skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you wake up in the morning, feeling dead inside, and look in the mirror, wondering whether you ever were attractive in any way, whether you ever had something unique and interesting to contribute to society, whether you really are valued by your boss, whether your SO is attracted to you or to your bank account, whether the point of life is at all related to what you've done with your life so far?

This article isn't for you. It's for people who answer my questions with "I have always been ugly, I have nothing of value to offer society, I don't understand why I'm still employed, she left two years ago and took my heart, and maybe nothing I've ever done in life is good."
Not recently. Costs have plummeted and airlines are one of the more profitable industries these days.
That's a little disappointing, I was hoping for an article about how rat catchers were dealing with the unique issues of Google data centres (or some such).
This response feels knee jerk.

It's been demonstrated in countless other threads (1) and articles (2) how economically important it is to overbook.

Overbooking is central to airline profitability and their ability to provide flexibility - like partial refunds, or SW's "open tickets" policy on business select.

As a consumer I appreciate these things and find them incredibly useful.

United's response of "We'll push the allowance up to $10,000" is completely acceptable to me, that seems like the simplest solution.

(1) http://www.businessinsider.com/overbooking-flights-is-good-f...

(2) https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/overbooking/
So eating establishments without proper food inspection and food safety laws is the new internet you desire? Brilliant. I'm sure all that money the Telcos save will go right back into the consumer's pocket and into increasing connection speeds too...
I had the opportunity to attend the "Business and the Blockchain" conference at Rice University this week. It was a great conference with practical implications for business. Presenters from Consensys, IBM, E&Y and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange all gave great points of view. I am now obsessed with Consensus :).

This article is a collection of my takeaways from this conference. I attempt to explain to the average business user how blockchain - and Ethereum - might find its place in an organization.
Exactly. The thing to do is to convince people you know that this is a bad idea. I think there are lots of pro-small-business Republicans who see this as a good reduction in regulation that will benefit the dynamic tech entrepreneurship sector, and who would be surprised at its unpopularity within the hotbed of exactly those entrepreneurial techies that is HN. Most Republican voters are no friend to regulatory capture, they just haven't been convinced that's what is going on in this administration.
So the bigger point here is that RSUs are worthless... until they vest (at which point they aren't RSUs anymore). So, technically, Juno is being incredibly generous by offering any value whatsoever for RSUs ("unvested stock").

Now, even more technically, RSUs do have value and are kept on company books at the same value as the underlying stock. But they don't have value to the RSU holder.

And unless you have an acceleration clause in your equity agreement (which most people can't negotiate until they're pretty senior), those RSUs expire with a $0 value. (The value of the underlying stock drops to $0 because the corporation no longer exists.)
Why is this posted here?
I guess he understood (as I did) that you meant respectively to -ito and -ísimo, not to "intensity" and "size".
to preserve the future of Internet Freedom, and to reverse the decline in infrastructure investment, innovation, and options for consumers put into motion by the FCC in 2015.

There has been a decline in innovation since 2015? How did they determine that? I must be missing something...

Propose to reinstate the determination that mobile broadband Internet access service is not a commercial mobile service...

Really! Commercial must have a special meaning here.
Not legislation, but the net neutrality regulations were published as "Open Internet" orders.
I don't have the specs either, but I do remember that in Design and Evolution of C++, Stroustrup discusses nailing down the lifetime of temporary objects. I believe it was in the first standard (i.e. 1998).
> Do you have any tips for where to find open source X12 specifications?

They don't exist. X12 specs are proprietary, not open source.
Isn't Swagger a subset of JSON Schema though? [1]

If APIStar happens to target the same subset, that's not a problem of course.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/32386131/37481
Quora has a great answer to the question:

> What is the difference between the cable-stayed bridge and a suspension bridge?

Complete with pretty graphics.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-cab...
Why are they the most likely suspect? Aside from the popular notion that they are. There are billions of people across the world who could have done this.
It's not about how many were bumped. It's about over selling seats so that when people on refundable tickets don't show the plane doesn't leave with more empty seats.

Margins in air travel are small, an extra seat sold on every flight is a huge difference, this will definitely affect revenues and profits, and will likely lead to slightly higher ticket prices. Until the race to the bottom returns and they start overbooking again.
It kind of depends, I think. I work with some really great companies who take this stuff very seriously and do a really good job. There is however a gigantic attack surface. The vulnerability to plain old spear phishing alone is gigantic.

Additionally a lot of hospitals have too few, poorly paid and trained IT staff running their in house infrastructure. This is a big mistake, but they think doing it this way is more secure.

