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It will be a big screw-up if MS introduces such a fabulous language and then doesn't support it adequately, because now that I have seen the light, if their support becomes too scant I will drop .NET/core like a hot potato and will find some other comparable language in whatever other framework and environment I need to transition to.
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http://blog.goo.ne.jp/kalachosma/e/a56d4a305fafa30ffe3761286...
Seems easy enough to work out with further napkin maths - such planes usually have 24 rows or so, so 2 rows is almost 10% of the capacity / revenue lost (or, at least, you'd need to be getting 10% more for your remaining seats to break even).

Or, in absolute terms - 2 rows = 12 seats, so if you imagine $100 fares, with a few flights per day, you could easily be looking at 5 or 10 thousand dollars a plane per day.
It's simply my opinion as a first hand?observer of my parents and their friends. Im a BB

I also have the?privilege of family history and writings.

Imo the war victory meant that the winners began "for the first time" thinking about themselves... Previous generations, from my understanding of my family history, were not all about doing for themselves. Its not the fault of BBers to be selfish because it was planted by our parents
University I went to had this happen in the summer. Showed up in coveralls and had a paper for the RA to sign. Cleared out all the furniture and appliances. Told the RA that the new stuff was a bit late but would be there in an hour. They were not caught but I question the target’s value.
There is a better way - put it in your calendar or something. Not a problem that needs technology.
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I wonder if you're conflating non-US carriers' Premium Economy (usually about the same size as US domestic First Class) with US carriers' "Economy plus" or similar (which is basically 4ish inches more of pitch than Economy at the same width). You can generally get the latter for a transcontinental US flight for about $200ish extra.
Have worked on 9 teams in the past 5 1/2 years or so, and 0 of them had the wherewithal to choose the optimal data access strategy on a situational basis. So, 100%, not 99.9% :-)
If feels to me like it's half-way to YAML (ie JSON superset) already. Maybe you can open a new [ array for each extra indent and close for each reduction in indent to take that part at least.
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Well, that assumes all planes are always 100% utilized, which is probably not the case.
I'd hardly claim China cares about ethics, either.
Consequences and hypothetical punishments are not related to the actual behavior of the company but to its perception by the consumers. If the company can move the spotlight away or otherwise change the narrative, they can easily contain it. It has more to do with the limited amount of attention that can be given to any issue at any one time than with morals themselves.
>There are more than sufficient airlines on major routes for competition (and you can see this when they get into fare sales for stuff like LAX-ORD for $50).

Wait, so because occasionally there are routes with excess capacity this means there is sufficient competition? You seem to have confused the concept of demand competition for some reason. They are orthogonal although related concepts. Airlines having "fire sales" on fares is also not very common. Airlines have adopted a practice called "capacity discipline" which is industry speak for limiting both the number of seats and flights to a destination so as to increase the ticket price[1].

Also it doesn't seem like you are at all aware of the amount of consolidation that has gone on in the industry in the last decade, four major airlines control 80% of the market[2]. Is that your idea of sufficient competition? And there are also many instance where one or more of those 4 don't actually have a direct flight option to your particular destination.

>"Consumers could be flying airlines like Southwest and Virgin. The fact that they instead choose to fly on airlines like Frontier and Spirit shows that they don't actually care to spend the extra money to have reasonable seats or service."

What a bunch of nonsense straw man BS this claim is - because there is a segment of the market that selects predominantly on price means that all consumers don't care? That is beyond absurd.

>"I especially have to scoff at tech workers, who don't lack the money to make their travel experience more pleasant, but still take redeyes to save money and then complain about how much they hate travelling."

Most people I know take red eyes when there is no other choice, examples are an interview or late meeting on the opposite coast. It's also really odd that you believe that everyone who is a "tech worker" is by definition well off financially. There is no shortage of "tech workers" who are between jobs, starting a company and don't yet have income, free lancers, recent grads with student loan debt etc. Odder still is that fact that you have made blanket assumption about people based on their industry and then have chosen to "scoff" at them based on own your own ridiculous assumption.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/business/airline-discipli...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/business/energy-environme...
It also makes it hard for people like me who are far above the average height to even fit in a seat. If I'm forced to travel for work, I have to either be very uncomfortable or pay out of my pocket because the company doesn't want to pay for first class. My knees dig into that little metal rod the seat back pouches have or they go into the armrest in front of me, it's absurd how small cabins are now.
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Because the guy is trying to sell a license to the idea to fund development of those other claims.

