skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US airlines at least no longer have razor thin margins, thanks in part to the railroad-like (the modern US railroad system that is) oligopoly they've managed to acquire.

Delta has an 11% net income margin, a reasonable and normal profit level. $8.9 billion in net income on $80.3 billion in sales the last two fiscal years combined.

Southwest has a similarly solid profit margin. American Airlines would be similar, were it not for their debt load and some non-recurring hits (as it is, their net income margin is closer to 7% to 8%).

Keeping in mind these are net income margins, meaning after taxes. American Airline's operating income margin is closer to 13%. Delta's operating income margin was quite nice given the space, at 17.5%.

The comedy is, the same oligopoly that enables them to now be able to afford to significantly improve the customer experience, is what is likely to ensure they have no interest or need to do so. Perhaps there is still enough competition between the majors to drive that, given they're all relatively flush with cash and profits.
UI is the entry point for a user and every user is different ... hence a flexible metadata model for UI composition is key and a journey and not a point in time delivery. The article is spot-on and well-written. Great job Anil!
Is that what FISA is? After all that's gone down anyone making this kind of a statement is either guilty of propaganda or negligence.
When you're poor, everyone else looks rich.

When I was a kid, I assumed if you had a house you were rich and if you had one with stairs, holy Moses you were rolling in it.
Out of the blue, I was once expected to set up a recording studio and learn the electrical engineering side of things 'along the way! You've got the afternoon, in addition to your normal duties.' My background is in CS, not physics or engineering, so you can imagine how that went - and of course, the manager wasn't to blame.
For those unable to remember it without a mental aid:

WhiskEy:

IrEland
AmErica

Scotland has no E.. :)
Seconded. Really good for preprocessing of data files, or repetitive data pipelines. Just set up a naming convention for the intermediate files and define transformation rules. Then you can drop one new file in somewhere, type "make", and the minimal set of processing will just run.

If you need more power, use the wildcard expansion and "patsubst" type rules to define rules at runtime.
Missing one of my all-time favorite dead products: Google Wave
So you're saying a small person should subsidize your comfort?

Don't get me wrong. We often decide it's right for healthy people to pay for the unhealthy. I just want to make sure you agree that's the issue.
The one that I've seen and mostly righted is them thinking that the direction of their career is my or the companies responsibilities. It's not, but I still drive them and advocate for them to grow on behalf of the company. I tell them that if they find themselves in a different environment, they might find a company or manager that cares about them and their growth. They must find ways to be self driven and drive their growth and keep learning. Learning only during projects is not enough, one must step ahead of the pack or get left behind.
I use Amber to do similar calculations. It's distributed as a free set of analysis and preparatory programs called AmberTools, which is the V15 software cited, and a licensed simulation program, which is v10. Interestingly, that is a super old version (usually it's released every other year or so with the number corresponding to the year)
Cathay Pacific did this years ago with economy clamshell seats, i.e slide forward, but apparently aggregate consumer feedback was bad and they were all withdrawn. Shame.
For some reason Meson seems to be quite the fad in the Freedesktop sphere.

Systemd is adopting it, Xorg as well apparently, and now GTK.

Only issue i foresee is that now i need a working Python3 to get things bootstrapped...
You completely missed the point of the post. In no way shape or form do our dev's, including I feel like we couldn't use C# if we had to. The problem is the having to part seems abnormal, and against our company culture, and counterintuitive. We deal with change on a constant basis, so no, I am fine with change. I want the change to be rational, however.
> Being poor is 2 nights in jail because of a clerical error

Tell us more
Then it's not unfair to bump them seat when using the restroom. I paid for a certain amount of space, which includes the ability to get up from the seat.
AA's PE is what took the fear out of international long-haul for me. Being of similar stature, the notion of sitting in a 17.2" seat across the Atlantic was a non-starter, but with business class tickets being potentially an order of magnitude better than economy deals, what choice was I left with?

