skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Profits could have been even higher if they had leveraged overbooking.

But risk would also be much higher - as you say, handling overbooking correctly is complicated, and when it goes wrong it can go very wrong. Ryanair didn't just renounce revenue, they renounced risk and the costs associated with managing that risk.

> And some of Ryanair's tickets are certainly below marginal costs

The operational word being some. Much-fanfared rock-bottom prices nowadays are very limited, and the cost of a seat goes up very very quickly after they're exhausted. The cheap tickets are now a marketing proposition for the real ones.
This is one of the most fun and innocent memes out there. It's a great evolution of language.
Shaw Internet, Cable and Home Phone Outage Across Canada
No, g is given by a ↦ f (e a a). The expansion you refer to works because e a0 = g.
Why on earth would they ever do that? Why would anybody hire him? He may be good but he's also damaged goods with a serious trust issue attached to his name. Hire me and you'll get sued by the largest tech companies on the planet is not a really good opener for a job interview.
Southwest's cancellation policy is a big reason why I love them.
Another interesting element in Paragraph 29 is that by the logic from the analysis, if a phone company upgraded their 411 service to provide anything beyond information to facilitate communications (for example, giving the hours of a business in addition to the phone number), then the entirety of phone service could be considered an information service. This is incorrect on its face. Adding additional information to the 411 service would not change the basic phone connection service from telecommunications to information.
That's definitely not "immediately destroyed", there's operator+ being called between construction and destruction.

I didn't realize this can trigger the bug though, so if it does, I should clarify I didn't mean to include it in my comment. I was only referring to cases where there is no intervening operation between construction and destruction.
Great analysis and generally a good read.

However, to simplify, I think the biggest lesson learned is:

When you create a product at a company and use the company's resources, the IP belongs to the company. If you're going branch out and work on a related product, you better understand the legal issues first.

Also, stealing is bad.
> The burden of proof in a theft of trade secrets argument is on the plaintiff

Yes, but it's a "preponderance of the evidence" burden which means a literally any evidence for each of the required elements can meet it, if not countered by stronger evidence on the other side. "Proof" in law doesn't mean the same as in mathematics. (And in civil law, not even what it means in criminal law.)
The "third killer" is parallelism. Not all workloads have available parallelism to make the GPU effective - and some have the parallelism only in theory. I work in regular expression acceleration (obplug: Hyperscan) and have done regex-on-GPU in the past. One of the problems was that the easiest way to get parallelism for regex was to throw a lot of data at the problem, so you could have your 16K CUDA threads. However, hitting peak throughput performance with 2MB input buffers is a bit of a problem if you typical workload is 64-1500 bytes and you want the results as quickly as possible.

The launch overhead issue is also a real thing, despite some of the protestations in responses that it's not. The problem is that some computationally expensive operations are expensive and launched frequently from something non-GPU. So just because you 'have a lot of accelerable work to do in aggregate' doesn't mean that it will be structured nicely to accelerate. We had that problem as well; you might have tons of overall work that all parallelizes quite nicely in aggregate, but it's dribbling in from the network card or CPU in little units.
> time at home working on stuff that's unrelated

Name something remotely related to the use of computers that is not related to things Google does. Note that it doesn't have to be anything you personally worked on at Google (or whatever tech BigCo™) - just something related to their business.
I started using DSC early on because their marketing video was hilarious, and I was always forgetting to buy razors when I needed them. Now they've expanded out into a whole range of bathroom products, most of which are about the same price as they would be in a store, which makes it an easy choice.

When I put my account on hold, they don't spam me, begging me to come back. When I switched to every other month on razors, there was no dramatic emails or price changes. When I switched versions of the razor, they just shipped me a new handle. They've been doing this razor thing for ~7 years, and in that they haven't given me a single reason to complain. Its nice to have a transaction with a "startup" that does exactly what it says it's going to do.
That would be quite an interesting site. I put up some cash in my account and then ask a question. It would be an interesting dynamic if other people needing the same answer added money to the bounty for the answer, or even the original person upping the offer. Easy revenue stream as a tax on the bounty. That would be a fun one.
The depreciation recorded in the books may or may not be the one used to calculate taxes.
It just might tip the balance to not having the program shut down, which is what the injunction is asking for. So by not waiting until a verdict but to pre-emptively remove him they hope that enough of this sticks to Levandowski that does not directly stick to Uber that they will be allowed to continue the program. It's a hail Mary pass at best.
Apple is working on its own Visa pre-paid debit cards
I would imagine any engineer or someone who went through trade school. Maybe they don't make enough to be considered middle class?
They've restricted it slightly: now you have to notify them at least 10 minutes before the flight. But still no penalties - I really hope they don't have to do away with that policy since that's the main thing I like about Southwest.
Omg. I'm embarrassed. I was using Vultr for various Windows Servers... Not Scaleway ( sorry for the mistake)
> To make it all equivalent is...