And unless this guys is Evan Ulrich[1] who explored the space[2] of single bladed propelleor microscale UAVs back in the 2010-2012 time frame I expect his patents will have to require the UMD patents as well (making licensing more complex)

[1] http://www.avl.umd.edu/people/evan-ulrich.html

[2] http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl/~bdeschutter/private_20100705_acc...
Maybe people want cheap flights because they can reliably anticipate having a miserable experience.
>Of-course this also raises the possibility that somewhere, a perfectly rational actor would see no way out but to use one. There are historical examples where things were quite on the brink

And, of course, the one time it actually happened.
So educate yourself. A search and 100 seconds would answer this question.
Maybe, but that's not why it was bannned. It was banned because it's unpleasant.

Tons of things are safety issues that get little attention. Second-habd smoke got tons of attention.
You can go really deep down the rabbit hole of seat knowledge with Seatguru, but it's quite time consuming. Their flight search is reasonable, and probably many people who care about seats do use them. But the majority probably does not even suspect that there are major differences in seat sizes between airlines and even planes. So having that information more visible across the board would change incentives more. I also suspect given how many booking sites make money they would be dis-incentivized to do this on their own.
I don't think you can draw any kinds of conclusions about who is "keeping libraries alive" based on the data presented. The question is who has visited a library ( at least once ) in the previous 12 months, and even with that extremely broad question millennials only had 8% more people say yes then the next oldest grouping. I imagine if you were to control for children and proximity to a library you might see that margin shrink.

I think there is a case to be made that modern libraries are driving more use with younger generations then previous generations, with my own family being a frequent visitor of our local system. I think there is a social case to be made that modern libraries are fulfilling a broad mission and provide a great return on tax payer investment. Having a question of have you gone to a library in the past year doesn't really show that.
What's the goal of reducing the width of seats? The cumulative reduction can't be enough to fit in another seat, even on a wide body aircraft.
If you live in SF long enough, a knife will be pulled on you eventually. (Happened to me and a few of my friends.) The trick is to just run. To my astonishment this isn't the reaction of most people.
But that's not why it was banned. See my other comment.
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They can target based upon income level and job. You being you means that if you went to the Palo Alto region you would find very similar people.
"I think nuclear proliferation is a good thing."

Except, you know, when we accidentally blow up the entire world:

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Yea I'd normally fly Alaska, but if I can't it's always Southwest. They are very good and the seats are comfortable. The value of assigned seats is fairly negligible to me.
Wonder what the range would be if it didn't have the aerodynamics of a brick.
Sure, but it's the main case worth thinking about, because from the airline's perspective, when the plane is 100% utilized the fares are highest so that's when the extra 2 rows make the biggest difference. From the customer's perspective, nobody cares about small seats if the seat next to you is empty anyway.
What drove the robot before that, just a bunch of relays? Or manual input?
Hey, my email is in my profile. Wasn't aware the contact form didnt work will have to fix that!
I can relate to this. Self-taught programmer. People ask, "How did you teach yourself?" and my answer is always, "I built things and learned along the way."

>> At the same time, the best programmers I’ve ever worked with had limited formal education. They had something far more useful…

The best programmers I’ve ever met are what I would call “builders”. They always were building something. Even when they weren’t coding, they were usually building something without code - like wood tables or renovating their bathroom or something like that.

I'm always amazed at the conflict between "the best programmers I've ever worked with had limited formal education" and the notion that the best engineers are those that make a lot of money and work at Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon, etc. Because it seems like the "builders" probably won't have the DS/Algo/CS knowledge required to get past the interviews of the Big Guys. Are the true "best programmers" a combination of the two?
1) Find out what their pain points are.

2) Develop or help them develop viable processes for their needs and abilities that will sidestep issues.

This involves a small amount of educating people, less than is needed for real internet literacy. The difference is it makes them literate enough to navigate the parts they actually use, without some huge burden of additional general information that they son&t really need and which will just interfere with them learning the pieces they actually need to know.
Have you ever tried to search online for information about quality of seating in airplanes? In that case, I'm surprised you didn't cross seatguru before.
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I think you're overestimating how well social influencers can be measured. It's true, you can measure clicks to a landing page, one per influencer - but that's relatively annoying administratively, and only measures clicks, not sales. Plus, that counts on your influencer actually following instructions and using the custom landing page URL, which is harder than you might think.

