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Except your other insurers do not pay for fire alarms, oil changes, etc., which usually don't cost hundreds to thousands of dollars each year.
Ouch, their site triggers one of my pet peeves about travel sites, listing prices without clarity whether the deal is one-way or round trip.

NYC to Paris: $260
Normal Roundtrip Price: $900

So did people who got that deal save $380? Or did they save $640? Which is it?

As feedback to Scott and Brian, this actually makes me hesitate to sign up for premium, because I don't know what level of discount we're talking about here. A 2x difference (one way versus RT) is significant.
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pours one out for my homies

More seriously, I sometimes sorta miss USENET. However, my ISP actually still provisions it. It has been a while, but I have gone back to check it out. It's nothing like I remember, so I don't end up making it a point to check the groups regularly and I leave it alone for a few more years.
> If the science is sound, it will withstand scrutiny.

Only if both parties to the debate are acting in good faith. In this case, one party has financial and ideological incentives to push for a certain outcome.

After all, you cannot convince someone of something if their paycheck depends upon them not understanding it.
You're right. We do some A/B testing when we're running promotions (test headlines, CTAs, etc.) but that's about it. There is a lot that goes into correctly running split tests on the website and interpreting those results. We decided that once something is working good enough we'd focus on other areas of the business. However, now that the team is larger and we have resources to dedicate to testing and optimizing we will likely start doing this by the end of the year.

Like you said, moving buttons and changing colors is really just a waste of time. You have to spend the time to do the analytics research, get customer feedback, etc. to first understand the problem so you can come up with a solution. Changing the color of a button doesn't solve a problem. Rather than wasting resources on doing conversion optimization the wrong way, we've decided to hold off until we can do it the right way.
We are in a system designed to kill opposition to the ruling duopoly and yet the ruling duopoly has changed multiple times.
> I buy it could have been a yellow paint tube.

I don't know how anyone would come to that conclusion. It's "definitely not possibly" (adverb chaining, really?) a tube squirting yellow in image. If ascribing modern symbolism to images rather than what's portrayed plainly, there's no reason that any of the images are symbolic of words starting with the appropriate letters.
Both are peer reviewed science at the end of the day. What's to say the climatology studies are "rigorously recorded and analyzed" any better than the psychology studies? Am I to trust climatologists more than neuropsychologists for some reason?

* Both are experts in their field

* Both have prestigious journals

* Both are supposed to have a peer review process that prevents bogosity from being published and accepted.

Yet in one field, the peer review process, the ultimate guard that's supposed to prevent junk science from being published, failed. Is failing. Repeatedly. For a long time. It's not one failure, it's a chain of systemic failures.

That tells me that the entire concept of peer review is not immune to degenerating. And if it can happen in one field, it can happen in another, especially one that's harshly politicized (which psychology isn't, at least not anywhere near the same insane degree).
I hate to be the one to ask, but how much moat does this actually have? Couldn't Kayak literally just add a subscribe or alert me later input and have their massive infrastructure automate this very thing?
Why isn't siri as half as smart as Wolfram Alpha's box? Someone should license them!

I want to be able to ask basic factual questions while driving, get the answers and dig deeper.

Until then I would like an audio service like Google Helpouts used to be, on demand. Like Magic service.
Great point! I get the same from Google. Looking back in the article, he only criticized Siri and Cortana on this question. He claimed none of them got it right, but didn't say specifically what Google did with it, and it's entirely possible it was a different answer before now.

Bigger picture though, Bill Murray is famous making it easier to answer questions like this. In general, does the wording of the author's question truly imply he's searching for a fact check, and do you expect Google to know that even if there are no articles that match the wording of the question? The snopes articles does contain the terms "did", and "Bill Murray", and "run for president", so we don't have any evidence that Google understands the question, we just have some content that matches the query.

The issue I see is that the computational question of search has long been trying to measure relevance by matching the query against the corpus. This Bill Murray question is an example of how that can break down. I might actually want the fake articles... and I might not. There's no way for the search engine to know without making an inference, and the expectation that mass market search engines make inferences seems pretty new to me - and I don't expect that when I do text searching. I guess I just expect voice search to push the need for question understanding and inference making even faster than text search has.
Since public belief drives public policy, which is a substantial factor in science funding, and, ultimately, can also impose limits on performing or publishing research, either explicitly or indirectly by imposing penalties for publishing material damaging to industry.
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My point being that you can contribute by demanding your state or federal government officials write or support laws that change how health insurance companies are allow to operate - or - by joining the industry and fixing it from the inside.