Is your point that you think American propaganda is the truth and non-American propaganda are lies?

I stand by our earlier sophisticated conversation about propaganda as influence and perception management/creation, and how seeking truth in a world filled with propaganda needs to be dispassionately uninvolved in instinctual defense of propaganda, including that of national origin.
That link is broken
The article shies away from the fascinating question it hints: given the improbability of 92 consecutive tosses landing on heads, what are the odds that something else is at work here? (un-, sub- or super-natural forces, as they put it in the play). That is, at what point is the improbability so absurd that something else is more likely to be true? That the coin is biased. That Rosencrantz is lying. That laws of probability are actually not in effect. As it happens, this last is true. They're not. R&G are in a play, and the spin of the coin is controlled by Tom Stoppard, the playwright, and not probability. So how improbable does something have to become before you suspect that you're in, e.g., a simulated universe?
And it's twice as impactful because it's happening simultaneously with other disastrous events and sexual harassment lawsuits. News love big names with big drama.
What are zk-SNARKs?
Parity Technologies Releases New Bitcoin Client
It's all the more interesting because Google makes it ridiculously easy to ask for that permission and get a legally unambiguous go or no go for any side projects. It's not like this would have been murky waters.
21,587 Reasons to Fix Forensic Science
Or you could just short the stocks of the class B mall REITS (like PEI and CBL), which are ~8x levered.
I responded to this without seeing the full context of your posts. It appears that the crux of your position is that dispute of Russian responsibility for Shadow Brokers is likely propaganda, and jwtadvice is advancing that position.

I think that the preponderance of the evidence suggests that the Shadow Brokers are Russian-aligned if not actual Russian agents. That doesn't mean that public criticism of this is propaganda.

A reasonable person could be unconvinced about this conclusion because almost no evidence has been revealed about the SB dump. Even U.S. officials haven't confirmed definitively [1] that the SB are Russian agents, though they say SB probably are.

Please note that jwtadvice didn't dispute that the Guccifer 2.0 actor was a Russia-aligned actor.

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-nsa-tools-idUSKCN11S...
What a disaster! It's back up now, but to lose internet for a good chunk of the day for an entire country is ridiculous. And the non-apology on their Twitter feed only made things worse: https://twitter.com/Shawhelp/status/857682776190984192
OK, what I wrote wasn't quite true. The information needs to be published in a way that it is sufficiently accessible to those interested in the art. It needs to be available to the public and indexed somehow. The standard is very low though. If it's on the internet and can be found by a search query for the topic, that's probably sufficient.

First-to-file resolves priority when it comes to undisclosed inventions. Two inventors A and B both invent some new invention and both go to patent it. Whoever is first wins. Two inventors come up with the same invention all the time. The first-to-file rule makes it easier to resolve conflicts than examining evidence of who invented first, and it encourages speedy filing by preventing an inventor from secretly exploiting an invention and then filing when another inventor appears.

By the way, anyone can look at the published patent applications (which are published usually 18 months after filing) and can submit information that they believe would be relevant to the examiner in determining if the invention is patentable. It's called a Pre-issuance Submission. [0]

[0] http://www.klemchuk.com/339-preissuance-patent-submissions-a....
And it's also fairly clear that this would have been a 'no'.
Please be more courteous with your dismissal. What shows that I don't know anything about contracting in the IC, and what really happens instead?

I also thought my answer was very careful in its assertions. What have I stated as a definite fact and why was this wrong?
I've been working on bootstrapping Keygen[0]. You could set up Stripe and Keygen to communicate with each other using webhooks[1], so when a customer buys the product, you create a license for them either from a per-determined pool of keys or generated on-demand. You could also manage users within Keygen, which would allow them to log into and use your app without inputting license keys (all licenses would be managed behind the scenes in that case, which offers a better UX).

[0]: https://keygen.sh
[1]: https://keygen.sh/docs/api#webhooks
This is pretty neat. I've been using a plain Redis wrapper (aioredis) with uvloop and Sanic (https://github.com/rcarmo/newsfeed-corpus), but I'm going to have a peek at subconscious.
Interactive rebase support.
I was actually thinking of checking out a few local credit unions. Maybe that will work?
>There is plenty of room in the music software landscape for tools that focus entirely on placing notes instead of generating production-quality sound.