As soon as AA introduce PE in the 789's from DFW to Madrid, Paris, and Seoul, I booked. Its not lie-flat business class, but it affords a little personal dignity in being to reorient my body periodically.
Then why are shady tactics being resorted to?
New CA bill targets sexual harassment by VCs
Recommend you identify in some way other than showing the age of the question which ones are past the answer bounty stage. Also, I think the questioner should set the lifespan, and it should be related to the amount of bounty offered - i.e. higher bounty allows a longer lifespan, (hopefully) soliciting a better reasoned response.
> Venus cloud cities

I want to know where the fuck are our Earth based cloud cities.

Surly there's a market and it'd be (I'd guess) 3 orders of magnitude easier than Venus.
Lots of confusion on this thread. SIP never handles actual voice traffic. It is just a signaling protocol used to initiate the ICE process of actually establishing the connection, either a direct p2p connection or a relayed connection using TURN when the NATs can't be traversed. That's when traffic is typically UDP, as it's easier to traverse NATs with UDP. The transport SIP uses is largely irrelevant, although it's pretty silly for it to use anything but TCP because reliability of sending the offer and the answer is pretty important, and they can be sent in multiple packets.
Most importantly, understand that it is not the speech which is being defended.
Ohhh, ok, I got it now. I took it literally and completely missed the point. Stupid me.
I agree. email is practically impossible to manage for a hobby-IT person. You need to manage accidental blacklistings, spam, make sure your ISP doesn't block port 25, etc.
Or if you have a laptop on the tray or your knees. It gets jammed and could break.
He's trying to synergize his core competencies to get an MVP using his AR/VR play.
so I guess makefile is somewhat like gulp JS... but can I split a makefile into multiple files?
Supporting affordable housing, transit and healthcare.

Top three things we struggled with.
You are all missing my point (or I did not make it clear) - the resources are there for you to burn in achieving your goals. You will never be able to deliver a product in competitive fashion compared to groups that are more willing to burn resources (with "reason") - the market simply doesn't pay for high efficiency on the desktop or in the browser
Sometimes the problem is that you just can't know the copyright on an image.

I'll push for this again, https://github.com/ibudiallo/imgcopyright

Html has a lot of meta attribute, why not one for copyright.
Just because the predominate form of organization is currently an authoritative heirarchy doesn't mean that is the only option. See Democracy at Work. I for one don't submit myself to authoritarianism and as little heirarchy as possible in my career.
I've read multiple articles here describing single stack solutions as being a pipe dream. In the rare cases where they were successful, you need majority company buy-in. This is clearly not the case here, where this ramming-in of .NET and VS and Windows servers are causing massive fractures with our senior devs. Many are now resorting to doing P.O.Cs to show we are just fine without the Microsoft products.

Additionally, this actually harms our recruiting efforts, because the majority of senior C# devs are accounted for in this town, as they work for the larger 3 corps in the city's downtown district.
A very large portion of the population is poor without intractable personal problems.

If you're suggesting that ~30% of people in the US have such problems, and if you're right, then you got me; the world is screwed.
They are slightly different. In the ex-USSR the police regularly torture people to extract confessions. Not "just" by extra beatings but stuff like putting a gas mask on them and cutting off the air supply until they pass out or confess. They even have cutesy names for the torture proceedures. The gas mask one for example is called "slonik" (baby elephant).
Coinbase Now the Sole Payment Processor for Nazi Fundraiser Site Rootbocks
We are getting tripped up on language here. I don't have the right to punch a Nazi, but the law doesn't stop me from doing so. It may be a deterrent and I may get punished, but the law doesn't create a physically insurmountable barrier.

In other words, you have the right to declare yourself a Nazi, but then you may become a target for people who punch Nazis. That's not an opinion or a belief, this actually happens.

We're also getting tripped up on assumptions. I didn't suggest that I support violence or hacking. I didn't suggest that violence or hacking is justified, let alone a legal right.

