skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time these seats can be sold without a problem occurring because the original travelers don't show up. So if you overbook your ticket prices can be 10% lower than those of the competition.

As customers choose tickets based on comparison sites that order on ticket price only, ultimately the only thing that matters is the price. That's why there is overbooking, all kinds of cheesy attempts at hidden but obligatory fees and attempts at lowering standards to ridiculous levels such as flying without seats.
Seems like a good deal for the coffee shop (you don't have to pay for the Visa fee and you get some free customer retention on top of it all) but as a customer what do I gain from that, practically speaking? The only thing I can think of is low fees if I'm traveling abroad. But if the fees are really very low then your incentive becomes void, I won't bother putting $50 in the coffee shop if it only saves me $0.001 in fees.

Can you really imagine how this would work IRL?

"-Here you go sir, that'll be $32 please."

"-OK, I'm paying it Bitcoins... Oh, you don't have an open channel, I'm going to create one... Mmh, but how much to I put in? Let's say $100, I'll probably buy here again next week. But will that be enough? What if my total is just above that next time? I'll have to pay the fee twice. I guess I'll just make sure not to go over $100."

"-We also accept cash, Visa and MasterCard sir."

Again, maybe it can work, it just feels so "theoretical" so far, I haven't seen anybody paint a convincing picture of a what a "Bitcoin as Visa replacement" world would look like concretely.
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I'm hoping to use fixing the 2^31 bugs as my retirement plan.
I have experiences with the same type of behavior in India, and a lot of it has got to do with the highly competitive and crowded environment here. If you want access to government services/get served by staff/get onto a bus etc. you will need to be prepared to jostle your way through and be louder than everyone else. 'Personal Space' isn't really a concept that is prevalent here.

This manifests itself in some annoying behaviors like jumping queues, or rushing out of your seats as soon as a plane lands, but also gives rise to some great features - people are rarely wary of strangers, and seem to be more likely to share things or help out one another. Either way, this hardly seems like a deal breaker in deciding what places to visit. There are a lot of factors - natural beauty, history, culture, food, economic development, etc. that are arguably a lot more important.
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That was before the PBoC jumped in and added heavy KYC.

Korea was/is big on the ETH/ETC/ICO bubble. But the true height of the bubble was caused by the west with all the Facebook/Youtube/Twitter shilling for big riches.
Do not assume if you don't have sufficient information

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751153
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My favorite sleeping mask is made by Joy Division, a blindfold sold as a sex toy. When I replace it every 1-2 years (or earlier in case I was on a flight…) my Amazon page is full of sex toys ;)
How can I reach from 100 views per day to 10000 views per day on website?
I am not looking for any spamming short cut.
Not advocating for either shitcoins, but Tezos has code and testnet https://github.com/tezos/tezos
Nope,

https://www.cnet.com/news/why-india-doesnt-want-free-basics/
Will general motors die because of Tesla?
To be fair, Audis don't have the best reputation among (UK) cyclists for navigating considerately even when there's a human behind the wheel.
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Expanded a bit my answer.

IMVHO, ASIC hardware provides such a huge efficiency boost that even if everybody in this planet ran a mining raspberry pi, the ASIC manufacturers would maybe still own more than 51% of the hashrate.
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This sounds very much on target. I've noticed quite a few bootcamps grads being hired as assistants, and waiting around for a regular job. Some sit around up to a year. This, and the fact that the industry is flush with bootcamp grads (I live in NY), are giving me second thought about the benefits of a bootcamp.

Instead of hiring bootcamp grads - which push grads to aim for salaries north of 70k - it would make sense for companies to recruit self tought programmers with an aptitude towards tech. By self tought I am not referring to child prodigies, but anyone who can complete the equivalent of freeCodeCamp.org's front end certificate. Such programmers would be happy to get a starting salary of 30k, and have the opportunity to get their feet wet.

It all boils down to networking. Universities are a form of networking by signalling to society who are the best and the brightest. IMHO, bootcamps can be viewed in the same light. If companies and potential hires weren't lazy and instead got involved in plain old networking, there would be less of a need for Bootcamps/Universities. Maybe due to the lack of community, companies must resort to other means in order to filter applicants.
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> but even a sysadmin at a fortune 500 company is in the dark about all that this second cpu can and can't do.

The sysadmin might not know how it works, but they do know they can control machines remotely using their Intel branded management system (or other rebranded variety). Just because they don't know how bad it is doesn't mean that's not the motivation for it.

IPMI is a similar deal. Modern servers have a secondary computer embedded in the motherboard (which have been historically _very_ insecure) because it's useful for managing servers. Intel AMT is the work-laptop version of that technology, and you can bet that most enterprises use it.

> if it was economical they would offer you to pay more for full control for it.