Your argument is an emotional one, and that is fine, but it does not help to _realistically_ approach this problem.
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The first CD player I used, which my parents bought in about 1988, showed the current time when you held down the "Fast Forward" button. I don't think I've ever owned one that didn't do this.

Nowadays, a good professional CD player (or DJ equipment) will have something like an infinite-turn knob, which you can use to seek.
> If ACC doesn't exist, the academic lobby will fight for their prestige and grants

"The academic lobby"? Christ. If ACC doesn't exist why wouldn't they just go and get grants to study something else?
I could probably draw a yurt. That'd be pretty easy.
Maybe they could launch a program to 'critique' cancer? Is cancer actually bad? Does anything actually cause it? Is it even real? Let's hear both sides of this debate.
They have app stores:
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13727921011
"And yes, there is certainly real critique that can happen in climate science..."

The kind of critique that routine happens within the scientific community, over time. Scientists are highly motivated to prove the majority wrong, because that's how you make your career, by finding something new that everyone else missed.

By contrast, the EPA 'critique' will be a political charade, a circus of crackpots and shills assembled by the administration to rationalize its predetermined policy decisions.
I recently learned about prolog and stumbled upon problog along the way. I imagine automatically generating probabilistic rules from Bayesian inference on a dataset would be really useful. I wonder how it would compare to other machine learning techniques in accuracy and efficiency? I am always a little skeptical about the randomness neural networks. This seems like a more deterministic alternative.
Well, that's kinda what skills are in the case of Alexa. Part of the issue though is discoverability. I forget what I've installed or I forget what the right wizard's incantation is to access some skill/app.
That presumes all members vote & have down vote privilege: which is not true in either case.
This. I don't get the impression people who set up ransomware typically write all or even very much of the virus. They cobble together bits and pieces from the web, writing only the portion they couldn't find.

Seems like the tough part would be setting up the whole chain such that you actually wind up with money in your own bank account without also setting up a big neon Arrest Me financial trail.
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Aliasing info is hugely important in optimization. In fact, it's needed to solve this very bug.

Aliasing info is, fundamentally, what allows Rust to have memory safety without GC.
>>Homework is almost universally a waste of time.

Agreed! I would remark that learning to plow through wasteful tasks is a skill that comes in handy - especially when there's boring stuff to do get to the fun stuff.
This was interesting. Thank you.
I won't object to the fact that majorities can be wrong. There are many examples, ancient and recent. But that is a different argument from your other comment.

I trust majority in science because it is rarely wrong. I'd need a bit more than "majorities have been wrong before!" to switch sides.
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Just saw thus addressed in the comments:

> Great question. We get this one a lot and have been approached by quite a few developers who say they could easily build us something like this.

Is it possible? Sure.

Would it be better? I doubt it.

Say we use Google's flight API. The cost per query is 3.5 cents. Departure airports X destination airports X available dates X 3.5 cents = a ridiculous amount of money.

Or we build a scraper. It would be cheaper than the API, but we'd still need the human element to make sure it's actually a good deal. We take into account number of stops, airlines, etc.

I see potential for a computer/human combo in the future, but right now our flight searchers are doing great and we don't feel that automating the process would make the business significantly better.
That is part of it but there is also a general purpose transaction feature that lets you link together updates, state journalling and consumption all in a single transaction. This enables correct stream processing on top of Kafka and is arguably the more technically sophisticated aspect.
Agreed, determining human intent is really, really, really hard. There are some many context clues we use in everyday life that the voice interface will never have access to like where am I standing, what's my expression, etc.
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SOMA is the most expensive if looking at rental pricing, and most likely if you look at price/sqft too.

The overall housing prices are probably lower in SOMA because there are more condos and smaller units.
a real syncing mechanism would introduce compiler barriers that prevent such an optimization.
It might be so, but remember that experts were predicting computer will beat top humans in Go in 10 years. Maybe next month there will be a breakthrough with NLP. The amount of research and compute going into this problem is amazing, and we don't know what's around the corner.

Also, it might be possible to create a much better assistant today, but it would be too expensive to offer to the public for free. What if it requires 100 TPUs to run?
This argument is as old as programming. High level language programmers don't understand everything as good as us assembly programmers, etc.

I don't think it's relevant for evaluating tools.

It is only relevant when hiring as you would like to find developers that is competent enough to grasp low level stuff at least at a rudimentary level.