I was speculating that shows of resistance which escalate into unlawful action may be a result of groups which feel threatened but see no legal option to oppose that threat (actually, I didn't even say that much).
I'd believe it.

It's getting worse + worse. I'm adding it to my list of undreadables...
IOTA's paper was what I was thinking about while reading OPs remark about blogpost to LaTeX conversion.

I'm not sure if I'm dumb, or its dumb (trinary, whaa?) but I had a really hard time getting through it without rolling my eyes a whole bunch. I still have 77 MegaIOTA, just in case someone ever figures out a use for it.
Relive your models and sell it
Pretty sure they are saying that no one should get the right to recline their seats when the seats have gotten small enough that someone that's 6'4" (I am) has to sit with knees pushed into the seat in front already before the person in front reclines...
My wife works for a LTL trucking company; no drivers there make anywhere near $45,000 a year. Most of them make around 2/3 of that, even with overtime. So yeah, I too think you got damned lucky.

Congratulations, just don't think that everybody can bad as lucky as you.
Thanks to those that helped get their Paypal & Stripe services cut off.
It's not about comfort, it's about survival. I don't need a luxurious seat...I just want to fit. Would you make the same argument about heavy people? In my case, it's not even about me mostly. I feel sorry also for the person next to me, who has my splayed knee and shoulder in their seat, and the person in front of me, who has my knee in their back. I try to always choose an appropriate seat, but with only a handful on a plane, they're usually gobbled up.

If I had my way, I'd pay double to have half the seats removed. But something like that doesn't exist. You either sit with the common folk, or pay 5-10x to sit in first class with catered service.

I don't want to be catered to specifically, I just expect services to cater to a range and not the smallest possible. I've never found a bus seat I physically can't sit in, so I'll use that as an example.
All of these airlines are making billions in profits, that's billions with a b. Even if profit margins we're still thin, which if I recall correctly they no longer are for airlines, can you really argue that consumers have to be continually shafted when you are taking home that much money?
Speed trap as fund-raiser > clerical error lost paid ticket > license suspended > road block as fund-raiser > zero-tolerance "suspended license == go to jail" > impounded car, $1200 bond, and jail time "waiting on the judge to post bond."
I view it through emacs-w3m, where it's perfectly readable.

Not sure if you can run emacs on an iPad, though.
As I posted in another response to my comment...

I don't have the right to punch a Nazi, but the law doesn't stop me from doing so. It may be a deterrent and I may get punished, but the law doesn't create a physically insurmountable barrier.
Ok then, lets give Trump, the DOJ and Jeff Sessions the impetus to start drafting legislation to fight 'internet hate speech' and see what they come up with.

edit:
> That's a slippery slope argument

Its not. These discussions will be taken over by the political establishment and the courts very quickly with very real consequences.
(Assuming you are in the US) America could use a fix for our healthcare system and our lack of affordable housing. It would be better to work on such issues than donating to charity. "Charity case" is an insult for a reason. If you really care about poor people, you work towards building a society in which ordinary people can get their needs met without relying on charity. Having a modest income should not so totally exclude people from having a life.
I'm not 100% agreed that "Whatever you use against Neo-Nazis will be used 'against the ones you love'." That's a slippery slope argument that I personally don't believe. Neo-nazis are such a different class of evil, that it's hard for me to see the same practices being used against someone who is not them.

You could say the same about digital surveillance of potential terrorists.
Yeah exactly. This signaling protocol doesn't really matter, and both SIP and XMPP to me are way over engineered and super inefficient- silly that they're text based at all. Essentially like HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 vs HTTP/2 - we just don't have the latter in the signaling case yet, or at least not standardized that I know of.
What evidence do you have that Russian intelligence agencies are any less/more capable than the US ones?