There's already an industry standard for that - Avid Sibelius. If you're composing in a traditional manner, a DAW probably isn't the right tool.

http://www.avid.com/sibelius
Agreed. Should be "adj." :)
Time to build out those mesh networks, make sure you are in the loop when your town wants to grant favor to one or the other of the carriers. Consider this the step... that wont ratchet back anytime soon.
Hasn't Google Fiber been all but shelved?
The Unstable Book – Rust
One day, many years ago, in a panic of "how the hell do I make this scale: I need it to work right now" I replaced an infrequently read data logging setup I had with S3... I ended up spending >$100k storing keys into that thing and momentarily was 2% of all objects stored in S3 (based on the stats they occasionally provided) before I eventually (two or three years later?) retired it; and to be extremely honest and to add insult to injury, my read access was so "infrequent" that I think I just never ended up reading it again after that day :/.
What is send-logs and what protocol does it use?
Raw unprocessed images from Cassini's first Saturn inter-ring dive
If you're building in a place with electricity, the main relevant property right holder is the utility that owns the poles and conduits (and a regime exists for getting access to those, though it could be improved). Siting things like fiber cabinets isn't as big a deal because hold-out property owners have little leverage. If one won't let you build a node on their property, just build it across the street, and run the fiber along the poles and conduits that are already there.

The real hurdles are cable franchise and zoning boards. When AT&T tried to build fiber in SF, it wasn't individual property owners that tried to stop it from building fiber cabinets--it was NIMBY's acting to get the city to stop development. When Verizon tried to build fiber in Baltimore, it wasn't property owners that stopped it; it was the city, which wouldn't give it a TV license.
Maybe you might want to spend some time with LaTeX then. Honestly, it's one of the most useful things I learned in school.
>how economically important it is to overbook.

I still don't believe this claim. A 727 seats 129, a 787 seats 290, and a 747 seats 366. That means it only makes flights slightly less expensive. I only travel a few times a year and I'd rather pay 2% more than get bumped off my flight.

Why do we allow airlines to overbook but not movie theaters or other industries? This seems like an artificial advantage we've given them and it doesn't seem beneficial at all to the average consumer.
I think that's called a support contract.
OK, so I don't know the specifics. But the major problem with fentanyl is thinking that you're buying heroin, or some other weaker opiate, or another drug entirely. If the seller is honest about what they're selling, and clearly discusses safe dosages, fentanyl arguably isn't especially dangerous.
The Surface line is intended as a flagship device to show off Windows' strengths as an OS from the makers themselves. It fulfills the same purpose as Pixel for Android, and, y'know, all of Apple's lineup.

It's not intended to sell well solely to generate profit -- it's intended to sell well so that a higher proportion of in-the-wild machines running Windows will be ones with thoughtful design, not bottom-barrel $500 laptops with a crappy 1388x768 panel and a slow spinner drive. While it's not helpful to ban those from the Windows market (and concede to Chrome OS in the process), it's an effort to re-frame Windows' role from a "default" OS to an aspirational OS, shipped on aspirational devices.

The design transition you speak of isn't happening because the OEMs and Microsoft's interests are no longer exactly aligned. The AndroidChromeOS reality has graduated from vague vaporware to an actual force, and many OEMs already reuse the same hardware for two different laptops: one Chrome OS, one Windows. As a more capable Chrome OS that can now run Android Apps -- yes, we can argue ad nauseum about its limitations, but with everything being a website or coming from an App Store, more and more people simply don't care -- creeps further upmarket, Microsoft's investment in the Surface line becomes a competitive advantage that they can try to leverage.
It already IS transparent. Every single ticket counter generally has some form of overbooking notice. -- at lesst they did when I flew through DFW a few weeks ago. I don't think anyone reading this is unaware of overbooking. It isn't some mysterious secret clause on a TOS page somewhere.
Fluentd's regexp parsing will be PITA to maintain, both because regexps only
give match/no match, which is difficult to debug, and because of how to test
new regexp set with Fluentd.

Liblognorm library is a much better choice. Regular rsyslog installation comes
with liblognorm already, though I prefer a standalone log parsing daemon (and
thus I wrote logdevourer).
I find it very hard to read traditional books now because I'm so used to being able to drink a cup of tea or eat a snack while I read. Or read outside on a warm but windy day.

I use the PRS-350 which is an old sony model that fits comfortably into one hand and can be used one handed. I recommend it.
Where in the C++ spec are implementations of features defined?
> Can this conceivably make a difference at this late stage?

If they are working on alternative technology not under legal cloud in case thet lose the Waymo battle in a way which doesn't block all future work, yes, having Levandowski's​ hands off of it makes a huge difference.

It probably makes no difference in the Waymo fight, though.
So, why does he need to find employment in the industry? If I was a double-digit or triple-digit millionaire, I would not give a hoot about is how hard it will be to find employment.
I think that those few people who rely on the newest-possible features in the compiler will be compiling with a nightly build anyway (possibly pinning to a known-good version until the next release).