But they do. The entire reason why enterprise deployments of large numbers of work laptops/desktops is so expensive is because you have to pay extra for the management system that comes with it. Just because they don't remove the "backdoor" in their consumer lines doesn't mean they won't charge you through the nose to be able to administer the damn thing.

I am very anti-ME and wish that all firmware was free software, but arguing that the reason why ME is present in consumer CPUs is not for economic reasons doesn't sound right to me. The reason why the technology was developed is because the developers were not aware how unethical their actions were, and that's where the core of this problem lies.
Starbucks is nice for dessert, I wish they sold decent coffee though.
I am rather stunned that the entire global bitcoin network, with its colossal combined computing power, and staggering electricity consumption, is only capable of sustaining 7 tps.

The level of inefficiency here is mind-boggling. Surely this must be one of the least efficient, least environmentally-friendly computing ventures ever?
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Here's another great one:
https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg/
There may be public relations problem - users these days understand that ads pay the bills and don't see them as a moral compromise but try to explain to your users that they can pay premium to get relevant recommendations instead of "spam".
Choice summary quote:

> The problem here seemed to be that Netflix and the MPAA realized that they had enough power to push this through without needing to protect security researchers, and just decided "we can do it, so fuck it, let's do it." And Tim Berners-Lee -- who had the ability to block it -- caved in and let it happen. The whole thing is a travesty.
It probably depends on your budget. For a $100k car? Could be. For a $20k car? Now that's quite a challenge!
The 'lightning network' has been one of the promised solutions 'coming soon' for many years now. Except, no-one has solved all its problems yet. There remain difficult issues to do with routing of transactions, and some horrible money-losing behaviour if users don't stay online to protect their channels from being looted. On top of that, there's not enough space on the blockchain to allow everyone to open & close a payment channel anyway.
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Provide something of value for your users and market it more.
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ryoji_ikeda

He iirc has made music that is intentionally damaged.
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Even as beginner in web tech, I was convinced of the same after glancing at the code. There's probably more project packaging description LoC than logic code, so SNR is quite low.
I remember rather quietly celebrating the "binary billion" (2^30), 1073741824 seconds, which coincidentally happened at a memorable time: 2004-01-10 13:37:04.
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so in that case isn't it a good idea to try and reduce your overheads wherever possible? And in the case of windows store apps, the runtime is already on the users systems and they're just downloading the packaged JS/HTML
Got it running in Safari with no problems. Impressive considering I tried it on a mid 2011 MBA.
Should I invest in startup or in crypto currencies?
Yeah, I know steamdb. Didn't know they had such a search though and looking there I can't find it, got a direct link?
> The world simply isn't ready for some of these major advances in human life sciences.

Major advances? Blood transfusions and the whole idea sound quite basic to me.
> And of course, claiming that anybody can have access to this hardware is very very debatable. The best indicator of how this is not accessible by everybody is how centralized this industry is nowadays (just look at the correlation between ASIC manufacturers and owners of mining pools).

Even if you repeat a lie a thousand times, it's not going to become true :)

https://coin.dance/blocks

Where is the centralization?

Also, the issue isn't as much ASICs as it is the free electricity in China.
Why do you think that being the exchange used for cashing out is a bad position to be for an exchange? My understanding is, exchanges earn money on commissions, so the more volume they get, the better, and cashing out sure is some volume. Those speculators who buy BTC on the wrong chain -- sure, they will take a hit on that. But the exchange itself will still get their commission just fine. Am I missing something here?
I haven't kept up with Bitcoin tech for awhile. Hopefully the following questions are relevant here:

1. What percentage of Bitcoin's PoW belongs to Bitmain?

2. Are the drivers for Bitmain's hardware free-as-in-freedom?

3. Is mining hardware in the same class as Bitmain's manufactured anywhere in the world other than China?

Edit: Bonus question: If all cutting edge hardware tends to be developed and manufactured in one particular spot in one particular nation state, and if Bitcoin mining efficiency now depends mainly upon the manufacture of newer, more powerful hardware, does that change any of the implicit assumptions made in the Bitcoin whitepaper? (Esp. considering that same nation state has put a hard speed limit on all data moving in/out its borders.)
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That's super weird.
Here is a similar attempt at fighting Facebook addiction https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/29032-hide-yo-timeline
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'The great firewall of china' isn't someone manually inspecting every byte that enters and leaves china, it can manage more than a 1mb transaction just fine. And, even if the delays were more than minuscule, how does it favour one side over the other? Both sides have the same delay.

Plus there's no congestion on the network right now. There's not a scaling problem. It was spam.

