hurdles in getting it running?
A lot of Americans seem to have an idyllic notion of moving to NZ - often for political or LOTR movie reasons. If you're even toying with the idea, do yourself a favour and check out the following:

- Salaries

- Housing price

- Housing quality - expect to pay top dollar for luxuries like insulation, double-glazed windows, and kitchens built within the last few decades.

- The cost of a car, and the size and quality of the roads

- The cost of electronic appliances, food, etc

Completely unrelated, what's the going salary for an intermediate programmer/analyst in one of those really flat US states full of cornfields?
If only there was a means by which you could vote his comment up so as to indicate your agreement.
I just looked it up [1] and depending upon filing status (single, married, head of household) the tax on the net taxable income of $50,000 (after deductions, expenses, etc) is between $6,576 and $8,278. $12,000 in taxes don't start until $65,000 net income.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf
Because I don't believe that would work. Where has it been tried and worked?
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Amex lounge benefits are now the same as Chase, both offer a Priority Pass Select, and now AFAIK offer the same number of guests. Amex also offers access to Amex Centurion lounges which are among the better domestic lounges.
I don't know what the perception is today, but Amex used to be known for outstanding (like, truly outstanding) customer service. I had a regular Amex and then a gold in the mid 2000s and I found that was no longer the case. They also used to stand apart from other credit cards, much more like old-school bankers used to be. When I was using them they started to act more and more like regular credit card companies. There was also an ownership change at some point iirc. I think they just lost their way, and along with it their differentiating value.
Who is the person who sits at the front of the BART train? That isn't the operator?
They're both metal as of two weeks ago.
There's not really studies on the subject. The need for a human to be in control of machines that carry other humans seems to be an innate human trait from my perspective.

Humans have proven themselves to be mentally flexible by, for example, training themselves not to have a fear of snakes which is believed to be an innate fear of primates, speculatively including humans.

This means humans could possibly overcome the fear of being in a fast moving vehicle without human control, but I would argue that the self discipline needed to train our entire population not to fear these vehicles would be enough of an obstacle that they will never be realized.

There's also the human factor at play. For a long while humans and robots will be sharing the road, and as soon as human drivers learn that the robots will avoid collisions at all costs they will start abusing machine controlled vehicles. A human will reach a point where they say "Well, fuck it just run into me then" but it would be unethical to program a machine with the same logic. Other humans know they can't fuck with people too much or they risk a confrontation. I think its an open question how nice society will be to participant unable to retaliate.

A more realistic path for self driving vehicles is special segregated lanes on highways. This is already done for HOV vehicles so much of the infastructure and design is already in place. Self driving transports would use these lanes connect between hubs where the vehicles are brought under human control for the short and more chaotic final leg to their destination. This could be workable with our current highways and without scaring the hell out of anyone, but it means that much of the research towards these vehicles is currently misguided.

Sorry for posting a short and hollow response originally. I have been accused of doing so on the site before but my reasoning is to try to avoid giant walls of text like this. You're right in implying.l that such short and zany sounding answers don't add much to the discussion
No doubt, but OP is saying nothing in Fort Lauderdale (our "Salt Life") is on axis with SV, With a fair reading I didn't claim the same. Florida keys and Caribbean are
Home to the 3rd and 4th largest reefs in the world, so at minimum we can agree it's on the same axis as SV's quality of water activity.
Pillow massager
You can get really close on point #1 with some work. I've never looked into gestures, and I don't write Chinese, so I can't speak to those.
There are zero provisions in their contract of carriage for must-ride (let's ignore this), but more importantly, they cannot change the amount of confirmed and reserved space after they confirmed and reserved it at check-in.
There are no provisions for unconfirming and unreserving, by law.

So sorry, if they tried to confirm and reserve tickets for the crew, "must-ride" or not, after they checked in the flight as full (not after they boarded it), they would still be screwed. Denying boarding would still be breach on their part, because the flight would not actually have been oversold. This is because they could not have validly confirmed and reserved a seat for their must-ride once the flight is fully confirmed. Period, full stop. They could only reserve one (and worse for them, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.2a says those people, the must-ride, would be the first to go).

They don't get to just mark all the tickets they like confirmed and reserved and remove other passengers.
Otherwise, these provisions would all be meaningless :)

They cannot actually validly confirm it unless their is actually space on the plane. The only case this occurs otherwise in practice is an accident (IE ie system screwup assigning two people, same seat). Otherwise, they just don't confirm them until you get to the gate, and you are holding a reserved but not confirmed (I believe that is the correct way, and not the other way around) ticket.

This also means, as you might expect, most of their "Oversale" situations are not really oversale as defined by federal law (and they can't really deny boarding for them). They are really "we issued more reservations than we can confirm for this flight". and they would like to get to confirm everyone who really wants to go.
This is how they avoid most of the issues in the first place.