In this case some side interest in routing frameworks might be indicativ regardless if they prefer to work with angular.
Yes, it's completely 100% standard practice as other replies already mentioned. What's funny is that the tone of your question suggests he's doing something fraudulent. If you were the company auditor or a government prosecutor, and you didn't know about the standard practice or simply wanted to be a jerk, you could absolutely make a case for fraud. If you were fired or prosecuted for keeping the miles, what would be your counterargument? Everyone else was doing it? That doesn't work for speeding tickets. This is an example of how arbitrary laws can be.
Some deals require specific starting and end destinations to work properly with a specific carrier. Others can require a stopover in a certain city before continuing on.

The really good deals will even be site specific. All this can be done via good expertise. With scraping and this type of logic, you'd get blocked quickly from the major sites.
Here I will say that Angular 1 still wins over Angular versions made after transition to typescript.

The biggest win for Angular 1 was push for code reusability throught enforced modularity. This matters a lot for both "big co." and "outsourcing sweatshop" type collectives.

To defeat React, Angular guys will need to defeat Angular 1.x first
Awesome writeup. It's great to see companies that can make this work without taking any funding. I had no idea there were so many people behind this.

I have nothing to add except that I've been a very happy paid customer for several months now. These guys run a fantastic service that has been worth every penny. Yes, some travel companies that have extensive infrastructure could probably do what is being done here, but they don't.
The fact that the folks in charge of CSS cooked up flexbox and then immediately came out with grids just drives me crazy. (Yes I know there are differences, but they both aim to solve similar layout challenges).

I'm torn; on one hand having a shitty godawful CSS spec is good for job security, but it's an absolute mess and it really doesn't have to be.
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Or they just want people to turn off their Kapersky AV so as not to risk having their machine bricked.
I'm in favor of democracy. I think the government should represent each person's interests equally no matter how rich they are. I think the only reason we didn't have a violent worker's revolution in America is that we were able to pass the socialist platform democratically.
Yes, not a new thing. Car owners do the same thing. And brand clothes. And bike brand owners. And...

Mabe just a part of human nature to defend brand buy-in.
Oh, I'm absolutely in favor of tamper-resistant hardware security modules.

But I also want the freedom to turn them off. If my threat model prioritizes despotic governments with the ear of AMD/Intel/ARM Licensees over, say, phishing rings, I should have the freedom to roll the dice if I so choose.

As of now, I don't have even the choice.
The state of vinyl was much different pre-2006.
Strangely enough, there seems to be a believe among non-science-literate liberals that CO2 is a poison. Obviously this is not the case and plants can increase biomass like gangbusters with extra CO2, as long as they have the sunshine and water. There might even be a measurable difference in certain crops. I imagine that would be little consolation after losing major fisheries to the secondary effects of ocean acidification.
>To the average person, myself included, both "sides" have a profit motive in fudging the numbers.

Yeah, this is almost entirely wrong. I'm sure there is slightly more public funding available in the Earth sciences because of the urgency of climate change, but not much- NSF funds for Earth science projects have been pretty steady for the last 20 years [0] and before that too. If climate change simply didn't exist, researchers would just get grants to work on the plethora of other important Earth science issues- human water usage, the ozone layer, ocean acidification, forest fires, coral bleaching, agricultural runoff, glacier retreat. There was no shortage of important Earth science problems- why on Earth would researchers go to such (impossible) lengths to fabricate one? The idea that international researchers have created some conspiracy to increase funding in their field is bizarre and incoherent and just demonstrates a lack of understanding of how science funding works. It also doesn't explain the international consensus on climate change- how has every major scientific organization and metereological society agreed upon it, when all of them have completely different funding situations? And if they have, well then surely they would have realized that this plan has not drastically increased their public funding in 20 years and given up on it by now! But in all seriousness, this idea is just insulting to the scientists and the fact that it's popular amongst American conservatives is pretty telling of how scientifically ignorant that ideology is.

[0] https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/CJS%20NSF%2015hc.jp...
All of their listings are roundtrip.

I have personally booked sub or around-$400 return trips to Europe from the US using this service.
I've read about this before and it just saddens me to no end. These folks completely dedicated themselves to their work and the success of the project, and uprooted their lives and lived in secrecy for years. In my opinion, they were as much heroes as those returning home from battle overseas.
Wow, thanks for the feedback!
Almost every single deal we send out is roundtrip. This is actually why we put "normal roundtrip price" instead of just "normal price" to help clarify this.

Maybe instead we should do "Roundtrip NYC to Paris: $260" and then put "Normal Price: $900" to help clear this up.