Woohoo! No need for anyone to do anything then. Remind me again why everyone is trying to scale bitcoin?
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In the US it's already legal to sell plasma, semen, eggs, bone marrow , breast milk, and rent wombs as a surrogate [0]. The legality of selling blood would not eliminate donations much like the ability to sell clothing does not eliminate clothing donation. Considering that there are negatives to selling blood (e.g. time, marginal risk, inconvenience, etc) I think some form of compensation is fair and would only increase the supply

[0] http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/10-body-parts-you-can-le...
For the PBR Glossy demo:

Safari - 60fps, no fans.

Chrome - 59fps, no fans but notably hotter and more CPU usage.

Seems like Apple has their act together and the errors are somehow on your end?
This opinion is probably the single greatest unifier I've experienced when visiting different countries.
only for the depression to come back in full force, while the tolerance increased?
I use a similar setup. I use spideroak hive since its 'zero knowledge', I don't however sync any binary or IDE directories. This allows me to have the source files and git repos synced, but still keep somewhat independent set ups.
Must have been a slow news day at the bbc.

"business man flies in plane regularly"
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>Segwit will disable ASICBOOST

Incorrect. It would make 'stealth' ASICBoost mining improbable but still possible overall.

> Therefore, BitMain has been launching FUD campaigns.

Substantiate your claim.

> proven to be due to spam

Show it. Just show it already. Its a transparent blockchain but no one can show this spam, identify how it is malicious, show where it is coming from.

Show the spam already. Like ASICBoost its an invisible horror used to terrorize people into supporting your narrative. This is not very nice.
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From: https://github.com/tendigi/starbucks

> Once you've obtained your client_id, client_secret

I'd like to use this module. Question for author: what's the fastest way to get a CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET?
True. Schedule for most bootcamps are too rigid, especially for a married person. And living costs during and after bootcamp (until that perfect job magically appears) can far outway the actual tuition costs.
Any opinion University of the People computer science curriculum?
Also, this line of thinking really stood out to me -

> [...] this argument [that DRM is a necessary evil] rests on the assumption that the web needs those content producers more than those content producers need the web -- and I'm not convinced that's an accurate portrayal of reality. It is fair to note that, especially with the rise of smart devices from phones to tablets to TVs, you could envision a world in which the big content producers "abandoned" the web and only put their content in proprietary DRM'd apps. And maybe that does happen. But my response to that is... so what?

I have to agree with the author here - so what? I don't think such "proprietary DRM'd apps" would have any trouble taking off for people seeking content from big providers, so why does W3C feel it needs to bend so far to the will of Netflix and the like?
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Find your niche and appeal to them.
But what if the blood contains the wrong hormones?
What do you want to do with the 10,000 views/day? Dispaly ads? Affiliate links? Sell your own stuff? If yes, what's the avg. order volume and the LTV?

Then, we can tell how you get those users.
User support means nothing. Users have to either accept the way that the system works, persuade the miners to change their ways, or switch to another coin whose systems they prefer.

Certainly, the last of those options seems to be popular recently.
That's fair, I'm obviously biased by my general loathing of WYSIWYG editors but clearly I'm in the minority here. I guess when I think about text editors I think mainly of code editors.
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Neither. Give it to me!

On a more serious note, you should probably invest it for retirement.
Nope, just new. Purdue University uses one as well.
This is only layer1 (like IP in the networking world). Wait until layer2 comes (Lightning Network, TumbleBit), then we will reach the scalability levels we need for the entire planet to use the same blockchain.
Thanks for prosemirror, marijn! Big fan :)
How about a crypto currency startup?
My experience working at a startup cargo cult
I am all for the inclusion of morals clauses and the anti sexual harassment clause in investor agreements. I hope that they are followed and that there are standards established for such investigations should an investigation become necessary.

We must find a way to protect women from becoming the victims of sexual harassment and at the same time protect the accused while the investigation is conducted. A false accusation could destroy an individuals career and personal/professional reputation.

It is appears the pendulum has swung away from the boys can do no wrong back towards one of respect for women in tech but we must be cautious to keep the pendulum from swinging to the other extreme where people are destroyed without the benefit of a fair thorough investigation.