If you're a consumer lifestyle or luxury brand, most of your sales are in-store and hence attribution due to influencers becomes incredibly difficult.

What many companies I've seen do is attempt to measure organic reach through a variety of internal or external scoring mechanisms, and using engagement as a proxy for reach. So a beauty influencer posting a screenshot of her travel bag with your brand tagged would have comments, likes, reshares/regrams measured, and then have that scored as some sort of an effectiveness index.
This completely depends on who you are interviewing with. Every low-level manager at my last workplace had a programming background, and they absolutely did have the ability to validate a programmer's skill during the hiring process.
This is not an issue in Europe, as much as I can tell. The seats are acceptable, and the people are much less inclined to be overweight.
There are two types of Mongo shops in the world:

1) Their product hasn't launched yet.

2) They desperately regret using Mongo and are trying to get rid of it.
I guess things are basically worth what people are willing to pay so there is no way one way that valuations work.

Any questions? Not really, I've sold and bought businesses in the past so it's pretty straightforward now.
It appears 80% and above is the norm.

http://aviationdb.net/aviationdb/SeatUtilizationByCarrierQue...
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Given globalism, many cultures with clashing political beliefs tend to end up as residents of the same countries, states, counties, cities, even individual ridings. Representative democracy was never designed for this use-case. Countries—or at least city-states—used to have pretty uniform cultures overall.

So, a much bigger bullet to bite: if we want representative democracy to continue to function under global-freedom-of-movement conditions, we might have to legislate some form of incentivization toward "intentional communities" that have more self-coherent political zeitgeists, such that the representatives of those communities can actually faithfully represent some clear set of beliefs, rather than just pandering vaguely to mutually-conflicting beliefs.

In short: it's culture ghettos or disenfranchisement.

(My evidence for this stance is that existing self-selected culture ghettos—the Chinatowns and Little Indias of the world, when they're large enough to "run themselves" as cities/townships in a regional district—actually tend to have local laws and policies that a supermajority of their residents prefer, and very little in the way of complaints. When most everyone in a place is from one culture, it's much simpler for everyone in that place to agree on what they want; and then it's much more evident when local politicians are doing a bad job of giving them what they want, so they tend to oust those until they end up with effective politicians.)
> Google was aspirational in China when it left: they weren't making much money there...they hoped to in the future.

I was an engineer on Google's web search indexing system for 4 years (including the Aurora attack), leaving shortly before Google's China exit. I listened to several talks by the head of Google China, who came from Baidu.

Even before the Aurora attack, as a matter of national pride, we knew the very best Google could hope for was 30% or 40% market share in China. Even France funded one or two attempts at a Francophone Google killer. I can't imagine the U.S. looking at a dominant search company based out of anywhere except North America (or perhaps the Anglophone Five Eyes) and not butting up significant nationalistic barriers.

Google was hoping to make profits, but they knew they would never be dominant. This made their exit much easier.

If Google was serious about China, they would have had a more obscure non-Google-branded name for their Chinese joint venture and would have branded their front page much differently. The reasons would take a large post, but Chinese web pages tend to be much more "busy", and Chinese language searches have a much higher percentage of "navigational searches". (If you search for [Facebook], you're almost certainly just trying to just get a link to facebook.com, and are basically using the search engine like a bookmark page.) I understand Google's need for a consistent U.I., but they really should have had a non-Google-branded U.I. that was better suited to the Chinese market.
It's not banned, it's just transparently intercepted.
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Placed a small transfer (10 usd worth) no peoblem. Holding my large transfer... coinbase = garbage
I don't think there is any attempt to reduce width on narrow body planes, on them seat width is basically determined by cabin width. 17 inches means you are on a Boeing 737 derivant, 18 inches means you are on a Airbus A318/319/320 derivant. The decline in average width probably means a higher percentage of 737 flights. That increase could be driven by retirement of older planes such as MD-80s that had an 18 inch seat width.
I appreciate your honesty.

I have found some homeless people hard to communicate with before. I've tried volunteering with homeless people, and it's quite surreal to have them genuinely not remember who you are and speak to you as a stranger even if you spoke with them the week before, which happened on multiple occasions.

The main thing that encourages me to look past that is the thought that I could've easily ended up one of them. I'm not the most emotionally strong person I know, if I wasn't born into a supportive family I can easily see how I'd end up in their shoes.