And, as you suggest, there are some bad actors. Fortunately there's been a lot of consolidation on the EHR side that's wiped out a lot of the fly by night operations. Third party contractors, are of course another story and a mixed bag.
Yeah, most projects I worked on was doing the static creator before Rust showed up on the scene since it sidesteps a lot of these issues.
Do you mind if I send a copy of this to my representatives (Utah) as well?
The last one is best, of course.

"Why on earth did they fire a hot shot like me? They are
crazy."

:)
Which one? The high rents in SV? That would be Tragedy of the anticommons. The single resource is the land. The numerous rightsholders are the landlords and whoever profits from high rents. This assumes that zoning laws are the biggest issue and some people would argue against that.

The more general question was how free trade, where both trade partners voluntarily participate, can lead to bad outcomes. The answer is that a non-trading third party can be harmed and the environment can be harmed. Those Wikipedia links provide many examples.
Digital Sovereignty and Global Data Business
Freedom originally meant that you could deal with whoever you wanted on whatever terms both parties could agree on. It didn't mean the government regulating private businesses to ensure some specific outcome.

The idea that organizational entities, whose entire existence is a construct of law, should have the same "freedoms" as human beings is a fairly startling definition of the word. These constructs (aka businesses, etc.), by definition, are far imbalanced in perception, goals, power, and resources relative to individual humans. What "freedoms" we do allow them, are for laudable goals: so that organizations of humans can come together to do more for society than those individuals might do alone. But the idea that the same concept of freedom that applies to individual human beings also applies to a fictional construct created to serve society is preposterous. Such a laissez faire definition seems more like anarchy than any useful form of freedom.
In terms of the NatSec - which has a broad overlap with InfoSec on twitter: pwnallthethings, shaneharris, jimsciutto,
josephfcox, etc. all provide useful insight.

Broadly though, punditry shouldn't be used as a proxy for consensus.
Historically airlines are one of the least profitable businesses in history. A few good years doesn't change that much.
It's not freedom for you, it's freedom for your ISP.
According to the law, corporations are people too.
I imagine it's because those who maintain GCC have varying agendas for prioritizing their contributions.

The fact that is hasn't been fixed yet may be a signal that, in practice, this hasn't bitten anyone hard enough to motivate a patch submission. In which case, one could argue that the bugs are being tackled in a somewhat rational order.

It may be instructive to consider why you yourself haven't submitted a fix. Perhaps that reason is common across many of those capable of submitting a fix.
Looks like you meant to post this over at 14214401 (Bloomberg on why losing a job is allegedly worse than, at least, getting divorced).
I disagree with your original comment.

I absolutely agree with this one. Your original comment certainly added to the discussion, and was well-reasoned (though I disagree with its conclusion).
"Lead" is also acceptable.[0, 1]

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[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lead

[1]: http://www.yourdictionary.com/bury-the-lead
> Unfortunately ASC X12 is very good at keeping their docs hidden

They aren't hidden, they just aren't free, and the kinds of people paying for them aren't as likely to share them illegally as is the case with some other non-free content. (The 4010 versions of the standards were free [gratis, not libre] because the government paid X12 to make them available without charge to encourage adoption.)

> One place I forgot to look is Microsoft's BizTalk HIPAA information[0]. It has information about the various segments and how they are laid out.

Unless I'm missing something, it only seems to have info on the common envelope segments, not the segments making up the actual transaction set, and the information it does have is woefully incomplete.
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AmEx Travel. Seriously. Only booking site I'm using from now on. Caveat of course that membership is required.

https://travel.americanexpress.com
This mirrors my experience as well, especially flights to/from DEN. TPA - SJU is one notable exception.
I want time management coaching from him.
That doesn't mean the same will happen if you deregulate the US. Most ISPs are already monopolies. Where would the competitors come from?

ISPs in countries like Romania blossomed because many small providers were able to compete with each other from the outset. In the US, the initially fragmented market (the "Baby Bells" etc.) have congealed into just a few major players that have no incentive to compete.
A shift in the hunt for alien life
Kops, AWS, and terraform
Yeah this doesn't make sense to me either. I'd not be happy to get fired, but it happens.
However when I got dumped by the woman I was ready to propose to, that took some getting over.
This article just seems off?
Owners of the existing supply, especially oligopolists, telling the city council not to build any new supply.
Except that there are other languages like Go, Crystal, D, Nim that all offer memory safety ( thanks to there GC ), with a light GC ( like reference counting ). And based upon the same benchmarks that Rust in participates, they are close or even faster at times, with close or better memory usage.