This is a giant step in the right direction especially if VC's will voluntarily put an anti sexual harassment policy in their agreements. It would certainly go a long way towards showing they are vested in making this very important change.
Invest in the people behind them.
I saw that as well. If you click on of this useless notification, they invent a new one around 30mins later which would not have existed otherwise.
Can't browser manufacturers simply refuse to implement this standard? After all if Google doesn't implement it there will be some 70% of users not able to use Netflix (Or whatever other service requires this) and that might be a good enough incentive for Netflix to skip out on DRM.
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It's not zero-sumness that makes me distrustful of unregulated capitalism, but this quote from the article:

"with numerous studies recording how it sucks the energy out of a locality, overpowering the competition through sheer scale and forcing the closure of mom-and-pop stores"

I.e., bigger companies have advantage over smaller ones due to economies of scale, even without resorting to corrupting public officials. This means money and power get ever more concentrated, and power -is- a zero-sum game. And no-one wants to be at the mercy of multinational corporations - at least kings had to (at least pretend to) care about their subjects.
I recently read that ancient mongoles would drink their horses blood in dire need.
I don't follow your argument - are you aware of how much flying is conducted under autopilot? Commercial aviation is very safe.
A tangent: does anyone have recommendations on a WYSIWYG editor that allows easy math notation?
In an advert I saw yesterday, this car also features wireless charging, through a charging plate installed on the ground.

I know the HN crowd is very pro-Tesla but do not underestimate traditional car-makers.
but sadly there was nothing he could do for a bent frame and it had to be ditched.

Some carefully applied force might've fixed it. We used to do that with cars too.
DRM is only there because of Chrome implementing it, Firefox resisted but had to give up due to market share.
Depends on your use-case I suppose. That's why most of these editors are customisable. When writing posts on SO, I've used bold, italic, and strike-through in the same post.

In every day usage, bold/underline/strike may be superfluous, but I would argue that italics are essential. Without at least the ability to emphasise a word in some way, your only option is uppercase.
That's the only likely way to make money for a legit therapeutic company, but before we have the technology to manufacture young blood cheaply and massively, I think kidnapping people and forcing them to give their blood can be done cheaply and be cost effective for a mafia.

I mean, that's already what they do with sex workers
whatever you do, don't do this.

It's a mildly sarcastic answer, but the truth is digital currency statups are kind of in a fucked state if you're anywhere near the US. If you get a token, you can liquidiate. if you go with a startup, at least you can invest in the people.

But as the former CEO of a digital currency startup that was the second largest brokerage in the US for a few years, you don't want any part of that. To many variables are out of your control, leading to too many opportunities for absolutely devastating black swan events.
Ask HN: How similar is the dotcom bubble to the current crypto scene?
Tesla's in-house Autopilot 2 has a lot of catching up to do with Autopilot 1, which was developed by MobilEye.

I like their startup-ish approach which enables them to push software updates to all their cars and collect valuable data, but I feel most people do fundamentally not understand that their cars offer at best Level 2 autonomy.

On a side note, if and when LIDAR becomes cheap enough, Tesla may change their mind and look at integrating it in their cars.
Actually that's more interesting than not-really-unikernel thing he was thinking about.
So much for Uber's blitzscaling
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I would be very interested in seeing that!
> the founders peaced 3 years ago

What does this mean?
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Let me unconfuse you. Look into the subdirectories of your filesystem:

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/python*/site-packages
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/*/gems
/usr/lib64/node_modules

You have only one version of each library. This is the exact opposite of DLL hell.
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Should I set fire to a pile of cash, or hurl it into the sea?
A big part of Bitcoin's entertaining in-fighting is due to the 'core' developers having a mindset that conflicts with many other people. Some speculate that this is because a large number of devs are paid by Blockstream, who have financial incentives to keep bitcoin congested so that their paid-for products (like their lightning implementations) have more value.

I have no bitcoins, so I have no real preference in what happens. But watching politics destroy a 'decentralised' currency is good entertainment :)
Invest in index funds.

Investing in startups / cryptocurrencies is gambling, not investing.
What's wrong, there aren't any really deep holes where you live? Maybe a river? There's always the fire route if you really can't find a better way to dispose of your money.
One of the things that was confusing to me is the U in UASF. It's not a user actived soft fork, its certain miners vs other miners.
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Sample size is too small to tell. However, if you ignore that, Tesla's Autopilot is at least 2-3 times worse than the average human in a passenger vehicle. And it only gets worse if you restrict further to middle aged people in expensive vehicles.

Source:
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1106613_how-safe-is-tesl...

Stats are on low page 2 and high page 3.

TLDR: Tesla compared their numbers to a statistic that includes much more dangerous forms of transport(bike, 18-wheelers, whatever). The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety did a study on just driver fatalities in passenger vehicles(cars and light trucks) and came up with 1 fatality / 438 million miles driven. Versus the Tesla figure of 1 / 130 million miles.

Whole article is worth reading as it goes into more detail on statistical issues with Tesla's safety statistic claims.

I'll add that human driving ability is not uniformly distributed. Most accidents are due to particular demographic groups: people that drink and drive, teenagers. It's entirely possible for a self-driving car to be worse at driving than most humans, while still better than the average. In that scenario getting really bad drivers into self-driving cars would improve average accident numbers, but getting non-bad drivers(aka the majority of drivers) into self-driving cars would make average accident numbers worse.