Mental health issues are unfortunately common. Hopefully more resources can be made available to help people overcome them.
I'm a C# dev and recently tried out F#. Async and async workflows/computation expressions were actually one of the things I struggled most with in F#. Can you suggest any good resources for learning more?
Do they pay more for a bigger seat on their next flight?
I am just a hobbyist in machine learning. The current situation in AI is that we can only do limited aspects of perception: like vision and hearing, at a superficial level. We can recognize objects but we can't recognize relations between objects nearly as well. There is no global scene understanding yet. With text, we can do syntax and translation, but we can't do reasoning except on trivial cases. There is no power of abstraction yet, of transferring knowledge between domains, which is essential for advanced intelligence.

So, before we have an embodied agent, we need to solve the reasoning and abstraction part, and my money is on graph signal processing (a kind of neural nets) and simulators (also implemented as neural nets). We need to move from simple object recognition to reasoning and simulation on graphs of objects and relations.
That sounds right. I look upon the word "hacking" favorably and use it broadly to mean something like "manipulating a system for a particular outcome" rather than just This One Simple Trick, sorry if I wasn't clearer.

I like the guarantee. That's why hacking in the conventional sense today-- which needs constant awareness, involvement, adaptation, experimentation to find out what works, non-codified intelligence, and dealing with the reality of a system -- can beat the process du jour. It might become the new canonical process if everyone else starts doing it.

Sometimes I feel like long-term or well-thought-out strategy is the hack in a sea of self-proclaimed hackers who focus on useless wins and optimizations.
Security in depth. Make things secure, even if it's behind a firewall. Start by searching your LAN, and watch out for open shares, weak or default passwords, and unpatched systems. Configure every machine like it's on the public Internet.
So why should we make all seats bigger and all flights more expensive?
I'm generally against most government regulations, especially in free markets, but I'm fine with the FAA making evacuation regs stricter to force airlines to go back to more leg room.
In the PDF sense they are.
Research isn't free. It's very possible an order of magnitude estimate would show that the risks of seat narrowing couldn't possibly outweigh the benefits.
Yuval Noah Harari wrote about this rather interesting theory that human rights only picked up steam all of a sudden because the industrial revolution created an economic need for a large class of educated and well-fed workers. We only value our current brand of ethics because it coincides with significant economic advantages. However, it's also important to look at the big picture behind your accusation. If the West truly did not value ethics, you would have been unlikely to have voiced your concerns in this way, since you would not have grown in a framework where these criticisms would be commonplace or even considered a worthy problem to investigate. The mere fact that you are making these observations means it's not so bad from an ethical standpoint. It shows there is already an ethical standard in place that is understood as a commendable ideal by most people, to the point where you can refer to it and expect people to know what you're talking about.
There are honestly a lot of similar patterns of argumentation, attack, deflection, and amplification that I've noticed across these platforms whenever China is mentioned; as a native Chinese speaker, vast populations of Chinese internet communities and social media services are pretty unreadable to me because you see the same dozen arguments by Chinese netizens unfolding over and over again. His/her assumption that my response is attacking "free speech" is a pretty common response I see, where any attempt at discussing or criticizing Chinese policy is redirected toward some aspect of liberal democratic values, regardless if the original commenter is a "westerner" or whether or not it even fits in the context/scope of the original question.
Probably some really simple sales advice. Don't try and sell the product/solution to the customer. Sell the customer to the product. That means show the customer that their immediate needs can be easily meet by your product. That's it. They dont need your full solution yet.
> So, I'd disagree that it should be a global interest to crush dictators.

Dictators usually enrich themselves and defraud incoming money (and food aid) by pocketing it in their personal or their families' coffers, also most dictators resort to brutal violence to maintain their rule; as a result people will attempt to flee these countries. And this causes harm - first of all for the fleeing people who are often enough abused as slaves or prostitutes, but also by funding criminal networks (e.g. the Mafia, which has discovered that people-smuggling and involvement in refugee operations is way more profitable and riskless than drug trading).

Also, when we as the Western world fail to provide basic human rights to any person on this planet, when we fail to even TRY and instead make "deals" with those violating human rights, what are the human rights then worth?

I agree that the last few ousted dictators went badly, but more because the Western countries failed to provide an exit strategy, not because they attempted to oust the dictators.
that prospect didn't stop the previous korean war.