Thoughts?
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The one glimmer of hope I have in all this is that emerging markets like China and India seem keen to push for green tech. I don't think capitalists of the type we're referring to will understand anything more clearly than losing money.

We can't wait for them to accept the science, we should be pushing for the economic incentives to do the right thing to get better.
The security also needs to protect against an attacker that has physical access to the device.

This is necessary to prevent things like extracting encryption keys.
Love the headline "Most work queue implementations in SQL are wrong". That kind of stuff makes me read an article...

This short screencast was also very helpful https://www.pgcasts.com/episodes/7/skip-locked/
All I'm saying is that Vue doesn't do two way binding. v-model translates directly into a DOM event, ie

<input v-model="someProp">

is equivalent to

<input
v-bind:value="someProp"
v-on:input="someProp = $event.target.value">

Which, as far as I understand, is exactly how React handles it and is deemed one way binding. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have to chuckle that the features here are

1. We promise it will work now
2. We will reduce the user's power over their machine
> advanced technology will solve this problem before any major policy changes are needed

There's no way to know if that will happen, you're just blindly hoping the magic technology fairy will fix the problem because you hate taxes or liberals or both. Every ton of CO2 we spew into the atmosphere today will stay there for centuries. And there's a lag of decades between the spewing and the feedback effects to be felt, so there's little market pressure to fix the problem now.
I find that an eInk Kindle is "close enough" to a paper book in terms of immersion for me. But reading on my iPad (or even worse, computer) definitely is not. I get notifications, there's always the temptation to jump out and "just check email," etc. With the Kindle there is no distraction, and for me that seems to be more important than the tactile experience of a printed book (though I do still enjoy printed books).
welfare existed long before socialism and is pretty distinct. Systems of welfare were passed democratically, as they should be. The main reason the West in general didn't have any worker's revolutions (excluding Spain) is that the capitalism+welfare situation we have actually works really well.
Doesn't sound like you lose anything if you include roundtrip
In my early 20s I used to spin dance music (melodic and tech trance) and have accumulated a pretty large vinyl collection before Technics mk2s went largely extinct and I moved on to CDJs. But I could have sworn that vinyl sounded some much richer and warmer than digitized formats. A part of me is happy vinyl is making a comeback.
I used to make close to 90k a year at the hight of Web 2.0 mass hysteria with nothing more than few animation and dynamic loading tricks.

Life has gotten toughter since then
I think my "moment" with this passiveness/ubiquity thing was the day when I noticed music was "on" in every store in the mall too, audible as you walked past, serving as an advertisement of sorts, maybe conveying something (the merchants hoped) about what their business was about. And if you walked in the store, of course it would become the soundtrack, influencing your emotions for a perfectly curated retail consumption experience!
That's the day I realized music had become plentiful and cheap, in both the Econ 101 sense and others. It was also the epitome of listener passivity, as the customers didn't choose to have music on at all, didn't choose which music was on, and might even have had their buying influenced by it. (Though there's a counter-argument to the last bit, that anyone who didn't like the music might just self-select outta there.)
Anyway it didn't make me go back to vinyl... it just made me buy a nicer and more impenetrable pair of headphones. And it made me get the hell out of the music biz.
My girlfriend has the name Taryn and Siri really struggles with it, usually correcting it to Karen or Terell (both names in my address book). Alexa does better but probably because it doesn't know about the other names.
There's still a lot of narrative-based music, it's just not heavily pushed in music stores and on the radio. A lot of it sits on bandcamp - the New Albion trilogy, The Mechanisms' sets, etc etc.
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Ah, good question, no I haven't. I'm basing that comment on a vague memory of a graph showing query time vs preprocessing time for lots of algorithms. Looking back at the graph it seems ch with arc flags (chase) slightly improves query time, but for alt they only have results on non fully contracted networks (core-alt). Probably a memory issue.

Sorry if I misled - I haven't actually tried combining ch with alt as it turned out to be more than enough on its own. My point was just that ch is reported to synergise well with other methods, which makes it likely to be a good investment.
My prediction: any of these pesticides that are not already restricted will be deregulated by the current administration.
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This makes the naive assumption that the people evaluating the conversation are rigorous logicians who are not moved by emotional appeals and bad logic that confirms what they want to believe.
The point is that it isn't clearly labeled as an opinion piece. Not that opinion pieces can't be biased.
Hmmm maybe I'm just remembering wrong then. It's been a long time since I had a dedicated CD player.