That's actually somewhat a meme within Rust, at least as far as my impression from the outside goes. There apparently were times where most interesting crates required some unfinished feature and thus a fairly recent nightly build of the compiler and/or Cargo. I believe that problem has decreased in the meantime, but as I said, I'm looking into Rust from the outside only and don't have much own experience.
> There's no way to create a compile-time static type

Aren't you just saying that one GraphQL query corresponds to several REST requests?

There is the same level of typedness between an arbitrary GraphQL query and an arbitrary set of REST requests.
Postpartum haemorage: Cheap lifesaver 'cuts deaths by a third'
I admire anyone who has the patience to answer questions on places like Stack Overflow or mailing lists. I don't have that particular helping gene. I'll help you move, though.
You're going to collude with ~100 random strangers to prevent anyone else from taking the offer until it gets to the level you want it to get to, and then agree to split it somehow? Ha ha ha.
> Hell, even the definition of "System programming language" on Wikipedia[1] is ambiguous enough that many GC'd or even scripting languages would fit it.

And the definition of race car is ambiguous enough that you can take your 70's pinto onto the track if you want. In some contexts that might even be entirely acceptable. But if you look at the current uses of the term and what it applies to, and why, it becomes fairly obvious what class of vehicles it's referring to. There are, of course, more specific terms (Indy, Nascar, Formula 1, Rally) for more specific meaning. If someone says they are building a race car, you have a pretty good idea that they are building a vehicle to compete in a race, and speed and handling are important, but specific details might change depending on the type of racing.

> Newcomers faceplanting into the 10-story granite wall that is the borrow checker is bad enough, there's no reason they should be confused by the tagline on the homepage.

Then again, should newcomers come under the impression it's as easy as Python or JavaScript and when they hit that brick wall think it's just themselves, or that the language is poorly designed because it isn't as accessible? Systems language is probably the closest thing I can think of that approximates what to expect out of languages in this category. More explanation might be nice, but I think systems language signals the right things for people that know the term, or are willing to look it up.
Edit to replace first sentence: This is what I feel I really need, having just read your comment, and realised just how valuable is the filter here, to me personally. This is what I want, and what I think many would come to find they need:

Paid subscription to HN curated pay walled content.

Edit add:

This by no means has to dilute the HN culture or forum, because you can handle a separate discussion system around the curated content, to keep a clear water between HN proper, and HNdigest/talk.

I think the "brand" can handle it, out there in the wild world.

My background is in magazine publishing, incidentally. I'm professionally confident could brand and sell a glossy tech + curated digest of the MSM. Even newsstand.

I would gladly pay say twice or thrice what a newsstand glossy magazine costs, so ten to fifteen pounds a month is not unreasonable.

Cannot someone figure out a deal WSJ, Conde Nast, Murdoch et.al, will accept?

Practically just how hard is it to have a different referrer and link to paid articles, and authenticate against a HN login?
If anyone is doing this or similar, please please also develop a pdf bundle delivery / digest I can read on my ride home from work. I cant help thinking how easy if would be to pitch the adverts in that.
It seems like this steeper-than-expected drop was the only reason why their revenue missed estimates, since the rest of the earnings report looked good. Since they're aware it's because of end-of-product lifecycle, this will hopefully be a gentle push to update it more often.
They are currently in the process of moving to a more flexible scheduling system (until now they could only have a weekday and weekend schedule) which should allow them to have more profitable flights (as they dont need to flt an empty plane for 3 days if only 2 days are high volume).
Free prescriptions for all under the age of 25 in Ontario, Canada
I get that everyone's responses are thinking some big public thing. I'm thinking small toy implementation for my home network.

The toy experiment is how to do what's trivial in Node with Python. Mainly because I like working with python. I think the answer might be: Python is the wrong tool for the job.
I think there will be significant rise in prescriptions.
You wrote a word! A new word!
Then could you please explain how you interpret the phrasing "college-aged line of argumentation" used to describe the arguments against prohibition? I don't see any reason to say "college-aged" other than to casually dismiss these arguments as being childish (without actually having the courage to argue the opposite side).
Ask HN: What's a non developer interview like at Google?
Yeah, we've seen those odd questions Google asks people interviewing for a developer role. I mean, thousands of articles have been wrote about that so far.

But what's it like for everyone else who gets hired?

Because it's obviously not all developers there. They've got people writing documentation, offering support to businesses for stuff like Adwords, various sales teams, etc. What do they go through when they're interviewed by Google?

Is it as interesting as what the developers have to endure? Or does everyone else just get a plain old interview with standard questions and tasks?