If anything, it seems like the Russian intelligence agencies are more capable that the US ones right now ...
Experimental Treatment for Autism Involving Plastic Surgery
This is already happening.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/24/safe-spaces-un...
Well, didn't the Nazis themselves prevent people from voicing concerns for the Jews? I guess I don't see how that's not the same thing, except that it was the bad guys who did it?
Yeah, didn't read it. Came straight to the comments to see all the righteous, selfless technocrats on HN tonight.
It looks like FBI is making great advertisement of Karpersky for security conscious people that has more than 2 neurons.
But what's the actual implementation? Just suggesting a hot topic might have applications without specificying how isn't really starting a discussion. As other have said watermarks deter unauthorized use, they're not a proof of ownership.

Don't take downvotes so personally, they're more about weeding out bad ideas from good ones than a reflection of your worth to the community, this isn't reddit where we care about karma count. If you fix up your comment instead of complaining you might see those downvotes get reversed (I've had that a number of times).
The thing is, every human has a different response time, but the bot doesn't have one. The day a bot will play the game like humans, a physical robot holding a console remote etc then maybe it'd be cancelling out the API advantage that the bot has.

but this doesn't undermine the achievement that they have made. It is phenomenal that an AI can play a complex game like DOTA.
> That's a slippery slope argument that I personally don't believe.

It's not a matter of belief. It's happened time and time again. One prominent example is hitler and nazi germany. When they gained power, they used the same powers the previous governments/institutions/etc used against them to ban and silence everyone else.

> Neo-nazis are such a different class of evil

Evil is evil. There aren't "special" evil. What does that even mean?

> that it's hard for me to see the same practices being used against someone who is not them.

Are you serious? All over the world the same things are done. Ever hear of the red scare? The persecution of the jews in the US and europe? The persecution of blacks, civil rights activist, etc? Critics of royalty in thailand are being locked up. Silly tourists giving nazi salutes are being locked up and fined.

That's the point of precedence. If you set it, then anyone else can do it too. Are people just this unaware of history and current events?

It was our defense of free speech rights in the US that protected atheist, gays, civil rights activist, etc to speak. As hard as it is to believe, there was once a time when atheists, gays, civil rights activists and many others were considered just as vile as neo-nazis. There was a time when being gay would mean you couldn't get a job or you could even be forced to suicide ( ever hear of alan turing )?

Society always shifts. Free speech rights are there to protect us from the whims of societal/government/cultural change.
If you are suggesting that 30% of people in the US are poor, you are talking about a systemic issue. However, I think you are in error. The figures I typically see are 12-14% and 2% or less are chronically poor.
ok smart alec, how do you get proof? should I hire a P.I?
Yeah, the outrage is fake or they wouldn't have to invent statements he didn't make. Fake outrage is pervasive among progressives. It mostly spreads as ideology. It seems to be attractive to exaggerate one's hardships to amplify the perceptions of one's accomplishments while diminishing the accomplishments of those you hate.

Regarding the response received, I was talking about the firing and public flogging. And Google created the headlines for firing him so questionably.
Apparently the term "neo-nazi" doesn't really carry the same meaning it used to, going by the number of people who are being accused of being neo-nazis in the last week.

Are you so sure the same tactics will not be used against non-literal nazis? Or that non-nazis won't be named as such in order to then use the same practices on them "justifiably"?

If there's one thing we know with absolute confidence, is that if it's "just to protect the children" or "just to use against the nazis", it's really just that the technique/technology is still in beta test, and GA release is coming soon.
The implicit assertion you've made is that Google, Cloudflare, and Godaddy are acting as a moral equivalent to the Nazis?
"It’s unclear whether this is for a limited amount of time, or whether Google has decided to effectively take ownership of the dailystormer.com domain permanently"

Wait, what, they can do this? So if I get Google to host my domain they can just take it at will? Given the value of some domains that's insane. Google must be on shaky legal ground here.
>I think the issue specifically with the app store is that there are other players who could similarly violate the "hate speech" metric(telegram/whatsapp/twitter/etc), but Google doesn't take those down. That calls into question how consistent they are with their policing and what constitutes the "line."