That's also particularly why when those people go to check in, they don't confirm and issue reserved boarding passes.
They tell them to see the gate agent. Because they have not actually confirmed the reserved space :)
So it's only actually oversold if they just issue confirmations to everyone who checks in, instead of not actually confirming :P.

That's why it's confirmed and reserved (for that specific passenger/flight/time/seat) and not "kinda confirmed and kinda reserved".

If you actually follow the flow chart steps the contract of carriage lays out, and compare it to with what the CFR says, they are pretty much out of options.

Now, they certainly would have done it anyway, but they would still lose the lawsuit. Again, by law, at the point they have confirmed and reserved all the seats, their only actual legal recourse is to find volunteers.
In practice, this isn't likely to happen outside of California. Most companies are not going to sue you unless it's worth their while; that is, unless your side project is making a lot of money. In California, if your side project is making a lot of money, you should probably expect to get hit with a lawsuit for misappropriation of trade secrets, etc., because that's what people do when money is on the table.

It is of course true that the vindictive or psychotic boss could always try to make your life a living hell by filing a ridiculous lawsuit, but if they want to do that, they'll do it no matter what state you live in, and just trudge up whichever allegations seem most plausible.

California's toting of such protections is really a crafty political scheme. The change in law doesn't really make a substantial material change for anyone, as it's almost never worthwhile to sue someone over their side project (and if it is, you can usually get them on all kinds of violations that are related to but are not directly "he was employed by me while he made it"), but it sounds great in a soundbite and gives the people something to feel better about when they look at their tax rates.

Aside from these "protections", the state has significant disadvantages for someone interested in running a side project or any other type of business, not the least of which are the high taxes.
Never had any problem using AmEx in Europe, at least at hotels.
Instead of making shit up about what you think makes sense, please familiarize yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
The Amex one is $550 - $200 for Uber - $200 in airline incidentals which often includes more than you think, check FlyerTalk. Net fee is the same if you do the legwork on Amex.
Does this have something to do with the credit card vs debit card thing?

Because credit cards barely exist on that side of the Atlantic.
As an additional data point: provincial income taxes in Canada are collected along with federal income taxes by Revenue Canada and then remitted down to the provinces. The sole exception to this being Quebec.

Definitely a peculiarity of the US system being less cohesive than some other countries - and also dealing with far more people and jurisdictions.
There are a lot of creative apps out there that tie you to macOS, as well as a bunch of software workflow issues—drag & drop, copy & paste, etc. work really well on macOS. Even for really boring workflows like sorting through media files I find that the stock macOS file browser is superior to specialized media management apps on Linux. Some obvious apps are Mac-only like Final Cut and Logic, and if those are the apps which you use for your creative workflow, you don't want to switch. Telling me to switch from Logic to Reaper is like telling me that I should switch from Gibson to Ibanez or something like that—it's not just an issue of features + stability + price, it's an issue of personal preference. To give you an idea of the kind of issues we're talking about here, I can't stand the piano roll editor in Reason, which is a perfectly fine DAW and lovely to use otherwise, but I adore the piano roll editor in Logic. I couldn't articulate what makes one UX better than the other, and it seems like they both have feature parity, but the differences are important to me. In other cases it is actually an issue of feature parity, like Final Cut's amazing proxy capabilities (unless I'm wrong).

Don't get me started on the poor state of creative apps for Linux in general. GIMP is literally incapable of performing half the steps in my favorite photo editing workflows (features missing which were present in Photoshop 5.0 from 1998), and Audacity makes me angry more than any other piece of software I have ever used. Inkscape and Krita are decent, though.
You would lose that bet. 12 million Americans filed a Schedule D with $5k+ in capital gains in the last year the IRS has stats on. (That's 1 out of every 8 returns.)

https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-...

There are numerous other ways to have income outside of formal employment in the US. The most salient one for tax purposes is self-employment.
It may result in the opposite effect though: pedestrians more willing to cross the street in front of you, and other cars trying to mess with you. (A friend of mine was telling me how he tried going really fast then braking hard behind a self driving car in front of him). The car swerved into the bike lane and almost hit a bicyclist before the driver regained manual control of the car)
I've had nothing but outstanding experiences with American Express customer service, even in the past few years. Miles ahead of what I've experienced with Chase and other issuers.
Yeah. Can we get a [2013]?
Articles like http://www.recode.net/platform/amp/2016/6/10/11904942/google... seem to point to Apple TV being easily outsold by Amazon and Google.
If people are bothered by that, they'll set up their own instances and fork the repo. In theory, the health of the network doesn't depend on the flagship instance.
> We further demand that you make immediate arrangements for any links to the article to be removed from the world wide web including any and all other websites which references the infringing material. If you do not do this, we will be forced to do so at your expense.

Does that... involve paying Vupen to break into my web server, or what? Because I'd love to see them try to "remove links from the world wide web".
I'm not sure they don't, but I'll grant you that it's open to debate. Nobody does supply chain better than Apple, though, and that's gotta be worth something.