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
> The above might be one of the better descriptions of what it can be like to be a hedge fund manager.

Or more likely, being on the staff of a hedge fund. I doubt the boss normally does all the walking tours personally.
This seems to be a common theme in this administration to "restore freedoms" to corporations with bald-faced lies that they restore freedoms to individuals. The current rhetoric surrounding the recent order to review many national monuments is steeped in very similar twisted logic - that somehow the land needs to be "returned to the people". But wait, wasn't that national monument set aside exactly for preserving a small chunk of pristine wilderness for "the people"?
It's almost like one should consider climates when undertaking architectural design projects...
What about quitting?
Does 3Scale even support subscriptions/recurrent payments?
Were there really any groundbreaking revelations out of the leak? I didn't think so.

Couldn't it be to their advantage to purposefully leak a bunch of outdated and not-so-special tools (i.e. Notepad++ dll hijack) to misdirect their adversaries as to their real capabilities?
Southwest Airlines has the best website, best checked luggage policy, best change policy, and now no overbooking. The big four domestic airlines all treat coach passengers like cattle, but Southwest is the least predatory.

Edit: Also, consider that Southwest is very profitable despite the fact that they don't have first class or business class sections on their aircraft. Yes, passengers pay different fares. But as far as I know, they all sit in the same crappy seats.
I've been curious as to what will happen the structures themselves. Two interesting projects:

Mall to Micro-apartments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL2l-bcuUQ

Rackspace took over a dead mall for office space
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rack...
Not much mention of social integration with those photos (Pinterest, Instagram, etc) I'd think that would be more important than nobodys looking at you in your fancy clothes. Seems like they are missing something big here.
It's possible that the need is less unrecognized and more actively resisted. Donors who want to address disease in some tropical locale may not want to see their donations directed into ad campaigns instead of tangibles.

I think it has to be pitched as "outreach".
Actually, Trump is checking how firmly the person's arm is attached. If he can manage to rip it off, they'll put up less of a fight with only one remaining.
Yeah, there's way worse things that can happen in the subway than staring at a picture with text.
Yes but you can see the most number of frameworks there running on the same hardware and same settings doing the same job. Also you can see the configuration how to achieve that.
Well yes but if someone has demonstrated expertise in a field you shouldn't dismiss their opinions in a cursory way as many people here have done.
I have a question for the HN crowd: what would happen if airlines sold their seats at a fixed price and let customers resell them?

For the sake of the discussion let's assume that all seats are in the same class (ie: economy) - there are no business / first class seats.

So the idea would be:

1. All seats are sold at the same price, no matter how early or how late you buy. The price covers all the costs associated with running this flight, given an expected "occupancy rate" (sorry not the right term).

2. All tickets are non-refundable. If a customer changes their mind, they use the airline app to put their ticket up for sale. They can try to sell the ticket at the same price, or at a discount (or maybe even at a higher price?)

3. Airline charges a small fee (something like $10) every time the ticket is transferred to another person.

Since this has never been done - to my knowledge - there must be something wrong with it. But I wonder what it is?
Is there any reason not to be suspicious that Levandowski will just work on them unofficially?
The main budget airline in Europe (Ryanair) doesn't overbook flights, and as far as I am aware never has done. They managed a net profit of 1.4 billion dollars last year.
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I don't think Russia is planning on annexing any more territory, especially NATO-aligned states. It does make sense for the Russian Government to reduce the influence of the U.S.
I think if there's any airline that I'd give the benefit of the doubt for making a change like this, it would be SW. I can't imagine that a conversation around this issue ONLY came up for them after the (most recent) United fiasco.
I'd really like to see standard deviation bars on that chart - my interpretation is that the sample size is extremely small.
I'd argue several of those would be classified as layoffs, and my hunch is layoffs sting far less.
>The alternative is not homelessness, starvation, or joblessness.

Tell that to all the malnourished people, all the homeless people, all the unemployed people, and most especially the families of everyone who literally died because they couldn't pay medical bills.
Property isn't a problem. Using it in a way that monopolizes the market is.

I.e. imagine you own a property which delivers water to the city. Saying that you can do anything you want with it is clearly a problem.
I have a similar project, but for presenting org files inside of Emacs: https://bitbucket.org/zck/zpresent.el .

The benefit is that it's org files, so you have all your standard org features, like easily adding new items and reordering things. It also, unlike other org presentation modes, presents from inside Emacs.
I was under the impression they didn't actually pay people bumped, only gave them a voucher for their next flight that they probably won't even use.