According to 1st amendment law, the remedy is to boycott the business, and truthfully it's the greatest tool people have to level the playing field, and it's seriously underleveraged especially in the internet age. However, the logic goes if you can't get the public to boycott a company, then your speech has basically failed in what's called the marketplace of ideas. So maybe while it's worth while to call attention to the power of these big companies and promote a boycott to keep them in check, you shouldn't be surprised when the boycott fails to gain momentum based them prohibiting hate speech, meaning find a clear cut example where they abused their power in a clearly controversial way where enough of the public will support the boycott to hurt the companies bottom line.

As to your last paragraph, denial of service is not always protected or even speech for that matter. Another famous Supreme Court Case is Ollie's BBQ which prohibited African Americans from eating there, and that was found to be unconstitutional under the commerce clause. The commerce clause is kind of a running joke in law that gives the Federal Government the right to regulate everything on the basis of effecting interstate commerce, and while I of course agree with the result of the case, I despise the logic and use of the commerce clause. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenbach_v._McClung
Not only that, Apple is apparently responsible for 50% of the mobile ad revenue Google pulls in.
Kaspersky is the only company that discloses NSA and CIA's evil malware. They are the good guys here.
I know it's not polite to ask about downvotes here, but why is this comment being downvoted? I thought it was pretty well established that height plays a role in attractiveness.
Just want to say I can complete commiserate with you - I'm 6'10", wear size 16 shoes, 2 or 3 XLT for shirts and am 36x36 for pants. Shoes are a total PITA. Do you play basketball? :)
Neo-nazis are such a different class of evil, that it's hard for me to see the same practices being used against someone who is not them.

Do you remember how Communists were treated during the McCarthy era?
I'm a fan of finding your local food pantry and helping out / donating there.

Most always need volunteers. Depending on the place, it can either be more effective to donate money or food. Some places have affiliations with larger collecting centers which just charge the individual pantry handling (usually something like $0.10 / lb) for food; if a place doesn't, they might prefer food donations because otherwise shopping is one more thing a volunteer needs to find time for, and they won't get a particularly better value than you.

If you want to shop for a food pantry, it's best if you ask them what they're currently short on, but in general it will be your proteins and fruits, because both tend to be more expensive than the vegetables and carbs, and a lot of people donating to food pantries are giving what little they can. You'll mostly end up giving a lot of a few good staples that are reasonably priced - tuna, canned chicken, apple sauce, peaches - but if you throw in a little variety every now and again (spam, blueberries) you'll really make someone's day, who's been eating the same damn thing for longer than they can remember.

Dried beans are cheap but not very popular, because they're a bit more time consuming to prepare. Don't donate cranberry sauce, every food pantry has a shelf full of it. Large packages of food (20 lb bags of rice) are tricky; they're usually cheaper, but then the pantry has to repackage it, which is more work, less appealing, and introduces more risk of food contamination. Buy generic canned vegetables, but name brand cereal. Being poor is no-name cereal from a plastic bag, and you'll make some kid's week if they get to eat actual Cheerios for breakfast, but no one cares what label is on their can of green beans.

If the food pantry near you is well stocked on food, you can load them up with personal hygiene supplies - toilet paper and toothbrushes, but also deodorant, laundry detergent, feminine products, and diapers. Most places will also give out pet food; that is usually safe to buy a 50 lb bag of, because people are happier to take a gallon ziploc of dog food.
I wonder if a new kind of airline would be successful where seats were not sold by ID, but by femur length. That way, they could set the seat pitch according to a continuous distribution matched to the passenger height. Now not only would they be able to accommodate--on average--the tall passengers, but they could squeeze in more passengers overall and thus make more money because the shorter passengers would be packed more tightly. That is, everyone would get exactly the same amount of knee clearance.