If they wanted to Foxconn it, I would think a company like Kia or Hyundai would be a logical partner for them to get into the business. Apple designs it with the help of their manufacturing expertise and imposes their usual tyrannical quality requirements (maybe with the help of some employees they could score from Honda or Toyota to get the requisite quality levels), their Korean partner produces it and everybody's happy.
NSA Has Had at Least 96 Days to Warn Microsoft about These Files
I use gnome3 and think it's great.

拼音键盘也可以用。

Try Fedora.
Hmm. It might be an interesting idea to append "(2013)" or "[2013]".
Uhh Hinduism is very much a religion. If you believe the same beliefs (consciousness is fundamental, atman = brahman, etc), why not say you're a Hindu?
And don't forget this affair of lobbyists and whatnot is mostly an American phenomenon. The EU is far more adept at defending consumers, and has not shied away from drastic measures in the past.
Alf.io, the open source ticket reservation system
Yesterday, when I looked up the newest book by Juval Noah Harari, "Homo Deus" on Amazon, I noticed authorship was attributed to a "Booby Brown". This author's list had 4,335 titles on it today. I let Amazon know about it yesterday, and a robot sent this reply:

http://imgur.com/a/UyvAe
Yes but that's just how much is withheld, not your final tax amount.
If the number of available seats decreased for any reason after passengers had already boarded, as an airline I think I'd seriously consider deplaning all the passengers. But that's going to cause a huge bottleneck with a big plane so it's a difficult question.
I've used my American Express card extensively in Europe and Asia. It's not 100%, but it's not 100% here in America either.
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I thought patent trolls set up a shell company for each litigation effort, then "license" the patents to the shell, and proceed to litigate from within the shell, with the intent that if it turns out badly for them, they fold the asset-less shell, and collection is thus impossible. Is anyone familiar with patent trolls' business model, and can comment on the feasibility of actually collecting a judgement like this?
this is so awesome!

you could turn this into a MUD by just letting people in via SSH. if you supported auto-reloading your YAML files during play (or just keeping track of loaded files), you could support online creation!

I'm fascinated.
> The thing is that style lets you ignore errors in cases where the error isn't gonna happen. That's usually bad, but in games it's often fine because you control everything. The equivalent in Rust requires an `unwrap` of some kind which introduces performance and syntactic overhead.

The contradiction in your logic here is that if you don't want to handle errors, then don't design your functions to return errors. In addition, many of the larger time game studios write and use their own standard library, so they could devise an efficient 'game stdlib' where they don't have to pay such costs.
Dealing with Apple Store level service for a car that needs regular maintenance isn't going to fly. Imagine waiting 2+ hours for an oil change entry three months.
> Will it do that without violating correctness?

No. It loses accuracy. That's why it's not on by default.
Where Are the U.S. Firms That Pay the Best Salaries? Silicon Valley (mostly)
You could potentially argue it's even worse. They paid RSA to intentionally add a bug so they can't be directly blamed for it.
I'm sure you know this, but for the benefit of others: the money from being involuntarily denied boarding (in this case, the $1350 maximum) is cold hard cash. The money they offer to voluntarily give up your seat is vouchers which are only redeemable for travel on the airline and expire after some period (usually 1 year).

The airlines really hate giving up the cold hard cash since it hits their bottom line immediately, whereas the voucher is essentially "free" money.
For clarity, that's "Leland Stanford Junior University"
I had a ton of fun playing with SoundStage: http://www.soundstagevr.com/

It's far from "full-featured, professional-quality", but it completely sold me on the viability of VR as a medium for audio production.
It is a way to do it.

Today I really like tools like PyCharm, IntelliJ idea that are deeply interactive.

The people who taught me how to code learned how to code putting together decks of punch cards.
The politics of New Zealand, especially when it comes to land rights + individual freedoms, can be enlightening.
This is my understanding as well. Data structures and basic algo comes up in interviews, and if you pass that's probably the last of it too.

I never studied them originally, but once I realised it was a blocker to getting a new job I spent some time to learn the basics at least which truly helped a lot. It was also a bit of fun, to be honest - even though they have almost no bearing on the day to day work.

So I'm interested in this book as it's a remarkably concise list of related things to learn.
If you were right, they'd have already done it. If they can so easily get laws changed to what they prefer, ad-blocking would be illegal right now. It costs Google a lot of money. I haven't seen an ad on their search, adsense or youtube platforms in years.
Ask HN: Why don't cloud providers have regions in France?
Neither AWS nor Google have any regions in France.

Digital Ocean doesn't have a region in France.

Azure has at least made an effort:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cloud-coming-to-france/

What is it about France that cloud hosting providers are deterred by?
You can read about some of the problems here:

http://reddit.com/r/hackintosh