Do they actually give cash?
American Airline vouchers are almost engineered to not be used.
Would using something like this run you afoul of the CFAA for rules prohibiting web scraping?
::waves magic wand:: "Poof! I'm a telecom!"
does anyone have any detail on this?
Didn't he make that $100M before he got to Google, i.e. from the company he helped start that was sold to Google? All he had to do was keep his nose clean at Google and let his stock vest.
As I said, it's tough to deal with propaganda, and I think the immediate parent comment supports that point.

First, people often spread propaganda without repeating it. There was interesting research a little while ago showing how propaganda stories spread across the Internet; most of the propagation is done unknowingly. Also, others simply use the techniques without realizing it. If they don't intend it to be propaganda, is it? I think it doesn't matter, unless we want to shift focus from the comment to the speaker - a falsehood is just as false independently of the speaker, no matter what the speaker's intent. Ah, uncertainty, a primary tool of the trade.

How do you point out propaganda, politely? One defensive tactic, both of the propagandist and of a normal person (again, it's never certain), is to frame it as a personal attack. Also, it's one thing to point it out with the personal distance of a online message board; what do you say to someone you are talking to - 'those are propaganda talking points'? That's rude, but otherwise you empower it. Again, it's a parasite on good faith and politeness.

This discussion is a tangent, but a very important one: What to do? Doing nothing, politely ignoring it, is to empower it. We've seen disastrous consequences from that, both historically and we seem to be heading in that direction now.
Southwest already allows cancelling your ticket up to the last minute for a future credit so presumably most people that will miss the flight do so already. I wouldn't expect this impacts their fares much, if at all.

Now if United, AA, or other large airlines that don't offer cancellation did this, that'd be another story.
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Looks like it may not be published yet:
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD...

Here's a presentation the authors gave though:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/5212420/0/Cigdem+Gedikli+.pd... [pdf]
OK, like detecting lack of contrast for color blindness?
20% over the first dozen missions would be 2-3 lost missions in that first dozen, which would be unprecedented in space flight.

Your last sentence confuses me. I went out of my way not to moralize the risk, and only discuss how it would pose problems in terms of cost and creating experienced people.
http://krondo.com/in-which-we-begin-at-the-beginning/
Very good point about the double-whammy of getting fired right before a bonus!
I suspect it was usable long before the 1.0 release - v0.1 from 2014 appears to have had repo snapshot support: https://github.com/smira/aptly/tree/3f82edf5d6c50ed6988297a4...

Nonetheless, it probably wasn't nearly as stable, and certainly wasn't as well-known then. So I'll concede that it may not have been viable at that point.
The challenge is whether you are fundamentally buying a seat on a particular plane, or transit from point A to point B. Almost all simple solutions re: air travel break down once connections get involved.
This is about net neutrality; you can find objections anywhere.

http://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/What-is-net-neutrality-a...
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If I remember correctly, neither does JetBlue?
What's the intended audience and use case for this? Native extensions to deal with 2PC?
Completely. If getting fired ranges up among the ten worst things that could happen to you, you really, really want to rethink your life. Deeply.
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My gut feeling is that refundable tickets are less of a cause of empty seats than missed connections.
Flights are usually overbooked by around 5-10 passengers a flight, and is well-calculated based on the expected number of no-shows.* Depending on the ticket price, this can mean somewhere between $1-5k a flight, which can be a pretty substantial difference for a lower margin flight.

No, there's no benefit to deliberately overbooking to fill a later flight given that bumped passengers are compensated. At best they're giving away a seat on that later flight for ~free, and at worst they're eating the cost of another paying passenger that can't book that seat anymore.

*source: a friend working in revenue mgmt at United
On the contrary. The rogue team leaving knows how to build and maintain the assembly lines, invented the metallurgy treatments, designed and built the machines, and created the supplier network themselves. Without the team, the automated manufacturing business is probably not worth nearly as much. The team can go elsewhere and repeat the feat.
yes, if you could define for example that people should be charge X per month.

Create yourself an account on 3scale.net and you should be able to see all the features, it's free for 30days
Interestingly, in some industries it's a common tactic (among the less reputable?) for disrupting rivals.

For example, if Oracle or Microsoft did it, literally no-one would be surprised.

Perhaps Tesla's use of hmmm... "IT industry tactics" in non-IT industries is the problem?
I'm completing my thesis on EHR systems, and poor security is a huge issue for almost all healthcare software - but it's a symptom of a larger issue - the cost of distributing new software to healthcare institutions.
Though wasn't that because the targeted person was threatening to harm thousands of other people?

Edit: Nevermind, this is one of the other hits. I was thinking of the "Chemist" one. Certainly killing the guy over money isn't right.